Hey people sorry for the delay. So many things happened that I don't feel like explaining because it would take too long. Alright, anyways, THANK YOU REVIEWERS!!! YOU MAKE ME DO A LITTLE VICTORY DANCE AROUND MY ROOM!!! Which is not pretty, might I add. But, I know what I'm gonna do for the whole "How it Tidus going to act towards Yuna and vice versa" thing, and I think you guys are going to like it. Or, I HOPE you guys will like it. He he. And I've decided to change something: Even though this is a high school fic, there will be Sin. I've been thinking on it for awhile, and I want to make my fic as individual as possible. It will still have high school elements and everything, but it will have the whole Sin thing in there. Yuna still wants to be a summoner, but the summoners are now like they were in FFX. I'll probably repost chapter one to clarify that. But, enough of my babbling. Here's the next chapter for you.

P.S: To the anonymous reviewer who said "It's gil, not dollars bi the way!" Yeah, I know, I just sort of didn't feel like thinking about how much gil I should make everything and all that. Cuz I'm lazi O.O. He he. But I'll try to make it gil from now on, cuz I know that there are people from other countries reading this, and they may have no idea what the dollar is. So yeah.

ZIA00013: I like your idea, but I sort of already have everything planned for the blitzball game in Luca. Well, actually, I almost everything else in this story planned, for that matter. I'm totally not trying to be mean so I hope you don't think I am, I just have the story planned out already. Oh, and yeah, that is how you spell Barthello .

Oh, and about that new fic I said I was going to do, I probably won't right now, I don't have very many ideas for it yet, unlike with this fic, which I have a ton for.

Oh, and I changed my penname, obviously. I just wanted something different, and I think that this one is pretty individual, so yeah.

Disclaimer: Don't own it.

YUNA POV

I hurried home after the incident at the grocery store. I couldn't stop the thoughts and questions running through my head. Why had Tidus stuck up for me? It had never happened before, so why now? Was it all because I had gotten the guts to stand up for myself?

I finally reached my road, and turned down it, slowing my pace since there was definitely no one around. Only Mr. Auron and I lived on this street, and no one else lived even relatively close to it. Also, something that often made me laugh, was that there was a rumor that the house at the end of this street, which happened to be mine, was haunted. That was another reason no one came down here. Not even adults!

I passed Auron's house, which showed a small light coming through the open windows. I smiled. I didn't know why people found it so scary here, when I found it peaceful. I guess I had gotten used to it over the years. As I looked up to see the crooked branches reaching up and covering the blue night sky, for once I could see why people found it scary. There were thick trees on both sides of the road, and were almost impossible to get through. There were no flowers or anything besides the brown color of the bark and the dirt path and the few green leaves left on the trees. I found it odd, because most of the trees along the road were dead, but didn't fall down. I guessed that all of the dead trees sort of supported each other, and prevented each other from falling down. That was sort of what Lulu and I were for each other. We prevented each other from falling, and crashing to the ground. Without each other, we would surely give up on life.

I sighed. I still hadn't found my journal. I had looked around for it all day, and I was worried. Tidus could've picked it up and taken in to his 'comrades,' but I didn't know for sure. It could've been swept up by the janitors or picked up by another student, also. But my gut feeling told me that Tidus had it, and usually my gut feeling was right. I guessed that I would just have to wait and see if it turned up, and in the meantime get myself another notebook.

After about a five more minutes, I finally reached my house, which I called the bungalow, because it was on a small abandoned beach, and I thought that the name seemed to fit something like that. I walked up the steps to my small porch, pulled out my key, and opened my door. Walking into the house, a sense of calm washed over me. I loved being at home. I didn't know why, but I just guessed it was because I could relax and do what I needed to do without thinking about school and other problems.

