THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND REVIEWS!! X'D Glad your still hanging in there!! Here's teh next chapter!!! Just want to say this and the next two chapters ALL occur in one day; I had Kadaj and Tidus spend pretty much the whole together so...yeah. And I don't own Dunkin Donuts!! (Wish I did, you should SEE the lines there in the morning...) Enjoy!!

Kadaj awoke the next morning to his alarm clock and shut it off immediately, as to not wake anyone else. He looked at the time. Eight thirty. Perfect.

Jumping out of bed, he did his normal routine of showering and dressing himself. He checked to see how much gil he had in his small beach bag. Not much. He could steal some from Yazoo though…

Grinning deviously, the sneaky teen crept quickly into his sleeping brother's room. Pulling open a drawer carefully, he took a good handful of gil and sneaked back out of the door. He left the house without making a sound. Something told him Tidus wasn't awake yet. Well, the blonde would get a surprise.

The blitzer looked around curiously to see he was in that spring in Macalania. 'What's with me and these weird dreams?' his dream self thought. He looked forward suddenly to see Yuna, her head down, crying. This scene was strangely familiar.

"Yuna?" Tidus asked, moving closer to her.

However, as he approached the dream Yuna, her light brown hair turned silver and fine, she grew a bit taller and by the time Tidus was in front of her, she had changed completely into Kadaj. Those glowing mako eyes looked up into his blue ones, full with tears. The blonde had no idea what he would be crying about, but he didn't like it.

"Kadaj…."

He moved closer to the beautiful remnant, putting his hands onto his shoulders and pulling the thin body closer. He leaned close enough so their noses were touching. He looked upon those full lips, wanting to kiss them, wanting to make the saddened youth feel better. Tidus went to do so when…

Knocking on his window snapped him out of his peaceful dream and he was almost angry, until he saw the person knocking on his window was the person he was just dreaming of.

"Kadaj?!" he cried out, surprised.

The silver haired youth made an upward motion with his hands, signaling Tidus to open the window. The surprised teen did so.

"What are you doing here so early?"

"Are you complaining?"

That almost seductive smirk came onto the remnant's face, and the dark skinned sportsman felt the heat creep in his face, as well as other places.

"No, not at all!"

"Well hurry up then. Took long enough to find you."

"Hey, you don't have to talk like that, especially since I've been nice to you the past two days!"

"I know. You don't seem to mind it though."

Damn, why did that smirk and the almost tempting way the rebel's voice sounded make Tidus feel like he was inferior? Like if he was prey caught in the predator's eye?

"Alright, so maybe I don't! Happy? Now wait in the front, I'll be out in a few minutes."

The blonde shut the window, obviously flustered and Kadaj laughed quietly to himself. He was fun to tease.

About 20 minutes later, the blitzball player went to get out of the house, but jumped when a familiar voice yelled out.

"And where do you think you're going?"

Wakka was a bit more than annoyed that Tidus had been out while he stayed back coaching his sorry blitzball team.

"I…I gotta-"

"You gotta what? Hang out with that friend of yours? I didn't bring you here so you could run off whenever you like, ya! You promised to help me out with the team!"

"I know…I promise I'll come back and help out!"

"Come back when exactly?"

"When… look, I really got to go, I'll be back later!"

"But you didn't say-"

The door shut after the rushing teen and Wakka sighed hopelessly. Teenagers.

Kadaj looked at Tidus with an amused look on his face as they walked toward the boardwalk.

"What was that all about?"

The blonde sighed, shaking his head.

"See, Besaid Island-"

"That's where you live right?"

"Yeah…it has its own blitzball team. Well every place does really but anyway, my friend Wakka is the captain of it and wanted to bring the team over here to do some type of secret training. He only let me come because I said I'd help out. But he's kinda mad at me since I've been spending time with you instead of being with the team."

The silver haired remnant smiled.

"I see. How is the team? Do they play well?"

"Heh…well…let's just say they only won the Blitzball tournament because I joined the team."

