A/N: OMG! So many great reviews! I love being told to get my arse into gear and write the next chapter! I had the bulk of this chappy written for a while and just hadnt got around to writting the last few lines... I know I know, Im slack. But here it is! Seeing as the power of christ compelled me, and for fear of being attacked while Im walking down some dark alley... lol.

Oh and for those of you wondering why Tidus reacted the way he did... Ive never seen someone walk in and catch there other half cheating, but I have been privy to it myself... more than once, in fact more than a few times, and the first couple of times it happened, I couldnt say anything! Im not sure if you guys are the same, but I was just in suck shock that I couldnt feel anything... Of course the screaming and attacking of silly hoes stealing my boyfriend came later, but right at the moment of discovery I just kinda felt empty... and thats how I protrayed Tidus, because even tho he isnt me, (if I was a guy Id wish I was HIM) I still think this is how he would feel. So now that Ive poured out my heart to a heap of randoms, please to be reading the new chapter.. heh, LOL!

It took a minute, but finally Yuna came to her senses.

"Shit!" She cursed uncharacteristically and pushed passed Shuyin, who still hadn't moved. To someone who didn't know any better, he would have looked asleep.

She jerked the door open and looked around for Tidus. Not seeing him out the back she rushed into the crowded club, her eyes darting everywhere, here heart beating at a million miles a second. Not seeing him anywhere, she pushed her way towards the bar where Paine and Rikku were standing, engrossed in conversation with Gippal and Baralai. She glanced at her watch. Bugger, only 45 minutes until we have to be on stage… She thought to herself.

Ignoring the concerned looks she was getting from people wondering why there were tears streaming down her cheeks, she finally reached her friends.

"Have you guys seen Tidus?" She asked frantically.

"Jesus, Yuna! What happened?" Paine grabbed her shoulders, immediately ignoring Gippal who was mid-sentence.

"Just… Have you seen Tidus?" Yuna asked louder, ignoring Paine's question.

"Last time we saw him he was heading out back to see you… what happened?" Rikku joining Paine in her concern.

"I… I need to find him… Right now!" She shrugged Paine's hands off her and leaned over the bar. "Dona, have you seen Tidus?" interrupting her serving a customer.

"Oh dear… Yes… You know he looked very upset… but then so do you… not that I care about you, but I do care if my fellow employees slack off in their work. What happened?" She put her hand on her hip and without looking at the patron, passed him the drink and took the money.

"Oh for the love of… what is everyone's deal with asking what happened! Just tell me where he is!" She shouted at Dona in frustration and banged her fist hard on the bar, making the surrounding people all turn to look at her.

"Well there's no need to shout, you know…" Dona said patronisingly, as Yuna just glowered at her. "Tch, fine. He came in and asked it he could take his break early. I said that was fine and he went out the back door with his bike helmet."

"How long is his break?" Yuna asked, a little calmer, though still not knowing where he was.

"An hour, now if you'll excuse me, seeing as Tidus isn't here, I don't have time to chat all day…" She turned and continued to serve the customers as Yuna sighed and put her arms on the sticky bar and then plopped her head onto them.

She could hear Paine, Rikku, Baralai and Gippal all trying to talk to her and a few times Rikku tried to pull her head up. But she wasn't going to lose it, not here, not in front of everyone. All she had to do was continue with the show, wait till Tidus came back, and then explain everything to him. She counted to 10 in her head as she took ten deep breaths, and then turned to face her friends, who were all just standing staring at her.

Holding up her hand to stop all their questions, she spoke. "Before you say anything, let me say everything I have to say. Ok?" She looked at them all and they all nodded silently.

"Ok… Tidus walked in and saw Shuyin kissing me." She held up her hand again as she saw Rikku's mouth open. "Notice I said Shuyin kissing me. He was drunk and he kept calling me Lenne. Then he cornered me against the wall and kissed me. I tried to push him off and that's when Tidus walked in. I think you all know I wouldn't kiss Shuyin, even if I did have a sex dream about him, but Tidus left and I didn't have time to explain. So I just have to wait until he comes back and explain it all."

They all stood there silent, not exactly sure what to say. Finally Paine nodded in understanding, Rikku smiled in a 'that-sucks-dude-but-I-understand' kind of way, Baralai nodded as well and looked at Gippal who had a confused look on his face. This made everyone look at him. As they watched him his face went from confused to 'oh my god'.

"Hey… Whoa… uh, back it up a bit… You had a sex dream about your boyfriend's twin brother?" he was finding it difficult not to laugh. Everyone just rolled their eyes and Rikku smacked the back of his head.

"So where's Shuyin? I wouldn't mind having a word with him." Paine gave Yuna a serious look.

"Why's he even here?" Rikku put her hands on her hips.

