Shadowfox: Stupid computer! *kicks computer* Why did you have to break down on me?! I was so close to finishing this chapter. But nooo… You have to break down, for reasons still unknown!!! Stupid fuzzied computer!!! *kicks computer some more*

Kardro: *sweatdrop* Shadow… you're only damaging the little box even more.

Shadow: Like I care!! *still kicking computer*

Kardro: Well… reporting to you live from Shadow's household backup PC, we are pleased to present to you the second chapter for this fanfic that involves at least three different languages! Shadowfox owns nothing except a broken computer. All characters involved in this are mostly owned by Squaresoft, except for Crystaleyes, who is just another fellow writer. Please enjoy!

Thank you for the 4 nice reviews. I laughed at the flamer for lack of better insults. :P

Ah… Japan.

Land of the rising sun…

Home of the world's best anime…

Torturer of innocent students…

And our dear Squall is no exception.

Clad in the school uniform for boys; which consisted of black pants, a black jacket, and a white dress shirt underneath, and carrying his black school bag, he headed out of his apartment to the nearby bus stop where his best friends were waiting for him.

"Squall-sama! Hurry up! You know the bus doesn't wait for anyone, even a class rep!"

Squall, upon hearing that, panicked a bit and began running to his friends, Tidus Miyaji and Yuffie Sato. When he did reach them, he started to look around frantically for the bus. 'Where is it?' he thought but was interrupted as Tidus' laughter met his ears. "Hah! I knew you'd fall for that again!" Tidus continued laughing until Yuffie elbowed him in between the ribs. "What is it with you and giving Squall a heart attack?" she snapped. Their dark-haired friend only sighed at them as Yuffie proceeded to poke Tidus in the sides.

Ever since they were children, they had been the best of friends. Tidus was blonde seventeen-year-old, just a few months younger than Squall (also 17), and wearing the same uniform. He was rather cheery and seemed to have a problem of getting himself into fights with people twice his size, but a good person nonetheless. Yuffie, fifteen-years-old and wearing the girl's uniform, which was made up of a white dress shirt with a blue scarf and a black skirt with high white stockings, was what one would call a tomboy and quite hyper, but was quite controlled. She was probably well known around the school for her uncanny ability of stealing people's stuff.

Squall yawned loudly, catching the other's attention. "I see you've had a hard time sleeping," Yuffie said, after she clapped in joy for successfully annoying Tidus, who also diverted his attention to the two.

"Hai," was his reply, before stifling another yawn. His friends didn't know about the dreams he was having lately, they wouldn't understand always.

"Oh… Hey, do you have the doujinshi? Remember the last time you forgot it?" Tidus asked. Squall simply nodded and brought out the school comic book to show the former before turning his attention to the other art contents in his bag.

Next to martial arts, he was an excellent artist and was currently trying to draw some of the people she saw in his dreams. He managed to finish pictures of a girl in a yellow dress, a spikey haired tattooed kid, a scar- faced boy wearing a gray trench coat, another boy in cowboyish clothes, and the girl in the blue jacket.

"Squall-sama! The bus is really here now! Hurry up, there's a lot of people like last time!" Yuffie's yell got his attention along with the rumble of the bus in the distance.

With that, he rummaged around in his pocket for the right amount yen to get on the bus and the other two were doing the same. When he did, his next thoughts involved how to get on the bus without being squashed to death by the massive amounts of people already present there…

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Gratefully stepping out of the bus, the sight of Hiyoshigaoka High School greeted Squall. Or actually… the school's only person whose hyper-ness rivaled Tidus'.

"Ohayou gozaimas, Class rep!" shouted a rather perky blonde girl with her hair in upwards ponytail an on the street curb. Beside her stood another blonde girl that with long hair and glasses and another blue and green eyed girl with short light brown hair, all wearing the same uniform as Yuffie. The girl with glasses rolled her eyes and sighed at the younger girl while the brown haired one giggled.

The girls Quistis Audet, the one in glasses, Rikku Martin, the hyper one, and the odd-eyed Yuna Narita were the school's only French students. Well… Yuna was half-French but that's not the point. Like Squall, Tidus, and Yuffie, they had known each other since they were children and looked and cared for each other like sisters, but there was also the fact that Yuna and Rikku were also cousins.

