Truce
Four hours had gone by since the Garden had disembarked from Timber, and the mobile academy had finally arrived at Trabia's endless fields of pure white snow. Without any blistering snowstorms or blizzards to obstruct the famous Bika Snowfield's "Christmas Forests", it lent the region a deceiving tranquil image that would have been rebutted by its harsh, extreme temperatures and its merciless winds. The Garden stopped by the now half- built Trabia Garden, and the sentries who had been positioned at the many posts Squall had assigned earlier had now been replaced by their other SeeD comrades to let them rest.
Selphie, who wore a thick muff and a Mesmerize-skin fur coat, stepped down from the front gate alongside Irvine, who wore a winter version of his cowboy outfit. Putting their snow boots and skis on, the couple took one of the Garden's snowmobiles to visit Selphie's friends at Trabia Garden.
Irvine was driving the snowmobile, with Selphie tugging at her waist tightly. "Irvy, don't you think it was nice of Squall to let us visit Trabia Garden?" she asked while taking out a pair of earmuffs from her coat pocket.
Irvine replied, "Of course it was darlin'." Irvine continued driving when he suddenly saw something that looked very much a blue tail probing its way through the trees in a nearby forest.
"Seff, can you drive this thing?" he asked while he removed Exeter from his black fur-lined cattleman's coat.
Selphie nodded and queried, "Is there something wrong Irvy?" Irvine stopped the snowmobile and let Selphie take the driver's seat.
"I think I saw a Blue Dragon in the forests," he said while pointing to the trees to his left. "Better be careful, don't you reckon?"
Selphie gave an affirmative grunt and started the motor of the Garden's new vehicle. She sped past the trees when a large, scaly blue dragon emerged from the trees. Selphie quickly swerved to the left as Irvine loaded some Pulse Ammo into his Exeter.
"Seff, do you have some magic on you?" Irvine asked while he aimed at the dragon's left leg.
Selphie nodded and said, "I have eight Meteors, five Pains, twelve Meltdowns, and three Firagas with me."
Irvine pointed at the Dragon and said, "Cast a Meltdown and a Pain on it, will you?"
Selphie turned to the Dragon and screamed, "Meltdown!" A blast of energy erupted from her palms and hit the dragon. For a moment, it fell down on its knees but regained its footing. It swiftly chased the snowmobile at an uncanny speed.
Irvine took time to cast an Aura while blue energy surrounded Selphie's fingertips as she threw a Pain at the menacing creature. The dragon was blinded by the spell but reverted to its sense of smell to follow the vehicle. When the dragon was at least fifteen meters away from the couple, Irvine began unloading his Pulse Ammo at the dragon, killing it after unloading five consecutive shots. Irvine turned and held Selphie's waist tightly.
"I think that's all of them," the cowboy said as Selphie accelerated.
Selphie continued accelerating the vehicle while saying, "Don't think too soon. I'd better speed this baby up before any more of those things come lunging at us."
Irvine moved a stray lock of brown hair from Selphie's eyes and said, "You know Seff, you really amaze me."
"Woo cowboy! Don't start now or I might just stop this thing and drive you crazy right here right now! And I don't care whether you get cold burns either!' she noted to herself.
Selphie was tempted to slam on the brakes when she saw a familiar-looking gate with her old Garden's markings painted on it. A month ago, Trabia Garden had been devastated by missiles fired from the Galbadian Missile base. It had almost totally leveled the Garden, were it not for the special shields that had helped reduce the intensity of the explosion. Since then, students have gathered donations for the Trabia Garden fund with help from Esthar to rebuild the destitute edifice. Selphie and Irvine stopped at the gates and entered the Garden.
With Esthar's excellent construction technology, the Garden's restoration was progressing at a very speedy pace. The shrapnel strewn here and there had been cleared from sight, and the statues that had graced the entrance were once again a striking resemblance to the sculpted beauty that it used to be. Esthar's best workers had replaced cracked cement walls with brand new ones, and their technology department donated new computers for the students. Snowmobiles were given as well so that students may travel to the forests that would momentarily be their Training Center. Tents had been set up to act as makeshift dorms and the best medicines were shipped from the Silent Country to help the students recuperating from the missile injuries. Everything seemed to be well.
