Bang, Bang 2: Al Bhed Assassins

Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy X-2 so you can't sue me.

AN: Because you wanted me to write again, I give this to you now. Here it is, another useless story filled with useless death and bloodshed.

Prologue: Terrible Things

6 months later

So hysa ec Rikku, yht E ryja tuha dannepma drehkc. E tacdnuoat so luiceh palyica cra fyc eh muja fedr Tidus pid fyc cmaabehk fedr Baralai. E gemmat Baralai palyica ra fyc saccehk fedr Yuna frah ra fyc cibbucat du pa Paine's mujan. E gemmat so vneaht Paine palyica cra fyc eh muja fedr Baralai pid geccat sa ehcdayt. Yht vehymmo, E gemmat Tidus palyica ra fyc cmaabehk fedr sa, ghufehk vimm famm dryd ra fyc ahkykat du so luiceh. E fydlrat ymm uv so vneahtc tea yd so ryhtc yht E crat hud uha dayn…. So hysa ec Rikku yht E ryja tuha dannepma drehkc…pid E ryja hu naknadc.

My name is Rikku, and I have done terrible things. I destroyed my cousin because she was in love with Tidus but was sleeping with Baralai. I killed Baralai because he was messing with Yuna when he was supposed to be Paine's lover. I killed my friend Paine because she was in love with Baralai but kissed me instead. And finally, I killed Tidus because he was sleeping with me, knowing full well that he was engaged to my cousin. I watched all of my friends die at my hands and I shed not one tear… Was it because I was heartless or because I felt as though I was finishing what I had to do, finishing my duty to them all? I do not know my motivation, nor my resolution originally, simply that what was done was done to procure innocence, the substance of all life. My name is Rikku and I have done terrible things…but I have no regrets.

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People say that with time, your wounds heal, that the scars go away and that all memory of the past fades away. They say that your sins are all forgiven and that you can go on with a normal life, free of sin. How foolish I was to believe that it was all true, that my sins would fade away and become nothingness, as it was before.

I don't know where it came from, the anger that I had for them all, the contempt and the lacking concern for their well-being. It was just there suddenly and it made me that much angrier when I finally ended it, everything. I never wanted it to be this way, me having to hurt them. I never wanted to hurt them…I never wanted to make them hurt and I never meant to be the one to hurt them so badly. I just wanted all of my friends to be happy. But instead, I caused them so much misery.

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He was worried before I ever was, which was surprising, seeing as I was always the one who worried a lot. He never worried, not as much as I did at least.

"You know, if any of them are living and the Council finds out, we're going to become renegades, right? I mean… Yuna is the High Summoner and our little Baralai is the praetor of New Yevon…"

"You're right: My cousin was the High Summoner and Baralai was the praetor of Yevon. But none of that matters now, does it?"

"You're right, I guess," he responded, and offhandedly, he added, "as usual. But at any rate, Rikku, we could get in trouble."

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AN: Short...I know. But, it gets better. And there is a plot coming eventually. This chapter is actually useless but, hey -- do what you gotta do, right?