Hahaha. You guys don't honestly think I wouldn't make a translated version, did you? Yes, I'm cruel for not telling anyone. But, I am also kind for making one in the first place. Hopefully no one got too irked and fed up before they found this!

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Discaimer: Square Enix owns Spira. I, however, only own Oriyn, Aure, and Edan. And various other persons I may chose to create. Thanks!

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"If the Al Bhed had built that city, it would not have fallen." The boy said, looking irritated.

The little blond girl named Aure smacked the boy's head and scowled. "Don't be stupid, Oriyn. I don't want to live in a place where I could drown everyday."

The brother--Oriyn-- grinned. "Then why do you spend all of your time at the Oasis with Edan?"

She blushed. "Shut up, you...you peeper!"

The other side of the Moonflow loomed ahead.

"Excited to see Edan again, sister?" The brother said to the sister. She frowned at him.

"Shut up, stupid." She murmured, watching the land creep in closer and closer.

"You like him, don't you?" Oriyn persisted.

"Of course not. We're just friends."

He smiled. "Alright. I'll tell him that."

Her eyes widened. "You better not, Oriyn!"

Oriyn chuckled.

Their mother glanced over at the station ahead and turned to them. "Be kind to your sister, Oriyn. Aure..." she paused. "er, don't call your brother names."

"Yes, mother." The brother and sister said in unison, tiredly.

"Good." The mother smiled. "We'll arrive Home shortly."

As soon as their mother turned away, Oriyn laughed.

Aure muttured quietly, "Stupid."

Ten years later...

Bikanel couldn't get any hotter than it was in this day. Sweat beaded on Aure's forehead as she sat by the Oasis, tempted to just jump in. But she had to return in just a few moments...

Oh well!

She peeled off her skimpy dress and jumped in. Goosebumps ran across her bare skin from the contact with the cool water. But she savored the cold. It was rare to feel the cold in Bikanel other than from the ice in their drinks. Of course, you could always count Edan giving Aure the cold shoulder a constant thing.

He was just being a plain old jerk. Fine, he could do whatever he wanted. As if she cared.

But, unfortunately, she did.

Once she broke through the water's surface, she sighed.

It was like he forgot that they'd been friends since they were little. It isn't like he'd been mean to her or anything. Just like they weren't close. And they were close! Or had he forgotten that...?

Yeah, whatever. There is no way someone could forget something like that.

She'd just have to wait it out then. Like it was just a phase that anyone went through. Or like it was a storm that was raining all over her parade.

It didn't help that Oriyn wasn't showing a sign of sympathy. But, then, what did she expect? For him to let her to cry all over his shoulder? He was her brother, after all.

Besides, she hadn't cried over this matter once.

If Edan wanted to act childish, then far be it from Aure's power to stop him.

Like she said, she'd just wait it out.

Satisfied, she got out of the water and shook of the water. She'd worry about it later.

After getting dressed and collecting her things, she made her way back to Home.

Aure dumped her things on the floor after getting her pay for the week. 20 gil. 20 gil! Screw that.

She tugged put on her belt holding her pouch full of potions and tools and headed out of her room. Oriyn was standing in the hall taking a long drag from his cigarette. He glanced over at her.

"What's up?" He asked casually with a lazy smile.

"I'm going to Luca to get some real money." She informed him, walking past him.

"Try not to whore yourself out to anyone!" He called after her.

"Go fuck yourself since no one else will touch you!" Aure called back, blushing at his statement.

As if.

He was the whore of the family--not her.

*o*

Luca was packed. Aure had no trouble finding odd jobs on a day like this. After sweeping some old lady's attic and getting her paws on 300 gil, she rested at a bar.

It was getting pretty late.

As soon as she stepped in she stopped.

"Edan?"

Edan looked up from the beer he had been nursing. God, even looking slightly disheveled like he did, he was still delicious...

Friends. You're friends, idiot.

It was ridiculous how many times in a day she had to remind herself that.

