Standard disclaimers apply
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Author's notes; I recently came across the manga, Shichinin no Nana, or Seven of Seven. It tells the story of a girl who got split into seven different versions of herself - all with different personalities. This story was born from that idea; however, I don't plan on copying anything else from the manga other then the main idea.
Anyway, here's the story (ies) of what happens when a mysterious crystal splits Rikku into seven different versions of herself. They are: Sexy Rikku, Sarcastic/ Mean Rikku, Cry-baby Rikku, Shy Rikku, Lazy Rikku, Smart Rikku, and let's not forget about Rikku in her regular state. I'm still not sure how this is going to turn out, but stick around and see.
Kissa-chan
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Chaos of Seven
By; Kissa-chan
Chapter 1; Rikku Times Seven
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She swung through the narrow window in the ruins. Landing lightly on her feet, she looked around. "How are things going? Do you need any help?" Yuna's anxious voice burst over the comm, startling Rikku for a brief moment.
"No, I'm fine," the blond girl responded. "And how about you? How's the new mommy coming?" she asked in a teasing voice.
Yuna practically blushed over the comm. "I'm not a mother yet..." she began slowly. "But if you run into any trouble let me know - I'll send Tidus to help you!"
"But that wouldn't be right," Rikku said lightly. "Because you're due any day now, and if he shakey-shakeid his way off to help me - he might miss the entire birthing process." She paused for a moment, windmilling her arms furiously for balance. "And you want him to know how much giving birth hurts so you can use it against him later," she added with a slightly disgruntled smile; she had failed to maintain her balance and landed flat on her butt.
"I see that you don't need any help," Yuna answered reluctantly. She was starting to get cabin fever from being confined to 'safe' missions. "Just be careful. Get the sphere and get back to the ship pronto. Don't dawdle -"
"Jealous that me and Paine get all the sphere hunter goodness while you widdle away on the Celsius?" Rikku taunted lightly. She stood up, rubbing her sore butt gently.
"Paine's not with you -" Yuna began, not yet surrendering her link into the action.
"I'm almost there," Rikku announced. "Wish me luck." She grinned and switched her comm off. She looked around the new room and slowly made her way to the door at the edge. "Time to prove why I'm the veteran sphere hunter with the Gullwings," she murmured gleefully.
It wasn't very often that she got out on her own. And when opportunity comes knocking; it's best not to dawdle!
She pushed on the door, twin blades at ready for any fiends lurking behind it. However, the door didn't budge an inch. She pushed some more, abandoning her weapons to their sheaths on her thighs. Still no luck.
Huffing and puffing, she stepped back to evaluate the door and see how it opened. A flame symbol caught her eye almost instantly. "Obviously!" she exclaimed under her breath, glad that Yuna and Paine weren't there to tease her.
She sphere changed to Black Mage and cast Fire on the door. With a soft whoosh, it slid opened, and a hideous fiend stepped in front of the opening. From behind it, she could see the soft orange glow of a sphere - her prize - but first she had to deal with the fiend.
She sphere-changed again, calling out in a sing-song voice, "I know all about you!" She grinned as the monster's data flowed through her mind. "Give me one shot!" she proclaimed happily and pulled the trigger of her odd looking Gun Mage gun.
It hit the monster.... and broke it.... as near as Rikku could tell. It split into seven different monsters. "Ah... okay, let's try that again," she murmured. She leveled her gun again and fired - missing by a couple of feet.
The fiends all started their assault, cleverly chaining their attacks together. They moved as one, rather then as individual fiends. Rikku sphere changed back to her original sphere and darted foreword, swiping a heart shaped crystal from the first fiend. "First you steal, then you rob, then you send to kingdom bloody hell!" she declared. She proceeded to attempt to lighten the purses of her attackers. Then she sphere-changed to Berserker and let loose.
They weren't that strong of fiends and their advantage was clearly in numbers. They didn't split apart like they had done the first time she hit one of them, which made it much easier for the Al Bhed spherehunter to claim victory.
Pyreflies dissolving around her, Rikku pranced into the room and picked up the glowing orange sphere. It was set carefully on a pedestal in the center of the room. Looking up, Rikku could just see the sun setting.
"Mission complete!" she shouted into her comm, a wide grin bursting across her face.
Shinra answered, "Yuna is having her baby. You'll have to walk back to the Celsius."
