Finally another Fujin chapter right?  I'm sorry I just couldn't think of anything to write for her.  I have ideas for later but no ideas to get to the other ideas.  So hard but we love Fujin.  She rocks and all.  I know that barely anything has to with Ultimecia in the chapter but all that stuff will come later.  I thought Fujin deserved a childhood. All of them are about 11 or 12 in this chapter.

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~Chapter Two~

The loud sound of slashing filled the air.  Fujin was demolishing a practice dummy with her shuriken.  Her slashes got faster and faster as she continued.  Finally she stopped.  The sudden quietness of the room caused Seifer to look up from the book he was reading.  Despite how tough Seifer looked to others Fujin knew different.  She knew what that old crumbly book Seifer was reading was about.  It was a classical tale of a sorceress and her knight.  Throughout the book the knight defends the sorceress from many that fear and hate her.  In the end the sorceress and the knight go off and live somewhere where no one knows who they are.  The happily ever after ending.  Seifer's dream was to become that knight and Fujin's goal was to help him achieve it.  She knew that by helping him achieve his goal she would lose some part of him.  He would love another and she would be left loving him with no return feelings.  That thought made her return to slashing the dummy. 

"Hey Fujin is something wrong?" Seifer asked. 

"NO" Fujin lied.

"Yes there is I can always tell with you." Seifer looked smug then.

"NEGATIVE"

"If you say so.  How 'bout practice together I think you ruined the doll."

"SURE"

Practicing with Seifer made her happy.  She got to be close to him.  She felt like their fighting was a different level of intimacy.  It wasn't like the intimacy of love it was like channeling each other's thoughts while doing a perfect dance of slashing and dodging.  It had more meaning to it then anything else.  She and Seifer were so in tune with each other that they never landed a hit.  Of course perfect things like that can't last forever.  Raijin soon walked in and interrupted them.

"What ya guys doin'?" he asked. 

"What does it look like we're doing?" Seifer said but did not stop fighting.

The disturbance that was Raijin distracted Fujin.  So she stopped practicing with Seifer.  The whole mood was off.  Since it was Raijin that had disrupted the mood Fujin went over and kicked him in the shin.  "Ow what'd ya do that for?"  "ANNOYANCE"  Seifer laughed.  His laughter caused Fujin to smile and look away.  Her anger at Raijin slowly faded.  But then a new feeling of jealousy overtook her.  Raijin was starting to practice with Seifer.  She glared at him for a second before sitting down to watch Seifer fight.  Raijin and Seifer didn't have the connection that she and Seifer had.  Seifer still performed perfectly but his fight with Raijin didn't contain the spiritualness her's and Seifer's had.  Seifer noticed it to; there was a definite difference between the two fights.  This caused him to sigh.  He wanted to practice with Fujin only.  It was better that way.  He too felt the bond between them.  A bond he didn't want to ignore but he had to.  This bond between him and Fujin wouldn't help him in the long run.  He wanted his future to turn out like he wanted in to.  Him a knight with his sorceress and his posse backing him up.  Them being a posse and all Fujin did always seem to back him up even if he was wrong.  It didn't matter to her.  The only thing that mattered was that Seifer was happy.

"Hey stop it!!  Stop it right now!  You two are going to get in trouble!!" Quistis said.  Seifer and Squall were fighting again.  "QUIET" Fujin told her.  "They're gonna get in trouble."  "LET THEM"  Fujin stood quietly on one side of Seifer next to Rajin.  She was ready to back Seifer up if the fight turned dirty.  It didn't nothing happened except that a faculty member came and broke up the fight.  Seifer and Squall were lead to Headmaster Cid's office to be punished.  Fujin stood outside the door waiting.  Squall emerged first from the office and choose not to acknowledge Fujin's presence.  But Fujin was not one to be ignored.  So she simply said, "STUPID" and stuck her foot out to trip Squall.  Squall flinched slightly, said nothing, and walked around her foot.  He was not going to be bothered by a little girl who hadn't a chance in the world of hurting him.  He exited the area with out even bothering to look at Fujin.  She didn't care because she knew Seifer would beat him someday.  Seifer remained in Cid's office for a long time.  It was probably because he had been getting into fights more often lately.  Finally the door opened and Seifer stepped out. 

"PUNISHED?" Fujin asked. 

"Yeah I'm not allowed out of the Garden for a while and I have to be in my room two hours before curfew." 

"SORRY" 

"It's not your fault.  I fought you didn't"

"SQUALL PUNISHED?"

"Not really he's just not allowed out of the Garden.  Not like he goes anywhere anyway.  Him and I have a date now to finish our fight without getting caught.  We're gonna sneak out one night and fight on the docks in Balamb.  You're gonna come to watch right?"

"YES"

"Good you being there always seems to help me fight."

Upon saying that Seifer turned red and looked away.  He didn't mean to be so corny and mushy like.  It didn't fit in with the image he was trying to build for himself.  Fujin also blushed but not because she was embarrassed but because she took what he said in a different way.  To her it made it seem like Seifer needed her.  He did but he wasn't going to ever admit it.

Three nights later Seifer and Squall broke all their punishment rules and snuck out of the Garden.  Fujin and Raijin followed closely behind Seifer.  No one said a word until they were safely on the docks.  Raijin posted himself as a look out to make sure no one was going to disturb the fight this time.  Fujin stood off to the side somewhere behind Squall.  She picked that spot because she could see Seifer the best there.  Regrettably Seifer could see Fujin perfectly also.  She threw off his concentration at first.  From where he stood she looked beautiful.  She was standing on the edge of the dock by the water.  Moonlight was shining it seemed to Seifer directly on her.  It made her look like she glowed.