I hung my backpack up on the wooden coat-rack that I kept by the door. In front of me was my little living room, with an old blue couch, a television on an old stand, and a small coffee table. On the other side of the room was my small kitchen. It had wrap-around counters that separated it from the living room, and there was a small pantry next to my old refrigerator. My stove was ancient but clean, and the cabinets were filled with very little. I walked across the room to the hallway that led to my bedroom and bathroom. I put my long purple nightgown on, and went to warm up some dinner.

After I put the TV dinner into the microwave, the phone on the counter began to ring. I scurried over and picked it up.

"Hello, this is Yuna."

"Hi."

I smiled. "Hi, Lulu, how are you?"

I heard Lulu yawn. "Extremely tired. I just wanted to make sure you got home from work alright. I still think I should've waited."

I giggled. "No, I'm glad you went home. I ended up going to the grocery store anyway…" I said, trailing off as memories of the night flooded into my head.

"Yuna? Yuna are you there?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah, sorry," I said, rubbing my forehead. "I'm just tired, too. Well, I think I'm going to eat and go to bed."

"Alright. Good night, Yuna."

"Night, Lulu," I said, and hung up the phone. I took my dinner out of the microwave, and after picking at it for about twenty minutes I decided that I wasn't hungry. I quickly brushed my teeth and washed my face, and then I walked into my little room. I set the alarm clock on my nightstand and slipped under my warm covers. In moments, I had fallen into a deep slumber, numerous thoughts swimming through my head.

For the next few weeks, my life was simpler then it had ever been before. Tidus, Rikku, Dona, and Barthello completely stayed away from me. The only time we even had some type of interaction was when we passed each other in the halls. Another thing was that people seemed to be giving me death glares a lot less, also. I didn't know why, and personally I found it quite weird. I wasn't like I actually missed their glares or anything, because I most definitely didn't, but I guess I just didn't know what to think. I mean, if something like this had been happening to you your whole life, and then it just suddenly stopped, then you would wonder why, too.

Before I knew it, it was Halloween. I had pretty much forgotten about my journal and now had a new one, which was just as good.

For Halloween, Lulu and I had a tradition that every year we would go to one of our houses to hand out candy to the little kids. This year it was my turn to be the hostess, but children practically never came to my house because of the whole haunted thing. But I bought a bag of candy every year, just in case.

"So Lulu, what are you dressing up as this year?" I asked her in the cafeteria over our lunch of meat sandwiches and yogurt.

"Same as last year. That long black dress with the neck lined in fur and the front made of belts?" she said. "What about you?"

"Well, I've decided to wear my mother's old kimono this year," I said.

Lulu looked at me in surprise. "Oh, you fit into it now?"

I nodded. "Yeah, finally. It's been in that box under my bed for ages now. I'll probably have to use a hairdryer to get all of the dust off it."

"Well, I'm just surprised that your bust fits into that thing," Lulu said matter-of-factly.

I playfully slapped her on the arm. "Lulu! Could you be any louder?!" I said as a couple of people looked at us strangely.

"Well, yes, if you insist," Lulu said, taking a bite of her sandwich.

I couldn't help but giggle at her comment, and then very quietly I asked her, "My chest isn't that big, is it?" Lulu just laughed.

TIDUS POV

"Hey, Tidus? Are you okay? You've seemed kind of day-dreamy lately." Rikku said, poking me in the arm. We were in the lunchroom, and I currently had had nothing to eat yet.

"What? Oh, yeah Rikku, I'm fine." I said, staring at my food. I had been a little uneasy since I had found out what Yuna had felt for me these past few years. It really boggled my mind. All I did now was rack my brain for a reason why she would've been attracted to me, and I had come up with nothing. After looking back, I found that I really had been truly mean to her these past few years. But, actually, I hadn't meant it like that. Yuna had just been someone I joked around with for fun, someone I used to entertain myself with.

Used. I had used her for that? It just didn't sound right. I looked over to where Lulu and Yuna were sitting. They were at a table in the far off corner of the room, and Lulu currently had a small smile on her face, while Yuna was, oddly, covering her chest with her arms protectively.