Chuckling, Kadaj looked over at Tidus who had a smug smile on his face.

"Boastful aren't you?"

"Well they didn't name me the star player of my team for nothing."

The blonde stopped suddenly, eyeing a particular eatery. Turquoise eyes looked to see he was staring at a place called 'Dunkin' Donuts.' Odd.

"Man, I can't even remember the last time I had a donut."

"Donut?"

Tidus stared at him in shock.

"You never had a donut?!"

"No-"

"My goodness, come on!"

The eager athlete dragged Kadaj over to the place, which was full. The curious youth looked around, eyeing the posters that had large pictures of the treat on them.

"What exactly is a donut?"

"Sweet, soft, fried goodness."

"I mean, what's it made out of?"

"Dough. Then they fry it. Then they can add glaze, frosting or even fill it with stuff."

"Hmm."

"Did you want coffee?"

"Um…does it taste good?"

Niisan drank that liquid every morning, but Kadaj never touched it. It never looked quite appealing.

"Of course it does!"

Once they had finally arrived at the counter, Tidus ordered quite a bit, and the smiling youth couldn't say he was surprised after the way he had eaten at lunch yesterday. When the cashier told them the cost, the star blitzter was about to take out the gil when his hand was slapped away.

"Ow! What cha do that for?"

"I pay today."

Kadaj held up the proper amount of gil and gave it to the cashier.

"Oh…thanks."

They finally made there way out to the beach, the same spot they had found yesterday. After spreading out a towel, they settled down and started eating their breakfast. Well, Tidus wasn't lying- donuts were delicious. So was the coffee.

Finally finished eating his two donuts, bacon and cheese croissant, and orange juice, the blonde lay down on the towel.

"You think you ate enough?"

Tidus laughed and grinned up at the platinum haired youth, who returned the smile.

"Yeah, I'm good. "

"By the way, you were smiling in your sleep before. Were you dreaming?"

Tidus nearly hit himself in the forehead. Why did he need to ask that question now? WHY?!

"…yeah."

"About what?"

"About………..blitzball," Tidus said uneasily, diverting his eyes away from Kadaj.

"You're lying."

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you are."

"How do you know?"

"Because you're not looking at me."

True. 'Dammit….'

"Come on, it can't be that bad!"

'Yeah it can,' the athlete thought to himself.

"Look I don't want to talk about it alright?" he said, going to take a sip of coffee.

"Was it about me?"

Tidus choked rather hard and Kadaj started laughing.

"It was wasn't it!?"

"No!"

"You lie horribly you know that?"

Both embarrassed and annoyed by how the turquoise-eyed teen was teasing him, he grabbed two fists fulls of sand and threw it at him.

"Fine! I did dream about you alright?"

Still laughing, Kadaj turned back to look at the flustered youth with that smirk on his face.

"What was I doing?"

"Nothing. Just…standing there. It was weird- we were in this spring that I was in once awhile ago."

"So nothing happened?"

"Nope."

"So why were you smiling?"

"Because your hair looked pretty under the moonlight."

The rebel snickered.

"Oh please. Tell me what happened."

"Why do you want to know?"

"I was in it, I think I have a right to know."

Sighing hopelessly, Tidus let himself fall back on the towel.

"Alright. Well anyway, like I said, we were in this spring that I had actually gone to once. And…at first it wasn't you. It was my friend Yuna. And for a moment I thought I was experiencing a memory, because she was crying just like she had before. But then when I approached her, she turned into you. And you were crying. So I felt bad and…and…I was…..going to kiss you, but then you woke me up."

Kadaj blinked and blushed lightly.

"You really…wanted to kiss me?"

"Well, I know it's really weird, I mean I've only known you for two days…but I like you. And…you know, maybe if things get better and closer between us, I wouldn't mind kissing you at all."

He never thought his honesty and confidence would become so useful.

The silver haired teen was speechless. His heart seemed to be pounding in his chest. He figured Tidus liked him, but thinking it and actually having it come out of the blonde's mouth were two entirely different things.

