chapter 6

Auron was shocked. Kinoc his best friend had betrayed him and his family. Auron had no idea of what to do, so before jumping into conclusions he chose to ask questions. "Why?" He bitterly asked. "What did my family ever do to you?"

Kinoc smiled as if he was enjoying Aurons anger. "Even after ten years, you still have a temper." Auron frowend. "In Braska's calm your family began to be looked down on."

"By who?" Auron asked. "Get to the point already!"

Kinoc sighed. "We needed more funds for the blitz ball stadiom we were going to build in Bevelle. Seeing that your wife had been raised by al bhed and her children were part of a fallen monk as well as her, we decided to sell them as slaves. There would be good money in it for us, and the luky person who bought them would have slaves."

Auron tryed to controll himself. "How much did you sell them for?"

"20 Million each." He told Auron.

Auron grabbed him by the neck and pinned him up againsed the wall. "Why? Was it worth it? Didn't you even think of the troubles thatthey would have to put up with?"

Kinoc breathed in some fresh air as Auron was pulled away by guards. "Yes it was. And as I over heard your daughter has something she's hiding from everyone."

Auron frowened and stopped struggeling. "But what you did to us was wrong." Namine said walking up to Kinoc, Riku following her. "Because of you we never had a childhood. We were beaten for every little thing we did wrong."

Riku nodded. "Or Namine was tortured, or raped." He looked over to Auron. "Thanks for standing up for us dad."

"What happend to us is something that we can't change." Namine told him. "Tell the guards to realise him."

Kinoc evily laughed at her. "Why should I take orders from a slave?" He walked over to her and forced her to look at him. "If you were worthy of taking orders from, then you're master wouldn't have said that he had such a worthless, useless, pathetic, good for nothing, slave girl. You're the daughter of outlaws! Live with it."

Namine looked down. She had been treated worse, but she did everything that she could do to please her master. Riku steped forward. "You'd better apolagise to her." He threatend.

Kinoc looked at Auron's oldest and with what he said he should have just spat at him. "What I see in you is funny. You can go and fight long battles, save others, protect kingdoms, yet you can't even protect you're own family when the time comes."

"Shut up!" Riku shouted at him, knowing that if his emotions got the better of him he wouldn't be able to controll them.

But Kinoc carried on. "Face it Riku! You're the one who let Aerith and you're sister that you seem so fond of die inside!"

"Shut up!" Riku shouted again balls of electrisity surronding his hands as he went to thump Kinoc. Namine grabbed his hand to stop him.

"Riku! Ignore him!" Riku looked down at her. "You did protect us! Remember when Sephiroth beat me? Who was there? You were. Remember when he was trying to kill mom and me? You stopped him!" Riku realised that she was silently weeping.

Auron managed to break free of the guards grip. He ran over to his two children and aplolagised for everything he had done to them. Kinoc just walked away headed for Bevelle.

"Lets go." Auron told the two of them and walked towards his shocked summoner and guardians. "We next stop at Djose temple. We can rest there, and Yuna can get the aeon."

They were walking down the mushroom rock road they were all tired from the battle and the others that they were enduring by fiends. Even though Namine wasn't fighting she was a healer, so she was using her strongest magic to keep the groups strength up... pure magic is tireing. Riku was carrying her on his back.

Auron could tell that Riku was in deep thought. He had been since Kinoc had said that it was all his falt. Aron knew that what Kinoc had said about Riku was to get him in a state, and Auron knew that Riku tried everything he could do to help his family. "She looks tired." Auron said walking next to Riku trying to start a conversation.

"She's real light though." Riku said. "She's tryed pure magic before. She was just learning then."

Auron smiled. "She acts just like her mother when I first met her." He laughed when he remembered the night he wrapped her in bubble wrap.

"How did you and Mom meet?" Riku asked. "You never told me that story."

"I'll tell you in Djose." Auron replyed grabbing his Katana as another fiend came out of no where.

Riku put Namine down againsted a wall so he could join in the fight. "If we keep on getting attacked by fiends you might not get the chance to tell me." Riku took out his sword and stated slashing at it.

Auron dug the tip of his Katana into it's scales and heard it cry out inpain. After a few minuites it burst into pyrflies. "Namine." Riku tryed to wake her up.

"What?" She asked him. Namine cured the whole party and tryed sleeping again. Riku was about to pick her up again but Auron stopped him.

"We've been walking for almost seven hours now. I'll carry her the rest of the way." Auron told him and picked her up. "You're right she is light."

"At least I'm good at something then."

Auron sighed. At last they reached Djose. "There's another summoner! We have to hurry!" Yuna told them running inside. Riku got some rooms for all of them and set Namine down on the hired bed. He felt bad about leaving her on her own, but he was a guardian now.

Hours later after they had done the trials no one could wait to go to bed. Riku walked strait into his room and collapsed on his bed. "You gonna tell me that story now?"

Auron laughed. "It all started out as me going to fight the al bhed. I was still a monk back then. A young woman told me that my life was in danger..." Auron carried on his story for ages. He was happy to see that Riku listened to it all.

"I met someone once." Riku told Auron. "But she left me when she found out that I was a servant." Riku sighed. "Just proves that I am bad at everything."

Auron looked across from the bed he was laying on. "I wasn't here. But I can tell that you looked out for them. No one had the right to say those things about you." Auron watched as Riku's eyes filled with tears, maybe it would do him some good to cry. "You, or Namine."

That was it. Riku cried. He didn't make a noise though, but the tears fell down his face. "I couldn't protect them." He fell asleep.

Auron felt bad. He knew that soon Tidus would blurt something out. Then how could Auron tell them that he had looked after him and bacicly dumped his own kids?

So what do ya think? i tryed to make this chapter longer! review!