Oh my! I haven't updated in such a long time! I'm so sorry! But Inuyasha started in Canada (finally!) and I just HAD to watch it! Terribly sorry! This chapter might be long since my other one was a bit too short! And Tifa's uniform, to make it easier, looks like Sakura's (from cardcaptors) and Kagome's (from Inuyasha! ^^) so you have an idea of what it looks like...Let's see how it turns out!
Chapter 4: Goodbye Forever...
High school...
"Man, soccer practice was the worst this time. No one passed the ball to us. And did you see how the girls looked at us in the change rooms? What was wrong with them?" Tifa said.
She was wearing her high school uniform, a white shirt with a green colar and a small ribbon in the middle, with a short striped green skirt. Two girls, one with short brown hair and the other with long light brown hair, wore the same thing and were following her onto the blitzball field
"Don't ask me, they didn't pass the ball to me either. And they gave me some dirty looks too." Aeris said while she looked out onto the field where all the boys were playing blitzball.
"Same here! Gawd, that was so rude of them! One more second and I woulda punched them all out! I woulda used my shuriken that my father gave to me and knocked them all dead!" Yuffie said while making movements with her fists, punching the air.
"Yuff, you know we aren't allowed to even mention that we can fight! Especially in school! Do you have any idea of how much trouble we'd be in?!" Aeris said, now looking at Yuffie in a concerned way.
"Well of course! Miss goody-two-shoes doesn't want to get in trouble! That might ruin her record of being so damn perfect and a complete teachers pet!" Yuffie said in a girly innocent voice.
"I am so not a goody-two-shoe! And how dare you tell me that I'm a teachers pet! Just because I get better grades then you, doesn't mean you have to be so jealous of me!" Aeris barked back, her emerald eyes now glaring angrily at Yuffie.
"Why you...I bet you aren't anything but talk! Come on and fight! I bet that stupid pathetic staff is just for show!" Yuffie said back, her hands clenched into tight fists and her teeth gritted while her gray-brown eyes glowed with fury.
"Show? You want to see a show? I'll give you a show that not only your head won't forget but your whole body won't forget! I'll show you just what this so called "stupid pathetic staff" can do and you'll wish you had never said that!" Aeris shouted back, now obviously very angry.
Aeris pulled out a small silver staff from her bag and clicked a small button. The staff began to grow larger and was soon taller then it's owner.
"Oh yeah! You want to bring weapons in this? Too afraid that you can't fight without that stupid magic staff of yours!?" Yuffie shouted to her as she pulled out a shuriken out of one of her bags.
"Heh...Let's go and I'll show you what magic can do to you!" Aeris said with an evil grin as she got into position.
"Aeris, Yuffie! What the heck are you thinking? Stop that and put your weapons away right now! What if one of the boys saw us! Especially if it was Cloud or one of his friends! Do you have any idea of how much torture we'd have to go through!?" Tifa said in a light whisper to the two angry girls.
Tifa turned and faced them and lowered both their weapons, while the two just glared at each other. Yuffie put her shuriken back into one of her bags and Aeris clicked a small button on her staff and, when it shrank back to it's original size, she put it away.
Both the girls were still glaring, but not at each other. Instead, they kept walking out into the blitzball field where a large sphere stood in the middle. The sphere was filled with water and if you looked close enough, you would see a bunch of people swimming inside it. The girls sat on one of the benches and Tifa began to talk to settle Aeris and Yuffie down.
Soon, after a long chat and a bit of arguing and bad words, they all sat there with their smiles on and watched the game.
"NO! I said for you to cover Zack! Not Vincent, ZACK! What the heck do you think you were doing up there?!" A short plump man with a cap on shouted at a spikey blonde haired boy.
"But, coach! I was after Zack, but Vincent had the ball so I swam after him instead-..."
"That's enough! I don't want to hear anymore! I know you just wanted to get Vincent cause Zack isn't enough of a challenge for you! Well, now look! Zack just scored! I never want to see this happen again or else you'll be kicked off the team!" the coach yelled at him and then blew his whistle, signaling that the practice was over.
