OH YAY! I am getting so insanely excited for this story, you have NO idea! Mainly because I broke my case of writer's block, so that always will make an author happy!!! I will hopefully update Zanarkand A-East soon too...although I started to write a chapter in it today in Psych (yeah, that's how I spend my quality time in psych!), I realized that I need another chapter between the one I wrote today and the one that I last posted. Sigh...Oh well. ANYWAYS, here's this chapter...and it's getting so exciting. :) YAY! Read and Review please!!! :o)

17. Now I Wish This Was Just A Dream

Unfortunately, the nurse didn't know what was wrong with me and she said that they would do tests in the morning. She was more concerned about how I ripped my IV out of my hand than the blood, and to me that didn't make a lot of sense. Oh well, she told me that they would just have to stick another one in me when I moved rooms. I sighed because I didn't like needles, but they stuck me so many times yesterday that I guess it wasn't that big of a deal. Not to mention that the sigh was partially from having to move rooms at four in the morning. Thankfully the nurse let me take a shower before I moved because I felt absolutely violated. Not to mention the fact that I was in a lot of pain. Not from my head and wrist injuries (or ripping out my IV), but I felt like something was jabbed up me and moved around my insides. It felt as if I really did have sex with someone that night. I've heard that the first time you have sex you bleed a lot and you're in a lot of pain the next day, and since I am a virgin...I guess I can't say if that theory is true or not.

But that's ridiculous, isn't it? How could I have sex with a dream? Besides Tidus that is, but he is actually human. I literally had a dream about Lenne and Shuyin and woke up surrounded in blood. It was just the freakiest thing and I hope I never had to go through it again.

When I moved into a new room, I held my moogle tightly at my chest and watched them make my bed for me. They had to rejab an IV into my hand and I was thankful when that was over.

"You're all set, Lady Yuna," the nurse said as she was done. I thanked her and she turned off the light and shut the door. I was exhausted when I lied down and I fell right to sleep.

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The next morning, I woke up without having any more dreams. I exhaled a sigh of relief and clutched the moogle doll tightly. I felt like I was seven years old again; holding a stuffed animal like that. But I looked at it as more of a way to feel closer with Tidus since he wasn't there with me at that moment.

"Good morning, beautiful." I looked over at the doorway and my Tidus was standing there. He had a huge grin on his face and another bouquet of flowers in a vase.

"You spoil me, Tidus," I said as he handed me the flowers and gave me a kiss. "Thank you. They're gorgeous."

"Well, I thought about you all night," he said as he put the vase on my dresser.

"You did? Aww, you're so sweet." When he turned to me, he dropped the smile he was wearing. He looked quite troubled and perplexed. "What is it?"

"Okay, I woke up at about four in the morning after having an insanely weird dream, so then I got to thinking," I cut him off before he could finish.

"What was your dream about?" I asked him as he moved a chair over to my hospital bed. "Because I had a dream too and not like this would ever happen, but it would be freaky if we dreamed the same thing."

"The dream was insanely real. I felt like I was there and everything," he said as I motioned him to go on with the story. "But this is what I really wanted to talk to you about. Before you passed out in the Via Infinito, you were talking as if you were Lenne basically. I know I told you this yesterday."

"Yeah, you did." He exhaled and cracked his fingers. "Go on."

"Well, here's the funny thing. Everything that you said to me..." he trailed off and swallowed before finishing. "Lenne said to Shuyin in my dream last night and I'm talking word for word."

"You had a dream with Lenne and Shuyin in it as well?" I asked him as he nodded. "Okay, I'm not liking this feeling I'm getting right now."

"I've dreamt about Lenne before, I basically have since I was a kid like I told you when I first came back." He moved the chair closer to me and grabbed my hand. "But the thing is, once you explained to me the connection between Shuyin and myself, I just thought that it was because I was based off of him. I figured that the fayth used his thoughts and feelings to make me in the dream Zanarkand, so it would make sense that I would have flashbacks of his life and whatnot."

"But...?" I asked, sensing that he wasn't finished yet. He shook his head and ran his fingers through his hair.

"But now I feel as if maybe there's something more than that."

"Why's that?" I asked him as he only chuckled. "Come on, tell me."

"The dream was too real," he said quietly as he slightly blushed. "In my dream, Lenne and Shuyin had this passionate love making session, and when I woke up, I was drenched in sweat and I was naked."

"I woke up surrounded in my own blood if that makes you feel better." Tidus pinched his lips together and gripped my hand harder.

"I woke up with wet sheets too," he said as he blushed a deeper shade of red. "I haven't done that since I was like thirteen. And, um, apparently I was moaning pretty loudly because Rikku said she heard me from her hotel room last night, and um...her hotel room was across the hallway from mine."

"What is going on here?" I asked him as I became really nervous. "The fact that we had the same dream at the same time freaks me out. Something is going on somewhere...somewhere that is not here. It's not like I could investigate it anyway because of how I was lying in a hospital bed. It's not normal to dream the same exact thing."

"Not only that, but it was also how everything you said to me in the Via Infinito was repeated by Lenne to Shuyin," he sighed and looked down at our hands. "I made everyone else stay at the hotel until later today because I wanted to discuss this with you first without an audience."

