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Author's Notes: Ouch…that's all I'm going to say. Oh, and I'm not entirely sure if what happens in this chapter is even truly possible but I figure for this chapter you guys can leave reality and pretend with me for a while J


TWISTED DESTINY
by akksgurl
Chapter Seven: Busted

After spending nearly an hour trying to convince Lenne that she and Tidus hadn't had a 'date', Yuna found herself thankfully extracted from the uncomfortable situation by Lenne's announcement that she needed to rest up for tomorrow.

"You're going to the game, aren't you?" she asked, her eyes foretelling untold shock if Yuna's answer had been anything but yes.

"I suppose." Replied Yuna, "When is it?"

Lenne sighed, "It's kinda early for an Abe's game. It's at 11 but the boys have to be there by 9. I do too, actually. Shuyin got me a gig performing to keep the fans occupied until blitzoff."

"That sounds like fun." But Yuna only half meant it. She couldn't imagine performing for people who were there to see a blitzball game and not yourself to be much fun.

Lenne shrugged and started back toward the bedrooms, "It keeps me occupied until I start touring again. Anyway, goodnight!"

"Goodnight."

Yuna stood in the silence for several minutes after Lenne's door shut firmly behind her. She soaked up the quiet around her. She wasn't sure if that conversation would ever have been over had it not become so late. Lenne seemed bound and determined to set her up with Tidus. Nevermind the fact that Tidus obviously wasn't the slightest bit interested in her. If he had been…

Well…it wouldn't have been a near-kiss.

Thinking about Tidus made Yuna antsy and when she felt that way, her mind wandered to her hyperactive cousin, Rikku. What would Rikku think of Tidus? She'd think he was gorgeous…obviously. But what would she think of his personality; of the 'inner' Tidus?

"She'd think he was perfect…" Yuna sighed, ruefully, "Just like I do…"

Annoyed for no apparent reason, Yuna slipped on a pair of sandals she kept by the front door, grabbed her keys from the table, and walked out. She was in desperate need of fresh air. The walls felt like they were closing in on her. She hated feeling like this. Though she wasn't raised spoiled, she had never truly wanted for anything. With the exception of her father, of course, and even then she knew he was watching over her and she could go and see him in the Farplane whenever she wanted to.

Yuna stopped in mid-stride, her jaw dropping suddenly.

…Farplane…!

Taking off into a run down the street, Yuna made a sharp left-turn and continued her streak down that road until she reached a small house hidden in the shade by one of the only trees still standing in Zanarkand. She hated pounding on Auron's door at almost midnight, but she had to and so she did.

"Sir Auron!" she hissed as loudly as she dared, "Sir Auron! Are you in there?"

There was no answer and it was only then that Yuna noticed all the lights were off in the house. Auron was either sound asleep, or not home. Disappointed, but not deterred, Yuna sat down on the stood determined to wait until Auron appeared. Fortunately, she didn't have to wait long for just as the moon became hidden behind a large cloud in the sky, Yuna saw the outline of Auron coming over the hill from the opposite way she came.

"Yuna? What are you doing here?" he asked in a fatherly tone when he came closer. He frowned at her and quickly opened the door, "You should be home asleep. Quick, come in."

She followed him, entering his home for only the second time since she'd been in Zanarkand. She had never taken Auron for a neat person, but that's exactly what he was. One might even classify him as obsessively cleanly. There was a place for everything and everything was in its place. Yuna never saw a speck of dust or a scrap of paper littering the furniture. If Auron picked something up, it went back exactly where he found it.

"Sir Auron…I think I might have discovered our salvation."

"Me too." He said, removing his red coat and hanging it ever so neatly on the coat rack by the front door. He sat a small brown envelope on the coffee table as he slipped his shoes off next and indicated for Yuna to do the same.

He didn't allow people to wear their shoes in his house. It might dirty the carpet.

Yuna was not to be deterred by his announcement. Instead that fueled her even more. With a triumphant grin, Yuna replied, "The Farplane, Sir Auron, when Wakka and Lulu go to see me in the Farplane I won't be there, because I'm not dead."

Auron didn't show any emotion at her thought. Instead he sat down on the pristine sofa and began to pour the contents of the envelope onto the table and put it into a neat pile.

"Sir Auron? Aren't you going to say something?"

