Summary: Tidus and Yuna have been best friends since they were toddlers, but when Yuna meets Shuyin and they start to get serious with their relationship, what is Tidus to do? He's both jealous and worried something might happen to her, considering Shuyin's fuming ex girlfriend, Lenne. What will Yuna think if Tidus admits his feelings for her? Will it be enough to snap her from her Shuyin trance?
Best Friends or More?
.::Chapter One::.
"Ouch!" Yuna winced as she shoved a box off of her foot. "Tidus, stop dropping boxes!"
"Well, stop getting in the way of falling boxes." Her blonde haired friend grinned.
"You're lucky I even let you smooth talk me into moving into this place with you..." grumbled Yuna. She continued to shift boxes around in their large, high rise, apartment. She wiped her forehead and exhaled, her hands placed on her hips.
"Now, Yuna, you know you love me." Tidus continued to grin as he unpacked his box of blitzball trophies. He had played blitzball ever since he was nine and as he grew older, his passion for the water sport only grew. He planned on trying out for the Zanarkand Abes once he finished up high school - another two whole years, which gave him plenty of time to prepare for it.
"Yeah, I love you to death, Tidus."
"Besides, why would you say no to all this?" Tidus spread out his arms, gesturing towards the private elevator that led up to their apartment, the high definition seventy inch television, and slide open, modern doors that led out to a balcony overlooking the Zanarkand blitzball stadium.
"I don't think anyone would." Yuna smiled, glancing around the spacious room. "How'd you get this place anyway?"
"Yuna, I'm not sure you've begun to understand this in the fifteen years you've come to know me," Tidus began, "but I am the son of Jecht, the most famous, successful blitzball player there is."
"Yeah, an old blitzball player," Yuna retorted, "If I remember...he's around almost fifty years old!"
"Okay, so maybe he was a young famous blitzball player and now he's just an old, drunken losing blitzball player, but he's still filthy rich." Tidus smirked. "Which means I am, too."
Yuna rolled her eyes. "Whatever. I have to go shower. I'm dirty, sweaty, and tired - "
"And annoying..." mumbled Tidus teasingly.
"Oh, shut up." Yuna shoved Tidus playfully before rushing to the bathroom to bathe after their long day. Tidus stared back at the brunette's retreating figure before he stretched his arms above his head, exhaling tiredly, and dropping his muscular, tanned arms back to his sides.
Glancing around, the blonde strode over to the clear glass doors that led out to the balcony, sliding them open smoothly and stepping out into the unseasonably crisp, chilled air. He approached the edge of the balcony slowly with light steps, grasping the sleek, metal railing and slightly leaning over, gazing longingly at the blitzball stadium below him.
The round stadium was empty that night, and the sphere pool carried very few blitzball players practicing their shots and passes, some just using the pool for a summer swim. Tidus closed his eyes, imagining himself swimming swiftly between the other players of the Al Bhed Psychs, dodging their tackles and using his father's famous Jecht Shot to win the game, the crowd cheering his name - thundering throughout the stadium. Then he would probably pick up one of his fan girls (conveniently looking just like Yuna) and maybe take her back to his place and --
"Tidus?" The blonde's eyes snapped open, breaking his "star blitzball player" fantasy. He whirled around to catch sight of his best friend, her combed, wet, stringy hair dangling to her shoulders, her green and blue eyes sparkling from the great reflection the blitzball stadium's sphere pool gave off. Her skin seemed radiant and she looked refreshed. She had a blue robe wrapped tight around her with different colored blitzballs dotted across it.
Girly, yet still eye catching to the average man, Tidus thought. Yuna was always a sort of tomboy... Or maybe she's just trying to impress me... Nah.
"What are you doing out here?" Yuna questioned walking towards where Tidus stood.
"I, um... Uh, the view is great up here." Tidus grinned, avoiding Yuna's question, though it seemed now that it was more retorical for she was staring down at the glittering houses and blitzball stadium, seeming quite dazed herself.
She averted her eyes back to Tidus and smiled cheerfully. "You're right. Maybe this... maybe moving here was a good idea after all."
"Now, c'mon, Yuna," chuckled Tidus in that teasing voice he always used around girls, "You know I'm always right."
Yuna rolled her eyes and shoved Tidus lightly. "Oh, shut up, you idiot." She looked annoyed, but no amount of effort could mask the giggle that escaped her mouth. Yuna started towards the apartment, leaving Tidus and the caressing breeze that tousled his blonde hair.
Glancing once more at the blitzball stadium, Tidus also started towards the glass doors on slow, casual footsteps.
"Ugh... school starts in just two weeks... Two weeks!"
"Calm down, Lulu. You'll be able to see everyone again. Including Yuna and Tidus!" Rikku's chipper mood could cheer up anyone - or so she thought, at least.
"Oh, that's right!" Lulu brought her hand down on her forehead as if it helped her to remember any better. "They just moved in yesterday!"
"Are we going to see these people?" A silver haired, red eyed teenaged woman peered over the newspaper she had been reading.
"Paine, they're our friends, one, and, two, of course we are! Me and Lulu haven't seen them all summer!" Rikku set a plate of toast on the table and poured herself a cup of orange juice. "Besides, they're really fun people."
