Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Body Switch ❯ Return ( Prologue )

Disclaimer: *tries it again and whispers* Mine, mine. *Squaresoft heard it and the hammer appears* NO! No! not again. IT´S NOT MINE. Happy? *hammer disappears* -_-" that was close. I swear, I´ll never try it again.

Author´s note: I´m not that cruel so chapter one follows shortly after the prologue. Hui, how much I can write if I am on a sugar-trip. I´m suprised. ^^ *looks around* Hmmm, no beta-reader??? Who wants to do it?

Warning: I´m not changing my mind. It will be Seifer and Zell. And I will bash Rinoa. Not like in my other fanfic but I´ll do it anyway.

~Thoughts~

"spoken words"

Chapter 1

By Little Leila

The students looked at him with wide eyes. He could read their minds. *What he was doing her. How he had come back. That he was still alive* It wouldn´t be easy, if he´d get a second chance. Raijin and Fuujin had deserted him and he hadn´t any other friends here, in Garden. He was practically on the other students mercy. He stepped to the elevator to meet the headmaster. Sure as hell, the new headmaster would be Squall and he´d kick him out of Garden, as soon as he´d see him.

Seifer didn´t came that far. The doors of the elevator slided open and three well known persons stepped out. Squall, Quistis and Irvine. They froze when they recognized Seifer. Quistis and Irvine gaped at him and Squall gave him the same indifferent look like ever.

Finally Squall took the initiative.

"Well Seifer. What you´re doing here?"

That was to be expected. Now he could lie to him or tell him the truth. What did he have to loose?

"I came back to Garden, to ask for a second chance."

Ok. It wasn´t the whole truth, but it was atleast the half of it. Irvine didn´t seem to like the idea of having Seifer back at Balamb Garden. Seifer couldn´t blame him for it and Quistis looked only sad at him.

"After all what you´ve done you dare to come back? You helped an insane Sorceress, You almost killed us and you,...... you."

Suddenly Quistis panicked. She yelled at Irvine before he could say too much.

"Irvine. No! Don´t mention it, ......please."

He looked at her with the same sad eyes. And nooded at her. Something was wrong here. Seifer noticed it since he saw that sad look on Quistis´ face. He would find out, soon enough.

Squall considered Seifer´s request for a few minutes. Then he looked at the tall blond and told him his decision.

"Seifer, please go to the Headmaster´s office and wait there. Meanwhile I´m going to talk to the others. You have to wait there for an answer."

Seifer nodded only and went to the office.

~~~

A half an hour went by and Seifer heard nothing from the new headmaster Leonhardt. Even if he would be rejected now, he heard what he wanted to hear. Squall said: he would talk to the others, so everybody from the orphanage gang was alright.

~And if there is something wrong and they didn´t tell?~

Now he wasn´t that sure anymore. Quistis´and Irvine´s behaviour was more than strange and where were the others? Selphie, Rinoa and ....... Zell ???

Suddenly the wooden doors went open and Squall and Quistis came in. Squall took his seat and Quistis chose one besides Seifer. He spoke to him in his indifferent, almost bored voice.

"Ok Seifer. We discussed your request and we made a decision."

Seifer couldn´t bear it, he looked to the floor and tried to avoid Squall´s stormy grey eyes. He knew it. How could he have hoped for a second chance? No one in their right mind, would trust the Sorceress Knight. He clenched his fists waiting for the rejection.

"Since you were a good student of the Garden and since we assume that you didn´t know what you have done. We decided to give you a second chance, but only under certain conditions."

Seifer thought he heard him wrong. He stared at the brunette headmaster with disbelieving eyes. The words sunk into him and before he could say anything, Squall continued.

"Now that I have your attention, here are the conditions. First of all, the first three months are on probation. We will see if you really changed. Second, you´ll get a probation officer, too. And if he has any reason to think you could be dangerous, you´ll have to leave. Third, you have to pass the Seed test and until then you have to keep your grades on a good til average level. Fourth, no teasing, no fights, no rude behaviour at all. I hope I made my point of view clear.

Do you accept all conditions?"

Seifer considered all four conditions once more. All in all, it was more than acceptable. It was perfect.

" Yes, I accept."

Quistis smiled a sad smile. What was she hiding? Squall stood up from his chair and so did Seifer.

"Then, welcome back Seifer."

Seifer saluted. That was the least what he could do.

"Thank you, Squall."

