A/N (should be called rants with the way i talk... anyways...) See the A/N on the bottom for some things... i dun wanna give the story away! (for those of you that actually read these things) And... i think that's about it. -_-;;; yup... wasted your time. ^_^ Just read...
~*~Heart's Desire~*~
-Chapter 3-
"Tifa!" Reno just stared at her. Tifa backed away, shaking. ::Who is he? How does he know me?:: Tifa shivered. He was- was, familiar! But Tifa knew she had never seen him before, ever, in her life.
"Who are you?"
"Tifa? Come on! You know me! Reno!"
"I've never met you before in my life." Tifa was almost three feet away now. "I- I've got to get to class." And Tifa practically ran away from him. Reno stared at the retreating back. ::Why doesn't she remember me? What was it Vincent said?:: Then realization dawned on Reno. ::Well… at least Spike-boy isn't here. And she obviously doesn't remember anything. Hm… this could work to my advantage.:: The late bell rang.
"Shit!" Reno grabbed his books. "Don't want to be late on the *first* day, now do I?" Reno smirked to himself. ::Yup, don't want to let them know I'm not a school type, now do I?::
*
"…our new student, Reno…" Tifa leaned back on her chair. ::Him again! Who the hell is he anyway? And how the hell does he know me? Argh!:: Tifa's eye's narrowed. ::Hm… he looks like one of *those* guys. "Bad boys". Yeesh, think of something original!:: "Now, back to page…" And the teacher's voice droned on. "Now, Reno, sit behind Tifa Heartilly. Miss Heartilly, will you please raise your hand?" Tifa rose her hand. ::Aie!! Why me?? That guy creeps me out! I knew there had to be some reason to hate you more! (directed at her teacher):: Tifa sat stiffly as Reno made his way to the chair behind her. She gripped her pencil hard as he flashed her a smile. ::Argh! I hate you I hate you I hate you!!!:: Tifa chanted at the teacher. ::Great… really! Just great! A guy that just so happens to give me the humongo creeps is sitting behind me! In front I could probably deal with… but behind me?? Argh! I can just feel his eyes boring into my neck!!:: Tifa sighed. ::Man… I'm getting paranoid. Just take a deep breath!:: Tifa was startled as a yard stick was slammed in front of her, right on top of her papers. "Miss Heartilly, will you please pay attention!"
"Hai sensei!" ::Damn bastard.::
*
Slam! The door almost shook from being slammed so hard.
"Welcome back, honey. So, how was the first day of school?"
"A hell hole."
"Watch your mouth young man!"
"Yes ma'am."
"Much better. Now, exactly why was today so bad, hm?" the red-hair woman poked her head out of the kitchen to stare at her son.
"All the teachers are absolute a-" Reno felt his mother's glare. "-butt holes." He finished lamely.
"Oh? How so?"
"Well, this one wouldn't stop *torturing* us and making us, *me*, the great and wonderful *Reno*, jog for a goddamn half hour!!! And at a fast jog pace! No a slow jog pace!!!" his mother just barely held in her laughter at his obvious exaggeration of things.
"Well, last time I checked, you weren't the great king of Saudi Arabia."
"What the hell does that have to do with anything?"
"Then you can be made to solve a problem, or as you have put it, 'goddamn hard ass freaking math problem', in front of the class.
"But- but- it was so goddamn hard!"
"Maybe if you used your *head* a little more than your fists…" Reno watched as his mom turned to go back into the kitchen. Reno got up and headed back to his room. ::Do my homework or be killed by my mom. What choices!:: "Oh, and Reno!"
"What?" Reno felt two hard smacks against his bottom. "What was that for??" he whined, rubbing the sore spots.
"For swearing. Now go do your homework!"
"Yea, yea!"
*
Tifa walked into her home, quietly shutting the door behind her. "Mom! I'm home!"
"Tifa honey! How was your day?" she asked, while hugging her only daughter.
"Pretty much the same thing except we got a new student." Tifa replied, placing her book bag next to the sofa.
"Oh really? Who?"
"I don't know him really. His name is Reno…"
"Hm… from your sound of voice you don't seem to like him…?"