"Uh duh, because he Tidus' brother and Tidus has a job here?" now it was Gippal's turn to roll his eyes at Rikku, she smacked the back of his head again. "Ya know, that's really starting to smart, Rikku…" He grumbled, as he rubbed his head and glared at his girlfriend.

"He was in the back room. But I doubt he's still there, or if he is, he's probably passed out. He was really drunk. Paine, don't get to worked up about it. I'll talk to him when he's sober. He probably wont even remember it…" Yuna said as she took Rikku's drink out of her hand and downed the whole thing.

"Hey! That was my drink!"

"You know your being very calm about all this, Yuna… it's not like you… normally you'd be all… emotional…" Gippal voiced what everyone was thinking.

"Yeah I know… I just… I've had enough of all this…" She waved her hand around in the air nonchalantly. "All this… crap. If I keep making everything so complicated I'll end up pushing away the people I love. The person who should be here isn't...The one who should be smiling with me isn't here. 'I don't need anyone.' Always 'I don't need anyone'. Those were my magic words. I repeated them to myself again and again. But you know… The magic never worked. The only thing I'm left with is regret. I don't want that anymore. So I'm going to be rational." She nodded in self-determination.

"You have a plan?" Baralai asked.

"Beg for forgiveness?" Paine crossed her arms and grinned at Yuna.

"That's plan B… But before that… Hey Rikku… Do you mind if we change tonight's play list around a bit?" Yuna looked from Paine to Rikku, then back to Paine.

"Uh, yeah… Uh... maybe?" Rikku put her hand to her mouth as she thought. "But we haven't practiced other songs…"

"You never used to be the think-before-you-act type… What gives?" Gippal put his arm around his girlfriend. "Of course you guys can play new songs! Abso-posi-you better believe it! Wanna know why?"

"Cause we're YRP!" Rikku punches the air excitedly.

"Right, ok guys. Heres the plan…" They talked about things for about 20 mins and by then it was time for them to make their way onto stage.

Because it was nearly time for their performance, the club had become even more crowded with people wanting to see the new permanent gig the Cel had hired. News had gone around that their last performance here had been a knock out. Yuna knew that Tidus would be really busy behind the bar when he came back so between their first 3 sets, her and the girls went to one of the other bars, while Gippal and Baralai went to talk to Tidus. They weren't going to mention anything about Yuna and if Tidus asked they were going to say that they had seen her and she looked upset but that the girls had got mad at her and made her promise to put on a good show. And at the start of the 4th and last set, they told him that he should probably watch it, as the girls were awesome tonight.

"I'll try." Tidus had replied, and they could tell that they had tweaked his curiosity. As the girls came on stage for the last time, Yuna looked over at Gippal and he gave her the thumbs up.

Stepping up to the microphone, Yuna coughed softly to quieten the yelling crowd. Her eyes darted towards the bar Tidus was working behind. For a split second, their eyes met. Yuna didn't look away, but Tidus did. Instantly.

"Ok. This is our last set for the night." Yuna called into the mic. The crowd booed but Yuna held up her hand and they quietened down. "I know, just when everyone's getting so drunk that we don't sound so bad…" Yuna laughed at everyone cheering. "Well, It's not something I would usually do, but I'm going to tell you all a little bit about my personal life…" Yuna looked fully at Tidus this time whose head snapped up to look at Yuna when he realised that half the club was looking in his direction and wolf-whistling. " Wait! Its not what you think!" Yuna spoke seriously into the microphone to the crowd. "Tonight something happened that shouldn't have, I can't take it back, and I hurt someone I care about very much…" Tidus looked away now, hurt drenching his face. "I just want him to know exactly how I feel and him to give me a change to explain after the set." She still hadn't stopped looking at him and he looked back at her now with a blank look on his face. She hoped that meant yes.

Rikku stepped up to her mic. "So its for this reason that the girls and I have decided to dedicate this whole set to a certain special bar-bitch over there…" She pointed to Tidus and Dona's bar, "and we all know I'm not talking about Dona!" The crowd laughed and a few laughers squealed when Dona squirted them with icy water from the postmix gun.

"This is for you, Tidus." Yuna said, then nodded at Paine as she counted them in.

Today's the day you're leaving and tomorrow you'll be gone. You're in my heart and on my mind, I will bring you along. Everything sucks when you're gone; everything sucks when you're gone…

Yuna looked over at Tidus when they finished the first song. He was serving a girl but she had been listening to the song as well and turned to face Tidus when Yuna looked purposefully at him. He still just looked at her blankly as she turned back to the crowd and announced the next song.

