Chapter Six ---Driving Me Under

Squall stood out in the chilly night for a long while, staring at the ground. She was gone. He hadn't been able to stop her and she was gone. It was his fault. The entire mess was his fault. Squall didn't bother going back to Garden to beg her stay. She would already be gone and if she wasn't, she'd already handed in her reassignment forms and insisted on leaving. Instead he went back into the club and ordered a drink.

"Sq-squall?" A tiny voice called out. Selphie. Blue eyes meet green and Selphie looked at her feet.

"I'm sorry Squall. I told Quistis and Rinoa you would be here. I didn't think they would take things that far honest-" Squall cut her off.

"It's not your fault its mine. Has been for a long time." Selphie just sat next to him a while and sighed. Raijin sat next to her, worried.

When Fujin was gone, Squall had always gotten edgy and snappish. Everything set him off and he wouldn't calm down until she was home. Of course, he still didn't calm down and he lit off on her and then stormed out of the room only to come back two hours later and apologize. What would happen now that Fujin was gone for good?

"I'm going home." Squall announced, getting up, swaying a bit. The bartender looked worried. Squall had had abouteight or ten drinks in the time he came in.

'I'll take him home." Selphie offered.

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"GO AWAY!!!" Squall screamed. Selphie was clearly frightened and huddled in the corner. Squall was drunk and angry. Already there were several dents in the wall and a few broken lamps. Raijin grabbed the man and threw him onto the couch and helped Selphie back to her room.

"He misses her, ya know?"

"Yea...it's sad...I think they both loved each other." Raijin nodded.

"They did." And with that, he bid her goodnight. Raijin made sure Squall would be alright by himself and set out to find Fujin. Of course, she's left her old adress with him if he ever wanted to find her. However, he knew that if he told Squall, he wouldn't live much longer.

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The small house was dark and smelled of cedar. The rain outside was falling in a torrential downpour and Fujin was sopping wet. With and angry growl she flung her first suitcase into the house and carefully set the other down by the door before tearing the house apart. Rage was consuming her as she overturned the table and flung chairs into the wall. All of the glasses and plates were smashed into a million, sparkling smitherns on the floor and so the destruction continued until the only thing left standing was the couch and the bed in the other room.

Fujin went into the bathroom and slid down the wall, the tears that were hiding behind her eyes finally betraying her and spilling over. Rage was gone and the only thing left was the overwhleming saddness. She heard the front door click shut and she silently crept out of the bathroom, fully prepared to tear the intruder from limb to limb.

"Raijin?" She said softly and the man took one look at the living room, then at her and took two long strides and wrapped her into his large arms.

"Oh Fuj...it's alright ,you know? It's gonna be alright." Fujin was surprised by this show of concern but she soon found herself with her own small arms wrapped around him, crying steadily. A faint glimmer surrounded the room, but neither noticed it untill suddenly, everything was gone.

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"Squall." Squall ignored the voice the was echoing in the room.

"SQUALL!!!" Squall sat up with a jolt and looked around. A shadowy figure stood at the foot of his bed.

"Who are you?"

"I am Hyne...I'm also the reason your in Seifer's shoes. To show you something you needed to know. But you still couldn't see it. So you have a choice now Squall. To go back to the way things were, or to stay here, have this life." Squall thought. Fujin hated him and was never coming back. He himself was a mess without her and took out his rage on Raijin. It wouldn't be far to Raijin.

"I want my old life back." He said coldly and Hyne mentally shook his head. Squall didn't know what he was doing didn't only affect him.

"Very well."

Images of the Wars, of the posse, the orphanage, of his father, Fujin's mother beating, nearly losing Fujin in a mission gone wrong , flashed through his mind. All the pain Seifer had ever felt was now suffocating him. An image of Fujin's bright smile chased all the pain and darkness away and filled him with an odd sense of hope. But when that image faded, all the fear and hate coursed through him with a painfully sharp bite.

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"Fujin! What happened?" Seifer's voice rang in her ears as she looked around the barren landscape. She turned to find the blonde running towards her and wrapping his arms around her in a hug just as Raijin had done a few moments ago.

"Seifer? What's going on?" Seifer shrugged his shoulders and placed a kiss on her forward. Hyne, it was good to have her back, not having to pretend as if he hated her. Whatever had gone on, he knew that he and Squall had switched places. But what happened to end that? He didn't know.

"You are being returned to your rightful places." Hyne stood before them. Fujin looked at him from within Seifer's arms. She didn't know it, but her heart shattered into a million fragmented pieces.

"I am sorry for causing such trouble in your lives." With that he was gone and so was everything else, disappearing into a bright flash of light.

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"Hey Fuu! Wake up!! Lunch time!!!" Seifer's happy voice cut through her sleep and she sat up. It did feel good to be back in with Seifer the Raijin just like old times. But something inside missed being with Squall.

"Yes! Our tables still here, ya know?" Raijin said, a big grin on his features. Fujin noticed Selphie turn to look at the big man and then blush before looking away. The group sat at their regular table and Fujin sighed. The old routine would be good for her. Right?

"Not still thinking about Commander Boy are you?" Seifer asked quietly and Fujin simply sighed and turned away from him, looking out at the lunch room to the window. However her eyes caught sight of Squall's and she didn't know she glared at him before looking away.

'So it really is the same as before. She hates me and I'm supposed to hate her. Them.What if I went over and made my peace...would that have any affect at all?' Squall wondered to himself, ignoring Rinoa's blabbering in his ear. Suddenly he got up and walked to the Posse's table.

Seifer's green eyes very nearly tore a hole through his entire being. Raijin's usually friendly contenance was deteriorating and Fujin had not looked back at him. Slowly, he enxtended his right hand towards Seifer. Fujin turned back and looked on in surprise.

" Seifer."

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