.:Voices and Thoughts:.

"SPEAKING WUTAINESE"

"THOUGHT'S IN WUTAINESE"

"SPEAKING IN ENGLISH"

"THOUGHT'S IN ENGLISH"

Yuffie was currently allowing Tifa to drag her towards the school. Yuffie could tell Tifa was feeling edgy, but she decided not to ask. Not that she was feeling any better...no far from it. Yuffie seemed calm on the outside, but in reality she was a wreck on the inside.

"That guy.. What could this mean?.." She thought as she remembered the electric pull when she looked into his eyes.

She had never met another person that had given her that feeling in over two hundred years. She wasn't even sure what it was anymore. She had lost the battle with her feeling's long ago. Quite frankly she had taught herself to stop feeling for anyone or anything besides Cid and Tifa long ago.

"Beside's, even if I did wished to feel again, a monster like me doesn't deserve to feel for anything..or anyone."

Tifa suddenly stopped walking and turned to face Yuffie; interrupting her thoughts. She had an odd look on her face which in return worried Yuffie. Tifa was never the type to wear her emotions on her sleeves. She was always a calm and collected person. Tifa was usually the one who worried about her and Cid and would always ask question's which would sometimes ended with them fighting, but they would shake it off as nothing. After all they we're family.

"Tifa are you okay? You seem frightened."

Tifa looked as though she wanted to tell her something, but all she seemed to do was mock a fish out of water. Yuffie hissed in pain, when she looked down she saw Tifa's not so normal nails digging into her arm. Something was defiantly wrong. She needed to make sure Tifa didn't lose her control.

"Tifa, you nail's are digging into my arm." Yuffie said trying to mask her pain.

Tifa looked down and gasped. She quickly let go as though Yuffie's arm were fire."Yuffie, are you okay?! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to-"

Yuffie held up her hand to silence her. Yuffie smiled "Tifa it's okay see.." They both watched as her arm quickly healed itself and looked as though she had never been harmed. "So mind telling me what's wrong?"

"It's nothing. I'm just nervous that's all."

Yuffie raised and elegant eyebrow. Tifa was lying. She knew there was more to it, but she decided to let it go. Yuffie was not like Tifa who wouldn't shut up until you told her the absolute truth.

Yuffie nodded "I know what you mean, but we'll be fine. I promise! How many times have we done this now?.."

Tifa laughed "Yeah, your right. Well let's go, Cid will kill us if we're late." Yuffie rolled her eyes but nodded.

When they walked through the door's of their new high school they saw the office to their left and was about to walk into the office when a voice made them halt.

"Hey wait up!" They both turned to see Kairi walking up behind them

"What do you want?" Yuffie asked confused.

Kairi laughed "I told you I'm showing you girl's around today."

"We didn't think you was serious." Tifa brows furrowed.

"Of course I was! So what do you think of the school? You both like it?" she asked watching them with a smile

"Umm yes it is. So what happens if we get lost?" Tifa asked

"Don't worry, I have permission to show you guys around all day today so I doubt that will happen. Come on let's go get your schedules."

Tifa and Yuffie just looked to one another not sure how they both felt about Kairi being around them the day. Sure it sounded nice that they had made a friend but she was their first friend in how many years?.. Excuse them if they was acting a little skeptical!

When they walked in they only saw a woman sitting behind the desk typing. Yuffie took the moment to look her over. She was a natural blonde, her curly hair cascaded down her back. She was wearing a pencil black skirt with a short sleeve silk button down shirt with matching black heels. She looked up and smiled at Kairi allowing Yuffie to see her light green eyes.

"Hello Kairi! How are you doing today? Did you enjoy your summer?"

"Good and yes I did thank you. I'm showing the two new student's around today and we came to get their schedules."

"Oh yes! I heard you would be showing them around. Where are they? I have heard so much about them."

Kairi moved so the secretary could look at the two sister's. Her eyes grew wide and her mouth parted slightly. She could not help but be mesmerized at their beauty.

Kairi couldn't blame her for reacting the way she did. For she to acted the same when she first saw them. She knew that these two was gonna be the eye candy for this year. She could help but to feel intimated by them. Sure she was a very pretty girl, but when you compare her to them..Her thought's went back to the parking lot when she looked over and saw the boys reaction "Sora has never looked at me that way..What if he fell for one of them?..Would they take him away from me?.." She quickly shook her head to rid herself of the thoughts.

