The Story of Tidus after Sin
I don't own any of these characters. Squaresoft does.
Author's Notes: Ugh, I am so sorry that I have not updated in forever. I just felt like it was just too much, and so I didn't think of it. Some of the reason was I just didn't feel like it. But I read a fic, and I thought it was just awesome. Simply awesome! It just motivated me to continue mine. So then I restarted this last week, and finished this chapter now. Oh yeah, [ ] is Tidus's thoughts. ~ ~ is others' thoughts.
Chapter 4 "It's Her."
Tidus woke up in the middle of the night. This image terrified him, for he did not know what it was. It just kept popping in his mind over and over again the more he grew accustomed to Spira. He awoke, and took a step out onto the balcony. The night skies seemed to soothe him. He wanted to talk with someone over it, anyone over it. Evidently, the person that he would want talk to would be Halley. He went back to his bed and fell asleep; knowing it would be easier with someone he could talk to.
He woke up, this time with the sun in the air, and, after getting dressed, he called Halley.
"Hello. It's me, Halley..."
"Umm...Halley? I was wondering if..."
"...I'm sorry, but I'm unavailable at the moment. Please leave a message after the beep."
[Damn, she's not home. Oh well, maybe later tonight] "Oh. Hey, Halley. I've got something important to talk to you about. Please meet me at our usual place after the game."
He hung up, and then left for his "first" blitzball tournament.
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Halley got home around noon after taking Casey for some blitzball lessons. Surprisingly, the little squirt did not even display a hint of fatigue.
After Casey ran rampant around the house, Halley finally had enough of it and nicely asked, "Hey, why don't play some blitzball outside?"
"Why?" Casey innocently asked. He then replied to his own question with assurance, "Because Tidus can teach me whatever I need to know." He looked toward the blinking light of the answering machine. "Hey, sis, you got a message. I wonder who could be..." He then rolled his eyes. Halley gave him a stern look, and he went to the floor, dying from laughter.
Infuriated, Halley shouted, "Oh, shut up! It could be anyone. Here I'll show you!"
She pressed a button, and the following message called out:
"Oh. Hey, Halley. I've got something important to talk to you about. Please meet me at our usual place after the game."
Okay, it was Tidus's voice, so he was right, and she was wrong. Casey now started to cry from the pain of all his laughter. She could get really pissed, but what was the point? She sighed, and relaxed on a chair nearby.
Casey suddenly stopped laughing, "Hey, sis, aren't you going to yell at me? Hey, you really like the guy don't you?"
"Well, sort of. But I didn't mean for it to happen. I just..." She started to sob.
"It's okay, sis." He comforted his big sis. "Look. I didn't mean to say that stuff. You know I'm only joking, right? I'm sorry that I was such an idiot. Look, you go by yourself."
"Yeah, I know. But what about you?"
"Don't worry about me. I'll be fine."
It was hard for her to let a nine-year-old kid be by himself. But, he did just say something more mature than usual.
"Okay then, I'll have the neighbors keep an eye on you."
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About an hour later, Halley was in front of a large mirror in her room. A jumble puzzled her mind. ~Oh my gosh! What should I wear? What should I say...Wait a minute, he really didn't say anything about it a date. Just that he needed to say something important. So I gotta come off as casual. Just do things normally. Maybe I shouldn't go to the game. I'll say I had some other things to do, so it doesn't look that I'm coming on to him. Yeah, I won't go. But I'm definitely going to meet him.~
And so she put on what she had worn the first time she met Tidus. A red dress (A/N Sorry, I forgot to add that in my last chapter). That dress gave the best impression that she was keeping it cool.
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[Where is she? I waited for a half an hour after the game.]
Tidus, sitting at their usual booth, had waited for about twenty minutes at their usual place. It was an ice cream shop, nothing too fancy, nothing bad about it. "Kilika's Ice Kream Shop," the sign read. This place was the first place Halley and Casey took him when he arrived in Spira. This was the place where they went after blitzball games to relax. It was just an ordinary hangout where young people chill out.
[When is she going to get here? Maybe she didn't get my message. I should...]
