Myl: Hey, hey, hey! It's me! This is the revised "Wakka's True Love". Yeah, sure, it's really different, but I'm trying a new writing style.so, please R & R! Oh yeah.and enjoy! Nicki (Myl's friend and her muse): What a dork.like she said, enjoy!

I Love You, Always Forever
Chapter One: New Faces
"Yo!" a young, 14 yr old Wakka yelled as he shot a blitzball in the direction of his 13 yr old brother, Chappu. "Try catchin' that one, ya?" he yelled as the ball flew way past Chappu and an amused 13 yr old Lulu sat in her old look (A black tank top she was smaller then, black tight flared jeans and black boots). She laughed as it hit water, way out on the ocean.

"Sorry, Wakka, who's getting it now?" Chappu asked, smiled and itching the back of his head humiliated slightly.

"I don't think we'll have to worry about that, ya?" Letty said pointing out to the ocean where a girl was already walking back to shallow waters, carrying the ball in her hands. The girl looked at everyone as soon as she reached the sandy beach. Wakka merely stared at the beautiful sight in front of him.

She had light brown-blonde hair that was held up in a ponytail that reached her mid-back with two light blonde side-bangs that reached her jaw bone; she was wearing a black t-shirt that went down just below her belly button showing how very thin she was; she was wearing long black jeans, almost skin tight, but not quite; normal black running shoes on her feet. She had double pierced ears and a pierced belly button.

"Shina, coory masina, kono lina?" she seemed to ask in an angry tone. Wakka was stunned at her; she stared at him with light-blue swirled Al Bhed eyes.

"A Yevonite speaking Al Bhed?" Wakka asked.

"You speak Common English then? I feel so relieved. You understood what I said then?" she asked Wakka, smiling, only being as tall as his chin.

"Yes, everyone here speaks 'Common English' and yes, I do know what you said, but only my brother and I know. so please, don't repeat it in English." Chappu said for Wakka, trying to grab the ball from her.

"Do I know you from somewhere?" she asked, moving her hands and the ball out of the reach of Chappu. "Oh yeah, that's right, amazingly you guys crushed the Al Bhed Psyches and I at this years tournament." She said, giving a regretful look to the Blitzball.

"Hey, we were surprised too." Lulu said, coming around, the girl looked up and smiled at Lulu giving her a surprised look. "Yes I know...I haven't changed one bit have I?"

"Since 3 months ago? Not at all, Lu! If anything you're looking better!" the girl exclaimed moving back a tiny bit. Chappu stared at her, remembering her from somewhere else and out of nowhere, surprising everybody, he did a Yevon Respect bow.

"Lady Clariesse.I'm sorry I didn't recognize you earlier." Chappu said keeping his head bowed, Wakka stared dumbstruck.

"Stop it, kid, please, you're embarrassing me!" she said very sarcastically. "Anyway, I HATE being called that just because I accompanied Braska on his journey and because I'm a failure summoner! Darn!"

"Oh, sorry! Forgive me miss-" he stopped as Clariesse gave him this dirty annoyed look.

"You're La-, Clariesse?" Wakka said. She nodded giving him half the look she gave Chappu. She half-smiled as she threw the blitzball back at Letty.

"Yeah, I am." Clariesse said, and there was a long awkward silence until Chappu suggested they head back toward the village, everyone agreed and followed him back to the village except Wakka and Clariesse.

"Don't lag too far behind, guys!" Lulu called back starting to run ahead to catch up with Chappu. Clariesse stared at the ground then turned around, staring out to the ocean.

"How did you get here, ya?" Wakka asked as they started to walk. "And, where were you before this?"

"Well, erm I've been at Home" she looked at him nervously. "The Al Bhed Home, you wouldn't know where that was obviously." she was talking very nervously, Wakka noticed as she continued. "Anyway I've been there since three months ago and before that I was on Braska's pilgrimage and before that I was living at the Al Bhed Home, having never seen any other part of Spira and, and, there's nothing else of interest besides that." She said that last part as a final thought on that subject.

"Sorry that I, I was being kind of, nosy, sorry, ya?"

"Hey, it's no problem really."

