(A/N)Wow, I'm really glad that some people actually enjoy this fic! I'd like to thank all my fans...uh, I mean reviewers!
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Misress Delavaire:What?OO There are fanfics that looks like min? Oh gawd! Which ones? Damn, I don't wanna look like I'm copying stuff here! I have actually never read anything that has the same idea as this fic, but then again, I only read fics from Final Fantasy 7, X-2 and 11...and when it comes to X-2 I only read RikkuxGippal and YunaxRikku parings, and from Final Fantasy7 I only read YuffiexVincent and YuffiexCloud fics! So If ya think this looks like another fic, please tell me which, so I can read it and make sure I don't do it like those!
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Jen:Cute?...I can live with that...
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Caught in the act
"No…Gippal….don't go…" Rikku was squirming around in bed, trying to shake off her bad dreams, suddenly she gave out a gasp and sat bolt straight. She was panting heavily. She looked around the cabin; it was still dark, everyone was asleep, and Rikku had quite the headache due to an early hangover. She let out a soft sob as she tried to forget the horrible dream about Gippal leaving her, never to come back.
'I don't wanna sleep alone.' She thought and hugged her pillow. She glanced past Yuna's bed and over to the bed where Gippal was sleeping peacefully.
'I definitely don't wanna sleep alone.' She thought as she let go of her pillow and silently crept out of bed, she tiptoed past Yuna's bed and-
"Where do you think you're going missy?" A soft voice spoke.
Rikku froze, she glanced at the bed and found that Yuna was sitting up, Tidus was sleeping heavily next to her. Yuna was slightly sleepy but yet awake, and she was looking at Rikku with a knowing smirk.
"Back to bed young lady." Yuna ordered and pointed at Rikku's bed. Rikku glanced at her own bed, the memory of the nightmare fresh in her mind.
"Please Yunie…" She pleaded. "I had a really scary dream, please, can't you let me sleep next to him, just for tonight?" She let out another soft sob. When Yuna saw the look on Rikku's face she felt pity for her and her expression softened.
"Okay, but only for tonight." She said and held up a warning finger.
Rikku smiled gently and quickly but quietly walked over to Yuna and hugged her tightly.
"Thanks Yunie." She said before she quietly turned to Gippal's bed and carefully lifted the covers so that she could climb in and snuggle up close to his chest.
Gippal still had his clothes on due to his inability to undress, Yuna and Tidus had helped him remove his boots, gloves and shoulder collar though. The only thing Rikku was wearing though was her panties and a small yellow top.
Rikku felt Gippal's arm gripping her gently around her shoulder. She smiled before falling into a deep peaceful sleep, full of happy dreams.
Hours later
Gippal's eye fluttered open, his vision was blurred and his head felt like a drum that was just taken off from a death metal concert.
He decided that roll over, close your eye and get back to sleep would be a good idea, however when he tried to roll over he felt something holding his left arm down. He glanced to his side and saw Rikku snuggled up to him, holding onto his arm as if she was afraid he might run off.
'How wasted were we last night?' He thought. 'Shit, they're gonna kill me….wait a sec...' He lifted the cover slightly and peeked under it. 'Phew….clothes still on!' He let out a deep breath.
"Good morning sleepy-head." Said a soft but cheerful voice.
Gippal looked at Rikku and saw her smiling happily at him.
"Good morning." Gippal said and tried to get up, but Rikku held on tighter to his arm.
"I don't wanna get up yet!" She said as she snaked both her arms and legs around his arm and Gippal felt his knuckles being pressed against the cloth of Rikku's cotton panties. He froze.
'Not good.' He thought.
"Rikku, I'm getting a little….uncomfortable here." He said.
"Hmn…dej�-vu anyone?" Rikku asked with a sly smile.
Gippal rolled his eyes.
"Aww, what's the matter?" Rikku asked him in a mock voice as she traced her finger along his shirt-lines. "Big boy can't take it when the girl got the upper hand, hmn?"
"What makes you think you got the upper hand?" Gippal asked her with a smirk.
Rikku giggled, and then she moved her legs a little so that Gippal's hand was pressed even tighter against her panties.
"I think it's quite obvious that I got the upper hand." She purred (yes, purred) in a playful voice.
'Is she purring?' Gippal thought as his eyes widened. 'Shit, she's so god damn…cute!' He was almost expecting her eyes to turn from swirling to small stripes.
'Haha, I so got him pinned!' Rikku thought. 'I knew he wouldn't resist the purring!'
"Rikku, if your cousin sees us like this she'll kill me." Gippal said.
"Nah…she's probably busy making out with Tidus on the deck or something." Rikku grinned wickedly and leaned in closer to Gippal's face. "And that thought puts very, very naughty thoughts in my head."
"Hey!" Said a voice. "Yuna and Tidus ain't here but I am you know…"
'Dammit!' Rikku mentally yelled at the person who dared to interrupt her lovely plan, she turned around and saw Buddy at the top of the stairs.
"We're almost at Besaid." He said with a smirk on his lips. "I thought I'd come wake you kids up."
"Well I guess we better get ready then!" Gippal said as he wriggled out of Rikku's grip. Rikku unwillingly let go of him, she pouted and glared at Buddy, but he just grinned and shook his head before walking down the stairs.
Gippal quickly found his equipment and put it on before he jumped over the railing to the lower level so that Rikku could get a little privacy to dress. Gippal walked over to the bar and sat down.
"Hey Barkeep, you got any aspirins?" He asked the Hypello, his head was still feeling like a drum.
"Excushe me shir, but me ish Darling?" The Hypello replied.
"Oh, sorry." Gippal said, 'Dammit, every Hypello look alike!' "So, uh….you got any aspirins?"
"Here mishter?" Darling said and gave him a glass of water and a couple of aspirins.
