When Yuna chooses to return to Bevelle for the summer, will that spell disaster in every single way? The summer supplement to "A Foreign Home"

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PART IV

The Summer Supplement

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Hello everybody! I'm back from tennis camp! Whoo, talk about the most fun I've ever had playing tennis! It was so awesome, 'cause I realized that I NEVER play tennis for fun, and finally, I was! It was great. Anyway though, I hope the wait didn't kill you, but here it is: CHAPTER 10! Get excited, people! Currently, I am typing chapter 11, and something tells me that this story is probably going to have 13 chapters, just so you know! Enjoy!

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Chapter 10: The Truth

Yuna went to her own empty house instead of going back to Rikku's. She felt like she just had to be alone.

She had no idea who had done anything or even what was right and what was wrong. She just sat there, staring at the wall of the other side of the room, blankly, before sighing, and deciding that she had to just think straight and not worry about anything.

Sighing again, she flipped on the sphere, only to have her eyes widen in terror.

Bobba, a popular host, was interviewing none other than the head coach of the Zanarkand Abes, saying, "Did you have any idea that your star player killed the late Lord Braska?"

"Of course not," he said, "I only knew Tidus for a month or so. If there's anyone you should be interviewing, it should be the Brutes' coach."

Yuna flipped the channel, only to see the words, "Lord Jyscal's son and Lord Braska's deaths are linked" flashing across the screen as the newscast were chatting excitedly about Tidus, and how he'd killed them both.

Yuna couldn't take it. She turned the sphere off and sat there, almost in a nervous wreck. What had she done? Was Tidus arrested? Even worse–would he get the death penalty? Would he die? Suddenly, also, Yuna started questioning something that a few days earlier she would never have questioned: Did Tidus do it? Did he kill Braska?

She turned the sphere on again, and flipped through the channels, trying to find whether or not Tidus had been arrested yet. Finally, she landed on a channel where they were searching for Tidus, obviously proving he hadn't been found.

Suddenly her phone rang, causing her to jump. She fumbled around for it, and found it, and answered it in a jumpy voice.

"H-Hello?"

"Hey there Yuna."

"What do you want?" Yuna snapped, recognizing the voice immediately. It was none other than Dona, her ex-best friend.

"I see you boyfriend killed your daddy. Hm...What will happen when they find out he's connected to my daddy's death too?"

"He is not!" Yuna said, only to cause Dona to laugh.

"Oh yes he is," she said, still laughing, "And you know it. My Yevon, are you really that stupid? You're still trying to protect him?" again she laughed, "It's over Yuna. It just proves that a boy will never like you for you."

Yuna was silent, because she was holding back the urge to say some pretty mean things to Dona. So, Dona continued.

"I must say though, I'm quite jealous. Your father got way more media attention than my father ever did! I guess he was more popular. But now Jyscal will be the only reigning Maester..."

The only reigning Maester...

Yuna hang the phone up. Those words bothered her for some reason, but she didn't know why. She just couldn't place it.

She looked out the window at Jyscal's house and sighed. She supposed it was true. Once everything died down, Jyscal would be the only reigning Maester, capable of doing whatever he wanted to do.

She vaguely remembered Seymour telling her, only a year or so ago, that someday, he would be the only reigning Maester. She smiled, telling herself it was better Jyscal than Seymour.

The phone rang again, causing her to jump. She picked it up slowly, afraid that it would be Dona again.

"Hello?" she said softly.

"Yuna? This is Baralai."

"B-Baralai?" Yuna said, "What do you want?"

"It's about Tidus."

"What about him?" Yuna said, as fear began to clench her.

"He's gone."

Yuna was silent. What did he mean by that?

"What do you mean?" she managed to ask.

"I don't know where he went."

"Did you try calling him on his phone?"

"This is his phone I'm using."

"..."

"Yuna...I think he went with the man that freed us."

"That man I saw him walking with..." Yuna mused, "Are they friends?"

"I'm not sure. But Tidus readily left with him, according to Paine. Right when we got here. Somehow everybody in Spira thinks Tidus killed Braska. This isn't the time for him to be out with friends."

"Braska," Yuna said, sitting down, "You have to tell me. You have to tell me right now if Tidus did kill Braska."

