A/n: Hey, some I'm here with the next chapter. I haven't been updating faster cuze I got three to work on. Isn't that funny? Yeah so it isn't, I guess, it's just hard. I call this punishment but hey, it's fun to write! That's why I joined this site.
Chapter 5 Mission On, New Client
Yuna POV
Who did he think he was? There will not be a next time when I will find myself in that motion, again. Things are to risky to me and I would not want it to happen. I would have let it happen but it is just what had happened to me some time before... I knew that meant that I was just afraid of the clutches that what love held. I never knew what it meant, not the kind when our parent would put the covers on you before you sleep, the kind when two different genders would unite in happiness. Yes, I was scared what would happen to me whether it was unfortunate nor fortunate. If it was to be the unlucky one then I would just burn up inside and never know what it would be to be in love. But, however, if it was the one to be lucky... it would just interfere with my mission. That would make me refuse to go, making me scared that I might never see the man that I loved ever again. Those were the things that I avoided... and I was going to make sure that I was going to keep it in my mind.
"Yuna, he's here," I heard Paine say behind my back. I had a feeling that she walked closer to my being since I heard the sound of her voice in a much louder sound. "Are you sure that you are okay? Look, if you don't feel like going on this mission then you can take the day o-"
"No." I had enough. She didn't say any matters that had hurt me but I just wasn't in the mood to hear so much things about myself. "We will be going on this mission. If you want me to take the day off, I wont have your offer. If you want, maybe you might be the one who wants the offer."
Shaking her head, she seemed to have groaned under her breath signifying to me that I was being a pain right now. "No. It's okay. I don't want it either. Anyways we are in this together." Approaching me to the side, she put a hand on my shoulder and turned me to face her. She seemed to have been surprised by looking at me, in the face where my emotions were let out the most in appearance.
Reaching up to my face, I put my wondering fingers on the skin under my eyes and felt the wetness that was released with anger and confusion. Yes, I was surprised too that I had been crying silently. I didn't believe myself to let them go so easily, I wasn't like this. I had been crying silently with the eyebrows of my face furrowed. Shaking her off, I took a step back, wiped away the descending tears that went downward my face and held my head up as if nothing had happened. I was feeling more vulnerable now since I had let my emotions run loose. That was also something that I had to avoid.
Taking a wise step to face him, I looked into his eyes as if I was tremendously mad at him but I wasn't. I was just in a state where I wanted him to know not ever to do that again, there was no reason to get angry at him like that. He didn't know. I walked to the screen where it would show the next database in a digital green. The problem was that we didn't know where it was so it had nothing to show from it's mind. This was when it was time for him to do his job that was required for us to defeat the other remaining cores. I would be disappointed to ever find out that he was all a fake. If he would do this part correctly then it would show that he wasn't a fraud. I was hoping that he wouldn't because there was something about him that I wasn't sure of. But I knew that it was something for me to avoid since I knew that it had to do with him.
Pointing to the screen and the controls that lay on a key pad underneath that was placed upon a counter, I spoke without making eye contact, "Tidus, I want you to put in the code for the nearest core that we can go after. I am sure that you know how to use this and what it is, that is if you are only a fraud that is here to set us up." Putting down my hand, I placed in on my hips. For some reason, I didn't want him to see my eyes and so I snapped my fingers and my cyan shades came to their full form. I put my gloved hands onto my hip and the rest of my companions watched, including me to what he was going to do.
"Right," I heard him mutter. "I'll put in the code for the nearest core." He stopped talking and got to his work. Surely enough, he knew what he was doing. There was no puzzlement in his eyes. "41254426," was he said under his breath while entering the numbers on the key pad. I knew that he pressed the enter key and the picture of the database showed itself on the screen." That was good memory and that meant that he was put in a lot of discipline to do so. Taking a step back, he looked up to the screen and started to tell us what we were going to do. "This is sector 368. It is the third database but it is the nearest one for now. When I went here, there was a locked door to the opening to the exit. The exit to the next part of the database. I don't know how you three are going to get to that part but I will try to break the code."
