AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hey I finally got this started! I've been busy and whenever I wasn't I had severe writer's block. I was in a groove today so yeah I stayed up til 1:30 on a school night to get it done, neglecting my homework might I add. (Ehh I'll manage to do it in class) Anyways this is the first chapy of my first multichaptered fanfiction story. I'm pleased with how it turned out and and am proud of myself. It is Fang x Lightning, NOT related to the games events, and I changed some stuff up. A bit angsty, maybe a bit funny, sort of crimey. (in the future anyway) This is like Chapter 1/Prologue. Anyways, Enjoy! I gotta got to bed!

"Meeting you was fate, becoming friends with you was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control." -Unknown

Fang's POV

Life used to be simple...years ago...back in Oerba. Just Vanille and I hunting, gathering, falling in young love...simple. That is until I decided to join Guardian Corp. A few weeks into the job I got transferred to Bodhum, a neighboring town. I'd been there before, to see the annual fireworks display with Vanille.

The move was stressful, leaving Oerba was hard, but it was exciting...new. It was during this time though that Vanille and I started to grow apart...romantically anyway. What can I say? We were young, me 20, Vanille just 17. I loved her then and I always will, but sometimes it's hard to tell if what I feel is love or a powerful sisterly bond.

When I think about what my life would be like if we'd stayed in Oerba, I sometimes think I made some wrong choices. If we'd stayed I would never have met her. But is that good or bad? If I'd never met her I could go through life without this pain that I carry with me all of the time. I could go through life not knowing that there is someone so perfect in the world, so perfect yet so unattainable. Lightning Farron is my best friend, my partner, and the object of my every dream and desire. When I met her, she was my unwilling and quite bitchy, might I add, mentor. Quite simply, she was a challenge...

Guardian Corp. Bodhum Division, Commander Amoda's Office

The sergeant's eye twitched. Her commander's words repeating in her head... I've chosen you to mentor a promising new recruit, sergeant! You up to it? Well, I doesn't matter cause she's here and you're starting today!...

I'm chosen to mentor a promising new recruit! She's here... Lightning's inner ramblings were interrupted by a bellowing laugh from her commanding officer who found her mixed expression of bewilderment and disgust quite amusing.

"Well since you look simply thrilled how bout we go meet her!" Her only response was a half-hearted grunt as he led her out of his office and toward the front of the building, laughing all the way. Lightning couldn't help her want to kill the large man. The only thing stopping her was their long time camaraderie and mutual respect for one another.

Ever since the death of her mother, Claire Farron became Lightning. The tough, hardass, super soldier, Lightning. Big sister of Serah Farron and workaholic galore. Never showing emotion, never the same person she was, and every one close to her couldn't help but wonder... Would she ever be again?

She's probably some useless wimp that wants to learn to fight for god knows what reason...nothing but a burden...uh I swear I'm getting you back for this commander... Lightning couldn't think of a single reason why she would need an....ugh apprentice. She'd always been a loner and it was best that way. There must be something about this girl that impressed him.... Ugh why me?

Losing herself in unvoiced complaints Light nearly crashed into Amoda as he sudden stopped, announcing in his booming voice, "Lightning Farron meet Yun Fang and Fang this here is your mentor, so to speak, Sergeant Lightning Farron!"

The woman who stood before her was far from the useless girl the sergeant first anticipated. First off she was taller than the sergeant, and perhaps even older. Her lithe, toned muscles were apparent and the way she held herself screamed tough, rogue, and confident. As Lightning continued to size up her new ally she noticed she was doing the same, but with a delighted grin on her alluring features.

Maybe she won't be so useless after all... I'm gonna have to knock her down a few pegs though... and what in Eden's name is she wearing? The sergeant took in the tribal attire of the other woman. Great, I don't get a wimp, but I get a self-absorbed hussy...just lovely...

Yun Fang had been waiting in unbearable anticipation to meet her mentor for what seemed like forever. She had no idea what to expect from the experienced Sergeant Farron who was to train her for the next year. Every time she attempted small talk with a fellow soldier and the topic came up, she got nothing but sympathetic comforts reminiscent to what you would do for someone who just lost their entire families and perhaps had been living on the streets ever since.

Maybe she's one of those she-man soldiers. She chuckled at the thought of being trained by a macho woman. Still envisioning the ludicrousidea, she barely noticed the approaching woman with Commander Amoda until he sounded a quick introduction of the two.

Fang's eyed ran up the shorter woman. My god can a spine even be that straight? It looks like she's got a ramrod stuck up her... Fang's inner ramblings abruptly ceased when she caught glimpse of the sergeant's face. Wow...she's...gorgeous. She felt a grin play across her features as she continued to scan the woman with increasing admiration. This will be...interesting...

Commander Amoda watched the two astonishing women amusedly as they sized each other up, one with a cynical glare, the other with a overly delighted grin that could get the most sure-fire confident women to reevaluate their sexual orientation. This will either end in great tragedy or simply become something great. Let us pray it's the latter. He thought struggling to hide his amusement.

After several more moments of silence the Commander became uneasy. "Well...uhh...now that we're all acquainted your uhh first task as a team is to hunt down a behemoth that's been pestering farm holds on the outskirts of town. Should be easy, right Farron."

"This is not a team."

Ooh, feisty. "What are we then, partner?"

