And Baby Makes Three
Chapter Four - The Morning After
By: Digi-Esca Girl
Disclaimer: I own nothing pertaining/related to Final Fantasy X. I'm just expressing myself.....lol
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Cracking open one eye slowly, Lulu scanned her room. She'd never slept anywhere but her's or Yuna's
house, and she wasn't used to waking up in unfamiliar surroundings. As her burgandy eyes
traveled around the room, they stopped on an open doorway across the hall.
Wakka's bedroom door.
She checked the clock to her right. 7:00 in the morning. She knew of Wakka's reputation for killer
hangovers, and knew for a fact that he would never be up this early after such an alcohol 'binge'.
She also knew that she had CLOSED his door when she'd left the room last night.
Rubbing the last remnants of sleep from her eyes, Lulu climbed out of bed, wrapping her robe around her
before walking towards the hallway and the open door. She edged out of her own room, quietly creeping
across the hall and pausing at Wakka's door.
She reached out a pale hand, pushing the door open a little more so that she could slip inside the room.
Once this was accomplished, the mage's eyes traveled from the lush carpet up to the bed, to make sure
that Wakka still occupied it. Her hand flew to her mouth at the sight before her, and the smile that immediately
became present on her lips was covered by that same hand as she took in the spectacle.
Wakka was curled up on his side, and seemed at first to be clutching a teddy bear to his chest. Upon
closer inspection, however, Lulu discovered that it wasn't a teddy bear that he was holding so protectively.
In fact, it wasn't even a stuffed animal of any kind, but a living, breathing organism.
Jade was nestled comfortably in Wakka's arms, a light, contented smile playing on her lips as her chest
rose and fell with each steady breath. Her loose, auburn hair was tossed over the pillow, one of her little hands
resting near her face, while the other one lay against Wakka's well-defined chest, clutching lightly to his shirt.
The Besaidian native had one of his powerfully-muscled arms draped gently over her little body, and had a
very, very tiny smile on his lips as well. He looked like a good-natured, calm, collected, loving father.
'HA!' Lulu thought almost bitterly, 'He's quite the opposite of that....But still....I've never seen a better oppurtunity
for blackmail yet......'
A smirk wound it's way onto Lulu's lips, replacing the warm smile that had been present only seconds before.
She crept out of the room, and dashed down into the kitchen, retrieving the digital camera that rested on
top of the microwave. Running quickly, but quietly, back up the stairs, Lulu snuck into the room once
again, positioning the camera's view finder against her eye and readying her finger over the button. Once
she had focused the camera for the perfect shot, she pressed the button, smirking triumphantly as the flash
went off and the picture she'd taken appeared on the back of the camera.
It was indeed a perfect shot. So perfect, in fact, that it would be blown up and mounted above the mantel.....
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**RIIIIIIIIIING**
The loud noise coming from the receiver of the video-phone in the living room was loud enough to rouse
a very sore, tired, hungover blitzball player from his sleep, albeit reluctantly. The blonde cracked open
one cerulean eye and glanced around the room, noting that it was the phone downstairs, their public line,
that was making so much noise.
Just as he willed his muscles to move, the ringing stopped, and Tidus sighed and settled back into a
comfortable position. Suddenly, the pillow he was clinging to moved and sighed, and Tidus' eyes sprang
open again and moved down to rest upon the slumbering young woman laying against his chest.
"Yevon on a unicycle....."He muttered in amazement, trying to remember why Yuna was sleeping on him. All
he could bring his tired brain to recall was loud, pumping music and a one-way ticket to the sidewalk in
front of the house taken by his face.
He brought his free hand up to his cheek, and winced as his fingers landed on a spot he was certain had
colored purple by now. Moving his fingers upward, they alighted on a rough patch on the bridge of his
nose that hadn't been there 24 hours before. He traced the spot until his mind registered it as a
scrape which he was sure had been caused by meeting the sidewalk face-first.
