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SINS OF OUR FATHERS

Chapter Three: Vacations and Incarcerations

To put things simply, it hadn’t gone as well as she had hoped, and her hopes had never been especially high.

“Yuna,” her father said in his ‘disciplining voice’, “I thought that we had agreed upon your marrying Isaaru by next summer. What happened?”

“Well,” Yuna explained, desperately trying to find words to make her father understand. “I thought that it would be better, if I ended things with Isaaru. I wasn’t happy with him. We are very different people; it would never have worked in the long run.”

Braska sighed and took a seat. They were in his personal office, after dinner had ended, his daughter had given him the news that she had ended her on-and-off relationship with Isaaru. This frustrated Braska to no end, he had tried for a whole year to get them into something that resembled a stable relationship. He had even started marriage negotiations with Isaaru’s father. He shook his head; he couldn’t understand what his daughter was thinking! “Yuna,” he said at last, “You know I want you to be happy, reallyI do, but, I also want you to be safe and secure, and that’s what Isaaru and his family would provide for you. Can’t you understand that?”

Yuna looked down at her feet for a moment before replying, “I know dad, and I appreciate your concern but... it’s not security that I want, its love. And that is something I was never going to find with Isaaru.”

Braska’s eyes hardened at her words, they had struck their intended cords. “Love is not practical.” He said. “However I will give you a chance to take your own future in your hands. You know I am holding a large party for all our friends and neighbouring cities, you have up until then to find someone, or you can choose someone there. If you cannot find someone suitable however," his eyes looked directly into hers to make clear that his point was to be taken seriously, "I will.”

Yuna’s eyes grew large, the party was only in a week, “But father...” she started.

“No Yuna,” he said firmly folding his hands and starring at her from across his large desk, “End of discussion.”

And she knew that it was. Tears welled up in her eyes and she turned around swiftly and left the room, leaving her father alone in his office.

As she was running through the winding hallways of her home, her head was full of thoughts waring against each other. Why was this happening to her! She was only 18 years old, why did she have to get married! It just wasn't fair! She burst into her room and ran straight past Lulu.

“Yuna what’s wr...”

She didn’t wait to hear what Lulu was asking; she headed straight for her bathroom and locked the door. She leaned her back up against it and slid to the ground slowly. It took a moment but she finally gave way completely to the tears, burying her face in her arms and sobbing uncontrollably.

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“Hey kid,” said a loud voice, “Kid wake up, it’s time to get off the train.”
“Kid?”

Mumbles were all that he got for an answer, so the steward finally decided it was time to take matters more into his hands. He grabbed the blonde kid by the edges of his yellow shirt. He then started shaking him and yelling, “Wake up!”

“Ahhh,” the kid started yelling, “Get off me!” His fists began flailing around wildly and one of them just happened to connect with the steward’s face. He went flying back and landed on the floor.

The blonde kid’s eyes widened as he became more aware of reality and what had just happened, “Uhh...” he said with a little bit of an embarrassed stutter, “Sorry about that. Were you uhh... trying to tell me something?”

“Trains... in... Besaid,” the steward wheezed, “Time... to... get... off.”

“Oh!” the blonde said cheerfully, forgetting all about what had just happened. “Thanks, I’ll see ya later!” He exited the Lift-Train, leaving the poor steward to recuperate.

Tidus closed his eyes and breathed in deeply. The fresh tropical air of Besaid Island filled his nostrils and lungs. He exhaled happily and opened his eyes, the white san glistened, and the water was clear and beckoning. He decided he was going to take a short swim in the water before going to see Wakka and Chappu in the village. He ran straight into the water and dove in head first. Once he surfaced again he shook his head and rubbed the water out of his eyes. The sun was shining bright overhead, he was as far away from his farther as he could get, nothing could ruin this day!

WHAM

“Ouch!” Tidus yelled as something hard hit him in the head, “What’s the big idea...” he started to say, rubbing his head and looking for the object that had bounced off of it.

There it was in the water, a blue and white orb floating near him, at seeing it he smiled and grabbed a hold of it. Holding it in his hand he grinned impishly, and closed his eyes again. He threw it with all his might back on to the shore, and heard it connect with something, or rather, someone.

“Ahhh,” yelled a tall, red-headed man standing on the shore, his thick island accent made it simple for Tidus to tell who it was, “Watch where you shoot that thing, you coulda knocked out something important, ya?”

“Maybe you should watch where you shoot it too Wakka,” he said with a grin, rubbing his head again.

“Not really, there wasn’t anything important where I was aiming,” Wakka retorted, “Just a bunch of fluff and blonde hair.”

