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Chapter 4: Blitz Tryouts and MoreThe next two classes passed swiftly for Tidus and Yuna, who messed around a lot but Yuna still managed to pick up a few words from AL Bhed and some dates from history.
"Come on pypa (babe)!" Tidus shouted excitedly, grabbing Yuna's hand, "Now can we leave this Yevonite hell hole?"
"My God you actually learnt how to say something in Al Bhed!" Yuna said through giggles.
"I didn't learn it," Tidus corrected, looking affronted, "I asked this dude and he looked it up for me. It's your new nickname!"
Yuna rolled her eyes, "Come on then if you really wanna bunk there's a cool beach nearby that I go to, to chill out sometimes."
"Lead the way," Tidus commanded playfully.
With much delay, mostly due to Tidus stopping to swear at every CCTV camera along the way, they finally made it to the beach. As it was a school day no one else was around and they walked slowly down the beach hand in hand.
"Hey pypa can we stop at that bench for a minute," Tidus asked pulling her towards it.
"Um OK… why?" she said as they sat down together.
"Oh I wanna have a spliff, I haven't had one since three in the morning," he said seriously, bringing out his wallet and extracting a spliff from it.
Yuna raised her eyebrows and looked slightly shocked, she had thought him and Auron had been messing around this morning to get on Wakka's nerves. Apparently not.
Tidus casually drew out a lighter, lit his joint and took a long drag. He saw Yuna looking at him, "Want a drag Yuna?" he offered.
"No thanks," Yuna refused, "I thought you wanted to try out for the blitz team. Surely being… stoned with affect your game?"
"Nah I'm nearly always stoned when I blitz. It reminds me too much of my old man…" Tidus lost his happy go lucky look for the first time since Yuna had met him, "Bastard," he mumbled.
Yuna hesitantly put her arm around his neck and drew him into a hug. Tidus returned the hug one armed, and took another drag of his spliff over her shoulder. When she withdrew, she saw that his pupils were completely obscuring his azure irises.
"What did your dad do anyway?" Yuna asked.
"Don't worry 'bout it," Tidus slurred, "he was just a complete twat," unconsciously, his hand went to a scar on the left side of his neck.
Yuna saw the scar and decided to leave that obviously delicate subject until he was at least not on drugs. She felt his arm curl around her waist and she leaned into his warm embrace. She could have sworn she felt a tear roll down her cheek, but not hers. They stayed there for a long time, just content to be in each other's company, Tidus' spliff slowly burning down, forgotten.
Eventually they both pulled away and Tidus looked mournfully at his nearly burned down spliff, took the last drag and threw it down into the sand.
"Hey can we make a sand castle?" Tidus asked, in the same tone a five year old would use.
Yuna rolled her eyes and started to walk down the beach only to be tackled from behind by Tidus and tickled mercilessly.
"Stop… please heeheehee," Yuna giggled, helpless with laughter.
"Not until you help me make a sandcastle," Tidus pouted.
"What are you… five?" she gasped, Tidus finally letting up on his tickling.
"No I'm eighteen," Tidus said looking proud, "You're only seventeen I'm older than you!"
As he was still stoned, she let his stupid comment go, "Wait a sec… if you're eighteen how come you're in my year?"
"Oh well I got held back a year. Apparently bunking a year off school ruins your 'education'," Tidus scoffed.
"How old is Auron?" Yuna asked, "He seems older than you are."
"He is," Tidus confirmed, "He's nineteen."
"Auron got held back two years! Why? He doesn't seem like the kind of person to do badly in school."
"Well the first year I'm not allowed to talk about and the second year he bunked with me," Tidus told her, getting bored with the conversation, "Anyway, let's make that sandcastle!"
Half an hour later, both of them looked proudly at their… well you couldn't exactly call it a castle. It was more like a lopsided mountain, evidence of their many play fights. They were both covered in sand and out of breath. Tidus was lying on his back, with Yuna's head on his chest and his arms draped around Yuna. One of Yuna's hands was entwined in his golden hair and the other was curled around his neck.
Suddenly, Yuna noticed that her watch read 3:00pm. She pulled away from Tidus abruptly, "Tidus! We have five minutes to get to the blitz tryouts!"
"Oh fuck how long have we been here!"
"Never mind let's go!" Yuna jumped up and sprinted away.
Tidus ran after her and swept her up in his arms, telling her it was faster that way. Yuna wasn't sure about this, but didn't really have a choice.
They made it to the school with ten seconds to get to lesson. Tidus gently placed Yuna back on her own two feet and looked around to see Auron, Gippal and Lulu heading towards the gym.
