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Ok, answering a few questions 'ere-
1/ Who is Olivia? Olivia is an OC made up by Vampiegurl. She even has her own C2 which this fic is on -cheers-.
2/ When is Squallie coming? Next chapter!
3/ Sephiroth? Thanks MD and Michelle so much for your suggestions about him.
Michelle- Sephiroth talking bout Yuffie in his POV…that's a good suggestion but I don't think I'm good enough to write in Sephiroth's POV but I will mention what Sephy thinks of Yuffie though…just not in his POV. MD- LOL! Ur suggestion made me crack up! Sephiroth the principal on drugs…sounds good. Should I write about it?
Erm…I'm thinking about how to write it right now.. Sadly, my brain is not functioning properly. So I'm not sure if I'm going to write the whole Sephiroth thing or leave it for other chapters.
Thanks to Ria for being an awesome beta!
Going on to the fic!
Chapter 7- Unexpected
Tick tock
Tick tock…
The sound of the hands of the clock that hung in the cafeteria could actually be heard.
And this was a rarity considering that the cafeteria was almost always noisy.
Yet on a particular Monday at 11:35 the cafeteria was in complete silence…
Those 10 seconds, filled with the occasion gasps and murmurs, were the most awkward moments of her life.
Her eyes looked at the stunned expression on the silver god's face.
Shock.
Shock was written on his face and she hadn't seen him like that in a long time. His flirtatious smirk was no longer there and his aquamarine eyes no longer possessed the cheeky spark in them.
His eyes were empty, silent…
A million thoughts racing in his head as his hand slowly touched his cheek where he had been slapped.
Meanwhile she quickly thought of the best way out of the mess and the only solution in her mind seemed to be to get out of there as soon as possible. She maintained a calm look on her face, even though inside she wanted to scream at everyone for staring at her.
She stood up and headed for her next destination, her target being the exit out of the cafeteria.
Step step step…
Foot by foot, she slowly walked, averting the gazes of everyone as she concentrated on the door of the cafeteria.
The spotlight was on her now…her few seconds of fame – correction, few seconds of shame and she was dreading it. Everybody was going to know her name by the end of the day and some people actually liked that. She shivered at the thought.
Her long, slender fingers had just touched the doors of the cafeteria…
Like an entrance from earth to heaven…
A bright light in the distance…
She opened the doors but that bright light turned out to be swirl into complete darkness. She kept hearing her name…
Olivia…
Olivia…
"O-LI-VI-A!" the blonde teacher yelled waking her student up. Olivia opened her eye lazily to see bright green eyes staring right into her face.
"Yes Miss Rikku?" Olivia said sleepily, lifting her head up.
"Olivia, at least pretend you're listening," Miss Rikku said as Liv nodded. The teacher walked back to the front of the class and started yapping away about something not related to English at all. Her fingers drummed against the cold surface of the wooden desk, her other arm supporting her head from falling asleep again.
DOING!
A paper ball had been thrown at her head. Luckily for Olivia, the person who threw it couldn't aim at all and hit a nearby wall. If she wasn't so damn tired, she would actually try to dodge some of the paper balls being pegged at her.
'Just don't pay attention to them,' she reminded herself. Unfortunately for her, the Riku fan girls consisted of half of the girl population in the school.
Her eyes drifted back to her bubbly teacher. After all, she was supposed to be pretending to listen to what the teacher was going on about. She realized that Yuffie and Miss Rikku got along very well, both being similar in personalities. Even though it seemed that Olivia didn't like her teacher by not paying attention in class. It's just whenever she heard her teacher's name, she instantly thought of that silver-haired boy.
Riku.
Yes, he was the one responsible for the 'all-the-fan-girls-gang-up-on-Olivia-day'. He was the reason why she received the glares…the taunts that haunted her in the school hallways.
Since when did the hallways become so scary…She felt like a helpless mouse in a tiger's cage…
And if that wasn't enough, Riku just had to be in the same class as she was in now.
'Maybe slapping Riku was not such a good idea after all…' Olivia sighed, regretting her actions as she leaned back on her chair near the back corner. She hadn't thought that slapping Riku would cause her so much stress.
'Who knew that fan girls would get so angry at Olivia who had slapped their so called god?'
Olivia stared at the back of Riku's head, the strands of silver glistened seeming to make him glow...
