( You know the routine. I do not own any of SquareSoft/Square Enix and their characters. But, Mr. Shin is mine.)

It had been called Sin, and it was supposedly a curse upon the people of Spira. The summoners would be sent out every time the monster appeared, to try to end its path for a short Calm to come, but the monster would only return, even though years went by for each time it was in remission. And then there was the legendary group of seventeen years ago, the group that defeated Sin, that had actually sent it away for good. But, some things are just too good to be true. Sin had returned, and fear washed over Spira as quickly as the Calm had.

There was talk, that since the aeons had gone after Yuna had first "defeated" Sin, and for a second time in the Shuyin incident. But somehow, once Sin had shown up again, reports fled across Spira, stories of strange lights coming from each of the temples. They had sent different priests into the temples, but they could not even step into the open area before the cloister, for something was pushing them back, as if it only wanted one thing.

"Shin! Come on Shin!" A large wave at first swallowed the boy up, his red hair plastered to his face as he tried to move it, diving underwater and underneath another wave before resurfacing, looking around, trying to find his friend. "Shin! I thought that you said this wasn't going to take so long! Dad said if we want to practice Blitzball, that we can do in the calmer part of the ocean." He sighed, his auburn colored eyes scanning the blue water of Besaid, trying to find his brother.

But as he was looking, a ball slammed into his head, causing his face to hit the water, a stinging sensation would arrive quickly. "Yes! Score one for the Besaid Aurochs score another goal with their star player Shin. His little brother Vindina certainly has a lot to catch up too!" The boy that had been shouting this smiled, his soft silver colored mane also dripping wet as he floated a mere 6 feet away from Vindina. His bright blue eyes held laughter as he began swimming to shore, Vindina following him.

"You are only older by a few months," Vindina retorted once the two boys got to shore.

Shin squatted down and shook out the water in his hair, grabbing a small towel and putting around his head, shaking more of the water out before he stood up again, stretching out his long arms. Standing at five foot eleven, Shin was shorter than his adoptive father Wakka, but he still was much taller than his adoptive mother Lulu. And Vindina was the same, only this one was five foot nine. Both boys were tan from spending their years on the shores of Besaid, playing Blitzball and just relaxing. Even though Sin had returned, and their parents had had experiences first hand with Sin, the boys didn't seem to worried that their fun in the sun would end any time soon. But as they gathered their clothes, Shin wearing a sleeveless white turtleneck like shirt that stuck to his form and black shorts and Vindina with a long sleeved yellow and black shirt complete with belts wrapped around his slightly baggy long shorts, and made their way back to their dwelling, the air seemed different. Vindina looked to the sky, it very dark even though it had been sunny just moments before, holding his blitzball over his head, laughing at his brother. But the laughing stopped once the boys were at the house. Usually, they were accustomed to walking in on their parents either laughing or cooking, but they were both sitting down in the area with many multicolored blankets and pillows. There was also a woman there, and a blonde man to her right. He recognized the pair as Yuna and Tidus, his parents good friends. But the thing was, they never came down to Besaid. They were usually traveling together.

"Something going on here," Shin asked, stopping at the doorway, his brother bumping into him in the back.

Tidus, Lulu, Wakka, and Yuna all looked to him, their expressions all the same. "Shin," his mother Lulu spoke softly, just like she had always done. "Vindina. Please, sit down. We need to talk."

Shin looked back to his brother who gave him a shrug and then the pair walked in, Vindia sitting on Wakka's other side and Shin sitting between Yuna and his mother. "What happened?"

"Shin, remember when you went into the temple a few weeks ago?" his mother asked softly.

Shin nodded. He remembered it, and he remembered it well. He and Vindina had been practicing when Vindina had kicked the ball a bit to hard, sending it near the temple. Shin had run over to get the ball, but when he stopped by the temple, everything around him had just slowed down, and all he focused on was the temple and its cold breeze passing over him. At this point, he had blacked out, waking up on the ground with Vindina freaking out above him. Shin had later been told that he began muttering phrases in tongues before stepping into the temple. And he did it with ease, not being pushed back before he had blacked out. And surprisingly, after he had achieved this, the others in Besaid were able to walk as far as Shin had walked, and they did so, taking Shin out of the temple and back to his dwelling to rest. But after the incident, he had noticed that he had been getting a lot more eyes than natural; for because of his oddly colored hair and eyes, he was always looked at strangely. "Yeah, why?"

Yuna's eyes widened. "You mean that you went into the temple?"

Shin shrugged. "I guess so. Why does it matter? Was I not supposed to?"

Yuna glanced to Tidus, who did the same back to her. Tidus looked to Lulu. "You never said that he did that."

Lulu shook her head. "I didn't think that it was that important."

"Lulu," Yuna spoke, leaning over the table. "He is the only one that can." She sighed, shaking her head. "Did you tell him how you found him?"

"What do you mean 'found him?'" Shin looked from Yuna to Lulu. "You said that my parents were good friends of yours and that they left me in your care before they died at sea."

Wakka put a hand on Lulu's shoulder. "No. That isn't how it happened Shin."

Shin eyed his mother before turning to see his father. "What do you mean? Where am I from? Who am I?"

Vindina shook his head, confused as well. "You are my brother Shin. That is who you are."

Shin looked to his brother. "That wasn't what I meant. I meant who are my birth parents then?"

Lulu stood up and walked to another side of the room, pulling out a dirty piece of parchment and handing it to Wakka who sighed before handing it to Shin.

Shin looked down onto the paper, and it had the phrase "Drec Ec..." on it, but the last bit was too smudged to see what it had once been. "This is? This is what? What does that mean?"

"We found it on you, written on your forehead the day that we found you," Yuna spoke. "The day that Sin was destroyed. The day that you washed ashore."

((Okay... in my head, this story will be cool. And I promise I will finish this one. It is going to be long though.))