He stifled a groan, not wanting to wake Yuna and see what she thought of the situation currently unfolding.
'Oh crap! What if the kid wakes up.....? Damnit....' Tidus thought, putting his head back down on the pillow
and throwing his arm over his eyes. As he adjusted his arm into a suitable position on his face, he felt
a velvety soft sensation slide against the fingers that had been tossed to the right of his head.
Peeking under his arm, he found that when he threw his arm over his face, his hand had landed on Yuna's
head, resting on her tawny hair.
'That explains that softness....' He thought, lifting a strand between his fingers and watching it slide
through to fall back into place as if it had never left. Losing reality for just that second, he marvelled
at how soft her hair was. All the other girls he'd dated had dyed their hair so many times, it was rough
and coarse, no matter how many times they washed it. Yuna's was the exact opposite, and Tidus loved it.
Suddenly, she stirred, snapping Tidus out of his reverie abruptly. He shut his eyes and replaced his arm over
his eyes so that Yuna couldn't see them, and relaxed himself as best he could.
The young summoner sighed and opened her eyes slowly, taking in her surroundings and recalling the
night's previous events. She smiled to herself as the memory of Tidus taking a nose-dive for the
sidewalk resurfaced, and she stretched quietly, so as not to wake the sleeping (or so she thought) blitzer.
After a few minutes of careful manuvering, Yuna was standing by the bed, replacing the sheets around
Tidus as if she'd never been there. She picked up the bandages, cloths and sneakers from around the
room and headed out the door, closing it quietly behind her.
Once Tidus could no longer hear her soft footfall on the carpet outside, he removed his arm and peeked
around just to be certain. When a check showed no signs of Yuna, he breathed a sigh of relief. Good thing
I didn't SLEEP with her, he thought, turning over onto his side and closing his eyes as a headache hit him
full-force. He kept his eyes squeezed shut and buried his face into the warm spot still left on the pillow.
He inhaled deeply; contentedly as sleep took him, and his last conscious thought was of the light,
cinnamon smell he knew was familiar from somewhere.....
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Lulu looked up from the 'THREE CAR PILEUP' headline on the newspaper upon hearing faint, but recognizable
voices coming from the staircase. She craned her neck to try and see further up the stairs, but was unable to,
due to the kitchen wall being in the way.
"Please?" Pleaded a tiny, quiet voice Lulu had to strain to hear.
"....Oh alright. Hop on, ya?" Came a familar, tone-deaf voice Lulu had had the pleasure of hearing the night
before. She smiled very slightly to herself at the memory, but straightened her face and turned back to the
newspaper as she heard Wakka's heavy footsteps coming down the stairs. He came into a view a moment
later, little Jade clinging to his neck, as her tiny arms would never fit around his broad shoulders. The native
Besadian held her small feet in his hands, supporting her so she wouldn't fall off.
Wakka's russet eyes traveled from the girl's face to Lulu's and he instantly remembered something about a
song lyric he should never have even LEARNED...... He avoided her eyes and deposited Jade in the chair next
to the mage's, taking the seat beside that one, which was directly across from Lulu.
"Good morning," Jade said quietly, but with obvious practice behind her words. Both parents turned their heads
from anything but each other to 'their little girl'.
"Good morning Jade," Lulu replied with a smile, "What would you like for breakfast?"
The girl hesitated before she spoke.
"You mean.....I geta choose?"
"Of course you do, ya? Whateva you want!" Wakka said enthusiastically, ignoring Lulu's quick glare.
'What if I can't make "whateva" she wants, you big dope!' The mage cursed in her mind, unable to
control the violet fire that sprang up in her eyes.
"Can I have.....pancakes?"
"Sure. I can do pancakes, no problem!" Lulu replied warmly, smiling again and getting up from the table.
"What about getting me my paper, eh?" Wakka called after her, watching the newspaper travel with her towards
the stove and fridge.
