Hi!  Wow, thanks so much everybody for the reviews!  I just wanted to give a special thanks to Rikku-Hoshi, because without her, this fic. wouldn't be possible!  Honestly, it wouldn't, because she's helped me write a lot of it!  Lol...Anyway, here's chapter two!  By the way, Yuna's kind of OOC in this story, but it'll make sense later!  As for it being a Tikku...We'll just have to see, won't we????                                 

Chapter 2: Meetings

"I know, I'm going to stay with my Al Bhed relatives!" Yuna said with disgust as she threw herself on her bed, the only piece of furniture left in her house.

"Yuck," her friend Dona could be heard on the other side of the line, "That totally sucks!"

"I know!" Yuna said, as the movers now came and motioned that they wanted to take her bed away as well to load in the moving truck.

"At least you're going to Zanarkand," Dona said, "I've been trying to talk my dad into moving me there forever!"

"Yeah, it could be worse," Yuna agreed, but then moaned, "But my Al Bhed relatives! I didn't even know I had Al Bhed relatives!"

"Oh well, at least you'll be out of this stupid all-girl school we've been stuck together in for the past five years."

"Definitely!" Yuna said, agreeing with her friend, before suddenly sighing and saying, "Well, really should let you go. I guess, this is goodbye."

"Yeah, goodbye Yuna," Dona said, "Again, I'm dreadfully sorry I wasn't able to come see you before you left, but you know how important my singing lessons are to me!"

"Yeah, whatever," Yuna just said, "It's not like it matters. I'm determined not to enjoy it in Zanarkand, no matter how many guys there are there! I'll be back in no time. Wanna know the worst part about this whole deal though? One of my cousins is like my age!"

"Eew!" Dona just said, "And I suppose she'll want to hang out with you and stuff! I feel so sorry for you!"

"Yeah, I so know what you mean," Yuna just said, "Okay, I've really got to go now, okay? Goodbye!"

"Goodbye, hon! I'm so going to miss you."

"Yeah, goodbye." At that, Yuna hung up her phone, and made her way to her silver Mercedes, deciding she'd just follow the movers to her new living quarters.

"Just one more year and I'll be on my own," Yuna assured herself as she hopped in her car, "Still, I can't believe my daddy would just leave me like this..."

It hadn't gone just like that, and her 'daddy' didn't exactly just up and leaver her. He had been assassinated, by an Al Bhed, actually. He had been one of the four Maesters of Yevon, not that it mattered much to Yuna. Her father had rarely been home, he'd always been away at Maester things. Still, it had come as quite a shock to Yuna when she'd found out about her father's fate, and she had been terribly torn by the incident. Then she found out she was going to be living with some relatives of hers whom she'd never met in her life, and to make matters worse—as if they could get worse—she'd found out that her relatives were Al Bhed, and that she also, was Al Bhed.

"No," she reminded herself, "I'm not Al Bhed just because they are. I'm perfectly normal...Okay, a little better than normal...I'm...well...Yuna!"

That's how she decided things would go right then and there. She was Yuna. Even though she'd promised Dona that she wouldn't enjoy her time in Zanarkand, she was suddenly looking forward to it. Not the part about her staying with her Al Bhed relatives, but the part of her actually going to a normal, everyday school, and finally getting away from Bevelle, which had been her hometown for as long as she could remember.

Humming to the song on the radio, cursing under her breath at the slow-moving trucks ahead of her, and now decided that she was going to enjoy her time in Zanarkand, Yuna began feeling quite pleased with the fact that she would be going someplace new. In fact, she grew more and more pleased the closer she got to Zanarkand.

"No use looking back," she decided to herself, "'Cause now I'll do things my way!"

"Okay, so, you'll go for homecoming king, and I'll go for queen," Rikku said, a little crown in Cid's 'Special'.

"Okay, I'll go for that," Tidus agreed, sitting back and folding his arms across his chest.

"I want to go as homecoming king!" Brother said, only to have Tidus roll his eyes at Rikku's brother.

"You have to be good-looking to get nominated," Tidus said, "And obviously, I am good-looking, and you're not."

"Right," Rikku put in, turning back to the crown she'd drawn in her food, "And then, when we beat out Leblanc and Baralai, we'll prove once and for all that just because you're a moron cheerleader doesn't mean you'll get voted homecoming queen."

"Yeah," Tidus just said, his blue eyes staring off into space, "So, when's that cousin of yours getting here?"

"Don't bring that up," Rikku said, moaning, "It's bad enough she's coming!"

"I can't wait for her to get here!" Brother said happily.

Tidus' blue eyes rolled at Brother again, and he leaned back, and said, "So, Brother, Mr. Super Senior, how many years have you been a senior now?"

"Only two," Brother said surely.

"Mental," Tidus just said, shaking his head.

Rikku didn't say anything in her brother's defense; she never did. Tidus and Brother were always bickering over something or other, because for some reason, Brother was highly optimistic about this, while Tidus wasn't necessarily always thinking negatively, but at the same time couldn't stand Brother's optimistic views either.

"Back to me being homecoming queen," Rikku just said, pointing at the crown that had no hardened into whatever it was that Cid always made.

