Chapter 4

Friday, October 22

6:00am

So it has been two months since school had started. Two months since Lightning and Fang had been dorm buddies. Two months for Lightning to find out more of this Pulsian Goddess. Lightning found out obvious things like her height, 5'9. Two whole inches taller than Light. Her favorite color is purple. She is in jyuudou. She owns a spear named Kain's Lance and enjoys hunting. Fang asked her if she would like her to take her one day. Light didn't give her an answer.

She found out that Fang and Vanille were actually orphans and were adopted by a man named Caius who had a son named Noel. Noel was like the boy version of Fang just shorter and slightly more serious. Fang knew Vanille her entire life in the orphanage on Gran Pulse. Fang was walking naked throughout the dorm, against the rules they had set, one day and Light had noticed some scars. Fang told her most of them were from hunts she had went on, others for "stupid shit". This conversation lead to the giant tattoo on her left arm. Fang said with a wink, "Sunshine ya'd have to get into my pants to find out 'bout that". Lighting just shrugged it off and told her not to call her that.

There was one thing that she found out recently. Lightning woke up and turned her alarm clock off. Light remembered that she didn't have class today, so she was going to head to the dojo. She tried to lift up but found that it was extremely difficult. There was somebody clung to her. She jolted her eyes open. "Who the..." She looked down to see who had snuck into her bed in the middle of the night. Their head was snugged onto her chest, arms wrapped strongly around her waist, and their left leg laid on top of hers. It was Fang.

Light froze as panic rose. She couldn't breathe. How does she deal with a situation like this? She had never felt so defiled, so uneasy, but yet so warm. Lightning looked down at the criminal. Fast asleep. Light noticed a single, simple braid hanging behind her left ear. Her stomach churned. A simple braid laid neatly in a wild forest of hair. It looked comfortable and at peace with its simple life. Light went to touch it but her fingertip stopped at the tip of Fang's ear. Fang was starting up at Her.

How long have she been staring? "Morning Sunshine." Fang said with a giant grin. So Lightning thought of the only way to fix this situation. She lifted her legs and placed them on Fang's stomach and shoved her as hard she could off the bed. Even though Fang looks light as a feather, she was extremely heavy. It took all of Light's strength to get her unattached. Fang hit the floor with a giant thud. "What are you doing in my bed!?" Lightning asked ever so nicely standing above the falling warrior.

"We'll I... thought we were heading somewhere pleasant."

"Fang..." Light was not amused.

"Sorry. I kinda sleepwalk...sometimes..."

Light raised an eyebrow, "And cuddle with complete strangers?"

"Not complete strangers just Vanille and some people from the village"

"And me...I'm going to the dojo. Don't let it happen again."

Lightning left the room before Fang could say anything.

9:00am

Light was two hours in her workout. No one was at the dojo but Amordar. He was in the back meditating. That's what he spends most of his time doing. How can a man at his size sit so long in seiza? It was one of the 7 wonders of the academy. Lightning just finished running laps around the dojo, when she saw Laura stroll up. Laura waved her over. "Hey Light!" Light jogged over. "Laura-sempai."

"Drop the formalities," Laura said with a smile and pulled her into a hug, but Light pushed her away. "I'm all sweaty." Laura took a strand of her strawberry blond hair and tucked it behind her ear. Light noticed that her eyes were a shade darker. Forest green eyes meet ocean blue. Light was stuck in a trance. Laura took a step forward, mere centimeters away from her ear. "Want to shower together?" She whispered ever so gently into Light's ear. "No..I...I...I..gotta go meet Serah." A common excuse that always worked.

11:30am

Light slammed the door close behind her as she entered her room. She was so hot and bothered that she had forgotten where the dorms were; made it all the way to the beach where Lebreau saw her from the bar counter outside. Light does not let her guard down and if she did. She wouldn't let others notice her flaw. So she chatted with Lebreau until Serah and Vanille strolled up, with their arms linked, for lunch. Then she took her leave, saying she forgot to shower. "I wasn't going to say anything Farron." Lebreau joked.

Now she stood in her dorm's "living room" upset that she couldn't have completed her workout. Angry that she couldn't have just taken Laura's offer and see where it had lead. What was holding her back? She thought as she walked into her bedroom to retrieve the necessary items to take a proper and well-deserved, long bubble bath.

"Oh..."

