Here is a story from me about Auron and Rikku; I keep thinking how cute they look together so I just had to write this. This isn't beta-read, so I'm really sorry if there are any mistakes.

I don't own any part of Final Fantasy X, it all belongs to Square enix, if Auron did belong to me I would have gotten rid of that annoying collar ages ago.

Anyways, please enjoy. Love PixieYunie.

Legends and letters

Chapter 1 Letters

She carried her letters to the Moonflow. She held them tightly for they contained all her feelings. Feelings she had hidden for a long time. Even for a precious cousin, she loved to death, but Yunie had her own problems to take of. She hated to be a burden and that's why she would smile at daytime. Never would she admit to anyone that she cried herself to sleep at night. She wanted to be strong, so that he would be proud of her. That he would smile in that secret smile of his that was always hidden by a collar. The first time she saw it, it turned her legs into jelly pudding. Things stayed that way for the rest of their time together.

He never was the kind of man to smile freely. People knew him to be a gruff and unfriendly person. They thought he didn't have any feelings; after all he was the legendary guardian. She thought different.

One time, long ago, she told him she would smile for him too. Now she wondered if he would be disappointed if he knew her smiles were fake.

The Moonflow looked the same as three years ago, it was still the same. She had changed though. She met him here for the first time, and for this reason she would always come back to this place. She remembered everything from that special day as clear as crystal. She only had to close her eyes, to see his eye that bore into her soul. From the beginning she had known he was trouble with a capital T.

She could see the emotion he tried to hide in his eye; she could see the sadness, the bitterness, the pain and the tiredness. The fact that his other eyes was closed by a horrid looking scar, made her mourn over it. His eyes had the most beautiful colour she had ever seen, and she could easily drown in them, she had heard of the cliché, but it was the first time she actually believed it.

The dark, deep voice had awoken something in her young body. At first she thought she only had a little innocent crush. When she realized the depth of her feelings, he was already a cloud of pyreflies. Not even Rikku screamed her most honest feelings to a cloud of light thingies, that couldn't even talk back. Her lost chance to tell him how she really felt turned into sadness. The sadness turned over the years into a deep regret. Her regret was now written on hundreds sheets of paper. All letters were for him, even though she never asked his address.

She wrote about her attempt to move on with her life, she tried to fall in love again, but no guy or man could come close to the way she felt about him. Without him the day had lost his sparkle and the sun seemed less bright. She also told him about the little things that happened to her, like going shopping with Yunie. She told him about Vegnagun and how she had heard his voice during that final battle with Shuyin. It had given her the strength to keep on going, to survive.

She told him about Tidus' mysterious return and his beautiful wedding. Yunie finally married the love of her life. Her letters were full of her guilt about being jealous at Yunie's pregnancy. Of course, she was happy for her cousin, but she wanted to share the same happiness with her lover. If he even felt the same.

She never figured out what he felt about her. He never was a man of words. She rather considered him a man of action. Probably why it bugged her he never made a move on her. Not that Auron was a man that made moves in that area. He never touched, kissed her or whispered cute words in her ear that made her shiver. She didn't know what he liked. What his favourite food and drink was, except for the Sake, of course.

She threw the letters in the deep water of the Moonflow. Hoping against all odds, her words would reach him, she kept staring at the almost black water long after the last bit of paper was gone.

Suddenly she heard light footsteps behind her and she turned around swiftly, ready to take action if necessary. A few metres away stood a six month pregnant former summoner. She had one placed over her steady growing belly. Being pregnant made her even more beautiful and she seemed able to lighten an entire room. At the moment though, her face showed concern for her best friend and cousin.

He had been right; Yunie was an easy person to read. Rikku put on her mask of cheerfulness to easy her worries. It never failed.

"Yunie, what are you doing here?" She put her arm in the air and waved. "You should be at home in bed and making sure Tidus is doing his job instead of playing Blitzball with the chubby daddy!"

Yunie smiled and her worry already faded from her mind. "I wanted to, but then my favourite cousin went missing."

Rikku ran to Yunie, gave her a hug and a loud peck on the cheek. "That's not fair. You are hurting Brothers feelings here!"

Yunie giggled and put her arm around her cousin's slim waist. "I thought Brother had a crush on that Al Bhed girl, what was her name again?" Yuna frowned and thought for a moment, she never had been good with names.

"Iris, silly!!" Rikku said loudly. Her heart mourned some more. Even Brother had moved on from his crush and had found his soul mate. She had hers too; unfortunately for her he had been dead for over thirteen years. That was just her luck.

"I'm always wondering what you are doing here. When ever you go missing, you end up here. What's so special about this place?" Yuna had been wondering about that, Rikku spend a lot of her time at the Moonflow. She also noticed how sad she had looked, her shoulder had been hanging and even her hair seemed less cheerful. Only when she made her presence known, Rikku had been happy and hyper. Worry returned to Yuna, was Rikku really as happy as she pretended to be?

Yuna had been so lost in thought that she didn't notice the temporary look of fear in Rikku's eyes. Nor did she notice the gulp that Rikku took.

"I don't know. I find it pretty here, I guess." Rikku smiled at Yuna brightly. "I became guardian here remember!" She hoped Yunie would buy it.

Yuna only nodded and turned toward the water and stared at it for a moment. It was a beautiful place, but not really a place where Rikku would feel happy. It was too serene here, too quiet, too much pyreflies.

"I once heard about a legend about a young woman named Linndoriel fell in love with a man. The man and she were perfectly happy together. One day faith ripped them apart and the man left to the Farplane. Linndoriel was overcome by grief. She desperately tried to move on with her life but found she was unable to do so. One night when she awoke, her eyes still wet from the tears she shed, she decided to write down all her feelings. The next morning she went to this place and threw them in the water, hoping her words would reach him. The faith saw the love that was between them and decided to bring him back to life. They spend the rest of their lives together until they had gone old and left for the Farplane together smiling."

Yuna looked at Rikku and saw that she was hurt by this story; she tried to push back the tears desperately.

"Legends are just pretty stories, Yunie. Nothing more! You shouldn't believe in them." Even to Rikku her smile seemed false.

"Shall we go back to Besaid then, before Lulu starts to worry and sends the entire Blitzball team after us." Yuna grinned and grabbed the hand of her best friend. She promised herself that she would be there for her. When the time was right, she would tell her everything.

Rikku nodded and together they walked to the airship.