Between Guardian and Thief
Disclaimer: Lovely Squaresoft owns it all~
A/N:: School. Kills. I think writing fanfiction over the summer and the holidays would be SO much easier since u don't have the pressure of high school weighing in on ya~. Sori bout all the late updates! I'll probably write another TidusRikku fic but I've been REALLY low on ideas lately.
After Summoner Yuna had finally acquired the ability to summon the dark aeon, Anima, the Summoner and her guardians left the Baaj Temple onwards to see if any other kinds of aeons could be acquired. And strangely, Tidus mumbled something about the Calm Lands as well. Of course, it did make her kind of suspicious at first wondering when he knew all this kind of stuff. Besides, Tidus was the person that popped out of nowhere from 1000 years ago. He was the one that knew nothing of "this" Spira.
And of course, Rikku didn't really care. It seemed as if for the past few days she didn't care at all. About anything. This definitely made everyone slightly worried at least, especially Tidus. No matter how hard he tried thinking of Yuna, he couldn't think about Yuna without thinking about Rikku as well. Sure Yuna was pretty and very respectful of others. Now that was something Rikku did NOT have in common.
She's an Al Bhed. She's a girl that has been against the world since she was young. And unlike Yuna, she didn't hide her Al Bhed heritage. And it definitely wasn't the Al Bhed's fault for Sin always showing up doing destructive things like everyone else thinks so. But even after all that she's been through. Being hated by people everywhere in Spira, losing her home to the Guado, but she's still got that mask over her.
And Yuna did not have to go through twice as much as what Rikku had to go through, but Yuna's life seemed to have gone through much more.
As the Summoner and her guardians went back on the Al Bhed ship, Rikku's father had mentioned that there was this odd building at the Calm Lands as well. Strangely enough, the description and "Calm Lands" matched to what Tidus had muttered earlier on. And it did make even Lulu wonder a bit more. Tidus was supposed to be the confused one, right? Since when did he know about some "strange building" at the Calm Lands?
"So we might as well head there." Rikku mentioned. "If they got more aeons, that'd be perfect." She shrugged walking out of the room.
"She's still in such an attitude." Lulu brought up. "Since we went to the Baaj Temple."
"I think that she's been feeling left out." Yuna explained. "I think because she's the youngest, it must be hard for her to be a guardian and share that responsibility."
"Yuna, I respect your opinion. But Rikku has been living in these kind of harsh lifestyles for her entire life. She has grown up already. She just doesn't want to accept it. That's what she needs to be taught." Lulu explained also glaring at her father. The bald man shrugged.
"What?"
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Tidus laid back against the wall in a room by himself inside the giant Al Bhed ship. It was wrong of him to do this but it was his 4th can of beer. He just needed a cool drink to get his mind off of all the insaneness. A beautiful summoner and an insanely cute thief to choose from. Why did Yevon have to make life so hard for him? But of course, he never watched his drinking like before and opened up the second can, which soon became the third, and now on his fourth. The world went happily dizzy too as well.
He heard something like a door slide open. Not caring who it was, and not knowing why, he threw the beer can at whoever it was.
"Get out. I'm trying to REST here!" he said obnoxiously. Of course he felt the other person give off an angry aura. He laughed not being able to see anything at all. The world was just too dizzy for him to handle.
"Drinking beer, Tidus? No wonder you threw that can at me!" It was obviously a girl's voice. And she sounded as pissed as hell could get.
"Ah shut up, woman! If you hadn't interrupted my SLEEP, then I wouldn't have to throw that frigging beer can in your frigging face!" And this time the girl didn't answer. "What?" And this time, Tidus was answered with a cruel bitchslap across his face. "GOD that hurt!!"
"And THAT hurt too!" she yelled back. It was almost as if she was crying. He rubbed his eyes trying to get a better view of who it was. The image was a blur but the light touch of a seemingly orange blob in his foggy vision, was unmistakable. Rikku. His mouth dropped open. 'Shit. Now she hates me for good.' Rikku despite a tear or two sniffed the air. Beer. She waved a hand in his face as he slapped it away.
"Want some?" he asked holding up a can.
"You drank FOUR cans of beer? You need sleep," Rikku insisted.
