A/N: Here is the second chapter of many more to come. Thanks for all the positive feedback from you guys. And I hope this clears a few things up that may have been confusing in the last chapter. I also forgot the disclaimer in the last chapter so I'll put it here now.

Disclaimer: I don't own any character that was created by Squaresoft/Einx. I do own Zari, however. Rikkulover213 owns Juno. But I'm writing the story so he is part mine now. *evil laughter*

Distances and Dreams Chapter 2

Juno sat on the beach watching the Blitzball team practice for an upcoming game. He watched as Beclem pushed them to hard yet again. 'Jeeze they're doing their best and he still keeps pushing them. Heh. Glad i'm not on the team.' He mused to himself.

Zari watched them as well with a disgruntled look. She hated Beclem. One, because he kicked her off the team. Two, because, 'he was an arrogant, selfish bastard.' She snorted at the thought and turned away to watch the ocean. Noticing that Juno was down on the beach, she smiled a little.

"Well at least there's something to do."

Jumping down from the tree she was in, she walked down towards him. Zari heard Beclem make a sarcastic remark about her climbing trees but she chose to ignore it..for now. Walking up, she tapped him on the shoulder. "Hello."

Juno heard the remark that Beclem made and ignored Zari. He got up and started to walk over to Beclem.

"HEY BECLEM!"

Zari watched as he got up and started to walk over to Beclem. She smacked her head and ran infront of him. "Juno don't. I can take care of myself. He does this all the time."

He ignored her as Beclem turned around, "Why do you have to be such a bastard all the time? You push them to hard, you make fun of people, and your just an all around..." He got cut off there because a fist nailed right in the face. he flew backwards and hit the ground unconisious.

Zari rolled her eyes. "I warned you." She stared at the unconsionce boy for a moment before walking up to Beclem. She stood slightly shorter then him, but it didn't really matter. Beclem did have a few morals, and one of them was he didn't hit girls. Scowling, she pushed him. "What? Do you have to pick on others just to get to me? Is that it?" Zari smirked as Beclem got up and charged towards her. 'Ok..so maybe he doesn't always play by the rules.' He hit her in the stomach and Zari stumbled back and fell on her butt. That definatly hurt more then it was supposed to.

Beclem smirked. "Not so tough are ya."

Lucky for both of them, Gippal was watching the whole thing. Running at Beclem, he tackled him to the ground. Sitting on top of him he punched Beclem twice in the face. "That's for hitting my kid and Tidus' kid! Don't ever touch them again." He got up and stared at Beclem as he got up. Beclem started to move towards Gippal with an angry scowl upon his face. Gippal just made a gesture as if warning him that he would hit him again and Beclem ran off. "Are you ok, Zari?" He said cautiously as he neared her.

Looking up quickly, she suddenly felt dizzy for a few seconds. It cleared and she nodded to Gippal meekly while still clutching her stomach. A few tears welled up in her eyes. 'Damnit! Not now..' She curled her legs to her chest and placed her head on her knees. "Stupid bastard.." She mumbled to herself.

Gippal walked over to Juno and picked him up, slinging him gently over his shoulder. The Al Bhed man spoke in a exsaperated tone. "He seems to be doing a lot of this. Juno gets in fights he can't win so then he comes home all brused up. Rikku and I are beginning to worry about him, he could end up dead soon if he keeps this up." Gippel sighed as he adjusted his grip on his sons leg.

Zari looked up at Gippal as she listened. "I told him not to do it." She paused and turned away with the slight hint of anger on her face. "It was none of his buisness anyway." Zari mumbled angerily to herself. The sound of soft steps on sand made Zari look up. Tidus was staring down at her, hard. A worried spark was evident in his deep blue eyes.

Kneeling next to his daughter, Tidus placed a hand on her shoulder. "You ok?"

Zari nodded to him and grabbed onto his shoulder as he hauled her slowly to her feet. She wobbled a bit and Tidus was right next to her to catch her if she fell but she steadied herself and smiled weakly at her dad.

"Can we go home now?"

Tidus chuckled and nodded to her. "Yeah let's go get you cleaned up." He turned to Gippal and smiled warmly at his friend. "Thanks for telling Beclem off. I need to talk to Wakka about him."

Gippal smirked and waved a hand infront of his face. "Heh. He was nothing. But your right about how he needs a little shaping up." Turning to the sky for a second, Gippal again adjusted his grip. "Well we better be heading back. See ya later Tidus."

Tidus nodded at the retreating form of Gippal. A light tap on the shoulder made Tidus turn to Zari with a smile. "Yes?"

Zari giggled and jumped on Tidus' back. "Carry me." She said in a mock pitifull tone.

Tidus laughed full-heartedly as he grabbed Zari's knees and began to pad across the warm sand. A sudden gust of cold wind from the ocean made Tidus shiver and pause as he turned to gaze back. Zari was confused as well as she watched the horizon. After a few moments, the feeling had passed and Tidus turned and continued back to the village.

'What was that? The only other time I'd felt that feeling was inside of Sin...' Tidus mused to himself. This thought flowed in his head all the way back to the village.

'I think I need to talk to Yuna.'

A/N: What to say..hmm. Well there isn't much to say except R&R. ^^