Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story, Square does. Though I wish that I was apart of it.

Fujin was the first to awaken, her vision slightly unfocused and fuzzy. She wiped her eye and when her vision focused she saw the familiar color of Rinoa's jacket, the color reminding her of the sky. Fujin closed her eye in stress and said with one word,

"RELIEF…" Rinoa smiled at Fujin's answer to the whole incident. She walked closer to the bed Fujin was lying on and said softly,

"Just to let you know… everything that happened yesterday, you and Zell are both fine. Zell was a little bit harder to cure because of that abnormal petrification of his lungs that almost made him suffocate… other than that he is cured… you can both go…" Rinoa smiled as Fujin tried to sit up and when she did, she noticed that everyone that Zell knew from their great adventure was sitting in the same room as Rinoa, staring at Fujin.

"BUSY…" Fujin said as she stared into the eyes of the other hyperactive person of the group, Selphie, comfortably sleeping in Irvine's arms, a small smile of contentment. Fujin felt a pull of feeling in the pit of her stomache at the sight and quickly averted her eyes, only to look into the face of Squall.

"Listen Fujin… I'm sorry that the creatures from the high level area sneaked into the lower level. The idea of a higher level area was my entire idea and if you want to quit the job because of my stupidity I completely understand…"

"FINE…TELL ZELL…" Fujin said in hopes that no one saw right through her. She saw at the corner of her eye that Rinoa had a ghost of a smile on her face at what she had heard and Fujin promised herself that she would ask how much she knew about her private affairs. Everyone then watched as Fujin got up on her two feet, and winced as her feet touched the cold floor.

"ZELL.WHERE?" Fujin said indifferently, her usual demeanor now returning in full force. Selphie just smiled and said in her sleep,

"Next… door…" Irvine just combed his fingers into her hair, making her purr right back into sleep. Fujin just nodded and said to everyone as she headed towards Zell's room in nothing more than a hospital gown,

"THANKS. SEE YOU…" and closed the door behind her.

No one knew what to make of what they had just seen. Fujin; going into Zell's room by herself in nothing but a hospital gown. Everyone in the room just shook it off. Maybe she just wanted to make sure that he was okay. Rinoa just smiled and said to her knight in a jealous tone,

"You know that's the most you've ever said in one sentence… you don't talk that much to me…" Squall instantly Scratched the back of his head as he tried to explain his sudden change of attitude but then stopped himself and said with a sinister smile,

"I don't know about that; but you scream loud enough for the both of us Rinny…" Rinoa couldn't believe that came out of the man who represented self control just said something about her their sex life. Her face was bright red and while everyone was laughing at her reaction, Squall just smiled at her and said in her ear,

"I know I'm going to pay for that later Angel… and I can't wait for the punishment…" just to help her understand what he was meaning; he licked her earlobe and pinched her butt, making her blush Bright red. She eyed him as her anger dissipated without her permission.

"That's not fair Squall… I thought I was the Sorceress…" Rinoa said trying to calm her raging blush only to hear Irvine say with a small laugh as he carried Selphie away,

"I guess you're not the only one who can weave spells are you?"

Meanwhile, Fujin was staring at the body that slept in the bed in front of her in the corner of the room, the early morning sun slowly peeking through the hospital blinds. She slowly walked away and felt her heart race as she moved closer to him, her breath slightly labored. She stood at the side of the bed, staring at Zell's face, the same pull at her chest making it more present than before. She grabbed the metal bar at the side of the bed and wrapped it around the bar, the cold metal soothing her nerves somewhat. It was then that she finally let be known to herself s she stared into his face, the sun hitting it just right, making his skin look golden.

When she first saw him, she thought exactly Seifer said when he first met him. That he was a loud mouthed, impulsive, bundle of energy that never ran out. But then as time passed by, she got to get a glimpse of him through out the adventure to stop the sorceress from the future commit time compression. But that was just the beginning. She had somehow grown affection to him, even though she knew he never looked at her that way. Fujin then looked to her side and saw the mirror that was hanging on the wall. She then slowly removed her patch, only to lightly trace the dark scar that ran over her eye, its color clashing with her pale skin, effectively closing that eye forever. She sighed painfully and put back the patch that covered that eye and went back to looking at Zell. His eyebrows were knit together in what looked like anger. Anger. That's what she wanted to feel right now, so that she can squash this stupid affection she has for this hyperactive person. But something inside chest ached madly whenever she tried to fight the feeling, it feeling like the equivalent of denying a dehydrated man water. And the most startling thing; was the thing producing the emotions was something that she thought was long dead.

…Her heart…

Fujin bit her bottom lip as she stared into the face of the man that selflessly put his life in the line…for her. She slowly moved a hand towards Zell's face, and slowly moved her hand towards his hair. Fujin closed her eyes as she tried to commit the feeling into memory. Her pianist-like fingertips touched the bangs of Zell's blonde hair and she gasped at how soft it felt against the skin of her fingers. She closed her eye and relished the feelings that were coursing through her body as her fingers touched his skin for the first time. To Fujin, there was nothing softer in the universe than Zell's skin, and it wasn't like he lived in a bubble either, he was the most outgoing person in the world and that when she finally realized why she steadily falls in love with him. It was the fact that he lived the way that she wished she did, but the shadows of her depression would never allow it. She opened her eye and watched the way that his broad chest moved as he slept, the bandages wrapped around his abs slightly bloody due to the wounds that he had sustained during that battle not too long ago. Then something inside her as whispering something small.

"Touch him…" the voice in the deep recesses of her mind said, its voice poison to her mind but sweet to her heart. She tried to hard to fight the urges that were fighting to dictate her body. She slowly bent her neck down and closed her eye again as the smell of Zell's skin making her exhale shakily. He smelled like light cinnamon and a small tinge of what could only be called the scent of a man. She then slowly moved her head down, her silver hair hanging slightly down as she moved. When Fujin put her head on Zell's chest, she almost bit her bottom lips clear off.

Zell was so warm… she unconsciously moved her cheek against Zell's warm skin, the mixture of his scent and feel making her heart beat a mile per minute. She couldn't believe what she doing, but it felt so good. She felt her eye sting as a tear fell away form her eye.

"THIS… can't happen…" Fujin said, her usual stoic voice changed for the first time, her true voice shining through. She raised her head and wiped her eye, desperately trying to will herself away from the person she loved…

"NO...I don't love him… it's just infatuation, nothing more than that…" She then slowly walked away, her eyes watery as she left the room, her eye puffy and swollen as she kept telling herself, beating her emotions into submission and scarring her heart,

"I can never fall in love… I am emotionless…"