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A/N: Once againI apologize for the long wait. But... You guys are laxy and didn't really review! Sob sob Hey, if you want the chapters faster then you'd better review:) Here's the next part!
The night was cool as Yuna sat by the window and stared out. Everyone else was asleep except for her. She hadn't been able to fall asleep.
Earlier that evening, after she and Tidus had arrived back to the hotel she had left him and ran up the stairs to the room and locked herself in the bathroom. She wanted to be alone. Once the others got back she came out and pretended that she was fine. It was hard though, ignoring Rikku's obvious flirting and Lulu asking her over and over what had happened at the karoke joint.
Slowly Yuna stood up and walked over to the bathroom. She came out a few minutes later not sure what she was going to do. Yuna, it could be dangerousā¦Her mind said to her. I don't care⦠I'll do what I want! With that she quietly walked to the door and slipped out of the room.
It was a little colder outsideand she wrapped her arms around herself as she walked. Yuna wasn't even sure where she was headed when she found that she had walked to the pool. There was no one in it. (Probably since it was 2:00 in the morning) But the gate wasn't locked so she slipped in.
The pool was huge and the water was dark, the moon being the only thing that kept Yuna from being completely in the dark. She paused and then pulled off her clothes, revealing the bathing suit that she had put on underneath. With that she dived into the dark water.
For a few minutes she jsut relaxed and after swimming to where the deep end was she began to swim harder. With each stroke that she took angry thoughts ran through her head. Since everything that's happened I can't even live my life! The anger that she felt caused Yuna to swim even harder.
But she couldn't go for long and soon, tears began falling from her eyes into the water. She kept swimming but soon she was crying so hard that she could barely see so she stood in the shallow end and sobed into her hands.
As she looked up she froze in horror. Tides was sitting on the edge of the pool with his legs in the water and he was looking at her sadly.
How long had he been watching? Yuna didn't know know, she didn't want to know.
"Yuna..." He whispered softly not moving, as if fearing that she would move away from him.
Yuna didn't answer instead she turned and swam backtowards the deep end angrily. In a couple seconds she felt Tidus grab her arm. Oh yeah, he was a blitzball player, of course he was a better swimmer then her! "Let go of me!" She hissed and pulled away.
"What's wrong with you?" Tidus asked her obviously losing his patience. "I'm sick of you acting like this! What's the heck is it?"
"I don't know. There's just so many things in my life that I've tried to forget, push down but they're starting to resurface." Yuna shook her head and then looked up at Tidus. "I'm sorry."
"So it's not working out?" Tidus was obviously angry and confused. "What have I done? I've been TRYING my hardestto make this relationship work! I've never tried this hard."
"I know you have and I appreciate it. But I think that there's just a problem with me." Yuna looked up sadly at Tidus and then turned away.
Suddenly Tidus wrapped his arms around Yuna and whispered into her ear. "I don't believe you."
"What?" Yuna tried to turn around but couldn't sincehe was holding her rightand she felt her face turning red as he kissed her neck.
"You heard me. I care about you to much to just let you go. I'm not going to let you go Yuna."
When Seymour had said almost the same words they had seemed like a threat. Tidus didn't say it like that at all. He kept her in his arms tightly as if he wanted to protect her. Something hit Yuna's face and she looked up to see that was it was starting to rain. "Oh!" She cried but Tidus just laughed.
"We're already wet." He said with a smirk and Yuna frowned at him.
"Look, can you do something for me?" She asked him as tears filled her eyes.
He nodded slowly and with that Yuna grabbedhis arms and pulled him out of the pool with her. "I need foryou todrive somewhere ok." She whispered. Tidus just shrugged as if he had accepted that she wasn't going to tell him what she was thinking.
A few minutes later they were in the car that they hadrented for the trip,dripping wet and cold so Yuna quickly switched on the heat. "Would you mind telling me where the heck we're going?" Tidus asked as he glanced over at her.
"I want to see my mother's grave." Yuna said quietly.
"Kaila's?" Tidus asked. "But that's really far from here!"