"Yeah, with you of course." He muttered with a smirk. Rikku gaped and raised another hand to slap it as Tidus, miraculously, caught her hand before it landed on his face. Miraculous that he did it while he was drunk too and decided it would be fun to pull her down as well. Rikku yelped in reaction falling against him feeling the red began to grow on her face.
"Tidus! What the hell are you...?" her sentence was cut off as his hand covered her mouth silencing her. After a few seconds that he felt she had gotten the message, he let go and rested his hand down against the bed. "Tidus?" she asked leaning her head below his neck. He smiled at her. She couldn't tell if it was for real or just because he was drunk.
"Shut up." He muttered. She frowned. "Just relax. I'm right here." She looked up curiously. Four cans must've affected him a lot, she thought. "If I were...to be like this with the person I love everyday, man, I got the piece of Heaven there was right now."
'Person he loves? What? He...I....?!' her face grew a darker red. 'He's got to be drunk. He's GOT to be.'
"Don't you agree, Rikku?" he asked staring at her directly in her eyes. She blushed seeing those beautiful eyes and the soft blonde hair.
"Wh-what about Yuna?" she asked. "It's really gonna...hurt her."
"Sorry but I can't help it if it's love." He grinned.
"Tidus." She said catching his attention immediately. "Do you really? Do you really umm like-like me?" she cursed herself mentally for using childish words to describe love.
"It's gotta be. Then why do I feel so happy?" he laughed and kissed her lightly for a few seconds. She felt oddly disappointed that it didn't last long enough for some reason, although it did feel quite a long time anyways. "You've done everything that I've ever wanted and needed from you. And I didn't even get to say thanks since we reunited."
"No...it's...okay." she said trying to breathe from the shock having him kiss her.
"Thanks, Rikku." He whispered resting a hand on her shoulder. She smiled back with a genuine grin. "And...there's something I have to tell you about it. You all have been suspicious of me, right? Coming from Zanarkand supposedly 1000 years ago and knowing that there's a Remiem Temple in the southeast corner of the Calm Lands?"
Rikku looked up quite surprised anyways. They didn't even find the temple yet in the Calm Lands. How the heck did he know all this? But then it was also very suspicious too that he seemed to know where he was going when looking for the actually temple of Anima. It should've taken them a few days at least but he just swam off as if knowing what he was doing and where he was heading too.
"Tell me." She said. "I really want to know."
"Yes, anything for the one I love," he grinned making her blush all over again. "We'll defeat Sin. I know that. After kicking my dad's ass to the Farplane, I'll be going too."
"What?! What are you talking about?!" she gasped.
"I'm just a dream made real, Rikku. These fayths. Their dreams have made me real. But I can't last forever. Once we defeat Sin, the fayth don't need to dream anymore. And...I'll disappear. You believe me, right?" he looked over. Rikku didn't know whether to slap at him, cry, or hug him. This didn't make any sense at all.
"But...what about Zanarkand?! 1000 years ago?!" she held her head in her hands. 'This can't be true. Don't tell me. That dream was true. Please Yevon, no!' "You were a blitzball player. On the Zanarkand Abes. Right? Or did you make that up? And you seemed to have known Auron before too. You can't be just a dream. You can't!" she embraced him with tears flowing down her eyes. Tidus sighed. A pain had hit him in the chest. He could see her clearly now. Hurting her was the last thing he'd ever do. No, it's not even a thing he would ever do to her.
"I'm sorry. I don't even understand either. But then again," he brought her chin up as both eyes met. "It doesn't make sense, right? Yuna knew my father, and Jecht became Sin. Yet I'm the son yet I'm not real." He sighed painfully. "It's too hard to explain to you."
"I have all day." She challenged.
"It's like explaining the colors of a sunset or the colors of daisies and sunflowers to a blind man. Just like how much I like you." He added in.
"I don't care. You can't leave!"
"I'm not leaving, Rikku, calm down." He said as Rikku choked in her own tears and swallowed taking a deep breath. "I wanted to tell you this, don't tell anyone. Not even Yuna or your father coz it would hurt them all."
"Like me for instance!"