"Hey Auron!" Tidus shouted at him, leaping on his back trying to tackle him as he had done to Yuna earlier but Auron didn't budge.
"You're stoned aren't you," Auron said, seeing his friend's eyes, "And why the hell are you covering me with sand?"
Tidus smiled and was about to say something just as Yuna came running up. Just as Yuna was about to say something Seymour appeared from around a corner.
"Why are you two covered with sand and not at class!" he asked, fuming.
This time Tidus could not refrain from making a comment about the vein in Seymour's forehead, "Whoa, chill out man. It wouldn't do you good for that vein to burst you know!" he grinned cheekily.
"Come on Tidus," Auron said, trying to stop Seymour from finding out why his friend was acting that much more stupid than usual.
"Yeah yeah wait a sec," Tidus waved him off, still looking at Seymour, "I have a question for you sir."
"Is it about religious studies?" Seymour asked, caught off guard.
"Well it's about the class."
Seymour gave him a suspicious look, "Proceed."
"How much gel do you use man? You have like spikes coming out of the side of your head, you look like a blue haired freaky devil man!"
Auron was cursing Tidus' idiocy but finding it amusing at the same time.
"GET TO CLASS NOW!" Seymour yelled at them but mostly at Tidus and then walked back around the corner.
"Lead the way pypa," Tidus told Yuna as if the exchange with Seymour hadn't happened.
The group continued to the gym, where they saw the school blitz stadium.
"Tch," Tidus said, "The one in Zanarkand was around twice the size of that and that was just the school sphere pool!"
"The school team train at the proper Besaid stadium, this is just for lessons," Lulu informed him.
"Ah Zanarkand is still better," Tidus insisted.
"Whatever," Lulu drawled and entered the gym with everyone following her.
Gippal, Auron headed into the boys changing room and Lulu into the girls one. Yuna was about to follow her but Tidus grabbed her arm and spun her around.
"What…" she was cut off as Tidus pressed his mouth against hers. She relaxed into the kiss but when he tried to deepen it she pulled away, "Number one, I've only just met you and I'm not a slut, Number 2, you are completely drugged up. Maybe another time"
Tidus POVWhat! She pulled away? Since when did this happen to me? Ah well at least this means she isn't a slut, just as she said.
Normal POVTidus pouted but let her go respecting her decision and gave her a wink before disappearing into the boys changing room. Yuna headed into the girls, her head still up in the clouds.
Rikku, Yuna, Lulu and Paine emerged from the changing room and saw Tidus, Auron, Gippal and Baralai walking out of theirs. Wakka and his friends were already in the stadium, playing a mini game of their own. The coach had yet to arrive but it looked like most of the school was there already.
Tidus dived into the blitz ball pool and knocked Wakka out of it. The rest of the blitz ball team, seeing their captain being knocked out, tried to catch Tidus but he dove out of the way, managing to kick Botta before he did a back flip out of the stadium. He landed in front of Wakka, who had just staggered to his feet.
The rest of class gathered around in curiosity and eagerness- the new boy was going to challenge the captain of the blitz ball team, "Go Ti!" Gippal shouted.
"What the hell do you think you're doing blondie?" Wakka shouted, his team standing behind him.
"You're trying to insult my hair?" Tidus laughed, not intimidated, "You fucking orange haired anti-gravitised freak! But anyway, let's just ignore what I just said, I wanna be on your blitz ball team!"
This sent the entire blitz ball team into hysterics, "Like you could play blitz ball, you stoner! I bet you couldn't even catch this," and Wakka launched a blitz ball at him as hard as he could.
Tidus POV
This is as hard as he can throw… fucking hell what a loser. No wonder they never win.
Normal POVTidus caught the ball with ease, "How about this then. You have to name me team captain if I beat you all in a six on one match. First to three goals wins."
"What do we get when we beat you?" Wakka enquired cockily.
"Well if I completely screw up, which isn't gonna happen I will be your teams laundry boy for the rest of the whole year. We can start with a toss up as you deserve some kind of a chance," Tidus had a hard smile on his face and locked his nearly black eyes with Wakka's dull brown ones. The crowd around them held their breath- these were high stakes.
Wakka broke the eye contact and smiled, "You have yourself a deal brudda."
The blitz ball team started to loosen up under Wakka's instructions as Tidus watched them, assessing them silently.
"Tidus?" Yuna had crept up behind him, "Are you sure about this?"
"Sure I am pypa, nothing to worry about," Tidus grinned, giving her a peck on the lips before walking off to dive into the blitz pool and perform his own warm up. The kiss had not gone unnoticed, several girls glared at Yuna in jealousy and Lulu and Rikku ran up to Yuna, Rikku's eyes beaming and Lulu looking amused.
