Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy X and its wonderful characters, but I think those FFX tin lunchboxes are pretty cute! Anyone agree?
Character thoughts are in "italics." Omoidashite kudasai. :-)
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"I've waited two years..."
Yuna opened her eyes, the warm morning light filtering through her window. She smiled and sat up, looking outside to see calm waves lapping up on the beach. She then looked to the movie sphere that had just recently come into her possession, and smiled even more.
The thought of meeting Tidus again was enough to send pleasant tingles throughout her body.
"...but, I think I could stand to wait, just a little bit more!"
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Final Fantasy X: Beginnings
Chapter Three: The Sun's Return
A fanfic by Noelle
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"Busy busy busy..." She bounded from desk to desk, and hummed some more. At the moment, Yuna was cheerfully looking through and organizing a large pile of papers. If, that was at all possible.
"Yuna! Breakfast!" Rikku shouted, even though she was just outside the doorway to the room Yuna was in.
"Coming!~" Yuna bouncing around in her PJ's and grinning like an idiot while doing work was just too much for Rikku.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" She couldn't stop herself.
"What's so funny?" Yuna asked, a look of confusion on her face combined with a hint of a smile.
"Yunie, you're just too cute!"
"Me?"
"Yeah, you!" Rikku leaned a bit on the doorway. "Look at you, you're so happy you can't contain yourself!"
"Well...you know why..." Yuna wrung her fingers together. She still hadn't shown the sphere to the others.
"Yeah, I think I have a general idea..." She smiled a knowing smile." Yunie, you got it bad."
"Haha...you can tell?" She laughed and smiled some more, setting aside one more pile of papers. "Today's going to be a good day, I just know it." She walked toward the doorway and past Rikku, patting her on the back as she walked by her.
"Come on Rikku! Let's get to breakfast already!"
"Yunie, you're scary," Rikku said jokingly.
"Yup, I know." She still couldn't keep her smile to herself. "Get used to it, cuz."
The girls laughed some more and eventually got down to breakfast, where Wakka and Lulu were waiting.
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"Wakka cooked today, so everyone..." Lulu looked around the table. "...a word of caution." She said this last part with a mischievous smile.
"Come on, Lu! I've been getting better, honest!" Wakka pleaded.
"Hmm..." Lulu thought back to his earlier 'food creations.' "Yes, I'll give you that."
"Yeah, I knew you'd agree!" He smiled his big smile.
Rikku looked down at her plate, a short stack of slightly burned pancakes, a stick or two of mutilated sausages, and 'scrambled eggs' are what she saw. She really didn't want to eat it, even if it was...edible, to an extent. Wakka and Lulu were already started on eating, and made small talk.
"They both must be used to this already..." She thought.
She looked across the table to her cousin to see how she was faring, and boy was she going at it. Rikku's eyes widened in surprise. Yuna's pancakes were half done, the 'eggs' were gone, and the sausages were the only things left untouched.
"Wakka, nice job with breakfast today!" Yuna complimented him as she reached for the orange juice. She was still in an unbelievably good mood.
"Glad you like it, ya?" His plate was completely polished.
"Um...can I be excused?" Rikku asked, all of this was getting too weird for the young Al Bhed.
"You're not hungry Rikku?" Lulu asked with concern in her voice. Rikku had barely touched her food.
"I'm okay, Lulu..." she said to the older woman, "I-I...forgot I had this project to work on!" She stood up and bounded toward the door.
"Want me to call you for lunch?" Lulu asked. She then got closer to Rikku and whispered into her ear, "...don't worry, I'm cooking." Lulu smiled at Rikku's reaction.
"Thank goodness," Rikku whispered back, her relief evident.
"Okay Rikku, we'll be out there in a little bit anyway!" Wakka called from the table. He turned to Yuna. "You coming today?" He knew she always had a lot of work to do, and asked this question daily, though he always knew the answer.
"Of course!" Yuna could always have time for practice, work could wait. She started cleaning up along with Lulu, and hummed a song to herself as she did so.
"You happy today?" Wakka asked with his thick island accent.
"Yeah. I guess you could say that!" She smiled one of her brightest smiles for him.
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Yuna bounced a blitzball on her head, sending it flying towards the other Aurochs in the water.
Jassu caught it, and passed it back to her. "Nice head shot you got there, Lady Yuna!"
She said nothing as she practiced her pass again, and passed it this time to Letty, who promptly passed it back to her. "Come on, let's see what ya got Lady Yuna!"
She caught the ball with ease. "Ok, watch this!" She once again bounced the ball on her head, readied her feet, and almost somersaulting partly on air and partly on water, she executed an explosive Sphere Shot!
"Whoa Lady Yuna! Great shot!" Botta said in amazement.
"Been practicing that every day?" Datto said as he patted her on the back.
She looked around at the Aurochs. They had given her so much support these last two years. Along with Wakka's help, she had been getting better every day. Speaking of which, a certain flame-haired fellow came from behind her, wrapped his arms around her so she couldn't escape, and dragged her underwater.
