Hey! It's me Famfrit (again)! In this chapter of Amour et Haine, you will see a new side of the story (not TYRP) and learn important information. I won't give away anything else, for now at least. Also, I do not own Square Enix or Final Fantasy X-2. Sit back and enjoy!

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"How you guys doing?" Wakka said as he opened the flaps of Leblanc and Nooj's honeymoon hut. It was a beautiful day in Besaid, and the sun was shining. Children played Blitzball on the sand and the Aurochs practiced for the upcoming season. "Oops, sorry to intrude."

"It's fine," Nooj said with a smile, getting out of bed. Leblanc was still dead asleep from the party that the couple had thrown the night before. "Don't wake Leblanc, though. She's not the friendliest of people when she gets woken up."

"I'll keep that in mind, ya?" Wakka said a grin. "Anyways, just checking up on you, meyvn. Lu said that she wanted to make you guys lunch today."

"That sounds good," Nooj said. "Thanks, Wakka."

Wakka smiled and departed, heading back to the village. It sure was weird having someone as important as the meyvn of the Youth League, and the wealthy mistress of a sphere-hunting syndicate on the island in a humble hut such as the one they had. But if it was fine with them, it was fine with him. It was their honeymoon, after all.

Wakka ran down the pathway, hopping over the bridges and running under the ruins. He ended up at the shrine at the top of the hill, where he sat for a moment to catch his breath. Then he headed back down to the village to meet back up with Lulu.

"What's happening, Lu?" Wakka asked. Lulu smiled, and pointed to the snoozing form of Vidina in his crib. Wakka smiled.

"It's tough being a parent, ya?" Wakka said with a laugh and scratching the back of his head.

"It's not as tough as I expected," Lulu said, seeming to glide over to Wakka. Wakka was always surprised when she did that.

"My parents... They were kind, and caring," Lulu said, gently stroking Wakka's hair. He blushed.

"Ah, Lu," he protested, but she kissed him anyways. Vidina awoke and began to cry. Lulu turned over to the crying infant, picked him up tenderly in her arms, and slowly rocked him back and forth. Soon he was calm, and he looked straight at Wakka.

"Hey, Vidina," Wakka said with a smile. Vidina grinned and giggled. Lulu smiled.

"See, it's not that hard, is it?" she asked. Wakka smiled a bit, and then turned back to his wife. It was that exact moment that he heard the scream.

"A fiend! A fiend on the beach!" shouted the frenzied girl, who collapsed in the square heaving and panting. "It attacked the children!"

Wakka ran out and helped the woman to her feet. Lulu ran out soon after. "What happened?" Wakka asked concernedly.

"A fiend... It came out of the water, and started attacking the children!" the woman cried. "The children!"

"The Aurochs should hold it off for a while," Wakka said. "Lulu, do you feel up to the task of fighting?"

Lulu nodded, and placed Vidina back in his crib where he giggled a bit before falling back asleep. "Let's go," she said, and the couple rushed off to the beach.

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"Children, get away!" shouted Nooj as the fiend leapt from the water, bellowing and screeching. The children dispersed in all directions, some hiding in palm trees and others merely backing up to the rock walls. "Leblanc!"

Leblanc hurried out of the hut, dressed in her familiar magenta dress that exposed much of her slim figure. "Let's fight it, Nooj. I'm sure Wakka and Lulu are coming."

Nooj nodded. The creature was massive, and it resembled a huge slug with thick layers of twisted peach coral for a shell. It was approaching at an alarming rate, and the Aurochs were currently attempting to bludgeon it with Blitzballs. It was not amused.

"Hey!" Leblanc shouted, directing the slug's attention from the children and the Aurochs to her. "Why don't you pick on some people your own size?"

The slug groaned and approached the couple, ending up in a fighting stance. "Let's go," said Nooj and the battle began.

Nooj took out a machina machine gun and began to pummel the creature with bullets. It cried out, zooming forward and whacking him with an angry mouth. Leblanc turned to it, chanting incantations under her breath.

"Blizzaga!" she cried as a diamond of ice appeared in a gust of icy wind and froze the creature in place. The diamond immediately shattered into a million pieces, leaving a chilled and damaged slug in its wake.

The creature began to glow as it charged up a spell. Nooj once again fired his pistol at the creature's gluttonous body, and Leblanc began to cast Firaga. A pillar of white-hot flame shot from the sand, scorching the creature. It finally unleashed its attack, however.

The creature propelled itself into the air, and landed with a seismic force. Both Nooj and Leblanc fell to the ground, weak but not out. Nooj got up, and then helped his wife up. The two stared down the slug creature, which was now preparing another attack.

"Not in your lifetime," Nooj said as he fired a super-charged heat bullet which dug into the creature's flesh with a scorch. Leblanc chanted again, unleashing a vicious Waterga attack which surrounded the creature in a sphere of water which rushed in and forcefully ebbed back.

The creature then rushed up to Leblanc, arching up its ugly head and sending it down at full force. Leblanc was crushed by the attack; however she still got with an angry scream. "How dare you attack the mighty Leblanc!" she said, outraged, before casting a holy Curaga spell on both Nooj and herself.

