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Notes: Always remember that the words in 'italics' are thoughts. I'm so sorry I updated late on this fic! I promise to update faster next time, and for Amnesia too! I'll update faster, that's a promise! Also, I know this chapter is called "Dona's Past" but this whole chapter doesn't focus on Dona's past, but I thought that it was one of the major thing in the chapter. Just wanted to c lear that up :D

Disclaimer: Yes, it's true, I DO own Final Fantasy! sees lawyers coming OKAY, OKAY, I DON'T! lawyers sadly walk away … Mental note to self, never say that you own Final Fantasy … never. Otherwise, fear the wrath of lawyers …

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"Famm, muug yd drec! Vuudcdabc!" Rikku exclaimed. ("Well, look at this! Footsteps!")

"Vuudcdabc? Frana?" Gippal asked her. ("Footsteps?" Where?")

"On the ground!" Rikku squealed, in English. "Look! See how there's this sand, here? Well, this sand shows that somebody has been walking on it!"

Rikku put her foot over one foot print. She shook her head, and then put her foot over the other footprint, this one smaller then the first footprint.

"What are you doing?" Gippal asked, puzzled.

"Yunie and I have the same shoe size! This foot print exactly covers the size of my foot. So, Yunie must've been here!" Rikku exclaimed. "This larger foot print might've been Tidus'. Do you guys have the same shoe size?"

"Almost," Gippal replied. "His size is slightly larger, I think."

Sure enough, when Gippal put his shoe over the other foot print, it didn't cover the whole shoe exactly.

"They were here!" Rikku said, jumping up and down.

"What if this is all a big coincidence?" Gippal asked. "What if it's just two different people who found that the shop was closed and went back?"

Rikku came up behind him and pushed him over. "Do you have to be so pessimistic?"

Gippal was down on the ground, rubbing his shoulder. "Do you have to be so optimistic?"

"Someone has to be!" Rikku yelled. "Okay! Let's follow the foot prints!"

She started following the prints in the sand when she noticed Gippal wasn't behind her. Rikku put her hands on her hips and asked him, "Are you coming or not?"

"All this chasing … it's giving me a headache …" he groaned. Rikku was way too energetic and kept on running around everywhere.

"A headache? Hah! You really are a couch potato! Now let's get going or I'm gonna drag ya!"

And after a few more minutes of arguing, she did just that.

"Are we –"

"No! I told you seven minutes ago that we were ten minutes away from Yaibal's!" Lulu said, irritated.

Wakka was quiet for a while. Then he spoke. "I wasn't going to ask that."

"Really? Then what were you going to ask?" Lulu asked back.

"… If we were going to get a drink once we go to Yaibal's, ya? It's really hot out here …"

Lulu was a bit embarrassed. She hated jumping to conclusions, and then getting those conclusions wrong. "That's all right with me."

Three minutes later, the two arrived at the entrance of Yaibal's.

Lulu turned to Wakka. "You do have your own Gil, do you not?"

Wakka dug in his pockets … he did have Gil, did he not? But his pockets were empty, nothing was in there. 'Damn it! I left my Gil at home!'

Lulu stood there waiting for a response. "Well?"

"Heh …" Wakka said, sheepishly.

"You don't, right?" Lulu said, looking a bit amused.

"…Nah …" Wakka admitted.

Rolling her eyes, she got some of her own Gil and put it in Wakka's hand. "Here. This is a sorry for jumping to my own conclusions. Be thankful I'm doing this for you, I don't do this to just anyone I meet."

Which brought up the question in her mind, why was she doing this to a Wakka?

But Wakka was just grateful to be able to drink something, the weather in this neighborhood was just … scorching. Who knew, it was probably more then one hundred degrees outside. "Thanks, ya?"

But Lulu had already stepped inside Yaibal's, searching for Yuna and Tidus.

Only ten minutes later, Wakka and Lulu came out of Yaibal's, without any sight of Yuna or Tidus. The only thing that they had was the drinks that they had bought. Lemon ice tea for Lulu, and a soda for Wakka.

"They're not here either … maybe Rikku and Gippal have had more luck then we're having right now …" Lulu murmured.

Wakka agreed. "Ya, what should we do?"

Lulu began to think. "Let's just try to find Rikku and Gippal and see what they're up to. They still might be at Beclem's … let's go there. On the way to Beclem's is Yuna's shop, so we'll stop by there to see if anybody is there."

"All right," Wakka could only agree. He had no idea how to get around this place, and how to go back home. Might as well do what Lulu says …

And so, they began walking back. Only this time, it felt a bit nicer, since they had cold drinks in their hands. And Wakka didn't think that Lulu was as hostile as she seemed to be.

"Closed for the day!" Tidus asked her, as if she was crazy. Maybe she was. "But didn't you say you had to look after your shop?"

Yuna stopped dragging him, and shrugged. "Do you want me to help you, or not?"

Tidus started shaking his head. "Never mind, never mind."

Yuna smirked. "I thought so."

Tidus looked around where they were walking. There were many shops around, but probably only family owned shops, just like Yuna. Not some big business company. There were children playing right in front of the shops. Some children were alone, playing with toys. Some were with friends, playing games.

Tidus smiled at the sight of them. He couldn't remember his childhood too much. But he wish he could just play around again, just like he used to. He had started to hate being a child when he was one. Particularly because his mother had married a man named Jecht after Tidus' real father … had died. Tidus never remembered his real father, either.

But now that he was seventeen … he wished he could become just a child again, without a care in the world. If only his mother hadn't married Jecht …

"All right … believe it or not, this is the center of the town," Yuna explained. "There's a lot of shops, maybe your friends are in here, maybe?"

"This is the heart of the town?" Tidus asked. This was way too different then where he lived.