"You are a burden. Come on let's see what your worth...if anything at all." With that Lightning left the building in a few swift strides. Fang grinning at the proposed challenge followed her superior out the door.

Bodhum Beach, Near Outskirts

The two women had been walking for several minutes now in complete silence. Fang took the time to try and read the sergeant, meanwhile Lightning's mind cursed Amoda for this entire situation. A whole year...I need to train her for an entire year! Oh for Eden's sake I already feel like throttling her!

Fang finally broke the silence between the two women, snapping Light out of her musings. "So...Sergeant. Farron is it? Got a sister named Serah?"

The soldier gave her a side-ways glance. "How the hell would you know that?"

"Vanille, my girlfriend...well kind of, met her at her new school. See we moved here from Oerba, and anyway, Vanille and your sister have become pretty good friends from what I hear."

Lightning tensed and stopped. She's a lesbian...Oh just fucking lovely. Could this get any worse? "Yeah, Serah's mentioned her." Lightning turned toward Fang and stared at her with a scrutinizing gaze.

"What?"

"How long have you known how to fight?"

"About 8 years, since I was 12. Only hunting though, no official training, that's what you're for...why?" Lightning's gaze never faltered as she looked directly at the other woman, eyes narrowing. In one fluid motion she unsheathed her blaze edge saber and pointed it at the raven-haired wonder.

"Show me what you've got..." A quick flash of surprise played across the slightly older woman's features, replaced by her trademark grin.

"With pleasure..." She winked at the sergeant before flinging her spear in off her back and lunging.

Now it was Light's turn to be surprised. Fang came out strong with a flurry of rapid slashes and jabs that she just barely blocked. Damn she's fast. Just then she parried a jab and swung her right fist into the other woman's jaw causing her to stagger slightly backwards.

"Nice, right" Fang mocked completely unfazed by the blow, and blocking every kick, punch, or slash Lightning threw her way. Lightning then back flipped putting some distance between them. "Impressive soldier." Fang continued to mock her as she came in for another charge.

This time Light kicked her feet out form under her and just as she sent her sword to aim at her apprentice's throat, Fang had rolled out of the way and leapt in the air. By the time Lightning turned towards the warrior woman one end of her spear smashed into her chest followed by the middle section hitting the same spot, knocking her to the ground she dropped blaze edge in the process.

What the hell? Her spear...separates! Before she could rise the larger woman landed on top of her, reconnected spear pinning her arms above her head, and body seizing her legs from moving. Lightning struggled, but it was no use, she was pinned. The sergeant was in no way expecting to lose this match; she had made the worst possible mistake- underestimating her opponent.

"Get off of me!" My god she's strong!

Fang smirked down at her superior. "Maybe I don't want to." She lingered on top of her.

What? Oh Eden! I'm pinned to the ground by a lesbian, who just told me she doesn't want to move! This is just fucking wonderful!

"Off!" Lightning yelled, flashing her patented death glare. When Fang finally loosened her grip slightly, she took the chance to ram her knee into her abdomen, rising off the ground. "That's for disobeying an order!"

Only slightly keeled over Fang rose up standing tall and proud. "Suppose I deserved that, ay," she said clearly amused and not frazzled in the least.

"Shut the hell up, Fang!"

"Well aren't we just a ray of sunshine! Heh, Sunshine, I like that." Lightning's jaw was clenched, hands were balled into fists, and eyes twitched as she stared the raven-haired warrior down. "Oy! Yes master, sorry master.... Now do we have a behemoth to slaughter or what?" She said as she began to walk further down the beach with Lightning following.

"Behind me..." Light said through clenched teeth.

"Yes, master," Fang mocked as she slowed and paced herself next to Lightning.

Great my first apprentice and I'm going to slaughter her.... I guess it's too much to hope the behemoth will do it for me....

She's adorable when she's pissed...Hehe.... She's definitely going to be a challenge...and oh boy do I love a good challenge.

Fang's POV

That was the day I fell for her. Four years ago, and still I have done nothing about what I feel. I just continue to carry this pain and this fear around with me always.

Over the year she spent teaching me I did what no one thought was possible. I brought the old Claire Farron out of Lightning. A truly amazing feat. Now we were no longer mentor and apprentice. But, partners and best friends.

I think the reason I managed it is because we are flip sides of the same coin. We both spend our lives doing everything in our power to protect someone we love. In her case Serah, and in mine Vanille. We put them before us....always. We just went about it in the absolute opposite manners.

It reminds me of a story I would tell Vanille back at the orphanage. I would tell her that once upon a time all people had two heads, four arms, four legs, and one soul. Then one day godly beings split everyone in two, separating each soul into two halves. That made people today. Now we spend every day searching for the other half of our soul, but sometimes dying before ever finding it. I would tell Vanille that we were one of the lucky ones, we found ours. But the day I met Light and every single day since then, it breaks my heart, but I can't help but wonder if I was wrong....

AUTHOR'S NOTE: YAY! Hope you like it so far! If you have any suggestions as to where I can take this story (cause I don't have a clear idea perfectly formulated yet...is formulated a word...yes it is...anyways yeah Im tired and rambling sorry) or just plain want more REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! Wow I'm a hypocrite cause I never write reviews, but I promise I will start to, so plzzz hit the little review button, it means so much to me! Thank You! If you do review I may dedicate a chapter to you! Okay time for bed, I'll be runnin on 4 hours of sleep tomorrow but it was so worth it! REVIEW!