Much Needed Closure
Chapter Five - Yet Another Travel Destination Is Set......
By: Digi-Esca Girl
Disclaimer: I have no claim whatsoever on FFX or it's characters.
Note: I know that the DJ and band and stuff in the fourth chapter were not in their world but come on, it fit with the story didn't it? I never
even thought of it that way actually, and I was re-reading all the chapters and I noticed it. Please don't mind that, because I
think it suited the story regardless! Anyways, here's chapter five, I hope you like the intro....
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Hey out there! How you doin?
Anyways, you probly wonderin what 'appened to me ya? Well, let me tell you what 'appened okay? Here goes...
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I was playing with a blitzball on the rear deck of the ship, ya? and suddenly, I heard something. It was a voice,
I realized after a minute, and it was coming from the stern of the ship. So I slowly walked over to it, and I gasped
when I got there.
Sir Jecht was standing right in front of me!
"Sir Jecht?" I asked quietly, my mouth open slightly and my eyes wide.
"Yeah it's me." He replied simply, folding his arms over his chest and looking at me for a minute. Needless to say I was stunned.
"W-why are you here sir?" I asked quietly, taking a cautious step towards him.
"I'm here to....help my son."
"Who's that?" I inquired curiously. I never knew he had a son....
"You know him. Tidus. About my height; blond hair; blue eyes; tan."
"He's your....son?"
"Aw come on Wakka, make this a little easier for me will ya? You know him....think about it."
What's there to think about I thought, it's not like I know him....
But then...I did think about it, and suddenly, I saw a vision, sorta....
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Tidus was treading water, waiting for the kind stranger, Wakka, to resurface. The aforementioned man came up behind the blonde,
grabbing his head in a light headlock.
"Got a favor to ask ya." He said.
"You want me on your team right?" Tidus replied unenthusiastically, breaking free of the lock.
"Everyone in Spira'll be there. Someone's bound to recognize you. Then you can go back to your old team right? Whadda ya say, uh?
Come on! Come on!"(AN: Not sure if I got this quote exactly right....) Wakka begged as Tidus floated on his back nearby.
"Sure thing." He replied, going under the water and swimming for the tunnel that led to the village.
"Dude! Our team is gonna rock eh?" Wakka said with a smile before diving in and following Tidus.
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"See what I mean?" Jecht said with a smirk as I snapped out of my trance.
"I can't believe that Sin...could do that ya? I thought....I thought you were Sin....?" I replied, slightly confused.
"As soon as it was defeated, I was freed. That last cell wasn't under my influence, but since the very core of Sin is
evil, it retaliated in the only way it knew how." Jecht explained slowly. I nodded along and was feeling less in the
dark when he was done.
"I feel so bad...What I did to him....Gosh what he must have felt when I rejected him like that, ya?" I said quietly
to myself, hanging my head.
"Well...he'll forget all about it when you tell him you've got your memory back. He's...a good kid." This time it was
Sir Jecht who hung his head, "Look after him for me will ya?" He said after a minute as his apparition began to
fade.
"I will. Don't you worry none ya?" I replied, watching him smile lightly before he fully disappeared. With that, I walked
over to the other side of the deck, where I stumbled upon Tidus and Lulu talking....
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"Maybe if you waited at the lake, and I sent Yuna there....she might remember."
"But even if we do, we'll still have Wakka to worry about..."
Not having any solution to that particular problem, Lulu simply stared out at the water.
"You don't haveta worry bout me, ya?" Came a voice from the shadowed cabin area.
"How could we not Wakka." Lulu replied, not even turning to acknowledge him.
"Listen," Wakka started, walking right up to Tidus before continuing, "I remember everything, ya!!!"
Tidus' face broke out into a grin and he drew Wakka into a bear hug, squeezing him fiercely.
"Really?? This is...this is...wow!!" Tidus laughed as he withdrew from the embrace.
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So anywayz, that's how I got to remember Tidus, ya? I just thought you might be interested, seeing as
no one told you guys what was going on wit me, eh? (AN: Oopsie...)
