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Note, when there's italics in someone's POV it's their thoughts and when something is in bold and it's not English it's Al Bhed. Chapter 3: Period 1 and Beyond…Besaid High
Tidus and Yuna walked to their period, Tidus still refusing to let go of Yuna, despite her moaning.
"Tidus, did you check what lesson we had or did you just check to see if your room was the same as mine?" Yuna asked smothering a grin.
"Umm…," Tidus thought scratching the back of his neck, "I just checked the rooms," he grinned, showing off his perfect white teeth.
"Then you won't know we are walking towards Religious Studies and the guado maester Seymour is teaching us," she laughed, watching his expression change from flirtatious to annoyed.
"Baabe," Tidus said sweetly, "You ever bunked school before because RS really isn't my thing?"
"No I haven't," Yuna said, kind of shocked.
"Well there's a first time for everything," Tidus pleaded, wrapping both arms around her waist and turning her to face him.
"No," said Yuna, not giving in to the puppy dog eyes he was shooting her.
Tidus sighed, "Fine but you owe me one," he said with a laugh.
Yuna unexpectedly kissed him on the lips briefly, "That's fine with me babe," she flirted receiving a kiss back from Tidus and a flirtatious smile. "Now, let's get to class."
They walked into class with Tidus' arm around her waist despite her protests with out knocking because they had no hands free. Yuna's left arm was around Tidus and she was holding books in the other hand. Tidus had his right arm around her and couldn't be bothered to knock with the other so he simply opened the door.
They were greeted by a blue haired ugly guado, "You two are half an hour late! How do you explain yourselves?" he shouted.
Yuna slid into a seat as Tidus said, "Well sir, she just could not resist me!" He glanced over to Yuna and sure enough, he was receiving a glare that could kill. "OK, OK I was getting my timetable but… bloody hell what is with your hair! It's worse than Mr Orange over there," he shouted, pointing at Wakka making everyone in the class apart from Wakka's clique smother laughs.
"How dare you speak to a maester of Yevon like that!" Wakka yelled standing up.
"Fucking mother of shit! What is up with all this Yevon crap in this school!" Tidus asked no one in particular. Seymour was struck speechless.
"Well Tidus you made a teacher speechless in the first minute of your first class," Auron said, impressed, "That's a record even for you. To a maester too, well I've got to say I'm impressed with you boy."
Tidus looked over, realizing that Auron, Gippal, Baralai, Lulu and Rikku were also in this class. "Whoa guys you're all in this class too, awesome!"
Seymour had recovered, "I never want to see another display in my life like that again! Just go to your seat now!"
"Where sir?" Tidus asked cockily, aware of Yuna's gaze on him.
Yuna POVWell I knew he hated RS but to take the piss out of a teacher, a Maester like that, well I have to say he's got guts or is extremely stupid… probably both.
Normal POV"Anywhere!" Seymour shouted, the vein on his forehead ready to burst, "Just sit down so I can continue the lesson!"
Tidus resisted the urge to comment on Seymour's vein, "Alright man," he said, and took a seat next to Yuna (well who else!). He quickly wrote a note and passed it to Yuna. Yuna read it: I knew we should have bunked babe. She rolled her eyes at him but also gave him a smile and poked him.
The room was filled with desks for two, and Yuna saw that Rikku and Lulu were sitting at the one next to her and Tidus. Seymour had continued to drone and Wakka and his friends were hanging on his every word. Seymour obviously enjoyed the attention.
Rikku passed a note to Yuna from her and Lulu: What were you guys doing? Yuna replied: Well if you give someone a quick kiss does that make you a couple with them? An astonished expression crossed Rikku and Lulu's faces as they read this. "You guys…!" Rikku started to shout but Lulu's hand covered her mouth just in time.
Seymour quickly looked over, "Mr Nix! Stand up now! I bet that noise had something to do with you!" Tidus stood up, looking just as confused as everyone else in the room. The three girls, especially Rikku, felt a rush of guilt for getting Tidus into trouble. However, he did seem to enjoy being in trouble so they let it go.
