Kuja and Yuna, a wonderful pairing. I hope everyone likes this as much as I did writing it! (I'm sorry if some of the characters are OOC, I'm not perfect. )

Kuja.

Kuja stands quietly, leaning against the castle entrance on the stage of the M.S. Prima Vista. He sighs quietly, feeling slightly annoyed by the clown's constant jabbering.

" I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE THAT GIRL! How did she break my spell?! I bet her little buddy Onion Ring is behind this! It makes me so MAD. I HATE friendship. It's so irksome. " Kefka says angrily, half pacing, half frolicking.

" Kefka, whining about it is not going to help the situation." Kuja says tiredly, rubbing his eyes. " She escaped, so you need to get control of her again. It's not complex."

" Says you. You haven't even captured Zidane yet! "

Zidane. The name rings with familiarity in Kuja's mind, but really he doesn't know why. All he knows is that Zidane comes from his home world, that they have a history before all this. But Kuja's memories have yet to return to him, and all that matters is that Zidane is on Cosmos' side, while Kuja is one of Chaos' warriors, meaning they are enemies no matter what their past is. He sighs once more. The battles were truly getting tiresome. Either Cosmos would win, or Chaos, it never really mattered who the victor was. As soon as the war was finished, it would begin anew, a never ending cycle of battle and bloodthirst for eternity.

He's snapped out of his thoughts by Kefka prancing over to him and pinching his arm roughly. " Hey!" Kuja protests. Kefka chortles.

" Quit daydreaming, you poetic nut. " He says with a huge grin plastered over his gaudily made up face.

Kuja seethes. He hates Kefka just as much as he hates Garland. In fact, Kuja hates everyone he meets. No one is worth the time or effort to know. All of them all want one thing and that's all that matters; To win and go home. So he fights blindly, cutting down Cosmos's soldiers until they all perish for the few precious seconds it allows for a reprieve before restarting the cycle.

" Leave me alone. Don't you have better things to do rather than crying about your troubles and bothering me? Such as recapturing the girl? " Kuja says, his annoyance clear in his voice as well as his expression.

Kefka shrugs. " Aaah, it's more fun to pester you. She's not going be free for much longer anyway. "

As if on cue, a shrill scream pierces the air. Kefka grins widely. " That's her, I KNOW it! Let's go beat her to a submissive and bloody pulp!" He says happily.

Kuja knows this is what is expected of him, so he nods and starts to follow Kefka away when suddenly the gate into the castle explodes, pieces of stone and wood pelting his arms as he shields his face from the onslaught of debris. When the smoke from the blast resides, he sees three people laying on the wooden floor of the stage. One of them he recognizes as she sits up, choking on dust, as Terra, the girl from Kefka's homeworld that he constantly wants to manipulate to destroy everything with him. Beside her, coughing but jumping to his feet, is Onion Knight, her ally who always seems to be by her side. And then he sees her.

The one that gets his interest is the one shakily getting to her feet, her golden staff raised to fend off any more attacks. Her long, purple and white dress billows as she goes into a defensive position. She is clearly confident even though she's hurt, her sleeve ripped and slightly bleeding, her aura calm and ready.

But what makes his breath catch in his throat isn't just the majestic way she holds herself. It's her eyes that make him pause and look at her. The eyes, one a sapphire blue, the other emerald green, shine brightly with her liveliness, with the purity in her soul. Suddenly he feels a warmth in his chest. What...?

He's ripped away from his gawking when Cloud of Darkness comes through the broken castle's entry, the black and red marks adorning her body standing out against her pale skin. The yellow tentacles dribble saliva onto the ground as she comes forward, her silver and wild hair framing her face.

Kefka dances around. " Ooh, this is perfect timing! Cloud of Darkness, I must thank you for bringing me this delicious present. Ohoho!"

Terra's head whips around, her blond hair flailing, and her eyes widen. " Kefka!"

Onion Knight stands defensively between Terra and the two villains eyeing her. " I'll protect you," He announces.

Cloud of Darkness smiles with malice. " Do not think I did this just for you, Kefka. I just knew you wanted the girl to yourself. I want the boy. " She spots Kuja standing slightly away and her expression turns stony. " Kuja, why don't you destroy the other one? "

Fight her? The one with the light in her eyes? He shakes his head. He really has no desire to face off with them. He doesn't want to have to be the one to kill her. He doesn't even know why, but it's this gut feeling he has. " No. "

Both Cloud of Darkness and Kefka freeze. Slowly they face him.

" What? Why not?' Kefka demands.

" I think you two can take care of them on your own," Kuja says dismissively, hoping they do not probe him further. He can't explain why he's doing this.

