Four---Back Down

Six hours passed. Six hours spent going into store after store, with bag after bag. Vincent was forced to carry all of their belongings around while the girls laughed and giggled. Well, Selphie and Quistis laughed and giggled. Fujin smiled, watched, like a ghost. Light never really reached her eyes and he could very nearly taste the anger and frustration radiating from her body. It permiated the air around her and choked her. Very steadily it was killing Fujin. Something inside stirred and flared to life. It was like an ach. He wanted to save her. Be her hero. The one he couldn't be for Lucrecia.

"I'm hungry Quisty! You hungry Fuj?" Fujin gave her a curt nod and looked to Vincent with a raised brow. He nodded.

You two are more suited to each other then you know

For the moment, Vincent ignored Chaos. Which didn't suit the creature well at all. He growled and grumbled and cursed for the next hour and a half of dinner which resulted in a very cranky Vincent. A very cranky Vincent who made the mistake of snapping at Fujin, who had no problem in telling him what exactly he could do with himself, which upset Selphie (ever the innocent) which troubled Quistis (ever the peace maker) which threw off the rest of the evening. Swell.

Once they arrived back at Garden, each of the women savagely grabbed their bags and stalked off to their rooms, each pissed as Hyne. Vincent thought he could possibly make ammends to Fujin and went to her dorm to apologize. Seifer opened the door and informed him none to nicely that she was not in and that, in the future, do not send her home angry and promptly shut the door in his face.

Vincent sighed and walked around aimlessly. He walked passed a training room to see Fujin battling a rather battered punching bag. He watched her for a moment and made the unwise decision of entering the room to join her. Her shuriken was flung in his general direction rather then actually at him. His head would have been on the floor if she'd been aiming.

"What was that for!" He demanded. Fujin didn't answer. She simply growled at him and continued beating the poor punching bag. However, this was not satisfactory for Vincent.

"Answer me!" Fujin first went past the bag and into his jaw, wrenching his head to the side. Fury lit her eye and Vincent straightened himself while she circled him like a starving wolf.

"Don't ever tell me what to do!" Vincent was not the kind who hit women. But this one...this was pushed him just a bit too far. And he'd only known her for what, 38 hours?

Fujin swung at him again and missed, as he doged her fist and threw an uncharacteristically sloppy punch to her ribs. Fujin hissed and her boot connected with the small of his back. She waited while Vincent caught his breath. At least she played fair.

Vincent was needless to say a bit surprised that she could put up such a vicious fight and found it highly likely that in actual combat she was even more of a hormonal rampage then now. But, this had to end...Fujin, however, did not look like she was in any mood to talk it out. Murder coated her eye. Vincent's feeble mind came through with a very poorly thoughtout plan and his even more pathetic body said, "Hey! That sounds like it'll work! Go!" And before either new what was happening, Vincent's arms surrounded Fujin and his lips crashed against hers in a hasty, almost volatile kiss.

'What the hell! What's he do---move! Get out of his arms, get his tongue out of your mouth and slaughter him! Your shuriken's not that far--' Fujin disconnected herself from the logic, albeit hostile, part of her mind and let herself seemingly melt into Vincent's hold. Every single cell in that mean and stubborn little head of hers told her this was a ploy; a distraction to stop her rampage. But her body didn't seem to mind in the least. Well, she couldn't be too sure, but the way the room seemed to heat up and her breath quickened was as much agreement as she need to continue his little game.

You're enjoying this...So what if I am...it doesn't mean I care for her...You shouldn't making lieing to yourself a habit, besides, do you realize what she's going to do to you once she finds that you are just toying with her?...No, what? It's not as if she can kill me and get away with it...Though I'll bet the memory of killing you or possibly burying you alive would suffice for the next 60 or 70 years...she's going to eat you alive boy

Chaos had a distinctly irratating way of reminding Vincent that he was really no better then a basket of testosterone with a label of '27 but still acts 18'. However, this thought was soon discarded as the words 'eat you alive' settled in his perverted little mind. The thought made things a little...hard for him, to say the least.

Vincent decided that Fujin had far to many methods of escape in her current position and decided to lessen them by pressing her against the wall (none to gently either!). Fujin simply returned his kiss with the same rough, animalistic sense of passion. Or perhaps it was sheer inexperience. Either way, the woman was pinned against a wall with a very...bothered young man holding her captive, and by no means was she complaining. She ran her tongue along his bottom lip and bit down playfully (as playful as she knew how to be) and was rewarded with the sound of a gruff groan eminating itself from Vincent's lips.

You are enjoying this far too much...I do belive I am, now if you'll kindly shut up and leave me be

Chaos chuckled and receeded into Vincent's mind while the man's lips traveled down the pale expanse of flesh that Fujin had so recently offered him. Small licks and bites were bestowed upon the tender flesh and were gratified by a slight bucking her hips and the raking of her nails down his back. A small, half sigh half moan escaped her nearly bruised lips and Vincent smirked to himself. Looks like he wasn't the only one enjoying this.

'If's a game he wants...it's a game he'll get' Fujin thought later on that day in her bath. Vincent had awakened a playful and a playfully vengeful side of Fujin. She smiled wickedly to herself while whispering the words to the rock song on the radio. The boy would pay. But first...she had to make ammends with Selphie and Quistis. She couldn't let her to best friends stay out of a game this good.

Vincent found himself thinking about Fujin the rest of the day. And dammit, it was distracting! The way she looked with her eyes closed...how she moaned so softly in his ear...how her body was like fire beneath his finger tips...not that he'd gotten to touch a whole lot of it, but he'd gotten his hands up her shirt a bit. And that skin...softer then...well he didn't know what but Hyne was it soft.

Looking around, he realized he was supposed to be doing something. But what? Fujin made everything so much more difficult! And the saddest part was that she didn't even have to try. Did that make him pathetic? (A.n: of course it does)

Shrugging, Vincent let simple, primally lustful thoughts involving a certain silver haired little princess ravage his mind.

"Fujin!" Selphie's normally cheery voice penetrated through the door and into Fujin's room, despite the rather loud music playing. Fujin smiled and let her in. Selphie never stayed angry for more then a couple hours.

"Heya! Well, I figured I couldn't stay mad at ya since it wasn't exactly your fault and all...so I came to help you decide what to wear for the party tomorrow!" Selphie had a trick up her sleeve and Fujin knew better then to ask. Chances were, she didn't want to know.

"Thank you...3...2...1..." Fujin pointed at the door and right on cue, there was a knock. Both girls knew it would be Quistis, slightly blushing and looking properly ashamed of herself.

"It's all ok now Quisty! So, we're helping Fuj here pick out a killer outfit for tomorrow! And while we're at it..." A devilish gleam caught in Selphie's eye and the two taller girls smiled. Oh, what a night tomorrow would be.

A.n: Weeee! And so the story goes...but no worries actual important plot kind of stuffs will be happening so keep reading and reviewing! I love you all for it! Thanks for all the posivtive feed back!

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