Thank you all so much for the lovely reviews! Thanks! You guys are awesome! This chapter is about when they get their car! I was thinking of getting Tidius and Yun as well as Rikku and Gippal and Paine and Baralai in later chapters! I can't really do romance that well, but I can always try! Or I could leave it at the friendship part...hm...
That morning, Tidus, Gippal, and Baralai went to go and choose a car for their road trip. Together they road in Gippal's silver Mustang and headed towards the airport, which wasn't too far away; with Gippal's speeding that is.
"Um...Why are we at the airport? I thought we where going to go and drive...no airplane..." Tidus asked.
"Ti, we're just going to rent the car there." Baralai said matter of factly. "I went to an awesome site last night and found some cars here at Random Surprises! They have more varieties than usual too."
"So...Baralai...What's up with you and 'Dr. P?'" Gippal asked slyly looking at the rear view mirror seeing Baralai glare at him and blush pink.
"What do you mean what's up with me and her?" Baralai said innocently.
"Yeah...you act so polite and shy and all around her..." Tidus added glancing at his friend who was sitting in the back seat.
"I'm like that to everybody." Baralai said simply. "I just want to get to know her more, that's all."
"Sure, Baralai, if you ever need any matchmaking tips or anything, you can always count on us." Gippal smirked.
"So, Gippal, what's up with you and Rikku?" Baralai countered raising an eyebrow.
"NOTHING!" Gippal shouted quickly as he stopped suddenly at the red light making Baralai in the back fumble from his seat along with Tidus. They where blazing the song, American Idiot by Green Day. "She was one of my best friends when we where younger before I moved. She's really sweet, nice, and cheerful, can definitely make your day better."
"Said that a little quickly..." Baralai said smirking as Gippal glared back as he pulled up to the car dealer ship rentals. The three then walked around to look at the cars. There where loads of cars all around the place, from convertibles, SUV's, Mini Vans, Safari's and Trailers.
"Oh! Let's rent a motorcycle!" Tidus suggested pointing at the Suzuki motorcycle.
"Ti, there are going to be probably around six or eight of us." Baralai said rolling his eyes.
"Cool! So two to a motor cycle!"
"There's going to be luggage and I don't think traveling in a motorcycle is comfortable for hours at a time."
"Oh, What about that convertible?"
"There are SIX of us."
"We'll fit!"
"Luggage?"
"Oh. Well we can always forget luggage and stuff someone in the trunk! They can just sit there with the trunk lid open..."
Gippal and Baralai gave him odd glances and shook their heads.
"At this point we'll have to get a van..." Baralai said glancing at the mini Vans.
"A Van?" Gippal and Tidus exclaimed. "That's just so not hot!"
Baralai raised an eyebrow again, "That or would you prefer to take a Safari? It' an eight seater, highly bulky, big, and even worse than the mini van."
"We'll take the van." Gippal and Tidius said instantly.
"Wait, is Nooj, Leblac, Lulu and Wakka coming?" Baralai asked.
"They said that they could get a car, and they're all the way in Luca right now and they'd said they'd met us there." Gippal replied as the three headed to the main office to get their ride.
"Would you like to customize your ride? Maybe Pimp it up a little?" The dealer asked, he was wearing what appeared to be a Blitzball shirt with the picture of Tidius on it, then noticing Tidius he screamed, "OH YEVON! IS IT REALLY YOU!"
"Erm...I'm Tidus?" Tidus said shaking the dealer's hand.
"This is a dream come true!"
"Uh...Thanks?"
"Can I have your autograph?"
"Of course you can my adoring fan!" Tidus said signing an autograph picture of himself he had brought along.
"Oh thank you! Good luck in the tournament! YOUR RIDE WILL BE FREE OF CHARAGE! BUT I've got to go, my shift is up!" The dealer said as he ran off somewhere and a girl took his place.
"Hello there. Can I help you folks?" She asked in a bored tone.
"Erm...Yeah...Can we please get that mini van outside?" Baralai asked pointing at the model.
"You're in luck. We only have one more mini van left in the next five cities." The dealer said as Baralai signed the papers. After a long wait the dealer said that their car was ready and the three eagerly went out to see how their car would look like, only it wasn't what they expected...
The van was now PINK with flowers, hearts, and rainbows all over the place. This would be probably Leblanc's dream car, or maybe even Rikku's. It was an embarrassing car and perhaps even worse than just getting a regular silver caravan...
"AHHHHHH" The three boys yelled.
"Baralai! Go in and trade it!" Gippal shouted as Baralai went back in and tried to trade the car. Only the problem was that you couldn't' trade in rental cars unless there was a problem with it; well here anyways.
"But there IS a problem! It's PINK!" Tidus yelled at the dealer. "With rainbows and flowers and hearts!"
"I'm sorry, but no trade or refunds or anything unless there is an accident. And this is the LAST mini van or more than six people seater."
"What kind of company is this?" Gippal moaned.