A smile appeared on my face. I found the scene funny.

"Tidus? TIDUS!"

"What?" I looked over at Dona, who stared at me impatiently.

"Where are we going for Halloween tonight? You said that we should do something new this year, so you have to decide where we're going," she said, tapping her long mulberry colored fingernails on the table.

I thought for a moment, and then an idea popped into my head.

"Hey, why don't we go to that old house on that street on the other end of town that the people say is haunted? We've always talked about going there, so this is the perfect time, right?"

Everyone seemed to think that it was a good idea.

"Okay, we can meet at my house, I live the closest to it," I suggested. We all agreed, and it was on.

YUNA POV

After getting back to my house after school, I quickly changed into my kimono, eager to once again see how it looked. I was quite pleased with the fit of it, not too tight but not loose, either.

I smiled. I always thought of my mother when I saw this kimono. It was her favorite outfit, I remembered that she wore it at least twice a week. It had a white piece of material that criss-crossed on the chest, with a strange black bra-type thing that went underneath it. It then had a bright yellow piece of material that went around my stomach and tied into a large bow in the back. Then, there was a long purple skirt that reached my ankles. I also had some old black boots that I was wearing and some long white and pink arm pieces.

I looked at the picture of my parents sitting on my nightstand in my room. They looked so happy together, so calm, never suspecting that they would suffer such a tragic end.

I ran my fingers along the part of my exposed X-shaped scar on my back. Lulu was the only one who knew about the scar and about my parents, about knowing why I wanted to become a summoner in the first place. She had promised to keep the secret until the day that I became a summoner, the day I would make my speech to the people of Besaid Island before I went on my pilgrimage.

I sighed, and then decided to start making my cider early. Every year I made apple cider in the fall on Halloween night, and I made quite a lot of it so it usually lasted me awhile. I went into my backyard, where the beach was clearly visible, and went up to my apple tree, and started picking the ones that looked good and ripe. I soon went inside and got to work.

Lulu came to my house shortly after six o'clock, carrying a plastic bag which seemed full to the brim.

"Hey, Lulu," I said as I moved aside so that she could walk through the door. She looked very pretty and mysterious in her long, beautiful dress, which exposed quite a lot of her chest.

"Hello, Yuna," she said, putting the bag onto my kitchen counter. "I trust you made your cider?"

I smiled. "Yep, I've got two cartons of it in the fridge! And, I trust you brought the movies?" I said, trying to peek into the bag. But Lulu quickly pulled it away, a mischevious smile on her face.

"Yes, and a few other things," she said, pulling five horror movies out of the bag and handing them to me. Wondering what else she had brought, I looked at her strangely as I took the movies from her hands. Lulu had a wonderful horror movie collection, and every year she chose some that we could watch on Halloween, and always made sure that they would scare the crap out of me. But I didn't mind, it was Halloween, you were supposed to get scared, right?

I pulled the cider out of the refrigerator and got two cups out of the cabinet. I warmed up some cider for both of us as Lulu put in the first video. I quickly handed Lulu her hot cider and sat down next to her on the couch, not wanting to miss the movie.

Let the horror begin.

TIDUS POV

Rikku, Dona, and Barthello arrived at my house around nine. I had also invited Wakka, being that he was my closest blitzball buddy, plus we hadn't gotten together much lately.

Rikku showed up wearing what she called a "thief" costume. She had on a little yellow bakini top with an orange miniskirt, and a long scarf dangling around her neck. She was also wearing white ribbon-things that tied down all of her arm, and some black and silver boots that came up to the bottom of her calves. Her hair was put up into a high ponytail with many loose braids pulled back by a blue headband.

Dona showed up wearing a little bunny outfit. Need I say more? And Barthello had dressed as a male bunny to match Dona, which we all found absolutely hilarious. Barthello had liked Dona for such a long time, but unfortunately she never seemed to notice.