"I don't know." Tifa pulled her hair into a ponytail as she talked. "It's just that he gives me the creeps and I don't know why! And every time I'm around him I get this strange feeling." Tifa stared at her mom's face. "No! Whatever you're thinking no! I barely know him! I *just* met him! I *do* *not* like him! He gives me this déjà vu feeling that I don't like!!!"
"All right honey! I'm beginning to think my little girl is all grown up." Tifa's mother smiled.
"But I'll always love ya mom!" Tifa looked at the clock. "Oh no! I'd better get started on my homework right now or I'll never get it done before dinner!"
"Oh! That's right! I've got to start dinner!" Tifa's mother quickly got up. "Oh yes, Tifa dear?"
"Yea mom?" Tifa looked down from the stairs she was climbing.
"Your oni-chan is coming home today."
"What? When? Why?" Tifa's mother laughed.
"It's a vacation for him or something like that. Maybe the school need renovations." Tifa's eyes narrowed. There was something in her mother's voice. "Okay… if you say so."
"Now go do your homework!"
"Yes ma'am!" ::I still wish oni-chan hadn't moved to another school. And I still don't know why! I miss him so much! And he's only two years older then I am! He's going to be leaving soon anyway! Wouldn't he at least spend his last year of high school with me.:: Tifa pulled out her giant science book. She made a face. ::I cannot stand science! Ms. Higanishi is such a bitch!! Argh! Twenty pages to outline! And I still have to finish that stupid essay!! At least I finished the stupid rough draft. ONI-CHAN!! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU WHEN I NEED YOU????:: Tifa slammed her fist down on her table. "Ow!" Tifa rubbed her sore hand. "That'll remind not to do that again anytime soon." And she diligently began her homework… again.
*
"Tifa!" Tifa hurried faster away from that voice. Reno had been… following, yes, that was the right word, her and she didn't like it. Tifa had been tempted to just slug him but that would mean actually being near him, and she was already too close sitting next to him in homeroom. ::Why don't he just leave me alone? I've never met such a persistent guy!:: Tifa turned a corner and ran into the library. ::Phew! At least he won't find me here. I bet he doesn't even *know* what a library is!::
"Huh?" Reno turned the corner to see that Tifa wasn't there anymore. Vanished. Gone. Nowhere to be seen. ::Where is she?:: He had been following her, okay, maybe it was more like stalking but he *needed* to talk to her! ::Where did she go to?? She's like a damn ghost!:: Reno ran his hand through his hair. ::Well… at least she hasn't beaten me up yet. I wonder if she still knows how to fight?::
"Reno~!" yelled a high pitched voice. The owner of the voice soon appeared. A girl with straw blond, shoulder length hair. She had blue eyes and had pale skin, as if she planned never to go into the sun.
"Hey Rose! How are you?" Reno inched away from her. ::Wherever Rose is, her ditzy friends are sure to be around too. And right now I don't need this… goddamn it! I wanted to talk to Tifa, not be stalked and hunted down by a bunch of idiotic girls!!!:: Reno grinned, "Sorry babe." He said as he noticed her friends running full speed towards the two of them. "I gotta get to class or Mr. Kaji is going to kill be since I've been late to class for the past two weeks." He winked at them and hurried out of the picture. The girls swooned at being noticed, and Tifa, who had just been heading out so as not to be late to class, gagged and quickly left before the popularest girl and her bimbo troupe decided to have a field day and pick on her. ::Man… if I have to listen to that- that- that *idiot* talk one more time I think I'm going to throw up from the fact that she has no intelligence what so ever. Or maybe I'll fall asleep after talking to her for just five minutes… or stay awake from the sheer fact she's such an idiot that she wouldn't know how to spell "I" if someone screamed it in her face. Cheerleaders.::
*
"Hey… isn't that Tifa over there?" asked one of Rose's friends.
"Hey, yea! The weirdo loner." Rose replied, giving a small look of disdain.
"She sits in front of Reno!" whispered another one of Rose's bimbo friends.
"What?" Rose narrowed her eyes. "I think it's time we watched her girl-friends!"
"Yea! Like totally!" agreed yet another one of her lesser intelligent friends. Rose laughed.
"Come on girls. I think it's time to show Reno who's his honey bunny." She said, snapping her lipstick case shut. Never mind where it came from.
