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Authors Note: To answer some questions, no Namine isn't dead yet. And again, a lot of reviews, not enough room. Want me to answer your review thing? Leave an interesting or long review (not saying you have to ..but I like to respond to thoughs). And thank you for the positive feedback about the Cloud and Aerith thing. I've been waiting for a long time to write about them. :D Also...Namine was saying "I ..I love you. I'm so sorry Sora." during that one scene.
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Zarya...Heh I updated not that long after you reviewed so it isn't that crappy. And oh no! They will not have sex -tortures her little puppets-. Pfft Namine...everyone getting concerned but I'm not gonna talk about her in review notes anymore. I've been waiting to talk about the Cloud and Aerith thing since ..well...forever. And making fun of Sora's nakedness is always fun!
-y a k o s o k u-...Yeah when I looked up on the net on how long the flight would last I nearly passed out. I barely could stand the two hour flight when I went to Vegas! Yes...this has pretty much damaged Sora's mind. But I don't like Namine either XD. Hmm...crashing a wedding huh? I think I might just do that!
-CuteAnimeBoysMakeMePant-...Yeah for updating! -dies- O.O For a month? What have you been doing? I couldn't live without my compy. XD And I was watching FMA at the time ..so...heh. ...Sora needs a hug :D!
Casey...:D Thank you! And Sora and Kairi haven't hooked up yet because...-giggles- I CONTROL THEM! And I always think the longer you don't have them in a relationship...the longer the story last. But I can understand how you feel. And Yes'm..I have been to Vegas before but never been to the bathroom. I don't like public restrooms. But I did illegally gamble when I was there...XD I won 14 bucks (I put in a nickel luckily no one saw)
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CHAPTER 17
VIVA LAS VEGAS: (DAY 2) NEW YORK, NY
(Started: July 24th Ended: August 19th)
The group of students made their way off The Duchess and in their way into the bright and sunny United States airport. The student's of Mr. Yoshizawa's class stepped off the airplane and their jaws fell to the floor at what they saw. The students of class number two gazed at the wonders that this new land brought to them. As they looked out the window they saw a desert area filled with palm trees...and yet...a beautiful city lived inside of it. A city that invited them with open arms.
"What are THOUGHS?" Selphie gawked as she spoke in Japanese. She pointed to group of square metal machines. The machine looked like it had three eyes and only one arm to work with.
"That," Riku smiled down at the wondering brunette as he read from his handy-dandy tour book. "Is a slut machine."
Sora raised his eye brow at his teachers words. Then his face perked up a bit. "Slut machine?" he grinned slightly. "What does a slut machine do?"
"You put money into a slot," their teacher told them to answer his question. "And pull the arm thingy. Then the eyes go all weird and out comes money."
Sora frowned slightly at this explanation. "That doesn't sound like anything sexual or fun..."
"Baka," Kairi groaned at both of their stupidity. "It's called a slot machine."
"I like slut machine better," Sora grinned pervertedly..
"Baka," Kairi mumbled under her breath. "Kusotare..."
"Anyways," the bouncy Selphie interrupted. "How was everyone flight? I thought mine was super. I ate these kotta peanuts and oh! I read this really ikasu article in the magazine I bought-"
"Arg," Kairi let out a groan and sat down in the nearest seat and stretched her arms. "The airplane ride..." She laughed a little and gazed out at the beautiful palm trees she saw on the American soil. "Just as I predicted...hell." The crimson hair girl let her mind wander about what happened on the hellish thirteen hour plane ride.
"I didn't know she knew that many cuss words," Cloud said from behind Kairi with wide eyes. Kairi turned around and saw that the blond boy was slightly crying in the pouty way.
"What the hell did you do to her?" Sephiroth asked in an unusual perked up tone. "Let me guess. You fucked her up and didn't call her back? Suits you right...," He rambled on. "Stupid pretty boys."
A group of Americans walked past them with their eyes slowly gazing up and down the group. They all raised their eyebrows and stared back at them.
"What are you looking at...you low lives?" Lulu rang in her usually dull voice.
"They're just probably interested in seeing so many Asians together," Wakka informed her with a sweet smile on his face.
Lulu turned around to him and looked at him strangely. "Who are you?" This left Wakka to silently cry to himself.
"Now students!" Riku called out to his bunch. "I know you lot are all very interested in exploring the area for awhile. So I'm giving you and hour to explore the airport."
"A.K.A.," Lulu sarcastically (yet quietly) commented to Sephiroth. "They lost our luggage."
"Cloud, Sephiroth, Tidus, Wakka, and Sora will go with me," The teacher informed them as he motioned for the five students to come to his side. "And Selphie, Kairi, and Lulu will go with Aerith."
They all went to their correct leaders, waved their short goodbyes, and went off in their groups. Aerith clapped her hands at the three girls and put on a cheerful smile. "Alright, how about we check out some of these American gift shops?"
Everyone agreed that this would be a good idea and soon they were gazing at American goods in the local gift shop.