'A god…'
She began to wonder why she chose the desk she was sitting in. It was two tables down and two tables across. It was a great spot to look at him and examine his… perfection. Most girls would love to sit where she was, to perve at his greatness…yet she absolutely hated it.
Whenever she looked at him, the thought of the look on his face when she slapped him came back to her.
The very moment when Riku didn't look so Riku-ish…(if that made sense)
Normally he would be talking to Sora, Seifer or Namine but now, he was being unusually quiet.
Why did she feel so guilty when Riku deserved to get slapped for being such a pervert?
Her eyes drifted away from the Silver God to her red-haired best friend, Kairi. A small smile appeared on her lips, as Olivia noticed how Kairi and Sora would always give each other the occasional glance whenever the other wasn't looking.
While the new girl, Yuffie was busy chatting with Miss Rikku about the love letter the teacher had received from a mysterious admirer that signed the end of the letter :
'Peace out- D.'
'Real hard figuring out who sent that,' she thought sarcastically as her eyes focused on the blonde guy staring out the window. It was the charming Cloud Strife who seemed to always love window watching. She didn't know why he was so fascinated with looking out windows, nor did she really care. But the thing that intrigued her was that he possessed a distracted look on his face. Kairi had told her about that look that he had been having recently.
"WOAH students! Silly me, sometimes Miss Rikku can be soo forgetful," the teacher said loudly disrupting her thoughts. Olivia often found it weird how Miss Rikku would refer to herself in third person.
"Well, I know you won't like it, but you have an assignment coming up that you will start next week."
The class groaned.
"You will be working in assigned pairs with a guy and a girl," Miss Rikku continued. Cloud and Yuffie immediately looked at each other. He having a fearful look while Yuffie's eyes were lit up with delight.
"Can't we pick our own partners?" Nami asked.
"Sorry deary. This will encourage group work among your fellow peers that you normally wouldn't hang around with," the teacher answered.
"There is a reason why we don't hang around people we don't normally talk to," Tifa said, shuddering at the thought of being partnered with some freak.
"Well, I'll write up the list of partners on the board," Miss Rikku picked up the pen and started writing up on the board…
Kairi and Sora
A huge smile spread on Kairi's now-beaming face as she read the first two names that had appeared on the board.
"Olivia! I'm paired up with Sora!" Kairi squealed to her best friend. "Hope you get someone good to be your partner."
"I don't mind who I'm paired with," the pale-skinned girl breathed. "As long as it isn't-," Olivia paused as she read the name that was written next to hers on the board.
Olivia and Riku Hikari
This was just not her day. Oh, she knew that most of the girls now were extremely furious of her right now, especially Namine. Sharing the presence of her beloved.
It was a privilege to be in his presence to some…an honour to others…and to most of his fans…'Heaven'.
She looked over at Riku who to have the same stunned reaction as she did.
Meanwhile another person in the classroom was not feeling happy about the assigned partners.
Suspense…
Agony…
2 different emotions that Cloud felt inside.
Zack sat up straighter as he smirked at Cloud. "Hmm…hope a certain black haired girl with the name starting with Y is your partner," Zack whispered to Cloud who replied with a glare.
'No way on Earth am I wanting her to be my partner. Fate was cruel enough of making her in most of my classes,' Cloud thought.
Cloud, Zack and Yuffie leaned closer to the board as Yuffie's name was being spelled out. Cloud and Zack were crossing their fingers, both wishing for two different outcomes.
Time seemed to stop for the three of them as the suspense kicked in.
Yuffie Kisaragi and Clou
Cloud cursed as she slowly wrote the first few letters of his name. He sighed looking away in sadness, he knew he was going to be paired up with her…fate seemed to be a bitch to him.
"Silly Rikku. I was gonna write Cloud Strife because I was reading the wrong name," the teacher laughed nervously and rubbed out his name. A wave of relief hit his mind when he read the first the names on the board.
Yuffie Kisaragi and Seifer Almassy
He lifted his hands up as and smirked at Zack who rolled his eyes. Then Cloud looked at Yuffie, a disappointed look on her face. His smile had disappeared when he saw the hidden sadness shimmering beneath her eyes.