So, back to the story.....
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Yuna awoke from her slumber with a headache the next morning, sitting up slowly and looking around her tent.
She smiled lightly when she noticed Tidus, sleeping soundly on the floor in a curled up ball, snoring quietly.
She didn't want to wake him, but when she saw that the others outside were already packed up, she
nudged him with her foot until he stirred. He swiped her foot away at first, but when it persisted,
he cracked open one eye to see what the commotion was.
"Morning sleepy head." Yuna laughed lightly, watching him sit up and rub his eyes like a tired child.
"Already?" He replied, groggily reaching his arms into the air with a yawn as he stretched, "Well we
better get going then. That captian dosen't like to be kept waiting." Standing, Tidus reached out his
hand, careful to make sure it was his left one, and helped Yuna stand. He was somewhat reluctant
to release her hand as they walked out, but did at the last second before Wakka saw them.
Yuna, meanwhile, noticed the warmth slide out of her hand the second they were out of the tent.
She looked to him, and he gave her a small smile before stopping Wakka to ask him something
Yuna didn't catch, as she was too busy thinking.
'What is he so afraid of? He treats me like...I'll disappear or something sometimes, then other times,
it's as if I'm just a pebble in his shoe that he wants to get rid of.....' She thought, picking up her
staff and following Lulu to the ship.
An hour later, Tidus and Wakka went out onto the ship's front deck, carrying a blitzball.
"Show me dat shot you did in the tournament, ya?" Wakka asked. It was still kind of early,
and the rest of the Aurochs were still sleeping in their cabins. Plus, they were about two
hours away from Besaid Island anyway, so the two decided to pass the time with a ball.
"It's easy. Here, it goes like this..." Tidus began, explaining to Wakka the dynamics of the Sphere
Shot carefully. After another hour had passed, the Besaidian blitzer had the shot mastered.
"Booya!" He shouted as he executed a perfect shot, sending yet another blitzball out into
the crystal water before them. Tidus laughed and smiled along with him, but he couldn't help
looking at his right hand.
With the glove on, it looked normal, but when he took it off, his hand was nothing but a pale outline
of a hand and even paler skin filling that outline.
"Hey, try not to let it bother ya." Wakka said, sitting down on the ship's edge, his legs dangling over the water.
"How can I not? I'm going to leave her again, Wakka...." Tidus replied quietly, sinking to a sitting
position beside Wakka as he spoke.
"We won't let you! Man, you gotta stop thinkin so negative all the time, ya?" He said, placing a
hand on Tidus' shoulder.
"Again, how can I not?"
"By having a distraction...." Wakka replied with a light smirk, watching Yuna approach.
"What do you mean?" Tidus asked sullenly, seeing Wakka get up and leave out of the
corner of his eye. He was going to go after him, but decided he was in to bad a mood
to move anywhere. He then saw someone sit beside him again, and ignored them,
thinking it was Wakka.
"Did you hear me? I said what do you mean by distraction?" Tidus offered again after
a minute of silence.
"What do I mean by what?" Yuna asked, slightly confused.
Tidus' head shot up, and he cursed Wakka inwardly for not warning him. Well.... in a
way he did warn him.....
"Nothing. I just thought you were Wakka."
"Oh. I see.....Is something bothering you?"
"It's nothing big....Don't worry about it...."
"You know, you should smile, even when you're sad. Because, if you think about it,
you're being selfish if you don't" Yuna said, placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Okay, NOW what do you mean?"
"Well, if you're sad then everyone else around you will get sad and worried when they can't
cheer you up, so you're making everybody else sad when you are. Therefore, I've learned
to smile, even when I'm sad. Sometimes I even laugh out loud if I'm up to it."
A memory suddenly wormed it's way into Tidus' mind, unbidden. He closed his eyes tightly
to make it go away, but it persisted until it was at the forefront of his mind.
It was the time when they had travelled to Luca, and were preparing to leave for the Mi'ihen Highroad.