Seifer eventually stopped looking at her.  The fight began.  It lasted what appeared to be forever to Fujin.  Neither boy gained any advantage off each other.  They both were so evenly matched that no one hurt each other bad at all.  Then they started to lose momentum.  Fujin knew that this was where Seifer was going to win.  He always saved some extra energy for when his opponent was weakening.  Slowly the hits Squall made were weaker and weaker.  That as Fujin had suspected was when Seifer struck.  His blows came fast and they pushed Squall backwards towards the docks edge.  Seifer's intent of course being to knock Squall into the water.  The closer to the edge they got the wilder Squall's hits became.  It wasn't that he didn't know how to swim it was that he knew once he fell he would lose the fight.  So instead of giving up he pushed on and exerted a newfound energy.  This caused him to bump into Fujin as he progressed back up the dock.  Fujin went toppling into the cold dark water.  The second she hit she let out a little scream, which caused her mouth to fill up with water.  Splashing around she surfaced but only for a second because she didn't know how to swim.  Seifer seeing she was in danger threw his Gunblade aside and pushed Squall who was standing open-mouthed looking sorry out of the way.  Seifer started to swim over to Fujin but the closer he got the farther away she went.  Suddenly a white light illuminated the water.  It seemed to be coming from Fujin.  The water pulled away from her and she dangled in thin air until Seifer got to her.  Then with a crash back into the water Fujin fell into Seifer's arms.  Seifer dragged the unconscious Fujin to the beach.  Squall and Raijin came running over.  Squall looked like he was sorry he hadn't meant to push her into the sea.  Seifer ignored his pitiful look and picked up Fujin.  She weighed practically nothing and so he carried her back to Balamb Garden easily.  Squall and Raijin walked behind him hoping that Fujin would be ok.

Once they got back to the Garden Seifer took Fujin straight to the infirmary where he faced the questions of where he had gone and what had happened.  With a new punishment hanging over his head he was forced to leave the infirmary.  The next morning he went back to the infirmary to see if Fujin was awake yet.  She was still unconscious.  "What's wrong with her?" he asked Dr. Kadowaki.  "She just needs some rest she really exerted a huge force of energy out there.  More than enough energy someone would need to stop themselves from drowning.   Did something else happen out there?"  "No."  "All right if you say so but I don't think you're being truthful.  Now go to class."  Seifer had neglected to tell Dr. Kadowaki about the light that Fujin gave off.  He hadn't said anything about how when he got to her she was dangling in midair.  He hadn't told anyone about that and he felt he shouldn't.  Mysterious things like that weren't liked much in his world.  Not after the war with the sorceress.  Seifer realized that someone other than himself did know about Fujin's strange power.  That someone was Squall.  Seifer set himself out to find Squall.  When he did he cornered him and tried to get him to swear that he wouldn't tell anyone about what he saw.  Squall however was not going to agree so easily.  Why would he none of it really mattered to him but he saw it bothered Seifer so he didn't agree right away.  He tired of the game shortly and promised Seifer he wouldn't tell another soul.  Seifer sighed a breath of relief and went back to haunting the infirmary.

Fujin woke up later that night.  The second she did Seifer was right there.  This made Fujin so happy.  He cared about her.  It mattered to him that she was hurt.  Dr. Kadowaki wouldn't let Fujin leave for another day but when she did she felt totally fine.  Seifer however didn't he had this growing fear about Fujin's power.  He wondered what it was and why she had it.  Since all this revolved around Fujin he decided to ask her about it. 

"Fujin um...remember the night of the fight?" Seifer asked then shook his head of course she remember the night of the fight it had just happened.

"YES"

"What happened then?  I mean after you fell into the water you started to glow and when I got to you you weren't in the water anymore you were above it.  What happened there?  What was that power?"

Instead of answering Fujin eyes got wide and she started to twitch.  "Fujin what's wrong?" a very worried Seifer cried out.  Again no answer.  The only sound was a low moaning noise coming from Fujin.  Seifer didn't know it but at the time horrible images were going threw Fujin's mind.  She hadn't remembered most of them until just then.  They were of her past and she was scared of them.  Quickly ever thing came back to her causing an information overload.  Too many things to be remembered at once she collapsed for the second time in three days.  Seifer rushed back to get Dr. Kadowaki who hurried to get Fujin back into the infirmary.  "What happened now?" Dr. Kadowaki asked as she carried Fujin back to the same bed she had just left.  "We were just walking and she collapsed." said Seifer.  More lies all rotating around the secret of Fujin's power.  Was it magic?  Was it a divine power?  What had happened?  To Seifer this all remained a mystery for many years.  He didn't ask her about it anymore.  When she got out of the hospital Fujin seemed changed.  It wasn't because of her episode or because of all the things she remembered.  She had already forgotten once again.  It was because she didn't want Seifer to think she was weak and didn't deserve to be his friend.  Little things like the acceptance from Seifer were more important to her than finding out her own past.  Seifer was her whole world.

Everything went back to normal after she left the hospital.  She took up practicing with Seifer more and more and became an even better fighter than she already was.  Seifer didn't seem to want to let her out of his sight for fear that she would collapse again.  Fujin didn't like the thought of Seifer worrying that she was weak now so she practiced fighting more forcefully.  She'd show Seifer how weak she was.  Now the truth was that Seifer didn't really think she was weak he was just so worried about her that nothing else mattered at the moment to him.