Fang was still on the floor where she had left her. Curled into a makeshift cocoon with her entire bedding with her. So Light kicked her where she had guess her head was. "Ow! What the bloody hel...?!" She was right. Fang slipped out of the bundle of furs and rubbed the back of her head.

"Now Sunshine. If you keep beating my like you do. We are going to have to go couple counseling." The funny thing is the school actually had one. But did Fang know that? Light looked at her with a unfazed look while Fang continued pushing Lightning's buttons. "Don't you have class, or practice, or go ever to see how Vanille's doing?"

"No classes today, no practice either, and you just saw Vanille didn't ya?" Light looked puzzled. "She texted me." Fang added. Light sighed and collected her items. She was going to relax if it was going to kill. Beep. Light stopped and looked at Fang as she texted away on her cell. "Looks like the brats are done with classes today and wants us all to hang out in their room. Coming?"

"I need some time to myself. Tell Serah I might stop by later." "Al'right." Fang pulled some khaki shorts on and blue t-shirt with some Pulsian band sprawled in the front, and headed out the front door. Lightning noticed that she forgot her shoes.

12:45pm

Light couldn't help herself. She had to clean the dorm before she could completely relax. This included throwing all of Fang's clothes into a giant heap and wondering when she was ever going to do laundry. Taking out the trash or what looked like trash. She also vacuumed. When all was well, she finally set out to take that bath. Entering the bathroom, she set the lights to dim and turned on some soft dubstep. Switching on the bathe after and pouring in her favorite bubble soap, she sat on the edge of the tub lost in thought. There was something happening to her insides and she didn't like the feeling, it was a foreign feeling.

Lightning's Alternate Reality

It wasn't like she was hiding that she was gay. If someone asked she would proudly proclaim who she was. No she was well aware of that since at least the second grade. The very first time she got her heart broken. It hardened her in a way. The little girl called her a freak and told the teacher. An old women with long silver hair nicely twisted into a bun on the back of her head, she looked like she never missed a wednesday bible study and sunday church service. It wasn't like Lightning kissed her during recess. No not at all. She wrote her a note that simply said I like you...a lot. Those five words made her reevaluate her future love life, if she was going to have one. The teacher told her parents and said she was concerned about Lightning's behavior. Light's dad didn't take the tone so nicely and her mom, being the sweet women she was, killed the teacher with kindness.

In the end the Farrons pulled their little girl out of school and transferred them to another. This one was way nicer and had a 0 bullying policy. Not to mention that the principal was gay himself. But this situation wasn't the one that made her who she was today. No that came way later in middle school. That's a different story for a different time. Lightning looked around her and mentally slapped herself. She had slowly slipped into her abyss of nothingness. This was triggered from her reminiscence obviously. She was glad that Fang wasn't home to break open the door again and hoped that she would come out of it soon. So she started to walk. Looking down at the red ribbon tied to her pinky, she started to wonder and get frustrated.

Being 17 and still "spacing out" was a serious issue that she wished to fix. But she would be caught dead with some old therapist asking "And how does that makes you feel" for $200 an hour for a 5 hour session. And she wasn't fond of hospitals either. Don't mention an insane asylum. She was far from crazy. Just a person drifting into unconscienceness.

Back to Reality

"Oi Lightning! Come back to Cocoon." Fang was standing in front of her.

"What is it? Where am I?" Light looked extremely confused. She was just taking a bath and now she's face to face with Fang. Fully clothed. Serah came over and hugged her as she whispered into her ear,

"Hey Claire. You walked over here. It happened again didn't it?" Light just nodded and returned the embrace. The hunters ear's perked up at the name. "What did you call her? Is Ligntnin' not your real name? I shoulda known." Fang had her hands on her hip with a smirk. Light gave her a glare. Claire doesn't exist anymore.

Vanille and Serah's room was just as big as their own. The two were the top in their grade. Serah being a mad genius and so was Vanille. Vanille had a particular interest in medicine and was pursuing a new way at healing. There was a big fella there with long blond hair growing from under a do-rag, Light found out his name was Snow and also he was a Junior. He was a brute for a junior. Easily looked like he flunked but he was the best football player. Lightning didn't like him. Snow's roommate Gadot was also present. Gadget was also not the brightest bulb in the tanning bed, which looked like he spent most of his time. He was a Cocoonian with skin as dark as Fang's, if not darker. He was in wrestling.

