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Chapter 6.

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The girls were playing beach volleyball on the sands with Squall. Raijin stood on the stairs watching them, he had been walking down and had stopped half way to watch the game.

Irvine walked down behind him, sniggering.

"What?" He asked, confused.

"Which one are you looking at?" He smirked.

"What? I-" He frowned in shock. "I wasn't-"

"You were!"

"I wasn't, you know! I was just- trying to find the courage to go down there."

"Courage?"

"Yeah Fujin's still mad at me, you know."

"Still?"

"Yeah... so, which one were you looking at?" He asked.

Irvine smirked. "All of them, of course."

Raijin shook his head. "Of course, you're such a pervert Kinneas."

He grinned. "As long as I'm just looking I'm not doing anything wrong."

"Really? Well then-" Raijin smirked. "You just go up there then and tell Squall you were looking at him."

The cowboy frowned. "Um.... Did Squall bring his gunblade with him?"

Raijin sniggered and walked past the now frightened cowboy.

Selphie jumped up for the ball but Squall jumped up quicker and higher than she did.

"Hey!" She protested. "You're supposed to be on my side remember?"

"You're too short to play this game!"

"I am not!"

"We're losing and we have an extra player." Quistis said.

Selphie huffed. "Oh that's right, take his side why don't you?"

Rinoa and Fujin were playing against Quistis, Selphie and Squall. The girls had started the game, playing two against two until Squall had come down to watch. The brunette had joined the losing side, only now they were losing by more.

"Oh look there's Irvine!" Selphie said. "Come and play with us Irvy!"

Squall made a face. "I don't want him to play."

"Why?"

"He'll only perv over you all in your bikinis."

"Ooh jealous?" Rinoa asked, nudging Fujin.

Squall scoffed. "Please, of course not."

"You know he looks at you the most."

The brunette scowled. "Don't remind me, should have brought my gunblade."

At Selphie questioning look he added. "For protection."

They all sighed and rolled their eyes.

"Good morning ladies." Irvine drawled. "And Squall." He grinned at the brunette who just grimaced in disgust at the cowboy's display of "affection".

"Irvine play on our side, we're a player down." Rinoa said.

"Oh no you don't, you're winning already." Selphie said. "You can have Squall."

The brunette frowned. "Hey! It's not my fault we're losing! Before I joined in you two were still losing remember?"

"How about we play guys versus the girls?" Irvine suggested.

"What? The two of you?"

"No Raijin's coming." He turned and gestured for the dark man to catch up.

Fujin huffed. "I'm not playing if he's joining in."

Irvine smiled. "Hey, even better then we'll have three on three."

Rinoa frowned. "Don't be mean, I'm not playing if Fujin's not playing."

Selphie sighed. "On come on don't be like that, I want to continue the game."

"Come on Fu, you three of us will play the four of you and we'll still win."

Rinoa grinned. "Well how about we make it more interesting." She rubbed her hands together.

"Interesting how?"

"Well...." She paused. "What bet could we make?"

"I know, the winning side should think for something they want the losing side to do and then they have to do it!"

Squall frowned. "I don't know, I don't trust you lot."

"So you think you're going to lose?" Quistis teased.

"No! I just-"

Irvine waved a hand. "No no that's fine." He looked at Squall. "It's fine, we're not going to lose to a bunch of girls." He grinned at Selphie. "I'm already thinking of things we can get you all to do when we win."

Rinoa scoffed. "Dream on cowboy."

Raijin looked a little nervous. "Shouldn't we go and get another guy to fill our team?"

Fujin smirked. "Scared?"

"No!" He said, a little too quickly. "Just want it to be fair, you know."

Selphie sighed. "Oh fine, you can go and get Zell to play, not Seifer though he's too tall!"

Irvine rolled his eyes. "I'll go and Zell to play, don't start till I get back.

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Zell carried the pile of laundry from the kitchen where he and matron had been folding it to the bedroom. He set it down and then turned to go back out, on the way down the hallway he went past the bathroom.

An arm reached out and pulled him inside.

"Ahh!" He yelled, the hand on his collar dragged him into the bathroom backwards and then pushed him up against the door.

Lips were pressed to his own and he just heard the lock click into place.

"Mmm? Mfh!" He protested, pushing at strong shoulders.

Seifer pulled back and grinned at him. "Hello Chickie."

"You asshole!" Zell punched him on the shoulder. "You scared me!"

"That's because you're a little chicken Wuss." He smirked.

Zell frowned at him but only resisted being kissed for a second then he just gave in and his arms went up around Seifer's neck.

"What were you doing hiding in the bathroom?" Zell asked, as Seifer broke the kiss and instead started to worry Zell's jaw line with his teeth.

"I wasn't hiding, I was washing and then you walked past and I couldn't resist." He smirked.

"You mean I'm irresistible?"

Seifer scoffed. "Hardly." His teeth nipped against Zell's skin.

"Ow!" Zell leant back, as far as he could without hitting the door. "You bit me!" He put a hand up to his throat.

"I did not, don't be such a Chicken." He made a biting notion at Zell, chuckling at his annoying expression.

He leaned down and kissed Zell again, a hand cupping the back of his head. The little blonde closed his eyes and kissed him back. Seifer's lips starting kissing a trail down the other man's throat, raking his teeth over the bump of his Adam's apple and then up again. Seifer chuckled against his ears causing Zell to clasp his ear.

"That tickles." He hissed.

The tall blonde sniggered.

Someone knocked on the door causing both blondes to freeze.

"Zell?" Irvine called. "You in there?"

Silence.

The cowboy tried to open the door but it was locked.

"Hello? Who's in there?"

Seifer held a finger to Zell's lips. "Shh." He whispered.

