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Tidus and His Good Deed
Tidus took a few steps back from Auron, pulling Wakka back with him. Wakka quickly caught on and let himself be pulled away. Tidus had seen few people violate Auron's personal space and it was never pretty. Once in Zanarkand, a man had tried to tug on Auron's coat to get his attention and the man ended up bleeding on the ground. Wakka was concerned for his new recruit's safety and decided to intervene before anything happened.
"Whoa! Give 'em so room ya?" Wakka pulled the woman off Auron nervously and held her by the shoulders firmly. Tidus prepared to jump in between everyone to prevent a fight.
To their surprise, Auron chuckled. "It's quite alright. No harm done. Nice to meet you." He held his hand out to the woman.
She smiled up at him. "Nice to meet you too! My name is Kyra." She took Auron's hand and shook it.
Tidus and Wakka relaxed noticeably. They fully expected to have to go find another player due to the sudden death of this one.
"Well, I am glad we are all introduced. Can we head back to Besaid now?" Tidus asked. He wanted to see Yuna.
"Sure we got what we came for. Let's go!" Wakka announced.
Auron watched his companions board the airship and then he followed. When he entered the control room, Tidus and Wakka were arguing over who got to drive. Kyra was sitting in a chair not to far away from where he entered. When she saw him, she invited him to sit next to her.
This could be a long ride...he thought.
"Oh I have to talk to him," Rikku sighed to her friends.
"Rikku calm down," Lulu told her, "I'm sure it will work out. Auron's not one to jump to conclusions."
"Yes I'm sure he is fine Rikku" Yuna agreed.
Rikku looked at her friends for a moment. Maybe they are right, maybe he is fine...
"Arrrrggggghhhh!" Rikku cried out as she threw herself on the couch.
Yuna and Lulu giggled at each other. "Hey Rikku, why don't we do something that will cheer you up?" Yuna said.
Rikku's head snapped up from her pillow. She glared at Yuna and blew a strand of hair out of her face. "What could possibly cheer me up right now Yuna?
"Well," Yuna said slowly, "I heard a rumor that some of the local kids were having a lot of luck finding treasure buried at the beach. We could go check it out."
Rikku raised an eyebrow at her cousin. "Yuna!" Rikku yelled, "I have been living on the island for how long now? You just decide to tell me there is treasure now! Let's go!"
Rikku raced down to the beach while Yuna and Lulu followed with blankets and umbrellas. There was nothing else that could have taken her mind of Auron at that moment. She need some time to think, and what better way to do that then find treasure while you are thinking. Lulu and Yuna set up their blanket and prepared for a relaxing day at the beach. They had just sat down when Rikku ran over to them.
"And just what do you think you two are doing?" she asked with a hand on her hip.
"We are relaxing Rikku," Lulu smiled up at her.
"WHAT! No way! Get your butts up and help me dig. Move it!" Rikku tugged the blanket her friends were sitting on causing them to fall back in the sand. Satisfied, Rikku turned her attention back to the treasure hunting at hand.
Yuna sat up and looked at Lulu. "You know I'm starting to think it's a bad idea for her and Auron to get together."
"Why is that?" Lulu asked as she stood up and brushed sand off of her dress.
"Between the two of them bossing us around, we'll never get any rest."
The girls had been on the beach for about an hour when the airship arrived. Wakka landed it not to far from where they were so they walked over to greet the boys.
Wakka got off first and threw Lulu a huge smile. "Hey girl," he pulled her in for a hug, "I got us back in one piece. Not bad for my first time flying it huh?"
"WHAT!" Tidus said as he followed behind Wakka. "You know, I don't think the fayth would send me back again if you killed me!"
The group laughed as Tidus hugged Yuna hello. Yuna smiled as Tidus squeezed her tightly. She looked over at Rikku to see her cousin smiling and then a look of horror crossed over her face. Yuna followed Rikku's line of vision and her jaw dropped. Auron was walking over to the group with a beautiful girl attached to his arm.
Rikku felt her heart drop into her stomach at the sight of her crush and another woman. She felt her heart sink lower when she got over her initial shock and realized that the pair was talking and laughing together. She vaguely heard Tidus introduce the girl.
"Hey guys this is Kyra, the newest Besaid Auroch. Krya, this is Lulu, Yuna, and Rikku."
Lulu and Yuna said their hellos and Rikku just smiled slightly. She could feel Auron's stare on her and was determined not to look at him right now.
"Well let's not stand here all day. I'm sure you guys are hungry." Lulu said.
The men nodded and followed Lulu to her house. Yuna fell back with Rikku.
"Yunie," Rikku whined, "who is that and why is she hanging all over Auron. Why is he letting her?"
Yuna looked into her cousin's wide eyes and gave her a hug. "I don't know Rikku but I'm going to find out."
When they walked into Lulu's kitchen they found Auron and Kyra sitting at the table talking. Tidus and Wakka were busy throwing fruit around the kitchen to Lulu's annoyance.
"Would you two stop it before I fry both of you." Lulu held her hand up preparing to cast Thundara on the troublemakers. They both sat at the table quickly. Yuna laughed and sat with Tidus and pulled Rikku down next to her.
