Sorry everybody, because this fic was supposed to be just a series of Oneshots, but 3 chappies in and it's nothing like that. But from this chappie forward, it'll be just that, a series of Oneshots, so sorry again for not doing this before… Hopefully you guys will give me a second chance and continue your enthusiasm!

Livin' La Altamira

Chapter 4: Meeting: Part 2

A meeting place, a key component of any balanced gathering of friends, or diet, or, which one was it again? I forgot… Anyway, it was the only thing that they "needed", by Zelos's standards. And their choice, a long and lone elliptical table with just enough chairs to seat a dozen people at most; located, on a floor right below their suites and next to the cafeteria.

"So… what now?" the teenagers of the group wondered, even Sheena, except for Zelos, of which the one to ask was Lloyd. (A/N: Now I know what you're probably thinking, 'Zelos isn't a teenager', 'he's 22', but he mostly acts like one and is more of a child compared to Kratos, Regal and Raine, so that's why)

"We should begin sending out our resumes." Kratos stated quite rightly and unexpectedly, since the teenagers expected Zelos to be the one to take charge in situations such as these.

"Wait, before that, we have to come up with a name for our meeting place." And as Zelos's leadership skills came up, he noticed that it would be in competition to Kratos's.

"Hmm…?" Everybody thought, they thought long; they thought hard and guess what? They also thought long and hard. And eventually a name… wasn't created. Until… A special someone came popping in, or should I say poofing in unannounced.

"I… AM… The Wonder Chef-"

"Wait!" Lloyd exclaimed with his finger held high, "I got it! Why not, we name it-"

"Hey kid! Can't you see I'm trying to give a monologue here!?" the Wonder Chef retorted as if he was going to fight with something, like he had anything to fight with, oh wait, that giant pitchfork.

"Yes, but we don't need to hear it again," Zelos responded, "besides, we've already learnt all of your stinkin' recipes!" at this moment, the Wonder Chef seemed as if he was going kill Zelos, but Zelos's next comment stopped him, "Why are you here anyway?"

"Well, you see I came to open up shop!" Since with this, he now had some leverage against anyway who dared to defy him, "And I need the finest of all gourmet chefs to work" at this moment Raine's eyes were all a-glitter with stars, "and no!" the Wonder Chef stuck his shiny pitchfork straight towards Raine, "You, will not qualify, under the first…! Of a chain…! Of establishments…! known as… 'WonderFood'!" then as quickly as he stuck his pitchfork at Raine's starry eyes, he pointed it towards the not-night-yet starry skies.

"Pfft!" the teenagers scoffed, trying to hold in their laughter, "You can't be serious!?" Wes of the Fearsome Fujibayashis mocked, "You've got to be kidding me, right!? I don't care if you are the Wonder Chef, that has got to be the most ridiculous and cheesy names for any restaurants out there!" as much as Sheena thought it was true and funny, she thought his relative was going a bit to far with this, so she decided to shut him up with a Fuda scroll to his mouth.

"Why you… little!" the Wonder Chef began to advance towards the little obnoxious, but still little boy with his pitchfork, which had became quite clear to everybody that he doesn't carry that thing around just for show. But what he didn't know was that, that little boy was a ninja and even though he had his mouth magically sealed shut, he could still cast jutsus, and one of them wasn't pretty, so we can say that from then on, the Wonder Chef still decided to keep the name, because Wes and the other two had to apologize for their joint effort in hurting him, but for a price, he had to postpone the grand opening of WonderFood for as long as until he recovers in the hospital.

"So, it's decided, we name our meeting place, WonderFood, since it's located right next to it…" everybody nodded as Zelos pointed a finger towards a run-down boarded-up shack behind them.

"Anyway… what about us?" Sheena responded, while standing with the-now handcuffed Fearsome Fujibayashis to her left hand "And Regal, thanks for the handcuffs by-the-way…" and indicating Orochi, Zelos and herself, for they all knew that they weren't here for jobs.

"You carry more than one handcuff on you? Why?" Zelos questioned.

"That is none of your concern." Regal replied.

"Okay, whatever you say…" Zelos rolled his eyes, "Ah and don't worry my voluptuous hunny, " Zelos began to pat Sheena's back" what with your sexy body you'd probably get a job easy, there's probably modeling agents everywhere!" Zelos knew that from that moment, somebody was going to get a hurting real bad, and that somebody was him, but luckily he came prepared.

"Don't… Touch… Me…!" But what Zelos didn't know was Sheena's ol' slap-adee-dooda was a fake attack, because as Zelos brought up his shield to block his face, Sheena kneed a place even more valuable and holy than his beautiful face. And just like that, Zelos was out for the count, lying on the ground squirming for a First Aid to be casted on him. But alas, no one came to his rescue.

"Hey!" Zelos winced with pain, "You guys… healed Sheena," he grunted "when she was your enemy." Zelos whined, which caused a lot of confusion amongst everybody who didn't think he knew of such a thing, but it was soon abruptly ignored when…

"But it's you." Kratos didn't take any time to insult Zelos with perfect timing and accuracy. This caused everyone, except for the Fearsome Fujibayashis and Kratos, though he did give a victory smirk to look at each other with completely shocked and amazed faces, which was followed by an explosion of hysterical laughing.

