The balcony was were they were. Outside, the warm air, dark sparkling
night sky was filled with stars, even a full white luminous moon. The
scenery was stunning. Lush wild and cultured plant grew up from the ground
hugging the balcony supports in a deep green and flowered vine embrace.
The balcony itself was a pure white marble and a solid polished oak bench with Victorian style black iron in rose shaped armrests sat off to the side on it and decorated Tidus and Yuna's surroundings. After the dinner Tidus and Yuna had walked outside to enjoy the crystalline summer night.
Neither of them wanted to say anything to spoil the moment, for words would ruin its perfect image.
"Elegant, isn't it?" Yuna said softly. The crystal moonbeams rested gently upon her delicately pure face.
Even with the appearance she had, she didn't always seem as she looked. Before Tidus knew she was to be sacrificed to defeat Sin, he always told her: "I'll take you to see Zanarkand."
He didn't understand how that made her feel, how sad when they thought she was to die and not come back to the places he'd promised they'd travel again, and yet she never showed it. They had been Spira's rays of hope.
But Yuna lived, she didn't have to die to defeat Sin.
Tidus nodded slowly at Yuna, who continued to look out into the dark distance.
"We were once Spira's rays of hope, now we're just moonbeams, we've faded into the background and now shine softly but only at night." Tidus thought silently.
The wind blew, and rose petals from the plants around them fluttered through the air leaving a pleasing scent behind them.
"How do I know what to do from day to day?" Yuna question aloud.
"How do I know I'm doing everything I'm supposed to?" she continued placing her head down.
"How do I know I'll be able to stay here, right now forever. Where I can lay my head in your chest, when I can walk with you in the moonlight, when I can go to your town, when I can not worry whether our world will be on the brink of destruction or not each night?"
"You don't." Tidus answered sincerely.
Yuna stared at him blankly.
"You don't know anymore than I do what will happen tomorrow, I may not know a lot but I know the moon will wax and wane, and that in the winter the flowers will wither and that the world goes on. Things just don't happen for any reason. The moon changes to control the Earth's tides, flowers wither to make room for new growth, spring and will come again."
"That's right" Yuna agreed.
"but what I mean is, just because you know something will happen tomorrow, doesn't mean you know why it happens, you'll learn that, just like you learned when you were little why the moon changes and why flowers wither."
"Now is so nice, I don't want it to end." Yuna told Tidus.
"Neither do I, but it's going to, you can't stop it." He replied.
"If everything ends, does that mean our love will too? And that you'll go back home and I'll be left alone again?" she cried out.
Both were silent.
"It doesn't matter that this is pretty! It will all die! We'll all be left alone." Yuna said with crystal tears threatening to spill down her fair cheeks.
"Yuna, don't say that." Tidus said softly. "You told me once, when I found out Sin was going to be reborn again….you told me 'Please don't say that it isn't worth it, because it is, even if its just for a little while, its worth it' you knew it then-so why don't you believe it now?"
"Because I met you and I wanted it to last forever!" Yuna leaned on Tidus's chest while he comforted her.
"You know it will, even beyond death and time love lasts forever, not just infatuation love, real love."
"I knew you knew that Tidus…somehow I knew you were missing from me."
"Elegant isn't it?" Tidus repeated what Yuna said holding her close and had her turn around to face the view.
"If we could walk holding hands with one another, I want to go to your town, to your home, to your arms." Yuna answered him.
They went in after awhile, both reluctant but both of them felt better.
"It's almost morning." Yuna said sort of sadly.
"Yeah it is." Tidus answered. "You should go to bed Yuna."
"But then you won't be human when I wake up!" She argued.
"Ya, I know but I'll be human again tomorrow night, and besides I may not even turn into something until the afternoon, its completely random."
"Figures someone like you gets a "random" curse." Yuna answered Tidus smiling.
"I have really got to find a cure for this? If you're not busy tomorrow, could you look for me?" he asked.
"Sure." Yuna nodded.
"Oh man, what if I become an Aeon? Or one of Lulu's plushies? That would really suck" Tidus said putting his hand behind his head.
Yuna laughed: "I could just imagine that now, oh you big goof."
