A/N Holy Chocobo! It was so friggin funny to write this chappy!
This is my late birthday present to my friend TheFanFicWriter A.K.A Freelancer91 on Youtube. Because her Tikku video, Stop Loving You was the first Tikku video I saw, and that video inspired me to write his FanFic. And I LOVE this song!!
Hope you guys enjoy this chappy, I think it sooooooooo cute!
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy or the characters or anything; it all belongs to Square Enix. The song Stop Loving You belongs to our favourite group TOTO.
Far Away
Chapter 4 Stop Loving You
Reflections in my mind, thoughts I cant define
My heart is racing and the night goes on
I can almost hear a laugh, coming from your photograph
Funny how a look can share a thousand meanings
Tidus's P.O.V
"I finally found you."
I saw her standing up again, tears streaming down her face.
"Is it really you, or is it a friggin Shuyin again?" She asked.
Shuyin, who the heck is Shuyin. I wondered
"It is me, Tidus; I've been waiting for so long, Rikku. I don't even know how long."
"Three years." I heard her mumble,"You've been away for three whole years." She added with a sniff.
Then I saw her stumbling in nothing and she looked very dizzy, then she gasped and was sent stumbling backwards dangerously near the edge of the dock. I leaped forward and grabbed her around the waist, pulling her close. She looked so tired, she had purple rings around her eyes, and it looks like she had been hardly sleeping for weeks. I just wanted to hold her and never let go.
I looked down at her and saw that she'd passed out, she look so much older, more mature. Three years, things had really changed around here. I brushed her bangs away from her face, and she slowly opened her emerald whirly eyes I've been longing for. She stared deep in my eyes, and then she asked
"Are you real this time? Or will you leave again?" I saw tears rolling down her cheeks again.
"I'm as real as I could be, the Fayth made me human, I'm no longer a dream." I saw her eyes brighten up.
"How do you know?" she asked
Well-intended lies, contemplating alibies
Is it really you, or is it me I'm blaming
A distant memory flashes over me
Even though you're gone, I feel you deep inside
Dance beneath the light with that look in your eyes
/Flashback/
He was surrounded by white light; suddenly a little boy dressed in purple came up to him.
"Tidus" The boy said. Tidus stared at the boy.
"Fayth" He responded.
"Do you recognise this girl?" the Fayth asked him.
Then a window appeared in the white air, in the window, he saw the Macalania woods, and he recognised the spring where he made his life biggest mistake; that's where he had kissed Yuna.
Then he saw a girl with blond hair, he could see her reflection in the water. Tears were streaming down her face. Then she began singing a song.
Then she turned around and he could see her face.
"Rikku!" Tidus cried out.
"She can't hear you" The Fayth said in a sad tone..
"But why is she crying? What happened to her? Tell me!" Tidus yelled at the Fayth.
"You" The Fayth said short.
"What, me? What have I done? I'm here, what could I possibly do?" Tidus yelled again.
"You leaved" The Fayth spoke.
"Yeah that's my fault," Tidus said sarcastic. "This is your fault, it's all your fault, it's your fault why I can't be with Rikku, and it's your fault she's crying. I could' have been with her now, but here I am stuck with you, in this god's forsaken place." Tidus screamed at the Fayth, he was getting very angry now.
It was silence in a few minuets before the Fayth spoke.
"Do you love her?"
"What?" Tidus asked confused.
"Do you love her?" The Fayth repeated.
"I..." Tidus trailed of, he though back. Ever since he jumped of the airplane, his thoughts had been on Rikku. When Yuna said that she loved him, he could not answer, because he didn't love her, he loved Yuna as a sister, but nothing more. He loved...Rikku? Her perky attitude, the way she always made him laugh when he was down. He admired her strength; he loved everything about her.
"Yes I do love her," Tidus said to the Fayth.
"As I thought" The Fayth spoke.
"What would you do for her?" The Fayth questioned.
"I would die for Rikku, which I literary already did." Tidus said seriously.
"Only love this strong could unite those who are separated by distance." The Fayth said.
"Are you being poetic or did you just say that I can go back?" Tidus said hopeful.
Suddenly the white light faded, and Tidus began feel light headed and he fell into the darkness, the last thing he heard before he passed out was: "Time passes quickly and chances are few. Take this chance."
/End of flashback/
I cant stop loving you, time passes quickly and chances are few
I wont stop till I'm through loving you, girl
"Trust me Rikku, I'm real." I looked deep in her eyes; we seemed to stand there forever, enjoying the silence.
We began walking in direction the big sphere screen.
"What did you mean by you missed me? Don't you wanna see Yunie?" I turned to look at her, and she looked hurt.
"Rikku, I never loved Yuna. She's like a sister to me. I had feelings for her, but it was because I had that feeling that I had to protect her, by being more than a friend."
"Oh..." Rikku seemed relieved. "That's kinda good, since she's..." She got cut of by the sphere screen turning on, and Yuna and some other guy appeared on it. I saw Yuna looked up on the guy and then she began talking. "Praetor Baralai and I, High-Summoner Yuna have decided to get married, the wedding will be held three months from today."
I gaped, I just came back, and then I found out that my ex is getting married, I don't have anything against that guy, but he's butt ugly. In addition, he's wearing a dress! However, he looked like an excellent punching bag.
"Who is that guy?" I asked Rikku.
"Baralai, Yuna's fiancé." Rikku answered, looking rather embarrassed.
"How did they meet?" I said trying to change subject.
"Err...we, the Gullwings tried to find...you" I saw she was blushing, so she turned around and continued.
"Baralai is the leader of New Yevon, and when we were on a mission in Bevelle, Yunie met Baralai. And after we defeated Vegnagun, Yunie were sure you were gone forever, so she moved on and began dating Baralai."
