You had been walked with the three of them(Zack, Gippal, and Reno), they were pointing out all the important and interesting things around the town to you.
"And this is the 8th sector." Gippal pulled open a large gate and you walked through looking back at Reno as he pointed to something, and you walked right into someone.
"Oof!" you groaned, knocking your nose into their back, 'I have got to stop doing that.' You thought as you apologized. "I'm sorry, I wasn't lookin—Angeal!" you gasped.
"Found her." Zack said with a sheepish look on his face.
"I have been looking for you two for over 20 minutes." He seethed.
"Well you see there was this thing,"
"And this place"
"And then this guy"
"Said this thing,"
"And then—"
"Shut up!" Angeal yelled at Zack and Gippal, who just giggled.
"Let's continue on our way," Reno said, pulling you out of the sandwich of tall you were stuck in (you were between Angeal and Zack).
"Agreed," Gippal said, "it's settled then, we'll just be on our way." Angel shook his head and trailed behind you.
You had been walking for a little while longer when Zack's phone went off.
"Hello? Wait…What! YOU DID WHAT! Hang on, I'm coming, don't move! Wha—yeah, it's fine, she can do it on her own, don't worry, I'm coming!" He hung up his phone.
"What's going on?" You asked.
"Everything okay?" Gippal added. Zack grabbed Gippal by his shoulders and shook him.
"We have a code 15!" Gippal's eyes went wide, and Reno gasped.
"What's wrong with you guys?" you shook you head, and the next thing you knew they were all running off.
"Hey, wait up…oh whatever." You said to yourself, thinking you were pretty much done with the tour anyway.
You decided that you would go looking for Cloud, you remembered how to get back to the library, but had no idea where to go from there.
"Maybe I could just ask Genesis of Zexion? Oh, I jut don't know…" you said, out loud, there was no one around. You thought.
"Just don't know what?" a voice asked coming up from behind you.
"Talking to yourself is a little weird, ya know?" another voice said.
"Strange." A female said. You turned to face these new people, and got excited at the sight of another girl, since the minute you left home you had only met dudes.
"Hey, another girl, I was beginning to thing I was the only one." You smiled at her.
"Pardon?" she asked.
"Well, you would be the only pretty one." The blonde boy with the beanie said.
"Seifer knows who's best, ya know?"
"That's me, I'm Seifer." He said.
"Well, hello Seifer, who are they?" you asked nodding at the other two.
"Rai and Fuu."
"Nice to meet you, ya know?"
"Pleasure" they said.
"Yeah, well I'm ≈≈≈≈."
"≈≈≈≈, huh? Well, tell me ≈≈≈≈, where is it your going?" Seifer asked, getting very close to you, slightly creeping you out.
"Oh, nowhere." You said, turning away from him.
He put an arm around you, "Why don't you go nowhere with us?"
You slipped his arm and shook your hands at him, "No, no, I cant, I have to meet someone here."
"Is that so?" he asked, getting closer.
"Yup, that's right." You said trying to walk off, but he circled around you and blocked your path.
"So who are you meeting? What's his name?" He pressed.
"Uh, his name? His name…is…"
"Me. Seifer, piss off." A boy with silver hair said.
"Riku?" Seifer mumbled.
"What do you want, ya know?" Rai asked, getting in the boy's face.
"I'm meeting up with my friend. You go a problem with that?" he said, getting right back in Rai's face.
"Yeah, like I said, I was meeting Riku here, and now that he's here, we can just be on our way." You said, grabbing this 'Riku's' arm, and pulling him along through that gate that Gippal had opened earlier, not wanting to see him get in a fight with those guys.
"See you later gorgeous…lamer." Seifer called after you. Riku turned back and gave him the finger and you just laughed nervously.
As soon as those three were out of sight, you stopped.
"Whew! Thank you so much." You said to him.
"No problem, Seifer is kind of a pervert. Just watch out for him. By the way, in case you hadn't guessed, I'm Riku. Are you new here?" he asked you, turning to look at you for the first time. His eyes were a stunning aqua color that stood out intensely against his hair.
"Yeah, I just moved here with my mom for her engagement to a man named Basch."
"Oh, so you're Cloud's little sister then?"
"I guess I am now."
