~Chapter Ten. Told by Fujin.

Raijin went back inside to clean up and I looked over at Seifer.

"Sorry, Seifer..." I muttered, staring ahead at the sunset.

"...Its fine."

"...Not just about the letter... Or kneeing you in the-"

"Save that."

"Mmm..."

"So, what is it that your sorry for?"

"Well, I'm sorry about that too... But also about my... wrist. I caused trouble."

"It's okay."

"Are sure? I mean, are you sure?" I'm gonna make an effort to talk normal around Seifer. I think it makes him feel more comfortable around me... But, what do I know, right?

"Of course. You just can't pull something like that on me ever again..."

"Will try not to..."

"Hey, Fujin... You shouldn't smoke on an empty stomach..."

"...I do often." I had the sudden urge to grab the cigarette out of his mouth, and put it out. I didn't want him to get cancer or anything... Seifer, don't kill me for this... but... I reached out and grabbed the cigarette out of his mouth and put it out with my fingertips, and tossed it down onto a bus.

"What the hell was that for?"

"You."

"Ah, hell, Fujin, don't get started on me with that shit."

"DIE. CANNOT. LEAD POSSE." I say, realizing if I said it regular, it would sound corny and stupid.

"But, you smoke too."

"LEAD POSSE. DO NOT."

"Still."

"...QUIT LATER. SMOKE NOW." ... Everything I say is just so fucking stupid anyway...

"...Whatever, look, you never told me... since we were so busy concocting a plan for the doctors as to how you "accidently" cut your wrist, what converstaion you heard that made you so upset..." ...Well, you see, the absolutley absurd and stupid idea, as I called it, worked. He told me to say that I was taking a bath (imagine, *me* taking a bath! Baths are stupid. They waste time, and water, which is why the SHOWER was invented), anyway, and was shaving my legs... (another completely absurd concept, because I hardly even grow hair on my legs, nevermind the stupid waste of time... spent shaving them.), and dropped the razor. I was looking for it in the "bubble-filled water" (A *bubble* bath, hah!), and supported myself with the bottom of the bottoms of my hands, and oops, there goes my wrist. Retarded doctors. They believed it.

"FORGET. HAPPENED SO QUICK." No... I can't let him know that he upset me to such an extent... But, wait, what does it matter, I'm not... in love.

"Yeah, right, Fujin. Tell me, cuz I can't remember what I said... And if I upset you so much... I'd really like to know..." Why do you care...?

"...HONEST. FORGET."

"...Maybe you'll remember later?"

"MAYBE. SEIFER?"

"Yeah?"

"SORCERESS KNIGHT. IS DREAM? IF STILL, WILL FOLLOW. AGAIN." ... I look over at him, and he looks back at me.

"...No, Fuu. I just wanna settle down with my posse. Not here... I want someplace nice... In Balamb, maybe..." ...Seifer... Are you telling the truth, or just trying to make me feel better? Feel better? Did I ever feel bad...? Well, around you?

"IS TRUE?"

"Yeah."

"I SEE. WELL, WILL DO WHATEVER TAKES. TO FULLFILL DREAM."

"What about you, Fuu, don't you have any dreams?"

"YOUR DREAM; OUR DREAM; POSSE'S DREAM." Hmm. What do you think of that, Seifer? Will we be a posse forever?

"That's right, Fujin... Thank you."

"WHAT FOR?"

"Reminding me... of what a posse means..." ...I smiled inwardly.

"...WAS NOTHING. GLAD TO HELP." So much for speaking normally around Seifer...

"Mm, Fujin, let's go inside."

"WILL BE. RIGHT IN." I needed to think some more... In the darkness.

"Then I'll stay with you." You will...? He didn't wait for me to approve (like I was going to disaprove anyway), and he just leaned against the railing. He stared off past the street lights, cars, buses and noises from Deling, but into a faraway distance, where all you could see were stars, and there was nothing around you. Nothing there... to hold you back, from completing your dream.

~~~

Later that night, after Seifer and Raijin had both fallen asleep (Raijin was sleeping on the chair with a blanket), I walked into the bathroom, and looked around. THERE. RAZOR... WILL DIE. I was glad it was a disposable razor, because Seifer would have killed me if it wasn't, but either way, I set it on the floor, and stepping on, applying all my weight, until I heard a distant plastic-being-demolished crunch, under my boot. Smiling contently, I picked the peices off of the floor, and threw them into the trash. I walked back into the bedroom, where Seifer slept contently (contently as you can on a bed like ours... er, cot like ours). I pulled off my boots, then my shirt, then my pants, until I was standing in my underwear. What a risk, I was taking... Oh, well, I took the same one everynight. I had just finished pulling on a pair of shorts, and was about to reach for my sweatshirt, when I heard something stir behind me. I turned, just like the idiot I am, and seen Seifer headed for the bathroom. I didn't move. Maybe he wouldn't notice me... Just as he reached for the knob ont he bathroom, just when I thought I was safe, I heard the half-asleep voice I did NOT want to hear.

"Nice... uh, bra." ...Perverted bastard. That's just the way he is. He couldn't discreetly go into the bathroom as if he didn't notice just to make me feel better, he just HAS to win... everything. I pulled on my sweatshirt, and went into bed, as he snickered. Yeah, really cute, Seifer. He came back in, and apologized for being the perverted, egoistic, not-funny-at-all! bastard he was, and went to sleep (well, no, he actually just patted my leg and said "good night," but same thing, right? ...) wishful thinking.

I woke up at three thirty AM, sighing at the fact I had to go to work, and wake up to Seifer head on my chest, and arm in my face, which is not comfortable AT ALL! Ahem, anyway, I attempted to wake him.

"SEIFER. WAKE."

"Ah..."

"SEIFER, PAIN. CAUSE."

"...Who?"

"SEIFER! CAUSE PAIN. ON FUJIN!"

"Tha's nice..." ...

"DAMMIT! WAKE!" I think *he* should sleep on the floor.

"What the...? Oh, Fuu! Sorry." Seifer muttered, sitting up.

"NEED LEARN. HOW SLEEP. WORK. MUST GO."

"Oh, yeah, dammit... And I sleep fine." ...

"LAY ON TOP OF. CRUSH. CAUSE PAIN."

"Ya could always sleep on the floor, or with Raijin on that chair..." ...

"RAIJIN. SNORE. RAIJIN HUG. RAIJIN PAIN IN ASS."

"Hahahah. You've got yourself a point. But, still, I don't sleep bad."

"SLEPT FINE IN HOTEL. COT, PERHAPS?"

"Cot, heheh. Yeah."

