17. Complicating The Web Of Lies

Yuna woke up the next morning with a splitting headache. She put her hand on her head as she looked around, blinking her eyes to adjust to the bright sunlit room. She sat up straight as she realized that she didn't know where she was. She let out a yelp when she saw that she was only in a tee-shirt, bra, and underwear...and Tidus was sleeping next to her. He was covered up by the sheets, so she couldn't tell if he was completely naked, or just naked from the waist up...and she wasn't about ready to check. Oh Yevon...She saw Tidus' pants and shirt with a red substance on them and instantly thought it was blood. My blood? She leaned over and shook Tidus awake.

"Wha...?" He said sleepily as he saw Yuna above him. He yawned and looked over at the clock. "Yuna, it's 7:30 on a Saturday morning. I don't want to wake up until at least noon."

"What happened last night?" Yuna asked hastily as she put her hand back on her head, which was now throbbing. "Oooh...my head..."

"Yeah, you did drink a lot last night," He said as he put one hand under his pillow, wrapped his other hand in the blankets and closed his eyes again. "But you're not throwing up, so consider yourself lucky."

"It's not cool that I feel like the Machina War is being replayed in my head." She noticed that he was trying to go back to sleep so she shook him again. "Hey! I'm not done with you yet!"

"Yeah, you said that last night as well," he said with a smile without opening his eyes. Yuna gasped and put her hand on her chest.

"Oh, Yevon..." she said as she sat back against the headboard of the bed in shock. Tidus only laughed at her reaction.

"Relax, Yuna." She looked down at him as he opened his eyes again, yet didn't drop his smile. "I didn't have sex with you."

"I don't like you said that," Yuna muttered with a frown as Tidus just nuzzled against the pillow. "What did you emphasize the 'you' part for?"

"Jealous?" He asked her as she instantly started to flush a deep shade of pink. "Oooh, you are!"

"No, I'm not!" She said as she turned a deeper red and decided to change the subject. "So we didn't have sex then?"

"Nope, we didn't," he said as he sat up, still flashing a smile at her.

"Stop!" She reached behind her and threw her pillow at him. At least now she could see that he was wearing boxers, so she felt slightly better. "Then who did you have sex with?" She didn't really want to know the answer to that question, but it would've bothered her if she didn't know.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" He chuckled as he ran his fingers through his bed hair. He was completely aware of what happened between he and Naida the previous night, but he wasn't going to tell Yuna. Tease her, yes...He thought, just to see how much it would bother her...

"Actually I would," she said as she stuck her nose in the air.

"You are jealous, you are jealous!" Tidus said in a sing-song voice as he started to tickle her.

"I am not jealous!" She said as she tried not to fidget. She knew that she was very ticklish, but she tried to hold it back. She did not want to let him win this one. "I'm not ticklish either!"

"Oh really? Then why are you squirming?" Yuna started to giggle and lied on her back as Tidus sat over her. "Not ticklish my ass!"

"Stop! Stop!" She cried to him through fits of giggles. "Okay! Okay!"

"Don't lie to me like that," he said as he stopped tickling her. He sat back up straight and tossed his hair out of his face. "If you lie to me, I'll be able to find the truth."

"What do you mean?" She asked as she rolled over to her side and propped herself up by her elbow.

"You're very easy to read," he explained as he lied down on his side to face Yuna. "That's not exactly a bad thing, but I can tell if you lie."

"You, on the other hand, are very hard to read," she said with a sigh. "I've been trying to read you for the last couple of days, but I feel like I'm reading a book in Al Bhed."

"Hm, I guess that would make sense to why Rikku understands me so well," he said with a smile.