Wakka was just wearing his everyday clothes, and as for me, well, I was wearing my dad's old professional blitzball outfit, which I thought fit me pretty well considering I was smaller then my old man.

"Hey, Tidus, what's up, brudda?" Wakka said when he came into my house. Well, I didn't really live in a house, it was more like a mansion. My father, Jecht, who used to play for the Zanarkand Abes professional team, still had a lot of money left to spare even though he had been retired for six years.

"Whoa, awesome outfit, ya? Where'd ya get it?" Wakka asked as he looked at the material and style of it.

I smiled and shook my head. "Just my dad's old thing. No biggie," I told him, not wanting to go into detail about my father's old career. I led him into the living room, where the three others were waiting. "Okay, guys, Wakka's here, are you ready to go?"

Rikku jumped up in excitement and Dona and Barthello stood up and nodded. I smiled. "Okay, let's get 'em."

YUNA POV

I sighed and closed my eyes once the second movie was over. It was about nine-thirty, so the night was still young, so I braced myself for the next horror that was about to be bestowed on me.

Lulu slid the next movie into the VCR. "Well, there are quite a few previews on this one…" she said, glancing at me as a smile formed on her face, "So I was thinking…that in the meantime…"

I rolled my eyes at her, knowing that she had something planned. "Just spill it, Lulu."

Lulu smiled bigger and walked over to the bag on the counter, and she pulled out one long, blue beaded earring and one needle in a little baggy full of liquid.

My eyes widened as my hands shot up to my ears protectively. "Oh, no you don't," I said, shaking my head forcefully and she got an ice cube out of my refrigerator and brought it up to me, trying to put it behind one of my ears to numb it. "I am NOT piercing my ears, Lulu. NOT HAPPENING."

"You wouldn't be piercing your ears, just your ear," Lulu said, trying to stifle a giggle.

But I still shook my head. "That's the same thing, Lulu, it's still painful, and…" I trailed off, looking at the earring that she held in her hand. "Wow, that's pretty," I said, taking it from her to look at the exquisitely carved blue and yellow beads.

Lulu smiled. She knew that she was getting me. "Yeah, I bought it from that marketer who travels around Spira, I think his name was O'aka or something…but anyway, once I saw it I just thought of you and I knew that it would go beautifully with your kimono."

I smiled at her. "This is a really pretty earring, Lulu," I said, contemplating on what to do. It would only be one earring, and if I didn't like how it looked I could always close it up…

"Alright, Lulu, I'll do it. But it better not hurt that bad, though," I said as Lulu flipped on the tiny lamp next to the couch which we had had off for the movies.

"Don't worry, I'll do it quick," she said, putting the ice behind my right ear. "I pierced both of my ears myself, and I think I did a pretty good job, too, so you have nothing to worry about. Now, just hold that there for a minute…" she said, taking the needle out of what I guessed was alcohol. I watched the opening of the movie while holding the ice cube to my ear, and I could feel it slowly get very cold and very numb. After about five minutes, Lulu took the ice away from my ear, and put an apple slice behind it. I looked at her oddly, but let her continue her work.

"It's to help with the placing of the hole," Lulu explained about the apple. I nodded, and braced myself as she pointed the needle at my ear. "Are you ready?" she asked me with a concerned look on her face. I gulped, but nodded, feeling as though I could throw up anytime.

"Okay," Lulu said. "Three, two, one…"

TIDUS POV

I could see the house in the distance now. We were all sort of shaken because of how creepy the walk was on the way here, but we had continued on anyway, not wanting to be chicken in front of each other.

"Man, is that the haunted house?" Rikku asked, grabbing onto my arm in fear as she saw the small shack-type home.

"I guess so," I said nonchalantly, not wanting to admit that I was scared through to the bone.

Just as we approached the front of the house, we heard a blood-curling scream coming from inside. All five of us jumped at least five feet in the air, scared out of our pants.