"I mean, if I kissed you right now, that'd be just weird. But anyway…sorry to embarrass you. Then again maybe not."

Kadaj looked up at him curiously.

"You look cute when you blush."

Tidus chuckled as the remnant's blush deepened. He looked out toward the ocean for a moment.

"You want to go swimming?"

"We just ate. I heard it's not good to swim right after eating."

"Oh yeah… oh I know! Long story exchange remember?"

"You first."

"Alright then. Let's see…how do I start this? Well, when I was little my old man never had any confidence in me at all."

"Old man?"

"Other name for father."

"Oh. Go on then."

"He always said I'd never be good at anything…and he also took my mom's attention away from me."

The blonde mentioning his mother sparked Kadaj's interest.

"What was your mother like?"

"Like any other mom really. Nice, caring…had her limits. She was all I had for comfort for awhile."

"Did you love her?"

"Yeah, of course. Why do you ask? Did you lose your mom too?"

The silver haired teen didn't know how to begin. Memories that he had tried to forget had come back to him, and he found it difficult to speak of them after so long.

"Uh…well…..I never really had one."

Tidus blinked.

"I….."

Kadaj sighed, and he felt the blonde's hand on his shoulder.

"It's alright. Just get it out of your system."

Now that the rebel thought about it, he never really discussed what he went through with anyone, not even Niisan. He had just wanted to forget it. But somehow, he figured he could trust Tidus with this information.

Once he started, it all came rushing out and wouldn't stop until he finally finished a good hour later. It had just occurred to Kadaj that he felt relieved…perhaps talking about it did help after all.

"Woooooooow…well that would explain why those people were staring at you. And your hair. And-"

"It was supposed to."

"Right. Do you feel better? It seems like you've been holding that in for awhile."

"I have. I do feel better actually. Thank you."

"For what?"

"Listening."

"You mean you haven't talked about it to anyone?"

"No…I wanted to try and forget it, I didn't want to talk about it."

"I see."

Kadaj looked at Tidus questionably.

"You have nothing else to say?" the turquoise-eyed remnant asked, surprised at how lightly Tidus was taking the information.

"Well, not really. Okay, so your mom turned out to be this psycho alien who tried to wipe out the Planet some thousand years ago and liked choosing favorites, then you and your brothers were puppets controlled by Sephi…whatever, who was still wacko even though he died, and then you did all this bad stuff which wasn't really your fault since you were controlled and just wanted someone to love you, when it turns out you were just being used and was lied to. Right?"

Smiling slightly, the silver haired teen nodded.

"Big deal. I mean, that doesn't change who you are. I mean, was I supposed to be freaked out or something?"

"I thought you would be…."

"But I already know you! I mean, maybe not thoroughly know you, but I know you're a good person. A nice person. And of course you can be moody and have an attitude, but that's just you. And I like you the way you are. No past of you going around trying to ruin the world is going to change that. I mean, that wasn't really you anyway, it mostly just what that guy wanted you to do. So why would I care?"

Kadaj stared at the star player, more surprised by his words than anything. He also felt some type of warm feeling within him that he'd never felt before.

"You really mean that?"

"Of course I do!"

Tidus smiled warmly at him, and kissed the youth on the cheek, who blushed again.

"Tidus!"

The blonde laughed and got up from the towel.

"Come on, let's go swimming!"

"I don't really know how to swim-"

"I'll teach you!"

"Well…alright, but I need to put on sun tan lotion first."

"Of course. I'll help you!"

"I can put it on myself thank you."

"But you can't reach your back!"

The grinning blonde had a point, and Kadaj couldn't really figure out if he wanted Tidus to touch him or not.

"What, you don't trust me?"

"I do, it's just…."

"Don't worry, its like not I'm going to give you a massage or anything."

Tidus laughed by the look on the beauty's face. Shaking his head, Kadaj tossed the small bottle at him.

"Fine. Go ahead," he said simply, turning around.

