A/N: Okay…I am DEAD! I haven't been working on my assignments, or any other school work! All I could think about were plot ideas for this chapter! NOW I AM DEAD! ARGH! So from here on out, my updates are probably going to be further apart I am sad to say. On a much happier note though, thank-you very much to everyone who reviewed! As I have said before it means a lot. I have had a look at my hits for my account and I have had 592, and only 25 reviews…come on people! All you have to do is click on that little blue button, type "I loved it" and click 'submit'… it's not hard! LOL well anyway…on with the story, and please REVIEW!

By the way, I suck at writing action packed fighting sequences so sorry I just skip along to the aftermath. I apologise if you guys wanted to see some cool action fighting scenes but it ain't happening in this fic. Also, I thought that I would stay away from the usual angst relationship between Tidus and Yuna and actually let them enjoy each others company, rather then making them fight. Tidus finally tells Yuna in this chappie! But how will she react?

Chapter 5- Revelations

At that moment, you could have cut the tension in the air with a knife.

Not a single person moved, all of them to asphyxiated with the events that were beginning to unfold before them. Wakka, Lulu and Rikku still hadn't recovered from their previous spat with Tidus…they were still trying to comprehend what he had just told them. The three of them were frantic about the whole situation, and wanted to ask him more questions, but that option had been ripped away from them when Yuna stumbled into the room. Now, of course, all attention was diverted to her presence, as she leaned into her lover's embrace.

She had seized onto him in a pretty desperate manner, her face buried into Tidus' chest and her hands had moved from there original position; placed lovingly around his neck and were now grasping his shirt so tight that her knuckles were pale. The sound of faint, muffled sobs began drifting to his ears, and so he tightened his hold on her, pulling Yuna closer, hoping to calm her.

"Yuna…I think you need to go and-"

"No…" came her anxious, stifled interruption

"Do you…do you really want to leave me that badly?" She began to shake uncontrollably as her weeping increased. He tried to remain calm as he spoke.

"Yuna…that's not what I meant-"

"Of course it's what you want!" Came another angry outburst. "You are going to leave me aren't you? Why?" Her sobs had stopped, but her tremors had increased dramatically. Lulu saw this and knew something had to be done before Yuna's condition got any worse.

"Yuna you have to calm down before you have another attack!" She said quite firmly, hoping that she would see this to and try to compose herself. But it seemed to have quite the opposite effect. "Calm down! You want me to calm down Lulu! How am I supposed to do that when the one person I care about more then anything else at the moment is about to leave me!" Although Lulu could not see Yuna's face, she could tell that she was in a lot of pain…and she had a point. Lulu had acted somewhat in the way when Chappu left to become a member of the Crusaders. The only difference was that Chappu had a choice…Tidus doesn't. She wanted to explain his predicament to Yuna, but she had promised him that she wouldn't. Lulu hung her head in frustration, once again realizing how useless she was in this situation.

Nobody spoke after that, an incredibly uncomfortable silence was filling the room; broken every now and then by Yuna's sobs which she was trying so very hard to hold back.

"We need to talk" Tidus said finally. At the sound of his voice, Yuna lifted her head out of his chest and faced him. Surprisingly, he was smiling at her. He gently lifted his hand and wiped the tears of her cheek…Yuna blushed as he did so, and nodded stiffly at his request. He turned his attention to the three remaining guardians then, his face seemingly annulled of all feeling.

"Do you mind if Yuna and I go somewhere private to talk?"After that display, nobody seemed to have the heart to say no…but of course Lulu being the sceptic that she was couldn't help but voice her doubts about the idea.

"Well I guess I have no choice in the matter considering the circumstances…but, if even lay a finger on her, believe me I will kill you!"

Tidus simply nodded, almost as if he had taken no notice of her warning (which lets face it, he probably didn't) and then turned to face Yuna and smiled. "Shall we go then?" He gently began leading her away down the airship, holding her close to his side; his arm wrapped loosely around her waste. Yuna couldn't believe that he was in such a cheery mood, especially after what had just happened. But she was enjoying being so close to him. So she chose to forget about his looming fate for the moment as she snuggled deeper into his side and closed her eyes, enjoying the simple warmth that seemed to radiate from his entire being.

"Yuna…we're here" His voice unwillingly dragged her out of her out of her self content, where even if only for a moment she could forget about the pressing issue of his departure and just be happy that he was indeed there, holding her.

