Disclaimer: As much as it pains me to say this; I do not own Final Fantasy X or X-2.

Author's Notes: Hello there. After reading quite a few fics on this site I started getting some ideas so I wrote a story of my own and here it is.

There is more information such as pairings and a better summary on my profile page.

Please enjoy.

-Within Fate's Grasp-

-Prologue-

-Yuna's POV-

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I glanced at the clock on the wall in front of me. It read six thirty three.

I yawned, stirring my sugary tea.

"They're fighting again," I stated, monotonously as Lenne walked into the kitchen. "Rikku and Paine, I mean."

"Kinda hard not to notice," she said, patting my shoulder. She took a seat next to me, rubbing her temples.

It's the same routine, every morning. Rikku is a heavy sleeper and the only thing that is able to wake her up is her alarm clock which goes off at six thirty every morning and Paine goes berserk.

To prevent this, we have tried several times to set the alarm to go off at a later time but you know the Al Bhed. If you can believe it, she made the alarm clock herself and none of us have the slightest clue how to operate it.

If you were sleeping, like I am most of the time, there's no point of even closing your eyes 'cause there is no way you're getting back to sleep, trust me. Paine screams and yells and throws things, including Rikku; the whole works. One time I walked into their room and Paine had Rikku tied upside down to the ceiling fan.

I don't know how she does it. Neither do I want to know.

"Mercy!" I heard Rikku scream from the second floor.

"Not this time!" Paine shouted back.

Rikku's simply just…Rikku. And she has about minus ten bazillion respect points. She just doesn't learn.

She's my cousin and I love her – really, I do – but sometimes I wish she would just grow up. I'm sure a lot of people wish that, though so I'm not ashamed to admit it. She's always in your face about something; Paine's face more than anyone's.

Sure, I wish she would just fall down the stairs but Paine… if she wants something bad enough, she won't stand aside and wait for it to happen; she'll actually push her down the stairs. And then guess who comes running to me?

Yup, Rikku.

"Lulu! Do something!" I shouted as Lulu slowly made her way down the stairs behind me.

"I don't want to get involved. They have to settle this themselves," she said, pouring herself a cup of coffee, once she had crossed into the kitchen.

Some help Lulu is. Paine is her sister for crying out loud.

"Don't want to get involved?" I raised an eyebrow. "It's more like you don't want to get hurt." Not that I blame her, though. "Sometimes, I wish you would just take action. You know; maybe open a can of whoop-ass on their whining butts."

She laughed, shaking her head.

I raised my head as I heard something fall down a flight of stairs.

Probably Rikku.

"Well, I have to have a shower." Lenne jumped up and ran down the short hallway to her right. I rolled my eyes and Lulu just waved her hand, motioning for me to let it slide.

Every morning, Lenne spends three freaking hours in the washroom. Once Lenne is awake, there's no chance of getting in washroom. It's like her second bedroom, filled with all her makeup and perfume, all that girly stuff.

But this is the kind of thing you have to deal with when living with four roommates. Yes, four – Paine, Rikku, Lenne and Lulu; so five, if you're including me.

But that's not the worst of it. We live in a small, two floor, three bedroom, one bathroom house in the central core of Zanarkand. It sounds impossible, I know. But we are best friends and together, we can do the impossible.

Lulu slowly walked over beside me and tried to start up a conversation. "So how has the first week of eleventh grade been?"

"Not so bad." I heaved a sigh and took another sip of my tea. "Though, you'd think by eleventh grade, Rikku might have matured by now."

"You know Rikku."

"Immature for life," I exclaimed, mimicking Rikku's fisted heart pound, perfecting with the hippy's peace sign. "But everyone loves her so it can't be that bad."

Her father, my Uncle Cid is the ruler of Home, the home of the Al Bhed, thus Rikku is the most famous Al Bhed girl in all of Spira. That is probably one of the reasons why she is popular at school, besides the fact that she parades around in a bikini top and a super short skirt.

But unlike the rest of the popular girls, Rikku is smart, too. All her life, she had been taught all about machina; how to use them, repair them, build them, you name it; she'll know it. She's a wiz.

