(Author's Note: Hello! Thanks for reading this…here's chapter 4!)

Disclaimer: Don't own FF7 or Squaresoft! Dete is mine and Rueh belongs to Rueh…

Chapter 4

Chaos…everywhere

                                    -Next Day-

"No teacher again today!" Yuffie said.

Rueh and Dete just looked at each other.

"No sub today either," Tifa said.

"Oh well. Hey Tifa. Help me with this math problem would ya?" Barret asked.

"Okay…this is easy," she said.

"I aint' never been good at math," he said.

"I have never been," Aeris corrected. He looked at her.

"Ain't isn't a word," she said. Barret looked thoughtful.

"Ain't ain't a word and I ain't gonna say it," he said. Cid laughed. Aeris glared.

"Hey Tifa…" Reno said as she finished helping Barret.

"What Reno?" she asked.

"Wanna go out with me?"

"Why would I want to do something like that?"

"'cause I want you to," he said.

"What you want me to do and what I want to do are 2 different things. No," she said.

"Say that again," he said.

"That again."

"What?" he asked.

"You said say that again so I said that again."

"You little smartaleck," he said. She grinned.

"Say what you just said to me again," Reno said.

"What you just said to me again or that again?"

"I've had it with you!" Reno raised his hand to slap her but was hit by a barrage of paper wads and a drum stick.

"Who threw that?" he asked. Cloud was whistling and looking at the ceiling. Yuffie was grinning ear to ear and holding a paper wad. Rueh and Dete were smiling as they wrote something in their notebooks. Zack was carelessly tossing a paper wad in the air. Aeris was bugging Shera.

"I'll ask again…who threw this?" Reno said.

"You said that," Rueh said.

"What?"
            "Your first question was who threw that, not who threw this," Dete said. Before Reno answered he was again rained on by paper wads from behind. Tifa, Cid, and Barret made a hasty retreat to stand by Cloud. They all had paper wads. Rufus, Reeve, Rude, and Elena now stood next to Reno.

"Now its war," Rufus said.

"Hey Rueh…I bet you can't hit that guy with a paper wad," Dete whispered.

"Bet you I can," Rueh whispered back.

"Bet you can't."

"We'll just see." Rueh made a paper wad but put something inside it. She took aim and threw it at Reno…

A paper wad came from somewhere in the room and hit Reno on the forehead. A gooey green/off white substance started to leak out of it as soon as it touched him.

"What is that stuff?" Dete asked.

"Well…yesterday in art class we made silly putty…mine turned out kinda runny and really gross," Rueh said.

"Ewwwww! Gross!" Reno yelled as he touched it. Rufus threw a paper wad at Cloud. It was way off course and hit Aeris. She threw one at Rufus and hit him. Rufus nodded to Reno, Rude, Reeve, and Elena. Cloud nodded to Zack, Yuffie, Barret, Cid, Tifa, and Aeris. Dete and Rueh just grinned. Now the paper wads were being thrown back and forth. When the last paper wad hit Elena the band room was a mess.

All 100 students had divided in half so there were 50 on each side. One side was led by Rufus the other Cloud. It was obvious from all the paper wads on Rufus' side that they had lost. Cloud's group was gone as soon as the bell rang and a teacher came in.

"What's going on here?" she asked. No one answered.

"Well then…you'd better start cleaning this mess up or you'll all have detention. Yes, Rufus Shinra, even you," she said.

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"Well. That went better than planned," Red said. Vincent nodded and sank to his knees.

"Hold on. We'll be in sector 5 in a little bit," Red said.

"Then lets go," Vincent said and pushed himself to his feet.

"Lucrecia wasn't in the building when we left," Red said as a house in sector 5 came into view.

"I hope she and Sephiroth got away," Vincent said.

"I do too. Let's see if we can stay here for a few days," Red said. Vincent knocked on the door.

"Hi. May I help you?" a young girl asked when she opened the door.

"Yes you can. Could we…" Red started but was cut off.

"You're Red XIII the librarian! And you're…Mr. Valentine! The band teacher!" she said.

"Aeris Gainsborough, am I right?" Vincent asked.

"Yes…what happened to you? You look…different," Aeris said.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Umm…well…why don't you come in," she said.

"Thank you Aeris," Red said.

"Why do you say I look different?" Vincent asked as he closed the door behind him.

"Umm…there's a mirror in the bathroom," Aeris said and pointed down the hall.

Vincent went down the hall and into the bathroom. His blood ran cold as he looked at the face in the mirror looking back at him. The face was pale and framed by long raven black hair. Red eyes stared at him with an expression of shock in them. The expression turned to anger.

"Hojo," he growled softly.

Something inside him stirred and a presence Vincent had never felt before was there. He closed his eyes and a picture of a winged creature appeared. It began to speak in a strange language:

"O ex Pcead." *

"What?" Vincent thought out loud. Pictures formed in his mind. Pictures of wars and battles in strange lands. Nothing made sense.  It was all…

"Chaos," he said softly.

"Are you okay Vincent?" Red asked from the kitchen.

"Yes. I…I'm fine," Vincent said and went to the kitchen.

"Vincent? Is that your name?" Aeris asked.

"Yes. Vincent Valentine," he said and nodded.

"Oh! Aeris! We have company!" a startled woman said as she entered the kitchen with a few bags in her arms.

"Yes. This is Red XIII the librarian from school and this is Mr. Valentine the band director," Aeris said.

"Hello," Red said.

"Hello," Vincent said.

"Hello. I'm Elmyra Gainsborough," she said.

"Here. Allow me to help you with those," Vincent said standing.

"Oh! No that's okay. This is all I have," Elmyra said.

"Are you sure?" he asked.

"Yes. I'm fine," she said.

"Mom. Red and Vincent asked…" Aeris started.

"Vincent? Is that the way to talk about your teacher Aeris?"

"It's all right. I told her my name," Vincent said.

"Any way…they asked…what did you ask?" Aeris said.

"We were wondering if we could stay here for a day or two. You see Vincent needs to take it easy for now," Red said.

"Why?" Aeris asked.

"I was shot in the chest," Vincent said.

"By who? Are you okay?" Elmyra asked.

"A man named Hojo. I'm fine," he said. Aeris and Elmyra looked at each other.

"What is it?" Red asked.

"A professor by the name of Hojo has been chasing Aeris lately. He almost caught her the other day but she got away," Elmyra said.

"He said he wants to do an experiment on me," Aeris said softly.

"Hojo is after you?" Red asked.

"Yes," she said.

"Why did Hojo shoot you?" Elmyra asked. Vincent looked at Red who nodded. Vincent told them a few of the things that happened. He avoided saying that Sephiroth and Lucrecia were still there…maybe.

"Oh," Aeris said when he finished.

"Don't tell anyone," Red said.

"We won't," Elmyra said.

"Thank you," Vincent said.

"Are you two hungry?" she asked.

Two low rumbling sounds answered.

"I guess you are," she said smiling.

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(Author's Note: * O ex Pcead means I am Chaos…just to let you know!)