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Long time no see? I know I needed a long time to write another chapter but I've been busy and there are also other stories that need to be continued. Thanks to everyone who reviewed! OK, maybe I can't explain some things that happen in this story to someone who actually knows the game and every detail but this is a fanfiction after all. I don't have to stuck to the story of the game, have I?

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Chapter 1: Can you see me now?

All this weeping in the air

Who can tell where it will fall?

Through floating forests in the air

'Cross the rolling open sea

Blow a kiss I run through air

Leave the past, find nowhere

Floating forests in the air

Clowns all around you

Clowns that only let you know

Where you let your senses go

Clowns all around you

It's a cross I nead to bear

All this black and cruel despair

This is an emergency

Don't you hide your eyes from me

Open them and see me now

(This song belongs to TATU.)

LeBlanc was more than just mad when she saw all the spheres we had found. After everybody decided to settle down, Brother, Buddy, Shinra and I were the only ones who didn't want to stay somewhere.

We liked the life of sphere-hunters. It was amazing how much you could find out by watching those pieces of the past. But though we liked traveling, we decided to spend the rest of the day in Guadosalam – Shinra even wanted to go see the tunder plains but there was no way I would go there, too.

I wasn't as afraid as before but I still didn't like this place, OK? Brother was… well, what can I say? He was talking to some people and it actually looked like they were having fun.

I sighed before I turned around and stared at the Farplane. 'No more running, Rikku.', I reminded myself and shook my head, walking towards the entrance. I did not like this place but I had to know. I had to know if he was there or not.

I walked slowly but after all I moved. I couldn't stand this place. Too many memories… too much pain… too much suffering. But I needed to know and I needed to know now.

So I entered the Farplane and waited and waited and waited. But no Shuyin in sight. I should have been relieved, right? I wasn't. If he wasn't in the Farplane where the heck was he then?!

This guy made me feel strange, nervous… I felt that there was a special connection but I didn't want to admit it. I, an Al Bhed, should have been the summoner Lenne about 1000 years ago?! What a cruel joke.

I don't really remember how I got back to the Celsius. The next thing I really remember is that Brother laughed about something LeBlanc had said. Something about Nooj. Well, you can't expect us to understand her. She says a lot of stuff I don't understand.

And though I was tired I didn't want to go to sleep. I was afraid I would see him again. Sounds crazy, right? Like a child that stays awake because it's afraid of nightmares. But I couldn't help it. One the one hand I was afraid to see him again but on the other hand… it felt as if I was missing his presence.

Not exactly a good start for a love story, is it?

I can imagine what Cid would say if I told him. He'd think I've gone crazy or something. Not a chance he would even think about the possibility that I could have been a summoner about 1000 years ago and that this summoner's love had found me.

After 1000 years of waiting.

I couldn't imagine how that felt… but I knew how it felt to know that someone was missing. Falling in love means taking a risk. You give your heart to someone and you need to trust him. No trust – no relationship.

Though I tried to stay awake I fell asleep this night. I did not dream at all or at least I don't remember any dreams.

It's not as if I got a whole night to get some sleep anyway. Brother screamed at me and threw me out of my bed to wake me up. For a few seconds, I thought about sleeping on the floor, just to get Brother angrier than he was but I decided against it.

Not even my Brother was crazy enough to wake me up in the middle of the night because he thought it was funny or something. He knew I would kill him if he did so. So I blinked, stared at him and growled: "What do you think you're doing?! I hope you have a reason for waking me up like this!"

"There is someone on the deck!" he said and stared at me.

"Someone on the deck, of course! Why didn't I guess it – if this is some kind of joke, Brother, I'll tell you something: THIS ISN'T FUNNY AT ALL!!!"

"But there is a blonde guy on the deck and he wants to see you!" Brother insisted and stared at me. "Look by yourself if you don't believe me."

"Fine, if I go will you let me go back to bed after I come back because there is no one on the deck and after I repayed you for all this?"

He nodded and I started to walk towards the elevator, pushed the button "deck" and waited.

'A blonde man on the deck…' I thought and shook my head when a thought hit me. 'Shuyin is not in the Farplane… he didn't haunt me in my dreams tonight and Brother says that there is a blonde man on the deck…'

Right then I wanted this elevator to go back to the cabin, go back to bed and don't even come near the deck at all but it was too late.

The door opened and I felt a cold rush of air as I stepped out of the elevator. It was cold during this night and I shivered. I looked around and didn't see anybody.

"OK, Brother, very funny." I murmured. I felt relieved because he wasn't there and that was when a hand touched my shoulder.

"Long time no see, Lenne?"

TBC

Wow, finally another chapter! What do you think??? Read and review! Hey, does anybody want to draw a fanart for this story? A picture of Rikku and Shuyin together? I can't draw people – well, I'm not a good painter at all -