Disclaimer: Yeah, that's me. The girl who doesn't own a damn thing.

I swam parallel to the beach, trying to find a place where I wouldn't be noticed. There were a few families sitting around and I didn't want them to recognise me.

"Ah, there's a spot," I said outloud. It was on the other side of the large dock, away from the families and not really even on the beach. Perfect spot to regain my composure. I mean, it's not every day one gets booted out of the Farplane, is it?

I pulled myself out of the water, dripping all over the sand. Taking off my coat, I stretched out and checked myself for any bumps and bruises. Then, I tried to get water out of my face.

"... What the hell?" I exclaimed. As I felt my face, I realized that the scar that rendered one of my eyes useless for the past ten years had gone completely missing. "I... I can see?" I gasped. Then, realizing that I breathed in for the first time in ten years, I gasped again. "I can breathe!"

I put my hand over the eye that was never closed and looked out of the other one. I could see the water, the beach, the trees... Everything was perfect! I didn't have one bit of a problem with my vision. Air came in and out of my lungs and I could feel my heart beating under my hand.

Considering I was alone and I just had recieved some of the best news of my whole life, I decided this was the best time for a happy dance.

...........

I had a feeling that if Jecht and Braska could have seen me then, they would have probably fell on the ground from laughing so hard. I mean, here I was, the cold, stoic guardian, happy dancing on a beach because I was refused my rightfully deserved eternal rest on the Farplane.

I had no idea why I was back on Spira. I just figured that it was something that I would find out when I had to. But, for the moment, I was pretty content in knowing that I was alive again.

Now that I got the whole "being alive" business out of the way, I remembered something important. I was on the island of Besiad, if my vision was correct. That means...

Yuna was here, along with Wakka and Lulu. And that meant...

"Rikku!" I exclaimed outloud.

I took in a deep breath, calming myself. I knew that there must have been something seriously wrong with me, because my personality was changing right before my eyes. I was becoming... optimisic?

"Oh God," I said. "Someone save me now."

I decided that walking through the woods to the small village on the island would be the smartest thing to do. Less people would see me, and I could save the surprise of me being back for people I actually cared about.

Or, more truthfully, the person I actually cared about.

While I was quietly walking between the trees, I could hear the bustle of the village up ahead. People were talking, children were running and laughing... The atmosphere was completly different from the last time I was here. Before, everyone was quiet, they hid in their homes, anticipating the coming of Sin. Now, they could actually enjoy their lives.

All due to High Summoner Yuna, I thought.

I could hear a song being played loudly in the small hut in front of me, and I could hear a girl screaming the words inside. I grinned, thinking of how Rikku used to scream out the words to songs, spinning along the paths we walked on.

"Come on, Auron! Dance with me," Rikku laughed as she spun, her hands above her head.

"I'm not really the dancing type," I grunted.

"Bullcrap Auron, we're ALL the dancing type. Now come on!" she smiled as she grabbed my hands and spun me around the path, laughing the whole way.



I walked over to the entrance of the hut and knocked on the door. No one answered, which I expected, considering that music that she was listening to was SO damn loud.

So, I just walked in. And when I did, I nearly had a heart attack.

Three surprising things were happening at the moment.

One, Yuna was the girl who was screaming.

Two, Yuna was spinning around the room, dancing in her underwear.

And three, the words that Yuna was screaming were none other than the words to Lovesong, by none other than yours truely.

The last thing that I saw was Yuna's surprised bi-colored eyes before everything went black.