"So this is where we have to go to school?" asked Oni, surveying the building.

"Yup." said the others, also staring at the building.

"Do you think we'll see those boys from last night here?" asked Yuli, her head filled with thoughts of her blond dream boy.

"Who knows?" answered Tali, although she desperately hoped that they would be here.

"Well I'll see you guys at lunch!" Tali called as she ran towards her first class.

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"I can't believe I was so stupid." Riku mumbled for the millionth time.

"WILL YOU GIVE IT A REST ALREADY? IF YOU HADN'T NOTICED WE ALL MADE THE SAME MISTAKES TOO!" shouted Sora who was thoroughly irritated by Riku at the moment.

"Yeah, 'Ku, give it a rest already." agreed Tidus, "At least you'll have an easier time finding your girls than me. Your girls had green and blue hair. Mine had blond. Do you realize how many blonds there are on this island? I'm never gonna find my girl."

"Hey," said Cloud, butting into the conversation, "Isn't that her over there?"

Tidus whipped around. Sure enough, just a few feet away, absentmindedly getting her things out of her locker was Yuli. She hadn't noticed Tidus yet, but he could tell that it was her.

"Well, what are ya waiting for?" asked Sora, jabbing Tidus with his elbow. "Go say hello!"

Tidus dealt him a smack upside the head for jabbing him, and then walked over to Yuli and stood next to her locker.

"Hey."

She turned and looked at him. She was not as efficient as Tidus at guessing who her dance partner from last night was, so she was very confused as to why this boy was looking at her as though he knew her.

"I'm sorry, do you need something?" she asked him.

"Yeah, I need to know the name of the girl who danced with me last night and who haunted my dreams afterwards." He told her.

Yuli gasped. It was the boy from last night! She blushed madly, and smiled at him. "That's right, we never told each other or names, did we?" she asked him. "I'm Yuli."

"I'm Tidus."

"That's a nice name."

"Not as nice nor as beautiful as Yuli." He told her.

She giggled.

"What class do you have next?" he asked her.

"Umm, science, I think."

"What a coincidence! So do I."

"Really?"

"Yup. Do you mind if I escort you to class?" he asked, extending his arm like he had the night before.

"Sure." She said, placing her hand on his arm.

Riku watched the two of them walk away, and was immediately happier after a thought struck him like a lightning bolt.

If Yuli was here, and Yuli was his girl's sister, than that must mean that she's here too.

Just as he had registered this happy thought, he realized that if he did not get to history within the next thirty seconds, he would be late for class. Again.

He ran down the hall and managed to get into the classroom just as the final bell had rung.

"Well, Mr. Valentine. So happy to see that you have made it on time for once." said the History Professor icily. As Riku got into his seat he turned back to the class. "As I was saying before Mr. Valentine came in, today we are welcoming a new student into this class. Everyone, this is Talia Sintarez." Everyone but Riku looked towards the door as the new student came in. Riku was too busy thinking about his girl to care about a new student.

"Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?" asked the History Professor encouragingly.

"Well…" said the new girl, causing Riku to lift his head up. He had heard that voice before. He turned to look at her and was immediately mesmerized by her sparkling light purple eyes and her long tresses of cerulean blue hair.

It was the girl from last night. The one who could speak to the waves and walk on water.

He didn't take his eyes off her for the entire time she introduced herself. His heart nearly exploded with joy as the History professor told her the she could sit next to him. She sat down and the professor began the day's lesson. Within minutes, Tali felt her eyelids drooping and she almost fell asleep. Then a folded piece of paper landed on her notebook and she was jerked out of her stupor. She turned to look at the boy next to her, and finally registered something very odd about him.

He had silver hair.

She looked at the note in her lap. It said:

This class is incredibly boring after last night, isn't it?

She looked back at the boy and he smiled warmly, making her sprits soar. She wrote back:

Are you that boy from the other night?

Are you that girl who could walk on water?

I am.

Then unless you did it with more than one guy, I guess I'm your man.

I never caught your name last night, and I can't just be calling you 'that silver-haired boy', now can? I'm Tali.

He wrote back:

I'm Riku.

