Home had just been rebuilt, and I finally got a break from the Faction. Sure I helped around with building Home by sending people there, and coming myself every now and then, but now it's really done! I couldn't wait to see what it looks like, or more like a spunky blonde that I hadn't seen since she left to Besaid with her cousin Yuna and that blonde guy that rose from the dead or something.
For the three years it took to build Home after Vegnagun was destroyed I hadn't seen her once. I think Cid was catching on the fact that I had a think for his daughter, because by the fourth time I came by construction, he started talking to me about how he's getting old and wants grandchildren before he dies. It's either he became wise, or he just has no one to talk to because they don't want to hear his rambling…
But today for sure I was going to see her. There was no way she was going to miss the reopening of Home. Every Al Bhed was going to be there. Now the only problem was going to find her.
I began to search in the section of mass amounts of people who had already began to party. Yevon only knew how many more parties will be started when the ceremony was finished. I have to find her now. I thought to myself as I weaved in and out of the crowds that had begun to form.
I continued to walk around until I found Cid talking to Rin.
Rin was the first to notice me and nodded his head at me. Cid turned his bald head abruptly to see what Rin had been nodding at and spotted me. Cid smiled one of those smiles that just made your blood run cold. One that said he knew more then he gave on.
"Gippal, my boy!" Cid waved his hand over towards me ignoring whatever Rin had been saying, even though it did not seem to bother him much.
I swallowed the lump that was forming in my throat and walked over to Cid and Rin. "Hey. Beautiful day to be having a celebration…"I tried to make small talk.
"I'm sorry, but I have important business matters to attend to before the ceremony this evening. Goodbye, and good evening." Rin said, in his formal matters. He sounded like he was forming a business agreement with Cid before I had come around.
With that it was only Cid and I left. "so boy, you seen my baby girl yet?"
"Uh, no-" I began to reply, but Cid cut me off.
"You can find her at the Oasis. Just be ready, she's really changed since you last saw her…" He gave me that all knowing smiled again before he walked off barking orders to someone in Al Bhed.
I ignored the weird feeling that crept up inside of me and went off to find a hover. I really hoped that what Cid was talking about Rikku changing was a good thing and not a bad thing. I don't know if I'd ever be able to forgive her if she cut off all of her beautiful blonde hair.
I found the hover and went off to find her
B y the time I had gotten to the Oasis it was boiling hot. There was no other word for it, and the only clothes that I had one me was a pair of denims jeans and a black t-shirt. Not your typically apparel for what you want to wear in the desert in the middle of the day.
I wiped the sweat off of my brow and took my shirt off trying to get some kind of relief from the heat. It was still hot, but at least it was a little more bearable.
I parked the hover off to the side of the Oasis and begun to walk around trying to find her. She had always been good at hiding, but since she didn't know that I was coming, she didn't have enough time to hide from me.
I walked around for a little while, and still couldn't find her. I don't know how she hides so fast and effective, but I have to give her props, it must be really hard staying in a place for so long without moving or making any noises. Maybe that's why she makes such a good thief…
Walking over to the center of the Oasis, were the water was, I bent down and cupped my hands trying not to let the water seep though my fingers as I tried to get some water. I repeated this for a while and every once and a while splashing some against my face.
I stood up slowly trying to prevent a dizzy spell that happens after standing up too fast. That's when I heard it. The high pitched giggle that only meant one thing. Trouble. For me.
"Hey, Gippy!" Her sing-song voice used the voice the name that I despised almost as much as she hated the nickname 'Cid's Girl'.
"Hello, Cid's Girl. Long Time no see." I was just about to turn around, but she placed her hands on my back.
"I have a name." The way she said it wasn't the same whinny way, now it was an 'I'm-going-to-kill-you' way. It kinda scared me, but it also turned me on, her being more grown up. This could be fun.
"So how have you been?" Once again I tried to turn around, but her hands were still preventing me from doing so. "What you don't want me to see you? Did you get fat?"
"Oh Gippal, you're a dead man!"
That comment really pushed her over the edge. Right after she said my name she sent me sailing in the air into the ice cold water. Well one thing was for sure, she had gotten stronger over the last three years.
"And no, I haven't gotten fat!" She screamed at me as I resurfaced from the water.
