Hi! This is my first ff 8. I haven't even played the game in forever, so excuse my kinda OOC characters. Ok, more than kinda but still. I wrote this because there was such a depressing number of stories for these two.
Squall POV
He rushed at me, the sword raised. I felt it cut across my face as I struck at him. The blood ran down into my eye and down into my mouth. My only thought was why. This had started as just a simple training session. Why had he turned it serious? Why did he want me dead? It made no sense. But I wouldn't kill him. All I did was block and make weak counter attacks. I raised my gun blade to block his coming attack.
"Leon. Leon? SQUALL!"
I shook my head out of the memory and looked at my friend. He was giving me a weird look along with Irvine. Sighing, I shook my head. "Sorry. I'm done for the day." I turned and walked out, leaving my two friends behind in the training room.
It was bugging me again. It's because it had almost been a year. And still there was no sign of him. No one had heard anything from him, and his family had no leads either. Where was he? Why had he left? Again with the why's. I had to stop. Wondering why wasn't going to make him magically re appear here at the school. I had to face it; Seifer was never going to return. Pure plain and simple.
I didn't eat. I couldn't. It was too close to a year of being away from him. Yeah, we had fought a lot, yeah, we had almost completely been enemies, but he had still been my friend. I missed him here. If I was honest to myself, I knew why it upset me so much. Because of how I felt about him. I had loved him, and in honesty, I still did. And lately, the night of the fight haunted my dreams, my mind letting it take a different path each time. Sometimes, it ended as it really had. With both of us passing out. But other nights it took different turns. Some good, some bad. Sometimes, it turned around, it ended ok. It ended with me giving up and telling Seifer, which would end the battle and lead to other things. But there were the nights where it ended horrible. One of us killing the other. When he killed me, I could wake up and calm down easy enough. It wasn't hard. But the nights where I killed him, I woke in a cold sweat, shivering hard, and often times I was crying. Those were the nights I got no sleep. This was getting too much. I had to find a way to get it all out. All the emotion. A letter. One no one would ever read. Sitting up from the bed, I walked to my desk and got out the paper. I wrote it out quickly, not paying much attention to what I wrote. I just wrote. All of it. And I felt amazing. And I wanted to do more. I knew no one knew where he was, so it was safe. I went down to the moogles and gave them the letter, telling them it was to be delivered to Seifer Almasy. The moogle just nodded and poofed. I smiled, knowing it would never get to him.
Seifer POV
I honestly didn't like being alone like this. I wanted to return to the school. I had friends there. Fujin, Raijin. Hell, even that annoying Zell and that player cowboy. There was no way I could return though. Not after the fight. Even If I was allowed to return by the school (which I could easily pull off. Dirty secrets come in handy.) I couldn't face the school. I had gone from tied at the top to being a coward who ran after hitting a tie in a battle. It was a disgrace. If my father found out he would murder me the second he found out I had returned. So there was no return. That's why I remained off the grid to everyone. I would have to set up a new life. Perhaps work as a simple hired hit man. I could make a decent living with the training I had. As long as I was left alone and forgotten by everyone I knew.
That wasn't going to happen. Occasionally I got mail. People sending things by moogle that actually reached me. The moogles never returned of course. I wouldn't let them reveal my position. I just simply killed them before they could leave. This one was different. The sender was different. I was in too much shock to kill the moogle before it got away. Leonhart. That's all the envelope said other than my name. That didn't matter. I knew who it was from. But my question was why would he be sending me mail. I didn't mind, but i found it odd. He should hate me for the fight. Apparently he didn't. I was tempted to just ignore it. But i couldn't do that. I knew i couldn't. It would drive me crazy till i found out what the letter was for. Probably just him asking for the others about me. I set the letter next to me and tried to ignore it. But the longer it sat there, the more it bothered me. I had to read it. Moving quickly i grabbed it and ripped it open, pulling out the letter written out it Squalls neat writing.
Seifer. You'll never read this. And that's how I want it. But I need to say this, or the dreams will never stop. I cant stand this. I need you here. You being gone is driving me crazy. I haven't been able to tell the others why I haven't been sleeping. It's been almost a year. Why? I can't fight the questions running through my head. Why did you do this Seifer. Why turn the fight so serious? I'll never get you're answer, but it feels good to write it to you. It bothers me though. Did I really hide it so well that you never noticed? I love you. I thought that I had left it open just enough for you to see, but I guess I hid it to much. I would give anything to tell you this in person. There are so many things I want to do, to say. But none will ever happen. I wonder where you are now. I wonder if you're ok. If you're even alive. I'm sure you are. You were always better than me. I was always just barely able to hold my own against you.
I only have one more thing to say, even if you'll never know. Come back safe Seifer.
I stared at the words on the page in shock. I wasn't meant to get this letter. Squall forgot moogles find people by magic. Typical. But it was more the words that had me in shock. He loved me? He wanted me there? Apparently I had to make a visit to the school. I wouldn't stay, but I had to go see, even if it was just to find out the truth about the letter. Standing, I gathered my few possessions and headed towards the school.
Squall POV
I just wanted to be alone today. Yet no one could figure that out. I would see everyone in training later. They didn't need to swarm me. I was fine. Depressed but fine. The last time they came in I threatened to shoot them in the head with my gun blade. That made them leave, though Zell didn't exactly go easily. Thankfully, no one really knew about this old building behind the school. The walls were crumbled and the roof was all but gone. Perfectly peaceful place to go and sulk in depression as long as my idiot friends didn't bug me.
I heard the footsteps coming. I growled up shifted my arms next to my head, ready to grab my gun blade and shoot the instant they said a word. "I swear I'm going to murder you guys. I just want peace until training."
There was no response, which I found odd. I was about to sit up when someone sat on me, pinning my hands above my head. I moved to through them off, but a warm pair of lips pressed against mine, freezing my movements. My eyes bolted open to see my attacker. They opened wider when I saw who it was. He smirked as he pulled back. "Nice to see you Squall."
Random attacker. Probably easy to guess who it is. BUT I would love for people to guess. I would like to say I require 5 reviews but I'm not that mean. But seriously. REVIEW.
And a little side note. For those reading my other stories…..I'M SORRY! I get easily distracted so I will try to get back to them I swear. It may just take awhile.