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Summary: Yuffie has been put in Juvy (a school for bad kids.) She has only one way out. She has to either participate as a cabin leader for five weeks at a kid's camp with other Juvy's or go back to that hell for 3 years. Squffie.
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Chapter Three
A water savior and camp fires
"That hurts!" The now clean Yuffie complained quietly, as the nurse dabbed at the slightly inflated jaw with a cut going down an inch or two from her ear.
"It'll sting, but don't you want me to mend this? I would think you would or you could just go around the whole next two weeks in pain then rather just facing some burning. What do you want me to do?" the nurse asked.
"Just finish. I have to get to dinner with my cabin soon," Yuffie clarified. The nurse shrugged her shoulders then dabbed at her cut once more before putting something on it.
"This is cooling gel. You can put some foundation on it and no one will know that you had the cut," the nurse notified. Yuffie smiled but then realized something.
"Um…I don't wear foundation," Yuffie admitted, slowly.
"Oh, well then…hold on a second." The nurse jumped up and came Yuffie could hear the healer rummage in the back of the infirmary cabin and in seconds, came back with a little packet. "As sad as it is, girls come to me sometimes saying they will not do any camp activity without foundation. Yuffie with held most of her laughter, but some slipped.
"Must be preps then," Yuffie snickered. "It's like all they think of." The nurse pressed her lips together in satisfaction and gave Yuffie the little packet.
"Okay, off you go," the nurse, urged her. Yuffie smiled and nodded running to the door and shouted, "Thanks!" then left. She scrambled up the steps to her cabin and when she threw, open the door; she was attacked with hugs and little kids.
"Yuffie, are you alright?!"
"Did you kick his ass?"
"What happened after we left?"
"Beef Jerky!" All of them stopped and looked at Stephanie.
"Beef Jerky?" Aerith asked. Stephanie nodded and replied, "Yeah. You guys wouldn't shut up and let Yuffie talk." They all shrugged and Aerith nodded.
"Yeah, I guess we should let Yuffie talk," Aerith admitted. "Well, what happened after we left?"
Sighing, Yuffie told them and Aerith nodded in excitement. "Isn't Cloud something?" Yuffie gave a snort at Aerith and said, "Yes, he is very nice and protective but Squall kicked Seifer's butt." Aerith crossed her arms and smiled.
"If I didn't know better, I'd say you liked him," Aerith said. Yuffie shrugged and replied, "Well, if I didn't know any better, you like Cloud so it makes it even although, I'm not feeling anything for Squall except the fact that he's very attractive. That's all…so far." Aerith smirked and then patted her on the back and said, "We're gonna be great friends."
Yuffie rolled her eyes and offered, "Anyone hungry? I bet you shrimps are." They looked at one another and smiled with Kristi replying, "Hell er, heck ya!" Yuffie smiled and let Kristi come and jump on her back. She gave the little monster a piggyback ride back to the mess hall. Kristi laughed loudly in the dark and she could hear other kids and cabin leaders trailing to dinner.
From the distance, the mess hall was lighted brightly and people were entering slowly. Yuffie heard Kristi's cry to go faster and obliged. She speeded up the ride and Kristi's squeals became louder. "Whee!" Yuffie walked into the mess hall with Kristi on her shoulders and let her jump off onto the table. Jesse, fortunately, wasn't in the mess hall at that moment and Yuffie grinned.
Yuffie and Kristi waited for the others, getting impatient along the way. As they waited, a figure came in through the door glancing at her with a smirk as she held Kristi by her side. Yuffie and Kristi looked the other way acting as if they never saw him and stuck their nose in the air. Seifer growled and walked to another table with the rest of his cabin. Aerith, Kairi, Sora, Riku, and the rest of the munchkins stumbled in.
"Finally!" Yuffie and Kristi exclaimed together. They just sat down at a table away from Seifer's and began chatting. Yuffie and Kristi were shunned to the end of the table so Kristi sat next to Yuffie and Yuffie sat deserted since Kristi was talking with her trio. Seifer was giving her a look by lustfully licking his lips, but stopped suddenly and turned around back to his table. Yuffie tilted her slightly in question. She then felt a figure sit down beside her slowly. She looked up at the brunette.
"Hey Squall," Yuffie greeted.
"Leon."