Tidus just laughed and started walking back in to shore. “Where’s Chappu?” he asked.

“Ahh, you know him,” Wakka said with a snort, “Probably chasing around some tourist girls in the village, telling them he’s the main attraction of Besaid, ya?”

Tidus shook his head, it was probably true.

Wakka slapped an arm on Tidus’ back when he got close enough. “It’s good to see ya!” he exclaimed, “What’s it been, six months?”

“Something like that,” he replied.

“Why don’t we take a walk around the island, and then go see what kind of trouble Chappu has gotten into, ya?”

“Sounds like a plan.”

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Knock

“Yuna?”

Knock

“Yuna, answer me! Are you alright, you’ve been in there for hours.”

“Go away! I don’t want to talk to anyone!”

“You need to eat something, come on out, please?”

“No.”

Lulu sighed in frustration, she heard Yuna stop crying hours ago but she still refused to come out. Quite frankly she was running out of options. She was pretty sure she knew why Yuna was in there, but she wouldn’t know all of it until she decided to come out. There wasn’t much to do but wait... or was there. At last Lulu thought of someone who might be able to coax Yuna out of her bathroom incarceration.

She didn’t know what she was doing in the bathroom still, but she just knew she didn’t want to come out. Coming out meant facing what her father had said, and she really didn’t want to do that. How am I going to find someone that I want to marry in a week? She thought, least of all at a party! Her life just seemed to be getting worse and worse. Maybe I should go talk to Lulu; maybe she could help me think of what to do? But no, she doubted that she could. Lulu was a good friend but, sometimes it was hard to make her understand things, especially when it came to matters of practicality vs. emotion. There was only one person who might be able to help her think of something.

“Yunie?” a tentative voice said from the other end of the door.

Yuna smiled and stood, “Rikku?” she asked.

“Yeah, it’s me,” Rikku said cheerfully, and then more seriously, “Want to come out and talk? Or maybe I could come in there with you?”

“Yes,” Yuna said after a moment’s consideration and unlatched the door. Through it came a girl about the same height as Yuna, with long blonde hair tied up in a pony-tail and held back with a blue bandana. Her spiral green eyes looked concerned but retained their ever-cheerful nature. Rikku was Yuna’s best friend, and the only relative that she had ever really felt close to. Rikku’s dad had been her mother’s older brother, making Yuna and Rikku cousins.

Rikku shut the door behind her, and then turned to face Yuna again, “So what happened Yunie?”

“Well,” Yuna hesitated, hating to have to repeat such depressing news. So she relayed it as painlessly as possible to Rikku, as her cousin listened attentively. After it was done Rikku wrinkled her nose and said, “Gee, I didn’t know your dad was so serious on the whole getting married thing.”

Yuna sighed, “I know, I really don’t know what to do.” She rested her head on her cousins shoulder, “Got any brilliant suggestions.”

Rikku was quiet for a moment and then said, “Well there is always Brother.”

At that Yuna gasped, and slapped Rikku in the arm, trying to hide laughter, “Hey that’s not funny!” she said sticking out her tongue, “Your poor brother just doesn’t seem to realize I’m not exactly interested, and that doesn’t count as a suggestion by the way.”

Rikku giggled and thought, “Well, I can see if Gippal can bring some friends to the party, I’m sure Uncle Braska won’t mind, and some of them might be better than all those stuck-up rich boys who are likely to be there.”

Gippal was Rikku’s boyfriend, and Yuna didn’t mind him, so maybe his friends would be alright. Certainly better than anyone who would be attending the party from her father’s guest list. She nodded, “I guess but, I still am not happy about this. It’s not fair, who says I even want to get married!” The thought of not being able to control her life made her angry again and she punched the door of the bathroom. “It just makes me so mad!”

Rikku stared at her wide-eyed, never seeing her cousin quite so angry. “It’ll be okay Yunie, we’ll figure out something if the situation gets desperate.”

Yuna sighed, the situation already seemed desperate, but she knew Rikku was only trying to consol her. Maybe everything would be okay. Yuna just had to have faith that it would all turn out alright.

“Thanks Rikku,” she said.

“No prob cuz,” she replied, “Moral support! That’s what I’m here for!”

At this both Yuna and Rikku laughed.

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“Hey Chappu,” Wakka called as he and Tidus entered Besaid Village. They spotted the young man with two flustered looking girls. The red-head had a flirtatious expression on his face, and winked at them before saying goodbye and walking over to his brother and his friend.
Tidus eyed up the girls, and then turned back to Chappu, “First catch of the season?” he teased.

“First of many,” Chappu replied with a smirk, giving Tidus a welcoming punch on the shoulder. “It’s good to see ya!”

