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This chapter deals with laser tag, a game I played once when I was maybe seven. That was a while ago, and I tried to remember the basic stuff about it, but if I got some of the facts wrong, forgive me. I tried. Okay, hope you enjoy this chapter. Please be sure to review!!
~Chapter Five of Living with the Enemy~
"I need to sleep with you," Yuna repeated.
Tidus, still not fully awake, said, "Um, Yuna? We're not even going out."
Yuna didn't bother to answer him, but just said, "Tidus, he's in my dreams. I.I don't want him to come back."
Suddenly understanding, Tidus got out of his bed and wrapped Yuna in his arms, holding her close. They had been through so much in the pass day, and were closer then ever. "It's going to be okay," he whispered.
Yuna then became aware that he was only wearing his boxers, and she wasn't much better in her bikini. It didn't matter, though. She just wanted Tidus to hold her, to keep her safe, like he had protected her before, keep her away from Seymour.
The two of them stood there for a few minutes, soaking in the security, trying to forget the damage Seymour had wrought. Yuna's cover-up had long faded away, and even in the dark, the bruise around her eye was visible. After what seemed like a lifetime, Tidus pulled away. Gesturing toward his bed, he said, "I think this one is too small for us both to sleep in. Why don't we go into the guest room? It has a queen sized bed."
Something deep inside Yuna was bursting, floating upward and away. He was actually going to do it? He was actually going to sleep with her, a big scared baby? Most guys she knew would have hit her, laughed at her, or tried to force themselves on her. Tidus had not done any of the three, at least, not yet. He could still force himself on her, but she somehow knew that he wouldn't ever do that. What was up? Was there at least one nice guy in the world? Controlling her inner emotions, Yuna softly replied, "Okay," to Tidus's previous question.
The gust room was on the other side of the house. Walking there, Tidus led the way, holding Yuna's hand, tugging Yuna's hand. They passed the front door, and Yuna stopped abruptly. Tidus read her mind. "Don't worry," he said. "I locked it." Yuna's hand, which had grown tense, relaxed once again.
They finally reached the room normally reserved for company and friends. Tidus walked over to the bedside table and turned on the lamp there. In the dim light, Yuna got another look at his abs. A crimson wave of red lit up her face. Fortunately, Tidus was too busy taking the many throw pillows off the bed to notice that she was blushing. Done with the pillows, Tidus pulled back the comforter and climbed in the bed. He was about to turn off the light when he noticed that Yuna wasn't beside him. Propping himself up on his elbow to look at her, he asked, "What's up?" It took a second for his hormones to kick in, but he did notice how incredibly hot she looked in her bathing suit.
Yuna cocked her head to the side and said, "Thanks for doing this. I, well, really appreciate it."
Tidus cracked an award-winning smile at her, and replied, "No prob." Yuna glowed and slid under the covers. The thunderstorm had ceased, but the steady beat of rain still sounded outside. Tidus's breathing had grown relaxed and heavy, having already fallen back asleep. Yuna slowly drifted into slumber to the pitter patter of rain on the window pane. Her last conscious feeling was that of Tidus wrapping his warm arms around her slim waist.
***
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKK!"
Tidus was jerked awake and Yuna's eyes fluttered open to a high- pitched squealing. "Is that the fire alarm?" Yuna murmured sleepily in Tidus's ear, rolling over in his arms to go back to sleep. Tidus, realizing what the noise was, shook her back awake.
"Huh?" Yuna asked groggily. Wordlessly Tidus was pointing at the door frame. Yuna looked in that direction and was suddenly wide awake. "What are you doing here?"
Standing in the door frame were their four best friends, Rikku, Lulu, Squall, and Rikku. None of the girls looked very happy. "I could ask you the same question, Yuna," Lulu said crossly, eyeing the bed. Wakka and Squall, however, seemed happier with the situation before them. "You hooked a chick after one night?" Squall asked in disbelief. Wakka said, "Man, you're my hero!"
Tidus and Yuna realized that they were in a somewhat awkward position and both jumped out of the bed. "It's not what it looks like," Yuna explained. The foursome didn't hear her. The guys were too busy looking at Yuna's figure and Lulu and Rikku were too busy staring daggers at Yuna to notice the guys giving her the once over. "Nice lingerie, Yunie," Rikku said stiffly.
Tidus then jumped in. "Look, nothing happened. All we did was sleep."
Wakka looked disappointed. Squall bothered to ask, "If nothing happened, why is Yuna only wearing a bra and underwear, why are you only wearing boxers, and why were you sleeping in the same bed?"
Tidus was silent. He didn't think that Yuna wanted them to know about Seymour. He was trying to think up a good lie when Yuna answered. "It was the thunderstorm."
"The storm?" Lulu asked.
"Thunder?" Rikku squeaked, getting nervous. "Was there lightning too?"
"Yes," Tidus confirmed, playing along.
"II was scared," Yuna said meekly.
