Humility is a good thing!
"I'm sorry I can't train with you, it's just…" He took the time to break eye contact and shuffle around uncomfortably like he had practiced "well… I'm a little embarrassed, but I can't keep making excuses. I…" he paused again, and Yuffie's eyes were almost popping out of her eye sockets. "I can't swim." Yuffie thought she could explode. Why wouldn't the stupid boy just come and train with her and old Squallie, it's not like it was going to kill him, she just wanted to provoke some jealousy in Squall, nothing else had worked. So maybe if it did work then he may just get a little bit killed… but he shouldn't mind, he was way too busy pining over Kairi.
"Aw, I'm sorry Riku… that's too bad… I had imagined you as the type, seeing as you used to live on an island and all…" She turned her back and began to walk away, pretending to just leave it. Then she stopped, dead still in her tracks, and snapped up her arm, her index finger pointing to the ceiling in a 'Hey, I know!' kind of manner. "Hey, I know!" She exclaimed. She twizzled (I know that's not actually a word, but it's more imaginative than 'twisted') around enthusiastically, jumped on him and whispered "I'll teach you how! In the secret waterway!" in his ear. This did nothing for Riku's almost certain fear that Yuffie had a crush on him. But what could he do, short of screaming 'leave me alone you hyper bitch'. It was tempting for the poor boy. Yuffie was personally getting a lot of entertainment out of his facial expression, but hid this surprisingly well. To her, Riku was just there because she enjoyed teasing him, he seemed to hate it so much, he was better to tease than Squall, who she only really teased because she wanted some male attention, she didn't even really like him that much either. Not many people know that Yuffie is, in fact, or would be if she didn't have a reputation for being the opposite, a girly flirt. Well, not so much girly, but she is, as girls are 'supposed' to be, manipulative in her flirting ways. Perhaps she's flirtier than Kairi, in more subtle ways of course, but anyway, Squall provided a good release for her flirting tactics. A sort of crash dummy thing to try out new ones on. Riku's expression had changed from alarmed to revolt to frightened in about a second, and Yuffie was having an extremely hard time trying not to laugh, but managed to succeed. She was still latched on to him, attempting to make him feel as uncomfortable as possible. He eventually pushed her off, nodding his now awfully pale head.
Neither of them knew how much they were going to regret this.
Originally this was going to be a one shot, but, alas, I can't be arsed to make it long. So you'll get chapters is what you'll get. Sorry to people who like long, to be blunt, I don't. Not when I'm writing anyway. So short chapters is what you'll get.
Thanks for reading! And thanks to vampiegurl and alicia22200038 for being the first reviewers!
Bracken xxx