"Oh sorry, my mistake," Yuffie retorted, sarcastically. Squall just raised his eyebrows for the second then put his elbows on the table and rested his chin in his hand. Yuffie tilted her head and then rested her chin in her hand to mock Squall. Squall gave her a suspicious look while Yuffie copied. Squall creased his eyebrows in vexation.
"Stop it!" They both said together. Yuffie burst out laughing and turned her head the other way. Squall just sighed and looked the other way. Everyone turned their heads towards the two and just smiled.
Yuffie came trailing in through the door with a grin on her face and a tired little girl on her back. Kairi and Aerith came behind with the tired kids trailing behind them. Kristi had already dropped dead on the floor from exhaustion. Well, not literally dead but the way she dropped seemed like it. Yuffie put Kristi on her bed while the others were in the bathroom brushing their teeth wearily. Yuffie wondered why Kristi would drop so soon since she was usually all full of energy and seemed like she stayed up late but apparently not.
Yuffie changed into her pajama's, that consisted of a tank top and some spandex shorts. "Into bed! We'll see you all in the morning!" Aerith said. Yuffie just fell onto her bed and pulled her blanket over her, not caring if they were in bed or not. She pulled her CD player on over her ears to drown out the noise and soon drifted off to sleep.
"Are you serious?! Oh my god! That is great," Yuffie exclaimed. Aerith wasn't too happy but not too mad. The little shrimps were gonna go to the mess hall and stay with the camp director to get to know the rules and be adjusted to the camp. The LEADERS have to go swimming instead. Yuffie had already scrambled into her bag and had her swimsuit at hand. She ran into the bathroom and changed.
Minutes later, everyone was dressed and they led the little kids down to the mess hall where they would do the days activities while they got to go and swim. They were to meet at the lake shortly after they dropped off the kids from their cabin. Yuffie began to wonder why they did not just go swimming in the lake at camp. It would have been easier in Yuffie's opinion anyway.
Yuffie had a white tank top on over her swimsuit and shorts to cover her bottom piece. The three girls trudged through the dirt with displeasure at how dirty they were getting but remembered they were going swimming so it did not matter. In the distance, a crowd was forming. She knew that her friends were grinning their heads off at which they saw in the distance. Cloud, Sora, Riku, and Squall were in the distance. Yuffie almost felt like freezing but mentally slapped herself for even thinking of that. Cloud was whispering some things to Squall, who didn't even look like he was listening, but Yuffie knew he was since Cloud was the only he thought was sane. Sora and Riku were telling one another jokes (as usual) while laughing their heads off. Yuffie was walking by Squall and was about to say hi the two when someone pushed her out of the way and made her stumble back.
"Hey! What's the deal?" Yuffie growled. A stunning raven-haired teenager had brushed by her without a word and towards Squall and Cloud. Cloud was pushed back a little and she began to talk to Squall who was taken back a bit. He then returned to his normal self and acted as if he weren't listening. Yuffie pushed herself up from the ground and stomped right over and pushed her out of the way.
"What's your frikin' deal?! Are you blind?" Yuffie growled. The woman just glanced over at Yuffie and smiled.
"I'll see you later Squallie!" She turned to go but before she left, she glared at Yuffie and flipped her off. Yuffie's eyes widened in horror then she began to start to string a fling of words before a hand covered her mouth. Cloud removed his hand and said, "She's not even worth your time." Yuffie glanced over to the area the raven went and then back to Cloud.
"I guess not," Yuffie said then thought, "but if she provokes it, no one's gonna stop me from kicking her ass." A smile crept up on Cloud's forest from Yuffie enthusiasm.
Yuffie let a laugh escape and said, "Squallie? Ha, that's funny." Squall growled and it urged Yuffie to laugh on more. "Oh…haha…by the way…ha…Cloud. Hahaha…Who was that girl?"
"Rinoa."
They hiked up the mountain trail in wheezy breaths. It was getting hard to get there but the leader of the whole ordeal promised them it was worth it and offered that they would just get into better shape. Flowers shined on the side of the path but everyone was too busy concentrating on getting up the trail to concentrate. Well, except for Squall, Cloud, and Seifer. This seemed to be easy for them. No wonder they didn't want the little shrimps to come. They'd have to carry them up the whole way and the little kids certainly outnumbered the leaders.
