The Adventures of RJ & Hunter
By PasifikStar
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Author's Note: I'm actually going to be re-posting Re-Creating Hell over the next
few weeks since there are a bunch of spelling errors and stuff in the original chapters.
Nothing will change, I'm just fixing the typos because they're bothering me.
In the meantime, read this. ^_^;; Yes, some things will be explained...No need to review.
It's all for fun. If you don't want to kill the whole story up to the last point, then don't
read this! It's all centered around RJ and Hunter (Squall & Rinoa's daughter and Seifer & Quistis'
son). Okay, that's it. You have been warned.
* All Standard Disclaimers Apply: I do not own Final Fantasy or it's characters.
She looked around the corner, her blue eyes twinkling as she spotted her target standing nervously by the coiling marble stairs. She smirked as his green eyes darted around the room as is looking for some sort of attacker. Suppressing her laughter, she sprung.
"Hunter!!"
He whirled around, only seeing two white fangs coming towards him behind pink lips and pale skin topped with midnight hair. His eyes went wide. "AHH!!!"
THUMP.
Rinoa looked up from the tea she was serving Quistis in Ellone's tea room. "Did you hear that?" she asked, looking around.
Quistis shook her head. "I'm sure you're imagining things," Quistis said. She took a sip of the tea and looked at her watch. "Selphie's late..."
"Of course she's late, she's Selphie," Rinoa said. She sat down across from the blond female and lifted a tea cup to her lips. She paused and looked around. "Where's Hunter?"
Quistis shrugged. "Probably looking for RJ. Does she know he's coming?" Quistis asked. Rinoa nodded.
"I told her when she woke up at sunset. I'm sure they'll find each-"
"MOM, HELP ME!!!"
"Other..." Rinoa trailed off and sighed. She stood up and put her tea cup down, followed by Quistis. Together, the two women walked back out of the tea room and into the hall. There, in the foyer, rolling amongst the thick imported rugs around the feet of elder vampires, were RJ and Hunter. "Oh, Hyne..."
Quistis rubbed her forehead. "Why do we keep letting them play together...?"
"RJ! RJ!" Rinoa shouted. "RJ! Get off of Hunter, right now!"
The little vampiress was sitting on Hunter's back as he was face down on the rug. Her mid back length dark hair was all around her face, as she looked up innocently with large blue eyes. "Mrs. Leonheart! Thank, Hyne...!" Hunter gasped pitifully as he looked up at the woman. "She attacked me from behind."
"It's not my fault you don't know how to use your senses yet," RJ snorted as she stood up and off of him. Quistis knelt down and picked up her son. "You're just slow."
"I'm not slow!" Hunter snapped as his mother dusted him off. He glared at RJ with emerald green eyes. "I'm way smarter than you!"
"Oh yeah?" RJ asked, putting her tiny hands on her waist as she leaned forward and glared back at him. "What are all the names of the people who first sealed Hell's Gates!?"
Hunter rolled his eyes. "That's a stupid question."
RJ's blue eyes went large. "That's not a stupid question!" she shrieked. "YOU'RE STUPID!"
"Raine Julia Heartilly Leonheart!" a voice barked from the stair case. Immediately, two large blue orbs went wide with fear as they moved up to the stair case. There stood a vampire dressed in black leather, walking casually down the stairs with a frown on his face.
Hunter had a smug grin on his face as he crossed his arms. Quistis elbowed Rinoa and motioned her head towards her son. *He looks just like Seifer, doesn't he?* Quistis sent to Rinoa's mind.
The brunette couldn't help but snicker as she answered. *Yeah, especially with that smirk on his face.*
"Daddy...!" RJ began nervously. Everyone on the foyer all began to snicker, knowing that the energetic vampiress was caught. "Uh..."
"Apologize to Hunter," Squall stated simply. RJ narrowed her eyes and looked down at her feet as her hands balled into fists. "Apologize."
"I'm sorry." she rushed out quickly.