"Okay, I change my mind about this place, let's get out of here," Rikku said starting to make her way back down the long path that led up to the main road. The others agreed with her, but, not wanting to hurt my pride and let them think that I was a scared little baby, I crossed my arms and stared them down. "Are you guys seriously that chicken?" I asked them.

"YES!!!" Rikku yelled, jumping up and down, making it look like she had to pee. "Now can we please just get out of here?!"

"Rikku, be quiet, you're going to disturb the spirits with that yell," Dona said, smiling, being that she had scared Rikku even more with the mention of spirits.

But before we had anymore time to argue, I heard a creak behind me. I turned to see that the door was slowly opening up, and I immediately flung my arms over my head and screamed, as did the other four.

I expected something bad to happen, like my head suddenly getting chopped off or something, but it didn't. Instead, I heard someone talking.

"Did you come for the candy, children?" someone said sarcastically.

We all looked up and there, right before us, was Yuna, whose hands were on her hips as she stared at us angrily. "What the hell do you think you're doing here?" she said, coming down the porch steps so that she was closer to us. Soon another figure walked out of the doorway and followed Yuna down the steps. I soon realized that it was Lulu, also glaring at us. "What do you want?" she asked in that menacing voice of hers.

Knowing that it was just them, I wiped the shocked look off of my face and stood up tall. It was just then that I noticed that they were wearing strange outfits. Yeah, I knew it was Halloween, but it wasn't that type of strange. It was more, well, formal strange, I guess you could call it. Lulu was in a long black dress with the front made of belts, and Yuna was in an odd kimono. Deep down inside, I knew that I thought that Yuna looked very beautiful, but I would've rather kissed Barthello then admit that to anyone.

Beautiful? Where did that come from? This was Yuna I was talking about. When did I all of the sudden think she was beautiful?

Since you found out that she had guts, my conscience told me. Even though I tried to deny it, I knew that my conscience was right. Yuna had never shown me any guts before, but now, that was all I could see out of her.

"Well?" Yuna asked impatiently.

"Ugh…well, ugh…" I said, trying to think of what I was going to say, which I had seemed to have forgotten once I looked at Yuna.

"We came to see a haunted house," Dona said, trying to stare Yuna down, which obviously wasn't working.

Yuna and Lulu looked at each other and started laughing. Dona then realized that what she had just said was very childish sounding, and her face got red with embarrassment. I shook my head, also embarrassed my Dona's comment.

"We…we heard a scream from inside…" Rikku said shakily, actually not being mean to Yuna for once.

Yuna looked at Rikku oddly, obviously surprised that Rikku wasn't cussing her out or something, but then she lifted her hair to reveal a long beaded earring in her very red right ear. "Lulu wanted me to be a little adventurous, so I was," she said, smiling.

We all breathed out in relief. So, Yuna had gotten one of her ears pierced and that was where the scream came from.

"Well, I suggest you get out of here now, before I call the cops or something," Yuna said, turning to go face the door and started walking up the steps, followed by Lulu. But before she got into her house, I found myself wondering if it was she that lived here or Lulu. Being nosey, I just had to ask.

"Do you live here, Yuna?"

Both Lulu and Yuna turned to look at me. "What?" Yuna asked, looking at me in surprise.

"I said do you live here?" I asked her again. I didn't know why, but I wanted an answer. I would've expected Lulu to live here or something, being that it was so creepy and so was she, but it turned out otherwise.

"Yes, I live here," Yuna said. "Now, if I find my house tee-peed, without a porch, or vandalized in any other way, I will immediately report all five of you to the police. Good night." She said, and with that she closed the door.

We all kind of just stood there for a minute, trying to process what had just happened, I guess. When Yuna had turned her back, though, I thought that I had caught site of something, like a mark. I was about to ask if anyone else had seen it, but then I heard Rikku say something.

"Wakka likes Lulu, Wakka likes Lulu…"

We all turned to look at Wakka, who looked as red as his hair. "What the hell are you talkin' about, ya?!" He asked a smiling Rikku with alarm.

