Midgar High [Chapter 1] Midgar High
Chapter 1 : Moving in

A grinning figure observed the ongoing bustle and activity around her, as streams of students from all walks of life strolled, ran, stumbled, shuffled through the massive rusting iron gates to flow and join the milling mass that was forming on the big field. She blew a wisp of dark chocolate hair from her misty eyes that sometimes flickered to a light sandy colour in the sunlight. As she started swinging her legs nonchalantly from her hidden perch on the aged leafy oak, she sighed, in boredom.

How on earth am I going to survive even a term when I'm bored out of my skull before school has even officially started? She pondered gloomily as she cursed her stubborn father for sending her here, she was convinced that she could study equally well in their quaint reclusive hometown. But nooooooooo… father hears the very first gossip from a passing traveller about WONDERFUL Midgar High and here I am, just my freaking luck. I'm a mature, no wait, old enough to make decisions for myself, why do I have to obey the old man's orders. She vented all her anger with a solid kick at the thick trunk of the tree, and her face lit up with twisted happy glee as acorns fell in abandon to hit any passerby below. Thankfully, this was a deserted area, except for one poor unfortunate soul.

"Who the heck is up there! What ever did I do to you bastard? " shouted a vulgar sloppily dressed youth, his head of flaming red hair shot up to glare at his unseen attacker amidst the dark green foliage.

She paused, the mid-formed apology fell from her lips in a forgotten whisper and died.

She hated punks.

Most of all, she hated rude and crude punks.

She also hated the colour of red.

She hated a lot of things, but that is beside the point.

She very calmly gathered up an armload of acorns that had fallen on the broad trunk beside her, her misty eyes hardening to a steel cold grey as she aimed carefully before letting lose the barrage.

"HELL! What do you-" he never got to finish his sentence as the ammunition hit him straight in the face and golden stars burst in front of his eyes. She calmly peered down at her unconscious chosen target and an evil twisted grin spread like the morning sun from one end, to the other. She was feeling much better already, there was nothing better than doing a wicked deed early in the morning.

Her anger was also easily sated.


"Yuffie Kisaragi?" asked the obese but commanding principal as he peered up from a folder with his intense ocean-blue dots for eyes. She responded with her trademark carefree grin, taking her mind of from her temporary surveillance of his immaculately clean office. It was a ninja habit to immediately take in your surroundings the moment you were shoved into a situation.

Principal Shinra folded and entwined his fingers before him with a slow deliberate movement. His quick mind briefly arranging what he would tell this new student.

"From your previous records back in Wutai High, you were… an exceptional student, with the ability to excel in most of your subjects." He raised an eyebrow, "especially the fighting and ninja training subjects." Yuffie's grin widened and her eyes glittered with pride, but she remained silent for she knew her teachers must have included aspects of her character, or faults, you might say.

"However, they have also highlighted the fact that you're rather…" he paused and settled on a tactical term, "… playful and was usually in the centre when the school was disrupted rather abruptly." He started tapping his fingers subconsciously. Her golden-tinged eyes darted to his movement and waited patiently. He put down his papers, tidying them into a neat pile and lay them aside.

"First off, I'm proud to be the one to welcome you to Midgar High and hope you'll enjoy your stay here," A brief warmth flickered in his eyes as he smiled at her. "I regret to inform you that from the letter your father sent me, the school isn't as perfect as he deemed it to be. But we do strive to attain that perfection, to provide our students with a healthy and most suitable learning and growing up environment. We're also extremely open-minded and always welcome new and creative ideas." Again, that brief warmth touched his cold blue eyes and Yuffie found herself liking this professional man.

"However, that doesn't mean that we don't have our regulations and rules that all students must abide." He seemed to have stressed that last part. "Therefore, I hope that you'll try your best to settle in, get to know our system, and do your best to stay out of our 'delinquents' record." Yuffie sighed and nodded, her bangs falling over her face.

"But I'm sure we won't have any… too much trouble with you." He smiled and extended a huge hand towards her. Yuffie looked up and shook his hand warmly with twinkling eyes.

"Once again, welcome to Midgar High."


The moment Yuffie closed the heavy wooden door of the Principal's office she felt someone grabbing her arm excitedly and looked up to meet clear shimmering emeralds set in an angelic face.

"SO? How was it cuss?"

Yuffie giggled, "I haven't heard you call me that in a long time." Aeris smiled but her eyes still shone with concern, to which Yuffie rolled her eyes.

"Geez… what did you think he was going to do to me? I AM the great Yuffie Kisaragi, youngest and smartest top range ninja in Wutai High. I like him, everything went just fine." Aeris smiled happily and gave her cousin a big hug, ignoring her cousin's huge inflated ego.

