SisCoKid: With Final Fantasy 13 coming out and all, I had one of my favorite couples on my mind.
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Chapter 1
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It was that girl again, the same one who always ended up asleep by the end of his lectures. She usually woke up when the rest of the class started to shuffle about after being dismissed, not today apparently. Only two weeks of classes had past and he already considered her a lost cause. A student who came, but received nothing in return. These types of students confused him. It didn't bother him much, as long as she attended class, he didn't have to drop her and her money still funded the school. He looked down at his expensive grey suit and smirked. There was a bonus to sucking these college students dry.
He started straighten up his desk.
Whether the girl passed or not was none of his business, he was a professor, not a baby sitter. It was his job to teach, do a darn good job of it, receive tenure and continue doing a good job. Unlike Jecht, who saw tenure as a means to be lazy. Tenure would prove easy though, considering who the president of the university was.
Auron finished cleaning up his desk and was all for walking out of the classroom and leaving the girl to slumber. After all, it wasn't his problem if she missed all her classes because she decided to sleep through one. Something called his consciousness kicked him and he found himself walking up the stairs of the class to where the girl was sleeping. 'Uncommitted.' He thought bitterly to himself, noting she was in the very back in the highest row next to the door. Auron wasn't a fan of the lecture style classrooms, but no other class could fit the number of students who wanted to take his course. It was what happened when the world famous monster hunter started teaching. He figured, the world would be better off if more people knew the difference between monsters and how to most effectively avoid battle altogether, or fight if need be.
Now at her seat, Auron finally got a closer look of the girl. The first thing that struck him as odd was the tan, contrasting the pale skin of the rest of the population this time of the year, it was nearing winter after all. It was a wonder what shadows could hide when somebody was sitting far enough away. His class had only met four times, but he already noticed the girls creativity with her blond lockes of hair. They were never the same any given day she attended his class. Today they were tied back into two long ponytails with pink feathers at the end. She was wearing a bright orange sleeveless shirt and tight blue jeans. It was a mystery to him why such a frail looking girl would take his class.
Auron wasn't an arrogant man, but he was aware of the fact that he was a desirable man to the female population. Maybe thats why this girl attended his class, but ended up bored once she listened to him talk about monsters.
He shook her awake with this in mind. She woke with a start, hitting his hand before he could retract it. 'Shes fast.' The first thing he observed was that the face matched the body. She was a beautiful young lady, it was sad that she wasn't applying herself though.
'What!' Auron failed to conceal his shock as he peered into her swirling green eyes. He knew about the restriction of the Al Bhed people being uplifted at the school, but nobody told him any actually came. To his luck, she was still in a state of confusion. He worked to regain his composure, her nationality would not save her from his irritation. She looked from side to side, checked her watch, then past him and down to his desk before finally looking him in the eyes with a look of shock. He imagined he knew the swear word going through her mind at the moment.
She bounced out of her chair and rushed to put her note book and pen into her side pack, then she bowed her head in apology.
"I'm so so sorry professor Auron! It won't happen again, I swear!" She spoke as if she was on a five second time limit. It took Auron a few seconds just to decipher what she said. He gave her a stern look.
"Its hard to believe that when you sleep in my class every Tuesday and Thursday." He replied coolly, she would get no sympathy.
Her mouth hung agape for a moment as she search for an excuse.
"Um..thats because..." She didn't get to finish.
"Don't bother with the excuses. If you don't want to be here, why come? Why waste your money?" Auron stood with his arms crossed.
She looked down and didn't respond.
"I came up here to wake you up today, so that you wouldn't miss anymore class, assuming that you don't sleep in them as well." He walked to the door and held it open. "Get to class and don't expect me to do this again."
"Thank you." She bowed at him again, before hurrying out of the door.
Auron mentally slapped himself when he realized he was watching her leave. 'Student!' His mind screamed. This was the first time he had to remind himself that and hopefully the last. He couldn't see her returning after this incident. He closed the door behind himself and leaned against it. Braska probably wouldn't be happy with him scolding one of the schools probably only Al Bhed students, but Auron couldn't help the way he was. He saw a path and went forward with it. No second thoughts, that why he was so successful with monsters, fear never hindered his speed or skill.
