Aeon-Disclaimer : ::Whispers:: uh, She doesn't own anything.. but don't say it! See? ::points to a corner with me in it::

Me: I don't… I don't.. own anything!! –sobs- But I do own Squall when Rinoa's not here… *look around…*

A/N : I know that this kind of plot is very common (Or at least I think so) but I'm sure there will be a little bit of change that will surprise you! The first chapter is just introducing you to the surroundings and the characters. Please Review after you finish reading, k? :3

And It's PG13 just to be safe~

I know Wakka and Lulu are a bit older, but I'm making the characters all 17-18 in this story!

Oh!
Italics will be thoughts, unless I put it in a bunch of words with quotations, those are for emphasis.

Bold will also be for emphasis. But none in this chapter.. I don't think

' Wahahah' – Someone speakinnngg!

Summary: (This is loosely based on FFX2) Tidus, the most popular guy in school, desperately wanting to rid those girls that are chasing him from head to toe, decides to act out a relationship with the number 1 popular girl in school Yuna, even though she hates being popular. What would happen when their act goes deeper than it seems?

Pairings : Tidus/Yuna ….. Wakka/Lulu ….. Rikku/Gippal

Trusting You


Chapter 1: Never Different



By: CM (Chrono-Maku)

Now, onward to our story!

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A chestnut coloured hair girl groaned softly but angrily as she placed the remaining of her books in her newly assigned locker. There were bits of conversation and murmuring beside her and she didn't have to look to figure out where the sounds were coming from. She closed her locker door gently and sighed. Turning over to her left she sweatdropped as she saw countless guys 'casually' hanging around her locker.

This year is going to be no different

'Ahem' She cleared her throat to indicate she was done with her locker. Almost immediately, the countless guys around her turned to her attention and started speaking all at once, sticking out their arms which contained gifts such as flowers, chocolates, etc.

'Yuna, it's a pleasure to see you again! Please accept my gift!'

'You look fabulous like every other year, Yuna!'

'Uh-I-um, how to say? It's great to see you again!'

'Here comes another year! How about a welcome-back gift?'

The girl sighed again. Knowing the guys, they would do anything she say, so, to avoid stuffing gifts into her locker, she pointed to a garbage can and said with her most innocent smile ever,

'You can put the things over there. I'll check them one by one later, alright?'

And with that, she walked away towards her homeroom.

As if on cue, the guys scurried over to the garbage can and dumped their presents there, trusting that Yuna will check them later. Looking over her shoulder at the guys behind her, the girl giggled and continued walking down the hallway.

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'Say what?'

'I SAID MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T GO OUT TO YOUR LOCKER! IT'S CRAZY OUTSIDE!!!' A person known as Wakka shouted across the homeroom of theirs.

'Duh, what do you think? Once Ms Ogga assigned lockers and left us alone to organize ourselves, where did you think all the girls went?' A blonde replied casually, 'I think I'll go at lunch or something. Better safe than sorry, ya?'

'YA DUDE!!'

'Look, Wakka man, come closer. I don't like it when you shout!'

Wakka walked closer to him obediently and scratched the back of his head apologetically.

'By the way, where's all the guys? There's only like... Us here…' he said as Yuna walked into the class. Obvious she had heard, and her mood immediately changed from happy to being annoyed.

The blonde sat back in his chair and grinned, 'Where do you think?' he inquired as he watched Yuna come across the front of the classroom.

'Ooooohhh Riiiigghhtt!!' Wakka said with realization, then with a smirk, he said in a very casual way, 'This year ain't gunna be no different, eh?'

Yuna glared at the blonde before taking her seat diagonally from him, beside the window.

'Hey hey, don't look at me like that. It's not like I enjoy being pounded with chicks this early in the morning' he said annoyed, 'specially at the start of a new year.'

Yuna then turned to him with a raised eyebrow.

'Oh? Tidus the great doesn't like being popular as well? Ha' she laughed, 'That's a change'

Hearing this, Tidus smirked and replied, 'First time for everything, huh? What about you? You're like… naturally popular.'

'It's not my fault to be the one who people chose to make me popular. Oh, and, it's called using your brain to handle your FANS, Tidus' At this time, they had to stop their little conversation, because people were gradually coming in, squealing and whistling, causing both Tidus and Yuna to slap their foreheads with frustration.