"Alright sir," Tidus making the word sound as insulting as possible, "How exactly do I have anything to do with this! Do I sound like a girl!"
"I just know that even if it was a girl shouting you had something to do with it!" Seymour shouted back.
A cocky grin crossed Tidus' face and he ran his fingers through his hair, "Well sir can I help being so damn fine that girls have to shout about me in class? I think not, it's just a gift that comes with my amazing personality," all the girls giggled and Auron rolled his eyes. He had seen this many times before but it was even more impressive done to a maester.
Seymour glared at Tidus but having no proof that it was him, was forced to let him sit down. Tidus sent the three a playful glare and then the bell went for second period.
Tidus immediately grabbed his bag and sprinted out of the class at incredible speed. The three girls watched with amusement at Tidus' escape and the three boys also found it funny.
The three boys left for their next class first then the girls exited the classroom, not noticing the icy glance Seymour gave them.
As Yuna turned to go to her next class- Science- and was about to say goodbye to Lulu and Rikku she felt a pair of strong muscular arms encircle her from behind. Lulu and Rikku turned and smiled as Tidus rested his head on Yuna's shoulder and said, "You know girls… If I didn't enjoy arguing with teachers so much, I'd be mad at you," he said, giving Yuna a kiss on the side of her neck. Yuna flushed slightly but leaned back into him all the same.
"OK," said Rikku, "Are you two a couple? I have to know you know. I am the gossip queen!"
"Well if you're the gossip queen we really shouldn't be telling you that shall we?" Tidus teased.
Rikku pouted, "Fine… ooh I've got Al Bhed next! Now this class I can mess around in!" with that she rushed off.
Lulu quickly checked her timetable, "Well I've got history next…"
"Unlucky!" Tidus crowed, "I heard Wakka saying he had that next!"
Lulu glared at him, "Well I'll just leave you two to be late for your next classes," and stalked off.
"Alright…" Yuna said, "I have Science next, what about you?"
Tidus reluctantly let go of her and straightened out his timetable, "Hey me too!"
"Give me your timetable," Yuna said, snatching it out of his hands, "Oh my god! We have the exact same timetable!"
"Woohoo!" Tidus shouted, mostly to himself.
"I'd just better get used being late to class," Yuna commented.
The headmaster suddenly rounded the corner, "Well I'm glad you two know each other. I put Tidus in all your classes Yuna. I thought you'd be a good influence on him. Now get off to class," Tidus and Yuna turned to go but, "Wait, I'll write you a slip to explain why you're late, just don't do it again now," he said cheerfully, handed them a note and walked off.
"Yay!" Tidus shouted, "Now we can be late and no one will care!"
"This is not an excuse to make us even later Tidus," Yuna chided. Yuna realized how comfortable she was around Tidus, she had only known him for an hour and was already flirting heavily with him and generally she wasn't a flirt.
Tidus, unaware of her thoughts muttered "Fine" and Yuna grabbed his hand, "Lead the way!" Tidus commanded, happy that she had taken his hand, not the other way around.
They walked into class only ten minutes late and they handed the note to the nice looking Science teacher who waved them into two seats at the back in the left corner.
Lulu, to her great annoyance, had ended up being sat next to the biggest jerk (in her opinion) in the world- Wakka.
She sighed as he passed her a note in his horrible handwriting; she was trying to make notes on the period of Spiran history the teacher was telling them about.
Nevertheless, she read the note: Hey Lu, why were you laughing at what blondie said earlier? She wrote back: Because Wakka, what he was saying was in my opinion true and funny. You know I am not a keen Yevonite follower. P.S. don't call me Lu He read it and looked annoyed then confused and wrote back: But your friends always call you Lu (Completely forgetting about the Tidus incident).
Lulu rolled her eyes and wrote back to tell him that he wasn't her friend when the teacher suddenly turned around from the board and saw Lulu about to pass the note back.
He strode over to their desk, "What do you think you are doing, writing notes in my class!" he shouted, snatching the note, "I'm going to read to the entire class!"
The class brightened, they sensed gossip on the way.
Professor Gaozong cleared his throat and read the note right down to Lulu's last comment.
