Hi everyone! First of all I would like to say that I am so sorry that I haven't updated in like forever! But there is a reason, my hard drive totally died on me so I had to get it fixed. On top of that when we got it back it wasn't picking up the modem so it took us even more time to get the internet on track! Even though it wasn't my fault since you have all waited so patiently the next chapter will come very quick I promise!
Warning: This chapter contains a lot of explicit language and reference to adult themes (don't get you're hopes up nothing happens)
YUNA'S POV
Chapter Five: Underground Abode
Our footsteps echoed eerily through the forest. It was quiet... too quiet... I felt the paranoia in me start to surface, bubble uncontrollably when all I could hear was Tidus' quick sharp breaths behind me. I lead him silently through the forest, one step at a time, he was quick on his feet, and for that I was grateful, for every turn we took I felt less and less at ease.
Tidus was like a child in the matter, his steel was ready for any combat, but his heart was clearly not ready for a kill. He was bewildered at the sight of the wood, his eyes lighting up at the many wonders we passed. If someone should jump out and skilfully jab a dagger into his back... at this moment... I really don't think he would care, he seemed content, happy, and innocent. Honestly if someone tried to kill me, I really wouldn't give a yevon damned shit. I would want my killer to kill me painfully if I didn't let my pride get the better of me. Never would I let my life be ended shamefully at the hands of someone I did not know, only I held the power to end my life.
"Tidus..." I said with undertone, placing my hand gently on his shoulder. "It's here." I let go of him and straight away he turned to face me with a confused look on his face, and I knew why... "Look closer." I told him pointing to the vine covered wall. As Tidus did a closer inspection, I looked around once again to make sure we were alone.
"A door." Tidus said softly. I smiled, he had found it. A door so small we would just fit through, a door so low to the ground and covered with vines no-one would find it, a door that needs. "A key, Yuna it needs a key." Tidus turned around and looked me in the eye. "Do you have it?" He asked with curiosity.
"I have it." I said. Delicately, I pulled my coat down off my shoulders, exposing them to the cool Macalania breeze. I smirked inwardly at the expression on Tidus' face when I flicked my top strap of my shoulders, and folded my bra down. I softly dug down into my bra and retrieved the key from my cleavage. I held it in my hand for a few seconds, closing my eyes, I was just thankful it was safe, I hated to think what Gippal would do to me if I had lost it, he would just use it as another excuse to rape me and cater to his sick and perverse want for pleasure. "Here." I handed it to Tidus and quickly fixed myself up, the early morning air, chilling me.
"You k-kept it in your bra?" Tidus stuttered, gulping and looking down at the key that was next to my breasts only a couple of seconds ago.
"It's the safest place don't you agree?" if only I could shove my baby down my Bra, then she might still be with me!" I said with anger, directing my rage at Tidus since it was his little friends that took my weapons off me.
"Right sure." Tidus said uneasily, intentionally avoiding my gaze, it made me laugh that something as simple as breast could turn a man into a pathetic, nervous idiot. Tidus placed the key in the hole and turned it slowly, with care. I heard the key click into place and gestured Tidus inside. Tidus entered looking a little pale as the long dark stairway did seem foreboding. After he had walked down a fair way I shut the door carefully, trying not to make a sound, waking the wood was not something to be taken lightly.
"Hey!" Tidus said playfully. "You shut the door now it's like pitch black." Tidus bolted up the stairs and stood next to me, if it was for comfort I wasn't sure. He wrapped my hair around his finger and moved himself closer to me. "Not that it's a problem." He whispered tenderly into me ear. I felt his breath tickle my neck as he brushed some of my hair away and tucked it behind my ear. Usually in this sort of situation, I would kick the guy in his most sensitive place, if you know what I mean, but this time I was completely frozen to the spot, so I went for the next best option.
"Firaga!" I yelled, just before Tidus had the chance to lower his lips to my soft neck. The flames lit the room brightly and they danced with furious rage in their brackets, causing Tidus to jump back and cling to the wall in a terrified state. I slowly walked down the stairs to where Tidus was breathing heavily from shock.
"Whoa, I seen a lot of magic preformed, but I got to say that tops them all!" Tidus inhaled slowly a few more times before he realised the look I was giving him was not one of prancing ponies. "Uh Yuna?" Tidus said his smile fading into a look of confusion.
"Get this through your head, and get it through quick!" I said pinning his arms to the wall. I moved my face close to his, making it merely millimetres away. "Don't ever touch me again got it! You're Yevon hands on me, ughh don't give me nightmares!" I said firmly, letting go of him forcefully and turning to walk down the stairs.
"Yuna I didn't mean it like that." Tidus whispered, he seemed upset, I could hear sadness in his voice. I once again froze when he placed a hand on my shoulder, hadn't he just heard a word I said? "We're friends, why do you have so much hate?" He asked. I sighed and turned around so that I was face to face with the poor boy.
"Yes we're friends, but I already told you not to get to close to me." I looked up at him, his eyes were wide with thought, he seemed to be pondering the answer to my statement, and then suddenly he began to smile. For some reason I wanted to know what he was thinking, his eyes where like a book, thousands of words, stories never told, nevertheless it was a book I couldn't read.
