Rikki: Thanks for all your reviews, and I promise that there will soon be more moments between your favourite characters.
There is gonna be some drama in this story soon.
Sorry I took so long to update, it's just I've been busy since it's summer vacation.
If you guys are fans of Inuyasha and Kagome, then check out my story 'Love Reflection'. It's story with lots of humor and romance. Kagome is a jpop artist and Inuyasha's a movie star.....get the point? Couples: InuKag, MirSan & KougAya
Thanks to:
claudiakp186 for the compliment :)
Hiroshi: I'm so glad you think my story is funny! That makes me happy X3
Chapter 7: A Fight to Settle and a Scarred Image for Life
It was a Sunday afternoon and Squall was sitting on a bench, in the park, reading a book. Instead of hanging around his friends, he wanted to be alone. Children were running and chasing bubbles that were blown into the air, and Squall couldn't help but admire their smiles. He wished his life wasn't so difficult. When he was young he never had a father, he only lived with his gentle and kind mother, Reine. At the age of 14 Squall was told that his father left him, because his he wasn't ready for a son. Squall was furious, he didn't even know who his father really looked, but he still hated him with a passion.
'Why do I hate Mr. Loire?' Squall thought to himself, staring at the blue sky. 'I don't even know him and yet I hate him....it doesn't make sense to me at all!' Squall sighed and shrugged it off. He was about to get up from the bench but someone pushed him back down.
"Squall, what's up?" It was Zack who asked. "How are you?"
"I'm fine, and now will you excuse me, I gotta go..." Squall replied walking away from his friend.
"Wait Squall!" Zack hollered to his retreating back.
"Squall! Tell me what's bugging you!"
"SQUALL LEONHART, YOU STOP RIGHT THERE NOW!!"
Squall did so without looking back. "What do you want from me?"
Zack caught up to him. "Why were you so pissed Friday night?"
"No reason...."
"C'mon, tell me, we're friends, buddies, pals, hommies-"
"I get the point." Squall interrupted, he was getting a little annoyed. "I'm just....mad."
"At Cloud right?" Zack raised an eyebrow. "Am I right?"
"I am right!"
"You were there..." he answered. "I gotta go..."
"Not so fast!"
"I don't need anybody to help me with my problems, I can handle them myself."
"Oh yeah, how are you gonna solve this problem? Are you gonna stay mad at Cloud forever? Are you gonna apologize or do you expect him to say 'sorry' first?"
"Just leave me alone, I don't need you lecturing me!" Squall started to walk again and without turning back he said quietly to himself. "Thanks anyway..."
Rrrinnggg
"Moshi, moshi." A voice answered the phone. (Telephone greeting in Japanese)
"Hey Rinoa, what's up?" Zack asked, he had gotten home and decided to call Rinoa because of a brilliant plan he had thought of. It was the key to settle Cloud and Squall's differences.
"Hey Zack!" Rinoa chirped. "Well some of the girls are here and we're just watching a movie."
"Cool, well I have to tell you guys something so put me on speaker."
"Sure..."
Click
"Hey Zack!" Selphie greeted.
"Hi Zack!" Yuffie spoke.
"Hello Zack, good to hear from you." Garnet greeted politely.
"HIYA!" Rikku yelled into the phone.
"Rikku, that was loud." Zack chuckled. "Listen up girls, I need a favour from all of you."
"Okay, What's wrong?" Yuffie asked. "Is there something bugging you?"
"Not really...well yeah..." Zack replied.
"Shoot." Rikku said, all the girls crowded around the phone.
"Well this all started Friday night."
"Oh Friday was fun!" Garnet giggled. "I hope we can go again."
"Ya, well that's great Garnet, let me conti-"
"Sure, we can go like next week." Rinoa interrupted.
"Can I continue?" Zack asked getting a little pissed.
"Gomen..." All the girls apologized in unison while giggling madly.
"Like I was saying." Zack continued.
"Like I was saying..."
"We, guys, have a problem that happened on Friday night."
