Hey Guys sorry about the way Glares in someone's direction but it's entirely my fault Where's my editor STEEL! lol just joking! Anyway enjoy this late chapter and I am sorry once again, I'll try update early for being such a looser!


The words Tidus says to Yuna on the airship are not mine well some of them aren't anyway


YUNA'S POV


Chapter 21: PROVE IT!


I woke up feeling a lot better than before, Yevon knows probably because I had never slept this much in my life. My ankle had healed by the looks of things and sometimes I wondered where Tidus learnt stuff like that, he knew how to cook, heal ankles and so much more… he was a really fast learner too… Tidus and his praetorly ways I guess.

I smiled to see Tidus on his back shirtless and coverless, as usual. He was so restless in his sleep; he must have ditched the covers long ago. Sighing I watched as he muttered something about blitzball in his sleep and frowned. I had never known he had liked blitzball enough to dream about it. The sunlight shone down on him from the window catching his shiny strands of hair with its rays, I could have sworn that if I stared at his hair any longer I would go blind, since the light reflecting off it was so damn bright. I covered my eyes and ducked down quickly, slowly crawling over to the man of my dreams.

Then my head fell back to the dreams I had been having lately, the continuous dreams of my mother telling me to reach out to Tidus. I already had, I didn't even know what I was doing anymore because I had no intentions of killing Jecht, I had no intentions of seeing Gippal ever again, or anyone else for that matter… All I wanted was to be with Tidus… but we had to get somewhere safe, because I had no idea where that Yokatta had scuttled off to when I had killed his partner, and something told me, he didn't just run home to see his children. I sighed pulling the sheet up a little further to cover my cold shoulders I had no idea how much trouble Tidus and I were in, and I didn't want to think about it. When I looked at the peaceful vision of Tidus… I couldn't help but forget everything… how could any of this be happening when he was here?

Lying in bed always gave me time to think, but I rarely ever just lied in bed hour after hour, I never used to have time. But I found that lately my head was a lot clearer. Tidus and I still hadn't talked about our little exchange of ecstasy back at Djose, which had somehow brought us, incredibly close, I couldn't even remember what it felt like, or try to imagine the feeling that passed between us… which made it seem more and more like a dream every time I thought about it. "Yuna…" Tidus mumbled moving a little closer to me in a sleepy matter, wrapping his tanned arms around me in what looked like the middle of his sleep. "Why did you leave me?" Tidus whispered into my ear cuddling closer. He was such a baby, he needed my attention 24/7 if I moved away from him at night he would get all sulky till I cuddled up against him again, and now I found myself liking the attention he gave back whenever I wasn't touching him.

"I was going to get up…" I said his breath tickling my neck. I tried not to squirm when he moved his head and brushed his hair against my neck, tickling me. The undeniable love, and lust I felt for him every time he touched me almost sent me to insanity. Oh Tidus don't you know that if you told me to do anything that I would. Jump off a bridge sure, dive into a pit of hungry fiends… sure, if you asked me.

"Don't get up." Tidus whined, his eyes still firmly shut and I was starting to wonder if it was just the light getting to eyes, or the fact he couldn't yet open them. That was it, he had said it, he had given me his command and I found the desire to get up slowly melt away.

"I thought it might be okay if we went for a little walk during the day, I know it's dangerous, but I mean… you haven't seen this area of the Mihen highroad so… but if you want to stay in bed... I mean… well." I was such a fool, I knew that I would gladly lie in bed with Tidus all day, but it wasn't good for my health. Not too much anyway.

"Mmmm I'd rather explore you then Mihen highroad." Tidus whispered, licking the lobe of my ear. I tried to stifle a giggle at his last comment, and felt him tense once he has realised what he just said. His eyes flung open and he coughed a little dramatically while gulping. "I meant, like talk to you, get to know you better." He coughed

"Come on Tidus, you know me enough already, now you getting up or what hottie? Because I'm not going to lie in bed all day and be a lazy arse even if I am with you." I said wrapping my arms back around him as he squeezed me tighter. But I knew I would lie in bed all day and be a lazy arse with him if he wished it, and I think he knew that to.

"Hottie?" Tidus said sitting up and rubbing his eyes.

"Mmm hmmm." I nodded uncovering myself with the sheet causing Tidus to almost have a heart attack, and he fled to the other corner of the room covering his eyes.

"You were half naked under there?" Tidus shouted blushing a furious shade of red. I smiled he was so stupid sometimes, didn't he even realise I didn't have a shirt on despite the fact I was cuddling up to him most of the night. Maybe it was because it was just natural for the two of us, to be close being naked together.

"Yeah, the bra gets uncomfortable." I said walking up to him with the sheet wrapped around my body slowly. He kept peeking through his closed eyes at me and shut them tightly again, tensing against the wall a little more. I finally reached him with an evil grin on my face, placing my hands on his shoulders. "Did I do something wrong?" I said innocently letting my sheet drop as I pressed my chest against him and kissed his neck softly.