"Leblanc! Nooj!" Wakka shouted as she ran down, Lulu close behind. "Oh my... This thing is ugly, ya?"

"It's a Coral Dweller," Lulu said. "They make their homes in coral reefs and live under the water for thousands of years. However, a certain disturbance can wake them up, causing them to attack the shoreline and whatever is currently moving on it."

"How do you know all this?" Wakka asked, perplexed. Lulu just shook her head.

"Trust me," she said, placing a hand on her husband's shoulder. "Flare!"

A super-condensed flame of white-hot energy spiraled up from the sand, scorching the creature badly. It roared as it charged at her, whacking her in the side and knocking her to the ground. She quickly got up, glaring hatefully at the creature.

"Don't you dare touch Lu!" Wakka shouted as he fired a Blitzball that Jassu had hastily handed him. It bounced back into his hand as he stared down the creature, which reared on him and gave him a quick whack.

"Thanks," Nooj said with a respective nod, before shooting another round of heated bullets into the creature's flesh. It roared, but did not counter the blow. Leblanc smiled as she unleashed a sonic blast of wind with her metal fan, stunning the creature temporarily.

"All-out attack!" Wakka shouted and threw his Blitzball. Lulu snapped as she cast another Flare spell, and Nooj fired another quick round of hasty, multiple shots. Leblanc finished it off by attacking with another sonic blast from her fan.

The creature roared, then slumped and exploded in a cloud of pyreflies. Wakka hugged a smirking Lulu, and Nooj and Leblanc kissed. "Go back where you came from, ya?" Wakka shouted as the children cheered and the Aurochs whooped.

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"So did you ever make up with your girlfriend?" asked a giggling Rikku to Shinra. Shinra merely growled beneath his mask, tapping on the buttons of the research screen with annoyance.

"Did you ever meet up with Gippal and tell him how you feel?" Shinra said. Rikku immediately shut up. Tidus laughed, and Yuna smiled.

"You find anything, Buddy?" Paine asked, looking at the open sky ahead of the Celsius. Buddy turned and looked at her.

"Nope, not at the moment," the Al Bhed said, turning back to the screen. "I suggest you guys relax for a while."

Rikku decided to amuse herself by turning into a Songstress and dancing down in the engine room. Yuna and Tidus decided to take a nap, and Paine decided to take a shower. Brother took a break by going to have a drink with Barkeep, and Shinra decided it was time to make up with Calli.

"I'm sorry for what occurred earlier," Shinra said, looking at the ground in front of Calli.

"It's okay," Calli said. "I didn't mean to do that."

"No, it's just that... There's a reason why I can't take off my mask," Shinra said. Calli looked at him.

"What?" she asked, ruffling the feathers of the Chocobo near her, who nuzzled her palm.

"I can't really tell you," Shinra said, looking down. Calli nodded.

"I understand," she said softly, then turned to the Chocobo. Shinra sulked back to his chair in the deck, making sure that he was busying himself with research.

Paine got out of the shower, dressing into her normal Warrior's garments and then slowly walked to the deck, sitting down near a still sulking Shinra.

"What's wrong?" she asked in her usual unworried tone. Shinra turned to her.

"Nothing," he fibbed. Paine stared at him with a bored look on her face.

"Yeah right," she said, looking at Shinra. "I know something's got you down. Why aren't you as cheerful as you always are?"

"Calli," was all Shinra said. "She likes me but... I can't take off my mask." Paine opened her mouth to speak, but Shinra cut her off. "Don't ask why I can't," he declared.

"That's not what I was going to say," Paine said. "I understand how you feel. You have secrets, but you just don't want to tell anyone, right?"

Shinra nodded. "I never have told anyone, except for my parents..." he said slowly. Paine turned to him, gazing into his mask intently.

"Your parents?" Paine asked. "You've never said anything about your parents."

"My parents died in the Guado infiltration of Home," Shinra said flatly. "They died trying to defend it."

"That's odd," Paine commented. "You don't seem the type who'd hold a grudge, even against the Guado."

"That's because I don't," Shinra said, and left it at that. Paine smiled.

"Whatever it is, I'm sure you'll work it out," she said, patted the young Al Bhed boy on the back, and then sat up and gazed out into the open sky.

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"WAKE UP!" Rikku shouted as she jumped up and down in front of her cousin's bed. "Buddy found some information!"

"What?" Yuna said groggily as she awoke, and Tidus yawned.

"We've found some info!" Rikku said again, turning to Tidus. "Hurry up, you slacker!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming," Tidus said with a grin as he got up. Yuna followed soon after, and the trio jumped off the ledge on the upper level and ran into the elevator. Shinra was running frantically around the deck, and Brother was steering perfectly. Buddy looked over at TYRP.

"We had reports of a sphere-related fiend in Besaid," he said grimly. Yuna gasped.

"Is Vidina all right? What about Wakka, and Lulu?" she asked. "And Nooj and Leblanc?"