" Are you saying you will not attack one of Cosmos' warriors?" Cloud of Darkness says with a dangerous tone.

" Yes I am. Do you have a problem with that?' He asks her. Out of the corner of his eye, he realizes that the three warriors are looking at him with slight shock.

" You're going against Chaos' wishes if you don't fight them. You realize this, don't you?" She pursues.

"If choosing to sit out a battle that two perfectly capable people can fight by themselves is against his wishes, then yes." He says a bit hesitantly. Doing this could put him on the bad side of Chaos. But... something is preventing him from killing her. " I am... not in the mood." He should just kill her and be done. Why is he resisting like this?

Kefka shrugs. " Fine, fine, fine. If he doesn't want to mess up his black thong their blood, then we'll just do it ourselves and get all the credit! Besides, I just want to destroy everything!" He then jumps around and grins. " Time to play, dearie!" he then shouts, " Trine!"

Around Terra triangles of light close in fast on her. Onion Knight pushes her out of the way, and they both hit the ground, skidding a few feet, barely escaping the spell. He gets up while Terra rubs her head and readies her ice spell and dashes after Kefka, only to be intercepted by Cloud of Darkness. One of her tentacles reaches for him and bites into his shirt, lifting him into the air and sending him crashing into the hard wooden floor. He groans and doesn't get back up.

"No!" Terra cries out, temporarily pausing her barrage of ice as she sees Cloud of Darkness go towards Onion Knight to finish him off.

What happens next is so sudden, so unexpected, that Kuja isn't even sure it happens.

While Terra's guard is down, Kefka creeps up on her. Abruptly he screams, " It's over!" And jumps up, sprouting sharp wings towards Terra. What he doesn't see is the girl with two different colored eyes shove Terra out of the way and block the attack, risking her life to save her.

But the most surprising part is when Kuja runs in front of her and wraps his arms around her, shielding her as Kefka's wing stabs into his back sharply, his eyes closing with the pain.

The force of the attack sends them both deep into the stage, out into the Lunar Subterrane behind the strange stage. They both slam hard into the sandy and hard rock ground, him over her. After the kicked up sandy fog clears, he opens his eyes to find them staring down into blue and green ones.

The girl shoves him off and reaches for her staff, turning and defending herself with it, her eyes blazing with a bit of fear, but mostly that purity he saw before.

" We need... to get out of here." He says, his words coming out in slight gasps. The pain in his back is excruciating.

She blinks, as if startled that he hadn't tried to hurt her yet. " Why?" Her voice is light, but confident.

" Because they will come after both of us." He struggles to stand, wobbling on his feet and glancing behind. They'd come after them after they were finished with Terra and Onion Knight.

Her eyes become wide when she sees the blood coloring his shoulder. " You... You're hurt!" She looks at him again, strangely.

He winces with pain. " I'm not important. Come. There's a place we can hide not too far from here." He says.

She pauses, hesitant, but when he still does not prove to be a threat, she nods. Carefully they tread across the slippery floor, as fast as they can, Kuja struggling but doing his best to keep going.

" There," He points weakly to a small hole in a big rock a few feet ahead. He leads her to it and crawls through the small entry, with her following a moment later.

Inside it's wider, a dimly lit and cozy cave. Kuja walks over to the wall to his right and collapses against it, his back throbbing.

The girl takes a few steps inside warily, as if looking for danger. When there is none, she carefully takes a step toward Kuja. " May I... May I dress your wounds?" She asks in a barely audible voice, as if slightly afraid.

She wants to dress his wound? Why? He is the enemy; A warrior of Chaos. But she was offering to help him heal?

" Why would you do that?' He asks, his voice breaking a bit from the pain.

" Because you saved me." She says simply. In the darkness, the small light makes her eyes glow. " You did, and were hurt. "

" But I'm your enemy. You're supposed to want to hurt me," he says, his mind becoming cloudy with blood loss. He's not even sure if what he's saying is making sense.

" I don't want to hurt anyone." She says,

This is such a surreal situation. He points to a corner of the cave. " There's.. bandages..."

She walks over and retrieves the roll of bandages, along with a healing potion. She comes close to him and puts the potion to his lips, making him drink. When the potion is gone she starts taking off his cloak.

" What is your name?" She asks him as she starts wrapping his wound with the thin bandages.

" Kuja..." he says sleepily. She's becoming harder to see. But for some reason, he feels safe and warm. Is he dying? " What... is your name?" If he does die, he at least wants to know what the name is of the girl with the gem-like eyes, who he risked his life to save.

She smiles at him through the darkness and says, " My name is Yuna. "

I know it's a bit shorter than it was supposed to be, but I'll try to make the next chapter longer to make up for it. I hope you liked it!