"Yuna! You bloody….. argh TEASE!" Tidus screamed pushing me away and getting dressed at the speed of lightening. He opened the door quickly and breathed a sigh of relief as I stood there quite amused by the conversation. I had also dressed in his outburst and held my gun loosely at my sides. "Let's go then." Tidus panted waiting for me at the entrance to the inn. It was so easy to get the man panting like a ridiculous idiot, and it had got him out the door!

"Tidus you really have to grow up." I said sticking my nose up as he opened the door for me. "But I guess if that wakes you up…" I sighed.

"Hey just hold on a minute, I am grown up, that's precisely why you can't go walking around naked in front of me!" Tidus said as we walked along the grassy path to the cliff that over looked the Mihen Ruins.

"You get so jumpy whenever I touch you." I said folding my arms. "Am I that intimidating, or is it just that your immature?" I said glad that he hadn't realised I was just teasing him.

"What do you want me to do? Take you like some insane raging violent man? Or try to control myself?" Tidus replied raising his eyebrows. I smiled a little and turned away… at least it was nice to think I got him that way.

"I wouldn't mind you know… but maybe you're just a little immature for me." I giggled leading him to the edge of the cliff.

"Well then I will just have to prove my maturity won't I?" Tidus said grabbing my shoulders quickly and pulling me up to him. I raised my eyebrows at him as he eyed me hungrily.

"Why don't you prove it then?" I whispered leaning in a little closer. Awaiting something special.

"He can prove it tonight!"

That voice… I pushed Tidus away instantly and ran up to the young girl which had interrupted us yet again, taking her in a bone crushing hug. "Rikku what are you doing here?" I asked wrapping my arms tightly around her.

"Yeah… can't you see we're busy?" Tidus muttered.

I turned around and glared at him then returned back to Rikku. "Aahaha yeah you sort of interrupted, but I don't care, I have had to deal with this guy for Yevon knows how long, he is so immature." I teased looking between a hurt Tidus and dazed Rikku.

"You two are really in love aren't you?" Rikku said her eyes widening with amusement. I blushed a shade of red, kicking the dust a little, I hated it when other people butted in on others relationships, I hated admitting I was whipped as well… and I really hope that didn't hurt Tidus, but our love was something between the two of us… well that's how I looked at it anyway.

"Well I'm in love with her, at least that's something, despite how cruel she is to me." Tidus grinned wrapping his arm around my shoulders. I gazed into his eyes for a few seconds smiling serenely.

"Sorry to interrupt again." Rikku coughed. "But we have our power back in Bikanel, and Gippal offered to fly you to Besaid!" Rikku squealed. "Although I don't really know why you would want to go there… anyway there is one condition." She said after seeing the way our faces lit up with glee. "Tonight we Al Bhed are throwing a party for the hottest day of the year, and it gets really really hot, not just weather wise, you guys can party each other out and maybe it's a chance for Tidus to prove his maturity." Rikku winked, as I blushed furiously. I knew of the festival and although it didn't get that hot everywhere, on the hottest day, the dessert really felt it, I never attended the gathering seeing it nothing more that a stupid reason to rub your body up against everyone else's sweaty body, but now… the thought of me rubbing my body up against one special man seemed appealing.

"Sounds like fun." Tidus said stroking his cheek in deep thought.

"It is! it's the best! And you guys will have heaps of fun come on!" Rikku exclaimed with glee taking my hand and running as fast as she could. "And Yuna apparently Gippal has something to tell you and Tidus tonight, he just wanted me to tell you that."

"Hey wait!" Tidus said catching up and running slightly behind me.

"The airship is just a little further." Rikku giggled pulling on my arm tighter which almost made me faint. Tidus grabbed onto my hand and took the lead with Rikku. Oh great now I have two savages trying to rip off my arms.

We finally boarded the airship and I sat in the corner in deep thought. So tonight… Gippal… I had to see him... Yevon knows what I would do or how I would act, but soon Tidus and I would be in Besaid… somewhere safe, the most safest place in Spira, but that didn't mean I didn't want to build another hidden underground Abode, there was always that chance, like that fateful night 13 years ago when my mother was raped and killed, I shivered, thinking about it had always made me angry, but I guess now I felt sort of at ease, knowing my mother and father were happy together on the farplane. But the fact Jecht was still ruler… Sometimes it made my blood boil, and that had also made it a lot harder for Tidus to become special to me, but he had done it, he had wormed his way into my system somehow, and I loved it.

I gasped as something I hadn't realised hit me despite all those long hours in bed with Tidus, which I actually spent mostly day dreaming about him anyway… Was Lulu and Wakka… how where they? Where they still in Besaid? Where they… angry at me? Would they ever want to see my face again, or were they worried about me?

