Yep, this one came out quickly. It's a slight one-shotty interlude between two events, and that's all I'll say. It's a moment of sweetness and tenderness on Wakka's part, and a moment of hurt and confusion on Tidus'. And despite those who say that this is a horrible story, it still continues! BWAHAHAHA! Here is the sixth chapterlet in As Blue As The Ocean!
Tidus awoke in the middle of the night, to hear a noise he couldn't recognize. What is it? thought the blonde. Wait... is that... crying? He got up out of the bed, walking across the dark room, the moonlight streaming through the window to light the middle of the floor, but nothing more. He passed through this shaft of light and then vanished once more into the shadows. "Wakka?" he whispered gently.
The older man turned his head, to look at the teenager, but all he could make out was his outline backed by the moon. "Tida... We did a bad thing, ya? And now..."
Tidus knelt beside Wakka, or what he presumed to be the redhead's body, and wrapped an arm around the man's shoulder. Yeah, it's him... The blonde frowned, the expression pulling down the corners of his lips and causing the bottom to protrude poutily. "Wakka... You can't... don't let it get you down, okay? They just... They just need to cool off some steam, then they'll forgive us." He tried to smile assuringly, but he was so unsure and confused himself, that the grin simply wobbled like a see-saw.
"... You don't know that, brudda. What we are is against the teachings of Yevon-"
"What if Yevon's wrong! Wakka..." Tidus' eyes flashed angrily as he heard the name of the god again. What was with this Yevon? He forbade almost everything, technology, love, unity. The young man couldn't possibly see how such a religion could be correct, when it was so highly biased against the people who were only slightly different than most. Losing this anger upon seeing the hurt look on Wakka's facade deepen, Tidus' dropped his feirce expression. He took Wakka by the hands and sighed, lookind down momentarily, and then into the brown eyes that he could read like books. "Do you love me?"
Wakka was very taken aback. Of course he'd had feelings for Tidus, starting with a slightly lusty infatuation in the beginning, but now headed towards a serious relationship, but he wasn't sure about that yet. It was one of his current inner struggles, along with the teachings of Yevon. Wakka looked down, not really meaning to stare at Tidus, but he did anyway. How can I look him in the eyes?
"Tida, you know... You know that I care about you, don't you?"
"Y-yes..." said the blonde, heart racing inside his exposed tanned chest. What was Wakka trying to say...
"And you know I would never want to hurt you, brudda..."
The blonde nodded solemnly.
"But I never wanted to hurt Yuna either, and I did. Tida, this is about more than me and you, ya? This is about Spira, and its future. If Yuna is held back, not trying because of her feelings, Sin could keep on killing, you know? Remember Kilika?"
Again, Tidus nodded, dread creating a sore, hoarse knot inside of his throat. He could feel his eyes well up with tears. Was... was Wakka going to leave him?
"But, even so, now that she knows... I don't know what to do... Oh, Tida, I would give my life to not have met you..." Wakka, ashamed, pulled his arms away from Tidus and sat on his bed, resting his elbows on his the bare skin of his thighs right above his knees and placing his head into his hands.
"You... you don't mean that..." said Tidus, an expression too painful to look at situated on his face, intensified by the anguish hiding behind clear blue eyes.
Wakka sighed, picking up his head to look at Tidus, whose expression broke his heart anew, as if the pain derived from the knowledge of the wound he'd inflicted upon Yuna was doubled in size. "No, I don't mean that, brudda... C'mere."
Tidus sat next to Wakka, who picked him up and sat him in his lap cradling him. He rocked Tidus back and forth, as if comforting a child and kissed the top of his head. "I do love you..."
Tidus smiled, looking up into Wakka's face. "You mean it?"
"I mean it, brudda..." Wakka continued to rock with Tidus, hugging the younger man's torso to his own tightly, as if by letting go, he'd lose him forever. Slowly, his voice very quiet, Wakka began to sing, a song he had sung to Chappu when his brother had been frightened as a child.
'Hush, now, my sweet,
It will be all right.
The thunder and the lightning,
Won't last until first light.
The fiends are sleeping in feilds and trees,
and Priests pray over our souls.
Even if Sin comes to claim us, my dear,
To Yevon we'll surely go...'
Bleh, this is a slight interlude between to MAJOR parts of the story, but I'm not gonna tell you what happens next! I know, I know, I'm terribly terrible. But hey, it's my story and it's my perrogative to be as terrible to the readers as I deem... Just kidding! I'll try to hurry along with the next part for you guys, but I won't hurry so much as to make it suck.