Thanks for all the reviews you guys! The next few chapters aren't as funny as the previous ones, but they're transitions to more important events that will happen soon. :) Please R and R and I hope you enjoy!

10. A Call To Impress

The next morning, Tidus was physically at A-East, but mentally elsewhere. His mind was busy thinking about eighty different things at the same time as he happily walked through the halls to his locker. The thoughts that didn't revolve around blitz revolved about Yuna. Why can't I get my mind off her? He thought as he was bending over to put his books in his locker. Usually it's just 'get some ass, forget about it the next day.' But I can't get this girl out of my head...

"What the hell was wrong with you last night?" Tidus jumped and hit his head on the shelf of his locker when he heard Rikku speak sharply behind him. He cursed loudly at the pain and put his hand on the back of his head. When he turned to look at her, he realized that she had both of her hands on her hips and a very pissed off look on her face.

"Oh, ow...Hey, Rikku," he said as he looked at his hand to make sure the back of his head wasn't bleeding. Not only would the blood be extremely noticeable against his blonde hair, but the chlorine would burn the wound later at practice. Thankfully, there wasn't any blood on his fingers. "What's up?"

"'What's up?'" She repeated, astounded at his ability to be so nonchalant when she was pissed off. "'What's up!' How about the way you've been acting lately? Like, how you've been late for practice the last couple of days, and that is something I've never seen you do. Or how you've been weird around me lately? Like, for example, blowing me off and...hanging up on me! Twice!"

"Hey, I'm sorry, but I had to drive Yuna home last night," he explained as he put his hand against his head again, slightly rubbing the sore spot. "We didn't realize what time it was."

"Um, it's you, Ti," Rikku retorted as her icy glare continued. "When you have to sit down and concentrate on anything besides sex and blitzball, you look at the clock every three seconds. So unless you were playing blitzball with her for some unknown reason or fooling around with her, you would've been completely aware of what time it was."

"Rikku, you underestimate me," he said as he grabbed his history book and shut his locker.

"You can't change, Tidus, if that is what you're trying to do," she snapped as she sighed. "I don't care how much of an impact this girl has on you, but you will never change your ways. Not just because it's you, but just because, generally speaking, you can't change a guy. What you see is what you get. Therefore, you will continue to be the cocky man whore you are for the rest of time."

"I never said that I would change, or that I even want to change," he informed her as they started to walk toward their class. "I just said that you underestimate me."

"Yeah, whatever," Rikku said as she crossed her arms against her chest. "I hate seeing you like this, by the way."

"Like what?" He asked, curious of her response.

"I have never seen you swoon over a girl like you're doing with Yuna, and it makes me physically ill. She's not a cheerleader, she's not ditzy, she's nothing like any girl you've ever fooled around with," Rikku said as Tidus put up his hands to stop her.

"Whoa, who said that I fooled around with Yuna?"

"Come on, Tidus, I'm not stupid," she said as she shot him another glare. "You're charming, you're persuasive, and I know she likes you. However, the question is; did you have sex with her?"

"No, I did not have sex with her," he said.

"Oooh, did she turn you down?" Rikku asked in mock sadness as she batted her eyes and slightly pouted. With a smug chuckle, she looked at her nails. "Or are you used to denying having sex with certain people?"

"Not funny, Rikku," he snapped as she shrugged. "Why the hell has this been coming up lately anyway?"

"You started it."

"That defense only works in six-year-old court," Tidus clarified as she shrugged again.

With a sigh, Rikku put her hand to her forehead. "Since you are so used to dodging this subject, let's get back onto the Yuna one."

"Thank you." To ease the awkward silence, he opened the door to their history class. "Just so we are clear, I stopped her."

"Oh please, like I believe that," she said as they walked into the room. Tidus saw Yuna sitting down already and he wasn't in the mood to argue with Rikku at the moment, so he started to walk over to Yuna to sit by her.

"Okay, this conversation ends now," he said to Rikku as he reached Yuna.

"I can't tolerate this!" Rikku cried as she threw her hands up in the air and sat next to Calli instead. She was positively fuming at the way he was acting, so the words "pay" and "back" popped into her head.

"Morning, beautiful," Tidus greeted Yuna as he sat down next to her. She looked up from her notebook to look at him and smile. "Did ya get into trouble last night?"