"I know, I know." He nodded with sad eyes. He didn't appear to be drunk anymore. Especially with the way he talked. She knew it was hurting him too. Hurting him?
"I'm sorry," she apologized shaking her head and quickly rubbing her tears away. "I should've been more considerate of how you felt, instead of how I felt. But it'll be awhile, right?" she asked. His eyes lit up again. Nothing about him seemed fake at all, she couldn't understand. "It's useless I guess, crying over it now." She admitted.
"Yes it would be. But Rikku," he looked over. "I don't think I could ever tell Yuna about this. Maybe I'll just be beside her one more time before I leave in front of you all. It wouldn't matter. I'd rather go this way than breaking her heart now and then leaving making her even worst. But...when I do," he closed his eyes seemingly trying to hold back painful tears. "Promise me, you won't cry."
She blinked. And then nodded almost energetically with a smile.
"Yeah." She agreed. "Definitely. Where will you be though?"
"...Somewhere." he thought. "Not sure yet. But I'll be okay. Just keep thinking about me, alright? And someday, I'll find a way back here."
"Yea." Rikku agreed whole heartily closing her eyes.
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Later that day, the airship had managed to locate a "Remiem Temple" in the southeast area of the Calm Lands.
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Towards the evening, Rikku woke realizing she had fallen asleep in Tidus's bed. She gasped for a moment looking around and sighed in relief guessing that he probably had just left her there quietly not wanting to wake her up. But this afternoon began flooding back into her memories like a shockwave. Reminding herself not to cry about it, she got up with a joyful on her smile.
When he leaves, she know she'll wave good bye wishing him good luck. She cursed herself for being so self-centered, almost not caring how badly he may have felt through the whole situation. The Al Bhed decided it wasn't worth a tearful good-bye. Might as well make the best memory of it and keep thinking that he would be coming home soon.
But no matter how hard she tried to be cheerful about it, she couldn't help but feel that pain and the warmth behind her eyes.
A/N:: Ay, that was depressing ~.~ mind you, I'm not in a depressing mood though. Gimme more reviews ::gobbles them up:: I may add an epilogue, to lyk what happened when he left. Of course in a TidusXRikku version D
Disclaimer: Lovely Squaresoft owns it all~
A/N:: School. Kills. I think writing fanfiction over the summer and the holidays would be SO much easier since u don't have the pressure of high school weighing in on ya~. Sori bout all the late updates! I'll probably write another TidusRikku fic but I've been REALLY low on ideas lately.
After Summoner Yuna had finally acquired the ability to summon the dark aeon, Anima, the Summoner and her guardians left the Baaj Temple onwards to see if any other kinds of aeons could be acquired. And strangely, Tidus mumbled something about the Calm Lands as well. Of course, it did make her kind of suspicious at first wondering when he knew all this kind of stuff. Besides, Tidus was the person that popped out of nowhere from 1000 years ago. He was the one that knew nothing of "this" Spira.
And of course, Rikku didn't really care. It seemed as if for the past few days she didn't care at all. About anything. This definitely made everyone slightly worried at least, especially Tidus. No matter how hard he tried thinking of Yuna, he couldn't think about Yuna without thinking about Rikku as well. Sure Yuna was pretty and very respectful of others. Now that was something Rikku did NOT have in common.
She's an Al Bhed. She's a girl that has been against the world since she was young. And unlike Yuna, she didn't hide her Al Bhed heritage. And it definitely wasn't the Al Bhed's fault for Sin always showing up doing destructive things like everyone else thinks so. But even after all that she's been through. Being hated by people everywhere in Spira, losing her home to the Guado, but she's still got that mask over her.
And Yuna did not have to go through twice as much as what Rikku had to go through, but Yuna's life seemed to have gone through much more.
As the Summoner and her guardians went back on the Al Bhed ship, Rikku's father had mentioned that there was this odd building at the Calm Lands as well. Strangely enough, the description and "Calm Lands" matched to what Tidus had muttered earlier on. And it did make even Lulu wonder a bit more. Tidus was supposed to be the confused one, right? Since when did he know about some "strange building" at the Calm Lands?
"So we might as well head there." Rikku mentioned. "If they got more aeons, that'd be perfect." She shrugged walking out of the room.
