Disclaimer: If I owned Final Fantasy, There would be a hell of a lot more Kuja-sama!…but I don't…and there isn't…DAMN!

Rae: SHEEZ! This is my first fic, so you can't expect it to be OMGMASERPIECENESS! Sadly, in this fic, Kuja-sama is dead, though he does appear and play a fair part in my story. (How big? Who knows. I only have 10 pre-written chapters.) I'm glad you liked the Japanese. There will be more.

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Rushi-chan: I'm glad you still like my story! By the way, next time you party…INVITE ME!

A/N: Thanks to all three of you for reviewing! It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! Okay, now that that's out of the way…STORY TIME! You'll notice a time gap, but don't worry! It'll all come together, so just bear with me, okay?

-----12 YEARS LATER--------

Kioku took a deep breath. She nervously pulled her blonde bangs out of her face. She felt the rest of her hair pushing against her back, unable to move freely due to the hairstyle borrowed from her mother.

Come on, Kioku, she thought, you can do this…just concentrate!

She pulled the top of her prism in front of her face and closed her eyes. She began drawing energy toward it from the heat in the air around her.

Concentrate!

She opened her eyes, "FIRAGA!"

She smiled triumphantly as a nearby tree burst into flame.

She began jumping up and down with excitement, "Did you see that, Vivi?"

"Very good, Kioku!" called the black mage from his safe vantage point a good ten yards away (he had learned his lesson after teaching her thundaga).

"Really?" she asked excitedly, "Well, I did learn from the best black mage ever!"

"Ah, stop sucking up!" the twenty-two year old mage said with a laugh, "You're pretty good at black magic, seeing as you're supposed to just be learning white and summoning magic! By the way, are you sure your mother doesn't mind this?"

Kioku sighed, "I didn't exactly tell her…but what she doesn't know can't hurt her…right? You won't tell her, will you?"

"As long as you don't ignore your other lessons, it's no concern of mine." Vivi said shrugging, "You aren't skipping out on them, are you?"

"Of course not!" Kioku laughed, "If I did that, mom would kill me for sure!"

"Hey! Kioku!"

She turned to see Relm running towards her from the Black Mage Village.

She smiled, "Hey, Relm! What's up?"

Relm paused, panting to catch her breath, "Your parents…are coming…tomorrow…right?…To…take you back to Alexandria?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Do ya think I could come too?" Relm asked hopefully, "I've always wanted to see the Mist Continent!"

That's right, thought Kioku, the farthest Relm has probably gone would be Conde Petie.

"I'll ask dad!" she said.

The two walked to Relm's hut where Kioku had been staying for the past week. She always came once a month to meet up with Relm and Faris. She also took secret black magic lessons with Vivi that only Relm, Faris, and Mikoto knew about.

"Hey, Kioku," a boy's voice said mockingly, "Where ya been?"

The girls turned to see a young genome smiling at them.

"That's none of your business, Sabin." said Relm.

He shrugged, "Whatever. Just wonderin' where you go every day, that's all."

He calmly walked away.

Relm giggled, "He's cute, isn't he?"

Kioku shook her head as they entered the hut.

My dad told me stories about how the village used to be, she thought, but I just can't imagine it. A bunch of soulless people wandering around without any understanding of the world around them…it just sounds creepy.

She lay down with these thoughts circulating through her mind and went to sleep…

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"I'm not like these guys!" a young genome yelled, "I look the same, but I'm not! I'm different, and you can't order me around, Garland!"

The old man shook his head, "I still created you, boy. I am the authority over all genomes…even a fluke like you."

"So why don't you make me one of them." The boy yelled pointing at the soulless genomes around him, "It'd save me from having to look at your ugly face! Which, by the way, IS COMPARABLE TO A CHOCOBO'S ASS!"

Garland glared at him, "You might want to hold your tongue, boy. Until the superior genome is fully grown, I may have use for you."

"And why should I trust you?"

"Because, believe it or not, until Zidane is ready to fulfill his duties as Angel of Death, I need you to act as a temporary Angel."

"That's not a reason, you old fool!"

The boy turned away, "Whatever…"

He walked into the nearby inn and looked at himself in the mirror, "When that…Zidane kid is born, he and I will look exactly alike…just like the others…"

He stepped back, "No! I won't have it!"

He ran to a storage room where he found a moogle.

"I want to look different." he said calmly.

The moogle nodded and handed him a small box, "Everything you'll need is in there, kupo! Er…Actually…why should a genome want one?"

Kuja paused, "Errrrm…M-Master Garland wants it…yeah…"

The moogle shrugged and flew away.

Kuja went back to the inn and looked in the box……makeup and hair dyes…

The young genome smiled and put on some of the eye shadow.

"This will do nicely…"

A/N: Yeah…bit of a rushed end there…Gomen nasai...Ah well! Oh! While I'm thinking' of it…those of you who are prone to flaming…I WILL FLAME RIGHT BACK! lights match and smiles YAY HOORAY PYROMANIA!

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