Lulu smirked evilly before she turned around, replacing the smirk with a forced smile.
"Oh yes...How could I forget, DEAR....."She replied, painfully keeping the smile on her face as she approached him.
"Watch this, Jade," She said, opening up the paper as she came up to Wakka. She forced it down over his face,
ripping it so that it made sort of a ring around his neck as he sat there with a confused, betrayed look on his face.
"See? Daddy's got a collar!" Lulu sang, laughing right in his ear before sauntering off to the kitchen again.
A triumphant smirk replaced the evil one from earlier as she overheard Wakka's muttering, barely audible over the
giggling of the little, auburn-haired girl sitting at the table beside him.
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"So what do you think of this whole Health project they got my boys doin?" Jecht asked, pacing almost nervously
in front of Auron, who sat behind his desk marking pre-tests from his 10th grade Physics class.
"I think that they'll play just fine in spite of it," Auron replied, looking up from his work to finish, "That's what
you're worried about, isn't it?"
"That's only part of it." Jecht answered, pausing in his pacing to take a seat on top of a student's desk.
'Note to self--sanitize that desk....' Auron thought humorously as he brought his gaze back up to Jecht's face.
"What do you mean?" The elder man asked.
"Well...I'm really worried about Tidus and Wakka. Especially with this kind of assignment, you know? I just don't
know if they're mature enough to handle it."
"They're not."
"Huh?!"
"You said it yourself, Jecht. And, this time anyway, you're right." Auron answered, pushing his chair back with a
deep screech as he stood up.
"But, how can they keep playing if their grades drop?"
"Exactly. I don't want to lose them either, but if they have to learn the hard way how bad being cocky is, then
so be it. They need to learn a lesson, Jecht. Yevon knows you didn't."
"Ha ha. Veeeery funny, pal. Seriously though, should I talk to them about it?"
"If they don't have enough sense to realize how truly important this assignment is, then they deserve the
conseqences of their actions, and you know it. That's what straightened you out, after all."
"Why do you keep going back to me?!"
"Because he's your son, Jecht. I'm almost positive that he'll inherit the same dumbass traits you had in school.
There's only one thing he's got that you didn't have."
"Oh? And what's that, oh-enlightened-one?" Jecht replied with as much cynisism as he could muster without laughing.
"Money to screw around with." Auron replied, giving Jecht a look that obligated him to do something. With this,
the swordsman sat back down, returning to his day job of being the hardest test marker in the school district.
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"Hey Tidus!" Wakka called, running up to his blonde friend in the hallway. They had five minutes to talk before
they were due back in class.
"Game tonight, right?"
"You know it!" He replied loudly, reaching up to slap Tidus' awaiting hand in a high-five.
"D'you think Bickson's gonna be on my case again?" The blonde asked as the two began walking down the hall.
"Not if you knock him outta the sphere like you did last season, ya?" Wakka replied with a deep chuckle. Tidus'
answering laugh, echoed down the quieting hallway, and was picked up by the three female observers at the
other end of the corridor.
"Well, looks like they'll be partying again tonight." Lulu sighed, rolling her eyes angrily.
"And on a school night, too." Yuna put in, rubbing her temple as if to ward off certain, soon-to-come headaches.
"But what if they lose?" Rikku asked curiously.
"Even if they do," Yuna began.
"They'll still go get pissed." Lulu finished, following the excited blitzers toward Biology class, Yuna and Rikku
at her sides and looking just as excited as she did.
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"Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the first, regular season game of the Zanarkand Abes!" The announcer, Jimma,
recited loudly, eliciting cheers and whistles from the full stadium crowd, "We're going to have the blitzoff in
just a moment, but first some player introductions!"
"I can't believe we have to play Luca first!" Leathen complained and Jimma and his partner Bobba listed the names of
their purple-clad opponents as they entered the field and jumped into the sphere.