And then she came in. Dressed in the same stunning red dress he met her in, she looked magnificent. [Something seems different about her.]
She walked toward him, and genuinely said, "Hi."
With the same candid tone, Tidus responded, "Hey! Where were you? I didn't see you at the game." He got up and hugged her; "I was so worried about you. Where's Casey?"
"Tidus, I was busy. I'm sorry I worried you. Casey's at home with a babysitter." She paused. "I just had to think. You know how it's like."
"Yeah, I guess. I've been thinking a lot lately. About everything. Spira, blitzball, you and Casey, but mostly about this scary thing that pops in my head. Uh...that's the thing I wanted to talk to you about."
"Oh, okay. I understand. You need someone to talk to. Alright, go ahead." She was a bit disappointed, but more relieved; she knew the reason why she was here.
"Well, I don't know how to start this out. I usually keep these things in my head."
"That's okay; I got all the time in the world."
"Okay. Well, umm...this woman. She seems familiar. Like I know this person or something. I..."
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Meanwhile...
"He's at the ice cream shop," An inhabitant replied.
"Oh, okay. Thanks!"
Rikku ran off to find the others. She had gone to find where Tidus might be. The party of Yuna and her guardians had just arrived about an hour ago. Everyone just wanted to find Tidus, but the group, aware that they would be identified easily if they went together, had asked Rikku to look for Tidus.
So, while heading back to the airship, she was excited to think how Tidus was doing. ~Hmm...I wonder what he's like. Is he the same as the way we remembered him? Did he change? After two years, everyone else has changed, so why wouldn't he have changed? I mean, 'What'll he do when he sees us?' All I know is that I'm giving him a gigantic hug and never going to let him go. He better not leave us again or I'll..~
Her thoughts went numb as she saw the airship and the party sitting outside. ~First thing's first.~
"Hurry, Yuna, he's here! He's at the ice cream shop!"
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*Point of view shift of same scene*
"Okay, then let's go!" Yuna walked toward the town at a brisk pace.
"Wait for us, Yuna!" Wakka voiced. "Gosh, c'mon, everybody, let's hurry up."
Yuna did not care. She just wanted to see her beloved Tidus, hug him, kiss him, embrace him, whatever her mind came up with. Two years, and ten days, was the day he left. For those two years and ten days, she had wondered if she would be without him. No more than those two years and ten days, would they be apart.
She got to the entrance, and hesitated. Should she go find him? Or should he find her? She was not sure, so she waited for the others to catch up.
"Hey, guys. I think we should do this together."
They agreed and entered the ice cream shop together.
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"...So maybe this image means more than what it's there for. There's gotta be some reason why it's there..." She paused, then continued, "I think it's probably Yuna. You two were meant be."
Tidus was sucking his straw in his soda as Halley tried to explain the significance of this image. Most of what he heard was what he had been thinking all along until... [Yuna? Maybe. Everyone says that I love her and she loves me. She saved Spira and I saved her. I sacrificed my life. We belong together. That's what I hear, so it would make sense that she would be the one that's been in my head.]
He took his mouth off of the straw, and sighed, "Well, I don't know..." He looked up towards her, and he saw something behind her. His eyes lit up as he saw his image start to clear up. This frightening, mysterious image turned out to be nothing more than a cute flamboyant blonde girl. [This must be Yuna! All this time I've been freaking out, and it's her. Yuna. Why else would she be in my head? I love her, and she loves me, nothing more to it.]
He focused his eyes on Yuna, got up, and announced, "It's her."
Confused, Halley asked, "Who?"
"It's her. Yuna."
He walked away, toward the entrance, and centered his eyes on the blonde woman. He saw nothing else. [She has to be Yuna. Sure she looks a little different, probably from her clothes, but I have this strong sense of feeling that it's Yuna. Yuna. I love her, and she loves me. I want to show her my love, and nothing, absolutely nothing, is going to separate us any longer.]
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Yuna's eyes wandered around looking for Tidus. She saw a man with blond hair and blue eyes heading towards her. His boyish face, his robust body; that has to be Tidus! He had a determined look, a look that she remembered he had when they were fighting Sin. She waited for him for two years, ten days, and waited for him for another couple of seconds.
