I've been meaning to change views for a chapter or so, but decided to save it for later. Still,
here's more of Tidus' point of view instead of Yuna's. Now we'll really see what this Blitzer is
thinking! Oh, but a little later on in the chapter, it kind of switches back and forth. Don't worry,
I'll make sure it's not confusing or anything though! Enjoy!
Chapter 11: Falling for a Fan
Two eyelids fluttered, as if they were thinking about opening. However, they figured it
was too early to open at the moment. The eyelids' owner stirred, as if trying to get back to sleep,
but then bumped into someone else's soft body.
The eyelids flew open, revealing two crystal blue eyes. His view was blocked by soft
brown hair, and for a second, he wondered where he was.
He smiled to himself as he remembered. He was asleep on the couch in his living room,
and he must have fallen asleep without even meaning to. Beside him was a still-sleeping Yuna,
who was facing away from him. Her breaths were soft and even, and Tidus noticed his arm was
still around her.
He watched her for a while, wondering if he should get up and leave her there or wake
her up. Finally, he decided he needed some time alone to think, anyway, and he crawled
carefully over her, and into the kitchen.
What was going to do? Of course he didn't remember anything about Spita, or whatever
it was she was always talking about. She was some crazed, obsessed fan. But...Just the same,
Tidus couldn't help but feel rather fond toward her.
No, he had to get any thoughts of becoming sweet on Yuna out of his head. She was just
a girl, a thing. Just a crazed chick who thought he loved her.
Ha, love? Had he ever loved anything in his entire life? Oh yeah, he loved Blitzball,
being number one...
But Yuna. What should he do with her? He paced back in forth in the kitchen, snacking
on a bag of potato chips as he did so. What to do, what to do...
"I could break her heart," he thought to himself, "by simply dumping her like I do anyone
else, but..." He stopped, setting the chips on the table. Why couldn't he force himself to dump
her? It wasn't like Yuna was the first sucker he'd brought into his trap. He'd kissed her, made
out with her, slept with her (even thought that wasn't quite intentional)...What more did he
usually do with a girl? He wouldn't dare think of going any farther. The last thing he needed
was that...
Back and forth he continued to pace, almost nervously. What did it matter to him if he
broke Yuna's heart? She was just a fan, anyway. It wasn't as if she could make him any more
popular. Now Lea on the other hand...
Oh, what to do? He was so into his thoughts, that he didn't notice that he had crept into
the trophy room, and was staring at the many trophies, although not just one in particular.
"Hey!" he heard Yuna's happy voice say, and he turned around. She was still in her dress
from the night before, and he realized that he too, was still in his formal wear.
"Hey," he said back to her, and didn't really mean to sound so depressed.
"Do you remember anything?" Yuna asked with a hopeful tone to her voice.
"No..." Tidus said, looking away from her, being that he couldn't stand to see the
disappointment that he knew would spread to his face.
"Why not?" he heard Yuna moan, and he looked back at her, and she stared at him,
looking quite about to cry.
"Yuna, I'm real sorry. I tried, didn't I?" Tidus was amazed at how harsh he sounded.
Was he grumpy, or angry at her? He didn't know. Right now, however, he didn't want to hear
about her messed up views of him.
"You're right," she just replied sweetly, "You did try. It's not your fault." She smiled up
at him, and Tidus found that he had been hoping that she would get angry in response, and leave.
"Maybe, if we could just find a way back to Spira, when you got there you'd remember.
And then, you wouldn't be a dream anymore, and..." Yuna had started naming things off, almost
as if she was in an incredibly hopeful mood, and she didn't notice how Tidus continued to cringe
at every one of her suggestions.
"Whoa, hold on there!" Tidus said, and decided it was time to be perfectly honest with
Yuna for the time being, "I'm not going to Spira. I'm staying here. I don't believe a single word
you say about your...your weird home!"
Yuna stopped, and stared at Tidus as if she didn't believe a single thing he had just said.
The look in her bi-coloured eyes was the most hurt look Tidus had ever seen. Except in his own
eyes...
"Then why..." Yuna had tears forming in her eyes, "Why did you say that you'd come?
Why did you say that you wanted to remember? Why did you..."
"I lied, okay?" Tidus nearly screamed at the girl, "I do it all the time. Okay?"
Yuna's tears were streaming down her face, but she lifted her chin stubbornly and glared
angrily at Tidus.
"You lied about everything?" she stabbed at him, "Why? Why would you just lie?"
"It's...Really complicated, okay!" Tidus yelled at her, and turned away from her inquiring
glare, "I have a reputation to look after, you know!"
Yuna continued glaring at him, and didn't look very happy at all.
