Morning came silently, as the light through the window tickled the floor where Fujin's book laid. The pair were still soundly asleep, until a crashing woke them with a start as Rajin came barreling in the door with a large tray of food. Seifer snorted as Fujin yawned, stretching her limbs before tangling them up in Seifer's as he tried to rise but ended down on the pillow again.
"Rise and shine, ya know... Edea won't let us be tardy, ya know... worse than Xu... heh! ...but ya know I've got breakfast for ya, ya know" Rajin said, knocking the few items Seifer kept on the small table off onto the floor before putting down the tray and stuffing a hot roll halfways into his mouth. This sort of thing didn't shock Rajin anymore. Fujin and Seifer often slept and napped together, usually when one of them was feeling bad, or sad about something, or they were out in the wild and all three of them curled up for warmth, but most often after Seifer had been to the Training Center in Balamb Garden and hurt himself without thinking about it and grunting as Fujin met him outside the Training Center door, potions in hand. They would walk to the dorm Rajin and him shared together, and Fujin would treat his wounds and end up sleeping curled up in the fetal position on top of Seifer's bed. This time, however caught Rajin's eyes as Fujin curled herself from under the covers and stretched her arms above her head as Seifer leaned up and placed his arm, unwittingly around her tiny waist.
"Uhhh... ya know Edea's not gonna be too happy with you two, ya know. Uhh... were you two doing anything... ya know... anything..."
"We're still clothed, you idiot" Seifer said, chucking his pillow and nailing the wall behind Rajin.
"Ya, I know, that's not what I ... okay, whatever ya know" Rajin blurted, cringing as Fujin prepared to throw the other pillow. Seifer rolled out of bed first, shaking his head and lending his hand to Fujin as she tumbled into him groggily. Rajin continued to stare at them while handing them a cup of coffee to Seifer, and tea to Fujin.
"Just the way ya like it, ya know" Rajin said, smiling slightly at the change in his friends. He had been hoping those two would just give in and agree that there was something between them for a while now, but he had learned long ago that you don't go messing in things that aren't your business. Seifer gulped his black coffee, burning his tongue and throat in the process, as cringing before preparing to throw the mug on the floor. Fujin's hand shot up and grabbed the mug around his fingers,
"HOT"
"No really? I burnt my friggin' mouth on it!" Fujin just rolled her eye and blew on his coffee like they did every morning when there was no ice-cubes to plunk in.
"Thanks" Seifer said, calmer than before a bit dissapointed as she let go and blew on her own tea. Well that was progress, Rajin thought, smiling to himself over a fork full of scrambled eggs happily. Fujin sat on the table, gingerly taking a bite out of her english muffin with jam and putting it down to nurse her small bowl of grapefruit sections and cottage cheese. Seifer sat on the edge of his bed scarfing down a sausage before letting his toast fall into his eggs, sunny side up before looking up at Fujin an Rajin, his posse, his friends, his world. As worlds go, this was a small one, and he knew this was going to be the last meal they enjoyed together before they set out in opposing directions, so he slowed down, grabbed an orange from the pile and spent precious moments peeling it.
"So, ya know, Fujin and I are going to be stationed in Balamb, ya know. Wonder what it'll be like, back in the old haunts, ya know"
"MEMORY" Fujin said, putting down her fork. Seifer looked up at her melencholy eyes, put down his orange, took his knife, and cut a piece of the apple sitting perched next to his orange peels and a banana. Rajin was happily shocked as Seifer took the piece of apple and leaned in to Fujin and fed it to her. Rajin had been trying to get those two together since he met them, okay, so that was longer than he remembered, the point being, they were meant for each other, and he could see it. It was one of the few things Rajin could see. Fujin kissed the tops of Seifer's fingers as she bit the apple slice, eliciting a twitch from Seifer, and a hearty laugh breaking out of Rajin's belly.
"It's about time, ya know! I knew something was happening, ya know! Just wait til... there ain't nobody to tell is there, ya know?" Seifer turned slightly red before standing hurredly, as Fujin kicked Rajin with her foot, and jumped up from the table, pointing back to it.
"BREAKFAST" she commanded, and when Fujin Barr commanded anything, you listened. So Seifer sat back down, and pulled a piece of orange into his mouth. Rajin stopped massaging his shin, and got back to quietly eating his breakfast, finishing quickly and standing from his seat,
"Well, that's it for me, ya know. I'm gonna get ready for the train, ya know. You two... heh. you two just ... hehe eat ya know"
"Rajin!" Seifer said in a threatening tone, both knowing full well that he wasn't going to do anything threatening.
"See ya, ya know!" Rajin laughed, exiting the room, banana in hand, as Fujin and Seifer both eyed the only chair at the same time. Seifer scrambled into the chair, as Fujin lept late, landing on Seifer's lap. After the triumph wore off, and Fujin prepared to go back to sitting on the table, Seifer let his arm grab Fujin's waist and keep her on his lap. He had been surprising himself a lot lately. They finished their breakfast with Seifer slicing the apple into more pieces and feeding them to himself and Fujin one at a time. At the last apple piece, Seifer eyed Fujin and put it towards her mouth,
"You have it."