As she opened her eyes and slowly adjusted to her surroundings, she found herself abruptly tensing up. They were in her room…together…alone. Tidus still had his arm around her waste and so in turn felt Yuna beginning to grow a little uncomfortable with the idea, so he quickly tried to fix it. "Hey…don't worry Yuna…nothing is going to happen" At this Yuna's gaze flew up and connected with his, as she felt her cheeks begin to burn madly. At the sight of his sly smirk, Yuna found herself quickly turning away. As Tidus saw her face (even if only for a second) he couldn't help but chuckle under his breathe. He couldn't believe how easy it was to rile Yuna up like that….at just the mere suggestion of even doing such a thing. She however, wasn't finding this funny at all, as she heard him laugh; she found her cheeks burning even more and was desperately trying to come up with a way out of her current predicament. She tried to compose herself as she turned back to face him, embarrassment still evident in her voice.

"Ummm…you wanted to talk?"

At her remark, Tidus felt his spirits sink to their lowest depths. As Yuna saw, all happiness had completely left his now seemingly blank face; his expression grew sullen and serious and Yuna immediately felt the air in the room grow heavy, just like it had before. She suddenly wished that she hadn't brought it up.

"Yeah…I-I did"

The room went completely quiet as Tidus found himself unable to push the matter any further. It was then that Yuna felt a chill run through her entire body, and in response, found herself clamping her arms together to try and stay warm. As she looked up, she realized how far away he actually was from her…he was right over the other side of the room leaning up against a wall. Although he was only a few metres away, Yuna felt like he was on the other side of the world. Desperately wanting to close the gap between them, she forced him to plunge on with the convocation as she walked slowly towards the other side of the room…she didn't like the feeling of being outside of his bubble of warmth.

"Are you going to leave me?"

He looked up at her then, her bi-coloured eyes begging for an answer that Tidus knew he couldn't give her. She was within an arms distance now, her pace slow but concise as she crept slowly towards him. Tidus smiled at her before violently lurching out, grabbing her wrist and thrusting Yuna into his torso, as his arms closed tightly around her waste and back in a desperate hug. Yuna's eyes were wide in shock and confusion as she found herself in his arms, astounded at his assertiveness. His hand was pressed gently to the back of her head, while the other one remained clasped around her waist. He was crying softly into her shoulder, tears streaming down his face and landing with a cold stab of pain on her supple, exposed skin.

"Believe me Yuna I don't want-"

At that moment, the airship began to shake violently, and Yuna and Tidus found themselves struggling to stay on their feet. As the lights in the room began flashing on and off, it was impossible to see what was happening and then…darkness.

As Yuna slowly opened her eyes, she realized that everything seemed back to normal…the power was on and they were flying smoothly through the air. They were safe. She was still wrapped in his arms. Yuna gradually moved her gaze up towards his and found that he was looking back lovingly with a small smile adorning his handsome features. "Are you okay?" He said quietly. Yuna smiled and simply nodded before curling back up in his arms again, both enjoying the simplicity of being in each others presence.

It didn't last long though before they were interrupted though…

"Yunie, Tidus! You gotta come here quickly! It's Sin and it looks really mad!"

They both sprung to their feet and before leaving Yuna's room, quickly gave each other a supportive glance before heading out to fight one of their final battles. It was then that Tidus realized…this may be his last chance to show Yuna how much he cared. Just as she turned to leave, he managed to snatch her wrist once again and pull her in firmly for a passionate kiss.

As it deepened by the second, Tidus pulled away unexpectedly, thinking it best to do so before they both lost control. Yuna looked at little disappointed, but before she could say anything, he was waiting over near the door, beckoning for her to follow him.

Finally, after what had seemed like hours of fighting, they were ready to go inside Sin itself and put a stop to Yu Yevon once and for all. But of course everyone was absolutely exhausted and decided that it was best to rest and gather up supplies before heading of to do so some training at several locations around Spira. Once everyone had decided, each person set of to their own separate rooms to rest up for what they were sure was going to be a long and arduous fight.

But of course, Yuna couldn't sleep…not when, only a few hours before, she was on the verge of finding out what it was that Tidus had been keeping from her all this time. She tried not to dwell on it and sleep instead, knowing all to well that she needed the rest. Unfortunately though she found herself tossing and turning restlessly from such a prospect…it was simply too hard to ignore. Sitting up, Yuna decided that maybe she needed to go for a walk to clear her mind (that's what she told herself anyway) when of course, predictably, she found herself heading straight down the corridor towards Tidus' room.

