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Author's Notes: Sorry this update was a little late. Lightening struck in my backyard and busted my modem but I got it up and working again (stupid dial up!) so it's all good. Anyway, this chapter is what a lot of you have been speculating about since Yuna and Gippal "got busy" a few chapters ago. Rikku told Tidus at the end of the last chapter and now he knows and this chapter is about his reaction to it. The next chapter will begin the next phase of the story but you'll just have to wait for that. Until then, here's chapter 15!
SILVER WINGS 3: Back Into My Arms
by akksgurl
Chapter Fifteen: This May Be Our Last Chance
The bed was cold beside her when Yuna woke early the next morning. The sheets were still turned down and his pillow was dented but Tidus wasn't there. Slipping from the bed and gathering up the clothes that had been thrown haphazardly about the floor, Yuna grabbed a fresh outfit from the dresser. From the window she saw that Besaid was already active with people going to and fro amidst their every day lives.
Her eyes caught his silhouette standing to the side of the temple, staring off into the distance. She smiled and slipped a pair of sandals onto her feet as she made her way out of the crew's quarters.
Rikku's back was the first thing she saw as she entered the bridge. Her cousin was staring out toward Tidus too and as Yuna approached, she turned with a wicked grin upon her face, "Sleep well?"
"Yes…" Yuna replied, wearily, taking a few more steps toward her cousin, "Are we…okay?"
Rikku's eyes stared into Yuna's and she replied with an eerie calm, "I think you should be wondering if you and Tidus are okay."
Yuna's eyes widened and she gasped, "You didn't!"
"I did…"
Yuna's eyes traveled between Tidus' silhouette and Rikku's menacing smile before she took off in a run down the plank and onto the path that led down the center of Besaid. Rikku just couldn't have told Tidus. Her cousin wasn't so malicious. Rikku had to have been making Yuna think she had told him just to scare her.
Right…?
She could almost see the tension in Tidus' back as she approached with a feigned casualness about her. Wakka and Lulu were outside with Vidina. Brother, Buddy, and Gippal were talking to Shinra through the commsphere. Things seemed to be normal.
Except for that tension…
"Oac, ra'c pylg" Buddy said.
Gippal nodded, "Ech'd ed knayd?!"
"Cdibet, Tidus." Brother grumbled, curling his legs beneath him.
Her sandals slapped at her heels as she approached Tidus. The sun was reflecting off of his blonde hair and she would have thought he looked incredibly handsome had it not been for the fact that her stomach was coiling inside of her. Taking the few more steps it took to clear the distance between them, Yuna plastered a smile on her face, "Good morning, handsome." She said as she reached out to touch his shoulder.
Tidus twisted out of her reach before she made contact. He glared at her from over his shoulder and hissed, "Don't touch me."
Yuna felt sure that her stomach was officially in her toes. He knew. He knew everything and she needed to make him understand. Taking a breath, she whispered, "So, I guess you talked to Rikku."
Tidus turned his back to her and stared out into the sky, "You should have told me."
"I was going to…"
He shook his head at nothing in particular, "No you weren't. Don't lie to me."
"You're right," she admitted, "I wasn't going to…at least not yet."
He growled low in his throat and turned to face her suddenly. It was in that instant that she saw the anger and pain that was welling up deep inside of himself, "So when were you going to tell me, Yuna? On our golden anniversary?!"
"Can we please go and talk about this privately?" Yuna begged in a hushed voice. Besaid residents were becoming drawn to the obvious argument that she and Tidus were having and she didn't want to air their problems in public, especially with Gippal just yards away.
"Privately?!" Tidus shrieked, "So now you want to be in private! Privacy was the last thing on your mind yesterday apparently!"
She heard footsteps closing in on them and she felt her heart start to pound in her chest. Yuna took a step to him and he took a step back, "Tidus…please…"
Tidus sneered at her and then motioned behind her, "Here comes loverboy to the rescue." He said sarcastically.
"Hey, you guys okay?" Gippal asked as he stopped a few feet to the side of Yuna, "We heard yelling."
"Yeah," Tidus said, glaring into Yuna's eyes, "We're done here."
