(Authors note: Because I dislike having to put both Al Bhed and English when a character speaks Al Bhed I have made it italic. So if someone speaks and it's italic it's in Al Bhed!)

Disclaimer: I don't own any Final Fantasy X-2 characters! (This goes for the last two chapters too, because silly me forgot to put it there!)

Broken memories

Chapter 3: A little spar

Paine was floating in what seemed like pure darkness. Every thing was silent. "Am I dead?" Paineasked herself in the darkness. She let her eyes wander the darkness.

No,at least,not yet.

She would have jumped in surprise but her warrior training really paid off. Taking a claming breath she tried to speak, only to be cut off.

Do not worry; I am not here to hurt you.

Hearing the sincere-ness in the voice Paine believed it, but she didn't let her guard down completely. "Then why are you here; better yet, where is 'here'?"

I am here to remind you and you are in a place you have long forgotten.

"Remind me about what, exactly? This place?" Paine said trying to restrain the slowly rising annoyance from entering her voice.

No, not exactly. I'm here to remind you about the truth.

"Truth? Truth about what?"

Everything.

"What thehell are you talking about?" The voice was wearing out her patience for not being specific enough. The voice paused for a few seconds.

…You should already know this.

She felt like smashing her head against the wall but considering there weren't any walls around, she counted to ten before speaking. Even that didn't help because she almost screamed at the voice, "Who thehell are you anyway!"

I am--

"Hey Sarah, Wake up!" Paine's eyes opened immediately but shut them once again, finding the light gave her a headache.

'What the heck was that dream?' She thought to her self, racking her brain to remember all of it, but every second she tried the more it slipped away. She finally growled mentally and gave up the fight.

"Sarah, oh Sarah! Wakey wakey!"

Paine gave her sister a grunt of acknowledgement. Using her hand as a shield she opened her eyes.

"What time is it?"

"It's time for the others to pick us up." Yukairi replied smoothly. Paine watched her put her book away as she got up. Yukairi grabbed the rest of her stuff and walked to the door. "Was my playing really that bad?" Yukairi had to stifle both a grin and a giggle. Paine shook her head.

"No, in fact it's the opposite. It was so good it reminded me of the past and well, it was a lullaby after all." Paine shrugged as she stood up. Stretching she asked, "How long was I out?"

"A few hours." Yukairi replied with a shrug of her own which caused Paine's eyes to widened in shock.

"Wow," Paine said still in awe, "The song must have done more to me than I thought." Yukairi giggled.

"C'mon, We better meet up with Yuna and Rikku before they get worried." She said as she open the door. Paine followed behind her, closing the door on the way out. With that, they went to the lobby check out of the hotel.

At the docks

Paine and Yukairi walked slowly as they neared the docks. They were chatting when a cloaked figure, which was walking the other way, bumped hard into Paine causing both of them to fall over. The cloaked figure got up first, having landed on top, and offered Paine a hand. Paine took it and the figure helped her up.

"I'm sorry for that miss." The figure said in a completely mono-toned voice. The figure bowed and the hood of the cloak fell further down the figure's face. The mysterious person released Paine's hand, took one last look at the stunned silver haired warrior, and quickly walked off.

"It's ok…" She replied to the cloaked figure's retreating form. She then looked at her hand to see a hastily written note:

Remember the truth

Paine looked at it for another second before slipping it into a pocket. 'Remember the truth? What does that mean…?' she thought, staring at the ocean.

"Sarah? Did that weird guy steal money or something?" Yukairi asked looking at her sister's thoughtful face.

"It's…nothing. Just-" Paine was cut off by a small yelp from Yukairi. Rikku had just come up from behind her and latched on to the younger girl. Paine stopped her self from laughing at the sight of Yukairi's frightened face frozen in place. (AN: Didn't mean for it to rhyme, really I didn't!)

Rikku releasedYukairi and pokedher cheek playfully. When nothing happened she looked at Paine, "She alright?"

"I don't know. I'm pretty sure she's not dead, though." Paine replied in Al Bhed, not even trying to hide an amused smirk. Rikku stuck her tongue out at Paine before she could respond herself someone else spoke up.

"She probably just surprised, Rikku." Yuna said as she appeared from behind Rikku, who was continuing to repeatedly poke the frozen girls cheek childishly. "I mean, if someone just out of no-where just came and hugged me I would…be…too…" Letting out a sigh she watched her cousin take out a marker and doodle on Yukairi's face. "Did you even hear me, Rikku?"

But of course Yuna's last sentience was forgotten as Paine sent a death glare to the thief for drawing on her sister. Paine did a quick maneuver so that both Rikku's hands were put into the traditional police hold. (AN: I have no clue how to describe it and I didn't know if it had a real name, sorry)

"Yikes!" Rikku cried as she used her thief training to worm her way out of Paine's grasp. Rikku jumped behind Yuna for protection before speaking again. "Paine the Beast is back! Oh but wait, it looks as if the Beast dropped something!" Rikku flashed Paine wallet around, grinning like a mad(wo)man.

"Rikku!" Paine was about to leap at her when she felt something wrap around her neck. She looked down to see a pair of arms then looked behind her to see Yukairi smiling at her. Paine felt her anger towards Rikku slowly ebbing away.

"Wanna give me another piggie-back ride?" Yukairi said, her smile turning into a devilish grin. Paine was about to decline until Yukairi decided to use her secret weapon, the puppy-dog face.

Paine let out a sigh of defeat. "Fine, fine…" Yukairi let out a squeal of delight and jumped onto her sisters back. "But this is the last time" They made it about halfway.

Yuna and Rikku gaped at them until Rikku started to pout. "How come she gets a piggie-back ride!" Rikku was blocking the way to the airship. "I want one too!" She started to pout.