"Yeah! Graav is such a cheater, it makes me wanna....." Jarvis finished his threat by loudly slamming his fist
into his locker. Agreeing cheers sprang forward around him.
"Well, what if I told you could do that, Jarvis?" Tidus asked, stepping out of the shower/change area clad in his uniform.
"What d'ya mean?" Another player, Lucian, asked excitedly.
"Why don't we get'em after the game?"
"Yeah, behind the stadium. No one'll find 'em til tomorrow, ya?" Wakka finished his friend's thought, an ability
he had possessed since elementary school.
"Sounds good to me, man! What d'ya say, guys?" Leathen asked loudly, supporting his long-time friends.
A chorus of cheers and nods erupted around them, and Tidus and Wakka turned to each other and smirked.
"Alright boys!" Came Jecht's loud bellow from the locker room doors, "Curtain call! Let's go!"
"Hands in, ya!" Wakka called out, placing his hand out in front of him. Everyone placed their hands on top of his,
and they shot them up into the air with a loud cheer.
"And finally, we have our two young prodigies, Tidus and Wakka! Numbers 8 and 13!!" Bobba called out as the
two teens entered the stadium and joined their teammates inside the sphere.
"Here we go folks! Blitzoff!" Jimma yelled, as the blue-and-white sphere was launched up into the sphere.
Tidus shout up and snatched it, quickly passing it to Jarvis, who was open to his right. Ten seconds later, well
after he had passed the ball, Bickson charged up and tackled Tidus, pointlessly withering his speed for a few
minutes. Tidus glared after the red-headed-demon as he swam away, cerulean fire springing up in his eyes.
'After the game, asshole,' He vowed in his mind as a devious smirk crossed his lips, 'you're mine......'
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Well there you have it, people! The next installment!
For those of you reading my other fics, I have the chapters half-done, so expect them in no more than
two weeks, okay-dokie??
Keep those reviews coming, folks! You know I love ya'll!
Ja Ne for now,
Digi-Esca Girl
laurie_22@hotmail.com
Chapter Four - The Morning After
By: Digi-Esca Girl
Disclaimer: I own nothing pertaining/related to Final Fantasy X. I'm just expressing myself.....lol
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Cracking open one eye slowly, Lulu scanned her room. She'd never slept anywhere but her's or Yuna's
house, and she wasn't used to waking up in unfamiliar surroundings. As her burgandy eyes
traveled around the room, they stopped on an open doorway across the hall.
Wakka's bedroom door.
She checked the clock to her right. 7:00 in the morning. She knew of Wakka's reputation for killer
hangovers, and knew for a fact that he would never be up this early after such an alcohol 'binge'.
She also knew that she had CLOSED his door when she'd left the room last night.
Rubbing the last remnants of sleep from her eyes, Lulu climbed out of bed, wrapping her robe around her
before walking towards the hallway and the open door. She edged out of her own room, quietly creeping
across the hall and pausing at Wakka's door.
She reached out a pale hand, pushing the door open a little more so that she could slip inside the room.
Once this was accomplished, the mage's eyes traveled from the lush carpet up to the bed, to make sure
that Wakka still occupied it. Her hand flew to her mouth at the sight before her, and the smile that immediately
became present on her lips was covered by that same hand as she took in the spectacle.
Wakka was curled up on his side, and seemed at first to be clutching a teddy bear to his chest. Upon
closer inspection, however, Lulu discovered that it wasn't a teddy bear that he was holding so protectively.
In fact, it wasn't even a stuffed animal of any kind, but a living, breathing organism.
Jade was nestled comfortably in Wakka's arms, a light, contented smile playing on her lips as her chest
rose and fell with each steady breath. Her loose, auburn hair was tossed over the pillow, one of her little hands
resting near her face, while the other one lay against Wakka's well-defined chest, clutching lightly to his shirt.
The Besaidian native had one of his powerfully-muscled arms draped gently over her little body, and had a
very, very tiny smile on his lips as well. He looked like a good-natured, calm, collected, loving father.