She looked at the name on the paper, letting it play over and over inside her head. Then she tried it out. "Riku." The name sounded like a song to her. She turned and smiled at the boy…No, Riku, again, making him want to freeze time and have her smile like that at him forever.

Then their little moment of reunion was ruined by the sound of the bell.

"Class dismissed." Said the Professor.

As all the students filed out of the classroom, Riku managed to catch up to Tali.

"Hi, Tali." He said.

"Hi, Riku." She answered back

"Do you want to help you find your way to your next class?" he asked her, leaning in close to take her hand. She blushed prettily.

"I would love you to."

"Excellent." He said leading her down the hallway.

"HEY RIKU!" shouted a male voice from behind them. They turned around, and Tali saw a boy with a vast quantity of very spiky brown hair running toward them.

"I've been looking everywhere for you!" he said, but he stopped short when he saw their intertwined hands. "And who is this lovely lady, Riku?"

"Tali, this is Sora. Sora this is Tali, the girl I was with last night."

"Wow, you found her already? Lucky. I still haven't found mine yet." He sighed.

"Maybe Tali can help you." Riku offered, looking at his girl, "After all, you were dancing with her sister."

"Really?" said Sora, looking extremely hopeful.

"Uh, sure." Said Tali uncertainly, "What did she look like?"

"She had these big brown eyes and a forest green dress and long, beautiful green hair…"

"Oh, you were the one who was dancing with Keta!" said Tali, realization dawning upon her at last.

"Someone say my name?" asked Keta from behind them.

Sora's heart leapt straight through the ceiling when he saw Keta. She looked just as pretty as she had last night, and her face, now visible because she wore no mask, was so lovely that it made Sora's head spin.

"Yes, I did." said Tali, turning to her sister. "Keta, this is Sora, the guy you danced with last night."

Keta gasped and looked more closely at Sora's face. Sure enough, she could see her partner from last night in his face, and was immediately happier than she had ever felt before. She smiled at him.

"Hi…Sora." She said, realizing that his name tasted very sweet on her tongue.

Keta's words must have brought Sora back to earth because he blinked, and bowed medieval style, causing Keta to blush happily.

"Hello, Keta. Would a lady as fine as you grace one as lowly as myself by allowing me to escort you to your next class?" he asked her, holding his arm out for her. She blushed even redder than before, and took his arm.

"I'd be honored." She said, causing Sora to glow with joy.

((After school))

"Hey Oni!" cried Yuli, running toward her sister. Oni noticed that for the first time that day, she was without Tidus. "I have something for you. It's from your mystery man last night."

"WHAT?" she screeched at her sister. "WHEN DID YOU SEE HIM? WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL ME? WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?"

"Calm down, Oni!" said Yuli, "I never actually saw your guy, but Tidus is friends with him and he told me that your guy wanted me to give this to you." She handed her a note. "But Tidus is sure that it is your guy, because according to him, he never stopped talking about you after the party."

Oni wasn't listening. She had ripped open the note and was rereading it for the third time. It said:

I realize that we didn't get to know each other that well last night. After all, I don't even know your name. But I do know that it was you that my heart was longing. My heart already belongs to you, and I hope that I own yours. Meet me in the alleyway at Hikari Crossing downtown after school. We can formally meet each other then. Come alone. I want to be able to only concentrate on your beautiful face.

Cloud

Oni stared at the note for almost ten minutes. He loved her and had been waiting for someone like her to come around for his entire life. And, although he didn't know it, she felt the exact same way about him.

"Oni?"

"I'm going out for the night." She told her sister, putting the note in her pocket.

"Where?"

"Downtown."

"That's where you're gonna meet him, right?"

"Yeah."

"Alright, but be careful."

Oni didn't hear her. She had already raced to her bike and was speeding downtown, her head filled with thoughts of Cloud.

((Later in the alley))

Cloud was getting anxious. School had ended over an hour ago, and his fiery haired beauty still hadn't shown up. He sighed. Maybe she didn't like him. Maybe he was just someone she danced with, not her type, or whatever. He got up from his place in the alley and made to leave.

"Aw, giving up on me so soon?" asked a voice from behind him. He turned around. There she was, leaning against the alley wall as if she did this every day. He walked over to her, taking her hand and gently brushing it with his lips.