"So you mean that we go in there and do whatever we can to take out the haywire machina while you're doing that?" my cousin asked while cocking her head to one side while looking at the picture that lay before her.
"Yes," Tidus responded. "That's what you're going to do. Take out the machina while I do that. It's may take awhile since I've been trying this for some time now since I went there and that was a long time ago but not that long." This was not going to work. What if he hadn't broken the code yet and we were already to the part when we took out all the machina. I opened my mouth to protest but he talked once again, "But, I was thinking that if there is someone that we can find who can break the code that isn't me. Someone that had more experience."
'Gippal,' my mind whispered. 'He knows these kinds of things.' "Tidus, Rikku, Paine, I think that I know who can do that." Yes, I already knew that he was off with his crew on machina business but this was urgent and I had just remembered that he knew how to do these things and fast. "Gippal. He's really at a state of excellent on these things."
My cousin, Rikku, smiled but then frowned all of a sudden. When she talked, there was sadness in her voice also hints of pity. "Yunie, you know that he can't though. Well, yes, he can but he's busy now and I have no idea when he will be finished. But I'm telling you, Yunie, how is that possible?" She began to walk in circles around me and then she stopped and put a finger at her chin. "Say, Yunie, hey, but then I was thinking, maybe he'll come and do it, just for me? Well, I'm not bragging or anything it's just that… I want him to be here for two things."
She did have an idea but didn't he leave in the first place for himself? I mean, he didn't want to leave but Rikku had asked for him to stay for her and the answer that she had gotten was, "No." I still remember that, that was the day when she ended up crying for a long period of time. "Rikku… I think that may be a good idea but I…" there was this part of me which suggested that I should keep this piece of statement to myself. Just when I was going to let out the remaining part of my sentence, there was this sound on the transmitter of the screen. I knew that it wasn't the man that worked for us in the manufacture because he had already called us and we had gotten our suits already. Rikku started to jump and Paine walked closer to the screen, Tidus glanced back to me and I gave him a puzzling look. "What is happening?"
Turning, so that he didn't see my face, he responded back to my question, "Someone has gotten the code number of your ship and now is trying to signal you into a conversation or some other type of communicating. So that would mean that it is someone that you all know or that it is just a hacker that is trying to get some information out of you."
"So what do you think we should do?" Paine muttered suddenly just when I was about to talk. "It's either we answer back or that we just shut them off. It's mostly your choice, Yuna, you're the leader."
Everyone didn't move except for me: I stood on my spot and kept glancing from side to side. It would be risky but then it could help at the same time. If we choice to, then we would be risking some of our information to someone that we didn't know. The other thing was that if we did and it was someone that was on a side similar to ours, like we are all after the cores, then that would mean that we would get more help. Two things… and I was a person who was going to risk it. If things were to go wrong then all we'll do is just shut them off and not respond back. We were going to talk to them. "Yes," I sighed out. "Answer back to what they say but if anything happens to go wrong, then I want you, Tidus, to turn the transmitter off. You all get that?" They nodded.
Walking up to the counter, Tidus put his hands on the key pad and started to type in the keys that represented the letters. Surely, he was quite a fast typist unlike me. I was okay but not that fast. The firs thing that he put in was: "Who are you?"
Whoever was the one that was talking to us responded, "I cannot tell you."
Tidus: Why is that? Then why is the reason that you have called through the transmitter?
unknown: I have a favour to ask the one that they call the Tight Fusions here. Are they here?
Tidus: Yes, they are here and I happen to be someone that is helping them so consider me as one.
Rikku grabbed my arm considering that there wasn't any cloth to grab on. "Yunie! Since when he was part of the group?"
I shook her off since I was focusing on the conversation between them. "Rikku, leave him be. I would like to see what is happening clearly now." Pouting, she took a step away and folded her arms at the front of her chest, sighing in annoyance.
unknown: Well, then, helper. I would like to have help on getting through the ZAMS' database, to break down all the cores.
