Author's notes: Hey....guess what??? My first fic...it's gonna be short, I think, but, like I said...!!
Anyway, let's get on with it!!! ) this is a fic based on one of my favorite songs...'For You'.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story or final fantasy for that matter.
Prologue
I am a vision...
I am justice...
Never thought that I could love...
Cloud Strife was a mess. He and his friends had saved the world, yes. But now, nearly a year after they'd defeated Sephiroth, his life couldn't possibly get any worse. Now, he'd separated himself from everything that meant anything to him...he'd separated himself from her. He told himself that it had been necessary...but the truth was that he was running away. He was running away from the guilt. Aeris. He couldn't save her. He'd promised to be her bodyguard. Hah. Some bodyguard he was. All he could do was watch her DIE.
He stood up and looked around him. The place was desolate as hell. He didn't particularly like being here, but he didn't have much of a choice. He needed to get to the City of the Ancients. He'd been wandering around the world for a while now since he'd left his friends three months ago. He did know a few things about them, though. Barret had moved to Kalm with Marlene, Vincent had apparently disappeared, Yuffie returned to Wutai and Cid to Rocket Town. As for her, the last he'd heard, she'd moved back to Nibelheim and had opened a second bar there. He missed her. It was on days like this when he just wished he could hold her, but he knew he wouldn't let himself face her. Not until he found a way to be forgiven...
Part of him knew it wasn't his fault, but the other part refused to let it go. He had to talk to her. With that thought in mind, he took the reins of his gold chocobo, Rei, got on, and coaxed him into a run.
Tifa Lockhart was very tired; she'd had to put up with several drunken louts tonight, and they had all but worn her out. She closed up for the night and turned to look around her at the different buildings that were so familiar to her. She walked, half dragging her feet, toward the small house on the east side of town that she called home. On the way there, she looked up to see the well which was situated close to the middle of town like it had always been. She remembered that night years ago when she and Cloud had been on that well...she remembered his promise...
Flashback
Tifa: "If you become famous and I'm ever in a bind, you'll come to save me, right? My hero will come to save me. I want to experience that at least once...
Cloud: Alright, I will.
End of flashback
She sighed. It was time to let go of the past. Cloud wasn't here anymore; he'd left them three months ago without a word, just a letter saying he needed time to find himself. She was sure his sudden departure had something to do with Aeris. She knew he felt guilty about not being able to save her. "But I don't think that's the only reason why you left... you missed her, didn't you? You wanted to find a way to bring her back, that's why you left." She sighed again. Thinking about him wasn't going to get her anywhere. So she pushed the thought aside and continued to her home.