"Yuna, you believe it too?"

"I–I don't know what I believe," Yuna said.

"Honestly, we don't know," Baralai said then, after a pause, "We don't know who did it."

"Then why are you trying to protect Tidus?" she sounded just like Jyscal.

"Because. He's our friend."

Yuna bit her lip, and said, "Did Tidus tell you anything?"

"What makes you think he's connected?"

"Baralai, believe me, he's connected. That's why, all I want to know, is if he really did it. If he didn't though, who did?"

"I don't know," Baralai said, "I guess I didn't even think he was connected."

Yuna knew she was going to get no where. The only 'crime' that Baralai knew of was Tidus' friend breaking them out of the Via Purifico. That's all. To Baralai, that was the only thing Tidus was in trouble for. To Baralai, that's why Tidus had that 'emergency blitzball practice'.

"Tell me one thing," Yuna said, "The night you escaped–the night Braska died–did Tidus leave Zanarkand?"

"I have no idea."

"Did you see him at all that night?"

"No."

"He did it," Yuna just said softly.

"Is there proof?"

"No."

"Then what makes you think he did it?"

"Call it a gut instinct, Baralai. He did it."

Baralai was silent, and he finally said, "I don't care."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't care if he did it or not. Paine and I are going to find him. He won't be going to jail. Or...Death, or whatever they want to do to him. You have to help us, Yuna. He's your friend too."

"No he's not," Yuna just said.

"Yes he is!"

"Baralai, don't argue with me. I don't care what happens to him," Yuna lied, "I just want the truth."

Baralai was silent for a very long time, before he finally said, "You're the one that told. You're the one that started this, aren't you?"

"No. He started it himself by killing my father."

"They warped you, Yuna. Who did you tell?"

"I can't tell you that."

"Fine then, don't. I have to go." At that, Baralai hung up, leaving Yuna there.

Yuna threw the phone across the room and then buried her head in her arms. She wasn't crying, but she felt absolutely miserable. How...how could he have done this to her? Even worse...How could she have done this to him.

Suddenly, the phone, lying clear across the room in its landing spot, started to ring. Sighing, Yuna answered it, only surprised to hear Baralai's voice.

"Yuna, they've warped you, you know that? Tidus...Tidus really liked you."

"Not anymore," Yuna said, sitting down again, "Baralai, you don't understand."

"No, you're the one that doesn't understand anything. Tidus didn't tell you because he didn't want you anyway connected anymore than you already had to be. He was protecting you, and you should have protected him."

"Th—."

"He didn't tell you who it was. He thought you'd just let it go. But instead, you started to blame him, tell him it was he that killed your father. It hurt him, you know that? He was trying to help the three of us, but you kept bothering him about that too. Of course he didn't trust you in the end! Who would? You didn't trust him, so why should he trust you?"

"I don't need a lecture!" Yuna suddenly said, "What's done is done!"

"Not exactly," Baralai said, "You need to tell me exactly who it was you told."

"Told what?"

"Who did you tell? Who did you tell that Tidus had killed Braska!"

"Why does it matter?" Yuna finally said, tears streaming down her face, "Why don't you just let me forget? I feel horrible as it is!"

"It might save Tidus' life," Baralai just said.

"You won't tell me anymore than I've told you," Yuna just said, stubbornly, "You say you've told me everything you know, but I don't believe you! You know who killed Braska, and you know how and why Tidus is connected. Why won't you tell me?"

She could hear Baralai swallow, and he cleared his throat and said, "Do you really want to know?"

"Yes."

"Fine then. But if I tell you, you have to promise you'll do whatever you can to help find Tidus."

"Alright."

"And...You have to believe me."

"Fine."

"Tidus...Tidus said that the person who killed Braska...Tidus said that it was Sir Jyscal that killed Braska!"

Yuna dropped the phone. What? How could Jyscal have killed Braska? He was the one that knew Tidus had done it! He...

Yuna slowly picked the phone back up, but Baralai was no longer there.

What had she done? If it was the truth...If Jyscal really had...then...Why did he want Tidus?

She looked out the window again, toward Jyscal's house, and her eyes widened in fear. Sitting in the driveway, was none other than Tidus' car.