The secretary leaned in thinking only Kairi could hear..she was wrong "They look like super model's not student's."

Tifa laughed quietly while Yuffie rolled her eyes "Great now women are starting to gawk at us." Tifa elbowed Yuffie in the side when the secretary suddenly stood.

"Hello girl's and welcome to Hollow Baston High School. I'm Ms. Hardin." she stuck her hand out for them to shake.

Tifa and Yuffie looked at her skeptically for a moment. Tifa was the first to shake her hand smiling slightly " Hello I'm Tifa."

"I'm Yuffie." she said following Tifa's lead. Kairi saw this and wondered if the girl's was just paranoid over people or just didn't trust easily.

"Oh I must say when I saw your father this morning before he went to his classroom I couldn't help but to think he was handsome, but he never told me he had such beautiful daughter's."

Yuffie snorted "This woman's on crack. Cid handsome?" in which Tifa elbowed her again..Harder!

"Wait, your father is the new teacher?" Kairi asked

"Unfortunately yes" Yuffie said smirking

"Well if you girl's will wait here for one moment I'll be right back with your schedules. Kairi would you help me?" she nodded and followed Ms. Hardin to the back.

When they was out of sight, Tifa turned sharply with narrowed eyes. Yuffie thought she saw her eyes glowing just a bit. Not a good sign at all! "Yuffie, what do you think you are doing?! We are not allowed to speaking Wutainese! Are you trying to get us caught?"

Yuffie returned the glared "No! I can't help it! It is my native language you know!"

"I know it's mine too, but that was a close call out in the parking lot and if you don't want these people to start asking question I suggest you stop! Only speak it if it's just us ALONE! Got it?!"

"Okay girl's here you are." Ms. Hardin said walking back into the room with Kairi. "Oh and here is your guys locker info as well. Okay well you girl's better hurry. Wouldn't want you girl's late on your fist day."

"Thank you." they both said before taking their things and walking out still glaring at one another.

Kairi spoke suddenly gaining their attention "Oh man I have your guys dad first! Tell me is he nice?" They could not help bursting out laughing.

"Cid nice? No way! I mean he might be nice to you, but to other's he is a real ass." Yuffie said smirking.

"What Yuffie is trying to say is that Cid has a temper plus a colorful vocabulary. Don't worry though he is really only tough with the boys and Yuffie." Kairi laughed.

"Well lets hope I make a good impression. What classes do you both have first?"

Tifa looked at her schedule "I have Mr. Merlin for Science."

Kairi nodded "Yuffie who do you have?"

"Mrs. Loire for Math." Kairi eyes widened

"Your so lucky! Everyone loves Mrs. Loire she is the sweetest! You will really like her." Yuffie nodded looking back down at her schedule as they made their way down the main hall. She wasn't watching where she was going and ended up walking into someone. She was about to apologize but he spoke before she could.

"Watch where your-" he stopped as he turned to see Yuffie. He had never seen her before. He would have defiantly remembered her. She was the hottest thing he had ever seen. "Damn.." he said just above a whisper

Yuffie stared back at him. She would be lying if she would've said he wasn't eye-catching. He had blond hair with blue-green eyes. She noticed he had a scar across his forehead and nose. He wore a blue crop-top vest with white lining underneath a floor-length white jacket. He had baggy, aubergine colored pants, with the legs tucked into black combat boots and wore a black beni with the a symbol meaning "battle."

"Seifer who are you talking-" Yuffie noticed a silver headed boy come out from behind the one she bumped into. She watched as his eyes grew when he saw her. She shivered at his deep voice. He looked even better than the blonde. He had distinctive long, silver hair with long bangs that frame his face. He wore a black short sleeve shirt with dark blue pants. The one thing that stood out was his eyes. The color was like none she had ever seen. They made her shiver but only a little.

"Yuffie! Come on or we'll be late!" Yuffie and the two strangers turned to see Tifa walking up to them. Her eyes narrowed at the two guys. "Is there a problem?"

"No. I wasn't watching where I was going and I accidentally walked into him." she pointed to the blonde.