He had just learned that his father was Sin, and he couldn't help but be depressed as he stood
near a railing and looked out onto Luca. Yuna came up to him then, and instructed him to
smile. He did, and she then stold him to laugh out loud, so he sucked in a deep breath and
laughed loudly, but almost fakely. Yuna soon joined him, and when they rejoined the
others, even Auron was giving them a weird look as Wakka explained how they thought
the two of them had gone crazy....
"......You're right Yuna. I'll try not to.....show it so much." Tidus replied after a moment of
silence had passed between them. She smiled in return, the same genuine smile he'd
first fallen in love with upon arriving in Spira.
"Good. Look! There's the island!" She stated suddenly, standing to get a better look. It was still
just a dot on the horizon though.
"It'll still be half-an-hour before we get there anyway." Tidus said, standing slowly beside her.
"Yes....that's true.....Can...you show me how to shoot a blitzball?" Came her sudden question.
"Wha....? You wanna learn how to blitz?"
"I already know how, I just...really suck at shooting." She replied with a light laugh. Her attempt
at getting his mind off what was saddening him was working....
As the ship approached the Besaid dock, Lulu and Wakka stepped out onto the deck to be met with
an interesting sight.
It appeared that Tidus had slipped and fallen, and in her haste to help him up as the ship turned sharply
to anchor, she fell on top of him. At present they were just laying there, laughing, in no hurry to move
at all.
"You should be more careful!" Tidus laughed loudly, moving into a sitting position and helping Yuna
to do the same. Once they were both standing, they looked at each other and burst out laughing
again.
"Kids..." Lulu muttered with a slight smirk on her violet-painted lips.
"No kidding..." Wakka commented with a smile.
Upon reaching the shores of Besaid, Tidus was the first off the boat. Yuna came after him, and she held out a hand
for him to help her, since she was still a little disoriented from her fainting spell. Momentarily forgetting about his
"situation" Tidus reached out his right hand. Yuna put her hand in his and was surprised when she felt nothing but air!
She just about fell, but Tidus caught her, supporting her with his left arm.
"Sorry about that. I wasn't watching and you.....you missed my hand." He explained quietly.
"Oh, alright." Yuna replied, smiling warmly at him before slowly walking up the path to Besaid Village.
After she went around the corner, Tidus' head dropped and he felt tears coming to his normally sparkling eyes.
"It'll be alright, ya?" Wakka offered quietly, placing a hand on the blonde's shoulder, "We won't let you leave us again...."
It was all Tidus could do to push the tears from his eyes and smile lightly at his friend. After all, he didn't
want to drag Wakka down with his worries about him and his "disappearing act".
"Hey...." He said suddenly, looking behind Wakka at the boat, "Where's Rikku? I haven't seen her since
we left Macalania."
"Hey you're right. Where is she? Lu?" Wakka said, turning to question the mage.
"She's probably still asleep. I'll go get her." Ans with that, she turned and headed back into the
cabin area.
She emerged two minutes later, being trailed by a very tired looking Al Bhed girl. They met Tidus and
Wakka on the shore, and the four of them walked towards the village they'd all come to call home.
That night, Auron stood on the Farplane with Jecht and Braska, trying to figure out what to do.
"I just don't understand it.....How could such a small cell of Sin have such a hold on Yuna?" Braska
said quietly, his fingers tracing a small, non-existant bierd(sp?)on his chin as he spoke.
"There has to be something that'll jog her memory....." Jecht muttered, racking his brain for a solution.
"It has to be something big; an event that involved the two of them together that wouldn't be easily forgotten."
Auron supplied, also trying to come up with a solution.
"I've got it! But it isn't good..." Braska said suddenly.
"What do you mean?" Jecht asked, searching his friend's face for an answer.
"When Tidus disappeared, like he's doing now, and Yuna tried to stop him from going to the Farplane,
and she...went right through him....."
".............You sayin we should re-create that?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying, Jecht. It's the only thing they haven't tried yet."