“It’s good to be here.”

“So brudda,” Wakka said turning from his brother to Tidus, “What you got planned for your stay here?”

“Well I wasn’t really sure, have you guys got anything fun to do?”

A smirk came over Chappu’s face, “Well, since you asked,” He said mischievously, “I just got a transmission from Gippal; it seems some big party is goin’ down in Bevelle. What you boys say we go check it out.”

At first the party sounded like a good idea, but as soon as Bevelle was mentioned Tidus’ made a face, and started to protest, “You know I can’t go anywhere near Bevelle, they’d have my ass in jail just for bein’ related to Jecht!”

“Well then, we’ll just have to get you a disguise, ya?” Wakka said with a wink.

Tidus looked at both of their faces. The point of this trip was to stay out of trouble; If Shuyin knew he was even considering going anywhere near Bevelle... But his brother wasn’t here... and it did sound like a lot of fun. He was sure, if he was disguised that he could manage to avoid most of the trouble that came his way. Wakka and Chappu were waiting for an answer. “Alright, sounds like fun. But this can’t get back to Shu,” he pointed at Wakka, “No accidental admissions of information.”

Wakka feigned looking hurt, “What? Me?”

Tidus ignoredhis protests and turned back to Chappu, “When is the party?”

“End of the week, and lucky for you... it’s a masked party. So being disguised won’t be as hard as you think!”

Tidus grinned, a masked party? That was perfect for not being noticed! He had always wanted to go see what Bevelle was like, but being from Zanarkand made that near to impossible. He would enjoy going.

Chappu was grinning like a mad man, “And I’m sure it will be filled with hot girls! They say themost attractivegirls in all of Spira come from Bevelle, and I don’t mind investigating that theory for myself!”

“Ya, but remember to share, last party we went to you hogged all the girls!” Wakka protested.

“What can I do if I’m a stud?” he said, making a ridiculous pose.

Tidus laughed at them and winked, “No worries Wakka, they won’t be concentrating on Chappu, especially not when I’ll be there!” mimicking Chappu's pose.

So it was decided, they would leave in three days to be able to get to Bevelle without having to spend too much money on the expensive lift-trains. Tidus was definitely starting to relax. He was happy Lenne had suggested a vacation, it would rejuvenate him. This was what he had needed for a long time.

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SINS OF OUR FATHERS

Chapter Three: Vacations and Incarcerations

To put things simply, it hadn’t gone as well as she had hoped, and her hopes had never been especially high.

“Yuna,” her father said in his ‘disciplining voice’, “I thought that we had agreed upon your marrying Isaaru by next summer. What happened?”

“Well,” Yuna explained, desperately trying to find words to make her father understand. “I thought that it would be better, if I ended things with Isaaru. I wasn’t happy with him. We are very different people; it would never have worked in the long run.”

Braska sighed and took a seat. They were in his personal office, after dinner had ended, his daughter had given him the news that she had ended her on-and-off relationship with Isaaru. This frustrated Braska to no end, he had tried for a whole year to get them into something that resembled a stable relationship. He had even started marriage negotiations with Isaaru’s father. He shook his head; he couldn’t understand what his daughter was thinking! “Yuna,” he said at last, “You know I want you to be happy, reallyI do, but, I also want you to be safe and secure, and that’s what Isaaru and his family would provide for you. Can’t you understand that?”

Yuna looked down at her feet for a moment before replying, “I know dad, and I appreciate your concern but... it’s not security that I want, its love. And that is something I was never going to find with Isaaru.”

Braska’s eyes hardened at her words, they had struck their intended cords. “Love is not practical.” He said. “However I will give you a chance to take your own future in your hands. You know I am holding a large party for all our friends and neighbouring cities, you have up until then to find someone, or you can choose someone there. If you cannot find someone suitable however," his eyes looked directly into hers to make clear that his point was to be taken seriously, "I will.”

Yuna’s eyes grew large, the party was only in a week, “But father...” she started.

“No Yuna,” he said firmly folding his hands and starring at her from across his large desk, “End of discussion.”

And she knew that it was. Tears welled up in her eyes and she turned around swiftly and left the room, leaving her father alone in his office.

As she was running through the winding hallways of her home, her head was full of thoughts waring against each other. Why was this happening to her! She was only 18 years old, why did she have to get married! It just wasn't fair! She burst into her room and ran straight past Lulu.

“Yuna what’s wr...”

She didn’t wait to hear what Lulu was asking; she headed straight for her bathroom and locked the door. She leaned her back up against it and slid to the ground slowly. It took a moment but she finally gave way completely to the tears, burying her face in her arms and sobbing uncontrollably.