Selphie beamed at the progress and told Irvine, "Squall has such a nice father! Look at all the things he did for Trabia Garden!"
Irvine smiled at her and said, "Well you know Laguna, he loves cheering people up."
"Oooh! Look, there's Theodore!" she said while pointing to a boy. "Irvy, can you give me the shopping bag I put in the trunk of the snowmobile?"
Irvine nodded and gave her the bag. She kissed his cheeks, ran to the junior classman, and hugged him real tight.
"Selphie! It's so good to see you here!" Theodore said while hugging Selphie back.
The brunette broke from the hug and gave the boy the widest, cutest grin she could muster and asked him, "Guess what I have here?"
The boy began feeling the outline of the bag and guessed, "Some food for us?"
Selphie beamed, "Guess again!"
Theodore scratched his head and skeptically said, "Clothes for me and my sis?"
Selphie said in her usual cheerful mode, "No! It's Mr. Bear!" She unwrapped the package and took out a beautifully made teddy bear that she had purchased that morning in Timber.
The boy's eyes widened and he hugged Selphie and Mr. Bear. "Thank you Selphie! Thank you so much for everything!" Selphie gave him a motherly kiss on the forehead and told him to play with his sister. The boy happily skipped to a young girl by one of the restored statues and played with the beautiful toy.
Irvine approached his childhood friend and turned her around to face him and gave her a gentle kiss on her lips. "Squall has an angel and so do I," he said to her rather sweetly while pulling the girl into his arms.
Selphie looked up and giggled, "And I thought you were a ladies man. Aren't you supposed to be the debonair kind of guy who walks around flirting with all the girls?"
Irvine looked up in the way someone would if you asked what he had for dinner and told his girlfriend, "Guess I had a change of heart."
Selphie laughed and poked his stomach, kissing him again and suddenly putting a snowball she had been hiding all this time into Irvine's turtleneck sweater.
Irvine shivered and his teeth started shaking when he pulled away from Selphie. "C-C-C-C-C-C-COLLLLLD!!!!" He removed the snowball from his sweater and threw it back aimlessly at Selphie. 'I-I'M GONNA GET YOU F-F- FOR THAT!" he said while forming a snowball and tossing it at the hyperactive girl. After a few snowball fights and chit chats with Selphie's friends, Irvine decided that it was time to go back to Balamb Garden before it got too dark.
Irvine and Selphie walked hand in hand towards the snowmobile they had parked in the front gate and hopped in, Selphie at the driver's seat and Irvine gripping her stomach from behind. As they left, Irvine thought he saw a tall, willowy, black, hooded figure staring at them from behind the trees in the forests.
'Creepy!' thought the cowboy to himself.
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Squall and Seifer were in the Training Center, dueling with the commander's Lionheart and the other man's Hyperion. After a few blows from Squall's gunblade, Seifer fell on the ground, his butt hitting the floor. Earlier, Squall had arranged for the monsters to stay behind the electric fences, so Seifer didn't have to worry about any creatures attacking him from behind. Squall proffered a hand to his old rival and helped him up.
"Lucky," Seifer muttered while smirking at Squall, shaking his hand for a match well fought.
Squall smirked back at the taller man and said, "You wish!"
Both men suddenly turned to the sound of clapping. "Oh, you guys are making so much progress! I'm so happy for the both of you!" Rinoa said while she approached the men who had put their hands behind their backs quickly and rather sheepishly.
"Oh, stop being so immature and please quit pretending that you still hate each other!" she said while advancing towards them with her Shooting Star.
Seifer decided to piss Rinoa off a bit, so he put an arm around Squall's shoulder. Squall struggled almost too violently for a second before Seifer whispered, "Just play along."
"Squally here wanted to bond with me and decided that he preferred being bisexual," he told the raven-haired sorceress who stopped in her tracks.
Rinoa glared at them both and said, "You aren't serious, are you?"
Seifer nudged Squall's ribs and pointed to his neck, mouthing the word "nibble". Squall took the hint and winked at Rinoa before passing his tongue over Seifer's earlobe and turning back to her, grinning very mischievously. "Yeah, we're pretty serious."
