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Kaze no Ato's A/N: Well, here we are. If you're wondering who the HELL these OCs are… they are mine and hikari's FFX role-playing characters for my old forum. This starts out somber, but turns into hilarious fun. Updates will most likely be sporadic; I've got a lot of stuff written [a lot was taken from our RP posts], about 11 pages total with another half-page of ideas, but I'm in college and this term is hellish. Um, our characters? …they are insane, by the way. If you need an Al Bhed translator, since my character is Al Bhed and speaks in her native tongue now and again... FFExtreme . com has a good one.

hikari345 A/N: Yush, very insane. Beware for they may very well cause side effects of massive giggling and random laughs. _ Enjoy our awesome OC's.

Spira's Last Shred of Sanity:

The Misadventures of Kaizer and Katrinka

The way the sky seemed to change on the shore here amazed the young warrior as he gazed out over the horizon where they would be conducting Operation Mi'ihen. On the Mi'ihen Highroad the sky was nothing but pure blue, yet here the sky contained warm colors that reminded him of a dying fire. It looked sad and mournful. A few giggles and banter drew the youth's eyes over to some girls. They were speaking Al Bhed obviously, one pointed at him and smiled at her friend. She must've had thought he was hot obviously. He grinned back at her.

"You'd better leave them alone man! Al Bhed girls can get nasty when it comes to Yevonites hitting on them." One crusader said to the young man as they were setting up the cannons for firing.

"Hey man, I know women inside and out. I don't need any advice, besides, they're the ones that need to be warned." He chuckled.

"Psh, you're a cocky one. What's your name son?" The older crusader asked the youth.

"I'm Kaizer, you can call me Kai. Girls call me daddy." Kai answered. They both laughed.

"My name's Darro. I like you kid. A lot of the other soldiers are scared. The fight with Sin doesn't seem to be phasing you much." He made note of the young soldier.

"Well... to say I'm not feeling queasy would be a lie. I don't know if I'm scared or just anxious to kick some of Sin's fat scaly ass!" He grinned as cocky as ever. They both laughed again.

"That girl keeps looking at you." Darro pointed out while pretending to be loading the cannon and nodded in her direction.

Sure enough when Kaizer looked up he saw her again. He bit his lip while studying her. She was a pretty little thing. Kai had always had a thing for Al Bhed girls; he had even begun studying how to speak the language so he could flirt with them easier. Trying to hit on them in Spirian tongue was fun but too much of a headache.

"Well go on son. Talk to her." Darro winked at him and nudged him.

"Oh I'll do more than talkin' Pops." He smiled and walked over to the group of Al Bhed girls. He stopped just short of them and noticed them leaning up against their large machina that was apparently going to defeat Sin. "Rao drana myteac. Ruf oui tuehk?" He spoke slowly and with a horrid accent.

Two of the ladies laughed and the other one just glared at him. "Please don't speak in Al Bhed anymore." One of them begged him with a smile. "You're not very good at it. Besides we know Yevonite words well enough." She told him.

"Heh, sorry 'bout that." He grinned and scratched his ear. "So, you ladies ever been with a guy outside of the desert?" He asked with a sly grin. "I can show ya how a Yevonite has a good time." He winked, the two giggled but the other seemed unimpressed. "What about you sugar lips? You look like you need a good man to show you a fun time." He tried to get her to smile but she rolled her eyes.

"C'mon babe. I mean, just one date, please. I promise I'll make it worth your while... and maybe I'll teach you some anatomy later." He would have winked had he not been knocked flat on his ass by a punch straight for his eye, he moved his head back enough for her to hit his chin and knock him off balance. She spit near him and called him a Yevonite Pig in Al Bhed.

"Yeah well, bitch!" He said standing up as she walked away. "So what's the deal with your friend?" He asked the other two.

"Oh that's just Katrinka... she's always like that."

"Yeah, well nice talkin' to ya ladies but I gotta finish work on these cannons or my commanding crusader will chew me a new asshole." He winked and kissed one girl on the cheek.

