Heyya, This is my first story and I kinda wanted to get one of my crossovers up but I found the old jot notes for this one and I couldn't help it, I had to put it up here because it's just so cute... of course I only had the first chapter written in my notebook, so I'm going to have to come up with the rest on a hopefully somewhat regular basis... but till then I hope you enjoy. -This also means that I am taking a break from all my Squall/Irvine related things to give you this... as the sniper cowboy will not be making an appearance in this... maybe.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Kingdom Hearts... though like many of us I sorta wish I did... XD
Eventual Squall/gaspCloud.
The thought, just the mere thought, of being stuck with the silent brunet was enough to set Clouds nerves on edge. The only time the two ever spoke to each other was when they were throwing insults back and forth, yet their idiotic teacher had assigned them to be partners. Two to a group, there was no third neutral party to make sure that the behaved and got at least particle work done, instead of trying to think up ways of killing each other… nope, just the two of them.
When the teacher had announced the pair, 'Squall Leonheart and Cloud Strife.' The entire class fell silent, even a random student who had been passing the opened door room tripped and stumbled. Tifa, Yuffie and Arieth had blinked and, being mutual friends between the two teens, sighed. Yuffie had been the first in the room to break free of the stunned silence and started to giggle, Tifa hushed her as Cloud aloud his head to fall on his desk, with a loud and almost hollow thud, causing most of the students around him to wince. Squall raised an eyebrow and his hand, 'Is it possible that I can exchange partners?' The teacher raised an eyebrow of her own,'No, Mr.Leonheart, this is a project, not a stock market.' There was a collective snicker from the other students, though a quick glare that promise pain from Squall had them stopping relatively fast.
'It's ok, I wont mind if you assign us new partners. In fact, I encourage it.'
'No, Mr.Strife, you two will be working together. I did this on purpose, so that maybe, just maybe, by some slime chance… you two will mature and start to act like mature teenagers, not a couple of school yard kids fighting over the last swing.' A weird analogy, perhaps but, she had a point, and after a few more weak arguments and protests, the remainder of the pairs where made and the surprise assignment was given
Studying a child. Not Child Studies, no, they had to find a young kid, preferably a sibling, and study it. When school let back in after March Break, they would present their research, as well as have the child with them. Weird? Just a little bit, but this is Professor Tilmitt we're dealing with.
At lunch they all sat together, Yuffie hummed and huffed as she poked at her Friday Surprise, 'I think… I'll use my cousin Zell… if it's cool with my partner, I think he has a younger sibling of some sort. Tifa, Arieth?'
'My step brother, Kadaj.'
'My partner has a little sister,' Tifa took a sip of her Coke, 'How about you two?'
Squall grunted, 'I don't have any siblings… what about you, Blondie?'
'I have two younger brothers…' He growled, the girls snickered and Squall raised his eyebrow, 'What's so amusing?'
'It's going to be an assignment in its own right, to get Sora and Roxas to sit still long enough to ask them the required questions.' Tifa explained calmly, as the blonds head fell on the table.
'At least we have March Break to do it.' Yuffie chirped, and this time Squall groaned, 'I can't believe I am wasting my week vacation on this stupid assignment, at you house… Cloud.'
'How do you think I feel? Spending a week with you, is not exactly high up on my list of ways to spend a week, either.' Arieth sighed,
'You two stop. Maybe sometime during the week, we can all bring out respective kids to the park. We can talk and, or, vent while the kids run around and blow off energy… God knows that Sora and Roxas have enough of it.' Squall's eye twitched, they were hyper kids? Good God, it was bad enough that he had to put up with Cloud, and his brothers who where just kids for a week… but hyper kids? The brunet was brought out of his plotting the blond across from hims' death when Tifa let out a low chuckle, 'Hey Cloud… aren't your parents going on a business trip this week?' Clouds head hit the table again and he groaned in confirmation, Squalls eye twitched again as the three girls giggled, 'Squally, you might wanna get that twitch checked out.' Yuffie beamed, Squall glared at her. The two boys where in one word. Doomed.
The bell rang and they stood, collecting their things, 'See you after school, Strife.' Squall muttered going to class. Sighing Cloud left the other way with Arieth.
