A/N: The 10th chapter is up! I'm sorry, but this is not the last one. The next one will be the last,maybe. ) 'Cause it really depends on your reviews and my mood, of course.

Anyway, enjoy! I hope you like it as much as you liked my previous work! Muja oui!

(I don't own anything. Characters are the property of SquareEnix)

Silly Child

What was that? Were those pyreflies...did they fly from his body?

I traced that thought away as Auron came up to me. As he was only few steps away, I could sense his anger. He was angry at me; angry for what I did. That I went off somewhere without a word to anyone. The fact that he decided to look for me by himself, certainly, means something.

I'm not quite sure what, exactly. But deep down inside, I truly believe that he…

'Rikku! ' his voice was rumbling as a thunder.

Auron brusquely grasped my arm and pulled me close. Our faces were only few inches away from each other. And there I was, thinking: how romantic this is – together in the rain!

But all those childish thoughts were crumbling beneath the weight of Aurons gaze. They were crashed amazingly quickly due to the help of the Legendary Guardian's words.

'Are you crazy!?' he growled at me, 'Do you have any idea what have you done?! Yuna, is most certainly, worried sick by now! She has enough stresses for one day, don't you think?!'

The only thing I could do was to stare into the floor, like a small child that is being scolded.

'Look at me, when I'm talking to you.'

I lowered my head even more. My whole body began to tremble, hands shaking.

'I said: look at me, Rikku!'

I took a deep breath, broke out of his grasp and right at that moment – my feelings, which were dwelling deep inside me – they just burst. And there I was shouting my lungs out, along with crying my eyes out. Saying things that I shouldn't say.

'So what's it to you! Why do you even bother coming here in the first place!? To tell me how stupid I am? Or to tell me how thoughtlessly I act?' I paused for a moment, I couldn't breathe.

Not giving a chance for Auron to speak, I continued my rather crazy monologue.

'I wanted to believe that you were my savior! I wanted to believe that I was a bit more important to you than anyone else! But you know what? Right now, I stand before you, broken. You took my heart and soul without even realizing it…And smashed it into tiny pieces by your ignorance!'

I couldn't keep it all inside anymore. The tears were choking me, leaving me without a breath.

The next moment; I could feel myself being pulled. Auron embraced me determinedly, it almost seemed longingly.

'You really are a silly child, Rikku.' He hugged my fragile frame even more tightly. 'I never wanted it to turn out this way. In the beginning I wanted nothing more than to help Yuna accomplish her pilgrimage. But in the end everything went wide of the mark…'

I raised my red from tears eyes and stared at him, asking the question: 'What do you mean?'

'Don't look at me with such eyes. I can tell what you want to ask me.' He smiled and with calmness of the falling snow that suited him like never before, he said: 'Rikku, I feel the same way.'

My eyes widened.

'Meaning..?' I leaned forward to his face, in order to give him an opportunity to whisper his answer to my ear.

Auron chuckled lowly, and instead of saying what he wanted to say, he kissed my wet and already cold neck. I pulled back in shock and blushed.

Ronin pressed his lips against my forehead, while smoothing my tousled, wet hair. I hugged him in reply, putting arms around his waist.

'I doubt that it is the right time or the place to tell you this.' Auron took my hands in his. Mine's were so tiny compared to his manly hands. 'But I care for you. I really do. I felt this way from the very first time I saw you.' He let go of my hands and took few steps back.

'Auron..?' I asked in confusion.

'I don't want to hurt you anymore. So that is why I ask you to …'

A terrifying roar of thunder interrupted him, meanwhile the flash of lightning blinded him for few seconds. During that moment that lasted merely for few seconds, Auron heard a scream, my scream of pain…...

Suspense is good, yesh?