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Chapter 6
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'Are you guys, Okay?' Rikku asked while helping Yuna and Tidus up, from dropping on the ground about a second ago, from the tree. Yuna nodded, still shocked of what had just happened... were they about to be trapped under a big cave in?
'Oh no! My Gil!' Rikku screeched as the Gil on the ground, from her pockets and pouch, started to dissapear, 'NOO! So- So bnaleuic Kem!' Rikku bended down on the floor trying to pick up the one last Gil but it dissapeared before her eyes. She inhaled out deeply in frustration then suddenly looked at Tidus hopefully. He shook his head at her pulling out the insides of his pockets.
'Nope, I'm sorry..' The Zanarkadian said, to the Al Bhed's dissapointment.
Rikku stood up and put her hand inside his pockets. Nothing! Not one single damned Gil! She thought sadly while they all stared at the usually hyper-active girl.
'Let's go.' Paine gruffily interfered sounding really angry for some reason, 'We should go.'
She avoided the curious looks of the couple and turned to head back to the village. Yuna and Tidus looked towards Rikku expecting an answer but, as if she just hear someone call her, she quickly hurried off too, the sphere still clutched in her hand.
A few moments earlier...
'WHERE'S PAINE?' Paine heard a non-too familiar voice scream from the bottom of the underground passage inside the tree. The girl had came back just in time from Besaid to get a rope ladder, she could hear grumbling underground and assumed that something bad was happening underground. Paine quickly let down the rope which she went back to get before from the village.
'PAINE GET YOUR- OWWIIEEE!' Rikku screamed making Paine raise her eyebrow in confusion.
'YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE!' The Al bhed's girl voice could be heard for miles. Paine's fury came bubbling up inside her, they were in danger and Rikku was blaming Paine that she had accidentally hit her on the head?
'RIKKU HURRY UP AND CLIMB THE DAMN ROPE!' She growled back in reply. The goth-like girl leaned back on the tree waiting for the blonde-braided head to come popping out of the tree. Suddenly Rikku came crawling quickly out of the tree, some shiny Gil came out of her pockets which she didn't notice, and stood up quickly to look back inside.
'Are they gonna be okay!' Rikku askedanxiously to Paine who was totally ignoring her. The thief looked at Paine who was looking seriously pissed off.
'What is it now!' Rikku asked sarcastically rolling her eyes, 'What? Do I lose 65 respect points or something?'
'Did you do anything inside there Rikku!' Paine asked cooley replying to the Al Bhed's comment. The warrior looked up at Rikku, her red-eyes blazing, noticing that the Al Bhed was blushing madly. Paine breathed out hard, stepping closer to Rikku who froze in terror.
'Paine! E- E teth'd tu yho-'
'E cfayn Rikku,' Paine whispered back in Al bhed glaring angrily and leering at Rikku, 'Ev oui dno pnaygehk dras ybynd...' Suddenly Tidus and Yuna had come out of the tree making Paine drop the convo immediately.
end of momentum
Yuna was confused in what had happened before. Why were her friends acting so.. strange?
'Come on Yuna,' Tidus held out his hand for her to take, 'We -uh- should be going too.' He looked at the backs of Rikku and Paine who were ahead of them then turned to Yuna who was smiled at him warmly. She wanted to really figure out what had happened before but put that till later and took Tidus' hand. They both started walking out of the woods following the visible bobbing heads of RP.
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'You guys alright?' Wakka asked concernedly after they explained what had happened in the tree.
'Were fine,' Yuna said looking at the others especially Rikku and Paine, 'Were just in a sort of shock...'
'Jeez, it's that time already!' Everyone looked at Tidus who was looking at the clock which read 6:30 in the morning! Rikku's mouth dropped open.
'We've been awake that long?' Rikku exclaimed shocked even more. Paine rolled her eyes, shaking her head then turned to walk out the door.
'I'll go talk to her.' Lulu stood up, nodded apologetically at the three others for leaving them so soon after they had just arrived, gave baby Vidina to Wakka then followed after Paine her black mage outfit swishing gracefully behind her in the cool wind.
As they watched Lulu dissapear out of sight, a big gigantic loud noise let out making everyone stare at each other in curiosity and embarassment.
'Oh no mon...' Wakka said staring at his son and shaking his head in disbelief, 'Don't tell me he-' POOOOOOFFF! Wakka turned scarlet picked Baby Vidina up and walked quickly out the door to his room. The three burst out laughing making the atmosphere be filled with contentment.
'Oh Yevon,' Yunaexclaimed after wiping her eyes from the tears of laughter, 'That was so.. funny!' She smiled at the other two, who were still laughing, then felt suddenly drowsy.
'Yunie?' Rikku asked curiously watching Yuna whosuddenly looked like she was wasted,'You look exhausted!'