"She wanted me to keep her safe, so we decided to sleep in this room together," Tidus added.
"That still doesn't explain why Yuna's only wearing a bra and underwear," Squall said suspiciously.
Yuna narrowed her eyes. "Look, it's not lingerie. When Rikku was helping me pack my suitcase, she added about five bathing suits as we are about two seconds away from the beach. Yesterday was such a beautiful day, and we decided to go the beach. I fell asleep there and Tidus I guess carried me home. I slept the rest of the day until I was scared by the storm."
Squall still didn't look convinced, but the others seemed to understand, especially Rikku. "I know how you feel Yunie. Lightning scares me more than anything in the world." Yuna managed a weak smile and asked the group, "How did you guys get in the house?"
"Your mom gave us the key, see!" Rikku said holding it up. "She called us all and said as a surprise we should take you to the movies or go do something!"
"She also said that this didn't count as the time we were allowed to come see you this week," Lulu added.
"Of course, she also wanted to see how well you two were getting along," Squall added under his breath.
"Where should we go? It's, like, already getting late, ya?" Wakka stated, checking his watch.
Tidus, who had been quiet, spoke up. "We can watch movies here if you guys can bring DVDs to school for us on Monday. Our parents sort of forgot that a laptop can play movies."
"Yeah, so why don't we go do something fun and active?" Yuna suggested.
Wakka, who had been hoping to snag a seat next to Lulu in the movie theater and was let down when he heard that they weren't going, suddenly perked up. "Why don't we go swimming? Not at the beach," he said quickly, seeing the others bored faces, "but how about at a water park, ya? I hear that they just opened a new water park near our school, complete with water slides!" He was just hoping to see Lulu in a bikini.
"No, that opens next week," Tidus said.
"Oh," Wakka said, again disappointed.
"Besides, it's raining," Lulu pointed out, looking at Wakka as if he was a complete idiot.
"We could go to a movie or go somewhere and do something," Yuna suggested. "Why don't we go play laser tag or something?"
"Laser tag?" asked Tidus thoughtfully, scratching his head.
"We don't have to go," Yuna said quickly.
"No, no," Tidus said. "It's just that I've never done it before. Isn't it where you run around in the dark and shoot people with laser guns?"
"Yeah," Yuna said. "Most of the people there are ten-year-olds and it's kind of kiddie, but it could be fun. It beats paintball because you don't get hurt when you get hit."
"What do you think, guys?" Tidus asked the rest of the group. "Laser tag or a movie?"
"Laser tag," said Rikku. What was more fun than shooting lasers at people?
"Laser tag," said Squall. Maybe he'd get to be on Rikku's team.
"Laser tag," said Wakka. You never know, maybe he could 'accidentally' run into Lulu in the dark. Fun.
Lulu rolled her eyes. "Laser tag, I guess. Like Yuna says, if we can get past the childish part, it could be fun."
"Laser tag it is, but we had better get dressed," Tidus said, gesturing toward Yuna.
"I get the bathroom first!" Yuna called, running it that direction. She reached it first and slammed the door behind her. Tidus sighed and went into his room to change when he heard her turn the shower on.
After twenty minutes of waiting around with nothing to do, Yuna emerged from the bathroom in a baby blue tube top with black jeans. She had grabbed a black jacket from her room and was carrying it on her arm. Tidus couldn't help but notice that she looked incredibly cute.
"What took so long?" Squall complained.
"I had to wash and dry my hair."
Squall rolled his eyes. "Whatever."
Yuna ignored him and said, "We need to split up in three teams of two. It'll be more fun if we all play alone than with two other groups little kids."
The group was silent. Lulu saw Wakka eyeing her, so she quickly spoke up. "I'll be with Rikku."
Both Squall and Wakka's hopes were shattered, as they both wanted to be with their crushes. However, Wakka was wearing his feelings on his sleeve while Squall said, "Wakka and I are together then."
Tidus, who had been planning to be with Squall, was nonetheless happy. Yuna was okay, once you broke through her tough exterior. An inner part of him said that she was pretty hot too, but he ignored it. Their parents were getting married and she didn't think of him that way. He shouldn't think that she was hot. That was wrong. They'd be brother and sister soon. Brothers and sisters didn't think the other was hot. Snapping him out of his reverie was Yuna's voice. "I guess we're together, then."
"Okay," Tidus replied. "Let's go."
***
Once they had arrived at the gaming area in Rikku's dad, Cid's, Suburban, the group paid for an hour session of laser tag. The cashier looked at them strangely, as if he had never seen seventeen-year-olds play laser tag, but Lulu gave him one of her famous icy stares, and he quickly went about his business.
"Why are we only going for an hour?" Rikku whined.
"Because we're going to get lunch afterward," Yuna explained.
"Oh," Rikku said.
They then split up to receive their laser guns and go to the three different entryways to the darkened room in which they would battle it out to the death, or who was going to pay for the pizza they were going to eat for lunch.
