Hey every one! To apologize for that last crap chapter I am updating again… really quick :P last chapter was just a filler thanks Mandy for your comment because it made me realise I AM A FAILURE! Lol nah you rock Mandy and update your story soon for me :P Okay guys thanks for all your reviews and please review again because I am sure your going to love and hate this chapter at the same time… and if I am able to do that… I guess I succeeded in something hey?
TRIVIA
Favourite Final fantasy scene…
My answer: I bet you guys are guessing Macalania right? And in a way you would be correct, but I also love the bit Yuna first comes out of the cloister of trials… I dunno something about it. I also like the YRP bit our of x-2 :P
TIDUS POV
Chapter 22: Take My Heart With You
I had taken Yuna by the hand and lead her off the airship after Rikku had interrupted us. She instantly ran off claiming she had business to attend to and I just sighed sitting on the nearest crate. I knew this whole situation with Yuna was tough, so many people had told me that she hadn't exactly had a fairy-tale princess life, like I had… The places we had both came from were so different, was it going to make it hard for us to be together? Two people who were so different… could we really make it work? Yes we could because we loved each other, which would overcome everything.
I had almost burst out in tears when Yuna had slapped me and ran away with my broken heart in her hand. Yuna had looked troubled, so I really wanted to discus with her about how she was still alive, why she was still here when she preformed that ritual on me which should have killed her. I wanted to tell her, because she wanted to know, since she was practically pondering it the whole time on the airship, but Shelinda asked me not to, and those were a dying woman's wishes that I could not deny, that's why I had to uphold them, even if I lied to Yuna in the process.
Rikku had seen the whole thing and shook her head, as I sat there bewildered with my hand to my cheek. She scolded me saying that I shouldn't let Yuna run away like that, and that's when it hit me I couldn't let Yuna run away like that. I had bolted up to the deck and watched in passive silence as she cried heavily on the floor, standing up and wrapping her arms around herself, claiming that she ached without me. I didn't understand… if she ached without me, why did she still push me away? We had had that conversation along time ago, where she made me promise I would stay with her if she gave herself to me, I did promise, and I was going to stay, so what was the problem?
Even after I had told her to stop running, as soon as we got off the airship she had ran away from me again, and if that wasn't bad enough, I was stuck in the dessert with many happy Al Bhed buzzing around half naked and preparing for the Festival which was happening soon. They were all together happy about the night, and I was alone…
"Hey there."
I looked up to see Rikku hovering above me in what looked like a swimsuit with a confused expression on her face.
"Shouldn't you be helping with the festival?" I said in an annoyed tone returning to my sulking position.
"Yeah but Yunie shouldn't she should stay with you, where did she go off to, and leave my poor Tidie all alone." Rikku giggled sitting on the crate next to me. I threw her a disgusted look and rested me head on my hands again.
"She just ran off again, probably went somewhere with Gippal." I rolled my eyes, trying to forget how much it hurt when I thought of those two together.
"Who went off with me?"
I looked up to see Gippal standing there with an amused smirk, and Rikku suddenly started acting a little fidgety. "No-one obviously…" I muttered
"Hey, did that whole thing with Yuna work out okay?" Gippal asked, inquiring as to the little incident he had helped with, more like left me alone with.
"Hmph." I replied trying not to sound too much like my body guard Auron in the process.
"Something happened to Yunie?" Rikku asked with a stupid pout on her face, wait a minute… was she flirting? With Gippal?
"Everything's fine." I replied rolling my eyes, yeah so I was being a jerk right now, but I wanted to sulk, Yuna was off somewhere probably making out with her Al Bhed boyfriend and I was stuck here without her.
"Gippal… I… um… was wondering if um… you would want to dance with me tonight, you know after we get everything ready…" Rikku said rubbing her hands together at a vigorous speed.
"Sure… hey Tidus, I bet Yuna went to get dressed for the festival, you might want to as well, if you go into the airship you'll find pants like these in the cabin just get changed into them and come back out whenever you're ready to have some fun. Don't be embarrassed about exposing your top half or anything, the Albhed don't usually wear to much and no-ones really going to care if all the men are topless." Gippal said giving me a wink. I observed his attire, he was wearing pants that were low on his hips and looked like potato sack material, but very baggy, hmmm strange.