There was another boy there with strikingly white hair. He was a sophomore named Hope, a swimmer also interested in medicine but mainly anatomy. And oh did Fang hope he wasn't thinking what she was thinking he was thinking. Fang didn't like him. And of course Lebreau graced them with her presence.

The evening was fun, which was a shock for Lightning. They ordered pizza and watch a movie, Finding Nemo. Fang's favorite movie of all time also Light's but that was one thing she wouldn't admit. Fang cried 3 times and Lightning almost teared up. It was still early and Snow was trying to impress Serah. What was the best way to impress a girl? Muscles. And what way to do that safely without obvious flexing? An arm wrestling competition. Hope obviously didn't want to partake. So Snow challenged Gadot. It lasted a good 10 minutes before both gentlemen decided it was a tie.

"Aw maybe next time man" Snow joked.

"Your going down. I just got out of the weight room." Gadot laughed. Then Fang walked over and threw her elbow on the table.

"Come on big shot. I"ll takeya both." She looked over at Light and winked. Serah glanced at Light's unchanged demeanor. But in Light's mind she was fuming. Is she really flirting with me! Oh how the ice queen can hold her composure. But Fang knew she was getting under her skin and she wanted to break her.

"Oh come on now Fang. I'm not going to arm wrestle you." Snow defended. "Why? Ya turkey?" She replied. And everyone laughed.

"Ya are you turkey man?" Gadot slapped Snow's shoulder.

"Hey now. I'm not "chicken"," he put emphases on the correct term.

"Allotta talkn' not enough walkin' mate." Snow finally gave in. He was going to be a gentlemen and take it easy on her. And as if she could read his mind. "Give it all ya got big shot. It's not the size that matters." Snow glanced at Serah trying to figure out the best way to impress her. Should he beat her or let her win? His manhood was at stakes here. Gadot came over and place his hand over theirs. "Okay guys I don't want any biting or lifting of the elbow. Keep this a clean fight." He said in his less than pleasing referee voice. Snow decided that he was going to beat her. Fang decided that she was going to let it look like his winning and just finish him in the last second.

"Go!" Gadot said as he removed his hands. It was a stalemates for a few seconds. They looked into each other eyes unfazed. Then Snow's face began to turn red. Unbelievable. Fang sat there with her leg hanging over the other and she "yawned". Covering her mouth with her other hand. Snow got angry and tried to push harder. "What's wrong big shot? Don't want t get beat by a girl do'ya?" Fang joked. She then looked at Light again. "Watch this sunshine." And she winked.

Fang's arm pushed Snow's behemoth of an arm over with ease. She didn't break a sweat but he did. And with a slam his hand hit the table. Snow's face was retuning back to his natural color. "Wow man. You are something. Where are you hiding all of that muscle?" Snow laughed. He wasn't a man to get mad easily. Actually he respected Fang more and this was the start of the trio's bromance. Serah didn't seem like she cared none the less. It was the fact that Snow was humongous and easy to talk to that made her take to him. He was a sweetheart unlike the other jocks.

Fang came over and sat next to Lightning on the couch. Hope went to take to the two brutes to find out the technique while Vanille talked to Serah and Lebreau. "You wanna arm wrestle lata?" Fang asked Light but she didn't give her an answer. Okay I'll bite. Light thought and simply lifted up the 720 controller next to her. "How about something different" Light looked at Fang with a serious gamer look. Fang was in trouble, but in a good way.

"Alright name your game."

"The Dead Walks."

Author's Note:

I do not own Final Fantasy. Square Enix does :(

I'm pretty sure unconscienceness isn't a word..._ at least that's what my iPad is telling me...but imma do what I want

Extremely sorry for the late update but this chapter was brutally beating me. Like I have bruises to prove it lol jk. I want to speed things up and hurry to get to her senior year where all the drama should start and stuff. But I want to take it slow...I'll figure it out.

I started another fic with this lovely couple but I won't upload it or I'll abandon this fic because the next one involve my 2 favorite things.

Fangrai and Zombies :DDDD

I'm surprised nobody had this idea and I'm loving where it is going. It'll be a mix of the walking dead, resident evil, and ff13. Should be awesome. If I can get my writing better.

Oh and also, I'm going to stop with the dates because I'm a perfectionist and if the day of the week doesn't add up with the number then ill go insane and its too much work thinking of the math and messing with calendars.

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