"She's still in such an attitude." Lulu brought up. "Since we went to the Baaj Temple."
"I think that she's been feeling left out." Yuna explained. "I think because she's the youngest, it must be hard for her to be a guardian and share that responsibility."
"Yuna, I respect your opinion. But Rikku has been living in these kind of harsh lifestyles for her entire life. She has grown up already. She just doesn't want to accept it. That's what she needs to be taught." Lulu explained also glaring at her father. The bald man shrugged.
"What?"
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Tidus laid back against the wall in a room by himself inside the giant Al Bhed ship. It was wrong of him to do this but it was his 4th can of beer. He just needed a cool drink to get his mind off of all the insaneness. A beautiful summoner and an insanely cute thief to choose from. Why did Yevon have to make life so hard for him? But of course, he never watched his drinking like before and opened up the second can, which soon became the third, and now on his fourth. The world went happily dizzy too as well.
He heard something like a door slide open. Not caring who it was, and not knowing why, he threw the beer can at whoever it was.
"Get out. I'm trying to REST here!" he said obnoxiously. Of course he felt the other person give off an angry aura. He laughed not being able to see anything at all. The world was just too dizzy for him to handle.
"Drinking beer, Tidus? No wonder you threw that can at me!" It was obviously a girl's voice. And she sounded as pissed as hell could get.
"Ah shut up, woman! If you hadn't interrupted my SLEEP, then I wouldn't have to throw that frigging beer can in your frigging face!" And this time the girl didn't answer. "What?" And this time, Tidus was answered with a cruel bitchslap across his face. "GOD that hurt!!"
"And THAT hurt too!" she yelled back. It was almost as if she was crying. He rubbed his eyes trying to get a better view of who it was. The image was a blur but the light touch of a seemingly orange blob in his foggy vision, was unmistakable. Rikku. His mouth dropped open. 'Shit. Now she hates me for good.' Rikku despite a tear or two sniffed the air. Beer. She waved a hand in his face as he slapped it away.
"Want some?" he asked holding up a can.
"You drank FOUR cans of beer? You need sleep," Rikku insisted.
"Yeah, with you of course." He muttered with a smirk. Rikku gaped and raised another hand to slap it as Tidus, miraculously, caught her hand before it landed on his face. Miraculous that he did it while he was drunk too and decided it would be fun to pull her down as well. Rikku yelped in reaction falling against him feeling the red began to grow on her face.
"Tidus! What the hell are you...?" her sentence was cut off as his hand covered her mouth silencing her. After a few seconds that he felt she had gotten the message, he let go and rested his hand down against the bed. "Tidus?" she asked leaning her head below his neck. He smiled at her. She couldn't tell if it was for real or just because he was drunk.
"Shut up." He muttered. She frowned. "Just relax. I'm right here." She looked up curiously. Four cans must've affected him a lot, she thought. "If I were...to be like this with the person I love everyday, man, I got the piece of Heaven there was right now."
'Person he loves? What? He...I....?!' her face grew a darker red. 'He's got to be drunk. He's GOT to be.'
"Don't you agree, Rikku?" he asked staring at her directly in her eyes. She blushed seeing those beautiful eyes and the soft blonde hair.
"Wh-what about Yuna?" she asked. "It's really gonna...hurt her."
"Sorry but I can't help it if it's love." He grinned.
"Tidus." She said catching his attention immediately. "Do you really? Do you really umm like-like me?" she cursed herself mentally for using childish words to describe love.
"It's gotta be. Then why do I feel so happy?" he laughed and kissed her lightly for a few seconds. She felt oddly disappointed that it didn't last long enough for some reason, although it did feel quite a long time anyways. "You've done everything that I've ever wanted and needed from you. And I didn't even get to say thanks since we reunited."
"No...it's...okay." she said trying to breathe from the shock having him kiss her.
"Thanks, Rikku." He whispered resting a hand on her shoulder. She smiled back with a genuine grin. "And...there's something I have to tell you about it. You all have been suspicious of me, right? Coming from Zanarkand supposedly 1000 years ago and knowing that there's a Remiem Temple in the southeast corner of the Calm Lands?"