"I know, I try." The blonde haired blue-eyed boy answered grinning.
"You know" he began
"Oh no when Tidus says 'You know' everyone knows he's thinking we could all be in trouble!"
"Anyway, if anyone was to write poetry about you, they'd have a hard time." He finished.
"And why would THAT be? Is it because I'm too indescribable for words? Are you trying to be romantic?" the summoner asked her guardian posing like a model would and fluttering her eyebrows.
"Actually, no-they'd have a hard time making up poetry about your eyes. One's green and one's blue so they'd have to you say 'Your eye is like a blue sky and your other is a deep green grass!' Not very poetic is it?" Tidus reasoned.
"I never considered my eyes to be grass or a sky, or even both at once." Yuna said playfully hitting Tidus.
"We really should sleep you know." Tidus told Yuna.
"I know I just don't want to waste anytime with you." Yuna smiling "You could have my bed if you wanted." She offered.
"Will you be in it?"
"What would you do if I was?"
"Possibly each other."
"You pervert."
And they both laughed.
And so the sleeping arrangements were Tidus was to have a cot in Yuna's room and Yuna would keep her bed. They would have shared a bed except for the fact that Lulu would have had a cow, maybe even two. They had been in the room trying to sleep for about an hour now.
So while Yuna was on her queen size bed, and Tidus was on a small cot while they tried to sleep. Yuna rolled over in her red comforter.
"Psstt Tidus, you awake?" she asked.
"Yeah I'm awake." He answered. Tidus moved so he could see Yuna
"What time is it?" Tidus asked after a moment.
"5:14 I think" Yuna replied.
"You couldn't sleep?" the blonde haired boy asked the summoner.
"Nope."
"Me either."
"When I was little my mother used to sing me to sleep." Yuna told Tidus.
"My mother died a little while after my old man came here." Tidus nonchalantly said.
"Sir Jecht, and his wife you mean?" the brown haired girl asked quizzically.
"Yeah." Was all Tidus said.
"My mother died when I was little too, when I was little I thought she was the prettiest most wonderful person on earth. She told me stories about my father and I wanted to grow up just like both of them." Yuna reminisced.
"Looks like you did." Tidus laughed a little.
"And you did too Tidus."
"Irony's a bitch ain't it?"
"Ti-dus." Yuna said annunciating all the syllables in his name. She rolled her eyes and whapped Tidus with one of her pillows.
"Its true, ya?" Tidus stated imitating Wakka.
Yuna ignoring Tidus, began to sing,
sono te wo watashi he to
azukete me wo tojite
mabuta ni kuchizukete
itami wo iyashimashou
nemuri nasai yukkuri to...
ushinau kowasa wa dare mo onaji
kanashimi mayoi mo tsutsumikomu
chikarazuyosa kanjitai...
arasou munashisa subete no hito
kizukeba kagayaku hi wa noboru
sono toki made inoru kara...
"Huh?" Tidus asked confused. The song was pretty, too bad he had no idea what the lyrics were. Yuna smiled and repeated the song.
Entrust your hand to me
and close your eyes
Let me kiss your eyelids
and I will heal your pain
Sleep, please, be at ease...
I want to feel reassurance that
parting with fear has the same sorrow for everyone,
as does being wrapped up in perplexity
If everyone could realize the ineffectiveness of fighting
then shining sunlight would ascend to us
Until that time, I will pray, so...
"You like it Tidus?" Yuna asked. There was no response. "Tidus?" she beckoned again. Yuna leaned over to get a glimpse of him.
"He's asleep, should have known, when my mother sang that to me it had the same effect." Yuna smiled dimly. She bent down to kiss him.
"Good night." She murmured. And for the first time in a year she went to sleep with out worrying what the world was going to be like tomorrow.
Light beamed through the window in Yuna's room.
"Urggg." Yuna said putting her hand to her face to block the sunlight
Yuna's eyes blinked open for a moment, she saw her clock.
"Its 10:27!" she jumped up and rubbed her sleepy eyes.
And yes Tidus was still in the cot and as far as she knew, she was fully human.
"Tidus! Wake up!" Yuna ordered.