"Wait a minute, the woman don't go topless as well do they?" I asked afraid of Yuna walking around exposing herself to everyone. Rikku turned around with a pondering look.
"Hmm well not usually but if it gets really hot or anything they don't really hesitate to… what is that a problem?" Rikku asked un-aware of just how covered up woman were in Yevon culture… exposing yourself was only something you did to someone you entrusted the rest of your life to. Sure girls didn't really do that, and men still played around, there were some girls who would still sleep with any guy, but exposing yourself in public was just a no-no.
I shook my head and realised why Yuna was so open now, if she had been living with these people most of her life. I went up to the airship and changed into the pants which were surprisingly cool and comfortable. Sweat had already drenched my body and I had been sitting under the shade of the airship, it must have been 60 degrees or above (maybe an exaggeration) but I had never felt heat like this in my entire life.
Slowly the sun went down and I waited for Yuna on the crate by myself. A crowd had gathered near me and most of them were grinding up against each other to the heavy electronic music that I hadn't really heard much of before apart from last time I was here. Last time I was here there was a party as well, I bet the heat festival was just another excuse to see everyone half naked. In Bevelle if it was the hottest day of the year, to celebrate it we might sit in air-conditioning all day, that sounded better to me, or maybe I was just pissed off because Yuna still hadn't returned and I just wanted to see her.
Finally the stars slowly came out, which I noted looked much brighter in the dessert, it was beautiful… I had never seen anything like it. I guessed in Bevelle I never really had noticed… there was so much light pollution… but here. I found myself gazing off into the sky just admiring the beauty of it.
"Tidus…"
"Hmm?" I slowly came out of my daze and brought my gaze down from the sky to the woman in front of me.
"Sorry I kept you waiting so long… I…"
My eyes widened, Yuna was wearing a bikini top with a skirt so short I could see the bottom of her arse Yevon it was beautiful. She had turned away from me playing with her hands while I sat there in the farplane as I looked at Yuna's beautifully shaped body, which no other woman's compared to. Or maybe it was the fact that I loved her so much that she just intoxicated me with her beauty, but I knew it wasn't all from my love for her, because I had been dazed from her beauty the very first time we met, or had I fallen in love with her the first time we met? I didn't know.
"Are you umm… mad at me?" Yuna said, still not giving me the decency to look in my eyes. I opened my mouth and shut it again, numerous times… because I think I was angry at her, well I was angry at something but I didn't exactly know what. I tried to talk because I didn't want to give her the silent treatment, I didn't want to upset her, but nothing came out.
"I'll go then... sorry I disturbed you… you should go and have a good time with the other girls, bye." Yuna said on the edge of tears which I could hear in her in the quiver of her voice, and she ran off again disappearing from my site before I had a chance to set things straight, or tell her how beautiful she looked.
I got off the crate and quickly ran in her direction pushing through the crowds and getting their sweat all over my body in the process, but surprisingly I didn't really care. It didn't take me long to find Yuna since she was a little further away from the crowds sitting on a rock with her head down on its surface, her body was rising and falling with sobs, and I wondered if she was maybe going through a rough time at the moment, well if she was I hadn't noticed like, I was such an idiot. I placed my arms around her and sat next to her, her body also slippery with sweat.
"I already said I'm not interested okay?" Yuna shouted with her head down. I laughed loudly, so men were coming up to her all night? Just like woman had been coming up to me. Geez the Al Bhed sure did get around and I didn't mean that in a bad way, they just liked to be friendly with everyone even if they didn't know them.
"So you've been getting admirers all night as well? Don't blame them... you look... Yevon... you look beautiful." I whispered into her ear.
"T-Tidus…" She sniffed raising her head. I grinned at her and nodded.
"Yep, the one and only ahhhh YUNA!"