Kairi held up a T-shirt that What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Of course, she couldn't read it. The shirt was in English. And she only knew Japanese. At the moment she was just holding it up and trying to figure out what it said. The girl looked out of the corner of her eye and saw Aerith staring blankly at a magazine called Cosmo Girl. Kairi frowned a moment and sighed.
'Poor Aerith,' she thought to herself as she set the shirt back on the shelf and went to another item. 'She's under so much stress. First, she has to watch over a bunch of kids. Second, she has to worry about her sick mother. And third...' Kairi didn't need to even think about it. Her mind slowly got off track and began to think about the airplane ride.
Kairi groaned and looked out the airplane window. It was nearly dawn and most everyone on the airplane was asleep. Including Sora, who's head was resting on her shoulder. She blushed as she looked down at his face. But she also smiled because Sora looked just like a peaceful little boy.
"Sora should be asleep all the time," Kairi mumbled to herself as she leaned back in the plane seat and chuckled lightly. She couldn't imagine how everyone could sleep. Maybe it was just her, but she couldn't stand sleeping sitting up.
"Pssssttt...Kairi," a voice whispered from the seat behind. Kairi didn't dare turn her head. She didn't want to disturb Sora. But she already knew very well that Riku, Selphie, and Tidus sat in the three seats behind her own.
"What is it Selphie?" Kairi quietly whispered to the energetic girl.
Kairi could almost hear the brunette frown from behind. "I can't sleep."
"I can tell," Kairi answered her as she let out a 'ha'. She looked around them. Across the aisle from Selphie sat Wakka, Sephiroth, and Lulu. A love triangle in the making. Yet, not a very interesting one. Across the row from Sora and Kairi were Aerith and Cloud. As she looked closer she saw that they weren't asleep also. She gulped at the tension you could feel just by their silent facial expressions.
Kairi looked back behind her and saw Selphie had fallen asleep. She sighed and stared out the window again. What was she going to do for the next whatever hours before everyone woke up?
Before she had time to answer her own question she heard Cloud whispering softly to Aerith. "Come on Aerith...why won't you talk to me?"
"Because," she whispered back, not facing him at all.
"Nice maturity level," Cloud seemed to mumble in a cold voice.
"Because of that!" Aerith loudly whispered. "You always seem to care but you always need to make a cocky joke to ruin everything!"
"Sounds like someone I know," Kairi said to herself as she looked at the sleeping boy who was resting on her shoulder..
"I doubt you ever even liked me," Aerith now told him in a regular speaking voice. "It was probably a big joke for you."
"I did like you!" Cloud exclaimed loudly, causing some people on the plane to stir and awaken. "It isn't my fault you decided to be a bitch and not even tell me what your feelings were!" By this time a lot of people on the plane were rubbing their eyes and looking over in their direction to see what was going on. Aerith glared at Cloud like it was going to kill him. Her eyes were semi-filled with tears.
"YOU BASTARD!" Aerith screamed as she punched him in the face and ran off to the bath room so no one else would see her tears.
'It must suck,' Kairi nodded to herself. 'I mean...Aerith is obviously still in love with Cloud but Cloud is...' She looked flush for a moment and began to sulk. Kairi dropped the t-shirt she was now holding and put on a sad face. 'Oh yeah...that's right...he's in love with me!'
"She'll hate me if she finds out!" Kairi exclaimed out loud. She no longer wanted to keep her thoughts inside her head. The crimson hair girl shook her head and laughed. "No. She's way to nice for that! Aerith is like my older sister.'
"Say something, Kairi?" Aerith asked in a dull voice but bright face. She pulled away from her magazine and looked up at Kairi with a smiling face.
"Nope," Kairi smiled back without noticing. She began to look nervous and started fiddling with the nearest thing to her. "Nothing at all."
Aerith giggled a little, knowing Kairi's behavior. But even if she didn't know Kairi she'd know she was lying. Kairi had a horrible poker face. "Okay then. Just hurry up and pick something out. Yoshizawa sensei just sent me a message on my phone. We have to go down to the baggage area in ten minutes."
"Hai," Kairi nodded as she went back to browsing. She looked down at what she was fiddling with a few moments ago. The crimson hair girl held it up slightly and an evil grin spread across her face. "Oh my...what fun I shall have with you."
The rental car drove up to the white Mexican, southern American looking house and stopped. The students of class two gazed up at the condo they'd be living in for the next week. "Alright students," Riku announced to his eager students. He pulled out a key from his pocket. The silver piece of metal seemed to shine in the bright sunlight. "This is our home away from home."
"Now," Aerith smiled from the side of Mr. Yoshizawa. "Before we settle in, I'd like to name the room situations." She pulled out a small piece of paper from her purse and read out loud from it. "Of course all our lovely ladies will be staying in one room. Now this will be our only room arrangement with three people. I hope your okay with that." The lovely brunette smiled a questioning smile to the three younger teenagers.
"Yes senpai," the three girls nodded and slightly bowed.
Aerith smiled and went back to her list. "Yoroshii. Back to the rooms...Wakka and Tidus will be sharing a room-"
"HAI!" Tidus and Wakka exclaimed in unison as they high fived each other.
The young woman smiled at the two boys behaviors and slightly giggled. "Once again...yoroshii. Now...Cloud and Sephiroth will also be sharing a room."