"Hrrm??" Tidus mumbled.
"You're still human!" she said excitedly.
Tidus looked more awake now he threw off his covers and examined himself.
"I am!"
"I've got to get ready I have a council meeting early this afternoon." Yuna explained to Tidus.
"Oh, what for?" Tidus asked.
"You know, trade, crop production, potential problems. All the wealthy landowners and governors come. I'm just there to settle disputes mainly because I can summon things about a thousand times tall than me."
"So you have sort of a fear hold over everyone?" Tidus blinked.
"I guess, so I don't use it that way, I don't want to be feared." Yuna told Tidus.
"Is Paris on the council?" Tidus questioned.
"Yeah. I'm gonna have to put up with him today." Yuna complained.
"By all means, don't hesitate to summon Bahamut on him." Tidus said offhandedly.
"Oh, if I could, I would but you've got to understand I have to be diplomatic."
Tidus shrugged; "Just a thought to keep in mind."
"That's right, violence is ALWAYS your answer Tidus." Yuna shook her head.
"If you'll excuse me I have to get ready." The brown haired girl said pushing Tidus gentle aside.
"Need any help?" Tidus offered.
"Not unless I want you in the bath tub with me." Yuna answered smartly
"Sure, sounds good to me!" Tidus laughed.
"Shoo! I'll see you later." Yuna ushered him out of the room.
"I guess I should get something to eat." Tidus thought remembering his stomach, the way most guys do.
So he ambled off to the kitchen in search of a light meal that was breakfast- or even just a piece of fruit may do. "Wait" he thought thinking back to his experience as an apple.
"I don't think I'm going to be able to eat apples for a while." He murmured under his breath.
So instead Tidus snuck into the kitchen harassed the cooks a little and ended up walking out with a chocolate chip muffin and a glass of milk.
He quickly consumed this feeling much more satisfied.
"Hurry! We need to get this to Lady Yuna! Quick! Quick!" a maid said rushing ahead of Tidus.
"Whoa." Tidus said stepping away.
"I'm coming!" a smaller maid said, she was younger and looked as if she hadn't been working here long. The young maid was carrying Yuna's dress. It was a Teal color and it faded down towards the ends of the dress to white. There were two sleeves, not attached to the dress but they were a darker green color that would cling to Yuna's arms.
The maid, not looking where she was going, knocked into Tidus. The glass of milk Tidus was holding spilled all over the dress, but left the sleeves untouched and devoid of any milk stains.
"Oh no!" the maid cried out. Rikku was running in holding a piece of paper in her hand.
Pop! The familiar noise was heard. Tidus saw it in slow motion he actually saw himself go "into" Yuna's teal dress. The one with milk on it spilled dropped to the ground, and "Tidus" was an exact copy of it, except for the milk stains. The orginal sleeves were still intact, so Tidus was not the sleeves.
"Where did he go?" the maid questioned.
Then the maid saw the dress.
"Praise be to Yevon!" she said making the prayer gesture and picking up Tidus the dress and quickly went up the steps to Yuna's room.
Rikku saw all this and began immediately towards Yuna's room to tell her what Tidus had become.
"Stop, Lady Yuna's in the bath you can't go in there!" a man said at the door.
"But!" Rikku interjected waving her hands around.
"She'll be out after she gets changed, then you can see her." The guard told Rikku.
"But it's really important and-…" Rikku was cut off.
"Poor Tidus." She said dejectedly.
It took a few minutes for Tidus to become aware of his new state of consciousness. At first everything was black and foggy like for a minutes and then voices and blurs slowly came to his senses.
"Where am I? What am I?" questioned slowly as he now could see and hear better.
Tidus tried to move.
"Guess I'm a non-moving, non-talking object."
He looked around some more.
There were a pair of feet bellow him and arms moving too.
"I guess I'm an article of clothing…maybe a necklace or something."
But something didn't feel right, Tidus felt stretched up over two definite curves. When the feet moved, he moved, in fact it felt like swinging.
"I'M A DRESS!" he silently called out.
"Lady Yuna?" he heard a voice say, Tidus swished around some more.