*
Tifa turned around to see Reno staring at her… again. "Do you mind?" she hissed. ::Damn it! I can't concentrate! That's got to be the fifth time today, the hundredth time in the past two weeks.
"Mind what?" Reno gave her a sly grin. She glared, almost snapping her pencil in half.
"Stop staring at the back of my neck like that!"
"Like what?" Reno played dumb, liking the way Tifa's crimson eye's flashed in anger.
"If. You. Don't. Stop. Now. I. Will. Not. Be. Responsible. For. Your. Death." Tifa hissed slowly, the death threat quite apparent and real.
"Okay, okay! Yeesh, can't take a joke?"
"A joke I can take. Someone staring at me like some stalker I can't."
"I do not stalk."
"Yes you do."
"Miss Heartilly! Mr. Ikari! Do you have something to share with the class?"
"Uh… no sir!" Tifa blushed. The class tittered.
"Nothing to share sir." Reno flashed Mr. Kaji a grin.
"Hmph. Then get back to work."
"Yes sir!" both Tifa and Reno chorused. ::Damn bastard.:: they both thought at the same time too.
*
"Man, what a day! Oni-chan, did you apply today?" were the first words out of Tifa's mouth as soon as she got home.
"Hn. Yes, I did."
"Well…?"
"I've been accepted."
"Yes! I missed you so much! I still don't know why you decided to go to a boarding school!" Tifa pouted cutely.
"Just needed to get away from some over protective parents." He grinned at her. "Want to watch," he looked at the show he had not been paying attention to. "… CNN news with me?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. Tifa burst out laughing.
"Turn to channel 20. I think Rurouni Kenshin is on."
"Sure." Tifa jumped onto her brother's lap.
"It's been such a long time since I saw you!"
"Just last summer." He said, giving her a weird look.
"But that was two months ago! It's almost winter!"
"Only two months."
"See how long that was??" she gave him the puppy-eye look. He laughed.
"Nice you be with you again too, Tifa-chan."
*
"Tifa!" The after school bell had rung, signifying the end of a school week, and the beginning of the weekend but as soon as that bell had rung Reno had been chasing her.
"Ugh." Tifa almost tripped over a stupid rock. ::Damn! I *knew* this was going to happen! Sooner or later.:: "Still… what does he want from me?" she asked, slamming her hand into the brick wall. "Ouch! I thought I said I wouldn't be doing that again!" she winced.
"Found you!" Reno cried triumphantly. He grabbed her wrist before she could run away. ::Wow, he's got fast reflexes… super fast.::
"What do you want? Leave me alone!" Tifa yelled, struggling but his grip was a lot stronger then expected. "Let me go!"
"Come on, Tifa! You've been avoiding me and you know it. I have to admit, I *was* somewhat stalking you but come on! I just want to *talk*!!" Reno was having a hard time keeping this girl in his grip. Soon she would be free, but now before he got to talk to her.
"What is there to talk about? I don't even know you! I've never met you before in my life! End of conversation!" if Reno was hurt he didn't show it.
"I want you to remember me!"
"Remember you? I *told* you! I don't even *know* you!"
"You do! You just don't remember! Won't you just listen to me?" Tifa felt a chill as she said that, making her struggle harder against him.
"Let me go! What is there to say?"
"You were Tifa Lockheart!" ::That sounds so familiar…::
"LET ME GO!" Tifa yelled, finally pulling herself from his grasp. She fell backwards, falling against somebody. Tifa looked up to see a familiar pair of eyes.
"Huh?" Reno looked up into a familiar face, not to mention eyes. "YOU-!"
A/N: The "ikari" and "kaji" both come from Evangelion. So bite me, i couldn't think of names... and blame AngelZephyr for the Evangelion reference. ;) R&R will always and forever be welcomed, come on guys! tell me what'cha think!!! Especially constructive critism!!! ^^ Hm... anything else? oh ya! Can anyone figure out who Tifa's older bro is? i'm sure you all know... it's not that hard, is it? i didn't think so. :p and just for reference (you've prolly figured this out already too) her oni-chan is in his senior year and is two years older then she is. that should help with the age thing altho i don't know if i messed up the ages 'cause i can't remember and i'm too lazy to go over my other chapters to see. so sue me! R&R please ppl!!!
