A/N: Chapter nine is here! Not much to say...Well, as always, thanks for the reviews!

Disclaimer: I do not own FFX, and I never will.

Chapter 9: Extra Guests

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After driving through Luca, and staying the night at an inn at Mi'lhen, the gang was making their way through Djose.

"Okay," Tidus began loudly, getting the attention of the truck, "you guys know how we thought we could by-pass Moonflow and Guadosalam?"

"Ya..." Wakka answered, dragging out the word. What now?

"Well, we can by-pass Moonflow, but not Guadosalam."

The whole truck, minus Yuna, groaned.

"We double checked the map last night," Yuna started, "and it's just no good. It would just add on hours that we don't have to spare. So, if we cut through Guadosalam, we'll reach Manalania a lot quicker."

"Therefore getting to Bevelle a lot quicker," Tidus chimed in.

"Are you absolutely sure?" asked Auron. He really didn't want a repeat of the 'shortcut' incident.

"Positive," Tidus answered quickly.

"For your sake, I hope so," Lulu muttered.

"Ah, lighten up, Lu."

"Do you want a repeat of the 'shortcut?" Lulu asked her future husband.

"No..." Wakka admitted reluctantly.

"I said I was sorry," cried Tidus. "Sheesh."

"Um, did you say we have to go through Guadosalam?" Rikku spoke up. She wrapped her hands nervously around each other.

"Um hmm," Tidus answered.

"Does that mean," she gulped, "we have to through the Thunder Plains?"

"Yes." Yuna flipped through a cd holder. "I'm sorry, Rikku. I tried to map out a different course."

"That's okay," Rikku whispered as the song 'Going Under' by Evanescence filled the truck. She knew Yuna wouldn't go through the Thunder Plains unless it was necessary. But she couldn't help but dread going through that horrible place.

Auron glanced over at the young Al-bhed. She had turned pale at the mere mention of the Thunder Plains. He hated to think about how she'd react was they entered the Plains.

Rikku looked up and when she saw Auron, gave a weak smile. "Oh well. No use in worrying about it now."

Smiling, Auron gave her a quick pat on her shoulder. There was no use in denying the fact that he had feelings for her, he just wasn't sure what to do about them.

"Tidus, what kind of games did we bring?" Wakka asked, sick of watching Auron and Rikku touch each other at every oppurtunity. He needed something to do.

"For the Playstaion 2? Uh, Need for Speed, Def Jam: Fight for NY, and Prince of Persia. Why?"

" 'Cause I'm gonna play one." Turning to face Lulu, he asked, "Which one do you wanna play?"

"None," Lulu replied, grabbing the book she had brought with her. "I'm going to read."

"Please, Lu?"

Looking up from her opened book, Lulu ran a pale hand through Wakka's hair. "I'm sorry. See if you can pull Auron and Rikku apart."

"Fine. Auron, do you wanna play?"

Turning his gaze from Rikku to Wakka, Auron replied, "I'm up here, and you and the device are back there. How do you suggest I see the screen?"

"Switch places with, Lu, ya?"

"The vehicle is in motion." He was enjoying himself.

"Climb over the seat, brudda," Wakka answered, his voice dull.

"But-"

"Just do it!" Wakka snapped.

"All right, all right."

After seating arrangements we're figured out, Auron and Wakka poped in Def Jam Fight for NY.

"Since when do you and Auron play video games?" Yuna asked Lulu.

"I've been playing them since I've known Wakka, so most of my life," Lulu answered. She may not look like the video-gaming type, but she could beat anybody, anyday.

"I've been playing them since I moved in with these two," Auron replied, referring to Wakka and Tidus.

"I would have never guessed," Yuna said. She then turned her attention the the map. They should be in Guadosalam in less than two hours. Since Tidus had decided to follow the map, things had been going much more smoothly.

"Ha! Beatcha!" Wakka shouted as he threw Auron in front of an on-coming subway.

"Rematch," Auron demanded. "I won't lose again."

