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Archangel_666: We don't like Quistis very much, and we just tried to do something that was in character for her.  She seems to be rather bossy and self absorbed.  Sorry we made you mad. ^_^

Zell-Bo

            "Um, Seifer…  How exactly did we get ourselves in this predicament?" asked a very uncomfortably looking Squall.  Everyone was gathered in the Quad, waiting for the Tae-Bo lessons to start.  Selphie and Rinoa had run off to the front of the class and were talking happily to each other. 

"Well, on the bright side, we get to see them in leotards," Seifer smirked.  Squall shrugged, he did have a point.  Selphie and Rinoa were indeed wearing leotards.  Rinoa sported a light green one with a weird snake pattern on it whereas Selphie looked like a ballerina.  She went all out, she wore a light pink leotard complete with a tutu.  Squall had to keep pinching himself every time he looked at her so he would not laugh.

Slowly the Quad was filling up with more and more girls.  Of course there weren't many boys who would be caught dead there.  The noise level was getting louder and louder as time went on.  Irvine showed up but was still dressed in his normal clothes and he was sporting a bandage over his nose.

"Spectator sport…" he mouthed to the two boys as he sat down on a bench.  Both Squall and Seifer looked longingly at that idea, but knew that if their girls saw them doing that they might as well be dead anyway. 

Quistis came in and began looking between Rinoa and Selphie, and Seifer and Squall, as if trying to figure out who she should stand by.  She seemed to be almost as uncomfortable as the boys, but she wasn't (much to Irvine's dislike) wearing a leotard.  Instead she wore a tee-shirt and jogging pants.  Before long she decided on standing up in the front with the girls.

Trying to remain unnoticed in the back, the two male SeeDs started talking casually.  They were interrupted when they heard someone run into the Quad at high speed.

"Sorry I'm late."  Squall arched his eyebrows, that voice was familiar.  He turned around and saw Zell place a boom box down on the floor.  Zell obviously saw him too, because all the color drained from his face and then as quickly as the color left it, it began to turn scarlet red.  Trying to avoid making eye contact, he started speaking again, "I'll be your Tae-Bo instructor…"

"Ha!  The chickenwuss!?" Seifer yelled in amusement.  Squall couldn't help but laugh himself.  Several of the girls turned around and scowled at him.

"At least he is secure enough to be doing this on his own free will!" one girl in particular sneered at them.  The two boys looked at each other and began laughing again, only harder this time.

*Laguna's POV*

            Laguna was standing up in the front with Rinoa and Selphie, both of which were very excited to be doing this.  He, on the other hand, was afraid that he was going to kill someone.  Not that Tae-Bo didn't sound fun, but he had a tendency to be…well…a klutz. 

"Let's go drag the boys up here," Rinoa said to Selphie.  Moments later, they were back, dragging Squall and Seifer with them.  At this point the two boys were within speaking distance of Zell. 

  "Hey Chicken-Wuss…finally decided swatting flies was too difficult and decided to move on to buns of steel?" Seifer stated in between snickers.  Laguna looked over at the blonde boy.  He didn't get it…did Zell have a previous hobby of swatting flies?  Well at least I've got an idea of what to get him for Christmas.

Zell pretended not to hear him, and started up the boom box.  "We'll start off with some stretching," he said as he stood in the front center.  "Touch your toes, everyone! Reach as far as you can, and keep those knees straight!"

Laguna tried as hard as he could to touch his toes, but unfortunately, his legs muscles weren't quite as limber as they used to be. He was almost down to his ankles when he heard Selphie say "Come on now, Quisty, I know you're more flexible than that! Reach for those toes!" She then quickly shoved his head towards the ground in an effort to help him reach farther. Exhibiting a range of motion he didn't know he possessed, Laguna's fingertips brushed the tops of his feet, at which point Selphie let go of his head.

"See? I knew you could do it, Quisty!"

"Th-thanks, Selphie…" Laguna said weakly. He could have sworn that every muscle in his legs was pulled and would never work again.

"Now, one and two, and three and four!" Zell said energetically as he began punching the air, alternating his fists.  Everyone in the room did as he did.

