Rinoa's Revenge

Rinoa’s Revenge

A Final Fantasy VIII Fan Fic

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Rated NC-17 for language and sexual content

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By Bubblegom

Rinoa stood nervously in front of Commander Xu’s desk. She self consciously kept attempting to flatten out the wrinkles in her SeeD uniform and picking off pieces of lint that she sworn hadn’t been there when she left her room.

Rinoa had begun taking classes to become a SeeD soon after arriving back at the Garden after Time Compression. Six months later she had successfully passed her tests and was commissioned a full fledged SeeD.

The young woman had only been a SeeD a short while and as of yet had not been sent forth on any missions; and then this had to happen. Rinoa wouldn’t have been so worried about possible consequences if Squall was present, but he had been sent on an emergency mission to Esthar when Laguna had suddenly disappeared.

Xu cleared her throat loudly, having finally glanced up from the papers laying across her desk, interrupting the young woman’s unpleasant reveries.

“You’re taking all this casually, aren’t you?” Xu asked snidely.

Rinoa flushed. “Oh no, Xu, I’m not,” she protested.

“So what exactly do you have to say for yourself, Rinoa,” the female Commander wanted to know.

“About what?” the raven-haired young woman asked attempting to sound coy and innocent.

Xu flew to her feet and slammed her fist down hard on her desk to emphasize her point.

“Don’t fuck around with me, Rinoa. You know damn well what I’m talking about. Squall’s not here to save your sorry ass. You’d better be straight with me,” Xu warned, stepping out around her desk.

Rinoa gasped and unconsciously took a step backwards. She had never heard Xu speak in such a manner. Rinoa never would have believed it possible.

“Well, I’m waiting.” Xu glared at her in impatience.

“Oh,” the young woman replied tentatively, “you mean about the Galbadian visitor I was showing around.”

“Yes, Rinoa,” Xu spoke sarcastically. “I mean the Galbadian spy who was sent here to assassinate Cid.”

“W-Well, I didn’t know-“ Rinoa attempted to speak.

“No, you didn’t!” Xu screamed suddenly in a rage because of the way that Rinoa was attempting to portray himself as a half-wit in order to escape the adverse consequences of her poor decision making.

In her anger Xu stepped closer literally pushing her face up into Rinoa’s. Rinoa noticed some spittle hanging from the corner of Xu’s mouth.

'What’s wrong with her? Why is she acting so insane about this?' she wondered of her superior officer.

“If Squall hadn’t been there when you gleefully led the assassin to right where he wanted to go, Cid would be dead right now!” Xu shouted in only a slightly lower tone.

“I’m sorry, it’ll never happen again,” Rinoa whined, wringing her hands.

“Oh, I get it, you’re soowry,” Xu snapped. “Am I supposed to kiss it and make it better for you?”

Rinoa flushed again and began to tremble in her anxiety. “No, of course not, Xu -.”

“Seed!” Xu ordered. “We are not in the coffee shop. We are in my office, behave as such!”

“Commander,” Rinoa replied attempting to sound sarcastic but she was far too frightened to pull it off.

“What should you have done when you discovered an unauthorized person wandering in the Garden?” the Commander demanded.

“To check it out first?” Rinoa said tentatively.

“Why, yes, to check it out first,” Xu agreed. “So why didn’t you?”

“Well, I was -,” the young SeeD began but was quickly interrupted by a continuing irate Xu.

“No more bullshit, Rinoa! Never mind, you’ll have two weeks to think about it,” Xu informed her.

“Two weeks!” Rinoa echoed in a tremulous voice.

“Yes, two weeks,” Xu reiterated. “Cid and I discussed it and you have been suspended from Garden for a period of two weeks and frankly I think you got off lightly.”

“Oh no!” Rinoa whimpered with tears forming in her eyes and then rolling freely down her cheeks.

Having delivered her message successfully, Xu stepped back behind her desk and sat down. When Rinoa realized there was nothing more to be said, she turned to leave.

“Where are 'you' going?” Xu demanded harshly.

Puzzled, Rinoa turned back to Xu and explained, “I’m going to my room to pack to leave.”

“Not with that uniform on, you’re not,” the Commander protested.

“What?!” Rinoa responded, aghast at what she was hearing.

Xu picked up a book off her desk and reaching across thrust it into the young woman’s reluctant hands.

“SeeD Policy and Procedure, Rinoa,” Xu said bitingly. “Didn’t you even read it once you became a SeeD?”