"We'll see about that..."

True to his word, Auron didn't lose. But then Wakka wanted a rematch, and so-on and so-forth. Soon they'd been playing the game for over an hour.

"Punch him, Wakka!" Lulu shouted. She'd given up on her book, and she and Rikku had climbed into the back seat a while ago to watch the fight first-hand.

"No, don't!" Auron yelled back. He was really getting into this game, and if Wakka puched him, he'd die.

"Would you all shut up!" Tidus shouted from the drivers' seat. They'd been yelling and shouting for the past hour, and it was really bearing on his nerves. "You've been screaming for over an hour!"

"Sorry!" Rikku yelled. "Run Auron!"

"Uhh," Tidus sighed. "Everything I just said went in one ear, and out the other, didn't it?"

"I think so." Yuna smiled, and laid her hand on Tidus' forearm. "But at least they aren't mad at you anymore."

"Yeah, I guess so." He slid one arm of his arms off of the wheel and around Yuna. "Hey, look. Someone's car broke down. Think we should stop and help them?" Tidus asked as he drove by a smoking Mustang.

"NO!" the whole backseat shouted.

"Oh, you can hear that..." muttered Tidus.

"But, remember when we broke down? If that nice old man hadn't have stopped to help us, we would have had to walk for hours," Yuna argued.

"Yuna, if Tidus told you go jump off a cliff, you would, wouldn't you?" Lulu sighed. "They could be murderers."

"Or they could be nice people who's car broke down." Yuna replied.

"Do as you will," Auron said, rapidly pressing buttons.

"Yeah," backed up Rikku, agreeing with Auron.

"You would," muttered Lulu, earning a glare from Rikku. "Fine, kill us all, I don't care."

"Oh Lulu," Tidus said, pulling over and stepping out of he car. "Hey, do you need any help?" h asked, speaking to a young blond woman under the hood of the car.

"Yes!" replied the woman, who appeared to be about Tidus' age.

"Hey, someone's here to help us!" she shouted. Two more girls appeared from behind the car.

"How many are there?" Wakka asked, stepping out of truck with Lulu, Rikku, Yuna, and Auron trailing behind.

"Three," answered Tidus. "So, what's your name?" he asked the young woman.

"Kiki," she answered, extending a grease covered hand. "Oh, sorry," she laughed as she wiped it off on her shorts. "And this," she motioned to the other girl, "is Lily and Amy."

"Well, I'm Tidus," he told her, shaking her now clean hand. "And this is Wakka, Auron, Lulu, Rikku, and Yuna." Tidus pointed to each of them as he introduced them.

"Oh my Yevon!" shrieked Lily, another blond. "Do you mean the Sir Auron!" She ran over to the older man practically drooling.

"So that must mean you're the legendary gaurdians who helped Lady Yuna defeat Sin," Amy said calmly. Unlike the other two women, she had dark brown hair and seemed to be the voice of reason.

"Yep, that's us," Tidus beamed. "So, what seems to be the problem?"

"I don't really know. We were on our way to Bevelle, just driving along, and then all of a sudden our car broke down."

"Hmm...I'll see if I can find something under the hood. Auron, Wakka, wanna come with check it out with me?"

While Tidus, Wakka, and Auron had their heads underneath the hood, the girls stood over by the truck, talking amongst themselves.

"Can you believe that Lily!" umed Rikku. "She was all over Auron."

"Jealous," Lulu smirked.

"Yes!" Rikku said loudly. She lowered her voice in an attempt to avoid the stares she was recieving. "Great going, Yunie," she huffed.

"I'm sorry! If I had known they were a bunch of women, I wouldn't have suggested we stop. Do you think I like the idea of them maybe having to accompany us?"

"No," Rikku mumbled. She looked over at Auron. As she guessed, Lily was right beside him. They'd just met! What was she? Desperate?

"Rikku, calm down," Lulu said. "Maybe she's just a friendly person."

