He dumped his bag in the crate at the bottom of his allocated bunk sighing morosely. He needed to get outside, maybe it was a little less depressing there.
A month ago Riku had been accused of stabbing some guy he'd never met. Unfortunately for him he'd just
been in the wrong place at the wrong time. The witnesses at his court had been unconvinced by his story, his
friends had been disgusted and his parents had panicked and sent him here for the summer.
It was barely any better outside, the ground was mostly mud with only a few shoots of grass managing to burst
through. The camp was almost in the middle of nowhere, just off a highway. Surrounded by ancient oak forest
it was well known for being inescapable. He wandered towards the nearest trees for some of the shade
thankful for the activity-free day he'd been given to settle in.
He was around 5 metres from the first of the massive 80ft oaks when something solid hit him hard in the head.
"Oww!" He exclaimed loudly. He was searching the skyline dumbfounded when he heard manic giggling from
up among the branches. The teen peered through the boughs to see a small figure and a thin cloud of smoke.
Another object which he identified as an acorn hit him in the head.
"Hey! Stop it!" He shouted up, annoyed. A hail of the round seeds flew perfectly aimed at him, followed by
another unruly laugh.
"Come on up!" a chirpy voice called down. "It's easy!" Irritated and nursing a sore head he started to pull
himself up the massive tree branch by branch. 40ft up he reached his assailant, a girl who looked a few years
younger than him perched on the branch, one hand tugging distractedly on her cropped raven hair and the
other holding a lit joint.
"Hi," she said smiling and releasing her hair to give him a little wave. "you must be new, what're you here for?"
He stuttered, shocked by her boldness and finally replied,
"I didn't do it - I was wrongly accused."
"Yeah, that's what they all say." She assured him jokingly. "Wanna toke?" The girl asked offering Riku her badly packed joint.
"N-no thanks."
"You don't smoke?"
"No."
"Cute." She responded childishly. The girl began to absently hum to herself. Off-key.
"So," Riku started, only wanting to make the evil humming stop. "shouldn't you be at some activity or something?"
"Yeah but I hate hillwalks so I'm skipping it... Hey, what's your name?" Riku wondered at how she could end a simple statement on such a different subject.
"It's Riku."
"Nice." She said. "I'm Yuffie." They sat in a far more companionable silence for a minute or so in which the newly proclaimed Yuffie stubbed out the joint and let it fall to the ground far below.
"KISARAGI?" An angry shout came from the ground.
"Oh fuck, that's me." She muttered, "See ya at dinner." and scrambled down through the thick foliage like some kind of squirrel.
"What a weird little kid." Riku thought aloud, praying to the nearest deity that not everyone here was like that. Unfortunately for him, his prayer had been answered by a god with a sense of humour.
Well here it is, the first chapter of my first story here on I apologise for the shortness and promise longer chapters to come. I'll be completely amazed if I get any reveiws, amazed but very happy. (hint, hint)
