Note: I guess you all noticed I'm not too fond of author's notes in the middle of my text. Well, anyway, here it is: chapter nine, I proudly present :) And now, the promised sex scene, that makes this story rated M. You're very welcome - and I promise you even more in the upcoming chapters :smirk:
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Chapter IX
"Yunie! You're all right?" Rikku exclaimed. We had worked our way out of Via Purifico, and met the others at the end of it. "We were so worried! It's good to have you back!" Rikku went on.
Yuna hugged her green-eyed cousin, as to say she was glad to see us, too.
"Um, I...uh..." I started, trying to say something.
I glanced at Lulu, and seeing her brought a certain image in front of my eyes again. I closed my eyes for an instant, as a sudden pain tore me apart from the inside. No. This is NOT what I want to see. Not every time I see her. I turned away from her, shaking my head as if trying to shake off the feeling I had. When I lifted my eyes, I faced another shock: three Guado soldiers, a Bevelle soldier holding maester Kinoc, and the man I hated the most in the whole Spira approached us. Before I could say a word, the soldier let go of maester Kinoc, who fell flat on the floor. He was left there, lying motionless on his stomach. Had I not been too shocked to move, I would have dashed ahead to kill Seymour at once. Auron was the first one to speak.
"Kinoc!" he said, for a reason I could not work out.
I decided to talk to Seymour, not quite sure of what I would say, but instead of a long and affecting speech about my hatred towards him, all I that came out of my mouth was,
"Why, you!"
I felt so ashamed. This was how I revenged a man that had raped my girl. 'Why, you!' I felt a sudden need to break down and cry.
Seymour, unlike me, had a long speech to give.
"I have saved him," he started talking about maester Kinoc. "He was a man who craved power. And great power he had, but he feared losing it. Trembling at unseen enemies, he spent his days scheming petty schemes. Chased by his fears, never knowing rest." He paused. "You see... Now he has no worries. He has been granted sleep eternal. Death is a sweet slumber. All the pain of life is gently swept away... Ah, yes."
We all looked at him as if he was totally lost his mind.
"So you see...if all life were to end in Spira, all suffering would end. Don't you see? Do you not agree? That, Yuna, is why I need you. Come, Lady Yuna. Come with me to Zanarkand, the lost city of the dead. With death on our side, we will save Spira, and for this... I will take from you your strength, Yuna, your life, and become the next Sin. I will destroy Spira! I will save it!"
So this was his plan.
"You're totally nuts!" I said. "You're a twisted pervert bastard, Seymour! Come here and fight me like a man, with no paralysing spells on your weaker enemies, and let's see how much you can do then! Let's watch me kill you, Seymour!"
I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned furiously, to meet strict ray-bans. Auron shook his head. I could hear a quiet whine coming from where Rikku was standing. Still, I could not regret my words. I would have said a lot more, had Auron not silenced me. I turned back to Seymour, to see his self-confident smile that bothered me a great deal.
Kimahri decided to do something instead of just to stare at Seymour. He ran forward to stab Seymour with his spear. It became lodged in Seymour's chest. Everything was silent for a while, since no one seemed to know what to say. Finally, Seymour looked down at the spear.
"Unpleasant..." he sighed.
No shit Sherlock, I thought.
"Very well. I will give you your death. You seem to want it so."
Seymour raised his rod. Some sort of dark energy radiated from it, causing that the four soldiers and Kinoc all dissolved into pyreflies. Some pyreflies surrounded Seymour's body aswell, and he transformed into a white being with purple armor and huge, strange wings in the back. I stared at him in disbelief. Was he serious we'd fight him again, after killing him once? He seemed to float in the air, and Kimahri was still in front of him, spear in hand.
"Run! Protect Yuna!" Kimahri shouted to us.
"Go!" Auron agreed with him, as I did not move.
"No way! I'm fighting!" I assured.
Auron decided to threat me once again. He took his sword to hold it in front of my face and say,
"I said go!"