"What?" Hunter asked, pretending not to hear. "I'm sorry, RJ. I couldn't hear you. Care to repeat-"
"That's enough, Hunter," Quistis said before he got carried away. "She already apologized. Now go play with her nicely."
"I'm not playing with him!" RJ pouted. She ran past them and up the stairs, past her father. Squall watched with a raised eyebrow as she scurried past him, up the stairs.
Rinoa sighed. "She's going to Laguna again..." she trailed off.
"GRANDPA!!!!" RJ's voice could be heard screaming on the second floor.
"It's not my fault!" Hunter frowned. "She's the one who tackled me from behind!"
"You should've heard her coming," Squall said as he passed them. "You're part lycan, Hunter. That flows strongly in your blood. What would your father say?"
Hunter frowned even more. "He'd probably laugh."
Quistis and Rinoa looked at each other. "It's kind of sad how that's true..." Rinoa mumbled. Quistis nodded and looked at her son.
"Hunter, you did provoke her," Quistis said. "Why don't you go upstairs and try to talk to her."
"No way! Last time I did, she bit me!" Hunter gasped in horror. "Look!" He raised his arm and showed deep fang marks.
"Oh, Hyne..." Squall shook his head and looked up. "I'm going to have a talk with that girl."
Rinoa opened her mouth to comment when there was a knock on the door. "That's got to be Selphie!"
"About time," Quistis sighed as she looked at her watch. "Any later and I would've had my baby already."
Squall smirked and went to open the door. As soon as he did, he was nearly pushed shoved aside by an energetic brunette waving an advertisement in her hands. "Quisty! Rin! They've got a sale on baby clothes!" Selphie shouted as she ran in.
"You're late." Quistis frowned.
"I know, I know!" Selphie began. "We we've been here sooner, but SOMEONE couldn't find his precious HAT."
She turned and glared out the door as Irvine walked in with a baby carrier in his arms. "Aww...there she is...!" Quistis cooed as she and Rinoa headed straight for the baby. Rinoa bent down and picked up the baby in the carrier as Irvine put the carrier on the floor and shook hands with Squall, who was closing the door.
"Hello, Rinny..." Rinoa cooed gently as the little brown haired infant blinked up at her with green eyes. "You look just like your mommy...yes you do!"
"I hope you don't mind me bringing her," Selphie said. "I figure I can probably get her some clothes at the sale, too."
"Do they have anything for little girls?" Rinoa asked, holding Rinny against her as Quistis gently stroked the little girl's head.
"Yeah, the sale says from infant to ten year olds," Selphie said, reading from the ad in her hand. She looked up and saw Hunter standing there quietly. She grinned. "Hey, Hunter."
"Hello, Aunt Selphie." he mumbled in a quiet voice.
Selphie looked over at Quistis. The blond grinned. "He got into a little argument with you know who."
"Again?" Selphie asked, surprised.
"Wow, Hunter," Irvine smirked as he ruffled the blond child's hair. "You must really love her."
Hunter's green eyes widened with terror. "I do not!" he yelled. "She's vicious and should be caged!"
Squall rolled his eyes. "At any rate," he said as he walked up to Hunter. "Laguna will be watching you two tonight."
"I thought you were going to watch the kids." Selphie piped.
Squall shook his head. "Business," he sighed heavily. "I have to deal with some other clans that are new in the area."
"Mind if I join you?" Irvine asked casually.
"That is kind of the primary reason I called for you to come," Squall said. "They're lycans."
"Oh..." Irvine nodded, understanding the situation.
"Okay, well, we'll be heading off!" Selphie said. She kissed Irvine on the cheek. "I'll see you later, Irvy! Bye, guys!"
"Hunter, behave of Master Loire AND RJ, okay?" Quistis told her son. Obediently, Hunter nodded his head as he watched the three women leave the foyer.
"Hunter, you can go upstairs and find RJ, if you wish," Squall said. "Do you remember the way to Laguna's office?"
"Yes, sir." Hunter nodded once more and began to make his way up the stairs.
Irvine watched him and let out a whistle. "Hard to believe he's Seifer's son, huh?"