"Yes coach..." the boy said with a frown and walked away towards the change rooms.
"Hahaha! We beat you! Nice shot Zack!" Vincent shouted as he high fived Zack.
"Yeah, yeah...just stop rubbing it in..." Cloud said as he walked away.
Then he spotted Tifa, Yuffie and Aeris sitting on a bench, studying. He had to go up there, as much as he didn't want to, his parents had made him. They told him he had to apologize to them because of what he did yesterday. He had put a worm in Tifa's sandwich and she had eaten it. Not long after she felt something squirming in her mouth did she scream a loud horrible scream. So he had to apologize or else he wouldn't be allowed to play blitzball again. He knew that his parents would always find out. They would phone Tifa's parents and ask if he had apologized to her. So there was no way out of this.
But did he have to do it now? He thought he would do it after he changed and showered and then he would tell them. But he would pull another prank later, so what was the point of apologizing? Tifa had this thing that made him want to pull pranks on her. She always got on his nerves and he would always get mad and play a mean trick on her. It was a routine! He walked into the boy's change room without another glance at her.
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"Did you see the way the coach scolded Cloud? He was so mad at him. And Cloud's team even lost! I can't believe that! I actually kind of feel sorry for him..."
Tifa and Aeris both stopped dead in there tracks. The three girls were walking home, since they all lived right across the street. Yuffie kept walking until she realized that the two pairs of footsteps that once were following her had stopped. She turned around and saw Aeris and Tifa look angrily back at her.
"What do you mean feel sorry for that jerk? After all him and his friends did to you, Aeris and me, you feel sorry for him? You should feel sorry for US for having to go to the same school with him so he can just torture us more! How can you say that?" Tifa said, gripping the straps that came over her shoulder from her bag.
"Yeah, Yuffie...those jerks are nothing but trouble to us. You shouldn't go feeling sorry for them." Aeris said, slightly blushing for no reason.
"Well-I...It's just that-He looked so sad...But...I guess you guys are right...I still kind of feel sorry for him...I hear his parents are really pressuring him with his schoolwork...and that they are MAKING him go out with girls he doesn't even know...plus they keep threatening that they'll take him off the blitzball team if he doesn't keep up with his schoolwork...So I kinda feel bad for him y'know...besides...he's kinda cute..." Yuffie said, now looking at the floor blushing madly.
"W-what?? How do you know all that?" Tifa said, taking a step towards Yuffie, she was so shocked to her a proud Kisaragi like her utter those words about Cloud.
"And did you just call Cloud cute?! Oh my! You like him don't you!" Aeris shouted her mouth wide open in surprise.
"Well...you know how information travels. Cloud's parents call Vincent's parents and Vincent's parents call my mom and so on. And I don't like him! That's crazy! I just feel bad for him. And you have to admit! He did get more handsome! Before he used to be so small and scrawny. Now he's tall, tanned a bit and has muscles! Tifa, you have to agree with me!"
Tifa stood there shocked and wondered why her friend just told her that. Why would she agree? As much as she didn't want to admit it, it was true. From an ugly duckling, Cloud had turned into a swan. He was certainly taller and had gotten a tan from being in the sun a lot during the summer. And he was getting muscles from playing blitzball and, from a source she had heard, he was even lifting weights and practicing with a large sword.
Cloud was definitely attractive. All the cheerleaders would always run up to him and compliment him on his game and offer him a drink. He was also rich because his parents were very rich people. He was also very smart, even though it is quite shocking to Tifa, who is one of the top students in her classes, he had beaten her. He was everything Tifa liked which was probably why Yuffie acknowledged her.
"W-why are you asking me? Okay, okay...so he IS kinda cute...but he's still a jerk! And he never apologizes to what he does to me! As if I'm going to forgive him anyways! He's a complete loser!" Tifa shouted, as she turned her red face around and crossed her arms. Angry red or blushing red, it was probably both.
For some reason, Aeris blushed a deep red and was twiddling her thumbs.
"Well...I kinda agree...with...umm...Yuffie...and Tifa...He is...really...handsome...and same with his friends...but he is a jerk...but he hasn't pranked us all day...and I think he's kinda...sweet..." Aeris said, now so red that she stared at her feet so her friends wouldn't look at her.