Tidus was horrified, he was YUNA'S dress and she was wearing him!!!
Yuna sat in the middle of the most boring meeting she felt she had ever been too in all of her life. They sat a long table, Yuna was at the head of it and Paris was seated next to here. Town officials and leaders where seated around her. It made her disgustingly sick to see Paris staring at her with a dreamy sort of expression on his face.
It made Yuna feel like saying: "Dream on!"
"I wonder where Tidus…or what Tidus is I hope he's having a better time than me."
Yuna took a piece of paper near her and pretended to be writing down stuff about what the leaders were arguing over, taxes…prices…and such.
She began to write.
Hey Tidus! I'm stuck at this meeting, how are you? I'll one of my servants send this to you…I hope you're still around somewhere nearby!
"I'm so close you don't even know it." Tidus privately thought, knowing Yuna was going to kill him, but hey he hadn't done it on purpose. Being on Yuna was quite uncomfortable.
Yeah, so about the Blitz Ball thing, Rikku said she would come over for information so far I know its tonight but I'm not sure what time exactly. I wish Paris would stop looking at me, its really bugging me! I hope you beat him.
Yuna looked back at Paris and rolled her eyes.
See ya soon!
Love,
1 Yuna
Yuna looked at her note for a moment before adding XOXOXOXOXO after signing her name.
"Excuse me?" Yuna beckoned a servant near here. "Please make sure this gets sent to You-Know-You." She said quietly the servant nodded in response.
"That was nice of Yuna." Tidus thought.
And the meeting when on. "Now I know what Yuna has to go through." Tidus privately thought. "This is really awkward being on Yuna."
Rikku leaned up against the door to the meeting considering her options, she could either burst in and shout to the whole world Yuna was wearing Tidus, or do something else. She hadn't yet decided what that something else was. Rikku thought for a moment. She had forgotten about the piece of paper in her hand, yes! That was her excuse!
Rikku gladly opened the door to Yuna.
"Um…Could I please see Yuna for a moment? It's about the Blitz ball tournament held tonight."
Yuna mouthed a quick "Thank you" to Rikku while she asked and got the table's permission for her to be excused for a few minutes.
The two girls left the room.
"So did you see Tidus? Is he still human?" Yuna questioned.
"No, he's not." Rikku answered grimacing inwardly.
"Well I got your times, we have the dome tonight starting at sundown and for as long as we want it, the guy there was making preparations all ready, this is gonna be huge." Rikku told Yuna, mainly looking at Yuna's dress.
Yuna raised her eyebrow.
"Is there something wrong with my dress?" she asked.
"It's a pretty…dress…." Rikku stuttered off.
"Oh great! Rikku knows I'm gonna die…" Tidus the dress silently said.
"Well thanks….I guess….well I'm gonna go back now, tell Tidus "hi" for me..ermm or whatever he is."
"Yuna says "hi" Tidus!" Rikku said.
Yuna, who was turned around, turned back and replied shocked: "You mean he's here?"
"Yeah, he is."
"No! No! No!" Tidus said mentally slapping himself.
"Oh! What is he?" she asked curiously.
"…." Was all Rikku said.
"Is he the house?" Yuna questioned.
"Nope." Rikku responded.
"Well then what is he? C'mon tell me!" Yuna said playfully.
"You sure you WANT to know?!" the Al Bhed girl said making a face.
"Yes!" Yuna answered.
"No!" cried out Tidus silently unable to be heard.
"He'syourdress!" Rikku said quickly.
"He's my what?" asked Yuna confused.
"Dress!" Rikku said covering her face not wanting to see Yuna's face.
Yuna's face paled.
"Oh…no.." Tidus the dress said unable to be heard.
"You're not kidding are you?" Yuna said looking at her dress as if it had eight heads and at least five slimly tentacles.
Rikku shook her head.
"GET HIM OFF!" Yuna cried out.
"But you have to go back out there!" Rikku argued.
"Then give me your clothes!" Yuna demanded.
"I'm NOT going to wear Tidus!" the blonde haired girl argued back
"I can't WEAR him!"
"But you are Yuna." Rikku pointed out
Yuna began muttering and cursing silently under her breath. "I hope you didn't CHOSE to be this."