Auron looked up at her with almost pity in his eyes, "Yuna…don't you think I would have thought of that already?" he sighed and leaned back, "We're 1000 years in the past Yuna. Even though we're still alive here, we're dead there. So even if your friends go to the Farplane to see you…they'll still see you. Right now the Farplane of the future thinks we're dead because we certainly won't live 1000 years. They'll just see us after we die here."

Yuna frowned deeply, her hope deflating as quickly as it had risen. She was hoping that if Wakka or Lulu or…even Rikku if she broke Al Bhed belief and entered the Farplane…had seen that she wasn't there, that maybe…just maybe.

"We can't give up hope, Sir Auron. We don't know for sure if it's the way you say."

Auron nodded, "That's true, Yuna, but we mustn't depend on them. We must figure this out for ourselves and I think I have found a way. I was going to discuss this with you later, but since you're here…"

"Does this have to do with the envelope?" Yuna asked, peering over to the contents Auron had so lovingly arranged.

"I got this information from a Bevelle military aid that I paid a small fortune to." He shuffled through the information until he found a small sphere and handed it to Yuna, "I had heard tell about this, but needed proof."

It looked like a giant head with horns. Something Yuna had read about in horror books about monsters from the deep that came to destroy the world. Yet there was something oddly robotic about it, even in sphere recordings. It wasn't moving, just staring off into space. Bevelle guards were pacing around before it. They obviously weren't afraid of it. It appeared to have a keyboard on it's head, nestled between the horns.

"What is this?" Yuna asked when the recording stopped.

"According to my source, it is called Vegnagun."

"…Vegnagun…" Yuna repeated dumbly, her mind unable to wrap itself around the reasoning behind building such a huge weapon.

"According to my source, it can blow Zanarkand away with a single shot."

Yuna's eyes widened in disbelief and she dropped the sphere in her hand. It landed with relative ease on the carpeted floor and rolled under the table toward Auron's foot. He gave her a reprimanding look, but Yuna was oblivious to everything except that information, "A single shot?! Why? How?"

Auron replied while bending to retrieve the sphere, "I guess when they declare war on Zanarkand, they wanted it to be a short one."

"But they never used Vegnagun. Why?"

Auron shrugged, "I don't know why." He replied as he sat the sphere back gently onto the table, "And it doesn't matter. What matters is that I know where it is and we're going to use it."

"Use it?!" Yuna shrieked, standing quickly and pacing back and forth on the carpet, "Are you out of your mind? Why would we use something that can destroy an entire country?!"

"Because…if it can destroy a country then it can destroy Sin just as easily."

Yuna stopped her pacing and stood to face Auron. She knew this man and yet at this moment it was like she'd never seen him before. A man who had always relied on his own strength was advocating using a weapon so powerful that it would probably kill Sin and everything within a thousand mile radius without breaking a sweat, "But I thought you didn't want to change the present for fear of what it would do to the future. That's why you lied to Tidus, Shuyin, and Lenne. That's why you had me lie."

Auron heaved a heavy sigh and stood as well to face her, "Here's my thinking on this. We both got here through Sin. It stands to reason that we'd be able to get back the same way. Yet without your summons we can't do anything against him. That's why we need Vegnagun. We get it and then when Sin appears, we blow a hole in him and go home."

"But that would change everything! Lady Yunalesca and Lord Zaon are supposed to defeat Sin first. That would change the course of history!"

"Would you rather stay here forever?"

Yuna paused in thought. She loved Zanarkand just like she knew she would. She loved the places and the people. She loved waking up every morning to the sound of happy and laughing people echoing into her window.

Yet…

She missed Wakka and Lulu and Rikku. She missed the comforts of Besaid and the quiet. She missed the lapping of the beach at sunrise. She missed the cool ocean breeze at sunset.

"No…I don't."

Auron nodded and began shuffling the information back into the envelope from whence it came, "Once I figure out how to get to Vegnagun, I'll let you know. My source says Vegnagun won't be ready until December. That gives us a month. The exact time of the start of the war and the arrival of Sin is still up in the air. There have been varying accounts for years. I suppose that anytime now it'll happen, but I'm willing to bet that we'll be home by early next year if all goes as planned."

"We'll be home next year..." Yuna repeated.

And Tidus will be dead.

Try as she might, Yuna couldn't force herself to be happy with her impending homecoming.

