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person4Title: Work and Play
Fandom: Final Fantasy X-2
Pairing: Yuna/Tidus
Rating: G
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fic_on_demand request asking for Tidus, Yuna, and an underwater conversation.
She was curled beneath a small ledge in the cliff that bordered the water, the spot chosen so she wouldn't need to worry about floating to the surface. Her body was relaxed, her eyes closed. At a count of two-hundred-and-fifty seconds her lungs were only just starting to burn, a slight warning that was at least a minute away from becoming a real difficulty.
The best blitzers could stay in the sphere pool for the entire game, not leaving the water to draw a fresh breath during halftime. It was difficult work, training their bodies to keep going on one lungful of air for over ten incredibly active minutes, and there was always a danger to not breathing for that long, but those who could manage it showed a noticeable advantage over those who couldn't when they didn't need to readjust to being in the water at the start of the second half. A game could be won in that precious minute or so, when the opposing team was still too sluggish to block a player in peak condition.
Yuna knew that she would never be one of the best--she didn't want to devote her life to blitzing anyway, and that was what it would take--but after the two years she'd spent training herself to last five minutes without breathing it felt right to keep stretching that time out until she found out the limits of how far she could go.
She had almost reached five minutes when something tapped her on the shoulder and startled her so badly that she almost forgot herself and gasped in water. Her eyes flew open and she spun in the water, only to see Tidus there grinning at her. He gave her a small wave when he saw that he had her attention.
She frowned and crossed her arms at him, exaggeratedly pantomiming her slight annoyance at his almost making her drown herself.
His grin didn't fade, and he waved a hand airily through the water, unconcerned; even if she had forgotten to hold her breath he would have gotten her safely to the surface.
She glanced around the crevice she was hidden in and raised an eyebrow, wondering how he'd even spotted her there.
He pointed to the surface, drawing her attention to a blitzball floating there. She guessed it must have been luck that had made him practice in the fresh water lake in the center of the island that day instead of in the ocean, letting him spot her through the water when she would have been invisible from the path to the village or the cliffs that surrounded the lake on three sides.
She glanced back from the blitzball to Tidus for one second, flashed him a grin of her own, then began kicking as hard as she could, flying through the water to reach the ball before he'd even thought to start moving. She twisted around to face him again as she dragged it under, holding it tightly under one arm as she reached the other out to gesture towards him, inviting him to come after her.
She knew that it wouldn't be long before he caught her, but she intended to draw it out as long as possible; one more small goal for herself. Luckily the lake offered more help than a sphere pool, the cliff walls giving her something to kick off and give herself a burst of speed away from him.
Even that wasn't enough to keep distance between them for long, but when she sensed him closing in she kicked herself downward, skimming through a patch of weeds growing on the lake bed. She couldn't hold back a small laugh when he tried to grab her foot and got a handful of leaves instead, too much of her precious air bubbling away when she was already close to her limits, and realized that she needed to finish playing quickly.
In her mind Yuna made the crevice she'd been floating in when he'd found her the goal, and did her best to ignore Tidus closing in on her again and focus on aiming her shot. He was two yards away, then four feet, then close enough that if she lifted a leg she would touch him, and it was only at the last possible moment that she let go of the ball and kicked it, sending it straight through his out-reaching arms and neatly into her hole.
Tidus looked back over his shoulder to see what she had done, then turned back and raised his arms in a silent cheer for her, happy for her even though he was the one she'd scored her 'goal' on.
She clapped her hands together to show her own pleasure, then regretfully pointed up towards the surface, letting him know that she needed to go breath and couldn't keep the game going any longer.
But he didn't look at all upset, and when she kicked herself to the surface he was right by her side.
Fandom: Final Fantasy X-2
Pairing: Yuna/Tidus
Rating: G
Written for a
fic_on_demand request asking for Tidus, Yuna, and an underwater conversation.She was curled beneath a small ledge in the cliff that bordered the water, the spot chosen so she wouldn't need to worry about floating to the surface. Her body was relaxed, her eyes closed. At a count of two-hundred-and-fifty seconds her lungs were only just starting to burn, a slight warning that was at least a minute away from becoming a real difficulty.
The best blitzers could stay in the sphere pool for the entire game, not leaving the water to draw a fresh breath during halftime. It was difficult work, training their bodies to keep going on one lungful of air for over ten incredibly active minutes, and there was always a danger to not breathing for that long, but those who could manage it showed a noticeable advantage over those who couldn't when they didn't need to readjust to being in the water at the start of the second half. A game could be won in that precious minute or so, when the opposing team was still too sluggish to block a player in peak condition.
Yuna knew that she would never be one of the best--she didn't want to devote her life to blitzing anyway, and that was what it would take--but after the two years she'd spent training herself to last five minutes without breathing it felt right to keep stretching that time out until she found out the limits of how far she could go.
She had almost reached five minutes when something tapped her on the shoulder and startled her so badly that she almost forgot herself and gasped in water. Her eyes flew open and she spun in the water, only to see Tidus there grinning at her. He gave her a small wave when he saw that he had her attention.
She frowned and crossed her arms at him, exaggeratedly pantomiming her slight annoyance at his almost making her drown herself.
His grin didn't fade, and he waved a hand airily through the water, unconcerned; even if she had forgotten to hold her breath he would have gotten her safely to the surface.
She glanced around the crevice she was hidden in and raised an eyebrow, wondering how he'd even spotted her there.
He pointed to the surface, drawing her attention to a blitzball floating there. She guessed it must have been luck that had made him practice in the fresh water lake in the center of the island that day instead of in the ocean, letting him spot her through the water when she would have been invisible from the path to the village or the cliffs that surrounded the lake on three sides.
She glanced back from the blitzball to Tidus for one second, flashed him a grin of her own, then began kicking as hard as she could, flying through the water to reach the ball before he'd even thought to start moving. She twisted around to face him again as she dragged it under, holding it tightly under one arm as she reached the other out to gesture towards him, inviting him to come after her.
She knew that it wouldn't be long before he caught her, but she intended to draw it out as long as possible; one more small goal for herself. Luckily the lake offered more help than a sphere pool, the cliff walls giving her something to kick off and give herself a burst of speed away from him.
Even that wasn't enough to keep distance between them for long, but when she sensed him closing in she kicked herself downward, skimming through a patch of weeds growing on the lake bed. She couldn't hold back a small laugh when he tried to grab her foot and got a handful of leaves instead, too much of her precious air bubbling away when she was already close to her limits, and realized that she needed to finish playing quickly.
In her mind Yuna made the crevice she'd been floating in when he'd found her the goal, and did her best to ignore Tidus closing in on her again and focus on aiming her shot. He was two yards away, then four feet, then close enough that if she lifted a leg she would touch him, and it was only at the last possible moment that she let go of the ball and kicked it, sending it straight through his out-reaching arms and neatly into her hole.
Tidus looked back over his shoulder to see what she had done, then turned back and raised his arms in a silent cheer for her, happy for her even though he was the one she'd scored her 'goal' on.
She clapped her hands together to show her own pleasure, then regretfully pointed up towards the surface, letting him know that she needed to go breath and couldn't keep the game going any longer.
But he didn't look at all upset, and when she kicked herself to the surface he was right by her side.