"Soon…" Kairi said, slowly. "We better get there soon or else." It was soon that they got there to Kairi's wishes. They did stand amazed at the scenery. It was nice and way prettier and inviting than the lake. Yuffie grinned at the site of the waterfall.
"Oh…That looks nice," she whispered. The leader said that they were to go to the top to look at the view then they could go swimming. Yuffie didn't like the leader because he was gay and was kind of flirting with the other people. He looked like he had most of his interest on Squall though.
Yuffie wanted to go swimming now, but everyone else was already going to the top. "Hey! Wait for me!" She hurried up to catch up and by the time they got to the top they were tired out. Yuffie had to yell at Riku and Sora when they played a joke on her. She was giving them a speech on how they shouldn't do that if they didn't want her to hurt them.
"Oh you guys are going to pay if you do that again," Yuffie warned. She pointed her finger at them and began again, "I'm serious too." Sora and Riku gulped and eyed one another. Riku shrugged his shoulders wondering what was he afraid of.
He turned around so that his back was facing Yuffie and began to reply. Yuffie did not realize she was standing next to Squall so she did not know what was going to happen. The mahogany haired teenager crossed her arms and listened as Riku was talking.
"Okay Yuffie. WE ARE sorry. It won't happen again and we certainly don't want our butts kicked," he began. Yuffie turned around and saw Squall. He spared a glance at her then his eyes widened and he sighed as a familiar raven-haired woman came along.
"Hey Squallie," she greeted. It was a sour greeting to Yuffie's ears. Yuffie frowned at that. She didn't realize how close to the edge she was.
"It's Leon."
"Oh…Squall fits you much better!" Rinoa said.
"That's what I think too," Yuffie whispered, inaudible to the ears of those around her. She turned her head towards Riku who was still talking.
"Say it like you mean it Riku," Yuffie said.
"Well, anyway," Rinoa began, as she talked to Squall. It was starting to bug the crap out of Yuffie and the position she was standing in was getting tiring so she took a step back…
"I am Yuffie so now that you know that, you can stop talking and we can listen to the stupid leader." The height they were up was about seventy or eighty feet high and Yuffie didn't like heights…They made her sick. "See Yuffie," Riku began, "it's not that hard to be quiet and listen." Riku looked over and whispered fiercely, "Where's Yuffie?"
Splash.
"Uh oh," Sora whispered. Squall pushed Rinoa out of the way and looked over the edge.
"What'd you do that for?" Squall hissed. "She's going to drown from the water fall." Rinoa shrugged her shoulders and said, "It was a mere accident." Rinoa had a wicked smile on her face and Squall did his usually glare. He looked down and then dove off the edge.
Gasps arose across the teenagers and the leader said, "I think we should be getting down to the bottom now and you guys can swim." Everyone felt like falling to the ground. The leader had no idea what was going on. Sora pointed to the leader and said, "You're lucky you're not fat or else I would've made fun of you so bad for not caring." They all began to head down and the leader thought, "I don't deserve that but then again…they are juvenile delinquents."
Yuffie was under the water, stunned from the impact but her mind was still working.
I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die. Swim you idiot. SWIM!
"What happened, Kairi?" Riku asked.
"Yuffie had stepped back and Rinoa said she'd help her catch her balance but pushed her off. Squall didn't take that lightly," the crimson-headed girl explained.
'Come on. You don't want to die!' her mind sobbed.
"Rinoa. Isn't she Seifer's girlfriend? Trying hit on Squall and knock out the competition," Cloud said.
You're gonna die… Okay…I give my CD player to…hum…
A hand grabbed onto Yuffie's arm and pulled her up above the surface. She seemed unconscious but she seemed awake. She couldn't move and her eyes were closed, but she hacked some water up. She was breathing but not very well.
Who should I give it—?
Hack…Hack
I can breathe? I can breathe!
Squall pulled Yuffie up into his arms and came out of the water. Everyone was coming down and seeing Yuffie in Squall's arms.
"Is she dead?!" One cried.
"No you idiot!"
"Hey! You two! Leon! You and your girlfriend better stop doing inappropriate things," the leader called. That woke Yuffie up. She hacked up the last of the water in her lungs and said, "Girlfriend? I'm not his girlfriend. He just saved my life and you're telling me we're doing inappropriate things?!" Squall let Yuffie down and she began to advance upon the leader.
