Cultural Festival (part3)

Kat glared at Ivy as she walked away. Vincent had walked up next to Kat and said so only she could hear him.

"I could get a shot perfectly centered in her big head if you want."

"That's ok, she just cant stand me being around you three. Thanks for the offer though."

The Festival ended without Ivy coming back. Kat had seen her talking to Kelly at her stand. Kat knew that meant trouble. Kelly kept looking over at Kat's stand then back at Ivy a look of disbelief on her face. Ivy was telling Kelly a lie, and Kat knew how gullible Kelly could be. A girl named Aya walked over to Kat's stand and said.

"Ivy spreads rumors like a wildfire in a wood stock."

"I know, I just hope that Kelly doesn't believe the lie coming out of Ivy's mouth right now."

"Kelly and Ivy are really close friends. You moved here from Osaka only last year. I can believe that Kelly will listen to Ivy's word over yours."

"I know. It seems that no one really thinks I know anything about Tokyo. That's why I picked Japan for my country. To show everyone that I do belong here."

Aya changed the subject with a smile saying.

"How are your sales going?"

"They are ok, I hoped for more people to buy the coins, but after what Ivy said no one is buying them."

"Well, I'll take ten." Aya said putting 1000 yen on the table.

"Alright." Kat said grabbing ten coins and tossed them all up in the air. Vincent (he has been doing this all day) was sitting on the cooler. He took out his Cerberus and fired off ten shots the coins plopping in the dirt. Kat picked them up and handed them to Aya.

"I just feel so out of place around here you know."

"Well you did leave your family so you could come here and work on getting into Tokyo U."
"I know, but I just was hoping for some more friends. And I really don't want more friends like Ivy. Sometimes in to middle of the night she will come and knock on my door drunk from partying all night. That's why I have a guest room in my apartment. I never know when she will show up drunk."

"Really you shouldn't let her in your place if she is drunk. The only reason she crashes at your place is because you will do anything to keep her as a friend. But now that that's changing she doesn't know what to do."

"What do you mean?"

"The day that you wouldn't give her your apartment key. That's when it started."

"How did you find out about that?"

"Rumors spread fast. The fact that Ivy was grumbling curses in class confirmed the rumors." Aya said not even looking over to where Kelly and Ivy were. Kat noticed that Kelly was glaring at her.

"Hey, once Cloud and Sephiroth finish this fight I can introduce you to them."

"Sure" Aya looked at the fight going on in the roped off area.

"Kat, Ivy is coming this way." Vincent said. He had been sitting on the cooler that was just outside of the roped off area. He stood up as ivy got closer. Kat looked at Ivy, Kelly wasn't with her. But by the pleased look on Ivy's face Kat knew that Kelly had believed her.

"Hi Ivy." Aya said giving her a little wave of her hand.

Ivy ignored Aya and said to Kat. "Kelly and I know that you are over here talking about us. We know that you and Aya are spreading rumors about us. Why don't you just go back to Osaka. You don't belong here. You don't even disserve to be with Cloud, Sephiroth, and Vincent."

"Ivy, I don't force them to stay with me. They stay with me because they want to." Kat said. Aya was glaring at Ivy now to.

"Why not let Cloud talk. You talk for them only saying what you want to hear."

"Kat has done nothing to deserve you treating her like this. And all three of us are staying with Kat because we want to." Vincent said standing next to Kat. Ivy sneered at Vincent turned and walked back to Kelly's stand. Kat could tell that Ivy was saying more lies. Kelly glared at Kat and said something pulling off the studded bracelet that she was wearing. Kat had given it to her.

"Kat, they are done with the fight." Kat looked at Aya and nodded saying.

"Come on, I'm sure Cloud is tired by now."

Cloud and Sephiroth were walking towards the stand. Sephiroth's Masamune was at his side and Clouds buster sword was in its holster across his back. Cloud looked pissed and tired. Sephiroth was laughing about something. Kat hadn't watched the fights or anything because she was watching the stand. But she herd Sephiroth say.

"Come on Cloud, just because you didn't win doesn't mean your that weak."

"Shut up Sephiroth." Cloud muttered. Kat grabbed a cold water bottle from the cooler and tossed it to Cloud. He caught it gratefully and started to gulp down the water. When they got over to the stand Kat said.

"Everyone this is Aya, she is one of my classmates."

"Hello." Vincent said coolly.

"Nice to meet you." Sephiroth said.

"Muffersk." Cloud said while gulping the water down.

"I really didn't know what to think what Kat said that she knew you guys. Guess she wasn't lying." Aya said giving Kat a friendly smack on the shoulder.

"Ya laugh it up now. I'll get you." Kat said. Aya's blond hair was tied back in a pony tail and her brown eyes shone with excitement at meeting the Final Fantasy characters.

"Well, what are you guys doing after the Festival? Its almost over you know." Aya said.

"Oh, well I have tonight off work so we aren't really doing anything."

"Really? Well in that case you guys want to come to my place?"

"um…its really up to you guys. Want to go?" Kat looked at the FF7 characters.

"I don't see why not." Sephiroth said Cloud mumbled his agreement from the water bottle.

"All right lets go then." Vincent said.

"Ok, lets finish up here and get going." Aya said with a smile on her face.

In the last 30 minutes of the Festival everyone was rushing around to buy the last few things they wanted then left. Kat's stand had a crowd around it. Mainly guys that didn't buy the coins before walking off unlike the girls. Some of the girls had just come back to see Cloud, Sephiroth, or Vincent before they left. Many of them taking pictures with their cell phones. In the last 5 minutes the park cleared out fast. Everyone was rushing to get to the afternoon train before it left. Ivy and Kelly were gone when Kat, Aya, Cloud, Vincent, and Sephiroth did their cleaning up. The clean up was done with quickly and without incident. Aya lead them to the elevated trains and paid everyone's ride on the train. They traveled to down town and walked for what seemed to be hours.

"Ok were here." Aya said. They were standing in front of a high class bath house.

"You live here?" Kat asked in disbelief.

"Yup, my father owns the bath house. I am in charge of the gardens. They are so nice. You have to see them."

"Ok" Kat said walking up the stone steps taking her shoes off at the door and giving the others a look that said 'take your shoes off' They took their shoes off and followed Kat and Aya.

"Aya, who are your friends?" A man asked walking from behind a counter. He was wearing a tan kimono and had black hair with light brown eyes. He looked no older than 40, old enough to be Aya's father.

"Father these are my friends from the Festival. I wanted to show them the gardens."

" Oh, alright. It is good to meet you four." the man said the us. Kat bowed my head politely and said.

"Aya didn't tell us that her family ran a bath house. It was quite a shock to be lead to one of the high class bath houses. It is a pleasure to be here."

"Looks like Aya brought home some Final Fantasy fans as well. You guys really look like those characters from the game." Cloud looked at me and he got the hint to be polite and tell him their names.

"I am Cloud Strife."

"Vincent Valentine."

"Sephiroth."

They answered a little confused as to what a bath house was. ( Hint an bath house is like a spa)

Authors note! Send me reviews! I am trying to get to the Christmas chapter here before Monday! I need help. Send me ideas for the next few chapters. Oh and to my real friend named Kelly I'm sorry I made the character shallow minded, and everyone please note that I had to do so much research to make this fan fic as best as I could. I think that I spent about an hour trying to figure out the hole how much yen 1 American dollar. An I know that I'm not exactly on target but hey it is a close guess. Also note that I actually live in the U.S. so this wasn't easy. Kudos to my friend Kira for making me into such a fan girl. Without her I wouldn't even know what Final Fantasy is.