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Sorry I took a while to update. I'm not very good at updating...but I have a reason! I've been buried neck high in homework. UGG! So...much...stress! dies from stress
Chapter 11: Adding to the Confusion
Tidus shuffled his feet uncomfortably. "I get this cold, foreign feeling."
"So you know when it's coming on?" Yuna wanted to get as much information as she could. She wanted to see if she could stop his changing.
"No. No, I don't." He chuckled as if it were nothing.
"Tidus!" She raised her voice slightly. "Be serious."
"I am. I can't help it if I'm carefree." A chuckle was caught in his throat that he didn't want to let out.
"Okay." She sighed. "So you wouldn't be able to stop it?"
"No, I wouldn't be able to stop it." Tidus swooped his head down by the railing. "I only get the odd feeling then everything's black."
"Oh..." She was pretty much clueless. Very little information was known, and even less was given. This was going nowhere fast.
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Wakka cautiously glanced over at Lulu, who was filling the doorway. He began trotting around Yuna's temporary room, hesitating in places.
"Just put the sphere on her pillow!" Lulu ordered. The redhead swiftly placed it on the pillow and then bolted out the door, past the bewildered mage. She sighed following the sprinting man.
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"What the..." Yuna whispered, fingering the newfound sphere. She was about to call out to Tidus, but he had already made his place in the doorway. "Did you follow me?"
"What if I did?" He grinned, moving toward the summoner.
She just shook her head, and held up the sphere. "Let's just watch this. See if there's anymore 'pieces'." Tidus felt as if he was being mocked for what he had said earlier that day.
The sphere clicked and the images played.
"Hello," greeted an old looking man in green robes and a rather long beard. "I am Maechen, what might be your name?"
"Tidus," replied a voice from off screen. He must have been holding the sphere.
"Ah, I see you have a sphere there!" The old man seemed almost excited. "Mind if I tell you a little history on the spheres?"
The image shook. "N-no, thank you!" It whirred around, shutting off.
Another image fuzzed on.
There was nothing but a blurred mass of different shades of green. It focused enough to make out that the mass of green was a bush.
"Tidus?" a female voice called out, off screen. The sphere's holder seems to have fumbled with it, for the sudden shaking.
"Don't surprise me like that!" demanded the boy behind the sphere. A girl in her teens soon appeared. "What do you want anyway, Yuna?"
"Is that a way to talk to a lady?" She huffed, placing her hand firmly on her hips.
"You're no lady." He chuckled. "You're but a wee little girl."
"A 'wee little girl'?" The 'wee little girl' cocked an eyebrow. "That's very original."
"Why, thank you!" Sarcasm dripped from his voice.
"Why are you recording this?" She steeped towards the boy, stripping the sphere from his hands. "We're just having a casual conversation and you're recording it?"
"Fine, turn it off."
It faded out. A couple minutes later, with Tidus and Yuna almost giving up on it, a new image played.
A teenage Tidus sat at a wobbly table with Yuna beside him, carving something into his necklace. "Will it turn out okay?" questioned the worried Yuna.
"It'll be fine..." He carefully set down his pendant on the table.
"Wow." She fingered the etched letters. "That turned out great."
The blonde smirked, holding out his hand. "Here. I'll carve it into yours too."
Yuna, almost hesitantly, placed her own necklace in the boy's tanned hand. He tenderly began working on it. It seemed like hours to the anxious Yuna as she stared agonizingly at Tidus, who was hard at work.
"Done!" he pronounced, obviously proud of his work. The eager girl quickly snatched it from him.
"How did you get it to work on such a small area?" She squinted at the necklace.
"Practice." Tidus grinned. She slipped the necklace back around her neck.
"Do you hear something?" Yuna turned her head towards a distant door. Faint voices could distantly be heard.
"Yeah..." The two wandered off, grabbing the sphere and ended up right next to the door. They pressed their ears against the oak wood. A trio of male voices could be heard.
"We're gonna have to separate them."
"How? Have you forgotten how tight they are?"
"No. But that's the problem!"
"What's the problem?"
"That they're so close!"
"I don't see a problem with that. If my son wants to spend all of his life with the girl, I couldn't care less."
"Have you always had such a thick skull?"
"This is no time for insults! Let's get back on topic."
"What? That we should tear apart two teens who obviously care deeply for each other?"
"You're making this sound worse than it truly is."
"Then what is it? What's the truth?"
"The truth is that if we separate them now, it will dull the pain for what is to come."
"Say something I can actually understand!"
"That's the simplest way of saying it. Strain you mind."
"Asshole..."
"PLEASE! This not a time for insults!"
"I was just stating the truth."
"We're getting off topic! We have to decide now. Before it's too late!"
"...I hate to do it..."
"We all do. But it's the best for them."
"Being forcefully taken away from the one you love? That's the best we can think of?"
"Stop it. You're just making this worse."
"Why does it have to be them?"
"I don't know... I really don't know..."
Their words faded, along with the image. A new one appeared.
"They're WRONG! They are all WRONG!" Tidus yelled, punching a near by tree.
"Please, calm down, Tidus," Yuna cooed soothingly.
"I can't! They're gonna tear us apart!" He had tears brimming his azure eyes. "I-I don't want that..."
"I don't want it either." She patted him reassuringly on the back. "But...we should do what they say."
"But why do they have to separate us?" The blonde rubbed his eyes. "What's to come?"
"They wouldn't say..." The summoner-in-training hung her head.
"Yuna?" His voice cracked.
"Yes?" She turned her head up to face Tidus.
"Do...do you think we'll just stay friends?" A look Yuna had never seen before covered the boy's face.
"Wh-what do you mean?" She stumbled with her words.
"Do you think we'll become something more? Something more than just friends?" He drooped his head down by hers. His hot breath tickled her nose.
"Tidus?" He slowly moved his head in, but retreated and pulled her into an embrace.
"I...didn't want to do anything against your will..." Trailing off, he let his eyes wander.
"TIDUS! YUNA!" Rikku's voice called out.
"I guess we should head back..." Yuna gently released herself from the comfort of Tidus' arms. "...Tidus...I owe you a kiss..." With that, she headed off.
The screen faded out for on last time.
"I wonder if I ever got that kiss..." Tidus couldn't help but murmur.
"Do...do you want it?" Yuna asked, blushing.
He glanced over at the girl beside him. "If you don't mind..."
She grinned. "Not at all..."
The summoner yanked herself into Tidus' lap, encircling her slender arms around his neck. She brushed her lips against the almost stunned blonde's cheek, heading toward his mouth. Their lips met in a single, innocent kiss. Reluctantly, Yuna pulled away. She quickly made her way off Tidus' lap and out the door, leaving a quite happy man sitting on the floor.
"She has...soft lips..."
End chapter
Hello, I'm Mitsuo! I will be the substitute for the author for this time being. She is currently getting the life pumped back into her. The last little scene is for Da Blob. Happy? In words for the author: "Thanks for all the reviews! I mean, NINE for chapter 10 alone! Please review!"
