xXMXPXx: This is the first Fic I've even tried to post since my computer crashed on me so I'm just gonna hope for a good response from anyone who reads this.
Saeka: Rin, you always worry...you should just go with the flow, ya know.. -goes back to cloud-watching-
xXMXPXx: Oh shut up you lazy bum..all you ever do is...well...be lazy! Anyways Squally can cheer me up right?
Squall: o.O...when did I get here...? -wanders around-
xXMXPXx: -sigh- Just do the disclaimer Saeka... -throws a shoe at Squall-
Saeka: xXMysticXPhoenixXx, or Rin, does not own the characters of Final Fantasy, though she did make up the Red Rose bar that they all go to -flop's down on back tiredly- Oh...and she isn't making any money off this...or making any money period...just thought I'd say that D
xXMXPXx: -eyebrow twitches- Saeka...you didn't need to say that! -grabs out kunai- If you're gonna complain, then how bout you go get some money so I won't be poor anymore!
Saeka: Too troublesome...-kunai lands next to head- XD...I'll...er-...just, be leaving now...
Squall: On with the Story!
xXMXPXx: -sigh- Now he knows why he's here...
Assassins By Night
"Back already?" A green-eyed brunette with her hair flipped out in an odd fashion jumped up from a couch in a small apartment, gazing expectantly at the blue-eyed blonde who had just walked in.
"Lemme guess, another creep who just wanted you for your body?" A chocolate-brown-eyed girl with long black hair with streaks of brown on the sides, looked over the arm of a chair to the blonde.
"I just wish there was a guy out there who wasn't just trying to get me into bed with him." The blonde said frustrated. She threw her coat over the back of a chair as the brunette flung herself back onto the couch and the black-haired girl turned her head back around to watch the news.
"Anyone we know die?" The blonde asked seriously. There had been a war in the clans and her and her roommates were some of the only people who still lived together in harmony while they were of different races.
"No, but we're on T.V.!" The black-haired girl turned up the volume as they all watched with interest.
"The three mysterious people who keep turning up at major crime scenes across the city have been witnessed yet again. This time at the murder of a Miss Xu Ruana. Miss Ruana, 18, lived in a small flat in the East of Esthar, she was a secretary for a man named Cid Kramer. Mr. Kramer owns Knight Industries, a small manufacturing company.
"Mr. Kramer said he sent his secretary home for the night early because she told him she was having visitors later. She did not, in fact, have any company later in the night. The three mysterious people, whom many speculate to be the gruesome killers, were spotted leaving Miss Ruana's house by her neighbor.
"The neighbor said she not only saw them leave the house, she said she saw them crying as they left. Are these mysterious people the actually murders or are they just saying good bye to the people they know? More news coverage will be on later at 11 on Estharian News Channel 11.." The reporters voice trailed off as the black-haired girl turned the volume down.
"The news was actually close.." The brunette said sadly. Her and her roommates used to be in school with Xu, but Xu said it was all right they killed her, she would rather have them do it than someone else.
"This is just how bad it gets in these wars...we have to stoop so low as to kill our friends..." The black haired girl had a hard set look on her features, she was trying not to cry.
"Soon, we'll just be killing our own family." She said it almost pleasantly and the other two knew why. She had always hated her father and he didn't seem to care about her much either, it had been like that since the day her mother died. She blamed her father for her death, and he blamed his own child.
"Rin, we won't be killing our own family!" The brunette said distressed on the brink of tears herself, "I won't do it!"
"I know you won't Selphie, but if you won't, they'll just send someone else to do it." Rinoa whispered tears falling down her cheeks.
"Both of you, stop!" the blonde finally spoke up as Selphie was about to yell back at Rinoa. "No matter what, we just have to stick together and protect the ones we care about...even at the cost of our own lives." She said the last part quietly but both heard.
"You're right Quisty." Selphie whispered as the tears escaped from under her dark eyelashes.
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"Looks like Xu has been taken out of the family." A man with long-wavy auburn hair which was up in a ponytail, a cowboy hat perched atop his head with deep violet-tinted eyes said, as he listened to the reporter on the T.V. He sat on a couch, a remote in hand.
"Looks like it was Caraway who did it." A boy with vivid-blonde hair that was put up in large spikes on his head and bright blue eyes, walked out of a small kitchen caring a hotdog in one hand and a soda in the other. As he turned a strange tribal-like tattoo taking up most of the left side of his face could be seen.
"We gonna tell Squall now, or when he comes down?" The cowboy said just as footsteps were heard coming down a set of hidden stairs.
"Tell me what?" Squall, who had long-messy grey-brown hair that loosely fell in front of his steely-cobalt-blue eyes, with a long slash of a scar running between them, asked irritably heading straight for the kitchen.
"Morning sleepy. The sun set two hours ago, you had a long night last night?" The cowboy asked laughing.
"Tell me what, Irvine?" Squall yelled as he glared at the cowboy.
"Okay, okay...a report just said Caraway's people killed Xu." Irvine said in a more serious tone looking back at the T.V. on which a smiling picture of Xu looked back at him.
"Xu...we went to school with her didn't we?" The blonde asked thinking as he looked at the picture on the T.V.
"Zell, you literally ran into her the very first day of school, you knocked her over and landed on top of her." Irvine said holding back a laugh as Zell flushed a light shade of pink.
"Oh...ya, now I remember Xu." He said quietly mumbling something else under his breath.
"But wait...Isn't she a member of your clan Squall, why would her last name be Ruana?" Irvine turned his attention to the moody brunette who seemed out of touch with reality at the moment.
"What?" Irvine was right, Squall was off in his own world probably somehow coming to the conclusion that this was his fault or he had to do something heroic, something along those lines.
"I asked...if Xu is in your clan, then how come her last name is Ruana?" Irvine asked again in a slower voice, Squall heard him this time.
"Why is my last name Leonhart?" He asked simply walking out of the kitchen towards the front door pulling a jacket around himself as he went. He was gone in a few strides and Irvine and Zell were left to wonder where he was going.
"Red Rose, Park, or the long way past the Manor?" Zell asked knowing Squall's usual places he went whenever he left the apartment.
"Hard choice, I would place my money on either the park or the Manor, he wouldn't want to go to the Rose because of the crowds." Irvine said looking at a picture, the gleam of the glass in the frame just catching his eye.
It was taken right when they got this apartment, Zell had told Squall to come downstairs for some phone call. As Squall came down Zell jumped him pulling Squall into the photo. It hadn't turned out half bad either, it was normally very difficult to get a picture of Squall.
Irvine was on the right smiling at the camera as Zell stood next to him, his left arm draped around Irvine and his right holding Squall so he couldn't get away, and though Squall tried as hard as he could to get away in time, he couldn't and the flash went off.
They had been best friends ever since, but Squall still had his old habits of being a loner running through his veins, no matter how hard Irvine and Zell tried to break him of those habits, Squall still stuck with most of them.
"Irvine!" Irvine turned to Zell startled.
"What?" Irvine blinked.
"I asked you, should we see if he went to the Manor? Hyne, now you're acting like him." Zell pointed his thumb in the direction Squall left while grabbing his jacket next to the front door. Only then did Zell's word finally reached through to Irvine.
"Wait for me!" Irvine grabbed his tan duster and followed his friend out the door, locking the apartment behind him.