"TOGETHER" Fujin said, biting half of the piece and thrusting Seifer's hand to his mouth. Seifer rapped her fingers with his lips before eating the piece of apple, as she turned on his lap to straddle him. He wasn't the only one surprising themselves. Fujin looked down embarrassed and apologetic as Seifer swallowed and found his other arm fitting itself around her, placed on the small of her back. Seifer batted her chin up with his nose, toying with her face, catching it in small pecking kisses before she took her hands and grabbed his face, catching his mouth in a passionate kiss. As they dissconected, Seifer sat there shocked, breathing heavier before lifting Fujin up with him to a standing position. It was then that Sorceress Edea moved from her position by the door into view of the two comrades in arms.
"When you are quite finished, I have a world to run, if you don't mind." Edea spat, harshly joking in a serious way.
Fujin let go and brought her hand up in a salute, before reddening and sinking back against the bed leg.
"Child, your eye bothers me, cover it up" Edea snapped, briefly sounding tender, yet ending in a snarl as it seemed that someone took control. Fujin quickly turned the room searching for her precious eye patch, before Seifer knelt, picked it up from it's place beside her jacket, and rose carrying both. Fujin turned into him, stiff from the presence of the Sorceress, slightly scared, although Seifer knew she would never show it willingly. Seifer placed the eyepiece over her hair and onto its place, smoothing her hair to its usual position before swinging her coat around and draping it through her arms and onto her shoulders.
"I can always come back when you are good and ready" Edea said, jolting the two back to the task at hand. As Fujin buckled up her coat, Seifer grabbed her tin box and journal off the floor and held it out to her. She yanked the tin box from his hand and slipped it in her pocket before hearing Edea clear her throat, turned, saluted the Sorceress, and walked out the door giving Seifer one last look of farewell before she walked back in to grab her boots. Edea sat on the chair, so Fujin stumbled onto the bed, trying to get the damnable bots on her feet and buckled. Seifer leaned down, buckling one of the boots as he finished and ran his fingers a little ways up her legs before slapping her toes and cuffing her affectionately on the ear, as she stood, saluted Edea again, and Seifer was left kneeling hearing the sound of Fujin's boots click their way down the hall to her quarters.
"I understand the hormones of a man your age, but do you have to keep me waiting because of it?"
Seifer didn't speak, he slowly rose, lifting the journal, leaving the small patch of light from where he knelt to buckle Fujin's boot.
"What I don't understand is why you cater to some small insignificant tart who isn't remotely pretty and is flawed"
"She's beautiful! Fujin's significant, she's my friend"
"I can give you so much more" Edea said, standing to where he stood, and whispering in his ear.
"Rise and shine, ya know... Edea won't let us be tardy, ya know... worse than Xu... heh! ...but ya know I've got breakfast for ya, ya know" Rajin said, knocking the few items Seifer kept on the small table off onto the floor before putting down the tray and stuffing a hot roll halfways into his mouth. This sort of thing didn't shock Rajin anymore. Fujin and Seifer often slept and napped together, usually when one of them was feeling bad, or sad about something, or they were out in the wild and all three of them curled up for warmth, but most often after Seifer had been to the Training Center in Balamb Garden and hurt himself without thinking about it and grunting as Fujin met him outside the Training Center door, potions in hand. They would walk to the dorm Rajin and him shared together, and Fujin would treat his wounds and end up sleeping curled up in the fetal position on top of Seifer's bed. This time, however caught Rajin's eyes as Fujin curled herself from under the covers and stretched her arms above her head as Seifer leaned up and placed his arm, unwittingly around her tiny waist.
"Uhhh... ya know Edea's not gonna be too happy with you two, ya know. Uhh... were you two doing anything... ya know... anything..."
"We're still clothed, you idiot" Seifer said, chucking his pillow and nailing the wall behind Rajin.
"Ya, I know, that's not what I ... okay, whatever ya know" Rajin blurted, cringing as Fujin prepared to throw the other pillow. Seifer rolled out of bed first, shaking his head and lending his hand to Fujin as she tumbled into him groggily. Rajin continued to stare at them while handing them a cup of coffee to Seifer, and tea to Fujin.
"Just the way ya like it, ya know" Rajin said, smiling slightly at the change in his friends. He had been hoping those two would just give in and agree that there was something between them for a while now, but he had learned long ago that you don't go messing in things that aren't your business. Seifer gulped his black coffee, burning his tongue and throat in the process, as cringing before preparing to throw the mug on the floor. Fujin's hand shot up and grabbed the mug around his fingers,
"HOT"
"No really? I burnt my friggin' mouth on it!" Fujin just rolled her eye and blew on his coffee like they did every morning when there was no ice-cubes to plunk in.