"Wait a second. Are you jealous? You are gay for the fact. You like Squall er, Leon! I advise you turn and leave some where else or else I will kick your butt like if I were his girlfriend," Yuffie warned. The leader growled but then said, "You just threatened me."
"Well, you just admitted to liking Squall."
"No I didn't."
"See, you're not denying that you like Squall. You're just saying that you didn't admit it so I can just arrange a meeting with Jesse here and we'll see what happens," Yuffie smiled.
The leader frowned and said, "You'll see." He walked off and the others just stood wide-eyed. Most of the other teens were just shrugging their shoulders and jumped into the pond and began to swim. Yuffie kneeled down from energy lost and tried to catch her breath. Kairi and Aerith ran over to her and began to ask her questions.
"Are you okay?" Aerith asked. Yuffie nodded and said, "Yeah…thanks to Squall. Oh wait…Leon." Yuffie sat on the ground and smiled.
"Well, I'm gonna sit here and watch you guys swim. I'm too tired right now."
"Okay," Kairi said. Aerith was gagging and Yuffie asked, "Are you okay?"
"Um, sorta. The leader liking Squall is making me very sick right now but I think I might get over it."
Yuffie looked back over to where Squall was. "Hey, where's Squall?" Cloud, Riku, and Sora came over and studied Yuffie.
"He disappeared I guess," Cloud shrugged. "Wouldn't blame him either."
Squall sat in the forest alone watching nothing. He was dripping wet but didn't care. He felt sick. The leader liked him? Ugh…And then what had gotten into him to jump off after her? Was it the fact that Rinoa had done it and she was Seifer's girlfriend?
"Yeah…that's it," Squall reassured himself, but he had a feeling that wasn't why.
Yuffie sat at the edge of the pond while she watched her friends swim. Sora and Riku found a tree by the area with a vine on it and they had the bright idea of swinging of it into the pond. It looked fun and the boys were putting a lot of work on the vine. Yuffie decided she would try it sometime. In the distance, she was two familiar people messing around with each other. Her eyes widened at the thought then she shook her head.
"No…They can't be here. They never went to Juvy unless," Yuffie trailed off. "Selphie! Tidus!" The two people glanced over as if they heard their name then went back to what they were doing. One of them took a double take and got out of the water. She was a good twenty yards away and yelled back, "Yuffie? Is that you?"
"Get over here!" Yuffie yelled, waving the two. Selphie yanked Tidus out of the water who yanked someone out of the water along with him. Yuffie squinted and smiled. The little blitzer, Wakka. They walked along with eachother along the bank of the pond towards the sitting juvenile.
The three approached and Yuffie grinned. They seemed different as well. Everyone had gotten taller and it seemed Selphie had caught up with Yuffie in height.
"You guys are in Juvy? Ha, now I've seen everything!" Yuffie grinned.
"Well, Selphie here isn't. She's just here supporting us. She's the goodie-goodie," Tidus explicated.
"Oh yeah. There are a couple goodie-goodie's here aren't there? Well, it's good to see you again. What cabin are you in?" Yuffie asked.
"You wouldn't believe it. I'm stuck with Rinoa and Fujin," Selphie told. Yuffie felt a sudden whiff of pity towards her.
"I can't believe it…I'm so sorry that that happened," Yuffie sympathized.
"Ya and me and Tidus are with da other two," Wakka explained. Yuffie looked up at Tidus again and smiled.
"Wow Tidus. You sure have gotten nicer looking," Yuffie commented. Tidus felt a blush blow up on his face and he stuttered, "Y-You too." He had such a crush on Yuffie in High School but she had been expelled so nothing happened.
"Oh…You guys should spend time at our cabin's. It's way better."
"I think I'll take that offer up," Selphie said.
"It's great to see you guys again."
"You too," they said in unison. They took off towards the area they were earlier. Those three were like best friends. They were very hard to break up. Yuffie used to go to school with them until she was expelled. They must have hit the rock bottom after she left. They were the crowd she hung around most since they liked the same things. They didn't live far from her either, but she wondered why they didn't go to her Juvy instead.
It was getting towards dusk and they began to head back. The leader was in the front and everyone was keeping their distance away from him. Yuffie, Aerith, Cloud, Kairi, Sora, and Riku were in the back because they didn't even want to go close to the leader or Seifer and his gang for the fact. Selphie and her trio were towards the front because they didn't like the back. They motto was 'the faster to camp, the better.' They weren't looking forward to their cabins but dinner seemed nice.