"It is quiet alright. It's not everyday I get a chance to meet someone of your beauty. Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Seifer Almasy." He said grabbing Yuffie's hand kissing it. Yuffie snatched her hand away and glared at him. She knew from the way they was looking at her that they was nothing but creeps. "My friend here names Sephiroth."

Tifa opened her mouth to speak when Sephiroth started to circle her "They said we was getting new student's, but they left out the part of how absolutely eye-catching you both would be."

Seifer leaned in so he could push some of Yuffie's hair out of her face. Yuffie gritted her teeth to hold her tongue. "Who do these guys think they are?!"

"Eye catching is to dull of a word. More like delicious." Yuffie backed away when he tried to lean in closer. Tifa grabbed Yuffie's arm quickly tried to walk away, but only to have Sephiroth stand in their path one way and Seifer the other. Yuffie glared at them. She had just about enough "Move!"

Sephiroth smirked "Whats the rush? You haven't even introduced yourselves yet."

"I said move! I wont repeat myself again."

Just when he was about to speak again but got interrupted "Why must you two always act like pricks!"

Sephiroth looked over and saw Kairi standing there with her hands on her hips glaring at them. "Well hello to you too Kairi. I see you nothing else better to do than stick your nose where it don't belong."

Kairi was just about to answer but thankfully the warning bell rang. They only had five minutes to get to class.

"Well that's to bad that we had to cut this visit short, but don't worry we will be seeing you girl's again very soon. Let's go Seifer." Sephiroth turned and walked away. Seifer followed, but his eyes stayed on Yuffie till he walked around a corner.

Kairi sighed in relief. They all would have to keep their eyes on the two trouble makers "Hey are you guys okay?"

Tifa sighed "Yeah..Who were those guys?"

"Sephiroth Cresent and Seifer Almasy..They're some of the really popular guys in school. They are also jerks. Best to watch your backs with them. Okay so home room classes. Tifa your classroom is at the end of the hall on you left. Yuffie you go over two hall's and go all the way down and its the last door on your right. Okay I better go. I have to meet my new teacher."

They laughed and watched her walk away. Tifa turned and looked at Yuffie "Well at least we know some of the people who we need watch out for. I'm going head to class okay? I'll see you later. Remember try to stay out of trouble."

Yuffie nodded "Okay I'll see you later."

Squall stood at his locker gathering all his stuff he needed for his first two classes. He hated knowing his mother made him go to school. She asked him if he would at least 'TRY' and be happy. It bother him that she worried about him. The last thing he wanted to do was add to her stress. She was an amazing woman and he loved her very much; even though they didn't see eye to eye on certain things. Sure his father loved him and he returned that love, but he was always gone and it made it very hard to get close to his father. He had come home the day Squall's relationship ended with Rinoa. That was one horrible day..

"Squall, you okay?" Cloud ask standing next to him digging through his mess of a locker.

"It's Leon and yes why?"

Cloud stopped what he was doing and turned to look at him. "Well you have just been standing there staring off into space for a while now."

Squall sighed "Yes I'm okay! Will everyone stop asking me that!"

Aerith chose that moment to walk up "Cloud I need to talk to you. Oh Squall, Rinoa is looking for you."

"It's Leon and I don't have anything to say to her!" he growled out.

Aerith just rolled her eyes. Cloud turned and took one of her hand's "I'm sorry for what I did outside earlier."

Aerith smiled and kissed him on the lips "Good. I hope you learned your lesson." Squall wanted to gag "He talk's about Sora being whipped."

"Anyways I gotta go. Maybe you could come over to my house after school? My parents will be gone till late this afternoon. We could make up for lost time..What do you think?" she asked while winking at him.

Cloud smirked. "Well when you put it like that. I'll be there for sure"

Squall closed his eye's annoyed. Why must they discuss THIS of all things?! He decided to head for class, but not before he heard footsteps coming up behind him. He turned to see who was coming and growled in anger..It was Rinoa.

"Squall there you are! Why did you walk away from me outside? I wasn't done talking to you."

"There is nothing for us to talk about Rinoa. Now go away!" He started making his way towards his home room which was his mother thankfully.

"Hey wait! What class do you have first?"

"Not that it's any of your business but I have my mother."

Rinoa smiled wickedly "Perfect because I have her too!"