Rinoa stuck her tongue out them and took Squall's hand and told Seifer with a threatening but still playful tone. "Seifer, when I told you I forgave you, I meant it. But if you ever think you can turn Squall gay and steal him from me, I'm going to turn you into a toad, you understand?" she told him while a few sparks flew out of her finger for some emphasis.
Seifer backed up against one of the walls and said, "Whoa! Okay, I'm sorry! But I'm not gay, Squall is."
Squall sarcastically replied, "Ha ha ha. And I was the one who tried to make the first move. Dream on Seifer!" He cupped Rinoa's cheeks with his hand and kissed her deftly, causing Rinoa to lift one leg off the ground in response.
Rinoa moaned disapprovingly when Squall's lips left hers and turned to Seifer. "Seifer, so tell us. Who do you like in the Garden? Come on, Irvine said there are a gamut of cuties here," she said while playing with her hair. Squall poked her ribs as if to tell her to stop that and she immediately did.
Seifer scratched the back of his head and paused to think of an answer. "Well, I can't tell you that."
Rinoa turned her eyes into very convincing puppy-dog ones and approached Seifer, her lips forming a very distinctive pout. 'He'd better tell me or I'll read his mind.'
"Seifer, it is no use to hide it from me anyway. I can read your thoughts, you know," she teased him.
Squall grinned at his girlfriend's playful tease and decided to help her out. "Let me guess, you like me don't you? Honestly, Rinoa and I don't mind a threesome at all," he said while licking his lips, approaching Seifer in a catlike stance with Rinoa following beside him.
Seifer backed up very fearfully against the Secret Area door and tried to pry it open.
'Oh shit! These guys are sick! Damn! I forgot Squall had this place locked up!'
Squall and Rinoa stood at either side of Seifer. Rinoa wrapped her arms seductively around Seifer's chest and began feeling his heart area's erratic beating while nipping at his neck. Seifer moaned. Squall put his arms around the other man's waist and licked his earlobe as he did earlier. Seifer moaned even louder. Squall winked at his girlfriend and she grinned impishly, moving her hands down to his belt as she began unbuckling it. Squall tugged at his zipper and Seifer started panicking.
"Alright! Alright! I'll come clean! Stop it already, will you? Damn, you guys are sick!" he exclaimed at the couple.
Squall and Rinoa stopped teasing him and Squall asked, "So who's gay now? I swear you had a hard-on Seifer!"
Seifer spat, "Shut up Squall! For your information, I was highly turned on by Rinoa."
The brunette shrugged, "Yeah, whatever."
Rinoa looked at Seifer in her very precious way and said, "So Seifer, you'd better tell us now or Squall and I will continue where we left off."
Seifer widened his eyes in fear and raised his arms like a cop facing a criminal would. "Okay! It's...you know."
Rinoa tapped one foot impatiently on the ground and said, "What? We don't know."
Seifer blushed extremely red and began, "Well, it's kind of like this."
Rinoa crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes. "It's kind of like what?"
Seifer thought, 'Damn! What a foxy bitch! I wonder how Squall and her got along. Oh right! Ice Prince plus foxy sorceress bitch equals match made in heaven!'
"Well uh, she will hate me if you tell her!" he exclaimed, his voice squeaking.
Rinoa changed her tone from bitchy to friendly and said "Oh Seifer, I won't tell her. I might even get her to like you." Seifer looked shocked.
"Oh it's not like that silly! I'm not going to make a love potion. It's called matchmaking," the sorceress reassured him as a matter of fact-ly.
Seifer sighed and said, "Its' Qu..."
Rinoa approached him and asked, "What was that?"
Seifer struggled, "It's the Inst...oh I can't tell you!!! Now what about that threesome?" He smirked at the couple.
Rinoa narrowed her eyes into slits and began, "Seifer, if you don't..." She decided to tease him by releasing a few sparks from her fingertips.
Seifer, who didn't like the prospect of being turned into a toad, finally confessed, "Okay! It's Quistis alright?!? Are you happy now?"
