Disclaimer: Hey guys this is my first Final Fantasy XIII fic and my first one shot to so just bare with me on this one. I been playing the game and these two Hope and lightning are the best, wait did I say Lightning I meant Light lol anyway I'm going to try my hand at this and I can say that I'm glad that I tried my first final fantasy one shot with these two I don't know why, but I like this pairing in every way regardless of the relationship. It doesn't matter as long as it's these two, but anyway here's the story. Oh yea I don't own none of this.

Chapter One
Misguidance

Lightning walked slowly as she watched hope take point in front of her. She couldn't help but smile in her head simply because the boy was merely trying to show that he wasn't weak or a burden to her, but what he fail to realize is that they were out of Gapra Whitewood. There was no need to take point and keep an eye out considering that they were safe for the time being.

"Maybe I made a mistake." Lightning thought as she remembered giving hope her knife a moment ago and telling him that they chose to fight, to complete their focus and that he should forget about his sympathy. "He's too young for this he's just a child." The thought ran through her mind again as she continue to look at him as they made their way to a nice little rest spot with a river flowing gently downstream.

It started to get dark and Lightning knew that Hope was tired, even though he wasn't trying to show it.

"Hope." Lightning called causing Hope to turn around and face her with the knife that Lightning had giving him still in his hand.

"Let's rest a bit." Lightning said as she walked towards the river.

"Huh? Rest, but I can keep going." Hope insisted. "Come on we can't stop now." He said with him trying to stick to lightning's words and keep moving on.

Lightning just shook her head and looked at him. "Don't overdo it; you'll tire yourself out rest a bit. We'll be alright for now." Lightning said as Hope lowered his head in defeat and finally decided to take a seat by the river.

"I hate em you know." Hope said slowly as he pulled out the knife and started looking at it. "Both him and the sanctum." He added as he started to play with it.

"Remember what I said about controlling your emotions." Lightning stated as she walked up beside him and stared at the river. "Don't let them cloud your mind; if you do then everything you fought for will be for nothing." Lightning said as her own words stuck to her as the image of her younger sister Serah appeared in her mind.

"Control my emotions huh? What if I can't?" Hope said as he looked up at Lightning who just looked down at him.

"Remember it's not whether you can or can't you just do." Lightning said as she looked down at Hope who stood up and looked at Lightning.

"Yea just do." Hope repeated as he played with the knife a little bit more."I will." He finished as he looked back at Lightning. "Why don't you like em?" Hope asked as he looked at Lightning who looked out into the riverbank again.

At first she didn't say anything she just stared out into space for a moment.

"Light.' Hope called out, but no answer. "Light!" Hope called out louder catching her attention causing her to turn around and look at him.

"Because…Because of Serah.' Lightning said slowly." It's his fault that she got mixed up into this." Lightning said as she turned and faced Hope and locked eyes with him.

"All this mess about getting married and her being an L'Cie." Lightning took a deep breath and placed her hand on her forehead and shook it lightly.

"What am I saying?" Lightning asked herself.

"It's his fault, we're alike it's his fault that my mom is dead and your sister is a crystal." Hope stated as Lightning slowly lifted her head up and looked at the boy that stood in front of her.

"You want revenge to don't you?" Hope questioned as he looked at Lightning and watched as her eyes slowly fell to the ground.

"It's not…it's not like that hope." Lightning said slowly causing Hope eyes widen for a brief second.

'What do you mean it's not like that? You said it yourself it's his fault." Hope said with his voice rising just a little.

"It's not like that because it's not his fault!" Lightning shouted back causing hope to take a step back from lightning as she continued to talk. "It's not his fault, because Serah….Serah." Lightning turned away from Hope and looked at the night sky that hovered above them.

"Serah tried to tell me…but." Lightning said lost in her own thoughts.

"She tried to tell you." Hope said as he looked at her confused at what lightning was talking about.

Lightning just shook her head and looked at Hope. "Don't worry about it." She said as she saw the knife still in hope's hands.

