Three [Final Fantasy X and X-2, Yuna/Tidus/Rikku, G]

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Title: Three
Author: wherdragon
Fandom: Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2
Pairing: Yuna/Tidus/Rikku
Word Count: 874
Spoilers: Sort of for the end of FFX and FFX-2
Warnings: none
Prompt: Nov 11 - Final Fantasy X, Tidus/Yuna/Rikku: inseperable - in friendship as in architecture, the triangle is the strongest shape
Disclaimer: SquareEnix owns them, not me.
A/N: Family emergencies happened. :( I would much rather have been writing and posting this, trust me.



"Mommy? Why is the sky blue?"

"The same reason the ocean is, Vidina."

"Is that why blitzballs are blue 'n white?"

"Perhaps. The white seems to make it easier for the players to see the ball."

"Why don't all the players wear white, then?"

"It is hard to make and keep clothing white. And all the teams have to look different from each other, so that they can tell each other apart."

"Oh." The boy roamed around the hut, looking at various furniture, tugging on the strings of some bags and carefully not touching the things he was Not Supposed To Touch. "Mommy? Why is the pot round?"

"That's the shape that's best to hold soup in."

"And the bed is square 'cuz that's best to hold people in?" His mother laughed and knelt down, moving her long skirts gracefully out around her.

"People sleep on beds, Vidina, so it's a little different. A flat square can be held up by four posts. If you put blankets on it, it can be a bed. If you put plates on it, it can be a table." She pointed out the legs of the table. Vidina frowned.

"But that table has only three legs!" he said, pointing to one of the side tables.

"Yes. Three legs make a more stable base because the triangle is a very stable shape. But it's not a shape well-suited for sleeping on." The boy laughed and his mother tickled him and he ran around and around the hut until he collapsed on the floor. His mother smiled at him, keeping an eye on the soup in the pot, and out the door, whose curtain had opened with his running. He followed her gaze out to the people in the square.

"Mommy? Is three good for other things, too?"

"What do you mean, Vidina?"

"Like people?" She smiled.

"You mean, like your aunts and uncle out there?" He nodded vigorously. "Yes. While it only takes two to make a couple, three is a family. You, your father, and I make three. Those three are special."

"Why?" His mother smiled, that secretive smile of hers.

"Well, have you ever seen any of them by themselves?" Vidina thought about this carefully.

"No," he finally declared.

"You probably won't. They're inseperable, and it suits them. Now, could you go call them in for lunch, and ask them to find your father, too?" Vidina grinned and ran out, trying to run fast enough to catch them by surprise.

But it is hard to surprise someone when you are a child dashing out of the house, and even more so when the person you are trying to surprise has two sets of eyes watching her back. Just as he got there, his aunt turned around and swept him up high into the air.

"Gotcha!" Vidina squealed in delight and when she brought him down, the other two were there. He grinned.

"Just like the table!" he said triumphantly. The aunt who was not holding him tilted her head to one side.

"What's just like the table, Vidina?"

"You! Three points like a triangle, and I'm sitting on top the table!"

"Think he means lunch is ready?" his uncle asked.

"Maybe. Do we need to go find Wakka, kiddo?" Vidina nodded and squirmed a bit to be put down. He knew where to look for Daddy when he wasn't in sight. His aunt put him down, and was happily led by him, though when Vidina looked back to make sure she was coming, he saw the two others watching them and smiling, and still forming a triangle, just one that kept getting longer.

"Daddy's always back here working on the old temple."

"I see. You have to come get him all the time?" He nodded. They rounded the corner and Vidina laughed.

"Daddy!" His father looked over and grinned.

"Hey! Is lunch ready?"

"Yep!"

"We're the search party!" his aunt cheerfully declared. Father picked him up and grinned at both of them.

"Shouldn't need a search party for me, eh? If I'm not in sight, I'm always here!" He poked Vidina in the tummy playfully and the boy squealed happily.



"I'm almost sorry I gave him the idea of the triangle for the three of you," Lulu apologized. Yuna smiled softly at her as they both watched Tidus and Rikku help the boy make little triangles of sticks on the floor, in between his giggling and repeating that they were a triangle.

"It's all right. I've thought about it a lot myself. Rikku talks about it being the strongest shape in architecture, and it certainly is for our relationship."

"I didn't know she was an architect."

"Well, not quite as such. But Yevon had no triangles." Lu made a soft sound and Yuna looked up to meet the eyes of Tidus and Rikku. They all grinned at each other and Lulu laughed.

"I'm glad of that; if it had, none of the three of you might be here now."

"Isn't that the truth," Wakka said softly. He had come up behind Lu and now wrapped his arms around her waist, resting his chin on her shoulder. Yuna nodded, then went to play with her nephew and her friends.