Rinoa smiled and said, "You like Quistis? Then why didn't you tell me?"
Seifer replied, "I don't know. Maybe it's because Quistis doesn't like me?"
Squall said, "What do you mean she doesn't like you? You are one of the students she really likes, didn't you know that? Besides, she's no longer instructor, so you don't have to worry about the rules."
Rinoa looked at Seifer and said, "But Seifer, if you're willing to win her heart, you'd better be ready for some competition."
Seifer raised one eyebrow and questioned her, "What do you mean?"
Rinoa sighed sadly. "Quistis has a big crush on Ouragan."
"Oh..."
Rinoa quickly answered, "But Ouragan doesn't seem to be interested in her, so you may still have a chance!"
Seifer felt his heart skip a beat. "Really? I mean, I can't do that! She likes someone else!"
Rinoa said, "If you get her to fall in love with you, you can."
Seifer hung his head in defeat. "So, what should I do first?"
"Come to the cafeteria later and I'll tell you what to wear, what to do, and how you should act around her. It will be easy!" she told the blonde warrior.
Seifer smirked at her and took one of her hands into both of his. "You're really going to do that for me? Thanks!!!" He suddenly let go of her when Squall said, "Hey! Hands off my girl, will you?"
Seifer said, "Tch! So jealous. You just don't want to see her holding me, because you don't want to see me with anyone else, isn't that right?"
"Whatever."
Rinoa giggled and Seifer said, "Well, see ya guys later." He blew a kiss at Rinoa and winked at her, and she stuck her tongue out at him playfully and faced her knight.
"You know, sometimes I wonder if you are an angel or cupid in disguise," Squall whispered to her as he nibbled her ear.
Rinoa moaned and said, "Both, perhaps. Hey, do you think you can help me?"
Squall looked at her skeptically. "How?"
Rinoa whispered into his ear. "You see, it's like this. I need you to..."
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Wow! I'm at my 17th chapter already! Don't worry, the action will start soon, just be patient. Anyone want to guess how Rinoa will hook up Seifer and Quistis? Well, you'd better sit back, relax, and wait for the next chapter: Incision
Four hours had gone by since the Garden had disembarked from Timber, and the mobile academy had finally arrived at Trabia's endless fields of pure white snow. Without any blistering snowstorms or blizzards to obstruct the famous Bika Snowfield's "Christmas Forests", it lent the region a deceiving tranquil image that would have been rebutted by its harsh, extreme temperatures and its merciless winds. The Garden stopped by the now half- built Trabia Garden, and the sentries who had been positioned at the many posts Squall had assigned earlier had now been replaced by their other SeeD comrades to let them rest.
Selphie, who wore a thick muff and a Mesmerize-skin fur coat, stepped down from the front gate alongside Irvine, who wore a winter version of his cowboy outfit. Putting their snow boots and skis on, the couple took one of the Garden's snowmobiles to visit Selphie's friends at Trabia Garden.
Irvine was driving the snowmobile, with Selphie tugging at her waist tightly. "Irvy, don't you think it was nice of Squall to let us visit Trabia Garden?" she asked while taking out a pair of earmuffs from her coat pocket.
Irvine replied, "Of course it was darlin'." Irvine continued driving when he suddenly saw something that looked very much a blue tail probing its way through the trees in a nearby forest.
"Seff, can you drive this thing?" he asked while he removed Exeter from his black fur-lined cattleman's coat.
Selphie nodded and queried, "Is there something wrong Irvy?" Irvine stopped the snowmobile and let Selphie take the driver's seat.
"I think I saw a Blue Dragon in the forests," he said while pointing to the trees to his left. "Better be careful, don't you reckon?"
Selphie gave an affirmative grunt and started the motor of the Garden's new vehicle. She sped past the trees when a large, scaly blue dragon emerged from the trees. Selphie quickly swerved to the left as Irvine loaded some Pulse Ammo into his Exeter.
"Seff, do you have some magic on you?" Irvine asked while he aimed at the dragon's left leg.
Selphie nodded and said, "I have eight Meteors, five Pains, twelve Meltdowns, and three Firagas with me."
Irvine pointed at the Dragon and said, "Cast a Meltdown and a Pain on it, will you?"