Strapping a belt with a device that would detect if she had been hit around her waist, Yuna explained to Tidus, "Since we only have six people, we're playing differently than usual. There's no limit to how many times you're hit. What matters is how many time you hit the people on the other teams. At the end of the hour, the team whose lasers made contact with the most people is the winner. The team with the least hits is the loser. However, the number of time you're team was hit is subtracted from your final score. Loser buys lunch, and considering we're on a budget, we'd better not lose. Rikku is aggressive; Wakka and Squall have great aim, and Lulu will just lean back in the shadows until you come too near. Then she'll pounce. Our team also has an advantage. You play blitzball, so I'm assuming you're aim is good, and I play this all the time and know the layout like the back of my hand."
Tidus was trying to work his mind around all the information she had just given him, and it took him a few seconds to register what she had said. "Wait a minute. Why do you play all the time?"
Yuna looked up at him. "I baby-sit the kids who live next door to my mom and me. We come her all the time out of boredom."
"Oh."
"Okay, so, when we get in there, there will be two pillars. That'll be our safe place where we meet if we need to formulate a plan. Okay?"
"Sure."
Yuna put on her jacket that she had been carrying and zipped it up.
"What's with the dark clothes?" Tidus asked her. "Are you just putting on the jacket because it's cold or what?"
Yuna gave him an exasperated look. "It's camouflage. Are you ready to go?"
She's really into this, Tidus thought. He nodded and put on his belt. Yuna handed him his gun and opened the door.
The silence was deep and complete, uninterrupted. It was dark, except for the neon lights that outlined the two pillars Yuna had told Tidus about. Yuna grabbed Tidus shirt and pulled him toward the left pillar. Whispering in his ear, she said, "Here's our plan. One of us will stay here while another goes out and shoots. When the other comes back, they'll fill the other in on what's going on and send them out. One person will present less of a target for our team. After we've both gone, we'll go together. Sound good?"
"Sure," Tidus said. "Why don't you go first?"
Yuna gave him a wry smile and disappeared in the darkness. Tidus waited, listening for the sizzling sound of lasers in the deep quiet. The air was dead, waiting, holding its breath. ZEEE, ZEEEE, the sound of lasers erupted into the distance, a white fire slicing the air. Tidus closed his eyes, caught up in the game. He wanted nothing more than to go out there and help Yuna, but it was against their plan. Besides, she was a pro. She knew what she was doing. ZEEEE, ZEEEE, ZIP. More lasers went off. There was a faint laughing and Tidus heard Rikku say, "Hey! Yunie, that hurt!"
"That wasn't Yuna," he heard Squall's deep voice say. ZEEE. Squall let out a loud, "HEY!" and Tidus heard the faint laughing again, but this time it was louder, coming closer.
"Who was that?" Squall asked Rikku.
Tidus shut his eyes, trying to control himself. He really wanted to go out there and have fun with the others, but he had agreed to stick with the plan, so he sank to the ground, leaning against the pillar. He was so intent on controlling himself that he didn't hear the approaching footsteps. "Boo," said a voice in his ear. Tidus jumped up, smacking Yuna's chin in the process.
"Ow!" Yuna said angrily, doing her best to keep her voice down.
"Sorry," said Tidus quickly. "I didn't hear you come up. Are you okay?"
Yuna was rubbing her nose, but it was too dark to see if she was bleeding. "I'm fine. All right, if you walk straight you'll run into a cross section with four walls. Rikku's in the middle of the crossfire, Wakka and Squall off to one wall, with, like I said before, Lulu lurking in the shadows. Stay clear of her and move slowly and cautiously. Stay behind one wall and fire away. Try not to get hit too much."
Tidus grinned and said, "You really like this, don't you, Yuna?"
Yuna pushed him out of their safe zone. "On your belly, soldier!"
"Ma'am, yes ma'am," Tidus replied, dropping onto his stomach, saluting her, and crawling forward. Keeping low, he heard the ZEEEs of lasers in battle. He soon came to the section Yuna had told him about. Crouching low behind one wall, Tidus waited for the opportune moment. Peeking out from behind his wall, he saw Rikku standing out in the open, firing at Wakka, saying, "Take that you big meanie!" Squall was laughing his ass off as Wakka tried to dodge Rikku's firing. Making his move, Tidus stood and shot a round of salvos at a hapless Rikku. Just as she was about to fire back, Tidus ducked behind the wall. ZEEE, ZEEE, ZEEE, ZEEE! Several shots went whizzing past his head. "Got her mad," said a voice from behind. Yuna had indeed snuck up on Tidus again.
"You were supposed to wait for me to come back!" Tidus whispered in protest.
Yuna shrugged. "I thought you might want to have a partner in crime."
Tidus saw her glowing smile shine through the dark and didn't have the heart to tell her to go back to her station, like a good soldier should. He just sighed and said, "Okay, let's go."