"I should have known!" she finally yelled at him, after the two stood there in silence for a
while, "Uh! I can't believe everything Lea said about you was right! You really did go out with
me just to sleep with me, didn't you? You...But..."
"That's not true!" Tidus shouted back at her, "I didn't even mean to sleep with you! I
didn't pretend to like you because of that!"
"Oh yeah?" Yuna snapped back at him, "Then why did you?"
"Why should I tell you?" Tidus snapped back at Yuna.
"Because you owe it to me!" Yuna snapped back quickly.
"Who says?" Tidus now crossed his arms, wishing she'd just go away. There was no way
he'd tell her why he went out with her in the first place.
"I say," Yuna said, her eyes flashing angrily at him. She stuck her lip out and looked
about to cry again, and turned from Tidus, "Whatever, you're not going to get rid of me that
easily," she just said, and marched off, sitting back down on the couch as if she owned the place.
"Whatever! I can just call security!" Tidus yelled back at her.
Yuna gave him an incredibly large smirk, and said, "Go ahead. I'm not stupid Tidus. I
just figured out why you went out with me."
"Oh yeah?" Tidus asked, folding his arms across his chest, "Why'd I go out with you
then?"
Yuna just smiled, almost sickeningly sweetly, and said, "Let's just say that when word
gets around that you called security on your girlfriend, that I don't think that will make Lea too
jealous."
"Whatdya mean?" Tidus yelled, his blue eyes flashing.
Yuna smiled up at him again, "Just what I said!" She stood up, and walked up to him,
and gave him a shove, "You went out with me for a couple of reasons. One: I was a nut. I was
an easy target for you. Two: I was good-looking and wasn't going to go out with you just for a
night. And three: 'Cause Lea and you had broke up, and you wanted to make her jealous by
going out with me! I should have known the entire time! You only danced with me when she
was around, and you only kissed me when she was around. Why you even made-out with me last
night here is beyond me. But I was stupid, and went along with your plan anyway, being that I
was just too happy to see you." Yuna was crying now, although she still looked quite angry.
Tidus couldn't believe she'd figured him out that easily. He didn't know what to say, or
even what to think. He just watched her cry, deciding he must look quite clueless. Perfect.
"Yuna, that's kind of true, and kind of not true," Tidus said, rubbing the back of his neck,
"Wanna know the whole story?"
She shook her head. "No, I'm tired of your lies!"
She turned around to leave, and Tidus grabbed her arm.
"I'm not letting you leave until you know the truth!" he said to her through clenched
teeth. He didn't want to sound angry, but he was suddenly afraid of losing her.
"Shut-up and let me go!" she yelled, pulling her arm free. Then, she punched him in the
gut, causing him to double over, and she ran out the door.
"Yuna, wait!" Tidus yelled after her, and, clenching his stomach in pain tried to follow
her. However, she was already down the street, and he watched her turn down an alley.
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Tears were still flowing down her cheeks as she rounded yet another corner, although she
had no clue where she was going. Just away from Tidus, that's all she knew. It couldn't be the
real Tidus. It had to be a different him. Tidus wouldn't be like that. No, he wouldn't. It had to
be some kind of strange dream, or something.
Of course, she knew she was kidding herself. There was no way this was a dream. It was
really and truly happening. Tidus really was a jerk, and he really had played her. Played her as
the fool she was. How could she have possibly been so stupid? Still, even as she was angry at
him in the most unforgiving way, she just wanted to run back to him, embrace him, and hear him
tell her that he didn't mean any of it. Then, together they would find a way back to Spira, and he
would remember anything. Then, they could live happily ever after...
"Who am I kidding," Yuna said out loud to herself, as she rounded another corner, hoping
she wasn't going in circles, "That's not going to happen. It's over. It's all over. No more
Tidus...Ever..."
Again, Yuna felt some more tears slip down her cheeks. They weren't really tears of
sadness, or loneliness, as many of the tears before were, but these were tears of defeat. She had
tried to play the Fayth's game, and she had lost. She had lost Tidus forever.
"No, it's not your fault," Yuna told herself, sighing as she did so, "It's all Tidus'. If he
could only remember!" Again, she thought of the whole deal as a game again.
"Perhaps," she thought to herself, "The Fayth made it so that Tidus couldn't remember,
and made him be a jerk, just to see if I could get him to fall in love with me?"
For all she knew, that could be it. For some reason, however, she didn't want to go back
and try again. She didn't care if she lost. She didn't care at the moment if she got Tidus back or
not. At that moment, the only thing she could think about was going home. Back to Spira. She
had lived a year, actually three years, without Tidus, and she had managed to survive. She didn't
need him. She didn't.