'Did my happy reaction hurt her feelings?' Cloud thought to himself for a while, later shrugging it off when he came to the conclusion that she was sad because she couldn't antagonize him anymore. Though in the back of his mind, he was not too convinced at all…
After class-
"CLLLLLOUDD!"
He sighed, recognising her voice almost too well and thinking whether or not to bother stopping for the girl running up behind him. It had been a stressful school day for him.
He was tired of people whispering about him behind his back about the recent break-up with Aerith. He was annoyed at Tifa constantly trying to flirt with him when all he wanted to do was stare out the window and he was absolutely fed up of seeing Yuffie around in his classes. And the only good thing that happened that day was when he realized that he wasn't going to be Yuffie's partner, but those few seconds of happiness was drained away when he saw the disappointed look on her face. He just wanted to ride his silver convertible alone, hearing the wheels glide across the road.
"CLOOUUDY! Wait up!" the female's voice yelled.
Ignoring her was obviously not going to make her go away.
He stopped walking and turned his head to her.
"Yes Yuffie?" he asked in an annoyed tone, looking back at the girl. The sad look on her face that she once had during class had been replaced with a cheerful smile. A part of him wanted to smile too, relieved to see her happy.
"My dearest Cloud!" Yuffie smiled sweetly as her arms wrapped around his body. His eyes widened, a slight pink spread across his cheeks at the warmth of her body. Then, she squeezed him tighter, choking the breath out of him. He quickly pushed her away from him allowing air to fill his lungs.
"What are you trying to do? Kill me?"
"Kill you?" Yuffie asked in a hurt tone. "I just missed you so much,"
"You missed me? Funny, I was just in the English class with you just 10 minutes ago," he raised his eyebrow and looked at the raven-haired girl suspiciously. She paused, thinking about what had happened in English. He could swear that just for a second he saw a frown tempting her lips before her normal cheeky grin reappeared.
"Is it so hard to believe that I missed you for those 10 minutes we were apart!" She pouted, her glistening eyes looked innocent.
He rolled his eyes. "What do you want?"
"What makes you think I want something?"
"You're acting unusually nice,"
"And what do you mean by me acting nice to you all of a sudden? I am ALWAYS nice to you!" She crossed her arms over her chest, glaring at him. Cloud knew that talking to her was going to go no where. He faced his back towards her and began walking towards his car.
"Fine fine, Cloud you're right!" Yuffie stammered following behind him. He stopped and faced her. The words 'Cloud, you're right' got his attention.
"I do want something… "she paused. "I want you to drive me home,"
"Well I don't want to drive you home."
"How am I supposed to get home then?"
"Ever heard of a bus?"
"School buses are creepy,"
"Who told you that?"
"Selphie," Yuffie answered as Cloud gave a slight chuckle.
"Well you should overcome that fear," he responded.
"Cloud please, take me home!"
"I'm sorry, I don't know the route to hell,"
"Ha-ha. Very funny," Yuffie said sarcastically. "If your house is just opposite mine, what does that make your house, huh?"
He blinked, puzzled by the strangely easy question. "Heaven," he replied. "What type of question is that?"
"Damn! You weren't supposed to say that," she thought out loud. "Cloud, you're going home anyway and my house is just opposite yours. Why can't you bring me along?"
"I'm popular!"
"Yeah, so am I," Yuffie snapped. It was true, ever since Yuffie sat with Cloud and co, she was instantly labelled popular.
"What makes you think that I would be crazy enough to actually want to drive you home?"
"Um…because you love me," she squeaked out with a huge smile on her face. He started walking towards his silver BMW leaving Yuffie behind him standing near the car park. "CLOUD! Pretty Please Cloud,"
"No,"
"Please,"
"No,"
"Pleaseeeeeeee Cloud,"
"NO!"
5 Minutes later-
"Ok…tell me again how you managed to convince me to drive you home," Cloud said to himself driving his car on the road with Yuffie in the passenger seat.
"You being an idiot, didn't notice that I stole your keys while I was hugging you. Then I gave you back your keys in exchange for a ride home," she smirked in triumph.
Cloud sighed feeling pathetic that he got outsmarted by the raven-haired girl. A mental scoreboard rang and gave a point to Yuffie: Cloud 2, Yuffie 3.
"Cloudy, what's with the frown? Hate losing to me, the Great Ninja Yuffie!" she smiled laughing away only causing him to raise a brow.
