Chapter 9: Real

# I just finished FFX 2! Wow! Yeah! Tidus yummy! Now I have to get the perfect ending! Sorry mine doesn't end the same way. All the characters are different! Yoink! Sorry!#

Tidus awoke.

He felt...real! He looked around him. He wasn't wherever he had been! He laughed and stretched, feeling his muscles pull. He laughed again. Yuna he was going to be with Yuna! As long as he wasn't a thousand years later! He began to worry. He looked around him again.

This place was very familiar, like he had been her before.

"Is it...really you?" Yuna stared at him.

He was there! There!

In front of her! She was scared to touch him. What if her hand went through him?

"Are you...real?" He looked around him, his head jerking quickly in all directions.

Then he finally noticed her. Her heart skipped a beat.

He was here! With her! Now!

He touched her cheek lightly. Then smiled and wrapped his arms around her.

He lifted her up of her feet and swung her in circles. They laughed together, spinning and spinning till they were both dizzy.

Rikku giggled and hugged Gippal who smiled sadly at the happy couple.

Poor Yuna!

Paine's jaw tightened. Why had she let this happen! She would never listen to Barali again! As long as she saw him again.

Yuna was breathless when he set her down finally. He kept his arm around her waist. Rikku poked him on the back.

"Hey stranger!" He grinned and she flung her arms around him.

Yuna laughed, tears trickling down her face.

He turned back to her when Rikku let go of him and hugged her again tightly. She held onto him tightly, not wanting to let him go, ever. He beamed at her and nodded to Gippal and Paine. They looked uncomfortable. Yuna didn't understand why. Maybe seeing a dead person come back gave them the jitters.

She didn't care anymore.

She had him back and that was all that mattered.

"Look Pop! Pop! Look!" Rikku raced up the ramp laughing and jumping. Yuna walked after her, his arm still around her waist.

"Hey! Ol' feller!" Cid embraced him. He looked abit startled by being hugged by Cid but patted his back all the same.

Paine skulked up the ramp and slunk to the cabin. Gippal finally came, lumbered with gifts from the Guado. He handed them to Brother who was looking frustrated and moody. He smiled at Yuna and gave her a wink.

Rikku was dancing around the bridge, clapping her hands and giggling like a little girl. Gippal chuckled at her.

Yuna joined her and they danced around together with the boys laughing at them. Yuna stopped breathless and looked at him grinning at him. He grinned back. Rikku was doing pirouettes around them and toppled over.

"Yoip!" She cried. Yuna burst out laughing. Gippal chuckled and went to help Rikku up. Things were developing between them.

Yuna smiled at Rikku who pretended to faint as Gippal helped her up. Rikku winked at her and pulled Gippal out of the bridge to give her some time alone with him.

She suddenly felt really shy. What was she meant to say to him?

'Hey! Had fun in the Farplane? Was it fun disappearing? Do you have any feelings for me?' He was smiling at her.

"Your beautiful when your thinking!" He beamed. She laughed.

"Well I'll think abit more from now on then!" He wrapped his arms around her.

"You better not! You won't be thinking at all by the time I'm through with you!" She laughed at his playful threat. The airship trembled as they began to rise up into the sky. Yuna grabbed his hand and pulled him up onto the deck.

She had always avoided it. Now it seemed the perfect place to be. The sun was a deep red and the sky was painted with yellow, orange and pink. Guadosalam shrinked beneath them. She took hold of his hand.

"Where we headed?" He asked.

"Home," She whispered. He kissed her lightly on the mouth.

"I'm already home," He grinned and pulled her too him.

"You think it worked?" Lulu was sat on the beach, feeding Chadus. Wakka had mixed Tidus's and Chappu's names together. He said they were the closest things he had had to a family apart from Yuna and Lulu. Lulu had giggled.

"He isn't going to forgive ya!" She'd gurgled. "I get to name his siblings!" Wakka had raised his eyebrows at this.

"Well if we had stuck in Guadosalam we would know," Lulu glared up at him.

"Well I'm sorry if your son needed some peace and quiet, not to mention his mother!" Wakka stopped pacing.

"I'm sorry Lu!" He plonked himself down next to her.

"I want to see him too! I missed the blonde haired maniac!" He laughed and hugged her. Chadus began to squirm and wriggle.

"It's getting cold. I better take him in!" Lulu stood up, then stopped.

Her mouth dropped open in a comical 'O'. Wakka leapt up and looked out to sea.

A blonde haired figure was stumbling towards the shore.

It didn't seem to notice them. It looked out at Besaid, put it's fingers to it's lips and whistled.

"It's him!" Lulu shrieked. Wakka laughed and ran out to get Tidus. Tidus stared dazed at him.

"Hey kiddo! What you doin' here?"

"Yuna's in danger," He spluttered.

"What? Why? How?" Tidus fell slightly. Wakka caught him. "Ok. Whoa there kid," He slung Tidus' arm over his shoulders and supported him to the shore. Lulu was going eccentric.

"It worked! Wow! Yuna's gonna be better!" Tidus smiled grimly at her and noticed the baby.

"Whoa! Lulu!" He stared at the baby, then at Wakka. "You two?" Wakka nodded and grinned. "Where's Yuna? Is she here?" Lulu shook her head.

"She went to get you, from the Farplane. Remember? You kept going to her in dreams?" Tidus's eyes widened.

"That wasn't me! The Fayth told be it was a strange spirit that wanted to get out of the Farplane!" Lulu let out her breathe in a long hiss.

"This is the last thing she needs!" She swore, tactfully blocking her son's ears.

"Yeah. But at least we got the real one here! Or have we?" He looked at Tidus properly for the first time. He was still wearing his Zanarkand clothes, he seemed right. "What..er...ooo! What was my brother called?"

"Cha...Chappu,"

"Yep he's real," Wakka patted his back.

"Come on buddy. Let's get you to bed!"