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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]

"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.

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

"If they find us with fresh-cooked food in the middle of the Mushroom Rock Road, they're going to know we went somewhere," she points out.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

"Keep it in a pocket and eat it when no one's around."

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

Yuna looks down at the dish of coiled noodles in sauce, and then back up at Tidus. "That's disgusting."

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

He grins.

"You're picky."

It's cute.




Not cute, dammit. Not cute.

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

"Pockets full of noodles!"

Tidus is ridiculous and immature and there's no way anything could ever happen between them.

Crisis thusly averted, Yuna looks around for the waitress to get their check.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

Tidus looks at her.

Tries not to laugh.

And points out, "You can put it in a container," before pulling some of the bills from Bar out and looking through them.

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

Shut up, Tidus. "They have numbers on them," she says. "Here, I'll do it." She fishes out her own money.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

Tidus is just smirking.

And draining the glass again. Get all he can before they go!

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

The check is kind of alarming, for Yuna; the exchange rate is not as good as she might have hoped.

Also, tipping does not exist in Spira.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, it does in Zanarkand, and Tidus leaves a few of the smaller bills on the table as he opens the door (gallant, he thinks, that's what he is, whereas certain maesters are slimey) for Yuna.

[night-hibiscus.livejournal.com]

And they're walking again, Yuna once more pulling up her hood against the sleet.

She really likes this coat, she finds. She also finds she doesn't have anything to say, so she just walks along, humming to herself.

She does not take Tidus's hand. It's all weird, now.

[his-fathers-sin.livejournal.com]

It's kinda weird.

But he's in a good mood anyway, and grinning.

And whistles after a few minutes, a little in tune with Yuna's humming.

He does not take her hand.

But he does look at her out of the corner of his eye.