"I hope you don't take losing this years tournament to harshly."

"Oh! No, no, not at all, in fact. It's good to lose every now and then, so that you're able to feel defeat some time in your life." she said smiling.

"You seem really, really uptight, ya?"

"Oh, too uptight for a lazy laid back backwater island born Yevonite?" she said rudely, taking offense from what he said, thinking he was dissing the Al Bhed.

"Calm down ok? I didn't mean to offend you." he said, putting a hand on her shoulder feeling how tense she was and as soon as he touched her he felt her shoulder relax and she stared at him. He took his hand off quickly and she stared at the ground, smiling to herself, he noticed.

"Is this Besaid Village?" she asked as they made their way into the village.

"Sure is, um, too small?"

"No! I love it" she sighed "it's so quiet and peaceful, not knowing the problems of the outside worlds and races, not knowing fear of anything but Sin returning, it's so nice." she said looking sadly at her feet.

"Do you, um, pray?" he asked, not wanting to offend her again.

"Yeah, you have a temple?" Clariesse asked and he pointed to the temple. "Will you come with me since I'm Al Bhed. I don't want to upset anybody and I'm sure people know you and if people know you then they won't really stare at me and, and-"

"It's ok, ya?" Wakka said, reassuringly putting his hands on her shoulders and pushing her towards the temple. As soon as they were in the temple, she walked quickly to the High Priest and did the Yevon bow, not even looking at him.

"I see, an Al Bhed," the Priest said quietly.

"Forgive me. I'll leave then."

"No, no, the Besaid Temple accepts any follower of Yevon, of any race." The Priest replied.

"Really? Oh, thank you, do you mind if I, er."

"Ah, a summoner." there was a flood of whispers after the Priest said that and little Yuna came running with another little girl out from one of the side rooms.

"So you're a summoner? You don't look any different from any of us.did you know my daddy?" little Yuna asked many questions and Clariesse only smiled and nodded as the Priest stepped aside and Clariesse entered the Cloister of Trials. Wakka only stared befuddled. He left the temple to go find Chappu.

"Hey, Wakka, what do ya say we-" Wakka cut Chappu off explaining what had just happened at the temple.

"I know, Wakka, you're sure nervous, you like her don't you?"

"Wakka? Like who?" Lulu asked coming in.

"Clariesse." Chappu said.

"Really?" Lulu said excitedly giggly.

"NO!" Wakka said as Clariesse came out from behind Lulu. "That was really quick for the Cloister and the Fayth."

"I know, it's not hard for me anymore, especially when the Fayth calls me." everyone stared at her as she just stood there. "Could, uh, I, uh, talk to Wakka?" she asked as everyone still continued to stare. Chappu shoved Wakka forward, smiling his head off. He stepped outside with her and she grabbed his arm, quickly dragging him over to the Temple. "Wakka, I just realized who you are. Can you think back to about 7 months ago on while Braska was on his Pilgrimage and you were wandering around the outskirts of the city of Luca and you ran into a really, really giant Zu and some girl in a white cape saved you and walked away and only said 'Help comes in all forms, even from a stranger.' In reply to you saying 'thank you.'"

Wakka gasped and stared her in the face. "It's you! It was you that saved my life! You, you, I owe you-"

"You owe me nothing at all." Clariesse cut him off as he smiled at her. "You owe me nothing."

"There has to be something I can do for you, something, anything."

"Well you could. No, that is just stupid."

"No, what is it? Anything."

"Will you. Could you let me stay with you until, until I can go back to the Al Bhed Home?"

"Of course. Anything I can do this very second in the meanwhile?"

"Um, can I, have a hug?" she asked rather timidly as he looked down at her his face with an odd expression on it. "Never mind it was a stupid question anyway." she turned away and started to walk towards the beach when Wakka stepped right after her, locking her arms around her from behind, resting his head on her head, she brought her hands up to his arms and rested them there. She smiled and whispered to him.

"Thank you, Wakka." she said turning in his arms and resting her head on his chest hugging him back and walking away after that. He decided to slowly follow, just to watch her. She only left to sit out by the ocean talking quietly to herself. He caught a few things from her.