"This is fun, isn't is Squall?!?"  Selphie exclaimed as she began punching, accidentally hitting him in the stomach.  "Whoops, sorry bout that."

"I can't…keep up!" Laguna huffed and puffed. 

"It's just warm ups Instructor.  You're supposed to be more fit than any of us," Seifer said boringly.

"Doubletime!!" Now Zell moved his fists in a frenzy of jabs.

"Back to swatting…" Seifer muttered as he struggled to keep up.

"Good job ladies!  And…err…guys." Zell said as he slowed everyone back down into a jog.  "Alright, high kicks!  And one and two…"

"I bet…I can…kick higher…than you Squall…" Selphie said between gasping for air.

"I'm sure…you can," he admitted as he watched her kick.

"Hey, Leonhart!  I bet I can kick higher than you!" Seifer yelled from next to Rinoa.  Never would Squall turn down a challenge from Seifer.

"You're on!"

"DOUBLETIME!!"

The two boys grunted as they thrust their legs higher and higher in the air.  Both were not as flexible as the girls, but they were going pretty high for guys.  All of a sudden both were aware of a very loud RRRIIPP and a CLUNK!  For a second time seemed to stop as everyone looked at Seifer.  His black pants had ripped, exposing his pink bunny-adorned boxers, and he had a giant red splotch on his face where he had kicked himself.

"Bravo!!" came a voice from the back of the room.  Everyone turned around to see Irvine still sitting on a bench with his thumb up.  "Good show!  Good show!"

"Oh Seifer!  You're wearing the boxers I gave you!  They look so cute!" Rinoa exclaimed, clapping her hands.

The entire Quad erupted with laughter, and Seifer looked more uncomfortable than ever.  He looked at Squall (who was trying to maintain a straight face) and mouthed, "They were my only clean pair!!"  Then looking back at Rinoa, stated, "Well, that's too bad.  I guess I better go back to my dorm and change…"

"Like hell you're leaving!" Squall yelled.  "It would be so rude of you to leave in the middle of Zell's first class…" he was enjoying torturing him.  He turned to face Zell, who was still moving around to the music.  "You aren't going to let him leave, are you!?"  I don't want to be the only guy participating in this!!!

"Hey, Seifer, why don't you come to the front of the class." Zell said with an evil glint in his eye.  "Let's see that wonderful high kick of yours!  I saw some people in the class doing it wrong, and I want to use yours as an example…"

It took every bit of will power for Seifer not to pummel Zell at that moment.  Gritting his teeth, he did as he was told, much to the amusement of the rest of everyone else.  "Very good!  Now, let's see them in double time!"  Now extremely humiliated, Seifer picked Zell up by the collar of his shirt.

"Die!!"

"Uh…" Zell looked around wildly, looking for some way out.  "Time for a break everyone!"  Seifer promptly dropped him and walked off to where Rinoa stood with some water bottles.

Squall had gone over to Selphie, who was preparing to pour water over his head.  Not suspecting anything, he stood next to her and that's when she got him.  As Rinoa watched them, she got very angry and crushed the water bottle in her hand, causing the liquid to splatter everywhere.

  Then, out of nowhere Rinoa seized Seifer's hand and was attempting to make somebody jealous.  "Hey Squall what's up?" the raven haired girl asked casually every now and then eyeing her hand that had been placed in Seifer's.

Oh.  So is she trying to make Squall jealous? Laguna thought, as he watched her from where he stood.

"Nothing," he replied without even glancing back at her.  Laguna was starting to have a lot of fun with this.  He liked Squall's circle of friends.  They were amusing. 

The girl that had been trying to catch his son's eye seemed to be fuming at the fact that her hand holding had done little to make Squall jealous and had now moved Seifer's hand onto her own butt.

"Oh Seifer!" the girl squealed in a high pitch and annoying giggly voice.  "Squall!  Can you even believe Seifer!  He's touching my butt Squall!  Do you see this?  Squall….my butt?  HE'S TOUCHING MY BUTT, SQUALL!!"

Laguna had now taken a seat on the floor just as most of the rest of the class had done.  All women are fascinated by soap operas…and now they had a real live one playing out before there eyes…and each of them had there on favorite characters. 