Controlling himself from squeeing with joy, Tidus squeezed some of the lotion on to his palm. Tossing the bottle on their towel, he preceded to spread the lotion onto the teen's back, noting how smooth and soft the pale skin was. He spent more time spreading lotion on Kadaj's back than he meant to, as he didn't seem to be able to get his fingers off the flawless skin.

"Uh….Tidus…."

"Yes?"

"I asked you to put lotion on my back, not feel all over it."

Tan fingers jumped off the white skin immediately and Kadaj chuckled.

"Heh, sorry…" the talented swimmer apologized, scratching the back of his neck.

The perfect haired youth turned back around, that irresistible smirk on his face. While Kadaj would never admit it, he didn't really mind Tidus touching him at all. However, since he wasn't used to being touched in such a way that the blonde had done, it made him feel a bit uncomfortable. Then again, it did feel rather nice…

Shaking his head to rid of these thoughts, he continued putting lotion on the other parts of his body. He could feel those deep blue eyes watching him, but didn't say anything.

"Done? Come on then!" Tidus cried out, grabbing Kadaj's hands and leading him toward the ocean.

The silver haired teen had never gone into the water before, as he had an odd case of hydrophobia. He didn't like the way the ocean moved, and because of his lack of swimming skills, preferred to stay far away from it. However, the blonde was dragging him into the clear, blue green water as though it were nothing.

"Tidus hold on would you? I'm not a swimming pro like you!" Kadaj cried out, slightly annoyed. He was waist deep in the cold water now, and was shivering slightly.

"Sorry…what's the matter, cold? You get used to it eventually," Tidus replied cheerfully.

A particularly large wave decided to crash and splashed Kadaj, who shrieked.

"It's cold!"

"Well, it won't get any warmer if you just stand there. Come on!"

The blitzball player went to grab Kadaj and pull him in farther, but the rebel shook his head.

"No! I'm not going in any farther!"

"Kadaj-"

"NO!"

Blue eyes looked into glaring turquoise ones, and suddenly Tidus got an idea.

Smirking, the talented swimmer took the annoyed teen around the waist and continued on deeper into the ocean, ignoring Kadaj's protests and cries as the clear water hit his back.

"Let me go, NOW!"

While frustrated, the beautiful remnant was also a bit embarrassed at their current position- they were facing each other and every time a wave came, it pushed the teen against the tan body.

"Alright then," Tidus complied, letting Kadaj go, knowing exactly what would happen.

Since he wasn't really paying attention, it just occurred to the cat eyed youth that the shoreline was quite far away, and the minute the blonde let him go, he couldn't feel any sand underneath him. The water was also up to his neck.

"TIDUS!" he screamed, failing his arms and legs frantically, almost terrified.

Chuckling, the blonde quickly scooped the scared teen up into their previous position, almost laughing as Kadaj clung onto him for dear life.

"You bastard! Leaving me out there so I could drown," the remnant yelled angrily, although he was still holding on to said bastard.

"I wasn't going to let you drown, silly! But if I remember correctly, you did say 'let me go'."

Tidus laughed at the scowl Kadaj gave him.

"Loosen up, it's alright, I got you! You can't get over your fear of something until you face it."

The silver haired youth felt the athlete's lips on his cheek again, and couldn't help but smile.

"Okay, you're right. Sorry for overreacting."

"It's alright!"

Tidus started swirling Kadaj around in the water now, aware that the grip the teen's legs had around his waist was looser. He was almost disappointed but happy that the pretty boy was more comfortable now.

Unfamiliar to him, Kadaj started giggling as Tidus spun him around faster, occasionally jumping to avoid a wave splashing over them. That bright beautiful smile came onto the star player's face, and soon enough he began laughing along with the smiling remnant.

"Having fun?"

"Well, with you here."

Grinning, Tidus slowly let Kadaj go a bit.

"Try keeping yourself above the water. That's the first principle of swimming."

The amateur swimmer did so, but it was obvious he was struggling a bit.

"Don't move your arms and legs too fast, you can get a cramp that way. Just sort of…..like pretend your flying and move your arms slowly up and down. Since you weigh less in the water, you don't need too much force to keep you up."

