They had known each other since they were born, there mothers had been best friends; they had had all the same teachers and classes until the day they graduated. And that was probably how Yuna and Kairi had decided at the same time that they needed to settle down which was how they had wound up in this bar at midnight dancing together in the middle of the floor being ogled by everything in pants, not all of them friendly, after all some of these girls were here with there boyfriends. And, well, apparently guys with prior commitments were not immune to the way they were dancing in those mini skirts either.
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They had been the terror of the high school and they had spent all of college drinking and chasing skirts even if they never actually got much out of it but concussions. Zack and Axel hadn't met until high school but somehow their bond was as strong as brothers. They hadn't both decided to settle down only Zach had that definition. Axel however did want something a bit more concrete and intimate that what he had been dating. That was how they had ended up at the bar just in time to walk in and see two, well they couldn't be angels with the way they were dancing, but they were drop dead gorgeous.
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The song ended and Yuna and Kairi walked up to the bar to grab a drink. Strange as it was they were only drinking juice. As Kairi had so delicately put it 'can't be man hunting while we're stumbling around drunk can we?', Yuna had to agree that the picture that gave her was not an encouraging one. They knew they were being watched but what should they care they knew how to take care of themselves, Tifa was a great instructor.
"Well all I see tonight are flops shall we hit another place?" Kairi asked with a sigh.
"I suppose I don't see anything that catches my eye…" as Yuna trailed off Kairi turned to see what her friend was looking at and decided they would stay. The one with black hair was cute but she would tie the red head to her bed if she had to.
Yuna was even worse she was considering drugging that amazing definition of a man with black hair and blue eyes so intense they almost glowed, or hitting him on the head and tying him up in the backseat. She supposed alcohol would work just as well though.
Then she noticed that they were staring too. Right at them with what she was sure was the same look that she and her best friend had on their faces. She quickly hit Kairi on the shoulder and assumed a more normal face then turned back to the bar.
"Yuna! That man is gorgeous!" Some how Yuna knew Kairi was talking about the red head but she didn't dwell on it.
"I know what you mean his friend made my heart stop!" Yuna replied. "Now then, we have to at least act normal so come on stop that look before they see play hard to get."
"Yeah you're right Yuna we have to play it cool." They turned back to their drinks and tried not to feel the two men coming up behind them and sitting a few bar stools down.
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"What the hell do we do Axel! They saw us and, and, did you see their faces they felt it too man!" Zack was feeling slightly panicked at the new feeling in his stomach he didn't hate it exactly but it was a bit unsettling.
"Yeah I saw that I got it memorized already, the question is what do we do about it. I think we both know that they felt….whatever it was that we felt." Axel still had that awestruck look on his face as the girls turned back to the bar as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. It actually disappointed him that the red haired girl was acting as if she hadn't felt that spark.
"So what do we do?"
"The same thing that they are doing I guess; act like we didn't feel it or we could go all out and drool on them like I feel like doing. I don't think that they would like option number two."
So they made their way up to the stools next to the two while trying to seem like that wasn't the reason they were sitting next to them. Then Zack felt all of the blood drain out of his body. The red head had gone off somewhere he guessed the restroom and Axel had followed quickly. He and the girl where alone, well, almost.
Some guy was right up behind her with his hands on her. He whispered something in her ear and she said no. When he tried to pull her out of her stool she stood and so did Zack. That was the only time he had a man on top of him and he did not want to repeat the experience. Ever.
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Kairi looked up at Yuna. "Hey I'll be right back, bathroom."
Yuna just nodded and went back to her drink. She was trying not to look at the man left next to her now that his friend had gone after Kairi. Just then she felt a hand come around her and a strange man, who was obviously drunk to the point that he reeked of it. Then he whispered in her ear and she just about gagged on the stench.
"Hey there good lookin'. Let's go back to my place." She shook her head no but apparently this guy was stupid. He attempted to jerk her out of her seat. She stood when he pulled at her and grabbed his arm and threw him over her. He hit someone and a bar stool turned to fire wood but she was too mad to care.
She turned and headed for the door knowing that Kairi was right behind her.
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Axel hurried over to Zack as soon as Kairi had run straight to the door after giving him her name. He stood shocked. There was a drunken man on Zack! He doubled over in laughter and continued laughing as he helped the man off of his friend. Then when he heard the story he laughed even more. Zack had been beat to playing hero by the damsel in distress herself! It was just too good.
Later back at the apartment they shared they sat down and realized that all they knew was Kairi's name and what the two women looked like. How where they going to find them?
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They never thought it would be this easy. There was Zack's girl (yes that's what they had chosen as her name since they knew nothing else of her) on the front page of the newspaper. It was a picture of her in mid-throw of the drunk guy from the night before with Zack just off to the side with an 'oh shit' look on his face as he realized the guy was coming at him. The caption just about made Zack faint, and he never fainted.
High Summoner Lady Yuna of Spira in Bar Fight.
"You were trying to hit on the High Summoner from the eastern continent? Oh that's good. What's better is she likes you too! A summoner and a SOLDIER, what a novel idea." Axel said with a smirk on his face. At least Zack knew it was a friendly smile.