"But," Auron began, always the voice of reason(otherwise known as the PARTY POOPER!), "if she dosen't remember,
then he'll be sent to the Farplane. And he won't be able to come back this time."
"Yes.....If she can't remember, he'll just disappear like he did the first time and be brought back here." Braska replied,
looking slightly disappointed that there was no other way.
"Well....who's gonna tell him?" Jecht asked after a minute. They were both silent, and Braska looked to Auron
for an answer.
"I think you should do it Jecht. You are his father after all."
"But you're more of a father to him than I ever was. Besides he hates me..."
"He dosen't hate you, he just dosen't understand why you were so cold to him." Braska offered, placing
a hand on his shoulder.
"Well....alright I guess I'll do it." Jecht said, looking to Auron, "How do I go into his dreams?"
"I'll show you......."
Tidus was having the best dream he'd had in a while, yet he still tossed and turned in his bed. He was playing
blitzball in Zanarkand again, with the Abes and everything. But this time it was perfect. He passed to the other
forward on the team and looked out into the crowd, spotting Wakka, Lulu, Rikku, Auron, Kimahri, and Yuna
immediatly. Yuna waved to him exuberantly, blowing him a kiss before he swam off to score another goal.
Yes, that was perfection alright....
"Hey Kid!"
"Huh?" Tidus' dream suddenly faded away to nothing but a black void, and before him stood Jecht.
"That's never gonna happen kid." He said, his apparition becoming completely clear.
"What isn't?"
"Your dream. Zanarkand doesn't exist remember? Good luck tryin to get back though."
"Thanks for the support, DAD." Tidus replied sarcastically, turning away from him.
".........I have something to tell you kid." Jecht said after a minute.
"What?" Tidus said, trying no to act interested, turning back to face Jecht slowly.
"Me, Auron and Braska have figured out the best way to get Yuna to remember you."
"Really?"
"BUT! There's always a but; If it doesn't work you'll be sent back to the Farplane....forever this time."
".............Well what is the idea?" Tidus said after a minute, shifting his weight from foot to foot
nervously.
"We were thinking about the biggest moment that you two shared, besides Macalania 'cause you
already tried that. So we came up with the time you....went to the Farplane." Jecht winced inwardly
as he watched Tidus flinch as he spoke, closing his eyes for a moment before answering.
"You think that that's the only way?"
"The only way."
"......Well, looks like we're getting back on a boat then huh?"
"You're cool with this? You understand that you'll disppear forev-"
"Yeah dad. I know....Thanks." Tidus cut him off, offering a small smile as Jecht's image began to
fade. Jecht looked a little caught off guard, but Tidus saw a smile creep onto his face as well
right before he faded completely. Tidus was left in the dark for only a minute, and his eyes
were soon met with the sun-kissed walls of his tent in Besaid.
'Of all the times to come see me, Dad....' He thought with a light scowl, getting out of bed slowly,
scratching the back of his head just as Wakka entered.
"Good mornin!--Whoa...what's wrong wit you? Lookin down, ya?" He asked worredly, stepping
closer to Tidus.
"It's nothing Wakka, don't worry.....But I think I may have come up with a way for Yuna to remember me."
Wakka's eyebrow arched at his, and Tidus sat back down to explain the situation. When he was done,
Wakka was looking as disappointed as Braska had.
"That's....the only way, ya think?"
"Yeah. That's what Braska and them figure."
"..........Well, better start headin' for Guadosalam, eh?" Wakka replied after a minute, clasping a
hand onto Tidus' shoulder before walking out to tell the others.
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Here it is! The long-awaited Chapter Five!!!!!
Up Next:
The group travels to Guadosalam, Lulu creating the lie that she and Wakka want to visit Chappu
there, and that they want the others to come along. Once there, Tidus and Yuna's final scene
unfolds a second time, but will it be enough to erase Sin from Yuna's mind forever?
Find out next time......
R+R IF YOU LOVE ME!!!(or at least if you like the story....)