"I am SO dead." Tidus thought or rather KNEW.
The balcony itself was a pure white marble and a solid polished oak bench with Victorian style black iron in rose shaped armrests sat off to the side on it and decorated Tidus and Yuna's surroundings. After the dinner Tidus and Yuna had walked outside to enjoy the crystalline summer night.
Neither of them wanted to say anything to spoil the moment, for words would ruin its perfect image.
"Elegant, isn't it?" Yuna said softly. The crystal moonbeams rested gently upon her delicately pure face.
Even with the appearance she had, she didn't always seem as she looked. Before Tidus knew she was to be sacrificed to defeat Sin, he always told her: "I'll take you to see Zanarkand."
He didn't understand how that made her feel, how sad when they thought she was to die and not come back to the places he'd promised they'd travel again, and yet she never showed it. They had been Spira's rays of hope.
But Yuna lived, she didn't have to die to defeat Sin.
Tidus nodded slowly at Yuna, who continued to look out into the dark distance.
"We were once Spira's rays of hope, now we're just moonbeams, we've faded into the background and now shine softly but only at night." Tidus thought silently.
The wind blew, and rose petals from the plants around them fluttered through the air leaving a pleasing scent behind them.
"How do I know what to do from day to day?" Yuna question aloud.
"How do I know I'm doing everything I'm supposed to?" she continued placing her head down.
"How do I know I'll be able to stay here, right now forever. Where I can lay my head in your chest, when I can walk with you in the moonlight, when I can go to your town, when I can not worry whether our world will be on the brink of destruction or not each night?"
"You don't." Tidus answered sincerely.
Yuna stared at him blankly.
"You don't know anymore than I do what will happen tomorrow, I may not know a lot but I know the moon will wax and wane, and that in the winter the flowers will wither and that the world goes on. Things just don't happen for any reason. The moon changes to control the Earth's tides, flowers wither to make room for new growth, spring and will come again."
"That's right" Yuna agreed.
"but what I mean is, just because you know something will happen tomorrow, doesn't mean you know why it happens, you'll learn that, just like you learned when you were little why the moon changes and why flowers wither."
"Now is so nice, I don't want it to end." Yuna told Tidus.
"Neither do I, but it's going to, you can't stop it." He replied.
"If everything ends, does that mean our love will too? And that you'll go back home and I'll be left alone again?" she cried out.
Both were silent.
"It doesn't matter that this is pretty! It will all die! We'll all be left alone." Yuna said with crystal tears threatening to spill down her fair cheeks.
"Yuna, don't say that." Tidus said softly. "You told me once, when I found out Sin was going to be reborn again….you told me 'Please don't say that it isn't worth it, because it is, even if its just for a little while, its worth it' you knew it then-so why don't you believe it now?"
"Because I met you and I wanted it to last forever!" Yuna leaned on Tidus's chest while he comforted her.
"You know it will, even beyond death and time love lasts forever, not just infatuation love, real love."
"I knew you knew that Tidus…somehow I knew you were missing from me."
"Elegant isn't it?" Tidus repeated what Yuna said holding her close and had her turn around to face the view.
"If we could walk holding hands with one another, I want to go to your town, to your home, to your arms." Yuna answered him.
They went in after awhile, both reluctant but both of them felt better.
"It's almost morning." Yuna said sort of sadly.
"Yeah it is." Tidus answered. "You should go to bed Yuna."
"But then you won't be human when I wake up!" She argued.
"Ya, I know but I'll be human again tomorrow night, and besides I may not even turn into something until the afternoon, its completely random."
"Figures someone like you gets a "random" curse." Yuna answered Tidus smiling.
"I have really got to find a cure for this? If you're not busy tomorrow, could you look for me?" he asked.
"Sure." Yuna nodded.
"Oh man, what if I become an Aeon? Or one of Lulu's plushies? That would really suck" Tidus said putting his hand behind his head.
Yuna laughed: "I could just imagine that now, oh you big goof."
"I know, I try." The blonde haired blue-eyed boy answered grinning.