“Well, I meant to,” the dark-haired woman’s voice fell away.

“Executive Policy, number fifteen; conditions to be met when a SeeD is suspended,” Xu recited. “Procedure number five – SeeD is to immediately turn in uniform.”

“Okay,” Rinoa agreed, attempting to be pleasant despite herself. “I’ll just turn it in when I leave the Garden.”

Xu shook her head. “No, that isn’t near good enough, Rinoa. I couldn’t possibly allow you to go out into the Garden still representing yourself as a SeeD when you’ve been suspended. Why, you could go out and start ordering upperclassmen to do any crazy thing or lie to your comrades about some secret mission you’re being sent on to cover your absence.”

“I would never do that, Xu,” Rinoa replied. She was intensely trembling and having great difficulty with not breaking into tears again. “I know, you could walk with me to my room and then I could give you my uniform.”

“No, I haven’t the time for that. I’m late for another meeting as we speak. Now give me your uniform. I’m tired of messing around with you!” Xu declared angrily.

Rinoa couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Xu had always appeared so cordial towards her, but it was obvious by now that the female Commander had some deep seeded resentment towards her and was using this situation with Squall away to take it out on her.

Rinoa realized there was nothing else she could do at this point but to do as Xu ordered. Under Xu’s watchful eye, Rinoa proceeded to slowly unbutton her SeeD blouse. She still couldn’t believe that Xu was making her strip down to her bra and panties.

'Maybe she’s just trying to teach me a humiliating lesson and then she’ll return my uniform to me to wear to my room. Yeah, that must be it,' the dark-haired young woman decided.

She unbuttoned her sleeve cuffs and then pulled her blouse from her skirt. Rinoa flushed knowing her bra, that was now completely visible beneath her opened blouse, was of the flimsy lacy variety hiding very little of the charms of her bountiful breasts, but she hadn’t any choice that morning as the underwear that she usually wore on duty was still in the laundry.

Rinoa removed her uniform blouse and Xu said harshly, “Place it on my desk.” Hardly daring to raise her eyes to look at the female Commander while she did as ordered, Rinoa was stunned to observe Xu gazing back at her with an obvious malicious smile.

'Why, she’s getting off on my degradation,' Rinoa thought indignantly. 'What did I ever do to deserve this?'

Rinoa lay the uniform blouse on the desk in front of her. Rinoa’s hands were trembling which caused it to be difficult to unclasp her skirt. She finally accomplished this and then pulled the side zipper down. Rinoa felt herself reddening with embarrassment and shame as she lowered her skirt to the floor and then stepped out of it. She realized her panties were no more than a transparent thong through which her entire pubic area could be clearly seen.

Rinoa quickly lay her skirt on top of the blouse and turned to leave again. She realized it would be horribly embarrassing once she reached the corridor but maybe some passing student or SeeD might take pity on her and help her acquire some sort of apparel. At all costs, Rinoa just desired to flee the office and the malevolent gaze of Xu.

Rinoa hadn’t even taken one step when she heard Xu order, “Your shoes too, Rinoa.”

'Okay, this has gone far enough,' Rinoa thought angrily as she whirled to confront her superior officer.

“Surely you’re not saying that someone might mistake me for a SeeD in my bra and panties?” Rinoa demanded petulantly. “Just because I’m wearing shoes.”

“Rinoa, don’t get snotty with me. You brought all this on yourself,” Xu responded caustically. “Those shoes are Garden issued therefore they are part of your uniform. You are not to leave my office wearing those shoes if you don’t want to be placed in the disciplinary room.”

“You wouldn’t dare!” Rinoa snapped flushing again but this time from anger.

“Try me,” Xu challenged glaring at the young woman.

They stared at each for almost a full minute with neither one looking away or even blinking and then Rinoa gave her answer by slightly leaning down and pulling her shoes off. She slammed them down on Xu’s desk.

“Thank you,” the female Commander said sarcastically.

“You’re not welcome!” Rinoa retorted, turning away again to leave the office, this time without her shoes.

“Uh, Rinoa.”

“What now?!” she screamed and she spun around once more to confront Xu.

“Rinoa, you’re the one in trouble and if you don’t want an insubordination charge along with everything else, I’d advise you to check that attitude of yours at the door.”

Despite her anger, Rinoa realized Xu had the power to make that stick and since she didn’t feel as though she wanted to be frog marched by some SeeDs throughout the entire Garden on her way to the disciplinary room dressed only in her bra and panties, she attempted to appear contrite.