Rikku, standing slightly behind the side of Yuna, watching Tidus approach Yuna, waited for the moment the couple would be finally together again. She waited so the ending would be happy after all. She waited that she and everyone else could finally get Tidus back.
When he was at arms' length from Yuna, she opened her arms, and waited to be embraced. She looked at him as he walked by, putting his arms around her cousin, to Rikku's complete surprise, sweeping her off her feet, and passionately placing his lips onto hers.
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AHHHHHHHHHHH! Whoa! What the hell just happened?! How will Yuna react? How will Rikku react? How the hell will everyone react?
Stay Tuned!
Wow, with what just transpired with this chapter, I'm not sure what kind of comments I'm going to get.
Word choice is a little off. It has been a while and this still is my first fiction.
Oh, by the way, I'm really a big fan of tikkus! I was originally going to make this a tikku, but seeing that the site has so many tikkus than before, I'm not sure right now! By the way, the fic that helped me continue this was by Chrysoprase - A Year Gone by. After reading that, I was just simply amazed. Amazed to the point where I wanted to continue mine. All these tikkus out now; they're all great! I think the first tikku writer that was here, Demon Eyes with EverLong, helped to start some of the tikkus we see now. Thank you, Demon Eyes!
So, as of now, I have some idea on how to write the next chapter, but that might totally change due to a possible change in how the story will end. Depends on what will influence me into writing which way.
And with football done (part of the reason I wasn't doing this), I hope to get this done faster than this current pace. Plus, when you're hitting in smash mouth football, it's kind of hard to get into one of those romance moods! Hehe...okay I'll stop rambling.
And, for now, just an idea for another fic, an AU tikku with the plot from the movie, "There's Something about Mary." That's my favorite movie. It's funny, yet cute. The fic would be named "There's Something about Rikku." That would be great! That would be hilarious!
Read and Review!
I don't own any of these characters. Squaresoft does.
Author's Notes: Ugh, I am so sorry that I have not updated in forever. I just felt like it was just too much, and so I didn't think of it. Some of the reason was I just didn't feel like it. But I read a fic, and I thought it was just awesome. Simply awesome! It just motivated me to continue mine. So then I restarted this last week, and finished this chapter now. Oh yeah, [ ] is Tidus's thoughts. ~ ~ is others' thoughts.
Chapter 4 "It's Her."
Tidus woke up in the middle of the night. This image terrified him, for he did not know what it was. It just kept popping in his mind over and over again the more he grew accustomed to Spira. He awoke, and took a step out onto the balcony. The night skies seemed to soothe him. He wanted to talk with someone over it, anyone over it. Evidently, the person that he would want talk to would be Halley. He went back to his bed and fell asleep; knowing it would be easier with someone he could talk to.
He woke up, this time with the sun in the air, and, after getting dressed, he called Halley.
"Hello. It's me, Halley..."
"Umm...Halley? I was wondering if..."
"...I'm sorry, but I'm unavailable at the moment. Please leave a message after the beep."
[Damn, she's not home. Oh well, maybe later tonight] "Oh. Hey, Halley. I've got something important to talk to you about. Please meet me at our usual place after the game."
He hung up, and then left for his "first" blitzball tournament.
_______________________________________________
Halley got home around noon after taking Casey for some blitzball lessons. Surprisingly, the little squirt did not even display a hint of fatigue.
After Casey ran rampant around the house, Halley finally had enough of it and nicely asked, "Hey, why don't play some blitzball outside?"
"Why?" Casey innocently asked. He then replied to his own question with assurance, "Because Tidus can teach me whatever I need to know." He looked toward the blinking light of the answering machine. "Hey, sis, you got a message. I wonder who could be..." He then rolled his eyes. Halley gave him a stern look, and he went to the floor, dying from laughter.
Infuriated, Halley shouted, "Oh, shut up! It could be anyone. Here I'll show you!"
