First Day

The Yuna and Tidus bothhad a daily schedule on the ship together. Their daily schedule was the following.

1. Yuna would wake up first before the sun rose.

2. Then she would go to Tidus' room and wake him up.

3. Together, they would walk side by side to the ship's kitchen.

4. After eating they'd talk for a while, in order to get to know one another more.

5. They would find something fun to do.

6. They'd go to the ship library.

7. They would eat dinner.

8. The two would separate to their rooms. Yuna would stand and watch the sun go down.

9. Yuna would go to Tidus' room, pat him on the back, and say goodnight.

10. Then last but not least, they would both fall asleep at the same time.

They spent their time on the ship together a lot, and Yuna was starting to like the idea of having Tidus with her everyday. Yuna and Tidus had been on the ship for a week. To Yuna, Tidus was this quiet and lonely guy that needed someone to bring happiness to his life. She was quite determined to be that someone.

I want Tidus to talk a lot. To be happy and to smile when he's around everyone. She thought whenever she stood next to the frowning Tidus. She thought that he needed social training. Whenever someone wanted to talk to him, he would shrug, roll his eyes, and then walk away. Girls were all over him, and Yuna would pout at those girls who were willing to do anything to get his attention.

"When will they learn that Tidus isn't interested in girls? He's barely going through puberty probably!" She would say.

"Eew... thereare so many other good looking guys to choose from in Spira,who would choose Tidus." She would say sarcastically.

To Tidus, Yuna was a hyper, kind, and insane girl. However, no matter how many times he lost his temper at her, she was always there talking to him. He liked looking at her face. She was shorter than him, so he had to look down at her whenever they were talking. She had beautiful eyes. One was green and the other one blue.

A week after Yuna and Tidus' "rat incident" Yuna woke up before the sun began to rise. She climbed off of the bed and walked slowly towards the room door. She rubbed her eyes then slowly turned the rusted doorknob. She stood barefoot on the cold wooden floor outside, hoping to catch the sunrise. Her arms were crossed on the cold steel railings. She placed her hands between her arms and sighed. She missed Wakka and Lulu a lot. When the sun was finally into full view, she turned her mind to Tidus.

"I'm glad that he let me take his room for the past week." She whispered. She unlocked the door that led to where Tidus was sleeping. She tiptoed to his side, and kneeled by Tidus' bed. She stared at his sleeping figure. He had messy blonde hair, and a well built body. Yuna put her hand near his face. To her surprise, Tidus began to move. He moved and placed his hand on her hand. Yuna blushed as her heart began to beat.

Ok Tidus is asleep. And he is holding my hand without intending too. Haha this is weird. Wait scratch that… this is SWEET. She thought.

Tidus moved again, and said one word, "Yuna." She smiled then bit her lip. Yuna slipped her hand from under Tidus hand. She stood up and walked out of the room, deciding to let him sleep in for once. As she closed the door she turned and bumped into a strange man with a black mask on. She screamed as the stranger placed his hand on her mouth. A cold shiver ran down her spine as the man placed the cold silver blade of a sharp knife among her neck. Yuna panicked and began breathing heavily. She was really scared. The man pulled ropes out of his pocket and tied her feet and hands together so that she wouldn't run away. Yuna screamed at the top of the top of her lungs. The man got mad and slapped her in the face. Yuna began crying.

"What do you want from me?" She said through sobs.

"My payment. I kill you I get paid a lot of mullah." The man answered greedily. Yuna began crying. Someone really was paying people to kill her.

Why? She thought.

Yuna kept asking the man questions. She wanted to delay him from killing her. The man got angry at her consistent questions, so he picked up his knife and cut her cheek. Yuna could feel the blood rolling down her cheek. She winced as the man sliced her left arm. Yuna felt like she was going to die. She hadn't even reached the school and she was already in the clutches of a murderer. The murderer picked her up and sat her down on the railings.

"Umm… ok mister, let me get this straight. You're going to drown me?" Yuna asked nervously.

"You've got the idea. Goodbye Yuna." The man bowed his head. He pushed her off the boat. He ran and dived down into the blue-green ocean. Luckily for Yuna, he didn't tie the ropes around her wrists that hard. They were loose and she was able to grab the ship railings. She untied the rope knot with her teeth. Yuna held on to the railings with her right arm, since her left arm was cut.

"Oh Yuna, you've got yourself in serious trouble. You're hanging on the side of the boat, with your feet and hands tied." She said to herself. She said a silent prayer and closed her eyes. Her hands were slipping.

"Goodbye everyone." She said through tears. As each finger slipped off, she shut her eyes tighter. But before she fell, she felt two strong hands grab hold of her. Someone was rescuing her. When the "person" finally pulled her to safety. Yuna looked up to see Tidus' worried face.

"Oh Tidus," She cried, "Thank you." She stood a few feet away from him, crying. Tidus just stared at her, feeling awful that he wasn't around faster. Tidus watched each tear fall down Yuna's cheek. He stepped closer to her, and placed one hand on the back of her head. Tidus then gently pushed her head onto his chest as he wrapped his arms around her small body. He laid his head on her head and allowed her to cry.