Clouds eyes nearly fell out of their sockets. "I have to what?" He fell to his knees and started chanting a little prayer.
Sephiroth had a similar, yet silent reaction. He spit on the ground near Cloud and mumbled something that sounded like "Kuso."
"Of course Mr. Yoshizawa will be having his own room. And Sora and I will be sharing a room since we are siblings," Aerith re-folded the piece of paper and put it back inside her purse. "Shall we get going then?"
"Hai," the students nodded as they followed their sensei to the lovely door of their two story condo. Their home away from home. Mr. Yoshizawa put the key into the lock and soon the door was open and the picture of the passage way into their home rushed into their eyes like a teenage boy who was late for school. Class two nearly dropped their suitcases along with their jaws.
"Whoa!" Selphie blurted out as she sped past her secret lover into the house. "They have a pool table!"
"And look at this lovely kitchen," Aerith admired. "So much cabinet space..." She giggled a little and began looking inside the wooden cabinets. "I hope they do know we are only staying for a week."
"And this!" Sora exclaimed as he ran to the opposite side of the room of Aerith. He started jumping up and down as though he weren't three times less his age. "Look at this sis!"
"...It's only a table Sora," Aerith said awkwardly as she peeked over her shoulders. She dropped a sweat drop and went back to what she was doing.
"Damn Americans and their tables," Sephiroth smirked to Lulu at Sora's comment. "Right Lulu?" Lulu simply nodded coolly and went back to observing the condo (and the strange people inside of it).
"Look-eeeee-here fellas!" Selphie grinned and squeaked highly as she peered out the window to the backyard. "A pool!"
"A pool?" Tidus yelled happily as his jaw seemed to drop even further. He ran past the group over to Selphie and began looking out the window with her. "Neat!"
"And this TV!" Cloud smiled as he treaded across the tile to the sea green carpet. He placed his fist proudly on top of it and beamed. "Now this is a man's television!"
"The couches don't feel half bad either," Kairi noted as she let herself rest on the carpet matching couch.
"Students, students," Riku chuckled as he tried to gather his students attention. He clapped his hands together. "Please listen up. Aerith has some more information to tell you about your room arrangements."
"Oh right," Aerith blushed as she forced herself to pull away from the cabinets and once again rejoined his side. "Gomen sensei."
"Mochi kidzukai Aerith," The silver haired teacher chuckled once more. "And please don't call me sensei. Senpai maybe but I'd be just be fine if you called me Yoshizawa or Riku."
"Yoi Yoshizawa Riku," Aerith giggled silently to herself as she once again pulled out her list. "If you go upstairs there is a room in the middle of the hall on the right. It is actually two rooms but you have to go into that room to go to the other. The room on the left will contain Tidus and Wakka. The room on the right will hold Sephiroth and Cloud." She smiled down to her kohai and did a simple jester of her wrist to move them upstairs. "Go unpack and get settled. In an hour we are going to tour the strip."
"Strip?" Sora perked up at the double meaning word.
"Baka," spat Kairi as she glared at the brunette. "It's the term they use to call the place with all the hotels and stuff down in Vegas. You know...the stuff it's famous for."
"Oh," Sora blushed slightly. "I knew that."
"Now there is another room at the end of the hall past the boys room," Aerith told the remainder of the group. "That is where our three girls will be staying. There is a room past the kitchen and that is where me and Sora will be staying. Don't worry Riku. I did save a good room for you. If you go past the boys room and go right you'll see the master bedroom. You will be sleeping in there."
"Very well," Riku nodded as he picked up his suitcase and headed up the stairs. Aerith put the list, once again, back inside her purse. "Oh yes," the man paused and turned around to the teenagers. "Sora, since you are the only boy left down there ..I am leaving you to help the girls with their luggage." Sora was about to object when Riku smiled a cunning grin and waved a short goodbye to them before disappearing into his bedroom to unpack.
"That bastard," Sora laughed at his older friend/sensei. He motioned for Aerith to head to their room and start unpacking. She did so and soon he was all alone with his three female classmates. "Alright ladies," he said in a deep macho voice unlike his own. "Since you are woman you are weak and need a man in your life. I, of course, am a man," The spiky brunette boy winked in Kairi's direction. The startled teen blushed and rolled her eyes.
"I can carry my own stuff," Lulu mumbled as she picked up her black suitcase and made her way up the stairs.
"A black cloud always seems to follow her," Sora laughed in an awkward tone. The rest of the group made a sweat drop and went back to what they were doing. "Anyways..." He turned towards the two remaining ladies only to realize they had already started their trek up the stairs. Sora's head soon seemed to be covered with sweat drops. He shrugged and rolled his suit case to his room.
The teenaged girls were soon found in their room arguing over what beds they wanted to sleep in for the week. After a short discussion they decided Lulu would sleep by the closet since it was on the side of the room with the least amount of sunlight ("It's bad for my skin," Lulu argued the fair skinned girl angrily.). Selphie would be the lucky girl to wake up next to the bright and sunny window. ("Natural light shining onto me is the only thing that will perk me up in the morning!" Selphie grinned as she inched closer and closer to the bed.). And last of all, Kairi got to sleep by the door. ("I honestly don't give a damn!" The crimson hair beauty yelled at the two arguing girls as she covered her blistering ears. "Just pick your beds already!")