"Woo-hoo!" Rikku cheered. "Yunie's having her baby! Yunie's having her baby!" She danced foreword. "I'll be there in no time!"
"Not likely," Shinra answered. "We're in Bevelle and you're in the Djose area."
"You... left... me?" Rikku asked incredulously. Her exhilaration at her cousin's going into labor abandoning her.
"You're the one who turned off her comm. We tried to get a hold of you," Shinra said in a calm, patronizing voice. "We'll see you when you arrive." He clearly was smart enough to get off the comm before Rikku could get herself orientated.
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Travel agencies had been built along the Summoners path to Zanarkand. Where Rikku was travel agencies hadn't been built. She checked into a small motel and flopped down on the bed. At least she had been successful in getting the sphere. She picked it up and switched it on - curious what images it would reveal.
Static and fuzz.... nothing interesting. In short, a dud in every sense of the word. She tossed it aside and picked up the strange crystal. Inside, it looked like there was a prism heart. "Pretty...." she murmured. She held it up in the moonlight to get a better look.
A flash of silvery white light blasted throughout the room, rendering her unconscious. And committing her fully to the crystal's moon activated powers.
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Rikku woke up on the floor, her head at an awkward angle. She groaned, rubbing her temple and sitting up. She had a splitting headache ripping at her senses and felt slightly... odd. Planning on shaking it off, she looked up at the bed and saw a familiar face. Her face.
"Did I fall out of my body?" Rikku whispered in horror. "I'm me... but there's my body." She crawled closer. "I should probably get back into my body," she whispered shakily. She jumped up and landed on the body in the bed.
"What do you think you're doing?" came a reply from the girl who had been sleeping on the bed.
"Getting back inside you," Rikku answered. "Only - heh heh - it doesn't seem to be working," she said, rubbing the back of her head lightly.
"Ooooh! Perverted girlie sex!" a smooth voice drawled. "I want in!"
Rikku turned her head slowly, eyes coming to rest on herself once more. Only this time she was lounging languidly on the window seat.
"But that would be....." Rikku turned to look at the new voice and found herself confronted with her own body again. A crimson blush was burning on the look-a-like's face and she didn't look like she would finish the sentence.
"Is that even possible?" another girl asked with a barely sniffled sob.
"Of course, would you like me to explain how?" another girl asked.
Rikku turned, expecting to see two more versions of herself. "Great!" she exclaimed. "For once my hunches are correct." She got off of the first girl she had leaped on and backed towards the door while the others started moving around. Clearly they had all just woken up.
They were all (with the exception of the girl who was still sleeping) doing the same thing that she was. Counting. "One... two... three ..... four.... five.... six ...... seven," was the final conclusion from the six awake girls.
"What!"
"Who are you?"
"Why are you wearing the same clothes as me?!"
"You guys are copies!"
"No way! I'm the real Rikku!" Rikku exclaimed.
"Not likely! I'm Rikku." the girl she had been sitting on said flatly.
"I'm Rikku," came a teary sob. "You're all impostors! Get out of my motel room!"
"Excuse me sweety, but I'm Rikku," another Rikku said in a sultry voice. She shifted slightly on the bed, accenting her well shaped legs.
"Uhmmmmm, excuse me.... but I -I- I'm t-the real R-rikku," came the stammer from the girl sitting by the window.
"Actually, I am," one Rikku explained. "You see, I fought Sin two years ago!
"So did I!" came the indignant response from the other girls.
"Let's think about this logically. If we all think that we're Rikku, maybe we are all Rikku," the same girl persisted. "And maybe you had it right," she added to Rikku.
"I... did?" she sobbed. "I've never been right before!"
"Not you -"
"Waahhhhhhh! I'm useless," the girl sobbed.
"That's not what I meant. We have to merge with our common body."
"Common body? Pu~lease, I've got a sphere to get back to the Gullwings. You fakes can do whatever-" Which was as far as THAT Rikku got before the others were clinging to her.
"That sphere belongs to me!" they shouted.
"Ahem, there is our common body," the Rikku explaining things announced. She pointed towards the sleeping form curled up by the heater with all of the blankets on her. "We're part of her."
"And even if we're not, it can't hurt to try and merge with her, you know," Rikku added. "That's a good plan.... er.... Rikku."