Still, with that messy black hair of his that was so uncommon among the Al Bhed, that showed off his beautiful emerald eyes, and that toned but not ridiculous physique, it was no wonder that girls loved him.

And he never looked so shocked when one called his name.

Edan fell from the stool, and tried to hide under the bar. If he wasn't running from her, she might have found that adorable.

She walked over to him, placed her hands on her hips and leaned over to look at him accusingly.

"You've been avoiding me." It wasn't a question, because she knew that he was.

"Sorry?" He replied weakly, swallowing heavily.

Sorry. Was he an idiot? Well, she wondered if she just asked herself a stupid question. Obviously he was an idiot. At least, he was now.

"It isn't nice to avoid someone. Especially your friend." Sighing, Aure knelt down to him, placing her hand on his forehead to check if he was running a fever. Or if he was drunk. He never could hold his alcohol.

His eyes did look a little glazed over...

"So she didn't..." He murmured, eyes travelling her face wildly.

Okay, so she had to smile at that.

He was nuts.

"Come on, Edan. I'll take you home. You need to sleep."

He shook his head, making strands of dark hair fly about.

"No, no. I'm fine, Aure, really." And there he was giving her the cold shoulder, again.

He stood up, dodging around her body. And that was the impressive thing about a drunk Edan. He could walk perfectly, so at a distance you could never tell he had been drinking. If you were Aure on the other hand, you'd know from the weird things he said. He lost his word filter while drunk, just spouting whatever he thought. And, of course, he always had those glazed over eyes. The cool thing, though, is that he never got the nasty breath that came along with drinking. So it was easy to mistake drunk Edan with a lunatic.

"Edan, wait a fucking minute!" Aure called after him and caught up with him. "You'll hurt yourself."

"No I won't." Edan countered, trying to run away.

"Fine, you asked for it, dammit." Aure hit him--hard--in the back of his head. He was unconcious in a second flat. She smiled and dragged him toward the airship she borrowed, only feeling slightly guilty.

*o*

She watched drowsily as Edan came to on his bed.

"Hey, sleepy drunk." Aure said, smiling at him.

"Aure?" His voice was rough with sleep. "Goddamn, my head is killing me."

She grimaced. "Sorry 'bout that. It was necessary."

"Right."He countered, glaring. "Why the fuck are you in my room, anyway?"

"Ouch. That hurt. I'm here to make sure you don't kill yourself. Maybe I should have gotten Oriyn to watch over you--though, I'm sure he wouldn't do it since he's such a self-centered bastard--since you aren't avoiding him."

"Yeah, well, I wouldn't have to ignore you," Edan retorted, "if you'd learn to wear some clothes."

Okay. Well, she wasn't expecting that.

"Um, Edan, I don't know if your eyes have become x-rays but I sort of am wearing clothing."

He rolled his eyes. "Not enough."

"Since when are you the one who decides what I wear?" Aure huffed.

"Since I--along with all the other perverted men in this joint--am the one looking." He frowned irritably, looking her up and down.

Wow. She raised her eyebrows.

Then she grinned. "Someone's drunk, huh?"

"Shut up, Aure." He groaned, covering his arms over his face so his voice was muffled. "And get the fuck out of my room while you're at it."

The fact that his voice was muffled made Aure not take him serious. He was just so cute.

She giggled and sat on the bed with him, tucking herself under the covers with him.

"Someone's cranky." She teased him, pulling his arms from his face.

He jumped, surprised to find his annoyance right beside him. "I'm serious, Aure. Stop it."

She laughed. "You've got a rather large stick up your ass, eh, Edan?"

"Or I've got an annoying girl in my bed." He mumbled, turning on his side, away from her.

Aure smiled and hugged him. "Never stopped you before."

She felt the shiver go up his spine and she felt a little guilty--like how you felt when you squish an insect.

"Get off of me, Aure." He demanded in a constricted voice.

"No."

He tilted his head back, the nape of his neck touching the top of his head and he gave a barely audible groan.

She tightened her grip on him, snuggling up as close as she could, hands grabbing fistfuls of his shirt.