"Thanks." Gippal said and took the water and downed the aspirins. He sighed and turned in his chair, he let his gaze wander across the cabin, but he totally froze when they fell upon Rikku's siluette on the upper floor, he couldn't help but stare. She was standing between the beds facing the wall; slowly putting on her skirt and ribbon-sleeves, her breast clearly visible, she hadn't noticed Gippal staring at her. As she tied the straps on her bikini top she glanced over to where Gippal was sitting and noticed he was staring at her, he quickly turned away when he noticed Rikku smirking at him.
"Bad boy, Gippal!" Rikku mocked him waving around with a finger. "It's rude to stare at a girl's private treasures!"
"I'm sorry!" Gippal said in a strangled voice, his back facing her. Rikku giggled and skipped down the stairs and over to him.
"Or maybe it's more comfortable to stare when you think I'm not looking?" She said, narrowing her eyes at him.
Gippal snorted. "You wish."
"Nope, I know." Rikku said and smiled as she jumped at his back.
"Geez, Cid's girl!" Gippal groaned as Rikku giggled. "Why can't you just stop doing that?"
Rikku let go of him and looked him in the eye with a sly smile.
"I'll stop jump at you if you kiss me." She said firmly.
"If I kiss you?" Gippal raised an eyebrow, he remembered what Yuna had warned him about, but just once wouldn't hurt…tight?. "Just one kiss?"
"And make it a good on!" Rikku chimed.
Gippal sighed as he stood up. 'A good one, huh?' He thought, he wrapped his arms carefully around Rikku's waist as she put her arms around Gippal's neck.
'If Buddy shows up now I'll kill him!' Rikku thought as she gazed up into Gippal's one green swirling eye. Rikku closed her eyes and tilted her head up, waiting for Gippal to make the first move. Gippal sighed and lowered his head and connected their lips in a deep kiss.
'Damn, this feels so great.' Gippal thought as Rikku moaned slightly into his lips. 'Wait a minute….I shouldn't be doing this….it's like using her!' And with that thought he broke the kiss reluctantly. Rikku had a dreamy but slightly disappointed look on her face.
"Happy?" Gippal smirked at her before he turned around and started to walk over to the elevator.
Rikku touched her lips, she could still feel the softness of his soft lips on hers, she smiled happily and quietly but quickly sneaked up behind Gippal, and before he could reach the elevator she jumped at his back making him fall to the floor with her on his back.
"Whoa!" Gippal exclaimed "Didn't you just say you'd stop do that?" He asked her. Rikku twirled him around so that she was sitting on his chest, pinning him down.
"I lied." She smirked, and before Gippal even had a chance to react, she had pressed her lips onto his. Gippal tried to struggle, half-heartedly though, but Rikku pressed him down making it rather difficult for him to resist.
"Alright, that's enough." Said a female voice as the elevator doors slid open and Yuna and Tiduswalked out. Tidus lifted Rikku off the ground and slung her over his shoulder. Yuna grabbed Gippal by the ear and pulled him off the floor.
"Gah! Tidus! Let me down!" Rikku yelled as Tidus carried her into the elevator.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! Easy lady Yuna! Easy!" Gippal begged as Yuna pulled him by the ear into the elevator.
"Is this it?" Baralai asked as he showed Paine a picture of the monkey-fiend.
"Yeah, that's the monkey." Paine said as she took the picture and looked at it.
"The passion monkey," Baralai muttered as he scanned through some papers. "Also known as the 'obsession monkey'…it's pretty rare…"
"It sure earned its name." Paine chuckled as she remembered how Rikku clung onto Gippal for dear life.
"When it bites it sends a week impulse through the veins and nerves up to the brain," Baralai said as he read the info. "It awakens a deep obsession for what you unconsciously have been whishing for a long time."
"Meaning?" Paine arched an eyebrow.
"Well, basically, if you dream about being the ruler of the world and then gets bitten by that monkey you become totally obsessed with the wish."
"So apparently Rikku have been unconsciously whishing for her and Gippal to get together again?" Paine asked and frowned.
"Seems like it." Baralai shrugged.
"Talk about desperate." Paine said.
"Not necessarily…" Baralai said and scanned through the papers. "Rikku probably didn't care too much about Gippal before, maybe a little, but she hadn't actually realized her feelings for him."
"So that bite made her feelings become more….obvious to her?" Paine asked.
Baralai nodded.
"How come the Ronso never got obsessed about something?" Paine asked and furrowed her eyebrow. "I mean…the monkey lives at Mt. Ghagazet after all."
"According to this, Ronso and Guado are immune to this…impulse the bite causes." Baralai answered.
There was a short silence.
"So is there a cure?" Paine asked.
"Uhm…" Baralai flipped through the papers with furrowed eyebrows. "No, apparently the effect will ware off when you have gained what you wish for, but only enough so that you still treasure the whish."
"Great." Paine said and flung her arms in the air. "So the only thing we can do is make Gippal tell Rikku that he loves her?"
"It'll probably take more than that." Baralai said.
"Perfect, so now Rikku's gonna be like that forever." Paine said and rolled her eyes at the thought. "Cause if I know Gippal right, he can't stay with one girl for longer than six hours."
"There's more…" Baralai said as he read. "There are a lot of cases where the obsessed ones never managed to achieve their goal…and they died from depression…some stopped eating, and others committed suicide…"
They exchanged worried looks.
"So…" Paine began. "If Rikku ends up with a broken heart, then she'll…?"
Baralai nodded.
"We'll better warn them." Paine said and the two of them walked out of the room.
(A/N)Ooooh, what's gonna happen? I'm not telling!...no, I'm not!
It might take a while until I update, cause I got to work a little with my other fanfic...yes I have to!
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