"So Kyra, why don't you tell us a little about yourself." Yuna questioned.
Kyra looked up from her conversation with Auron. "Sure, what do you want to know?"
"Why you won't get your skanky paws of Auron would be a good start." Rikku said.
Well, that's what she said in her head anyway. What actually came out was, "So where are you from?"
"I'm from Bevelle. I was telling Auron that I used to be in training to be a guardian. There were five of us training to be just like Auron. He is our hero."
Tidus stopped to think about what the world would be like with five miniature Aurons in it. He got a chill and moved closer to Yuna.
"We all wanted to be like the legendary guardian himself and we trained everyday for five years. Our teacher finally said we were ready and we could guard the next summoner."
"So what happened?" Wakka asked.
"Well the next summoner never came to be because the current one defeated Sin." Kyra smiled over at Yuna. "You defeated Sin Yuna with our hero Sir Auron. So we had to finds new career paths. I found mine in blitzball."
"She is going to be so awesome ya?" Wakka said excitedly.
Rikku snorted into her drink. Luckily nobody heard because Wakka was chanting for Auroch victory. Or so she thought.
Auron noticed her snort, just as her noticed the look on her face when she saw him with Kyra. He had to get her alone. He needed to tell her there was nothing between him and Kyra. He needed her to tell him there was nothing going on with her and Gippal.
After Lulu brought the food in, dinner was not a pleasant experience for Rikku. She was agitated that she wasn't sitting next to Auron and touching him and talking to him like Kyra was doing.
"Auron, I would love if you train with me once. I want to see your technique close up." Kyra said as she leaned in close to Auron.
Rikku felt Yuna put a hand on her arm. Did she say that suggestively? I'm going to kill her!
"Rikku please don't throw a bomb in Lulu's kitchen." Yuna whispered to her.
Rikku felt her blood pressure rising and she took a deep breath. Then she took another. Then another. She did not like getting this worked up over something that wasn't hers. She saw many girls go through that with Gippal. Girls that had no claim on him getting mad when another girl flirted with him. Rikku though it was a waste of energy and never had patience for it. Now she was doing the exact same thing with Auron.
"Mmmm, Lulu that was really good. Can I help you clean up" Rikku asked as calmly as she could.
"Thank you Rikku. Actually I think Wakka is going to help me clean up so don't worry about it. Thanks anyway." Lulu told her smiling at her husband. Wakka smiled back thinking about their alone time when their guests left.
"Well in that case, I think I am going to head home." Rikku told Lulu as she stood up to leave.
"Hey! Where is Kyra going to stay tonight?" Tidus asked.
"All of our guest rooms are taken!" Rikku said quickly.
Lulu thought for a moment. She sighed and looked apologetically at Wakka. "Well, I guess you will stay with us. We have an extra room."
Tidus, feeling observant, noticed the exchange between husband and wife. He came up with an idea. "That's okay Lulu. I can share a room with Auron and Kyra can have my room."
"Okay it's settled. Thanks Tidus!" Kyra told him.
Wakka and Lulu said goodnight to their guests as they left to go back to Yuna and Rikku's house. Tidus jogged up next to Yuna and put an arm around her shoulder. He felt proud that he made Lulu and Wakka happy.
"You know if Auron doesn't want company, I can stay with you" he smiled at her.
Yuna looked at him and shook her head. "Your lucky your cute Tidus," was all she said.
Tidus looked over to Rikku for help about what Yuna meant. He turned his head and nearly jumped out of his skin in fright at the look Rikku was giving him. Tidus gulped and looked to Auron for help but Auron was busy laughing with Kyra again.
When they reached the house Rikku stormed pass Tidus and went in the door.
"What did I do?"
"Okay so you know where everything is and Tidus has given up his room so your all set."
When they entered the house Rikku disappeared and Yuna and Tidus were arguing in the kitchen. Auron found it up to him to get Kyra settled in. He had just shown her into Tidus' room and was preparing to leave.
"Is their anything else you need?" Auron asked now in the hallway. He had to go find Rikku. While he was waiting for Kyra to answer, he looked up the hallway and found Rikku had just stepped out of her room. They made eye contact and Auron smiled at her.
"You" Kyra answered.
Auron saw what might have been a smile fall from Rikku's face. He turned his attention back to Kyra. He found that she was very close to him and she was tugging on his coat buckle. He grabbed her hand and pushed it back as he watched Rikku run the opposite direction from him. He immediately ran after her and quickly remembered how ridiculously fast she was. He ended up outside in the moonlight coming to the realization he had no idea what direction she went. He took a guess and headed toward the beach.
For some reason, Rikku thought he would never find her at the beach. It was dark and she was small so she was hard to see. She curled up into a ball hugging her knees very close to her chest.
Breathe Rikku, breathe.
Had Auron not been a legendary guardian and an awesome hide-and-seek player, he might not have seen her, but he did. He saw her curled up close to the water and smiled.
"Rikku"
"What?" Rikku sighed in defeat. I should have hid better.
"We need to talk"
A/N: Ha ha next chapter they finally talk. Next update will hopefully be Wednesday night.