"Rikku! I'm going to kill you!" I heard Paine scream from the second floor. Shortly after, I heard Rikku bounding down the stairs, Paine not far behind her. They flew into the kitchen, right through to the living room, where Rikku jumped on the couch, Paine jumping on top of her.

"You aren't going to stop them?" I asked, casually.

She took a glance at them, taking notice to Paine's rage and her hands grasping Rikku's tiny neck, banging her head against the couch cushions. Lulu looked back toward me. "I'm not. Are you?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Oh, no," I declared. Lulu smiled and left to book an appointment in the washroom before we had to leave for school.

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Eventually, we did get to school on time.

We drove into the student parking lot and hopped out of Lenne's car, before walking through the crowded courtyard of Zanarkand High.

"Hey, Lu!" Not even five minutes on campus and Chappu, Lulu's boyfriend had managed to scope her out.

Lulu's the only one of the five us who has had a boyfriend for longer then a month. I think it has to do with being all mature and all-knowing but who knows; maybe it has to do with the body she covers up with all those belts. She could be a babe and you'd never know it. But for some reason I highly doubt that's the reason. Chappu isn't the kind of guy to like a girl because of her body.

"I'll see you guys at lunch! Save me a seat!" Lulu called as I waved and continued towards the giant school, Lenne, Paine and Rikku right behind me.

Chappu is a great guy – friendly, smart, and such a romantic. He moved to Zanarkand with his brother Wakka shortly after we did. He's the kind of guy that could get any girl he wanted. I guess my point was proven with Lulu. She doesn't seem like his type and he doesn't seem like her type.

But I guess love does that to you.

Lulu only fell in love with Chappu a few months ago, even though she's being dating him for like a whole freaking year and a half. She may have told him that she loved him but she only recently fell in love with him.

One day, she just woke up and had that gleam in her eye and it was like she was in zero percent gravity. During class that day, she wasn't paying attention like she usually does; she was doodling hearts with her and Chappu's name in them and she was always humming this unusual tune.

She eventually got over that faze and back into reality but I was guessing that something happened the previous night. I didn't look any further into the matter – I didn't care nor want to know, but Rikku and Lenne did.

We made our way past the group of cheerleaders and the Gods who were sitting around the water fountain in front of the front doors of the school. They were laughing and having a great time, but Wakka waved as we walked by. I took the time to wave back, hoping his friends didn't give him a hard time for being friends with someone who's not apart of their group.

Wakka is kind of weird when it comes to our little group. He is one of the hottest guys of Zanarkand High, standing along side Tidus and Gippal. They are known as the Zanarkand High Gods only because they are slightly better looking than most of the guys in our school and are the best Blitzball players of the Zanarkand High team.

Wakka and Chappu are brothers – fraternal twins to be exact – and grew up in the same small village as Lulu and me. He's an okay guy, and since originating from Besaid, he has that cute accent; as does Chappu.

Gippal, Wakka and Tidus are best friends and sometimes you'll see Shuyin hanging with them too, though since both Wakka and Gippal are a year older than Tidus, he hangs out with other people when they aren't around. But as Chappu is dating Lulu; Wakka spends a lot of time with us which we don't mind as long as he keeps his sex life to himself – that was the agreement.

We hurriedly walked through the hallway, dodging the crowds of people forming along the walls. I headed up the third floor of the massive building to the locker Paine and I shared. I unloaded my backpack and organized my stuff, then grabbing the books I needed for my next few classes.

I walked into my homeroom class and took a seat near the front. I was a goody-goody but it paid off with my good grades.

I'm head of the yearbook committee, editor and photographer for the school newspaper and head of the leadership committee.

What can I say?

I'm popular and it's quite a title to live up to. Everyone depends on you and everyone expects all these great accomplishments from you. They expect the dances and pep rallies to be perfect. They expect the newspaper to be perfect. They expect the yearbook to be perfect. They expect you to be perfect which I'm not but pull off quite well if I do say so myself.

Organizing my binders, I noticed Rikku and Lenne had taken the seats beside me, but Paine sat in the back by Baralai, an old friend of hers.