Wakka looked hurt, "You don't like me Lu?"
"Duh!" the class shouted to Wakka.
"Don't. Call. Me. Lu!" she screamed, "Understand!"
Meanwhile, Professor Gaozong was extremely angry, "I don't care if you don't like each other! Both of you will be serving detention with me tomorrow after school, scraping the gum from underneath the tables!"
The entire class immediately stuck their gum underneath the table as they all hated Wakka.
The straight A student growled with rage and turned on Wakka, her hands filling with fire spells, sending a petrified look across Wakka's face.
"Don't even think about it Lulu," Gaozong's curt voice cut into her thoughts, calming her down, "You know you would be expelled,"
"It would be worth it," she mumbled angrily under her breath, but nevertheless the fire spells slowly extinguished themselves and she sank gracefully back into her seat.
The rest of the class continued without incident although Lulu refused to look at Wakka, and when the bell rang she gathered her things and rushed out of the door, ignoring Wakka calling her name behind her.
"Dammit…" said Wakka, watching her run away.
Rikku brightly bounced into the classroom about two minutes late and took a seat net to Auron. Professor Nhadalan sighed with annoyance but let it go, it was only the first day back after all.
"Hello everyone," she said brightly, "I am your new Al Bhed teacher and I am from Bikanel Desert!"
Rikku POV
Nonono don't tell them you're Al Bhed and please please please don't tell them you know me…
Oh damn, Cid dated you at one point, and Brother fancied you, oh cred cred cred!
Normal POVRikku stiffened noticeably in her seat. Auron, surprised, suddenly realized what had struck him about her eyes. They were Al Bhed, which meant that this teacher might recognize her…
Sure enough, the class shocked into silence from the teacher's revelation, Professor Nhadalan turned to face Rikku and a look of recognition crossed her face. "Oh Ri…"
Auron POVShit shit shit Rikku looks so scared… I guess I'm gonna have to distract this teacher before she lets the entire world know that Rikku is Al Bhed. Wow, I'll probably get a detention before Tidus does.
Normal POVAuron abruptly stood up, interrupting Nhadalan before she could complete Rikku's name, "Um… Miss, I think it's pointless for me to be in this class. I can speak fluent Al Bhed… Cra tuach'd fyhd yhouha du ghuf cra'c Al Bhed cu tuh'd syga uid oui ghuf ran." (She doesn't want anyone to know she's Al Bhed so don't make out you know her.) The teacher abruptly stopped and met Auron's eyes who met her gaze pleadingly but steadily.
Meanwhile, the entire class apart from Rikku stared at Auron in complete confusion. Rikku was in shock, how did he know she was Al Bhed and how the hell did he know how to speak Al Bhed?
"I don't care if you don't want to attend this class, you have to. Now sit down so I can continue with this class," Nhadalan ordered.
Relieved, Auron took his seat again and whispered to Rikku with a rare smile unknowingly what Tidus had told Yuna earlier- "You owe me one."
"Now, get into partners for a year project you are going to do," Nhadalan commanded.
Rikku immediately turned to Auron, "Will you be my partner?" she asked shyly (a first for Rikku), not certain that he would accept. She sighed with relief when he nodded his head.
"The project will be on the Al Bhed history. Have fun!" Nhadalan proclaimed as the bell rang.
Rikku's hyper exterior was repaired by now, and she dragged Auron out of the class by his sleeve happily chatting and laughing.
Tidus and Yuna took their seats and the teacher- Professor Lokes- carried on with the lesson. Yuna usually paid attention in Science but she found that Tidus was extremely distracting. She thought she felt attracted to him.
"Now class your homework tonight is to research these ions…" the teacher's voice just droned into the background as Tidus decided to write a note to Yuna. He glanced at her mischievously from beneath his golden fringe and wrote: Hey Yuna do you want to come to my place after school? We can do homework.
Yuna, amazed that he had used her actual name looked at him suspiciously and replied: What homework Tidus? Tidus innocently wrote back: Our chemistry homework. Yuna stifled a giggle: You actually knew that ions were to do with chemistry? Tidus read it and sent her a genuinely puzzled look: Ions? Err yeah, sure. Anyway is that a yes?