~*~Heart's Desire~*~
-Chapter 3-
"Tifa!" Reno just stared at her. Tifa backed away, shaking. ::Who is he? How does he know me?:: Tifa shivered. He was- was, familiar! But Tifa knew she had never seen him before, ever, in her life.
"Who are you?"
"Tifa? Come on! You know me! Reno!"
"I've never met you before in my life." Tifa was almost three feet away now. "I- I've got to get to class." And Tifa practically ran away from him. Reno stared at the retreating back. ::Why doesn't she remember me? What was it Vincent said?:: Then realization dawned on Reno. ::Well… at least Spike-boy isn't here. And she obviously doesn't remember anything. Hm… this could work to my advantage.:: The late bell rang.
"Shit!" Reno grabbed his books. "Don't want to be late on the *first* day, now do I?" Reno smirked to himself. ::Yup, don't want to let them know I'm not a school type, now do I?::
*
"…our new student, Reno…" Tifa leaned back on her chair. ::Him again! Who the hell is he anyway? And how the hell does he know me? Argh!:: Tifa's eye's narrowed. ::Hm… he looks like one of *those* guys. "Bad boys". Yeesh, think of something original!:: "Now, back to page…" And the teacher's voice droned on. "Now, Reno, sit behind Tifa Heartilly. Miss Heartilly, will you please raise your hand?" Tifa rose her hand. ::Aie!! Why me?? That guy creeps me out! I knew there had to be some reason to hate you more! (directed at her teacher):: Tifa sat stiffly as Reno made his way to the chair behind her. She gripped her pencil hard as he flashed her a smile. ::Argh! I hate you I hate you I hate you!!!:: Tifa chanted at the teacher. ::Great… really! Just great! A guy that just so happens to give me the humongo creeps is sitting behind me! In front I could probably deal with… but behind me?? Argh! I can just feel his eyes boring into my neck!!:: Tifa sighed. ::Man… I'm getting paranoid. Just take a deep breath!:: Tifa was startled as a yard stick was slammed in front of her, right on top of her papers. "Miss Heartilly, will you please pay attention!"
"Hai sensei!" ::Damn bastard.::
*
Slam! The door almost shook from being slammed so hard.
"Welcome back, honey. So, how was the first day of school?"
"A hell hole."
"Watch your mouth young man!"
"Yes ma'am."
"Much better. Now, exactly why was today so bad, hm?" the red-hair woman poked her head out of the kitchen to stare at her son.
"All the teachers are absolute a-" Reno felt his mother's glare. "-butt holes." He finished lamely.
"Oh? How so?"
"Well, this one wouldn't stop *torturing* us and making us, *me*, the great and wonderful *Reno*, jog for a goddamn half hour!!! And at a fast jog pace! No a slow jog pace!!!" his mother just barely held in her laughter at his obvious exaggeration of things.
"Well, last time I checked, you weren't the great king of Saudi Arabia."
"What the hell does that have to do with anything?"
"Then you can be made to solve a problem, or as you have put it, 'goddamn hard ass freaking math problem', in front of the class.
"But- but- it was so goddamn hard!"
"Maybe if you used your *head* a little more than your fists…" Reno watched as his mom turned to go back into the kitchen. Reno got up and headed back to his room. ::Do my homework or be killed by my mom. What choices!:: "Oh, and Reno!"
"What?" Reno felt two hard smacks against his bottom. "What was that for??" he whined, rubbing the sore spots.
"For swearing. Now go do your homework!"
"Yea, yea!"
*
Tifa walked into her home, quietly shutting the door behind her. "Mom! I'm home!"
"Tifa honey! How was your day?" she asked, while hugging her only daughter.
"Pretty much the same thing except we got a new student." Tifa replied, placing her book bag next to the sofa.
"Oh really? Who?"
"I don't know him really. His name is Reno…"
"Hm… from your sound of voice you don't seem to like him…?"
"I don't know." Tifa pulled her hair into a ponytail as she talked. "It's just that he gives me the creeps and I don't know why! And every time I'm around him I get this strange feeling." Tifa stared at her mom's face. "No! Whatever you're thinking no! I barely know him! I *just* met him! I *do* *not* like him! He gives me this déjà vu feeling that I don't like!!!"