"They're fine," Buddy said with a chuckle. "In fact, they're inviting you to spend the night on the island. They said that they found some kind of sphere from a fiend that attacked earlier today. Some kind of slug, if I'm not mistaken."

"A slug? Glad we didn't have to fight it," Rikku said. Yuna laughed.

"Let's go, then," Yuna said, and Paine and the others nodded.

"It'll be my first time back in Besaid, since Sin was defeated," Tidus said. Yuna turned and looked at him.

"You're right," she said with a smile, then turned back to the open sky. "TYRP, let's go!"

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It was a cool, breezy night on Besaid Island. The villagers were holding a huge bonfire in honor of the children's saviors earlier during the day on the beach. Leblanc had attempted to dress like a villager, which ended up hilariously wrong. She didn't mind too much, surprisingly enough.

The fire grew higher and higher as the Celsius passed overhead, releasing TYRP as well as Shinra, Buddy, and Brother. Lulu and Wakka greeted Yuna with a smile.

"Hey, what's happening, Yuna?" Wakka asked. Yuna smiled.

"Nothing much, Wakka," she replied. Tidus turned to look at his friend.

"Hey Wakka!" he shouted, and the two friends began to talk. Yuna smiled a bit, and then turned to face Rikku and Paine.

Lulu and Leblanc were talking about the recent activities on the island, and Nooj stood aloof from the crowd, staring in the sky. Yuna walked up to him with a smile. "Hey, meyvn," she called out. Nooj turned around.

"Why hello Yuna," he said rather quickly, not sounding very enthusiastic. "It's good to see you."

"Nice to see you too," Yuna replied as Paine approached the two. Paine glanced quickly over at a cheery Leblanc before turning to Nooj.

"You happy?" she asked quite casually. Yuna looked at her, cocking her head slightly. Nooj stared deep into Paine's eyes.

"Yes," he said. "If Leblanc is happy, so am I." Paine nodded at this comment.

"What's Gippal and Baralai doing nowadays?" Paine asked. At the mention of Gippal, Rikku ran over to join in the conversation.

"Gippal and Nhadala are attempting to have a thorough scan of Bikanel. They said something about Cactuars and Marnela," Nooj said. "Baralai is currently conducting a sphere search in the Bevelle Labyrinth. Says that he scanned the place early on and expects to find some spheres about Vegnagun, or its creators."

"Oh," said Rikku and Paine in unison. Yuna looked at them both for a moment, and then turned back to Nooj.

"Tell me more about the fiend," Yuna said. "Buddy said it was some kind of slug."

"Yes, Lulu told us that it was a Coral Dweller, some sort of coral reef parasite that awakes by certain disturbances, in our case a sphere. It must've swallowed it, and somehow disturbed the sphere enough to get it to send off waves. We quickly dispatched it, though," Nooj said.

"Where's the sphere?" Yuna asked. Nooj merely pointed over to Wakka. Yuna nodded, and YRP walked over to the retired Blitzball captain.

"Wakka, where's the sphere?" Rikku asked, arms akimbo. She gave him an excited look.

"It's in the hut," he said, pointing over to the house, and then resumed talking about the previous Blitzball season.

Yuna nodded, and entered. It was easy to see the sphere glittering in the scant light. She picked it up and began to view it.

Yuna was not surprised to see the Besaid beach. She saw two people standing with a little girl upon the shore, collecting seashells. The mother had short black hair and wore a normal villager's garments. The man was wearing a vest and pants, which was common among male villagers.

"Mommy, this is fun!" said the little girl, and immediately Yuna recognized the two people as the girl's parents.

Her parents only smiled and laughed a bit, and resumed collecting them. Suddenly a Blitzball flew from out of nowhere and hit the little girl in the head. She fell to the ground and began to cry.

"Sorry, ya!" cried an awfully familiar voice, however it was much younger. A young, redheaded villager ran onto the scene, followed by a very similar looking redheaded villager. However, one had a familiar look to him.

"Wakka?" Yuna asked aloud, knowing the first young boy had to have been her former guardian. That would make the other one... "Chappu?"

The little black-haired girl took Chappu's hand as he helped her up. "Thank you, Chappu," the little girl said with a smile. Suddenly Yuna realized who the little girl was, and who her parents were. The little girl was Lulu, and the two people were her parents.

"Anytime, Lu," Chappu said, and Wakka just scratched his head.

"Sorry again, ya," Wakka said to Lulu. She seemed to ignore him.

"Want to see the new Moogle doll I got?" Lulu asked Chappu. Chappu smiled and nodded, and Wakka stormed off to the other side of the beach, bouncing the Blitzball on his head. The sphere ended there.

"Wow..." Yuna said. "I never envisioned Lulu being so coldhearted to Wakka."

"Things change," said Lulu's voice as she entered the hut. Yuna looked up. "Chappu was always my favorite. When my parents died, he took me into his house for a while before I went to be raised in the temple."

"What ever happened?" Yuna asked. Lulu gazed deeply into the former summoner's eyes.

"Well, for one thing Chappu died. The other was when Wakka saved my life."