Chapter Five
Gippalooza
A/N: Here we go again! I'd like to thank Night Beauty, baralai-ec-rud, darkangelb, stardust13, Olympian, and sora7 for reviewing! Thanks soo much!!!! The song "Need You Tonight" that Gippal sings is actually © to INXS, since I'm not creative enough to write my own song, and I like it a lot :D
Gippalooza
"Where IS Yuna, anyway?" Paine asked Gippal a few hours later, as they lounged in the kitchen of Yuna's home. Baralai was out talking to Tortus, being too nice to give the idiot the finger (which Gippal would've done a long time ago.)
"I don't know. She said something about a caterer." Gippal answered, then shrugged. "I wish she'd hurry up, though."
"Why? So you can stare at her ass all night?" Paine asked, and Gippal laughed.
"Only half the night." he said, then stood up because Nooj entered the room, surprisingly, without LeBlanc.
"Hey, Noojie-Woojie." Paine said with a laugh, and Nooj frowned.
"Aren't you funny. Have you seen her? She was supposed to meet me here...said something about a caterer." he said, and Gippal looked surprised.
"That's what Yuna said, too. They both are missing, and they both went to the 'caterer', eh?" he said, then looked outside. Two seconds later, he was running out the door.
"What the-" Paine began, but Gippal was gone before she could finish her sentence.
"Wait a second..." Nooj began, then sighed. "Isn't that Yuna's boyfriend? With Rikku?"
Paine looked outside, then realized exactly why Gippal had charged out of the room. Tidus and Rikku were dancing-rather provocatively-and Gippal was headed straight for them. More than likely to kill Tidus where he stood.
"GIPPAL!" Paine yelled, then ran out the door. Sighing, Nooj reached into the fridge and grabbed himself an beer.
There are advantages to being 21.
"Gippal! Wait!" Paine called, and barely caught up with her friend before he hit Tidus in the face.
"What?!" he yelled, then turned around.
"You can't just hit him. Or kill him." Paine said, and Gippal crossed his arms.
"Why the hell not? Look at that!" he yelled, and both Rikku and Tidus looked at him.
"Looks like somebody's jealous!" Rikku yelled, and Gippal spun around, his face red.
"Over you? Hell no." he said, then turned back to Paine. Rikku seemed to be hurt.
"Hey, are you mad or something?" Tidus asked, and Gippal lunged for him, but luckily for both of them, Baralai was smart enough to realize that not only was killing (Retardus) Tidus a bad idea, but Tidus was so stupid he didn't even know Gippal WANTED to kill him. Baralai stopped Gippal from attacking Tidus, then put both hands on his friend's shoulders.
"Let her handle it. Come on, let's get something to drink." Baralai said, in his quiet yet commanding voice. Paine nodded, and Gippal sighed. After they made it back into the kitchen, Le Blanc and Yuna were already there.
"There you three are! Noojie-Woojie told me that something happened!" Le Blanc said, and looked around, then her voice lowered to a conspiratory whisper. "What was it?"
"Nothing big, really. Just Gippal getting...careless again." Baralai said, then looked at Gippal, who was still fuming mad but apparently thinking again. He nodded.
"Yeah." was all he said, his mind a blur of rotating images. Yuna, Tidus, Rikku, Yuna and Tidus, Rikku and Tidus, Yuna again... Gippal sat down, then, dizzy. He then felt someone handing him a glass of icewater.
"Here...if this helps." Yuna said, and he took it with a nod in her direction. Yuna sighed.
"Thanks." Paine said, then shook her head quickly. "Where were you, anyway?"
"Well...Le Blanc and I had an idea." Yuna said, then looked at Le Blanc.
"Why just have a party when we can have a karaoke party, loves!" she said, then grinned. "Of course, Noojie-Woojie and I will sing a love song...but, we get to draw straws to find out who picks the songs for everyone else!"
"Wait...where's Tidus?" Yuna asked, and Gippal's face turned a darker shade of red.
"Outside." he said, then gulped down some more water. Yuna stepped towards the door, opened it, then turned around and shut it behind her back. Her face turned red as well, but not half as red as Gippal's.
"Oh..my." she said, and looked at Gippal, who might as well had smoke coming out of his ears.
"Now you know what happened." he said, and she walked over to him, then sat down. Paine put her hand on her shoulder.
"Rikku just lost all of her respect points." she said, and gave Yuna a hug.
"Gippal..." Yuna said, and he looked at her. "Thank you...for standing up for me." she said, and he shrugged.
"That guy is an ass." he said, then grinned, despite how angry he was. "We can still have a good party without him."
"Yeah!" Le Blanc yelled, and Nooj nodded. They all walked outside, then, and shot glares at Tidus and Rikku, who were now making out on the couch.
"I...I...I hate them." Yuna said, and Gippal stopped and stared at her.
"Don-" he began, then shrugged and put an arm around her shoulders. If he would've had a good shot at either of them, he'd probably have killed them both, but knew he didn't. Finally, the group sat down, and Baralai walked on stage.
"I will now pull a slip of paper out of this cup, each with the name of one of the guests here tonight. This person will be the one that picks the songs that the others have to sing...let me see..." he said, then dug his hand in the cup and pulled out a piece of paper. "Paine!" he said, and Paine shook her head.
"...I should've known he'd pick me." she said, and sighed. Then, she stood up and walked over to stand next to Baralai. "And now I get to pick who goes first. Hrm...Gippal."
"Damn you!" Gippal yelled, but stood up anyway, and stood in the center of the stage as both Baralai and Paine walked back to sit down. On the way, though, Paine dug in the CD case in the corner, then put in a CD with an evil smirk on her face. Then she sat down, and the music began to play.
Gippal knew that this might be the only chance he got to say this to her (or sing it, for that matter) so he looked Yuna right in the eye as he sang.
Twenty-first century's yesterday
You can care all you want
Everybody does yeah that's okay
So slide over here
And give me a moment
Your moves are so raw
I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind
I need you tonight
'Cause I'm not sleeping
There's something about you girl
That makes me sweat
How do you feel
I'm lonely
What do you think
Can't take it all
Whatcha gonna do
Gonna live my life
Then he took a bow and stepped off stage as Nooj, Le Blanc, Paine, and Baralai all clapped and cheered. He put the CD back, then, and turned around to see Yuna's reaction.
She was gone.