Wow guys, I am SO sorry for not updating in over a year, but it's been very hectic as of late. Please forgive me, I do hope to continue writing more often. Anyway here's chapter eight! Oh and one more thing, surprisingly, I'm actually quite proud of this story…err...chapter…I'm not to thrilled with the first few chapters now that I've recently read them over. Hehe, I'm soo mean to myself!
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Chapter 8
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'It's cold…very cold…too cold. How can he just sit there and act like it's 100 degrees in here. It's like he's on the island closest to hell or something. Weird freak.'
Rinii adjusted her position on the uncomfortable hard stone ground and began to glare at him some more.
'I bet he thinks he's the greatest and most manly person ever just because he saved me. Hah, I could have saved myself if I had wanted to. I wish he'd say something though; it's way to quiet in here for me…of all the times for me to keep my big mouth shut. Oh well, just sitting here thinking isn't going to warm me up at all…my poor cold fingers.'
Rinii stood up fairly quickly and began to stretch her stiff muscles out. After a bit of stretching she briskly rubbed her hands together and blew into them trying desperately to bring some life back to her half dead fingers. She glanced over at Sirrin, the idiot seemed perfectly content with his arms folded behind his head, his legs stretched out and crossed at the knee, and his back leaning up against the cave wall.
'It's like he's getting some sort of sick pleasure out of the temperature in here. Freak…a very good looking freak though'
Rinii mentally slapped herself. This WAS Sirrin she was talking about here. Not exactly your average teenage hottie.
Sirrin, who for the past five minutes had known that Rinii was staring at him, glanced over in her direction. Rinii gasped and quickly turned her head in the other direction.
"You know Leonhart." Sirrin drawled smugly. "If you take a picture it will last longer."
Rinii, who became extremely flustered at this comment bit back.
"What in the heck makes you think I was staring at you?"
Sirrin smirked. "Awe come on babe, you know you can't resist my manly charm now can you?"
Rinii laughed bitterly "Trust me Sirrin I wasn't staring I was gawking. There's a difference, staring is when you're looking at something pleasing, you know, eye candy. Gawking is when you're staring at something hideous, kind of like you for example."
Sirrin glared at her.
"Did Daddy teach you that come back?"
"No, but I bet your Daddy told you that you had a manly charm? Hate to break it to you buddy, he was lying."
Sirrin opened his mouth to say something but stopped. What would it prove winning a verbal fight with Leonhart's 13-year-old daughter? Sirrin looked at Rinii, who had, after he gave up, sat back down and began to fiddle with a piece of stone on the floor.
'She is so annoying. Always has to get the last snide remark. Oh well, guess that's what you can expect from a 13 year old…or is she 14. Wait, why do I even care, she could be 3,476 years old and it wouldn't make a difference to me. Though if she were that old, she'd probably be all wrinkly and saggy…hah…me and my perverted chibi brain occupier."
Sirrin then had a funny mental image of his perverted chibi head occupier dancing around in a multi-colored leopard Speedo singing: I'm Too Sexy. Oddly enough the chibi dude resembled himself.
Sirrin grimaced, if that were him, he wouldn't have had such a tacky colored Speedo.
"Sirrin."
"What?"
"When do you think this storm is going to die down?"
"How should I know, do I look like a freaking weather reporter to you." Sirrin snapped.
Rinii sighed. He was being very difficult.
"No, it's just th- never mind"
"What?"
"It's really cold. I want to go home…"
Sirrin's features seemed to soften somewhat and he kind of felt bad for snapping at her.
"Look." Rinii began. "If we want to make it through this we are going to have to get along, right?"
Sirrin nodded his head slowly; an eyebrow arched the whole time. Rinii continued
"So from now on I wont be a bitch to you if you promise not to be an asshole to me."
Sirrin seemed to study her for a moment before he slightly nodded his head in agreement.
"Oh, and I'm sorry about what I said earlier, about the whole ugly thing…I didn't mean it, you…aren't ugly." Rinii's eye twitched after saying that.
