Not Your Average Blondes

Disclaimer: This soooo sucks. Look people, I don't own Final Fantasy VII or its characters, though I wouldn't mind if it was all just given to me. Nope, not at all. So feel free to just give it to me. I'll take real good of them. Heh heh, yeah so don't sue. It's a waste of my time and yours. Besides, you'll just be wasting your money on pressing charges. I won't lose a dime.

Hiei: If you had one.

Kyo-chan (me): Very funny Hiei. Very funny. But I do own Aries, her limit breaks, and her sword...swords.

Aries: Thank you for reminding me. -- Gah...

Kyo-chan: No prob'!

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Sephiroth almost sighed as he and Zack continued to watch the new recruits train for the placement program. The key word being 'almost'. Sephiroth didn't sigh, it just was not a General-like thing to do. And right now, he was in General mode, as he always was when watching cadets. This has to be one of the most annoying tasks they have for me. What difference does it make if I am here? If anything, my presence would scare them, if not make them a nervous wreck. That won't be good for their performance, now will it? Needless to say, this was yet another task that Sephiroth loathed. And there were so many too...

"Why do we have to be here again, Seph?"

Sephiroth looked at the raven-haired man and said, "For the 79th time Zack, we have to watch for potential and to help decide their placement in squads."

Zack sighed. "That's stupid. We both know that they don't listen to us for placement and there isn't a recruit out here with potential for First Class Soldier placement. Or Second Class for that matter. Or Third..." He resisted the urge to bang his head, repeatedly, against the railing. "Besides, it's not like we'd ever choose the Cambridge squad." He shuddered at the mention of the squad.

Sephiroth continued to look down at the recruits as he recalled how much he hated that particular squad. The commander in charge was lazy, abusive to his cadets, and even slept with some of them. The cadets were usually too scared to refuse. Despite all of that, the commander, John Cambridge, was an excellent fighter, and therefore President ShinRa overlooked his flaws. Sephiroth almost rolled his eyes as he caught Zack staring at something. Or rather someone. But, once again, rolling his eyes was not something he did when in 'General mode', as Zack called it. "What is it now Zack?" Sephiroth shook his head as there was no response yet. The silver-haired man knew Zack to be the biggest flirt present and flaunted the title shamelessly.

"Those two blondes down there." Zack was practically drooling. "They're gorgeous!"

Sephiroth came very close to rolling his eyes. "Blondes? I thought this month was brunettes."

Zack grinned. "Yeah, but these two changed my mind completely."

"Male or female?" As if he even cares. It was common knowledge that most, if not all, of Midgar was gay or bi. Rarely did you find any strictly straight-including those here at ShinRa. And aside from that, there seemed to be a shortage of women in ShinRa, as female fighters were often frowned upon. But there was just no stopping some women. However, the expception would be the Turks. They didn't care about gender, either way it went. As far as that 'clique' was concerned, one gender was as dangerous as the other.

"One is a guy, but the other is a girl." By Shiva, looks like that should be illegal!

The two blondes Zack saw were currently arguing with two other cadets.

"Look, I don't care if I 'm a girl! There is no rule that says girls can't join SOLDIER." The girl was furious.

Her friend tried to calm her. "Aries! Calm down. You'll make a scene. Just ignore them and come on." He was pulling her away.

The two other cadets snickered. "Yeah, but this ain't no place for you either, pretty boy."

Mentally, the blond boy scowled. Outwardly, his expression remained calm, trying to do the same for his companion. People like these two make my life a lot more complicated than necessary. And my life is complicated enough.

"Yeah, Cameron is right. You two shouldn't be by yourself. Someone could try to take advantage of a pretty pair like you two."

Now the boy restraining Aries was having a bit of a hard time, more so than before, as she was about five seconds from hitting the two taunting them. "Look, you idiots, we don't have time for people like you. Say what you like, but my friend and I are staying." Aries had an idea. "Say...to prove it, why don't we have a little 'friendly fight'? What do you think Cloud?"

The blond boy identified as Cloud smirked, "Sure, if these two are up to it."

Cameron nodded. "I'm in. What about you Jason?"

He nodded. "Now we'll show you where you belong- away from here, baking cookies or something."

Aries rolled her eyes. "Right." Morons. "Pick you weapons and let's do this. We have ours already so just get yours."

Zack suddenly frowned. Sephiroth saw and asked what was wrong. Zack pointed down. "It looks like there's going to be a fight."

Sephiroth looked down as well and saw two cadets grab some swords. "I see." What do they think they're doing? Fighting is prohibited so early on, much less with actual swords. Cadets, they think they can just jump into things like this so fast. I'd better get down there before the bleeding begins.

Zack remained frowning, answering Sephiroth's mental question out loud. "I was listening to their argument." His eyes narrowed as the cadets started to gather and watch the fight. "It seems those two," he pointed to the two with swords," say that the two blondes don't belong here. The two blondes decided to fight to earn their stay."

Typical. Sephiroth glared as the other cadets in the gym began to egg the fighting parties on. "Did you catch their names?"

Zack nodded, "Yep. The blondes are Cloud and Aries. The other two go by Cameron and Jason. Cameron started the whole thing." He looked to Sephiroth. "Should we do something?"

Sephiroth wasn't sure. Well, he knew they should, but he didn't really care to. Cadets' affairs seemed so petty and disinteresting, however potentially dangerous they could prove to be. "Not yet. But just in case, let's go down there." The two SOLDIERS nodded to each other and headed down to the recruits' gym.

Yeah, and that would be Chapter 1. So...what do you think? That lovely button that let's you review can help.