Hiya! And once again I am back. I have begun my 7th time playing FFX and thought I'd write a fic. Well, here it is.

Summary: Listen to my story. Are you listening? Ok, I used to think my life sucked, but then it got worse. A lot worse. Still listening? Are you sure? Ten years ago, my father died. And recently my mother died too. Now I moved in with my mother's brother and mycousinin a huge city called Zanderkand...

Couples: Lulu/Tidus, Yuna/Tidus, Rikku/Gippal

ALL TRANSLATIONS WILL BE AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER!


Free Me
By: Tabi-chan

I sighed, setting down my luggage on the hardwood floor that was covered with a throw-rug. My mother's rug. She made it after seeing the symbol at the Besaid temple. I took off my shoes and began wandering around the apartment. Rikku followed me. Rikku is my cousin. She's an Al Bhed. As for me, I'm half Al Bhed. My father never told me.

I guess it was because his people never liked them much. Well, after he died 10 years ago when I was seven, my mother finally told me of my heritage and introduced me to my Uncle Cid and his daughter, Rikku.

That also explained my eyes. My eyes were two different colors, blue and green. I entered the bathroom and looked in the mirror. I looked terrible. I had bags under my eyes from the lack of sleep and pale from not going out as much as I used to. I scanned my body, I was wearing my usual short white and pink shirt that was really low cut, short shorts with a long blue and white half skirt draping from it (a/n: Her gunner outfit. I described it the best I could).

I ran my fingers through my hair and took in a deep breath. I sniffed and looked over at Rikku. She wasn't really paying attention, just off in her own little world. My uncle was sitting in his chair drinking a beer.

"Oh yeah!" Rikku squeaked, "This is your room." she said pulling me into a room down the hall. It had a bed, a dresser, and desk. Nothing to big or fancy.

"Thank you." I said.

"Don't worry, Yunie. Things will be ok. I'll take care of you," Rikku said, doing a little pose.

My uncle approached us and told us to hit the hay because tomorrow was my first day of school. I looked at the clock. It was almost 9:30. Rikku automatically protested, demanding to stay up longer. I, however said nothing. I really needed the sleep. Without saying anything else to my uncle, I walked into my room and shut the door.

Through the door I heard Cid say, "See? Why can't you be more like her and actually listen?"

I lied on my bed and stared at the ceiling. I could hear thunder from a distances and small sparks of lightning. For a while my eyes stared at the shadows of raindrops glittering as they fell on my window.

Just then, I heard a small wrapping on my door. A rumble of thunder caused another round of knocking, but this time it was faster. Then the door opened. Rikku stood there in her pajamas holding my bags.

"Here, Yunie." she said, acting a little nervous and sat them on the ground by the dresser.

"What's wrong?" I asked, sitting up.

"I'm scared of storms," she confessed.

I stood and walked towards her, and with a smile a said she could stay the night with me. I changed into my pajamas and hopped into the bed. Rikku laid out a futon on the floor and went quickly back to sleep. My heavy eyelids soon closed, before I fell asleep I could heard one last rumble of thunder.

The next morning around 4 am, I was awoken by an argument between my uncle and Brother. I wasn't quite sure what they were saying since they were speaking in Al Bhed and I wasn't that good yet.

(1) "Yuna ec rana! Fro teth'd oui damm sa!" Brother hollered at my uncle. "Palyica E teth'd fyhd ouin hycdo ycc pudranehk ran! Cra'c ryt ed nuikr yht E teth'd haat oui eh drana vilgehk fedr ran!" I heard Brother gasp in shock, apparently what my uncle had said wasn't good. I knew it was about me, but still I didn't want to ask.

Without moving from under the covers I curled up in them more, pressing the fabric to my ears, desperately trying to block out the sound, but it didn't work.

(2)"E fyhd du caa ran...," said Brother. Cid instantly objected. "Hu. Cra'mm kad ib eh yh ruin."

I opened my eyes and peered down at Rikku's empty futon. I could hear her joining in the argument. "Crid ib! Ed'c 4:30 eh dra sumhehk. Yna oui dnoehk du fyga dra haekrpunhuut?"

