Rikki-sama: This is the chapter where Tifa comes in. Yay! :)

Chapter 2: A Warm Welcoming

"Good afternoon students please come to the gym for an assembly, we are welcoming a new student. I expect your BEST behaviour or else! You have been warned! Signing off, your principal Auron." Sounded a loud voice from the P.A. system.

"Yo man let's go." Seifer called to Sephiroth who was dealing with some kids. "We're gonna be late."

"I never go early, that just cramps up my style, you know that." Sephiroth sighed. "Okay I'm ready."

As the gangsters walked into the gym all the girls were giggling, flattering them about how cute they were, how popular and how badly they wanted to go out with them.

"Look guys its dumber and dumberer." Squall pointed to the two gangsters, who were winking at some girls as they took their seats. "Such assholes!"

"Whatever...you know that Seifer's a wannabe." Cloud sighed pointing to Seifer as he immitated every move Sephiroth made.

"It's not like Sephiroth's any better." Reno laughed loudly. "If you ask me, he's as hopeless as those girls."

"Dude, where's Zell?" Tidus asked all of a sudden looking through the crowded gym. "I'm suppose to tell him that we have to meet Mr. Wakka after school."

"He's over there...oh and check out the girls!" Zidane chirped. "Oh how FINE they are!"

"Where!?" Zell asked coming to sit beside Irvine, they were looking at Rinoa's gang of girls.

"There's my girl." Irvine smirked, looking at Selphie putting on some lip gloss. "She's so beautiful."

"You just asked her out this morning and now your calling her your girl." Zack sneered taking a seat beside Cloud. "Hey...um Cloud I meant to ask you, why'd you call it off with Aeris?" Zack said changing the topic, he faced Cloud and gave him a curious look.

"Ya...well, she's not my type." Cloud said. "She's just not the one."

"Oh this is so exciting, I wonder how she looks like..." Rikku said, looking at Paine reading a book. "Why are you reading that at a time like this?"

"Oh ya, well what should I be talking about...um..let me think, oh how about make-up." Paine said sacastically, ignoring her friend's awkward look. She rolled her eyes. "That stuff just doesn't interest me."

"What do you think about this shade of lipstick, does it match?" Rinoa asked anxiously applying the pinkish purplish colour. "I don't know about this, what about the 'Ruby Red'?"

"No, keep that one it matches..." Yuna snickered. "Who are you trying to impress anyways? Is it....Squall!?"

"Ooohh!" All the girls squeeled, except for Paine, Quistis, and an embarassed Rinoa.

"N-NANI!, No, no, no, you got it wrong sister!" Rinoa protest blushing furiously. "I wouldn't do that!"

"Sure you wouldn't girlfriend, all of us know you have a huge thing for him, c'mon confess! Besides he is cute." Rikku chuckled.

"Oh my God, you guys are being so annoying....look principal Auron is on stage." Rinoa said looking towards the stage. "Shh.."

"Ya right, he's not there, your just trying to get your way out of this." Selphie snorted.

"Ms. Tilmitt(Selphie)! Is there something you mind telling the whole school!?" Principal Auron asked furiously.

"Um...no sir." Selphie responded feeling so embarassed. "Shit, Rinoa, this is all your fault."

"Iie, it's your fault! Not mine." Rinoa hollered, suddenly covering her mouth when the principal looked at her. All the girls giggled.

Principal Auron spoke into the microphone. "Now can I have your attention students! Today is a special day, as you all know, we're meeting a new student- which means we should be giving her the respect she needs. This student has come from Kyoto, she has been studying martial arts in China for over two years. She is a very intelligent person.....SHUT UP ALL OF YOU IN THE BACK OR ELSE YOU HAVE ME TO DEAL WITH, UNDERSTAND!?"

All the students in the back who were talking had shut their mouths immediately.

"Ok now where was I before I was so RUDELY interrupted....oh yes I remember now, I would like you all to meet...Tifa Lockheart!"

All the students clapped. When Tifa came from behind the curtains everyone was silent.

"Woohoo!" Sephiroth whistled loudly.

"Wow! She's hot!" Zell said examining her.

"She's pretty, Oh let's see what she has to say." Quistis spoke. Everyone in the gym faced Tifa as she began to speak.

"Hi, My name is Tifa Lockheart, I'm really glad to be here....I hope to make new friends here and thank you principal Auron." Tifa said, she got off the stage and sat next to Ms. Beatrix.

The assembly was over and now everyone left, except for the girls. They ran up to Tifa as she picked up her notebooks from her chair.

"Hi! I"m Rinoa."

"I'm Yuna."

"My name is Paine."

"The name's Rikku!"

"Please to meet you! I'm Garnet."

"Hi, my name is Quistis."

"Konnichiwa, I'm Selphie!"

"Hello, my name is Aeris."

"Hey! I'm Yuffie!" Yuffie said suddenly. She had short dark brown hair and wore a white headband on her head. She had come so abruptly it nearly startled everyone, sometimes her actions resembled a ninja.

"Oh hey Yuffie, what's up?" Yuna asked facing her friend.

"Nothing much, just wanted to meet Tifa." she replied.

"Oh, hi....nice to meet you all." Tifa said nervously.

"C'mon, we'll show you around." Garnet said as the girls walked out of the gym and into the crowded halls.

"You see here is the math class, this is where the craziest of all teachers, Mr. Wallace(Barret) hangs out." Rinoa stated.

"Over there is the science class, Mr. Highwind(Cid) is always talking about engines, planes, cars, you know those machines and all." Aeris pointed to the door with a picture of planes posted on it.

"And there is the art class, where Ms. Lulu teaches." Paine said.