"Yuna…" Tidus said gently placing a hand on my shoulder. I broke away from my thoughts and smiled at him weakly. He didn't like it when I worried and I tried my best to put on a show for him. "Watcha thinking about?" Tidus asked me, resting my head on his shoulder as Rikku drove the airship in a crazed state, rocking us back and forth constantly.

"You." I lied snuggling closer to him. In a way I was the thought of what happened that night was constantly at the back of my mind, just how I was still alive, and when the time was right I was definitely going to ask him about it, because I had to know the truth. I now was starting to think of him leaving me, whenever I thought about it, I stopped quickly… the pain just being to unbearable.

"Must have been some pretty screwed up thoughts you were thinking about me with your eyebrows all furrowed and your eyes all glazed over in deep thought and sadness." Tidus teased running his fingers through my hair.

"I was thinking about the dream I had, you, left me…" I lied again, wondering why I was covering up my thoughts with lies to Tidus, it wasn't fair to him. But then again some thoughts were better left private. Like the truth about his best friend… no that shouldn't be left private, if I really was a good person I would be able to just tell him, even if I knew in the end he would leave me… holy farplane… why in Spira was I doing this to myself and him?

"Yuna… don't think about that, I'm not going to leave you okay?" Tidus said cheerfully.

"You almost did though, and you wouldn't be here right now if I hadn't healed you, and that brings up the issue of how I am still here? See Tidus you practically broke your promise to me once, you could walk out at any time when things get a little rough, I don't know why I was such an idiot and even fell in love with you, it's all your fault!" I cried slapping him across the cheek and running as hard and as fast as I could away from him. I needed to be alone I needed to get away from his intoxication, I couldn't stay close to him and hold my grudges around him, I wanted to scream. I ran up to the deck feeling the breeze on my skin, maybe I was being a little moody… Yevon what caused all this in the first place?

"WHY AM I HERE? SOMEONE TELL ME!" I said sinking to my knees, hoping and praying Tidus didn't follow me. "Why do I love him so much?" I cried into my hands as I sobbed uncontrollably. I felt my body grow weak, knowing I had slapped him like that, Yevon only knew how hard I hit, and now Tidus did. I stood up shakily. "My body aches without him…" I cried wrapping my arms around myself as I stared out at the sky and the ocean underneath.

"Then why don't you let me hold you?" Tidus said slithering his arms around my waist and he rested his head on my shoulder. He just didn't give up did he? I pushed him away and ran further towards the edge of the airship. My body started to ache again, knowing I had pushed him away, I wondered if he was hurting like I was right now, so torn between being high for an unknown amount of time, or being so low when he walked out of my life, no-one could ever stay with me, no-one ever would. No-one ever could. I sobbed harder thinking of all the people I loved that had walked out of my life, left me broken bruised.

"You're alone looking out over the ocean; your heart is cold and lost the will to love, like a broken arrow. There you stand in the shadows, come to me Yuna, can't you see that?" Tidus wrapped his arms around me again holding onto me tighter than ever before. "Nobody wants to be lonely, nobody wants to cry." Tidus said reaching around and wiping the tears from my cheeks. "My body's longing to hold you, so bad it hurts inside, cause time is precious and it's slipping away, and I've been waiting for you all of my life, nobody wants to be lonely Yuna, so why, don't you let me love you?" Tidus whispered turning my limp body around, his words had paralysed me and I stood there frozen as his hand ran over my face. "I wanna feel you near me, just like that air your breathing, I want you here in my life, I'm not walking away, it's you that's doing all the walking Yuna, don't walk away from me." Tidus said gazing into my tear filled eyes with compassion. Suddenly I felt a jolt and realised the ship had just landed… but did I care? No, did I even realise? No…

"But I hit you." I cried reaching out for his cheek the mark was still red.

"Dummy." Tidus laughed stepping closer to me. "You think I am the one to walk away from you, but look at what you're doing to me." Tidus said, and I realised I had been taking steps back from him, as he took them towards me. Towards me.

"Only because I know you will leave me, just like everyone else!" I screamed at him.

"Yuna, are you going to trust me? I promise you I won't leave you." Tidus sighed.

"I trust nobody!" I snapped

"So you would trust nobody and live in loneliness?"

I lowered my face with pain… "No I don't want to be alone…" Then he bent down and placed one swift kiss on my cheek, cupping the other with his hand. I closed my eyes and cupped his in face in return. "You're cheating." I sighed.

"You're giving in." Tidus said pulling away and running his fingers over my lips like he always did.

"Guys we're here, if you didn't even noticed we landed, too busy making out." Rikku said throwing her hands up in the air and jumping off the deck to hit the ground which was still a fair jump.

I looked up at Tidus and sighed, our peace somehow was always shattered. He nodded and took my hand, totally understanding my silent apology.


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