She wrapped her arms around me and sent me crashing to the ground with her forceful embrace. We laid in the sand, which I knew was going to stick to my body. We stayed in the embrace just revelling in each others presence.
I ran my fingers over her back as she sobbed into my neck, dribbling the sand all over it then rubbing it so it covered her back, she didn't seem to care.
"I'm so sorry, I left you there for 5 hours or more." Yuna sobbed. "And you didn't know anyone, and why aren't you mad at me, and I" She lifted herself her hands resting on my shoulders as she pulled herself up.
"Oh I am angry." I grinned tucking some hair behind her ear as it fell down over her face.
"It feels nice being like this with you…" Yuna whispered running a hand down my chest.
"What with you crying and me angry?" I joked while I retuned the gesture and ran my fingers down her stomach, her smooth soft stomach. I started to become a little hot, thinking of Yuna in bad ways again and stared up at her passionatly. I wanted to make love to her, I wanted to be inside of her. I just wanted it so bad.
"No on top of you." Yuna corrected. "Or you on top of me." Yuna said rolling off me onto the ground and pulling my bodyon top of hers. She smiled lazily and continued to gaze at my face.
I was too shocked to say anything but nodded in reply rubbing some more sand over her stomach, hey it was fun. Okay so it was just an excuse to rub Yuna, she knew.
"I could have you make love to me right here." Yuna purred wrapping her legs around me, as if reading my yevon damned thoughts, I hated it when she did that, because it then made it harder for me.
"Yuna everyone's… just there…" I said nervously unclasping her legs from around me.
"They aren't watching, they don't care, and people probably have sex out on the dance floor." Yuna laughed.
"Well I can't do that Yuna I'm sorry, I'm not that type of person, us making love, is just for us no-one else, it's special you know?" I whispered running sand through her hair.
"I know." Yuna nodded pushing me off her gently; she slowly rose to her feet and held out her hand. "That's why we can go somewhere more private." I cast her and suspicious glance as she took my hand, having no idea what she had in mind, we ran through the dessert which slowly became less and less inhabited by dancing people until we reached the oasis, with the distant sound of heavy music in the background. I was surprised to see that it was completely empty, still calm and untouched.
"Not many people know about it, I just dig for Gippal that's how I know, the dessert is dangerous people don't wander from home too much." Yuna told me stripping her skirt off slowly, and watching my expression out of the corner of her eye as she did. She was left in a black bathing suit ready to hop into the water. Yevon about to have a meltdown right now. "Well are you just going to stand there and stare or are you actually going come over here and touch me? Prove yourself?" Yuna grinned placing her hands on her hips in an impatient manner. I walked over hesitantly, taking step at a time, and never taking my eyes off her, her expression slowly turned to one of passion as she eyed my body. I finally met her with an embrace kissing her soft delicate neck and shoulders frantically, my body over come with heat from the night and love for her. She backed towards the oasis and we fell into the water together. The water was freezing and I pushed hair against a wall claiming her body heat. I pinned her to the wall, intertwining my fingers with hers, and slowly took my head away from the crevice of her neck to gaze down upon her beautiful face.
"Tidus…" Yuna whispered her eyes fixed on my lips. "Tidus…" She repeated again a little softer.
"Yuna…" I replied taking her cheek in my hand.
"Tidus… kiss… me…" She closed her eyes slowly, pushing her body closer to mine before I met her lips with a soft kiss.
As we kissed the world around us faded, I couldn't hear anything, feel anything, taste anything apart from Yuna, because she was everything. My body grew weak with passion and I held her close to me never wanting to let her go. She had poisoned me. She wrapped her arms around my neck pulling me further down to her. The kiss was gentle, loving, I felt all my problems just drift away as her soft lips caressed mine. She then wrapped her legs around me, pushing away from the wall, and relying on me for total support as the kiss became a little rougher, I forced my tongue into her mouth wanting to completely taste her, and soon we were playing violently, caught up in each other.
"Well isn't that adorable."
I opened my eyes with surprise but kept my lips on Yuna who had also opened her eyes. After seeing Gippal there I rolled my eyes pulling away from Yuna.