"Well it's to late Yuna, now can this friend get a hug?" He looked playful and excited, to bad...
"No I'm not into that shit." I turned my back on him and continued down the stairs. "Tidussss!" I yelped as I felt his strong arms wrap around my waist and pull my body up to his in one fast movement. "I thought I said no..." I said weakly, it was strange enough that I couldn't pull myself away from him, but on top of that, I felt a foreign feeling take over, something I definitely knew I hadn't felt before, I wasn't sure of what it meant, but I wasn't going to waste my energy and analyse it.
"Why are you not into this?" Tidus sighed gripping my waist tighter, he was on a higher step then me so there was really no other choice then to nestle my head into his chest.
"Because it's not real." I said thoughtfully, closing my eyes and giving into his warm embrace, I had never known that a hug could be this intense, but it was, and I found my self strangely liking it.
"You're wrong, it is real, how I feel, it's real." Tidus said to me, his words were soothing and made me want to fall into a deep sleep, but they also haunted me, I was content in his arms, content with him holding me, but my specialty was over analysing, so my happiness didn't last for long.
I started to think about what his words really meant, I tore them to pieces. Yes, what he felt was real, but was I? To myself yes, I was real, but I was pretending to be someone totally different with Tidus. He was falling in love with me, becoming more infatuated by the second, but Tidus was loving a dead woman, I am dead, I can't love him back all I am capable of doing is hurting him, it was all I was brought up to know. Then there was Tidus, his whole life was based on Yevon, the bullshit his father fed him and his people, the whole centre of his beliefs was a lie and nothing but a big scheme. Tidus followed stupid tradition, and believed his father was a man he wasn't. However it wasn't my place to force Tidus to change his beliefs, although I did find it my duty to inform him of how much I hate the YEVON SCUM!
"Tidus..." I had to remind myself I hated Yevon, although I was developing feelings for Tidus in my own strange way, he was still Yevon, for hells sake he was the Praetor! The last person I wanted to get involved with, Tidus represented Yevon, everything I was against and had set out to destroy, being with him in the end would end up in hurt and regret, for both of us.
"Hmmm?" He mumbled resting his head on mine; it seemed he was in another world.
"It would so you good to remember that my magic spells also work on humans." I added with some laughter pushing him away and running down to the bottom of the stairs. I stood there with my hands on my hips. The familiar scents greeted me as I ran over to the kitchen. I could smell the lavender I had hung to dry linger through the air, it felt like home, it felt safe.
"Ouch Yuna! Wouldn't wanna be burnt to a crisp from one of your fire spells." I heard Tidus voice echo playfully through my domain, I cheekily poked my head around the corner and gave him a look of caution.
"Then you had better learn that when I say no I mean no!" I spat returning to my previous problem. "Now where did he put the drinks?" I muttered searching through the cupboards of my kitchen.
"Looking for this?"
I lifted my head from the cupboard and eyed the contents in Tidus' hand. "Where did you get that?" I said taking a step closer to Tidus which resulted in him taking one back, he swung the drinks above my head in an attempt to tease me, I was not impressed.
"Tut tut Yuna... here's the note that was attached to the drinks, it's addressed to you're highness." Tidus winked chucking me the letter.
"Highness? You're the only prissy princess around here." I muttered observing the note; I had no doubt about whom it was from.
"Hey I heard that!" Tidus pouted, crashing onto the couch, holding my drinks with utmost security. I laughed quietly and walked back into the kitchen for some privacy. I roughly tore the letter out of the envelope, and straightened it out ready for reading.
Yuna,
I heard everything, from my sources. You failed the task, you're fucking pathetic, and even worse you were rescued by the praetor, how does that feel? We trained our whole lives for that night and you fucked it up, well congratulations you win the award for most useless piece of shit in Spira, YUNA IT WAS SO SIMPLE! Get in there and kill the mother fucking idiot, but you wasted your time on the guard, oh yeah, what bullshit did you feed Tidus to make him believe that you didn't do it? I'm interested, although I think I already know the answer you slut, you sick bitch what are you going to do when he finds out? Some girls tell me Tidus is a good lay, but I'd bet you would know probably already fucked him you whore, just remember who you're with! Anyway this letter does have a purpose, other than to tell you how fucking pissed and disappointed I am, and that's to tell you there is now a new plan, since you couldn't get to the jerk that way, we just have to try get in another way, so I suggest that you do what I say, and that's meet me at the Spring tomorrow morning at 3 o' clock, make sure Tidus doesn't see you going, if he is still awake knock the dumb arse out or something.
Ps: Oh and by the way I got these drinks for you so you can get drunk and forget about what a fucking failure you are
Adios bitch!
Gippal.
I crunched the letter up in my hand. "FUCK!" I yelled chucking the piece of shit in the bin. "Give me a fucking drink!" I shouted at Tidus who didn't look one bit intimated. I jumped onto his lap with a thud causing him to cry out in pain. "Good! Now give me a drink!" I spat jumping onto the space next to him on the couch.
"Okay, just clam down." Tidus said handing me the beer cautiously. "First can you tell me what's up with this underground abode?" Tidus asked taking a gulp of his drink.
