Chapter 15: Angel.

Brother leaned against the railing of the boat. He was watching her. She was smiling now, always smiling. Rikku was smiling too.

They were both sat in the shade watching Tidus who was attempting to teach Gippal to kick a blitzball properly. Cid was in the cabin with a bad case of sea sickness and Paine was up on one of the higher decks. Gippal kicked the ball. Brother felt the rubber graze his chin as it hit him. Yuna leaped up and ran to him.

"Brother! Are you okay?" Rikku lightly hit Gippal over the head then dashed over too.

"I'm so sorry mate!" Gippal had his hand on Brother's shoulder.

"No! Eets okay! Me fine!" Brother smiled at him, a bruise froming on his chin.

"Better get an ice pack on that," Said Tidus patting his back.

"I'll take you!" Yuna grabbed his hand and led him to the cabin. She sat him on a bench and pressed a bag of ice to his chin. After five minuets she eased it away.

"That better?"

"Yea! Thankee!" She smiled at him. Brother watched the light reflect off her hair as she tilted her head to one side.

"I never said sorry did I?" She asked.

"Forrr what?" He asked. Did she finally see the light that she was the one for him?

"I destroyed your ship! That had been your home for ages! All your stuff was destroyed!" He couldn't hide his disappointment but he smiled at her.

"Nah! You destrrroyed Seymourrr! Yuna verry brrrave!" She giggled at his rolled 'r's.

"Thank you Brother!" She kissed him on the cheek.

"Es Angel...I mean Yuna happy?" His face went red. She nodded.

"I'm very happy! I have him back!"

"Then Brrrotherrr happy too!" She hugged him. He could smell her purfume all around him. She left, giving him a small wave.

"Bye Angel," He whispered.

Tidus stood at the front of the ship, watching the spray dance in the wind. Yuna watched him. His hair gleamed in the sun. His eyes were laughing and his body was nicely tanned. He turned, feeling her gaze. She grinned at him. He held out a hand to her. She took it and held it to her waist.

"Hows Brother?" He asked.

"He's okay," She snuggled closer to him. "So...when can I have my suprise?" He laughed at her.

"Well we are going somewhere special first so I'm afraid you will have to be locked in your cabin for a few days," She pounted at him.

"I'll get bored and what about Rikku? I want to say goodbye to her at Luca...it's not there is it?" Tidus made a dissapointed face.

"You want to go to Luca? Bugger! I thought you would prefer somewhere abit quieter. But if it's Luca you wan..." She giggled.

"I'll go anywhere with you Tidus," She said, looking out to the sea.

She remembered how he had dissapeared, how she had wanted to jump after him and follow him. He strocked her cheek.

"We'll stop at Luca so you can say goodbye to Rikku, yeah?" She nodded and smiled at him.

"You got any good books on you?" He gave her a puzzled look. "If I'm going to be stuck in my cabin for a 'few' days I need something to keep me occupied!"

"Hey! We havn't caought up much yet!" She smiled mischieviously at him.

"So I have to spend a few days just talking to you about how I went and got off with a couple of hundred men do I?" He looked abit worried for a moment, then he saw her laughing at him and nibbled at her ear.

"Awwwwwwwwww! That is so cute!" They turned to see Rikku making goo goo eyes at them. Gippal was grinning.

"Yeah, bloke chewing girl's ear off would make such a cute picture," Rikku thumped him. Tidus laughed and let go of Yuna. She was grinning to Rikku.

"We're gonna go and check up on Paine and leave you two loons to it," Rikku and Yuna scuried away and up the stairs to the upper deck. Paine was sitting against the mast. She looked up as they approached her. Rikku plonked herself down next to her and Yuna remained standing. She still didn't really trust her after the Seymour thing. Paine glanced up at her.

"Yuna...I want to appologize," Yuna looked down at her, "I know it was bad what we did but we were hoping to destroy him. We hoped he would come back in his origional form, we were tricked too," She looked at the floor ashamed.

"It's okay. I understand," Yuna sat next to her, "I would have done that if the circumstances were different," Paine smiled sheepishly at her.

"I always wanted to meet the person who defeated Sin," She grinned. Yuna giggled.

"You want me to sign your book?"

"Gee thanks!" Paine imitated a little girl. Rikku chuckled at them.

"Have you heard from Barali?"

"No, not yet," Paine was looking down at the floor again. Yuna gave her a hug.

"I know what it's like. You don't know how they are or where they are and you don't know how to get to them," Paine nodded, she knew what Yuna had been through, Rikku had kindly yelled it at her when she was in a piss with her and Gippal. Paine hugged Yuna back. She smiled.

This was a special person, she defeated Sin, lost her lover and is still a loving person.

