We won.

A tear run down on my face.

I can't smile, now that I know you aren't here anymore.

Tidus...how much I miss you!

If only you were here...

I sholud have a lot of things to tell you, a lot of feelings to give you

Suddenly you were gone, you left a bitter tear in the victory and an empty space in my heart.

I whistle in the wind staring at the sea and suddenly I see you, your smiling face of eternal boy, your uncombed and fair hair...but your imagine disappears immediately, it's just a wave that enjoy itself imitating your smile.

Once again my heart shivers, he doesn't want to believe that you left, gone away forever.

It can't accept it lost such an important person.

I still can see you saying us goodbye with a smile on your lips, then your desperate expression and your arms around me, a touch that my suol will never forget.

I still remember your expression when you woke up after that strange dream and when you spoke to the faith, since then there was in your glance a shade that even your smile wasn't able to erase.

But you have always been strong, no regrets or hesitations.

You were firm and determinate to go to the end, your father's end, yours, it didn't matter if we could defeat Sin.

You, a boy from Zanarkand, a great Blitzball player, were ready to die with a smile on your face to save a world that wasn't yours, while I, a summoner growing up with the cult of Yevon...

I was scared.

Funny, don't you think?

I felt strong because I wanted to sacrifice myself for the other people, I felt brave to offer my life.

It takes courage to die.

But even to go on living.

I understand it just now.

Painfully.

I breath deeply to shut in my soul the tousand tears that want to flow.

It happened a lot of things since you have gone, things that I had - that I WANTED - to live with you, because for me this wasn't your story, but our life.

Now, if you were by my side, we would laugh, thinking about Wakka, who has just proposed Lulu, or you would try to remain serius to be their best man in the marriage, because, at the end, she accepted thanks to you; then we could go on a tour together with Rikku, who considered you an older brother, and Kimahri, who continues behaving as a guardian, even if I don't need it anymore. We would spend hours remembering sir Auron, his teaching and his guide, and talking about my fathers and yours, and you would pretend that you don't care, even if, while you are saying it, your eyes glisten and tears flow in your heart.

And after we spoke, we should go to Zanarkand, to see the sunset to keep an old promise, and you should smile and say that you love me, because you knew that I cannot live without you

Do you remember your promise?

But Zanarkand is in fragments, as my heart, and my dreams have faded together with your imagine.

You are a layer.

I softly whisper it in the wind.

A noise behind me, some familiar steps are approaching.

My heart beats painfully quick, thousand times I have prayed for this moment, but I remain still to stare at the see.

I don't want to be disappointed again.

A sword tinkles in an unmistakable way while someone - Tidus - is approaching me.

I suddenly turn back and I wait for your imagine to disappear, leaving me to stare at the empty space.

But you smile and hold me an hand.

I skim it, almost surprise to feel your skin - your heat - instead of air.

So I understand that this isn't a dream, but reality, and I feel the tears burning my cheeks while I lose myself in your embrace.

From your just a sweet whisper before they lean on mine.

-I'm back to keep a promise.-