This chapter's kinda a filler… it's back to the present now! I kind of figured that if I didn't get a chapter in the present in soon, the whole Past/Present concept would just seem pointless. So, this is just for that, really.

Argg. EzBoard will NOT work for me today. Frustration. On the bright side, there was no more turkey in my food.

Also, for the story: All the characters in this chapter are speaking Al Bhed. Again, it's too tedious to write it all out and translate it when no one's speaking anything but.


Kirei na Kanjou

Knock.

"…Brother?" Rikku said hesitantly. She stood in front of the Tech room's door, the blue sphere hidden carefully behind her back. "Are ya in there?"

Knock.

The door opened slowly, revealing Rikku's brother on the other side. "What is it this time, Rikku? You know I don't have time for-" His eyes focused on the small green Cactuar doll in her hand. "How did you get that? I thought it was…" He stopped again, the truth finally registering in his mind. "Rikku! Did you go into my room?!"

Rikku grinned sheepishly at the fuming Brother. "Um… I kinda did… I didn't mean to, really! It's just that… I had to find Cacty, you know?"

Brother glared at the little doll, which looked back at him innocently.

Squeak, Cacty said.

"What?" Rikku asked Cacty. "Oh, yeah! Brother, you almost killed Cacty! He says that he was almost squished by the sphere." A few seconds later, she realized that she had told what she had found and covered her mouth, wide-eyed.

"Sphere?" Rikku took the blue dome from behind her back and gave it to him. "Aah! You didn't look at it, did you?"

"Um…" she muttered. "Just… a little. Only the Luca part!" She looked at Brother, who was now examining the sphere. "Ku… I don't really remember her that well. Dad said that she summoned Leviathan and it had something to do with Sinspawn."

"Yeah," Brother said. "It was two years ago. Sinspawn attacked Home, and she somehow summoned Leviathan and defeated it." He sighed. "I was her guardian…"

"She said that on the sphere," Rikku stated, receiving a glare from Brother.

"You shouldn't look at my things like that."

"Hey!" Rikku exclaimed defensively. "I was just curious! And now I wanna learn more, y'know?"

Brother threw the sphere gently at her and turned away.

Squeak squeak, Cacty said angrily as the sphere almost landed on him.

"There's more on there, if you really want to watch it," Brother said. He resumed what he had been doing before. "Go ahead. It'll be good to see again."

Rikku smiled widely and shouted happily. "Yay! Brother, you aren't so mean after all!"

Squeak, Cacty agreed.

What is wrong with that doll? Brother thought. He tried adamantly to ignore the squeaking.

"Ok… so then, Cacty, let's watch, ok?" She pressed PLAY.


And so, Cacty strikes again.

Short, I know. Sorry bout that. The next chapter will be up soon. It'll be back to the Past. You'll just have to wait to find out what happens in the sphere. So ha ha ha. Ha ha. Ha. Next Chapter: The continuation of Ku's Journey-Besaid!

Yay. I used another vocabulary word. Adamant. Makes me think of Adamantine. Which then makes me think of monsters from Final Fantasy. I have no life whatsoever.

It's a bad idea to have a prologue… now when I say "Chapter 7", it's actually Chapter 8 and it gets me confused. ^^;; So from now on, even though it is Chapter 7 because of the prologue, it will say, "Updated: Chapter 8". Ok? Ok.