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OK, I suck. I forgot to release this last night. My apologies. In my defense, I was sick. Also, I didn't put any lyrics on the last two. Need to fix that. Anyway, enjoy the belated episode.
They were awakened by loud knocking on the door that was punctuated by obscenities. Mineki groaned and forced himself up as Tifa mumbled something along the lines of "fuck off", rolled over and pulled her pillow over her head. He couldn't help being amused by that, and opened the door with a flourish of his hand to welcome a red faced Yuffie into the room, followed by a more calmer looking Aeris.
"What the hell did you people think you were doing locking the door, huh?"
Mineki gave her his unreadable smile, and shut the door with a quiet click.
"I mean for the love of the goddess! We've been out there for over 15 minutes!" Yuffie yelled right in his face.
Aeris walked over to her bed rolled her eyes and commented, "More like 2 minutes."
He couldn't help chuckling at that, then put his hands on his hips and bent down a notch to be face to face with her, "Perhaps then next time you'll remember your keys."
She looked like she opened her mouth to make a comeback, but nothing came out, so she prissed her lips together, then stuck her tongue out at him.
He stood up at his full height and with an unchanging expression said, "Don't stick that thing out at me unless you plan to do something with it," and turned walking to his bed, laying back as he sat down.
Yuffie's mouth stayed wide open while Aeris had an amused smile on her face. He noticed that Tifa had began turning over and sat up one eyed peering around the room with a death glare. "Sleeping Beauty has awakened."
She grabbed her pillow and flung it at him, "Will everyone stop calling me that!"
He caught it with a laugh pretending to be knocked over. Aeris reached out with a black box in hand towards Tifa, "I thought you may be hungry."
Tifa took it with a smile, as Mineki noted Yuffie seemed amazed and outraged at the same time. Then Yuffie turned to him, "We didn't get you anything."
"Good, I'd be afraid to take it anyway Princess." he said non-chalently as he got up and put his jacket on.
"Why?" Aeris asked.
He nodded at Yuffie, "If she would have given it to me, I'd have to check it for poison."
He grabbed his keys, purposely dangling them in Yuffie's face as he pranced to the door, opened it and left hearing Yuffie yelling, "You sorry son of a bitch! If you're even a man at all! WHICH I DOUBT!"
He let a small chuckle come from his lips as he closed the door. "As you say Princess," then weaved his way through the crowd and downstairs. He scanned the common room for a few moments then located his brother Kadaj, and of all people his other brother Sephiroth in the crowd. "What's he doing here?" he asked himself out loud as he noticed almost everyone in the room was eying the two in the corner on a sofa, who were laughing about something. When he made his way over Sephiroth was the first person to notice him after several long moments. "Mineki," he greeted with the same smile Mineki used on a day to day basis. Emotionless, cynical... mocking almost.
Kadaj looked at him and scooted over, "Hey Ya-ya."
Mineki growled at the nickname as he sat down, "How may times do I have to tell you not to call me that?"
"How many times have you deserved it?" He looked him over and made a clicking sound in disgust, "Do you have to dress like that?"
Mineki rolled his eyes and turned to watch the crowd watching them and milling around, "Yes, I do."
"Kadaj, leave him alone. Takes a lot of guts to do that in my opinion." Sephiroth said in reprimanding voice.
"Personally, I thought he just did it to get attention."
Sephiroth chuckled at that, and Mineki could tell he was eying him. Then he heard the question he was dreading, "So are you male or female right now?"
Mineki looked over at him and replied as emotionless as possible - these conversations always were uncomfortable, and he couldn't shake the feeling that it was Sephiroth's quiet way of mocking him, "Neither and both."
"Well, I don't know how you expect to get laid if you keep dressing up as a piece of ass yourself." Kadaj said looking around the room, noticing every female in the room no doubt.
"At least I can get away with it. If you tried it, you'd look like Charles Manson in drag." The two turned to look each other in the eye at the same time.
"You're such an asshole sometimes." Kadaj replied, and looked away.
"Takes one to know one." Mineki whispered under his breath as Sephiroth tapped the arm of the sofa pretending to ignore them.
