"Ouch…not so rough,"

Dr. Kadowaki wasn't exactly being her gentle self.

"Not so rough? Not so rough?!" she huffed "I should be extra rough on you Mr Leonhart! Attacking a guest for no reason! Honestly,"

"I had a reason,"

"And that would be?"

Squall remained silent. He wasn't about to relive the past.

"Fine, don't tell me but you better tell Rinoa! How you could do that to her is beyond me, putting her in that position! She'll be right in the middle of this I hope you know!" She wrapped his arm in a bandage.

"I know,"

"Good! I hope you feel terrible about it and I hope she gives you an earful!"

"Knock, Knock," Zell came into the infirmary "Wow they weren't kidding!"

"About what?" Squall spat

"That you got in a scruff. Should a known seeing how everyone's talking about it. Man, you should see Rinoa!"

"Why what's she doing?" he looked slightly worried

"She doesn't know whether to laugh or cry so she's decided to attack nearly every living thing in the training centre. They had to get everyone out before she attacked them too,"

"Ha! You see what you've done!" Dr. Kadowaki interrupted "That poor girl," she cleared up her items and put them in the cupboard. "I don't know why she puts up with you. Always getting into trouble, you should grow up Squall and stop acting like a teenager! Every problem can't be solved with fists and if anything you've made it all a lot worse!"

"Well…err…she's just letting out her anger Doc, not doing anything else," Zell said slightly scared

"Yes…but imagine how she feels. Half of her friends would be on Squall's side and the other half on Mr Strife's. You know how Rinoa is she can't stand to upset people so now she's going to have to tell two different stories to people. One to you lot saying how she wished she'd never asked them all to come when naturally she's glad they did and another story to them saying how stupid Squall was and how he apologises even though he doesn't!"

"Damn right I don't,"

"Well as I said you'd better have a good enough reason," she shoved his t-shirt in his face "Now get out of here!"

Squall jumped off the bed and left the infirmary, Zell following closely. Squall put on his t-shirt and walked towards the training centre.

"Whoa, Squall, you going in there?" Zell asked hastily

"Looks like it, what is she fighting with?"

"Well…there's another reason we had to get everyone out. She was started to use her 'special' magic, she was so mad. Nothing could stop her,"

"Shit, ok I'll see you later,"

"Wait, before you do I need to tell you something about Rinoa,"

Squall stopped and faced Zell.

"You see, when her friends first arrived they went into the ballroom. I was there all the time except when I came to give the passes to you but there was one spare. She hadn't miscounted though. One of her friends should have been there but she wasn't,"

Squall raised an eyebrow.

"You see Rinoa's friend…Aeris I think her name was. Well she was killed and Rinoa didn't know. She didn't have a chance to grieve then and I think she hasn't had time at all. All this emotion she's letting out now is probably because of everything that's going on. The threats, the conflict and well…everything,"

"She didn't tell me;" Squall answered "I didn't know,"

"I thought as much but you know now. So if you go in there keep that in mind. She's lost someone she loved. So I think in a way she's scared that with you arguing with Cloud she'll lose someone else she cares for,"

Squall nodded. He never imagined Zell to be so wise. He patted him on the shoulder and went inside the training centre.

x x x

He found his gunblade on the ground where he left it and then went looking for Rinoa. He came across her walking toward a herd of T-Rexaurs.

"She's insane," He hissed

He hid behind a shrub watching her closely; he would have collapsed if he hadn't remembered the red stains on her clothes were from paint.

She surveyed her surroundings and watched for any spectators when she couldn't find any she released her full potential. She held onto her necklace and floated into the air. Her wings grew from her back. Their white feathery substance illuminated around her. She floated back down and shuffled her wings. She stroked them.

"Still not used to you,"

She shrugged.

Flying into the air she did a forward somersault. She threw her leg down into a kick and smacked the T-Rexaur right on the head. This angered it.

The rest of heard felt the tremor and started to rush towards Rinoa. Squall ran forward slashing his gunblade.

