With the tweet of Ms. Vasquez's whistle, everyone made a rush for the three rubber balls in the center. Hayner only did a half-hearted jog to the line and, after seeing all the balls were already on their side, just ducked back behind his team. He was still conflicted about whether or not he should play seriously. None of the kids in class were really good at dodgeball (Pence was absolutely horrible, always throwing the ball like he was playing a game of catch), so most likely, they'd lose. Then again, they were playing against girls. He didn't mean to be sexist or anything, but he had never seen a girl beast at dodgeball like him before.

He stood in a corner near the boundary to watch the game for a bit and saw that half of the girl's team was already out due to their soft throws and general slowness. He also noticed Fuu wasn't really moving around. In fact, she was just standing at the southeast corner of the court looking at her nails, occasionally stepping to the side or tilting her head to avoid a ball.

Hayner scoffed and snapped out of his thoughts just quickly enough to dodge a poorly thrown dodgeball that went for his feet. It had probably already bounced once, but he couldn't be too sure. The other thing he had to worry about was his newfound interest in Fuu, his mortal enemy's (Seifer) henchwoman. It was really throwing him off his concentration whenever he accidentally glanced at her and found himself staring for a good two or three seconds before returning to reality. He didn't know whether or not he was just feeling a little weird because he got rained on or if these feelings were true, but that didn't really matter right now. His number one priority now was to make sure he didn't end up embarrassing himself, running around the school in short shorts.

In less than one minute, almost the whole team of girls was wiped out. All that remained on the south side of the court was Selphie, who was nervously holding a dodgeball that was too big for her hands, and Fuu, who had survived even though she barely moved at all. The boy's team was still completely intact; even Pence, their worst player, had only gone out twice before being immediately sent back in by a caught ball. The other two dodgeballs were in possession of Wedge and O'aka, who were both decent dodgeball players to say the least.

On the sidelines, Mr. Sandoval was rubbing his hands together and giggling to himself like a madman. Ms. Vasquez, however, kept a smug grin on her face, believing that her girls would pull through in the end.

After some whispering between Wedge and O'aka, they both hurled their dodgeballs, Wedge's ball aimed at Selphie and O'aka's aimed at Fuu. Selphie, the ball about to hit her, made a loud yelp before she was hit on the right shoulder and was called out. Fuu didn't even look up at O'aka's ball, but instead kept looking at the nails on her right hand while her left hand was at her side.

Mr. Sandoval was already in mid-cheer and the boy's team was already cheering, relieved they wouldn't have to wear the skimpy shorts and happy that they'd have maids to clean up their messes for the next semester.

That is, until Fuu quickly brought her left hand up and caught the ball centimeters away from her stomach.

That's about when everything fell dead silent. Sandoval's mouth formed an O and his eyebrows almost reached his hairline. Ms. Vasquez made a slight laugh, whispering, "Told you so," to herself. The boys were so shocked that they could only watch in horror as Selphie stepped back onto the court and Fuu lobbed the dodgeball 90 miles an hour at Wedge's stomach.

The sound of rubber making contact echoed throughout the quiet gymnasium and was promptly followed by a blunt thud on the hardwood. Not only did Wedge fall down, but he groaned loudly as his fellow teammates helped him over to the bleachers, a look of horror glued onto their faces.

Because Fuu still had another ball with her.

Selphie handed Fuu the dodgeball she had with her before being called out then stood confidently next to her, knowing that the silent girl was going to lead the girls to victory.

As Fuu looked over the crowd of boys still on court, a sadistic smile crept onto her lips and she moved her arm back, readying herself to throw, make contact, and annihilate.

The mass of boys, terrified, all ran like a stampede of cattle to the far side of the court. Mr. Sandoval was forced to call out a total of seven boys out because they had stepped out of bounds. The fifteen that remained, however, still had to deal with Fuu's killer throws.

"What was I thinking?" thought Hayner, a cold sweat on his back, "How could I think of falling for a girl like her? She's a psycho, s-she'll kill us!"

She's also a hell of a dodgeball player.

Again, Hayner silenced the contradicting thoughts in his head and braced himself for a hit.

Fuu slowly scanned the crowd for a good target, then locked on and threw, the ball making a whooshing sound as it cut through the air and smacked Pence square on the forehead. Hayner watched with wide eyes as his friend dropped on his back onto the court, the ball he had been struck with rolling away slowly.

"Pence!" he cried in worry, running over to his fallen friend, "You OK, buddy?"

Pence's forehead had the stitching-like pattern of the dodgeball embossed on his forehead in pink. Pence himself had his mouth hanging open and his eyes slowly looked up at Hayner, "Remember what I said about Fuu being cute?"

Hayner nodded slowly. Pence answered, "Totally disregard that," then tilted his head back onto the hardwood and shut his eyes, losing consciousness.

With the help of the other thirteen survivors, Hayner carried Pence over to the bleachers and laid him down next to Wedge, both looking like corpses at a funeral (DAMN this is a sad chapter).

Mr. Sandoval protested in a shocked voice, "B-but headshots are illegal in dodgeball! She should be called out for that!"

Ms. Vasquez argued in a mocking, condescending tone, "What, your boys can't take a hit from a girl? What kind of men are they?"

"That's no girl, that's a d-demon!" stuttered Sandoval, his booming voice shrinking.

Seeing Sandoval defeated, Ms. Vasquez called out, "It's OK, Fuu, you're still in! Just keep doing what you've been doing!"

"Doing what, systematically killing all of us!" thought Hayner in a frantic tone, "At this rate, we'll all need body bags!"