Kairi, Selphie, and Lulu were all now at the dressers next to their beds unpacking their things. The short tempered teen looked over her shoulder to check on Selphie. When she did she burst out laughing. Selphie raised her eyebrow and asked the silent question 'What?'
Kairi continued to laugh as she wiped a tear from under her eyes. "Do you own anything that isn't yellow?"
Selphie unpacked her last article of clothing with a huff. She shut her suitcase and slid it under her bed. "It isn't yellow Kairi. It's golden lemon! Sheesh...I thought you would know your colors by now."
A sweat drop instantly fell from Kairi and Lulu's head. "I can't believe your my friend."
"I can't believe you doggy styled that donkey at Red Lobster!" Selphie exclaimed angrily.
Kairi laughed again. "Oh boy Selphie ..your a real hoot."
"Ooooh now it's the owls!" Selphie proclaimed loudly. "Tsk, Tsk Kairi. You are rather strange. Doing the nasty with random animals...YOU HAVE SORA FOR THAT!"
"No," Lulu yelled at both of them from her corner of the room. The two looked over at her and saw that she was doing something that looked like meditation. "You are both strange. Now shut up. How am I supposed to call upon the dead to do my biddings if I can't even hear their painful souls speak!"
"...and you call us strange," Kairi and Selphie laughed in unison. They all went back to what they were doing. Lulu and her dead people thing, Selphie hanging up some dresses in the closet, and Kairi continuing unpacking her many things.
Kairi soon came across what she had bought at the gift shop. A interesting shade of red had risen on her face and she quickly tried to hide the object inside her dresser. Unfortunately for her...Selphie caught her in the process.
"Kairi," Selphie smirked giddily. Her voice just practically screamed 'Ha-I-have-black-mail-on-you-dance-my-puppet-dance'. "What do you have in your hands?"
The blush remained on Kairi's face as she tried to hide the bag behind her guilty back. "N-Nothing..."
"Oh yeah," Selphie smiled innocently as she slowly walked behind Kairi. "Then what is...THIS!" The hyper brunette exclaimed as she grabbed the gift bag out of Kairi's unsuspecting hands.
"J-just a bag I got from that gift store," Kairi tried to laugh and play it off cool. She tried to grab it back before Selphie had a chance to see inside of it. "I was just ..you know ..putting it away.."
"Oh nonsense," Selphie grinned in a sneaky way. "I'm your bestestest friend in the entire world. Emphasis on entire. I must have a chance to look inside this mystery bag, won't I?" The devious little Selphie began digging into the bag like a drugged up gopher before Kairi had any time to protest against her doings. Even Selphie blushed when she saw what was in the bag.
Kairi lowered her head in complete shame. "S-Selphie...I..."
"What is this?" Selphie interrupted Kairi's apology as she held up the contents of the bag. It included only one thing. An interesting scarlet red pair of underwear. "Wow isn't this exotic?"
Suddenly there was a soft knock coming from the door. Without getting their permission Riku, the three girls teacher, entered the room with a cheerful smile on his face. "Are you girls almost done? We're going to leave in about--Wait...Selphie what's that?"
Selphie instantly blushed as Riku's comment and dropped the thong. "R-Riku umm..."
The handsome, silver headed man only smiled more greatly as he picked up the underwear from the young ladies floor (making all three girls now blush). "Oh how fun!" he blared in an overly happy tone of voice. He stretched the string part of the thong and made it create a snapping noise. "It's a sling shot!"
"No," Lulu said casually from her side of the room as she rolled her eyes. Apparently she knew everything. "That is a garment for the lower body that exposes the buttocks, consisting of a narrow strip of fabric that passes between the thighs supported by a waistband." She looked up from the book she decided to read and gazed at everyone dazed and confused looks. The gothic girl chizzled a small smile on her face ,which only made her look even scarier, and explained to them, "In other words ..It is a thong."
"Oh!" Riku yelled in a overly loud, nervous voice. His face went a little pink as he handed back the pair of lingerie to Selphie. "I'm sorry...here's your," he coughed what seemed like 'ass floss', "erm...thong back Ms. Tilmitt."
"Riku," Selphie crossed her arms in a way of not accepting the underwear back. "That isn't my thong. It's Kairi's!"
Riku looked at the pouting Selphie and the silently blushing Kairi before smiling awkwardly and handing the under garments back to Kairi. "Sorry about that Selphie. I imagine you the more ..erm...yellow type of girl anyways. Here Kairi. You can have your Sora seducing undies back."
"My WHAT!" Kairi hollered at her overly friendly teacher as the 'ass floss' fell into her lap like a feather.
"Nothing," Riku chuckled. "Let's just forget that incident ever happens. I just came up here to tell you to be downstairs in fifteen minutes," He stopped in the middle of his sentence and glanced at the nearest clock. "Well ..now ten minutes. We're going down and going sight seeing!" The man began to leave the room. "Don't make us wait for you!" And in an instant, he was gone.