"We, guys, have a problem that happened on Friday night."
"Someone kinda got into a fight with someone else..."
"Someone kinda got into a fight with someone else..."
"RIKKU SHUTUP AND LET ME CONTINUE!!!!"
All the girls giggled.
"Okay, okay...sorry Zack, no need to blow a fuse." Rikku said still laughing, what Zack didn't notice was that she was still mimicking him silently when he continued.
"Whatever....well Squall and Cloud got into a fight."
"And....?" Selphie asked.
"That's it." Zack answered. "We need your help to get them to be friends again."
"So do you know the plan?" Zack asked facing Irvine who was wearing a cowboy hat, which covered his eyes, a perfect impression of someone sleeping. "WAKE UP!!!"
"I am awake!" Irvine yelled as he lifted up his hat to reveal his lively dancing brown eyes. "Sheesh, don't need to yell!"
"WELL DON'T GO SLACKING OFF!" Zack yelled getting annoyed. "We got to stick to the plan."
"You think I don't know that." Irvine said. "I just hope this works, they both were pretty pissed. I haven't seen them argue like this since grade 7 when they were fighting over that glue bottle we had to use for art...now that was bad...."
"Ya I remember-"
"Very bad If you asked me....glue splattered in Aeris and Yuna's hair which they couldn't get out for days, paint splattered on the teacher....whoa....good memories, I tell you..."
"I get the point!"
"Ya, well whatever with the past, we gotta move onto the future!"
"IRVINE!!"
"Gomen...." Irvine chuckled. "Well who are we waiting for?"
"Cloud and Tifa."
"NANI!"
"DIDN'T YOU LISTEN TO THE PLAN?!"
"Well ya.....but....CLOUD???"
"ARG! Ok I'll tell you the plan AGAIN! Tifa and Zidane are gonna bring Cloud to the cafe, but the little shirmp is gonna fake that he's gotta go. So that leaves Tifa and Cloud together alone."
"Alone eh?" Irvine smirked.
"Yup..." Zack snickered "Right, well then I'm setting Tifa and Cloud up."
"You mean on a date?!"
"No, I mean she's gonna try to change Cloud's mind, you know he won't admit it, but I think he likes her."
"Who?"
"Tifa, you bum!"
"Oh...well what about Squall?"
"Well Rinoa's gonna get her hands on him, since you know they're practically falling for each other but they won't show their affections to one another. Then Tifa and Rinoa are gonna bring them to 'Hitomi's Cafe' to have coffee with them and then we're all gonna gang up on them, cause we're all be hiding around. We have to threaten them even if they resist!"
"Whadda you mean resist? What, you don't think they wanna be friends again?"
"No, I know they want to be, but are they willing to?" (A/N: And Zack gives a stern look into the screen while an orchestra plays in the back...joke lol, that would be funny if he did.)
As Tifa and Zidane began their walk to Cloud's apartment, they already spotted him coming out.
"Heya man!" Zidane yelled with excitement.
"Hi Cloud." Tifa greeted with a sweet smile. "How are you?"
Cloud was surprised to see them. "Um..hey...I'm fine I guess. What are you guys doing here?"
"Well what does it look like to you?" Zidane asked putting his arm around Tifa's shoulders. Cloud glared at him. "I'm just kidding man, we came to see you." Zidane said a bit frightened. Tifa on the other hand was confused.
"Well Cloud how about you join our walk?" Tifa asked changing the subject. "C'mon it would be fun with you."
Cloud blush. "Yeah sure, where you guys going anyways?"
"Gonna get some coffee." Zidane replied.
Tifa nudged Zidane. He looked as if he had just woken up until he finally spoke. ".....Oh would you look at the time....I gotta get going.....My dad needs......uh....my help with his new....um, car- yeah, that's it, car....See you later guys." (A/N: Remember their plan.)
"Well Cloud I guess that leaves just you and me." Tifa smiled innocently linking her arm in his, as Zidane scattered away. "Let's go, I'm dying for a cup of coffee."
