Hey, Soul here. I used to go by WakkaxTidus when I first wrote this fic three years ago alongside my other FFX fic, Brotherhood. After a while I just stopped writing, my life didn't really allow for all that stuff. But now, three years later, I'm finally in a better place (physically and in terms of writing skill) and can revise my old stuff. I hope you enjoy it!

Luca High

A Final Fantasy (Various) fic by SoulSayArcher

Chapter One

Yevon Street

"Are we there yet?" the two blonde brothers said in unison. They were bored stiff in the back of the pickup truck, and had grown bored of even annoying their adoptive parents now. Tidus sighed, dropping his head and groaning loudly.

"Sorry, boys," replied Auron, trying to focus on the road ahead of him. "I can't do anything about it. The drive will take at least another half hour, I think."

Rin yawned, waking up from the nap he'd been taking since Djose, the big town up north where they had the massive power plant. He sat up properly, looking back at the brothers on the back seats. "C'mon, guys, it isn't much longer. Although, Rikku's probably already sat outside the new house, waiting for us to arrive.

"Well, that does sound like her," Tidus laughed. Shuyin remained silent, staring hard out of the car window. It was a great, sunny day and he hated having to spend it stuck in the truck.

With Rin being Rikku's uncle and all, her and the boys had always seen a lot of each other after they were taken in by Rin and Auron. Auron was always their father Jecht's best friend since childhood, so after Jecht and his wife perished in a car accident while driving home from a Christmas Eve dinner party, Auron felt it was his duty to be the legal guardian of both Tidus and Shuyin. Rin had always looked after them when their parents needed a babysitter anyway, so it just meant doing that all the time for the Al Bhed.

After another hour or so they finally reached their new neighbourhood in the city of Luca, one of the largest cities around the area. It was fairly new, so many of the inhabitants only recently moved there anyway. It had a great mall, a huge sports stadium and a great theatre. Not too far from Yevon Street, however, was the city's new school, funded by the city's largest business organization, Ixion. That was where Auron was being transferred to, as it was a subsidary of Aeon Corp, where Auron had been employed for years now.

After getting out of the car, Auron ordered the boys to help unpack their stuff from the car. Rin interrupted, however. "Auron, they've been stuck in the car for three hours, let them stretch their legs a little!" He then turned to Tidus and Shuyin, "I forgot to mention, Rikku said she'll be waiting for you next door, not here. Her best friend lives there, I think she said. Why don't you go see if she's over there?"

They weren't exactly going to pass up the oppurtinity to miss something as boring and tiring as unpacking a house's worth of stuff, so they headed off next door. The house itself was fairly large, with a nicely sheltered front porch that had it's own table and chairs on. Tidus could tell just from this that whoever lived here must be well off. Not fame-and-fortune rich, no, but they certainly weren't poor. Stepping up onto the wooden porch, Tidus knocked loudly on the door.

The door was opened by a girl who looked to be around their age, if not a year or two older than the boys. Her straight brown hair blew gently in the breeze as she smiled, greeting them.

"Hi," she said softly, "Can I help you?"

"Yeah," Shuyin smiled, stepping in front of his brother. "We, uh, just moved in next door and-"

"Is that them?" interrupted a loud, playful voice. A blonde blur came to the door, squealing as she was met with the faces of her adoptive cousins.

"Tidus! Shuyin! You made it. Aren't you, like, really late?" she asked, tilting her head.

"Rikku! Uh, yeah, I guess so," Tidus answered, taken back a little by her over-the-top enthusiasm. Then again, he hadn't grown used to it, even after knowing her for so long. "The traffic was really bad on the Mi'ihen Highway."

"Oh, well come in," the brunette smiled. Another girl, this one with short brown hair and a n almost ridiculously long ponytail. She turned to the eldest girl, who she beared a strong resemblance to.

"Who is it, Lenne?" she asked.

"Oh, hey, , Yuna. It's Rikku's cousins. You know, the ones who move in today."

Yuna stared blankly at them. "Uh... no..."

Rikku laughed. "You were probably too busy working on your cosplay outfit."

"Cosplay?" asked the two brothers together.

"Yeah, you don't know it?" Rikku asked, smirking. "Come on in and I'll show you."

The boys walked in, Shuyin closing the door behind him. They walked through the quaint, charming decor of the house and up the stairs into Lenne and Yuna's room, which arguably took up half of the house's upper floor. "Damn, where do your parents sleep?" Shuyin asked, and Lenne smiled weakly.

"It's just our mom, actually... and she's not around much. She works in some government hospital overseas treating patients who've been infected with SIN. Our dad had a long fight with it before he died."

"Oh... I'm sorry," Tidus said, putting a hand on Lenne's shoulder. He vaguely remembered something Rin told him about a virus that swept the nation a couple years back. It was pretty much wiped out where they lived now, and everyone got vaccinations when they were little.

"Synaptic Inactiveness of the Nerves. Killed our dad, but poor Wakka and Chappu lost both their parents to it."

Rikku suddenly remembered why they came upstairs, pulling up her current project from the bed. It was a very revealing outfit, something odd even for these times.

"What is that?" Shuyin asked, "Isn't that a bit... adult for you? You're only sixteen, after all."

"Oh, it's not like that!" she giggled, "It's for cosplaying. And it only looks a little weird right now because it's not finished."