'HA!' Lulu thought almost bitterly, 'He's quite the opposite of that....But still....I've never seen a better oppurtunity
for blackmail yet......'
A smirk wound it's way onto Lulu's lips, replacing the warm smile that had been present only seconds before.
She crept out of the room, and dashed down into the kitchen, retrieving the digital camera that rested on
top of the microwave. Running quickly, but quietly, back up the stairs, Lulu snuck into the room once
again, positioning the camera's view finder against her eye and readying her finger over the button. Once
she had focused the camera for the perfect shot, she pressed the button, smirking triumphantly as the flash
went off and the picture she'd taken appeared on the back of the camera.
It was indeed a perfect shot. So perfect, in fact, that it would be blown up and mounted above the mantel.....
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**RIIIIIIIIIING**
The loud noise coming from the receiver of the video-phone in the living room was loud enough to rouse
a very sore, tired, hungover blitzball player from his sleep, albeit reluctantly. The blonde cracked open
one cerulean eye and glanced around the room, noting that it was the phone downstairs, their public line,
that was making so much noise.
Just as he willed his muscles to move, the ringing stopped, and Tidus sighed and settled back into a
comfortable position. Suddenly, the pillow he was clinging to moved and sighed, and Tidus' eyes sprang
open again and moved down to rest upon the slumbering young woman laying against his chest.
"Yevon on a unicycle....."He muttered in amazement, trying to remember why Yuna was sleeping on him. All
he could bring his tired brain to recall was loud, pumping music and a one-way ticket to the sidewalk in
front of the house taken by his face.
He brought his free hand up to his cheek, and winced as his fingers landed on a spot he was certain had
colored purple by now. Moving his fingers upward, they alighted on a rough patch on the bridge of his
nose that hadn't been there 24 hours before. He traced the spot until his mind registered it as a
scrape which he was sure had been caused by meeting the sidewalk face-first.
He stifled a groan, not wanting to wake Yuna and see what she thought of the situation currently unfolding.
'Oh crap! What if the kid wakes up.....? Damnit....' Tidus thought, putting his head back down on the pillow
and throwing his arm over his eyes. As he adjusted his arm into a suitable position on his face, he felt
a velvety soft sensation slide against the fingers that had been tossed to the right of his head.
Peeking under his arm, he found that when he threw his arm over his face, his hand had landed on Yuna's
head, resting on her tawny hair.
'That explains that softness....' He thought, lifting a strand between his fingers and watching it slide
through to fall back into place as if it had never left. Losing reality for just that second, he marvelled
at how soft her hair was. All the other girls he'd dated had dyed their hair so many times, it was rough
and coarse, no matter how many times they washed it. Yuna's was the exact opposite, and Tidus loved it.
Suddenly, she stirred, snapping Tidus out of his reverie abruptly. He shut his eyes and replaced his arm over
his eyes so that Yuna couldn't see them, and relaxed himself as best he could.
The young summoner sighed and opened her eyes slowly, taking in her surroundings and recalling the
night's previous events. She smiled to herself as the memory of Tidus taking a nose-dive for the
sidewalk resurfaced, and she stretched quietly, so as not to wake the sleeping (or so she thought) blitzer.
After a few minutes of careful manuvering, Yuna was standing by the bed, replacing the sheets around
Tidus as if she'd never been there. She picked up the bandages, cloths and sneakers from around the
room and headed out the door, closing it quietly behind her.
Once Tidus could no longer hear her soft footfall on the carpet outside, he removed his arm and peeked
around just to be certain. When a check showed no signs of Yuna, he breathed a sigh of relief. Good thing
I didn't SLEEP with her, he thought, turning over onto his side and closing his eyes as a headache hit him
full-force. He kept his eyes squeezed shut and buried his face into the warm spot still left on the pillow.