"You feel so good." He whispered. "But get off of me."

Shaking her head, protesting again. It was too good. She couldn't stop now.

"Fine." He spat and ripped her arms off of him, easily.

When did he get so strong?

But whatever. She'd stop holding on to him like a parasite. But she'd tell him about it later. His secret little attraction for her. Aure smiled, thinking about it. She was glad that she wasn't the only one thinking impure thoughts toward a friend.

He sat on the edge of his bed, breathing in slowly. "You gonna leave?"

"Nope." She yawned and stretched out on his bed, long blond hair fanning out across the bed. "But you wanna give me a goodnight kiss first?"

It was a joke, really, so of course she was shocked when she felt warm and soft lips pressing down on hers--a pretty large contrast, considering it was a hard kiss--but she took it in stride, kissing him back.

"Aure." He murmured against her lips, pressing his body down--hard, once more--so she could feel just what was going on underneath his jeans.

"Edan." She moaned.

He slid his hand up her thigh, playing with the hem of her dress.

She smiled against his lips, and--impressively--detangled herself.

"I only asked for a kiss." She informed him, laughing.

"Shut up." Edan demanded, completely serious. He caught her lips again. "I can't stop, even if I wanted to."

Fear and lust coiled in her stomach as Edan practically tore her dress off of her, throwing it somewhere else in the room.

Edan lifted himself up to look at her, and it excited her to see him look at her like that. Hungry.

"I saw you at the Oasis today. I never thought that a woman could look so..." he ran a hand down her smooth and flat tan stomach. "perfect."

Shivers tingled through her body.

"Edan...?" Aure whimpered.

"Just relax." He kissed her stomach, moving slowly downwards.

"But Edan, I-I can't."

He looked up at her and smiled softly. "Was there any question that this would happen between us?"

No. There really wasn't. Aure had known that if there was anyone she wanted to love in her life, it would be Edan. So why not now?

"But..." She tried again, weakly.

Someone cleared their throat in the doorway and Aure pushed Edan away, flustered.

Edan instantly looked pissed off.

"Mind to tell me what you're doing to my sister?" Oriyn asked, still as nonchalantly as ever with one of his fucking cigarettes hanging out of his mouth. But Aure knew that despite how much of an ass her brother was, he was pretty frickin protective.

"I got a snake bite and he was sucking the venom out...?" She tried.

Oriyn snorted and sauntered in like he owned the place. "I might have believed that if you didn't make it sound like a question." He paused and retrieved Aure's dress from the corner of the room. "And if I didn't hear the moaning from the hall. Otherwise, that excuse was pretty solid."

"What do you care?" Edan snapped, scowling.

Oriyn threw the dress at Aure and met Edan's scowling face with a blank one. "Well, I don't care if you're interested in my sister or not. Problem is, is that you're drunk and probably won't remember it in the morning. And because I have a teensy problem with a man seeking out to deflower my sister when they just want something to cum into." He shrugged. "My sister isn't a whore."

"Fine time you finally recognize that." Aure muttered, jumping from the bed giving the glowering Edan an apologetic look.

"So, the moral of my lecture is that I'd rather you ask my sister if she'd like you to fuck her when you're sober. And if this'll be more than a one-night stand." Oriyn finally showed some emotion, cracking a smile. "See you tomorrow, bud."

Oriyn pulled Aure out into the hall, slamming the door. He smiled at her. "I knew that you liked him."

"Do not." She argued, walking to her room.

"No, you do!" He protested, walking alongside her. "I knew it since we were kids. God, you've got the hots for Edan."

Oriyn chuckled, shaking his head.

"Even if I did, what's so bad about it?"

"Oh, it isn't bad." Another fit of laughter escaped his lips. "It's just funny."

"Why's that?" She asked cautiously.

"Because, he's been shooing boys away from you all his life."

"What?"

"Yeah," he shook his head, still grinning. "and you wanna know why?"

"Why?"

He snickered. "Because he chose you in an arranged marriage, dummy."

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