Sirrin acquired a goofy grin at that comment, stood up and snapped his fingers. "Oh, I already knew that girlfriend. Tell me something I don't know."
Rinii, who was shocked at the extremely silly and oh-so-not-Sirrin behavior, replied.
"How about that you are conceited and egotistical!"
"Knew that too honey. Try again."
"YOU are so narcissistic. There's probably thousands of pictures of you all over you're bedroom wall. You probably even have one hanging over your bed so you're the last thing you get to look at before you go into Sirrin dream land."
"Yup, and they're all nude ones too." Sirrin smirked.
"Eww, that's disgusting!"
Sirrin stood up tall in a hero like stance. "There ain't nothing wrong with looking at a bod like this one." Sirrin then ran his hands up and down his finely toned abdomen. "Oh yeahh!"
Rinii laughed. "Quit sucking it in Sirrin, we all know under that bulky sweater of yours, there isn't anything except…fluffy-ness!"
Sirrin glanced at her and smiled.
"Oh you think? Guess I'm going to have to prove you wrong, Leonhart."
Sirrin slowly lifted up his black fleece sweater to reveal finely chiseled abs. He winked at her.
Rinii, who wasn't aware of it until now, also had a chibi brain occupier, and it was currently drowning in it's own pile of drool.
"Show off!"
"Well, like they say if you got it, flaunt it."
"Yeah but just not in front of me okay."
'Anytime, anywhere baby.' Were Rinii's chibi's thoughts.
"Awe, you aren't any fun Leonhart." Sirrin fake pouted, pulled down his sweater, walked over to a corner, and sat looking into the fire.
Rinii watched him. She still could not believe what had just happened. Did he really just…act silly in front of her?
'Why couldn't he always be like this? She thought. 'I'd really hate to admit it, but he is actually pretty charming this way, as opposed to his mean grouchy former self. Maybe I should try being a bit nicer to him.'
"Sirrin."
"Yeah?"
"How come you're never like this in the garden? You are so much easier to be around when you are like this. It's a really nice side of you that I think people would like to see."
Sirrin tensed up and slowly turned away from the fire until he was looking Rinii dead in the eyes.
"You want to know why? I hate those ignorant bastards back at the garden. They all judge me, and that's all those idiots will ever do is judge me!"
Sirrin clenched his fist then continued.
"I'll never be ME, Sirrin, I'll always be evil Seifer's son, or the lapdog's puppy." He sighed.
"To everyone else, I'm nothing but a traitor…like him."
Rinii could feel the anger, bitterness, and hurt in his tone. She felt truly sorry for him.
"You know, I'm judged too. My father is this great big hero, and an extraordinary gunblader, but truthfully, I know I'll never be as good of a gunblader as him… and it's really hard when people are always so expectant of me. I can't help it if I'm not as gifted as him when it comes to gunblading. It's so annoying not being known as Rinii but to be known as The Famous Squall and Rinoa Leonhart's daughter."
Rinii paused for a second while collecting her thoughts.
"You know, I bet the other feel the same way too."
"Others?"
"Yeah, Kelgin, Elsee, and Xade."
"Oh, those losers."
Rinii glared at him.
"They aren't losers Sirrin, how can you call them that when you don't even know them?"
Sirrin sighed, obviously annoyed. "Like I said before my dear: I. HATE. EVERYONE."
Rinii shook her head slowly. "You know…they never once said anything horrible about you. They always thought that somewhere inside of you…somewhere VERY DEEP inside of you, there was this caring, optimistic, light-hearted guy who-" She was abruptly cut off.
"Bull. Shit. They thought wrong." He growled.
Rinii glanced sheepishly down at the cave floor.
"I don't think they did…actually… I believe it with all of my heart"
She looked back up at Sirrin. He was eyeing her nervously.
"Your h-heart…?" He choked out.
"My heart." She whispered while reaching out and grabbing his hand."
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Yup so, that's the ending of chapter eight!! Once again I must apologize for taking sooo long to update. I promise the next chapter will reveal quite a few secrets! Oh and as you can see I changed my penname from AngelWingsOfALion to Natarii! Anywho, R/R my wonderful, patient, forgiving, kind, smart, forgiving, amazing, stupendous, did I mention forgiving readers!?!