They all surrounded the sleeping girl. "On three," one of them whispered. Then, simultaneously, on the count of one and a half, they leapt into the air and landed on the sleeping version of Rikku.
"Go away, Paine, I don't want to hunt spheres......" the sleeping version murmured. She shoved at the cluttered mass of limbs and bodies on top of her and yawned heavily.
They disentangled. "Well, how about we fight?"
"I'd be..... worried that I would hurt you -"
"Morning girls, what's going on?" the sleeping version asked, sitting up and yawning, oblivious to the nervous looks the others were exhibiting.
"Look, there are a couple reasons that you can't be me," Rikku announced, bouncing over to the bed and sitting down Indian style, ignoring the greeting.
"Oh yeah?" came the chorus of responses.
"You're a cry-baby, something that I'm not. How did you managed to beat Sin and Yu Yevon while sobbing like that?" Rikku accused. The girl in question sniffled and burst into tears. "See, I hate to say it, but you're a whinny cry-baby..."
"Ooooooh! I think you got it," a Rikku announced. "Where's that crystal I stole yesterday?"
The rest of the Rikku's shrugged. "Why?"
"Find it," the girl ordered.
"Find it yourself, I'm going back to sleep."
"I think we might have broken it," a different girl said with a furious blush. "It's been split into seven different pieces...." She held up the pieces and bent her head. "I'm sorry."
"Do you remember how that fiend split into seven different forms when it got attacked?" Everyone nodded. "Well, maybe that crystal is the reason why. Maybe we're all Rikku. Just different versions. For instance, I'm Smart. To alleviate confusion, you will call me Rikku-sama."
"Rikku-sama.... you're not me," Rikku said softly.
"Then I'm Sexy Rikku," another girl purred. "But you can just call me Rikki." She winked and then let a smile fluttered across her face. "And if anyone wants to try and have sex together I can help -"
"NOOOOOOOOO!" came the shrieked response. "That wouldn't be right. We're all girls!"
"You would be Shy," Rikku-sama said. "What shall we call you?"
Shy Rikku pointed at herself and blushed. "Who? Me? Well, er.... Ri ...Ri ... Ri," she stammered, unable to completely say her name.
"Ri? That's pathetic."
"How about we just call you Paine?" Rikku snapped. She patted Ri awkwardly on the back. "Uhmmmm, don't listen to her, you're choice is fine."
"Rikk," Sarcastic Rikku said flatly. "Not Paine."
"Rikk's a boys' name," Ri mumbled.
"I know that." Rikk turned away from Rikku and Ri. "How about you, faucet face? Shall we call you waterfall?"
"Rikku-chan......" she said, wiping her eyes quickly. She tried to put on a brave face, but failed and broke into tears again. Rikki sat down beside her and started to massage her back.
"You better not touch her chest," Rikku-sama warned absent-mindedly.
"What about her?" Rikku asked, pointing to the version of herself that had fallen asleep again. "How can she sit still at a time like this?"
"She's lazy," Rikk said in a deadpan voice.
"Let's call her Rikku-san," Rikku-sama suggested. "And we had better wake her up. How are we going to explain this -"
"We're not!" came the instant response.
"We're going to have to keep it a secrete and keep a low profile until we figure out how to get back to normal," Ri murmured softly. "Can you imagine how this would look to...everyone?"
"I can just picture the respect points flying out the window, you know," Rikku announced.
"Not to mention everyone declaring us 'unfit' as sphere hunters," Rikku-sama agreed. "However, we're going to need some way to keep the split a secrete."
"How about you guys all stay here until I got things figured out?" Rikk suggested.
Several moments of intense fighting later, Rikku-chan spoke up, "This sob isn't working. We all want to go back to the Celsius. Isn't there some way that -"
Rikku-san yawned and sat up. "We should probably just stay in our room on the Celsius."
Since Tidus and Yuna had gotten married, Rikku and Paine were sharing a room together. "Hello, Paine would notice," Rikk said flatly, crossing her arms across her stomach.
"We'll move into that storage room," Rikku suggested. "We can put a big bed in there and -"
"Sleep together nekkid!" Rikki purred.
"Nooooooooooooo!" Ri shrieked again. "I really wish that you would stop saying stuff like that."