“I’m sorry, Xu. I was wrong,” she simpered.

“That’s better. Now there’s a little matter of you paying a two thousand Gil fine also,” Xu explained.

“Okay,” Rinoa replied. She had remained highly upset but was attempting this time to keep her composure. “Before I leave I’ll withdraw the two thousand from my SeeD account.”

“You can’t do that, you’re no longer a SeeD,” Xu explained.

Rinoa was quivering but managed to keep her voice on an even keel when she protested, “It’s my money, surely you can’t keep me from getting to my money.”

“No, that’s true,” the female Commander agreed, “but according to policy and procedures it will take written permission from Cid to withdraw money from your SeeD account when you’re no longer a SeeD.”

“Ok, as soon as I can get dressed I’ll speak with Cid about it,” Rinoa presented.

“Cid’s away for the day and won’t return until late tomorrow evening.” Xu said, smiling viciously at her.

Rinoa’s head was spinning; she was so frightened of what was coming next – but Xu wouldn’t dare, would she? “Before I leave today, I’ll borrow the money from one of my friends,” the young woman offered.

“I’m sure you could do that,” Xu countered, “but you might forget and then where would I be? It’s my responsibility to make certain you pay that fine before leaving. Why, you might never come back to Garden. I don’t want to have to pay your fine for you, that’s for certain.”

The black-haired young woman felt as though her blood was running cold in her veins as she struggled to respond in anywhere near a natural voice. “Oh no, Xu, I would never do that,” she protested. “I’ll get you the money somehow before I leave Garden.”

Xu appeared to consider Rinoa’s proposition and then apparently relented, “Okay.” Rinoa visibly relaxed. “But I’m still going to need some collateral until you pay the fine.”

“But Xu,” Rinoa protested, “I don’t have anything else here.”

Xu’s answer struck the pretty young woman with complete horror. “You can leave me your bra and panties. I know you’ll come back with the money for those beautiful frilly things.” And she smiled gently at Rinoa.

Rinoa could suddenly feel her blood pounding in her ears and her heart was racing. She absolutely couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She was supposed to strip down stark naked in front of Xu and then do what? However would she get back to her room?

“Xu, I can’t do that,” Rinoa almost whispered which was as loud as her voice would go at that particular moment.

“Oh, but I’m afraid you’ll have to, Rinoa. You have no choice, unless you want to be permanently banned from Garden.” Xu stared at her with an expression that indicated she would brook no further resistance.

With her entire body trembling, Rinoa leaned forward slightly while reaching behind her with both hands. She unfastened her bra and allowed the straps to slide partially down her arms. Rinoa then straightened up, blushing wildly, to be in such an embarrassing and humiliating situation – even if it was only in front of another woman.

Rinoa stood with the bra only half off, holding it with her arms in such a way that it still covered most of her large breasts. When Xu loudly complained that she needed to hurry, Rinoa allowed the bra to slide the rest of the way off her arms and she set it on the desk. Rinoa quickly covered her partial nudity by folding her arms across her front.

“Now the panties too, Rinoa and then you’re free to leave,” Xu grinned.

'Free to leave?' Rinoa thought almost hysterically. 'Free to wander back to my room totally naked in the middle of the day? I’ll have to leave Garden for good after this day. I could never look anyone in the eye again,' she realized despondently.

“Rinoa,” Xu spoke menacingly. “Don’t make me say it again. Take your damn panties off or I’ll rip them off myself. I need to go and you’re holding me up.”

To make matters doubly worse, Rinoa suddenly realized that not only were her breasts swinging unencumbered at the slightest move but her nipples had also grown erect in the chilly air in the office. It would appear to Xu that she was becoming sexually excited at stripping in front of her. Rinoa realized she had no further options left and she hooked her thumbs in the waistband of her narrow thong and pushed it down to her feet where she stepped out of them.

Rinoa held them up in front of her vaginal area for a few seconds and then lay them on the top of the rest of her clothing on the Commander’s desk. She stood half bent over with one hand held across her ample bosom and the other one attempting to hide her fleshy pubes.

“Am I free to go now?” Rinoa asked, the irony heavily evident in her tone.

“Wait a minute,” Xu directed, quickly standing and stepping around her desk to in front of the crimson colored Rinoa whose entire body appeared now to be blushing in complete shame.