Yuna thought it over and then nodded affirmatively. A smile spread over Tidus' face and he tugged her hair playfully. She grinned and in return poked him in the leg. Tidus impishly started to tickle Yuna. Unable to stop herself she let out a giggle.
Luckily, Mr Lokes was facing the board and when he spun around to find the source of the noise all he saw in the corner was two students who looked like they were definitely concentrating hard.
With a sigh, he turned back to the board. He could already feel this was going to be a long term.
Sure enough, Yuna and Tidus didn't pay any attention all lesson and were continually messing around. However, Mr Lokes never caught them in the act and by the end of the period they were in hysterics as they stumbled out of the classroom together.
Once they were out of sight of the classroom Tidus swept her off her feet into his arms and carried her over to a bench outside.
"Tidus what the hell are you doing?" Yuna asked, astonished that he was carrying her. Although, she admitted to herself, it was nice to be pressed against his chest and to have his arms around her… Stop thinking like that, she scolded herself, he may not even like her that way, Rikku had told her that he was a flirt.
"So," Tidus said when he had set her down on the bench, "Can we bunk now?"
Yuna thought about it and found that surprisingly she wanted to bunk with this boy that she had only just met, but not right now, "At lunch Tidus."
"Oh, don't we get to miss any lessons?" Tidus exclaimed with wide eyes, "That's the point of bunking babe!" he returned to his nickname for her.
Yuna glanced at her timetable, "Maybe the two lessons after lunch then too."
"What have we got after lunch then that you want to avoid?" Tidus asked amazed that she would agree to miss two lessons so casually.
"Oh it's Geography then P.E. and I heard we're doing blitz ball this term," Yuna shuddered; all the cheerleaders would continually make fun of her like last year.
"What! You wanna miss blitz ball! " Tidus exclaimed, looking properly awake for the first time during the school day.
"Yeah well last year I got teased all the time…" she trailed off not meeting his eyes.
Tidus lifted her chin so he could see her eyes and his eyes widened with the amount of emotion he could see in their swirling depths. He instinctively put his arms around her waist and pulled her close. Slowly, he felt her arms curl around his neck and they stayed in that position until they heard Rikku call out, "Hey lovebirds!"
They broke apart to see Rikku dragging a strangely placid looking Auron out of the school building by his sleeve.
"Whoa Rikku looks like you pulled, literally!" Tidus called cheekily.
Auron narrowed his eyes and was about to hit Tidus round the head when everyone in the courtyard turned to see Lulu running out of the school screaming, "I HATE WAKKA HE CAN GO FUCK HIMSELF!" she stopped in the middle of the courtyard, a silence falling. "WHAT THE FUCK SO YOU THINK YOU'RE STARING AT?" she shouted to the students looking at her who immediately looked away. She glanced behind her and saw Wakka emerge from the building. She immediately ran into another entrance to the school and disappeared from sight.
"Yo man what the hell did you do?" Tidus called, amused, into the silence.
Wakka turned to him and gave him a death glare before following Lulu at a jog.
"Well you can't blame her for running off I mean I would. His face is enough to kill an army of fiends and don't start me on his hair!" Tidus commented.
A chuckle spread around the square and the silence was broken.
"Hey Auronauronauron," Tidus got his friend's attention excitedly.
"Auron glared at him, "What Tidus?"
"It's blitz ball last period dude!"
"Not only that, the trials are on then too," Auron said looking bored.
Tidus' jaw practically hit the ground, "Wicked man! This is gonna be awesome!"
Rikku said hesitantly as Gippal and Baralai joined them, "I hate to bring you down but Wakka and his friends are the best blitzers in the whole school. They'll never let you on the blitz team and they'll give you hell during blitz class!"
Gippal, Baralai and even Auron grinned widely. Gippal threw his arm around Tidus' neck and gave him a noogie, "We'll see about that," he said proudly.
Just then the bell rang signally the end of break and everyone separated to go to their classes.
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