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“Hey kid,” said a loud voice, “Kid wake up, it’s time to get off the train.”
“Kid?”

Mumbles were all that he got for an answer, so the steward finally decided it was time to take matters more into his hands. He grabbed the blonde kid by the edges of his yellow shirt. He then started shaking him and yelling, “Wake up!”

“Ahhh,” the kid started yelling, “Get off me!” His fists began flailing around wildly and one of them just happened to connect with the steward’s face. He went flying back and landed on the floor.

The blonde kid’s eyes widened as he became more aware of reality and what had just happened, “Uhh...” he said with a little bit of an embarrassed stutter, “Sorry about that. Were you uhh... trying to tell me something?”

“Trains... in... Besaid,” the steward wheezed, “Time... to... get... off.”

“Oh!” the blonde said cheerfully, forgetting all about what had just happened. “Thanks, I’ll see ya later!” He exited the Lift-Train, leaving the poor steward to recuperate.

Tidus closed his eyes and breathed in deeply. The fresh tropical air of Besaid Island filled his nostrils and lungs. He exhaled happily and opened his eyes, the white san glistened, and the water was clear and beckoning. He decided he was going to take a short swim in the water before going to see Wakka and Chappu in the village. He ran straight into the water and dove in head first. Once he surfaced again he shook his head and rubbed the water out of his eyes. The sun was shining bright overhead, he was as far away from his farther as he could get, nothing could ruin this day!

WHAM

“Ouch!” Tidus yelled as something hard hit him in the head, “What’s the big idea...” he started to say, rubbing his head and looking for the object that had bounced off of it.

There it was in the water, a blue and white orb floating near him, at seeing it he smiled and grabbed a hold of it. Holding it in his hand he grinned impishly, and closed his eyes again. He threw it with all his might back on to the shore, and heard it connect with something, or rather, someone.

“Ahhh,” yelled a tall, red-headed man standing on the shore, his thick island accent made it simple for Tidus to tell who it was, “Watch where you shoot that thing, you coulda knocked out something important, ya?”

“Maybe you should watch where you shoot it too Wakka,” he said with a grin, rubbing his head again.

“Not really, there wasn’t anything important where I was aiming,” Wakka retorted, “Just a bunch of fluff and blonde hair.”

Tidus just laughed and started walking back in to shore. “Where’s Chappu?” he asked.

“Ahh, you know him,” Wakka said with a snort, “Probably chasing around some tourist girls in the village, telling them he’s the main attraction of Besaid, ya?”

Tidus shook his head, it was probably true.

Wakka slapped an arm on Tidus’ back when he got close enough. “It’s good to see ya!” he exclaimed, “What’s it been, six months?”

“Something like that,” he replied.

“Why don’t we take a walk around the island, and then go see what kind of trouble Chappu has gotten into, ya?”

“Sounds like a plan.”

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Knock

“Yuna?”

Knock

“Yuna, answer me! Are you alright, you’ve been in there for hours.”

“Go away! I don’t want to talk to anyone!”

“You need to eat something, come on out, please?”

“No.”

Lulu sighed in frustration, she heard Yuna stop crying hours ago but she still refused to come out. Quite frankly she was running out of options. She was pretty sure she knew why Yuna was in there, but she wouldn’t know all of it until she decided to come out. There wasn’t much to do but wait... or was there. At last Lulu thought of someone who might be able to coax Yuna out of her bathroom incarceration.

She didn’t know what she was doing in the bathroom still, but she just knew she didn’t want to come out. Coming out meant facing what her father had said, and she really didn’t want to do that. How am I going to find someone that I want to marry in a week? She thought, least of all at a party! Her life just seemed to be getting worse and worse. Maybe I should go talk to Lulu; maybe she could help me think of what to do? But no, she doubted that she could. Lulu was a good friend but, sometimes it was hard to make her understand things, especially when it came to matters of practicality vs. emotion. There was only one person who might be able to help her think of something.

“Yunie?” a tentative voice said from the other end of the door.

Yuna smiled and stood, “Rikku?” she asked.

“Yeah, it’s me,” Rikku said cheerfully, and then more seriously, “Want to come out and talk? Or maybe I could come in there with you?”

“Yes,” Yuna said after a moment’s consideration and unlatched the door. Through it came a girl about the same height as Yuna, with long blonde hair tied up in a pony-tail and held back with a blue bandana. Her spiral green eyes looked concerned but retained their ever-cheerful nature. Rikku was Yuna’s best friend, and the only relative that she had ever really felt close to. Rikku’s dad had been her mother’s older brother, making Yuna and Rikku cousins.