What Laguna could not understand was why Squall couldn't hear this banshee of a girl.  His eardrums had certainly popped and poor Selphie beside him was crouched over pressing her hands over her ears and she looked on the verge of ripping this girl's vocal chords out. 

The class watched intently as she removed one hand from her ear, then another, each Tae-Bo student preparing themselves for the worst, she stood up straight, grabbed Squall's hand out of his pocket and slammed it onto her own butt.  "HEY RINNY!!!!  LOOK WHATS ON MY BUTT!!  SEE IT!!  MOST COMMONLY KNOWN AS SQUALL'S HAND!!!  WHY DON'T YOU GET OVER IT ALREADY?!! YOU DUMPED HIM, REMEMBER?  HE'S MINE NOW SO DEAL WITH IT! HUAH!!" she roared.  Then, changing her tone completely, she smiled happily, "Huah, well that felt good!  I haven't yelled in a really long time!  Sorry Rinny!  Still friends?!"

The class stared in awe at the girl.  Most had never seen something quite so remarkable.  Selphie Timitt, the infamous ever happy SeeD, had just told off bitchy lil' Rinoa.  Not only this they had probably witnessed one of the worlds biggest and fastest mood swings in the history of their planet and many others.

Squall this whole time had been listening to headphones, and he noticed that his hand…that he was sure had been in his pocket seconds ago, was groping something.  It was soft…and smooshy…  Then…his eyes got wide at the realization of exactly what was in his hand.  Pulling the headphones out of his ears, he was only able to hear snippets of what Selphie was yelling.

"Oh my Hyne!!  I'm so sorry!  That was in my pocket just seconds ago!  I have no idea…how that…Jesus!  I swear it was in my pocket!!!

"Oh, it's ok, Squall, I put it there!" Selphie said brightly.

"So, do you forgive m-WHAT?!?!"

"Well, you sure have an interesting girlfriend Squall.  I like her!" Laguna beamed.

"Quisty…are you okay?  You know we've met…right?"

"Oh, yeah…that's right!" Laguna said nervously, then began laughing maniacally.

"Break's over!  Get back up everyone!" Zell was back, and he made sure that he avoided eye contact with Seifer, who hadn't been allowed to change his pants and was still looking vaguely like he wanted to kill him. "All right, it's time for side kicks everyone! Make sure you spread out now so you don't hit anyone! First to the left!"

Everyone in the class stepped far away from Selphie and started kicking out to their left side. Just then, Laguna's klutziness came back to haunt him. In the middle of a kick, he suddenly lost his balance and, as he felt his legs slip out from under him, also sensed them making contact with what felt like someone's stomach. He glanced up as he hit the floor, and almost like slow motion, saw Rinoa being thrown off balance from the force of his foot. She fell straight back and knocked Seifer in the shoulder with her head. Seifer stumbled for a minute, and then sprawled out on the ground, once again showing the whole class the pretty pink bunnies on his boxers. Just then, Laguna felt a sharp pain in his leg.

"Ahhh! Leg cramp!! Help me, someone!!" he yelled as he clutched his leg while rocking back and forth on the ground in pain.

"Everyone! Remain calm! I'm right here! Just…uhh…take deep breaths and you'll be fine! " Zell shouted, trying to take control of the chaotic situation. The odds were against him though. Besides "Quistis" on the ground in the midst of a leg cramp, Rinoa lay on the floor moaning and resting her aching head in her hands, and Seifer was still on the ground as well with one eye barely open, pretending to be passed out to avoid more humiliation.

Taking stock of the situation, Zell decided that all good things must come to an end. "Tae-bo is dismissed, everyone! The next class is a week from today! I hope to see you all there!" He then turned and noticed Selphie trying to help Rinoa.

"Rinny! Rinny! Snap out of it! Ok, umm…how many fingers am I holding up??" The short brunette asked her friend, holding up 3 fingers. 

"Nine…" she said, her eyes glossy.

Selphie looked at her hand, "I don't even have nine fingers on my hand…" Shrugging it all off, she bent down and helped her friend up.

