DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS THAT I AM USING IN THIS FANFIC, JUST AS I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE PLACES MENTIONED FROM THE GAME.

Before you read:  Just as a warning, I haven't finished playing FFX-2 yet so I don't know the ending, this is why there is a mentioning of Paine but I'm running my own Tidus story!  Ok you're warned! ^-^

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Author: Tai Blanchet

Final Fantasy X

Chapter 2: The Brightest Star

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Yuna awoke the following morning feeling relaxed, like she was on vacation or something.  She remembered that she was meeting Lulu and Rikku for lunch that day. She heaved herself out of bed and plodded into her kitchen and headed straight for the fridge.  Rikku had filled it up the day before not with all the healthy things that Yuna liked to eat but with junkie food that she liked.  She smiled as she got a carton of milk out,

       "Silly Rikku" she said out loud.  She turned around to see Wakka schlomped on her table. "Uh... Wakka?" she said as she poked him gingerly.

       "Another five minutes please Lu, ya?" Yuna giggled

       "Wakka you're not with Lulu you're in * my * kitchen!"

       "Ah Yuna, oh man I'm sorry! I came across here early this mornin' to give you your mail ya, and I musta fallen asleep!"

       "Don't worry about it Wakka! While you're here, you want some breakfast? I'm making pancakes!"

       "Ya I might as well! I'll only get in the way of Lu back home, she's quite stressy at the minute, and it's hard looking after Chappu ya?"

       "Ya!" she replied knowingly.  After a filling breakfast with Wakka and after he had gone back home with Lulu yelling at him from across the yard, Yuna sat down to look at her mail.  The first thing she came to was a sphere from her friend Paine from the Sphere Hunters.  She put it into the transmitter.

       "Yo, how are you?  Sorry about how things were left between us back at Kilika, I didn't mean to snap... you were right about the sphere it was bad news.  Buddy thinks that there may be another load of spheres around Spira but with a different signal to the regular spheres... he... no we wanted to know, if we can find a way of tracking these, would you want to join us again with Rikku?  I'll let you know when we find out more.  Keep safe." Paine kissed her index and middle fingers and blew a kiss at Yuna.  Yuna couldn't help but smile; Paine was so normally quiet so it was nice to see her open up a bit more.

The second sphere was anonymous... "Hmmmmm I wonder who this could be from..."  She put it into the transmitter and gasped as she saw a face that she hadn't seen in a long time... Auron's.

       "Heya Kid.  Yeah I guess you should be a little freaked, stop worrying I can send you spheres as well, the Farplane is a place you know! Right to business... the boy has gone... he's found his way out... we're not to sure if he needs sending a second time... please Yuna, find him... he may be a fiend by now so be careful.  Your parents wish you well and so do I.  Bye Now."  Yuna rested her head in her hands and thought a bit...  She got up and walked into her bathroom still thinking "a fiend?" she turned on the shower and got in; she absent-mindedly washed her hair "he's found his was out... needs sending... again?"

       "Is anyone hooooome??" Rikku called.  Yuna was pulled out of her thoughts;

       "Yes, sorry in the bathroom, I'll be out in a second."  She pulled on some of her clothes and headed back to the kitchen where she saw Rikku poking in the fridge; she giggled again "Silly Rikku..."

"So are we taking food or is Lu?"

       "Lulu is, she said she wanted to take something that was edible on her scale not ours!" Rikku exclaimed.  The two girls laughed; once they had stopped Rikku said, "So I see you had your sphere from Paine?  I had one to; she said she was sorry about things... New Spheres huh? Sounds good!"

       "Yeah it does... do you think that we should go... I mean that would mean leaving Besaid again and I've only just hot home!  I'm glad she's got back in contact though I wasn't too sure how things would be if she ever visited."  Both girls nodded in agreement at each other.  "Shall we go meet Lu then?" Rikku nodded again in approval.  The idea that Tidus was back in Spira was pushed to the back of Yuna's mind as she headed towards the beach with Rikku bouncing along next to her.

