Note:

Sorry it took me so long to update! It was just that I was punished for getting suspended and in a fight with a person who called me a 'gothic fuck'. So me, not being able to control my anger, responded with a punch right to the face. I'm not even gothic, I'm punk/goth, which there is a difference ya dumbass! Anyway, it resulted in a months suspension… and my harsh punishment of not being able to use the phone or computer. It sucked, but I've been through it so many times already. So, really, sorry about that. Thank you all so much for the reviews though! I appreciate it all!

Oh, and here are the answers to the questions that were asked:

Q. Why would Tidus (seemingly) fall back (presumably) in love with Yuna after she "rejected (I like banished more)" him from her life? - Desolation Angel
A.
Okay, Tidus didn't fall back in love with Yuna… yet. He is actually just glad to have her back. Even though they aren't 'friends' really at the moment. But as I continue on, you'll understand more. Glad you enjoy my story!

Q. Where's the next chapter?? Checks in pocket Nope not in my pocket. Checks under shoe Nope, Not there either. - Bunny Bunz
A.
The next chapter is here. YAY!!

Q. It just seems unrealistic to me that Tidus would try to move into being friends so soon. I think you should of made it progress slower. Other than that keep writing I like it. - Vent silencieux
A.
To put it in better terms. Tidus and Yuna are yet to even be friends. The awkwardness is still very much going to be there. I'm not making it pass so fast. Believe me. I'm not.

Q. How did Yuna make Tidus go away for 13 years? And how old are they? - Unknown
A.
Well, you'll see some of that in later chapters. And, Tidus and Yuna are both 21. In addition (just in case you were wondering) Rikku is 20. Gippal is 21. Paine is 20. Baralai is 22. Lenne is seven. Shuyin is seven. Tifa is 24 (same for Cloud). And that's really all.

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Always is Forever

Chapter 2

Tidus' Hard-On & Yuna's Headlights


"Rise and shine!!!!!!!"

It took Yuna all of her self-control not to yell at the hyper blonde that stood bouncing on the bed that she was sleeping on, singing happily to some song that was unfamiliar to her.

"Up, up, up!" Rikku bounced and bounced.

"Get out…" Yuna spoke in a groggy voice, as she tried to ignore Rikku by putting a pillow over her face. She swore that when she had enough energy to get up that she was going to strangle her so badly. Lately, that's all Yuna wanted to do to her very best blonde friend.

"You have three seconds to get up!" she warned, still bouncing up and down the bed. "and if you don't get up after I count those three seconds you'll be in trouble."

Yuna quickly thought back to what had happened with her and Tidus. How he had playfully maneuvered his hands over all her ticklish spots and left her barely breathing. That was less than ten minutes into the house and they had already made contact. But that was all for the day.

Though it was enough for Yuna seeing as that left Dona in a very pissed off mood for the whole day.

Dona did know about Yuna and Tidus' history as children and Yuna had guessed that she probably wanted them to hate each other till the day of their deaths. It very much pleased her that Dona was jealous of such little contact. Either that or she knew something that Yuna herself didn't know.

"One."

Yuna groaned.

"Two."

"Rikku, I swear if you do anything like you did yesterday, I'll kill you…" Yuna muttered lazily, her face still buried in the pillow.

"Two-in-a-half." Rikku continued, ignoring what was just said to her.

What could she possibly do?

"Two-in-three-quarters."

It wasn't like she could get Tidus on her again. He was asleep at a hour like this, either that or Rikku---to which she hoped didn't---woke him up before her. That made her worry. She didn't want to get up though. She refused to get up. The blonde didn't have anything up her sleeve---except, however, Tidus.

"Three."

And in that very second, Rikku pulled the covers off a scantily clad Yuna, and reached over to the counter to grab the large cup of ice cold water---that she had put on the night table upon entering---and poured it all over the brunette that refused to get up off her ass.

"C-cold!!!" was Yuna's first reaction as she quickly sat up out of the bed, shivering as Rikku stood in a fit of laughter. 'She will pay!!' was the first thought that passed through her mind as she lunged forward---trying her best to forget that her pajamas were drenched with cold water---and tackled her down to the floor.

"What is your problem?" Yuna yelled.

"I warned you," Rikku began as she caught her breath. "But you didn't listen. Just because Tidus is sleeping doesn't mean that I don't have other tricks up my sleeve."

Yuna smiled. "You know me too well."

"Yeah, I know." the blonde agreed. "Now get off me, your too heavy and it's 'that time of the month'."

Yuna did as she was told, and quickly looked at the clock as she stood up clutching her sides. It was only 7:32. The brunette groaned. "Why'd you wake me up so early?"