"So, will I be seeing you at school on Monday?" "Yeah…school." you groaned, your mother let you spend your summer vacation in Midgar, and moved at the last minute possible so you could spend as much time as possible with your old friends.
"Don't worry, it's not so bad. What grade are you in?"
"I'm going into 10th, you?"
He leaned on the wall you were standing by with his hands in his pockets and said "same here. It's a shame though, so is Seifer." He said casually.
"Don't worry, I can handle myself." You said.
He laughed, "You can? Like you did back there?"
"I just met them, I didn't want to make an enemy on my first day." You argued.
"Right." He smirked.
"I can take care of myself, I am tougher then I look."
"Careful now, you might just break a nail." He joked.
"I'll take you on man, let's go." You joked, hitting him in the arm, not full force, but not lightly either.
"Ow, that did hurt." he complained with a smile. You could tell that you were going to be good friends. You two had been talking for a few minutes when you heard a voice yell "Oh Riku!"
It was a shrill girly voice, and you thought back to what Zack had said about Cissnei having an irritating voice, maybe this was Cissnei. You saw a girl with red hair walking over to you both.
"Oh, hey…Kairi." He said sighing, "damnit, looks like she found me." He whispered to you as she walked over to you. You chuckled, then felt a sharp little plastic nail poking at your shoulder, you turned to look at her and she cleared her throat.
"Ahem, what do you think you're doing with my boyfriend?"
"Your boyfriend?" You and Riku both asked.
"I'm sorry, it's not like that, we were just talking." You explained.
"Save it." she said, crossing her arms.
"Aren't you dating Sora?" Riku asked, sounded annoyed.
"You're dating Sora?" you asked, thinking that such a nice guy couldn't possible go out with this girl.
"No, no, of course not. I'm going out with both of them….so back off!"
"Whoa, okay, I'm back, I'm off." You said, holding your hand up.
"Good." She said, eyeing you form top to bottom. She then looked back at Riku and said "Riku, come shopping with me, I need a big strong guy to help me carry everything."
"No." he responded simply.
"Wha—no? Who do you think you're talking to?"
"Go away please." He said, kicking off the wall he was leaning on, so he was standing.
"Why? So you can be alone with this…this…hussy?"
"Hussy?" you almost laughed, while she wasn't nice, she wasn't half as bad as the kids from where you were from. Nonetheless, you stood at full height too, and looked down at her, she was a good 5 inches shorter then you, and though it didn't really seem like it, she was intimidated and backed off.
"Fine then. I'll just get Sora to do it. He's the better boyfriend anyway." And with that she stormed off.
"Sheesh." You said as she walked away.
"God, I hate her." Riku said, rubbing his eyes with one hand as though he had a head ach.
"She seems…well…"
"Possessive?"
"More like-"
"Slutty?"
"No, it's kinda-"
"Whoreish?"
"More like-"
"Preppy?"
"I guess." You said laughing at his choice of adjectives.
"Hey ≈≈≈≈!" someone called.
"Huh?" you looked over and saw Cloud over at the entrance to this district.
"I need to head over to the school and get your enrollment all squared away."
"Cloud! I'm sorry, I meant to go find you but-"
"No worries. Riku, will you take ≈≈≈≈ to my house for me?" Cloud asked as he headed through the district towards the school.
"Sure thing." Riku answered.
"Great, ≈≈≈≈, our parents went to Radiant Garden to look at wedding churches. They'll be back sometime later in the week."
"Okay, what time will you be back?" you asked.
"Who knows? The head of admissions is a little…well it's Goofy, so it could be a little while."
"Goofy?" you asked Riku as Cloud walked away.
"Well, King Mickey is the founder of this world, and since he is the one who banished the darkness, they allowed him to do whatever he wanted with this place, no one knows why, but he made his first priority the school here….why he put Goofy in charge of anything beats me, but I digress."
"What are you talking about?" you asked, never hearing anything about this world and it's problems with the darkness.
"Ancient history. Nothing to worry about, so long as the king is here."
"Right-o." you said, and he shook his head at you, saying something about foreigners having no apparition for the past. You just shrugged.
"So let's go see this house of mine." You said. "I don't really know where it is, my tour was cut short…" you said.
"Cut short? What do you mean?"
"Well I don't really know. Zack just kind of…ran off." You mused.
"Zack? As in Zack Fair? I guess if you're Cloud's sister you would know who he was. "
"Well Cloud did say they were good friends, but never mind that. Do you know where my house is?"