"Yeah," Squall agreed. He grinned. "His manners are obviously a TREPE inheritance."
On the second floor of the massive palace, RJ was sitting on her grandfather's lap, energetically re-telling her story of how she pounced on Hunter earlier. "And then he SCREAMED, grandpa! He screamed like a sissy!"
Laguna chuckled. "I'm sure he did, but you shouldn't tell him that, Raine Julia."
RJ frowned. "Why not? He's did! I'm not lying!"
"But that's a mean thing to say," Laguna explained. "How would you feel if someone called you a sissy?"
"I'd be mad," RJ admitted. She narrowed her eyes and punched her fist into the palm of her other hand. "Then I'd bite them!"
*Oh, Hyne...* Laguna thought to himself. He smiled and shook his head. "Raine Julia, you don't bite people. That's bad."
"I thought that's what vampires do."
"Vampires are more than just biting machines," Laguna sighed. "We are supposed to be sophisticated, calm and composed. Like your Aunt Ellone and your mom and dad."
RJ tilted her head. "But daddy says that you're a klutz."
Laguna winced. *Okay, so technically that's true...* "Well..."
"And grandma Raine said that you get nervous all the time," RJ added. "And grandma Julia said that you get leg cramps when you get nervous."
Laguna nearly fell off his chair. "Why did they tell you that!?" he gasped.
RJ shrugged, but frowned as she crossed her arms across her chest. "Are you saying that they're lying?"
"No! Of course not!" Laguna stammered nervously. His eyes darted around the room. "Everything your grandma Raine and Julia told you is true."
"So does that make you a BAD vampire?"
"Uh..."
"Because if you're not sophisticated and calm and stuff, doesn't that make you a bad vampire?" RJ stared at her grandfather with large blue eyes framed by thick brown-black hair around her pale face. She was so damn innocent.
"Ah...umm..." Knock. Knock. Laguna let out a sigh of relief. *Thank Hyne,* He looked up towards the door. "Come in!"
Slowly the heavy wooden door opened and in peeked a blond boy with green eyes. "Good night to you, sir."
"Hunter!" Laguna smiled cheerfully. "Good to see you again! You've grown quite tall since I last saw you."
"Thank you, sir," Hunter said calmly. "But I doubt I've grown much since last week."
Laguna blushed sheepishly. *These children keep getting smarter and smarter...* "Uh...do you want to play with RJ?"
"I'm not playing with him!" RJ stated simply, pointing a dainty little hand at the blond. "He's a...a...a meany!"
Laguna raised an eyebrow. *Did she get that from Julia? I've heard Rinoa use it a few times... maybe it's a Heartilly thing...*
"I have to spend several hours here," Hunter stated, bored as he looked at the little girl on the President of Esthar's lap. "And I thought you were a big girl. Look at you, sitting on your grandpa's lap like a baby."
"I'm not a baby!" RJ snapped.
"Then stop pouting like one," Hunter coaxed. "I'll play whatever game you want, how's that?"
"He's willing to play with you, Raine Julia," Laguna said as he looked at the little girl. "And he's letting you choose the game. How good can it get?"
"Easy," RJ answered simply. "I can play without him."
"Raine Julia..." Laguna trailed off, his voice carrying a slight warning. RJ wrinkled her nose and finally put her arms down.
"Fine," RJ stated. She slid off her grandfather's lap and looked at Hunter. "Any game, right?" Hunter nodded as he held the door open for them to exit. Laguna barely caught the smirk that crossed RJ's lips. "Okay...WEDDING it is!"
"WHAT!?"
The door closed and Laguna ran a hand through his hair. Suddenly, the door opened again and Kiros and Ward came in. They were both grinning as they entered. Laguna raised an eyebrow in question. "What's up?"
"Poor Hunter's being dragged off like a doll," Kiros laughed. "That RJ has her mother's spunk, I'll give her that much."
Laguna chuckled. "She's so beautiful," he smiled proudly. "She has Raine's beautiful eyes and Julia's beautiful face..."
