Chapter 5
Unexpected
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The day had ended, and amazingly there was not one single prank, not one single thing went wrong throughout the whole day for Yuna. Despite the fact that Tidus had been death glaring at her every time he saw her, she for the first time, considered today… a good day.
'Hmm . . . I guess what I did to Tidus yesterday really did teach him a lesson.'
"Come on Yunie, let's go!" Rikku hollered as she jumped into the drivers seat.
"We wanna be there ASAP so move that ass of yours." added Lulu, stepping into the front seat.
"Okay okay, and I thought I was the one obsessed with shopping." Yuna joked as she hurried up her paces towards the car.
With full speed, Rikku drove off into the distance leaving the blonde and brunette watching them go as they were taking their time walking to their own cars.
"Girls and shopping," Squall sighed out loud.
"Who cares." Tidus mumbled, "Lets just get to the gym at your house, I don't know how much longer I can hold in my anger."
Squall merely laughed, "Right, well I'll see you there." and with that, they both drove off in their own cars.
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Four hours later
"Thank-God tonight's late night shopping, or else we would never be able to buy all the stuff we needed." Rikku squealed.
"I know! Gosh, it's been a while since I've bought so much." Yuna added, looking through her bags filled with either clothing or make-up.
"Well, it's eight already, so we should head back now." Lulu offered.
"Right!" Rikku and Yuna agreed in unison.
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"Hey, Derek's throwing a party at his house this weekend before camp. You gonna go?" Squall panted, lifting up the weights.
Tidus was about to answer but was instead interrupted by a loud burnout outside the mansion. The two guys quickly put on their t-shirts over their sweaty chests and exited the gym, making their way to the entrance of the house. Finally arriving at the large doorways, the blonde and brunette witnessed Rikku driving off leaving Yuna behind.
"Well isn't this nice, my stepbrother greeting me at the entrance." Lulu joked, handing some of her bags over to Squall to hold.
"Well, isn't this nice, my stepsister handing me her bags like I'm a servant." he joked back, taking some of the bags out of Lulu's hand.
"I hope you remembered to buy what I told you to buy." Squall said with a sly grin on his face causing Tidus to smirk himself.
"Oh shut up Squall." Lulu groaned, walking into the mansion at the same time slapping Squall's right arm.
"So Yuna, did you enjoy yourself at the mall today?" Squall asked looking at all the bags in Yuna's hands.
"If you must know, yes I did enjoy it." she replied, bearing a sweet smile on her face.
"Nice to know, well where's Rikku?"
"She's gone some place and said she needed to drive a few people somewhere, so she kicked me and all my stuff out." Yuna replied lifting her bags up as evidence.
"I see." Squall chuckled.
"Well anyway, I need to head back home now, so I'll see you guys tomorrow." Yuna said, making her way out.
"Wait Yuna!" Squall exclaimed, "Tidus, didn't you tell me you were about to leave?" Squall asked nudging Tidus in the ribs while he, on the other hand, was shooting his best death glare at Squall.
"No." was his simple reply.
"Yeah you did, now go drive Yuna home." Squall finished, pushing Tidus towards Yuna.
"No that's okay, I'd rather not, I'd rather walk." Yuna simply stated, again continuing to walk, and finally leaving.
"Well, I think I'll be leaving now." Tidus said aloud after Yuna was out of sight, making his way back to the gym to pack his equipment.
Squall and Lulu merely shook their heads before following him.
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It was already pretty dark with only the light posts as her sources of light. She felt nervous walking along the street alone but dismissed that thought to prevent herself from becoming paranoid. Suddenly, she heard, more like felt footsteps behind her. She quickened her pace hoping against hope that it was either Squall or Lulu following her. But to her disappointment, she only felt the footsteps follow her, not any familiar voices.
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"Here, there she is, if you complete this job successfully, then you will get your full payment." Myleena whispered to two men.
They simply nodded with repulsive smirks on their faces and slowly made their way out of the bushes and began following Yuna. Myleena hid herself well behind a tree, smiling wickedly.
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Not long later, after Yuna left, Tidus himself also left.
'Man this street's pretty deserted not to mention fricken dark'Tidus thought to himself.
All of a sudden, he noticed three figures walking on the footpath, one he recognized as Yuna, however the other two he did not know only that they were both male. He didn't have a good feeling about this, therefore decided to park his car on the side of the road, analyzing the two male following Yuna.
'Who cares, don't forget, she screwed your car up, what ever happens to her is her problem not yours.'
The more coldhearted side of his mind told him.
He was just about to leave, but luckily his better side took over. He mentally slapped himself for thinking like that.
'Tidus, you have got to be kidding me, how could you be such an asshole to even think that leaving was an option.'
Therefore, Tidus sat in his car, watching them. All of a sudden something happened that caused him to jump with his eyes wide opened.
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Yuna felt the footsteps behind her quicken as she herself quickened her pace. She was too afraid to turn around so she just kept walking, hoping with anything that they would stop following her. As she was reaching towards an alleyway she, without warning, felt two people from behind pushing her violently into the dark alleyway.
