Yay! I found out how to underline stuff and make it bold! whoo-hooo! ; yeah...anyways...on with the fic!

Chapter 3

-We Laughed

It had been several months since Kuja had met everyone. Now, he was learning the language from Yuki. He was already getting used to it, and could speak fairly fluently. Except when it came to curse words.

"The language you speak is a VERY old form of Gaian" Yuki said.

"Then why doesn't anyone speak it?" Kuja asked.

"I told you, it's a very old language." Yuki muttered, and started flipping through the pages of a torn book.

"How come you know it?"

"I like to read." He looked up, "And not many people know old Gaian, so you have to learn this. Gods know who taught you to speak. Where are you from?"

Kuja shrugged, "A small town you probly never heard of"

"I think that's a load of bull shit" Yuki muttered.

"What's bull shit?"

"Nevermind. Do you have any brothers and sisters?"

Kuja laughed, "I have a TON of siblings. You could almost say, a planet full of them."

"Geez, sounds like your parents were busy"

"Are Yasashii and Tori your kids?" Kuja asked.

"In a sense, because I take care of all them" Yuki said, "but none of them are really 'my' kids, if you know what I mean. Now go outside and find Tori."

"Ok." Kuja said and walked outside.

Tori was standing right outside the door, waiting for him.

"Hey, Kujaku!"

"I TOLD you! My name is Kuja!"

"Yeah, but it sounds like 'kujaku' so that's what I'm gonna call ya!" Tori said.

"What's a kujaku?"

"It's a type of bird." Tori said, trying to think of a good description, "they're really pretty, or at least the male ones are. They have blue and green feathers and the tail feathers look like they have eyes on them."

"Its called a 'peacock' in your language" Yuki muttered as he walked outside, "I have to go to work, so make sure no one comes in and steals anything.

(a/n: Kuja's name in Japanese is 'Kujaku' and it does mean 'peacock'. Fitting isn't it?)

"We have anything that's worth stealing?" Tori asked sarcastically.

"Shut up" Yuki said and started to walk away.

"Well, whaddya wanna do today?" Tori asked.

"I don't know. Where is Yasashii?"

Tori snorted, "I don't care. Probly shopping for more makeup. Let's go bug the nobles today"

Kuja thought about that for a minute, swishing his tail, "Let's sneak into the Auction House"

"Great idea!!!" Tori yelled, "Alrighty, c'mon!"

They ran up to the Auction House. At one door there was a guard and the other door lead to where they actually had the auctions.

"How do we get the guard away from the door?" Tori whispered, pulling at the silver feathers in Kuja's hair.

"Ow! Don't do that!" Kuja snapped, "And how should I know?"

"We need a distraction" Tori muttered to herself, ignoring Kuja.

Kuja shook his head, "I'm not gonna talk to the guard while you go in! This was my idea, so I'm going in!"

"I wasn't even gonna suggest that, you dumbass!" Tori snapped, then said before Kuja could ask, "I'm NOT gonna tell ya what a dumbass is either. You hafta figure it out!"

Kuja sat down and glared up at Tori as she paced and thought about what to do. Finally, she stopped and said, "That's it! Kujaku, wait here!" and ran off.

"She'd better not be doing something stupid." Kuja growled.

Tori came back with an old man.

"Awww ...Tori! What did you do that for?!"

"Shut up! I know what I'm doing!" she snarled, and said to the old man, "Can you please go talk to that guard over there?"

"Sure, missy" he said and walked slowly over to the guard.

The guard glared at the old man, "What do YOU want?"

"Oh, just someone to talk to." The old man said cheerily.

"Go away you crazy idiot!"

"Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked we in a rubber room. I died. Worms came. Did you say worms?! I HATE worms! They drive me crazy! Did you say crazy? I was crazy once ... "

"That should do for now" Tori whispered, and slipped past the guard who was now yelling at the old man, and begging him to shut up. Kuja laughed, and followed Tori.

Inside, they could hear the auctioneer bid off several expensive items.

"Where do people get money like that?! Kuja asked in awe, staring at the people over the staircase's banister.

"How the hell should I know?!"

"Who owns this place anyways?"

"The King family" Tori said.

"King? They rule Treno?" Kuja asked.

"No, their last name's King. They just have a lot of money." Tori said, while looking around.

"What are we looking for?"

"Anything that's expensive, that we can carry out."

"Like this?" Kuja asked, pointing at a painting.

"yeah, but smaller. That would look a tad obvious"

They searched through the halls, and didn't find anything.

"Geez! I thought rich people left expensive stuff just lying around!" Tori complained.

"You thought wrong" Kuja replied simply.

"shut up, Kujaku" Tori snapped, and pulled on his feathers again.

"HEY!" someone yelled behind them, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO PUNKS DOING HERE?!"

Kuja spun around and saw another guard, who was running straight towards them.

"What's a punk?" Kuja asked.

"No time for that! Idiot! Start running!" Tori yelled.

Later on, Yuki found out what had happened, and had to go to the Auction House to pick up Tori and Kuja.

"What the hell happened?!" Yuki asked.

"They were caught sneaking around the King's house" the guard growled and glared at the two kids.

"Can you just let them off this once?"

"Sure." The guard muttered, "But next time you'll have to bail them out of jail, and I don't think you have that kind of money"

"Thank you" Yuki said, ignoring the comment on how much money he earned.

Tori and Kuja walked in silence behind him. Eventually, he stopped, turned around, and yelled, "What the hell were you thinking?!"

"well ... uh ... we ..."

"You WEREN'T thinking! That's what!" Yuki yelled, "Tori, if you do anything like this again, I'm going to saw your horn off!"

Tori's eyes went wide, "But it was Kuja's idea!"

"Kuja! For God's sake, why did you listen to him if you know it was a bad idea? All you had to do was say no!"

Neither of them said anything.

Yuki calmed down a little, before saying, "Alright, you two are going to stay in the slums for the rest of the week. And if I hear that you even went NEAR the Auction House-"

"-You won't!" Tori interrupted hurredly, "We'll stay away from there!"

"Good"

They let Yuki walk ahead a little bit before they started to follow. Tori was glaring fiercely at Kuja.

After a while she growled, "Man! And we didn't even get anything outta this!"

Kuja smiled wickedly and lifted up his torn blue shirt and pulled out a small painting that had a gold frame, and whispered, "Are you sure about that?"

REDG: R&R!