"You're special Yuna. Know that," She got up and went down into her cabin. Yuna sat startled.

"Special huh?"

"You better believe it!" Rikku yawned. "I'm gonna turn in. See ya," Yuna smiled at her. She stayed there, staring out at the sea.

Special. Was she special? Why did people say that? Had they called her father special and all the other summoners before him? He had been special! He had sacrificed himself for millions of people he didn't know, who had brought Sin back by their own sinning. She felt a few tears slide down her cheeks.

"Daddy," She whispered. She could nearly hear his laugh, see his handsome smile and see his eyes go all soft when he had seen her mother.

"Hey," Tidus was stood beside her. She wiped the tears away.

"You been crying?"

"I'm sorry...I was just thinking of my dad that's all," Tidus sat next to her and held her so that she was sat in his lap.

"He's very proud of you," He whispered. She jerked away from him.

"You've seen him?" He looked uncomfortable.

"When I ...dis...disappeared. I was with him, Auron and my pop. They were all very proud of you. He wishes he could be here for you, but he's happy so you should be to,"

"Is that what he said?"

"Yeah. Your ma says she's proud of her beautiful girl too," He stroked her hair. "She's happy her baby girl isn't going to be scared anymore," Yuna hugged him tight and kissed his neck.

"What you scared of Yuna? Why were you allways scared?" She stiffened. She hadn't spoken her feelings to anyone, she didn't want to admit she was scared, probably always will be scared. She wiped her tears and sat up in his arms.

"When I was 5 Father went on his pilgrimage. I didn't really understand it then. I allways thought he was going to come back, you know. People were allways telling me how brave and wonderful he was. When I did understand I hated them, the people, they stole my father away. It was their fault that people kept dieing, people like my father, Chappu and may others who are never mentioned. It was unfair and horrible. I began to calm down, but feared that Sin would come back again, so I trained to become a Summoner. I was scared that I would actually be the one to sacrifice myself and one of my friends." She smiled at him through her tears. "Then you came, and you banished that fear and I knew I could do it as long as you were there. I became scared even more then. I didn't want to be dependent on anyone because that would mean that they would be my Fayth. I didn't want that to happen to any of you. It was me who had chosen to do it, not you. Then I became scared that when I died I would be on my own. Silly really. Maybe that was why I first agreed to his proposal," She was talking to herself aswell as Tidus.

"I remember thinking, if I do this maybe Seymour will have to be my Fayth then I would have killed Seymour and Sin all in one," Tidus held onto her tightly. "I would have died with you. If you had chosen me as your Fayth or not," He pressed his lips against her cheek, kissing away the tears. "I didn't want anyone to be my Fayth. Especially you. You wanted to get back to Zanarkand so badly, I just wanted you to be happy if that included me or not," Tidus felt tears sting his eyes. Seymour had been scared in his own way, scared of dying. Yuna had been scared too but she had not become corrupted like Seymour. She shone brightly through her pain and suffering. She always cared for others before she even considered herself.

"Thank you," He kissed her cheek again.

"I wouldn't have been happy if I got back to Zanarkand knowing you wouldn't be with me even if you lived,"
She stroked his cheek. "I'm still scared," He looked puzzled at her. "You might disappear again. I might wake up and you won't be there or you will start to fade away infront of me. I want you to promise me you will always be here but you can't," Her voice was a mere whisper. He nodded sadly. He couldn't make a promise he didn't know how to keep.

"I want you to promise me something though," She looked up at him. "There is no certainty that I will remain in Spira, I wish there was but...you know. But whatever length of time I have here I want to spend it with you. I don't want you to be scared anymore so don't worry if I disappear," She looked shocked at him.

"You're the love of my life. How can I not worry?"

"What I'm saying is if I do disappear you will know this time that I love you. I was scared to admit my true feelings too. When I was wherever I was I was going nuts because I thought that you thought I didn't care. That was why I got sent back. To look after you and love you. The Fayth wotsit saw you were disintergrating and thought that you deserved some happiness. Also Seymour was causing trouble so I had to appear and help you guys destroy him." She laughed at his adorable cockyness. "There's another thing I want you to promise," She knew what was coming. "If I do disappear I want you to...get over it. I don't want you wasting away like last time. Meet someone new and be happy. For my sake if not for yours," She wanted to hit him then. How could she make a promise like that.

"I have a proposition," She said looking thoughtful. "Why don't we stop making promises and just be happy. I'm fed up with being sad and scraed all the time. I'm 18 and want to live abit. Have fun. Maybe have kids and get married when the time is right," He snorted. "And..." She continued feeling alot more better. "I want you to be having fun with me!"

"Along with the marriage and kids I presume," He saw her blush.

She was in for a big surprise.