HI PEOPLE!

Okay annoying greeting over with, this is my first romance fic and I hope I get some likes on this thing. Anyway this is Tidus/Auron but I'm keeping things rated T for some language and maybe a kiss or two here and there… There's some Tidus/Seymour in there too, but before you run away screaming its only on Seymour's part.

Warnings: um… minor swearing, (Yaoi?) and an extremely irritated Auron.

(this is a compiled version.)

The cage in which Tidus and Auron sat in was cold and dark. It was suspended form the ceiling by a heavy chain away from the bridge that was the floor. Underneath them looked like an endless chasm, a pit with no end.

Tidus couldn't take the cold silence anymore and it was really starting to piss him off so he jumped up onto the cage ledge and started shaking the bars. "LET ME OUTTA HERE!" his shouting echoed through the empty hall.

A low calm voice rang through the silence, recognized as Aurons. "Sit down and wait." The quiet words did nothing to ease his irritation. Angrily he slid down the bars of the cage until he was sitting cross-legged on the iron floor. Silence reigned. "Auron."

"hn." Came the quiet reply. "Why does Sin always come back?"

There was no answer for so long that Tidus thought Auron was beginning to ignore him. "The spiral of death. Sin, the bringer of death, Summoners die to kill sin, and people die because of sin…."

Tidus listened to the explanation, or tried to, anyways. He was distracted by the other man in the cage with him. How could he be so stupid as to fall in love with his guardian! It's not like Auron liked him back, I mean he put freaking food on the table for me the last ten years! Usually it was easier to put Auron out of his mind, but being stuck in this small space with him was driving him insane! Besides Auron would kill him if he knew how much he wanted to-

"Are you even paying attention?"

Tidus's mind shot back to reality. What was it that Auron was saying?

"Heh…sorry…" his face was self-decrepitating.

Auron sighed. "Just like your father…"

Steps echoed down the hall, the shadows parting to reveal Maester kinoc.

"You have been summoned by Maester Seymour. We will escort you there."

"The hell I will!" Tidus was on his feet glaring daggers at Kinoc.

Auron sighed again. Why did the brat have to make things so difficult all the time. He was about to tell Tidus to shut up when a small dart hit him in the neck. He saw a similar sight on Tidus's neck as well, while inky blackness started licking at the edge of his vision.

Collapsed on the ground, shrouded by blackness the last thing he heard was Kinoc's laughter.

"The Maester will see you now."

The damn fuzziness just wouldn't go away. Tidus's head felt like it was filled with cotton. He lay there trying not to vomit and waiting for the world to stop spinning. Eventually Tidus opened his eyes a little bit. He was in some kind of stone room, maybe a dungeon? There was red curtains covering the windows, blocking the daylight and tidus realized he was in some kind of bedroom. The bed he lay on top of was a deep crimson red and billowy streams of red fabric hung from the ceiling to the floor above the bed. A sweet scent permeated the air.

It was a few minutes before he realized he was not alone... a gasp escaped his lips as he realized who lay next to him. Auron.

Tidus scrambled backwards and would have fallen off the bed had something prevented him. This something was connected to his wrist, a handcuff. Tidus's eyes trailed across the bed following silver chain on crimson silk connecting to Auron's wrist. His usual red coat was missing, leaving him in his sleeveless armor. His eyes continued up the arm following the muscles of his chest to his throat, continuing on to the face. The eyes were closed. One scarred and one in sleep. A stubble lined the man's cheeks and lips and the skin was tanned. His eyes drifted lower to the curve of the neck, and shoulders, then trailing his eyes back to his guardians face. The eye was open, deep hazel eyes staring back. Auron was was awake.

Tidus blushed, embarrassed to be caught staring. "I-I uh… well- um… hi." He scooted backwards to give the man some space, and in doing so almost succeeding in falling off the bed from the second time. He was stopped this time not by the chain, but the older man's hand.

Tidus blushed harder, but Auron didn't even seem to notice this. He was too busy scanning the room and taking stock of injuries and supplies. His face turned in disgust as he looked at the violent shade of the curtains and the crimson bed.

Tidus swallowed. He had not seen his guardian without his red coat since he was a child, and only then once or twice. "So what now?" Tidus's voice seared through the silence causing both of them to wince slightly.

"Good question. I'm glad you asked that Son of Jecht." Both Tidus and Auron turned their heads at the source of the voice. "Where's Yuna! If you've hurt her I'm gonna kill you Seymour!"

Attempting to lunge at Seymour was a bad idea. When he did the chain that was connected to auron was connected to the bed by a strange lock, similar to a puzzle, which just yanked him back.

"Calm yourself son of Jecht. Yuna is fine, although not for long. Tell me Son of Jecht, do you know where you are?"

All Tidus could do was glare.

"Obviously not. You are in the Via Purifico. There are three trials to complete. If you pass through these three trials you can find lady Yuna and escape. If not she will die. The execution is set for three days from now. I wish you the best of luck Son of Jecht." Tidus Glared at Seymour's back, wanting to rip him a new one and out of the corner of his eye caught Auron studying the lock.

" a puzzle… hmph."

"Great. A puzzle, one thing I'm bad at. Hey wait a second! This is al bhed! And the yevonite word for machine?"

"Can you solve it?" the man was In a surly mood, not that he could blame him.

"I think so."

Tidus took the lock and examined it. This looked like one of the locks on his school lockers. Instead of numbers though it had letters. Using the letters Rikku and Rin had taught him he spelled out the word machina in Al Bhed. Giving a gentle tug the lock pulled free.

Tossing the lock to the other side of the room tidus stood to get out of bed, cautiously following Auron to make sure neither of them tugged the chain. This was a small victory though, as they had no weapons, no items, were chained together and still had to go through the Via purifico to rescue Yuna.

"Great."

i know this is a little different from how the story was before, but i wasn't happy with how short the chappies are so i ran a small compilation of chapters 1-2 with some editing and corrections. i'm also going to do the same with chapters 3-4 and 6-7 and so on when they are up.