"Nani?" Cloud asked confused, but yet glad that he was getting the chance to spend time with Tifa. (A/N: Haha Cloud doesn't know what's happening...muhahahaha...)
At the same time this happened to Cloud, Squall was sitting in his living room eating a chocolate bar and watching some t.v.
"Squall why don't you go outside and have some fun?" His mother asked him. "You're usually with your friends on the weekend, what's wrong?"
"Nothing..." Squall answered.
"Hey somethings wrong I'm a mother I can tell when my son is sulking inside." Reine stood infront of him with her arms across her chest. "Let me guess you got into a fight with Cloud?"
Squall sat up. "How'd you know?"
"Hey ever since you both were little, you would run home crying to me screaming, 'Mommy Cloud was very mean to me!"
"No I didn't I ain't a crybaby."
"Oh trust me Squall, you used to be." Reine smirked. "Don't you remember the time when Cloud was at our house- you two must have been 12- and I gave you both a plate with three cupcakes to share and later when I went to take the plate back, I found you both fighting over the last one with frosting all over your faces, the floor, the couch and on my laundry, not to mention my favourite bra?" (AN: That must have been a lot of frosting.)
"What are you trying to say mom?" Squall asked looking towards the floor.
"I'm just saying that by the end of today you both will be friends again." Reine chirped heading upstairs.
"You seem so confident that we will be."
"Yup trust me, you both will be, I have a good feeling." (Oh Reine, you don't know how right you are..lol)
Rrring
The doorbell rang and Squall went to answer it and was surprised to see a big, hairy, excited dog waiting infront of him.
"What the hell?" Squall's eyebrow raised. "How the?"
"HEY SQUALL!"
"AHHHH!" Squall fell back. "What the f-"
"Relax Squall it's me!"
"Oh.....Hey Rinoa..." Squall felt embarassed as he got back up. "Your dog?"
"Yeah, don't you remember Angelo?"
"Um...kinda..."
Rinoa grabbed his arm. "C'mon let's go for a walk."
"Wait....where are we going?"
"Just to the cafe." Rinoa giggled. "You need to get out more Squall." Rinoa turned around to face Squall. He just looked back at her blankly. Rinoa approached closer and was sticking her face up to his. Squall was really turning red by now.
"Rinoa...?" Squall asked nervously.
"Yeah?"
"What are you doing?"
"Just looking....Squall your so, so,"
"Yeah...?"
"It's just when I look at you...."
"Go on..." Squall was getting curious.
"It's just.....you make me feel like telling you that..."
"HAI??"
"You need to get out more, you're so pale!" Rinoa backed off smiling like there was no tomorrow.
"N-nani?" Squall sighed heavily- that hadn't been what he had expected. "I thought you were...nevermind."
"What's wrong Squall?" Rinoa asked giving him a curious look.
"Nothing..." Squall blushed. 'Man what the hell was that? She freaked me out...I thought she was about to...' Rinoa soon interrupted his thoughts as she suddenly grabbed his arm and pulled him away, with Angelo walking by their side happily.
"Shhh!!!" Zack shushed the group of people behind him. "Shutup their about to come in any minute now!"
The group of friends were hiding in the back of the cafe together bunched up. Everyone who walked by them looked at them as if they were maniacs.
"You're squishing me!" Selphie yelled.
"Hey back off of my Selphie!" Irvine warned Yuna.
"OR WHAT?!!" Yuna hollered into his face. "You gonna hurt a girl?!"
"Well no..." Irvine backed off.
"I'm, like, so thirsty." Aeris complained.
"Uh, like, so am I, but I'm not, like, complaining!" Reno mocked.
"Shutup Reno!" Aeris demanded.
Zack was getting impatient. 'Holy shit hurry up!!! These people are driving me CRAZY!!!!' He thought furiously.
"Hey shh! I see them- they're coming!" Garnet shouted pointing to them behind the plant.