She was defiantly right. She hadn't gotten fat. Quite the opposite. She gained more curves, and her body was more toned. One thing for sure though, she was fuming mad with me.
"Wow…" The word slipped out of my mouth before I had even known what was coming out of my mouth.
"What?" Rikku screeched turning around, going down to the ground holding herself. It looks as if I had offended her or something. Even though I really thought that girls liked it when guys became speechless…
I slowly got out of the water, my jeans weighting me down slightly. I placed a hand on her shoulder, making her jump, and sat down next to her. She still smelt like oranges, just the way I liked her. "Rikku, are you okay?"
She nodded her head yes, but her body told a different story.
I pulled her into my lap making her shorts wet and leaned my head on her shoulder. "Rikku, you know you can tell me anything. What's bugging you?"
"Yuna and Tidus are getting married."
"You're jealous?" I asked as I picked her up by the waist and spun her around so she was facing me. I was right, she was crying. I whipped the tears flowing down her checks with my thumb. Even with her green eyes red and puffy, she was still beautiful.
"Why do they get a happy ending but I don't? I helped save the world with her! Twice! Why don't I have my happy ending yet? Paine got hers, now Yuna, when is it going to be me?" She rested her head on my chest, so I could no longer see her beautiful face.
"Rikku, you can have a happy ending. All you have to do is look for it." I was really hoping that she would get that I could be her happy ending.
She looked up at me, her big swirly green eyes looking to see if I was lying. "I've looked everywhere though…well except-"
I didn't let her finish what she had to say. The way her lips were moving, and the way she looked at that second. Sad, needy, pleading, I just couldn't help myself.
I put my lips gently on hers, hoping that she would get the message. She did. Within seconds she was kissing me back with more force than I had originally started with. I really think she needed this more than I did at that exact moment, by the force I was getting out of it.
I broke the kiss much to both of our dismay and placed my forehead on top of hers. "You really look great."
And it was true. She had grown an inch or two and she didn't have as much baby fat as she used to, not that I would say that to her face. She really did look great. It was to the point where it look everything I had not to jump her and make here mine right there.
Rikku blushed slightly and looked up to my eye. "I guess I am jealous of Yuna being able to get married and have kids before me. I mean I was the one who really wanted it! She only wanted it after Sin died for good and she got Tidus back. I've wanted it my whole life."
"Hey you know I have dreams about having a family too, one day! Why should you be the only sad one?"
"You? Having a family! Ha, Gippal, don't make me laugh! You're too much of a man whore to even get a girl!"
Well at least now she was smiling, making it a little easier o me. "Well, now. Isn't that just a tad bit mean?"
Placing her hands on her chin, as if she was really thinking for the answer, she smiled, "No. It's the truth." She stuck her tongue out and skipped around for a while, before falling to the ground.
I laughed as she made a face of disapproval.
"Hey you big meany! Don't laugh at me!" She stood up and began to walk. Obviously she wasn't looking where she was going because she walked straight into me with an 'umph'.
"Owwie…"
"You need me to kiss it and make it better?" I offered her as she rubbed her head. She didn't know it, but I didn't just say it to tease her. I really did want an excuse to kiss her.
"Shut up!" She said as she pushed me down once again, only this time it wasn't in the Oasis.
"Hey. Why'd you do that?" I asked as I got up. When I looked around I couldn't find her anywhere I looked. "Rikku? Hey Rik, where are you the ceremony starts in about thirty minutes and I'll give you a ride if you need one."
Once again that high pitched giggle. I was in trouble. It sounded as if she was where I had parked my hover. If she took it I was a dead man.
"Gippal, I don't think you should be offering me a ride if you don't have one yourself." She pulled out from behind a rock on top of my hover. "Well bye-bye Gippy. Good luck explaining to pops why you dint come to the ceremony."
With that she was gone. Leaving me in the middle of nowhere with nothing, but my clothes on my body and maybe the things that she left of the ground next to the hover had been. "This is going to be one hell of a walk." I grumbled as I headed over to where the hover had been just second before to see if she had left me anything.
I don't own anything except for the idea. I was listen to my iPod when Just the Girl by The Click Five came on and I got the idea. If you like it comment and tell me that I should continue posting the story. I have most of it ready for being typed out but its not completly finished. Any mistakes I apologies for. I don't have any proof readers to help me out
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