Remorse and Forgiveness

I'm back once again to, hopefully, give the Sheelos fans something to enjoy. This is the sequel to my fic Meaning, so if any of you were fans of that, I hope that you'll enjoy this as well and I'm not sure if you'll understand this if you haven't read Meaning, so you might want to do that. The choice is up to you.

So, this will probably be as depressing as the last one, and there will be a character death. I'm sorry to any fans of said person (Who's identity will be known soon) for killing of the character. I just thought that it would be interesting to do, since I don't think I've ever seen one like this done before.

So, read and review please.

Disclaimer: I don't own Tales of Symphonia.


Chapter 1- Death

"I'm sorry, we tried to contact you, but you never responded."

"We did everything we could, but the illness was too severe and she couldn't fight it off."

"Her death is an unfortunate thing. She died too soon. I'm so sorry for your loss."

Sheena Fujibayashi sighed as she rubbed her hands together nervously. That conversation. She could remember every detail of it, even though it had happened about three weeks ago. However, what she would always remember the most about that day was the shattered look on Zelos's face. The look that was created by the news of his sister's death.

Sheena knew that Seles had been a sickly child; Zelos had told her that. But she never imagined that she'd die from an illness. Apparently, according to the inconsolable expression on Zelos's face, he didn't think it was possible as well.

She and Seles were never on good terms with one another. But now, Sheena regretted that their conflict, whatever it may have been, was never resolved. She even believed that it could've been possible, especially since they did have something in common. They both cared about Zelos Wilder. More than that, it took quite a lot for the two of them to convince the former chosen that they cared about him.

Four months ago, Zelos had tried to kill himself. But, luckily for him, Sheena had walked in on him and he lived. And although it took awhile to figure out, the female ninja managed to learn that Zelos felt like he was destroying the lives of the people closest to him. Along with that, Sheena uncovered that his mother said to him, with her dying breathe, "You should never have been born."

But before Sheena found out what had occurred in the ex-chosen's past, she learned about other things. He used to cut himself to release any emotion he kept bottled up or couldn't deal with. His flirty, happy-go-lucky personality had been nothing but a façade. He also believed that no one cared about him.

However, Sheena felt that one of the most important things learned in that extremely difficult week was that she loved the swordsman and that he loved her back. The love that they shared, and Zelos revealing his past had truly helped him heal.

Their relationship hadn't gone too dar in those four months. This is probably due to their unfamiliarity with maintaining one, since Sheena had never really been in one before and Zelos had never been in one that meant something. Even though they hadn't had sex yet, they did share many passionate kisses and times where they had thought about it. But, they decided to take their relationship slowly.

Seles, even though she was glad that her brother was happy, still continued to show her strong dislike towards Sheena, and often voiced her opinions about the ninja to Zelos when he visited the abbey. One on visit, a week before Seles had gotten sick, Zelos told his sister that she needed to accept that he loved Sheena and that they should try to get along. But they ended up fighting and Seles demanded that her older brother should leave her alone for a while.

Sheena could remember how angry Zelos was at his sister when he had told her what had happened. The ninja even tried to convince the swordsman to go back to the abbey and work out their problem, but he adamantly refused.

And a few days later, according to the priest who had told them about Seles's death, Seles's sickness began. The multiple doctors and healers they had brought in didn't even know what the disease was. Regardless, they did everything they could think of to conquer the unknown illness, and yet, Seles just couldn't fight it off, and she knew that she was going to die.

Sheena had been told that muliple messages had been sent to Zelos, requesting that he should come to the abbey to see his sister again since that was all that Seles was asking for. None of those letters had ever reached him.

And Sheena knows what Zelos regrets the most: not seeing his little sister when that was all she wanted.

She had just returned from a four day visit to Mizuho. Now, she was just trying to summon up the courage to go up to his room. Sebastian had to go out into the city to run a few errands, so it was just her and Zelos in his spacious mansion.

Though Sheena would never admit it out loud, she was afraid. What if she lost Zelos again? What if he started cutting himself again? What if he tried to kill himself again?

No, Sheena thought, I won't allow him to try either of those two things again.

Even if Zelos had yet to restart that self-destructive habit again, Sheena could tell that he was surely falling back into depression. Unless some miracle had occurred over her four day absence, he was having a terrible time sleeping. Along with that, she could tell that he was starting to eat less as the days went by. Hopefully, he did eat, even without her watchful eye.

Sheena felt helpless. Once again Sheena felt powerless. She couldn't think of any way to help ease his pain. Why did fate choose to be so cruel to him?

"Standing here isn't doing anything." Sheena stated as she began ascending the stairs, "I have to talk to him,"

And while she tried to say that with an air of confidence, she couldn't fully diminish the fear that loomed in her heart.


I apologize for the shortness of this chapter, but it was sort of a prologue to inform you about what had happened over the four month time skip.

So, was it terrible? Is it worth continuing? I'll most likely write another chapter no matter what, but your opinion does still matter. Just keep in mind that the chances of me updating before June 13 are slim since I have finals coming up, but you never know.