Sky Blue Eyes
Prologue
By: Crystalline Narcissus
A/N: Told from Aerith's POV. This is my first fic, so don't be too hard on me! This is just the introduction, so it's really short. I'm sorry if it's a bit vague, I promise it'll get better.
"You promised to show me the sky, do you remember? I waited, and waited, and waited for you for so long. Days, months, weeks, and even years went by; four years to be exact. Having lived under the plates under the city above, life became even slower for me without you by my side. Daily, I would aimlessly haunt the slums, keeping an eye out for a boy - no, now a man, with sky blue eyes - your eyes. Though I've seen plenty, as all men in SOLDIER exhibit the same otherworldly glow in their eyes, they weren't yours.
Thinking back, I had a feeling that I would never see you again - not in this lifetime, anyway. Back then, I hoped to Gaia that what I felt that day wasn't true. Growing up, my mother always told me that nothing was ever certain (throughout my journey with Cloud and the others, I kept this phrase close to heart), and I hoped that the life force that I felt pass me by, wasn't yours. I began to convince myself, and twist my thoughts around to keep me sane. I began to fool myself and believe that you ran off with another girl, because I'd rather have you alive and be happy somewhere with someone else, than be gone forever. That fabricated lie eventually sank into my brain, and repeating that to myself got me through the days much easier over time. In the back of my mind, though, the truth stung, and it lingered...
Then one day he, Cloud, fell through the roof of my church, the same way you did all those years ago. I felt as if an ice pick just pierced through my heart. He came crashing down, as did the wall I built around my heart all those years without you. The same glow in his eyes and for some reason, your essence, along with it, were present; both were 1st class SOLDIERs, too. My heart began to race. In him, I saw you again. In Cloud, I saw the man whom I've been waiting for."