"Oh yeah, it's huge." He said with a smile as he lead you along.
After walking for a few minutes, you came to a more suburban part of the town. He lead you down some streets, then you were face to face with a mansion of house, at least four stories high.
"This over here is my house," he said, pointed to the house to the right of yours, "and the one beside mine is Sora and Roxas' house." You were still trying to take in the scale of your house. "Well, I guess I'll be seeing you at school, look for me in morning homeroom, in the auditorium. 10th grade has homeroom first thing in the morning, 11th is right after that, then 12th is before lunch, and 9th at the end of the day."
"Okay, first thing Monday morning then?"
"See you then." He said, lifting his hand in goodbye as he walked to his own house.
"See you." You said, waving after him.
You headed down the driveway to your new house, when you were distracted by music coming from behind you. You saw that on the porch of the house across the street from you was a boy with sandy blonde hair, playing a rather large instrument. You were about to walk over and introduce yourself to him, when you heard your name being called from your house.
"Hey, get your scrawny butt in here."
"Zack?" you turned back to your front door, where you saw him standing inside the doorframe.
"Hey, thanks for ditching me earlier." You said to him, elbowing at him as you walked inside.
"Well you see Axel took his date down to see the gumi ships, and they just happened to trash one of Cid's ships. So rather than get my ass handed to me, I went to go help clean up." You shook your head at him.
"You couldn't have just made him clean it up?"
"He would have blamed me!"
"You didn't have to leave me."
"Well Gippal and I are both his assistants during the summer, and Reno had to pick up after is brother, it was only fair."
"What about Angeal?"
"Are you kidding me? I wasn't going to leave you alone with him. Please ≈≈≈≈, I'd rather you not be raped."
"Zack!" You gasped, hitting him lightly.
"Just kidding, jeeze."
"So, you work for Cid then? That why he hates you?" you taunted, and Zack pushed you lightly.
"No, he just pays piss poor and works us to the bone. And it's a good humored hate, if you know what I mean." You shook your head and pushed past him, taking a look inside. The first thing that caught your eye was the grand staircase. It met at the bottom, but split into 2 as it ran up. You saw a sitting area with a large TV just off to the side of the door, and a long hallway leading off somewhere. Looking the other way, you saw a large hall that lead into a kitchen area.
"Any idea where my room is?" you asked Zack as he sunk down into the large leather chair in that little sitting area.
"It's around." He said, not being very helpful.
"You just going to sit down here?"
"Sure am, smalls."
"Smalls?" you repeated, halfway up the stairs. You shook your head one last time as you walked up stairs and off in the direction he pointed. You saw that down the hall he point were over 10 doors.
"Zack? Help me out here." You called over the banister.
"What? No." he said, getting comfy in the chair.
"Just come here." You fussed and he groaned and got up, then made his way over to you.
"What is it?" he asked, adding as much annoyance to his voice as he could, but you could tell he was happy to be there.
"Where are the bedrooms?" you asked
"Well, your problem would be that you're not on the right floor." He said, leading you up another flight of stairs.
"Right this way." He said, leading you along. "Okay, so this is clouds room, so yours must be around here."
You opened one door and found a bathroom and sighed.
"Here we are!" he said, looking into a room that seemed to suit you.
You poked your head in, "Wow, it's all here. Who unpacked it all?" you questioned, stepping into your new room, it was much bigger than your old room, so your stuff didn't feel quite so cluttered now.
"I donno, Basch is a rich guy, he probably has his ways."
"What does he do?" You asked, walking over to the bed and plopping down. It was just like you remembered it being.
"He's the ambassador of Traverse Town."
"Oh. Sounds important."
"Only the most important guy here."
You just yawned. "I think it's time for a nap." You said, burying your face in your favorite pillow.
"Alright then, don't mind me." He said, sitting over in the chair at your desk.
"What are you doing?" you asked, glaring up at him.
"Cloud told me to keep an eye on you." He said, picking up a book.
"While I nap?" you asked, annoyed with him.
"Even while you nap." He said, completely unfazed.
"Unbelievable." You sighed and plopped down, giving up. You peaked through your eyelashes and saw him smiling as he watched you for a moment, then he shook his head slowly with a light laugh and returned his eyes to his book.