I only recently met him, thanks to Chappu who introduced us, though Paine seemed to know him from a previous life or something. They were chatting up a storm like they were best friends when they were six. And it turned out; her parents and his parents had known each other for a long time and the last time she saw him was a few years back, before she moved to Zanarkand.

Weird, huh? How people you haven't seen for years, happen to be right under your nose and you just didn't notice. But then again, Zanarkand High is massive! Zanarkand High is in Central Zanarkand so all students of all four Zanarkand Sectors attend the same school, so they could be walking down the same hallway as you or using the next bathroom stall over and you wouldn't notice.

Lenne's mellow voice brought me back to reality. "Yuna?" she asked.

"Yeah?" I blinked my bi-colour eyes to focus on my surroundings.

"Don't you agree?" she asked.

"I didn't hear what you said," I admitted, wrinkling my nose.

"We think Paine and Baralai would be such a cute couple," Rikku explained, excitedly.

I laughed. "Do you two have nothing better to do than match up people?"

Rikku narrowed her eyes at me but didn't have a chance to respond as the teacher entered the room.

Rikku has always been there for me, being not only my cousin but my best friend. The way I would describe Rikku would be that she is perky, lively, cheerful, bubbly, and hyper; need I go on? And what I totally respect about her is that if something is bugging her, she is so open and upfront about it.

"Good morning, class," said Mr. Nooj, as he made his way to the front of the room where he took attendance. "Barthello?"

"Here," Barthello grunted.

"Clasko?"

"Here," the small boy squeaked.

"Dona?"

"Over here," the girl waved, not lifting her head from her magazine.

Suddenly, while all was silent, someone's voice echoed in the hallway. "Practice tonight at seven, eh? Don't forget."

"Aight, brother; see you then." As the second person's footsteps continued down the hall, the first person gingerly pushed open the door and walked briskly into the classroom. He winked and smiled at a couple girls as he headed to the back of the room and took a seat with some of his Blitzer buddies.

"Thank you for disrupting my class, Tidus. Glad you could make it."

"No problem, Mr. N. We all know my future is all set, but I guess coming to class can't hurt."

With his Blitzball skills and killer body, Tidus could get any girl he wanted.

Except me, of course.

I wouldn't go out with little prick if my life depended on it. Sure, he's gorgeous; no doubt, with his shaggy blonde hair and bright azure eyes but girls are nothing more than sex objects to him. He'll be walking down the hallway, winking at everything with shaved legs that walks by, though if you're going out with him, you're yesterday's news as soon as the next thing with a high-pitched school girl laugh blushes at his stupid pick-ups lines. I refuse to have anything to do with him. I'm not into those stupid only-dating-the-person-for-sex relationships. It's almost like he doesn't believe in falling in love or something crazy like that.

I want to fall in love. But I'm not going to rush something as big as that onto myself. It'll happen when it'll happen. That's what I kept telling Wakka but he was so hooked on setting me up with Tidus. One; I've never even met the guy and two; I loath his very existence.

"Good you see it that way. It could really hurt and jeopardize your set future if you don't get a passing grade for this class. You need to maintain at least a C average to stay on the team, y'know?" Mr. Nooj reminded him.

I mean, sure, I know him. Who doesn't?

He's Zanarkand High's Most Wanted; the one and only Tidus, Zanarkand Abe's youngest – being only seventeen – and best Blitzball player. He's only the best because his father is Jecht. Yes, the Jecht who used to play for the Zanarkand Abes, but as soon as he retired to be Zanarkand High's Blitzball coach, the team quickly recruited Tidus and Tidus soon became their best player.

Like father, like son.

"No worries. The year's hardly begun. You'll be seeing loads of me. After a couple classes with me, you'll want me to not show up."

Mr. Nooj raised an eyebrow and stared him down as Tidus smirked. "Alright, now that that's settled, let's continue, shall we? Elma?"

"Here." The small brunette slowly lifted her hand into the air.

Author's note: Hey there. So that's the prologue… Waddaya think?

It case anyone is interested, it was about ten pages, size 12, Times New Roman. I hope it's a suitable length. Most chapters will be about the same.

Anyways, if you have any Questions, Concerns or Comments please drop me a review. Hehe -- I love reviews, S.