I glanced at Yuna. I'm really not sure why; maybe I just felt I could not look at Lulu anymore. Yuna nodded to me, and I had made my decision. We all ran away, leaving Kimahri behind. But after a while of running away, Yuna stopped to say,
"I won't leave Kimahri behind!"
Auron snorted.
"He is a guardian. Protecting you is everything."
"Auron!" Yuna exclaimed.
"That's right! We're all guardians!" I said. "Yeah, and you know what that means? Yuna... Anywhere you go, I'll follow!"
"Anywhere I go?" Yuna assured.
"Yeah, anywhere!"
Yuna smiled at me. I found myself wondering how she could smile, after all that had happened to her just a while ago. But we both turned around and dashed back to Kimahri and Seymour.
"Hey, Kimahri! Leave some for us!" I shouted, sounding more joyous than I actually was.
I heard a voice from behind us.
"Hey! Wait for me!"
It was Wakka.
"Me, too!" shouted Rikku, and ran to us.
Lulu and Auron followed us from a distance.
We all battled against Seymour, Yuna with the mightiest of her aeons, and the rest of us by our own strength. Seymour beat us all really bad again, and more than once I was worried to death for Lulu. But eventually, the last strike of mercy reached even Seymour, and he vanished in a cloud of smoke with some pyreflies. And we escaped with our skins intact, but Yuna lost something. I could already tell, her faith was shaken just like Wakka's; Yevon had betrayed her and us all. I felt like I should do or say something, anything, but nothing came. I was just as lost as she was. I'm not good with these things, really.
We headed to a campsite near Lake Macalania, and took a rest there. Auron told us we'd be fine, if we just avoided the city of Bevelle in the future. Then, he requested fro Yuna.
"She said she wanted to be alone," Rikku said.
"Of course," was Auron's reply.
However, the others told me to go and talk to her. But before that I sat down to write down a song I had been thinking about ever since I was brought back to the jail cell in Bevelle. The title became to be 'Don't Blame Yourself'.
"Hey."
I lifted my head from my writings, and found myself looking at the pure beauty of Lulu's face. She sat down by my side, and I greeted her quietly.
"I'm sorry," she said, and I lifted my eyes to meet hers.
It took me a while to find my tongue.
"You...you're sorry? Why?" I asked, hardly believing my ears.
She gave a sad sigh.
"For all you had to see," she replied.
"Oh, Lulu," was all I could say to that.
I reached out for her, capturing her body to a tight hug. I wished to never let go of her.
"I'm so sorry. For all he has done to you," I said, finding it hard to form those words.
I was on the verge of tears, but Lulu seemed to keep herself together better than me.
"It's all right," she said.
I had found a quiet place to write my song, so we were out of sight for everyone else. I doubted they could even hear us; I had made sure I was out of earshot aswell.
I wanted to say it was not all right. I wanted to tell her I cared for her too damn much to just say it did not matter. But for some reason, all I needed to do was to hug her, and keep her close by my side.
"By the way," she started speaking again, "when you talk to Yuna again, please tell her I wasn't free of the paralysis spell all the time. I have a big magic defense, but it only helped me to struggle free of his spell, slowly."
"I'll tell her that," I promised.
"I suppose you should go to her now," Lulu said. "She needs you."
"Well, so do you," I argued.
"No. I already had my share. She is your summoner. You'd do just well to keep that in mind, even though you might care about me."
"No, you don't understand," I said. "It's more than that. I love you. It's the only thing that is bigger than my duties for Yuna."
Lulu stroked my cheek gently.
"As much as I would like it being that way, it isn't. Your duties for your summoner overcome everything else."
I had no will to argue about this. Instead, I kissed her, and found my hands wandering on her neck. She touched my chest, not a male blitzer's chest with great muscles, but the only part of my body that so I deeply loathed. But Lulu, she seemed fascinated by the touch of soft flesh underneath my not too tight black t-shirt. My shirt had a text in it, too: on the front side a huge blue 'Zanarkand Abes' and in the back my name, with the same electric blue color.