"Sorry, Rikku." Cid said, "But your brother comes in at 4:30, drunk, and complains about not seeing Yuna." With nothing else to say, Rikku comes back into the room and locks the door. I opened my eyes again to Rikku only two inches from my face. I jumped back. She giggled, "Sorry, I wasn't sure if you were awake or not." I said nothing, whatever was going on, I'm sure I didn't want to know, even if it was about me.

"Don't worry, this doesn't happen very often," said Rikku, sitting back on her legs. The way Rikku usually described the arguments between Cid and Brother all kinda seemed similar. Brother would go to Buddy's, a childhood friend, house. They would goof off and party, then get drunk. Then show up at four in the morning.

Brother was, of course Rikku's brother. He never liked going by his real name and didn't like the nicknames we gave him, so we always just called him Brother. Rikku always described him as an incested pervert, but I never once saw him try anything with me and everytime I turned around he had a girlfriend.

Usually I paid no mind to my family's affairs. With I sigh I pulled off the covers and climbed out of bed. "Yunie where are you going?" squealed Rikku. I turned and pointed to the room across the hall, "To take a shower."

She nodded and cuddled back under the covers of her futon. With the thought of today being my first day on school I had a feeling in my stomach. A new school. What kinda of people go there? Will I find anybody I like? Will I make any friends? What's going to happen? I turned the knob to the shower and watched the hot water pour out.

I pressed the button in and backed away as the hot water came down. I stripped down and climbed into the shower. A small moan escaped from my throat. The feeling was orgasmic. I grabbed the shampoo and squeezed a glob of it in my hand. It smelled fruity. I washed my hair and body and got out. I reached over and grabbed two towel from the shelf, one for my hair and the other for my body.

When I opened the door, I looked both ways before exiting the bathroom. It was a habit I gained from my childhood, no real reason for it. I tiptoed back it the bedroom and locked the door. Rikku had crawled into the bed and was sound asleep. I smiled and got dressed. I put on a low cut black shirt that showed a good amount of cleavage and some short shorts.

After I dressed and applied my make-up I woke Rikku up and went to make breakfast. Shortly after, Rikku emerged from the bedroom and in a black backless shirt that had 'love' written in green kanji on the front and some tight short shorts with cuts in the front.

Her hair was in a ponytail and had some braids hanging from it. "Yunie, you didn't have to make breakfast."

"I wanted to," I said.

Brother came from the living room with a huge smile on his lips. "Hello Yuna, it's been a while since we've spoken," he said with a thick accent. Rikku scoffed and muttered, (3)"Banj..."

"I am not!" Brother shouted.

"Will you be quiet! You'll wake father up! Geez," Rikku said.

After we ate, me and Rikku headed off to school. I was nervous. My stomach had that sick feeling to it. I was shaking, but not enough to tell. Rikku rambled on about things that might happen. She told me about the teachers and her friend Gippal. She claims they are friends, but by the way she describes them they seem to be a little more.

Once we approached the school I could feel my legs going numb. So many people in one place. We walked pasted groups of guys playing blitzball. A blonde haired guy approached us. "Hey Gippal!" Rikku squealed, forcing him into a hug. "Hey, it's Cid's girl." he said with a chuckle. His eyes met mine, "and who is this beautiful young lady?" he flirted.

He was kinda cute, but not my type. He wore an eyes patch, Rikku says it was from when he was little Brother and Buddy almost knocked his eye out with a slingshot. I smiled.

"Hi," I said almost in a whisper.

Rikku jumped up and down in excitement, "This is my cousin Yuna from Besaid I have been telling you about." Gippal nodded and stroked his chin, "She does look a lot like you. So, what brings you here to Zanderkand?" he asked. Before I could answer Rikku elbowed him in the ribs. "Ow! What was that for?

"Shut up," she mumbled.

"No," I forced out a small laugh, "it's ok, he doesn't know." The blonde gave a slightly confused look, "It's ok, you don't have to tell me if ya don't feel conformable."

I nodded and headed to the building, Rikku and Gippal following. As I entered the school, a girl with long jet black hair that was braided back and in a ponytail wearing a black leather and purple dress that dragged across the ground and purple lipstick shoved me out of the way. "Hey! Watch it!" she scowled.

"Hey!" I shouted.

Gippal chuckled, "Well, there's your first glimpse of the biggest bitch in the school. Her name's Lulu." I sighed and shook my head. "Lulu," I repeated in a low whisper. I looked back a Gippal, his visible eyebrow was cocked and he had a slight smile on his face. "Hey, Rikku, don't you think she's cute?" he teased wrapping his arm around her shoulder.