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Chapter 8
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'It's cold…very cold…too cold. How can he just sit there and act like it's 100 degrees in here. It's like he's on the island closest to hell or something. Weird freak.'
Rinii adjusted her position on the uncomfortable hard stone ground and began to glare at him some more.
'I bet he thinks he's the greatest and most manly person ever just because he saved me. Hah, I could have saved myself if I had wanted to. I wish he'd say something though; it's way to quiet in here for me…of all the times for me to keep my big mouth shut. Oh well, just sitting here thinking isn't going to warm me up at all…my poor cold fingers.'
Rinii stood up fairly quickly and began to stretch her stiff muscles out. After a bit of stretching she briskly rubbed her hands together and blew into them trying desperately to bring some life back to her half dead fingers. She glanced over at Sirrin, the idiot seemed perfectly content with his arms folded behind his head, his legs stretched out and crossed at the knee, and his back leaning up against the cave wall.
'It's like he's getting some sort of sick pleasure out of the temperature in here. Freak…a very good looking freak though'
Rinii mentally slapped herself. This WAS Sirrin she was talking about here. Not exactly your average teenage hottie.
Sirrin, who for the past five minutes had known that Rinii was staring at him, glanced over in her direction. Rinii gasped and quickly turned her head in the other direction.
"You know Leonhart." Sirrin drawled smugly. "If you take a picture it will last longer."
Rinii, who became extremely flustered at this comment bit back.
"What in the heck makes you think I was staring at you?"
Sirrin smirked. "Awe come on babe, you know you can't resist my manly charm now can you?"
Rinii laughed bitterly "Trust me Sirrin I wasn't staring I was gawking. There's a difference, staring is when you're looking at something pleasing, you know, eye candy. Gawking is when you're staring at something hideous, kind of like you for example."
Sirrin glared at her.
"Did Daddy teach you that come back?"
"No, but I bet your Daddy told you that you had a manly charm? Hate to break it to you buddy, he was lying."
Sirrin opened his mouth to say something but stopped. What would it prove winning a verbal fight with Leonhart's 13-year-old daughter? Sirrin looked at Rinii, who had, after he gave up, sat back down and began to fiddle with a piece of stone on the floor.
'She is so annoying. Always has to get the last snide remark. Oh well, guess that's what you can expect from a 13 year old…or is she 14. Wait, why do I even care, she could be 3,476 years old and it wouldn't make a difference to me. Though if she were that old, she'd probably be all wrinkly and saggy…hah…me and my perverted chibi brain occupier."
Sirrin then had a funny mental image of his perverted chibi head occupier dancing around in a multi-colored leopard Speedo singing: I'm Too Sexy. Oddly enough the chibi dude resembled himself.
Sirrin grimaced, if that were him, he wouldn't have had such a tacky colored Speedo.
"Sirrin."
"What?"
"When do you think this storm is going to die down?"
"How should I know, do I look like a freaking weather reporter to you." Sirrin snapped.
Rinii sighed. He was being very difficult.
"No, it's just th- never mind"
"What?"
"It's really cold. I want to go home…"
Sirrin's features seemed to soften somewhat and he kind of felt bad for snapping at her.
"Look." Rinii began. "If we want to make it through this we are going to have to get along, right?"
Sirrin nodded his head slowly; an eyebrow arched the whole time. Rinii continued
"So from now on I wont be a bitch to you if you promise not to be an asshole to me."
Sirrin seemed to study her for a moment before he slightly nodded his head in agreement.
"Oh, and I'm sorry about what I said earlier, about the whole ugly thing…I didn't mean it, you…aren't ugly." Rinii's eye twitched after saying that.
Sirrin acquired a goofy grin at that comment, stood up and snapped his fingers. "Oh, I already knew that girlfriend. Tell me something I don't know."
Rinii, who was shocked at the extremely silly and oh-so-not-Sirrin behavior, replied.