However, Fuu just stood there, the same sadistic smile on her face as before. She was waiting for one of the balls to be thrown over to her side so that she could kill-I mean, hit- another one of the boys. The three boys who grabbed the dodgeballs tossed them over to Fuu one by one, purposely letting her catch them so they could be spared. Three more girls came in and after three more speeding throws, three more boys were left either groaning or completely unconscious on the bleachers. Mr. Sandoval couldn't watch anymore, so he stepped out of the gym to look at the rain and Ms. Vasquez watched as her star pupil showed these men who the superior gender was.

Three more surrender tosses were given to Fuu, three more balls were thrown, three more boys left the court and three more girls came skipping in. Then, the process repeated again, Fuu getting three headshots in a row, leaving only Hayner and two other boys on the north side and Fuu and seven other girls on the south side.

After one of Fuu;s devastating headshots, one of the dodgeballs had bounced off his head and landed back on the girl's side. So, Fuu got two birds in one stone and threw the ball at Tidus's head, from which it ricocheted into Wakka's stomach. The girls cheered when all that was left was Hayner and the three dodgeballs.

The gym went silent as the girls waited for Hayner to screw up and the boys that were still conscious waited in dead silence for Hayner to win it somehow (or at least give up a throw and leave with his life.)

After gathering all three of the balls in front of him, he looked down at them, pondering on what to do.

OK, I have some options to work with. I could, one, do the reasonable thing and give up so I don't leave here with a concussion. Two, I throw the dodgeballs at the incompetent girls and try to pull a miracle win somehow. Or, I could go straight on for Fuu…

Hayner looked up at Fuu to see she had her arms crossed and a smug grin on her face. Her eye was narrowed at him so he could only see a sliver of the crimson within. The other girls around her weren't really paying attention, they thought Fuu had this whole game wrapped up, so they all just stood in the corner gossiping or talking about shoes or whatever.

Hayner breathed in deeply, exhaled through his mouth, then grabbed one of the dodgeballs he had laid on the floor. He let the restraints he put on himself at the beginning of the game go and threw the ball with all his might at Fuu. The ball cut through the air in a straight line, quickly approaching Fuu. Hayner knew that she was in prime position to just catch it and end the game. However, instead, Fuu stepped to the left to avoid it and let it bounce away from her. One of the girls went to grab the ball and tossed it to Fuu.

Holding the ball, Fuu looked over at Hayner, her smug smile turning more playful. Not "playing" playful, but more like "cat playing with its food" playful. She stepped toward Hayner slowly, ball in her hands. Hayner stepped back, grabbing one of the other two balls for protection. He tried to use it as a shield, hiding as much of his body behind it as possible.

They both just stood there about 10 feet away from each other, each with a ball in their hands. One male, one female. One a loud leader, the other a silent sidekick.

Everything was still for about 30 seconds before Hayner made the first move, giving up his shield and throwing it at Fuu with all his might. Fuu held her own ball up and deflected Hayner's ball, causing it to fly out of the court and into the empty section of the bleachers. Fuu readied her own ball and threw it, aiming for Hayner's foot for an easy out. Hayner quickly jumped out of the way, the ball bouncing off the floor and past him. He looked down and saw the last ball and took hold of it. With the ball, he sprinted as close to Fuu as possible and lobbed it, using up all of his remaining strength.

As he looked at Fuu, he could see her smug demeanor melt into a look of shock, her eye wide open and her lips parted. Her crimson eye was sparkling in the fluorescent light and her pink lips glistened. She was beautiful…

SMACK!

The girls gasped as they saw Hayner's ball make contact with Fuu's face, carrying her back a step but not knocking her down. She recovered from the blow still standing, but looking away from Hayner towards the girls. They were so shocked that Fuu, who took on the whole boy's team and carried their own team back from the brink was now…

"OUT!" called Mr. Sandoval, who had stepped back in just in time to see the tense battle, "Sorry, Ms. Vasquez, but devil girl is out!"

Ms. Vasquez couldn't believe it herself. She tried to argue, "B-but that was a headshot! T-there're illegal in dodgeball!"

Mr. Sandoval laughed, "No, no, no, you already broke that rule, so now I get to break it, too! So what does that mean?"

Ms. Vasquez made a heavy sigh, covering her face with one hand, replying lamely, "She's out."

Upon hearing this, Mr. Sandoval cheered loudly, knowing that the girls' star player was out of the game, "C'mon, boys, show those ladies who's boss!"

"Don't even bother," Selphie said, approaching Mr. Sandoval from the group of shocked girls, "We all decided to forfeit. I mean, without Fuu, we'll just get out again, right?"

All of the other girls mumbled in agreement, huddled around Fuu to make sure she was OK.

Upon hearing this, the conscious boys whooped and cheered, filling the gym with sounds of joy. A few of the boys even went over to Hayner, picking him up off his feet and carrying him away.

Hayner thought all of this was really nice, but he couldn't help but feel bad for hurting Fuu. He looked back at the south side of the gym and saw the girls all huddled around Fuu, worrying over her. He could hear a couple of phrases echo back to him.

"Oh my god, Fuu, are you okay?"

"That looked like it really hurt!"

"Hayner's such a meanie for doing that, especially to your pretty face!"

"Forget him, he's such a pig!"

Well, there went Hayner's chances at getting any action this school year. Maybe next year the girls would forget about this game, but for now, he was doomed to being single.

All right, guys, that's it for this chapter! I actually was working on this a few months ago, but I didn't know how to end it, so I gave up on it :/

But now, I'm inspired to start again :D and if my head didn't ache so much, I'd do Chapter 3 -_-' But we can't always get what we want, right?

R&R