"What are you taking this year Mineki?" Sephiroth asked after a couple moments of long silence.
"Psychology, English, history..."
"Psychology?"
"Yeah, so maybe I can figure out why my kid brother is more fucked up in the head than I am."
Kadaj scowled at both of them as they enjoyed a chuckle at his expense. He turned to Sephiorth, "Why are you here any... whoa..." he trailed off as he looked at the hallway. The other brothers followed his gaze. "Who is THAT?"
Mineki closed his eyes and opened them watching as Tifa walked by being summoned over by a brown haired lady sitting with a dark brooding vampire-ish looking man. "Tifa Lockheart. Sophomore. Just started this year. Is my roommate. Touch her and I'll kill you."
Sephiroth chuckled at the final statement and seeing Kadaj's amused smiled as he looked back at Mineki, "Oooo so protective. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you liked her."
Mineki got up and straightened his jacket, "And if I didn't know better I'd say you were a pompous twit." He nodded with an emotionless smile, and made his way past his brothers.
"That's because I am." Kadaj replied with hint of accusation in his voice.
Mineki merely cocked his head to the side with his smile in place and walked to the door and left.
Kadaj shook his head as he looked in Tifa's direction, "How long do you think it'll take me to get her into my bed?"
"I'd say you'll be hanging from a noose before it happens." Sephiroth replied getting up.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Kadaj asked following his example.
Sephiroth chuckled, and gave the teen a hard look and laid a hand on his shoulder, "Because he does like her. And if I was you, I'd stay away from what is his. Now, I really must get back to the administrative buildings before your exhausting meeting starts. Got one of my own." Then walked to the door.
"It isn't over til it's over. She isn't his yet you know." Kadaj said with a cocky grin.
Sephiroth paused as he opened it and looked at him, "No, no she's not. But I can guarantee, she'll never be yours. Good night."
"What the fuck?" was all Kadaj could say as the door shut behind the silver haired man who just left.
"Lucretia and Vincent, I can't believe you're here!" Tifa exclaimed as she hugged the brown haired girl.
Lucretia hugged her in return as Vincent merely raised his soda pop can up to her and took a sip going back to looking brooding and unapproachable. Tifa sat down and watched him for a few moments before saying, "You really shouldn't do that."
"Do what?" he asked looking at her out of the corner of his eye.
"Do that whole mysterious, leave me alone thing. Makes all the women fall in love with you."
"My apologies." He then offered a wide smile.
Tifa and Lucretia gave him a disturbed look. "On second thought, go back to being dark and brooding and angsty."
"Thank you," he said taking another drink the smile immediately leaving his face.
"Who's that I wonder?" Lucretia asked as Aeris entered looking self conscious and lost.
"One of my roommates."
"Is that a good or bad thing?" Lucretia asked jokingly.
"I'm not entirely sure yet. I heard she gets around if you know what I mean. If you can take my other room mate's opinion of her accurately." Tifa said watching Aeris look at her, give a nod recognition and starting to make her way over.
"Well, at least she's got a cure for relieving the stress of studying then." Both women laughed in unison. Finally the girl made her way to their seats.
"May I sit with you?" she asked, clearly expecting to be refused.
There were nods of agreement all around. She smiled a genuine smile for the first time since Tifa saw her as she sat down.
"So, Aeris, what can you tell us about you, and who you know here? You're a sophomore too right?" Lucretia asked as all eyes turned to face her.
She squirmed for a moment, "Well, I'm from the local west side public schools. Got in last year. Majoring in horticulture and taking languages for the credit."
"Do you like it here?" Tifa asked seeing the girl clam up again and look around her nervously.
She gave her a wide eyed look, "The professors are unmatched. I just don't usually like my company outside of the classroom."
"From what I noticed for how people treat you, I don't blame you." Tifa said grabbing Vincent's soda and taking swig as he sat wide mouthed and narrow eyed watching.
"I take it Yuffie has been telling tales of some of my high school... adventures."
"Just that you like the... romantic company of people." Tifa said trying to think of delicate way to put it.
Aeris nodded solemnly. "I've known a lot of... partners in my day. But I don't sleep with anything that moves."
