"I'll take the left," whispered a young, silver haired, 9 years old boy.
"Perfect...Haha, and I'll come from the right," I spiky blonde haired 7 year old boy replied in a whisper.
Meanwhile, a few metres away from the two boys, a young 6 year old girl was busy trying to fix a small machina. Her hair was blonde, and plaited and it was so long that the ends just touched the floor as she squatted there.
"…And this piece goes into here…and…I'm done! Yippee!!" she exclaimed and danced in celebration.
The small girl, dancing and completely oblivious to her surroundings was suddenly shocked to see that her precious machina had disappeared.
"Huh? What?!" she shouted, feeling puzzled. Straight after these words of confusion, the two boys emerged, smirking, with the precious machina in the blonde boy's arms.
"Haha! I bet you she never thought that one was coming her way!" said the silver haired boy, roaring with laughter.
"Haha! I reckon! Aww, look, poor baby's crying…did little Cid's girl make a boo-boo?" chanted the blonde boy.
"Give it back Gippal! Oh, and by the way, my name's Rikku! R-i-k-k-u!" cried the small girl.
The boys continued to smirk.
"Well you're just gonna have to catch us! Come on Baralai, let's go!" Gippal shouted.
Little Rikku wiped away her tears as the two thieves ran off, still crazy with laughter.
"I'll catch you two!" screamed Rikku. "And once I get you, I'll take you back to dad, and he'll make sure you'll never take another step into home ever!"
"Well, you're going to have to stop whining if that's ever gonna happen!" Gippal called out from a distance, still smirking.
The boys' laughter was still ringing in Rikku's ears as she quickly sped up. She caught up so quickly, that within seconds, the two boys were in Rikku's eye sight.
"Haha! I got you now!" she giggled, and continued running.
"That's what you wanna think!" shouted Baralai, the instant his head band dropped over his eyes, causing him to lose balance and trip over, bringing Gippal down with him.
"Hey! What do you think you're- WHOA!" shouted Gippal before making a face plant on the hard desert ground.
"Hahaha! Gotcha!" Rikku giggle as she stood over them.
"It's all fun and games 'til somebody loses and ey- GOOD SPIRA! What on Spira happened here?" shouted Cid as he came rushing over to assist Gippal, who was unconscious at this point.
"HE," Rikku stuck her finger out at Gippal. "Stole MY machina!"
"So SHE," said Baralai, struggling to get up. "Chased after us, looking for revenge, it's all her fault."
"I see...but how'd you boys end up on the ground?" questioned Cid, while scratching his head in awe.
"I- I dunno, I was running behind Gippal then suddenly, everything went dark and I couldn't see a thing…" answered a very frightened Baralai.
"Okay Baralai, you go get yourself cleaned up, I'll bring this one to get checked," said Cid while trying to pick Gippal up. "And you, come inside with me."
"Y-yes daddy…" answered Rikku trying hard not to make any eye contact with her father.
"Young lady…this was completely unexpected of you," Cid said calmly, trying not to cause anything.
"But, he stole from me!" cried Rikku.
"I know dear, but how often do these boys get to come here? One lives in Bevelle and the other one always has his head stuck in some machina with his father in their airship," explained Cid.
"Ooh…but-but daddy," Rikku whined.
"Enough Rikku, I think you owe someone an apology,"
"Sorry dad," Rikku sighed.
"Wha-? Whoa, not me honey, your friends," said Cid waving his hands.
"Oh…but, but….fine."
Rikku felt stupid for apologizing for something THEY started. She walked outside of her father's room to find Baralai playing around with
his thumbs on the leather couches.
"What now?" moaned Baralai with a sarcastic tone.
"I- just came to say I was sorry about just then," Rikku said thoughtfully, looking down at her feet.
Baralai stood up and stared down at Rikku as if he'd just conquered Sin, but sat down again realizing how foolish he must have looked.
"It's okay Rikku…where's Gippal? And how is he?"
"I dunno, head he hurt himself pretty badly, wanna go check?"
Rikku was feeling extremely excited and relieved that she and Baralai were cool again.
"Nah…I'll just sit here and wait for my best friend to die or something," he replied sarcastically.
Rikku's excitement died after that line. The pair walked quietly up to the room where Gippal was healing, only to find him eyes shut in his bed, sheets up to his chin, soundless.
"OH MY YEVON! He really is dead!" shouted Baralai in clear shock. He immediately rushed to Gippal's bedside and tried to shake his best friend back to life.
"Huh? What? Baralai, get lost!" yawned Gippal.
"Oh, praise be to Yevon, he's alright," exclaimed Baralai, worshiping the ceiling.
"Yeah! I was alright, 'til you came along, gosh, I was having a pretty good dream," groaned Gippal.
"Ooh, what about?" Baralai inquired with the most curiosity.
"I'm not telling you," said Gippal as he turned away from Baralai and to face Rikku.
"Oh…it's you," muttered Gippal with a surprised, but embarrassed look on his face.
"Yeah, the one called Rikku," Rikku reminded him. "So…um…how are you feeling?"
"OH! Besides the massive BRUISE on my eye, I'm doing just splendid!"
"Uh, Spira, you don't have to be so blunt, I'm only here to apologize," said Rikku rolling her eyes, eyes crossed in a grumpy mood.
At this point, Gippal and Rikku were staring each other down furiously, as Baralai crept over Gippal's shoulders and started prodding his eye patch.
