Snow in May

A.N.: This is my first FF-8 fanfic (a bit late, I know). Hope you like it.

I – Prologue

"Hey, Seifer, look! I've got a second one, ya know."

"IDIOT!"

With a short sigh, Seifer glanced at the siblings just in time to see Fujin pushing her brother into the cold ocean. His moaning and groaning reminded him of chicken-wuss, when he had fallen on his nose as a child, and, combined with Fujin's cold look, made him smile again. Nevertheless, the thought that Balamb Garden was just a hundred metres away and he couldn't be there still hurt somehow. When she turned to leave, his smile vanished.

"Hey, Fu, where are you going?"

"Buy drink." She repeated in her usual monotonous manner and nodded, when Seifer asked her to buy one for him, too. As Raijin, who had managed to climb out of the water by now, opened his mouth, her eyes darkened again. "NEGATIVE. Got enough there." Ignoring her brothers begging, she stalked off to the streets of Balamb.

"My, why does she always have to be so mean, ya know?" Raijin asked, trying to press the water out of his clothes. And why did it always have to be her poor brother?

A few minutes passed, but Fujin didn't return, although the shop was quite close to the harbour. It made both anger and nervousness rise inside him. "Come on, Raijin. Let's see what takes her so long." Without even waiting for the answer, Seifer stood up and made his way to the street. Fujin wasn't that type of girl that got herself hooked by something trivial. When he reached the shop, he felt his heart stop for a moment. "What the hell-?"

He crept around the scene slowly and tried to find her silver hair within the glaring crowd, but it was useless. "Has anyone a seen a silver-haired girl with an eye patch here?" He asked no one in particular.

"You know her?" He focused the shocked woman who had turned around to him. Still pale from shock, she pointed at the spot, where the car had hit the shop's door and now stood damaged. On one side of the doorframe blood was sprawled across the sand-coloured stone. "She just came out of the shop, when that car rushed into and..." She buried her face in her hands, bursting into tears, as she tried to continue. "They were cadets from Balamb Garden. They said they would take her to the infirmary there. There was so much blood and confusion and…"

He looked at the blood on the doorframe again. Fujin's blood.

"Dammit! Raijin, we're leaving." Again, he did not wait for the answer and simply stalked off to Balamb Garden.

After a last glance at the scene, Raijin followed him, a sad and despaired look on his face. The three bottles she had bought now lay broken on the ground within her blood.

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She awoke with the worst headache she had probably ever had in her life. Blinking slightly, she tried to adjust to the glaring light. "Where?"

"Fu, you're awake!"

"I'm so glad, ya know."

A bewildered look crossed her face, as she gazed at the two men next to her, the knight with his emerald eyes and the muscular giant. "Knight" and "Guardian" were the words that came to her mind immediately. "Fu who?"

The two men's mouths fell open. Did she just ask what they had called her? "Fu…" Seifer tried to start, but realised that his tongue seemed to rebel. He didn't want to truly believe what he feared. "You really can't remember?" When she shook her head, he took a deep breath. "That's you – can't you remember? You're Fujin Kazeno, the heartless, member of the Disciplinary Committee and one of my goddamn friends. It's me, Seifer, and this is your brother, Raijin." He pointed at the giant, who now ran his hand across her cheek carefully. "You can't tell me you don't remember us, ya know."

Half exhausted, half desperate, Fujin took a deep breath, too.

"Sorry."

A.N.: So, how do you like it? Shall I go on writing?