1 "Rikku-chan, a stoppé appeler le représentant de classe de Squall," Quistis said snippily in French. (Translation: Rikku-chan, quit calling Squall class rep.)

"Ce qui? Je peux l'appeler ce que je veux," Rikku said as she stared back incredulously. (Translation: What? I can call him what I want.)

Quistis shook her head and made her way to Squall and the others. "Ohayou gozaimas Squall-sama," she said while bowing. Yuna and Rikku then made their way over and did the same. In return Squall, Tidus and Yuffie also bowed while saying good morning to them in Japanese.

"So Squall-sama, is there a new kid coming today?" asked Yuna curiously, as the group of six started walking towards their school.

"Yeah, a girl named Rinoa Ito. I think she just moved here from somewhere in Hokkaido," Squall replied, "And 'cause I'm the class rep… I have show her around sometime today."

As if on cue, the PA system called forth, "Will Squall Uesugi please report to the main office. Again, will Squall Uesugi please come to the office."

"Hey, the bell's going to ring soon. Better go to class, you know how Miss. Oonishi is when someone is late," Squall said before dashing off.

"Hai, ja ne!" called out Tidus before his friend disappeared around the corner.

As Squall was running, he couldn't help but think, 'Rinoa, name seems kind of familiar…"

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The bell rang just as he entered the office, but he didn't have to worry for he had a good excuse. The secretary looked up from his desk and smiled. "Ohayou Squall. She's waiting over there," she said while mentioning to the other person in the room with her pen.

The girl looked rather plain in the school uniform. She had soft brown eyes and long black hair with highlighted streaks in it. She was slightly shorter than he was and had a thin complexion with light colored skin. She smiled.

"Ohayou, I'm Rinoa," she said and bowed deeply.

2 "Douzoyoroshiku, my name is Squall," he said in reply before he too bowed, "Looks like I've got to show you around, right?" (Translation of Douzoyoroshiku: Nice to meet you)

When Rinoa smiled again, Squall suddenly felt an odd feeling within himself. The smile was familiar and somehow comforting. He had a strange idea that this was the same girl in the blue jacket in his dreams 'What makes you think Rinoa is her?' he thought to himself and shook his head.

Rinoa tilted her head to one side. "You ok?" she asked.

"Oh, yeah. Come on, let's go," Squall replied when the put away his earlier thought and gave Rinoa her schedule.

With that, he led her out the office and began his tour. "As you saw before, the room we just in is the offi-," Squall started but was cut short by a loud voice on the PA system that resonated throughout the hallways.

"Ohayou gozaimas Hiyoshigaoka High! This is your lovely morning announcer Crystaleyes! Today is June 5th, 2002! I hope you're all studying, because exams are coming up very soon!"

Rinoa giggled. "Who's that?" she asked as the announcements continued. "Crystal, she always does the announcements that way," Squall replied and then continued on his tour.

Squall showed Rinoa the school facilities, the Gym, the track outside, the cafeteria and such. Rinoa was rather quiet and took in the surroundings with great interest. Soon they made it to their homeroom; it was an odd coincidence they had the same first class.

3 "Well… here's our first class, English 4 with Miss. Oonishi," Squall said nonchalantly. He was about to slide open the door when Rinoa put her hand on his shoulder.

"Hey, I have a question for you. No offence if it's kinda personal, but do you believe in past lives?" she said. Squall only turned around with a puzzled look on his face.

"Past lives?" he repeated. "Yeah, like, you've lived a life before this one," Rinoa explained, but then shook her head, "Never mind, it's a stupid question. Well… I want to meet Miss. Oonishi now. Come on," and with that she entered the room.

Squall merely stood there for a moment. His only thought was, 'What an odd girl.'

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The day passed by rather quickly and Squall found himself walking out the school at usual time in the afternoon. Tidus and Yuffie immediately met up with him outside.