Gullwings? Vegnagun? Baralai? What the hell!
"Yevon? I thougth... wasn't...the reason for the whole mess?" I stuttered
"Yeah people are crazy" She replied.
"You were looking for me?" I asked, maybe Rikku feel the same...or maybe she's just lonely.
"First we looked for you, but then we ended up saving Spira again." She smiled at the last words.
There's a window in a heart, I've tried to look through from the start
You're never really sure what someone else is thinking
Someone's broken something new, another altered point of view
Just a certain someone's conscience playing
"You remember I said 'we're going to see you again.' I always thought I was going to see you again! But I almost lost my hope of you coming back again! I though you had forgotten about me and everyone." Rikku said with a tear-chocked voice, and now tears was streaming down her face again.
I hugged her, and I heard a faint sob. She cried in my jacket, and she was hitting my shoulder while I heard a muffled; "You big meanie! How could you leave me?!"
"I would never leave you on purpose, you know." I whispered.
"How did you find me, Tidus?" She sobbed
/Flashback/
Tidus found himself under water, his lungs screaming for air, then he swam up to the surface. He laughed when he realized where he was, outside Luca. He could see the big stadium, and the docks. He began swimming against the empty docks. Then Tidus heard a familiar voice sing, the same person who sang in Macalania. He swam against the voice, then he heard the person say: "Please come back home Tidus..."
"Rikku" He whispered, but she didn't see him because he was in the water. He could see her clearly, even trough the mist. Then he mumbled:
"Through the mist see the face
Of an angel, who calls my name.
I remember you're the reason I have to stay"
She looked so sad, and it was his fault, no correction Fayth's fault. Tidus felt the knot in his stomach tighten. He wanted to see Rikku smile, to laugh and he wanted her to be happy with him. Does Rikku love him, as he loves her? He thought about what the Fayth had said, "Time passes quickly and chances are few. Take this chance."
Then he swam around the dock until he came to a little stair, and climbed up. Then he walked out of the mist over to Rikku.
/End Flashback/
I held it in my hand, I did not understand
What lives inside the wind that cries her name
Tried to catch a shooting star, what seems so close can't be that far
I'm living in a dream that's never ending
"You're voice guided me." I answered her question.
I stood staring at the new sculpture. That one was not there last time I was here.
Rikku had seen what I was staring at and began explaining;
"Yunie raised that sculpture in memory of our sacrifices, she held a speech and she said 'The people and the friends we have lost, or the dreams that have faded...Never forget them.' Yunie meant it was important to remember those who sacrificed themselves for Spira's future..."She trailed of; I noticed she went in a kind a thinking mode. I felt that she was addressing to me when she said; 'remember those who sacrificed themselves for Spira's future.'
It was first now I realized what the sculpture looked like; It was me in the front, holding my brotherhood sword in front of me, with a delighted smirk. To my right was a sculpture of Rikku, leaning on my arm with her claw in front of her, and with a sneaky look on her face.
I remember that Rikku. I sighed; wonder what could cheer her up?
To my left on the sculpture was Yuna, with her same calm expression as always. She was holding her staff up in the air while looking at something up there.
I took Rikku's hand and led her around to the other side of the sculpture, and realized that all the people were standing in a circle. Lulu, Wakka, Auron and Kimahri were the other people in the sculpture, Lulu with her moogle, and Wakka with his blitzball, Auron with his kantana and Kimahri with his spear. Under the circle it was a sign that read; The High-Summoner and her Guardians. And something with a smaller writing I couldn't read in the dark, I crept closer the sign and tried to read the smaller writing, but in vain. Then Rikku said;
What the little writing says is ''the people and the friends we have lost, or the dreams that have faded...Never forget them.'' I heard her sigh.
I turned to Rikku and saw she was in the thinking mode again, gazing at the sculpture.
I have to get her out of that thinking mode thingy, it's not good to think that much, you could end up like Auron. I shuddered, thinking Rikku in a red coat and sunglasses and that scar over the one eye.
Rikku seemed to notice, cause she snapped out of the thinking mode.
"Tidus, you alrigth?" She asked
"Yeah, but you haven't really told me what's been happing these three years." I said a bit lost.
Her eyes widened
"I'm so sorry Tidus, I totally forgot!"
Dance beneath the light with that look in your eyes
I can't stop loving you, time passes quickly and chances are few
I wont stop till I'm through loving you, girl
We wandered around in Luca while Rikku told me everything that had happened the last three years, well not everything, but the most of it. I gaped at some parts, and laughed some places, but then she come to the Shuyin part, as she called it, I saw a tear roll down her cheek. She told me about how they thought Shuyin was me and about Lenne, and how they in the end beat Vegnagun.
When she was done, we realized that we were standing at the same dock we met earlier today. I heard a sniff behind me, and turned around finding Rikku crying again. I know she hated being vulnerable, not being able to defend herself, I knew that feeling and it's not a good one.
The moonlight shined on Rikku's face, and I couldn't help thinking how beautiful she is, I wiped her remaining tears away with my thumb, and I leaned closer so our noses touched. I could feel her warm breath on my skin; I held up her chin with my right hand, leaned in, and kissed her tender lips. I could feel she was surprised, but eventually she relaxed and enjoyed the kiss.
I broke it after a long time and whispered in her ear,
"I Love You Rikku"
I can't stop loving you, time passes quickly and chances are few
I won't stop till I'm through loving you, loving you...
A/N Aww...isn't that just the cutest thing you have ever seen, I mean reading?
Bwhaaha in next chapter, they're gonna meet Yuna, wonder what happens?
Review and say what you think okay! Pleasee..Pretty please with a cherry on the top?
Btw, did anyone notice that Tidus did a Shuyin? You know when Yuna meet Shuyin for the first time in the Farplane.