Tifa and Cloud were walking towards the cafe when suddenly Cloud stopped. 'I have a feeling I'm being set up.' He thought to himself until Tifa spoke up. "Cloud?"
"Hm? Sorry..." Cloud apologized.
"What's wrong? You've been quiet ever since we left your apartment." Tifa asked raising an eyebrow. "Come on you can tell me....Don't you TRUST me?" Tifa smiled. Cloud blushed madly, he had never seen someone who smiled so beautifully. 'Wow her smile's so....WHAT AM I THINKING, GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF CLOUD!'
'Cloud doesn't know what's going on...I hope Zack's plan will work! It better!' Tifa thought. Cloud just looked at her with curiousity. "Oh look here we are." Tifa spoke up.
"Huh? Oh, the cafe..."
....::Silence::....
"Um, why aren't we going in?"
"Rinoa? Why do you keep looking around?" Squall asked her, he was getting suspicious. 'Hmmm? I wonder, I feel like I'm being set up...' He thought to himself.
"Oh no reason....." Rinoa replied still looking around like she was waiting for something or someone. "Oh by the way, are you hungry? I could order you something."
"No I'm fine..."
'Squall doesn't know what's going on...I hope Zack's plan will work! It better!' Rinoa thought quietly. Squall just looked at her with curiousity. "Oh look we're here!" Rinoa chirped.
"Tifa??" Cloud tapped her shoulder.
"Rinoa??" Squall called.
"HEY! WHY AREN'T WE GOING IN??" Cloud and Squall shouted in unison. It seemed Squall had arrived and didn't noticed Cloud and Cloud was too preoccupied as well until they heard each other. They looked at each other with shock.
"YOU!" they yelled in unison, pointing a finger at one another.
"ME??!" again they spoke together, pointing a finger at themselves.
"What are you doing here?" Squall asked eyeing Cloud as if he was gonna pull a knife on him.
"I knew I was being set up!" Cloud turned to face Tifa. Squall faced Rinoa, but both girls grabbed the boys' arms, pulled them into the cafe and quickly tied them up, pushing them into a chair each, sitting across from one another.
"GIRLS!!!" Cloud hollered.
"UNTIE US!!" Squall demanded, he was struggling to get the ropes off his wrists.
Suddenly out of a corner, Zack and the group of friends popped out. The surrounded Cloud and Squall, all pointing their fingers at the two and hollering in unison, "Make up! Or ELSE!"
The two boys tied to chairs stared in shock. Squall cocked an eyebrow. "What the hell!? I'm not apologizing!"
"Neither am I!" Cloud snorted. "Like I will ever..."
Squall glared at Cloud. "You know why you never apologize? Because your not MAN enough!"
"And you think you are!? You got to be joking! That's the funniest thing I have ever heard." Cloud laughed hard. "You think your better than me..." he rolled his eyes. "oh yeah...."
"I didn't say I'm better than you, you're putting shit in my mouth! Shut the fuck up!"
"You shutup! You perverted ass!"
"I'm not perverted that's Zidane's job! No offence." Squall turned to look at Zidane.
"None taken!" Zidane chirped. Zack glared at him. "I...mean stop fighting you two....haha!"
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Reno hollered. "This is just plain stupidity! You guys were like best friends since kindergarden, and now your fighting like babies, just shutup!"
"Reno's right! This is an embarrassment to all of us and especially to YOU!" Zack nodded his head. "No offence guys...but right now you guys look like idiot's arguing and spitting IN MY FACE, BY THE WAY!" Zack face turned red from the anger.
Cloud and Squall turned the heads away, they looked pretty embarrassed, they didn't notice that Tifa and Rinoa were right infront of them. They looked up at the girls and noticed that they looked pissed.
Tifa raised an eyebrow. "I came this year thinking this school can be a permanent one and that I could make good friends without having to say goodbye....I thought you guys were like best friends, and I envy your friendship....I'm never able to find a good friend- you guys are lucky you have each other!"
"She's right! Best friends are supposed to stick together through tough times and listen to each others feeling!" Rinoa stated angrily. "So, are you both gonna make up?"