"Ew, no!" she squealed, "You are sick minded. You getting as bad as Brother."

"Whatever," he scoffed, "I'm still convinced you're gay," he chuckled. As he was walking off my cousin kicked him in the butt. I cocked my eyebrow, "What was that all about?"

"Oh," she grunted, "last year Lulu claimed to have seem me looking at her in the shower room after gym and told everyone that. It's not true, I wasn't even at school the day she spread the rumor."

The way this girl was described she seemed to be a real jerk. Back in Besaid they were hardly any mean people. I mean every now and then someone would have an attitude, or something, but in general no one was mean.

I went into the gym where everyone was at. As soon as I enter, all eyes gazed at me. I spotted a few people staring and whispering into the person's ear that was next to them. It didn't really bother me. People were going to talk. It's a natural thing.

"Yo! Rikku! Yuna! Up here!"

When I looked at the top of the bleachers I saw Gippal waving his arms. Beside him was a male with white, silverish hair. He was wearing a tight black shirt that had a blue violet sinister skull on the front and black pants with extremely oversized legs with chains flowing down the sides.

He was wearing many silver chains, some with spikes. He wasn't bad looking either, but also not my type. He looked directly at me, his fingers laced and against his mouth, slumping forward slightly. I smiled and stepped up onto the bleachers, and started climbing up. When I was about half way, I tripped. When I looked back, Lulu and a few other people were laughing.

Argh, I gritted my teeth and stood up and looked back. I saw Lulu pull her foot back. Next to her was a blonde male. He was shaking his head, "Lulu, that was mean."

I said nothing more and continued up. I was kind of embarrassed. A pink tent was covering my cheeks. Rikku was already up there with Gippal and his friend. I smiled. He looked at me. "Um, hi," I said, putting my hair behind my hair, "I'm Yuna."

"Baralai," he said.

Rikku and Gippal looked at each other, then back at me and the stranger infront of me. It was quiet between us, but that didn't last very long. "Yunie is my cousin from Besaid," said the al bhed, breaking the silence. Baralai look at me, "Besaid, huh?" he asked. "Yeah."

"You don't look Al Bhed," he said brushing to strands of hair from his face. "Well, I'm half al bhed."

"She's Lord Braska's daughter," said Rikku.

Gippal looked at Rikku than back at me, "Braska? You mean that guy that died about 10 years ago?" when he finished his sentence Rikku elbowed his stomach. The male al bhed hugged his stomach tightly and groaned, "Ow! Geez, Rikku."

(4)"Crid ib!" Rikku shouted.

"Sorry."

The bell rang and the gym cleared. As I was coming down the bleachers I saw him. The most gorgeous guy ever. He was the same one sitting one to Lulu. He had blonde hair, blue eyes, very dark complexioned, and was wearing a yellow jacket with a white muscle shirt under it with black long shorts (a/n: His FFX outfit, accept with a muscle shirt under his yellow...thingy).

He was at the bottom of the bleachers gathering his books and a blitzball. I bit my lip, thinking of what I should do. He looked up and his eyes met mine. He furrowed his brows and tilted his head a little. I opened my mouth to speak, but nothing came out. I cleared my throat.

Before the slightest noise came out, Lulu approached him and gasped his shoulder. "Come on, Paine's waiting," she said with a small giggle in her voice. Her eyes looked at me and then back at him. And with a smile she pulled him along. As she walked the belt on her dress and the beads in her hair rattled.

Rikku placed her hand on my shoulder. I turned to her, she knew I was attracted to him. She giggled and pulled me along with Gippal and Baralai.

Al Bhed Translations:

(1) "Yuna is here! Why didn't you tell me!"

"Because I didn't want your nasty ass bothering her! She's had it rough and I didn't need you in there fucking with her!"

(2) "I want to see her..."

"No, she'll get up in an hour."

"Shut up! It's 4:30 in the morning. Are you trying to wake the neighborhood?"

(3) "Perv..."

(4) "Shut up!"

And no, I didn't learn al bhed. I'm not that big of a dork. LoL Keep in mind it's only an intro chapter.

Tabi-chan

Please R/R. Next chapter coming soon.