"Bye Kaizer!" One called after him, the other was still blushing and stuttering. He wondered how they knew his name and wondered if they had asked about him. He looked back at the girl named Katrinka... damn she was a fiery little thing. He liked a woman with sass, and attitude. He made a promise to himself he'd make her talk to him one way or the other.

He began working on the cannons again, and when he finished he made his way over to the tent she was in, drinking some Al Bhed Rum. "That any good?" He asked her.

"Depends... if you're man enough to stand the stronger stuff." She gave him a funny look as he took a swig straight from the bottle. He shuddered from the strength of the alcohol but decided he liked it. "I thought me punching you would make you go away." She frowned.

"I like my drinks like I like my women. Tough." He grinned.

"I bet your comrades have fun with you at night." She rolled her eyes.

"If they have boobs, they certainly do." He sat down across from her.

"You're a pig." She kicked him from under the wooden table.

"Oooh kinky." He winked and took another swig.

"You better not drink it all. It's all I have." She warned. There was a long pause and then he heard the cries of the sin spawn.

"Little bastards. My faction and I captured one of them. They weren't too tough." He grinned.

"Sin spawn aren't sin though. You better not get too caught up in your abilities. I could kick your ass. I have no doubt sin will have any problem doing so either." She smirked while insulting him.

He heard a bugle calling him. "I better go. Captain Lucil is gonna have a briefing... Hey. Take care of yourself out there. My name's Kai." He walked away but then turned before he left. "And by the way, you hit like a girl just so you know." He rubbed his sore jaw and made his way to the front lines.

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Operation Mi'ihen: named for the road upon which the operation took place, the road named after the great warrior Mi'ihen whom founded the Crimson Blades, later known as the Crusaders. The Crusaders, the brave men and women (blinded by Yevon's false teachings as they were) numbered highly among those corpses that littered the beach. The smoke from the wrecked machina stung the eyes of one young woman, a girl who wasn't even into her seventeenth year. Picking herself up from the sand, she choked when, through the smoke, she saw the broken bodies of her parents. Tears came to her green spiraled eyes as she looked at the bloodstained sand, knowing that her parents were dead.

Her platinum-blonde hair was matted to her face with sweat and more than a little of her own blood. Operation Mi'ihen, a joint effort between the Al Bhed mechanists and the Yevonite Crusaders. An effort that used the 'forbidden' machina, an effort that would likely get the surviving Crusaders excommunicated from Yevon's halls. Operation Mi'ihen was a complete and utter failure. Sin had destroyed the machina weapon that was supposed to kill it.

"Ramb! Ec drana yhouha rana?" the girl shouted in her native tongue, before choking back a sob. Lying in a pool of blood was a Crusader, his chest ripped apart and his face contorted in a painful visage. "Help!" she cried out.

A groan caught her attention, only a few paces in front of her. She stumbled her way over to the body that was covered in debris. The young man was obviously a Crusader, and he was around her age. She pulled off some of the debris, to reveal the red eyed youth she had met earlier. The one that had made a pass at her, if her memory was right.

"Kaizer Wolfe?" She murmured, shaking him in attempt to rouse him.

The youth groaned and shifted a bit, wincing as he tried to move his left leg. "K-Katrinka? Babe, is that you?"

If either of them hadn't been so hurt, she would've hit him. As it was, she was fumbling with the Al Bhed potions in her bag, finding that half of them were broken and spilling into her bag. Katrinka uncorked a bottle and held it to Kaizer's mouth. "Drink, it'll help you."

The potion sloshed over his lips and down his throat, working to mend the torn muscles in his leg. "Hey babe, do you remember what happened?"

Katrinka wiped her mouth of the remnants of the potion she had just downed. "Other than Sin decimating both the mechanists and the Crusaders?" her voice was terribly bitter, "Other than my parents shielding me so that they died and I was only wounded?"