Rikku stood up dusting herself off. The pajamas that she had on were very revealing. She had on a pink spaghetti-strapped shirt with short, booty hugging matching shirts. The fact that three boys were going to soon see her didn't bother her at all. When Yuna had first commented on these pajamas---yesterday night---she only waved it off, saying "It's only just a little skin." Yuna decided then to give up.

"Um, because I actually woke up at six, and I tried to wake Gippal up, but he just fell asleep again." she spoke. "So I waited about an hour and I decided that my best friend would hang out with me at this time in the morning."

Yuna put a hand through her brown and tawny hair. "Why didn't you wake up Dona then?"

"Because, you sleep too much." she giggled.

"Whatever." She replied, but Rikku was already out the door, waving her over.

Yuna let out a loud sigh, before following suit. She watched as Rikku walked all the way to a certain door and opened the door slowly. She didn't know whose room it was, but as soon as she saw a scantily clad tan chest, she automatically knew who it was. Tidus.

Before Rikku could go any further, however, Yuna reached out and quickly clutched her hand. "What are you doing?" she whispered in panic.

The blonde raised a brow at this, then rolled her eyes. "What does it look like I'm going to do?" she asked.

Yuna gulped. "Wake him up."

"Exactly!!" Rikku yelled really loudly, and just then Yuna reached over to cover her very loud mouth.

That's what she was afraid of.

"Shh!" she supplied as her unique eyes quickly found themselves look over at the blitz ace, who still was fast asleep. He didn't even stir.

Rikku, annoyed by her best friends antics, took Yuna's hand off her mouth and rolled her jade-coloured eyes. "Believe me, he won't wake up so easily." she explained, before entering his room. Yuna watched from the door as her best friend once again, as earlier, waved her over.

Yuna shook her head.

Rikku gave her a hard glare. "Stop being such a chicken. You owe me for making me watch that boring chick flick yesterday anyway!"

"Yeah, but you made him trample on me and tickle me until I was close to my death." she replied.

"Oh, but I thought you weren't afraid of my brother." Rikku mocked.

Yuna frowned. She had got her there. "Alright!" she gave up, as she walked to where Rikku was standing, which was beside the bed, and waited for further instructions from her bossy friend.

"Okay," Rikku began, her eyes sparkling. Yuna gulped. That only meant something bad was going to happen. "you are going to make your way on my brother's bed, and sit right on top of his stomach." she paused as she watched Yuna quickly pale. Then as she saw that she was about to speak, but cut her off before she could even do so. "After that, I do the rest of the work."

"Are you crazy!?" Yuna yelled, not believing that the blonde actually thought she would do such a thing.

"Fine." she crossed her arms over her chest stubbornly. "Either you do it or I'll tell everybody you're… secret."

"You wouldn't dare." Yuna glared.

"Oh, but I would." she supplied.

Yuna let out a large groan of frustration, as she carefully made her way on the bed, then found herself slowly, very slowly, sitting atop of Tidus and his rock hard abs. She felt her heart beating in her throat from nervousness and her cheeks flushing from the position. 'Luckily,' she thought, 'I'm not wearing what Rikku is wearing. She is such a spoiled brat!'

Rikku was smiling widely as she gotten her way. "Now yell."

"What?"

"Yell." she repeated.

"I thought that you said that you were going to do the rest of the work after this."

Rikku shrugged. "I lied."

This time, Yuna was fuming. "I swear that as soon as I'm done with this little prank of yours, I'm going to murder you."

The blonde waved her threat off. "Yeah, yeah. Either you yell out or I do. Doesn't really matter."

"What exactly are you trying to accomplish here?" Yuna questioned in panic.

Rikku smirked. "You'll see." And in the next moment, before Yuna could dash and make a run for it, she yelled. "TTTTIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDUUUSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!"

The next thing she knew, Yuna found herself laying back her legs wide open, with a surprised Tidus between them, looking down on her with very wide cerulean eyes. Followed by the sound of footsteps quickly approaching and both found themselves flushing a cherry red as they saw Baralai, Paine, Dona and Gippal, all in pajamas of their own, by the door entrance.

"Whoa." Paine was the first to speak. "Tidus and Yuna being caught doing the 'nasty', who would've thought."

If it were anymore possible, both flushed even more. Paine, Baralai, Gippal and Rikku laughed loudly as they all noticed this. And as if it could get any worse, Tidus' eyes traveled down Yuna's face down to her drenched white T-shirt. The headlights were pointing right to him from the cold. And the next thing she knew, she felt something hard right between her legs. Though, before she could withdraw herself, Tidus grabbed onto her tightly.