Like pros, Tidus and Yuna fired simultaneously at Squall, who was recovering from another round of laughter and had dropped his gun. Lulu had emerged from the shadows and was shooting laser after laser at Wakka, who was too mesmerized that Lulu came within five feet of him to do anything. Yuna reverted her blaster fire toward Lulu, whom didn't seem to notice. Meanwhile, Rikku, feeling left out, jumped on Squall and started blinding him with laser flashes to the head. Tidus took his chance and ran up and began firing at Rikku. That's when the lights came on and their time was up. The six collapsed on the ground, exhausted, and laughing hard. After a minute or two, they picked themselves up and filed toward the exit into a small room.
"They're printing up each team's score on a card," Yuna explained.
"That was so much fun!" Rikku said, bouncing up and down. Wakka agreed and Squall nodded. Even Lulu was smiling. Tidus took the liberty to say, "Great idea, Yuna." Yuna beamed.
An employee delivered their cards and showed them the way to the parking lot. On their way out, they compared scores.
Yuna / Tidus - Hits- 608 Hits Taken- 102 Total- 506
Lulu/Rikku - Hits- 784 Hits Taken- 345 Total- 439
Squall/Wakka - Hits- 559 Hits Taken- 442 Total- 117
Tidus almost peed his pants when he saw his best friends' score. "You made a 117! You guys really suck! Yuna and I made a 506!"
Wakka didn't look to happy to have been beaten by a bunch of girls and his best friend. He decided to just be a good sport. "I guess we're buying lunch."
"That'll be three large five-topping pizzas with cheese bread and three two- liter sodas," Lulu said, smirking at the blushing blitzball player.
"I didn't know you were such a pig, Lulu," Yuna said jokingly.
Lulu made a face at Yuna and they all piled in the car on the way to the pizza parlor.
***
After a great lunch of two large pizzas, on one was cheese, the other was meat-lover's, Yuna and Tidus were dropped back off at their house. "Bye Yunie," Rikku had called out the window. "We'll see you tomorrow at school!" School. Seymour went to her school. Tidus seemed to read her thoughts, and walking back into the house, he put his arm around her. "It'll be okay." He said. "I'll stick with you and make sure Seymour doesn't come near you." After they'd entered the house, Yuna faced Tidus.
"I just want it to be over with. I don't ever want to talk to him again."
Tidus opened his mouth to say some general comforting words, but none came. He shut his mouth and it cracked into an evil grin. Pulling Yuna into the kitchen, he picked up the cordless phone. "Look, I have an idea. You want it to be over with, right? So make it that way. Dump him."
"Dump him?" Yuna asked incredulously. "Can I really do that?"
"Sure," Tidus replied. He turned the phone on 'speaker' and said, "I'll be standing right here. Just go ahead and do it."
Yuna didn't look too confident, but she slowly and deliberately dialed Seymour's number. Tidus saw her fingers shaking. Seymour answered after the first ring. His cold voice filled the room, making a shiver go down both Yuna and Tidus's spine.
"Hello." He said it like a statement, so cocky and arrogant, not like most normal people.
"Seymour," Yuna said steadily, even though her whole body was shaking. Tidus placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Ah, Yuna, I've been meaning to call you. There's seems to have been some kind of misunderstanding yesterday. I -"
Yuna cut him off. "There was no misunderstanding, Seymour. You hurt me. I should've done this ages ago. I'm dumping you. There is no more 'we', no more 'us'. It's over."
Seymour's seemingly innocent voice became harsh. "What will everyone at school say, I wonder?"
"Nothing," Yuna answered with equal bitterness. "Not when I tell them that we became just friends after you cheated on me. No one will ever go out with you again, you bastard."
"No one will take you out again when I tell them that you cheated on me."
"Who'll believe you, you filthy liar? Besides, I already have a new boyfriend."
Tidus looked at Yuna with a questioning look.
"Who would be stupid enough to go out with you, Yuna?" Seymour asked.
"Well, you just dissed yourself, ass, because you went out with me. However, that was stupid of me, too. Now I'm going out with someone else."
Dripping with sarcasm, Seymour's voice formed the question, "Who?" Tidus thought he also detected a note of fear in the voice, too.
Yuna paused, glanced at Tidus, and answered, "Tidus Kishimoto."
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Hey guys. Did you like it? Hope so. Sorry if Squall was really OOC. Um, I haven't actually played FFVIII, but I will. Soon. Yeah. The next chapter may take a while because I'm going to be extremely busy this week, so I hope this tides you over. The next chapter will be really fun to write, and what do you think Tidus is going to say? Hmmm.. Anyway, if I messed up the laser tag, forgive me. If you were hoping for them to go to the water park, that may happen. I also think I'll be uploading a new Tidus/Yuna fic soon, so if I do, send me a review and tell me what you think. ^ _ ^ Sorry if this chapter was boring, but I had to get it out of the way to make room for . stuff. Okay, I'm going to go upload this so you can read and review (hint, hint). Until next time, *~Liz~*
This chapter deals with laser tag, a game I played once when I was maybe seven. That was a while ago, and I tried to remember the basic stuff about it, but if I got some of the facts wrong, forgive me. I tried. Okay, hope you enjoy this chapter. Please be sure to review!!