"You know" he began
"Oh no when Tidus says 'You know' everyone knows he's thinking we could all be in trouble!"
"Anyway, if anyone was to write poetry about you, they'd have a hard time." He finished.
"And why would THAT be? Is it because I'm too indescribable for words? Are you trying to be romantic?" the summoner asked her guardian posing like a model would and fluttering her eyebrows.
"Actually, no-they'd have a hard time making up poetry about your eyes. One's green and one's blue so they'd have to you say 'Your eye is like a blue sky and your other is a deep green grass!' Not very poetic is it?" Tidus reasoned.
"I never considered my eyes to be grass or a sky, or even both at once." Yuna said playfully hitting Tidus.
"We really should sleep you know." Tidus told Yuna.
"I know I just don't want to waste anytime with you." Yuna smiling "You could have my bed if you wanted." She offered.
"Will you be in it?"
"What would you do if I was?"
"Possibly each other."
"You pervert."
And they both laughed.
And so the sleeping arrangements were Tidus was to have a cot in Yuna's room and Yuna would keep her bed. They would have shared a bed except for the fact that Lulu would have had a cow, maybe even two. They had been in the room trying to sleep for about an hour now.
So while Yuna was on her queen size bed, and Tidus was on a small cot while they tried to sleep. Yuna rolled over in her red comforter.
"Psstt Tidus, you awake?" she asked.
"Yeah I'm awake." He answered. Tidus moved so he could see Yuna
"What time is it?" Tidus asked after a moment.
"5:14 I think" Yuna replied.
"You couldn't sleep?" the blonde haired boy asked the summoner.
"Nope."
"Me either."
"When I was little my mother used to sing me to sleep." Yuna told Tidus.
"My mother died a little while after my old man came here." Tidus nonchalantly said.
"Sir Jecht, and his wife you mean?" the brown haired girl asked quizzically.
"Yeah." Was all Tidus said.
"My mother died when I was little too, when I was little I thought she was the prettiest most wonderful person on earth. She told me stories about my father and I wanted to grow up just like both of them." Yuna reminisced.
"Looks like you did." Tidus laughed a little.
"And you did too Tidus."
"Irony's a bitch ain't it?"
"Ti-dus." Yuna said annunciating all the syllables in his name. She rolled her eyes and whapped Tidus with one of her pillows.
"Its true, ya?" Tidus stated imitating Wakka.
Yuna ignoring Tidus, began to sing,
sono te wo watashi he to
azukete me wo tojite
mabuta ni kuchizukete
itami wo iyashimashou
nemuri nasai yukkuri to...
ushinau kowasa wa dare mo onaji
kanashimi mayoi mo tsutsumikomu
chikarazuyosa kanjitai...
arasou munashisa subete no hito
kizukeba kagayaku hi wa noboru
sono toki made inoru kara...
"Huh?" Tidus asked confused. The song was pretty, too bad he had no idea what the lyrics were. Yuna smiled and repeated the song.
Entrust your hand to me
and close your eyes
Let me kiss your eyelids
and I will heal your pain
Sleep, please, be at ease...
I want to feel reassurance that
parting with fear has the same sorrow for everyone,
as does being wrapped up in perplexity
If everyone could realize the ineffectiveness of fighting
then shining sunlight would ascend to us
Until that time, I will pray, so...
"You like it Tidus?" Yuna asked. There was no response. "Tidus?" she beckoned again. Yuna leaned over to get a glimpse of him.
"He's asleep, should have known, when my mother sang that to me it had the same effect." Yuna smiled dimly. She bent down to kiss him.
"Good night." She murmured. And for the first time in a year she went to sleep with out worrying what the world was going to be like tomorrow.
Light beamed through the window in Yuna's room.
"Urggg." Yuna said putting her hand to her face to block the sunlight
Yuna's eyes blinked open for a moment, she saw her clock.
"Its 10:27!" she jumped up and rubbed her sleepy eyes.
And yes Tidus was still in the cot and as far as she knew, she was fully human.
"Tidus! Wake up!" Yuna ordered.
"Hrrm??" Tidus mumbled.
"You're still human!" she said excitedly.