"We're all the same person," Rikki pointed out. "And we have the same bodies - although mine looks best - so it's not like we're going to see or touch something that we haven't already."
"Actually, we're sleeping in clothes, Rikki," Rikku-sama announced.
"All of us," Rikku-chan said firmly, her eyes still puffy from crying during the brawl.
"That includes you, you know," Rikku pointed out.
"Fine," Rikki pouted, reluctantly giving in under their combined decision. "But I pick my own nighties!"
"Agreed," Rikku-sama said after a brief moment. "Now we need to come up with a plan."
"First we should get to Bevelle," Rikk said flatly. "I'll comm Shinra and Buddy and have them prepare the new room for us."
"But won't they want to know why?" Ri whispered softly.
"And have we even decided that we're going to stay together?" Rikku asked in confusion.
"Yes!" the others exclaimed.
"Okay, so back to the matter of 'why' we need a new room," Rikku said, holding up her hands to ward the other five awake girls off.
"Tell them we want to give Paine her privacy so she can get nekkid with the guys!" Rikki declared. She switched her comm on before anyone could say or do anything to stop her. "Oh, Brother," she called out in a sultry voice.
"What is it now! Yuna is having her baby! AGGGGGHHHHHHH! What am I going to do? My hopes, my dreams..... GONE!" he wailed back into the comm.
"Poor baby -" Rikku started to purr seductively.
"Ewww!" Ri exclaimed. She ran foreword and switched her comm on and Rikki's comm off. "We ....er ..... I want you to do me a f-favor."
"Rikku, it's me, Buddy. Are you okay? You sound strange."
Rikk rolled her eyes and made a cut off motion for the comm, switching hers on at the same time. "Buddy, I need you to empty out the storage room behind the engine room."
"Why?" Buddy inquired.
"Because I need it," Rikk answered.
"I don't see what you need it for -" Buddy began.
"Naturally," Rikk said sarcastically.
Rikku-chan took over the message. "Pleaaaassssseee!" she said, tears making her voice seem slightly watery. "I need it really bad."
"Rikku, are you sure that you're okay? You sound odd," Buddy said.
Rikku-chan glanced helplessly around the room, swirly green eyes coming to a rest on Rikku-sama. "It's sphere interference waves. They sometimes distort messages. You should hear what you sound like," the Smart Rikku said confidentially.
"Sphere interference waves?" Buddy asked.
"Yes, they're caused by the electric currents in the Djose area. You should ask Shinra about it sometime," Rikku-sama continued.
"What do I sound like?" Brother demanded, coming back on the air abruptly.
"A wounded and dying flan," Rikk said, switching her comm back on.
"I don't see why we have to do it for you," Buddy said quickly to stall Brother's indignant explosion.
Rikku-san switched her comm on. "Because it'd be too much work to do it myself." She had woken up just in time to catch enough of the conversation.
"I'm moving into the room," Rikku shouted, glaring at the lazy version of herself. "I have a reputation to uphold, you know," she whispered hotly. "I don't need people thinking that I'm lazy!"
"What was that?" Buddy asked. "I didn't quite catch that last comment."
"I said - 'I'm moving in.'" Rikk snapped, getting impatient with the conversation.
"So Paine'll be all alone with two spare beds," Rikki added with a bright smile. "Who knows what she might do... all alone..."
"Oh.... okay, I suppose I could do it for you," Buddy said after a moment.
"Thanks," Rikki purred and switched off her comm. "See, I told you I could get the job done."
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Author's notes; Okay, it started out a little slower then I wanted; however, a good story line is always important and I wanted to make sure that there was one. The timeline of events is about one year after the game. Yuna and Tidus got married and are having a baby, which I explained mostly in the first chapter.
However, I didn't get to explaining where Paine was. So I'll explain (partially ) right now. She's visiting someone in the Farplane. Anything else, and it'll spoil my plans.
I'm going to update this fic weekly on Tuesdays ( unless something comes up that I have no control over.) And treat it like a movie kinda. There will be special edition chapters, and at the end of all chapters, I'll tell you what is going to happen in the next fic - kinda like a preview.
Next Chapter; The Rikku-gumi (Rikku gang) are on their way to Bevelle. On the way they run into Gippal and end up tormenting him. Will he discover their secrete? Will they get caught before they even get back to the Celsious? Stick around and find out!
