Hello fans! It's me your one and only elusivefoxfire or just foxfire for short. Most all of my stories will be of Paine and Rikku because that's only coupling that I like and the only one I want to write about.

Anyways… I own nothing, so far, in this story. All credit goes to Square-Enix and the other lucky bastards that made the Final Fantasy series… bastards….

Crazy Little Thing Called Love.

Chapter 1: Almost An Ordinary Day…

The early morning stars were slowly ebbing away as the darkened sky of night brightened, welcoming the day. The dwindling stars caught the gaze of one crimson-eyed warrior on the deck of the Celsius. With her arms behind her, cradling her head, she lay there in a picture of serenity. Though she looked calm, behind those red wine eyes was a raging ocean of thoughts. Thoughts of things she had never really dwelt upon until she met one special girl who had, only recently, changed her views on life, happiness, and even... love. The clouds of violet were slowly taking on new hues of bright pink and yellow-orange. Two colors, like two certain people, that would usually clash, coming together in perfect harmony.

-In the cabin-

She awoke in a heated sweat as she had been doing for weeks now. The girl reconciled her dreams where she had been with the only person she ever really wanted. She looked to the bed beside her to find her cousin still sound asleep.

"I guess neither of us are to have what we truly want, huh Yunie?" the blonde thought aloud. Poor Yuna. It had been a little more than two years now and the auburn-haired girl still cried in her sleep. 'If only he hadn't have been a fayth's dream… then maybe he'd still be here. But then again, I would never have met her…' she contemplated. 'Speaking of which…' the Al Bhed girl sat up, looking further to her right, over her cousin's bed to the one that lie just beyond. 'Where is she?'

The blonde got up and quickly threw on her daily attire (or lack of one). She bolted down the stairs after messily making her bed, past Barkeep and into the elevator.

"Good morning mish Rikku." The blue-skinned creature said, as the thief flew by him.

"Where could she be?" Hmm…" she said, talking to herself, ignoring the hypello, "the deck!" she nearly shouted and punched the button to take her to the desired location. While back upstairs in the cabin the ex-summoner stirred restlessly in her sleep.

The swirled-eyed girl jumped around the elevator in her usual perky demeanor. She stopped abruptly when elevator came to ahaltand the doors opened revealing the most beautiful sight she had ever seen.

"Paine." Rikku choked out, inaudible to the gothic warrior. After taking in the beauty of what lie before her the thief regained her composure and headed towards the silver-haired girl. 'Snap outta it! She'llcatch onif you act strange. She always knows when something is up.' The Al Bhed thought to herself as she fell into a bouncy step.

Paine heard footsteps and her thoughts immediately subsided. She listened to the sound of the footsteps.

"What Rikku?" She flatly stated when the theif pounced over top of her.

"Oh nothing," Rikku danced around over top of Paine. The blonde was unaware of the fact that the older girl could quite easily see up her skirt. "Just thinking of what we could do today." Paine quirked an eyebrow at the girl over her.

"Didn't Yuna want to go to Besaid today?"

"Heh, heh… oh yea. I forgot." Rikku whispered and pouted.

'Shit. Why does she have to pout?' the crimson-eyed girl thought, 'I hate when she does that it's… "cute".'

At that last thought Paine stood. She was starting to get bad ideas from the current view she had of Rikku. With those silky, tanned legs, her blonde hair that floated in the breeze, those amazing emerald eyes, and a breath-taking smile. Paine could see why she, yet alone everyone else in Spira,was so attracted to her. She quickly brushed herself off and looked around, her eyes settled on the emerald-eyed beauty in front of her.

Rikku looked up at the now standing warrior, noting that the older girl's gaze had settled on her, and quickly flashed her signature smile. Paine was kind of getting 'hot under the collar', Rikku's antics were really starting to get to her.

The sly thief knew that Paine liked her, to a degree,she just couldn't get the girl to admit to it. She noticed that Paine was slowly looking her up and down and Rikku's smile only broadened.

Paine broke the longing stare when Rikku asked playfully, "So whatcha' lookin' at?"

"Nothing." Came the quick response. 'I can't keep letting her catch me like that. She catches me completely off guard every damn time.'

'Maybe today I can bust a move on her… but how? Hmm…', the theif thought.

Paine glanced back at the younger girl when she heard whistling. Rikku stood there suspiciously whistling and looking around as though she was trying to hide something. The Al Bhed's eyes wondered to the silver-haired girl's face and immediately she burst into a string of giggles when she saw the quizical look on her friend's face.

"What?" the other girl asked, shifting her wait to her other leg.

"I have a great idea!" the bouncing blonde exclaimed, "After we go to Besaid we can go on a man hunt for Yunie!"

" 'A man hunt'?" Paine inquired.

"Yea, you know, we go look for a-"

"Yes, Rikku, I know what it is, but why?" she questioned.

"We'll go to Luca to a few -"

"Why?" Paine said more sternly, but the blonde didn't falter.

"And furthermore, Dr. P," the crimson-eyed girl inwardly cringed at the nickname. "We've searched all this and found nothing. All this time and the chances of finding him are like a million-bazillion to one. I don't see how she does it."

"You never know," The pale girl replied, gazing at the blue sky, "She has hope… and love. Sometimes your love for someone can push you on no matter what. It can make you do things you never dreamed of doing or going places you'd never go. No matter how bad things get your love is what keeps you going."

"Whoa…" Rikku thought she had just seen straight into the older girls soul. "That was deep."

"Hmph," Paine grunted, "yeah."

"Well, um… I'm gonna go get some breakfast… wanna come?"

"Sure." Came the monotone reply. Rikku thought she had seen something, anything when she helped the warrior up off the deck, but then it was gone. She was back to her normal cold self. The blonde walked with the silver-haired girl off the deck thinking that maybe, one day, she would find out what was behind those beautiful eyes and maybe find someone, something more…

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