'Yunie!' cried a small voice from the crowd coming into the room. Without looking, Yuna knew who it was and turned to this person.

'Hey' she said, smiling.

'Oh Yevon, Yunie! What's with the garbage can outside down the hall? It's STUFFED already! We've only been in school for like what, fifteen minutes?! Out of curiosity I peeked at one of them and they were for YOU!' The girl said hastily, then she grinned after taking a breath, 'Yunie, did you do something bad?'

Yuna grinned as well, 'Maybe, Rikku, maybe' Right after, Yuna and her best friend, Rikku gave a small giggle.

Rikku then sighed and said, 'This year isn't gunna be any different, huh?' And the only response she got was a sigh from Yuna before their homeroom teacher, Ms Ogga, came in.

'Welcome back to Zanarkand High! This year you're senior, and there will be lots to do… I will officially introduce myself now. My name is Ms Ogga…' A few giggles and snickers were heard and definitely a, "Cavewoman?".

'And I will be your homeroom teacher this year… I'll now hand out your timetables….'

Yuna wasn't listening. She had refused to. It had been the same pattern every year: Homeroom, lockers, homeroom, introduction to year, timetables, students comparing timetables, lessons, lunch, lesson, home. And besides, it was the same crap every year that the teachers say. It was always 'Welcome back! This year is going to be perfect, you see! We teachers have a lot planned for you so look forward to the year!' But even they say that, nothing nice to happen. She couldn't be bothered listening to it all over again, and there was nothing else to do, so to keep her busy, she stared outside the window and thought for a while.

Another year of Zanarkand High…and hell am I glad that this is the last. Hopefully university won't be hell like this. Yevon, this is only the first day of friggin' school and I have to take all that crap from all these guys? Give me a break. This has happening since… Oh, I don't remember, the start of high school? Or was it before… in Grade 8? Too lazy to remember… oh well, this isn't exactly surprising, though.

She looked away from the window and scanned the classroom.

Oh no. Where's… him? Still not here…well, figures.

Yuna looked at her watch and it read 8:19am

40…41…42… a few more seconds to go. Must he ALWAYS be like that?

Oh…10…9…8…7… I wish he didn't make such a grand entrance every year… 3…2…1…he's here. 8:20 exactly.

Ms. Ogga's welcome back speech was interrupted by and big bang when someone had opened the door of the classroom aggressively. A tall but handsome guy stood at the door, smirked, and came in closing the door gently unlike before.

'And.. you are?' Ms Ogga asked lifting her glasses up a little to match her eye level.

'Sorry. I didn't know it was time.' The male said casually.

'That is not the way to enter a classroom at the beginning of the year, young man! Besides, who are you? I have handed out every timetable and there was no one missing so-'

The man continued smirking and sat down in an empty seat next to Tidus and waved a piece of paper and said, 'You mean this? Sorry, I got it beforehand'

At this time Ms Ogga had her jaw dropped and was beginning to get angry

'The name's Squall. Nice to meet ya' he said looking at his timetable, 'Uhh.. Ms Ogga' , and he turned up to her and gave her one of his award winning smiles. Just milliseconds later, the class had erupted with laughter.

Ms Ogga was furious, yet she could not shout in front of all these students, it would be embarrassing, so she simply continued on after telling the students to calm down.

'Welcome back to Zanarkand High, Squall.' She said annoyed, before continuing back her speech.
Tidus gave Squall a high-five and had said between laughs, 'HA! Nice one dude!'

'Anytime'

After the little reunion of the best buds, Squall turned to Yuna who had been watching him the whole time and gave her a smirk and a wink. All Yuna did could do was roll her eyes.

That jerk, always know the best way on how to humiliate a teacher. Hehe, but that was funny though. Why did he have so much self-confidence? He and that ego of his… oh I should just stop thinking about him, since I'll be worrying about him all day soon enough. Oh no, he's probably gunna go somewhere today and I'll have to take the bus home… great. What a nice day I'm having. I can just see it in his eyes when he has something up his sleeve.. I mean, how long have I known him for? Since we were 10! All because of my dad…he just had to ma- …oh… man.! Yuna forget it! It's been seven years… Back to Squall… How can I not know what he's up to? Besides, he's always ditching me on the first day! No surprise…

'Yunie? Are you okay? Did you doze off to your own little world again?' Rikku said while shaking her by the shoulders. Yuna then came back to reality and shook Rikku off.