Within a few minutes, Yuna was on her way back home from Auron's with the new plan still making circles in her head. It sounded far too drastic and yet she couldn't come up with another way. It seemed to be the only logical way to get home.

She hadn't thought about the war as 'impending' until then. It had always seemed so far away from her. Yet, she always knew in the back of her mind that it was coming. Yet the thought of Shuyin, or Lenne, or, horribly, Tidus dying…or dead…sent chills down her spine. Yet she knew that was how their stories ended. She knew it in her head, but she couldn't tell her heart the same thing. Not yet.

Yuna stopped and bit her lip. If Tidus was going to die anyway, then it shouldn't matter whether she acted on her feelings. If he didn't have a future, then there wasn't one to mess up. Damn it. She wanted to kiss him. She was going to kiss him and to hell with the consequences.

With her new resolve, Yuna turned and headed in the direction of Tidus and Shuyin's boat. It was almost two in the morning but she knew from what Shuyin and Lenne said that Tidus rarely slept and was usually up until four in the morning and ready to go by eight.

Laughter greeted her as Yuna crested the slight incline leading to Tidus' houseboat. In the distance she saw two figures laughingly trying to jump over the gap. As Yuna closed in she recognized Tidus with his arm draped lazily over an attractive blonde's shoulders. Jealousy so fierce and anger so potent that they almost strangled her formed in Yuna at that moment. How dare he try to kiss her if he already had a girlfriend! How dare Lenne act like their little 'date' was a good thing if it was brought on by him cheating on someone.

Wait…

Did Lenne even know Tidus had a girlfriend? Probably not. The lying jerk!

Yuna stormed angrily the few yards further until she was within smacking distance of Tidus. She took total advantage. Her hand connected with his cheek and he blinked at her for a moment as if trying to figure out where he knew her from. Then Yuna noticed the whiskey bottle in his free hand.

He was drunk…

That just made her more angry.

"Y…Yuna?" he hiccupped, "What'd I do?"

She snorted furiously, "You try to kiss me when you've already got a girlfriend? How dare you!" The girl opened her mouth but Yuna glared at her, "I don't want to hear it!" she shouted, turning attention back to Tidus, "I don't want to hear your excuses. You've got to save them up. After all, I'm sure that your coach won't be happy when the star of the Abes shows up hung over."

And as Yuna turned and stormed back to her house, the only thing to betray her hurt was a thin line of tears barely visible in the dim light.

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"Memories…it's just memories…it's not real." Rationalized Rikku as she took her first tentative steps into the Farplane. Being raised as an Al Bhed had instilled in her a firm belief that entering the Farplane was a worthless endeavor.

Memories are nice, but that's all they are.

The simple fact was, though, that the Farplane scared her. Even though she knew it wasn't ghosts she was going to see, they were the visions of the dead so they were almost ghosts.

"If you're scared you should probably turn back."

Rikku jumped at the voice that came suddenly out of the quiet and she spun around. Gippal was standing just behind her with his ever-ready smirk on his features but a look of waryness in his eyes.

Rikku scowled at him, "Why'd you sneak up on me? I thought you weren't coming."

"Somebody's gotta make sure you don't do something stupid."

Rikku bunched up her hand into a fist and hit him hard on the left shoulder. At least…she thought she'd hit him hard because her fist ached afterward, but Gippal barely even flinched. He just smirked at her even more, "Well…I love you too Rikku."

"No you don't." she hissed, "You shouldn't say stuff that you don't mean. It's called lying!"

"What are you? The Vocabulary Queen all of the sudden?"

She sneered at him, all previous trepidation about venturing into the Farplane was gone. She turned her back to him and muttered over her shoulder, "I'm here to check on Yunie. You can go. I'm fine."

She knew he was following her but she didn't acknowledge it. Deep inside she felt better knowing he was there if she needed help, but she wasn't about to admit it.

The entrance to the Farplane was up a slight incline of steps. Rikku knew the place well. This was where she had sat when Yuna, Lulu, and Wakka had gone inside during their brief stay in Guadosalam – shortly after Seymour had proposed marriage to Yuna. She knew it, she just never ventured into the strange, almost liquid-like doorway. Gippal stopped a few feet behind her as Rikku reached out and touched the liquid-like substance. It was cold to the touch and it shivered as her fingers connected with it.