"I know you are out there somewhere and I will join you someday, but why did you have to go after Yunalesca you crazy, crazy guy. I will not forget you ever and I will find you, no matter what just wherever you are I'm saying this now.you better be finding a way to watch over that little kid, you promised Jecht. I know what you're thinking, 'Yeah well, what about you', well, I can't find a way yet so I've decided to help watch over Yuna. I hope to meet you again someday, goodbye my friend." she said, standing and doing a respective bow and wiping tears from her eyes when Wakka tapped her on the shoulder.

"Hey, you ok, ya?"

"Oh, yeah, I'm fine, um, Wakka." she gulped, "No offense, but do you think I could be alone for awhile?"

"Sure.dinner is at 7 so don't be late!" he said as if to cheer her up. She smiled as he walked away. 'He's really nice, and cute at that.' she thought to herself as she looked out at the ocean.

It was around 7 when Clariesse finally came back to the hut, the corner of her mouth bleeding slightly. Wakka turned around and saw what had happened.

"Clariesse! What happened, who did this to you?" Lulu started to question, Clariesse held her hand up to silence Lulu. Looking around at the people who were sitting around the hut, (Chappu, Lulu, and Wakka), she smiled.

"Thank you for your concern, but it's really nothing you should concern yourselves with, really, it's ok." she reassured everyone as they sat back down.

"Well, dinners ready!" Chappu said smiling, putting out small bowls of soup.

"You didn't have to make one for me." Clariesse said blushing a bit.

"Well, we did, so come here, sit down and eat up!" Lulu said taking a bite of her soup and smiling. Wakka patted the pillow on the ground next to his pillow that he was sitting on. She came over and sat down very unusually.

"You know you really didn't have to-"

"Calm down, Clariesse, we have a ton in this hut that needs to be eaten anyway, eat up!" Chappu said putting a bowl in front of her.

"Um, thank you," she said very oddly, picking up her spoon.

"No prob, besides! What are friends for?" Wakka said, stopping at the look on Clariesse's face. "Did I say something wrong?" he said, looking questioningly at Lulu and Chappu who were also very befuddled by how Clariesse had jumped at that. Wakka looked back at Clariesse who was now staring at her soup bowl very attentively.

"Clariesse, what's wrong?" Lulu asked.

"Nothing, it's just, friends huh?" she asked, looking at Wakka. He nodded and Lulu and Chappu did also.

"Why do you ask?" Lulu asked.

"It's just, that's really, the first time a non-Al Bhed ever called me that and well," she looked at him, "I'm not used to it."

"Well, get used to it! Cause I have a feeling that you're gonna be called that a lot from now on!" Chappu said agreeably. She smiled and continued to eat her soup, finishing at the same time as Wakka, as her, Wakka, and Chappu had silently started this small eating contest.

"Beat you again, Chappu!" Wakka said.

"Hey, she was right behind you Wakka, you better watch out it looks like you have competition!" Chappu said laughingly.

"Bedtime?" Lulu said hopefully, giving Chappu puppy-dog eyes, being as it was now 10-o-clock, amazingly.

"Sure." Chappu said as Clariesse got up to leave and go back to the house in the woods. Wakka grabbed her hand.

"You shouldn't go out there this late, you can go back in the morning if you want."

"Where should I stay then?" she asked looking back at Wakka.

"You stay here with Wakka, me and Lulu sleep in the next hut anyway." Chappu said, leaving with Lulu, both saying a simple 'goodnight' to the two.

"I'll sleep on the floor if you want." she said, blushingly.

"No, you can sleep on the bed, I'll sleep on the floor, hop up." he said patting the bed, (which was bigger than the one you see later in the RPG). As she was sitting on the bed watching him stretch as a blitzer would before bed. She smiled, just watching him.

"Wakka, I'd rather, as odd as it may seem, that we both sleep on the bed, cause, you obviously don't want me sleeping on the floor and I don't want you to either so, yeah."

"If it's what you want. Sure, I hope you don't mind, I usually only sleep in boxers cause I usually don't have company."

"It's ok, my brother does that and we used to have to sleep in the same bed."