"You might want to give that back to me." Lightning said extending her hand towards Hope, hoping that he would just hand it over, but for some reason the rage started too built inside of hope when she asked for it back.

"Why I haven't completed operation Nora yet!" Hope shouted. "You can't take it back, not yet please just let me finish this!" Hope yelled as Lightning looked at him sternly.

"Hope I made a mistake." Lightning said slowly as she looked at Hope, who was still holding on to the knife. "It's more than just getting revenge on Snow." Lightning said.

"DON'T MENTION HIS NAME!" Hope screamed as he closed his eyes seeing the image of his mother fallen from Snow's grip along with the rest of the people that fell off the bridge.

"HE COULD HAVE SAVED HER, BUT INSTEAD HE LET HER DIE!" Hope shouted his rage building up inside him.

"That's not how it happened!" Lightning retaliated as she started making her way towards Hope. "I'm sure he did everything he could to save your mother." Lightning said as she stood in front of him and looked down at him calmly.

"Yea just like he did his best to save Serah." Hope said under his breath, but Lightning still heard it which made her hands raise just a little, but she watched herself and tried to control her temper.

"You said it yourself it's his fault that Serah got turned into a crystal in the first place, it's his fought we're all in this mess, so why are you protecting him?" Hope shouted.

"I'm not protecting him; I'm just telling you the truth!" Lightning retaliated. "Revenge isn't the way to handle anything; you can't bring your mother back by that." Lightning said causing Hope to look at her.

"I know that." Hope said slowly as he looked down for a second and then looked back up at Lightning. "But that doesn't mean he can't pay for it." He said slowly.

"Hope." Lightning said slowly as she couldn't help, but feel like she was part of the cause for him feeling this way.

"Don't say it I already know."Hope said as he looked at her.

"Then give me back the knife." Lightning said as she extended her hand again.

Hope didn't budge he just continued to hold on to it."I…I can't not yet not until I make them both pay for they done." Hope said slowly as he looked at Lightning who had a strange look on her face, like she was going to do something that she was going to regret.

"You would do the same for Serah wouldn't you?" Hope questioned." Getting revenge that's what Serah would have wanted isn't it?" Hope asked again causing Lightning hand to swiftly come up and deliver a rock solid punch to his jaw causing him to fall on his butt with the knife dropping slowly to the ground beside him.

Lightning looked at Hope as he hit the ground for that moment. She looked at hope with anger in her eyes the fact that he thought he knew what was talking about was out of line, even if they both are almost alike he still didn't know Sarah and that in turn pissed Lightning off for that brief moment.

"If you think getting revenge will make anything better your wrong!" Lightning shouted as Hope looked at her with his eyes widening in shock and his jaw hurting. "It's a lot of ways to do things and many ways to solve a problem letting your emotions control your actions shouldn't be one of them." Lightning said still somewhat pissed off as she turned her back towards the fallen Hope and walked off towards the river and sat down beside the a rock that acted as a support for her.

"We leave tomorrow.' Lightning said without taking another look at Hope as a gentle breeze blew by moving her hair slowly through the wind.

Hope didn't say a word, he felt bad. Maybe he was out of line, emotions got the best of them and something bad happened. Now the person that he wanted to learn from, teach him how to survive, teach him how to become stronger didn't even want to look in his direction right now. He looked at the knife that lay beside him and then he looked up to see that Lightning had lain back against the rock and with her eyes half way closed.

"I'm…I'm." Hope couldn't say the words, not even the first two words were loud enough for Lightning to hear it. Lightning still ignored hope as he finally turned over on the ground and closed his eyes with his heart aching for some reason.

He felt something that he wasn't use to feeling, and it was towards the person that just hit him. He told her he wouldn't be a burden, he told her he would become strong, now all that was out the window because now he feels that he just showed lightning how weak he really is.

Alright guys that Chapter one I hope you like it. Like I said it's my first fic so you know I'm trying at least, but just for those of you who don't know this takes place between the Gapra whitewood level and the Palumpolum level. Well I'm going to end this first chapter here I'll update again soon who knows it'll probably be sooner than you think.