He inhaled deeply; contentedly as sleep took him, and his last conscious thought was of the light,
cinnamon smell he knew was familiar from somewhere.....
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Lulu looked up from the 'THREE CAR PILEUP' headline on the newspaper upon hearing faint, but recognizable
voices coming from the staircase. She craned her neck to try and see further up the stairs, but was unable to,
due to the kitchen wall being in the way.
"Please?" Pleaded a tiny, quiet voice Lulu had to strain to hear.
"....Oh alright. Hop on, ya?" Came a familar, tone-deaf voice Lulu had had the pleasure of hearing the night
before. She smiled very slightly to herself at the memory, but straightened her face and turned back to the
newspaper as she heard Wakka's heavy footsteps coming down the stairs. He came into a view a moment
later, little Jade clinging to his neck, as her tiny arms would never fit around his broad shoulders. The native
Besadian held her small feet in his hands, supporting her so she wouldn't fall off.
Wakka's russet eyes traveled from the girl's face to Lulu's and he instantly remembered something about a
song lyric he should never have even LEARNED...... He avoided her eyes and deposited Jade in the chair next
to the mage's, taking the seat beside that one, which was directly across from Lulu.
"Good morning," Jade said quietly, but with obvious practice behind her words. Both parents turned their heads
from anything but each other to 'their little girl'.
"Good morning Jade," Lulu replied with a smile, "What would you like for breakfast?"
The girl hesitated before she spoke.
"You mean.....I geta choose?"
"Of course you do, ya? Whateva you want!" Wakka said enthusiastically, ignoring Lulu's quick glare.
'What if I can't make "whateva" she wants, you big dope!' The mage cursed in her mind, unable to
control the violet fire that sprang up in her eyes.
"Can I have.....pancakes?"
"Sure. I can do pancakes, no problem!" Lulu replied warmly, smiling again and getting up from the table.
"What about getting me my paper, eh?" Wakka called after her, watching the newspaper travel with her towards
the stove and fridge.
Lulu smirked evilly before she turned around, replacing the smirk with a forced smile.
"Oh yes...How could I forget, DEAR....."She replied, painfully keeping the smile on her face as she approached him.
"Watch this, Jade," She said, opening up the paper as she came up to Wakka. She forced it down over his face,
ripping it so that it made sort of a ring around his neck as he sat there with a confused, betrayed look on his face.
"See? Daddy's got a collar!" Lulu sang, laughing right in his ear before sauntering off to the kitchen again.
A triumphant smirk replaced the evil one from earlier as she overheard Wakka's muttering, barely audible over the
giggling of the little, auburn-haired girl sitting at the table beside him.
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"So what do you think of this whole Health project they got my boys doin?" Jecht asked, pacing almost nervously
in front of Auron, who sat behind his desk marking pre-tests from his 10th grade Physics class.
"I think that they'll play just fine in spite of it," Auron replied, looking up from his work to finish, "That's what
you're worried about, isn't it?"
"That's only part of it." Jecht answered, pausing in his pacing to take a seat on top of a student's desk.
'Note to self--sanitize that desk....' Auron thought humorously as he brought his gaze back up to Jecht's face.
"What do you mean?" The elder man asked.
"Well...I'm really worried about Tidus and Wakka. Especially with this kind of assignment, you know? I just don't
know if they're mature enough to handle it."
"They're not."
"Huh?!"
"You said it yourself, Jecht. And, this time anyway, you're right." Auron answered, pushing his chair back with a
deep screech as he stood up.
"But, how can they keep playing if their grades drop?"
"Exactly. I don't want to lose them either, but if they have to learn the hard way how bad being cocky is, then
so be it. They need to learn a lesson, Jecht. Yevon knows you didn't."
"Ha ha. Veeeery funny, pal. Seriously though, should I talk to them about it?"
"If they don't have enough sense to realize how truly important this assignment is, then they deserve the
conseqences of their actions, and you know it. That's what straightened you out, after all."