Thanks for reading,
Kissa-chan
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Author's notes; I recently came across the manga, Shichinin no Nana, or Seven of Seven. It tells the story of a girl who got split into seven different versions of herself - all with different personalities. This story was born from that idea; however, I don't plan on copying anything else from the manga other then the main idea.
Anyway, here's the story (ies) of what happens when a mysterious crystal splits Rikku into seven different versions of herself. They are: Sexy Rikku, Sarcastic/ Mean Rikku, Cry-baby Rikku, Shy Rikku, Lazy Rikku, Smart Rikku, and let's not forget about Rikku in her regular state. I'm still not sure how this is going to turn out, but stick around and see.
Kissa-chan
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Chaos of Seven
By; Kissa-chan
Chapter 1; Rikku Times Seven
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She swung through the narrow window in the ruins. Landing lightly on her feet, she looked around. "How are things going? Do you need any help?" Yuna's anxious voice burst over the comm, startling Rikku for a brief moment.
"No, I'm fine," the blond girl responded. "And how about you? How's the new mommy coming?" she asked in a teasing voice.
Yuna practically blushed over the comm. "I'm not a mother yet..." she began slowly. "But if you run into any trouble let me know - I'll send Tidus to help you!"
"But that wouldn't be right," Rikku said lightly. "Because you're due any day now, and if he shakey-shakeid his way off to help me - he might miss the entire birthing process." She paused for a moment, windmilling her arms furiously for balance. "And you want him to know how much giving birth hurts so you can use it against him later," she added with a slightly disgruntled smile; she had failed to maintain her balance and landed flat on her butt.
"I see that you don't need any help," Yuna answered reluctantly. She was starting to get cabin fever from being confined to 'safe' missions. "Just be careful. Get the sphere and get back to the ship pronto. Don't dawdle -"
"Jealous that me and Paine get all the sphere hunter goodness while you widdle away on the Celsius?" Rikku taunted lightly. She stood up, rubbing her sore butt gently.
"Paine's not with you -" Yuna began, not yet surrendering her link into the action.
"I'm almost there," Rikku announced. "Wish me luck." She grinned and switched her comm off. She looked around the new room and slowly made her way to the door at the edge. "Time to prove why I'm the veteran sphere hunter with the Gullwings," she murmured gleefully.
It wasn't very often that she got out on her own. And when opportunity comes knocking; it's best not to dawdle!
She pushed on the door, twin blades at ready for any fiends lurking behind it. However, the door didn't budge an inch. She pushed some more, abandoning her weapons to their sheaths on her thighs. Still no luck.
Huffing and puffing, she stepped back to evaluate the door and see how it opened. A flame symbol caught her eye almost instantly. "Obviously!" she exclaimed under her breath, glad that Yuna and Paine weren't there to tease her.
She sphere changed to Black Mage and cast Fire on the door. With a soft whoosh, it slid opened, and a hideous fiend stepped in front of the opening. From behind it, she could see the soft orange glow of a sphere - her prize - but first she had to deal with the fiend.
She sphere-changed again, calling out in a sing-song voice, "I know all about you!" She grinned as the monster's data flowed through her mind. "Give me one shot!" she proclaimed happily and pulled the trigger of her odd looking Gun Mage gun.
It hit the monster.... and broke it.... as near as Rikku could tell. It split into seven different monsters. "Ah... okay, let's try that again," she murmured. She leveled her gun again and fired - missing by a couple of feet.
The fiends all started their assault, cleverly chaining their attacks together. They moved as one, rather then as individual fiends. Rikku sphere changed back to her original sphere and darted foreword, swiping a heart shaped crystal from the first fiend. "First you steal, then you rob, then you send to kingdom bloody hell!" she declared. She proceeded to attempt to lighten the purses of her attackers. Then she sphere-changed to Berserker and let loose.
They weren't that strong of fiends and their advantage was clearly in numbers. They didn't split apart like they had done the first time she hit one of them, which made it much easier for the Al Bhed spherehunter to claim victory.
Pyreflies dissolving around her, Rikku pranced into the room and picked up the glowing orange sphere. It was set carefully on a pedestal in the center of the room. Looking up, Rikku could just see the sun setting.
"Mission complete!" she shouted into her comm, a wide grin bursting across her face.
Shinra answered, "Yuna is having her baby. You'll have to walk back to the Celsius."