"Let's hope he doesn't cross dress!" Selphie giggled as she started putting on her shoes.
"Yeah," Kairi mumbled as she embarrassingly stuffed the thong into her dresser along with the remainder of her stuff. "Let's hope."
"Wow!", "Amazing...", and "Look at that!" were just some of the comments class two heardas they drove down the light up strip that was Las Vegas. The sky was as dark as it ever could be but the city was so bright with neon and sparkling lights that it almost felt like it was day. Different themed hotels surrounded them like hungry predators at a super market. It was truly an amazing and breath taking site.
"Look at that!" Selphie exclaimed excitingly as she pointed to what looked like a castle. They all turned around and gazed at it and soon 'oohs' and 'awws' were what filled that tiny car. What Selphie had been staring at was a pure white castle with brilliant red and child like blue tower tips. The lights ascending on the castle made it seem like it was glowing.
"That," Riku told them as he struggled to open his tourist guide. "Is the hotel Excalibur. A themed hotel made out to look like a castle of the finest and richest kings and queens."
"It looks like it popped out of a fairy tale!" Tidus blurted out in amazement.
"I wasn't talking about that!" Selphie pouted as she continued to bounce up and down in her seat. "I was talking about that white thing! The train! The train!"
"Oh god," Kairi mumbled in a tone that sounded like fear. She chuckled and her hand over her face. "Here we go again."
"I love trains!" Selphie started twitching. "I like trains, I like trains.." she began chanting in her twitching matter.
"We'll go on the train later sweetie," Riku told her casually as he patted her knee. "Right now we're just looking at some places."
"Okay," Selphie continued to pout. Everyone continued to look out their windows.
"Is that a pyramid?" Sora asked in a confused voice as he pointed out the window. He squinted at the all black triangular prism. "And look! There's a light shining on top!"
"That," Riku informed the curious children with his handy-dandy tour guide. "Is called the Luxor. It is an Egyptian themed hotel and a rather popular one in fact. The Blue Man Group plays there almost nightly. They also have a wonderful buffet with literally everything you can think of," The silver haired silver began to lick his lips. "Let's hope we visit the Luxor this week."
"Awesome," gasped the students as they squirmed in their seats to see more.
"Look over there!" Wakka smiled like a little fat boy in a giant candy store. "It's a giant golden lion!"
"That is MGM Grand...another rather popular hotel in Las Vegas," Riku cheerfully said as he took the unofficial role of being the tour guide of their journey across the strip. "Sometimes Cirque Du Soleil, a popular attraction across the U.S.A in general, performs here along with many others."
"Cool! Are we going to go there Mr. Yoshizawa?" asked the suddenly perky Lulu. All eyes turned to her in utter confusement.
"Maybe Lulu," chuckled Riku.
"OHMIGOSH!" Selphie bounced up and down excitingly as she spoke at a rather fast pace that made all her words seem one. "Look-it-it's-a-mini-city!"
The students raised there eyebrows and turned towards the opposite side of MGM. All the air was sucked out of the car at the very site of the hotel. Like Selphie had hyperly described, it was just like a mini city. With towering city buildings that gazed over the population and all that jazz.
"Welcome to New York, New York. No we have not left Las Vegas," Riku chuckled to himself at his oh-so clever joke. "This is one of Las Vegas more popular hotels. It is themed to look like the actual city down to detail. But what attracts people mostly to this hotel is-"
"OHMIGOSH-IT'S-A-GIANT-GREEN-NUN-LADY!" Selphie almost screamed as she pointed to her observation. The students turned and look up at what she saw.
"No Selphie," Riku rolled his eyes playfully. He laughed once more and started messing up Selphie's hair. "That is a replica of the Statue of Liberty. But what I was going to say was-"
"Oh my god!" Kairi interrupted her teacher by her amazement. "It's a roller coaster!"
"Yes," Riku sighed irritably at the fact he wasn't able to finish his sentence. "That was what I was going to say. What attracts people to this hotel is the fact that there is a giant roller coaster running through it. Reaching heights up to two hundred and three feet and drops of one hundred and forty four feet it gives new meaning to the phrase Let's Ride!"
"I want to ride it," Selphie pouted and complained to her secret sensei boyfriend. "Can we go to New York tonight?"
"I don't see why not," Mr. Yoshizawa proclaimed. "Aerith, are you alright with this decision?"
"I was actually thinking the same thing as Selphie," Aerith smiled gleefully. "That roller coaster does seem like a lot of fun!"
"Alright then! All in favor of visiting New York, New York for the evening say I!" Riku offered to his students in an optimistic voice. The whole car was practically filled with that particular vowel of the alphabet. "Okay then...tonight we shall visit NY, NY!" He turned the car into the nearest parking lot.
The eager school children scrambled out of the car like it was on fire. The moment the pupils gathered from the parked car they looked up and decided to gaze at the glorious hotel even further.
"I suddenly feel the need to buy a very expensive hot dog," Lulu proclaimed to herself. Her mouth seemed to be stuck in a oval shape from gawking so much.