I don't want her to cry, I want her to be that annoying happy person that bugs me every morning. I don't like seeing Yuna sad. He thought.

They stood there together for quite a long time. Tidus was comforting Yuna, as she pondered the events that had just happened. She wondered why Tidus was being so nice to her. Then she closed her eyes as she listened to the soft beating of his heart. His heartbeat was like a slow beating drum, unlike her fast pounding heart. She listened to it like it was a slow song. Yuna sighed then fell asleep with her head on his chest.

Tidus looked down at Yuna. He knew she had fallen asleep, since she was taking long slow breaths. He picked her up and brought her to her room. Tidus gently placed her on the bed, so that he wouldn't wake her.

"Phew," he sighed, "she's pretty heavy for a girl." He left to talk to the captain.

"Mr. Montakori, do you know how much longer it will be till we reach Zanarkand?" Tidus asked the captain.

"Well up to three hours, Tidus. Why don't you and Yuna go sleep for the remaining time and we'll blow the ship horn when we're going to stop." Mr. Montakori answered. Tidus said thanks to the captain then left for Yuna's room again. He pulled up a small stool next to her, and rested his head on her bed as well.

"I'll sleep here just incase a murderer comes." He said to himself. So he looked at Yuna's sleeping face one more time, and then went to sleep.

The loud song of the ship's horn awakened them. They walked out of the room, to see everyone climbing off of the ship. Tidus left Yuna's side to go get their luggage. When Tidus returned they both walked off of the boat. A young man and woman were standing with their arms crossed asking everyone questions. The woman cupped her hands to her mouth and yelled, "WHERE THE HECK ARE YUNA AND TIDUS!"

Yuna and Tidus both looked at each other in embarrassment. They ran to the woman and covered her mouth.

"Stop yelling you're embarrassing us. And who are you?" Tidus asked angrily.

"Oh hi. Gippal and I have been waiting for you!" the girl answered, "My name is Rikku."

Yuna smiled at Rikku for being so friendly. Rikku had long blonde hair, and stunning green eyes. She was very jumpy and hyper.
"Hi my names Yuna, and this guy here is Tidus. He's well my body guard." Yuna said as she studied the guy behind Rikku. The guy behind Rikku had blonde hair as well, and a black patch that covered his right eye. Yuna couldn't help but be curious. She was about to ask why he covered his eye, when Rikku elbowed her in the ribs.

"I wouldn't ask him that. I think he might offended. His name is Gippal. He's really carefree and outgoing, but don't ask him about his eye." Rikku warned with a wink. Yuna stared one more time then nodded her head. She looked up at Tidus, who was just standing beside her. She touched his elbow and smiled.

"There's nothing to be shy about Tidus," she told him. Tidus just shrugged and placed his hands in his pockets.

"Well anyway Yuna, the headmaster of Zanarkand School, wants me and Gippal to bring you to the school. He even wants us to tour you around. You have the same class schedules, and you have door rooms that are right next door!" Rikku said to her. Rikku jumped up and down then grabbed Yuna's arm.

"I'd like to be best friends Yuna. I haven't made any friends except for Mr. One Eye over there," Rikku said as she nodded her head in Gippal's direction. Yuna laughed as she and Rikku walked together arm in arm. Gippal and Tidus both walked together behind the two talking girls.

Zanarkand was a place of continuous dirt and sand. There were ruins that were broken. Everywhere you turned, there were piles of rubble. Yuna turned around and was glad when she saw Gippal and Tidus talking with one another. She turned back and talked with Rikku. All four of them had walked for about halfan hour. They stopped walking when they came upon a humongous ruin. Huge rocks surrounded it, and an old tall gate stood in front of them. Rikku let go of Yuna's arm and opened the old gate.

This can't be the school. It's a ruin! Yuna thought.

Rikku motioned for everyone to follow her through the gate. Then she walked up long steps that led to a wooden door. On either side of the door, two fountains stood pouring water. Rikku knocked on the door, and it opened to reveal a huge school. Yuna grabbed Tidus' arm and pulled him through the door with her. There were students in royal blue uniforms. Long blue rugs stretched across the hallway floors. Stairs with wooden stair railings, headed towards the dormitory floor.

Rikku began to run up the long flight of stairs to show them their rooms. Yuna, Gippal, and Tidus ran and followed her. Yuna was excited at the fact that she already made two awesome friends. They stopped running and they all fell to the floor laughing. Surprisingly, even Tidus was laughing and talking along with everyone. Yuna and Rikku were both sharing a room, while Tidus and Gippal were sharing rooms as well. They were dorm neighbors, so that if anything was happening to Yuna, Tidus could come in and help her. The headmaster, Mr. Aki, had informed Gippal and Rikku about assassins trying to kill Yuna.

