The Hardships of Life and Love

Ch. 1 Long Lost Love

Disclaimer: All I own is my Replay Card and you can all kiss my ass cuz there's no way you're getting it! Also, if I owned the game this would have really happened and Rinoa would've died a horrible death! .

Warnings: I'm new, I can't spell worth crap, I hate Rinoa, and I love Yaoi...anything I forget..my bad.

My grey trenchcoat fluttered softly in an - almost nonexistant - draft as I stood near the sorcess. It was all over. All Gardens were taken over - all nations combined and ruled over - all governments were gone. The planet seemed dead. No one stirred for fear of upsetting their ruler.

Ultimecia had won and taken over the world.

Sefier sighed. Ultimecia had no need to fully control his mind anymore; he had nowhere to go. She controlled where he went and what he did but she no longer influenced his thoughts - she had no reason to.

Thoughts of a battle - the last, final, battle - came into Sefier's mind. The battle that centered around two men with matching scars. Both had weilded Gunblades and he could still see the sparks as they clashed together.

Then the blinding light came, light that was focused on his counterpart - weakening him almost to the point of death. Then the command. Finish him. He had obeyed.

He brought his Gunblade down into the other's chest, while starring at the wide blue eyes he had always mistoken for grey.

As he drew out his blade, preparring to strike again - for the other man - his dark counterpart that was on the light side, 'the good guy' - was still alive, another blinding flash of light shot toward the injured man. Once the light had dimmed away, Sefier could see his counterpart was gone.

With their leader dead - for he had to be, with multiple wounds, many of which were lethal, and Ultimecia's attack that caused the man to dissappear, there was no way he could have surrvived - the SeED team gave up. They all allowed themselves to be taken away to serve under under Ultimecia.

All but Rinoa, that is.

She walked up o Ultimecia proclaiming she, to, was a sorcress and should not be treated so. Ultimecia allowed her to become part of her "army," which was made up of monsters, SeEDs, soliders, and a few others.

Rinoa now follows Sefier everywhere. It was starting to annoy him. Everything about her annoyed him. She stood off to one side - watching - as her leader, the one she kept proclaiming she loved, was killed unfairly.

Her leader, his counterpart. An unknown emotion stirred within him. A few GF's cried out at it. GFs...he had taken them from his counterpart for some unknown reason. He did not use them - only when he had to - but they were his counterpart's. That fact alone drove him to take them before Ultimecia could.

That earilier 'draft' had picked up into a howling wind.

"What is the meaning of this!" Ultimecia shreaked. My gaxe snaped up from the floor to see a man walk toward Ultimecia, upon her throne - myself being on that throne - in that throne "room" that over looked Dulet City.

A man. A man wearing black leather pants with buckles running down his legs. A man wearing a loose black sweater and a large black coat. A man, limply, holding a sliver Gunblade at his side. A man wearing a 'Y' chain with Greiver on the end. A man with a scar and blue eyes, blue eyes that stared straight at Ultimecia. Blue eyes of Hatered.

/Squall/

The man, Squall, kept walking forward. Those eyes, full of Hatered I never even dreamed they could hold, staring at the sorcess. Something she would not accept.

"I don't know how you surivied but you will die for this disrespect!" Ultimecia hissed. Oh, yes. The sorcess was pissed. Finish him! She yelled into my mind.

I frowned but started to step foward when Rinoa rushed in. "Squall!... How are you still alive!" She seemed nervous and rushed to my side, latching herself to my arm - much to my annoyance.

"Well it doesn't matter, I will never go with you. I'd rather be here with Sefier!" She said it all in a mocking tone. Until she noticed Squall was ignoring her so she huffed and started yelling. "Did you hear! Poor little lost Squally just can't get over me! Hahaha!" My annoyance peaked and I shoved her off my arm.

"Shut up you foolish girl. Sefier...Kill him."

I rushed foward at Ultimecia's command. Something was not right. I raised Hyperion and noticed what was "not right." This whole time Squall had stared stright at Ultimecia and from the suprise and fear in his eyes, had neither seen nor heard us - hence the fear. it scared me too.

Squall brought his Revolver up as I brought my Hyperion down. Both men pushed against the locked Gunblades. This allowed Sefier to get a closer look at Squall. His leather pants that should have hugged his legs hung loose. His sweater bunched up in the front showing protruding bones. His black coat - longer than his bomber jacket, though not by much - hung off his frame. His hair was longer, yet still slightly spikey.

Squall's whole being radiated exhaustion. He was far to skinny to be healthy and I couldn't figure out how he was fending off my Gunblade. Of course, at that time he started sliding backward from the pressure I was pushing against him.

/I'm going to really kill him this time.../

His eyes started to blaze as he threw all his weight against Hyperion and myself. He had somehow gathered enough strength to throw me a few yards away from him. Now he started to sway and I feared he would drop where he stood.

I was wrong. Squall took an unsteady steep foward followed by another and another until he was stumbling toward Ultimecia.

He was so weak it made me want to rush to him, grab him and tell him none of it was real - block him from the pain in his eyes. Things I could find no reason why I felt I should do them.

Squall stumbled on. Upon closer inspecion Sefier was able to see Squall was mummbling something. Squall's Gunblade started glowing and somehow Squall looked even weaker.

To my amazement Squall broke into an all out sprint as Ultimecia rose up preparing an attack of her own. She launched lethal crystal shards at Squll only to have them shattered against a light barrier that had formed around Squall.

Squall charged foward, light now swirling around his Gunblade. He pulled down Revolver with so much force the sorcess barely had enough time to scream brfore she was oblitered.

After which, Squall promply passed out, along with his light show.

Note: yeah. So. I'm new. This is my first story posted and I would appreciate some love. .. and so would my cat . Also, Squall's pants are Leon's from Kingdom Hearts. Poor Squall! They messed his face UP in that game! Great game tho. Drop me a line!).

PS. Yeah I don't have/can't find Spell check so... bear w/me.