He managed to fight of a couple of them but they were strong. Rinoa turned to the herd. She lifted her arms up

"Hell's Revenge!" she yelled

Squall ducked and covered his head.

Rinoa's attack hit each T-Rexaur. One by one they fell to the floor. Rin landed on the ground and walked over to Squall who was still covering himself. She kicked the ground and a pebble flew to his head. He looked up. She stood there with her arms crossed.

"Is there a reason you chose to come in here?"

Squall stood up.

"I wanted to see if you were ok,"

"Hm, Shocking," she started to walk away. The edge of her wings scraped past Squall.

"Rinoa, what are you doing?"

"Oh I'm sorry. Am I meant to spontaneously attack you? Is that how you solve all your problems?"

She jumped into the sky and sat on a branch in a tree. Squall stood at the root; he found a couple of foot holes and started to climb it.

"I…didn't want to fight him…but…" he tried to talk as he climbed the tree "if you'd just let me explain,"

"Why bother, as if it would make a difference. It doesn't matter why you started it, it's the fact you did it,"

Squall slid down the tree. Rinoa tried to refrain from laughing. She jumped down and walked so close to him their noses were almost touching.

"You have no right to put me in that position,"

Squall became slightly mad. He was trying his best and she was shoving it back in his face.

"Well if you trusted my instinct then maybe we could have gone without this mess,"

"You're blaming me?!" She raised her voice "I wasn't the one who attack one of your friends!"

"You shouldn't have asked them to come here in the first place!"

"They're here to help me! To protect me!"

"I can protect you!"

"Will you forget your stupid pride?" She stormed away from him "Why am I not surprised? After a whole year and a half together you haven't changed at all!"

She retracted her wings and left the training centre.

Squall stood watching her. He hated it when they fought and that last statement made him think. Was he really the same, no, he wasn't. She was just being spiteful. He couldn't even bring himself to curse her or retaliate.

From where she left a white feather flew towards him. He grabbed it from the air. Sighing he left the training centre.

He searched for Rinoa but she'd disappeared completely.

x x x

Rinoa stormed to the apartment infuriated. She huffed and puffed and sat on the computer chair. Angelo was in her bed, when her mistress sat she rose and leaned her head and one paw on her legs.

Rinoa stroked her companions head.

"This is how it started, eh?"

Angelo replied with soft eyes. Rinoa went over to her toy box and grabbed a lead and a squeaky toy.

"Come on girl; let's go for a walk,"

Angelo sat staring at her and ran into the bedroom and stood at the door frame.

Rinoa looked down to her paint stained dungarees.

"You're right, I should change first,"

x x x

Walking through Balamb Town, Rinoa felt more relaxed. She sat in the docks and watched the ocean. Angelo lay next to her chewing on her toy. Rinoa sighed. Boredom took over.

Half of her was tempted to get the next train to Timber or Deling, anywhere that was away from Balamb.

"Hey…you ok?"

Rinoa looked to see Yuffie crouching down next to her. She nodded unsurely.

"None of us blame Squall for fighting with Cloud. We chose not to pick sides. We didn't want to put you in an awkward position so we decided to leave it between them,"

"Thanks," she dropped her head "I'm so embarrassed. He always causes trouble even if he doesn't mean to,"

Yuffie wasn't sure what to say.

"Wanna get some cookies and ice cream?" Rinoa nodded,

"And a balloon too?"

Yuffie gave her a thumbs up.

"Of course!"

"Just like old times, you'd always know how to cheer me up,"

Yuffie grinned.

"Just as long as you work things out with him then that's fine," she helped Rinoa off the floor "So we'll finish your office tomorrow, yeah?"

"I can't the junior class men are coming and I have to help organise them all,"

"Fun!" Yuffie said sarcastically "Well then how about afterwards we go to the cinema?"

Rinoa laughed.

"Definitely, wanna play with me and Angelo for a bit?"

"Out in the fields? Ok I'll race ya!"

"Huh?"

"1…2…3" Yuffie started running through the town

"Not fair!" Rinoa and Angelo raced after her

Rinoa couldn't help but smile as she played with her friend like they were little kids again.