"...Tch, fun..." Paine, losing interest quickly, buried her face back into the newspaper.
"Why exactly did the two of them move here, exactly?" asked Lulu scrunching up her face in wonder.
"Well..." Rikku sat down and took a bite of her toast. "When I moved here with you guys at the end of last year, my father, Cid, told me I couldn't go without someone to watch over me there - or at least keep an eye on me. Of course, I asked you guys 'cause you're my friends, but he still wasn't satisfied. He said he wanted family around. Since he's too busy with the machina stuff he works on, he couldn't come, so I asked Yuna. She, of course, didn't want to step an inch out of Besaid, so I found Tidus and convinced him to move here - which wasn't hard at all since he's a blitzball fanatic. Anyway, it was the perfect secret weapon because Yuna practically adores Tidus - she couldn't watch him walk out without her, but she would never show it, so I had to get Tidus to ask her to come with him."
Lulu laughed to herself. "Real clever, Rikku."
"Isn't it?" Rikku was never one to take a hint at sarcasm. "We've gotta go visit them as soon as we're done primping and all that stuff, okay?" The hyper Al Bhed skipped out of the room happily.
Paine tilted her newspaper down slightly, revealing her tired face. "Primping?"
Lulu shrugged.
Yuna yawned as she stepped droopily down the stairs. She glanced surprisedly in Tidus's direction and tugged her robe around her to cover her bare stomach and legs - her PJ's were more revealing than necessary. "Oh, Tidus... I didn't see you there." Yuna tried to hide her blushing face.
Tidus tried to hold back a grin by shoving a spoonful of cereal into his mouth. "How'd you sleep?"
"With my eyes closed." Yuna smiled playfully as she sat down at the table across from Tidus.
"You're not gonna get dressed?" The blonde raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"Does it really matter? I mean... I have my whole body covered." Yuna poured herself a bowl of Chocobo Charms and mixed it with milk, stuffing spoonful after spoonful into her mouth.
"That's not a very lady-like appetite," remarked Tidus slyly.
"Screw that, I'm hungry." The brunette continued to eat hungrily, while Tidus couldn't help but laugh lightly.
"You're too crazy, Yuna."
"And you wouldn't want me any other way, Tidus."
"Damn straight."
They exchanged smiles.
Ding-dong! Ding-dong!
"Ugh... Tidus, get that."
"I'm busy."
"Well, so am I!"
"Lady's first."
"Then shouldn't you be getting it?"
"What, you're not a lady or somethin' now!?"
Yuna rolled her eyes. "You're so stupid."
"But you love me anyway."
Yuna couldn't help but smile as she walked over to door and swung it open.
"Sounds like you two are acting normal." A blonde haired petite girl filled the door frame, garbed in a pink tank top and blue low rider jeans with matching pink heels.
"Rikku!" Yuna immediately pulled her cousin (and best friend) into a hug. She glanced up to see Lulu and Paine standing behind Rikku. "Lulu!" Yuna succeeded on pouncing on her as well, almost knocking down Paine in the process. "And, uh, who's this?"
"Paine. Nice to meet you." The silver haired girl managed to muster a faint smile for a few seconds.
"Yuna." Without warning, Yuna hugged Paine, too. She shrugged, knowing the goth-looking teenager didn't enjoy it. "Sorry, I'm just friendly."
"Wow, she really is like Rikku," Paine muttered to Lulu. "How do you put up with it?"
"You get used to it." Lulu smiled, but said nothing more.
"So I see you ladies have been reunited. Now that Yuna's nearly killed you all, would you like to come in and see our lovely apartment?" Tidus smirked from the doorway that he was leaning on.
"Oh, shut up, Tidus," Yuna shoved, barely achieving in moving him a inch.
"You need to work out more, Yuna. Like me." Tidus flexed his tanned arms, which the brunette couldn't help but find muscular.
"Yeah, and maybe I should try out for professional blitzball, too." Yuna rolled her eyes as she stepped into the apartment with her friends.
"Nah...you wouldn't last more than a minute underwater."
"Oh, shut up, already."
"Make me."
Yuna ignored his last comment and followed her friends up a short flight of winding stairs.
"God, he's so annoying."
"Shut up, Yunie. You know you like it." Rikku shrugged as if Yuna were hopeless.
"Ugh, you are so out of your mind." Yuna scowled.
"Hey, Fatty, you want chinese or pizza?" Tidus poked his head into the bedroom that the other girls had been taking a tour of.
"Pizza," Yuna replied, shoving a pillow in his direction. He ducked out of the way.
"Miss me, miss me, now you gotta kiss me."
"Yeah, uh-huh, okay, sure. Right away."
"Do you guys ever stop flirting?" Lulu turned towards Yuna.
"What!?" Yuna's face turned a bright shade of red.
Lulu, Paine, and Rikku all laughed heartily as Yuna tried to hide her red face.
Well, that's the first chapter, people! Hope you liked it and don't forget to review. Review more - faster updates. Especially since I have a whole school free vacation next week. :) Anyway, if anyone was wondering, this chapter was basically just to introduce most of the significant characters and the relationships everyone had with one another (especially Tidus & Yuna). Don't worry, though. There won't be as much TidusxYuna bickering as there was in this chapter. I was just giving you a taste of how they act towards each other.
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