"Are you gonna sleep like that?" Wakka asked pulling off his blitz gear "What do you have on underneath that?"

"A bikini top and boxers."

"You're free to sleep like that or in whatever you are used to sleeping like."

"Well, then I'd want you to at least sit on the bed and look away so I don't feel like I'm, yeah."

"Ok." so, in his boxers Wakka sat on the bed and looked at the wall of the tent. Feeling slightly awkward he peeked over his shoulder to watch her take her pants and shirt off, he looked at her body, thin and perfectly proportioned. Long slim legs, a beautiful torso, and thin arms. She was so perfect to him, in every way.

He turned away quickly as she turned to look at him. Walking over she sat on the bed next to him.

"Ok." she smiled as he moved to one side of the bed and laid down facing away from her. She turned and laid back, her head hitting the pillow softly. She didn't fall asleep immediately, but turned onto her side, facing away from Wakka. She closed her eyes for a second and woke up, looking at the clock, it was 3 in the morning, she heard movement behind her and felt an arm slip around her waist and pull her towards. Wakka.

She didn't even try fighting it; she was in a state of shock.

"Wakka, are you awake? Wakka?" she asked. As there was no response, she just turned over in his arms, to face him. Wakka woke up and realized where he was, immediately pushing back away from her making her jump and roll out of the bed, hitting the ground, making a small noise of pain. Wakka tumbled back into the wall of the tent and fell between the tent and the bed.

"Wakka! Are you ok?" she questioned hopping up on the bed to help him out of his spot.

"I, I'm fine." he said, looking at her in shock. She pulled off the bed and looked at the ground in an ashamed sort of way. She quickly pulled her pants on and looked at him.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" she said to him in a frightened sort of way. He got off the bed walking over to her and putting his arms around her. He held her even as she cried.

"It's ok, I should be sorry, usually I'm hugging a pillow, and I guess in my sleep I forgot you were there, and, and."

"I shouldn't have rolled over." she looked up at him and they stared at each other for a moment. He leaned down right as she leaned up and they kissed. She pulled away first and smiled at him, he looked at her surprised. She broke away from him and walked over to the bed, lying down in her original spot. He ran and jumped onto the bed landing behind her, putting his arms around her.

Things stayed that way until about 5 years later. Clariesse stepped out of the little hut, dressed as she used to be, just a tiny bit taller and less Al Bhed-ish. She wondered where everyone was and started to wander towards the Temple when Wakka and Lulu came walking out of it, looking devastated.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"Chappu, he's. Crusaders fight. Al Bhed Machina." was all that Wakka could say.

"Oh no, don't let it be." Clariesse started when Lulu nodded. "Oh, forgive me! Forgive my race!" she yelped at them.

"No, you used the forbidden machina, you think I could forgive your race for that as a first? Then what about Chappu dying because he used it?" Wakka stated.

"Oh, so now you hate me because my race did something that Yevon didn't like and I didn't have any authority to stop them anyway?" she shouted.

"EXACTLY!" Wakka shouted back.

"I tried to stop them, I really did."

"You knew about this?" Wakka asked as she nodded gravely and looked up at him. Then, it came, right when she didn't expect it. She fell to the ground, not even able to get up. Wakka had gotten her right in the jaw, she didn't even look up at him as Lulu and he walked away.

"I'm sorry," she mumbled in pain. Standing up she walked to his hut right behind them as they entered to get her backpack. Wakka stared at her as she came in. "I'm only here to grab my backpack and go, ok? Unless you want to try and hit a girl again." She said very rudely. He stood up and made a move to hit her when she spun around to face him and in a split second hit him harder than he hit her with both fists with her chain-belted gloves in two different places. One fist in his stomach, the other right in his jaw like he hit her.

"Now remember that you deserved that for hitting a poor Al Bhed girl, Chappu would be ashamed!" she said very alarmed that he might just jump up and hit her again. She grabbed her backpack and ran out of the hut and was never seen by him again.

All right! I hope you enjoyed that, like I said, R & R! The next chapter will be up really soon! My muse is running on high today! (Nicki snores somewhere in the background)