Lucretia gave her smile, "We didn't say that honey. Besides we don't care as long as you don't sleep with our men."
Aeris face brightened, "I refuse to sleep with any taken man."
"Good." Lucretia grabbed Vincent's hand and held it tightly on the table giving her a pointed look. Everyone noted Aeris taking note of it with an unreadable smile. Lucretia nodded towards the crowd, "So, what can you tell us?"
Aeris looked around her then nodded towards the red haired man and the bald black man from RA desk earlier, "Reno and Rude. Biggest dorks on the planet. But they're both cool too. Not judgemental. Just exact opposites. Reno is... perky and hyper. Rude is cool and collected. Martial Arts majors."
"Wondered about them." Tifa said aloud looking at them.
She looked around and nodded next towards a black haired man sitting with a spikey blond haired man, "Zack and..."
"Cloud?" Tifa asked looking harder.
Aeris cleared her throat, "Yes." Tifa looked back at her expectantly, "Perfect gentlemen. Though Cloud is a little angsty and whiny at times. Bestest friends in the world though. Though it is rumored that Cloud is gay."
"Gay?" Tifa repeated.
Aeris nodded and went on naming off a couple other men and women, then she stopped at a silver haired teen who was surrounded by women and laughing heartily. Beside him just sitting down was Mineki. "Ah, Jenova's kids. Kadaj and his sibling Mineki or Yazoo. They have two older brothers. Kadaj is obviously the youngest. He's smart enough, but spends more time chasing ass than cracking on the books. At least that's the way he was in high school. Loz is in military and overseas right now, otherwise he's be in his senior year here now. Sephiroth..."
"Sephiroth?" Lucretia interupted with an incredulous voice.
"Yes, THE Sephiroth is the oldest and has just enrolled as the guidance counselour here. I imagine there will be a lot of people complaining of problems as a result."
"Bloody bastard." Vincent mumbled to himself causing Tifa and Lucretia to giggle, and Aeris to give him a quizzical look. Lucretia waved her hand in dismissal.
"And Mineki?" Tifa asked watching the long haired man sitting with his arms crossed over his chest, giving tolerant smiles to those around him and some blond woman obviously making moves on him by the way she kept leaning closer and closer into him. Tifa scowled for a reason she couldn't define at the scene.
Aeris cleared her throat, making Tifa look back, letting her know she caught that look, "Mineki is a sophomore should be junior if she had not taken a year off between semesters. She just came back this year, but because, obviously her mother owns this college and town in general that made it ok for him to have some RA duties with out the title. Cool, calculating and no one is quite sure if Mineki is a man or a woman. But she has no objections to be referred to as he or she. Since she looks so good in a skirt I call her a she. But you can't tell one way or the other if she's a man or a woman even by the way she acts. She's the mystery of our group. But one thing IS for sure, she likes women. Not that it's a bad thing."
"Does he... she chase women?" Tifa asked looking harder at Aeris.
"No. Doesn't have to. They all come to her. But I have yet to hear of her sleeping with anyone. She likes to look but not touch. Personally kind of glad to have her in our company this year. Can take care of that brat Yuffie." Aeris said Yuffie's name with no malice just a sense of tiredness was in her voice.
"Why does she dislike you so much?" Tifa asked thinking about the way she treated her in the room earlier.
She shrugged. "If I knew that, then I'd be the smartest person in the world."
Tifa looked over at Yuffie who was sitting just outside the circle where Kadaj was with a small group of freshman. Then she looked back at the blond.
"Who's the blond?"
"Huh?" Aeris asked looking over at Mineki and the blond girl. "Oh her. Elena. The one who was supposed to be doing the job Mineki was this morning. Totally NUTS after our one professor Tseng though. Poor thing."
They all shared a small laugh at that. "That handsome?" Lucretia asked.
"No, just that charming." Vincent answered for Aeris as he gently nudged a lock of Lucretia's hair out of her eyes. Receiving a loving smile in return.
"Oh, God." Tifa exclaimed sticking out her tongue and making a gagging motion as she turned around as they started kissing. Aeris merely laughed and got up to get a soda.
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