Selphie turned to the Dragon and screamed, "Meltdown!" A blast of energy erupted from her palms and hit the dragon. For a moment, it fell down on its knees but regained its footing. It swiftly chased the snowmobile at an uncanny speed.
Irvine took time to cast an Aura while blue energy surrounded Selphie's fingertips as she threw a Pain at the menacing creature. The dragon was blinded by the spell but reverted to its sense of smell to follow the vehicle. When the dragon was at least fifteen meters away from the couple, Irvine began unloading his Pulse Ammo at the dragon, killing it after unloading five consecutive shots. Irvine turned and held Selphie's waist tightly.
"I think that's all of them," the cowboy said as Selphie accelerated.
Selphie continued accelerating the vehicle while saying, "Don't think too soon. I'd better speed this baby up before any more of those things come lunging at us."
Irvine moved a stray lock of brown hair from Selphie's eyes and said, "You know Seff, you really amaze me."
"Woo cowboy! Don't start now or I might just stop this thing and drive you crazy right here right now! And I don't care whether you get cold burns either!' she noted to herself.
Selphie was tempted to slam on the brakes when she saw a familiar-looking gate with her old Garden's markings painted on it. A month ago, Trabia Garden had been devastated by missiles fired from the Galbadian Missile base. It had almost totally leveled the Garden, were it not for the special shields that had helped reduce the intensity of the explosion. Since then, students have gathered donations for the Trabia Garden fund with help from Esthar to rebuild the destitute edifice. Selphie and Irvine stopped at the gates and entered the Garden.
With Esthar's excellent construction technology, the Garden's restoration was progressing at a very speedy pace. The shrapnel strewn here and there had been cleared from sight, and the statues that had graced the entrance were once again a striking resemblance to the sculpted beauty that it used to be. Esthar's best workers had replaced cracked cement walls with brand new ones, and their technology department donated new computers for the students. Snowmobiles were given as well so that students may travel to the forests that would momentarily be their Training Center. Tents had been set up to act as makeshift dorms and the best medicines were shipped from the Silent Country to help the students recuperating from the missile injuries. Everything seemed to be well.
Selphie beamed at the progress and told Irvine, "Squall has such a nice father! Look at all the things he did for Trabia Garden!"
Irvine smiled at her and said, "Well you know Laguna, he loves cheering people up."
"Oooh! Look, there's Theodore!" she said while pointing to a boy. "Irvy, can you give me the shopping bag I put in the trunk of the snowmobile?"
Irvine nodded and gave her the bag. She kissed his cheeks, ran to the junior classman, and hugged him real tight.
"Selphie! It's so good to see you here!" Theodore said while hugging Selphie back.
The brunette broke from the hug and gave the boy the widest, cutest grin she could muster and asked him, "Guess what I have here?"
The boy began feeling the outline of the bag and guessed, "Some food for us?"
Selphie beamed, "Guess again!"
Theodore scratched his head and skeptically said, "Clothes for me and my sis?"
Selphie said in her usual cheerful mode, "No! It's Mr. Bear!" She unwrapped the package and took out a beautifully made teddy bear that she had purchased that morning in Timber.
The boy's eyes widened and he hugged Selphie and Mr. Bear. "Thank you Selphie! Thank you so much for everything!" Selphie gave him a motherly kiss on the forehead and told him to play with his sister. The boy happily skipped to a young girl by one of the restored statues and played with the beautiful toy.
Irvine approached his childhood friend and turned her around to face him and gave her a gentle kiss on her lips. "Squall has an angel and so do I," he said to her rather sweetly while pulling the girl into his arms.
Selphie looked up and giggled, "And I thought you were a ladies man. Aren't you supposed to be the debonair kind of guy who walks around flirting with all the girls?"
Irvine looked up in the way someone would if you asked what he had for dinner and told his girlfriend, "Guess I had a change of heart."
Selphie laughed and poked his stomach, kissing him again and suddenly putting a snowball she had been hiding all this time into Irvine's turtleneck sweater.