He stood up straight and started his journey for his office. He was a part of his own department. Bevelle University never had such a teacher as him, so they never had such a department. So his office, was literally, his office. That was one thing Auron loved to rub in Jechts face when Jechts ego was getting too big.
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"Aww man! Aww man! Aww man!" Rikku mumbled to herself as she stood with her forehead planted against the wall outside the door of her next class. She was late, but that wasn't bothering her too much. What was bother her was the fact that she was viewed as nothing but a sleeping idiot to probably the most awesome person in Spira. She puffed her cheeks out. 'He didn't even give me a chance to explain myself. 'Jerk!' Her cheeks deflated as she put more thought to his actions. She was in fact sleeping in his class and had been every lesson, he did have a right to be irritated.
She huffed and jumped back off the wall. It was all just so boring though. He was going over such basic things, things she had seen and fought before while traveling around the world with her family. It was doing first grade math while taking classes for a doctorate. She understood the need for it though. It was information that the majority of that class needed to know, otherwise when they start traveling places on their own or in small groups, they would be destroyed.
Rikku received a glare from the professor as she entered the classroom and made her way to a free desk. Advanced Chemistry 2. Also a class that she found herself sleeping in. She would show them though, this teacher and Professor Auron. She planned to blow their test out of the water. The first and only Al Bhed attending Bevelle University and she was going to be at the top....Her face was close to making permanent contact with her desk.
"AH!" She yelped after being nailed in the forehead by a piece of paper. She nodded apologetically at the professor before finding a note on the ground next to her. She opened it up to see a message in decorative cursive.
Stay awake!
She searched the front half of the class and located Lulu. She willed for the intensity of her glare to pick up Lulus attention. Lulu glanced back and smirked before going back to taking notes.
Rikki decided to follow Lulus actions and took a shot at taking notes.
It failed. After five minutes, she noticed her notes morphing into a picture of a stick figure wielding a big sword. Rikku shut her notebook, crossed her arms ontop her desk, and then rested her head. Her mind kept wondering back to her encounter with Professor Auron. She never imagined how handsome he looked up close. The long jet black hair pulled in a pontail and his brown eyes. The suit hardly hid the muscles he had to have under it.
'No! Thats my teacher! Bad! Bad! Bad!'
"OWWY!" Rikku yelled as she grabbed her side. It felt like someone just stuck a sword into her side. She looked up and noticed the class was empty except for Lulu, who was standing with a small doll in her arms. Rikku could swear there was a tiny smile on her face.
'How does she do that?' Rikku wondered. She stood up and put her notebook with a stick figure of Professor Auron into her side pack.
"I'll find out how you do that someday!" She whined to Lulu as they left the class together.
Lulu raised an eyebrow at her Al Bhed friend.
"I see your sleeping problem persisted, even when I warned you." Lulu stated, ignoring what Rikku just said. Rikku already knew it was impossible to get anything out of Lulu, so she decided to go along with her.
"But its so easy! I learned most of this stuff when I was eight!" She exclaimed, holding up eight fingers to exaggerate her point. It wasn't a lie either. Her parents noticed her brilliance at a young age and taught her multiple things continuously during their travels on the airship.
"We'll see about that soon enough, wont we?"
The both of them generated a lot of attention as they walked the halls, more towards Rikku than Lulu. Wakka made it a known point not to mess with her and not because he do anything. He feared for them because he knew what his girlfriend was capable of. Rikku rolled her eyes. 'They probably wouldn't think the same if they knew I was Al Bhed.' It was strange. She figured people would notice right off the back from one glance. After all, who had a tan this time of the year? They didn't though and it made life much easier. She had friends and all but one of them could accept her. Wakka was the only one too stuck in the teachings of Yevon. Lulu reassured her that Wakka would come along in time and when Lulu said something, she believed it.
Rikku and Lulu made their way across campus to the Bevelle University Blitzball stadium. Besides for the chapel, it was the pride of the school. As they got closer, Rikku saw the teams coach talking to professor Auron. She observed the way they interacted with each other and it struck her as odd. How could two drastically different people get along. She was friends with the coach's son and had visited the house twice thus far. From what she'd seen of Coach Jecht, it didn't seem like his attitude would meld well with that of Professor Aurons.