“Hold your arms down at your sides,” she ordered the teenager who was now feeling totally degraded. When Rinoa didn’t comply fast enough, Xu slapped viciously at Rinoa’s hands until she lowered her arms as directed.

“Yes, I see,” Xu commented bending down taking a close look at Rinoa’s completely shaven pubic area. “That’s very interesting, Rinoa. I didn’t know you did that, but they’ll be able to see even more of you after you leave here – haha!”

'Oh my dear God! What am I going to do? Xu is completely crazy,' Rinoa thought desperately. Suddenly Rinoa squealed aloud as she unbelievably felt Xu poking around within the folds of her labia.

“Xu!” Rinoa loudly protested. “Now this is way too much!”

“Shut up and spread your legs apart. Since I have this opportunity I need to check you for any inappropriate vaginal discharge or other symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases. You know you young girls can’t be too careful and yet you always think that nothing can happen to you until it’s too late.”

Burning with embarrassment, Rinoa had given up hope of being any more than Xu’s sexual automaton and spread her legs as wide as they would go.

“That’s good, Rinoa,” Xu praised. She proceeded with her probing.

Rinoa winced and stiffened when the older woman thrust a finger up inside of her and moved it around. Noticing that, Xu asked pleasantly, “Did that hurt? Any sign of abnormal pain there?”

Rinoa could no longer speak she was so completely demoralized and dehumanized by everything that had occurred in the last thirty minutes, so she just silently shook her head.

“Good,” Xu smiled.

Even Rinoa couldn’t believe it when, on top of everything else, Xu suddenly withdrew her finger and began manipulating the younger woman’s clitoris. “Oooh!” she moaned despite herself.

Xu looked up kindly in her face. “Did that hurt, Rinoa?”

“No, Xu” she gasped as the older woman had continued working her clit.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, yes, I’m fine,” she groaned. Despite feeling completely humiliated, Rinoa was beginning to feel physically good from Xu’s ministrations.

The female Commander removed her finger from the younger woman’s clit and moved in for a even closer look at her vaginal area. “Hmm,” she said. “There is something here, but I think it’s just normal sexual discharge from you being excited, Rinoa. Well, that’s good, you don’t have any diseases that I can see, and you have normal sexual instincts to boot – haha! Well, shall we be on our way?”

Xu practically had to physically lead the totally stunned stark naked Rinoa to the door. Opening the door, Xu stuck her head out and took a good look around.

“Well, the coast looks clear enough,” Xu said and then laughed. She pulled Rinoa out into the hall with her. Just before closing the door behind her, Xu made certain to lock her door on the inside. Xu’s office was located at the end of one of the classroom corridors.

“I would suggest you hurry, because classes will be out soon,” Xu explained causing Rinoa to shudder once again. “I have an appointment, but I’ll be back in my office shortly. Remember to bring me the money and I’ll give you your bra and panties before you leave. Well, Rinoa, I guess this is it for a couple of weeks,” Xu said, offering her hand. “No hard feelings then, huh? I’m just doing my job.”

Despite being furious with Xu and herself for caving so easily, Rinoa took the proffered hand and shook it. She then watched in full horror of the situation as Xu strode triumphantly down the corridor.

'Oh my sweet Hyne, what am I to do? You have to help me,' Rinoa silently prayed. 'This goes beyond all belief, I can’t even believe it myself that it came to this. How did I allow this? Why didn’t I just tell her to piss off? The most perverted, hackneyed, insane writer in the world couldn’t come up with something this hideous and crazy,' Rinoa realized. 'Oh well, nothing to do now but try to get to my room without anybody seeing me.'

Beginning to hurry down the hall in the same direction that Xu had recently traveled, Rinoa realized terror struck that not being seen would be an impossibility. Those two female students who were sometimes standing and talking at the corner of the corridor before class were there.

'Just my damn luck, I’m just gonna have to make a run for it,' she realized.

Luckily for her, due to her relatively young age and the recent training she had just undergone, Rinoa was considered very fleet of foot. She would have to be, she realized, to get out of this. Rinoa sprinted down the hall up on her toes hoping against hope that the young women wouldn’t notice her until she had passed them on her way to the second floor elevator.

She embarrassedly realized that as she raced along her breasts were heaving in all directions and her shaved pubic area was being displayed quite prominently. Damn that Xu for having taken her underwear too!

Rinoa was only halfway down the long corridor when the redhaired young woman happened to glance in her direction. 'Oh no!' she thought. 'I’ll just have to run by as quickly as I can.'