"Face it, Wakka, you're doomed now," I said, laughing, as we started to walk back down the path, leaving him standing there, dumbfounded.

"Wadya mean?" He asked me, hurrying to catch up to us.

"It's Rikku's sixth sense," Dona said, smiling.

Rikku had this, well, I guess you could say 'gift.' That was what she called it, anyway. Most of the time, the rest of us just called it a curse.

You see, Rikku could always tell when you liked someone, even if you didn't totally like them yet. And Wakka had just been her most recent victim.

"So, Lulu, huh? Wow, what a catch," I said, putting my hands behind my head as I walked.

"Hey, don't say that about her, ya?" Wakka said, blushing once again once he realized that he had just defended her. "I mean…oh, whatever," he said, scratching his neck.

We all smiled. That was definitely interesting.

"So, Tidus, what was with the 'Do you live here, Yuna' thing? It was kind of out of the blue." Dona asked, eyeing him suspiciously.

At this question I panicked. What was I supposed to tell them? That I was just curious about Yuna? They would totally turn their backs on me because of that one comment. Well, maybe not Rikku, being that she was more of a loyal friend, but Dona and Barthello definitely would. Plus, the school would start up rumors right away, and they would spread around quicker then me falling asleep in history class. And, believe me, that was quick.

"Oh, you know, just for future reference," I said simply. They seemed to believe me, so we went on down the path discussing other things. I was glad that I had gotten off of that subject, but I felt a bit uneasy. I had really thought Yuna looked good that night, for the first time ever. I had never paid attention to her looks, or anything about her, really. But now, it seemed so different. I didn't know what to do. Dona had Yuna's journal right now, so I couldn't exactly ask for it back to give to Yuna without arousing suspicions. I figured Yuna had probably forgotten about it anyway. But for some reason I didn't want Dona to do anything with the whole Yuna liked me situation.

I looked at Rikku, who was much happier now that we were reaching the end of the path and were walking past the only other house on that street. Maybe I could get her to get the journal back from Dona. It would be easier for her, since she and Dona were both girls, so they had more of a bond. Plus, Rikku said that she had decided not to do anything about the Yuna situation, that we should just leave her be, which was the exact thing that I had been thinking. But I had asked Rikku why she felt that way, but Rikku said that she had no reason for wanting to leave Yuna alone. But deep down inside me, I had a funny feeling that Rikku did have a reason, and it was probably a pretty big reason if she wouldn't even tell us.

YUNA POV

I closed the door after my encounter with them and leaned on it, breathing a sigh of relief. That was just perfect. Now they knew where I lived.

"Come on, Yuna, the movie's starting now," Lulu said, motioning for me to come and sit down. Seeing the look on my face, she added, "Don't worry about those guys, okay? They aren't worth it."

I smiled. "You're right, Lulu. They aren't," I said as I sat down. But then, I remembered something.

"Lulu, did you see the way Wakka was looking at you?"

She rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I don't know what he's got planned, but I'm sure it's bad,"

"Lulu, why do you always assume the worst of people?" I said, slightly annoyed with her.

"Well, Yuna, you don't exactly assume the best of Tidus," she said, and then it hit me. Lulu was totally right. I was being a major hypocrite right now, because I always assumed that all Tidus wanted to do was torment me. Should I give him a chance?

No, I thought. He didn't deserve a chance. He had already blown it.

But as I sat there, watching the movie, I remembered the look in his eyes when he asked me if I lived here. It wasn't a mean or menacing look, it was just…well, normal, I guess. And it made me wonder, did Tidus really want to hurt me anymore? Or was he just faking?

Not wanting to rattle my brain anymore, I got up and got myself some cider. I still hated him, and I knew that would never change. But…did he still hate me?

Well, what do you think Rikku's reason is for not wanting to torment Yuna anymore? Hehe. Don't say it if youthink that youknow it, we don't want to spoil it, now do we? Please R&R!

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