"It's almost like the real thing," Cloud said to the group. "Except packed into a smaller size. See I went to New York over spring break to see some Broadway shows and-"
"Alright students," Aerith smiled gleefully as she interrupted Cloud's pointless retelling of his trip. "Let's all stay together and walk inside. We're going to use the buddy system if you remember...so if you need to do anything that requires you leaving the group I strongly encourage you bring someone with you. And the buddies can not be boy girl!" Aerith exclaimed to her kohai. Some let out a little groan of disappointment. "We know there are some romantic relationships going on and we don't want you sneaking off and going the naughty dance of dooooooooom."
"Hai Senpai Gainsborough," the class two pupils bowed and nodded in agreement before they follow the two adults into the hotel. And if the students thought the airport was a lot...
"Oh my," Kairi gasped the moment as she looked at the hotel and all it's glory. She slightly giggled and said, "Is there a word that means higher than beautiful?"
"Yeah," Sora winked as his casual smirk fell upon his face. He put his arm around Kairi's shoulder without any worry and whispered into her ear in a deep voice, unlike his own. "And that word is Kairi."
"Oh please," Kairi groaned as pushed him away from her. But behind her angry face his a giant blush. "What book did you get that pick up line?"
Sora blushed as well and looked shamefully at his feet. "I made it up?" he questioned himself.
"Sure," Kairi rolled her eyes and laughed. Then, with the rest of her gawking class, she went back to gazing at the hotel. The hotel was like being inside the city itself, except with a bunch of slot machines around. Restaurants were inside replicas of down town buildings and it felt like you were inside the city of New York. There were apartment buildings, downtown office buildings and even the city hall. Everything that was related to New York
"It's like they moved the city indoors," Cloud mumbled to himself in amazement. "This is so awesome. It's possibly even cooler then being inside the city itself!"
Riku was currently busy looking at a tour guide he picked up from the hotel lobby. "What would you all like to do first? Gambling isn't an option since everyone besides me is under the age of twenty-one. But they do have some good dining. Over fifteen fine dining and New York like places we could eat dinner at. And they have some shopping but I don't think some of the guys would like that. We could buy tickets to a show and see that."
"I'm not very hungry," Tidus proclaimed to the group as he put his hands in his pocket.
"Neither am I," Lulu, Wakka, and Sora called out in unison. They all turned towards each other awkwardly.
"I don't think any of us has the money to see a show either," Aerith told Riku as she looked through another one of her list. "All of the students have enough money for dinner, small amount of entertainment, and gifts. We did get free tickets to a show at the Luxor so let's just watch that when and if we go there."
Riku started flipping through his tour guide, New York edition, to see if there was anything else the children could do. "Well...we could always ride the roller coaster," he shrugged.
"Yeah we could always ride the-" Sora began to say before his eyes grew wide. "Wait ..there's a roller coaster?"
"Someone doesn't pay attention," Kairi laughed as she silently slapped her head and a sweat drop fell from her head.
"Riding a coaster sounds fun," Selphie nodded as she tried to contain her excitement. "Let's ride that!"
"Sounds thrilling," Lulu rolled her eyes.
"Alright then," Riku smiled as he finally put away his tour guide. "The roller coaster it is! According to the arrows on the wall," The sensei pointed out to his students. "It is this way."
"Thank you captain obvious," Sephiroth mumbled in a bitter voice that only Lulu could hear and laugh at. The entire class then set off in a mini journey to find the roller coaster. It wasn't hard because the arrows led them straight to the spot. The hard part was...
"Oh my gosh," Selphie said for what might have been the hundredth time that night. "Look at how many games!"
It may not have been game works but it was pretty darn close. Games were scattered everywhere! Games where you could shot a basket! Games where you had to drop eggs on top of peoples heads. Games where you move a metal hand to obtain less-than-a-penny value piece of candy. There was games galore and that was what held the students onto this spot.
"Come now children," Riku cried out to them as he waved them all back in a group. "No time for games...maybe after the ride. We don't want to keep you out too late. Your parents are expecting us to take care of you."
"I doubt anyone here as a bed time," Wakka chuckled sarcastically to try to impress Lulu, who was giggling at a joke Sephiroth just told her. "Right guys?"
"Actually," Selphie informed him. "I have a bed time."
"Same here," Tidus nodded from not to far away
"Well," Wakka stuttered to find a clever answer to make him sound cool. "You guys are like ..what.. thirteen going on fourteen? Of course you'd have a bedtime."
"Well I'm fifteen going on your ass," Sephiroth cruelly chuckled as he shot Wakka evil glares. "And I have a bedtime." Of course.. Lulu slightly giggled and looked up at her boyfriend dreamfully.
"Well," Wakka started stuttering again as his face slowly turned into an embarrassing shade of red. "I've had sex with fish! Many fish! Fish that could sing and dance! Beat that Sephy!"
The gothic couple raised their eyebrows at the foreign fellow and shrugged. "I'm going to ignore that Sephy comment," Sephiroth told him as the couple made their way back to their sensei's side. "But only because your a complete idiot."