~~~

Quistis showed him the way to his own dorm room. He got his own because first and the main reason, the headmaster wouldn´t endanger any cadets, if Seifer didn´t change and second, because there weren´t any other rooms left.

After the War, Quistis got her job as instructor back. It was only fair since she had helped to save the world. But she was unusual quiet now. Seifer didn´t like that, if Quistis was too quiet to preach him about his behaviour, then something was seriously wrong. It would be better if he´d keep quiet, but he was too curious. Still walking, he started asking several questions.

"Where are the others?"

Quistis seemed to be deep in her thoughts. She didn´t hear him at all.

"Huh? Uhm, .....sorry, what did you say?"

"I asked where the others are. I mean Selphie, Zell and Rinoa."

"Well Selphie is visiting Trabia Garden, to help there with the rebuilding. She will be back in a week or two.

Rinoa?

Hmmm. After what I heard, she left Garden because Squall wasn´t interested in her. I think after he said it twenty times she had understood it."

Seifer snickered at her comment. Rinoa could be really annoying and he knew that very well. He dated her only because he tried to be straight. In the short time, when they were dating, he realised, that he could never love Rinoa in return, so they broke up. A few weeks later he became infatuated with Zell. He didn´t knew how it happened, but it did happen.

However, he knew also, that Zell could never love him, after all the years of teasing and taunting. So he kept up his mask of a mean, cold-hearted bastard. Maybe that was also the reason why he fell under Ultimecia´s control. Because he didn´t had the courage to stand up for his true self. The courage to ask for help if he needed it, or to be honest to his own feelings. He had hidden that under the mask of pride and arrogance. It was surely simple for Ultimecia to possess him. He wanted to keep his mask, at *all* costs.

Quistis hestitated now. Unsure whether she should tell him more or just leave it there. Seifer noticed it and tried to encourage her to continue. He wanted to know it. Now!

"And Chickenwuss?"

~Danm!!! Old habits dies hard.~

"Huh? Oh, you mean Zell. Uhm........ "

No, he really didn´t like the sound of that. Something was wrong and it had to do with Zell. His longtime crush, his Angel. Now he had a reason to be worried, so he asked Quistis with a voice, full of concern.

"What? Did something happen? Please, Quistis. I have to know."

"Let´s say it would be better if you two don´t see each other for a while. At the moment he isn´t here. He went on a mission with his friends. Afterwards it would be better if you stay away, please don´t question me or others, just do it."

"But,.............why?"

"Please Seifer, I´m not allowed to speak about that."

She looked at him with pleading, skyblue eyes, like something terrible would happen, if he didn´t do as she pleases.

"Alright, but is he ok? He isn´t hurt, is he?"

"No, Seifer he is bright and healthy. Just, don´t go looking for him and don´t ask somebody else about him! Here we are."

Finally they reached Seifer´s new dorm room. She handed him the keycard and said goodbye, before she returned to the her own office. He entered his new room and was suprised, he expected something in the lines of his old room that he had shared with Raijin. But this was much bigger, with an own kitchen and a really huge living room. The best was that everything was already full equipped. Seeds had a really good life. Tired and exhausted he flopped down on the couch. His last thoughts were about Zell and why they hid him from Seifer. Soon he felt, how exhausted he really was, he hadn´t a good night rest for about 2 weeks. But now it was different, he felt better. He felt he was at home and it was a good feeling.

~~~

Should I continue? Hmmm, ........still sugar in my veins. I guess I haven´t a choice. ^^

R&R plz