Author's Note: Sorry for the late update...I was thinking of abandoning this one earlier, but then, I changed my mind,... I wanna have fun with it still... XD (okay, now you may think i'm a ditcher... oO; I'm not.... )

disclaimer: Don't own themXD

Chapter 4: Hint one?

"So Yuna, you're saying that you will be staying there a little longer... for a secret mission that even Brother doesn't know?" Buddy's voice was heard throught the CommSphere. Yuna flashed a smile and nodded while Buddy just shook his head and shrugged. Brother wasn't around for he was in the cabin sleeping soundly, waiting for Yuna and the others. Obviously, he has no clue about Yuna's plan of staying a little longer in Bevelle. "okay, just give us a call when you're done with this 'little mission' of yours" Buddy emphasized the word little mission for he was curious.

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"we're all set! Buddy said it was okay for us to stay here" Yuna and Rikku both gave a high five and Paine just rolled her eyes. For her, this mission of Yuna's is rather insane and unnecessary, but what could she do, Majority wins, Rikku's excited about it, which is minus one for her side, and even Buddy's okay with it, which leaves her the minority. She smirked at the two and shook her head while saying "tsk tsk..." "Is something wrong Paine?" inquired Yuna. Paine sighed and pointed at Rikku "looks like there will be some deductions of respect points happening..." Rikku froze down and turned to Paine immediately "yff! oui pek sayhea!"(aww! you big meanie!) Paine then turned to Yuna and grinned "and don't think you're respect point's safe..." "aww..Paine..." Paine was enjoying playing around with these two. They are such a sucker for respect points, which she finds helpful into keeping Yuna and Rikku from bugging her with her past.

"how many left?" asked Rikku. Worry was evident on her face that Paine had such a hard time from keeping a straight face. "you have about twenty-seven left. not much...if I were you, I'd avoid loosing more" taunted Paine.

"aww...and how much does Yuna have?" Paine paused for a second remembering Yuna's previous respect points. "she has about thirty-nine left" Now, worry is also evident on Yuna's face. "Paine... reconsider?..." Yuna pleaded as she did the 'puppy eyes' that even Paine could not resist.

"now stop that Yuna... and why would I reconsider?"

"Because... " Yuna thought for a moment before continuing her sentence. "because... you love adventures! yeh! adventures! just treat this mission as 'the mission of unraveling the Room's secrets!" Yuna wasn't going anywhere with this and she knew Paine wasn't buying anything either. "come on...it would be fun!"

"whatever you say..." Paine crossed her arms, she decided to go along with this for now, since Yuna and Rikku looks so anxious and are looking forward to this mission. She doesn't want to be crowned as 'The party pooper'

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"Bevelle is most glad to have you as guests...stay here as long as you want" Baralai was smiling when he said this. Hearing Yuna's 'good news' of staying here made him warm and happy inside. Maybe he was looking forward to this.

"Thank you for the accommodations Baralai, we really appreciate it" Yuna said as she did the 'Yevon's bow' and turned around to leave.

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"Yunie! I lost something... I'll be back okay?" Rikku rose up from her bed and turned to the door and left. It was in the middle of the night that Rikku noticed her small pouch, containing grenades, is missing.

Yuna rose up too in surprise and blinked several times. "where is she going" She turned to Paine waiting for an answer.

"She said shw lost something... you know Rikku... always clumsy, no wonder you two are related"

"what's that suppose to mean!"

"nothing...go to sleep" Paine pulled up her covers and covered herself up.

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Bevelle hallways

(Rikku's POV)

where is that thing! aww... I always loose stuff! why is it so dark here? oh yeah... it's in the middle of the night..silly me. Hmm... who was that?

Oh... the praetor is still up? hmm... I wonder why... but oh well, he's in his bedroom now. Aww...these hallways always creep me out... and they creep me out even more when its dark... I wish I was brave as Paine... Does she even fear anything?

Cool girl she is, I always look up to her, well, to her and Yuna. They are like my sisters. We help each other around, though Paine has a tendency to make me feel bad... she always takes respect points away... even though she's a big meanie, I am still glad that we are friends...

Ouch! okay what's this... ouwie... dryd rindc! (that hurts!) I can't see anything... what is this thing doing here anyway! Making people trip on them...

ooohhh...interesting... It's the praetor's wallet! tee hee I'm bad... what the hell, this thing's bad too! it made me trip! so that makes us both bad... so by looking into this...

aha! I think Baralai has some confessing to do... our first hint! Paine's picture in the praetor's wallet! good work detective Rikku!

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"is that you Rikku?" asked Yuna as she rubbed her eyes to see if it's her cousin. Rikku was standing at the door closing it and ran up to Yuna.

"Yunie! you won't believe what I saw!" Rikku held Baralai's wallet up and gave it to Yuna

"whose wallet is this? what do I do with it?" Yuna was confused. Rikku isn't making any sense. Not just yet

"It's Baralai's wallet, and take a lookie inside!" she whispered, avoiding to wake the sleeping figure up.

Yuna first hesitated to do it but gave in and opened up the leather wallet which belong, according to Rikku, to the praetor. She gasp at the sight of a picture that was in the wallet. It was a picture of a smiling Paine, which seems to be from their squad years. She took it out and tried to see if there are any other pictures in there. There was one picture of the four of them which was taken in the travel agency at Mi'hen High Road, there was also a picture of the three of them, Gippal, Paine and Baralai, at the Luca stadium, and the picture of the three candidates, Nooj, Gippal and Baralai, in Moonflow.

The two girls looked at each other and then turned to Paine before giggling. "I wonder if this proves anything..."

"ooh! this investigating game is really exciting! I wanna be detective Rikku!"

"and I'll play as detective Yuna!"

The two giggled full of excitement that they forgot about the sleeping Paine who was now, awake because of the noise. "and I'll play as the criminal who killed you both because you are so noisy that I can't sleep! now sleep!" Paine said irritated that the two girls immediately apologized and went to bed. Before actually closing their eyes, Yuna gave Rikku a wink that made her giiggle more. Before Paine could yell at them, they immediately covered themselves up and turned off the lights.

(A/N) I'm inspired! wahaha XD I wanna draw Paine so badly but I don't want to ruin her... and oohh! i bought an FFX-2 poster... too bad I can't find a solo of Paine so I just bought the one with Shuyin and Lenne

I always wanna play detective games..XD