"No." Yuna answered softly as she swallowed. "I found out that Yunalesca's grave is close to here and I want... I want to see it. I think that I reallyneed to."
Tidus just nodded and in about an hour they had reached the cemetary. "Do you want me to come with you?" Tidus whispered as Yuna opened the car door.
"No, I need to do this alone." Yuna turned back before she left and looked at Tidus. He just smiled slightly at her and she smiled back as a tear ran down her cheek. With that she shut the door and hurried away.
Yuna rubbed at her arms to try to warm herself. After all, she was still only in a bathing suit even though Tidus had given her a shirt that he had taken off before he got in the pool. "Oh please don't let anyone be here..." Yuna muttered to herself.After searching thetombstonesfor a couple of minutes she found it. Thetombstone of Yunalesca was right in front of her and she froze.
Slowly she walked over to where it was and kneeled in front of it. And then she began to sob. Even though she had seemed to be crying a lot lately this took the cake. She didn't know how many minutes went past as she sobbed so hard she felt like her body was going to burst. "I'm so sorry." She whispered. "You died because of me! I wish it wouldn't have ended this way."
"You seem to be causing a lot of people trouble." Yuna turned around and froze as she saw a Guado standing and watching her. "Especially Master Seymour."
"What, are you going to kill me?" Yuna laughed as she stood up, she was cold and sad. "Go ahead. Trust me you'll be doing me a favor."
"Then I can't kill you can I?" He came forward and looked at her. "My name is Tromell and I am very loyal to Seymour." He raised her eyebrows slightly when he saw what she was (or wasn't) wearing.
"Well, I doubt that Seymour ever tried to rape you." Yuna answered with a sarcastic smile and she saw Tomell freeze and look surprised.
"Seymour would never-"
"Why do you think that he tried to kill me the night of the fire? He put my house on fire, He beat me, hurt me and has made my life miserable and I can't evenfeel safe with any guy, andyou're saying that he would never do something like that? You don't know anything!" Yuna was so angry that she couldn't even cry anymore. "YOU COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND!" The night carried the echo of her yellas they stared at each other.
"I see. And why should I believe you?" Tromell waited patiently for her answer.
"You can ask any person that I know and they'll tell you the same thing. He's a living monster and you can't do anything to me, that will cause me the pain that he brought upon me."
Tromell looked into her eyes and then turned away. "I bid you good day Miss Yuna." He said before walking away.
Yuna stood and stared at him as he disappeard into the fog, just shook her head and turned back to the gravestone. She ran her fingers across her mom's name. The last name was faded but she could still see the rest of it. "Mom, I would have done anything to be able to talk to you just once." There were so many things that she wanted to say but she couldn't. It wasn't like her mom was really there but still, it felt good just getting the words out. The rain was starting up again so,with that she stood up and walked away.
"Hey, are you alright?" Tidus asked Yuna the words gently as she got into the vehicle.
"You mean besides the fact that my eyes are red, I'm cold, I'm wet, I'm dirty and I feel pathetic?" Despite herself Yuna let out a chuckle. "Yeah I feel just great."
Tidus didn't answer. For some reason seeing Yuna right then... she had never looked so attractive in all the times that he had seen her. Without even thinking he leaned over, put his arms onher shouldersand kissed her deeply. Yuna's eyes widened as she wrapped her arms around Tidus' neck and Tidus pulled her into his lap.
"Thank you so much Tidus." Yuna whispered as she slowly pulled away. "I really appreciate it."
"You're welcome." Tidus answered and kissed her again. Yuna broke away quickly and then sneezed. "Sorry." She muttered.
Tidus realized that she was barely wearing anything and would get sick soon if he didn't do something. "You need to take off your wet clothes." He said.
"Tidus!" Yuna answered turning an extremely dark red.
"Look, there's a blanket in the back seat, you can wrap it around yourself... Look I don't want you to get sick!"
"Fine." Yuna hissed and crawled in the backseat and yanked off the T-shirt. She kept the bottom part of her bathing suit on and then tightly wrapped the blanket around herself and crawled back in front. "Start driving." She said and Tidus smiled. "Yes ma'am."
