Rival Schools

Chapter 3: Prestigious School of Aunuphelice

Oi! Didja guys miss me? Bet'cha did! Okay … I'm gonna start from where I left off before I went away on that one year (or is it two year?) hiatus – about that Final Retribution thing… absolutely no idea what that was supposed to be about but whatever. We'll live right? If I remember, I'll bring it back. Hee! =) Oh yeah, and about that storyline change – forget about it until I remember what it was supposed to be.

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"Whoa… that's a big ol' school." Tifa murmured as she proceeded to gawk at the seemingly mile wide school, built with a pearly-like substance, fine white with gold outline.

Reno nodded in agreement.

"Yeah. It's the Aunuphelice Conservatory for stooges." He grinned at the last emitted word, at which he earned a death-defying glare.

"You're a piece of chicken shit, you know that?"

"I love you too. The least you could do is act decent to an old friend." He retorted teasingly.

"Bah!"

She threw her hands up in exasperation and further advanced to the entrance of the building. Zack and Yuffie shrugged to one another and followed suit as Cloud did the same, with a faint trace of an amused smile on his lips.

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The secretary eyed the three new students carefully.

"Here are your schedules." She handed it out to them slowly.

"Thank you."

As they turned to leave, she stood up from her desk and hissed something low to the blonde boy of the group.

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"Professor Hojo." Yuffie mused as she examined her schedule. "He sounds insane."

Reno cocked a red brow skywards. "You base people's mentality by their names, I presume?"

"No," she snorted, "I say what I say because that's how I think, all right?"

He shrugged and tugged on Tifa's arm as he led her down the hall, showing the three relatives to their classroom. A fleeting pout passed its way onto Yuffie's lips as she looked at the way the two best friends connected. She sighed inaudibly as she wished she had a friend like that. Perhaps more if she was given the chance.

"Loosen on the grip, will ya?" Tifa's voice yanked Yuffie from her thoughts and this was accompanied with the jerk movements to pry her arm out from Reno's hands.

"When you don't cooperate with a Phelician, you get hurt." He warned her.

Tifa blinked. "A Pelican?"

"A Phelician, you bonehead!" He bellowed then rapped on her head with his knuckles. "Of course, you wouldn't know since all you have in there is air."

"I could swear you were talking about yourself."

Zack grinned.

"That's my sister!"

Yuffie huffed.

"You mean my cousin. She's related to me too, you know."

"Whatever. Doesn't make a difference."

"Does too!"

"Fine. You can claim her as your cousin or whatever. I was simply stating a fact."

"No… no! You're not making this any fun. You're supposed to retort with something smart! You know? You don't know the rules of the dozen game do you?"

"I don't care. You can have the claim of my sister."

Tifa made a face.

"You guys are sick."

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Author's Note: Okay, whatever. I got lazy. This chapter was just nonsense crap just to say that this story isn't quite dead yet, okay? As for the last few parts, I had no idea what I was talking about. I just wrote stuff. Yes, and this is a Reno x Yuffie and Cloud x Tifa. Yay! Okay, now review while I go type up my new story. ( Somebody stop me from writing already! I have too many unfinished stuff! )