~Chapter Five of Living with the Enemy~
"I need to sleep with you," Yuna repeated.
Tidus, still not fully awake, said, "Um, Yuna? We're not even going out."
Yuna didn't bother to answer him, but just said, "Tidus, he's in my dreams. I.I don't want him to come back."
Suddenly understanding, Tidus got out of his bed and wrapped Yuna in his arms, holding her close. They had been through so much in the pass day, and were closer then ever. "It's going to be okay," he whispered.
Yuna then became aware that he was only wearing his boxers, and she wasn't much better in her bikini. It didn't matter, though. She just wanted Tidus to hold her, to keep her safe, like he had protected her before, keep her away from Seymour.
The two of them stood there for a few minutes, soaking in the security, trying to forget the damage Seymour had wrought. Yuna's cover-up had long faded away, and even in the dark, the bruise around her eye was visible. After what seemed like a lifetime, Tidus pulled away. Gesturing toward his bed, he said, "I think this one is too small for us both to sleep in. Why don't we go into the guest room? It has a queen sized bed."
Something deep inside Yuna was bursting, floating upward and away. He was actually going to do it? He was actually going to sleep with her, a big scared baby? Most guys she knew would have hit her, laughed at her, or tried to force themselves on her. Tidus had not done any of the three, at least, not yet. He could still force himself on her, but she somehow knew that he wouldn't ever do that. What was up? Was there at least one nice guy in the world? Controlling her inner emotions, Yuna softly replied, "Okay," to Tidus's previous question.
The gust room was on the other side of the house. Walking there, Tidus led the way, holding Yuna's hand, tugging Yuna's hand. They passed the front door, and Yuna stopped abruptly. Tidus read her mind. "Don't worry," he said. "I locked it." Yuna's hand, which had grown tense, relaxed once again.
They finally reached the room normally reserved for company and friends. Tidus walked over to the bedside table and turned on the lamp there. In the dim light, Yuna got another look at his abs. A crimson wave of red lit up her face. Fortunately, Tidus was too busy taking the many throw pillows off the bed to notice that she was blushing. Done with the pillows, Tidus pulled back the comforter and climbed in the bed. He was about to turn off the light when he noticed that Yuna wasn't beside him. Propping himself up on his elbow to look at her, he asked, "What's up?" It took a second for his hormones to kick in, but he did notice how incredibly hot she looked in her bathing suit.
Yuna cocked her head to the side and said, "Thanks for doing this. I, well, really appreciate it."
Tidus cracked an award-winning smile at her, and replied, "No prob." Yuna glowed and slid under the covers. The thunderstorm had ceased, but the steady beat of rain still sounded outside. Tidus's breathing had grown relaxed and heavy, having already fallen back asleep. Yuna slowly drifted into slumber to the pitter patter of rain on the window pane. Her last conscious feeling was that of Tidus wrapping his warm arms around her slim waist.
***
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKK!"
Tidus was jerked awake and Yuna's eyes fluttered open to a high- pitched squealing. "Is that the fire alarm?" Yuna murmured sleepily in Tidus's ear, rolling over in his arms to go back to sleep. Tidus, realizing what the noise was, shook her back awake.
"Huh?" Yuna asked groggily. Wordlessly Tidus was pointing at the door frame. Yuna looked in that direction and was suddenly wide awake. "What are you doing here?"
Standing in the door frame were their four best friends, Rikku, Lulu, Squall, and Rikku. None of the girls looked very happy. "I could ask you the same question, Yuna," Lulu said crossly, eyeing the bed. Wakka and Squall, however, seemed happier with the situation before them. "You hooked a chick after one night?" Squall asked in disbelief. Wakka said, "Man, you're my hero!"
Tidus and Yuna realized that they were in a somewhat awkward position and both jumped out of the bed. "It's not what it looks like," Yuna explained. The foursome didn't hear her. The guys were too busy looking at Yuna's figure and Lulu and Rikku were too busy staring daggers at Yuna to notice the guys giving her the once over. "Nice lingerie, Yunie," Rikku said stiffly.
Tidus then jumped in. "Look, nothing happened. All we did was sleep."
Wakka looked disappointed. Squall bothered to ask, "If nothing happened, why is Yuna only wearing a bra and underwear, why are you only wearing boxers, and why were you sleeping in the same bed?"
Tidus was silent. He didn't think that Yuna wanted them to know about Seymour. He was trying to think up a good lie when Yuna answered. "It was the thunderstorm."
"The storm?" Lulu asked.
"Thunder?" Rikku squeaked, getting nervous. "Was there lightning too?"
"Yes," Tidus confirmed, playing along.
"II was scared," Yuna said meekly.