This could be the one last chance to make you understand…I'd do anything just to hold you in my arms; to try to make you laugh. Somehow I can't put you in the past… I'd do anything just to fall asleep with you. Will you remember me? 'Cuz I know I won't forget you…

Tidus was now clearly watching Yuna sing. He was learning on the doorframe at back of the bar, clearly not serving people. Dona looked pissed but when Yuna smiled at her apologetically, she just rolled her eyes, smiled and shook her head. Yuna turned to Rikku and Paine who both nodded at her and smiled.

I tear my heart open; I sew myself shut. My weakness is that I care too much and my scars remind me that the past is real. I tear my heart open just to feel…

Before Yuna could speak, Rikku jumped at her microphone. "Ok this one wasn't planned by Yuna, but Paine and I recon we should play it anyway. I thought it over a bit and changed the lyrics so bare with me, ok!" Rikku grinned as she whispered the song she wanted Yuna to play. She gave Rikku a confused look but nodded in agreement.

The crowd was reasonably quiet in anticipation and suddenly Gippal could be heard shouting over everyone. "Oh my god, cover your ears! Rikku's gonna sing!" The whole crowd laughed and looked at Rikku as the girls and their boyfriends were well known by many of the club-goers. Rikku pouted and put on a sickening sweet voice.

"Oh babe, saying things like that makes me want to tell everyone that you sleep with chocobo plushie you call Baralai…" Rikku smiled innocently as everyone laughed harder.

"He what?" Paine asked behind her and glared at her boyfriend, who in turn gave a –I-have-no-clue-what-she's-talking-about- look to her and then glared at Gippal who went crimson-faced, which in turn made Baralai go bright red, which actually made Dona laugh.

Yuna looked from Dona to Tidus who was shaking, trying to keep the laughter in. When he realised Yuna was looking at him, Tidus coughed and pressed his lips together in a desperate attempt to look indifferent, but burst into hysterics when he glanced at Gippal and Baralai who were now in a heated argument as to why Gippal felt the need to a) sleep with a stuffed animal, b) name said stuffed animal 'Baralai' and c) if he had to name anything Baralai, why couldn't it be something a bit more manly than a squishy yellow chicken-type creature.

Yuna smiled now and it warmed her heart to see Tidus smile. She hoped this was a good sign.

"Lets just get on with the song. We'll deal with Gay-ppal and Choco-lai later…" Paine said into her mic. The crowd cheered. And Rikku sang…

If you could only see the way she loves you then maybe you would understand why she feels this way about your love and what she must do. If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says… when she says she loves you…

As they played, tears welled in Yuna's eyes. She glanced at Rikku, while strumming mindlessly on her guitar, who smiled back at her as she sang, understanding the silent thankyou Yuna was trying to say to her.

If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says… when she says she loves you…

When the song finished, the crowd went wild as Rikku bowed, not one to be modest. Rikku glanced at Tidus who smiled sadly at her and then found something interesting to stare at on the floor rather than deal with how he was feeling.

"This is an old song we put a little twist on…" Yuna said to the crowd as she began to play the first bars of the next song.

When the night has come, and the land is dark, and the moon is the only light we'll see. I won't cry, no I wont cry, no I wont shed a tear just as long as you fucking stand by me…So darling, darling… stand by me, oh wont you stand by me, oh wont you stand, wont you stand, stand by me…

"Ok well this is going to be our last song, guys." Rikku announced only to be booed. "Seriously, you all need drink more, then go home to bed…" She joked.

Yuna opened her mouth to say something to Tidus, but closed when he smiled forlornly at her. She knew he was listening.

I wish that I could cry, fall upon my knees, find a way to lie about a home I'll never see. It may sound absurd...but don't be naïve; even heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed...but won't you concede… Even heroes have the right to dream. It's not easy to be me. Up, up and away...away from me. It's all right...you can all sleep sound tonight. I'm not crazy...or anything...

Yuna had tears running down her cheeks as she finished the song even though she'd sung it perfectly she could feel her composure slipping as she began to think about what she could lose if Tidus didn't give her a chance to explain. She looked at him with pleading eyes.

It's not easy… to be… me…

The crowd cheered once more as the curtains closed and the DJ started the music once more, but Yuna heard none of this. She looked blankly around her as tears continued to trickle down her face and collapsed to her hands and knees, hanging her head.

Rikku quickly put her guitar down and raced to kneel beside her and Paine got up and stood behind them. Rikku gave her a concerned look and then focused her attention back on Yuna.

"Yuna…" Paine started

"I'm ok, it's passed now…" Yuna tried to convince then, but neither Paine nor Rikku believe her. Paine turned around when she saw a movement out of the corner of her eye.

Tidus stood there looking sheepish and scratched the back of his head. Paine walked over to Rikku and grabbed her arm, pulling her away from Yuna.