Irvine shivered and his teeth started shaking when he pulled away from Selphie. "C-C-C-C-C-C-COLLLLLD!!!!" He removed the snowball from his sweater and threw it back aimlessly at Selphie. 'I-I'M GONNA GET YOU F-F- FOR THAT!" he said while forming a snowball and tossing it at the hyperactive girl. After a few snowball fights and chit chats with Selphie's friends, Irvine decided that it was time to go back to Balamb Garden before it got too dark.
Irvine and Selphie walked hand in hand towards the snowmobile they had parked in the front gate and hopped in, Selphie at the driver's seat and Irvine gripping her stomach from behind. As they left, Irvine thought he saw a tall, willowy, black, hooded figure staring at them from behind the trees in the forests.
'Creepy!' thought the cowboy to himself.
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Squall and Seifer were in the Training Center, dueling with the commander's Lionheart and the other man's Hyperion. After a few blows from Squall's gunblade, Seifer fell on the ground, his butt hitting the floor. Earlier, Squall had arranged for the monsters to stay behind the electric fences, so Seifer didn't have to worry about any creatures attacking him from behind. Squall proffered a hand to his old rival and helped him up.
"Lucky," Seifer muttered while smirking at Squall, shaking his hand for a match well fought.
Squall smirked back at the taller man and said, "You wish!"
Both men suddenly turned to the sound of clapping. "Oh, you guys are making so much progress! I'm so happy for the both of you!" Rinoa said while she approached the men who had put their hands behind their backs quickly and rather sheepishly.
"Oh, stop being so immature and please quit pretending that you still hate each other!" she said while advancing towards them with her Shooting Star.
Seifer decided to piss Rinoa off a bit, so he put an arm around Squall's shoulder. Squall struggled almost too violently for a second before Seifer whispered, "Just play along."
"Squally here wanted to bond with me and decided that he preferred being bisexual," he told the raven-haired sorceress who stopped in her tracks.
Rinoa glared at them both and said, "You aren't serious, are you?"
Seifer nudged Squall's ribs and pointed to his neck, mouthing the word "nibble". Squall took the hint and winked at Rinoa before passing his tongue over Seifer's earlobe and turning back to her, grinning very mischievously. "Yeah, we're pretty serious."
Rinoa stuck her tongue out them and took Squall's hand and told Seifer with a threatening but still playful tone. "Seifer, when I told you I forgave you, I meant it. But if you ever think you can turn Squall gay and steal him from me, I'm going to turn you into a toad, you understand?" she told him while a few sparks flew out of her finger for some emphasis.
Seifer backed up against one of the walls and said, "Whoa! Okay, I'm sorry! But I'm not gay, Squall is."
Squall sarcastically replied, "Ha ha ha. And I was the one who tried to make the first move. Dream on Seifer!" He cupped Rinoa's cheeks with his hand and kissed her deftly, causing Rinoa to lift one leg off the ground in response.
Rinoa moaned disapprovingly when Squall's lips left hers and turned to Seifer. "Seifer, so tell us. Who do you like in the Garden? Come on, Irvine said there are a gamut of cuties here," she said while playing with her hair. Squall poked her ribs as if to tell her to stop that and she immediately did.
Seifer scratched the back of his head and paused to think of an answer. "Well, I can't tell you that."
Rinoa turned her eyes into very convincing puppy-dog ones and approached Seifer, her lips forming a very distinctive pout. 'He'd better tell me or I'll read his mind.'
"Seifer, it is no use to hide it from me anyway. I can read your thoughts, you know," she teased him.
Squall grinned at his girlfriend's playful tease and decided to help her out. "Let me guess, you like me don't you? Honestly, Rinoa and I don't mind a threesome at all," he said while licking his lips, approaching Seifer in a catlike stance with Rinoa following beside him.
Seifer backed up very fearfully against the Secret Area door and tried to pry it open.
'Oh shit! These guys are sick! Damn! I forgot Squall had this place locked up!'
Squall and Rinoa stood at either side of Seifer. Rinoa wrapped her arms seductively around Seifer's chest and began feeling his heart area's erratic beating while nipping at his neck. Seifer moaned. Squall put his arms around the other man's waist and licked his earlobe as he did earlier. Seifer moaned even louder. Squall winked at his girlfriend and she grinned impishly, moving her hands down to his belt as she began unbuckling it. Squall tugged at his zipper and Seifer started panicking.