"All right honey! I'm beginning to think my little girl is all grown up." Tifa's mother smiled.
"But I'll always love ya mom!" Tifa looked at the clock. "Oh no! I'd better get started on my homework right now or I'll never get it done before dinner!"
"Oh! That's right! I've got to start dinner!" Tifa's mother quickly got up. "Oh yes, Tifa dear?"
"Yea mom?" Tifa looked down from the stairs she was climbing.
"Your oni-chan is coming home today."
"What? When? Why?" Tifa's mother laughed.
"It's a vacation for him or something like that. Maybe the school need renovations." Tifa's eyes narrowed. There was something in her mother's voice. "Okay… if you say so."
"Now go do your homework!"
"Yes ma'am!" ::I still wish oni-chan hadn't moved to another school. And I still don't know why! I miss him so much! And he's only two years older then I am! He's going to be leaving soon anyway! Wouldn't he at least spend his last year of high school with me.:: Tifa pulled out her giant science book. She made a face. ::I cannot stand science! Ms. Higanishi is such a bitch!! Argh! Twenty pages to outline! And I still have to finish that stupid essay!! At least I finished the stupid rough draft. ONI-CHAN!! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU WHEN I NEED YOU????:: Tifa slammed her fist down on her table. "Ow!" Tifa rubbed her sore hand. "That'll remind not to do that again anytime soon." And she diligently began her homework… again.
*
"Tifa!" Tifa hurried faster away from that voice. Reno had been… following, yes, that was the right word, her and she didn't like it. Tifa had been tempted to just slug him but that would mean actually being near him, and she was already too close sitting next to him in homeroom. ::Why don't he just leave me alone? I've never met such a persistent guy!:: Tifa turned a corner and ran into the library. ::Phew! At least he won't find me here. I bet he doesn't even *know* what a library is!::
"Huh?" Reno turned the corner to see that Tifa wasn't there anymore. Vanished. Gone. Nowhere to be seen. ::Where is she?:: He had been following her, okay, maybe it was more like stalking but he *needed* to talk to her! ::Where did she go to?? She's like a damn ghost!:: Reno ran his hand through his hair. ::Well… at least she hasn't beaten me up yet. I wonder if she still knows how to fight?::
"Reno~!" yelled a high pitched voice. The owner of the voice soon appeared. A girl with straw blond, shoulder length hair. She had blue eyes and had pale skin, as if she planned never to go into the sun.
"Hey Rose! How are you?" Reno inched away from her. ::Wherever Rose is, her ditzy friends are sure to be around too. And right now I don't need this… goddamn it! I wanted to talk to Tifa, not be stalked and hunted down by a bunch of idiotic girls!!!:: Reno grinned, "Sorry babe." He said as he noticed her friends running full speed towards the two of them. "I gotta get to class or Mr. Kaji is going to kill be since I've been late to class for the past two weeks." He winked at them and hurried out of the picture. The girls swooned at being noticed, and Tifa, who had just been heading out so as not to be late to class, gagged and quickly left before the popularest girl and her bimbo troupe decided to have a field day and pick on her. ::Man… if I have to listen to that- that- that *idiot* talk one more time I think I'm going to throw up from the fact that she has no intelligence what so ever. Or maybe I'll fall asleep after talking to her for just five minutes… or stay awake from the sheer fact she's such an idiot that she wouldn't know how to spell "I" if someone screamed it in her face. Cheerleaders.::
*
"Hey… isn't that Tifa over there?" asked one of Rose's friends.
"Hey, yea! The weirdo loner." Rose replied, giving a small look of disdain.
"She sits in front of Reno!" whispered another one of Rose's bimbo friends.
"What?" Rose narrowed her eyes. "I think it's time we watched her girl-friends!"
"Yea! Like totally!" agreed yet another one of her lesser intelligent friends. Rose laughed.
"Come on girls. I think it's time to show Reno who's his honey bunny." She said, snapping her lipstick case shut. Never mind where it came from.