Kaizer winced, but this time not in pain. He sat up as best as he could, reaching over and hugged her. The tough Al Bhed girl he had met earlier that had laid him out flat, giving him a swollen lip and a wounded pride, was crying. Kaizer was at a loss for words; he had just lost a lot of the men and women that he had trained with but Katrinka had lost her parents. Shifting a bit, Kai put an arm around her shoulders in a semblance of a hug. "I'm really sorry, babe. But hey… we need to move. I think I can stand now, since you fixed me up pretty good. How about you?"

Katrinka nodded, standing up slowly. With her help, Kaizer was able to stand and walk. The two drug themselves through the corpses, the littered machine parts, supporting each other physically and emotionally. The stench of acrid smoke and blood filled both of their noses and stung their eyes. After some time, they found their way into a makeshift camp that some of the surviving Crusaders had made. By the time they had made it there, Kaizer's leg wound had reopened and Katrinka was getting dizzy from the concussion that she had received. Two Crusaders rushed forward to take Kaizer from Katrinka's grasp and began to pull him toward a tent. A man came up to Kat as she swayed slightly.

"Thank you for brining him here, but you're no longer needed." He said gruffly, his eyes hard as they glared down at her.

Katrinka was shocked into silence, not believing the audacity of the man standing before her. Dismissing her just because she was an Al Bhed. The man made a wave with his hand and that was when she found her voice. She hissed at him. "Oui cuh uv y pedlr. E's kuehk du cru -"

Her voice was drowned out by a yell. The sound came from none other than Kaizer Wolfe, whose eyes were blazing angrily. "You bastard, if it hadn't been for her I would be dead right now." He struggled away from the men that were leading him to the tent, "If you think that you're going to just send her away, then you'll be sending me away too. If she doesn't get treatment, then I don't either."

The man was taken aback by the ferocity in Kaizer's eyes, and numbly allowed Katrinka to follow Kaizer into the tent to be mended.

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A soft groan escaped Kaizer's lips when he awoke, not knowing what time of day it was much less what day it was. A splint on his left leg prevented him from moving with his normal fluidity as he sat up and swung his legs over the side of the cot. He was thankful that a pair of crutches was beside the cot, which he used to make his way out of the tent. The sun was low on the horizon, giving a pinkish-orange glow to the landscape. An older man waved at him and Kai realized it was Darro.

"Hey old man." Kaizer greeted cockily as he hobbled his way over to him, "Looks like Sin didn't get you."

Darro let out a dry chuckle, "I'm surprised meself, son. Seems to me that yer a bit worse for wear."

"Nothin' but a scratch." Kai replied, only to get scoffed at. "All right, you've got me there. If it weren't for Katrinka I don't know if I would've been found before I bled out."

"Katrinka? Y' mean that pretty Al Bhed thing that knocked y' flat before the operation started? Maybe there is somethin' to that charm o' yers, kiddo." Darro commented and then turned thoughtful, "Come t' think of it, I saw her a couple dozen feet down that way lookin' all sad."

"Kat… she lost her parents in the operation. They died shielding her." Kaizer said softly, "Thanks for letting me know where she's at."

Darro shook his head as he watched the younger man make his way to see the Al Bhed girl. Their demeanors were completely different from before the start of the operation; smiles and witty banter were thrown out replaced by a somber mood and sadness. Katrinka looked up as Kaizer struggled to sit down next to her, which she ended up helping him with. Side by side with their backs to a stalagmite, they sat in silence. Neither knew exactly how to say what they were feeling, so when they both turned to look at one another at the same time they froze. Katrinka's voice died in her throat, her thank you gone unsaid as she stared at the brunette. Kai slowly smiled, it was the perfect opportunity for him and he couldn't exactly pass it up. Swift as lightning, he touched his lips to hers. Quicker still, he was shoved away and got a good smack. Two days later they parted ways with a small hug when no on was watching, thinking that they were never going to see each other again. If only they knew that they were destined to meet again.