"Hey…Leon never did come back," Aerith pointed out.
"Cloud's on that job. Poor guy…Probably scarred for life," Riku said. Yes, everyone had a lot of pity for Squall now that they found out a gay person liked him. They reached camp with no sweat now because it was going downhill. The shrimps were still at the mess hall. Yuffie wasn't ready to face them…maybe Kristi. She was the one she liked most so maybe her but she didn't know about anyone else.
The girls got back to their cabin with a message on their door. Kairi pulled it off the door and began to read, "Tonight is campfire. Meet around the campfire for some nice toasty warmth and smores." They glanced at each other with a smile.
"Nice. That sounds nice," Yuffie whispered. Turning the knob, Kairi opened the door and flipped on the lights. Yuffie tossed her things beside her bed and grabbed a shirt and shorts from her bag. She quickly changed and hopped onto her bed. She always had to listen to her CD player. Aerith was obsessing on what pink outfit she should wear while Kairi just grabbed any outfit in her bag. She also put on a jacket to keep her warm.
"Ready!" Kairi said, glancing over at Yuffie then towards Aerith. "You're not ready yet are you Aerith?" She shook her head and smiled.
"Won't ever be."
"Well, do your best and hurry. It's time for dinner. We'll meet you there," Kairi said, grabbing Yuffie and pulling her out the door. Yuffie tossed her CD player on the bed and waved goodbye to it.
"Is that really necessary?" Kairi asked.
"Yes. That thing is my life," Yuffie grinned.
Dinner was nice and tasty. Everyone was there except Squall and Aerith. Cloud had said that he wanted to be alone in the cabin but would go to the campfire tonight. Aerith was still stressing about her clothes so Kairi went back to get her while Yuffie sat around the campfire. Riku and Sora talked with her for a moment then she decided they got boring because they talked about things she didn't want to talk about like some of the stories they laughed at for instance. Aerith and Kairi still weren't back yet and Cloud was sitting alone. There was an empty spot next to her on both sides. There was a spot next to Cloud and next to Riku open as well. The shrimps were on the other side of the fire eating smores.
A body sat down next to her. The scent coming from the person she figured it was Squall. Well, she thought he was sitting next to her to talk but then again there were no empty spaces now since Kairi and Aerith had gotten back unless he wanted to sit next to the leader. She didn't think that would be happening. Kairi smiled and said, "I finally helped her pick out an outfit and shoved it on her." Yuffie laughed at the girls' humor.
"Hey Kairi," Riku asked, "We need your opinion on this." Kairi turned her attention towards Riku and smiled. Yuffie was once again left without anyone to talk to. She glanced at Squall, who was gazing into the depths of the fire. What was so interesting about that? But then again, he might be just thinking.
Her gaze shifted towards Aerith and Cloud. They were having a dandy time. Selphie, Tidus, and Wakka were sitting comfortably down a couple people from them. She caught Tidus glance at her from time to time and smile. He still hadn't gotten over her. She brought her knees to her chest and hugged them. Was this going to be a boring time? Most likely.
"Yuffie?" She let her gaze wonder to Squall.
"Yes?"
"Are you okay? I mean the fall was pretty harsh," he whispered. The wind began to pick up and lightly blow at Yuffie's hair.
"Yeah thanks to you," Yuffie replied. It became silent when he nodded and looked back into the fire. The fire crackled and the light voices of others drifted in the air. She should've stayed at the cabin with her prized CD player. She then felt something leather touch her cut. Her gaze saw a gloved hand lightly touching her cut.
"That's a pretty nasty cut Seifer gave you," Squall said. Yuffie nodded then Squall realized what he was doing and whipped his hand back into his lap. Yuffie eyed him curiously and then a smiled began to form on her face.
"You're such a mystery," Yuffie said. Squall quirked an eyebrow at her and a rare small smile caught his lips. Yuffie realized it and said, "Oh gawd, are you smiling?" Squall turned his head the other way and said, "No…"
"Are you sure about that?" He turned his gaze towards the fire and replied, "I'm sure." There was silence and Yuffie then whispered, getting up, "You're a bad liar, Squall."
He watched her leave. Her small petite form leaving the area towards her own cabin. He looked back at the fire then…smiled.
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