She found herself stopping suddenly outside his door, unable to continue. She raised her hand, ready to knock on the door but found that it, instead, fell disobediently to her side. Shaking her head in frustration, Yuna raised her arm up again 'I can do this…I have a right to know'

She knocked.

"Who is it?" came his rather cheerful voice.

At his response, Yuna felt the all too familiar feeling of her cheeks flushing with crimson red. She lifted her hands up to her face, trying desperately to make it go away…but it wasn't. She decided then it was probably best to leave, before he found out who it was. 'Why on earth was she getting so excited about hearing his voice?'

"Umm…err…sorry to disturb you, I-I'll go now" She said quickly.

"Yuna? Is that you?" She cringed as he spoke. 'Too late he knows…'

She tried to walk away but was stopped by the sound of his door opening. "Yuna it is you…I thought so!" 'Keep walking, just walk away…' Unfortunately though, to Yuna's chagrin, her legs weren't moving. In fact, she found herself turning to face her lover instead.

"Sorry, I umm…thought that this was Lulu's room" she said nervously. He knew she was lying, but couldn't help but humour her somewhat pathetic excuse. She knew very well where his room was, she had been in here several times in fact. Sometimes for simply talking and other times for a few coy and timorous kisses and cuddles. Their "romantic time" as he like to think of it. So he decided to go along with her little charade and see what happened.

"Oh…okay, well Lulu's room is just down there, next to Rikku's remember?" He managed to say without laughing…Yuna didn't think he was that stupid, did she?

"Yeah…right, I forgot…sorry" She said tensely.

"Well remember next time okay?" He smiled at her then, and Yuna felt a small smile creep its way onto her lips as well.

"Well see you tomorrow morning then!" He said cheerfully before beginning to close the door, waiting for her to sing out after him in protest. '1, 2, 3'

"Wait!" Tidus smirked to himself; victorious in that in his previous statement was indeed correct. He was also somewhat proud for knowing her so well already. "Yes?" He responded back, trying incredibly hard not laugh. "I-I…um…well, you see-" Yuna stuttered…Enough was enough.

"Yuna…" he said calmly.

"Y-yes?" She was unsure on how to respond.

"Come here…" and with that he stepped out into the hall and pulled Yuna into the room so fast that she almost stumbled and lost her balance. Within seconds she found herself once again in her lover's embrace, feeling safe and at ease like she always did. He gently pulled her away and met her gaze.

"Why didn't you just say you wanted to come in? Why did you feel like you had to make up some excuse? You know I can't refuse you" Yuna's cheeks were burning again.

"Ahh…well you see I um…didn't know if you were awake and I-I wasn't sure-"

He began to laugh at this, watching her trying so hard to come up with an excuse as the words failed her. She stopped as soon as she heard him laughing, all too aware that she was just making her already embarrassing situation worse. She might as well give it up, he knew she was lying so what was the point?

"Okay then, I admit it, I was lying" He smiled slyly at her. "B-but…I'm not here for what you think"

"Oh?" He said still giggling, his voice overflowing with sarcasm.

"I wanted to talk about what you were saying before we were interrupted by Sin"

Once again when Yuna referred to the topic of his disappearance, all happiness and feeling seemed to be wiped clear of his features. It scared Yuna somewhat to think that Tidus of all people could be void of emotions, and at the simple thought, a cold stab of pain ran mercilessly down her spine. She was already feeling rather uncomfortable with the subject, and wanted to keep the convocation moving so as to reduce her anxiety.

"I even remember what you were saying before we were interrupted" she began, beginning to feel rather nervous. "You said believe me Yuna I don't-"

"want to" he finished for her rather bluntly. He glued his gaze on hers, awaiting her reaction. He was quite surprised at first. She just seemed to be confused. Yuna said the whole sentence back to herself as if trying to make sense of it all. "Believe me Yuna I don't want to?" For some reason, she turned his statement into a question as she repeated it.

"Why then?" For some odd reason, she was smiling at him. It obviously hadn't sunk in yet.

"Yuna…"

He made a quick dash for her, forcing her into a frantic embrace. "I'm so sorry"

Yuna's arms remained limp at her sides, as she spoke "Why though? Why Do you have to leave me?" The sobs were rising in her throat and soon she couldn't control them. She was desperate now, clenching onto his body as tightly as she could.

"I won't let you go! You can't you can't you can't!" She was hanging onto Tidus so firmly that he almost couldn't breathe.