"Weird…" Gippal whispered from behind her. He put a hand on her shoulder and pulled her back against his chest, "I don't like this Rikku."

"Then leave." She retorted briskly as she took a deep breath and walked into the doorway.

The Farplane was not at all like she had imagined it to be. She'd pictured a dark place where visions of the dead came to you as you mourned for them. Instead the Farplane was brightly lit. It was a circular room-like area with clouds for walls. It was almost as if it was a large rock floating in the middle of the sky. Rikku spun around several times to take in the beauty of it.

Why would the Al Bhed not want to come here?

"Are you okay?" Gippal shouted from the other side of the archway.

Rikku stopped spinning and put her hands on her hips in annoyance, "Will you stop being a dork and come in here? And if you don't do that, just leave. The Farplane won't bite!"

The archway shivered a little and Gippal walked slowly through it, his eyes closed tightly and his fists balled at his sides like he did when he was scared. He was such a wuss. Rikku honestly wondered sometimes how he survived the Crimson Squad. He was scared of his own shadow at times.

She rolled her eyes at him, "Stop being such a baby. We're here for a reason you know."

His eyes slowly slid open, although only one was visible behind the patch he wore. Gippal bit his lip, "Okay fine. Let's get this over with so I can get you out of here."

"What's with the gallant hero act all of the sudden?" Rikku questioned, "I remember a boy who left me in the path of stampeding Chocobos when I was 9."

Gippal shrugged, "Chocobos are a much better way to go than being possessed by an evil spirit."

"You're such a dork."

"I know."

Rikku sighed and focused on one of the cloud walls, "I don't know how to do this but…well…let's just try it." She closed her eyes and let her mind drift to her cousin. She was going over all the happy memories in her mind when Gippal's words jarred her.

"I thought Yuna was 17…"

Rikku lifted an eyebrow without opening her eyes, "She was…"

"Then…why does she look 60?"

That caught Rikku's attention and her eyes flew open. She had to stifle a gasp of horror when she saw what Gippal was referring to. It was Yuna, definitely. Rikku recognized her cousin's beautiful duel-colored eyes, but that was all she recognized. The woman standing before Rikku was at least 60…possibly older than that. Her hair was cut in a short gray bob. She was slightly overweight although Rikku surmised that it may have been an optical illusion thanks to the pants the woman was wearing. They were an odd gray fabric that clung to her in strange places and didn't cling to her in places they should have. On top she wore a white puffy shirt with a hood and an odd logo Rikku couldn't quite make out.

"What?!"

Gippal swallowed hard and grabbed Rikku's elbow, trying to pull her toward the exit, "This is why we don't go to the Farplane. It's weird shit like this that keeps Al Bhed out!"

Rikku nodded dumbly, still staring at the ghostly figure before her. This didn't make any sense. It was always her understanding that visions in the Farplane were of people the way they looked at the time of their deaths. So…why would Yuna look like she'd enjoyed several good decades after defeating Sin?

"Let's get out of here!" Gippal hissed in her ear.

Rikku agreed, "Yeah, I need to tell Lulu and Wakka about this. Maybe they'll know what's going on."

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Could the day get any worse?

That was the question Tidus was asking himself with increasing regularity for the last several hours. It had all started when Reanna had suggested that maybe Yuna wasn't as into him as he was into her in regard to the 'kiss' incident and how she hadn't even mentioned it afterward. That sent Tidus down a pity party spiral which then sent him to drinking away his disappointment.

The next thing Tidus knew, Yuna was slapping him for having a girlfriend and he was suddenly realizing how it must have looked with his arms draped over Reanna.

Now Yuna wasn't talking to him, Lenne was angry with him – no doubt for the same reason –, Shuyin wasn't talking about it and Tidus was fighting off a horrible headache.

Could the day get any worse?

Well…the answer to that question was yes. Yes it could.

They were playing the Bevelle Wildcats in a once a year match that pitted the two cities against each other in a game of skills. The Wildcats were notoriously rough but none so more than #43, Werner Padruski. Werner hated Tidus for innumerable reasons but the most recent being that Tidus had unwittingly stolen Werner's girlfriend from him. That girlfriend…being Reanna.

"There's not much he can do to you during the game, Ti." Reanna said to him, rubbing his shoulder gently, "Now after the game…" she let her words trail off with an insolent smirk.