"Great Ninja Yuffie?" he burst into tremors of laughter.
"Hey! Are you laughing at my GLORIOUS childhood name?" He looked back at the girl's puffed up face, her indigo eyes glaring at him. The look she gave him was like he had just stolen candy from her. He shook his head and continued to look at the road in front of him.
"Yuffie…sometimes, you are such a kid," he muttered to himself.
Sadly, the raven-haired ninja fanatic overheard what he said.
"A…WHAT?" her eyes burned with fury, anger sparked from her eyes. If she wasn't being wearing by a seatbelt, she would have lunged herself at him, trying to wring her hands around his neck. '
Looks like I found a soft spot,' he thought and smirked at her.
"Don't you understand English?" Oh, he was loving every minute of her humiliation. "I called you a little kid, a brat, a CHILD." She remained silent restraining herself from attempting to kill him as he was the one driving.
He looked back at her and smirked. 'Hmm…surprised she hasn't attempted to kill me yet. I guess I'll just pull her strings just a little more…'
"Judging by your silence, I'm guessing that you don't understand what a child means. Do you want me to explain any more little one, or would you like me to buy a children's dictionary and look up the meaning of kid for you?" he teased, his voice sounding like he was talking to a little girl, triumph hidden in his eyes.
Yuffie's lips parted, about to retaliate, but no words came out.
DING! Point for Cloud on the scoreboard. Cloud 3, Yuffie 3.
For the rest of the trip home Yuffie remained silent in her thoughts, while Cloud was contemplating whether to tease her any further. He eventually decided not to as he enjoyed the silence, a peaceful wind blowing in his ears and he soon realized the uncommon silence that fell upon the two. Probably because Yuffie was feeling tired of her first day at her new school. He never thought she even got tired seeing her hyperactive and all. He shook his head and then focused back on the road to home.
YUFFIE POV
FINALLY! The silver car had reared into the long cobblestone driveway of my house.
Seriously, that felt like the longest and most tiring car trip of my life. Even though it was a short 15 minute drive, it felt like a dreadful eternity of darkness!
Okay, maybe the whole 'eternity of darkness' might have been a little over exaggerated but if I'd known how frigging annoying Cloud would be, I definitely would've taken the bus home instead!
And considering that I don't exactly know how to get home by bus, you can tell how much I despised Blondie! Yes, I'd prefer to take the creepy bus (I heard strange rumors from Selphie about buses in Hollow Bastion) and get lost than ride with the super annoying Cloud who thinks I'm some 2 year old!
I literally leaped out of the car onto the trimmed green lawn, spinning around, my hands dangling in the air with joy.
Finally, I was free! I would kiss the pavement if Cloud wasn't behind me because I can picture the laugh on his face if I did it. He gave a small grunt and I scowled at him.
It was sure good to be home.
It's not that I hated school. In fact, I had enjoyed my first day at H B High. It's just my mood dropped to a zero when it got ruined by Mr Cloud himself. Ok ok, I admit, I may have went a little over the top when I described Cloud like he was some terrible monster torturing me. But being called a kid repetitively was not something I call 'fun'. It just I couldn't say a thing back to him…and trust me, the Great Ninja Yuffie is not one who is speechless. Yet, in that car I just sat there dumbfounded and let him walk all over me. And NO ONE walks over Yuffie Kisaragi!
I waved enthusiastically as the car drove out to the other side of the road. Sadly, even though I wished I could get rid of Cloud from my view, he just happens to live across the road from me.
I rested, back down on the grass staring up at nothing in particular, my arms pillowing my head. I had to clear my mind from the troublesome questions racing in my mind:
What is Cloud doing right now?
Does he still have that triumphant smirk on? .
What is his weak spot?
How do I get back at him?
How pathetic! All I could think about was the Blondie himself, Cloud Strife.
My mind struggled to focus upon something to fill my mind with non-Cloud thoughts. My eyes followed a bird flying past in the light blue sky. My attention turned to the sky and I noticed the white puffs of cotton streaked across the ocean. I never thought that clouds could look like waves…
URGHHH!
My small hands covered my face in frustration as thoughts of Cloud rushed back in.
My eyebrows creased as I struggled, once again, to occupy my brain with something other than Cloud.