She stumbled a few steps but regained her posture as she noticed the two men slowly advancing on her. They had such revolting sly grins on their faces that it sent shivers running hastily up and down Yuna's spine. She began backing away from them even though she knew it was a dead end. Finally, she felt the cold hard wall press up against her back, realizing that there was no place to run. The smiles on the two men's' faces only grew wider as they continued walking slowly towards her. It was almost like they were doing this on purpose just to torture her mind for as long as they could. As scared as Yuna was, she still allowed her pride to take over.
"What the hell do you want?" she hissed at them even though she was almost certain she knew what exactly they wanted.
"Oh, we have ourselves a feisty one here." the man on the right replied, licking his lips as a sign of what he was intending to do to her.
"Hmm, I like feisty ones." the other added, "Okay, so here's what we're gonna do, I'm going to hold you back, while he takes your clothes off. Happy with my detailed explanation?" he said sarcastically, increasing his walking speed.
"Get the hell away from me," Yuna spat at them. But it was too late; the two men were already standing too close to her for her to run.
Suddenly, with a quick movement, one of them men grabbed Yuna's arms forcefully, and shoved her to the wall even more. She squinted at the pain when his fingers wrapped around her arms ever so tightly and the sudden jerk she experienced when he pushed her to the wall. She tried fighting back, but failed to do so under such strong grips. The men simply laughed at her, watching her fail on every attempt. Soon they got bored of all these mind-torturing games so they decided to make their move.
The way the men smiled made her positive that they were going to attack her now. So being as helpless as she was, she simply closed her eyes, not wanting to see their disgusting faces any longer. She was convinced that they were going to attack her any moment but a sudden movement surprised her. She suddenly felt the weight pressed against her taken off, and felt the deathly grip release abruptly from her arms. Her eyes shot open to see what was happening. What she saw caused her to stare in amazement.
Tidus had come to the rescue. He had violently pulled one of the men off of Yuna and slammed him against the wall making the man wince at the pain Tidus had caused him. Realizing that the man wasn't ready to fight back, Tidus took this opportunity and grabbed the other man by the collar and forcefully threw him onto his companion.
"Get the hell out of here before I change my mind and bash the shit out of you two."
Tidus warned, pointing his index finger at the both of them.
Without a second of hesitation, the two men clumsily got on their feet and ran as fast as they could. When they were finally out of sight, Tidus turned around and started picking up Yuna's shopping bags she had dropped before when she was backing against the wall. Without a word spoken, he began walking to his car with the bags in his hands and placed them in the backseats when he arrived there. Yuna on the other hand, stood there bewildered. She could not believe what just happened to her, and definitely couldn't believe that out of all people, Tidus was the one to save her.
Was she supposed to feel grateful towards him, the one she had always loathed to see ever since they met? Or was she supposed to simply forget about what he just did for her and continue hating him?
Suddenly a yell pulled her back to reality, "Hey, are you coming or not?"
It was Tidus. It had appeared that Yuna was standing there for quite some time deep in her thoughts, not realizing that she had kept Tidus waiting by the severely scratched car. Finally, when she was back into reality she slowly made her way across the road to Tidus' car, and sat in the front seat before Tidus drove off into the distance.
There was a long period of silence before Tidus asked, "You okay?"
Yuna simply nodded and looked out the window. She didn't like the fact that Tidus was the one to save her, and hated the fact that she was in the same car as he was.
However, if it weren't for him God knows what would've happened to her, so remembering her manners she managed to mumble, "Thank-you."
"You should be." Tidus replied stupidly. Sure Yuna was sort of grateful that Tidus had saved her, but the fact that he was going to be cocky about it made her remember why she hated him so much in the first place.
"You know, I have to admit, if it weren't for you those sickos would've succeeded in what they were planning to do, but that doesn't mean you can act like an asshole about it." She spat at him.
"I just saved you man, at least be grateful about it! Really, I should've just left you there and allow the guys to do whatever they were gonna do to you." He spat back, this time without thinking.
"That's it, pull over now!" Yuna ordered, disbelieving what she just heard come out of his mouth.
"Fine I will!" He replied, not wanting to be the loser right now.
After he pulled over to the side, she got out of the car and opened the doors to the back seats, quickly grabbing her bags before slamming the car door close. Instantaneously, Tidus drove off in full speed out of the street making loud burnouts, "Jerk." was all Yuna managed to say before hastily making her way home which was only a block away.
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An: Yuna Ungrateful Censored and Tidus Cocky Censored! Well this chapter was surely weird, and now you know who the prankster is! And as promised, I updated earlier than the previous chapter. So all smiles!
Thanks for all the positive reviews, although I was really disappointed that out of all the reviews regarding chapter four, I was unable to read 11 of them due to 'technical difficulties with fanfiction' meaning I have absolutely no idea who sent them, but thank you anyway!
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