Rikku shut the door behind her, and then turned to face Yuna again, “So what happened Yunie?”

“Well,” Yuna hesitated, hating to have to repeat such depressing news. So she relayed it as painlessly as possible to Rikku, as her cousin listened attentively. After it was done Rikku wrinkled her nose and said, “Gee, I didn’t know your dad was so serious on the whole getting married thing.”

Yuna sighed, “I know, I really don’t know what to do.” She rested her head on her cousins shoulder, “Got any brilliant suggestions.”

Rikku was quiet for a moment and then said, “Well there is always Brother.”

At that Yuna gasped, and slapped Rikku in the arm, trying to hide laughter, “Hey that’s not funny!” she said sticking out her tongue, “Your poor brother just doesn’t seem to realize I’m not exactly interested, and that doesn’t count as a suggestion by the way.”

Rikku giggled and thought, “Well, I can see if Gippal can bring some friends to the party, I’m sure Uncle Braska won’t mind, and some of them might be better than all those stuck-up rich boys who are likely to be there.”

Gippal was Rikku’s boyfriend, and Yuna didn’t mind him, so maybe his friends would be alright. Certainly better than anyone who would be attending the party from her father’s guest list. She nodded, “I guess but, I still am not happy about this. It’s not fair, who says I even want to get married!” The thought of not being able to control her life made her angry again and she punched the door of the bathroom. “It just makes me so mad!”

Rikku stared at her wide-eyed, never seeing her cousin quite so angry. “It’ll be okay Yunie, we’ll figure out something if the situation gets desperate.”

Yuna sighed, the situation already seemed desperate, but she knew Rikku was only trying to consol her. Maybe everything would be okay. Yuna just had to have faith that it would all turn out alright.

“Thanks Rikku,” she said.

“No prob cuz,” she replied, “Moral support! That’s what I’m here for!”

At this both Yuna and Rikku laughed.

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“Hey Chappu,” Wakka called as he and Tidus entered Besaid Village. They spotted the young man with two flustered looking girls. The red-head had a flirtatious expression on his face, and winked at them before saying goodbye and walking over to his brother and his friend.
Tidus eyed up the girls, and then turned back to Chappu, “First catch of the season?” he teased.

“First of many,” Chappu replied with a smirk, giving Tidus a welcoming punch on the shoulder. “It’s good to see ya!”

“It’s good to be here.”

“So brudda,” Wakka said turning from his brother to Tidus, “What you got planned for your stay here?”

“Well I wasn’t really sure, have you guys got anything fun to do?”

A smirk came over Chappu’s face, “Well, since you asked,” He said mischievously, “I just got a transmission from Gippal; it seems some big party is goin’ down in Bevelle. What you boys say we go check it out.”

At first the party sounded like a good idea, but as soon as Bevelle was mentioned Tidus’ made a face, and started to protest, “You know I can’t go anywhere near Bevelle, they’d have my ass in jail just for bein’ related to Jecht!”

“Well then, we’ll just have to get you a disguise, ya?” Wakka said with a wink.

Tidus looked at both of their faces. The point of this trip was to stay out of trouble; If Shuyin knew he was even considering going anywhere near Bevelle... But his brother wasn’t here... and it did sound like a lot of fun. He was sure, if he was disguised that he could manage to avoid most of the trouble that came his way. Wakka and Chappu were waiting for an answer. “Alright, sounds like fun. But this can’t get back to Shu,” he pointed at Wakka, “No accidental admissions of information.”

Wakka feigned looking hurt, “What? Me?”

Tidus ignoredhis protests and turned back to Chappu, “When is the party?”

“End of the week, and lucky for you... it’s a masked party. So being disguised won’t be as hard as you think!”

Tidus grinned, a masked party? That was perfect for not being noticed! He had always wanted to go see what Bevelle was like, but being from Zanarkand made that near to impossible. He would enjoy going.

Chappu was grinning like a mad man, “And I’m sure it will be filled with hot girls! They say themost attractivegirls in all of Spira come from Bevelle, and I don’t mind investigating that theory for myself!”

“Ya, but remember to share, last party we went to you hogged all the girls!” Wakka protested.

“What can I do if I’m a stud?” he said, making a ridiculous pose.

Tidus laughed at them and winked, “No worries Wakka, they won’t be concentrating on Chappu, especially not when I’ll be there!” mimicking Chappu's pose.

So it was decided, they would leave in three days to be able to get to Bevelle without having to spend too much money on the expensive lift-trains. Tidus was definitely starting to relax. He was happy Lenne had suggested a vacation, it would rejuvenate him. This was what he had needed for a long time.