Ja ne,
Digi-Esca Girl
laurie_22@hotmail.com
Chapter Five - Yet Another Travel Destination Is Set......
By: Digi-Esca Girl
Disclaimer: I have no claim whatsoever on FFX or it's characters.
Note: I know that the DJ and band and stuff in the fourth chapter were not in their world but come on, it fit with the story didn't it? I never
even thought of it that way actually, and I was re-reading all the chapters and I noticed it. Please don't mind that, because I
think it suited the story regardless! Anyways, here's chapter five, I hope you like the intro....
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Hey out there! How you doin?
Anyways, you probly wonderin what 'appened to me ya? Well, let me tell you what 'appened okay? Here goes...
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I was playing with a blitzball on the rear deck of the ship, ya? and suddenly, I heard something. It was a voice,
I realized after a minute, and it was coming from the stern of the ship. So I slowly walked over to it, and I gasped
when I got there.
Sir Jecht was standing right in front of me!
"Sir Jecht?" I asked quietly, my mouth open slightly and my eyes wide.
"Yeah it's me." He replied simply, folding his arms over his chest and looking at me for a minute. Needless to say I was stunned.
"W-why are you here sir?" I asked quietly, taking a cautious step towards him.
"I'm here to....help my son."
"Who's that?" I inquired curiously. I never knew he had a son....
"You know him. Tidus. About my height; blond hair; blue eyes; tan."
"He's your....son?"
"Aw come on Wakka, make this a little easier for me will ya? You know him....think about it."
What's there to think about I thought, it's not like I know him....
But then...I did think about it, and suddenly, I saw a vision, sorta....
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Tidus was treading water, waiting for the kind stranger, Wakka, to resurface. The aforementioned man came up behind the blonde,
grabbing his head in a light headlock.
"Got a favor to ask ya." He said.
"You want me on your team right?" Tidus replied unenthusiastically, breaking free of the lock.
"Everyone in Spira'll be there. Someone's bound to recognize you. Then you can go back to your old team right? Whadda ya say, uh?
Come on! Come on!"(AN: Not sure if I got this quote exactly right....) Wakka begged as Tidus floated on his back nearby.
"Sure thing." He replied, going under the water and swimming for the tunnel that led to the village.
"Dude! Our team is gonna rock eh?" Wakka said with a smile before diving in and following Tidus.
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"See what I mean?" Jecht said with a smirk as I snapped out of my trance.
"I can't believe that Sin...could do that ya? I thought....I thought you were Sin....?" I replied, slightly confused.
"As soon as it was defeated, I was freed. That last cell wasn't under my influence, but since the very core of Sin is
evil, it retaliated in the only way it knew how." Jecht explained slowly. I nodded along and was feeling less in the
dark when he was done.
"I feel so bad...What I did to him....Gosh what he must have felt when I rejected him like that, ya?" I said quietly
to myself, hanging my head.
"Well...he'll forget all about it when you tell him you've got your memory back. He's...a good kid." This time it was
Sir Jecht who hung his head, "Look after him for me will ya?" He said after a minute as his apparition began to
fade.
"I will. Don't you worry none ya?" I replied, watching him smile lightly before he fully disappeared. With that, I walked
over to the other side of the deck, where I stumbled upon Tidus and Lulu talking....
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"Maybe if you waited at the lake, and I sent Yuna there....she might remember."
"But even if we do, we'll still have Wakka to worry about..."
Not having any solution to that particular problem, Lulu simply stared out at the water.
"You don't haveta worry bout me, ya?" Came a voice from the shadowed cabin area.
"How could we not Wakka." Lulu replied, not even turning to acknowledge him.
"Listen," Wakka started, walking right up to Tidus before continuing, "I remember everything, ya!!!"
Tidus' face broke out into a grin and he drew Wakka into a bear hug, squeezing him fiercely.
"Really?? This is...this is...wow!!" Tidus laughed as he withdrew from the embrace.