She pressed a button, and the following message called out:
"Oh. Hey, Halley. I've got something important to talk to you about. Please meet me at our usual place after the game."
Okay, it was Tidus's voice, so he was right, and she was wrong. Casey now started to cry from the pain of all his laughter. She could get really pissed, but what was the point? She sighed, and relaxed on a chair nearby.
Casey suddenly stopped laughing, "Hey, sis, aren't you going to yell at me? Hey, you really like the guy don't you?"
"Well, sort of. But I didn't mean for it to happen. I just..." She started to sob.
"It's okay, sis." He comforted his big sis. "Look. I didn't mean to say that stuff. You know I'm only joking, right? I'm sorry that I was such an idiot. Look, you go by yourself."
"Yeah, I know. But what about you?"
"Don't worry about me. I'll be fine."
It was hard for her to let a nine-year-old kid be by himself. But, he did just say something more mature than usual.
"Okay then, I'll have the neighbors keep an eye on you."
____________________________________________________________
About an hour later, Halley was in front of a large mirror in her room. A jumble puzzled her mind. ~Oh my gosh! What should I wear? What should I say...Wait a minute, he really didn't say anything about it a date. Just that he needed to say something important. So I gotta come off as casual. Just do things normally. Maybe I shouldn't go to the game. I'll say I had some other things to do, so it doesn't look that I'm coming on to him. Yeah, I won't go. But I'm definitely going to meet him.~
And so she put on what she had worn the first time she met Tidus. A red dress (A/N Sorry, I forgot to add that in my last chapter). That dress gave the best impression that she was keeping it cool.
_______________________________________________________________
[Where is she? I waited for a half an hour after the game.]
Tidus, sitting at their usual booth, had waited for about twenty minutes at their usual place. It was an ice cream shop, nothing too fancy, nothing bad about it. "Kilika's Ice Kream Shop," the sign read. This place was the first place Halley and Casey took him when he arrived in Spira. This was the place where they went after blitzball games to relax. It was just an ordinary hangout where young people chill out.
[When is she going to get here? Maybe she didn't get my message. I should...]
And then she came in. Dressed in the same stunning red dress he met her in, she looked magnificent. [Something seems different about her.]
She walked toward him, and genuinely said, "Hi."
With the same candid tone, Tidus responded, "Hey! Where were you? I didn't see you at the game." He got up and hugged her; "I was so worried about you. Where's Casey?"
"Tidus, I was busy. I'm sorry I worried you. Casey's at home with a babysitter." She paused. "I just had to think. You know how it's like."
"Yeah, I guess. I've been thinking a lot lately. About everything. Spira, blitzball, you and Casey, but mostly about this scary thing that pops in my head. Uh...that's the thing I wanted to talk to you about."
"Oh, okay. I understand. You need someone to talk to. Alright, go ahead." She was a bit disappointed, but more relieved; she knew the reason why she was here.
"Well, I don't know how to start this out. I usually keep these things in my head."
"That's okay; I got all the time in the world."
"Okay. Well, umm...this woman. She seems familiar. Like I know this person or something. I..."
_______________________________________________
Meanwhile...
"He's at the ice cream shop," An inhabitant replied.
"Oh, okay. Thanks!"
Rikku ran off to find the others. She had gone to find where Tidus might be. The party of Yuna and her guardians had just arrived about an hour ago. Everyone just wanted to find Tidus, but the group, aware that they would be identified easily if they went together, had asked Rikku to look for Tidus.
So, while heading back to the airship, she was excited to think how Tidus was doing. ~Hmm...I wonder what he's like. Is he the same as the way we remembered him? Did he change? After two years, everyone else has changed, so why wouldn't he have changed? I mean, 'What'll he do when he sees us?' All I know is that I'm giving him a gigantic hug and never going to let him go. He better not leave us again or I'll..~
Her thoughts went numb as she saw the airship and the party sitting outside. ~First thing's first.~
"Hurry, Yuna, he's here! He's at the ice cream shop!"
_________________________________________________
*Point of view shift of same scene*
"Okay, then let's go!" Yuna walked toward the town at a brisk pace.
