I couldn't hold myself any longer. My emotions came pouring out.

"The pilgrimages have to stop!" I could tell everyone was staring at me. I continued anyway, "If they don't, and they get to Zanarkand...They might defeat Sin! Yunie could...but then she..." I bit back the tears, "Yunie will die, you know?!"

Tidus looked at me as if I was stupid. I had to go on.

"You know, don't you? Summoners journey to get the final Aeon...Yuna told you, didn't she? With the final Aeon...she can beat sin, but then...but then... If she calls it, then the final Aeon's gonna kill her! Even if she defeats Sin, it will kill Yunie too, you know!"

I fell down to my knees, panting hard and trying not to cry. It was hard on me. Yuna was my best friend - how could Tidus be so foolish?

"Was I the only one..." He mumbled under his breath, "who didn't know?"

I felt him kneel down to my and grab my shoulders, and I knew he was heartbroken. He loved her, Tidus really...

"Tell me why! Why were you hiding it? Why didn't I know?" His voice grew. I was...lost for words.

Wakka spoke for me. "We weren't hiding it..." He tried to say.

"It was just..." Lulu's voice was breaking, "too hard to say."

Tidus let out a cry of dismay. I knew this was hard on him, but...it was hard for me, too. Yuna was everything - she was the Summoner and I was now one of her Guardians, sworn to protect her at all costs, even my life.

I hardly heard Tidus' cries of pain and sadness as tears started to form from my eyes. I had tried to keep this emotion inside of me for so long, but...Yuna was everything.

I had ignored the fact that the journey would kill her because it was the whole point...she would be mad if I intervened. I knew that everyone was upset that Yunie would die at the end of her pilgrimage. Tidus was even more upset than Lulu, and Lulu was like a sister to her. Wakka had known her for a long time, and...so did Kimahri. Sir Auron had made a promise and had grown fond of Yunie, too.

I was just the Al Bhed. I was the foreign one, the one that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere - and yet Yuna wanted me to be one of her Guardians. Why? Why me?

Of course there was only one reason. She saw me as a dear friend, I had even fought beside her, fought to...get her back. And now she isn't in the Summoner's Sanctum, and Home has been destroyed by the Guado, but...

Anything for Yuna, right?