Involuntary Love Chapter Four - The best Prize

Authors note: Well, I've decided to start with an 'authors note', just like everyone else :)

So… First of all, thanks for the reviews! That makes me so happy :) And second, I have to say that when I read the story myself I realised that everyone is so out of character! Did you see it too? Well, I've gotta change that:D And this whole Blitzball thing sure is weird…O.o Well, I'll keep going even if this Fanfic sux :p And as you may have noticed the story sometimes is told from Gippals view of things. Otherwise it would be pretty hard to...uh tell the story if you say so :p But, oh well…
And now I finally feel like I've got the hang of this. I guess you have to write a few chapters to get started. I'm not good at this, and I know that, but if you never try, you'll never learn anything :) Sorry for my bad grammar and spelling. But this is my first Fanfic! XD Bad excuse, I know :p
I really regret this whole blitz thing. Let's just get this over with and then the story will begin :p

And this I might as well tell you; When it looks like this: "Hello" a character is thinking, and when it looks like this "Hello" a character is saying something :) So when the text is cursive a character is thinking :p
Well, that's all!

Thanx again, all of you!
Cissi

Gippal started to walk towards the stairs that led up to the Blitzball Arena when he heard footsteps behind him and turned around. It was Nhadala.

"Uh...Nhadala…Hi" he said, not even trying to sound nice. He was too tired of this stupid Blitzball thing. And it had just started…Crap.

"Hello…" she smiled with a big smile which made Gippal feel very…nauseated

"It doesn't even look real…" He thought as he looked at her, trying to smile back.

"You came back quickly…and just in time too." She continued her smile.

"Yeah…" Gippal said very quickly and started to walk just a little faster. He didn't want to talk to her now. In fact he didn't want to talk to anyone, but least of all Nhadala. She was-annoying.

She started to giggle and also started to walk a little faster.

"Oh, man…"

He stopped and looked at her.

"Please, Nhadala you're—" Just as he was going to say 'annoying' he heard someone call his name out.

"Gippal!" it was Rikkus voice and when he turned around he saw her running towards him and the annoying Nhadala.

"Thank god..!" he sighed just when Rikku stopped right in front of them.
"Good news! We're playing against the Aurochs!" Rikku smiled but when she saw Nhadala she stopped smiling "Uh…What are you doing here?" she asked and put her hands on her hips.

"Talking to Gippal of course…What do you think?" Nhadala replied as she took his hand in her own.

"What the!" Gippal thought and sighed again.

"O-oh yeah!" Rikku said with a voice that was meant to sound calm and ignorant but that failed. Totally failed.

"Well then…I guess you should keep 'talking' and I'll just be on my way…" she angrily added before she quickly walked past them, and up the stairs.

"What is that stupid jerks problem!" Rikku didn't know if she was thinking about Nhadala or Gippal. Maybe both of them. But why should she care? Let them…'talk' if that's what they wanted.
"Fine by me…" Rikku felt how her eyes suddenly became all obscure and for a short while she couldn't see anything "A-am I…crying! No! Why should I?" she rubbed her eyes and began to smile again, a little tiny smile, but still a smile.

A few minutes later the Blitzball game was about to start. Rikku looked at the team on the opposite side of the arena; The Besaid Aurochs, know as the loser team number one in Spira. She somehow felt sad for them, they'd never one even a single match.
The Psyches had never won a championship, but they'd been in finals several times at least. Then she looked at her own team and when she looked at Gippal she saw that he was looking at her too. He smiled and gave her a little wink. Rikku smiled back. Brother saw that and started to look grumpier than ever. But Rikku didn't care, she just continued to smile at Gippal. Then she remembered that she was mad at Gippal. Shucks…Well…She couldn't be mad forever and she knew that. Besides she didn't like to be mad at someone, and especially not Gippal. Even though he was so…What was he anyway? She wondered and thought a little.

"Oh yeah. Now I remember. He's a grinning meanie…" she giggled which wasn't so smart, because they were in the Blitzball pool after all… She lost her breath for a second or two and (of course) that was exactly when the game started.

"And now the game begin!" the commentator yelled out to the screaming crowd. Rikku tried her best to catch her breath again as she looked around, trying to see which of the players who had the ball. To her great surprise (and disappointment) it was of course Nhadala who had it.

"Rats.." she thought as she saw Nhadala throw the ball to Gippal who catched it with a bored look on his face. Maybe he could blitz but didn't like it?

"And now the psyches have the ball! But the Aurous are not giving up that easily I see! Here comes Datta!" the commentator screamed even louder than before to make himself heard.

Gippal looked back at Nhadala and waved a little with the ball to show that he was going to throw it back to her.

