I'm back! With another random, pointless one shot! Written in a half hour, so no guarantee for quality. ^^;
So, please enjoy!
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Crisis Core"Ai-chan."
No response.
"Aiiiiii-chan."
No response. The caller pouted, moving closer to the non-responsive leader, not yet giving up on getting her attention. Next to her, an amused Rokkie pair watched her futile efforts.
"It's better to stop now. It's impossible to get through to her now." Behind her, the voice of experience advised her junior. The quester ignored it and continued sneaking up on her target.
Poke. Poke poke. Poke poke puuuuu..... Repeated jabs in the shoulder didn't seem to have any effect. The harasser sulked, but refused to give up, tugging at the leader's sleeve experimentally. Still no response.
Head down, eyes narrowed, a shadow cast over a sleek metallic device. Takahashi Ai had effectively shut out the world as her fingers worked furiously with frantic haste.
"Aiiiiiiiiiiii-chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan~" The girl was obviously out to make herself noticed, no matter what the cost. A furrowed eyebrow was all she got. She was about to try more when a curt reply cut her off.
"
What?" Blunt, rough, masculine. Not at all like the feminine lady she was supposed to be.
"Aiiii-chan! What are you doing?" Her tormentor grinned.
Eyes never leaving the tiny screen of her PSP, Ai scowled as her thumb skidded across the analog stick, frantically blocking in time before a massive fireball hit her character.
"Fighting. Quiet. Now." Short, direct answers. That didn't seem to phase her harasser. If anything, it only encouraged her.
"What's this? Looks like a big gold dragon!" The girl rested her chin on Ai's shoulder, throwing her coordination off for a second. Ai squawked in horror as a barrage of spikes that she had been trying to avoid impacted her character.
Muttering under her breath, the tiny leader moved quickly to rectify the problem.
"You owe me a Hi-Potion..." Soon enough, the leader was back to being immersed within her game. That didn't please her junior, who stubbornly refused to remove her chin from Ai's shoulder.
"Oooh, what's..." The girl squinted. "E...x...a....Fl...are?"
"Oh damn." Ai muttered. "Not again."
"Oooh, pretty animation! Shiny!" Ai sighed and canceled the animation, watching the numbers jump over her character signifying the damage done, all while ignoring her clingy junior.
"Eri, go away. If I can't beat Bahamut Fury before call time, I'll burn all your umeboshi." Ai shook a pouting Eri off and returned to her game.
Meanwhile, next to them, Reina turned to Sayumi with a raised eyebrow.
"What did you feed her?" Sayumi smiled innocently.
"Who, me?" Her megawatt smile turned devilish within a nanosecond. "What about you, Reina? What did
you feed her?"
Reina smirked. The Rokkies shared a conspiratorial glance as they watched their Eririn pester a very hassled Ai who was STILL trying to defeat her opponent.
Behind them, Risa stared at the scene. First at Eri pestering Ai, then at a scheming Sayu and Reina. She briefly contemplated saving her Ai-chan, but two evil eyes, one wonky and one kawaii, froze her in her tracks.
Risa looked at Eri. Then back at the other two Rokkies. She decided Ai really didn't need saving after all. Not when in the next moment, Ai burst out:
"TAKE THAT!!! OCTOSLASH!!" Even a sugar high Eri blinked and paused in trying to harass an Ai that had a maniacal gleam in her eye as she ruthlessly pummeled the in-game monster.
"I win! Yay!" Ai grinned evilly as she flashed a victory sign along with Zack. The leader didn't seem to notice how everyone in the room was staring at her, slack-jawed. With the sole exception of Risa, who calmly walked over and handed a sheet of paper to Ai.
"Hm, Gaki-san? Ah, yes, thanks." Ai's smile was dazzling in the aftermath of her victory. Then the glow faded as she reverted back to work-mode, standing up and clapping her hands together.
"Ok everyone, assembly in 3 minutes on stage! Hurry up!" And she walked from the room, leaving her PSP on top of her bag. She usually knew how to separate work from play.
"Ehhhhhhhh?" Eri exclaimed. "What is thisssssssssssss?" Reina wandered over and picked up the handheld console, curiously poking at it before Risa quickly swiped it away from the curious yankii.
"Don't touch it, Ai-chan will kill you if something happened to her game." Risa carefully switched it off and stuck it inside her best friend's bag. The subleader switched back to motherly mode and started ushering everyone else off to work.
No one even noticed the words that had flashed right before Risa had switched the PSP off.
Do you want to save?A curious yankii finger had pressed 'cancel'.
Boy, was Ai going to be
pissed when she found out.
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I'm lame.
Seriously, if Ai loves Final Fantasy so much, she can't possibly have NOT played this.
Hehehehe.