"Gurble gurble!" Was pretty much what came out of Yuna's mouth when she learned it was Wakka who played this trick on her...again. He said it was good "practice" to help her hold her breath underwater, but she just thought it was a mean trick. A VERY mean one at that.
Eventually, Yuna wriggled out of his grasp and made it to the surface, her surprise making her short of breath. Water flowed down her furrowed brows as she watched Wakka surface as well.
"Wakka...you...you!" Yuna was visibly peeved.
"Hahahahaha!" It was all in good fun to him. "Looks like you need some work on that, ya?"
"Hmmph!" She crossed her arms and looked to the side. "Next time you try that, you're going to get a beating!"
"Ok, ok Miss Yuna, I'll stop doing that..." He paused, smiling as he did so. "...for today." He patted her on the head. "But really now, you need some of that kind of practice when someone tackles you underwater, ya?"
"I guess...but it's still really mean Wakka!" she pouted.
"Hehe, you know I love ya," he frazzled her wet hair. He waved to the other Aurochs in the water. "Ok everyone! Get back to practice!"
"Yes Capn' Wakka!"
"Whatever you say Capn' Wakka!"
He then turned to Yuna. " You wanna try and beat that record today?" He asked, smiling warmly.
"Yes!" she said enthusiastically, then swam a little ways away and submerged herself in the water. She held her breath and started counting.
"1...2...3..."
Unknown to her, someone was approaching her from behind, his legs churning up the waters in his wake.
"4...5...6...7..."
He swam even faster upon spotting Yuna, who was currently curled up in a ball, obviously concentrating very hard. Bubbles rose from her prone form.
"8...9...10...11..."
He swam more slowly the closer he got to her, he didn't want his surprise ruined. A genuine smile crossed his features as he imagined her reaction.
"12...13...14...15...16...seven---*"
Her count was interrupted as a pair of arms suddenly wrapped around her waist. Her concentration broken, Yuna opened her eyes, but didn't bother to see who her attacker was. "Ok Wakka, you've gone too far!" she thought, even more peeved than before. "He promised he wouldn't...!" She tensed her muscles. "Well then..."
She placed three elbow shots to her attacker's abdomen. Three very hard ones at that. She could feel her attacker reel back from the force.
"Ha! That'll show him and his pudgy stomach!" Yuna thought in triumph as she wriggled free. She rapidly swam up to the surface to see Wakka's pained expression. " Told you you'd get a beating! ...Wakka?"
Wakka was standing where he originally was, and was still timing her with a stopwatch. "What'd I do this time that I didn't know about, ya?" He looked at the time she'd been underwater. "Something wrong?"
"Hold on a moment..." she turned around cautiously to see just who she attempted to put out of commission.
A young man with layered blonde hair, dreamy blue eyes and a slightly pained expression rose from the water in front of her. He lifted his head and made eye contact with Yuna's green and blue eyes.
"It can't be..." Yuna was frozen in place. And she still couldn't believe she had just attacked HIM, of all people! She brought a hand up to her mouth, both surprised and a little embarrassed at the same time.
"Wow Yuna, a new custom in Spira I didn't know about?" He rubbed his sore stomach.
"Tidus?" She walked towards him in the water and stroked his face. "It's you, right?" Tears threatened to come out of her eyes.
"Yeah! Last time I checked, that's me," he brushed a few strands out of her face and moved closer to her.
"This isn't a dream right? You're not a dream? Are you?" Yuna was getting frantic, her hands traveling over Tidus' chest, half expecting to have her fingers pass through him.
Tidus stopped her hands. "I'm here Yuna." he smiled warmly at her and pulled her in for an embrace. "You decked me just earlier, remember?" he said jokingly.
"I missed you." Yuna said, the tears flowing freely now.
Tidus closed his eyes, taking her scent in. He couldn't find the right way to say all that he wanted to say to her, but the chance was taken from him as he suddenly felt Yuna's lips on his own.
"Please..." She kissed him passionately, her emotions taking over. "Please stay with me always..." she prayed with all her heart.
Tidus kissed her back with equal passion, the heat between them growing.
The Aurochs cheered for the couple and their reunion, letting go hoots and whistles as the couple continued kissing.
"If it's the two of us, it'll be ok..."
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Author's Notes:
Hiya! I'm not used to writing out great love scenes, but I am used to reading a lot of them! I hope this one turned out ok. Thanks again for all your wonderful reviews! I love reading them, so keep it up!
In response to Rebecca's question: Yup, that fish part was supposed to be funny. Glad you liked it! Look for more humor in odd places, cause I love writing in witty stuff.
Some little tidbits: "Omoidashite kudasai," is Japanese for "Please Remember." I just thought it would be cute. Yuna did use it after all in the game's end (JAP version). We all know it as "Never forget them." :-)
And in Okinawan, Tidus' name means "Sun," so that's where the chapter title comes from.
And the end quote to this chapter is a line from "Endless Love, Endless Road," a duet sung by the Japanese Voice actors for Tidus and Yuna. It just stuck in my head, and is my favorite line in the whole song. "Futari nara, daijoubu..."
If you have any ideas about what should happen next, be sure to tell me! The story can go anywhere from here! :-)
