(A/N: Wow...I've gotten 14 reviews so far...I just checked my e-mail and then, POOF! All of your reviews were there! So...now I'm going to....write....some more....and maybe I'll get more than before and feel energized? -)
Chapter 3: She feels the ache; she feels the absence.
The jolly ensemble of guardians stood outside the Djose temple, waiting for their summoner to erect from her slumber.
Rikku pranced around as the others occupied themselves with staring at the ground.
Their heads perked as the doors abruptly swung open as their flustered summoner stumbled outside with the new teenaged guardian, Tidus, beside her.
"I'm so sorry!" She bowed and apologized repeatedly.
Lu Lu folded her hands as she began, "We tried waking you up...but with all the snoring..."
Yuna's cheeks burned with discomfiture.
The older guardian, a very close friend of Yuna's father, and the man in her diary, Sir Auron, decided to comment, "We'll all wait until Lady Yuna fixes her hair."
Tidus burst into laughter as the others snickered.
Yuna's mouth dropped with astonishment, "Not you too Sir Auron!" she yelped.
After gathering their self-control, they began to stride southward.
She reflected on that moment,
"Another moment to treasure...I'll include that in my diary......"
Yuna froze in her tracks and her eyes broadened.
It rained upon her, like large boulders toppling on a small, fragile rose.
She felt an abrupt streak of fret and hollowness.
Lu Lu approached the pale summoner with concern, "Yuna? Yuna, what's wrong?"
Yuna pressed a hand against her cheek, feeling deathly ill and faintly exclaimed, "My diary, I forgot my diary!"
Rikku could only yield an awkward smile, hoping for her cousin not to suggest—
"Can we go back?" Yuna proposed.
To the thief's distress, the summoner had already.
Lu Lu shook her head in disparity, "We have already wasted enough time during the Shoopuf incident, then came back to the Djose temple to rest, rode the shoopuf again and are inches away from entering Guadosalam."
Tidus stepped in, "Yeah, but she lost her diary."
Rikku didn't want her plan to blemish, so she swiftly pinched the intervener, "Shut up Tidus!"
Auron surpassed Yuna, "There's no time to waste. Let's go."
As Auron trailed into Guadosalam, Kimahri and Lu Lu followed.
Wakka shrugged, but Rikku squeezed Yuna, "It's okay. Maybe it'll just pop up somewhere...." She predicted, trying to take off some anxiety on Yuna's shoulders.
Yuna silently nodded, still troubled.
Her eyes urged to tear as they stung; nevertheless she just bowed her head and strolled onward with the rest of her guardians.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Guadosalam
After the warm welcome from Maester Seymour's messenger, Tromell, he requested that he bring Yuna to congregate with Maester Seymour.
As they wait, Rikku had the sudden urge to "speak" with Lu Lu,
"Wakka's hot for you." the Al bhed girl grinned.
Her statement definitely drew a content conversation,
"I don't have a thing for Wakka." Lu Lu rolled her eyes backward
Rikku giggled as she continued to tease the somber female guardian,
"I never said you did! So that means YOU are hot for HIM!!"
Lu Lu narrowed her eyes, "Teenagers these days...."
That's when Rikku made a huge blunder.
"Mi Mi yht Fyggy ceddehk eh y dnaa, G-e-c-c-e-h-k. Vencd lusac muja dra lusac synneyka, drah lusa dra pypo ehd ar pypo lynneyka!!" She bounced and giggled with glee.
As she bounced more rapidly, the "Gil" bag loosened from its strap and plopped upon the floor, exposing the item concealed within it.
Rikku's eyes widened and she gulped apprehensively.
"Fruubc!" The al bhed girl squealed.
Lu Lu kneaded her eye brows, "What is that?"
Rikku shook her head and scrambled onto the floor picking up the gold coins.
"You took her diary, didn't you?"
Rikku may have been very edgy, yet she never failed to be cunning in the worse of situations, "I took it for her, so she wouldn't forget."
Lu Lu raised a brow, "I don't thi—"
The red doors of the Guado palace swung open.
"Maester Seymour will see that you all merge with Lady Yuna in his palace." Tromell declared, gesturing to go into the palace.
Rikku threw the diary and Gil in the bag, trying it even tighter than before to her belt, she just hoped that Lu Lu wouldn't mention the Diary being in her possesion before she could get to "nagotiate" with her cousin.
Then the six of the guardians entered, abandoning their past thoughts, ready to absorb "matters" that the Maester was to inform them of.
(I feel like leaving it at there....if I have more inspiration later...I'll feed you more.......Don't worry, Rikku's plan will definitely come next chapter, and there the triangle will begin! BTW The Al bhed Rikku is teasing Lu Lu with is: "Wakka and Lu Lu sitting in a tree, K-i-s-s-i-n-g. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage." I based that part on the events between the couple in FFx-2 And Rikku yelps, "Fruubc!" which mean "Whoops!")