"Alright! Alright! I'll come clean! Stop it already, will you? Damn, you guys are sick!" he exclaimed at the couple.
Squall and Rinoa stopped teasing him and Squall asked, "So who's gay now? I swear you had a hard-on Seifer!"
Seifer spat, "Shut up Squall! For your information, I was highly turned on by Rinoa."
The brunette shrugged, "Yeah, whatever."
Rinoa looked at Seifer in her very precious way and said, "So Seifer, you'd better tell us now or Squall and I will continue where we left off."
Seifer widened his eyes in fear and raised his arms like a cop facing a criminal would. "Okay! It's...you know."
Rinoa tapped one foot impatiently on the ground and said, "What? We don't know."
Seifer blushed extremely red and began, "Well, it's kind of like this."
Rinoa crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes. "It's kind of like what?"
Seifer thought, 'Damn! What a foxy bitch! I wonder how Squall and her got along. Oh right! Ice Prince plus foxy sorceress bitch equals match made in heaven!'
"Well uh, she will hate me if you tell her!" he exclaimed, his voice squeaking.
Rinoa changed her tone from bitchy to friendly and said "Oh Seifer, I won't tell her. I might even get her to like you." Seifer looked shocked.
"Oh it's not like that silly! I'm not going to make a love potion. It's called matchmaking," the sorceress reassured him as a matter of fact-ly.
Seifer sighed and said, "Its' Qu..."
Rinoa approached him and asked, "What was that?"
Seifer struggled, "It's the Inst...oh I can't tell you!!! Now what about that threesome?" He smirked at the couple.
Rinoa narrowed her eyes into slits and began, "Seifer, if you don't..." She decided to tease him by releasing a few sparks from her fingertips.
Seifer, who didn't like the prospect of being turned into a toad, finally confessed, "Okay! It's Quistis alright?!? Are you happy now?"
Rinoa smiled and said, "You like Quistis? Then why didn't you tell me?"
Seifer replied, "I don't know. Maybe it's because Quistis doesn't like me?"
Squall said, "What do you mean she doesn't like you? You are one of the students she really likes, didn't you know that? Besides, she's no longer instructor, so you don't have to worry about the rules."
Rinoa looked at Seifer and said, "But Seifer, if you're willing to win her heart, you'd better be ready for some competition."
Seifer raised one eyebrow and questioned her, "What do you mean?"
Rinoa sighed sadly. "Quistis has a big crush on Ouragan."
"Oh..."
Rinoa quickly answered, "But Ouragan doesn't seem to be interested in her, so you may still have a chance!"
Seifer felt his heart skip a beat. "Really? I mean, I can't do that! She likes someone else!"
Rinoa said, "If you get her to fall in love with you, you can."
Seifer hung his head in defeat. "So, what should I do first?"
"Come to the cafeteria later and I'll tell you what to wear, what to do, and how you should act around her. It will be easy!" she told the blonde warrior.
Seifer smirked at her and took one of her hands into both of his. "You're really going to do that for me? Thanks!!!" He suddenly let go of her when Squall said, "Hey! Hands off my girl, will you?"
Seifer said, "Tch! So jealous. You just don't want to see her holding me, because you don't want to see me with anyone else, isn't that right?"
"Whatever."
Rinoa giggled and Seifer said, "Well, see ya guys later." He blew a kiss at Rinoa and winked at her, and she stuck her tongue out at him playfully and faced her knight.
"You know, sometimes I wonder if you are an angel or cupid in disguise," Squall whispered to her as he nibbled her ear.
Rinoa moaned and said, "Both, perhaps. Hey, do you think you can help me?"
Squall looked at her skeptically. "How?"
Rinoa whispered into his ear. "You see, it's like this. I need you to..."
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Wow! I'm at my 17th chapter already! Don't worry, the action will start soon, just be patient. Anyone want to guess how Rinoa will hook up Seifer and Quistis? Well, you'd better sit back, relax, and wait for the next chapter: Incision