"Woo-hoo!" Rikku cheered. "Yunie's having her baby! Yunie's having her baby!" She danced foreword. "I'll be there in no time!"
"Not likely," Shinra answered. "We're in Bevelle and you're in the Djose area."
"You... left... me?" Rikku asked incredulously. Her exhilaration at her cousin's going into labor abandoning her.
"You're the one who turned off her comm. We tried to get a hold of you," Shinra said in a calm, patronizing voice. "We'll see you when you arrive." He clearly was smart enough to get off the comm before Rikku could get herself orientated.
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Travel agencies had been built along the Summoners path to Zanarkand. Where Rikku was travel agencies hadn't been built. She checked into a small motel and flopped down on the bed. At least she had been successful in getting the sphere. She picked it up and switched it on - curious what images it would reveal.
Static and fuzz.... nothing interesting. In short, a dud in every sense of the word. She tossed it aside and picked up the strange crystal. Inside, it looked like there was a prism heart. "Pretty...." she murmured. She held it up in the moonlight to get a better look.
A flash of silvery white light blasted throughout the room, rendering her unconscious. And committing her fully to the crystal's moon activated powers.
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Rikku woke up on the floor, her head at an awkward angle. She groaned, rubbing her temple and sitting up. She had a splitting headache ripping at her senses and felt slightly... odd. Planning on shaking it off, she looked up at the bed and saw a familiar face. Her face.
"Did I fall out of my body?" Rikku whispered in horror. "I'm me... but there's my body." She crawled closer. "I should probably get back into my body," she whispered shakily. She jumped up and landed on the body in the bed.
"What do you think you're doing?" came a reply from the girl who had been sleeping on the bed.
"Getting back inside you," Rikku answered. "Only - heh heh - it doesn't seem to be working," she said, rubbing the back of her head lightly.
"Ooooh! Perverted girlie sex!" a smooth voice drawled. "I want in!"
Rikku turned her head slowly, eyes coming to rest on herself once more. Only this time she was lounging languidly on the window seat.
"But that would be....." Rikku turned to look at the new voice and found herself confronted with her own body again. A crimson blush was burning on the look-a-like's face and she didn't look like she would finish the sentence.
"Is that even possible?" another girl asked with a barely sniffled sob.
"Of course, would you like me to explain how?" another girl asked.
Rikku turned, expecting to see two more versions of herself. "Great!" she exclaimed. "For once my hunches are correct." She got off of the first girl she had leaped on and backed towards the door while the others started moving around. Clearly they had all just woken up.
They were all (with the exception of the girl who was still sleeping) doing the same thing that she was. Counting. "One... two... three ..... four.... five.... six ...... seven," was the final conclusion from the six awake girls.
"What!"
"Who are you?"
"Why are you wearing the same clothes as me?!"
"You guys are copies!"
"No way! I'm the real Rikku!" Rikku exclaimed.
"Not likely! I'm Rikku." the girl she had been sitting on said flatly.
"I'm Rikku," came a teary sob. "You're all impostors! Get out of my motel room!"
"Excuse me sweety, but I'm Rikku," another Rikku said in a sultry voice. She shifted slightly on the bed, accenting her well shaped legs.
"Uhmmmmm, excuse me.... but I -I- I'm t-the real R-rikku," came the stammer from the girl sitting by the window.
"Actually, I am," one Rikku explained. "You see, I fought Sin two years ago!
"So did I!" came the indignant response from the other girls.
"Let's think about this logically. If we all think that we're Rikku, maybe we are all Rikku," the same girl persisted. "And maybe you had it right," she added to Rikku.
"I... did?" she sobbed. "I've never been right before!"
"Not you -"
"Waahhhhhhh! I'm useless," the girl sobbed.
"That's not what I meant. We have to merge with our common body."
"Common body? Pu~lease, I've got a sphere to get back to the Gullwings. You fakes can do whatever-" Which was as far as THAT Rikku got before the others were clinging to her.
"That sphere belongs to me!" they shouted.
"Ahem, there is our common body," the Rikku explaining things announced. She pointed towards the sleeping form curled up by the heater with all of the blankets on her. "We're part of her."
"And even if we're not, it can't hurt to try and merge with her, you know," Rikku added. "That's a good plan.... er.... Rikku."
