Saturday Morning and Tidus angrily stared at his computer screen, where a blank Microsoft Word document stared back at him. How was he supposed to spend the weekend doing a six-hundred word essay report? He sucked at writing composition, and usually skipped out on the reports most of the time (meaning he got C's mostly on his report card).

Auron had insisted on making sure Tidus did all his homework and actually got higher than a B- for once, came in to check on him every ten minutes. Tidus found that annoying.

Especially annoying was Rikku, who was blabbering and giggling at the top of her lungs on the phone in the next room. Tidus groggily typed in the most probable first word: The.

Only 599 more words to go, he thought gloomily. He stared out the window where the last of the October sunlight filtered in through the thick layer of clouds. (A/N: 's so freaking burning hot while I'm writing this! Summer is too hot!!!!!) Tidus opened an internet search window and started researching pollution...ugh...how boring...

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Instant Message Window

BlackmageX2: Hilo

Summoner7: Hi

BlackmageX2: Wazzup?

Summoner7: Nothing...O.o

BlackmageX2: Whatcha thinking bouts then?

Summoner7: uh

Summoner7: not much, really

BlackmageX2: Seymour????!!!! snicker

Summoner7: Lulu!!!!! :O

BlackmageX2: haha :-P

Summoner7: yeah, what about your boyfriend wakka???

BlackmageX2: teehee Yuna and Seymour sitting in a tree...k-i-s-s-i-n-g!

Summoner7: will you PLEASE shut up?!

BlackmageX2: haha

Summoner7: ugh...I'm not talking to you anymore lulu

Yuna closed the window on her screen and signed off AIM. Ever since the dance, Lulu had been teasing her about Seymour when she really didn't like him. He just asked her to dance that's all, she told herself. No biggie...

"Hey, Kimahri," Yuna clapped and opened her arms to her dog, which had just strolled into the room and laid down with its head on its paws and its big watery eyes looking at her piteously.

Kimahri hopped into Yuna's arms. For a dog, he sure is good at making you feel sorry for him, she thought. Every single time he wanted her to hold him he laid down, put his muzzle on his paws, wagged his tail slowly, and looked up at her sadly with his large eyes. No one could resist that puppy dog look, especially not nice, kind Yuna.

Yuna petted his blackish-blue fur. It was strange, but there seemed to be nothing wrong with him, so the family just concluded that it was a simple genetic disease and kept him all this time. He slapped his tail against her legs.

"Aw, you smart boy," she cooed, "Are you hungry?"

He looked up at her happily and barked.

"Okay," she said, putting him down and strolling to the kitchen, and he followed her. It was pretty strange that he never got overweight with all the snacks—along with meals—she fed him. Nice strong puppy he was.

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Sunday afternoon, Yuna picked up the ringing phone. "Hello?"

"Hi, is this Yuna?" Wakka's voice said from the other side of the line.

"Wakka?"

"Ya, it's me. Anyways Lulu invited us all to a little get-together at her house cause she says she's bored, so can you go?"

"Yeah. Who else is coming?" Yuna just asked. She didn't know why; instinct, probably.

"Oh—ya—Me, you, Lu, and Tidus. She wanted Rikku to come also, but she's busy,"

"That cousin of Tidus's?"

"Ya, and by the way feel welcome to bring that dog of yours says Lu," he added.

"Okay. When is it?"

"Now is fine, ya?"

"Okay. Thank you Wakka-kun!"

"No problem ya?"

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Tidus grouchily walked over to Lulu's. He had never been there, but according to Wakka it was just down the street from his, right across from Yuna's. They all lived pretty close to school, on Besaid Lane, unlike Tidus, who lived in a small manor all the way down Zanarkand Avenue (A/N: Hey, I love my street names! Aren't I so creative? bows)

Lulu's house was pretty easy to find, (8008 Besaid Lane), and after ringing the doorbell and going in, kicking off his shoes, he sat down on the couch where Wakka and Lulu were playing video games. (A/N: I would make them play FFX, but that wouldn't make sense, would it?)

Yuna came back from the kitchen with a glass of grape juice. "Hey, who won?" she asked casually, sitting down on the same couch as Tidus. Tidus's heart skipped a beat. His ears went red again. (A/N: so now its all couplings on the two couches. Wakka with Lulu and Tidus with Yuna, and Kimahri on the ground.)

"Hey, I won again," said Lulu happily. Yuna stood up. "Why don't we play Lord of the Rings?" she asked happily, holding up the game cover.

"Why not," said Lulu, taking it and putting it inside the playstation. We could play with four people. I have four controllers anyway,"

She plugged them in, took one, and threw one to everyone else.

"Hey, how come you get to be player one, Lu?" complained Wakka. He lunged for her controller.

"God, I own it, and GET OFF!" Lulu held her controller out of his reach and pushed his head away.

"Hey, you messed up my hair," he said reproachfully.

Yuna whipered to Tidus, "Watch them flirt," she giggled.

"Hey!" said Lulu and Wakka at the same time. Yuna laughed. "Well you are," she argued. "Let's get started."

They all picked their characters and started playing. Gandalf whacked Legolas with his staff.

"Hey," said Lulu, making Legolas whack Gandalf back.

"You started it," said Wakka, making Gandalf whack Legolas.

Yuna and Tidus watched and laughed. The orcs came, and while Gimli (Tidus) and Aragorn (Yuna) were busy holding them off, Gandalf (Wakka) and Legolas (Lulu) were still busy whacking each other. Tidus sighed as his character died again, and then came back. This was hard, he thought. Lulu and Wakka were still attacking each other.

By the time they finished off the orcs the mumakils had come, and the huge elephant-mammoth things were trampling all over the place and the people on top were shooting arrows furiously. Tidus yelled, "No fair!" as the mumakil stepped on Gimli, killing his last life. Yuna laughed.

Finally they died without even passing the level, and Wakka and Lulu were still whacking each other till the very end.

"Yup," Tidus agreed to himself, "they do flirt."

He looked over at Yuna who was busy telling Wakka and Lulu to stop. "What?" she said, looking at him squarely.

"Nothing," he replied.

They smiled at each other.

The phone rang, and Lulu thonked Wakka on the head before getting up to pick it up.

She listened for a moment, and then said, "Yuna, it's for you."

"Huh? Okay," she said, walking over and taking the phone. "What?" she asked. Tidus listened. Yuna mouthed something and then said, "Seymour?!"

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Sorry, I just had to put Lord of the Rings in and I will put Pirates of the Caribbean in later (sorry, I just love those movies and it's NOT for an actor but for the movie itself) and to let you know, next chapter Kimahri will bite tidus on the butt. LOL. Review!