Hey, everyone. Well, this is my first time writing on fanfiction.net, but I have written online before. This is my first ever FF8 fic, I hope you like it, please tell me! I accept flames!!!!! really! it's a way to improve your writing! BTW, a friend of mine told me I could be Selphie's twin, our personalities are so much a like. I didn't know whether to take it as a compliment or a insult. So, PLEASE read this story and tell me if it is shit, or if it rocks. I need to know!

Toodles

~alexhandria~

Disclaimer: Well, these characters are so over used that they were on the discount rack at the grocery story and I picked 'em up cheap......I wish......no, they make to much money for squaresoft to even think of selling them to me...........*wipes tears* I'll live. I think. So Squaresoft still owns them.

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Capturing the Wind

Chapter 1 - A Ruffle In The Leaves

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Squall Leonheart walked into the classroom, finally it was his first official day of SeeD training. He was going to be choosing his weapon today, and handing in the Garden issued hand gun and knife and putting in a order for a real weapon. Before leaving for the summer, all the students who were entering the SeeD program the following fall were given a pamphlet with all the possibilities for weapons, and then they would have close to two years to train with the weapons, making changes if necessary.

Gunblade. That was the one Squall knew he wanted. It was the last weapon in the book, meaning it also was the most difficult to learn. But there was just something that was drawing him to the weapon. He just had to have one. There was no one else in Garden History that had ever used the gunblade before, according to the resident doctor, Dr. Kadowaki. Squall knew he was going to be the first Seed who was a gunblade specialist. He had to be. Just like he was the first one to class. He walked to the back of the classroom and sat on the right hand side, hoping no one would notice him.

'Will I always be alone? If have been fine alone before this, I don't see why I can't be alone through everything.' Squall thought to himself and watched as the other students began to file into the classroom. Knowing that there was only going to be about 25 people in the class, because most people failed the entrance exam this year. He watched as the two girls who always stood by the directory playing triple triad came into the room. Only moments later, Squall was disappointed to see Zell Dincht walk into the room. His room mate. As long as Squall could remember, Zell had always been a loud, obnoxious wuss. His mouth more powerful then his punch. Zell walked right to the back of class and sat down in the terminal across from Squall.

"Hey, Squall. Did you decide yet what ya want?" Zell asked, his blond hair and blue eyes accentuating the intricate black tattoo along his face. Squall never could figure out how, at the age of 14 Zell was able to get that thing.

"...................." Squall said nothing in reply.

"Did ya hear? Seifer is suppose to in this class. He failed the entrance exam last year and is gonna take this year seriously. I tell you, as soon as I get what I need for a weapon, I'll knock his face in." Zell said and punched his fists together.

"And what weapon do you plan to use for that?" Squall asked, looking over at Zell as if to say 'You Wish'.

"I've already got my weapon. I began training using my fists this summer and all I need is protective gloves." Zell boasted.

Squall didn't reply, due to the fact that the doors opened and a man walked in, dressed in SeeD attire, another SeeD following him, only the second was female.

Squall knew the girl to be Quistis Trepe, a semi- friend to Squall. As long as he could remember, Quistis had been there trying to get him to talk and to break up fights between himself and Seifer. Shit. Seifer. Zell said that Seifer was going to be in this class. And in such a small class, Squall knew that he and Seifer were going to be at each others throats a lot.

"Welcome to all those here. I am Instructor Aki. You must have been the few that passed the entrance exam and qualified to become SeeDs next year. At Balamb Garden you are expected to perform to you full potential. As you know, the road to becoming a SeeD will not be easy. You will endure long hours in the class room and even longer hours out in the field. I will be your instructor most of this year, while we will have a SeeD trying to earn her instructors license. I expect you to treat Ms. Quistis Trepe with your utmost respect. Today we will be assigning weapons, for a SeeD should never be caught unprepared for a battle at anytime. I'm sure you all have had a chance to look over your options. As I'm sue you know, I am only allowed to assign so many students to each specific weapon. So I hope you have more then one in mind. Before we do that Ms. Trepe will do role." Instructor Aki said, then passed Quistis a blue clipboard.

"Almasy, S." She read, her honey blonde hair covering her eyes as she read off the list. No answer. She looked up over the frames of her sliver rimmed glasses and tried a different approach. "Seifer Almasy?" Almost as if that was a cue, the door opened and there stood the boy in question and his 'posse', Raijin and Fujin.

'Oh, great.' Thought Squall. As if it wasn't going to be bad enough having Seifer in the class, he'd now have to put up with the rest of his friends.

"Seifer, Fujin, Raijin. You are late. You will all meet with me for an hour after class." Instructor Aki said and looked back at Quistis to tell her to continue. "Oh, and the three of you will be the last to put in your requests for weapons."

Squall looked up only to see Seifer with a scowl on his face as he punched Raijin's arm, and Fujin fix her newly acquired eye patch. Squall was one of only 4 people who knew how she got it. And although he wasn't really her friend, he wasn't about to go around telling everyone her story.

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Well, how was it? Bad? sucked shit? Good? tell me please!

Well, I hope that you liked it, cause there is more gonna be going coming your way!

BTW, I normally am a yoai writer, so this type of story is kind of a new thing for me.

Toodles

~alexhandria~