"You're not my sister…" Paine responded.

"C'mon, sis," Yukairi started, "Just this once, for her?" Yukairi got off Paine to give her another puppy-dog look.

Paine looked at Yukairi then at Rikku before groaning. "Alright," Rikku squealed in delight sounding just like Yukairi, "But just this once!" Rikku got onto Paine's back, just like Yukairi had done just seconds ago, but she nuzzled her chin on the top of Paine head. Paine growled in discomfort. "Don't get too comfortable up there Rikku, This is only until we reach the ship!"

Yuna ran up to then giggling, which caused Paine to glare at Yuna. "What's so funny, Yuna?" Yuna cowered slightly but stood her ground as best she could while still walking forward.

"Nothing," Yuna was grinning, "It's just that you two look so cute!" Paine's cheeks pinked for a second. Yukairi giggled as well.

"Yes they do!" Yukairi agreed. Paine growled once again to stop any more blood to rush to her face.

"What are you two trying to get at?" Paine said, even though she already guessed what they meant.

They both grinned slyly as they replied with a, "Nothing."

"What ever!" Paine growled and she picked up her pace to the airship while trying not to let Rikku fall. Yuna and Yukairi glanced at eachother before following after, giggling as they did.

In the airship

"Buddy, take us to the Calm Lands," Paine ordered from her normal spot on the Celsius' bridge. "We're going training." Yuna, Rikku, and Yukairi looked at Paine in disbelief.

"But why?" Rikku complained, "You're sister's here, and you still want to go training?" Paine nodded.

"My sister being here is even more of a reason," Paine replied, not looking at the other three girls, still angry about earlier . "I want to test her skills."

Yukairi smirked, "Alright! We'll train but," She looked at the other girls and they nodded, "You have to play Truth or Dare with us after!"

Paine felt like falling on the floor. "What, why!" She had to try to keep her face from turning into a pout. "I hate Truth or Dare!"

Yukairi shook her head, "Either play Truth or Dare with us or else no training." Paine glared at her sister before responding with a small, "Fine…"

At the calm Lands

"Nice one, Yuki!" Rikku said to the other blonde haired girl. They (Being Rikku, Yukairi, and Paine because Yuna wanted to stay with Tidus on the airship) had been feind training for about half an hour. Yukairi just grinning as a response.

Paine looked at her sister as she finished off the last fiend. "Wanna have a little sparring match?" She asked out of the blue. Yukairi looked at her for a second before nodding.

"Alright," She smiled at turned to face Paine, "Sound like fun!" She went into a fighting stance, her twin samurai swords at the ready. She stood so that only the left side of her body was revealed to Paine. She held her left-handed sword parallel to the ground and her right-handed sword upside down in front of her chest.

Rikku sat down in the grass a few feet away before yelling, "Begin!" and it started, Yukairi being to first to attack. Paine parried it and went into a counter attack.

Rikku watched from her seat on the grass eyes getting wider every second. Both Paine and Yukairi went into a fighting mode, forgetting they were even sisters. They continued to attack, block, and any other thing that could be thinkable, in rapid succession.

Pretty soon it was a dance not a simple fight but this dance was not a normal dance. It was a dance of death. The sound of blades slamming into each other became the background music, their tempo increasing steadily, dancers following along perfectly. But with every dance, there had to be a leader and there had to be one who followed. Yukairi, being able to use her swords faster then Paine, with her huge sword, was the leader in this dance. But more then often the leader, in a dance of swords, tends to miss a beat and this was no different.

Yukairi leapt into the air to doge an attack aimed at her legs, but she didn't expect Paine to send another attack to her side. She focused on stopping the giant sword from hurting her; using both of her swords to block it she landed back on the ground before she collapsed completely.

"Oww," She groaned clutching her ankle. Paine stopped suddenly and dropped her sword.

"What wrong, Yuki?" Rikku said jumping up from her spot and running over to the two sisters.

"I landed on my foot wrong," She felt her ankle tenderly trying to see if she had broken anything, "It's only sprained, I'll be ok in a few hours."

"Let's get back to the Celsius then," Paine said bending down. "Come on, I'll give you a lift…" Yukairi giggled.

"I thought early was the last time?" She asked smirking.

"That was before I knew you were going to get hurt during our fight," Paine growled forcing Yukairi to get on her back, "Which was one of the most exciding fight's I've had in a while." Paine stood back up, Yukairi on her back.

"Alright then," Yukairi said from her perch on Paine's back, "Giddy up!" Rikku giggled at the two sisters' antics before joining them in getting back to the ship.

Done with this chapter, finally! Sorry it took so long, but I had trouble with the fight scene. Man it was a pain in the butt, but I hope you reviewers liked it! I wrote it for you, but there will be some more, a little more descriptive. I made this chapter longer and I plan to make the next one around the same length possibly longer.

I also added a dash of RikkuXPaine so if you're agents it then just ignore it because it's not a main part of the story!

Warning: There will be more RikkuXPaine next chapter! (if you didn't figure that out by now)

To reviewers:

ChristinaRoss: XD I got most of the sister fluff stuff from my sisters. Yukairipersonality was based off of my sister, actually. Yukairi's name really does sound like a mix between Yuna, Rikku, and Paine doesn't it…? Hahaha, I didn't notice it before! Yukairi was a name I made for a different fan fiction, but the name seemed to fit so I used it in this one. Truth is Yukairi is a mix of Yuna's and Kairi's (from kingdom hearts) name. Thanks for reviewing!

Sdreamz: Haha, I guess your right, I get to choose to surprise every one! Hahaha, Thanks for reviewing!