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So anywayz, that's how I got to remember Tidus, ya? I just thought you might be interested, seeing as
no one told you guys what was going on wit me, eh? (AN: Oopsie...)
So, back to the story.....
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Yuna awoke from her slumber with a headache the next morning, sitting up slowly and looking around her tent.
She smiled lightly when she noticed Tidus, sleeping soundly on the floor in a curled up ball, snoring quietly.
She didn't want to wake him, but when she saw that the others outside were already packed up, she
nudged him with her foot until he stirred. He swiped her foot away at first, but when it persisted,
he cracked open one eye to see what the commotion was.
"Morning sleepy head." Yuna laughed lightly, watching him sit up and rub his eyes like a tired child.
"Already?" He replied, groggily reaching his arms into the air with a yawn as he stretched, "Well we
better get going then. That captian dosen't like to be kept waiting." Standing, Tidus reached out his
hand, careful to make sure it was his left one, and helped Yuna stand. He was somewhat reluctant
to release her hand as they walked out, but did at the last second before Wakka saw them.
Yuna, meanwhile, noticed the warmth slide out of her hand the second they were out of the tent.
She looked to him, and he gave her a small smile before stopping Wakka to ask him something
Yuna didn't catch, as she was too busy thinking.
'What is he so afraid of? He treats me like...I'll disappear or something sometimes, then other times,
it's as if I'm just a pebble in his shoe that he wants to get rid of.....' She thought, picking up her
staff and following Lulu to the ship.
An hour later, Tidus and Wakka went out onto the ship's front deck, carrying a blitzball.
"Show me dat shot you did in the tournament, ya?" Wakka asked. It was still kind of early,
and the rest of the Aurochs were still sleeping in their cabins. Plus, they were about two
hours away from Besaid Island anyway, so the two decided to pass the time with a ball.
"It's easy. Here, it goes like this..." Tidus began, explaining to Wakka the dynamics of the Sphere
Shot carefully. After another hour had passed, the Besaidian blitzer had the shot mastered.
"Booya!" He shouted as he executed a perfect shot, sending yet another blitzball out into
the crystal water before them. Tidus laughed and smiled along with him, but he couldn't help
looking at his right hand.
With the glove on, it looked normal, but when he took it off, his hand was nothing but a pale outline
of a hand and even paler skin filling that outline.
"Hey, try not to let it bother ya." Wakka said, sitting down on the ship's edge, his legs dangling over the water.
"How can I not? I'm going to leave her again, Wakka...." Tidus replied quietly, sinking to a sitting
position beside Wakka as he spoke.
"We won't let you! Man, you gotta stop thinkin so negative all the time, ya?" He said, placing a
hand on Tidus' shoulder.
"Again, how can I not?"
"By having a distraction...." Wakka replied with a light smirk, watching Yuna approach.
"What do you mean?" Tidus asked sullenly, seeing Wakka get up and leave out of the
corner of his eye. He was going to go after him, but decided he was in to bad a mood
to move anywhere. He then saw someone sit beside him again, and ignored them,
thinking it was Wakka.
"Did you hear me? I said what do you mean by distraction?" Tidus offered again after
a minute of silence.
"What do I mean by what?" Yuna asked, slightly confused.
Tidus' head shot up, and he cursed Wakka inwardly for not warning him. Well.... in a
way he did warn him.....
"Nothing. I just thought you were Wakka."
"Oh. I see.....Is something bothering you?"
"It's nothing big....Don't worry about it...."
"You know, you should smile, even when you're sad. Because, if you think about it,
you're being selfish if you don't" Yuna said, placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Okay, NOW what do you mean?"
"Well, if you're sad then everyone else around you will get sad and worried when they can't
cheer you up, so you're making everybody else sad when you are. Therefore, I've learned
to smile, even when I'm sad. Sometimes I even laugh out loud if I'm up to it."
A memory suddenly wormed it's way into Tidus' mind, unbidden. He closed his eyes tightly
to make it go away, but it persisted until it was at the forefront of his mind.