"What do you want Irvine? I've just finished showering." He yelled through the door.

Zell now stood a step away from the door with Seifer's arms loosely around his waist.

"Seifer, have you seen Zell?"

The tall blonde smirked and looked down at the shorter man. "Not lately no."

"Come and play volleyball with us, we're playing guys against girls, we're a player down and I can't find Zell."

"Oh I see, I'm the second choice am I?"

"Oh come on Seifer, we're betting on this game."

Seifer moved Zell to the side and then opened the door so that the little blonde was behind it and out of sight.

"How much are we betting?"

"Not money. If we win, the girls have to do anything we want." He grinned. "Or vice versa so we can't afford to lose!"

Seifer shook his head. "And how old are you again?"

"Hey! It wasn't my idea, it was Selphie's!"

Seifer started to walk down the hallway expecting Irvine to follow but the cowboy stopped.

"You go on I have to go." He pointed to the bathroom.

Seifer opened his mouth to protest but couldn't think of anything to say so he ran away quickly instead.

Irvine pushed the door open all the way causing Zell to jump out of the way, glancing guiltily at the cowboy and slunk out of the door.

"Irvine." He said.

The cowboy frowned in shock and just watched Zell leave. He stepped out into the corridor seeing his friends scurry away and smirked, then he started to laugh.

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Seifer stopped on the top step that lead to the beach and waited. Zell scurried up to him red faced and he hit Seifer in the arm.

"Ow."

"Asshole you left me."

Seifer shrugged. "It's just Irvine."

"JUST Irvine? He'll make our lives hell!"

"Maybe we should tell them." Seifer said.

Zell shifted. "I don't know, I don't want to have Selphie jumping out at us with camera all the time."

Seifer chuckled. "They're suspicious already and if we tell them if might be easier to get-you know-" He watched the beach from behind Zell his arms loosely wrapping around Zell's waist. "-Some alone time." His chuckle rumbled against Zell's ear.

"You think?" He tipped his head back to look at Seifer and kissed him upside down.

"Hey lovebirds." Irvine said as he came out of the house.

They both watched him warily. "Irvine." Seifer said.

"Hey, Irvine do you think we'll get less attention or more if we tell the others about-us." Zell asked.

The cowboy paused to think about it. "I don't know depends if you prefer curious giggling or knowing giggling." He teased.

Seifer rolled his eyes.

"And that's just Raijin." He joked.

"Well you could take the heat off us by kissing Squall." Zell suggested.

Irvine scoffed. "He'd hit me and I like my face the way it is now thanks." He smirked at Seifer. "You're not a good advert for facial bruising, you know."

"Ooh someone's been hanging out with Raijin for too long, you're picking up that 'you knowing' habit." Seifer said.

"Seriously if you have feelings for Squall why not do anything about it?"

"I am being serious he'd beat me."

"Why?"

"Let's see, he hates me, he thinks I'm perverted, he-"

"You are!" Seifer joked.

Irvine frowned at him. "Ha, ha very funny!"

"Sorry, go on." Seifer smirked.

"And he's gone back to recluse ways."

After the war Squall had started to act more human, talking to first Rinoa and Quistis and then to Irvine. Not in depth conversations but a few sentences was better than nothing right?

Anyway last Christmas at the festival Squall was over seeing the kids events like the Santa's grotto. Headmaster Cid was Santa, Edea was Santa's wife and Selphie and Quistis were the elves.

Needless to say the place was swamped with Trepies trying to see their favourite teacher in a red mini skirt and green elf top.

Irvine had volunteered to be the Santa security, everyone jumping to the same conclusion that the cowboy wanted to see the elf girls too but Irvine spent most the day talking to Squall as he walked around looking after all the events at the festival.

After the kiddies events finished the adults had a party of their own with dancing, mistletoe and a punch bowl. Supposedly it was just fruit juice, but Irvine knew they didn't all get drunk on fruit juice. He remembered drunken dancing, Selphie prancing around like a ballerina before following flat on her arse, Seifer dragging Zell towards all the mistletoe in the room and the little blonde desperately trying to get away. He remembered a drunken Squall falling from his chair and into his lap and then on the way back to his room he had kissed the brunette and Squall for a second had kissed him back before passing out on the floor. Irvine had picked him up and taken him to his room. After that Squall hadn't spoken to Irvine unless he had to, in fact he had kept away from all the guys in general.

For ages he only spoke to Rinoa and Quistis it was like he'd gone backwards. He was okay with Fujin because she was never that talkative either.

That was the way it was now, Squall hadn't spoke to Irvine properly since Christmas.

"Yeah well he's become an honorary girl." Seifer said.

Irvine frowned.

"He only hangs out with girls, he talks to girls and he's pretty enough to be one." He smirked.

"He is not." Irvine said.

"Well, a butch girl." Zell said.

Seifer sniggered. "Anyway what are we supposed to playing down there?"

Irvine scratched his head. "Yeah about that, you can't play."

"What? Why?"

"We have four girls so we only need four guys and we choose Zell sorry."

The little blonde looked smug. "HA!"

"Yeah the girls didn't want us to have someone so tall because we'd have the advance having three tall people on our side."

"Ah so you wanted Zell 'cause he's a short ass?"

"Exactly!"

"Hey!" Zell protested. "I am not short!"

Irvine scoffed.

"I'm not!" He tipped his head back to look at Seifer upside down. "You don't really think I'm short do you?" He pouted.

"Of course not sweetie." He said and then when Zell looked away he mouthed to Irvine. "Short."

The cowboy sniggered. "So let's go." He gestured to the stairs.

Seifer stepped back. "Lead the way." He said.

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TBC