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[gone_byebye]

The door opens, as has happened so many times before, onto a grey-walled alley. Ray pokes his head out and looks around. "Okay," he says. "We should be all right- come on out, guys."

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[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

:O!

Obviously that's what she deserves in return then.

Possibly along with, "Nyaaaah."

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

The waitress rolls her eyes, plunking down two bowls of spicy noodles.

"Just kiss already," she mutters as she walks away.




And now we're blushing.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

Tidus will join her in blushing. Not near as much, thankfully, and he's tan enough what is there is harder to notice.

But he'll also grin. A little.

And--

Wakka would kill him.

Lulu would fry him.

He's not sure Kimarhi might not eat him




Dammit.

He's sneaking a look at her over their noodles anyway.

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

Yuna is studying her noodles! Thoroughly! A lot!

Chopsticks; twirl twirl twirl.

(There's so much he doesn't know about her world, about her, and it wouldn't be fair to him. And there's Lulu, and Auron, and what they'd say, and they'd be right, because her pilgrimage is important, the most important thing, and anyway it wouldn't be fair to him, and anyway if she were going to--anything--there's Lord Seymour, too, a maester and a great summoner and --and she never, never expects to, never expected to--)

Bite. Chew. Swallow.

"It's good," she says, her voice high and a little strained.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

They're very exciting noodles, Tidus is sure.

Tidus is still looking at Yuna, rather than either his noodles or hers, but he will totally believe they're exciting.

"It is!" He winces a little, because he's pretty certain his own voice is higher than it should be.

The waitress refills his glass and he covers what he thinks must be the definition of awkward silence by a long drink.

"So. Uh. Funny waitress."

Wait. He didn't want to say that.

"--How's your lemon?"

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

She bites it.









"...sour."

Genius.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

Dammit.

She's cute.

Dammit.

"Lemons do that."

...Right, so now he can not worry about a Ronso eating him or not, because he's going to bang his head against a rock enough tonight to take care of the problem all together.

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

...oh, Light.

He makes her laugh.

Oh, Light.

It really is good, familiar and new at the same time, and she twirls up another helping. "Where do you want to go after we eat? We still have plenty of time, don't we?"

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

"Sure we do. And wherever you want! You're the Lady Summoner. We could go anywhere."

Tidus feels like he has enough energy to see all of New York, really.

"Shopping?"

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

Yuna does not get any less cute when her face lights up.

Just sayin'.


"We could look, at least!" She's not sure about spending the money, even if it's going on a tab. "I bet there's all kinds of amazing things to buy here."

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

"You have to get a souvenir, right?"

People talked about them in Luca. He figures another world deserves getting one from!

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

"If we can find something that isn't too expensive," she says, falsely reluctant.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

"Awww, come on. It's not like we'll run out of fiends to kill! We can always get more."

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

Fiends like to hoard money. Sometimes in their stomachs.

"Mm," Yuna says thoughtfully, with a mouthful of pad thai.



"This is so good."

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

"We'll get some from Bar. Maybe we can get it to take back with us to Spira!"

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

"How would we explain it?"

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

"Uh.





"We found a really rare fiend?"

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

"EW!"


Yuna pushes her plate away. It's mostly finished, anyway.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

This would be Tidus, snickering at her.

"You know it's not!"

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

"But I'm thinking about it, now."

No one give Yuna flan.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

"If you're not going to finish it, can I have it?" he grins.

Tidus isn't bothered.

"Besides, you drank bubble tea."

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

"You ruin everything." Yuna shoves her plate at him sulkily.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I've gotten that before," he says cheerfully and attacks her plate with chopsticks.

"Fine. We won't get any from Bar for you."

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

"We really shouldn't take too much back from the bar or otherworlds, you know," she says, taking on her "I'm the summoner and I know what's best," tone. "There's no way we could explain it. And I'm not sure what would be worse--if Auron and Lulu didn't believe us, or they did. They'd definitely forbid me to go again. You're not even armed."

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

Tidus looks up skeptically.

"So don't tell them."

The "I'm the summoner and I know what's best" tone never stops him from trying to convince her.

"Or don't take back, you know. Big things."

Tidus sees not reason Yuna couldn't hide--well, a hell of a lot, really, in her sleeves.