“Uh, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that Rinoa Heartilly running towards us stark naked?”

The other young woman had dark hair and was quite attractive. Glancing up, she too couldn’t believe her own eyes as she observed the rapidly approaching totally nude Rinoa.

“Why yes, it is,” she agreed. “I wonder why she has insisted on not being clothed.”

“Possibly because Squall is away, she is now seeking attention,” offered the redhaired student. Neither young woman cared for Rinoa particularly thinking her to be extremely stuck up.

Rinoa was now almost upon them. She was burning with embarrassment and shame and refused to make eye contact with them. Rinoa heard one of them say, “Uh, Rinoa, did you forget something important this morning?”

The other one answered for her, “Yeah, like maybe your complete outfit?”

Rinoa squeezed her eyes tight shut as she ran by the young women. She wanted to take no chance on seeing the expressions on their faces at her predicament. She knew she had continued to blush furiously because the heat rising off her face wasn’t all due to her running and she could hear the laughter of the two students floating in the air behind her.

Rinoa turned the corner down the short hallway that led to the elevator and she opened her eyes wanting to make sure she didn’t carelessly collide with someone now that she had skirted those young women.

'Oh no! Those guys are here! Why now and why me?' Rinoa bemoaned.

She was of course referring to the high ranking member of the card club who was known as 'Spade' and his buddy who were sometimes situated right outside of the elevator. They automatically stood up from their resting on the floor as they always did when someone approached.

Rinoa cast her eyes to the left so she wouldn’t have to look at them and quickly ran by to stand in front of the elevator. She punched the down button hurriedly and silently prayed the elevator would reach her floor immediately. Rinoa was just glad for the small favor that she had ran by them and the two young men could now only see her naked backside.

She primly pressed her legs together so they could not obtain one glimpse of any part of her body deemed too private for public viewing. Rinoa could not close off her ears unfortunately as she distinctly heard the card player of the duo exclaim, “Holy shit! Did you see that? Isn’t that Commander Leonhart’s girlfriend and she’s naked?”

The other young man laughed. “She’s more than naked,” he agreed. “She’s mother naked, and I got a good look at her cunt and everything.”

Rinoa had never felt such shame in her entire life and to have to listen to such filth about her body made her ears burn with the degradation of it all. Luckily the elevator bell rang indicating that the elevator had now reached the second floor.

Rinoa scurried on to it, pressed the button for the first floor and then quickly turned her back to the two young men who she realized would certainly be staring at her. Even though her back was now turned to them, she still felt greatly embarrassed knowing they had acquired another look at her full frontal nakedness and this time it was for a longer period of time and she had been standing instead of running.

The elevator door closed but Rinoa could still hear them talking. “Man, did you see that?” the card player asked. “She’s freaking beautiful. Squall’s a lucky man. How’d you like that to come home to every night?”

“Yeah,” the second one agreed. “If she were my girlfriend, I’d make her stay naked. After all, she must enjoy it or she wouldn’t be running around the Garden like that.”

Thankfully once the elevator started on its’ downward trip, Rinoa could no longer hear them. She just prayed that once she arrived on the first floor she could proceed to her room without any other embarrassment. Rinoa felt as though she had already experienced enough of it to last her a life time.

Unluckily for Rinoa this just wasn’t to be. The elevator door opened and the naked young woman bounded down the steps to the first floor only to be immediately confronted by the youth who ran constantly around the fountain in the first floor atrium. He came to a screeching halt directly in front of her and stared at her with bulging eyes and his mouth agape.

“Oh no,” Rinoa moaned. 'Why me? Why the hell me?'

Rinoa just stood and stared in shock, horror, and total abasement. She couldn’t seem to get her legs to work and carry her on her way. Rinoa suddenly noticed that the twelve year old boy had developed an erection beneath his pants or he was carrying a large carrot in them.

'Okay, that’s it,' she thought disgustedly, 'Now I’m corrupting little children. I’m going back to Xu’s office and wait for her to return and obtain my underwear at least; even if I have to beat her butt.'

Rinoa turned just in time and started back up the stairs to the elevator because, coming from somewhere behind her, she heard Selphie’s voice calling out in great alarm. She realized that her friend must have recognized her clothes-less state.

'Oh no, soon the entire Garden will know now that Selphie does,' Rinoa thought desolately.