"I'm...what?" Wakka speechlessly questioned as he helplessly followed Lulu. Soon the herd...erm..I mean students were gathered again and they were back on their way to the roller coaster.
They were soon in the yellow waiting line to purchase their tickets (you can imagine how much Selphie was enjoying this). "Let's see," Aerith mumbled out loud as she stared at the prices they listed on the wall. "We could either pay 125 dollars in total to ride the ride once-"
"Which is out of the question," Riku told her.
"Yes Riku," Aerith nodded with a hint of awkward shyness. "Or we can pay forty dollars...around four dollars bucks each...and it's a better deal in general. Pay less and get more! Like unlimited ride pass, a t-shirt, free food ,a free photo ,a stuffed animal ,unlimited play pass and wow!"
"Sounds excellent," Mr. Yoshizawa smiled as they finally reached the front. "We'd like to purchase the um ..what do you call it?"
"All-in-one fun package," Aerith nodded to the cash register lady.
"What?" The register lady asked. Aerith raised her eyebrow.
"All-in-one fun package," Aerith told her once more with that same smile on her face.
"I can't understand you," the lady shyly told Aerith.
"Your speaking Japanese," Cloud told Aerith with crossed arms. "She's an American. So she speaks English."
"Oh yeah," Aerith blushed nervously. "I can only read English ..I can't speak it."
Cloud groaned and stepped up to the cash register. "Sorry for this misunderstanding," Cloud spoke nicely in perfect English. "We're tourist from Japan and the English language isn't easy for us. This lovely lady was wondering if we could purchase an All-in-one fun package," He ended his sentence with a perfect smile that even made some people getting on the ride turn around and blink twice.
"Oh!" The C.R.A. finally understood the group. "I understand. Of course you may have that." She typed up a few numbers on the keypad and the machine in front of them made a few bleeping noises. "The total cost will be forty dollars."
"Forty bucks," Cloud said slyly as he turned around to the keeper of money, Aerith.
"I can understand the language," Aerith barked at the blonde as she reached inside her purse to get the money. "I just can't speak it." She practically slammed the green paper in his hands and almost made him fall over. "Just pay the woman!"
"Fine ,fine!" Cloud exclaimed in Japanese. Then he switched back over to English. "So sorry about that. She just got off her pills and she isn't feeling very well. We have that under control," Cloud laughed with the woman. "Don't worry."
"I can understand what your saying!" Aerith yelled at the slightly younger boy angrily.
"GOMEN!" Cloud yelled back at Aerith in a tone of voice that told her that he wasn't truly sorry. He handed the money to the lady. "Sorry about this," he spoke in a nicer tone. She nodded and handed them a card that said "UNLIMITED PASS" and ushered them to go stand in the line.
They soon were all standing in line and looking at Aerith. "See the order your in now?" The girl questioned the group. Everyone gave a quick glance around and nodded. "That's how your going to sit on the ride."
"What?" Tidus blurted out a little too load. "I have to ride next to Lulu?"
"God save us all," Lulu groaned as she buried her face in her hand.
"I have to sit next to Sephiroth?" Sora almost started crying as he pouted like a bratty child. "I wanted to sit next to Kairi!"
"At least we're sitting together," Wakka told Kairi as he shot an envying glance straight towards Tidus.
"WEEEEE!" Selphie squealed louder then a pig taking a bath. She glomped Riku so hard that he fell over and knocked two people down with them. "I'm sitting with Riiiiikkuuuuuuu!"
'Oh yeah,' Kairi sarcastically thought inside of her mind as she shot glances towards the lovely dovey motions Selphie was making. 'It isn't obvious at all that they are dating.' The ride with it's former load of costumers finally came back with adrenaline filled people chatting their heads off.
"Looks like this is going to be fun, ya?" Wakka smiled down at Kairi.
Kairi nodded back to him. "It's going to be super."
"Next patrons!" exclaimed the ticket taker as he motioned for the group to step towards the yellow car.
"He said for us to step up," Cloud told Aerith.
"I know what he said," Aerith growled in an unusual bitchy tone of voice. Kairi looked over and saw that they were paired to be on the ride together.
"Oh gosh," Kairi said softly as she covered her mouth with her hands. "Poor Aerith..."
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Sora asked Kairi as they both glanced at the bitter couple.
"Yeah..." Kairi quietly said as she stepped up the steps towards her directed car.
"Great!" Sora exclaimed loudly, taking Kairi back a bit. He took her two hands in his and smiled a cheerful (yet gorgeous) smile (wait...when did Sora become gorgeous?). "I know a great wedding chapel that's just around the corner-"
"BAKA!" Kairi screamed as she slapped Sora and angrily jumped into her car next to Wakka. Sora sighed and rubbed the red hand print mark on his face.
"Gomen," he cried silently as he took the shadowed car seat next to Sephiroth. By this time everyone was in their seats.
"Ready to go?" The ticket manager cheered to the on-going ride goers. The tourist didn't even need to understand the language to understand what this meant. They all cheered back and held on tightly to their seats as the man started the ride.
"Oh," Kairi giggled nervously as she started to tense up. "I'm nervous!"