He rolled his eyes at her, "How do you know I was worrying about that?"

"It was either Werner or Yuna so I took a guess." She grinned, "I was right…wasn't I? You'll think about Yuna after the game."

"All right boys!" Coach Wargna shouted, saving Tidus from having to make a response, "It's time. Play hard, play rough, play to win!"

The team shouted their enthusiasm but Tidus chose to remain quiet. Reanna punched him playfully in the chest and ran out with the rest of the team. Shuyin shot Tidus a weak smile and followed. Tidus was the last out of the locker room and the last into the blitz sphere.

He immediately saw Lenne in a bright red dress as she made her way to her seat and then Tidus saw Yuna. He resisted the urge to jump out of the sphere pool and make her listen to his explanation. That would just have to wait.

Taking his eyes from Yuna, Tidus swam into the center of the pool for blitzoff and came face to face with Werner who was doing blitzoff for the Wildcats. Werner wasn't what anyone would call handsome. He had fiery red hair that would have looked fine if it wasn't the same color as his nose. That nose…it was almost twice the size of his face and he was missing his front teeth from blitzball games past. Reanna told Tidus that she was attracted to Werner's personality, but Tidus found even that hard to believe. Werner certainly didn't seem like a nice guy.

Werner sneered at Tidus but Tidus ignored the taunt. He wasn't going to let Werner bait him. He was going to play this game and then talk to Yuna. Maybe if he was lucky her sudden act of anger last night was fueled by the fact that she liked him. Maybe he could still make things work.

Blitzoff

The buzzer sounded and Tidus dove for the ball, grabbing onto it and hurling it toward Shuyin before Werner could react. The red-head glared at Tidus and went after Shuyin who quickly passed the ball to Reanna and then it went back to Shuyin.

Another Abe's player, Skirpa, was there and Shuyin lunged the ball at him. Skirpa caught it with ease and went in for the goal.

Abes: 1, Wildcats: 0

Blitzoff

Wildcat's player #12 got the ball first and went the distance with it and was clear to the other side of the sphere pool by the time Tidus caught up with him. Tidus easily relieved him of the ball by swimming beneath the unsuspecting player and pulling it from his loose grip.

Werner was there to block his pass, but Tidus managed to get it passed him and to Shuyin who went in for the goal. As the ball passed through the Wildcat's net, Tidus looked back at Werner. The red-head was glaring at him with a new fury. Tidus just shrugged with an 'that's life' attitude and swam toward the next blitzoff.

Abes: 2, Wildcats: 0

Blitzoff!!

Werner received the ball first and shot it off toward his teammate as they made a mad dash toward the Abe's goal. Tidus was in hot pursuit as the ball went sailing away in a botched pass job back to Werner. He grabbed the ball and began to swim toward the Wildcat defense. Werner dashed passed him and turned to block his pass, but Tidus didn't intend to pass. He threw the ball into the air and did a modified version of his bicycle kick. The ball sailed passed the Wildcat defenses and into the net.

As Tidus landed back into the pool, he saw a look of sheer fury on Werner's face and before Tidus could react, Werner's foot slammed out suddenly and connected with Tidus' knee. Even in the water, Tidus could hear the bones snapping as his knee bent back in the opposite direction.

Tidus had grown up knowing that you never open your mouth in a blitzball sphere because the water will rush in very quickly and you'd risk drowing, but even with that knowledge the agony of his knee was so great that Tidus let out a scream muffled only by the rushing water making its way to his lungs.

Realizing what was happening, Tidus struggled not to panic but he was unable to maintain his level in the water or to reach the surface with one leg out of commission. Panic started to set in as he began to sink to the bottom, clawing helplessly at the water. The other players didn't notice him. They hadn't seen what happened. Werner smirked smugly at Tidus and then turned to swim innocently toward the blitzoff that would never be.

The world started turning black around him when Tidus felt arms around his waist and felt himself being pulled to the surface. Sputtering and hacking as the air invaded his lungs, Tidus struggled to open his eyes but gave up out of sheer exhaustion. The pain in his knee was lessening as he began to get more and more used to it.

"Ti…Tidus…talk to me!" Shuyin was shouting, shaking him roughly, "Tidus. Can you here me?"

"That red-headed guy kicked him. I saw it." That was Yuna.

