Here it is, my first attempt at Final Fantasy X fanfiction. I did Star Wars for a long time, but feel the need to try this one. I have not played X-2 but I do have seen all videos of it. Now for this one FFX should be enough, as it is an alternate ending. It is based on what I first thought would happen, there when I had just begun the game.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of these wonderful characters of Final Fantasy, neither anything else of it.

Note: Forget all you've seen after the encounter with Lady Yunalesca... or maybe not everything...

Binding

Do you believe in the afterworld

or the after life?

Do you agree there's a place for us

beyond our life

When the timeless call for life

is lost and you will see

the forgotten dreams

that you once had become reality...

- Afterlife (Land of the free), Gamma Ray

Yuna did know what would happen soon. She would get the Final Aeon. Running, running, running she was, behind Khimari who was leading the way through Zanarkand Ruins. Behind her, she could clearly sense Tidus' running footsteps. Dear Tidus, strong within his emotions, still thinking, but every few minutes abandonning in despair any possibilities of keeping Yuna alive, with him. And strangely, with that had died the hope of seeing Zanarkand, his Zanarkand, again. Yuna, somehow, did know all of this. Shiva, the cold but sensible at the same time Shiva, had transmitted that thought to Yuna while in the fight against Seymore up there in the snowy moutain. How could the female Aeon know ? Yuna had at first been speechless about it, but then she paid attention to Tidus and saw it all, all in his charming eyes. Quite troubled eyes though. Still inconsciously, but surely sad eyes.

Soon they where there, in the hall before the Final summoning, Lady Yunalesca having appeared for the first time. And that was then, with head bowed to all her gardians, that Yuna, as her father before her, got ready for her destiny. The fayth where busy relating stories of the past, as Yuna, maybe for the last time, took on her to say the terrifying words Tidus had not at all been waiting to hear.

As Yuna took deep breaths, swallowing the cry she didn't want to show to her friends, Tidus hold back his own breath, remembering in his mind keeping Yuna in his arms, in the water of Macalania Woods. Like a spell, conjuring the bad eye, playing again and again in his head the kiss between both, the one that bonded them for ever, yet condemning one of them to eternal sorrow, for the Final Aeon was going to be. And Tidus would wander around Spira, away in the time from home, without his lost-to-be Lady.

"Tidus"

The word had fallen loudly in Tidus' memory of the kiss. He had lost a part of the few minutes that just had passed. Opening his eyes, he locked them on Yuna's ones. The green and the blue one. Sky and sea. Calm and hope. How ironic had she to die to bring these to Spira's people. She blinked.

"Yes ? " Tidus whispered as if afraid of the echo that could bring back this positive yet questionning answer.

Yuna turned her look around the group and words flowed through her.

"Everyone... I have decided. Each of you has offered, in a way or another, to be my accompanying guardian through the end. And for that, I am thankful, for my pilgrimage was not easy, and your destiny, shall I choose you, would be set. But this is mine only to achieve, and each of you must have so many great things yet to see. Our fate, and our beliefs were shaken on this journey. This is why I can't let anyone die for things that have no more matter to them. I am doing this, because I promised and gave many hopes to he people we met."

Everyone nodded, eager of anxiousness to know who she has chosen. And the forever young summoner for she would never gain age let out in a breath:

"So this is why, like I said, I am choosing Tidus for my Final Aeon."

Auron exclaimed one of his famous "Humpf" to this announcement. The others, even knowing they would not transform, were shaken, depressed a little, since they knew this was the end. Yuna's eyes met with those of Tidus, whose expression strangely, took a sereine frown. A loving frown. That was it then. The ultimate way through inevitable, a death binded together. Then, Tidus thought of Jecht. So he saw himself following the footsteps he always pledge to never follow. The eternity, until death, or destruction. How odd. Was that not a cruel tradition, for a world, to give up to sorrow and agression a guardian who pledge his life to go against it ?

"Yes. Odd."

Yuna thought the same.

"As Lady Yunalesca said, I must have a strong bond with my chosen guardian. I do. I love him."

Everyone almost jumped out of surprise. The revelation had fallen. Though it was showing, they didn't expect the summoner to publish it. Then Tidus contained himself to speak, one last time.

" I have been here a stranger, then a stranger from time not from land. And now with probably no chance to go back to Zanarkand, mine... even more without Yuna... this must be the good way."

Tidus smile, turned to the group and bowed to them, as a last good bye without words, then turned back to Yuna. She hugged everyone. Wakka, Lulu, Khimarhi, even Sor Auron, and finally Rikku, who didn't want to let go of Yuna. Then, Tidus took heYuna's hand gently in his, going straight to the door. Facing the unknown.

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NOTE: This story will have a second part, at least. Enjoy for now, but I will wait till I have three reviews to post the next as I am very busy these days and won't write it unless many seem to appreciate.