"Well..." I didn't really want to tell him, since Gippal wouldn't be too fond of the idea but after reading that letter, I would do anything to spite him. So I gulped down most of my bottle and readied myself. "This place is Gippal's ..."
"You serious? I'm in Gippal's house?" Tidus said with fear showing as he downed more of his drink.
"Well this is just the underground bit, our real house is in Bevelle, but there's a door that leads to it, I don't have the key." I looked down, Gippal would never give me the key, but at least he had given me the key to here, I mean this was better than hiding out in some tree with Tidus in Macalania woods.
"Wait your house too? You live with Gippal? Yuna is there anything you know, going on between you two?" Tidus asked, he seemed very jealous over the matter but tried to hide it with confusion.
"Aha! No fucking way, he likes to think we're together, but all he succeeds in doing for me is making me feel like a low piece of shit." I laughed, at the end of the day all Gippal wanted was sex, and I had always delivered despite the fact I hated him, maybe he was right...
"I see..." Tidus lowered his head and sunk back into the couch. I noticed he had finished his beer and passed him another.
"You can have more." I gestured.
"Nah, it's fine I don't really like to drink, don't want to end up like my father." Tidus sighed, I shrugged wondering what he meant by that, but not wanting to be like his father was definitely good, made me see he was himself not anyone else. I decided to stop thinking as it was hurting my brain at current, and moved onto my third beer. "Don't you think you have had enough Yuna?" Tidus raised his eyebrow and looked at me seriously.
"I can never have enough of what I want." I said taking another sip. "That goes for all aspects of life, revenge, sex, and drinking." I smiled at Tidus and winked, he laughed at my antics and sighed running his hands through his hair. "Want a tour?" I said making sure Tidus didn't get too tired; I didn't want him to fall asleep on me, that wouldn't be much fun. I stood up and offered my hand to Tidus. He looked at me with concern, but smiled and nodded. I didn't know whether the fact of having someone worry about me was, flattering or just annoying. I grabbed my fourth drink to receive another disapproving look from Tidus, but kept pulling him towards the first room.
"Well here is the bathroom." I said without any tone, Tidus looked like he was to burst into laughter at the horrible sight, and I was just disgusted. "Fucking Gippal!" I whispered slamming the door shut. "This is the stairwell that leads up to our house, and I don't have the key so let's move on." I started to feel a little light headed but smiled at Tidus to reassure him that I was okay.
"Whoa!" Tidus said when I opened the door to the next room. He ran and jumped on the bed to which my surprise was made. "AWESOME! This definitely makes up for the bathroom." He said sitting up and sighing. I shut the door behind me and sat myself next to him. "What's the time?" He suddenly asked.
"About three are you tired?" I said hoping he wasn't.
"Nope you?" He asked.
"Never, so what do you want to do?" I said eyeing him mischievously, he didn't seem to catch the hint and sighed.
"Where do I sleep tonight?" He said looking at me with questioning eyes.
"In this bed where do you think?" I said sarcastically.
"Huh? With you?" Tidus' eyes widened and he seemed like he was trying to suppress and orgasm, this made me laugh so I backed off a bit and smiled.
"Course, where not babies Tidus are we? Do you think you can handle this cause there is only one bed, and I wouldn't want my guest sleeping on the couch, and I am definitely not sleeping on the couch, I'm pretty sure you can do that can't you?" I said innocently crawling on all fours towards him.
"Sure..." He mumbled looking away from my approaching body.
"So what do you want to do?" I dropped onto my knees, only inches away from his face, he seemed to calm down when he realised I wasn't going to touch him.
"Don't know." He replied.
"Come on you must want to do something; I certainly want to do something." I grinned, inching a little closer.
"Yeah... I do want to do something, hang on what do you want to do?" Tidus said scratching the back of his head and leaning back slightly.
"Stuff..." I said, grabbing Tidus hands and placing them on my thighs.
"Okay, well..." Tidus fell silent as I slowly moved his hands higher and higher up my inner thigh.
"Want to kiss me?" I said letting go of his hands and looking at him seductively.
"Excuse me?" Tidus said shaking his head and blinking more than necessary.
I zoomed my face into his and smirked. "I said..." I ran my fingers down his muscular chest tenderly. "Do you want to kiss me?" I wrapped my arms around his neck moving closer to him and awaiting his reply.
"Yuna..." Tidus said with frustration digging his head into his hands with some difficulty due to the fact I was practically hanging off him. "You're drunk." He finally said pushing my away gently.
"I still want you to kiss me." I leaned back a bit and threw my coat off the side of the bed. I ran my my hands through my hair and set my sights on him again. "And maybe if I'm a good girl you'll give me something more?" I said licking my lips at the sight of him, I knew that this was probably the most irrational thing I had ever done in my entire life, but I didn't really care, part of me wanted to feel good, and the other wanted to get back at Gippal, he had said Tidus was a good lay, well lets find out...
"Now Yuna, it's not that I don't want to do this...."
I sat there listening to Tidus rave on, but slowly his voice just became one of the many other un-identified noises buzzing around in my head, and then reality started to fade away.