"Oi, watch it Baralai, it hurts you know?" Gippal snapped/
"But it's just so cool man!! Can I see what's underneath?"
"NO!!" Gippal and Rikku shrieked together.
"Why do you care?" Gippal asked Rikku, still glaring at her.
"Do we REALLY wanna see what's under that thing?"
"YES!!" shouted Baralai, but neither Rikku nor Gippal were paying attention to him, they were lost in each others eyes, though it was a scary kind of 'getting lost into someone's eyes'.
Rikku sat at her dressing table brushing her ponytail, thinking about the last time she saw Baralai and Gippal, especially Gippal, It had been a year since their last get together, she was really starting to miss a certain somebody.
Suddenly she heard a loud knocking at her door.
"Won't be a minute!"
Whoever was on the otherside had to be pretty persistent because they would not stop knocking.
"Spira, do you have to be so-"
"Well, well, take a look at Cid's girl,"
"Gippal, for the milliont-"
"Hey, um…I…err…Brought you something," said Gippal staring at the floor with both hands behind his back.
"Ooh!" Squealed Rikku, jumping up and down. "What is it? Lemme see it!"
"Not…yet…" said Gippal with a sly look on his face.
"But why….." whined Rikku.
"If you be a nice girl, you might get it sometime later," chanted Gippal.
"Poopie…" Rikku punched Gippal in the arm.
"Ow…I mean, HEY! Check out this machina!" said Gippal rubbing his arm, pretending to be deeply interested in Rikku's hairbrush sorter.
"That's um… a really smart machina that…sorts all my hairbrushes…"
Gippal quickly turned bright red but smartly distracted himself with more arriving guests walking up the path.
"HEY! It's Baralai! Ooh, he's got a girlfriend," exclaimed Gippal and rushed downstairs.
Happy to hear that Baralai's "girlfriend" Yuna was here, Rikku quickly tied up the rest of her hair and dashed downstairs to greet her.
When she arrived down her flight of stars, she noticed Gippal staring out the window, desperately trying to catch a better glimpse of this mysterious, but gorgeous new girl that his best friend was with. Being Gippal, he was always interested in meeting new ladies, he quickly ran to the door, preparing to meet this strange beauty.
Meanwhile, on the otherside of the door, Baralai was educating Yuna on the temples around Spira and telling her all that he knows about Aeons and the Fayth.
"Oh, my father was a summoner, I will always be proud of his work to give Spira some peace and quiet; I find it's very brave."
"Yes, becoming a high summoner himself, Lord Braska has received many thanks and praise even in death, you should be at most proud of your father, Yuna"
"I hope that one day, I can become a summoner myself, I want to follow in his footsteps, I hope I'm successful"
"I have faith in you Yuna,"
"Thankyou…Baralai was it?"
"Yep," Baralai said with a smile as he reached up to ring the doorbell.
The second the very air of his fingertips touched the surface of the doorbell, the door sprung open as if it had a million springs attached to is, causing Yuna to jump back in shock.
"Baralai!" exclaimed Gippal and went to give him a brotherly sort of hug. "who's that, huh?" he added while nudging Baralai's arm.
"I just met her, she's Yuna, daughter of High Summoner Braska, we got off our hovers around the same place, I realized she was coming here too, so I decided to escort her," Baralai said whilst eyeing Yuna.
"And what a gentleman he was for doing so," added Yuna and smiled back at him.
Annoyed that Baralai had claimed more of Yuna's heart than he had, Gippal attempted to take her hand and show her around the house, but just as he was about to take a step forward, Rikku jumped out of nowhere and throws her arms around Yuna.
"Yunie!" It's been so long! Thanks heaps for coming!" exclaimed Rikku, still holding onto Yuna ever so tightly.
"Gee, don't ever think that I'd miss my own cousin's birthday," Yuna assured.
The girls continued inside, giggling as the passed Gippal, who's hand was still out, ready to take Yuna's.
"Booyaka!" shouted Baralai as he jumped up, spun around in the air, and landed back to high-five Gippal's hand, which was still sticking out due to his confusion, he was hoping Yuna would be deeply interested with him, but he was wrong.
Inside, Rikku was showing Yuna all the fabulous paintings that their mothers created when they were still alive.
Upset that her mother hadn't been around long enough to celebrate many of her birthdays, Rikku decided to take Yuna elsewhere.
"Well if it isn't my little niece Yuna!" exclaimed Cid upon seeing his niece.
"Uncle Cid! I'm not that little anymore," said Yuna, as she gave her dear uncle a big hug.
"Well, 15 is VERY little compared to the numbers in uncle Cid's age," Cid told Yuna, before breaking off into a loud chuckle.
"So I guess we're chillin' here tonight," Baralai threw his bags onto the floor. "Yevon! What is that?!"
"Haha, it's not that hideous is it?" said Gippal, as he pulled out Rikku's old machina that he and Baralai ran away with 7 years ago.
"No, no, I was referring to the thing hat's sitting on your neck," Baralai teased before receiving a massive blow to the arm. "Oh no you don't"
Within seconds, the two boys were wrestling each other on the floor, laughing their heads off while trying to injure the other.
ooh, first ever story, i'm quite excited, hope you guys enjoy it. the next chappie will be up in under a month. i'm pretty confident in saying that, but no promises.
