Hope Is Always There

Chapter 4

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Gundam Wing or Final Fantasy X…I wish I did though.

PAIRINGS: 1x5, 2xRikku, 3x4, WakkaxTidus, AuronxRin, LuluxYuna

Oh yeah…………'single quotation marks' mean thinking.

Wufei sat on the cliff and fingered the pendant around his neck. The sending had been difficult. Despite the warning so many people had tried to go home and recover personal items, any who had gone home had lost their lives. A total of 17, including 4 children.

'Oh Shiva. So many lives lost because the people wanted to go home, where it's supposed to be safe from the monsters. I'm so glad the others helped to collect the bodies. But I'll never forget the look on Heero's face when he carried out that small girl. She was no older that 7, just like on Earth. I feel drawn to him though. Is it wrong for me to feel like this? It's been 3 years since Levi died, and now he's Sin. Am I betraying his memory by falling for another? I have no time to think about this now, I have to go back to the others.'

Wufei stood and walked back down to the village, where everyone was weeping or standing in shock at the damage. Wufei walked over and stood in the safe embrace of Kimahri. Duo laid a hand on his shoulder and smiled sadly.

"There's no way you're getting rid of us now 'Fei. We have to stay and help." Quatre, Trowa and Heero nodded their agreement. Wufei smiled and turned to Rin.

"Rin, can you go and check the time we can get a ferry to Luca? As soon as possible. Lulu, Rikku, we need as many Potions, Ethers, Antidotes and Phoenix Downs as we can carry. Kimahri go with the girls, you can carry more weight than them. Yuna could you go with Tidus and Wakka to make sure there are no fiends in the area? The last thing we need is a load of monsters attacking the locals while we're gone.

Everyone who had been appointed a task ran off, leaving Wufei with the Preventers and Auron. Auron grasped Wufei's shoulder tightly and motioned him away from the others. Wufei followed.

"Wufei, are you sure it is wise to bring these people on the journey? They no nothing of our world."

"Neither did Tidus. I trust them Auron, and they can fight very well. The only thing I a worried about is who will become the Final Aeon."

"I am willing to do that."

"Auron no! What about Rin?"

"Rin will understand. He will probably want to offer too. As will all the others."

"This is such a hard choice. I think we should make it when we get to the end of the Pilgrimage. For now we should just try to collect the Fayths and worry about it later. Do you have everything you need?" Auron nodded.

"Yes. Your mother, she would have been proud of you."

"You think so? I can't even remember her all that well."

"She was like you. Proud, a born leader, and not afraid to say what she thought. She made a lot of enemies, but even more friends. Do you remember the others?"

"I just remember Liandren and Raiden. And Kaede. But the others, I can just remember them as an older brother and sister. No details at all."

"Well, come on then. We should go find Rin before the ferry goes without us." Wufei nodded and let Auron pull him back to where the others were waiting.

Heero looked at the ocean as they sped through it. Wufei had said that it would take over a day to reach Luca.

'Hn. He really is different to the Wufei from Earth. It's strange how I don't miss Earth though. But this place is so much more peaceful. When it's not under attack anyway. I really wouldn't mind staying here. As long as I was with him. Did I just think that? He is very attractive though, with his hair in the longs braids and the clothes he wears. But it seems that he is still rather raw over this Levi. I don't stand a chance.'

"Heero? Are you alright?"

Heero turned his head slightly and nodded at Wufei, who stood next to him and closed his eyes as he allowed the wind to flow onto his face. Heero watched as the ribbons in Wufei's hair blew, and the beads in his hair clicked. He seemed so much at peace even though the events were far from peaceful. Wufei opened his eyes and stared out at the sea.

"Dra cia ec cu payidevim.1" Heero raised an eyebrow and Wufei giggled slightly.

"Sorry. I tend to speak in Al Bhed when I'm not concentrating. I said 'the sea is so beautiful', don't you agree?" Heero nodded.

"It is. So that language you use, it's called Al Bhed?"

"Yes. After my family died I was raised by a man and a woman who were Al Bhed. They lived in Kilika even though the people who worship Yevon shunned them. I was brought up using Machina, and playing with only Al Bhed children because the parents in Kilika refused to let their children near me. Oh don't look like that; it isn't as bad as it sounds, I was mostly happy to be with my books and the Machina anyway. That's how I met Rikku though. We've been friends since I was 6. Never been apart since."

"You must be close."

"Yeah. She stayed with me through everything. We even managed to stay in touch when I was on Earth, we used Comm. Spheres."

"That's why you kept disappearing at random moments? We thought you were sleeping with Treize or something."

"Ewwwww, no! That's gross. I'm scarred for life now." Heero smiled and turned so that he was facing Wufei, and just stared at him. Wufei smiled and started to play with a braid nervously.

"What?" Heero shook his head, still smiling.

"Nothing. You just look so different."

"I know. I can't believe I had to try and hide my hair from you all. I really needn't have bothered, seeing as Duo's is about the same length."

"Yours is a little longer. It suits you like that. The clothes do too. Duo decided you remind him of Edward Scissorhands with all the belts." Wufei laughed and nodded.

"I guess I do look a little like him, with all the belts and the crazy hairstyles. Those clothes suit you by the way. Make you seem a little less constipated."

"Constipated!"

"It is physically impossible to wear spandex and not look constipated. Sorry." Wufei giggled as Heero glared for a moment, before smiling slightly and shaking his head.

Heero reached up and tucked a stray lock of hair behind Wufei's ear. Wufei blushed lightly as Heero's hand grazed the side of his face before cupping his cheek. His blush darkened and his eyes slid closed as Heero leaned in and pressed his lips gently against his.

Razor - OMG!!!! They kissed!!! Finally!!! Now we can get on with a lemon. Yes ladies and gentlemen, I have decided to actually complete a Lemon fic. Yay for me. By the way, if in any of the previous chapter I said Wufei received Cerberus, he didn't…;; what I meant is in Besaid he got Valefor, and in Kilika he got Ifrit. And since I forgot the journey to Besaid just assume they went, nothing interesting happened there anyway…

As always…Review please.

1 The sea is so beautiful.