Tidus, who suddenly stopped laughing as he heard his lover's name, also looked at the bi-colored eyed girl and raised his eyebrow anxiously.
'Yuna, you should get some shut eye!' He suggested always thinking about her needs, 'If you want I could.. um.. watch over you.'
Yuna's eyes brightened, she looked up at him happily then laughed for he had turned a pink tinge.
She nodded vigurously smiling widely, to Rikku's jealousy. She always gets everything... Rikku thought to herself while staring at the two who looked like love sick puppies.
'You can come too Rikku! If you like?' Yuna exclaimed giddily, already forgetting about the dreams she had and knowing that the bond between Tidus and Rikku was only sibling love (AN: or so it seems..?) Rikku grinned at her and nodded in reply, pushing the mean thoughts out of her mind.
'Hey wait! What about the sphere? Shouldn't we watch it now?' Rikku asked them suddenly remembering it which was still in her hand. They all looked down at the blue sphere which Rikku had just put on the table.
'Nahh..!' Tidus said shaking his head not bothering really, 'We can watch with the others later tonight!' The two girls nodded happily in agreement.
'Well, let's go then!' Rikku shouted punching her fist in the air. Just when they were about to walk out Lulu and Wakka's hut, Wakka came rushing in a bit puffy and carrying his baby son in his muscular shoulders.
'Were you going, ya?' Wakka asked staring at the three curiosly, 'Don't leave me, ya?' Yuna, Rikku and Tidus all started laughing uncontrollably.
'Don't worry, Wakka!' Tidus exclaimed with a hint of sarcasm in his voice, as they were walking out the hut leaving the poor Besaidian by himself, 'We'll call Lulu for you!'
Wakka started smiling thankfully, not noticing Tidus who had rolled his eyes at the girls about Wakka's dumbness. The girls bit their tongue's, trying their best to surpress their laughter and they all started walking quickly off to Yuna's hut before they bursted inside.
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Rikku, Rikku, Rikku! It's always Rikku! She has to cause all the problems! Paine said to herself still pissed off about before. Without noticing Paine had arrived at the beach, which wasn't really her favourite place to be but would rather stay there, than with her. She sat on the sand under some palm trees, which was a good place to get shade, and looked out at the forget-me-not blue sky. She watched the white wispy clouds taking form into different sorts of fiends before her eyes. A rare smile crept up on her face for one of the clouds had turned into a chocobo. At that moment she noticed that she was being watched and turned to the leather bound woman who was walking up to her.
Lulu stood before Paine not wanting to sit down so just watched the girl who was watching the beautiful blue sky above them.
'Nice day isn't it?' Lulu asked calmly at a sort of younger version of herself who was sitting on the sand, her knees up to her chest. Paine didn't want to act all snobby or anything, so she just grunted in agreement. Lulu stayed under the trees right next to Paine and folded her arms waiting patiently.
Paine sighed, she hated talking about her feelings but she didn't want Lulu to just stay there all day waiting for her to say something!
'It's just that.. Rikku! She's just so..' Paine tightened her fists looking up at the black mage, 'You know what I mean.'
Lulu cracked a small smile and nodded, changing her view from the sea to the warrior's face. Paine looked back up to the sky not wanting to look at the woman so instead watched some gulls fly past zooming around and around in some sort of pattern like way.
'Rikku.. I don't know, I had this suspicion that she liked-'
'Tidus?' Lulu finished, making Paine jerk her head upwards in utter surprise.
'How did...' Paine began a little shocked that Lulu knew.
'Obvious.' Lulu stated simply, smiling a little whilst thinking about all the little clues Rikku gave out. The air became a sort of comfortable silence making it easy to hear the sounds of nature. The rustling of the leaves on the palm trees, the soft wind whistling making Lulu's raven braids dance all around her, the soft crashing of the waves on the sand, the mere cawing from the gulls up above. It was just so peaceful there, it made Paine feel sort of drifty.
'Shall we stay or join the others?' Lulu recommended breaking the moment of tranquility. The black mage watched the warrior girl lay on her back onto the sand, putting her arms behind her head.
'We stay.' Lulu whispered her voice was lost in the wind. She sat down next to Paine who was closing her eyes and then watched the aqua-blue waves crashing on the shore. How peaceful Besaid was in the morn.
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Yuna had been asleep for awhile now still dreaming those nasty dreams of her cousin and true love. She tossed and turned not actually being noticed for the other two were so into a game they had made up.
Rikku grinned happily, she had beaten Tidus for the 7th time in a row. Tidus, everytime she won, sulked and kept saying for another round, being more eager to beat the cheeky blonde.
'One, two, three!' Rikku shrilled her hand was shaped like scissors while Tidus' had his hand out shaped like paper, (AN: well you know this game! Rock, paper, scissors? Right? Hehe..) 'I won! I won! I won!' Rikku smirked at him sort of mocking him for the 8th time, at this point Tidus was going to call out for another round when suddenly Yuna let out a high pitched scream. Oh great! Rikku thought to herself miserably watching Tidus quickly run to Yuna's aid, so much for having fun!