Wakka glanced over at the blitz pool but he had missed Tidus' short warm up and only saw him floating around waving at random people in the crowd and winking at girls. Wakka smiled to himself, this was gonna be so easy.
"OK everyone," a boy shouted, the usual school referee, "The game is going to begin!"
"We can talk later," Yuna brushed off her friends and ran off to get the best seats. Lulu, Rikku, Paine, Gippal, Baralai and Auron gathered around her and sat down.
The whole audience sat in silence, all eyes on the lone figure on one side of the toss up, Wakka on the other side. The referee blew his whistle and threw the ball up. The game had begun…
Tidus flipped up in the air and snatched the ball away from Wakka's outstretched hands. Immediately he threw it up into the air and performed the Jecht shot, something no one except for him and his father- Jecht- could do.
The crown gasped as they recognised the incredible shot and were even more amazed when it sent three of Wakka's team flying out of the stadium. The ball still had enough power to slam past the goalie and score the first goal of the match.
Wakka stared at Tidus in amazement, watching him do his victory dance.
Everyone gathered back to the centre, except for one of Wakka's team that had been too injured to continue.
Wakka started with the ball and when the whistle blew he swam forward strongly, determined to score. Out of nowhere Tidus slammed into him, snatching the ball out of his hands and sending him flying out of the stadium.
Tidus didn't bother to shoot the ball, he merely used simple (for him) manoeuvres to avoid the rest of Wakka's team and he swam across the goal line with the ball. The crowd screamed with excitement, Yuna among the loudest. Gippal and Baralai were screaming, "THAT'S OUR BOY!" Auron merely watched calmly, he had seen better performances form Tidus and wondered when he would perform his own shot that he had perfected when he was 15.
Wakka dragged himself back into the stadium and brushed off his team's concern, this was now personal.
The ball shot up into the air for the third time and of course Tidus caught it and swam straight up into the air. He kicked the ball out of the top of the stadium before following it, breaking through the top of the water. He quickly found the calm he needed to perform this shot correctly and twisted through the air, his foot contacting with ball perfectly. Wakka's team could only gape in astonishment at this prodigy but Wakka was still fuming and could not appreciate the incredible shot Tidus was performing.
The ball ripped through the water at the amazing speed of over 200 mph. Luckily for the goalie he was not in the way of the ball as it smashed across the goal line, breaking the net beyond it and rebounding off the stadium wall behind it back into the pool. Tidus had dived back into the pool and was ready for the ball as it returned to him, scattering the other players left and right.
Casually, he held up his middle finger and balanced the ball spinning on it, sending the entire stadium into an uproar. Tidus switched his fingers and did some tricks, searching for Yuna. When he finally made eye contact he gave her a wink and back flipped out of the sphere pool, somehow managing to land right in front of Yuna, the ball still spinning gently on his index finger.
Yuna breathlessly made eye contact before throwing her arms around him and pressing her lips against his. Tidus dropped the ball and held Yuna closely to him, deepening the kiss. This time Yuna did not break away. The crowd cheered even louder, except for Dona and the cheerleaders who sent Yuna death glares. Of course Yuna didn't even notice.
Wakka and his team staggered out of the pool and walked over to where Tidus and Yuna were making out. He tapped Tidus on the shoulder hesitantly.
Tidus broke away from the kiss, annoyed, and turned around to see Wakka. Tidus was ready to punch him for interrupting what he had been trying to get for the past 6 hours but Wakka stuck out his hand holding the captain's armband.
"OK man. I keep my word, you are now the captain of the school team- the Besaid Aurochs," Wakka muttered, defeated. The entire school shouted their approval and Tidus jumped in the air picking up the discarded blitz ball and shook Wakka's hand.
"You keep the captain's band dude, I've got my one from Zanarkand," Tidus explained, drawing up his sleeve to show a black wristband with the Zanarkand Abes symbol on it in red, with 'Zanarkand' written above it and 'Abes' below it.
Tidus' arm crept around Yuna's waist but before he could carry on with what he had been planning the coach walked in.
"Hey party at my place!" Gippal screamed as Baralai shook his head frantically.
"Yeah come on everyone!" Tidus yelled and the whole school exited the stadium in a matter of seconds, leaving the coach looking completely confused.
Yeah we know that they're moving a little fast but ah what the hell we figured it was the perfect moment. So what did ya think of the game? Do you think we slightly over exaggerated the 200 mph bit?… nah anyway probs next chapter up next weekend. Review please byeeeee/boi