Tidus: So that means that you would like to have help.
unknown: Yes and I was thinking that this group can help since I have heard about them destroying one core already.
Tidus: I see.
unknown: So that means that you'll work for me?
Tidus: I didn't say that we'd be working for you. You're just going to be teaming up with us. Is there anything that you're really good at?
unknown: Well, I could break codes.
Tidus: What kinds? Simple ones or just simple ones?
unknown: Both.
Tidus: Good then. We'll be working with you.
unknown: Right. So is there something that you want me to do? If not, I have something for you all to do. After all, just think of me as a client.
Tidus: Eh. We would want you to break the code for sector 368. There is some door there that is locked and has some kind of code to break to get through. Think that will keep you busy?
unknown: Yeah. I don't think that it'll be much so I think that you should get there now. Okay, then bye
Tidus: Wait. Before you leave, who are you?
unknown: Don't worry, err, Tidus, I'm someone that's on your side.
Tidus: Then why can't I see what your name is when you can see mine. Is there something that you are hiding?
unknown: Yes. Everything is hiding something aren't they?
I noticed that Tidus froze and then he responded. There was something that Tidus was definitely hiding and I was going to find out soon and for the better.
Tidus: Yes.
unknown: Well, we're understood.
Tidus: Okay.
unknown: Okay, say bye to Cid's girl for me.
Tidus: Cid's girl? Who's that?
unknown: Damn! Never mind what I said.
Tidus: Okay….
unknown: Okay, get going, I'll be working on the code. Over and out.
Tidus: Over and out.
Turning to face us, Tidus spoke with some satisfaction in his voice, it made him sound much more mature. "So, you heard that. We have to get moving. The male or female said that they would be working on the code and would break it fast. Ready-"
I stopped him. "Aren't I the one who was giving out the commands?"
He looked away and from what I saw, I think that his cheeks flushed. "Right," he whispered not talking to me in the eye.
"Hey!" Rikku shouted in an inappropriate voice. "But did you see what the guy said?" she asked waving her arms in a gesture that was annoying Paine and I. I was assuming that it was making Tidus feel the same.
Paine crossed her arms and then let out in a sullen voice, "What makes you so sure that person was a male?" Her crimson eyes looked at Rikku in a glare that would make Rikku give out a good reason. That's what Paine's eyes usually did when she wanted them to.
Abruptly stopping the waving of her arms, she put her small hands on the sides of her hips and looked at the three of us as if she were a teacher of grade school and we were her students to teach. "Well, has anyone noticed that that person had typed in something like, 'Say hi to Cid's girl for me?' well that person happens to be my father, and, you Yunie, you're uncle! And this person happens to know how to break codes, and well. Don't you know what that could mean?"
"What?" the three of us said in unison.
"That means that person could be Gippal! Hello, has anyone been thinking of that!" she yelled out now waving her arms again. This caused me to laugh lightly, Tidus to be left in question and Paine to get to the controls bringing the Celsius to sector 368.
"Give it up, Rikku. Your boyfriend is out to do more important things. That just could have been someone else. Look, you're father was the leader of the Al Bhed tribe and Gippal was the leader for something else, I don't care. So they must've picked it up from them or something. Anyways, we have something else on mind and I don't want to waste my time on this, okay?" There was something that Rikku muttered as she strolled off but I couldn't quite understand what it was.
"Who's this Gippal person?" Tidus asked me while the other two were preparing for the Celsius to take off heading towards sector 368. He walked up to my back and stayed faced the opposite way so that we didn't see each other. That, for one thing, I was happy.
"That's just someone that Rikku's very close to. Now get to work. I think that we'll be taking you with us on the mission, into the database." I had no idea how he would survive without a suit but I knew that we would find some way to manage.
"Okay," is what he responded to say. The both of us walked to the controls and started to help Rikku and Paine one the task that we all wanted to do right and finish.
Yuna-BlueO'Hara