"She wanted me to keep her safe, so we decided to sleep in this room together," Tidus added.
"That still doesn't explain why Yuna's only wearing a bra and underwear," Squall said suspiciously.
Yuna narrowed her eyes. "Look, it's not lingerie. When Rikku was helping me pack my suitcase, she added about five bathing suits as we are about two seconds away from the beach. Yesterday was such a beautiful day, and we decided to go the beach. I fell asleep there and Tidus I guess carried me home. I slept the rest of the day until I was scared by the storm."
Squall still didn't look convinced, but the others seemed to understand, especially Rikku. "I know how you feel Yunie. Lightning scares me more than anything in the world." Yuna managed a weak smile and asked the group, "How did you guys get in the house?"
"Your mom gave us the key, see!" Rikku said holding it up. "She called us all and said as a surprise we should take you to the movies or go do something!"
"She also said that this didn't count as the time we were allowed to come see you this week," Lulu added.
"Of course, she also wanted to see how well you two were getting along," Squall added under his breath.
"Where should we go? It's, like, already getting late, ya?" Wakka stated, checking his watch.
Tidus, who had been quiet, spoke up. "We can watch movies here if you guys can bring DVDs to school for us on Monday. Our parents sort of forgot that a laptop can play movies."
"Yeah, so why don't we go do something fun and active?" Yuna suggested.
Wakka, who had been hoping to snag a seat next to Lulu in the movie theater and was let down when he heard that they weren't going, suddenly perked up. "Why don't we go swimming? Not at the beach," he said quickly, seeing the others bored faces, "but how about at a water park, ya? I hear that they just opened a new water park near our school, complete with water slides!" He was just hoping to see Lulu in a bikini.
"No, that opens next week," Tidus said.
"Oh," Wakka said, again disappointed.
"Besides, it's raining," Lulu pointed out, looking at Wakka as if he was a complete idiot.
"We could go to a movie or go somewhere and do something," Yuna suggested. "Why don't we go play laser tag or something?"
"Laser tag?" asked Tidus thoughtfully, scratching his head.
"We don't have to go," Yuna said quickly.
"No, no," Tidus said. "It's just that I've never done it before. Isn't it where you run around in the dark and shoot people with laser guns?"
"Yeah," Yuna said. "Most of the people there are ten-year-olds and it's kind of kiddie, but it could be fun. It beats paintball because you don't get hurt when you get hit."
"What do you think, guys?" Tidus asked the rest of the group. "Laser tag or a movie?"
"Laser tag," said Rikku. What was more fun than shooting lasers at people?
"Laser tag," said Squall. Maybe he'd get to be on Rikku's team.
"Laser tag," said Wakka. You never know, maybe he could 'accidentally' run into Lulu in the dark. Fun.
Lulu rolled her eyes. "Laser tag, I guess. Like Yuna says, if we can get past the childish part, it could be fun."
"Laser tag it is, but we had better get dressed," Tidus said, gesturing toward Yuna.
"I get the bathroom first!" Yuna called, running it that direction. She reached it first and slammed the door behind her. Tidus sighed and went into his room to change when he heard her turn the shower on.
After twenty minutes of waiting around with nothing to do, Yuna emerged from the bathroom in a baby blue tube top with black jeans. She had grabbed a black jacket from her room and was carrying it on her arm. Tidus couldn't help but notice that she looked incredibly cute.
"What took so long?" Squall complained.
"I had to wash and dry my hair."
Squall rolled his eyes. "Whatever."
Yuna ignored him and said, "We need to split up in three teams of two. It'll be more fun if we all play alone than with two other groups little kids."
The group was silent. Lulu saw Wakka eyeing her, so she quickly spoke up. "I'll be with Rikku."
Both Squall and Wakka's hopes were shattered, as they both wanted to be with their crushes. However, Wakka was wearing his feelings on his sleeve while Squall said, "Wakka and I are together then."
Tidus, who had been planning to be with Squall, was nonetheless happy. Yuna was okay, once you broke through her tough exterior. An inner part of him said that she was pretty hot too, but he ignored it. Their parents were getting married and she didn't think of him that way. He shouldn't think that she was hot. That was wrong. They'd be brother and sister soon. Brothers and sisters didn't think the other was hot. Snapping him out of his reverie was Yuna's voice. "I guess we're together, then."
"Okay," Tidus replied. "Let's go."
***
Once they had arrived at the gaming area in Rikku's dad, Cid's, Suburban, the group paid for an hour session of laser tag. The cashier looked at them strangely, as if he had never seen seventeen-year-olds play laser tag, but Lulu gave him one of her famous icy stares, and he quickly went about his business.
"Why are we only going for an hour?" Rikku whined.
"Because we're going to get lunch afterward," Yuna explained.
"Oh," Rikku said.
They then split up to receive their laser guns and go to the three different entryways to the darkened room in which they would battle it out to the death, or who was going to pay for the pizza they were going to eat for lunch.