"Hey! What's the big ide….Oooh…" Rikku touched her nose twice and winked at Tidus then turned to Yuna and whispered, "good luck!" Yuna looked at her questioningly as she hadn't seen Tidus yet. Rikku pointed Tidus and Yuna looked up from where she sat on the floor, her guitar still over her shoulder and turned to face him.

"Thanks guys…" Tidus said nervously as he avoided eye contact with them as they made their way out into the club.

Tidus sat down beside Yuna, facing her. Neither said anything for a while. The music from the club caused a vibration to course through the stage and it was almost hypnotising. Yuna stared down at her skirt; the black lace had suddenly become very interesting, seeing as she didn't know where to begin explaining things to Tidus. She'd had it all planned in her head. Down to the very last word. But now that he was sitting there beside her, looking at her, so close she could almost feel his warm breath, all thoughts left her.

She flinched slightly in surprise as warm fingers brushed against her cheek, then pushed a stray bang of hair behind her ear. Yuna lifted her head in time to see Tidus put his hand back in his lap. She looked from his hand to his face and he smiled at her.

"I, uh, had a little… chat… to Shuyin in my break…" he began.

Yuna looked away. "Oh Tidus I'm so sorry! It really wasn't what it looked like! I was waiting for you when he came in… he started talking about… and then he... and then I… and then you… and then…" she babbled as she tried to explain and hold back the tears at the same time, only to be interrupted by three fingers being placed tenderly on her lips.

"Yuna… its ok. My brother is such an idiot sometimes. He was so drunk. I found him in the back alley almost passed out… he kept mumbling about Lenne and how I'd stolen her and that he'd take her back… Took me about half an hour but I managed to get him into a taxi out the front and sent him back to his hotel…"

"So your not angry at me?" Yuna asked and looked back at Tidus hopefully. He smiled and shook his head.

"Not since I came back from my break. I knew it wasn't your fault." Yuna couldn't help but beam a smile as she quickly threw her guitar from over her shoulder and leapt at Tidus from her seated position next to him, taking him by surprise and knocking him over to the floor.

Almost on to of him, her hair tickling his cheeks, she leaned down and kissed him like she hadn't seen him for a lifetime.

"Although, try not to scare me like that again, it felt like you'd ripped my heart out, eaten it raw, spewed it up then crapped on it…" he laughed as she pulled a sour face at the cannibalistic image she had involuntarily imagined.

"So you knew, and yet you let me announce to the whole club I was an idiot and Rikku even sang! She's going to be so angry when she finds out…" Yuna laughed. Normaly she would be angry that he had let her look like a fool in front of so many people, but she was just so happy that he wasn't angry at her that she couldn't be mad at him. "Wait, what about Gippal and Baralai?"

"Well..." Tidus grinned... "I told them, but Gippal insisted I say nothing to you guys. He said something about wanting to see his woman sing. At first I thought he was talking about you, and, I have to admit, I got kinda jealous… but then when Rikku announced she was going to sing I understood. Baralai was against it, and after that chocobo comment, he's probably fuming!"

It was at that moment that Gippal burst onto the darkened stage behind the thick curtains, a look of absolute terror on his face.

"Oh thank Christ I found you guys! You have to help me I think they are going to kill me!" Gippal spoke so quickly it to a moment for Yuna and Tidus to process what he had said.

"Gippal slow down, start at the beginning." Yuna said as she tried to discreetly get of Tidus, seeing as Gippal didn't seem to notice the position they were in.

"Ok, so when you guys finished, Paine and Rikku came to talk to us and Baralai let it slip that we knew you knew what Yuna didn't know and now Rikku wants to kill me for making her sing on stage, Baralai wants to kill me for having a chocobo named after him, Paine wants to kill me for both reasons I just said plus the fact that I let you get upset and didn't tell you straight away that Tidus wasn't angry and that we let you be upset and I'm so sorry and I didn't mean to make you cry and all that stuff I just wanted to hear Rikku sing and….." Gippal had to stop to finally take a breath as he was beginning to go blue in the face.

Yuna laughed, "That's alright Gippal I don't mind. Everything is sorted now so there's nothing to worry about" Yuna smiled genuinely and Gippal visibly relaxed.

Then Rikku stormed into view, followed by a very angry looking Paine and a livid Baralai. " 'Nothing to worry' about my bloody foot!"

A/N: Kinda longish I spose. I dint want Tidus and Yuna to be apart for to long otherwise thered be no story! haha. but dont worry, more Shuyin-shanannigans to come...

Oh and the songs I stole exerts from were, in order: MXPX - Everything Sucks When You're Gone, Simple Plan - Id Do Anything, Papa Roach - Scars, Tonic - If You Could Only See, NoFX - Stand By Me Remake, Five For Fighting - Superman ... Obviously I dont own them... Duh...