"Wait for us, Yuna!" Wakka voiced. "Gosh, c'mon, everybody, let's hurry up."
Yuna did not care. She just wanted to see her beloved Tidus, hug him, kiss him, embrace him, whatever her mind came up with. Two years, and ten days, was the day he left. For those two years and ten days, she had wondered if she would be without him. No more than those two years and ten days, would they be apart.
She got to the entrance, and hesitated. Should she go find him? Or should he find her? She was not sure, so she waited for the others to catch up.
"Hey, guys. I think we should do this together."
They agreed and entered the ice cream shop together.
________________________________________________
"...So maybe this image means more than what it's there for. There's gotta be some reason why it's there..." She paused, then continued, "I think it's probably Yuna. You two were meant be."
Tidus was sucking his straw in his soda as Halley tried to explain the significance of this image. Most of what he heard was what he had been thinking all along until... [Yuna? Maybe. Everyone says that I love her and she loves me. She saved Spira and I saved her. I sacrificed my life. We belong together. That's what I hear, so it would make sense that she would be the one that's been in my head.]
He took his mouth off of the straw, and sighed, "Well, I don't know..." He looked up towards her, and he saw something behind her. His eyes lit up as he saw his image start to clear up. This frightening, mysterious image turned out to be nothing more than a cute flamboyant blonde girl. [This must be Yuna! All this time I've been freaking out, and it's her. Yuna. Why else would she be in my head? I love her, and she loves me, nothing more to it.]
He focused his eyes on Yuna, got up, and announced, "It's her."
Confused, Halley asked, "Who?"
"It's her. Yuna."
He walked away, toward the entrance, and centered his eyes on the blonde woman. He saw nothing else. [She has to be Yuna. Sure she looks a little different, probably from her clothes, but I have this strong sense of feeling that it's Yuna. Yuna. I love her, and she loves me. I want to show her my love, and nothing, absolutely nothing, is going to separate us any longer.]
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Yuna's eyes wandered around looking for Tidus. She saw a man with blond hair and blue eyes heading towards her. His boyish face, his robust body; that has to be Tidus! He had a determined look, a look that she remembered he had when they were fighting Sin. She waited for him for two years, ten days, and waited for him for another couple of seconds.
Rikku, standing slightly behind the side of Yuna, watching Tidus approach Yuna, waited for the moment the couple would be finally together again. She waited so the ending would be happy after all. She waited that she and everyone else could finally get Tidus back.
When he was at arms' length from Yuna, she opened her arms, and waited to be embraced. She looked at him as he walked by, putting his arms around her cousin, to Rikku's complete surprise, sweeping her off her feet, and passionately placing his lips onto hers.
___________________________________________________________
AHHHHHHHHHHH! Whoa! What the hell just happened?! How will Yuna react? How will Rikku react? How the hell will everyone react?
Stay Tuned!
Wow, with what just transpired with this chapter, I'm not sure what kind of comments I'm going to get.
Word choice is a little off. It has been a while and this still is my first fiction.
Oh, by the way, I'm really a big fan of tikkus! I was originally going to make this a tikku, but seeing that the site has so many tikkus than before, I'm not sure right now! By the way, the fic that helped me continue this was by Chrysoprase - A Year Gone by. After reading that, I was just simply amazed. Amazed to the point where I wanted to continue mine. All these tikkus out now; they're all great! I think the first tikku writer that was here, Demon Eyes with EverLong, helped to start some of the tikkus we see now. Thank you, Demon Eyes!
So, as of now, I have some idea on how to write the next chapter, but that might totally change due to a possible change in how the story will end. Depends on what will influence me into writing which way.
And with football done (part of the reason I wasn't doing this), I hope to get this done faster than this current pace. Plus, when you're hitting in smash mouth football, it's kind of hard to get into one of those romance moods! Hehe...okay I'll stop rambling.
And, for now, just an idea for another fic, an AU tikku with the plot from the movie, "There's Something about Mary." That's my favorite movie. It's funny, yet cute. The fic would be named "There's Something about Rikku." That would be great! That would be hilarious!
Read and Review!