~~~

After an uneventful day in work, (yeah, the drunkards treat you much better at this bar), I went home to bread, and steak. AGAIN.

"SEIFER, HOME?" I asked Raijin, grabbing a peice of bread off of the table.

"Hey, don't eat without him, ya know?! And, no, he didn't come home yet..." I was worried. Why? Seifer can handle himself... But with that sorceress running around, I don't know... Raijin and I "ate," I didn't eat much though. Afterwards, I went out onto the balcony, but it was too cloudy for a sunset... Sighing, I walked back inside, and seen that Raijin had fallen asleep to watching "Fishing Today," and so I went into the bedroom, and pulled off my clothes, and put a on a warm pair of baggy black pants, along with a blue sleeveless shirt. I had no intention of sleeping until Seifer was home, so I just sat on the bed, waiting.

"Fucking hell..." ...Seifer? I stood up and seen Seifer walk in the door.

"WORK LATE. WHY?" I ask.

"The fucking sorceress was 'supposed to attack' the fucking general, so she could take over the fucking army, but nothing fucking happened, but they had us running circles around his fucking mansion. I'm so fucking tired." ...Hm.

"I SEE. SHOULD GO. REST. SLEEP."

"Yeah..." He grabbed a peice of bread off the table, and walked into the bedroom, shutting the door behind him. Sighing, I shut off the lamp, and walked in after Seifer, who was in bed. I don't think he was sleeping though. I got into bed, and had just started to drift of, when I heard a noise...

"The fuck?" Seifer mumbled from from next to me.

"Ahh! Help, ya know?!" ...Grabbing our weapons, we ran out into the living room, Raijin was gone, a letter left in his place. Sorceress' seal- again.

"Aw, fuck..." He opened it, and looked at it.

"WHAT?"

"...The sorceress has got Raijin. She's coming back here... after she puts him in the prison. There are soliders keeping watch of things downstairs so we don't leave... We're gonna have to jump." ...Wha?

"JUMP, OFF BALCONY?!"

"...Yep!" We walked foward, and I peered down into the empty streets.

"NO! CANNOT! IS SUICIDE."

"So?"

"SEIFER!" I glanced down at our bare feet.

"Come on." He stood up on the railing. No, Seifer, you're insane! He jumped.

"Seifer!" ... He landed on his feet, and crouched down for a second to regain composure from the jump/fall.

"Toss your shuriken down."

"No!"

"Do it! They're coming." ...Fuck. I tossed it down and he dodged it, almost hitting him.

"Dammit, Fujin..." He muttered.

"CANNOT. GO WITHOUT... WILL BE FINE."

"...Fujin!" I stood up on the railing. Dammit. I'm gonna fall, and even if I land on my feet (which isn't likely), they'll spilt open or something...! ...They aren't rough like yours... Dammit... Dammit. Fuck, here I go. I stepped off, and immediately fell, the ground came quickly, but then, about six inches from hitting the ground, I stopped. What the hell?

"Float." Seifer muttered, handing me my shuriken. And so, we ran. Straight out of Deling. Out onto the empty feilds surrounding.

"RAIJIN. WHERE?"

"He's in prison by now."

"WHAT DO?"

"Well, uh, we gotta get him out, but we also gotta have a plan." ...Mhm.

"LIKE WHAT?"

"I dunno, but we gotta get further away from the city." So, we ran some more. The cold, wet grass was slippery under my bare feet, and I wondered what lay ahead of us in the darkness. I was sure that I had cut up my feet on stray rocks- but that was fine. It didn't matter.

"SEIFER. WHERE GOING?"

"Winhill. We'll stay there, and devise a plan. Then, we'll..." He stopped to take a breath. "...Go to the prison, rescue Raijin, and defeat the sorceress. Howzat sound?"

"FINE. WILL WORK."

"Yeah, if we can run across the whole friggin' continent."

"WILL WORK."

~~~

"SEIFER. WAIT. CANNOT. GO FURTHER..." I say, panting, sitting on the wet grass. We've been running for about an hour, and are still not anywhere near anything.

"Huh?" He stops, and turns, then walks back toward me, breathing heavily.

"FEET HURT. FEET CUT. OUT OF AIR." Seifer crouches beside me and sighs.

"I know, but we're almost there."

"SAID. THIRTY MINUTES AGO. ARE NOT THERE."

"Come on, we need to save Raijin!" He says offering me a hand up.

"NEED CIGARETTE..." I say, grabbing his hand and standing up.

"SEIFER. FEET HURT." I complain, trying to keep up with him.

"...Yeah, well, I'm the one who didn't use float."

"COULD HAVE!"

"...Nah, I only had one." ...You used it on me?! Aww, Seifer. I pushed the cute little "Seifer's bein' a gentleman" thoughts out of my head, and continued running. We passed the prison, and went on to Winhill.

"I told ya we were almost there."

"...FEET HURT."

"Tch, come on."