"But you got to be excited too man!" The fearless Wakka smiled at her as they started going up the first hill.
"Yeah," Kairi agreed as a jumpy and fidgety smile spread across her firm, pale face. "I'm just glad this ride doesn't go upside down!"
"Kairi..." Sephiroth said from behind the seats as they reached the top of the hill, the climax point of anxiety. He pointed out so she could casually gaze at the red tracks they were soon going to be rushing past. Her eyes grew as large as Pamela Anderson's paychecks.
"HOLY MOTHER HADES!" Kairi screamed at the top of her lungs as they plowed forward down the hill. "THIS DOES GO UPSIDE DOWN!"
But Kairi couldn't go back now and she knew it. But that only made her heart beat faster with the most fearful type of anxiety as they went up and down and through the rough turns and that made everyone else scream with excitement.
Then came the loop. The loop she had been dreading. Like a coward would, Kairi shut her eyes and clutched her seat as though it was going to save her from this 'death'. "Tell me when we're out of the loop!" Kairi screamed to Wakka.
"About two seconds ago," Wakka laughed as he patted her on the back. Kairi opened her eyes and realized the red head was right.
"I didn't even realize!" She smiled as she suddenly relaxed a bit. Then she joined everyone else in cheering ,screaming and waving their arms in the air like idiots as they went through the remainder of sharp turns and twist before they slowly came to a halt. Before they knew it the ride had ended (yet no one wanted to remove their frozen solid hands from the handle bars).
"That was so..." Tidus tried to explain as he got out of his car along with Sephiroth. "AWESOME!"
"That was so fun!" Selphie giggled as she went up and hugged Tidus like an older sister would. "Wasn't it Tidus?"
"Seeeeelpppphhiiieeee!" Tidus whined as his face turned bright red. "Leggo of meeee!"
"Fine," Selphie smiled fully as she punched him playfully in the arm. "Mr. Yoshizawa!" Selphie exclaimed as the group made their way back into the arcade area. "Wasn't that fun?"
"Sure was Ms.Tilmitt," Riku smiled perfectly to her, making Selphie's cheeks turn a bit pink.
"Sora," Aerith quietly mumbled to her brother as she looked at the floor. "May I talk to you in private?"
Sora looked at his sister with concern but still flashed a smile. "Sure sis," he said with a soft feeling in his voice. And with that they moved away from everyone else, unnoticed.
"I guess we have a few minutes," Riku told everyone as he looked at his watch. "So I'm going to let you play video games for fifteen more minutes."
"Yes!" Selphie jumped up and down as she grabbed her sensei's hand and started dragging him. "Come on Riku! Let's play Dance Dance Revolution!"
"Call me Mr. Yoshizawa," Riku laughed as he let himself be dragged to the two player game.
"I don't really want to do anything," Lulu yawned as Sephiroth pulled her into a hug. "I just want to go to bed."
"Yeah," Sephiroth groaned as he kissed Lulu's soft black hair. "The idea of 'gaming' doesn't exactly thrill me."
"Yep, yep," Wakka mumbled in a deep unnatural sad voice as he interrupted their conversation. "I don't want to be around people. I just want to go back to the condo and write about how my life sucks."
Lulu and Sephiroth stared at him. "Wanna-be," Sephiroth laughed coldly, making Wakka silently cry to himself.
"Hey Tidus!" Kairi cheerfully called to her old friend. "Let's play the duck game!"
Tidus laughed and walked over to the crimson haired girl. "Alright," he chuckled once more.
Soon after everyone were deep into their games (or in Sephy's case...deep into something else), Sora came stomping away from the girls bathroom with a bright red angry face upon him. Cloud was the first one to noticed. "Hey Sora!" he called out to him with a silent 'HA'. "Did you see something naughty?"
What happened next surprised everyone. Sora ran up to Cloud and used all his power to punch him in the jaw. Cloud immediately fell back and all eyes were on them.
"YOU BASTARD!" He screamed as Wakka and Tidus held him back from hitting the blonde once more. "HOW DARE YOU MAKE MY SISTER CRY!"
One thought was racing across everyone's minds. "W-H-A-T?"
End Of Chapter 17
Authors Note: Remember folks...the story isn't done! It won't be done until at the end of the chapter you see THE END. Please stop leaving me reviews that say "OO OMFG IT'S OVER!". Anyways ..O-chibicon went swell. I wore a Selphie and an Anti-Sora costume. Both good. And our panel went really good also. Read my live journal (or xanga for thoughs who have it) for more details.
Also..You might have noticed that the characters have been using a lot of Japanese terms as of late. If you want these translated just go to freedict (dot) com.
Any who...They were always gonna take a trip like this but it changed a lot. First it was going to be a trip to the mountains. Then it changed to a trip to the city. But I'm glad I decided to go with Las Vegas :D!
Another pointless babbling coming from Lili-sama! I am having trouble writing Lost Kitten. TT I don't want to write it anymore! But I shall not disappoint anyone! But it's gonna be like...an ubberly short story.
Another pointless story! I tried out for another play today.. should know my part in the next week. I think I did well at auditions.. anyways. I start school on the 29th. That's all for now.. go review XD!