"Yeah right." Leaning back against the Navigator, Rikku asked, "What if one of them comes onto Wakka?"

"That's not going to happen," Lulu responded casually.

"Why not? Wakka's good-looking. It is possible for someone to come on to him you know," Yuna said.

"Oh, I know he's attractive." Lulu gazed at her fiancé affectionately. "He's very attreactive. But I'm just saying that if one of them so much as look at him, I'll kill her with Blizzara.

They shared a laugh, and then Yuna said, "I really hope they don't have to ride with us."

"This from little miss I-Have-to-Help-Everyone," her cousin joked.

A few minutes later, Wakka walked over to them.

"Well, somehow they managed to rip out the transmission," he told them, wiping his hands on his pants.

"I can't believe it," Lulu said, shaking her head.

"I know. I don't understand how they let it get so bad, ya?"

"No, I mean I can't believe you wiped that grease on your pants. Do you know how hard that will be to get out?" Lulu said, swatting him gently across the shoulder.

"Back to the problem at hand," Rikku began. "Riping out the transmission, does that mean it won't move?"

"Yep. That means it won't move," Wakka answered.

Rikku and Yuna groaned as Lulu rolled her eyes

"Ah, it won't be that bad, ya?" reassured Wakka. "We'll just drop them off at a car repair shop in Guadosalam and be on our way."

After proper introductions we're made, and new seating arragements figured out, the gang was back on the road.

"How close are we to Guadosalam?" Rikku asked. She was sandwiched between Auron and Lulu. Not that she minded. Being that close to Auron gave her the chance to smell that wonderful cologne he also wore.

"About ten minutes," answered Tidus.

"Thank Yevon," she murmured. The sooner Lily, Kiki, and Amy were gone, the better. Rikku didn't really know anything about them. Except that they were her age, on their way to Bevelle, and that she couldn't stand Lily.

As if on cue, the young woman turned around. "It was so nice of you guys to stop and help us," Lily said with a cheery smile.

Rikku smiled back, tyring to be polite. But when she saw Lily's gaze travel to Auron and say there, she said, "Yeah, well, we'll be dropping you off at a repair shop in Guadosalam."

"Really?" That's cool. It would have sucked to have had to walk all the way there in this heat." Lily turned her attention back to Auron. "So, Aur-"

"You wouldn't happen to know any magic or anything, would you?" Rikku asked as friendly as possible. If she had to start a conversation with the woman to keep her from talking to Auron, she would.

"Umm, No."

Oh. I don't know to much magic, but Lulu did teach me a few basic spells." And I can easily use them on you...Rikku didn't actually say that, but her thoughts must have showed on her face, because Lulu had to supress a chuckle.

"Oh, that's nice." Lily turned and cast a quick smile at Auron.

Auron, who was also trying to be polite, returned Lily's gesture. To his side, he heard Rikku scoff. As he turned to look at her, he saw that Rikku was glaring at Lily.

Seeming satisfied, Lily turned around, but not before Rikku saw Lily roll her eyes in her direction. Rikku had a feeling it was going to be a long ride to Guadosalam.

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Time to reply to my grand reviewers...

Cloudude: Sorry for the short chapter. This one's a little better!

Shadows-of-Flame: That happened to me once...sucks, don't it? Heh. Glad ya like!

... : Umm, you do that. His name is James, I think.

Ignes Fatui: You got a DVD! My game didn't come with a DVD! I got ripped off! Lol. Anyways, it's mostly about the trip there, but they will eventually reach their destination.

Shaunamitchell: Poor Tidus. You called him stupid...Lol! Oh well, he kinda is. Glad ya like!

Xmaster: Glad ya lke. Yep, more Aurikku. It never stops. Hehe.

Guan: Glad you enjoy it!

Ashito/Rikku: Here's more!

A/N: Well there you have it! Chapter nine. Not sure how many chapters are left. At least four. Maybe more. Well, don't forget to review! Thanks to all who have! Keep it up! Chapter ten will be here soon!