"I need to get out of here," I said as I threw the sheet off of me. Tidus grabbed me by the shoulders to stop me but I looked at him in the eye and said, "I need to find out what is going on here."

"Not until we find out what is going on with you," he said as he lied me back down. "They wanted to do more tests, so let them do the tests, okay?"

"But we know that this is an influence of Lenne and Shuyin, so I'm physically fine," I protested as he still kept his firm look on me. "All right, one more day of tests then I am getting the hell out of here."

"As long as you're all right, that's fine with me," he said with a gentle kiss on the cheek. He knew that I was not one to be cooped up like I was, and I was getting cabin fever. "When are they doing more tests anyway?"

"Oh, the nurse said probably at around tenish or something like that," I said as I looked at the clock. It was already five after ten, so I was waiting for an interruption at any time.

"I'm assuming that it won't take them much longer after your tests are done." I knew that he wasn't sure of that statement, but I had to give him credit for trying to keep me optimistic. "You'll be out of here soon."

"Yeah, I hope so," I said as the nurse walked into the room. Again she asked Tidus to leave, and with a kiss on the cheek he did.

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The next testing session was a slightly more embarrassing one. They did all kinds of 'woman tests' to see what caused the bleeding, and I'm pretty sure that the entire time I was the same color as my blood was. They also asked me a lot of questions that involved my sexual past. Well, I'm a virgin, I've never done anything sexually, so them asking me all these questions were making me so uncomfortable. I almost felt as if they were unnecessary, but I figured at least they knew that I didn't sleep around, ya know? That's all I would need is to have the media spread around that I'm not as innocent as I look and the High Summoner is big dumb whore. I had to do more blood tests and more urine tests because they didn't find anything wrong with the previous ones. I have no idea why they wanted more blood if they didn't find anything wrong with it. I figured they knew what they were doing, so I sucked it up and did what they wanted me to do.

After the testing, I was able to go to my room, and I still was blushing. Luckily, Rikku, Gippal, Paine, Baralai, Leblanc, Nooj and Tidus were all there to keep me sane and they talked for me for while.

"Yep, I wanna go home," I said as I slightly pouted.

"Aww, love, don't worry about it!" Leblanc said cheerfully as she hung all over Nooj, making Rikku cringe again. "Just think, you actually get an excuse to rest and do nothing!"

"Yeah, but you know me, I get restless easily." Everyone stifled a chuckle and had to laugh too. "Go on, I said it. That means you can laugh."

"It's amazing though," Gippal said as he rested his hand on Rikku's waist. "You still look insanely tired for just lying around all day."

"I didn't sleep too well last night," I said simply as Tidus and I exchanged glances.

"What's with the look?" Rikku asked as she looked between Tidus and I. "It's not like you guys did anything, although I did hear some interesting—"

"Okay, share time is over, Rikku," Tidus said as he covered her mouth with his hand and chuckled nervously. "Yeah, anyway. Maybe we should let her rest, guys."

Everyone nodded and left Tidus and I alone again.

"I am really tired," I said as Tidus kissed me on the lips.

"As am I, my love," he said as he threw himself down on the chair. "As am I."

"Sweet dreams." I flashed him a smile as he gave me a remote look of horror. "Or don't dream at all, that's even better yet."

"That's my choice, thank you." I had to chuckle at him as I snuggled with my moogle and fell asleep.

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Shuyin was still working on his new piece that he was composing when he heard a knock at his door. He stopped and looked at the clock that was on his wall.

"Yeah?" He called out as he stood up and stretched. He didn't realize that he had been playing for about three hours straight. He just couldn't get that haunting tune out of his mind. It just played over and over as if it was a broken sphere in his mind. The door slowly opened, and Lenne walked in. "Hey, beautiful."

"Hi," She said quietly as he walked over to her and greeted her with a romantic kiss. Once again she was quiet, and almost distant. He knew that she was going to have to leave for the war in just a few days, so he figured that was the problem. He tried his best to keep the mood light and keep her happy, but it had been a rough process for the both of them.

"How are you?" He asked cheerfully as he brought her into a loving embrace. "I missed you."

"Shuyin," she said as she softly laughed. "You saw me last night. And to answer your first question? I've seen much better days."

"I know," he said delicately as he ran his fingers through her beautiful hair.

"No, Shuyin," she said as she broke out of his embrace and started to pace back and forth. "The war isn't what is wrong this time."

"Then what is it?" Shuyin was stunned by how she didn't want to be held right now. Usually when she was having troubles with something, she would go to Shuyin's arms. That is, if she wasn't too proud of a person to hold in her emotions. She turned her back to him as she tapped her fingers together.

"I'm late, Shuyin." She said simply as Shuyin gave her a blank look. "Very late."

"What do you mean..." he asked her, very afraid of the answer.

"I'm pregnant."

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I gasped as I shot straight up in my bed...and I realized that Tidus did the same thing.

"Tidus..." I said with wide eyes.

"Oh shit..."

Sorry for the cliffhanger!!! (Kind of a cliffhanger anyway) I hope you enjoyed this chapter. :o) More soon, hopefully!!!