Chapter 5
“Ow,” she cried, falling on her backside.
“Sorry, Selph,” Irvine said, reaching down and helping the ninja up. Selphie looked at her cowboy friend and smiled. He looked happy. Well that’s a relief, at least I didn’t ruin his life.
“That’s okay Irvy, I’m okay.” She gave the boy a long and hard look.
“What,” Irvine wanted to know?
“Welllll, it’s just the play,” she said looking down, “everyone but you and Squall said they would still be in it.” She looked up her eyes hopeful, “are you...I mean...will you...”
Irvine smiled, blushing, “well I guess I could still be in it,” he grinned, “but only if Quistis does my hair and makeup this time, when you did it I looked like a two cent street walker.”
“Oh, Irvy,” Selphie grinned, hugging him, “thank you. And just you wait Quistis makeup skills are worse then mine,” she giggled, pulling back. With a wide grin, she swiped Irvine’s hat, and ran down the hall.
“Hey...Hey girly, give that back,” Irvine yelled chasing after Selphie, who was giggling and waving his hat.
Squall who had just came out of his dorm, caught the two’s exchange, and shook his head, chuckling at the sight of Irvine chasing Selphie. Just like old times, in the orphanage.
Only then he was trying to kiss her, and Selphie was screaming ‘Ahh cooties.’
Squall turned around only to be face to face with a wide eyed Zell. “What,” he muttered. Zell was giving him the strangest look?
“Were you just chuckling?”
“Whatever,” Squall mumbled, walking pass Zell, a smirk on his face. Zell ran after Squall, stopping him.
“Come on, don’t leave me out, buddy,” Zell whined.
Squall grinned, and Zell’s eyes went wide in shock. Did he just grin?
“What’s up, Squall?”
“Selphie stole Irvine’s hat and Irvine went chasing after her. It sort of reminded me of when we were in the orphanage.”
It was Zell’s turn to laugh, “oh, yeah, he always did like to chase everybody and try to kiss them.”
“Everybody?”
“Don’t you remember, he chased, me, you and Seifer just as much as he chased Selphie and Quistis.”
“Oh,” Squall blushed, “I didn’t remember.”
Zell smirked, “so he’s always had a thing for guys. So are you two...I mean Selphie filled me and Seif in?”
Squall blushed again and shook his head no, “no but...I’m still...”
Zell nodded understanding, “your thinking about your feelings. You like him, but your not quit sure what those feelings are.”
Squall nodded, “right,” he blushed, “hey wanna go get a hot dog?” He knew this would divert Zell’s attention away from him and Irvine.
“You know it man,” Zell exclaimed, wacking Squall on the back. “Come on,” Zell said almost dragging the gunblade wielder to the cafeteria.
“Give me back my hat, young lady,” Irvine yelled, chasing Selphie into the training center.
Selphie just laughed and ran further into the center. Sighing Irvine went after her. In a few minutes he lost sight of her. “Selph, where are you,” he yelled?
Slowing down Irvine keep watch for any wondering fiends, thankful that he remembered to take his ice guns with him, when he had left his dorm.
Walking into the the farthest part of the center, his blood ran cold when he heard a high pitched scream. “Selphie,” he yelled in fright. Grabbing his guns, Irvine sprinted toward the scream.
He came across Selphie and a young SeeD in training, fighting a T-Rexaur. A very angry T-Rexaur. It swished it’s tail out, knocking the trainee off her feet.
Irvine ran up to the girl, giving her a potion, then he stood up and faced the T-Rexaur. The trainee stood up as well readying her sword.
“Let’s take it,” Selphie yelled, swinging her nunchaku at the big dinosaur, hitting him on his large snout.
“Yeah,” Irvine shouted, shooting both of his ice gun, hitting the dino in the face.
“Ahhhh,” yelled the trainee, as she ran up to the dino, slicing it in the chest.
None of the attacks seemed to affect the T-Rexaur, it just got madder. “I’m gonna summon Shiva, cover me,” Selphie yelled, starting to summon the GF.
Irvine and the trainee nodded, stepping in front of the defenseless Selphie, beating the dino back till Shiva was summoned.
Shiva raised her arms and attacked the T-Rexaur with a very powerful Diamond Dust attack.
After the attack, Selphie thanked her and watched as she disappeared.
“Did it do it,” the trainee asked, looking at the dazed dino?
Wiping sweat off her face, Selphie looked at the dino, and smiled, seeing it fall to it’s knees. “Yup looks like it did.”
“Oh, thank goodness,” the girl breathed, bending down, gasping for breath.
“Now young lady,” Selphie scolded, her hands on her hips, “you know better then to come here alone.”
“Oh...oh, I’m sorry Miss Tilmitt,” she said looking down in shame. “Someone was supposed to meet me, and...and...they didn’t show up, so I came alone. I’m sorry,” the girl repeated again, looking up at the older brown haired girl and the cowboy.
Selphie smiled, putting her hand on the girls shoulder, “it’s okay, just don’t do it again. Promise.”
Smiling the girl looked up, “of course, I promise.”
“Good, now what’s your name?”
“Oh, my name is Tohru Awauki, I just started training to be a SeeD last year.”
“Well you’re pretty good in a fight,” Irvine said, picking up his hat, that Selphie had dropped.
“Oh, thank you, Mr. Kinneas,” the girl said beaming.
Selphie laughed, “none of this misses and mister stuff, okay.”
“But, but, you’re teachers,” Tohru said. She was right, Irvine taught a class on guns and Selphie taught a Nunchaku class. Cid had asked all them to become teachers along with their SeeD duties. Zell, Seifer, Quistis, Squall and Rinoa taught classes as well, on their weapons of course. Zell with the glove, Seifer and Squall with the gunblade (their classes are not taught together), Rinoa with the Blaster Edge, and Quistis with the whip.
“That’s okay, you can call us by our first names, or Mr. Hotty if you want,” Irvine teased, making Tohru blush.
“I think I’ll just stick with your first names, Mr...I mean Irvine.”
“Good, now, let us go visit, Dr. K, so she can take care of your injuries the potion didn’t heal,” Irvine said leading Selphie and Tohru out of the Training Center.