"Baralai...WHY did we go here?" Tidus said after they had an argument with the dealer.
"Well...How as I supposed to know?" Baralai said defensively. "Who want's to drive?"
Baralai then saw Tidus and Gippal's looks and sighed. Maybe the girls would like it...Baralai then had to go in the car and found it's interior to be rather...too pink...
"If that's the exterior, imagine how it'd look in the interior!" Gippal wondered getting into his convertible to drive back. He prefer not to know actually...
Tidus then got his cell phone and dialed Yuna's number, "Uh...Girls, I think we have a problem here..."
"OOOOOOOHHHHH! IT"S PINK!" Rikku laughed. "That's SO COOL!"
"Yep, got it just for you, babe." Gippal said jokingly as Rikku smiled, whacked him on the head, and ran into the car. Inside it had six seats all in a pink cover and outlined with pink boas and a silver TV and a GPS system. The wheel was also surrounded by a rainbow cover.
"There is NO WAY I'm riding that thing..." Paine said staring at the pink van as people where coming by and laughing at the car.
"Tell us about it...We couldn't' trade it or anything, we didn't even know it'd look like this!" Baralai complained. "I mean we got the car for free!"
"For free? I can see why..." Paine said staring at the car.
"The last van in the next five cities."
"WHAT IN YEVONS NAME IS THAT?" Yuna said as she dragged her luggage outside, which involved five suitcases.
"IT'S THE BEST CAR EVER!" Rikku said happily. "It's PINK!"
Tidus meanwhile, was having trouble putting all of the luggage in the van. Yuna had taken five suitcases, Rikku had taken seven and Paine had taken two. How much stuff did girls have to bring? Tidus thought. Gippal, Baralai, and himself had only brought three duffels bags between them.
"WOW! It's AMAZING!" Yuna yelled happily as Rikku and Yuna complimented on the new car.
"Let's get going!" Rikku exclaimed happily.
Apparently only Rikku and Yuna where happy with the ride. Everyone else was glum about it, but excited about the trip. Baralai volunteered to drive to Killika. Tidus and Yuna sat in the middle while Rikku and Gippal sat in the back, leaving Paine and Baralai in the front.
"ROAD TRIP EVERYBODY!" Rikku yelled as everyone cheered.
The boys had brought some dark colored towels and set them along the seat, according to them, they where scared of the pink-ness.
"But real men wear and like pink!" Rikku quoted.
"So you're suggesting that we wear pink..." Gippal snorted.
"Yeah!" Rikku added.
"We already have a pink and rainbow-ish car, do you have any idea how it'd look if we where wearing pink?" Tidus exclaimed.
"I think that you guys should wear pink..." Paine smiled from the front.
"Uh huh...but that's not exactly uh...straight." Baralai said choosing his words carefully.
"Right!" Tidus and Gippal agreeed.
"So you guys are saying that if you wear pink and rinde in this car then it would look like you woudlnt' be stright?" Paine summarized.
"Yeah, people would be wondering how we got a few wonderful and beautiful girls with us too." Gippal said scarcasticly as Rikku wacked him on the head once again whole Yuna and Paine rolled their eyes.
"This conversation is so retarded." Tidus muttered.
"Did you ever get my packages and letters and emails or anything?" Gippal asked Rikku after leaning back in his seat.
"What packages and emails?"
"You mean you never had a clue or anything?"
"I never really got anything like that...Althought Pops, and Brother always did seem like hiding somethign when the mail came...
"Hm...Do you think that they--"
"HEY! THEY INTERCEPTED MY STUFF!" Rikku exclaimed making Baralai suddenly break.
"They hate me that much?" Gippal said, he always knew Brother and Cid was overprotective of Rikku and could get carried away...And the guy had never really liked Gippal.
"I can't believe it!" Rikku said leaning back in her seat. "When I get home they are going to-"
"HEY! BARALAI! Can you drive any slower?" Tidus yelled. Baralai was driving at thirty five miles per hour.
"I don't' want to crash!" Baralai said "Or get into any accidents and cause a big scene..."
"Well...the car is kind of a big scene and all by itself..." Tidus supported..
"We missed you a lot... It's hasn't been quite as fun without you actually..." Yuna said her eyes twinkling. "I'm glad we're going on this road trip."
"Same," Tidus smiled. "I've got a huge tournament in Zanarkand, actually, and it should be in a month or two away, they're still keeping us updated, I was hoping you guys could go to my game."
"We'd love too!" Rikku shouted form the back. "Do we get front row seats and special privileges?"
"if that'll make you come." Tidus said.
"We're your friends! You don't' need bribing us, we'd defiantly go." Yuna said as Baralai nodded in the front.
"Uh...Baralai...Can you possibly speed up like fifty miles?" Gippal yelled from the back.
Okie dokie! So they got thier car! whoo hoo! I'll probably update once a week or more I guess! So couples or not? by the way?