Disclaimer: I dun own FF8! I only own my original chars! So dun sue plz!

A/N: WOW! 2 months since I've written the first chap! So sorry everyone! Anyways, I've finally found time this weekend to write some stuff. The first POV is of my own char, Nikki, just so none of you get confused at the beginning of this chap. This is really just an intro to Nikki and her weirdo friends so its not a REAL chapter, ya kno? I'll probably get this chapter done tonight and half of the next tomorrow. Sorry again!



Underneath it All Chapter 2: Purple, Slanted Eyes: Witch Baby ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

A loud buzzing noise erupted from behind my head. I lazily reached back behind me and felt my way around for the black alarm clock. I found it and raised it closely to my face, since I couldn't see because I didn't have my contacts in and I still had sleepy eyes. The bright, neon numbers read "8:45". Omigosh! I quickly darted out of bed and ran to the bathroom. I took off my clothes, turned on the shower, and jumped in.... Eeep! I flew against the shower wall. It was WAY too cold! After my cold shower, I wrapped my self in a towel and when to my dresser. I opened the bottom drawer and pulled out a black bra and underwear, a black Hurley ® shirt and black baggy pants. I quickly got dressed, put on my sneakers and bolted out of the door.

I ran down the hallways, not paying attention to the blurred images in front of me, I thought I still had morning gunk in my eyes. I rubbed her eyes while running, but no matter how hard I rubbed the blurry images wouldn't go away. 'Dammit! I forgot my contacts again! That's the 3rd time this week! And it only Wednesday!' I thought as I continued racing down the corridors. After about 10 minutes of running, I finally reached the lobby. I squinted my eyes and looked around. I saw a blob like thing near the fountain. That must be them. I hurried over there.

I reached my friends that had been waiting for me at the fountain; I doubled over trying to catch my breath. "Geez, Witch Baby. Can you be anymore late?" A tall, brown haired girl with an English accent asked, standing over me glancing at her watch. "S-Shut.up.. Delta." I said, in between breaths. "Haha. Nice hair, Witch Baby!" a short, black haired girl with long pigtails giggled, handing me a brush. "You look like a Theresa ® doll on crack!" "Come on, Prima. My hair doesn't look that bad!" I argued, looking down on her. "Oh yea? Go look for yourself." She pointed to the fountain. I leaned my head over the railing to look at my reflection. Ugh.. She was right. I did look horrible. I put my hands on my head. My black hair was matted with tons of tangles and the bags underneath my eyes did not go well against my pale skin. Now that I mention it, there was one other feature of mine that didn't go well with anything either, my slanted purple eyes. I hated them! Why did I have to be half-Chinese and half- Japanese?! Why?! I sighed and took the brush from Prima's small hand. I violently brushed my hair, making it staticy.

After I had smoothed out all of the tangles, I patted it down so that there would be less static. I looked over the railing at my reflection again. I saw myself as I did everyday in this stupid school: shoulder blade length hair, pale skin, and dark bags under my purple eyes. I saw the girl that everybody thought was perfect. The girl that she saw as hideous. A cold splash of water on my face interrupted my thoughts. I shrieked and put my hands up to my face to block any more water that may come at me. A loud, deep laugh followed soon after that, and I knew exactly who it was. I took my hands away from my face and looked at the person. "Hahahaha! You better wipe that water outta your face, eh Nikki?" The boy was 6" 2' tall, spiky blonde hair, (A/N: No, this is not Zell!) and an English accent. I wiped the water off with my arm and curled my hands into fists. "Arashi! That's not funny!" I yelled. He raised his hand up. "Sorry! Sorry! Dun go all "Mommy Dearest" in me now! (a/n: for some strange reason, that's all my family talks about now.hmm!)" "Geez! You guys are still talking about that?" Delta asked. "Grrr, Arashi's the one that always brings it up!" I said, pointing a finger in his direction. "Well, yea dats true but I'm not the one that freaks out over a lil' water!" he yelled. "Boy, don't make me get out the wire hangers!" He scowled "You would dare." He said in a low whisper. "Watch me!"

Arashi and I always had fights like this but we never meant any of the stuff we said. But, if you wanna see REAL arguing you should see me go at it with that conniving, sly, sneaky, pathetic, snobby, little whore.. "Oh, Nina Bruja!" a shrill Mexican voice filled the air as a tall, tanned skinned, fake blonde haired, slender girl walked up to me. ".Sae. I was just thinking of you." I smirked. "Oh, isn't that sweet, Brujita!" Sae said, raising her hand to her face. I sighed. "Look Sae, if you don't mind, me, Delta, Prima, and Arashi are waiting for the SeeDs from Balamb to arrive, so can you please just tell me what you want?" She scowled, her red lips twisted into an ugly sneer. "As a matter of fact, I do mind, Lil' Brujita!" She lunged her head forward; mere inches away from my face "If fact, I mind SO much that when the SeeDs get here you and I will have a freestyle battle, so that everyone can see what a superior warrior I am!" "Wait a minute," I said, "what are you thinking Sae? A battle in front of the SeeDs?! Hel-lo! Anyone home in that brain of yours? We are trying to get them to help Esthar in case of an emergency enemy attack otherwise. WE'RE TOAST!!!" Sae put hand on her hip. "Yea, I know. But, I hear they're gonna pick the strongest warriors from our school, Esthar International A.N.G.E.L. University, to fight with them." She smiled a wicked smile and ran her tongue on her lips. "And let me tell you, Nagashima. You're going DOWN!" She then threw her head back and laughed her incredibly annoying laugh, turned around and marched off. God, how I hated it here! But I guess that's my life. Beggars really can't be choosers. This was my life. The life of Nikki Mikan Nagashima.







Oh.. my.. GOD THIS CHAP SUCKED!!! Here's the reason why it ended up so crappy: I wrote the first half earlier this evening then my sisters and I when to this jam session and stayed there for like 3 hours. I was really tired so we went home, I remembered I had to finish this, so I really rushed at the end. Sorry it sucked! I promise the next will be better!

--Witch Baby 10/5/02