When school let out, the blond thought about trying to escape, and was about to when the bane of his existence walked out of the school and over to where he was leaning against the wall. 'My car or yours Blondie?' He asked, Cloud growled,
'I have a motorcycle, Squally, so follow me.' He muttered, Squall glared at him as he followed the blond down into the parking lot. Cloud walked over to his black beauty of a motorcycle, Squall simply nodded to himself and got into his own sleek black car.
The drive was rather short, as Cloud had a knack for shortcuts and not following the speed limit. When they arrived at the house, first thing they saw was a massive garden that covered the entire front lawn on both sides of the walkway and looked as though it extended into the back yard. 'Mom's hobby,' was all that Cloud offered as an explanation, Squall was more surprised, not that he showed it, at the grander of the house its self… it was huge.
They made it roughly halfway up the walkway when there was a loud bang and two dirt, paint, marker, flower and mud covered four year olds ran out of the now open door, 'CLOUD!!!' They shouted in unison as they jumped on him, and then they started talking, two sides of the same story at the same time really fast. It made Squalls head hurt, but Cloud just seemed to nod. When they stopped he talked, 'Sora apologize to Roxas for eating his cookie, Roxas apologize to Sora for putting gum in his hair, and both of you are grounded from my room for breaking the lamp.' They both grumbled but did as they where told. Squall blinked. Sora, was a brunet, Roxas, was blond… they both had spiky hair and bright blue eyes. 'Sora, Roxas… this is Squall.' No sooner had names been exchanged had Roxas hid behind Clouds leg and Sora walked over, stuck his tongue out and then ran to stand besides his twin. Cloud sighed as Squall's eye twitched… he hated kids.
There was another slightly loud clanging noise, followed by some minor yelling, as their mother walked out of the house on her cell phone, all dressed up in her work cloths of a formal skirt, white blouse with a navy suit jacket, her blond hair pulled back into a tight bun, and looked rather mad as she bitched whom ever she was talking to out. Walking over she kissed her boys on the forehead and Clouds cheek, as he was taller then she was even in heels, and got in the car… with out breaking her argument. With a loud curse their father came out next carrying a couple bags, he was dressed in a business suit himself, his long brown hair was pulled back into a professional ponytail, 'Cloud… can you go and grab the other two cases?'
'Sure thing,' he said walking into the house and grabbing the other two rather large cases to the car, passing them to his father, 'Good luck at the meeting.'
'Thanks Cloud,' He turned and kneeled down to face the twins, 'Now you two be good for your brother, your momma and I will be back on Sunday.'
'How many sleeps?' They both asked, he stood back up and crossed his arms over his chest, as though it was a hard question, obviously though this was routine, Squall noted as he just stood there watching events unfold…
'Eight sleeps.' He said ruffling their hair, 'We'll be home around supper time.' Cloud nodded, 'Alright… hey is it ok if I have a friend over?'
'I don't mind, so long as there isn't a repeat of last time.'
'I didn't throw a party, Sora and Roxas got into the sugar and I didn't have the time to clean it up.'
'Whatever Spiky,' He grinned as Cloud growled and swatted his dads hand away as it tried to ruffle his hair. The car horn honked a couple times. 'See you Sunday.'
'See you Sunday.' He got in the car, but before they drove off his mother rolled down the window, 'If anything happens, anything at all, don't hesitate to call us and we will be on the next flight home.'
'Nothing will happen, don't worry… but if you two don't leave soon you'll miss this flight.' They both smiled and drove off.
As soon as the car was out of sight Roxas started to cry, Sora took his hand and the two of them walked back into the house. Squall, who had been silent the whole time smirked, 'Friend… Spiky?' Cloud snorted,
'I had to tell him something, don't get used to it.' He slung his bag over his shoulder and walked towards the door. Inwardly grinning, Squall followed, maybe the week wont be all that bad, he thought. When he stepped inside and closed the door and then took in his surroundings however, his eye twitched and he groaned. This was going to be a very, long week.
Tada, I know its kinda short, but i promise the following chapters will either be this long or, hopefully, longer. None of the chapters will be shorter then three pages in Word, that I can garantie, unless I get fed up or do a little mini filler chapter... like check in on the parents or some other random foolishness.
Well, R&R 3