After reading a lot of humor Final Fantasy XIII fiction, I wanted to make one of my own. Though the main focus is around Lightning(Claire) Fang(Yun lol) Vanille(Dia, yes I'm using their names) and Serah(Serah), there will be other Final Fantasy characters involved.

This is the story of Lightning, her sister and her crazy cousins who all live under one roof, and how they make their little dysfunctional family work along with college life. This is a little new to me because I'm planning on making the chapters very short. (I usually write like a mad woman.) I would love to get some feedback on this and maybe some ideas for future chapters. I hope that you guys like this and don't forget to read and review please. It makes me a very happy neko~!

Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy or anything that is copyrighted that is mentioned in this story .If I did, things would be A LOT different and I would be filthy, stinking RICH!


Under One Roof-Good Morning

"Claire! Claire!"

Lightning groaned at the sound of her given name, her eyes opening slightly before she tried to pull the covers over her head. However, before the action could be executed, she felt someone plop on top of her and she yelped.

"Ack! What the hell Vanille," Lightning cried.

The redhead who was now using the pink-haired girl as a cushion laughed. "Good morning Claire~!"

Lightning grunted and tried to push the preppy redhead off of her. "Just…because…you are…my cousin…doesn't mean that-ugh, you're heavy! Anyway… that doesn't…mean…you can call me by my name…"

"But I call Fang by her name too," Vanille said in her wavering Australian accent.

"That doesn't mean that it's okay," yelled another with a similar accent.

Lightning popped her head out from under the covers and looked up and caught sight of her other cousin Fang. She was a dark-haired woman with tanned skin and emerald eyes like Vanille. The difference was that Fang's accent was a bit thicker and her voice a bit huskier. Though Fang's hair was usually in a wild mess that seemed somewhat styled, it now stood up all over the place and it made her look like a Halloween terror.

Vanille smiled at her older sister, muttering something about a using a comb. Fang rolled her eyes at her sister and made a joke about Vanille's pigtails.

The dark-haired woman then nudged Lighting with her foot as if the pink-haired girl was a sleeping pet. "Hey! Rise and shine Light bulb! If I'm awake then you have to be too!"

"Why," Lightning asked as she stretched the word.

Vanille chuckled, "Because you told me you had an exam today silly!"

Lightning shot up, knocking the unsuspecting Vanille on the floor. The strawberry-blond looked around trying to either find her phone or a clock of some sort. "What time is it?"

Fang snorted as she helped her sister up, "Don't worry Light, Vanille woke us up early…so you have plenty of time."

Lightning sighed and fell back onto her comfortable sheets and blankets. She looked up at her cousins, who were staring back at her. The three of them blinked and Lightning narrowed her eyes, becoming suspicious. "What are you guys staring at?"

Fang laughed nervously as she scratched the back of her head. "Well um, we ran out of food again…"

Vanille sighed, "Fang got high again."

Lightning closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose, a grunt leaving her clenched teeth. "Why can't you just go buy a bunch of stuff from McDonalds like everyone else when they're stoned?"

Her dark-haired cousin laughed, "I guess I was too stoned to think of it at the time."

Lighting slapped her forehead with the palm of her hand, "I don't understand how you can be so smart yet so stupid at the same time…"

Fang shrugged as she pulled out a large bag of potato chips and began to munch on them. Lightning sat up and snatched the bag from Fang and started eating them.

"No more food for you…you already cleaned out the fridge!"

Vanille reached into the bag of chips pulling out a handful for herself. Fang frowned at the two of them as that munched on the chips, wishing she could have some of that greasy potato goodness.

Suddenly Lightning's phone rang and the pink-haired woman blinked before glancing at the caller id. "Serah," she muttered as she read the name before answering. "Hello?"

"Good morning Claire…I-um…I mean Lightning!"

Lightning rolled her eyes as her younger sister stumbled over her words. "So what's up," the older Farron asked.

"I got accepted into Cocoon University!"

"Oh that's great! I guess we'll be seeing each other on campus huh?"

"Well um, that's why I was calling…you Dia and Yun live so close to the campus and…"

Fang's ears picked up the sound of her first name and a frown found its way onto her features. Vanille blushed as she heard her own name, the redhead preferred her nickname rather than her own…it was a bit embarrassing. Lightning smiled at her cousins forgetting that Serah was still in the middle of speaking.

"Oh! Um…could you repeat that Serah?"

Serah made a noise on the other line that expressed her surprise. The smaller Farron was one who extremely disliked the thought of being ignored. "Claire, were you even listening to me?"

Lightning lied, "I was, I just couldn't hear that last thing you said clearly. Fang and Vanille are pretty loud."

Serah sighed, seemingly believing her sister's awful lie and repeated what she said. "I was asking if I could move in with you guys…"

As if I didn't have enough on my plate, now Serah wants to come live in our crazy household. Along with Fang's crazy partying, drinking and her habit of getting stoned, and Vanille's friends…I'll be blessed with looking out for my younger sister. Why do I have a bad feeling about this? Serah isn't a delinquent or anything, no, she's the opposite…but I've seen good girls turn bad, one of them being Vanille. Also from my time as a freshman I did some things that I have…come to regret. Besides, I know I'm not the only one who thinks that if you put a little liquor in Serah's system that she'll be all over the place.

Yep, this is my life…a college junior who has a job, runs track and somehow is able to keep my grades up in class. Why couldn't I be like Fang who can party, get drunk and stoned the day before an exam and STILL ace it? The damn genius! Anyway, you guys wouldn't believe how crazy this life of mine can get, and I have to say that the main contributors are my dear cousins. Even though my life is wild, and a little extreme, it's a hell of a lot of fun…at times.

-Lightning


So what did you guys think? I hoped you like my little opener and that you'll tune in for the next chapter! As always, please drop me a line and I'll make sure to reply back~!

-NEKO