It was the time when they had travelled to Luca, and were preparing to leave for the Mi'ihen Highroad.
He had just learned that his father was Sin, and he couldn't help but be depressed as he stood
near a railing and looked out onto Luca. Yuna came up to him then, and instructed him to
smile. He did, and she then stold him to laugh out loud, so he sucked in a deep breath and
laughed loudly, but almost fakely. Yuna soon joined him, and when they rejoined the
others, even Auron was giving them a weird look as Wakka explained how they thought
the two of them had gone crazy....
"......You're right Yuna. I'll try not to.....show it so much." Tidus replied after a moment of
silence had passed between them. She smiled in return, the same genuine smile he'd
first fallen in love with upon arriving in Spira.
"Good. Look! There's the island!" She stated suddenly, standing to get a better look. It was still
just a dot on the horizon though.
"It'll still be half-an-hour before we get there anyway." Tidus said, standing slowly beside her.
"Yes....that's true.....Can...you show me how to shoot a blitzball?" Came her sudden question.
"Wha....? You wanna learn how to blitz?"
"I already know how, I just...really suck at shooting." She replied with a light laugh. Her attempt
at getting his mind off what was saddening him was working....
As the ship approached the Besaid dock, Lulu and Wakka stepped out onto the deck to be met with
an interesting sight.
It appeared that Tidus had slipped and fallen, and in her haste to help him up as the ship turned sharply
to anchor, she fell on top of him. At present they were just laying there, laughing, in no hurry to move
at all.
"You should be more careful!" Tidus laughed loudly, moving into a sitting position and helping Yuna
to do the same. Once they were both standing, they looked at each other and burst out laughing
again.
"Kids..." Lulu muttered with a slight smirk on her violet-painted lips.
"No kidding..." Wakka commented with a smile.
Upon reaching the shores of Besaid, Tidus was the first off the boat. Yuna came after him, and she held out a hand
for him to help her, since she was still a little disoriented from her fainting spell. Momentarily forgetting about his
"situation" Tidus reached out his right hand. Yuna put her hand in his and was surprised when she felt nothing but air!
She just about fell, but Tidus caught her, supporting her with his left arm.
"Sorry about that. I wasn't watching and you.....you missed my hand." He explained quietly.
"Oh, alright." Yuna replied, smiling warmly at him before slowly walking up the path to Besaid Village.
After she went around the corner, Tidus' head dropped and he felt tears coming to his normally sparkling eyes.
"It'll be alright, ya?" Wakka offered quietly, placing a hand on the blonde's shoulder, "We won't let you leave us again...."
It was all Tidus could do to push the tears from his eyes and smile lightly at his friend. After all, he didn't
want to drag Wakka down with his worries about him and his "disappearing act".
"Hey...." He said suddenly, looking behind Wakka at the boat, "Where's Rikku? I haven't seen her since
we left Macalania."
"Hey you're right. Where is she? Lu?" Wakka said, turning to question the mage.
"She's probably still asleep. I'll go get her." Ans with that, she turned and headed back into the
cabin area.
She emerged two minutes later, being trailed by a very tired looking Al Bhed girl. They met Tidus and
Wakka on the shore, and the four of them walked towards the village they'd all come to call home.
That night, Auron stood on the Farplane with Jecht and Braska, trying to figure out what to do.
"I just don't understand it.....How could such a small cell of Sin have such a hold on Yuna?" Braska
said quietly, his fingers tracing a small, non-existant bierd(sp?)on his chin as he spoke.
"There has to be something that'll jog her memory....." Jecht muttered, racking his brain for a solution.
"It has to be something big; an event that involved the two of them together that wouldn't be easily forgotten."
Auron supplied, also trying to come up with a solution.
"I've got it! But it isn't good..." Braska said suddenly.
"What do you mean?" Jecht asked, searching his friend's face for an answer.
"When Tidus disappeared, like he's doing now, and Yuna tried to stop him from going to the Farplane,
and she...went right through him....."