*
Tifa turned around to see Reno staring at her… again. "Do you mind?" she hissed. ::Damn it! I can't concentrate! That's got to be the fifth time today, the hundredth time in the past two weeks.
"Mind what?" Reno gave her a sly grin. She glared, almost snapping her pencil in half.
"Stop staring at the back of my neck like that!"
"Like what?" Reno played dumb, liking the way Tifa's crimson eye's flashed in anger.
"If. You. Don't. Stop. Now. I. Will. Not. Be. Responsible. For. Your. Death." Tifa hissed slowly, the death threat quite apparent and real.
"Okay, okay! Yeesh, can't take a joke?"
"A joke I can take. Someone staring at me like some stalker I can't."
"I do not stalk."
"Yes you do."
"Miss Heartilly! Mr. Ikari! Do you have something to share with the class?"
"Uh… no sir!" Tifa blushed. The class tittered.
"Nothing to share sir." Reno flashed Mr. Kaji a grin.
"Hmph. Then get back to work."
"Yes sir!" both Tifa and Reno chorused. ::Damn bastard.:: they both thought at the same time too.
*
"Man, what a day! Oni-chan, did you apply today?" were the first words out of Tifa's mouth as soon as she got home.
"Hn. Yes, I did."
"Well…?"
"I've been accepted."
"Yes! I missed you so much! I still don't know why you decided to go to a boarding school!" Tifa pouted cutely.
"Just needed to get away from some over protective parents." He grinned at her. "Want to watch," he looked at the show he had not been paying attention to. "… CNN news with me?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. Tifa burst out laughing.
"Turn to channel 20. I think Rurouni Kenshin is on."
"Sure." Tifa jumped onto her brother's lap.
"It's been such a long time since I saw you!"
"Just last summer." He said, giving her a weird look.
"But that was two months ago! It's almost winter!"
"Only two months."
"See how long that was??" she gave him the puppy-eye look. He laughed.
"Nice you be with you again too, Tifa-chan."
*
"Tifa!" The after school bell had rung, signifying the end of a school week, and the beginning of the weekend but as soon as that bell had rung Reno had been chasing her.
"Ugh." Tifa almost tripped over a stupid rock. ::Damn! I *knew* this was going to happen! Sooner or later.:: "Still… what does he want from me?" she asked, slamming her hand into the brick wall. "Ouch! I thought I said I wouldn't be doing that again!" she winced.
"Found you!" Reno cried triumphantly. He grabbed her wrist before she could run away. ::Wow, he's got fast reflexes… super fast.::
"What do you want? Leave me alone!" Tifa yelled, struggling but his grip was a lot stronger then expected. "Let me go!"
"Come on, Tifa! You've been avoiding me and you know it. I have to admit, I *was* somewhat stalking you but come on! I just want to *talk*!!" Reno was having a hard time keeping this girl in his grip. Soon she would be free, but now before he got to talk to her.
"What is there to talk about? I don't even know you! I've never met you before in my life! End of conversation!" if Reno was hurt he didn't show it.
"I want you to remember me!"
"Remember you? I *told* you! I don't even *know* you!"
"You do! You just don't remember! Won't you just listen to me?" Tifa felt a chill as she said that, making her struggle harder against him.
"Let me go! What is there to say?"
"You were Tifa Lockheart!" ::That sounds so familiar…::
"LET ME GO!" Tifa yelled, finally pulling herself from his grasp. She fell backwards, falling against somebody. Tifa looked up to see a familiar pair of eyes.
"Huh?" Reno looked up into a familiar face, not to mention eyes. "YOU-!"
A/N: The "ikari" and "kaji" both come from Evangelion. So bite me, i couldn't think of names... and blame AngelZephyr for the Evangelion reference. ;) R&R will always and forever be welcomed, come on guys! tell me what'cha think!!! Especially constructive critism!!! ^^ Hm... anything else? oh ya! Can anyone figure out who Tifa's older bro is? i'm sure you all know... it's not that hard, is it? i didn't think so. :p and just for reference (you've prolly figured this out already too) her oni-chan is in his senior year and is two years older then she is. that should help with the age thing altho i don't know if i messed up the ages 'cause i can't remember and i'm too lazy to go over my other chapters to see. so sue me! R&R please ppl!!!