Strapping a belt with a device that would detect if she had been hit around her waist, Yuna explained to Tidus, "Since we only have six people, we're playing differently than usual. There's no limit to how many times you're hit. What matters is how many time you hit the people on the other teams. At the end of the hour, the team whose lasers made contact with the most people is the winner. The team with the least hits is the loser. However, the number of time you're team was hit is subtracted from your final score. Loser buys lunch, and considering we're on a budget, we'd better not lose. Rikku is aggressive; Wakka and Squall have great aim, and Lulu will just lean back in the shadows until you come too near. Then she'll pounce. Our team also has an advantage. You play blitzball, so I'm assuming you're aim is good, and I play this all the time and know the layout like the back of my hand."
Tidus was trying to work his mind around all the information she had just given him, and it took him a few seconds to register what she had said. "Wait a minute. Why do you play all the time?"
Yuna looked up at him. "I baby-sit the kids who live next door to my mom and me. We come her all the time out of boredom."
"Oh."
"Okay, so, when we get in there, there will be two pillars. That'll be our safe place where we meet if we need to formulate a plan. Okay?"
"Sure."
Yuna put on her jacket that she had been carrying and zipped it up.
"What's with the dark clothes?" Tidus asked her. "Are you just putting on the jacket because it's cold or what?"
Yuna gave him an exasperated look. "It's camouflage. Are you ready to go?"
She's really into this, Tidus thought. He nodded and put on his belt. Yuna handed him his gun and opened the door.
The silence was deep and complete, uninterrupted. It was dark, except for the neon lights that outlined the two pillars Yuna had told Tidus about. Yuna grabbed Tidus shirt and pulled him toward the left pillar. Whispering in his ear, she said, "Here's our plan. One of us will stay here while another goes out and shoots. When the other comes back, they'll fill the other in on what's going on and send them out. One person will present less of a target for our team. After we've both gone, we'll go together. Sound good?"
"Sure," Tidus said. "Why don't you go first?"
Yuna gave him a wry smile and disappeared in the darkness. Tidus waited, listening for the sizzling sound of lasers in the deep quiet. The air was dead, waiting, holding its breath. ZEEE, ZEEEE, the sound of lasers erupted into the distance, a white fire slicing the air. Tidus closed his eyes, caught up in the game. He wanted nothing more than to go out there and help Yuna, but it was against their plan. Besides, she was a pro. She knew what she was doing. ZEEEE, ZEEEE, ZIP. More lasers went off. There was a faint laughing and Tidus heard Rikku say, "Hey! Yunie, that hurt!"
"That wasn't Yuna," he heard Squall's deep voice say. ZEEE. Squall let out a loud, "HEY!" and Tidus heard the faint laughing again, but this time it was louder, coming closer.
"Who was that?" Squall asked Rikku.
Tidus shut his eyes, trying to control himself. He really wanted to go out there and have fun with the others, but he had agreed to stick with the plan, so he sank to the ground, leaning against the pillar. He was so intent on controlling himself that he didn't hear the approaching footsteps. "Boo," said a voice in his ear. Tidus jumped up, smacking Yuna's chin in the process.
"Ow!" Yuna said angrily, doing her best to keep her voice down.
"Sorry," said Tidus quickly. "I didn't hear you come up. Are you okay?"
Yuna was rubbing her nose, but it was too dark to see if she was bleeding. "I'm fine. All right, if you walk straight you'll run into a cross section with four walls. Rikku's in the middle of the crossfire, Wakka and Squall off to one wall, with, like I said before, Lulu lurking in the shadows. Stay clear of her and move slowly and cautiously. Stay behind one wall and fire away. Try not to get hit too much."
Tidus grinned and said, "You really like this, don't you, Yuna?"
Yuna pushed him out of their safe zone. "On your belly, soldier!"
"Ma'am, yes ma'am," Tidus replied, dropping onto his stomach, saluting her, and crawling forward. Keeping low, he heard the ZEEEs of lasers in battle. He soon came to the section Yuna had told him about. Crouching low behind one wall, Tidus waited for the opportune moment. Peeking out from behind his wall, he saw Rikku standing out in the open, firing at Wakka, saying, "Take that you big meanie!" Squall was laughing his ass off as Wakka tried to dodge Rikku's firing. Making his move, Tidus stood and shot a round of salvos at a hapless Rikku. Just as she was about to fire back, Tidus ducked behind the wall. ZEEE, ZEEE, ZEEE, ZEEE! Several shots went whizzing past his head. "Got her mad," said a voice from behind. Yuna had indeed snuck up on Tidus again.
"You were supposed to wait for me to come back!" Tidus whispered in protest.
Yuna shrugged. "I thought you might want to have a partner in crime."
Tidus saw her glowing smile shine through the dark and didn't have the heart to tell her to go back to her station, like a good soldier should. He just sighed and said, "Okay, let's go."