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Tidus shook his head to try and get the throbbing pain to reduce but it was no good, it kept coming back.  He was in Guadosalem.  From what he could see, he could tell it was night time.  He slowly got up, his head still pounding;  he turned around to see the entrance to the Farplane… it was shimmering like it had come back to life again, like Yevon had gained control of it once again. Maybe I've been spat out for a reason then… he thought in between painful pounds.  He made his way down the slope being careful not to make to much noise.

Once he was outside he took in a deep breath and started on his way. I've got to find her… he thought.

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       "So what did you do after you left Kilika Port then?" quizzed Lulu.

       "Well I had intended to come straight back home but I wanted to go to the Zanarkland Ruins to collect my thoughts…"

       "What was it like?" Rikku asked

       "In exactly the same state in which we left it in!  I should really look into having it restored or something… I mean it would be good for the Al Bhed because it was a machina city so maybe if it was restored, it could be again…"

       "Pops would really like that!  In fact so would I… wait we all would… having a whole Al Bhed city…" Rikku drifted off into a day dream

       "That would be a very noble thing to do Yuna, but is it wise?  Lots of people may oppose to having a city of machine, there are still many supporters of Yevon that may be insulted by it." Lulu stated

       "Yes… but it's a good idea right? Anyway, presents for you two!"  She handed Lulu a moogle talisman for some form of black magic.

       "Thank you Yuna, I've been after one of these for a while now; I was hoping for one of these from Wakka, but you know what he's like!"  Yuna then handed Rikku a toolbox type thing.

       "It's got loads of bits and bobs in for when you mix things or for when you're doing these 'secret' projects you're always doing!"

       "Oh Yunie! It's perfect! Wherever did you get it?!"

       "That's a secret, but I'll tell you its custom made. There's bomb cores and dragon scales, loads of stuff for Al Bhed things and for you bombs and guns… I thought you'd like it!"

       "Like it, I love it!" The three of them sat there rooting through the box of bits; Chappu started to cry.

       "I'm sorry Yuna, Rikku, but I'm going to have to go home, I don't think he's finding it easy to sleep out here!  Thanks so much for the gift and thanks for meeting me for lunch… I'll speak to you later?"

       "Sure, no probs Lu!" replied Rikku.  Yuna and Rikku watched Lulu walk up the shore and Wakka join her and Chappu half way.  Shortly after Wakka, Lulu and Chappu had gone; the rest of the Aurochs disappeared one by one. "Hey Yuna, you wanna go up to the docks?" They picked up their things and made their way up there in silence.

"How much longer are you going to stay for Yuna?  I know that you're thinking about going again…"

       "I don't think that I'll be staying much longer," she replied quietly. "I got a weird sphere today, not the one from Paine but one from Auron… Tidus is back in Spira… I have to find him…"

       "Oh, I um, well I meant the sphere hunters but Tidus… hmmmmm."  The girls sat with their feet in the water kicking for a bit. "I think we should find him then." Rikku said.

       "I was planning to… he might need another sending… Should we get hold of Paine?"

       "That would be a good idea… I'll call Buddy later and we'll see what we can do!  It's going to be YRP all over again!"

       "Hmmmm yeah…" smiled Yuna.  They made their way slowly back to Besaid, playing around as they did, talking about the old days when Yuna was a summoner and discussing what it would like to be YRP again.

Once Yuna was home she watched the sphere from Auron again and then the one from Paine.  "I've made my decision," she said out loud, "I'm going at the end of the week, and I'm going to find him."

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AUTHOR'S NOTES:

Ok how was that? I've tried to make this chapter a bit longer.  Next chapter I'm going to concentrate it more on Tidus.  I still need a name for my fanfic!!! Please give me ideas!!!   I'm going to try and get the following chapters a little more up-beat I found this one ummm not so upbeat? But it was needed to shape the story. Hee, hee, well FEEDBACK then!

More soon

Taye!