"What do you want Gippal, as you can see where kind of busy!" Yuna spat holding onto me tightly.
"Oh I can see that, and I was just wondering Yuna, since your so comfortable with Tidus, if you have told him about your little secret? Either that or your just a woman with no shame taking pleasure from someone who you have done a terrible wrong by, doesn't the guilt hurt you Yuna…? Doesn't it just take a stab at your heart every time you look at him, or don't you care?" Gippal's eyes widened with amusement and Yuna pulled away from me with a look of betrayal in her eyes.
"Don't Gippal, just FUCK OFF!" Yuna screamed causing me to take a worried step back and glance nervously between the two in conflict.
"I wonder how Tidus' best friend… Mark was it? Is doing rotting in his grave, while you, his killer is here making out with Tidus, don't you have any shame Yuna, have a little respect for the dead." Gippal laughed. I saw Yuna had started to cry and turned around to me with tears in her eyes.
"What the in the Spira is going on here?" I demanded taking a step towards Yuna and keeping my eyes fixed on Gippal.
"Oh she didn't tell you? That she killed Mark?" Gippal said with an innocent look on his face. "Yes shot him right in the head the little bitch did."
"Only cause you told me to you bastard!" Yuna screamed breaking down in hysterical tears.
I froze, the world had just come crashing down onto my shoulders and before I had the chance to scream Gippal had started again.
"Oh you enjoyed it Yuna, you up on that roof with your gun, you live to kill you bitch, and now you live to manipulate the poor Praetor you really are sick aren't you?"
"NO! IT'S DIFFERENT YOU KNOW THAT GIPPAL I LOVE TIDUS!" Yuna yelled too afraid to look me in the eye.
"And Tidus, did she also forget to mention the little detail that she was going to marry you just to get out of her death sentence and get to your father, and kill him." Gippal asked me.
I turned away from him, I didn't want to ear anymore lies from him. "It's not true is it Yuna?" I asked. All I heard was her sobs. "Yuna just tell me it isn't true and I'll believe you." Again, more sobs. "YUNA WHY DON'T YOU JUST TELL ME IT ISN'T TRUE?" I yelled turning her around to face her shattered face.
"Because it is… I mean apart from the last part which was true but I stopped that plan along time ago when I fell in love with you, and GIPPAL COULDN'T TAKE IT!" Yuna cried turning away.
"WHAT!" I screamed tears growing in my eyes.
"The cold-hearted truth, doesn't it hurt Tidus, and here I thought you knew all along and that you were making out with the very girl that killed your best friend instead of avenging his death and killing her." Gippal laughed. "My My what a mix-up, here take her gun, it will be sweeter killing her with her own weapon."
Yuna flinched stepping back a little as I caught the gun in my hand aiming it at her head. I was so angry disgusted that I had almost made love to that woman, that I had loved her for the past few months, that I had! I was so angry infuriated and the gun shook in my hands. "How could you do that Yuna?" I said aiming it.
"I-I Gippal ordered me to, I just did what he said, I didn't even know you, or care about you, he was just someone else to me, if I had known that in the future I was going to realise what I idiot I was then I would never have done it." Yuna cried.
"Bitch I'm going to kill you." I yelled. "You manipulated me right from the start didn't you? FUCK YOU!"
"Gippal's the one manipulating everyone here!" Yuna flinched.
"Fuck you!" I cried falling a little lower; Yuna took a few steps back, this obviously being the first time she had heard me swear. I threw the gun at Gippal and slapped her hard across the face. "YEVON YUNA I LOVED YOU! NO I LOVE YOU! HOW COULD YOU…" I sobbed hitting her again. "I can't kill you, I can't!" I felt my whole body collapse and I walked out of the water standing beside Gippal. "You will pay Yuna, and this time I mean it!" I ran out of there, away to hear her yell something about me leaving her alone with Gippal. But I didn't care, maybe I did, but I couldn't let her take control of my emotions anymore, I was running away from it all, running back home.
Saturn Stars