Squall avoided her eyes, turning his gaze quickly over to Cloud, who, in his shock, was staring back at him. They stared at each other in silence but then both at the same time hollered. "NO!"
Everyone groaned...
"Ok that's it!" Zack yelled in frustration. "Are you both willing to sacrifice your friendship for something so stupid?"
They both didn't answer.
"Well then you leave us no choice..."
Both boys looked up at Zack with curiousity.
"Zidane!?"
"She's ready!"
It seemed that Zidane had left to go to the bathroom with Tidus and Zell. The two other guys came running out trying to surpress their laughter. They both ran over to Zack and whispered something in his ear.
"Bring her out!" Zell hollered back.
Someone came out with a magenta-sequence strapless dress that seemed to reach the floor, with make-up poorly plastered on their face. Their blonde hair was tied in a tight small bun and they wore big red heels. That someone approached two chocking boys tied to the chair slowly. "Hello strangers...." the person winked at them. All the girls gasped and most of the guys burst out in laughter but yet some shivered with fear.
"ZIDANE!!???" Cloud and Squall squealed in horror and squirmed so much that they tipped over their chairs and struggled to get free and run away from this freak.
"What's the matter boys? Don't you want a piece of me?" Zidane said in a high feminine voice rubbing his own leg. "Don't you guys wanna have some fun with 'Signorita Zidane'?" he/she giggled.
Yuna fell off her chair from laughing.
Rinoa covered her mouth trying to surpress the laugh that was struggling to come out.
Tifa ran to order a cup of water to cool her down.
Reno slammed his fist onto the wall while laughing madly, and he couldn't help but scream out, "You GOTTA be kidding!"
Irvine and Selphie were clutching their sides, laughing hysterically.
Paine and Quistis chuckled.
Yuffie and Aeris were laying on the floor dieing from laughter.
Zell and Tidus were chocking from laughter, but still managed to fight over 'sweet' and 'dude'.
Rikku and Garnet were jumping up and down, holding hands with pure laughter. While Zack just stood there infront of the terrified duo trying to supress his laughter.
"Please leave us alone!" Squall screamed trying to cut himself loose. "Dear Lord help ME...!"
"Dammit Zack this isn't funny." Cloud said nonchalantly before panicking when Zdiane got closer.
"Boys please! Don't fight over moi! I can be shared fairly..." Zidane giggled femininely. "Don't you wanna touch moi? Let Signorita Zidane comfort you with these lovely lips of mine..."
"AHHHHHHHHHHH! HOLY SHIT! OKAY GUYS YOU WIN!" Cloud hollered trying to escape Zidane grip on his arm.
"We forgive each other! Untie us now and get this freak away from me!!!!" Squall tried to kick Zidane when he grabbed his legs.
"Alright, alright." Zack snickered calling Zidane to back off and telling Zell and Tidus to untie them both. "You both better mean it."
Cloud got up brushing his arm before looking at Squall who was pampering his jeans. "Squall...Gomen-nasai..." (Sorry)
"Sumi-masen....." (Forgive me) Squall apologized as they both shook hands before the two tortured fellows faced the group of friends.
"Yeah..sorry guys.." Squall said looking a bit embarrassed.
"I guess we put you guys through too much." Cloud rubbed the back of his head chuckling a bit.
"Well, we forgive you." Aeris smiled.
"Just promise us that you're not gonna fight again ok?" Selphie asked placing an arm around Zack's shoulders. "Better thank Zack- he had to plan this all."
"Thanks.." both replied.
"No prob, just glad you both ain't fighting no more." Zell called out from a table where he was gulping down, you guessed it. Hot dogs.
"One more thing guys..."
"What's that Cloud?"
"Please don't EVER MAKE ZIDANE DO THAT AGAIN!"
"RUFF!"
Rikki-sama: Sorry this chappy isn't so long, but I promise the next ones will be longer and funnier. Please R/R. That was Angelo by the way at the end, lol.
Arigatou.