"Th-Tha-… " Zelos raised his finger "Ah…" slowly lowering it, "I'm, not even going to bother…" and slowly sinking down back to his previous position of being knocked out from Sheena's brutal attack, as he was going to say 'that hurt', but it's not fun when you can't add the word, 'hunny' when talking to a guy. (A/N: And yes, I'm also quite aware that the Japanese version, he even calls guys 'hunnies'. Well you know what, Japanese version, Shma-panese version.)

As everyone calmed down from their fit of satisfying laughter, they had decided to send the Fearsome Fujibayashis to a nearby nursery, as suggested by Regal to the floor below them, called "Katz Kare for Kids!" And thus, two teams began to set out on their perilous, if not dangerous quest, for jobs!

And the teams were as follows: Orochi, Sheena and Zelos, who still needed to come up with their own resumes. In which, they would have to use the very latest, Copier 1.0, created from yours truly, the Lezerano Company. And Colette, Lloyd, with the help of Kratos, Kratos himself, Raine and Regal made up the second team, had multiple copies of their resumes already.

And as the first team tucked in their chairs at the same time with the Fearsome Fujibayashis now handcuffed to Regal, as the second team was heading towards the second floor, except for Colette, who decided to take on a waitress job like she did back at Palmacosta, they set off for their individual suites, or at least Sheena and Orochi did.

"Hey Colette, can I see your resume-?" Lloyd asked.

"May I." Raine corrected as she interrupted.

"Huh?" Lloyd replied.

"May I see your resume?" Raine emphasized.

"Huh? Oh sure Professor Raine!" Lloyd replied again happily.

"Argh!" At this time Raine was getting mad, since she couldn't believe Lloyd still didn't understand what she was talking about, but she knew she had to keep her cool, "You said, 'can I see your resume'-"

"Oh I get it now!" Lloyd said feeling successful.

"…" Raine rolled her eyes with a short awkward silence.

"Sure!" Colette said cheerfully as she handed her pile to Lloyd.

"So… what job do you plan on getting" Raine eyed Kratos, as she noticed Lloyd and Colette laughing about their resumes.

"What are you trying to imply?" Kratos eyed back suspiciously.

"Nothing…" Raine replied slyly glancing up at the cerling.

"Oh…?" Kratos continued eyeing her anticipating an answer of sorts.

"Except… is it okay if I take a look at your resume?" Kratos was half-expecting some smart-alecky remark, but that didn't mean he was going to take his guard down.

"…S-ure…" Kratos handed over his pile slightly reluctantly.

"…" Raine skimmed the page, "…Just as I thought…"

Kratos knew there was a reason to her question from the beginning, "Just as you thought what?"

"We-e-ell…" It was quite easy to toy with Kratos's mind seeing as he was not much of a talker, so there wouldn't be much interrupting, "I don't know…" Raine continued to prolong her sentences, and it kind of seemed fun for her to make Kratos seem as if he didn't know what was going on for once, just to see him squirm, "Are you sure…"

"Sure about what?" Kratos interrupted.

Raine realized that her game of seeing Kratos reveal some feelings other than indifference is working continued her poking, "that…"

"That…?" Kratos interrupted again.

Raine's thought about how Kratos was responding to all of this and how he might actually be irritated just gave her more motivation to continue, but then thought about how she was getting kind of out of control with this, "This lie wouldn't get out?" And as she said that, she was hoping she struck a nerve of sorts, one that would make Kratos feel exposed and burst out.

"…" But, nothing was exposed, even the eye that was eyeing her before was hidden once again by his hair, "…" though at this time a clapping was heard deep down in his heart, "…So, you've discovered my rouse, Professor…" And just as quickly as Raine's feelings came crashing down it went back up again to give a clever retort, but it was interrupted by an equally clever retort from Kratos. "And, I' see you like playing games…as well, Professor…"

Feeling defeated, Raine gave back the papers to Kratos, "Damn, how did you know?"

"I never let out my feelings; you should know that by now." Kratos said.

"Okay. Well anyway, I promise I won't tell anyone about the fact that you lied about your age, some of your experience and others."

"Um…Thank you…" Kratos replied calmly and collectively.

But unbeknownst to him, he had fallen into Raine's trap, she had just caught him, dead in his tracks, for he revealed no-less an inkling of… "AHA! You have a soft side, I knew it!"

DAMN!

Zelos: Stay tuned for the next episode…

Sheena: Yeah!

Orochi: …

Zelos: When TermsofFanService writes about chaos…

Sheena: I can't believe I'm agreeing with him, but I'm mostly doing this for ToFS's sake.

Orochi: …

Sheena: Orochi, if you're not going to say anything, just get out of the conversation…

Orochi: Sorry…

Zelos: A surprise!

Sheena: Uh-Huh.

Zelos: A beating…

Sheena: By me to you right?

Zelos: Okay fine, two beatings… sadly…

Sheena: Also to you right?

Zelos: Yeah… Anyway and last but not least…

Sheena: Should I be giving a drum roll?

Orochi: I will instead!

Zelos: OKAY!! Thanks guys, because the last but not least, the pièce de résistance, the numbah one reason is…

Sheena: Hope this isn't perverted…

Zelos: Well, you thought wrong there, my hunny… WHEN I TRY TO GET INTO SHEENA'S PANTS!!

Sheena: AAAAAUUURRAGH!!

FATALITY!!

And thanks to freakyanimegal456 for her idea of Kratos's resume, which gave me the idea for Raine and Kratos's conversation...