Rikku looked up quite surprised anyways. They didn't even find the temple yet in the Calm Lands. How the heck did he know all this? But then it was also very suspicious too that he seemed to know where he was going when looking for the actually temple of Anima. It should've taken them a few days at least but he just swam off as if knowing what he was doing and where he was heading too.
"Tell me." She said. "I really want to know."
"Yes, anything for the one I love," he grinned making her blush all over again. "We'll defeat Sin. I know that. After kicking my dad's ass to the Farplane, I'll be going too."
"What?! What are you talking about?!" she gasped.
"I'm just a dream made real, Rikku. These fayths. Their dreams have made me real. But I can't last forever. Once we defeat Sin, the fayth don't need to dream anymore. And...I'll disappear. You believe me, right?" he looked over. Rikku didn't know whether to slap at him, cry, or hug him. This didn't make any sense at all.
"But...what about Zanarkand?! 1000 years ago?!" she held her head in her hands. 'This can't be true. Don't tell me. That dream was true. Please Yevon, no!' "You were a blitzball player. On the Zanarkand Abes. Right? Or did you make that up? And you seemed to have known Auron before too. You can't be just a dream. You can't!" she embraced him with tears flowing down her eyes. Tidus sighed. A pain had hit him in the chest. He could see her clearly now. Hurting her was the last thing he'd ever do. No, it's not even a thing he would ever do to her.
"I'm sorry. I don't even understand either. But then again," he brought her chin up as both eyes met. "It doesn't make sense, right? Yuna knew my father, and Jecht became Sin. Yet I'm the son yet I'm not real." He sighed painfully. "It's too hard to explain to you."
"I have all day." She challenged.
"It's like explaining the colors of a sunset or the colors of daisies and sunflowers to a blind man. Just like how much I like you." He added in.
"I don't care. You can't leave!"
"I'm not leaving, Rikku, calm down." He said as Rikku choked in her own tears and swallowed taking a deep breath. "I wanted to tell you this, don't tell anyone. Not even Yuna or your father coz it would hurt them all."
"Like me for instance!"
"I know, I know." He nodded with sad eyes. He didn't appear to be drunk anymore. Especially with the way he talked. She knew it was hurting him too. Hurting him?
"I'm sorry," she apologized shaking her head and quickly rubbing her tears away. "I should've been more considerate of how you felt, instead of how I felt. But it'll be awhile, right?" she asked. His eyes lit up again. Nothing about him seemed fake at all, she couldn't understand. "It's useless I guess, crying over it now." She admitted.
"Yes it would be. But Rikku," he looked over. "I don't think I could ever tell Yuna about this. Maybe I'll just be beside her one more time before I leave in front of you all. It wouldn't matter. I'd rather go this way than breaking her heart now and then leaving making her even worst. But...when I do," he closed his eyes seemingly trying to hold back painful tears. "Promise me, you won't cry."
She blinked. And then nodded almost energetically with a smile.
"Yeah." She agreed. "Definitely. Where will you be though?"
"...Somewhere." he thought. "Not sure yet. But I'll be okay. Just keep thinking about me, alright? And someday, I'll find a way back here."
"Yea." Rikku agreed whole heartily closing her eyes.
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Later that day, the airship had managed to locate a "Remiem Temple" in the southeast area of the Calm Lands.
~~~~
Towards the evening, Rikku woke realizing she had fallen asleep in Tidus's bed. She gasped for a moment looking around and sighed in relief guessing that he probably had just left her there quietly not wanting to wake her up. But this afternoon began flooding back into her memories like a shockwave. Reminding herself not to cry about it, she got up with a joyful on her smile.
When he leaves, she know she'll wave good bye wishing him good luck. She cursed herself for being so self-centered, almost not caring how badly he may have felt through the whole situation. The Al Bhed decided it wasn't worth a tearful good-bye. Might as well make the best memory of it and keep thinking that he would be coming home soon.
But no matter how hard she tried to be cheerful about it, she couldn't help but feel that pain and the warmth behind her eyes.
A/N:: Ay, that was depressing ~.~ mind you, I'm not in a depressing mood though. Gimme more reviews ::gobbles them up:: I may add an epilogue, to lyk what happened when he left. Of course in a TidusXRikku version D