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Tidus didn't know what to do. His problems were solved, and with just a touch of a
button, he could have Lea back, and all of the publicity that came with it. He didn't know why
being with Lea brought so much publicity, but he figured it had to do with the fact that Lea did so
much for the Abes, being that her father was the head referee. And Tidus supposed that being
that everything in Zanarkand seemed to revolve around Blitzball, and for him, popularity, then
Lea was definitely a smart match for him.
Smiling to himself, he stood up, being that he had been sitting down, and stretched. He
had managed to make Lea so mad, so upset, that now she would come crawling back to him, not
because she'd been dumped by her new guy, but because she had been dumped by Tidus. He had
made a fool out of her. All thanks to Yuna.
"No, don't think about her," Tidus said, rubbing his stomach, thinking about how much
Yuna's punch had hurt, "She was just some good-for-nothing nut, anyway."
Still, he found himself glancing out the window, as if hoping just slightly that he'd see
Yuna coming. Of course, he didn't see her, and he finally just turned away from the window and
plopped himself on the couch, clicking on the sphere, deciding to watch the replay of the night
before's game.
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Yuna was now lost. She had no idea where she was. She looked here and there, trying
desperately hard to distinguish how far away she was from Tidus' place, or from the sphere pool,
or from anyplace that would bring back some sign of recognition. However, she found nothing.
She continued to wander, no longer thinking of Tidus, but thinking of how she was going
to get out of Zanarkand and back to Spira.
Sighing, Yuna finally bent over, and realized it was getting late. She had been wandering
all day, and still had no idea where she was. She sat down on the ground, deciding she was going
to at least come up with a plan of action.
The streets were strangely deserted, but Yuna decided that it must be time for a Blitzball
game or something. Still, it seemed as if there was nobody around, and to Yuna's surprise, she
felt somewhat tense, as if afraid of something. Not only that, but she had the strangest feeling
that she was being followed.
Feeling suddenly strangely alone, and rather frightened, the girl stood up and looked
every way, trying to find somebody, anybody, who looked friendly enough to ask for directions.
She was suddenly so wrapped in her fear of being alone that she didn't notice a group
close in around her. She had sunk to her knees without noticing it, and she finally looked back
up to see many faces looking down at her.
"Oh," she said, quite startled, and immediately stood back up, "Hello...?"
"Hello," one person, who had blazing red, curly hair said, "What're you doing here?"
"Uhm," Yuna said, wondering what it was he was asking her exactly, "Going for a
walk?"
"Hm. A walk here? You lost?" a girl with a tight blonde pony-tail said smugly.
"Uh, yeah, uhm, why not?" Yuna said, suddenly nervous. The whole group, which
consisted of five people, were circling her, looking her over.
The red haired one laughed.
"You sure you're not lost," he said with a slight chuckle, "'Cause you sure look that way
to me."
"Do you know what district you're in?" another girl asked.
"Uh, I'm just in Zanarkand?" Yuna said with a somewhat clueless gesture.
"Look," the pony-tail girl said, smiling, showing off huge dimples, "You an Abe fan,
right?"
Finally feeling that she was getting someplace, Yuna nodded vigorously. "Yes! I'm an
Abe fan! Does anyone know where I can find..."
Once again her voice trailed, for now the group had begun to laugh hard. If Yuna had
been smart, and had known some things about the group, she would have run. However, she
knew nothing, and just continued to stare at them with a clueless look on her face.
"We could tell by the logo on your shirt!" the other girl, a blonde, was saying between
laughs, "And besides, only an Abe fan could dress as stupidly as you are! Everyone knows it's
leather or nothing these days!"
"What's wrong with the way I dress?" Yuna spewed, and then thought better of what she
had said, "And what's wrong with me being an Abe fan?"
"You must have hit your head," the red-haired one said firmly, which shut the rest of his
group up, stopping their laughter, "But we don't care if you did or not, do we?"
The group shook their heads, each with a wicked smile on their face. They were
chuckling a low, evil chuckle, and the red-haired one nodded toward Yuna, with an evil smile to
top all of the rest combined.
"Hey, you're a cute girl," he said, grabbing Yuna's arm, as she tried to pull away, "But
cute or not, you're an Abe fan. And this is District C-South? Duggles only? And we feel it's
our job to take care of Abers like you."
He pulled Yuna up close to him, and the rest of the group surround her. She tugged her
arm, trying to let out of his grasp, and twisted around, only to be faced by the rest of the group.
She had no idea what the group had in store for her, and she was shaking. What was going to
happen to her?
