Best Kept Secrets
By Philosophical Sphinx
This is a college Fic Alternate Reality Style TxY pairing

Disclaimer:
Final Fantasy and its characters are trademarks of Square, This is a FAN Fic Thus The emphasis of Fan work done over a piece of Popular Fiction. I only own the story line for this particular story. Due to this I ask Do not Sue me I am just a mere poor struggling college student that has no money so there is nothing to get by suing so don't bother, it pointless, so forget it, Fan fiction is legal as long as Square has no problems with it which as is commonly known they don't so leave me be okay...

Notes on content:
Thoughts are labeled with 'this' not "this" which is obviously for quotes.
Time advances and flashbacks have headings in Italics.
Scene changes identified with line breaks.

Best Kept Secrets
Chapter 7
A New Career

The drive to the emperor's home was quite short for the threesome. Tidus did not realize the Emperor's home was so close to the school. He looked in the review mirror to check up on his new charge.

Yuna sat in the back, her hands gripping her books tightly in her lap.

Nooj tried talking to her earlier but his attempts were failures. He needed to know what had happened to her, but she refused to talk about anything.

Yuna did not even seem to realize that there was another person in the car. She just stared out of her passenger window, waiting for the moment they pulled into her property.

Nooj looked first at his rear view mirror so that he could watch his student momentarily. Before getting into the car, he had asked Tidus to try and find a way to get her to speak later on.

Tidus nodded when given the task, though he was beginning to think it might be a difficult one; his employer's daughter was just way to silent.

Just as fast as they had left the campus the crew was at the gate of the Emperor's mansion. Nooj stopped the car at the gate and nodded at the guards standing nearby. They promptly opened the gate and let the group pass.

Once inside the palace grounds, Nooj looked over to see a worried Emperor standing on his doorstop. Nooj Pulled up the vehicle to his normal location and did not even have the car stopped when doors flew open.

Yuna had left the car and was running over to her father. Nooj and Tidus watched as The Emperor grasped his daughter and held her close. " He is just very glad she is back, after what had happened."

Tidus nodded. " It was not expected to have the capital's university hit before most of the others in this area. "

" True, I was expecting them to hit Besaid next, not Bevelle."

The two men were now standing by the trunk of Nooj's vehicle, pulling out the suitcases so Tidus could move into the palace.

Tidus nodded to Nooj. " Yeah, I would have expected that as well." Tidus recalled that Besaid was not as adapted to be able to handle a fiend problem like this one. He had pulled his last bag out of the trunk and watched as Nooj closed the trunk.

" You ready?"

Tidus nodded.

" Need any help over there?"

Both Tidus and Nooj turned to look at a tall, older man in a red trench coat come forward.

" Auron.." Nooj greeted. "We have it mostly under control."

Auron took the case that was at Nooj's feet anyway.

Together the group walked towards the entrance of the palace where the Emperor was waiting with a silver gun in hand.

" Nooj, glad to see you are still okay." The Emperor greeted as he led the group into the building.

" As always." Nooj responded as Auron dropped the suitcase he held and assisted the Emperor in latching the door.

Tidus watched with interest as the group latched twelve separate locks on the front door and then closed a metal door behind it and latched the five locks on it. He knew though that the Emperor would be taking all precautions necessary.

Once the duo finished latching the door, Emperor Braska turned to address Nooj again. " Well at least the Palace is safe." he joked.

Nooj nodded. " I have a strong feeling that it may still be a few days."

" It still seems to be to soon for an attack on Bevelle" Auron added.

" I think we took down most of the recruits though already." Nooj continued.

" Well that is a good sign."

Nooj nodded and turned to Tidus. " Braska, Auron, this is Tidus, my best associate and student from Zanarkand.

The Emperor walked up to the silent blond boy standing next to Nooj. " So this is the infamous survivor?" He said half as a question and half in understanding.

Tidus nodded.

" Can you show your teeth and remove your sunglasses?" Braska asked with a hand moved to hold Tidus' chin.