"Right," Tidus said, "All of my teammates are nominating you, and so are all of the girls I've flirted with over the past five years, so, we'll all be good. As for me, let's face it. I'm so a shoe-in."

"Oh, whatever," Rikku said, shaking her head, "I just want to see Leblanc's face so bad when she loses!"

"Yeah, me too," Tidus agreed.

"She wears really short skirts," Brother said, "and her shirts go down too low."

"Nice observations!" Tidus said, sarcastically congratulating Brother, "But you'd better not get caught looking at her wrong, or Nooj will be sure to give you detention for looking at his woman."

Rikku burst out laughing, shooting Cid's surprise out her nose, causing Tidus to make a 'tsking' noise with his tongue.

"Rikku, is that anyway to act like a queen?" Tidus just said, shaking his head at his friend.

Rikku just smiled, wiping her nose, and said, "That hurt!"

"I would sure think so," Brother said, "I mean, it kind of came out your nose."

"That's it," Tidus said, "I've got to get home now!"

"What did I do?" Brother moaned.

"You just were you!" Tidus cried, "See ya later!"

"But Tidus!" Rikku cried, grabbing his arm, "You promised me you'd stay until my cousin got here! Remember?"

"Yeah, but you'd better make sure Mr. Super Senior over there shuts up before I lose it and punch him. In fact, maybe Mr. Super Senior could use a black eye. Then he wouldn't have to put all that girly makeup under his eyes like he does."

It was Rikku's turn to roll her eyes. She didn't know what Tidus' problem with Brother was, but Tidus definitely had one. Rikku also knew for a fact that even if he was nineteen and still in highschool, Brother wasn't as dumb as he acted. In fact, a lot of time he acted the way he did for attention, and to make Tidus mad.

She smiled, thinking of how it had always been that way, since they were

kindergarten, and Tidus had first 'kicked the living snot' out of Brother, and Rikku and Tidus had first met. It was kind of a funny experience now that she looked back at it. Brother had come bawling to Rikku that some boy had beaten him up, and Rikku had marched over there to beat whoever it had been that had beat Brother up, and Tidus had laughed, saying there was no way he was going to fight a girl, until Rikku popped him one in the face, and pretty soon the two were fighting like crazy. The kindergarten teacher had come and told them to break it up. Then, she did the strangest thing, and put them alone together. At first Tidus and Rikku had thought about fighting like their childish selves, but then they just started talking, and ever since that day, they'd been best friends. Still, no matter how much of a friendship Tidus and Rikku had, Tidus and Brother never mended their broken...er...friendship.

"I like wearing makeup," Brother said, folding his arms across his chest.

"That's obvious," Tidus said, looking over at the kitchen clock, "When's this stupid cousin of yours getting here, anyway?"

"Who cares," Rikku just sighed.

"Yeah, Tidus said, looking up at the ceiling, as he always did when he was expressing that he was bored.

"So, anyway," Rikku said, "What was the look on Leblanc's face when you told her that you told Nooj that she had the hots for him?"

"It's hard to say," Tidus said, shaking his head, and then he laughed, "Poor Leblanc, why are we so mean to her?"

"Perhaps it has to do with when she broke up with you like that," Rikku said, "And besides, ever since the third grade, when she teased me because I hung out with boys, I haven't cared much for her."

Tidus just smiled, and Brother said, "I think she's good looking!"

"Good for you," Tidus said slowly, looking annoyingly at Rikku, "Can you shut him up?"

"No, and believe me, I've tried," Rikku said, sighing.

"It's been all over the news about that assassination of Lord Braska, huh?" Tidus said, smiling at Rikku.

"I know! Can you believe that guy was like my uncle? Not by blood, of course," Rikku just said, "And he totally hated Al Bhed people! Can you believe that?"

Tidus just laughed, "So, what's your cousin's name, Yunu, or something like that?"

"Yuna," Rikku corrected Tidus.

"Right, Yuna. As if I care. I'll bet she's one of those overweight, fat, ugly chicks who weigh like a hundred pounds. What do you think? Then, I'll bet she's like a total nerd."

"Yeah, probably," Rikku agreed, "She went to some all-girl school, so she's probably some kind of nerd."

"Yeah."

"I think she's probably really cool!" Brother put in.

"Yeah," Tidus said sarcastically, "I'll bet she's as cool as you are."

"Yep, me too!" Brother said, and began humming some song to himself.

Rikku just smiled excitedly, and said, "After she gets here, I say we ditch her, and go vandalize Mr. Mika's car or something!"

"We haven't done that in a while!" Tidus said, his eyes sparkling.

"That guy's so old, not to mention mean, and he probably won't even care," Rikku said, "But it'll be funny anyway!"

"Then, we'll put on there, "Thanks for the 'D', MORON!"' Tidus said, as he thought back to his test score he had received the day before. Not that he even deserved a 'D', or course...

"And then we'll—," Rikku was interrupted as suddenly Brother let out a squeal of excitement.

"What is it now?" Tidus asked, only to see Brother pointing excitedly to the window.

"She's here! She's here!" Brother just squealed, and sure enough, a rather nice car had pulled into the driveway, and sure enough, she was indeed there.