"There's the drama class, Mr. Valentine(Vincent) is always there teaching students how to become proffesional actors, he's pretty cool." Yuffie said, the girls were already upstairs, she opened the door heading inside to help Mr. Valentine. "I have to go now, talk to you all later, ciao."

"Sayonara, here is the language class, Mr. Steiner is pretty boring, he assigns projects a lot." Yuna yawned.

"Here's the history class, the teacher here hardly ever talks about the subject, he mostly chats about himself, but Mr. Loire(Laguna) is kinda cute." Selphie giggled.

"Mr. Wakka is our gym teacher, he usually hangs out on the track, he trains Tidus and Zell there." Rikku stated sipping her bottle of water.

"Oh here is the last place, Ms. Beatrix teaches instrumental." Quistis said.

"Thanks for your help. So how long have you guys been friends?" Tifa asked, looking at her agenda to see what class she had at the moment.

"Some of us been friends forever and some since grade nine." Aeris replied.

The girls all talked for awhile until Sephiroth and Seifer came.

"Yo, what's up girls?" Sephiroth asked staring at Tifa. "Hi I'm Sephiroth, the man of this school."

"Ya right don't believe this bullshit." Rikku laughed. "He's just bluffing."

"Whatever..." Sephiroth sighed, putting his hand on the locker leaning close to Tifa.

"Come on let's-." Quistis said annoyed.

"No, Quistis, how about a date, me and you?" Seifer interrupted. "Please!"

"Iie, I don't date losers." Quistis sneered heading to history class, letting Seifer's expression to change from happy to sad, but he regained his happiness after Sephiroth patted him on the back and told him next time. The two gangsters left leaving Tifa so confused.

"Such a jackass." Yuna sighed. "Don't worry about him."

"Okay if you say so....well I guess we have to go to math class right now right." Tifa asked checking her silver watch.

"Oh ya...I forgot!" Rinoa screeched. The girls all headed to the class.

"What gives you the right to fail this math test!" Mr. Wallace yelled pointing to a student in the back of the class.

"Oh Kami-Sama, what the hell is up with that teacher?" Squall sighed sitting next to Zack and Cloud.

"I have no clue, all I know is that he is wacked out." Zack chuckled.

"Hmm...." Cloud mumbled looking at the girls as they wrote notes to each other. "Sorry wasn't listening, you say something?"

"Never mind..." Squall sighed again looking out the window.

"You like her don't ya?" Zack asked nudging Cloud. "Tifa...right?"

"What!? No, well she's pretty, but that's it." Cloud replied. "So..."

"So...what?"

"SO WHAT? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, GIVE ME THE ANSWER TO QUESTION FOUR ON THE BOARD!" Mr. Wallace screamed in Zack's face.

"Whoa man..." was all Zack could say.

"DON'T GIVE ME THAT 'WHOA MAN' THING, YOU THINK YOUR SO COOL, HUH!!?" Mr. Wallace yelled even louder. "YOU GUYS ALWAYS THINK THAT YOU ARE 'THE BOMB' OR WHATEVER! WELL I DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS YOU LAZY ASSES!"

"Chill...Mr. W.." Sephiroth spoke slanting on his chair to make a cool pose for all the girls.

"CHILL? CHILL? WHAT THE FU-SHIT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE, WHY CANT YOU GET GOOD MARKS OR ACT LIKE TIFA OVER THERE SHE'S QUIET AND SHE'S BEHAVING!" Mr. Wallace hollered getting annoyed.

"You're just saying that about Tifa because she baby-sits your daughter..." Zack sneered.

"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" Mr.Wallace screamed getting embarassed. "Class...um..dismissed early for today..."

Zack looked over his back and saw Aeris giggling, he gave her a smirk which caused her to blush.

"These kids today, have no manners." Mr. Wallace muttered under his breath after sipping his coffee. "No good I tell you...."

"Hey, how do you know Tifa baby-sits Mr. Wallace's daughter?" Cloud asked coming out of the class.

"I over heard the girls talking about it...you know Rinoa's gang." Zack replied.

"Why are you hanging around the girls so much now, I thought I was the pervert." Zidane snickered.

"You ARE the pervert." Squall said, Zidane smiled. "Though you shouldn't be proud of that.." Squall mumbled under his breath.

"What was that!?" Zidane asked furiously, shaking a tiny fist.

"Oh... nothing."

Reno flicked a glance at the oncoming blonde. "Gee look, it's Beavis... I wonder where Butthead is?"

"Dudes wait up!" Tidus panted. "What do you think is better 'dude'? or 'sweet'?"

"Um....why?" Cloud asked shaking his head. "You had another fight with Zell." he guessed.

"Butthead." Reno corrected him. Zidane snickered again.

"Er- not exactly a fight... a...a- disagreement."

Squall clapped. "Gee, I never knew you were capable of using such a large word, Tidus."

"Beavis."

"Shutup Reno!" Zack glared.

Tidus growled, but ignored Squall and Reno's comments. "It's just....'dude' is much better than 'sweet' right?"

Suddenly Zell came running to the group. "Iie! 'Sweet' is a lot better!"

"No! Dude!"

"Sweet!"

"Oh boy..." Zidane sighed. "And here I thought I was annoying."

"You are." Zack said nonchalantly.

Tidus turned to Cloud. "C'mon, it's 'dude', right?"

"Actually Tidus, I kinda like-" Cloud began.

"CLOUD!" Tidus screeched.

Cloud snickered. "Just kidding..." he said, causing Tidus to smile. "I think they're both stupid." he laughed. Tidus' expression changed immediately, as the guys left laughing.

Zell shrugged and left, mumbling another 'sweet' under his breath.

"I heard that!" Tidus hollered.

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