Hope has always had trouble with romance, and he never thought he would ever like a girl and explain his feelings. Maybe that will change after a certain mishap while on a walk home...and all sorts of hell breaks loose! / Six months have passed, and Hope hasn't heard from Lightning but that soon changes as the pink-haired vixen suddenly re-enters his life and causes him problems!

AU. Six years have passed, and Hope moved to the city where he first met his destiny. Everything should fall into place now that he was back and grown up. Now, if only she would stop resisting...

Alternate Universe! Hope is dejected when his mom and dad died, and he was dumped by his Girlfriend Serah Farron. He goes to a new cafe/restaurant in town named "Cafe of Joy" and there, he meets someone...someone he would eventually come to love. H X L

Fang and Vanille invite the gang on a Cruise for two weeks. Everyone agrees, Lightning is convinced by Hope. Hope starts to feel his hidden feelings for Lightning begin to deepen as he spends more time with her. Lightning begins to see that hope is not a little boy anymore, but a man. Lightning begins to fall for Hope as he expresses his true self to her.

Hope was sparring with Lightning in Gran Pulse until his attack pushed her off the cliff. When she woke up, he found out she had amnesia...And only remembers one thing...

Lightning has a mishap on Gran Pulse and finds herself reverted back into a fifteen year old girl. So Light's a bit unstable, the rest of the group is lost and Hope is even more confused by what this change brings out in his feeling for Light.

Lightning gets frustrated when a harmless trip on a train to visit Serah ends in a guy accidentally falling on her when the train abruptly halts. However, she eventually comes to like, hell...Even love this person. Hope X Lightning.