Like pros, Tidus and Yuna fired simultaneously at Squall, who was recovering from another round of laughter and had dropped his gun. Lulu had emerged from the shadows and was shooting laser after laser at Wakka, who was too mesmerized that Lulu came within five feet of him to do anything. Yuna reverted her blaster fire toward Lulu, whom didn't seem to notice. Meanwhile, Rikku, feeling left out, jumped on Squall and started blinding him with laser flashes to the head. Tidus took his chance and ran up and began firing at Rikku. That's when the lights came on and their time was up. The six collapsed on the ground, exhausted, and laughing hard. After a minute or two, they picked themselves up and filed toward the exit into a small room.
"They're printing up each team's score on a card," Yuna explained.
"That was so much fun!" Rikku said, bouncing up and down. Wakka agreed and Squall nodded. Even Lulu was smiling. Tidus took the liberty to say, "Great idea, Yuna." Yuna beamed.
An employee delivered their cards and showed them the way to the parking lot. On their way out, they compared scores.
Yuna / Tidus - Hits- 608 Hits Taken- 102 Total- 506
Lulu/Rikku - Hits- 784 Hits Taken- 345 Total- 439
Squall/Wakka - Hits- 559 Hits Taken- 442 Total- 117
Tidus almost peed his pants when he saw his best friends' score. "You made a 117! You guys really suck! Yuna and I made a 506!"
Wakka didn't look to happy to have been beaten by a bunch of girls and his best friend. He decided to just be a good sport. "I guess we're buying lunch."
"That'll be three large five-topping pizzas with cheese bread and three two- liter sodas," Lulu said, smirking at the blushing blitzball player.
"I didn't know you were such a pig, Lulu," Yuna said jokingly.
Lulu made a face at Yuna and they all piled in the car on the way to the pizza parlor.
***
After a great lunch of two large pizzas, on one was cheese, the other was meat-lover's, Yuna and Tidus were dropped back off at their house. "Bye Yunie," Rikku had called out the window. "We'll see you tomorrow at school!" School. Seymour went to her school. Tidus seemed to read her thoughts, and walking back into the house, he put his arm around her. "It'll be okay." He said. "I'll stick with you and make sure Seymour doesn't come near you." After they'd entered the house, Yuna faced Tidus.
"I just want it to be over with. I don't ever want to talk to him again."
Tidus opened his mouth to say some general comforting words, but none came. He shut his mouth and it cracked into an evil grin. Pulling Yuna into the kitchen, he picked up the cordless phone. "Look, I have an idea. You want it to be over with, right? So make it that way. Dump him."
"Dump him?" Yuna asked incredulously. "Can I really do that?"
"Sure," Tidus replied. He turned the phone on 'speaker' and said, "I'll be standing right here. Just go ahead and do it."
Yuna didn't look too confident, but she slowly and deliberately dialed Seymour's number. Tidus saw her fingers shaking. Seymour answered after the first ring. His cold voice filled the room, making a shiver go down both Yuna and Tidus's spine.
"Hello." He said it like a statement, so cocky and arrogant, not like most normal people.
"Seymour," Yuna said steadily, even though her whole body was shaking. Tidus placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Ah, Yuna, I've been meaning to call you. There's seems to have been some kind of misunderstanding yesterday. I -"
Yuna cut him off. "There was no misunderstanding, Seymour. You hurt me. I should've done this ages ago. I'm dumping you. There is no more 'we', no more 'us'. It's over."
Seymour's seemingly innocent voice became harsh. "What will everyone at school say, I wonder?"
"Nothing," Yuna answered with equal bitterness. "Not when I tell them that we became just friends after you cheated on me. No one will ever go out with you again, you bastard."
"No one will take you out again when I tell them that you cheated on me."
"Who'll believe you, you filthy liar? Besides, I already have a new boyfriend."
Tidus looked at Yuna with a questioning look.
"Who would be stupid enough to go out with you, Yuna?" Seymour asked.
"Well, you just dissed yourself, ass, because you went out with me. However, that was stupid of me, too. Now I'm going out with someone else."
Dripping with sarcasm, Seymour's voice formed the question, "Who?" Tidus thought he also detected a note of fear in the voice, too.
Yuna paused, glanced at Tidus, and answered, "Tidus Kishimoto."
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Hey guys. Did you like it? Hope so. Sorry if Squall was really OOC. Um, I haven't actually played FFVIII, but I will. Soon. Yeah. The next chapter may take a while because I'm going to be extremely busy this week, so I hope this tides you over. The next chapter will be really fun to write, and what do you think Tidus is going to say? Hmmm.. Anyway, if I messed up the laser tag, forgive me. If you were hoping for them to go to the water park, that may happen. I also think I'll be uploading a new Tidus/Yuna fic soon, so if I do, send me a review and tell me what you think. ^ _ ^ Sorry if this chapter was boring, but I had to get it out of the way to make room for . stuff. Okay, I'm going to go upload this so you can read and review (hint, hint). Until next time, *~Liz~*