"Here's the doctor. Everything's gonna be okay, Tidus." Reanna's voice did little to comfort him. Even in his partially conscious state, he knew Yuna wouldn't be happy Reanna was there.

"Has he spoken?"

"No." Shuyin said, "but he's been squeezing my hand pretty hard. I think he's at least a little awake."

Tidus felt his face form a frown. He'd been squeezing Shuyin's hand? He hadn't even realized it.

Tidus felt the impartial hands of the doctor touching his ankle and his thigh before pressing against his knee. Tidus shot up straight as a pained scream broke from his throat. His eyes were wide open and he no longer felt sleepy, just angry.

"What the hell'd you do that for? That hurts!" he shouted at the doctor.

The doctor was un-phased as he said to Shuyin, "It appears to be broken. We'll have to set it at the hospital."

"No shit Sherlock. Of course it's broken." Tidus replied caustically, "It bent in the opposite direction!"

"Ti…" Shuyin replied with a reprimanding look, "Be nice. He's only trying to help."

"What are you? My mother?" hissed Tidus. He hated it when Shuyin reprimanded him like he knew better. It was Tidus' knee throbbing. Shuyin didn't know anything about it.

Shuyin rolled his eyes and said to the doctor, "Can we drug him while we're at it? It'd make for a more pleasant ride."

As it went, Tidus escaped being drugged into a stupor because Lenne put her foot down about it and Shuyin never did anything against what Lenne wanted. Tidus used think that Shuyin was weak and whipped, but in this particular instance he was grateful for Lenne's power over his brother.

Shuyin rode in the ambulance with Tidus and the doctors. A police officer was there too, asking Tidus if he wanted to press charges against Werner over an unprovoked attack during a down period of a blitzball game. While Tidus would have loved to see Werner rot in prison for a while, he didn't want to start anything more so he opted against it. It was bad enough having Werner out for blood. He didn't want the entire Bevelle team out for it too. Werner was their best player.

After a minor operation to set the knee in place, Tidus was put into a sturdy cast and told that he wouldn't be able to play blitzball until it was fully healed. They figured it'd take at least three to four months for that; probably longer.

Great…

Shuyin was in and out, bringing him food and letting him know what the Blitzball Association was doing with Werner. Tidus may not have pressed legal charges, but the BA wasn't about to let Werner's actions go unpunished. According to Shuyin, he'd been officially discharged from the Bevelle Wildcats and ordered to pay back all the people who lost out when the game was abruptly canceled due to his actions. He was also forced to pay another $2 million dollars in salary for a temporary Tidus replacement in future Abes games of the current season.

Later that afternoon, the door to Tidus' room creaked open and Yuna's beautiful face peered in, "Are you okay?" she asked quietly.

He nodded, on in."

She slowly obliged him, closing the door silently behind her. Even in the darkened room, she was the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen. She gave him a weak smile, "I'm sorry I hit you. And I'm sorry I over-reacted about your girlfriend. I mean…you didn't kiss me so no harm done. I just hope she wasn't too angry with you."

"Yuna…" he whispered, patting the bed next to him. Yuna sat down quietly next to him and he drew up his courage and grasped her hands in his own, "Reanna is just a friend. I used to date her. I'll admit that. But it didn't work and now we're friends. I was out with her last night because I was too stupid to call you."

Her beautiful eyes searched his as if trying to find some truth in his words, "You wanted to hang out with me last night? But…you acted so weird after…"

"I know that. And I'm sorry." He scooted into a higher sitting position next to her, "I was acting dumb because I felt like an idiot for not kissing you when I had the chance and I was worried that you might have been disgusted at the prospect."

"I wouldn't have been." She replied with a grin, her first natural one of the conversation.

"Well…let's see then…" Tidus replied, leaning in closer, "I think we were….here…"

Her breath touched his face as her eyes slid shut and her mouth parted. Tidus followed suit and moved closer until his lips brushed hers in the softest of kisses. He opened his eyes slightly to see her reaction and saw a smile on her face so he leaned in again and kissed her harder this time. He dragged his tongue lightly along her bottom lip until her mouth fell open and her own tongue gingerly explored his mouth as he explored hers.

Moments later they pulled away, Tidus with a grin and Yuna with a blush. She bit her lip as she looked up at him, "I…I liked that."

"I liked that too."

"I like you…" she whispered.

"I like you too…"