"Right, cosplaying," Yuna smiled, now ready to move on from the previous conversation. "It's big in Luca. There's this event every so often where you dress up as your favourite characters from anime or manga."

"Or video games," Lenne smiled, "Generally only Japanese stuff, though. They do a convention every few months that we always go to."

"I'm going as Martha!" Rikku said, parading around her outfit. "She's this girl who fights in a war in this game we play. She's, like, a valkyrie or something."

"What about you?" Shuyin asked Lenne. He wasn't going to deny it... he was certainly looking forward to seeing what racy outfit she'd chosen to make.

"Oh, I'm going as Sigourney. She's another one of the pegasus knight trio from that game."

"That makes me Tanya," Yuna grinned, "I'm the third member."

Tidus was really getting into it. "That's kinda cool, you know. When's the next event? I might have to come along."

Their conversation went on for a while before they decided to go sit out front in the sun, where it was much warmer and nicer than being stuck inside. Yuna brought out her cat, and Tidus asked her about the odd size of it.

"No offense or anything, but that's gotta be more dog than cat, right?" he asked, slightly puzzled.

"Oh no, it's a rare breed mom got overseas. It's called a Ronso Cat. We named him Kimahri, it seemed to fit."

A very built guy came jogging down the street towards the house, and Lenne called him over, waving at him. "Hey, Chappu!"

"Oh hey, dude," replied the redhead, "You good, ya?"

Lenne got up and walked over to him, being watched discretely by Shuyin. "You never called me back last night!"

Damn, Shuyin thought, And here I was hoping she was single.

Chappu laughed it off, "Sorry, I was hanging with my girlfriend."

Yuna turned to Tidus and Rikku, whispering, although for a whisper it was actually pretty loud. "His girlfriend, Dona... she's such a stuck-up bitch. We all hate her... quite a lot, actually."

Rikku nodded, "Yeah... I don't get why he's with her, you know. He's so nice, and she's so... not."

Shuyin silently cheered, pumping his fist in the air as he realized she was indeed single. Well, maybe. He still wasn't sure, but at least she wasn't with Chappu. That was a start, right?

Rikku nudged Tidus in the ribs, something she knew he hated. He stopped picking at the grass and turned to her. "Hmm? What's up?"

"I just remembered. I was gonna introduce you to Chappu's brother, Wakka. He's gay, too, and I think he's you're type y'know."

"Really?" the blonde guy arched a brow.

"Yeah," she continued. "He was totally supposed to come over today, but he forgot that he had practice."

"Wakka plays for the Aurochs, you know," Yuna winked, "He's a football player."

Tidus chuckled, "Are you trying to set me up already?"

"...Yeah."

Tidus didn't have time to respond, as Rin came out to tell them that he wanted Tidus to go get take-out with him, and that Auron wanted Shuyin to help him put up shelves or something like that. He waved to Rikku, making a mental note to go and see her Dad the next day.

Tidus stood up from the grass, waving goodbye to the girls.

"I'll call you tonight!" Rikku said, "I'll tell you more about Wakka."

Tidus nodded, still laughing, and went over to the pickup, getting into the passenger's side. Rin pulled away, and as they drove down the street they passed a smaller house where a guy who looked to be around Tidus' age was shooting hoops in front of the garage. With his red hair and tanned skin, he was a dead ringer for Chappu.

"Oh, that must be Wakka..." he muttered to himself, unaware Rin was listening.

"Wakka, eh?" he smiled, "I remember Rikku saying something about a Wakka as we left! Well, what did she say about him."

"That she wants me to meet him... she's already trying to set me up and we haven't even unpacked yet."

"Being Rikku, then!" Rin laughed, and then looked back to the road. "Well... he's not exactly ugly, Tidus! I'd certainly think about it if I were you."

Tidus nodded, and they didn't talk about it again until they got home.

After eating, the boys decided to go up to their rooms and unpack. As soon as Tidus had finished, he fell backwards onto the bed, exhausted. It wasn't until Rikku called that he actually moved, picking up the phone, too lazy to get up.

"Hey! What's up?"

"Nothiiing," replied Rikku, her voice just as loud over the phone. Tidus wondered if she was shouting or something. "So, what did you wanna know about Wakka so bad that you called?"

"Huh?" Tidus exclaimed, "You called me!"

"Did I?" she asked, "Oh... yeah. Anyways! What did you wanna know about him?"

Tidus groaned, "Again, I didn't- ugh, whatever. What's he like, anyway? I think we drove past when he was playing basketball."

"Probably, he and Chappu have this big basketball hoop on their garage. I tried playing before... but I'm too short! Even Yunie can bowl me over by bumping into me."

Tidus laughed, and she shouted at him down the phone. "Hey! That's just mean! Do I have to come over there and shout at you? Just because my basketball skills are disasterrific, it doesn't mean you can laugh..."

Tidus laughed, "Okay, okay! I'm sorry. Did you say you were coming by with brother to pick me and Shuyin up in the morning?"

"Yeah," she laughed, "I'll see you then! Get a lot of sleep, the first day of school's always a big one here!"

Haha, I really did have to change a lot while writing this. First I was going to have S.I.N to be something like G.U.I.L.T from Trauma Center as a reference to it, but I decided the whole medical terrorist thing was a little too heavy to just briefly mention and never talk about again, so I made it a disease! A little depressing I know, but whateverrrr.

Anyway, enjoy! Don't forget to read and review, and look for a new chapter every Friday!

~Soul