IV – Alone
A.N.: Thanks to my two reviewers animegoil and charmednwicked for reviewing chap 1-3. Hope you like this one. Special thanks to Cueball, your review was one of the best compliments I ever got.
Disclaimer: I don't own, Seifer, Fujin, Raijin or anyone else. They belong to Squaresoft.
Hours had passed before he found her within the jungle BG used for sparing sessions. She would always come here to fight off her emotions. Most people thought she didn't have any, but Raijin knew her better. He had seen her break often enough – mostly because of Seifer – to know that she was full of emotions. But, unfortunately, she wasn't able to handle them. She would just hunt down some T-Rexaurs until her rage covered everything else.
The T-Rexaurs were dead, indeed. Their torn bodies made him wince slightly. "If you go on like that, you'll slaughter all of Balamb's T-Rexaur population, ya know."
She tried to make it sound seriously, but it was hard to control the slight chuckles. "Go. No company."
"But I wanna talk to you, ya know." Without reacting to her sighs and frowns, he sat down on one of the fallen trunks and roamed the battle field. She had taken down five T-Rexaurs by now. Obviously, her rage was worse than he had thought. "What happened to ya, Fujin? Why did you look so shocked, so frightened? We worry about you, ya know."
She didn't even answer him, just struck down some of the weaker beasts absent-minded. Like there was nothing less difficult than killing a monster. She knew killing was easier than accepting terms.
"My business. Go."
"Fuu –"
"GO!"
I took him nothing more than a quick step aside to evade her attack with her shuriken. If she was ready to beat him, to hurt him, she was hard on the edge, he knew. Only a few words now and she would break down and cry. Would make way for her grief and his comfort.
"Here we go. I know your system, ya know. Can't shelter yourself from everything, Fuu, so just tell me what's wrong. Ya know I won't tell somebody else."
She simply stared at him blankly, her left eye slowly filling up with tears. "Doesn't matter. Leave. Now. No company."
It was a short, but effective struck to his system. She had never been that extreme. "I know I can't help you, Fuu, please. I don't want to see you sad."
"Not sad. Rage." With another frown she turned back to the beasts. "In my way. Leave."
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By the time she had finished punching the beasts of BG's training centre into a pulp, she was too exhausted to even think of it again, so she just let herself fall into her bed. She missed him. Missed her brother and his consoling words. But she would never admit. Besides, he was probably out in town with Seifer again picking up damn bimbos.
God, she wanted to hate him for that.
With a short sigh, she stretched out on her bed and fall into deep, restless sleep.
xxx
The following morning didn't start anything better. Her head hurt like hell and she was sure she had bruises from her late training session all over her body.
It took her nothing more than five minutes to get dressed and ready for a student's day. When she entered the cafeteria, a short smile stretched across her face, just short enough for no one to see it.
She was able to remember them. All of them. When Seifer and Raijin had introduced them to her, she hadn't had any clue. Now, with the help of the method Seifer had put up with Kadowaki, she was able to recall all of them. Seifer…
She found him at their usual table. One in the back, where the sun floated into the room and tanned his skin and made the emerald in his eyes glisten. She was about to come over and sit down, when she heard her name between his endless talking with Raijin. Her brother had a look of concern on his face and so did Seifer. No surprise, actually. They never seemed to be happy when talking about her.
"She's gone really mad, ya know. Not in rage or something like that." Her brother started. "But she just turned away and told me to back off. She had never done that before, ya know."
She could watch Seifer's eyes darkening in return. She wanted to be damned if he really cared about her. "And you're sure you don't know what put her out like that? I mean, have you ever seen her eyes widen with fear?"
"Yeah, every time you fought against Squall without knowing she was there to watch you."
The answer made Seifer blush, only one slight shade, but it felt like fire underneath his skin. "I mean just like that, Raijin. Without any fights or stuff. I didn't."
They sat quiet again, before a short wincing went through Seifer's body and his head jerked up. His look could have pierced holes through her face. "Hi, Fuu. You're okay again?"
No, I'm not. "Affirmative." She prayed to god he would believe her and stop asking. "Schedule?"
"You're really okay, ya know?" Raijin asked carefully and shuddered as her boots met his shin again. "Alright, alright. You are."
"We're going to get a new combat teacher today. You know about Xu breaking her right foot in yesterday's mission?" She nodded absently, then sat down next to her brother. "Name?"
"Kyte Foda." He noticed the short flicker in her eye. "Rings bells?"
"Negative."
It rang a whole orchestra.
Kyte Foda… she wasn't sure where to put the name, but she was sure she had heard it before, was sure she knew him. But no matter how hard she tried, the memory wouldn't return.
On the other end of the table, Seifer ran through the list of things to do and people to meet for that day, but he decided better not to tell her about the meeting Dr. Kadowaki had asked for. She didn't seem to be ready to deal with it now. But she would have to some day. And he would stay with her, would support her. Whatever had frightened her like that, she wouldn't face it alone. Not this time.
A.N.: I often heard complaints about Fujin's one-word-sentences, so I prepared a couple of lines for you.
Anonymous reviewer 1(AR 1): You know what I don't like about Fujin?
AR 2: Her way of talking in one-word-computer-voice-sentences?
AR 1: Yeah, really drives me crazy every time.
Fuu: glares coolly but angrily Repeat!
AR 1 + AR 2: Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh! No reason to feel offended, Fuu. We like your way of talking, really.
Fuu: keeps glaring coolly but angrily Ridiculous. Rage.
AR 1 + AR 2: WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! HELP!
Not anonymous author (NAA): tips slightly on Fujin's shoulder Well, I agree with them, you know.
Fuu: glares angrily at NAA
NAA: First of all it's pretty annoying… heavy nodds from AR 1, AR 2 + FFVIII-cast
NAA: And secondly it's damn complicating writing any SeixFuu. Every time I write those fxxxing lines of yours, Microsoft Word marks it as grammatical "Fragment error", so I get a full page of green underlined text in the end.
Fuu: stunned Apology.
NAA: Damn right.
So, how did ya like it? Really, Fujin's sentences together with MicroWord really are a pain in the neck.