Squall stopped and closed his eyes. "WHY?!"

"Oh I know we can walk together!"

"NO! I don't want to walk with you!"

She didn't listen. She grabbed his arm leaking it with hers as they made their way towards home room. As they reached the classroom and entered; Mrs. Loire looked up smiling to only have her smile falter. "Why is Squall with Rinoa? I thought they ended."

"Good Morning Mrs. Loire. How are you today?" Squall rolled his eyes at Rinoa's fake happy tone. She would always pretend to like his mother, but he knew she secretly had something against her. Squall took this moment to pull his arm away from Rinoa.

"Umm Hello Rinoa. I'm doing well thank you for asking. Please go take a seat." Rinoa fake smile fell as she turned and walk to her desk.

Squall looked to see if there was any seat's that was far away from Rinoa as possible. It was bad enough that she was in home room with him, but the last thing he wanted was sitting next to her all year. He found one-off to its self in the back. He was just about to go claim it when his mom spoke.

"Squall, can I talk to you for a moment?" He groaned, he knew what she was going to ask.

"Yeah sure. What's the matter?"

"Well I thought you and Rinoa was over, but you come walking in together. Did you guys work everything out?"

"No, and I don't intend to. So make sure you don't stick us next to one another when you assign seat's."

Mrs. Loire smiled "Thank God." "Okay sweetie I wont. Go take your seat." He nodded and walked away. She wasn't allowed to show favoritism but she would for this one time.

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"Okay everyone let's settle down!" The class went quiet "Thank you. Welcome back to school. For all of you that's new to my class I'm Mrs. Loire and will be your math teacher this year. Now before I get started am I missing anyone?"

There was a knock at the door. Squall looked up to see the one person he was not expecting to see walk in..It was Yuffie. "This class just got a lot better." he thought with a small smirk.

"Um are you Mrs. Loire?" Yuffie asked.

Mrs. Loire could not help but to stare at the young woman. She was very beautiful. Mrs. Loire smiled "Yes I am. Are you new here dear?"

Yuffie cheeks tented slightly "Yes. I'm Yuffie. It's nice to meet you."

"Like wise. Well Yuffie if you would just take a seat at any empty desk." she said smiling.

Yuffie nodded and turned to see several sets of eyes looking at her. "Well this is awkward.."She found a desk open next to a girl with short brown hair. She quickly took that seat not wanting to sit next to any of the guys that was gawking at her.

Squall was a little disappointed that she took a desk near the front of the class, but she wouldn't have been able to sit next to him anyways "Just had to get a desk away from Rinoa."

"Okay let's get some rule placed before we begin. Starting tomorrow you will have assigned seats in alphabetical order. So don't get to comfortable."

Yuffie's eyes shot open "Oh God!"

"No food or drink's besides water allowed in my class. All cell phones better be turned off. I better have your full attention, respect, and no talking while I'm talking or teaching. Any question's?" Silence. She smiled sweetly "Okay then let's get started."

.:45 Minutes Later:.

Yuffie placed her pencil down and closed her book. She had just finished the classwork and homework Mrs. Loire asked them to do after her lesson. Everything was really simple for Yuffie since she had gone to school for God knows how long being taught the same stuff every year.

"If you're done you may talk quietly, but do not disturb the ones that are still working."

Few of the people started to whisper to one another. With her hearing being so advanced she could make out what everyone was talking about... HER!

"SHE'S SO HOT!" some player.

"WONDER IF I CAN GET WITH THAT?" a cocky jock.

"SHE ISN'T EVEN THAT PRETTY! I THINK I'M BETTER LOOKING." some cover girl wanna-be.

Yuffie eye's hardened at the gossip. It was always the same thing, and she had just learned to ignore it for the most part. taking a deep breath, she blocked out the voices around her. She looked down to the necklace around her neck and her eyes softened. She reached down and picked the necklace up bringing it close to her face. She promised she would always wear it no matter what. He gave her this to always remember him by. She turned it over to read the inscription..

"My heart will always belong to you my princess. I will always love you Yuffie."

`Vincent Valentine

She felt a tear roll down her face. She quickly wiped it away out of frustration, dropping her necklace in the process. She needed to control her emotions. She was at school. She didn't need no one asking question's.