Tidus smiled. This was a normal routine for most work in Spira. He opened his mouth to show his normal teeth and with a free hand lifted his Revos' from his face. He revealed to the Emperor normal ocean blue eyes.

Braska nodded and smiled back at Tidus. This routine was just one to ensure that the people getting work were not of fiend blood, but instead normal humans. He was content seeing that the boy did not have the yellow eyes that were associated with the local fiends.

This had to be done since everyone walked around covering his or her eyes to be neutral.

Tidus looked just behind the Emperor as he reapplied his glasses. Princess Yuna was just standing there leaning against a nearby wall.

Braska turned to look at his daughter. " Yuna, have you met your new bodyguard yet?"

Yuna looked over at her father and shook her head. She waited for her father to motion her forward and again approached her teacher and the new employee.

She nodded over to Tidus and offered her hand.

Tidus acknowledged it and gave her his hand, which she shook. Tidus then turned back to look at the Emperor. Braska than turned to the other man with him. Nooj nodded and looked at Tidus, before motioning to Auron.

" Auron here is the leader of the palace team of guards. "

" As well as my Bodyguard." Braska continued.

" Though you really don't need one." Auron continued.

" You are of more help than you let yourself know." Braska laughed.

Auron looked over to the new guardian. "I will show you everything you need to know here."

Tidus nodded. "I will look forward to it."

" Follow me." Auron continued. They had a long night ahead and Tidus was still not unpacked.

Tidus followed Nooj and Auron through the hallways. They had just finished climbing the stairs and were moving his luggage on the third floor to the room that was once occupied by Princess Yuna's last bodyguard.

The building was massive with a lot of artifacts and antiques that were displayed that belonged to earlier Emperors and their families.

" Your room is right next to Yuna's which will make it easy to access if you hear anything from her or get called to help her." Auron continued.

Tidus nodded. He was still admiring the many things that he saw throughout.

" Here is your room." Nooj said bringing him to attention.

Auron opened the door to reveal a rather large, open room. The full size bed was in the far left corner near a closed window that was covered on the outside with Iron bars. On the opposite side was a desk with a set of sphere screens that appeared to be monitoring various areas of the house.

" This works." Tidus nodded when Nooj pointed out the equipment that he would need in the room. The trio dropped the suitcases by the bed and Auron led them out to explore the rest of the floor.

Auron pointed to the room directly next to the one they were just in. "This here is Princess Yuna's room." He said before moving on to the rooms across the hall. This is Emperor Braska's quarters." He continued pointing to a room directly across the hall from the Princess'.

They passed by many rooms that appeared to be Empty as they approached the Emperor's room. "And this room next to the Emperor's is mine." Auron continued. " It will be in here that we will hold any meetings where we will discuss and strategize what we plan to do about the fiends.

Tidus nodded in understanding.

" Each room is equipped with the same space and each will have a bathroom and walk in closet."

" That's a lot for each room?"

" True, but we all need the space." Auron opened the door to his own room. " Come I'll show you the surveillance system set up. " he offered.

" It's the best system in the whole empire." Nooj agreed as he followed Tidus who had followed Auron.

" We are still working on setting it up though."

The group approached a desk that was similar to the one in Tidus' room.

" This system allows us to view every room in the house except Yuna's rooms." Auron began.

Tidus watched as Auron sat at his desk and opened the top drawer to reveal a keyboard.

" The reason she is not monitored is simply the fact that we are still waiting for the equipment we ordered to monitor her rooms. " Auron began typing names of rooms onto a screen and the corresponding rooms appeared upon the Spheres.

Tidus nodded in understanding.

" Now we need to get you accented with the codes and passwords you need to memorize to view everything.

Tidus nodded and moved so he could watch what Auron was typing as he began his quick training for his new work.

To Be Continued
AN: Here is the Redone version of seven. I hope you all enjoyed it. Coming up is the long awaited chapter 8. Being that it is summer for me I promise that the story will definitely be updated more often. I have the time now. Please tell me what you think.
Sphinx