Final Fantasy VIII
Whenever You Need Me

Disclaimer: Me no own Final Fantasy VIII!

Author's Notes: Childhood chapter! Yaaay!

Chapter 5: Little Knight
"Hyah! Hyah!"

"Seify, what are yoo doin'?" asked a voice.

Seify stopped swinging his gunblade (actually, it was a stick, but kids can dream!) and turned around. "I'm pwacticing to be a knight, Quisty!" he said proudly. "I'm-a be a gweat knight, all powerful and unbeatable, like Waguna Woire in that movie Matwyn showed us!"

Quisty giggled. "Waguna Woire wasn't vewy powerful against that Wed Dwagon!"

(Bunny: You all remember that movie Laguna was in, right? Man, I really loved that part of the game; it was hilarious.)

Seify smirked. "Yeah, well, I'll be even better than Waguna! I won't be surprised by anything!"

Quisty blinked. "Weally?"

"Weally."

"BOO!"

"Waaaaah!"

Seify tumbled onto the grass on his butt, and Quisty started laughing. "Yoo were surprised by THAT!"

Seify jumped to his feet. "Not funny!" he shouted, fuming.

"Yoo looked weally scared!" Quisty noted. "A knight should be weady for anything!"

"How do YOO know so much about knights?" Seify asked.

Quisty giggled. "We watched the same movie, wemember?"

Seify dropped his "gunblade" and crossed his arms. "I'll be the best, yoo watch," he said. "I'll be the famous Seifer Almasy, the gweatest knight in the whole wide world!"

"Yeah, wight!"

"Weally!" Seify insisted. He picked up his stick again and brought it down onto the grass. "All I need is a lady to pwotect. Maybe Sis Elle, or Matwyn!" He held the stick in both hands and looked at Quisty. "How 'bout yoo, Quisty?"

Quisty blinked. "Me? Being pwotected? By yoo?"

Seify nodded. "Sure, why not? I'll be your gweatest warrior!"

Quisty put her hands on her hips. "My ONLY warrior, yoo mean."

"Yoo won't need anyone else!" Seify raised his "gunblade". "Yoo have me!"

Quisty stared at him. "Yoo're weally sewious about being wike Waguna?"

Seify nodded seriously. "Vewy."

The little blonde girl stared at her friend for a few more moments before giggling. "Otay!"

Seify blinked. "Otay what?"

"I want a knight, Seify! Be my knight, pwetty pwease?"

"Yea! Alwight, Quisty!" Seify dropped down on one knee in front of Quisty. "I've seen people do this in the movies." He handed her the stick. "Yoo have to pwonounce that I'm-a be your knight. Yoo know what to say?"

"I'll make it up!"

"But make it weally good, okay?"

"Don't be bossy, Seify!"

"Alwight, alwight…!" Seify bowed his head.

Quisty put the stick on his shoulder. "Seify, the greatest warrior in the whole wide world, I hereby pwonounce yoo as MY knight!" Then she whacked him on the head.

"OWWWWWWWW! What'cha do that for, Quisty?!"

Quisty giggled. "I thought it'd be funny."

Rubbing his head, Seify glared up at her. "Okay, that's it, Quisty, yoo better wun!"

Quisty squealed and dropped the stick. "Nuh-uh, nuh-uh, Seify! My knight would never twy and hurt me!"

"My lady wouldn't whack me on the head! Wun!"

Shrieking, Quisty turned around and sprinted for the Red Valley. "Seify, yoo meanie! Yoo big meanie!"

Seify ran after her. "Yoo were the one that whacked me on the head!"

He tackled her to the ground. "Now…pwepare!"

Quisty looked up at him. "For what?"

Seify grinned evilly. "My Limit Bweak…TICKLE ATTACK!!!"

"AAAAHHHH! NO, SEIFY, N-NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

"TICKLE ATTAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!"

~Bunny's Corner~
Bunny: Now you know who Seify-darling first protected as a knight! And it wasn't Edea!

Seify: (waving his "gunblade") Who's Winoa?

Bunny: (starry-eyed) Oooh, you are just the cutest lil guy, aren't you?!

Seifer: (sweatdropping; whispering to Bunny) Uh, Bunny, you know that's a younger me, right?

Bunny: (STILL starry-eyed) Of course! And you're very kawaii, too, Seifer-darling!

Seifer: (sweatdropping even more) Gaah! Uh, okay…

Bunny: Awww, you two Seifers are SO sugoi!!

Seify: (looking at Seifer) Hey! Yoo look wike me!

Bunny: That's because that man IS--

Seifer: (clapping a hand over Bunny's mouth) Bunny! You know we're not supposed to tell the past about their future!

Seify: (question mark above the head, anime-style) Huh?

Bunny: Ahhh, kawaii desu!!!! Excuse me, ppl, while I huggle these two to death. Don't forget to review! (huggles both Seify and Seifer)

Seify: (thinking) Weird lady…

Seifer: (thinking) Oh, Hyne…!