"Aw man!  Class wasn't due to be over for another fifteen minutes!" Irvine complained loudly from the back. 

Once again, the Quad was full of noise as everyone scrambled to pick up their things.  "I'll…uh…call Dr. Kadowaki…" Zell murmured as he ran for the exit.  It wasn't long before he returned with her.

"What's the problem?" she asked looking at everyone.

"Well…Quisty's leg is hurt, Rinny has been knocked senseless, Seifer isn't moving…and I hurt my finger!!" Selphie held up a single finger, and tears came to her eyes.

"How'd you hurt your finger?"

"I broke a nail when I punched Squall in the stomach!"

"I thought I felt that…"

Kadowaki rolled her eyes and looked at Rinoa.  "It looks like you have a concussion…  You better come with me back to the infirmary."

"Are they serving cheeseballs today?" Rinoa asked.

"I'm…uh…not sure…" Kadowaki answered slowly.

"I like cheeseballs…"

"I'm sure you do.  Squall, can you please carry Seifer back to the infirmary for me?"

Squall looked down at the lump on the floor that was Seifer and kicked it.  "Get up, everyone's gone."

"Are you sure?  Everyone?"

"Yes, now you can go back to being the same egotistic maniac that you've always been." Squall then walked over to where 'Quistis' still sat on the floor.  Selphie was next to here, shaking her violently.

"Can---You---Hear---Me!?"

Laguna was still off in his own world, rocking back in forth, mouth agape, clutching his leg.  "Selph…it's her leg that's the problem.  Not her hearing."

"But she's not responding to anything!" Looking back at the stunned instructor, she started waving her hand in front of her face.  Nothing was happening. 

"Zell, give us a hand!  We need to snap her out of it!"

Zell, who was at the time picking up the class' mess, headed in their direction.  "Try yelling random things at her!" he suggested.  The couple exchanged glances and started in on it.

"Waffles!  Pixie Stix!" Selphie yelled.

"Gunblade!  Uh…SeeD!"

"Hotdogs!  Buns!" That did it. 

Laguna's eyes darted back up to him, "The Annual Esthar Bun Squeezing Contest!  It's taking place on the 5th of August, that's in a few days!  I must enter!" With that, her leg cramp seemed to disappear as 'she' ran off.

"That was very weird…"

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That's it!  Sorry it's taking us so long to update this story, but you have to understand that we're working on several projects at once.  Please forgive us.  *Bows*  Noelle (Save-the-Queen) helped a lot with this chapter!  Um if anyone knows who Zero Katra is….tell them that they're not very nice and they made us really sad.  That review didn't do much for boosting our energy for writing more on this story.  Anyway I've decided(BreeAnne) that I want to be a fox demon.  Aren't foxes the coolest?  Ya they're so cute!  Anna says she's going to be a silver wolf demon but who cares?  I'm gonna be a fox demon and foxes rock!! Oh and by the way…NOT a fox demon like Shippo.  Well, the only other news I have is that we have all been severely depressed.  Our boyfriends have been telling us sad stuff and our friend (chocolatecreme06) wrote a really sad poem.  And my dog killed 3 baby bunnies!  I love my dog but they were the cutest little things!  So small!  2 of them fit in my hand.  Awwwww!  We named them.  Hoppit.  Lucky (cause it was the last surviving bunny, cept sophie had broken its back so the vet killed it), and Chibi(cause it was so little).  Aww my babies!  Tomorrow I'm leaving for South Carolina.  I won't be back for like a week so Anna can't do anymore writing/musing without me.  Yup so you'll just have to wait for me to come back everyone!!  Oh and uh…I might need to be updated on what happened on .hack// and Kenshin if our hotel doesn't have a tv or if it doesn't have the channel oh and someone tell us what happened on Trigun for the last 2 nights.  OK!! Nuff random babbling from my end!!  Perhapus(its not a spelling error I just like saying it like that) …is this the end?  Ah but no!!  I must let Anna have one more word in!  Here we go.

Anna: Bye!

BreeAnne: That's her one word.  Sayonara!  I'm so proud, she didn't go over the word limit!!  ^_^