Ward looked at Kiros and Kiros nodded in agreement. "Just imagine how it will be when RJ grows up. Squall won't be too happy with all those suitors."
Laguna paled. HIS little granddaughter? SUITORS?! Laguna's eyes went wide as he stood up and slammed his hand on the desk. "I forbid it!"
Kiros and Ward started laughing as they fell back on the chairs on the other side of Laguna's desk. "Calm down, Laguna...that's years away..." Kiros assured him. Laguna looked at them with fear still on his face. "And I'm sure that Squall won't like the attention she'll get either..."
"HELP ME!!!" a voice shouted.
"Get back here, lycan-boy!!" another, higher pitched voice, shouted. Laguna opened the doors and peeked outside. His eyes went wide as he saw Hunter running at full speed towards him. He seemed to be wearing a dress while RJ ran behind him waving a boa in the air.
"Over my dead body!!"
"Don't make me bite you!"
"Someone help me!!" Laguna sighed and looked at it watch. He wondered how long it would take before the screaming resumed within the peaceful vampire palace. Apparently it took three hours and twenty minutes.
"You said you'd play any game!"
"We've been playing this game for hours!!" Hunter shouted over his shoulder as he ran to Laguna and hid behind the vampire. "I don't want to play any more!"
"Grandpa, make him play with me!" RJ pouted as she stopped in front of them. "I want him to play with me and he said no!"
"Why don't you let him pick a game this time?" Laguna suggested.
RJ shook her head from side to side s she crossed her arms. "No! He said that we'd play any game I want!"
"I am not going to play wedding with you for a fifth time and this time as the BRIDE!" Hunter growled.
"Why not?" RJ pouted. "Don't you want to marry me?"
Laguna choked. "Uh...I have an idea! Why don't you go play with Angelo?"
RJ frowned. "But he's tired and sleeping!" RJ told him. "And Squally-Poo III doesn't like Hunter..." She leaned up towards her grandfather and whispered. "I think it's because he's part dog, you know?"
"I'm not a dog!" Hunter snapped. "I'm part LYCAN."
"You're no fun!" RJ said. "At least when I was stuck at the Gates for the first few years of my cute little life, I wasn't stuck with a boring person like you!"
"Oh yeah, well at least I wasn't hanging around dead people the whole time!"
"They're not ALL dead!" RJ shouted. "Grandma Sara and Grandpa Leon and Adel are all alive," She stated matter of factly. "The only dead people who visited were my grandparents." She stuck her tongue at him.
Laguna sighed. He still found it hard to believe that a child who was raised at Hell's Gates could turn out so...so...like she was. RJ's crowning achievement in sorcerery was that she could communicate with the dead. Slightly disturbing, but also slightly embarrassing. Things were discovered about Laguna that he hoped no one would ever find out about.
Like how he kept having leg cramps when he visited Julia. And worse...now he knew for a fact that the two loves of his lives were in the netherworld talking about HIM. And they would tell RJ. Laguna shivered. Of all the powers...why did she have to get communication to the dead?
"What about something other than dressing up and playing wedding?" Laguna suggested in a nervous voice. The last thing he needed was to think about his precious little granddaughter marrying someone.
"What about hide and seek?" Hunter asked slyly.
RJ narrowed her eyes. "The last time we played that, you left me in a closet for two hours," she snorted bitterly. "I'm not playing that again with you EVER."
"What about playing the piano?" Laguna asked. "RJ, you know how to play right?"
"Just a little..." RJ said, slightly embarrassed.
Hunter smirked. "I bet you suck at it."
"Meany!" RJ shrieked. She pointed her hand at him. "I'll show you!" She grabbed his hand and dragged him down the hall. "Watch me play my grandma's song!"
Rinoa, Quistis, and Selphie walked into the palace around three in the morning. Selphie was holding Rinoa Jr., also known as Rinny, in the carrier as the other girls carried in the bags.
"RJ! Hunter!" Rinoa shouted. "We're back!"
"Hi, mommy!" RJ was running down the hall and jumped into her mothers arms.