'Ms. Ogga finished just now. We're free till lesson time!' Rikku informed her. Yuna raised an eyebrow and nodded. In the corner of her eye, she could see Squall ready to play some pranks on other teachers that he was going to have for his lessons today.

'Oh' Yuna started, ignoring Squall, 'So what do you have today?'

'Hmm.. lemme see…' Rikku replied as she dug her bag for her timetable. When she got it, it was in crumples. Rikku sweatdropped while Yuna said, 'What do you have in there, girl?' and laughed. Rikku ignored her and scanned through her timetable.

'Week 1, Monday…Oh Yevon!' she exclaimed. 'I've got second language…which is.. FRENCH!!! First thing in the morning!! Yunie!! Save me!! I hate French! Well, ok, not French! But Mrs. Bedwin!!'

'Then why did you take it?' Yuna asked while looking through her own timetable.

'Oh Yunie, you wouldn't know! Gippal.. he told me to take French!!!'

After what had just come out of Rikku's lips, Yuna grinned. 'And… so you did?'

Rikku nodded with a blush. 'OOOhhh.. but you don't know what kind of teacher Mrs. Bedwin is!!' Rikku then frowned. Seeing how depressed Rikku was, Yuna put a soothing hand on Rikku and was about to speak when Squall interrupted.

'Dude, Rik, you got Mrs. Bedwin too?'

Rikku then looked up and replaced her frown into a mischievous smile. She suddenly looked a lot lightened. 'Yes, I do… and I take it that you do, too?

Oh no…Yuna thought. Rikku plus Squall equals…prank. Big time prank! And she KNEW it wasn't going to be pleasant.

'So…' Rikku started while placing a hand on Squall's shoulder. 'What's on the menu today, bro?'

Looking to one side with a big smirk he said in his most secretive voice, 'Wouldn't you like to know…'

'Aww!! I do!! I do!! C'mon Squall tell me!!'

'Just as long as you don't spill it'

Rikku used her fingers and made a cross on her chest. 'Cross my heart and hope to die'

'All right. Let's go then. Lot's to prepare for…' Then Squall took Rikku out of the homeroom, and outside to the hall, but before they exited, Squall turned to Yuna and gave her a wink again.

Stupid Squall…

She slapped her forehead and turned her attention to her timetable again. Oh Yevon…DOUBLE English Lit? Gimme a break! What did I do to deserve this…

And right after she stuffed the piece of paper in her pocket, Tidus came up and asked, 'Whaddya have first?'

Yuna gave him a confused look and replied, 'Why do you care?'

Tidus pretended to be hurt, 'Can't I have a little piece of information on your life?'

The girl sighed and said, 'Double English Lit'

'Aw man! Sucks to be you! But then again, I got double English Lit too! Man I wish your bro was here, he'd make English way more fun than usual' Tidus complained as he flung his bag across his shoulders. 'Wakka's going to Bio. And he's still checking that Lulu girl out. He said he's going to spy on her while going to his class. Geez, that guy's been crushin' on that Lulu girl for ages…anyway, let's move, girl, we don't wanna be late' With that, Tidus went past Yuna and was heading towards the door when he stopped and realized that Yuna was not moving

'Are ya coming or what? Mr. Bennet will kill us if we're late. And I wanna go past your bro's room to see how their prank is going!'

'Uh' Was all Yuna managed to say, then finally making the decision to go with him, even if it was stop by her step-brother, Squall's classroom for French to take a look. 'Alright. But I can assure you,' She smiled, 'It's not going to be pretty'

All Tidus could do was smirk before heading off towards Squall's classroom with Yuna walking beside him.

The girl sighed as she walked down the hall, looking at all the different things happening, not to mention a whole crowd of guys and girls following her and Tidus from behind. She sweatdropped and thought,

'You're right, Rikku, this year is really going to be no different'

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A/N: Man! First chapter done! I hope this interested you =D. I got the whole story planned out though. This chapter took quite a while to think of… oh well! And, yes, the characters are a bit OOc..oO Please Review, I'll love you forever! Haha. Oh, ,by the way, this fic isn't my first…

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