"What are you doing?" she whispered to him. Even though she was a virgin, she still knew what a hard-on was. She wasn't stupid.

Tidus gave her a pleading look. "Please. Just wait until their gone."

Yuna quickly caught it. He didn't want to be seen with his, er… manhood popping out of his shorts than have to deal with Baralai and Gippal for the day.

Even though she was very, very uncomfortable in such a sexual position, she nodded and he gave her a small smile. He really didn't know how exactly embarrassed she had felt this moment. She knew, though, that a lot of girls---especially Dona---would've done anything to be in this position with the world famous, sex symbol Tidus Masshiroi.

"And here I thought that Yunie was a little virgin…" Gippal teased and they all busted into laughter again. All except… Dona.

Yuna averted her eyes, her blush still there. "Guys it's nothing, really." she spoke in a little voice.

Dona wanted to kill. Dona wanted to murder. How dare she do this? How dare she try to take her Tidus? And why was he clutching Yuna like so? Dona knew nothing was going on with them---at least nothing had happened last night---since she had decided to stay with him and chat for a while. But why were they in such an intimate position? Hadn't they been fighting with each other? Or was there something she missed?

"Well, if it's nothing, than why are you still in that same position with him?" Dona spoke, before she could actually control her mouth. Here she was, trying to get Tidus for the last year or so, and here Yuna came in and scored such a high honor in less than two days. It just wasn't fair.

All the laughing stopped, and all turned to look at the heated woman. Rikku was first to speak. "Dona calm down. It's only a joke. I made Yunie do it."

Dona gave Rikku a mean glare. "Why?" she spoke in a strong tone. What she really wanted to say was 'Why did you make her do it instead of me?' But she wasn't about to do something like that in front of all her friends. She was so furious with Rikku now. How many times exactly had she told the blonde that she was helplessly in love with her brother?

"It's not such a big deal, Dona." was the only reply she was given.

And not a second after, she walked out of the room, angriness clearly evident on her face.

"What's her problem?" Baralai asked, as he watched her slam the door to the guest room that was given to her.

Rikku shrugged. "Nothing. She will be fine." she then turned to Tidus and Yuna who was looking at them awkwardly from the same position. "Let's leave these two love birds alone now. Shall we?"

And as the other's started to retreat, Rikku stood by the door frame, gave a wink, and closed the door shut. Leaving the two alone.

As soon as that door was closed, Yuna quickly removed herself from the blonde blitzer, her face still flushed. Tidus kept his head down, embarrassed about his erection. Both just stood there. No words forming in there minds. 'I bet if I was one of those many girls he sleeps around with that he wouldn't feel so odd.' Yuna thought, as she bit her lip in contemplation.

"So…" he began.

"………"

"Sorry about that." he finally looked up.

Yuna shook her head. "Um, don't worry about it." she spoke, as she turned to look him in the eye, however, she found his sight placed at her chest. Her own eyes followed suit and she noticed that her nipples were pointing out through her damp shirt. As a reaction, she quickly placed her arms crossed over her chest. The day just couldn't get any more worse.

He hung his head low again. "Er-… your probably thinking I'm a pervert, sorr---" but before he could even finish, he heard the door slam shut and as he looked up Yuna was no where to be in sight. 'Damnit!' he thought.

His one chance to talk to her and he ruins it by looking at her nipples. He got up and decided to take a shower. He wasn't used to having hard-on's because mostly whenever he did have one, he found it taken care of by some female the next minute or so. But he knew that this particular female wouldn't stoop so low.

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"Okay," said Gippal. "The choice is this. You either have to shag Dona---or else Yuna. Which would you rather do?"

Baralai and Tidus snorted in annoyance. Not that it was so hard of a decision. But they hated when Gippal did these stupid games. It was so childish and boring. Not to mention, really old.

"What if I don't want to talk about this right now?" Tidus spoke, as he opened the fridge door and looked inside for some food. He had only emerged from the shower just minutes ago, and found Baralai and Gippal the only ones in the kitchen.

"Come on dude, you know you want to."

"When are you going to get a life Gippal?" Tidus asked as he reached for milk and a box of cereal. He wasn't in his usual nice mood. Especially from the embarrassment that he suffered with from this morning.

"I'd take Yuna," Baralai spoke, after a moment's thought. "She's not slutty like Dona is and she's a smart and sensible person, not to forget natural beauty."

Gippal ignored him. "Your not Tidus are you? Then don't answer the question." he spoke. "but since you already did, I think I'll put my input in too."

Tidus only watched Gippal was he looked at the girls in the living room watching T.V and chatting along happily---except Dona, who was on the couch reading a book. From time to time looking over at Yuna with a glare---, surrounding Yuna and each giggle they had her face seemed to blush more and more. Immediately, he knew they were talking about him and this morning.