The beautifully nude young woman raced up to the elevator and stood waiting for it to arrive. She was able to tell from the lights above the door that it was already on its’ way down. Rinoa hoped no one was going to get off, but by this time she realized you could hope in one hand and shit in the other and the shit one would fill up much quicker.

'I’m getting loopy,' she thought bemusedly. Rinoa suddenly realized that the entire situation connected to her public disgrace and nakedness had become too much for her to deal with rationally and she was beginning to disassociate and slip into shock.

Recognizing this was an extremely dangerous time for her to flip out, Rinoa began to slap anywhere at her body in an effort to return to total reality. She had just began to slap at her breasts when the elevator door opened and she observed with spreading horror and shame that Zell and Irvine stepped off.

“What the fu-?” Irvine exclaimed.

Zell stopped, stared intensely at the naked form of Rinoa flailing away at her own breasts and then spoke concernedly, “Rinoa, is something wrong?”

Irvine broke into laughter at such a stupid question. “No, Zell,” he sarcastically answered. “What could be wrong? Rinoa is just running around without any clothes on and hitting her breasts.”

Zell smacked Irvine hard on the shoulder as Rinoa stepped into the still opened elevator and hit the button to go up. Irvine was just complaining to Zell when the door closed and the elevator began its upward journey. It was only then that Rinoa realized she would have to nakedly run the same gauntlet of the two young men and then the two female students. And maybe worse, she suddenly worried with total anxiety, classes might be now out.

By force of habit, Rinoa checked the watch that wasn’t there on her arm. 'What am I - completely goofy? I’m not wearing my watch, I’m not wearing anything,' she thought giddily.

The elevator reached the second floor much quicker than Rinoa wanted. She wished there were a staircase down from the third to the second floor so she wouldn’t have to race by the same people again, but there wasn’t any such animal.

The doors opened and Rinoa stood and cringed in total mortification as not only the same young men were present, the corridor was now jammed with students; classes must have let out in the last five minutes.

Both young men and women stood staring at her apparently shameless nakedness while Rinoa stood too stunned to move. She observed the expressions of glee, shock, amazement, disgust, and lust flitting across the students’ faces.

“There!” Spade declared, “I told you she was running around with no clothes on. Somebody go get a camera.”

'Oh my God!' Rinoa thought completely horror struck. 'They’re gonna try and take my picture. I gotta get out of here.'

This anxiety spurred Rinoa onward even though at this point she realized she was completely doomed unless Xu was currently back in her office. If she wasn’t, Rinoa would find herself stranded at the other end of the corridor.

This time down the corridor, she realized speed would be of no help to her at all and in fact might lead to disaster because she might crash into someone and fall to the floor. Rinoa didn’t much like the way this crowd was reacting to her nakedness. They appeared to her to be demonstrating some of the signs of a mob and she wouldn’t want to see what might happen if they suddenly had her at their mercy.

Rinoa supposed she could safely duck into Quistis’ classroom because the blonde instructor had probably stayed late as she usually did to talk to students who needed extra instruction, but she would hate to have to abase herself so to Quistis. She realized Quistis had never really warmed up to her; probably because of her continuing romantic feelings toward Squall.

This time down the hallway Rinoa concentrated more on keeping one arm down across her breasts and one hand over her crotch. Of course this meant that she could not longer sprint but sort of run along slowly while waddling if she were to keep her private areas more or less covered, but Rinoa felt as though she had no choice at this point. There was just too many people present to witness her degradation from the hands of Xu if she were to sprint. She was certain if Xu could see her now she would be delighted.

'What did I ever do to her?' Rinoa again wondered.

Rinoa began scuttling like a crab down the hallway and when she turned the corner she heard those same two girls making snide remarks about her. Again she refused to give them any satisfaction by acknowledging them in any way and she looked away from them as she started down the last hallway.

Rinoa heard one of them exclaim, “Look! She’s back and she’s still not dressed. Do you think she’s in some kind of training program for something?”

“Yes, I do,” the other one snickered. “The sexual olympics, I think.”

“Alright!” the first young woman shouted out sarcastically. “Hey Rinoa, fuck some guys for me, you naked slutpuppy!” Both of the female students laughed uproarishly.

Rinoa’s first tendency when she heard such foul language being applied to her was to remove her hands from where they were providing some modicum of modesty and cover her ears. Her second thought was pure rage.

'Ooh!' she thought, 'If I get out of this, those two bitches are dogmeat.'

Rinoa finally ended up at Xu’s office door.