Tidus looked more awake now he threw off his covers and examined himself.
"I am!"
"I've got to get ready I have a council meeting early this afternoon." Yuna explained to Tidus.
"Oh, what for?" Tidus asked.
"You know, trade, crop production, potential problems. All the wealthy landowners and governors come. I'm just there to settle disputes mainly because I can summon things about a thousand times tall than me."
"So you have sort of a fear hold over everyone?" Tidus blinked.
"I guess, so I don't use it that way, I don't want to be feared." Yuna told Tidus.
"Is Paris on the council?" Tidus questioned.
"Yeah. I'm gonna have to put up with him today." Yuna complained.
"By all means, don't hesitate to summon Bahamut on him." Tidus said offhandedly.
"Oh, if I could, I would but you've got to understand I have to be diplomatic."
Tidus shrugged; "Just a thought to keep in mind."
"That's right, violence is ALWAYS your answer Tidus." Yuna shook her head.
"If you'll excuse me I have to get ready." The brown haired girl said pushing Tidus gentle aside.
"Need any help?" Tidus offered.
"Not unless I want you in the bath tub with me." Yuna answered smartly
"Sure, sounds good to me!" Tidus laughed.
"Shoo! I'll see you later." Yuna ushered him out of the room.
"I guess I should get something to eat." Tidus thought remembering his stomach, the way most guys do.
So he ambled off to the kitchen in search of a light meal that was breakfast- or even just a piece of fruit may do. "Wait" he thought thinking back to his experience as an apple.
"I don't think I'm going to be able to eat apples for a while." He murmured under his breath.
So instead Tidus snuck into the kitchen harassed the cooks a little and ended up walking out with a chocolate chip muffin and a glass of milk.
He quickly consumed this feeling much more satisfied.
"Hurry! We need to get this to Lady Yuna! Quick! Quick!" a maid said rushing ahead of Tidus.
"Whoa." Tidus said stepping away.
"I'm coming!" a smaller maid said, she was younger and looked as if she hadn't been working here long. The young maid was carrying Yuna's dress. It was a Teal color and it faded down towards the ends of the dress to white. There were two sleeves, not attached to the dress but they were a darker green color that would cling to Yuna's arms.
The maid, not looking where she was going, knocked into Tidus. The glass of milk Tidus was holding spilled all over the dress, but left the sleeves untouched and devoid of any milk stains.
"Oh no!" the maid cried out. Rikku was running in holding a piece of paper in her hand.
Pop! The familiar noise was heard. Tidus saw it in slow motion he actually saw himself go "into" Yuna's teal dress. The one with milk on it spilled dropped to the ground, and "Tidus" was an exact copy of it, except for the milk stains. The orginal sleeves were still intact, so Tidus was not the sleeves.
"Where did he go?" the maid questioned.
Then the maid saw the dress.
"Praise be to Yevon!" she said making the prayer gesture and picking up Tidus the dress and quickly went up the steps to Yuna's room.
Rikku saw all this and began immediately towards Yuna's room to tell her what Tidus had become.
"Stop, Lady Yuna's in the bath you can't go in there!" a man said at the door.
"But!" Rikku interjected waving her hands around.
"She'll be out after she gets changed, then you can see her." The guard told Rikku.
"But it's really important and-…" Rikku was cut off.
"Poor Tidus." She said dejectedly.
It took a few minutes for Tidus to become aware of his new state of consciousness. At first everything was black and foggy like for a minutes and then voices and blurs slowly came to his senses.
"Where am I? What am I?" questioned slowly as he now could see and hear better.
Tidus tried to move.
"Guess I'm a non-moving, non-talking object."
He looked around some more.
There were a pair of feet bellow him and arms moving too.
"I guess I'm an article of clothing…maybe a necklace or something."
But something didn't feel right, Tidus felt stretched up over two definite curves. When the feet moved, he moved, in fact it felt like swinging.
"I'M A DRESS!" he silently called out.
"Lady Yuna?" he heard a voice say, Tidus swished around some more.
Tidus was horrified, he was YUNA'S dress and she was wearing him!!!
