Hello, hello! I told you I'd be back with my second fic, and here I am! I didn't want to spoil the first chapter by putting all this stuff in it, so here it is!

"Forgetting the Past", by Lulala

Characters: Yuna, Rikku, Lulu, Paine, Tidus, Wakka, and other assorted people. Those are the main ones, though.

Rating: T, just to be safe.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own anything from Final Fantasy X-2. Think of every singlething in the game. That's how much I don't own.

"People do not just disappear," Lulu said immediately. "Not unless they're unsent, or ghosts, or something like that."

"I'm just telling you what I saw," the old man said.

"What happened to the lady?" Lulu demanded.

"I didn't see her face, though I'm pretty sure those two were what she was here for, because she disappeared almost right after they did."

"No," Lulu said quietly, trying to stop herself from shaking. "No." She began tearing apart the already destroyed store in search of Wakka and Tidus. "This is a horrible, immature trick!" she shouted as she dug through the blitzball supplies that littered the ground. Whatever was left standing, she knocked over. There was no way—no way—that the Vidina's father and Yuna's boyfriend, who had just reappeared, could have randomly disappeared in the middle of a blitzball shop. Lulu would not stand for it.

Before long, she had torn apart everything there was left to tear apart, and there was no sign of Wakka or Tidus anywhere in the store. The old man meekly offered to let her search the back room, as long as she promised not to rip it apart. Lulu promised, and the man led her back there.

Lulu ran frantically around, searching every possible place where a grown man could fit or hide. No matter where she looked, there wasn't a trace of either of them. Lulu walked back out into the store, and collapsed onto her knees. She couldn't believe it—they were really gone! The minute the store manager had told her, she had suspected some trick—it would have been an all-out trick, sure, but she wouldn't have put it past Tidus and Wakka. This was clearly no trick—Tidus and Wakka were gone, and it was up to her to find them.

Back on Besaid, Yuna, Rikku, and Paine had begun searching the vast woods rather extensively. As they fought their way through the thick vines and path full of branches and other things that were continually tripping Rikku, they began to feel hopeless.

"This one doesn't want to be found," Yuna said, chewing her fingernail once they had all sat down to rest. Generally, they walked in silence, but that was out of habit. They didn't want to be discovered by any of the wrong sorts of people, if any should have happened to be lurking around. Talking to each other only made them easier to find.

"You're right," Paine agreed. "Are we sure there was even one here?"

"Besaid has enormous forests," Rikku suddenly said. "I mean, who knew?"

Paine looked over at Yuna, and then rolled her eyes. "We've been walking for hours."

"I know," Yuna said. "Why, oh why, did we have to start in the morning?"

Paine shrugged. "I don't know. It was your idea."

"Don't blame Yuna," Rikku said, sticking up for her cousin. "Let's just keep looking."

"So now you wanna look," Paine mumbled under her breath.

Before long, the girls had all agreed to call Brother and see if they could get a more exact place of where the sphere was. As Rikku had said, the forest was rather large, and it would be difficult to locate a tennis ball sized sphere in all of that.

Rikku was voted to be the one to do it, since Brother wouldn't talk to Paine, and he'd be too busy fawning over Yuna. She turned on her radio, and timidly said into it, "Umm, Brother?"

It crackled. "Yes, Rikku?"

"Could you give us… oh, I don't know… a more exact position on this sphere?" Rikku requested. She had been instructed not to piss Brother off, since he might not help them if she did. He had a bad habit of doing that.

"Talk to Buddy," Brother instructed.

"Rikku, hey," Buddy's voice came not long after. "So, you need a little help finding the sphere, eh?"

"If there even is one," Paine mumbled.

"Let's see," he said thoughtfully, as Rikku heard typing in the back round. "I think I can turn this radio into a device that can detect the sphere waves," he told her. "If I do this right, it will start beeping when you get close to the sphere."

"Great!" Rikku said happily. "That will make our lives a million times easier."

"Done," Buddy said. "Having this new sphere wave system is so great. Just leave the radio on, and call us when you've found it."

"This will make it so much easier," Yuna said gleefully.

"I wish they had upgraded sooner," Paine grumbled. "It would have saved us a lot of headaches."

The three girls kept walking along the semi-beaten path that they had found, waiting eargly to hear any sort of beep come from the radio at all. They were all tired, and wanted to just get this over with.

Not half an hour later, the radio let out the faintest of beeps. Rikku, who had been carrying it, jumped several feet off the ground. "What was that!" she asked skittishly.

Paine laughed. "The radio, Rikku. We must be getting close."

Rikku slowly walked forward. Before long, another slightly louder beep. As Rikku kept moving forward, the beeps got louder and more frequent. When they were moving extremely quickly and were ear-splittingly loud, Rikku stopped.

"Is this where? Because I don't think it could get much fast—ER!" Rikku had been interrupted mid-word by the very ground she was standing on collapsing in on her.

"Rikku!" Paine and Yuna yelled, as Rikku disappeared from sight. When the dust that had risen from the ground had settled, Paine and Yuna began craning their necks as they turned their heads every which way in frantic search for Rikku. Before long, their eyes rested on what was right in front of them—a colossal hole, right in the middle of the path. And there was Rikku, lying at the bottom, completely motionless.

Sorry! I'm very mean when it comes to cliffhangers. I think you'll find that out pretty quickly XD Anyway, if you like it, make sure to review! If you don't, review also, and tell me what I could change to make it better. Thanks for reading!