Together Forever
He opened the wooden door leading to Paopu Island softly. She was sitting there again, gazing out to the sea ... as if she was waiting for something, or someone...
He wasn't surprised at all. She has been like that for the past 10 years. It was like a habit of hers already. She would just spend the whole evening sitting there, looking at the endless sky and sea, trying to catch any sign that he was returning...
He let out a soft sigh and pushed a soft lock of silver hair out of his face. The sea breeze sure was comforting. No wander she could sit there most of the time without even moving an inch.
'No... you know that isn't the reason she can sit there the whole day,' he told himself and shook his head slightly.
Nobody could sit there as long as her even if the breeze felt nice. And that was definitely not the reason she could sit there for a very, very long period...
It was because of her undying faith in him...She kept holding on his last promise to her...never stop believing it... that he would come back to her one day...
And so she sat there every single day and waited, spending all her free time there. Once she sat down, she never averted her sight away from the scenery in front of her; afraid of missing any tiny sign of him...
'And it sure is a hard effort having to pull her home every night...' he mused.
He closed the door quietly and slowly walked across the bridge that linked to the tiny island that held so many precious memories for both of them.
"Hey." he greeted softly.
She turned to look at him and gave him a small smile. Then she turned her head back towards the sea without even speaking a word.
He sighed again. She's been like that ever since he was back. She rarely talked, and the happiest expression you could get from her was just a small smile. Nothing more. Even when the gang gathered together, when they joked about something funny, or Tidus did something silly, she never laughed. The most was just a small smile. And even that smile seemed sad...
'If I don't know her any better, I would say that she is just a living corp...'
Riku stared at her face. She was still beautiful, but her face has lost its shine and the sparkles in her eyes were long gone...
He was about to say something when she suddenly stood up and ran towards the beach.
"Where are you going?" he shouted while running behind her.
"He's back." she replied while kept running, not even sparing him a glance.
"Huh?" He was hundred percent sure that he didn't see anything just now. There were no changes in the sky, in the sea, and the beach was empty.
She stopped abruptly after running a good distance down the beach and knelt down besides something. He couldn't really see anything from his distance. He could see that she was now hugging something in her arms.
When he ran closed enough, he finally got a view of the 'thing'. It was a body of a young man.
He stood behind her and gasped.
'It' was Sora... and he was wounded...badly...
Bad enough that it seemed fatal...
AN: Yeah! This is my third story...Anyway, please review,hehe...