"Why do you keep going back to me?!"
"Because he's your son, Jecht. I'm almost positive that he'll inherit the same dumbass traits you had in school.
There's only one thing he's got that you didn't have."
"Oh? And what's that, oh-enlightened-one?" Jecht replied with as much cynisism as he could muster without laughing.
"Money to screw around with." Auron replied, giving Jecht a look that obligated him to do something. With this,
the swordsman sat back down, returning to his day job of being the hardest test marker in the school district.
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"Hey Tidus!" Wakka called, running up to his blonde friend in the hallway. They had five minutes to talk before
they were due back in class.
"Game tonight, right?"
"You know it!" He replied loudly, reaching up to slap Tidus' awaiting hand in a high-five.
"D'you think Bickson's gonna be on my case again?" The blonde asked as the two began walking down the hall.
"Not if you knock him outta the sphere like you did last season, ya?" Wakka replied with a deep chuckle. Tidus'
answering laugh, echoed down the quieting hallway, and was picked up by the three female observers at the
other end of the corridor.
"Well, looks like they'll be partying again tonight." Lulu sighed, rolling her eyes angrily.
"And on a school night, too." Yuna put in, rubbing her temple as if to ward off certain, soon-to-come headaches.
"But what if they lose?" Rikku asked curiously.
"Even if they do," Yuna began.
"They'll still go get pissed." Lulu finished, following the excited blitzers toward Biology class, Yuna and Rikku
at her sides and looking just as excited as she did.
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"Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the first, regular season game of the Zanarkand Abes!" The announcer, Jimma,
recited loudly, eliciting cheers and whistles from the full stadium crowd, "We're going to have the blitzoff in
just a moment, but first some player introductions!"
"I can't believe we have to play Luca first!" Leathen complained and Jimma and his partner Bobba listed the names of
their purple-clad opponents as they entered the field and jumped into the sphere.
"Yeah! Graav is such a cheater, it makes me wanna....." Jarvis finished his threat by loudly slamming his fist
into his locker. Agreeing cheers sprang forward around him.
"Well, what if I told you could do that, Jarvis?" Tidus asked, stepping out of the shower/change area clad in his uniform.
"What d'ya mean?" Another player, Lucian, asked excitedly.
"Why don't we get'em after the game?"
"Yeah, behind the stadium. No one'll find 'em til tomorrow, ya?" Wakka finished his friend's thought, an ability
he had possessed since elementary school.
"Sounds good to me, man! What d'ya say, guys?" Leathen asked loudly, supporting his long-time friends.
A chorus of cheers and nods erupted around them, and Tidus and Wakka turned to each other and smirked.
"Alright boys!" Came Jecht's loud bellow from the locker room doors, "Curtain call! Let's go!"
"Hands in, ya!" Wakka called out, placing his hand out in front of him. Everyone placed their hands on top of his,
and they shot them up into the air with a loud cheer.
"And finally, we have our two young prodigies, Tidus and Wakka! Numbers 8 and 13!!" Bobba called out as the
two teens entered the stadium and joined their teammates inside the sphere.
"Here we go folks! Blitzoff!" Jimma yelled, as the blue-and-white sphere was launched up into the sphere.
Tidus shout up and snatched it, quickly passing it to Jarvis, who was open to his right. Ten seconds later, well
after he had passed the ball, Bickson charged up and tackled Tidus, pointlessly withering his speed for a few
minutes. Tidus glared after the red-headed-demon as he swam away, cerulean fire springing up in his eyes.
'After the game, asshole,' He vowed in his mind as a devious smirk crossed his lips, 'you're mine......'
*********************************************************
Well there you have it, people! The next installment!
For those of you reading my other fics, I have the chapters half-done, so expect them in no more than
two weeks, okay-dokie??
Keep those reviews coming, folks! You know I love ya'll!
Ja Ne for now,
Digi-Esca Girl
laurie_22@hotmail.com