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..One Year Later..

Kaizer loved Luca. So many people there, so many hot chicks. But most of all a place to BLITZ! He had joined the Kilika Beast's again for a short while since they needed to replace one of their team mates who was sick with the Besaid Blossom Rash. A nasty plant that had found it's way to Kilika, all the native Besaid Islander's knew to beware of it but unfortunately not very many people in Kilika did. The rash is very painful and irritating, in addition to being super contagious.

The sun was always so bright here and the sky so blue. The smell of the salty sea with the ocean breeze. He loved it and had considered making Luca his permanent residence. His teammates had gotten off their ship and made their way to the locker rooms where they were getting preps. Kai had been practicing in a pool located under the stadium the majority of the day before his captain called him to the lockers. There he had given him instruction's to sign up and make sure they were to play against the Luca Goers last so they wouldn't lose in the first round to the pricks.

Kaizer was running as fast as he could, glancing up ever so often to see the clocks that were hanging so conveniently everywhere to make sure he was there at the front desk at exactly 8 o'clock. Kai had just rounded the curve to make it to the front desk when he suddenly collided into an unsuspecting loiterer. They had both been knocked to their rumps on the ground. Kai had the air knocked out of him and was sure he would get some bruises from this. He looked up to see that his victim was still alive, and also was a woman. For his eyes landed on her breast which were rising and falling with breath. While he was admiring he didn't see the malice in her green swirling eyes. Nor did he see the hand that slapped him across the face.

"OW DAMN!" He glared up at her. "You bitch! Why'd you hit me for?!" He yelled at her, then his eyes grew wide as he instantly recognized her as the Al Bhed girl from Operation Mi'ihen. The one who had saved his life after Sin had decimated all of their troops into nothing. "K-kat.." He tried to say her name, he could never forget it and he was eternally grateful.

She wouldn't let him have another word. "I hit you because you ran into me and then stared at my chest like it was an airbag. Wake up dumbass! Why are you flying around a corner like that, it's a desk! People stand here you idiot.... Oh my god... it's you..." She suddenly realized who she was yelling at too as her anger was replaced by surprise. He began to calm down but not for long. She slapped him in the face again and she looked even angrier. "YOU MORON! What the hell are you doing here?! Are you stalking me or going to ask me for another date?! Or try to kiss me again after I'm mourning the death of my parents!" She glared at him like a wasp would give an ant before she stung it.

He rubbed his now red face. "I WAS DRUNK MISSY! And excuse the hell out of me but last time I checked, Luca Stadium was a place for the public so I'll walk where ever the hell I want to, even if it means knocking some prude on her ass!"

He shoved her a little to get the point across that she one bit did not intimidate him. It was definitely the wrong move to make because in a split second she had thrown a punch straight for his face. He dodged it luckily and used the force of her throwing fist and trip of his foot to make her stumble, she ran right into one of Kaizer's own team mates. It wasn't long before both teams' members were having an all-out brawl. Kai took the golden opportunity to punch several people on his team that he disliked in the face. Chances like this were once in a lifetime after all. He had just turned around when he felt a tap on his shoulder and it was all to late for him before he felt Katrinka's hand straight for his eyeball, this time she hit her target. She had found him in the sea of angry fighting Blitzers. When the crowd dispersed and the authorities arrived all fingers pointed at the two of them, and they were both disqualified from the tournament and sent to jail.

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Katrinka looked across the hall to a cell identical to her own, sitting there was Kaizer with a blackening eye. A smug expression played on his face, much to her annoyance. She could feel the bruises that were forming on her body from the brawl, even though that had been more fun then she has in a while. The worst part was being disqualified from blitzing in tonight's game.

"I cannot believe your idiotic teammates started a brawl in the middle of Luca." Kat growled.

"Tch, babe… you threw the first punch. Those guys were just defending me." Kai said lazily, leaning against the wall of his cell casually.