".............You sayin we should re-create that?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying, Jecht. It's the only thing they haven't tried yet."
"But," Auron began, always the voice of reason(otherwise known as the PARTY POOPER!), "if she dosen't remember,
then he'll be sent to the Farplane. And he won't be able to come back this time."
"Yes.....If she can't remember, he'll just disappear like he did the first time and be brought back here." Braska replied,
looking slightly disappointed that there was no other way.
"Well....who's gonna tell him?" Jecht asked after a minute. They were both silent, and Braska looked to Auron
for an answer.
"I think you should do it Jecht. You are his father after all."
"But you're more of a father to him than I ever was. Besides he hates me..."
"He dosen't hate you, he just dosen't understand why you were so cold to him." Braska offered, placing
a hand on his shoulder.
"Well....alright I guess I'll do it." Jecht said, looking to Auron, "How do I go into his dreams?"
"I'll show you......."
Tidus was having the best dream he'd had in a while, yet he still tossed and turned in his bed. He was playing
blitzball in Zanarkand again, with the Abes and everything. But this time it was perfect. He passed to the other
forward on the team and looked out into the crowd, spotting Wakka, Lulu, Rikku, Auron, Kimahri, and Yuna
immediatly. Yuna waved to him exuberantly, blowing him a kiss before he swam off to score another goal.
Yes, that was perfection alright....
"Hey Kid!"
"Huh?" Tidus' dream suddenly faded away to nothing but a black void, and before him stood Jecht.
"That's never gonna happen kid." He said, his apparition becoming completely clear.
"What isn't?"
"Your dream. Zanarkand doesn't exist remember? Good luck tryin to get back though."
"Thanks for the support, DAD." Tidus replied sarcastically, turning away from him.
".........I have something to tell you kid." Jecht said after a minute.
"What?" Tidus said, trying no to act interested, turning back to face Jecht slowly.
"Me, Auron and Braska have figured out the best way to get Yuna to remember you."
"Really?"
"BUT! There's always a but; If it doesn't work you'll be sent back to the Farplane....forever this time."
".............Well what is the idea?" Tidus said after a minute, shifting his weight from foot to foot
nervously.
"We were thinking about the biggest moment that you two shared, besides Macalania 'cause you
already tried that. So we came up with the time you....went to the Farplane." Jecht winced inwardly
as he watched Tidus flinch as he spoke, closing his eyes for a moment before answering.
"You think that that's the only way?"
"The only way."
"......Well, looks like we're getting back on a boat then huh?"
"You're cool with this? You understand that you'll disppear forev-"
"Yeah dad. I know....Thanks." Tidus cut him off, offering a small smile as Jecht's image began to
fade. Jecht looked a little caught off guard, but Tidus saw a smile creep onto his face as well
right before he faded completely. Tidus was left in the dark for only a minute, and his eyes
were soon met with the sun-kissed walls of his tent in Besaid.
'Of all the times to come see me, Dad....' He thought with a light scowl, getting out of bed slowly,
scratching the back of his head just as Wakka entered.
"Good mornin!--Whoa...what's wrong wit you? Lookin down, ya?" He asked worredly, stepping
closer to Tidus.
"It's nothing Wakka, don't worry.....But I think I may have come up with a way for Yuna to remember me."
Wakka's eyebrow arched at his, and Tidus sat back down to explain the situation. When he was done,
Wakka was looking as disappointed as Braska had.
"That's....the only way, ya think?"
"Yeah. That's what Braska and them figure."
"..........Well, better start headin' for Guadosalam, eh?" Wakka replied after a minute, clasping a
hand onto Tidus' shoulder before walking out to tell the others.
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Here it is! The long-awaited Chapter Five!!!!!
Up Next:
The group travels to Guadosalam, Lulu creating the lie that she and Wakka want to visit Chappu
there, and that they want the others to come along. Once there, Tidus and Yuna's final scene
unfolds a second time, but will it be enough to erase Sin from Yuna's mind forever?
Find out next time......
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