"Yeah, I really did," she said as she thought of the argument she had with her parents last night. She basically knew that she was grounded for life, but she would try to get out of it. She told her parents that she was studying with Rikku—instead of Tidus—and then she explained that her and Rikku started to bond, so her parents remotely understood. They were happy that she was making friends, but they weren't happy about how she was three hours late of her curfew for the weekdays. She put down her pen that she started to subconsciously tap again. "But, I just want to get something straight here."

"Okay..." he said as he raised an eyebrow at her.

"I don't want you..." she trailed off as she looked around to make sure no one was listening, then leaned in closer to him and lowered her voice, "spreading what happened last night."

"It's not like we did anything bad," he said to her not matching the volume of her voice. She glared at him to lower his voice, so he leaned in closer to her.

"I know, but still," she whispered as she faced forward. "I am supposed to be teaching you history anyway. This is a strictly professional teacher to student relationship here. If you don't improve in Spiran History, Mr. Rin will not be happy with me, and he'll get you another tutor. Probably a male one."

"I'm aware of that," he said as he watched Mr. Rin walk into the classroom. I've got some tricks up my sleeve that she doesn't know about yet...He thought to himself with a smile.

"Okay, but I don't want people to look at me and be like, 'oh, there's another one that Tidus got to,'" Yuna said as she picked up her pen and started to tap again. Tidus ran his hand through his hair and winced when his fingers brushed the newly formed bump on the back of his head.

"People won't say that." Although he nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders, he was completely aware that people would say that. A-East was full of gossipers, especially when it involved him, but he didn't want Yuna to know that. "But I promise that I won't say anything if you don't want me to."

"Thank you," Yuna said quietly as she watched Mr. Rin go to the front of the classroom. "We're not dating, you know. It was a fluke, and I don't think it should've happened."

"What?" Before Yuna was able to answer him and explain what she just said, Mr. Rin started to talk.

"Okay, class," he began as he put his hands on his desk. "Yesterday you were supposed to read pages 146-162 about Lord Ohalland, so I hope you did.I personally am fond of the things that Lord Ohalland has achieved andI was wondering if there was anything you found interesting as well. So, share with us, people."

Tidus' hand shot up into the air and Yuna looked at him in surprise. He would know more about my bra size than Lord Ohalland after last night, so I don't know what he thinks he's doing...Yuna thought to herself as Mr. Rin looked over at Tidus in surprise.

"Yes, Tidus?"

"Well, Lord Ohalland was a summoner from the temple in Kilika some 800 years ago. The dates of his pilgrimage aren't known, but they say that it was roughly 800 years ago. He destroyed Sin and became High Summoner after his pilgrimage, and now there are statues of him in temples around Spira. Well, maybe not all around Spira. I think in Besaid and Kilika and that's it. I don't remember that part. Oh, and also, Lord Ohalland was a blitzer and trained on the stone steps leading up to Kilika Temple at the peak of his blitz career." There was silence in the room after Tidus was done speaking.

Holy shit...Rikku thought to herself as her jaw dropped. She stopped putting on her lipstick in the middle of his speech, and now she simply held her lipstick in one hand and her mirror in the other as she stared at her friend. She's surprised that she didn't drop her lipstick in shock.

What in the name of Yevon just happened? Yuna thought as her jaw also dropped, mainly because the only thing she taught to him the previous night about Lord Ohalland was that he was a blitzer. He obviously wasn't paying attention to her at the time that she told him that, but he studied after she left.

I told her I would study, and I did...He thought to himself as he proudly smiled. It was the first time in about six years that he actually studied for a class, and he felt quite accomplished. He looked around the room and everyone was silent from amazement. No one said anything, so Tidus thought that he should keep talking to break the silence. "Those, um, are just the parts I thought were interesting. Mainly the blitzball part. Oh, and there was something about how he had three wives at one time. That was cool too."

"Wow, Tidus," Mr. Rin said as he stammered a little bit. "That was...an excellent answer."

"Well, I guess that's what happens when you study," Tidus said with a shrug as Mr. Rin smiled widely at Yuna. Tidus looked over at Yuna and gave her a huge smile. All she could do back was return that smile with an impressed one of her own. Rikku on the other hand, was enraged on the other side of the room. She knew that if things needed to be done, she was going to do them herself.