"Yuna you have to calm down…please? I…don't want you having another attack!"

He tried and tried to pull her away, but it wasn't working. The more he struggled, the more tightly she held on. She let go soon though, trying to make a dash for the door, she tripped on her way though and fell to the floor, weeping hysterically.

Tidus took awhile to recover before realizing where Yuna had run to. As he saw her lying there on the floor, he jumped to his feet, and moved over to where she lay sprawled carelessly on the ground. What could he say to her? The damage was done now and there was no avoiding it…But he had to do something, anything to make her feel even slightly at ease.

"Yuna…" he went to pick her up, but she violently threw out her hand out at him as if attempting to get away from someone trying to attack her. He dodged it luckily, but he landed straight on his ass, giving Yuna the opportunity to spring back onto her feet and make for the door again. Not giving himself the time or indeed the need to recover, he quickly sprang for the door after her before she escaped…the whole incident would wake the other guardians and Tidus didn't even want to think what Lulu was going to do to him once she saw the state Yuna was in.

Just as the door opened and Yuna began to make a distressed run for it, he managed to grab her blouse, just pulling her back enough so he could throw his arms around her waist.

"Sorry Yuna, but I can't have you waking up the others right now" He said, struggling to hold her still. "Let…me… go…!" She managed to get out in-between her hysterics, trying frantically to writhe out of his iron grasp. He made a brief grasp for the button to close the door, and once sealed, wondered how to deal with her. She was thrashing about madly trying to get away, but he had a good hold on her…she wasn't going anywhere. As soon as she seemed to realise this, her thrashing stopped abruptly, and she latched on him frantically, pushing herself into his chest, bawling her eyes out.

"It hurts…it hurts…it hurts!" she repeated over and over, unable to contain herself. All Tidus could do was try and calm her, wait for the sobs to die. "Shhhhh…" he muttered into her hair, trying to still her.

Within ten minutes, Yuna's tears had finally stopped flowing. She was quiet.

"Yuna?" he said softly…but she didn't even move. As Tidus brushed the hair out of her eyes, he saw that she was…asleep, well either that or she had passed out. He then went to the tedious task of moving her comfortably into his arms and placing her on the bed, all the while trying not to wake her. As he placed her gingerly down onto the bed, he couldn't help but wonder wether he should sleep next to her or not. It was a lose lose situation so why shouldn't he? Besides, even if he went and slept in Yuna's bed, he would still be bombarded with questions as to how he got there in the morning. And here, Lulu and Wakka would storm in and abuse the hell out of him anyway, so why not sleep where he wants to? He carefully went about the task of moving Yuna over so as to make enough room for himself, before finally snuggling in next to her.

As he lay there, his face centimetres away from hers, he couldn't help but wonder they would have done had he survived the pilgrimage. Would they eventually get married? Would they have had a family? He couldn't believe he was going to miss out on so much…knowing that eventually another man would take over her life and his image would fade from her memory… becoming nothing more then a flicker at the back of her mind. He found himself struggling to suppress tears that were forcing their way through just behind his eyes. But of course the big question was, what was he going to do now? How would he deal with Yuna come morning? He knew that it wasn't going to be easy…especially now she knew what was going to happen to him. He had wanted nothing more then to keep her and the other guardian's naïve to his quandary, but it looked like it wasn't going to be that way.

Now, with what little hope he had left, he decided to use it to pray to Yevon that he would live to see another day (Lulu would make sure he suffered he was sure) and that if he did indeed survive, that Yuna would still talk to him afterwards…it was a long shot, but what else could he hope for? What did he have to loose? He was going to fade anyway…it didn't make any difference; in fact, nothing seemed to matter anymore…nothing.

Nothing…

A/N: Okay so what did everyone think? I put a lot of thought into this chapter and I must say I LOVE it! But that's just me…tell me what you all think! Maybe I love it because finally this story is going somewhere and Tidus finally told Yuna what was going to fade…Awwww…TT but fear not! The plothas already begun to sicken…oh I mean thicken…Oops sorry a slip of the tongue…or is it? Laughs evilly seriously though I'm not good at the whole lemon thing so don't be expecting any of that in this story! LOL hopefully you're all enjoying the storyline, if not, go ahead and flame me…I don't care…at least it still counts as a review But if you are enjoying it I would really really really like it if you could tell me that you liked it because that's such an encouragement to me and it really helps me write. Anyway ENJOY and REVIEW!

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