"Yes. It's probably nothing like Luca, I know …" Yuna admitted. "But this is it."

"Luca?" Tidus asked. Why would she bring Luca up?

"Yeah, isn't that where you live? Or did I hear wrong?"

'Tidus, you idiot! You forgot you told her that you lived in Luca!' He mentally screamed.

"Oh, right! Yeah, it's … it's different!" He said, agreeing.

Yuna smiled. 'If I counted how many times I smiled with Tidus today, it would probably be more then average … there's just something about him that makes me feel … really comfortable with him.'

"Anyways, would your friends be here?" Yuna asked Tidus.

"Nah. I don't think they'd be shopping here …" Tidus knew that Gippal and Wakka wouldn't be caught dead shopping here.

"Oh …" Yuna began to wonder where to go next.

"Hey, Yuna, don't worry about it. I can find them myself, you could go back to your shop before your mom gets angry …"

"You're kidding me, right? No! We're going!" Yuna started to drag Tidus away again.

The woman walked up to the door of her shop and tried to open the door.

It was locked.

"What in the name of …" the woman started to mutter, before she saw the sign on the door.

She couldn't be any more infuriated by what she saw. That sign was not supposed to be there before she got home!

"Closed for the day?" The woman hissed. She glanced at her watch. It was only one thirty. The shop was not supposed to close until six.

Still angry, she slammed the door open and looked around to see if there was any kind of note to say why her daughter had locked up early. There wasn't any.

She looked around in the second level of the store – their home. There wasn't any sign of her daughter.

No note, no daughter, a store being locked up for a day with no reason at all.

A horrible thought crossed the woman's mind. Was her daughter kidnapped and forced to close the shop? She shook that thought away. That had to be impossible. Had to be.

What was her own daughter doing? Didn't she say that she was responsible enough to handle the shop on her own now?

"Responsible, my ass!" the woman muttered to herself.

Her own daughter still had much to learn about the "business" world they had here in this small town of Zanarkand. You can't just close a shop in the middle of the day; that drove customers away!

Didn't she tell her that?

Maybe she didn't.

"Yuna, whatever you have done, it better be for a good reason …" Leah said to the wall, as if the wall was actually Yuna.

"Damn it! Where did they go?" Dona wondered. When she saw that Tidus and Yuna were rushing off to the 'town square,' she had hid in a shop. But when she had stepped back outside the shop, Tidus and Yuan were no longer there.

She couldn't trace them, and she had no idea where they had headed off to. Stalking Yuna? She might be. She was just so angry at Yuna. No. Angry is an understatement.

She hated Yuna Lesca within every inch of her own body. She hated the way Yuna smiled, laughed, walked, did anything. She hated anything that had to do with Yuna.

Dona wasn't always this harsh to Yuna. In fact, she used to have the same personality as Yuna did now. To tell the truth, Dona had actually loved Yuna like a real sister. Yes, Dona Lacello and Yuna Lesca actually were the best of friends, once upon a time.

(A/N: This is Dona having a flashback. Yuna doesn't remember this, but Dona does.)

Flashback

Eight year old Yuna Lesca sat in the front of her shop, bawling her eyes out.

Dona spotted Yuna and walked up to her. "Just why are you crying?"

Yuna lifted her head up. "Dona?"

"Yuna. Why are you crying?" Dona said, sitting down next to her.

"Tidus … moved … away … didn't you hear?" Yuna said, still crying.

"Tidus Aikona? I heard, but I don't care about him," Dona simply replied. "He's too scrawny and too much of a jock for my liking."

Yuna stood up. "Tidus was my best friend!"

Dona looked shocked. "You mean – I'm not your best friend?"

Yuna wiped at her eyes, trying to get the tears off her face. She was confused. Andangry. One thing after another, and she was already confused to begin with."Of course you're my best friend, Dona. We've been best friends forever, haven't we?"

"It seems like you care more about Tidus then me!" Dona said, her anger rising. How could Yuna care about Tidus? He had a weird mother anyways!

"Dona, please! I … I care about you just as much as I care about Tidus? Haven't you heard? You can have two best friends at once …"

End Flashback

Dona remembered that day so dearly. But that wasn't the day that Yuna and her had stopped being friends. They continued being best friends until they were about fourteen.

Dona had thought she had the best boyfriend in the world.

Dona had thought she had the best best friend in the world.

Dona had thought that her life was good. That life was way too good.

But one day, after taking all that for granted, her so called 'good life' lashed at her when she thought she had lost her best friend and boyfriend … all in one day.

So! How do you like it? As you can see in this chapter, Rikku and Gippal find out more about Yuna and Tidus. And they're all still trying to find each other! Plus, we find a bit about Dona's and Yuna's past together. They used to be best friends!

Next chapter, WILL Lulu, Wakka, Gippal, Rikku, Yuna, and Tidus EVER find each other? What kind of extreme measures will Leah Lesca (Yuna's mom) take to find her daughter? Will she find out what happened to Yuna and Tidus? Also, a bit more on Yuna and Dona's past! What makes Dona so angry at Yuna exactly?

In my other story, Amnesia, you should've seen that I'm planning a next story. I'm trying to find out a title for it, and I was wondering if you guys could help me with that!

Here's the summary: Tidus finds Yuna again, after long years without her in college. But when he does find her, he finds out she's going to get married – not to him, though! What's Tidus going to do about this? And, will old memories and probably an old love Tidus had for her come floating back? Obviously a Yuna and Tidus story :)

Can you guys think of a title? If you do, of course I'll give you credit for it and every chapter … yay! D

review! REVIEW! REVIEW NOWWWWW! .. Please? It'll make me really happy and ill have the motivation to keep on going with this story! So, till next time!