"That's great! Come on! I'll take you to your first class, then we'll meet for lunch and I can show you around the place!" Aeris rushed on excitedly as she dragged her cousin down the aisle.


He had a splitting headache.

He concluded that was what forced him from the dark oblivion that he had happily settled into. He slowly flickered his clear sapphire eyes open and studied the cream coloured ceiling above him. Cream. Yuck, he hated that colour.

Smooth silky strands of straw-coloured hair moved into view and eyes of matching colour stared into his.

"How are you feeling, bro?"

"I've seen better, felt worse. I'll live."

"OH wow, like that's very comforting."

"Hey, I ain't about to die yet."

"I know, that's why I was so disappointed," she grinned at his furious glare. She loved irritating her brother when he was in no position to retaliate. They shared an interesting relationship.

"So, what hit me El?" She stuck her tongue out at him, he knew how she hated that nickname.

"How would I know Re?" She loved the sweet taste of victory as he coughed at the disgusting nickname which she often came up with. "When I found you at your usual spot, you were… out."

Reno frowned in concentration then he growled angrily as he remembered how he had been viciously attacked by some unknown entity. He gingerly touched his face and winced at the pain when he prodded the bumps and imagined how he must look.

"Re?" He looked up from his temporary self-pitying.

"You look like a million bucks," she stated with a straight face.

"Thanks, thanks a lot." He mumbled sarcastically.

"No problem, always glad to help," she smiled quietly.


Aeris flicked back her long hazelnut braid and stretched back languidly and smiled in memory at her adorable cousin as she dragged her down the hallways. Yuffie's first lesson was however, biology, highly important and she definitely wanted her cousin to get on the right foot with the biology teacher. Her lips pursed slightly, the teacher certainly was different and extremely bold in her dressing, but Aeris did not like to judge people, she hardly did, which added to her high popularity. As she flipped Yuffie's subjects time schedule, something clicked in her mind. Her eyes flicked up and saw their wise and sagely history teacher, Bugenhagen, was busily writing on the board. She quickly tapped her classmate.

"Say Tseng! Can you do me a favour?" She whispered, batting her delicate eyelashes subconsciously. The elite head of the Turks nodded and a rare smile touched the corner of his usually serious eyes, he had been having a slight crush on this angelic beauty for a long while now. Aeris grinned happily at his consent.

"I've noticed that one member of your group is in a lot of my cousin's classes." Tseng raised an eyebrow quietly.

"She just arrived today." Aeris explained quietly and Tseng automatically added that new found information to the organised data base in his brain.

"Sure thing, I'll ask… whoever it is to take care of your cousin. What's her name by the way?"

"Yuffie. Yuffie Kisaragi."

"Hmmmm… sounds foreign."

"She's from Wutai."

"You're from Wutai? That's surprising." Aeris shook her head quickly.

"We're distantly related, cousins, thrice-removed, but I'm pretty close to her."

"… …" Tseng made it a point to check on this new girl, he might even be able to find something about Aeris from her, he grinned quietly, something he rarely indulged in before whispering, "Do you have her timetable with you? I have to check which Turk it is…" His eyes scanned the paper that Aeris passed to him.

"Oh." He stated quietly.

"What? Who is it? I only have a slight impression that this timetable looks familiar," Aeris flickered her worried eyes over to him.

"The Turk you are referring to is … Reno. Do you STILL want him to look after her?" A surprised and thoughtful look crossed her face as she settled back in her chair quietly.

"Well… he certainly has a reputation but so does my cousin anyway."

"Troublemaker?"

"Let's just say she gets into little problems now and then." She shrugged and grinned, "I'd feel a lot better if I knew someone was looking out for her and helping her out now and then. Yep, please ask him for me?"

"No problem, but don't say I didn't warn you…"

"Miss Gainsborough!" Aeris jumped slightly and quickly turned her attention to their bobbing teacher who was peering at her with a slight frown.

"If you have so much willpower to be able to converse so happily then maybe you could share with us your views on the current political problem we're discussing." Aeris blushed hotly and stared at her history book in blank incomprehension.

"Page 62. Paragraph 3." Tseng whispered so inaudibly, only she heard it. Aeris mouthed a quick thanks and her green velvet eyes shone with quick gratitude before she turned her attention to her book.


The handsome delinquent paused at the corridor mirror and his smooth hands reached up and touched his slightly swollen face. The bumps had subsided and he did not look as bad as he had feared, but traces of his mishap were still written there as clear as day for any passer-by to notice. He sighed but was still grateful for the Restore Materia that his sister had used to erase half of the traces of his hit. In fact, he was just in time for the second class. His face lit up temporarily but fell as he remembered that today they had two whole periods of Biology. He thrust his hands into his coat pockets dejectedly before heading down the corridor to the looming classroom. His fingers brushed across a piece of paper and he remembered Tseng's orders to look after the new girl. He grinned, that just might be the one good thing that would happen to him today if she looked really hot.