"Hello, baby," Rinoa said as she kissed her daughter's forehead. "Where's Hunter?"
A few moments later, Laguna, Kiros, and Ward walked out of the piano room holding rope and large shears. Quistis' eyes went wide as her son stormed out of the room in werewolf form. He was growling as he rushed towards them.
"RJ!!" he was growling.
Quistis sighed and shook her. Just as her son jumped she grabbed the scruff of his neck. "What do you think you're doing, Hunter?" she asked in her stern Instructor Trepe-Almasy voice.
Selphie giggled as the young lycan hung there passively. "She TIED ME to the PIANO BENCH!"
Rinoa furrowed her eyebrows and looked at her innocent looking daughter. "RJ, HOW did you manage that?"
RJ grinned arrogantly. "He's too slow."
"Dad," Rinoa sighed as she looked at Laguna. "I thought we asked you to watch them."
Laguna rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. "Well...they were playing the piano and I thought they were fine until I heard the screaming."
"You didn't bite him again, did you, RJ?" Rinoa asked. RJ shook her head. Laguna smiled and headed back up the stairs. Kiros went to go return the cutting shears.
"Grandpa says that's bad," she asserted. Rinoa let out a sigh of relief. "So I just tied him to the piano bench."
"Oh, Hyne..." Rinoa sighed.
There was a knock on the door and Ward went to open it. "Hey, Ward," a deep voice said. A tall blond male stepped into the foyer. "Time to go?" he asked as he waved at the others to greet them.
Quistis turned and held their sun up to him. "Look who turned into a werewolf."
Seifer raised his eyebrow as his son slowly morphed back into a boy and his mother was holding his shirt. "Hi, dad."
He looked at him with squinted eyes and frowned. "Did you let her bite you again?"
Hunter shook his head. "Tied me to a piano bench."
Seifer stared at his son in disbelief and then looked over at the little girl who was now standing by her mother. She smiled, showing little fangs as she waved her hand. "Hiya!"
Quistis put Hunter down and the little boy straightened his clothes. He turned to RJ and glared at her. "I'm going to attend Balamb Garden." he stated suddenly.
"So?" she asked as she rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.
"Which means I won't have to SEE you for a long time."
"Good."
"Good."
"I hope you fail."
"I'm sure I won't."
"Good-bye."
"Good ridden."
"Meany."
"Mom, dad! Let's go!" Hunter said. He turned on his heel and headed out the door.
"Hunter, this might be the last time you'll see RJ for a while," Quistis frowned. "Don't you want to give her a proper good-bye?"
"Yeah, RJ," Rinoa added as she pushed her daughter forward slightly. "He'll be away for a while and you won't have anyone to play with."
"I'll give him a proper good-bye," RJ said. "Hey, Hunter!" He turned around. She stuck her tongue out at him and her mother groaned. "I hate you, meany!" With that, she turned and ran up the stairs. "GRANDPA!!"
Selphie raised an eyebrow. "Well...that turned out well..." she giggled.
"Mrs. Leonheart," Hunter said. He bowed his head slightly. "Good luck with your daughter!" He turned abruptly and walked out the front door that Ward held open.
"Is he really going to Balamb Garden?" Rinoa asked with a slight frown of disappointment.
Quistis nodded. "We thought it would be best for him to spend some time away like we all did. Besides, the Garden has the best education."
"Why didn't he just go to Esthar's?" Rinoa asked as Quistis hugged Selphie good-bye.
"With his mother teaching there, it would've been too awkward," Seifer explained as checked on his niece in the carrier. "Besides, Fujin and Raijin said they'd watch him for us."
Rinoa nodded. "I see...well, he'll certainly be missed."
"NOT BY ME!" a voice shouted at the top of the stairs. Rinoa rolled her eyes.
Selphie giggled. "Just watch," the perky brunette said. "In a few years, they'll be all over each other."
"Selphie," a voice said behind her. They turned around and saw Squall and Irvine approaching. "Don't even JOKE about that."