They all surrounded the sleeping girl. "On three," one of them whispered. Then, simultaneously, on the count of one and a half, they leapt into the air and landed on the sleeping version of Rikku.
"Go away, Paine, I don't want to hunt spheres......" the sleeping version murmured. She shoved at the cluttered mass of limbs and bodies on top of her and yawned heavily.
They disentangled. "Well, how about we fight?"
"I'd be..... worried that I would hurt you -"
"Morning girls, what's going on?" the sleeping version asked, sitting up and yawning, oblivious to the nervous looks the others were exhibiting.
"Look, there are a couple reasons that you can't be me," Rikku announced, bouncing over to the bed and sitting down Indian style, ignoring the greeting.
"Oh yeah?" came the chorus of responses.
"You're a cry-baby, something that I'm not. How did you managed to beat Sin and Yu Yevon while sobbing like that?" Rikku accused. The girl in question sniffled and burst into tears. "See, I hate to say it, but you're a whinny cry-baby..."
"Ooooooh! I think you got it," a Rikku announced. "Where's that crystal I stole yesterday?"
The rest of the Rikku's shrugged. "Why?"
"Find it," the girl ordered.
"Find it yourself, I'm going back to sleep."
"I think we might have broken it," a different girl said with a furious blush. "It's been split into seven different pieces...." She held up the pieces and bent her head. "I'm sorry."
"Do you remember how that fiend split into seven different forms when it got attacked?" Everyone nodded. "Well, maybe that crystal is the reason why. Maybe we're all Rikku. Just different versions. For instance, I'm Smart. To alleviate confusion, you will call me Rikku-sama."
"Rikku-sama.... you're not me," Rikku said softly.
"Then I'm Sexy Rikku," another girl purred. "But you can just call me Rikki." She winked and then let a smile fluttered across her face. "And if anyone wants to try and have sex together I can help -"
"NOOOOOOOOO!" came the shrieked response. "That wouldn't be right. We're all girls!"
"You would be Shy," Rikku-sama said. "What shall we call you?"
Shy Rikku pointed at herself and blushed. "Who? Me? Well, er.... Ri ...Ri ... Ri," she stammered, unable to completely say her name.
"Ri? That's pathetic."
"How about we just call you Paine?" Rikku snapped. She patted Ri awkwardly on the back. "Uhmmmm, don't listen to her, you're choice is fine."
"Rikk," Sarcastic Rikku said flatly. "Not Paine."
"Rikk's a boys' name," Ri mumbled.
"I know that." Rikk turned away from Rikku and Ri. "How about you, faucet face? Shall we call you waterfall?"
"Rikku-chan......" she said, wiping her eyes quickly. She tried to put on a brave face, but failed and broke into tears again. Rikki sat down beside her and started to massage her back.
"You better not touch her chest," Rikku-sama warned absent-mindedly.
"What about her?" Rikku asked, pointing to the version of herself that had fallen asleep again. "How can she sit still at a time like this?"
"She's lazy," Rikk said in a deadpan voice.
"Let's call her Rikku-san," Rikku-sama suggested. "And we had better wake her up. How are we going to explain this -"
"We're not!" came the instant response.
"We're going to have to keep it a secrete and keep a low profile until we figure out how to get back to normal," Ri murmured softly. "Can you imagine how this would look to...everyone?"
"I can just picture the respect points flying out the window, you know," Rikku announced.
"Not to mention everyone declaring us 'unfit' as sphere hunters," Rikku-sama agreed. "However, we're going to need some way to keep the split a secrete."
"How about you guys all stay here until I got things figured out?" Rikk suggested.
Several moments of intense fighting later, Rikku-chan spoke up, "This sob isn't working. We all want to go back to the Celsius. Isn't there some way that -"
Rikku-san yawned and sat up. "We should probably just stay in our room on the Celsius."
Since Tidus and Yuna had gotten married, Rikku and Paine were sharing a room together. "Hello, Paine would notice," Rikk said flatly, crossing her arms across her stomach.
"We'll move into that storage room," Rikku suggested. "We can put a big bed in there and -"
"Sleep together nekkid!" Rikki purred.
"Nooooooooooooo!" Ri shrieked again. "I really wish that you would stop saying stuff like that."
"We're all the same person," Rikki pointed out. "And we have the same bodies - although mine looks best - so it's not like we're going to see or touch something that we haven't already."
