Disclaimer: As usual I don't own any characters but the original ones that I create. They belong to their respective companies and blah blah blah.

Summary: After Sin was killed Yuna joined the Gullwings, sphere hunters, all because of a single sphere. But no one knows the story of a friend that was never mentioned, a warrior that grew up with Yuna in Besaid and soon left to travel on her own. She now fights fiends for a price, but she wouldn't do that for her precious Besaid. (Takes place several months before X-2's begining. So I can do whatever without big events.)

Original character(s): Arisu

Fiend Hunter Arisu

I bowed my head and leaned back against the large sword I had stabbed deep into the ground. Besaid was riddled with fiends, and I had taken this job free because it was my home. They had wanted to pay me quite a bit to rid the temple and outer areas of these fiends. I could use the money but as it was they were already giving me so much free. I had a place to stay, food to eat, but in the end resting against my blade and sitting on the beach were the most comfortable things.

"Arisu, Arisu," one of the younger residents of Besaid ran to me, shouting my name over and over again.

I caught the boy in one arm, keeping him from running around more or from falling. "Calm down, what's wrong boy?"

"Fiends have attacked the village!" He was breathing rapidly, like he was hyperventilating. He put his hands on his knees and attempted to catch his breath as I stood. "Hu-hurry please."

"Stay here and calm down boy," I lifted my blade from the sand and sheathed in over my shoulders. I walked at a strenuous pace to the village, unsheathing my blade once I arrived. I had thought he was just overreacting but there were so many fiends. "Datto," I shouted, running towards where the fiends were arriving. "Where are the others?"

"Trying to fight off the fiends," he returned, throwing his ball towards another small fiend to render it unconscious. Using his blitzball skills was definitely a good idea.

"Go towards the others, I can handle this!" I turned towards the nearest fiend and cut him down without a second thought. If I was right these fiends were just a distraction and there was a much bigger one behind the scenes controlling these ones. "Datto, Letty, what are you..." I cut off watching the fiend following them. "Get everyone inside!"

I ran towards the fiend, sweeping my sword at an angle. The fiend simply flicked a finger and I fell the ground, my body felt like ice. The fiend chuckled malevolently, so human like that it was terrifying. Silver and black fur covered her body, the black fur making swirling patterns that seemed to have some sort of meaning. Animal paws replaced what should have been hands and his elongated feet look to be animalistic as well. I could only watch as I tried to regain the heat in my body, slowly coming back to me as I concentrated.

Gunshots sounded behind me, somewhere I couldn't turn my head to. "Way to go Yunie," was the shot afterwards and then a giggle. I could see the warrior and thief that attacked the fiend before me. The warrior's clothes black, a considerable amount of metal buckles as well. It was quite typical of a warrior, and the thief. The girl dressed in yellow with blond hair in numerous braids and what not.

I managed to slowly push myself up, shaking madly and ending up falling back to the ground. The blasted blizzard magic was nothing that I wanted to endure again. I used my blade to push myself up, using it like a cane to remain standing. I watched the warrior and thief attack over and over again, dodging magic and slashes. The thief was very energetic, attacking and then bouncing back like it no energy at all.

My breath came out in long shaky breaths as the fiend was slain and I finally saw who the gunshots came from. I recognized the ex-summoner easily, Yuna, she had defeated Sin and lived and she was born and raised her in Besaid. She was a local legend, and I knew her quite well, we were about the same age after all. I let a ghost of a smile curve my lips as she caught my gaze and smile widely back. She slid her guns into her belt and motioned both the thief and the warrior to her. The thief basically bounced to her, while the warrior's gait was more confident than any I had seen before.

"Arisu, it's good to see you again," Yuna still had that soft voice, shy and standoffish. However, she seemed like she had gained her own bit of confidence somewhat and quite a bit of battle ability.

"You too," I said shakily, still hoping that somehow my body would warm up and I could move properly again. "Wh-who are these two?" I managed to sheath my blade over my shoulder, my gaze settling on the warrior. She looked as if she didn't trust me, like I was a threat to something she was doing.

"This is Rikku," she motioned to the thief, who smiled broadly and extended her hand to shake my own. "And this is Paine, we're all sphere hunters now, the Gullwings."

I looked to the warrior again after shaking Rikku's hand, her red eyes studied me nearly angrily. But just when I thought I had figured out the emotion in them the flicked to complete emptiness, there was something about her that made me question whether Yuna was safe or not. But if the young thief cared about Yuna so much then this warrior likely didn't pose any threat either. I sighed heavily and simply stepped past them, each step requiring a bit more energy than it should have. I just kept walking, ignoring the footsteps behind me. I was heading back to my place on the beach, having failed everyone in Besaid it was the only thing I could really do.

"Is something wrong Arisu?" Yuna sat down beside me, crossing her legs with her hands folded in her lap. I noticed the thief and warrior had wandered to the shoreline. The thief was bouncing around like it was her job to be hyperactive.

"Where'd you run into them? They don't seem like the type of people you would be staying with." I leaned my chin on my knees, sighing heavily as I continued to watch the thief. "Paine, right? She seems rather, harsh would be a good word for it."

"You don't seem too pleasent yourself Arisu," she giggled, grinning as she leaned forward on her hands. "What are you staring at?"

Rikku, was the first thing that came to my mind, but I just shook my head and did the first thing that I could think of. "Just watching the ocean, I miss sailing acoss it." I bowed my head and took in a deep beath before lookng back at the thief bouncing around collecting shells. It was so funny the way that she was bouncing around the warrior like she was trying to get a rise out of her. I merely grinned watching her, she was so...what was the word? Cute, adorable...lov.. I growled at myself and caught Yuna's attention, "don't worry it's nothing."

"If you say so," she giggled again.

These are stories I have up on another account, I wanted to repost them.