"Well, yeah, I guess so, but I meant that more in depth," she returned the smile and looked up at him. She could sense that he was confused, so she continued. "Like I told you, my mother is Al Bhed, so I know certain things in the language. For example, I know that 'I love you' is 'E muja oui,' 'hello' is 'rammu,' 'good-bye' is 'kuut poa,' and that's about it. I know these things because my mother has been saying them to me since I was a baby. However, there are many things in Al Bhed where I am left in the dark. Like with you, I know that you are arrogant, love blitzball, and want sex. But that is all I know about you."

"That was a very good analogy," Tidus said Yuna proudly smiled. "There honestly isn't much more to me than those three things though."

"Oh," Yuna said, disappointment in her voice. "So then how do you explain your thoughts, your feelings, stuff like that? There has to be more to you than just sex, blitzball, and loving yourself."

"I'm not one to explain my emotions," he clarified as he shrugged. "I'm a doer, not a thinker."

"That's where you and I differ," she said with a sigh.

"Actually, I'm positive there are a lot of differences between you and I, but, yes, that is one of the many." He smiled as he ran his fingers through his hair again. With a chuckle, he decided to change the subject matter a little bit. "Like another difference would be that you were seducing me last night and I didn't seduce you back."

"Me seducing someone? Yeah, right," Yuna said with a scoff and a roll of her eyes, obviously not believing him. "Are you sure you don't have that backward?"

"Well, let me think about this for a minute." Tidus put the hand that was not propping him up on his chin to pretend that he was thinking. "Hmm, I believe I do remember you straddling me and undressing. Then you were upset that I wouldn't have sex with you. Yep, that was you."

"Oh my Yevon," Yuna said as she blushed more and more with every word that Tidus said. That's not like me at all...Note to self: alcohol is bad! Yuna thought to herself as she was thoroughly embarrassed. Tidus softly chuckled as he gently put his fingers through her hair. "Are you lying to me?"

"I don't know, am I?" He asked playfully as his fingers trailed down her face to her chin. "You'll never be able to tell, huh?"

"You're cruel," she growled as she narrowed her eyes at him, yet still had a smile on her face. "I still think you're being unfair about not telling me who you had sex with last night. If you had sex with anyone at all. Obviously it wasn't me because you turned me down."

"Yeah, I know," he said as he put his hand back down on the bed. "I still can't believe I did that."

"What? Have sex with someone last night, or turn me down?" Yuna asked as she realized that her hand that wasn't propping herself up was about a centimeter away from Tidus'. "Did you really turn me down? Wait, was I really seducing you?"

"Yes, I did, and yes, you really were," he said with a chuckle as he moved his hand so it was on hers. "I didn't have sex with anyone last night, don't worry."

"Worry? Who said I was worried?" Yuna put her fingers between Tidus' and looked up at him.

"You were scared shitless," he said as he rubbed her fingers with his own. "Like I said, I can read you like a book."

"Well, this book is closed for the rest of the day." With a smile, she moved closer to Tidus and snuggled up next to him. "So what did you do after I fell asleep last night?"

"Fell asleep? No, honey, you passed out," Tidus said as he lied down on his back so Yuna could lie her head on his chest. He gently moved his hand up and down her back as he could feel her breathing on his skin. Who am I anymore...He asked himself he looked down at her. "I took good care of ya, don't worry."

She intertwined her fingers with Tidus' again and placed their hands on his chest. "You did?"

"Yeah, well since I promised you that I wouldn't let you get trashed and I broke that promise because you became quite belligerent last night, I figured it was my responsibility to take care of you." He said with a chuckle as Yuna smiled and looked up at him.

"Tidus?" She asked him as she closed her eyes and snuggled closer to him.

"Hmm?"

"Don't break any more promises, okay?"

"I won't." With those words, he remembered the promise that he made with Yuna the previous night. The next time she wants to have sex with me, that means I have to do it as long as she's sober...He thought with a smile.

"You promise?"

"I promise."

More to come soon...what does Tidus want? Fluff or sex? Hmm...guess you'll have to wait and see, huh? P.S. In case you're wondering...only half of Rikku's plan went through. The other half will come into play soon...