EverLong



Set after the game... if you like TidusXYuna... hehe... this is baaad for you then...

We need more Tidus x Rikku, people! Pleaaaase! And what's up with Rikku x Auron? O.o



--Chapter One--

Rikku could still hear the faint sounds of the crowd cheering from the blitzball stadium. Cheering for Yuna, cheering for their freedom, cheering for the final destruction of Sin. Everyone was too...happy. Did they even realize what had been lost? It felt strange that her, the hyper, optomistic one, was suddenly to depressed to smile at the thought of life without Sin.

She wandered the deserted piers of Luca, the blue ribbons attached to her shirt trailing behind her in the wind. Would he ever come back? After what they'd been through, he'd just left... he'd... disappeared. Was he real? Of course he was real... she was just so confused, so lost... she missed him.

The quiet piers now sounded with the footsteps of her boots and she stared silently at the waves lapping against the wood, her green eyes examining every ripple, every bubble of foam. The water... he was a blitzball player, right? Rikku wished she could have seen him play. The water was such a connection to him, as well as a connection between them. Now the thunder... the thunder, she felt deep inside, she had gotten over. She was too numb to care.. but the water, that was where her knew fear lied.

He had been found in the water.

He had been lost in the water.

The water, as far as she was concerned, was evil.

Rikku slowly dropped to the wood pier, crossing her legs, and staring out into the horizon. Her eyes slid clossed and immediatly she pictured him... blonde hair, the color of her own, spiked, blue eyes... the weirdest person she'd ever met. And somehow, a person she felt connected too. Someone she felt kindred with.

And now... he was gone.

She had a thousand questions, questions she couldn't ask, couldn't get answers too... that would haunt her forever; was he dead?; why had he left?; what happened to him?; will he come back?; did he love...Yuna?

'Whoa,' Rikku thought to herself. She couldn't go there. Both of them had made it perfectly obvious they loved each other... they were in love. It made it so much harder... that her cousin loved him... that she couldn't tell him, even if he was still with them. She would never be able to tell him she loved......him.

But, there was so much evidance she did. She couldn't bring herself to say his name, nothing else filled her thoughts... even while Wakka, Lulu, Kimhari... even Yuna... celebrated. Her heart wouldn't allow her to celebrate his death.

Rikku was suprised to see a small ripple in the water below her.

She raised her gloved hand to her cheek, and pulled away to find a soft drop of water run down her glove... a tear... she hid her face in her hands and cried freely. No one was there to see her, no one would see her moment of weakness. She would let it all out, now, and then she could be the cheerful-hyper Al Bhed she was suppose to be. No one would know.

Just as no one would know what was in her heart...

Just as he would never know she loved him...

...Tidus... would never know.