'Ahhh…my new home in Hollow Bastion,' I thought staring at the house. My eyes sparkled in amazement. It was quite a nice house, double-storey, red roof, pearly white gates and I could even see my bedroom from the window. Hey, the window that Cloud broke is fixed again…
DAMNIT!
I stood up abruptly and dusted off the leaves of grass on me. I obviously failed at keeping my mind off him.
I hadto go back inside and eat. Yes, eating is good…eating keeps my mind off things. I hurried inside my house past the luggage bags in the lounge room. My mind was set on the chocolate ice cream in the freezer.
"Yuffie! You're home! So how was your first day of school?" Shera asked handing me a bowl of ice cream.
"It was surprisingly good. Some of the teachers are alright," I answered. If she asked me how was my day in general, I would have said it was crap.
"Well that's good to hear. Have you made any new friends?"
"Yep," I said shoving a spoonful of ice cream in my mouth.
"That's good that Cloud isn't your only friend," Shera said innocently.
CLOUD? Did she just mention that horrific name that I can't get out of my head?
"Do you have to bring up his name?" I snapped.
"Well I just thought the two of you would be friends by now…"
There must be one person besides me in the world that doesn't like Cloud…I thought for a while until I saw my dearest uncle Cid arrive in the kitchen. Just the man I wanted to see! Uncle Cid had to not like Cloud. For starters, Cloud was a boy that talked to me. Cid is wayyy overprotective and in this case, it might turn out good for once.
"Heard that boy dropped the brat home," the gruff voice said. By 'brat' that meant me.
"Yep, Cloud dropped me home in his sexy silver BMW," I said anticipating Cid's outburst. Strangely, Cid did not curse nor did he lecture me about being alone in a confined space with a boy.
"Yeah, that blonde kid's alright," he said. I blinked totally unexpecting that answer. What has happened to my Uncle Cid? Is this the same Cid as the crazy ex-pilot who always threatens to shove a spear up any guy that I speak with?
Wait…did he just say that Cloud was…alright? Because 'alright' in Cid's books means that he's accepted by him and that Cid would probably not try to kill Cloud.
"What do you mean he's alright? He's not ALRIGHT! He's he's…BAD," I stammered angrily.
"Shera told me to be more acceptable to the guys you meet. So I'm trying to y'know…be more understanding," Cid said in a softer tone. This was very odd of him.
"Well, I want you to be less understanding! Cloud is evil!"
"Bloody hell! See Shera, told ya that being understanding is for sissies who talk a load o' crap!" Cid grumbled to his wife. I sighed with frustration as I stood there hearing Cid and Shera bicker on about pointless things and all I could think about was…you guessed it!
Cloud Strife.
I needed to throw a tantrum…to release the bottled stress and anger inside which meant throwing things around the room and breaking stuff.
I ran upstairs to my room and found out that most of my things had been packed away in a suitcase.
The door slid open as a blonde woman peaked out into my room.
"Yuffie dear?" Shera said.
"Why is my stuff packed up? I can't throw a tantrum and chuck stuff around my room," I complained.
"Don't throw things around in your room. You'll have to clean it up after you do it,"
"Y'know it took me ages to unpack my stuff so why pack it up?" I asked. Shera stopped for a while, a look on her face as if she was uncertain how to break the news to me.
"Don't tell me we're moving again, cos I really like it here, at Hollow Bastion."
"I know, that's why we're living here permanently,"
"Then why the packed bags?"
"Well, your Uncle Cid and I decided to go on a second honey moon,"
"That's soooo cool! When do we leave?"
"We? Yuffins, I think you misinterpreted us. Cid and I are going…alone,"
"What about me?"
"You're staying here since you enjoy school so much,"
"So I'm gonna live alone by myself?"
"No," Shera paused momentarily. "You're gonna move in with the Strifes,"
"THE STRIFES?"
A/N- My attempt at a cliff-hanger! Lol.
This is the longest chap I have wrote. More Insight on Olivia is given in this chapter ,just thought I'll get the spotlight away from Yuffie for a while.
I'm kinda rushing things (as you probably could tell) to bring Squall in cos some of my reviewers want him.
Thanks again to Ria, for beta'ing my fic.
Question to the readers-
1/ Do you want to see some scenes of Squiffieness?
2/ Do you want a Sora x Kairi fluff/or whatever scene?
3/ Should I write a part with Sephiroth in?
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