Yuna sat in the middle of the most boring meeting she felt she had ever been too in all of her life. They sat a long table, Yuna was at the head of it and Paris was seated next to here. Town officials and leaders where seated around her. It made her disgustingly sick to see Paris staring at her with a dreamy sort of expression on his face.
It made Yuna feel like saying: "Dream on!"
"I wonder where Tidus…or what Tidus is I hope he's having a better time than me."
Yuna took a piece of paper near her and pretended to be writing down stuff about what the leaders were arguing over, taxes…prices…and such.
She began to write.
Hey Tidus! I'm stuck at this meeting, how are you? I'll one of my servants send this to you…I hope you're still around somewhere nearby!
"I'm so close you don't even know it." Tidus privately thought, knowing Yuna was going to kill him, but hey he hadn't done it on purpose. Being on Yuna was quite uncomfortable.
Yeah, so about the Blitz Ball thing, Rikku said she would come over for information so far I know its tonight but I'm not sure what time exactly. I wish Paris would stop looking at me, its really bugging me! I hope you beat him.
Yuna looked back at Paris and rolled her eyes.
See ya soon!
Love,
1 Yuna
Yuna looked at her note for a moment before adding XOXOXOXOXO after signing her name.
"Excuse me?" Yuna beckoned a servant near here. "Please make sure this gets sent to You-Know-You." She said quietly the servant nodded in response.
"That was nice of Yuna." Tidus thought.
And the meeting when on. "Now I know what Yuna has to go through." Tidus privately thought. "This is really awkward being on Yuna."
Rikku leaned up against the door to the meeting considering her options, she could either burst in and shout to the whole world Yuna was wearing Tidus, or do something else. She hadn't yet decided what that something else was. Rikku thought for a moment. She had forgotten about the piece of paper in her hand, yes! That was her excuse!
Rikku gladly opened the door to Yuna.
"Um…Could I please see Yuna for a moment? It's about the Blitz ball tournament held tonight."
Yuna mouthed a quick "Thank you" to Rikku while she asked and got the table's permission for her to be excused for a few minutes.
The two girls left the room.
"So did you see Tidus? Is he still human?" Yuna questioned.
"No, he's not." Rikku answered grimacing inwardly.
"Well I got your times, we have the dome tonight starting at sundown and for as long as we want it, the guy there was making preparations all ready, this is gonna be huge." Rikku told Yuna, mainly looking at Yuna's dress.
Yuna raised her eyebrow.
"Is there something wrong with my dress?" she asked.
"It's a pretty…dress…." Rikku stuttered off.
"Oh great! Rikku knows I'm gonna die…" Tidus the dress silently said.
"Well thanks….I guess….well I'm gonna go back now, tell Tidus "hi" for me..ermm or whatever he is."
"Yuna says "hi" Tidus!" Rikku said.
Yuna, who was turned around, turned back and replied shocked: "You mean he's here?"
"Yeah, he is."
"No! No! No!" Tidus said mentally slapping himself.
"Oh! What is he?" she asked curiously.
"…." Was all Rikku said.
"Is he the house?" Yuna questioned.
"Nope." Rikku responded.
"Well then what is he? C'mon tell me!" Yuna said playfully.
"You sure you WANT to know?!" the Al Bhed girl said making a face.
"Yes!" Yuna answered.
"No!" cried out Tidus silently unable to be heard.
"He'syourdress!" Rikku said quickly.
"He's my what?" asked Yuna confused.
"Dress!" Rikku said covering her face not wanting to see Yuna's face.
Yuna's face paled.
"Oh…no.." Tidus the dress said unable to be heard.
"You're not kidding are you?" Yuna said looking at her dress as if it had eight heads and at least five slimly tentacles.
Rikku shook her head.
"GET HIM OFF!" Yuna cried out.
"But you have to go back out there!" Rikku argued.
"Then give me your clothes!" Yuna demanded.
"I'm NOT going to wear Tidus!" the blonde haired girl argued back
"I can't WEAR him!"
"But you are Yuna." Rikku pointed out
Yuna began muttering and cursing silently under her breath. "I hope you didn't CHOSE to be this."
"I am SO dead." Tidus thought or rather KNEW.