He made a move to swerve around her but Yuna was quicker and grabbed his bicep, holding on for dear life. Tears started streaming down her cheeks as she begged, "Please, will you let me explain?!"
He wrenched his arm away from her, "Explain what?! Explain that you and…" he motioned toward Gippal, "…Mr. Wonderful here got busy while I was gone?!"
The Dream Zanarkand group started to make their way towards them now, each with a different look upon their faces. Laguna's was of concern. Squall's and Seifer's were of indifference. Irvine's and Zell's were of interest. Quistis, Selphie, Rinoa, and Ellone's were of sadness. Yuna barely noticed, though, as the tears blinded her to anything but Tidus. She heard Gippal gulp as he backed off, "Um…I'll just be…going now…"
"Is everything okay over here, Tidus?"
Tidus nodded at his uncle, "Yeah, Laguna. Yuna and I were just finishing up."
"Tidus…" she squeaked out.
"There's nothing else to say, Yuna." Tidus murmured sadly, "I trusted you and you broke that trust. First with Shuyin and now with Gippal. Makes me wonder what you were doing with Seymour…"
"That's not fair!" Yuna cried, "I didn't know it wasn't you with Shuyin! And…Seymour?! You think that I….!" her mouth gaped open in shock as she hissed, "You know that isn't possible considering that Macalania was after the Seymour thing."
Tidus shrugged, "I don't know anything anymore."
"You know that I love you."
"Do I?" Tidus asked, "Do I really?! I don't know about that. If you really loved me then you wouldn't have picked the one place that should have reminded you of me to mess around with your cousin's boyfriend!" He stomped his foot like a naughty toddler, "I mean, damn it Yuna! You cheated on me in Zanarkand!! Zanarkand!! Why not just fuck him in Macalania and get it over with?!"
"I didn't cheat on you!"
"Then how do you put it?! Were you honoring my memory by putting your hand down Gippal's pants?!"
Gippal bit his lip and took a step closer, "Listen…I think that I should…"
"Shut the fuck up!" Tidus shrieked, "I don't give a flying fuck what you think! Stay out of this! You've done enough!"
"Don't talk to him like that!" shouted Yuna, suddenly furious for no reason other than the fact that Tidus was furious. She raised her arms akimbo, "We didn't do anything wrong! You were dead! What did you expect me to do?! Did you want me to be a nun?!"
"You could have at least waited until I was cold!" raged Tidus, "I mean, not only wasn't I dead for a week but you screwed with your cousin's boyfriend!"
"He's not her boyfriend!"
"Close enough!"
"Guys! Guys! Calm down, ya!" Wakka cried, trying to calm the fires that threatened to consume the young couple.
Piercing blue and green eyes focused on him as the duo screamed, "Stay out of this Wakka!"
"Don't yell at him!" Tidus screamed at her, waving his arms around maniacally, "He didn't do anything wrong!"
"Neither did I!"
Tidus sneered, "Oh, sorry…here I was thinking cheating was wrong!"
"I didn't cheat on you!" Yuna shrieked, now completely oblivious to the crowd they were forming, "I thought you were dead! We both thought you were dead!"
"And you didn't wait until I was cold in the ground first?!"
Yuna glowered at him, "This isn't about you, Tidus. This has nothing to do with you. You have no right to be angry with me. This is between Rikku, me, and Gippal. You have no right to be angry with me."
"Oh really?! I have no right to be angry with you?" he asked, fury seeping off of every word he uttered. He glared at her and spat, "So I have no right to be angry that my girlfriend turned out to be a slut?!"
Her hand, after seeming to grow a mind of its own, flew up from her side and connected with his face with a deafening smack. Silence followed as Yuna dropped her hand to her side, panic rising up in her chest. She stammered, "I…I…I'm…"
"Save it." Tidus spat back at her, rubbing his cheek with one hand and pointing furiously at her with the other, "I don't want to hear any of your shit. You cheat on me, and they you hit me?!" He scoffed at her, "I don't even want to look at you anymore."
And Yuna watched dejectedly as Tidus stormed away from her.
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AL BHED TRANSLATION
Oac, ra'c pylg: Yes, he's back
Ech'd ed knayd: Isn't it great?!
Cdibet: Stupid