Kadaj did so, finding Tidus's advice was correct.

"Oh…."

The blonde chuckled.

"Told you it's not too hard."

Tidus coached the silver haired teen on the basics of swimming, and within an hour, Kadaj knew enough to handle himself in the water.

"I guess it is pretty easy."

"Well, luckily you're strong so it's even easier for you. Wanna go out farther?"

Kadaj looked uneasily farther out, watching a large wave heading toward them.

"Eh….."

He picked himself to ride over the wave.

"Come on! I'll be right by you."

"Oh, alright then."

Holding on to Tidus's arm, he let the blonde lead him farther out to sea. At this point, the waves were much bigger, and instead of jumping over the waves, they ducked underneath them instead. It was a bit fun, until with wide eyes Kadaj noticed that a wave was towering over them, as though about to swallow them.

"Tidus…"

The blitzer quickly grabbed the startled teen as the wave crashed over them indeed, causing them to turn upside down and then be pushed harshly several feet away, closer to shore. A silver head burst from the water at once, gasping for breath, while Tidus started laughing.

"That was fun!"

"Fun?! My head hurts from holding my breath so long."

"Awww, poor thing."

"Oh no, another one is coming!"

Chuckling, Tidus quickly grabbed Kadaj around the waist and picked him up so the wave wouldn't hit him.

"There you go. Breathing okay?"

"Yeah…thanks."

"No problem."

Now that they were in an area that was calmer, Tidus started swirling Kadaj around again.

"Tidus…"

"Yes?"

"Thanks for taking me out here. You made it fun."

The beautiful teen was smiling, and the blue-eyed youth noticed that those peachy, thick lips weren't far from his own.

"You're welcome. You're a fun person to be around."

Kadaj blinked, surprised that anyone would consider him 'fun', but didn't get to respond as a wave smacked him from behind, causing him to knock into Tidus. Their foreheads hit each other, nearly painfully.

"Ow…."

"Sorry…"

"S'ok, wasn't your fault."

The blonde noticed their faces were only inches away from each other, and was highly aware of Kadaj's legs around his waist, his arms loosely around his neck. A sudden urge came over the professional swimmer, and he wasn't in the mood to fight against it.

"Hey…"

Turquoise eyes looked to meet deep blue ones for a second before Kadaj felt the other's lips on his own. While surprising, the kiss was warm and it was as though the ocean didn't exist, the wind wasn't blowing, and the sun wasn't shining upon them. The world had melted into heated comfort and it was all the fuzzy brained teen could think of at the moment, besides the fact that Tidus was an excellent kisser.

The dark skinned youth pulled away after a moment, feeling a bit dazed. Not only were those lips soft and sweet like he imagined they would be, but they were also salty. Maybe it was because of the water. The blush had returned to Kadaj's cheeks, and he was looking down, obviously embarrassed. He regained his composure a few seconds later, peering up at Tidus.

"I thought you said it would be weird if you kissed me today."

The blonde suddenly burst into laughter, and while a bit confused, the silver haired teen chuckled.

"Well, I guess I was wrong then wasn't I?"

They both smiled, and Tidus let Kadaj go, looking back at the shore.

"I think we've been in here enough. Want to go eat? I'm hungry."

"Again?"

"Judging by the sun's position, I'd say it's around noon, yeah? Which means lunchtime."

Well, the soaking wet teen was a bit hungry.

"Oh alright."

"Yay! Come on!"

Taking Kadaj's hand, they walked back toward the shore. Of all places, the thoughtful remnant didn't think he'd get his first kiss out in the ocean, but someone that he liked had kissed him. Someone who made him happy. Someone who would listen to him. Someone that he happened to meet a couple days ago due to a volleyball knocking over his umbrella. Kadaj smiled to himself at this thought and figured he wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

Hee hee!!! Don't ask me why I decided to have them kiss out in the ocean, it was just a random idea! And it's original!! ;D Anyway, hope you enjoyed, leave me pretty reviews and I'll put up the second portion of their day!!