"How about that you are conceited and egotistical!"
"Knew that too honey. Try again."
"YOU are so narcissistic. There's probably thousands of pictures of you all over you're bedroom wall. You probably even have one hanging over your bed so you're the last thing you get to look at before you go into Sirrin dream land."
"Yup, and they're all nude ones too." Sirrin smirked.
"Eww, that's disgusting!"
Sirrin stood up tall in a hero like stance. "There ain't nothing wrong with looking at a bod like this one." Sirrin then ran his hands up and down his finely toned abdomen. "Oh yeahh!"
Rinii laughed. "Quit sucking it in Sirrin, we all know under that bulky sweater of yours, there isn't anything except…fluffy-ness!"
Sirrin glanced at her and smiled.
"Oh you think? Guess I'm going to have to prove you wrong, Leonhart."
Sirrin slowly lifted up his black fleece sweater to reveal finely chiseled abs. He winked at her.
Rinii, who wasn't aware of it until now, also had a chibi brain occupier, and it was currently drowning in it's own pile of drool.
"Show off!"
"Well, like they say if you got it, flaunt it."
"Yeah but just not in front of me okay."
'Anytime, anywhere baby.' Were Rinii's chibi's thoughts.
"Awe, you aren't any fun Leonhart." Sirrin fake pouted, pulled down his sweater, walked over to a corner, and sat looking into the fire.
Rinii watched him. She still could not believe what had just happened. Did he really just…act silly in front of her?
'Why couldn't he always be like this? She thought. 'I'd really hate to admit it, but he is actually pretty charming this way, as opposed to his mean grouchy former self. Maybe I should try being a bit nicer to him.'
"Sirrin."
"Yeah?"
"How come you're never like this in the garden? You are so much easier to be around when you are like this. It's a really nice side of you that I think people would like to see."
Sirrin tensed up and slowly turned away from the fire until he was looking Rinii dead in the eyes.
"You want to know why? I hate those ignorant bastards back at the garden. They all judge me, and that's all those idiots will ever do is judge me!"
Sirrin clenched his fist then continued.
"I'll never be ME, Sirrin, I'll always be evil Seifer's son, or the lapdog's puppy." He sighed.
"To everyone else, I'm nothing but a traitor…like him."
Rinii could feel the anger, bitterness, and hurt in his tone. She felt truly sorry for him.
"You know, I'm judged too. My father is this great big hero, and an extraordinary gunblader, but truthfully, I know I'll never be as good of a gunblader as him… and it's really hard when people are always so expectant of me. I can't help it if I'm not as gifted as him when it comes to gunblading. It's so annoying not being known as Rinii but to be known as The Famous Squall and Rinoa Leonhart's daughter."
Rinii paused for a second while collecting her thoughts.
"You know, I bet the other feel the same way too."
"Others?"
"Yeah, Kelgin, Elsee, and Xade."
"Oh, those losers."
Rinii glared at him.
"They aren't losers Sirrin, how can you call them that when you don't even know them?"
Sirrin sighed, obviously annoyed. "Like I said before my dear: I. HATE. EVERYONE."
Rinii shook her head slowly. "You know…they never once said anything horrible about you. They always thought that somewhere inside of you…somewhere VERY DEEP inside of you, there was this caring, optimistic, light-hearted guy who-" She was abruptly cut off.
"Bull. Shit. They thought wrong." He growled.
Rinii glanced sheepishly down at the cave floor.
"I don't think they did…actually… I believe it with all of my heart"
She looked back up at Sirrin. He was eyeing her nervously.
"Your h-heart…?" He choked out.
"My heart." She whispered while reaching out and grabbing his hand."
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Yup so, that's the ending of chapter eight!! Once again I must apologize for taking sooo long to update. I promise the next chapter will reveal quite a few secrets! Oh and as you can see I changed my penname from AngelWingsOfALion to Natarii! Anywho, R/R my wonderful, patient, forgiving, kind, smart, forgiving, amazing, stupendous, did I mention forgiving readers!?!