'Yuna?' Tidus whispered her name, worriedly looking at the girl who was, surprisingly, still fast asleep. He watched her chest rise up then back down, he stroked a leftover brown lock out of her pure white fragile face. How did a guy like him end up with such beauty like Yuna?
'Tidus? Another round?' Rikku asked trying to take Yuna off his mind and onto hers, he turned around shaking his head feeling guilty that he sort of left her for Yuna.
'Sorry, Rikku, I know your trying to make me not worried but..' He looked sadly at the figure lying under the blankets, 'I just can't right now.. so, maybe later?'
Rikku smiled happily, really crushed and dissapointed inside. No way! I just want you all to myself! Rikku thought but not actually saying it.
'Fine with me!' She decided, heading over to Tidus and dragged her chair along to sit next to him. They watched the delicate figure of Yuna who kept on groaning, tossing and mumbling gibberish in her sleep.
Tidus sighed exasperatedly, he wanted to do something so bad but just didn't no what! He couldn't wake her up for he was the one that told her to but he couldn't just let her sleep either!
'You 'kay?' Rikku asked him putting a hand on his bare shoulder. He nodded not looking at her but instead at Yuna. Rikku rolled her eyes annoyedly and pouting a bit.
'Hey!' She said nudging him playfully. He finally turned to her a mixture of sadness and hopefulness in his eyes making Rikku feel sorry for him for no reason. Oh, Spira... druca- druca pmia aoac...
'Tidus, I...' Rikku started wanting to confess her love for him once and for all, 'I.. I.. um.. I lo-'
KNOCK KNOCK! Tidus gave her look as if to say 'maybe later?' then stood up to open the door.
'Hi.. Tidus?' Paine said with an exaggerated smile plastered on her face, 'Can I borrow Rikku for a sec?' Tidus looked at the goth-like girl funnily and shrugged, turning around to gesture to Rikku who was already out of her seat going out the door. Tidus nose was hit by the force of the door which Paine had just shut behind. Jeez! A little more appreciation will be okay! Tidus thought to himself, angrily rubbing his nose.
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'What do you want now, Dr. P?' Rikku said annoyed but avoiding eye-contact as well, 'Do I have negative 1000 respect points or something? Ec dryd fryd oui'na kuhhy damm sa?'
Paine sighed tiredly, putting one finger under Rikku's chin so the emerald-eyed girl could stare straight at her.
'Look...' She admitted forcefully, 'I thought about things and I wanted to just say E's... cunno.' Paine winced at her last words, looking away to close her eyes and waiting for the reply of 'I knew it's.' Instead, she felt two tiny arms wrap around her waist. Paine opened her red eyes, amazed of what was happening. Rikku's... hugging me?
For a moment or two, the Al Bhed and silver haired woman were in a full embrace but then, as if Paine just realised she was actually hugging someone, she pushed the blonde girl away.
'Sorry...' Rikku mumbled apologetically looking at her feet again.
'Don't mention it.' Paine growled, literally meaning it. She was back to her old self again and that made Rikku feel at least a bit happy. Paine started walking back to the guest hut when she heard a soft 'Paine' making her turn around again.
'Don't tell, Yunie.. that I..' The young thief looked up at her friend who was nodding slowly, a rigid look upon her face.
'Rikku, you know you shouldn't be doing this.. it'll hurt Yuna.' Rikku swallowed down a lump in her throat.
'E ghuf.. pid E zicd lyh'd ramb ed, oy' ghuf?' Rikku's green swirls for eyes were big and filled with guiltyness. Before the warrior could reply back Rikku was already half way to Yuna's hut.
'Just try not to hurt Yuna..' Paine whispered tiredly, wrapping her arms around herself for the wind had gotten a bit fierce through the day.
A/N: Lolz.. well I hope u lykt dis chappie.. and dw I'll try put Yuna and Tidus more involved next chappie.. I sorta just based dis one bout Rikku and Paine's friendship!
DW, Ren will also put more or just fluffiness next chappie! ANYhooz da nxt chappie will be up and running in a week.. so MORE REVIEWS PLEASE! P.. okz.. ttyl for nxt tym! Signed by Ren
Translations:
So- So bnaleuic Kem! My- My precious Gil!
E- E teth'd tu yho- I- I didn't do any-
E cfayn I swear
Ev oui dno pnaygehk dras ybynd... If you try breaking them apart...
druca- druca pmia aoac... those- those blue eyes...
Ec dryd fryd oui'na kuhhy damm sa? Is that what you're gonna tell me?
E's.. cunno I'm.. sorry
E ghuf.. pid E zicd lyh'd ramb ed, oy' ghuf? I know.. but I just can't help it, ya' know?