"… both." Gippal concluded. "But then there's all the other woman here and all of them are hot, especially my Rikku." he boasted. "I mean, she's just the best kisser and the way she uses her tongue… wow!"

Tidus, hearing this, dropped his spoon as he thought of Rikku and Gippal making out. "That makes for a very gross image. In case you forgot that I am her brother."

"Step-brother." Gippal corrected.

"No." he responded. "I've known Rikku for practically half of my life now. She's like my real sister."

"Speaking of Rikku," Baralai cut in, trying to change the subject. "wasn't she supposed to make breakfast for us?"

Tidus shrugged his shoulders. "I dunno."

"Hey," Gippal interrupted. "you still didn't answer my question Tidus. Who would you do? And how?"

Tidus raised a brow. "What do you mean 'how'?" he really didn't want to know.

"I mean like oral sex, front, back, things like that." he explained. And both Baralai and Tidus gave him a look of disgust, but he was unfazed. That was how you knew Gippal was normal, when he talked about perverted stuff---mainly sex---he wasn't afraid to admit about his ultimate fantasy. While Baralai hardly ever talked about his sex life with Paine. And Tidus, well, he usually gave detail as well, but those were about girls that just were in his life and out the next day, Yuna was different. "The basics."

"Gippal!" Baralai hissed.

Tidus winced as his mind shrank back like a slug on salt. "You are such a pervert. I would pick Yuna, but I won't explain to you how I'd do her exactly."

"I knew it!" Gippal yelled. "I was right!"

"It was my assumption Gippal, don't give yourself all the credit now." Baralai spoke, both leaving the blitz ace in confusion.

"What exactly are you guys talking about?"

"How much you like Yuna."

"But your really in love with her!" Gippal proclaimed. "If you can't talk about how you would shag a girl then you must really, really like her. And since you don't want to say how you would do Yuna over there, I must be correct."

Tidus snorted, as he put his bowl in the dishwasher. "Please, it's because me and her used to be best friends. Why would I want to go into detail with that. Yuna would take something like making love for the first time very seriously. I know that for a fact."

"Whatever." Gippal spoke. "You just fancy her man. And you know it."

Truth was, he did know it, but he didn't want to tell it to someone as insensitive as Gippal. That would be a huge mistake. Though, he wasn't exactly pleased about seeing her again when he could only think about what she as thinking in her mind. Especially about his hard-on. That was probably what they were talking about back there, but then she had been just as embarrassed with her 'headlights' popping out of her shirt.

"Can I ask you a question Gippal?" Tidus spoke.

The blonde male shrugged. "Go ahead." he answered in a cocky voice.

"What exactly do you feel about Rikku? Do you feel that she's just there for you to shag or do you feel that she has true meaning to you? Since you seem to talk about love. What happens when she moves on? Because I know you, you're like me. If you can talk about Rikku like that, you must not really respect her. Which makes me think, why are you even with her?" Tidus said.

"Talk like how?"

"You know how, Gippal. Don't play dumb."

"Well, I've been with her for a seven months, the longest that I've ever been with anyone else." Gippal answered.

"But do you love her?"

"Yes."

"Then act like it already. That doesn't mean that your pathetic or anything for talking about her with respect." Tidus explained. "Or maybe we should stop this stupid game we all play. Instead of saying that she's a good fuck or something. People get hurt like that."

Both Gippal and Baralai looked at Tidus in awe. "Are you serious? This from the man who started this whole thing about never trusting woman? Give me a break."

"Well, if you think for yourself, maybe you would know I was wrong." Tidus retaliated.

"Stop it." Baralai broke the little argument up. He knew that both his best friends were little hotheads and they both would do anything to get their point across. Hell, once they argued about who was the better blitz player---which everyone knew was Tidus---and they didn't speak for a whole week. But they were always the best of friends. It was just they fought more.

"Fine." Gippal stood up, as he walked to the living room with the girls. Leaving Tidus to watch and think about his own change of mind.

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Note:

Was that chapter sucky? I was thinking about doing something, but I thought; nahhhh, I'll have to do that in the next chapter. Let's just say though, that it deals with Tidus, Yuna, bathing suits and sphere pools, so be prepared!!! Oh and if you were confused about what I meant about 'headlights' I mean er-… hard nipples. I like to call them 'headlights'! LOL. Well, I hope that this update wasn't a disappointment. And those of you waiting for an update on Hollow Existence, it's coming soon! Now give me lots of reviews! And since I'm off punishment, I'll update faster! -blows kiss-

---Remy