"Thanks" Seifer said, calmer than before a bit dissapointed as she let go and blew on her own tea. Well that was progress, Rajin thought, smiling to himself over a fork full of scrambled eggs happily. Fujin sat on the table, gingerly taking a bite out of her english muffin with jam and putting it down to nurse her small bowl of grapefruit sections and cottage cheese. Seifer sat on the edge of his bed scarfing down a sausage before letting his toast fall into his eggs, sunny side up before looking up at Fujin an Rajin, his posse, his friends, his world. As worlds go, this was a small one, and he knew this was going to be the last meal they enjoyed together before they set out in opposing directions, so he slowed down, grabbed an orange from the pile and spent precious moments peeling it.
"So, ya know, Fujin and I are going to be stationed in Balamb, ya know. Wonder what it'll be like, back in the old haunts, ya know"
"MEMORY" Fujin said, putting down her fork. Seifer looked up at her melencholy eyes, put down his orange, took his knife, and cut a piece of the apple sitting perched next to his orange peels and a banana. Rajin was happily shocked as Seifer took the piece of apple and leaned in to Fujin and fed it to her. Rajin had been trying to get those two together since he met them, okay, so that was longer than he remembered, the point being, they were meant for each other, and he could see it. It was one of the few things Rajin could see. Fujin kissed the tops of Seifer's fingers as she bit the apple slice, eliciting a twitch from Seifer, and a hearty laugh breaking out of Rajin's belly.
"It's about time, ya know! I knew something was happening, ya know! Just wait til... there ain't nobody to tell is there, ya know?" Seifer turned slightly red before standing hurredly, as Fujin kicked Rajin with her foot, and jumped up from the table, pointing back to it.
"BREAKFAST" she commanded, and when Fujin Barr commanded anything, you listened. So Seifer sat back down, and pulled a piece of orange into his mouth. Rajin stopped massaging his shin, and got back to quietly eating his breakfast, finishing quickly and standing from his seat,
"Well, that's it for me, ya know. I'm gonna get ready for the train, ya know. You two... heh. you two just ... hehe eat ya know"
"Rajin!" Seifer said in a threatening tone, both knowing full well that he wasn't going to do anything threatening.
"See ya, ya know!" Rajin laughed, exiting the room, banana in hand, as Fujin and Seifer both eyed the only chair at the same time. Seifer scrambled into the chair, as Fujin lept late, landing on Seifer's lap. After the triumph wore off, and Fujin prepared to go back to sitting on the table, Seifer let his arm grab Fujin's waist and keep her on his lap. He had been surprising himself a lot lately. They finished their breakfast with Seifer slicing the apple into more pieces and feeding them to himself and Fujin one at a time. At the last apple piece, Seifer eyed Fujin and put it towards her mouth,
"You have it."
"TOGETHER" Fujin said, biting half of the piece and thrusting Seifer's hand to his mouth. Seifer rapped her fingers with his lips before eating the piece of apple, as she turned on his lap to straddle him. He wasn't the only one surprising themselves. Fujin looked down embarrassed and apologetic as Seifer swallowed and found his other arm fitting itself around her, placed on the small of her back. Seifer batted her chin up with his nose, toying with her face, catching it in small pecking kisses before she took her hands and grabbed his face, catching his mouth in a passionate kiss. As they dissconected, Seifer sat there shocked, breathing heavier before lifting Fujin up with him to a standing position. It was then that Sorceress Edea moved from her position by the door into view of the two comrades in arms.
"When you are quite finished, I have a world to run, if you don't mind." Edea spat, harshly joking in a serious way.
Fujin let go and brought her hand up in a salute, before reddening and sinking back against the bed leg.
"Child, your eye bothers me, cover it up" Edea snapped, briefly sounding tender, yet ending in a snarl as it seemed that someone took control. Fujin quickly turned the room searching for her precious eye patch, before Seifer knelt, picked it up from it's place beside her jacket, and rose carrying both. Fujin turned into him, stiff from the presence of the Sorceress, slightly scared, although Seifer knew she would never show it willingly. Seifer placed the eyepiece over her hair and onto its place, smoothing her hair to its usual position before swinging her coat around and draping it through her arms and onto her shoulders.
"I can always come back when you are good and ready" Edea said, jolting the two back to the task at hand. As Fujin buckled up her coat, Seifer grabbed her tin box and journal off the floor and held it out to her. She yanked the tin box from his hand and slipped it in her pocket before hearing Edea clear her throat, turned, saluted the Sorceress, and walked out the door giving Seifer one last look of farewell before she walked back in to grab her boots. Edea sat on the chair, so Fujin stumbled onto the bed, trying to get the damnable bots on her feet and buckled. Seifer leaned down, buckling one of the boots as he finished and ran his fingers a little ways up her legs before slapping her toes and cuffing her affectionately on the ear, as she stood, saluted Edea again, and Seifer was left kneeling hearing the sound of Fujin's boots click their way down the hall to her quarters.
"I understand the hormones of a man your age, but do you have to keep me waiting because of it?"
Seifer didn't speak, he slowly rose, lifting the journal, leaving the small patch of light from where he knelt to buckle Fujin's boot.
"What I don't understand is why you cater to some small insignificant tart who isn't remotely pretty and is flawed"
"She's beautiful! Fujin's significant, she's my friend"
"I can give you so much more" Edea said, standing to where he stood, and whispering in his ear.