I had this funny idea come to mind, thinking back to playing certain parts of FF8 and realising that maybe the characters are just lazy. They're just my opinions, nothing factual.

Post-game, enjoy.

Lazy

"Squall, can you do the vacuum?" Rinoa asked as she carried a load of dirty laundry into the kitchen.

"Yeah, sure." Squall replied, yet not moving from his computer desk.

Halfway through putting the laundry into the washing machine Rinoa popped her head through the kitchen door to see Squall still sitting on his chair, his gaze fixated on the computer screen.

"Squall, the vacuuming?" She reminded him.

"Yeah Rin, I'll do it in a bit." He replied in monotone. However he still didn't move.

"Did you remember to walk Angelo?" She asked while shoving in more washing.

"No, later." He replied.

Half an hour late, a tired Rinoa returned downstairs with the Hoover and packed it away in the closet under the stairs. Walking into the living room she found Squall still sitting at the computer.

"Squall, will you help me hang the washing?" She asked standing at the doorway, idly scratching her arm.

"Yeah." He said, but still didn't move.

"Ok, well I'm going to take it out into the garden, hurry up and come." She instructed and made her way into the kitchen to collect the freshly cleaned clothes.

Carrying the heavy load of washing, Rinoa made her way to the back of the living room and opened the back door leading to the garden. Now dragging the basket of clean clothes, she picked up the pegs from the small patio table and started hanging the big white bed sheets.

It wasn't until she got down to hanging Squall's boxer shorts did she realise that the brunette still hadn't come to help.

"Squall!" She yelled for him from outside.

"Hm?" Was his reply.

"You coming to help?" She asked.

"Yeah, in a bit." He replied, his famous answer.

Mumbling to herself in annoyance, Rinoa continued hanging the rest of the washing.

Realising that Squall wasn't going to get up any time soon, Rinoa continued to work through her chores by herself, cleaning the bathroom, tidying the shoe rack and even mopping the kitchen floor. Squall was far too busy sitting at his computer doing God knew what.

It was when the two were ready to retire to bed that Rinoa remembered she had forgotten to bring in the washing from outside. Now dark and quiet outside, she rather preferred not to go by herself and happen to stumble upon unexpected, and unwanted, visitors in the garden.

"Oh Squall!" She moaned from her side of the bed, getting up into a sitting position.

Squall was barely getting into bed himself when he turned to her plea.

"I left the washing out." She told him annoyed at herself.

"Ah." Squall just moaned, tired and not wanting to leave the warmth of the bed he had just gotten into. "Just get it tomorrow."

"No." She replied, eyes wide. "What if a fox comes and pulls the sheets down? What if a bird is flying by and poops on the clothes?" She argued.

"Oh, Rinoa." Squall rolled his eyes. "I'm tired and I just want to sleep."

That's when it kicked off.

"You're tired?" She exclaimed looking at him in awe. "I did the washing, the hanging, the vacuuming, the tidying and you're tired?"

"Hey, I was doing work too." He rebutted.

"You sat on a computer all day. I was running around and cleaning. Look, I have rough hands from all the hard work I did." She pulled her hands out in front of him to inspect.

"Doesn't matter whether it was on a computer or not, I still worked." Squall retorted not giving in.

"You're just lazy." Rinoa remarked eyeing him disappointedly.

"Me?" Squall asked, surprised by her honest opinion.

"Yes, you."

"You're the lazy one. Don't think Zone didn't tell me all about your laziness when you were with the Forest Owls." He challenged her.

Rinoa looked at him sceptically. "What are you talking about?" She asked folding her arms in front of her chest in defence.

"Well, let's see. You were too lazy to pack and carry anything with you when you left Deling, so you claimed you ran away, when really your Dad knew you were leaving the whole time." Squall started counting on his fingers. "You can't be bothered to go through the hassle of Limit Breaks and therefore get Angelo to do your dirty work for you." He counted the second one, causing Angelo to whine at the mention of her name from the doorway.

"Whatever, that's nothing compared to what you were like when we first met." Rinoa argued getting ready to counter.

"Yeah right." Squall replied leaning his head against his arms. Rinoa surely couldn't have anything solid against him; he wasn't lazy, that much he knew.

"Well, what about the fact that you only ever wore your black pants and white t-shirts so you didn't have to go through the hassle of ironing." She started off causing Squall to stare surprised. Smiling, Rinoa knew she had caught onto something. "Then there's the claim that you play cards because you're the card master, when really you only play to refine them into items and magic because you're too lazy to draw magic."

Squall immediately sat up on hearing Rinoa's arguments, it seemed that the raven haired pretended not to notice these minute details. But now on closer acquaintance she seemed to have enough ammunition against the lone wolf.

"Then there's the whole No Encounters. You claimed you only equipped it to get to the secret area faster, but really you were too lazy to fight the grats." Rinoa smirked.

Squall smiled at that himself, "You never complained at the time." He whispered.

Rinoa only giggled back in reply, she hadn't complained any of the times, and honestly, she wasn't complaining now either.

"You are lazy, Squall Leonhart." She replied getting up and slipping her robe on.

"Well maybe I'm lazy because of the stuff you put me through." He argued again.

"Oh my God! Name one thing I put you through." Rinoa exclaimed from the doorway, her hands at her hips, her face staring expectantly.

Squall stood up and started walking around the room, building suspense to his answer.

"Let's see, how about the time when Edea was possessed and you thought Odine's bracelet would do the trick. You ended up getting ambushed by Igunions and I had to save you." He replied, and this time Rinoa stared in unexpected surprise.

"Or during the time Balamb and Galbadia were at war, you fell off the side of Garden and I had to come save you." He continued. "Then the time when you were possessed by Ultimecia and I had to carry you all the way to Esthar."

Rinoa looked shyly down at the floor, a small smirk playing at her lips. Squall still paced the room, counting down each incident.

"Oh, and then when you finally broke from Ultimecia's possession and were stuck in space, guess who had to venture out to save your ass then? ME!"

Finally he stopped in front of her with a smile at his lips holding his index finger out.

"And the one I love the most, having to fight Adel without using my Limit Break because otherwise I would have killed your lazy ass!" He finished looking at her in wait.

Trying very hard to stop the laughter breaking away from her, Rinoa looked Squall hard in the eyes.

"I said to name one!" She answered before running off.

I actually could have made this longer, i had more examples of how they could have been lazy, e.g. hiring cars from the drive to Balamb town to Balamb Garden, not allowing rules to spread because it makes Triple Triad harder, not wanting to go out in the rain so therefore making her own train cargo, just my experiences with the game :p

I'll admit though, strangely i found it hard to write for Squall, and i think i know who to hold responsible for that, lol. I think some hiatus is due for this fandom.