She felt like a pair of eyes were watching her. She couldn't be sure, but as Lulu and her walked into the stadium, it felt like someone was watching her, observing her. Yes, it was true that she got a lot of looks, but this felt different.
It never crossed her mind to check the man standing and conversing with coach Jecht. The man whose eyes were concealed by shades and who she never would of expected to give her a second glance.
Lulu noticed though.
"That man was staring at you." She stated with a little edge to her voice.
"What! Who? Which one?" Rikku looked back outside at the two men talking.
Lulu turned her around.
"The one talking to Tidus's father, hes wearing the shades. A little too old to be looking at college girls in my opinion. Lech!"
Rikku saw the scowl on her friends face and decided not to get it aimed at herself.
'Why would he be looking at me?' He didn't come off as that sort of man. Rumors claimed that he turned down the hand of the most beautiful woman in Spira, the daughter of the High Priest. If that was true, then Lulu clearly must of been mistaken. His standards were far too high.
But someone was staring at her and there weren't that many other people around.
Rikku shrugged. even if he was staring at her, maybe he was just telling Jecht about his infamous sleeping student.
"RIKKU! LULU!" The both of them looked up to see Tidus standing on the edge of the arena. He pointed to where Yuna sat in the stands before jumping in.
Wakka swam by the edge and blew a kiss to Lulu.
Lulu seemed to ignore him, but Rikku caught the corners of her lips lift.
They climbed the stands up to Yuna.
"YUNIE!" Rikku charge forward for a hug. Lulu nodded her greeting and took a seat on one side of Yuna, Rikku sat on the otherside.
"How was the day for you two?" Yuna asked with a gentle smile on her face. Lulu answered before Rikku could.
"My day was just fine, but it appears your cousin slept through hers yet again." Rikku gave Lulu a look of betrayal and then turned to her cousin who didn't look to happy.
"Rikku! You can't keep sleeping in class. Your father told me not to let you slack off!" Yuna gave Rikku a stern look.
Rikku hung her head. It was one thing to get a stern look from her father, but it was killer from Yuna because she was only that way out of love. Rikku peaked back up.
"Love you."
"I love you too, but thats not going to keep you awake in class is it." She sat with her arms crossed.
Rikku threw her arms up.
"Geez! Come on you guys! Give me a break, I can't stay awake when everything I'm learning isn't challenging me."
Yuna pulled Rikkus head intp her chest and gave her a hug. Yuna wasn't known for her lasting anger.
"Are you sure thats why your falling alseep?" She asked with a soft voice. Rikku lifted her head up, with a smile brightning her face.
"Of course! You guys will see, just wait until I take my first test!" Rikku made puppy eyes for added affect. Lulu looked away in time to dodge them. Yuna was caught and succumbed to them.
"Okay." Yuna smiled while Lulu shook her head.
Rikku saw this as an opportunity to change the subject and leaped on it.
"So, whats the plan for this weekend?" Rikku noticed Yuna and Lulu look at each other with unease. Rikku narrowed her eyes. Lulu decided to answer, she knew Yuna sucked when it came to conveying bad news.
"Wakka, Tidus, Yuna, and I are all planing a double date for before and after the teams away game this weekend." Lulu saw the look on Rikkus face and her heart softened. "Sorry."
Yuna rubbed her cousins thigh.
"Come on Rikku! This is a big city and I'm sure you'll find plenty of things to do while we're gone."
Rikku couldn't stay mad at that voice and she didn't want to find out what happens to anyone who tried to be mad a Lulu.
Rikku pumped her fist in the air.
"Alright I'll find something to do this weekend. Operation Weekend, underway!"
"We still have classes on tomorrow, you know that todays Thursday right?" Lulu reminded her.
Yuna laughed as Rikku hung her head.
'Darnit.'
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SisCoKid:Note! I've made Auron 27 in this fic, so imagine the way he looked in the spheres from the past and not the Auron we all know from the present. Braska and Jecht will still be around 35 for obvious reasons.
This was pretty fun to write. Hope you guys enjoyed it as well!
