A/N: This is a Rikku/Yunie fic dedicated to Armor King! I love his stories, and he wrote one 'specially for me!! /s/4224349/1/ComplicatedLove - this one. So you can read it first and then read my fic dedicated to him!!

Life wasn't too bad for the Gullwings. Based on the Celsius, Rikku and Yuna were sphere hunters – finding and reviewing spheres every time Brother detected one. Yuna, a half Al-Bhed was a former High Summoner and Rikku, her Al-Bhed cousin, used to be her guardian. In a sense, she still was.

Being sphere hunters, the two girls had different motives for finding the spheres. Yuna was searching for her love interest, Tidus, and Rikku had a crush the size of a planet stuffed inside her little heart on Yuna. Yes, they were cousins. Yes, they were girls. The problem was that Rikku just couldn't help it. When they fought against Sin, Yuna wore her Summoner dress; Rikku thought it was pretty. Now, Yuna spent most of the days in her gunner outfit and poor Rikku just couldn't keep her big green eyes off of her cousin's chest, belly, very small and tight shorts, and her perfectly slender legs. What do you expect the helpless thief to do? Pretend that her gorgeous cousin simply doesn't exist? No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't get the image of Yuna out of her head. So Rikku screwed technicalities and sent them all to hell and just stopped resisting. She gave in to her seductive and sinful impulses. Of course, for a girl as bouncy, spring-loaded, and cheerful as Rikku – being a voyeur wasn't fun at all…she wanted more. She was pretty sure she wasn't going to get it though. Yuna was so pure, so kind, and so right. Rikku though that what she had in mind was on the contrary, so wrong. So she decided to stay with visually stripping her cousin and examining her body when she didn't see.

Then came a day when Paine came along. Actually, Rikku and Yuna came along – Paine appeared in the nick of time to kill the remaining six fiends that an exhausted and out of ammunition Yuna and injured Rikku just couldn't handle. So she joined the Gullwings. She said she had her own reasons to find spheres. The crimson eyed and silver haired warrior seemed strange to Rikku. First off, what kind of girl wears black, isn't cheerful and likes skulls and killing things? She started studying the warrior and at the same time losing "respect points". The thief didn't understand why Paine was a complete contrast with Yuna. She was serious, barely talked, was mean sometimes, and preferred to just sit in her bed, sharpening her sword all day. Training with her wasn't fun either. Paine didn't get Rikku's jokes, fought for real, and sometimes Rikku got hurt. That was actually the only time that Paine was nice. Rikku even began to like the warrior. In fact, since she didn't do much with Yuna for fear of scaring her cousin away, she became so obsessed with Paine that overtime – she completely forgot about her liking of Yuna. Little did she know that eventually, her liking of Paine would lead her back to Yuna.

Paine was getting predictable. She finished sharpening her sword, and after a round of complex practice swings and thrusts, Paine left her cabin and went out to get a breath of fresh air. All at the exact same time.

Rikku had this game she played with Paine. She hid anywhere she could think of and tried to catch the crimson eyed warrior off guard. She never succeeded. However she was sure she would get her this time. The thief had been keeping track of Paine's schedule when the Gullwings were not sphere hunting. For a week now, Rikku observed Paine's afternoon schedule. Rikku was amazed at how Paine functioned like a clock. She always appeared on deck and stood behind the large gull attached to the railings at exactly 2:14. The thief was very comfortably perched behind Paine, on top of the Celsius. She liked getting a tan while watching the Paine's pale skin covered in sweat. She thought that Paine's sweaty pale body covered with leather was sexy. Rikku was especially grateful that Paine left her lower back exposed. Not as low as the thief would like it but it was better than nothing. Today though, Rikku wasn't just watching. Today she would make her move.

After weeks of planning, Rikku positioned crouched and prepared to jump. She had to wait for just the right moment. There, Paine turned around and slowly started walking toward Rikku. If Rikku didn't act now, Paine would pass under her and reenter the Celsius. The thief gathered all her strength and let it out in one powerful and swift jump, right into Paine. She didn't make any previous mistakes, including war cry's, or noisiliy unsheathing her dagger which she wasn't using this time. When they landed, Rikku had her arms around Paine's neck and her legs straddling the warrior's waist. Unfortunately her timing was a little early. Paine's head hit the gull ornament, hard. Amazingly though, the leather-clad warrior didn't lose consciousness right away.

She grunted in pain, slid her gloved hand between their bodies, and angrily tossed Rikku away.

"Whoa!" the thief squealed. "Gotcha this time!"

"Fuck Rikku, what the hell were you thinking?"

Rikku saw the crimson eyed girl groggily get up and noticed she was holding the back of her head. Her glove was very bloody.

"Oh no! Paine, are you hurt? Are you ok?"

"No I'm not ok!" Paine shot back and went for the door. "Damn, probly broke m'hea-"

Paine's speech slurred and she slumped down only two feet from the door into the Celsius.

"No, no, no, no, NO, NO!! Paine!" Rikku ran over to the warrior, gently lifted her head and lowered it onto her thighs. "Please Painey." the thief sobbed, caressing her face. "Don't die on me, please! I'm sorry! I really am!"

Paine didn't respond. Rikku bent over and pressed her ear onto Paine's lips. She wasn't breathing.

"Oh no, you can't be dead." she whimpered. "I won't let you!! HELP! SOMEBODY PLEASE!! Brother! Yunie!!"

When Brother, Barkeep, and Yuna piled out of the Celsius onto the deck they were horrified by what they saw. Rikku was screaming and as a last act of desperation, she was holding Paine's head very close to her chest, as if she could just transfer life from her own heart into Paine's.

A/N: Please review people...my first fic and I wanna know how I am doing. No flames please. And yes this is chapter 1 of a multi-chapter story.