Yuna's room had twin beds that were placed on either side of the wall. She placed her luggage near the door and sat on her bed. Rikku sat as well and the two talked about their lives. Tidus' room was exactly like Yuna's. It had twin beds, a lamp, and one dresser. After Tidus and Yuna unpacked, all four of them climbed into their beds, shut the lamps off, and went to sleep.

The next day, Yuna and Tidus were starting their first day. All four of them walked down to the cafeteria. Yuna had never seen so many people her age. In Besaid, everyone was a little older or younger. After waiting in line for a while, they walked to their "table". As they walked there, Yuna noticed a guy staring at her with a smirk on his face. He kept looking her up and down. Yuna crossed her arms and looked down, feeling very uncomfortable. The guy had blue hair, and weird markings among his shown chest.

Tidus saw Yuna looking at the stranger, so he walked faster and stood beside Yuna.

Who is that guy, and why is he looking at Yuna? He thought.

"Rikku who is that guy?" Yuna asked as she pointed to the blue haired stranger.

"Oh that's Seymour. He's such a pathetic piece of bull…"

"Hey don't talk that way!" Gippal said as he interrupted Rikku's sentence.

"Well anywho! As I was so rudely interrupted!" Rikku said as she whacked Gippal in the head angrily, "Seymour is such a pervert. He's had a really bad reputation of touching girls that he's 'interested' in, if you catch my drift. Eew! He's staring at you Yuna. I think you should try and avoid him."

Yuna shivered with disgust.

"Oh ok thanks I'll keep an eye out for him." She answered. Yuna and Tidus had the same schedules, so they said goodbye to Rikku and Gippal as they headed to the library together to get their books.

"Oh man Tidus! I'm so nervous, that Seymour guy was staring at me!" Yuna said shyly.

"Don't worry Yuna, as long as I'm near you, I won't let anyone touch my girl!" Tidus said. Yuna looked up at him and smiled.

"Ummm… Tidus did you just call me your girl?" She said laughing.

"I did? well I didn't mean that I mean my friend you know well yah," Tidus replied as he began blushing. They opened the library door. They separated to find their class books.

Yuna found two copies of a book they needed, but it was on the top shelf. She stood on her tiptoes and jumped, but she couldn't reach it.

"Damnit!" she yelled.

All of a sudden a cold voice said, "I can lift you up so that you can get it." Yuna turned around to see that awful Seymour guy standing right behind her. Before she could refuse he placed his hands on her waist and pinned her to the wall. Her heart began pounding from fright as he brushed his mouth against her neck. She could feel his hands moving down her leg.

"P-p-pease stop it. Tidus! Tidus, please help me! I need you!" She yelled. She heard the pounding of running footsteps. Tidus appeared with an angry face.

"Don't touch you dare touch her Seymour!" He yelled he pulled Seymour off of her and punched him in the face.

"Don't give me a reason to pull my sword out to slit your neck," Tidus growled, "I don't want to see you touching her EVER!"

Yuna was sitting at the corner of the wall crying. Seymour stumbled as he ran out of the library. Tidus ran to Yuna and kneeled beside her.

"It's ok Yuna," He whispered. Tidus took her hand and helped her up.

He wiped her tears with his hand, and led her out of the library.

"You know you need to be more careful Yuna. Do you want bad stuff to happen to you? You need to pay more attention." He said sternly.

"Well you know it's not my fault that Seymour tried to touch me back there!" Yuna snapped back.

"Well I was just saying… I mean he could have really abused you back there. I don't want that to happen." He said as he blushed. Yuna softened up and stopped snapping at Tidus.

"Well thanks for helping me."

"No problemo Yuna."

After searching and searching, they finally found their first class. Tidus opened the door, allowing Yuna to go in first. Yuna rolled her eyes and happily entered the class, beginning their first day at Zanarkand School.

Their classes were intense, and demanding. Yuna and Tidus were taught how to fight. Yuna fell when they threw her a huge sword to use.

"Get up Yuna. That sword isn't that big. It's not heavy, pick it up!" Her instructor yelled.

"I can't it's to heavy!" Yuna answered. Tidus noticed that Yuna was struggling with her battle training. She was doing great in her magic training though. She went to one class that was especially for her. She was training to summon aeons. Yuna had to finish her trainings as a summoner, it would have made her father very proud. At the end of their first day, Tidus and Yuna walked to the cafeteria exhausted. They sat on the table, with sore legs.

"Tidus I've died. The demanding training from our classes has seriously killed me!" She sighed. Tidus just looked at her and laughed.

"It's ok Yuna. We're here so that we'll learn how to defend ourselves from that maniac that wants you dead."

"Ok I'll stop complaining and stuff."

"Yah you better stop complaining I mean come one it's only been one day!" Tidus said as he began laughing.

"SHUTUP Tidus!" Yuna said even though she too began laughing. Rikku and Gippal walked up to Yuna and Tidus holding a tray of food.. They had bought dinner, so the four of them sat down and enjoyed themselves.