"I would never give up on a lady like you." He told her.

She smiled at him. "You were right." She said, "We weren't formally introduced last night. My name's Oni. Onilia Sintarez. And you are?"

"Cloud. Just Cloud."

"Well, now that that's out of the way, let's get to the formal part shall we?" she asked, stepping closer so that her face was right in front of his. Then she leaned in and kissed him. At first he was a little surprised, but then he relaxed and kissed her back, one hand delicately cradling her face. He arms wrapped around his neck, and his traveling slowly down her back and around her waist. Her hands played with his soft blond hair, and he smiled into the kiss. They were so busy with each other that they did not notice when someone else came into the alley.

"Well, lookie here, boys." said a cold male voice. "It looks like Cloud has finally got himself a girl."

Cloud stopped kissing Oni and whipped around, pushing her gently so that she was behind him. "Go away, Axel. We're busy."

"I can see that." said Axel, stepping out of the shadows with a cruel smile on his face. "We just want to meet your little friend back there." Said another icy voice

"She's not interested, Demyx." spat Cloud.

"Really now? Why don't we see for ourselves if she's interested or not?" asked Axel.

"Go to hell."

"Now, now, Cloud." Said Axel disapprovingly. "Is that any way to treat your old friend?"

"You bastards were never my friends."

Oni didn't like the way this conversation was going, and hastily began to search her pockets, becoming increasingly worried when she saw that she had left all her weapons at home. And as far as she could see, Cloud hadn't brought a weapon with him either.

"Well, then, if we were never friends, then I guess we can just drop the polite act." said Axel, taking out his gun and pointing it at Cloud, "Hand over the girl and no one gets hurt."

'oh well." Oni thought, concentrating on the handle of Axel's gun, 'Desperate times call for desperate measures.'

"Over my dead body."

"I think I can arrange that." He snarled. Then he let out a howl of pain and dropped the gun, the handle of which had turned red and started to melt.

"What the hell did you do?" gasped Demyx, turning to glare at the pair of them.

"That was just a warning." said Oni, stepping out from behind Cloud. "Kept threatening him and you'll see what happens when I really get mad."

"You did this?" he spat at her.

"Yes and if you don't get out soon, I'll show you what else I can do."

Axel and Demyx took the hint, and stumbled out of the alley, swearing at them and holding his burnt hand. Oni turned back to Cloud, who was staring at her in wonder. "What?" she asked him.

"How did you do that?" he asked her softly.

"I've always been able to do that." She told him, meeting his blue eyes squarely with her gold ones. "Does that change your opinion of me? If it does, then just go. I don't want to have to deal with it." She sat down on the alley floor and looked away. She felt him sit down next to her, but didn't make any attempts to move away.

"How could it change how I feel about you?" he asked her, taking her hand in his.

"Because that's what always happens." She said, startled to hear the tears in her voice. "All the boys get freaked out by it and they never want to see me again." She told him, the tear coming hard and fast now. "I'm sick and tired of people thinking I'm a freak because of what I can do. I'm different, but I'm not dangerous. At least not to the people I love."

"Are you dangerous to me?" he asked her. She looked at him straight in the eye, but she couldn't see any emotion in them. No wait, she could see an emotion in them… love.

"No." she said, putting her head on his chest, "I'm not dangerous to you at all. But are you freaked by my powers?"

"No." he whispered, stroking her flaming hair. "I think they fit you perfectly. You are who you are. Nothing anyone says or does is going to change that. But why did you do that to Axel?"

"He was going to hurt you. I couldn't let him do that." She said, picking her head up from his chest. "I've been searching for you too. I can't let you go now…I love you, Cloud."

"I love you too, Oni."

"Prove it." She said. Cloud smiled and lifted her chin up towards his face.

"Is this proof enough?" he asked her, and kissed her deeply. They broke apart, and Oni smiled at him.

"That's proof enough." She said, and kissed him back, just as passionately.

There they stayed for almost half the night, talking rarely and kissing frequently. Then around midnight, they decided that it was time to go. Cloud drove Oni home on her bike, watching her disappear into the house, and then making his steady journey to his own house, his mind filled with replays of what they had been doing, and his heart filled with the presence of Oni.