"Hey Yuffie-chan, wasn't today strange?" asked Tidus. Yuffie nodded in agreement, "Yeah, Oonishi-sensei didn't give us a lot of homework like she always does." The teacher Miss. Oonishi that was mentioned so much that day, was a stoic raven-haired woman that was well known around the school for the piles to work she often gave to her students.

"Wonder if she's going to keep on doing that… Say Squall-sama, what do you think of that new Rinoa girl?" Yuffie inquired.

"Rinoa? Well… she's interesting," replied Squall. "So, do you think she's cute?" asked Tidus, sly grin on his face. Squall sweatdropped; "Err… well sorta. I'm mean she's pretty and all…"

Tidus didn't take it as an answer. Heartily whacking Squall's back he said, "Come on, we know you like her." Squall gave Tidus an evil eye, "Whatever… What makes you think I like her?" Tidus only shrugged, "Dunno, whenever you passed each other in the hallways, you always watched her. Not in a bad way I mean."

Yuffie hit Tidus in the back of the head, "Keeping saying things like that and people will think you're a pervert. Come on, we'd better hurry and get home." With that she walked down the street.

"Itai… She always does that to me…" Tidus grumbled but soon hurried after his friend. Squall followed in suit.

'So what if I like her or not, I still think she's a little odd. Past lives? Honestly,' he thought and turned his head to look at a store he was passing. But as the alley came in view, his eyes met a strange sight.

An odd ball of magenta light was just floating there and gave off little pink sparks every moment or so. Squall just stood there staring at it. "What the…?" he murmured to himself and then went to take a closer look at it.

The other two noticed their friend's absence and saw him walk into the alleyway. Yuffie called out in an irritated voice, "Squall-sama! The way home isn't that way! Hey!" When she didn't get a response, she gave an irritated sigh and went to see what had caught her older friend's interest. Tidus was also curious and followed her.

When they approached Squall, he was on his knees staring at the pink ball of light. "What is that?" Tidus asked no one in particular before he and Yuffie went to sit on either side of Squall for a closer inspection of their own.

Squall raised his hand and was about to touch it until Tidus stopped the action by saying, "Wait, we don't know what that thing is. You don't know what it could do." And continued to stare at it, too absorbed in their thoughts to notice another presence with them…

"KONICHIWA CLASS REP! HOW ARE YA?!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" the trio screamed and whirled around to find themselves staring at the girls Rikku, Quistis, Yuna, and the new girl Rinoa laughing hysterically.

"You should have seen the expressions on your faces!" Quistis gasped in between fits of laughter.

"We're sorry, but that was a once in a lifetime chance to see you guys like that," Yuna apologized while wiping tears of laughter from her eyes, "Besides, it was Rikku's idea."

Squall, Tidus, and Yuffie gave then dumbfounded stares before giving embarrassed blushes. "Oh… we're going to get you back for that…" Yuffie growled.

The girls soon managed to compose themselves and saw the light the others had been staring at so intently. "Hey… What's that?" Rikku wondered aloud and ran over to it. She then raised a finger to touch it.

"Rikku don't! We don't even know what it is!!!" Yuffie shouted. Too late.

The alley suddenly lit up in a bright white-magenta and began to suck in everything before it. The group yelped in fear as they were slowly dragged towards the light. One by one, they were each engulfed in it.

Before Squall was sucked in, he managed to hear Rinoa say the next strangest thing from her.

"We're going back…"

And then there was darkness.

I'm not Japanese or French. So if none of the things I say are right, then try to give me a little help. *Gets on knees* Please?!

Anyways, I'm sure you enjoyed it! Huh? This was worse than chapter one?! …Oh great… Well maybe you guys liked it! *turns around*

*Everyone's hair in this chapter is messed up*

Yuffie: Shadowfox! You just HAD to do that vacuum effect didn't you?!

Shadow: *sweatdrop* Um… I'll give you brushes or something later, but what did you think of this chapter?

Tidus: Where the heck are you getting these surnames?!

Rikku: How do I seem like I'm French?

Rinoa: I don't think any of your Japanese is right…

Shadow: *massive sweatdrop* …I'm getting the impression that my characters detest me. Anyways, crystaleyes, is your part in all this ok? I just want to know. Review please!