Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy X.

Thankies! I didn't think I would be getting that many reviews. I thought I'd be lucky if I had 6 or something... I promise to proof read my work! Heh.

Chapter 4: The Past of a Summoner

"A WHAT!" Tidus shot up from his seat. His ears must have been playing tricks on them. They MUST have.

"A...summoner..." Rikku's voice was small. She couldn't help but be a little bit afraid. After all, when he yelled it sounded a bit like thunder...

"How?" Tidus sat back down again. His eyes were wide, staring off in the distance.

"Let me get to that." The Al Bhed's voice was more cheery now. "Yunie's father no other than Lord Braska!"

"L-Lord Braska!" The unbelieving blonde took hold of Rikku's collar. "This is almost too much. ...You better not be lying!"

"You think I would lie?" Rikku grinned a little to mischievously.

"Rikku!" Tidus warned.

"I SWEAR I'm not lying!" She pulled out of his grip and saluted.

"Why'd you salute me?"

"I thought it would give it some effect..."

"That's it." The blitzer jumped out of his seat and started towards the door. "I'm leaving."

"NO!" Rikku lashed out her arm, taking hold of a loop on his jeans. "I'm not lying. Please just sit down and let me tell you!"

Tidus glanced back at the hyper Al Bhed, sighing. "Fine. I'll try to prevent myself form my little comments too." He grinned.

"Okay, where was I..." She rolled her eyes up towards the ceiling. "Oh yeah... Yunie was born in Bevelle, but she grew up mostly on Besaid Island. When she was about 5 her mom died. Everywhere she turned in Bevelle she would meet a haunting image of her mother. Braska seemed to feel the same, so they moved to Besaid, getting as far away from Bevelle as possible."

'So she lost her mother too.' Tidus thought to himself. 'And if I've heard right, Braska died 6 years ago. No parents, too, eh? Maybe we're more alike than I thought.'

"Since her father was a summoner, Yunie decided to become one, too. She took up a job in Besaid temple to learn more and prepare herself. Kimahri came in around this point in her life. Braska had taken off to try and kill Sin, or at least severely hurt them..." She trailed off, staring down at the bed. Rikku slowly picked at the sheet, pulling out a thread. "As you know, he didn't defeat Sin, but did hurt them. And that...he died trying."

"Yeah. I heard that story." Tidus stared down at the thread Rikku was gradually pulling out of the baby blue bed sheet. "Braska summoned all his aeons. Every one of the aeons fell, but he still had one up his sleeve, a final aeon. To summon the aeon he had to break down his protective barrier. After the summon was complete he got shot and killed. The aeon finished most of them off. Yet some still lived. A good did come out of this. Sin was in the shadows, hiding from the rest of the world, replenishing. We had a time period where we didn't have to worry about their villages being trampled over that was soon named the Calm."

"Yep. That made Yunie want to become a summoner even more. She wanted to bring joy to the people of Spira, even if it was only for a little while... She excelled in her abilities. She had the natural talent to summon. It was in her blood. She always wore a smile on her face. Yet...she knew if she wanted to fulfill her dream she was most likely going to perish..." Rikku started plucking at a different fold. A new thread started to ravel out. She quickly changed the subject. "Kimahri had become her guardian. He never left her side."

"But they go separated somehow, didn't they?" Tidus scanned Rikku's face. She had a very rare look on her face. Her normal toothy grin and the hyper glint in her emerald eyes were gone. She had a droopy look. Her lips sagged down into a frown, and her eyes were half closed. The glint was gone. "I mean... Kimahri's been with us for a couple of months now."

"Sin had a little fun with Besaid. They'd heard of a summoner training there. They wanted to kill her...just like they did to almost all the other summoners." Rikku had completely pulled out a thread. She kept twirling it and untwirling it around her finger. "They abducted Yunie. Kimahri couldn't do anything, they'd flown in and out so quickly that...that Kimahri barely even noticed."

"What'd they do to her?" Tidus was almost afraid to ask. "She's here now. So they didn't kill her."

"Yunie didn't go into details. I wouldn't want to either..." After twirling the thread for so long, it finally broke. Rikku mumbled a few things, then started picking at a new area. "She escaped not too long ago, but Sin had put a permanent torture on her. They made her witness something so horrible. So dreadful that it would always haunt her. Always make her break down no matter were she was." Rikku shuddered. "That's all I know..."

"Thanks, Rikku." Tidus gave a gentle pat to her shoulder. "One question... How did you know all the details?"

Rikku was taken back. "I-I..."

"Rikku." Tidus attempted to put a stern look on his face. It didn't turn out too well. He was never on for serious emotions.

"I...I watched her grow up. My dad always wanted to keep and eye on her." Rikku began to switch back to her old self.

"Your Yunie's cousin, right? Wait...her real name's Yuna..." Tidus was getting rather confused. After Rikku caller her Yunie he'd almost lost her real name.

"Yes, I'm her cousin. Her real name is Yuna but I like Yunie better!" Yep, Rikku was definitely getting back to her normal self.

"Okay...Yuna...Yuna..." He replayed her name over and over in his head, trying to get it down. Tidus didn't want to accidentally call her Yunie. "So...is Yuna Al Bhed, too?"

"Not really. She's only half. Her mom was Al Bhed." Rikku started to head for the door. She grinned. "Get a shirt on! Then you can really meet Yunie!" She skipped out the door.

"I'll never understand that girl..." Tidus grabbed a miscellaneous white shirt. He pulled it over his head, heading out the door. "Hey." Tidus had pulled down the shirt all the way by the time he'd reached the living room were Yuna was resting.

Everyone was spread out across the room. Tidus approached Lulu, who was sitting next to Yuna on the red couch. "Did Rikku inform you?" Lulu asked, glancing up Tidus.

"Yeah." He shifted his eyes over to Yuna, who was staring down at the rugged tan carpet. Tidus tried hard not to give her a sympathetic look. She probably didn't want anyone feeling sorry for her. He wouldn't have. Everyone had their own bumps in life. Some were just bigger than others.

Tidus took the open seat next to Yuna. He extended a friendly had towards her. She cautiously took it. As soon as her hand made contact with his, he felt a sudden familiarity in it. She had felt it too. There was that feeling that they had known each other before, a very strong feeling.

End chapter

Hee. I'm using some things from the game. It's loosely based around the events in the game anyway... Please review!