"Oh, don't give me that." Katrinka said, rolling her eyes. "Don't think I didn't see you throw a couple of punches at a few members of your OWN team."

Katrinka cracked her neck, back and knuckles. It was going to be a very long night, especially with Kaizer as her only company. The cell she was in smelled and was extremely damp. Of course, it was hard to find a place in Luca that wasn't a little damp. The guard on duty walked down the steps toward their cells. A wide smile formed on Kaizer's face upon seeing the guard was a buxom blonde. Katrinka bit back the groan that threatened to escape her lips.

"Would you look at that…" Kaizer whistled low.

"And what is that?" the guard asked.

"I just never thought I'd ever see a prison guard as beautiful as you, gorgeous." Kai flashed her a dazzling smile.

Kat felt the need to her hit her head against the wall repeatedly as she watched Kaizer flirt with the guard. On second though, she wished she could beat Kaizer's head against the wall.

"How long until you get off duty?" Kai asked sweetly.

"In the next half-hour, actually." She murmured, her cheeks flushed.

"What a damn shame. If I wasn't locked up, I'd take you on a date." Again with that smile.

Before Kat knew it, the guard was unlocking Kai's cell. A mischievous grin, a wink Kat's way and Kaizer was escorted out of the jail. Katrinka followed him out with a long string of Al Bhed curses.

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"Cdibet Shoopuf-pnyehat yccruma!" she yelled out.

It has been five hours since Kai had been released. She heard another guard thunder down the stairs, a menacing look on his face as he entered the holding area. As he opened his mouth, he simply crumpled to the floor. Behind him stood none other than a smiling Kaizer, holding the female guard's keys.

"A Shoopuf-brained asshole, huh?" Kai asked, grinning widely. "I'm not sure I want to let you out now, babe."

But his words had no weight behind them. The key slid into the lock and with a soft 'click', the cell door was opened. A smile passed between the two of them as they quietly crept out of the jail and out into the salt air of Luca. It was late evening or early night, depending on whom you asked, and Luca's crowds had died down considerably. The two strolled in silence until they reached an empty dock, seating themselves at the end with their legs dangling over the calm ocean waters. Time seemed to have little meaning as the two survivors of Operation Mi'ihen basked in the calm lull of the waters, the moonlight lending a surreal feeling to the atmosphere. It was Katrinka that broke the silence first.

"I can't believe we both ended up being Blitzers." Kat said with a soft chuckle, "Kilika, huh?"

"Yeah, it's where I'm from originally." Kaizer replied lazily, giving her a lop-sided smile that didn't hold any of its normal perverseness. "Your team choice makes sense, babe. I'd heard the Psyches had a knew center, I take it that's you?"

"You got it, Kai. Besides Blitzing, what have you been up to the last year?"

"First few months after we split, I was out of commission still. Apparently the shrapnel torn a muscle, hurt like hell." Kaizer's grin gained back some of its perverted airs. "Got a lot of sympathy from the gals back home, if you catch my drift. After that I worked to get my strength back, did a few odd jobs in Kilika… the rebuilding process is slow, but it's going well. After that, it was all Blitz. You?"

"I went back to Bikanel, Cid let me hitch a ride along with some of the others. We wanted to see if Home could be salvaged, after what those Yevonites did to it." The way she spat out the word made it seem as a curse, "If you think the rebuilding is slow in Kilika, you should see Home. I don't even know if we can save anything, we might just have to scrap it all and start all over."

Kaizer winced a bit, hearing the bitterness in her voice. She had the right to be bitter. Hell, he would be too if he were in her place. Figuring he needed to change the subject to a lighter note, he scanned his brain for something. "The Psyches lost four to one, just so you know."

Katrinka rolled her eyes, "Not to brag, but our back-up center is no where near as good as I am. No wonder the Fangs beat us. How about the Beasts, did they win?"

"Hell yeah, babe!" Kai grinned, "Six to three, we had the Glories."

And it was a conversation along those lines that lasted into the morning, where the two of them parted ways once again.