"It's amazing...the way no one of us ever noticed you're not a boy," Lulu purred softly to my ear, so close I could feel the warmth of her breath on my neck. I closed my eyes, shivering a little, as a wonderful feeling of physical closeness overtook me completely. Somewhere in the back of my dozing brain I started to realise where all this could lead. I smiled faintly.
"Lulu," I started, as her hand began to form patterns on my breast. "Uh, you know, um, I -- I don't like them being touched, you know."
I could scarcely believe I had been able to say that aloud. Lulu moved her hand, placing it on my shoulder instead.
"Oh. Sorry," she whispered softly.
"It's okay, really, you couldn't have known. I mean, most of the women --"
Lulu silenced me with her lips on mine. It all happened so swiftly; her hands were in my hair, then pulling my shirt over my head, then unbuckling the suspenders keeping my shorts up, then in my pants... I let out a soft moan of pleasure, encouraging her to go on. She unzipped my pants aswell, and I was lying on my back on the soft grass of Macalania Woods, and Lulu lowered her head to meet my most private place with her lips and tongue. I breathed out sharply at the sensation; Lulu proved to be every bit of the pleasure her gorgeous looks promised her to be.
"Oh...my...God," I breathed, then added, "Don't stop, Lulu please don't stop..."
She lifted her head to speak.
"Don't you worry, it'll be okay," she assured me, then slid two of her long, elegant fingers inside of me. I gasped.
Lulu seemed to know what she was doing. I could feel the orgasm growing somewhere far from me, but creeping closer and closer, until I was there, and it was like falling, like flying through the air, and waves of pleasure washed over me, one after another.
When I returned to Earth, I did it with a wry laugh.
"Holy shit, Lulu, how on Spira did you do that?" I panted.
She smiled at me.
"Do what?" she inquired.
"Well, that. That huge thing that no one has never, I mean never done to me before," I replied, still unable to breathe steadily.
"You don't mean...?" Lulu got worried suddenly.
"No, no, for heaven's sake no," I laughed. "That was not my first time. But, quite sincerely, it was the best one so far."
"Oh, my... Thanks..." Lulu muttered.
"No, I should be the one thanking you," I chuckled. "So, thank you, my goddess."
"Uh, you're welcome, I guess," Lulu said, obviously feeling a little uneasy.
After a few more moments of panting, I said,
"Umh. Seems like it's my turn to return the favor."
Lulu raised her hands in a gesture that expressed objection.
"No, really, you don't have to..."
I interrupted her the same way she had silenced me a few moments ago: by my lips on hers. She did not object any further.
I showed her the best I had to demonstrate. And that seemed to please her fairly well, judging by her moans and mutters.
Afterwards, I gave her time to settle her breath and return to this world, then asked anxiously the question that had been on the tip of my tongue for a good long deal of time.
"Lulu... Did you really mean it, when you said the other day that you love me?"
She glanced at me, as if to assure herself if I was joking or not.
"Tidus, from the bottom of my heart, I was sincere when I said that. Yes. I do love you."
I sighed in delight, and buried my face in her silky pale skin, somewhere around her large breasts, and once again marvelled at the sight of them.
"Lulu... I just love your breasts," I murmured.
She gave a soft laugh, sounding more sexy than ever.
"Thank you, Tidus," she said. "I've caught you looking at them, at times."
I jolted up.
"You have what?" I exclaimed.
"You heard me," she said, sounding amused. "I find that very flattering, the attention you seem to have towards my breasts."
"Uh, right. Whatever you say, my love."
I never found myself comfortable without my clothes, at least not for a long time. So I started to gather my clothes again, feeling Lulu's eyes on me all the time. I glanced at her, and she smiled.
"Maybe...maybe you should go to Yuna now," she suggested.
I sighed.
"Maybe," I replied. Actually, I had no will to leave her and go to Yuna at all. "I love you."
"I love you too," she said gently. "Now go."
I leaned forward to kiss her on the lips, then got up to my feet.
"I'll be right back," I promised.
"You'll find me among the others," she told my back as I was walking away.