"Are you okay?" Yuffie turned to see the girl she sat next to looking at her worried.

"So much for not drawing attention to myself." "Yes I'm fine thank you." Yuffie said smiling slightly

The girl smiled and stuck out her hand "I'm Yuna. It's really nice to meet you."

Yuffie took a moment to look the girl over. She didn't get the vibe she did from most girl's. She got the same feeling about her that she did with Kairi. She wore a light pink lace-trim peplum top with dark skinny jeans and black heels. She had her shoulder length brown hair flipped out. The unique thing was her eyes; her left was blue and her right was green.

Yuffie took her hand and smiled back "I'm Yuffie. It's nice to meet you as well."

"You are one of the new student's. How are you liking it so far?"

"Well I was not expecting to meet anyone nice that's for sure."

Yuna nodded "Yeah some of these girl's here are a real pain. I hope you don't mind me asking but I saw you crying. What was wrong?"

"Oh No! Just what I didn't want her to ask." "Nothing was wrong."

Yuna gave her a look saying she didn't believe her. Yuffie sighed "Look it's just not something I like talking about. Lets just say I have lost someone special to me and I miss them."

"Yuna's eye's softened and she nodded "I know what that feel's like. My sister and I lost our mother three years ago."

Yuffie's eye's widened "Oh Yuna, I'm so sorry."

She smiled sadly at her "It's okay Yuffie. I have learned how to deal with it. My sister though has yet to except it. After our mom died she distant herself away from everyone she was friends with and started hanging out with this group of girls that are just pure hateful. My father has stayed strong through it all so that has helped me out a lot."

"Why are you telling me all of this?" Yuffie asked

"Because I can tell you are hurting. Deep down you are hurting and grieving for the one you lost. You must think though, how do you think they would feel if they knew how much you are hurting yourself over their death?"

Yuffie's eyes hardened "I don't wish to talk about this anymore."

Yuna looked hurt but nodded and stood up to turn her work into the teacher. Yuffie closed her eyes and sighed. She felt bad for snapping at her like that, but her words had hit a nerve. Vincent and Zack would not be happy knowing she was blaming herself, but she couldn't help it. They died trying to save her and it had always haunted her heart and mind. She had always thought that deep down Tifa hated her and blamed her, but when she asked about it Tifa always denied it.

Yuffie had listened to Tifa's lectures many times. She would always say things like "It was not your fault." and "I don't blame you. I never have and never will." Yuffie would be lying if she said that hearing those things didn't make her feel better, but only a little.

She sighed and picked the necklace back up. "Vincent, tell me, will I ever be able to forgive myself?"

Yuffie failed to notice the young man watching her from the back of the class. He had heard listened to hers and Yuna's conversation, and he could practically feel the sadness radiating from her. His heart ached at this, but it was so abnormal for him to feel this way. He did not know her, but yet he felt like he understood her pain. Sure he had not lost anyone to death, but he had lost someone who had meant the world to him at some point and time.

Looking over at the girl who had crushed his heart he couldn't help the sadness that he felt when he did this. He knew there would always be a part of him that would love her. She was his first love. No other girl had got to him the way she had. There was many happy memories as well as heartbreaking. They was once friend's, but that seemed like a life time ago. She had changed when her father got his promotion to general of Hollow Baston's military.

The thing's that happened to Rinoa and him was not fair, but that was life. Yes he still loved her, and even a part of him wishes he could just forget everything that happened but he highly doubted that would happen. He would never be able to forgive her. "No matter how much she means to me." Squall thought to himself.

The bell rung ending their first period class. Squall watched as Yuffie got up quickly from her seat and ended up dropping a small book in the process. Before he could call out to her she had turned in her work and left. Standing up he walked over to her desk and picked the book up from the floor and started examining it.

It was black with a red ribbon tied around it. It looked sort of old. YUFFIE-HIME KISARAGI was wrote at the bottom left hand corner "hmm..I wonder if this is her journal. I should return it. She will notice it's gone sooner or later." but even as he thought this he couldn't help but to wonder what was on the inside. The temptation was there, no doubt, but he could not seem to bring himself to look inside. Sighing he stuck the book inside his bag and started walking towards his next class. "On the bright side, this gives me a reason to talk to her." he thought with a smirk.