"Actually, we're sleeping in clothes, Rikki," Rikku-sama announced.
"All of us," Rikku-chan said firmly, her eyes still puffy from crying during the brawl.
"That includes you, you know," Rikku pointed out.
"Fine," Rikki pouted, reluctantly giving in under their combined decision. "But I pick my own nighties!"
"Agreed," Rikku-sama said after a brief moment. "Now we need to come up with a plan."
"First we should get to Bevelle," Rikk said flatly. "I'll comm Shinra and Buddy and have them prepare the new room for us."
"But won't they want to know why?" Ri whispered softly.
"And have we even decided that we're going to stay together?" Rikku asked in confusion.
"Yes!" the others exclaimed.
"Okay, so back to the matter of 'why' we need a new room," Rikku said, holding up her hands to ward the other five awake girls off.
"Tell them we want to give Paine her privacy so she can get nekkid with the guys!" Rikki declared. She switched her comm on before anyone could say or do anything to stop her. "Oh, Brother," she called out in a sultry voice.
"What is it now! Yuna is having her baby! AGGGGGHHHHHHH! What am I going to do? My hopes, my dreams..... GONE!" he wailed back into the comm.
"Poor baby -" Rikku started to purr seductively.
"Ewww!" Ri exclaimed. She ran foreword and switched her comm on and Rikki's comm off. "We ....er ..... I want you to do me a f-favor."
"Rikku, it's me, Buddy. Are you okay? You sound strange."
Rikk rolled her eyes and made a cut off motion for the comm, switching hers on at the same time. "Buddy, I need you to empty out the storage room behind the engine room."
"Why?" Buddy inquired.
"Because I need it," Rikk answered.
"I don't see what you need it for -" Buddy began.
"Naturally," Rikk said sarcastically.
Rikku-chan took over the message. "Pleaaaassssseee!" she said, tears making her voice seem slightly watery. "I need it really bad."
"Rikku, are you sure that you're okay? You sound odd," Buddy said.
Rikku-chan glanced helplessly around the room, swirly green eyes coming to a rest on Rikku-sama. "It's sphere interference waves. They sometimes distort messages. You should hear what you sound like," the Smart Rikku said confidentially.
"Sphere interference waves?" Buddy asked.
"Yes, they're caused by the electric currents in the Djose area. You should ask Shinra about it sometime," Rikku-sama continued.
"What do I sound like?" Brother demanded, coming back on the air abruptly.
"A wounded and dying flan," Rikk said, switching her comm back on.
"I don't see why we have to do it for you," Buddy said quickly to stall Brother's indignant explosion.
Rikku-san switched her comm on. "Because it'd be too much work to do it myself." She had woken up just in time to catch enough of the conversation.
"I'm moving into the room," Rikku shouted, glaring at the lazy version of herself. "I have a reputation to uphold, you know," she whispered hotly. "I don't need people thinking that I'm lazy!"
"What was that?" Buddy asked. "I didn't quite catch that last comment."
"I said - 'I'm moving in.'" Rikk snapped, getting impatient with the conversation.
"So Paine'll be all alone with two spare beds," Rikki added with a bright smile. "Who knows what she might do... all alone..."
"Oh.... okay, I suppose I could do it for you," Buddy said after a moment.
"Thanks," Rikki purred and switched off her comm. "See, I told you I could get the job done."
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Author's notes; Okay, it started out a little slower then I wanted; however, a good story line is always important and I wanted to make sure that there was one. The timeline of events is about one year after the game. Yuna and Tidus got married and are having a baby, which I explained mostly in the first chapter.
However, I didn't get to explaining where Paine was. So I'll explain (partially ) right now. She's visiting someone in the Farplane. Anything else, and it'll spoil my plans.
I'm going to update this fic weekly on Tuesdays ( unless something comes up that I have no control over.) And treat it like a movie kinda. There will be special edition chapters, and at the end of all chapters, I'll tell you what is going to happen in the next fic - kinda like a preview.
Next Chapter; The Rikku-gumi (Rikku gang) are on their way to Bevelle. On the way they run into Gippal and end up tormenting him. Will he discover their secrete? Will they get caught before they even get back to the Celsious? Stick around and find out!
Thanks for reading,
Kissa-chan