"No way! Don't throw it to her!" Rikku angrily thought as she made a very quick decision and just as quick she swam over to Nhadala, just in time to push the ball away so Nhadala couldn't catch it.

"What is that girl doing'!" the commentator screamed in surprise "She pushed the ball away from one of her team mates! And now Datta has the ball! This wasn't expected!"

Gippal looked at Rikku and shook his head with a tiny grin. That girl sure was weird. Nhadala looked at Rikku and gave her an angry glare before she started to swim after Datta. Rikku swam after Datta and Nhadala, but Brother was a little bit faster than both her and Nhadala and took the ball from Datta and nodded his head as a 'Thank you'. Then he looked around to see who he would throw the ball to, but he never had the chance to throw it because Nhadala took it right from his hands.
"The Psyches have no feeling for teamwork at all!" the commentator continued as he looked at the strange Blitzball match "If this continues, they'll loose!" Nhadala turned around and smiled at Gippal, and then she threw the ball to him. This time Rikku was too far away to stop that and she gave Nhadala a glare before she swam a little closer to Gippal and waved with her hands to show that she wanted the ball. Gippal noticed that and threw it to her, but now Brother was there to push away the ball.

"This is ridiculous!" the commentator said with a voice that sounded as if he didn't know if he should cry or laugh "They're really going to lose! Against the BESAID AUROCHS!" Eigaar and Nimrook just looked at the rest of the psyches. This really was ridiculous!

This time Letty cached the ball and he somehow managed to score a goal.

"T-this is…unbelievable! The Besaid Aurochs just made a goal! This is history, folks!" the commentator screamed in even greater surprise.

And so the rest of the match continued, Nhadala and Rikku tried to stop each other to get or throw balls to Gippal while Brother and Gippal tried to stop the other one to throw it to Rikku. Really ridiculous in other words… And poor Nimrook and Eigaar just looked at them while the Besaid Aurochs scored goal after goal...

"We really did lose…" Rikku said as she sat with the other psyches in the locker room after the game.

"Yeah, we sure did. Big time." Nimrook said looking down on his feet "Thanks to you guys…"

"Ykyehcd dra Pacyet Yinulrc yht ajanodrehk duu! Syh, drec cilgc!" Brother said as he gave Gippal a glare. (That means: Against the Besaid Aurochs and everything too! Man, this sucks:p)

"Hey, hey…it's not like it's my fault or something!" Gippal said with a gloomy face. But then he remembered something.

"The tournament usually takes about four days, right?" he said with a grin "And Cid said that we could do whatever we want during those days…" he began to smile.

"Aww, that's all you think about, Gippal!" Rikku said and gave him a push which made him fall of the bench.

"Hey! What was that for!" he laughed.

Suddenly the door to the locker room opened and the Besaid Aurochs came in.

"Thanks for letting us win! This means so much to us!" Datta said as he and his team walked in the Psyches locker room.

"Uh..Thanks for…Letting you win?" Rikku said and stared at the Aurochs. Letting them win? What did they mean!

"Yeah! We know that you guys just did that to let us win…Otherwise we would never make it…" Letty said with a grin.

"No problem at all" Gippal said as he stood up and gave Rikku a wink.

"Oh, you..." Rikku started to smile and gave Gippal a wink too.

"Anything we can do to thank you guys?" Datta smiled and looked at the Psyches.

"I got it!" Jassu suddenly said "How about we invite you guys to our lil' party over at Besaid, ya?"

"Besaid? Yunie! And Wakka, Lulu, Tidus and everyone…!" Rikku felt how she got all warm inside. Meeting them again would be better than winning any prize in the world!

"That sounds great!" Rikku happily screamed and started to jump up and down.

"…" Gippal just scratched his head with a troubled smile. "Besaid, you say? Well…I dunno…"

"C'mon, you boring paley! You could need some sun!" Rikku teased and smiled at Gippal.

He grinned at her and frowned "Alright then…Besaid you say…"
" Dryd sayhc fa'mm saad Yuna! Fuuru!" Brother happily screamed (That means: "That means we'll meet Yuna! Wooho!" :p)

"Oh, shut up, sicko!" Rikku said and gave her brother a push too.

Then Nhadala said something about some really important work back at home and something about that she couldn't come with them.

"Is this for real?" Rikku smiled and tried to hide her luck but that didn't go very well…She was going to Besaid with Gippal and without Nhadala!

End of chapter four.

Man, that chapter really sucked! They lost! And I didn't even describe the Blitzball game -.-' But even though I feel like I'm starting to learn now…Anyways…

Lots of hugs,
Cissi :)