He knocked and opened the door with a more carefree and light spirit.

The Biology teacher stopped in mid-sentence and turned to face one of the most handsome students on the campus. She swung off her perch on the table and swiftly made her way to him.

Ugh… she's wearing that sultry red high-slit dress. Even that is too revealing for my taste. Reno thought in disgust but kept his face impassive and nonchalant as he stood respectfully in the doorway.

"I'm sorry for being late Miss Keifcan, I met with a slight mishap," he apologized in his deep-throated tenor voice, keeping his head slightly bowed.

"Tsk tsk… since when did you get so careless? And really… call me Scarlet, I've told you a thousand times not to be so… formal," Scarlet twirled round her silky blonde wisps and her tone had turned slightly breathy. Reno tried not to wince and noticed some classmates rolling their eyes in disgust with their flirtatious Biology teacher.

"May I go back to my seat?" he asked respectfully and watched Scarlet pout unhappily before waving her hand to dismiss him to which he gratefully strode quickly to his seat, to which he settled into with undignified grace but with the style that captured the hearts of many on the campus.
"Hey punk, how's your face?" Reno's head swung round to meet a new fresh face, something immediately clicked into his mind and he ignored her insulting reference, he would clear that up later.

"Miss Kisaragi?" Yuffie blinked in shock but recovered quickly, her misty eyes becoming calculating slits.

"How did you know?" Reno smiled mysteriously and leaned back on his chair.

"A little bird told me." Yuffie rolled her eyes, "Oh hardy har har…. That's SO hilarious."

"Well Miss Sarcastic, I've been given orders to take care of you, I do believe your cousin was the one who asked my leader for that favour." Reno noted that her eyes shifted once again to a cold wintry grey and she replied in a tone to match. "I don't need help," she replied curtly.

"Hey, I'm just following orders." Yuffie snorted derisively. Reno paused and noted that Scarlet had noticed their whispered conversation, he flipped open his book quickly and whispered quietly, "Talk to you later."

"By the way," she smiled sweetly and continued in a fake sugary tone, "I hope that I didn't hit you too hard," before returning to her own textbook. Her eyes lit up with victorious glee when she glanced back and caught his shocked expression, quickly changing to a dangerous glare to which he vented by flipping the pages so angrily, she thought they would tear.

Point 1. Victory is sweet. She grinned sweetly and hummed to herself.


Yuffie stretched herself unceremoniously and blinked the sleep out of her eyes as the recess bell rang. To her, it was the most heavenly sound around. A pair of eyes bored into her back and she lazily leaned back to see glaring aquamarine orbs. She smiled sweetly and fluttered her eyelids, she knew at this moment in time, he would give anything to see her get hit over by a truck but as fate had it, he was supposed to look after her.

Brat. Twerp, no... brat fits her more, or maybe...Flat, immature, irritant. BRAT!!! He fumed silently and cursed her a dozen times. In his imagination, he was a mighty king forcing her to stuff acorns into her skinny frame. Mr Reno Trevale could be extremely petty, when he felt like it.

"YUFF-KINS!" Yuffie cringed. NO! No! Ugh… NOT that nickname.

"Kis-dearest!!!" I want to dig a big GIGANTIC hole in the ground…

Her eyes swerved over to the redhead who was shaking and doubled over with laughter. He gasped for breath and managed to shout, "Miss K-Kissy d-darlin-ng! Y-y-your C-cousin ca-a-alls" before breaking out in helpless deep-throated chuckles. Yuffie growled dangerously.

"You're enjoying this aren't you?" She asked, voice dripping with venom as she bit her lip.

Reno shook his head quickly, still doubled over with a laughing stitch. Meanwhile, Aeris had gotten bored just waiting outside the lecture theatre and had bounded in and grabbed her cousin happily, oblivious to Yuffie's embarrassment.

"Don't just stand there! I've got LOTS to show you before the bell rings again!" Aeris gushed, her emerald eyes sparkling. "OH! Mr Trevale! Thank you for taking care of her!"

"N-no p-problem. Miss Kiss----s----s," he was hit by another laughing fit and paused in mid-sentence. Unable to withstand the embarrassment any longer, Yuffie stomped out of the classroom, cheeks burning and seething with barely contained rage.

After a long while, Reno wiped his eyes tiredly and grinned viciously. Maybe things were not as one-sided as they seemed. He smoothly rose from his chair and strolled to the canteen with a casual debonair grace that stole many hearts. His eyes shimmered like the ocean.

It was payback time and Reno loved payback time.