~Chapter One~

Edea picked up Fujin and carried inside the big stone house.  There she tended to the girls wounds, fed her, and finally let her sleep.  Fujin was astonished at the kindness Edea was showing her.  She had been used to the darkness and the ruthlessness of home now here with Edea she found a whole new type of world.

Her first morning at the orphanage she woke to sunlight and the pleasant sound of children's voices.  She slowly eased herself out of bed and put on the clothes Edea gave her, the other clothes she had were ripped and strange to this place.  After getting dressed she made her way downstairs and into what seemed to be the living area.  At least fifteen pairs of eyes stared at her when she opened the door.  Matron went over to her and introduced her to the rest of the kids.  Some smiled and waved others did nothing.  Matron told her to take a seat next to some boy with blond hair she did as she was told quickly.  She did everything unusually fast because in her mother's house if you didn't she punished you.  Sitting down next to him Fujin gave him a smile. 

He smiled back and said, "My name's Seifer." 

"HELLO"

"Why are you talking funny like that?" a boy that sat on the other side of Seifer asked.  Seifer elbowed him.

"DUNNO"

"This is Raijin."

"OKAY" Fujin smiled shyly at Raijin now.

Seifer laughed and said, "Do you wanna come play with us?  We're gonna play war with the others."  He pointed to some other children standing by the doorway,

"YES"

A few hours at the orphanage had begun to repair all the damage of Fujin's past.  She was already starting to forget about her mother.  Playing war now with some kids that had been introduced as Selphie, Irvine, Zell, Quistis, and a few others she was for the first time happy.

"OW" Fujin said when Seifer poked her.

"Heh looks like you got sunburn pretty bad." Seifer laughed.

"SUNBURN?" Fujin always had pale skin and didn't know what sunburn was.

"You know when you're in the sun too long you get all pink like you are now.  Sunburn you must have had it before." This girl confused Seifer.

"I'll take you to Matron she'll help you out.  She has this aloe stuff ya know?" Raijin butted in.

"FINE"

Similar odd things Fujin did all day.  Seifer thought she was funny and she puzzled Raijin.  To them not knowing what flowers and trees were was strange.  At home there were no things like that only darkness and shadows.

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Over the short time Fujin had been at Edea's she had started to realize that children were always being taken away and more were always coming in.  This bothered her.  She was worried that she would be separated from her new friends.  Seifer explained to her that the ones that left had been adopted and that she too might get adopted one day.  Now every time a family came to adopt a child she stayed close to Seifer making sure he didn't go.  "DON'T GO," she said to him once when a family might have wanted to adopt him.  "No one ever picks me don't worry I'll still be here I'll stay with you.  Me you and Raijin were posse now.  Nobody can separate us."  "GOOD"

They remained at the orphanage.  Seifer was right nobody wanted to take them.  They were the freaky silver haired girl, the loud boy that always ended sentences with "ya know", and the bad boy.  They stuck together even after Seifer went to Balamb Garden following him and each taking up weapons of their own.

One day three years after they came to the Garden Fujin realized her love for Seifer.  Love was thing she had never had before but with her past totally forgotten and her friends around her she had learned what is was.  She was training with a boy she didn't really like and he hated her.  There was an "accident".  She moved in to slash him with her shuriken but instead he sliced her eye.  A very angry Seifer took her to infirmary.  Her left eye was completely useless and she was forced to wear a patch over it.  Seifer after making sure she was safe in her room went after the boy that did it to her.  He found him and beat him up badly.  That was when Fujin decided two things: One was she was going to get tough so she wouldn't need Seifer to beat her enemies for her and two was that she loved Seifer.