"W-w-WHAT?! I can't believe that! Aeris, are you telling me...you LIKE him?! His friends are cute?! Have you both LOST your MARBLES!!!! He tortures you for your whole life and then one day he doesn't do anything mean and you're all over him like those stupid cheerleaders?!" Tifa shouted, now completely outraged.
"Well, remember when Yuffie and I were at the library...he sorta came up to us...and so did Zack and Vincent..."
"Did he try to prank you again?" Tifa asked, still a bit of outrage in her voice.
"Well...no...you see he did the total opposite...he...apologized to us...and he even offered to help us if we ever needed it...and he was so sweet...he even smiled at us really sweetly...Vincent did too...then they sat beside us the whole time and we talked and laughed...it was...nice..." Yuffie said, sounding innocent in hopes of calming Tifa down, but it only made her angrier.
"You mean he apologized to you and you fell for it!? How do you know if he was only joking so he can prank ME somehow!? Or prank you guys! He might just want to gain your trust so he can hurt you even more next time! You guys are so stupid! I can't believe this!"
"Tifa...I know you're mad and this will probably get you angrier...but...please try to understand...this whole childish fight is getting old...we're in high school now...we need to get over it...so please try and relax...this fight kept going in circles ever since kindergarten...it's about time it finished...and he wasn't lying...he was too kind about it...so please...Tifa..." Aeris said, desperately trying to calm Tifa down.
"Relax? How can I relax when I know that my friends or I can get hurt again!? No way! If you guys have any good brains left in your brainwashed heads, you won't believe a word he said!" Tifa shouted as she stomped off.
"Well anyways Tifa...we can't make it to soccer practice tomorrow and we need you to tell coach we're not feeling well." Yuffie called after her.
"But you guys aren't sick...your fine..." Tifa said as she stepped back towards them to examine them.
"Yeah we know...but we sorta have this thing after school that we need to do...so..." Aeris said, blushing again and lowering her head.
"Why? What are you guys doing? You love soccer practice! Where will you be? What is it you guys aren't telling me?" Tifa said, looking angry again.
"Well, remember how we told you that Cloud and Vincent came up to us...?" Yuffie said looking slightly scared.
"...Yes..." Tifa replied, her hands clenched into fists.
"Well...they sorta...asked us out...PLEASE DON'T BE MAD!" Yuffie shouted, tears forming at the corner of her eyes. "What...? They asked you out? You mean you two are going out with Cloud and Vincent? This is a trap! Believe me it is! You guys are going to leave me alone at soccer practice and they will probably come after me when I walk home and then they'll hurt you! I can't believe you'll just ditch me for guys we can barely trust?! Gee, what great friends you are! And you'll probably come crawling back to me and tell me that I was right, that they DID prank you! You guys are complete idiots! I can't believe you would just leave me alone for them!" Tifa shouted, anger filled her body but tears filled her eyes and were dripping down her cheeks.
"Tifa, that's enough! I thought you'd understand! Cause that's what friends do! You should be happy for us! I bet your...your...YOUR JUST JEALOUS THAT I'M GOING OUT WITH CLOUD!" Aeris shouted, tears also falling down her cheeks.
"Jealous? Ha-ha...jealous of what? That you're going out with Cloud and that he'll probably end up pranking you? Is that what you think I'm jealous of? Well, you can just go out with Cloud, but don't come crawling back to me when he breaks your heart and you need a friend by your side! Because we are no longer best friends!" Tifa shouted and she tore off the friendship bracelet that they all had made in grade 5 that had 3 words written on it; Best, Friends, Forever.
All the beads fell off and the string flew away with the wind. Tifa turned her back, her long loose light brown hair flying as she did this, and stomped off towards her house, leaving her friends behind...
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Wow, that was longer then intended! Well, I hope you like it so far! Please review! I love it when people review my story! Stay tuned for chapter five and you'll get to find out what happens on the date! Suspenseful? He-he! Well, anyways, I can't wait till next Friday cause Inuyasha's on again! Woohooo!!!