A/N: I know the last chapter was a bit...crazy. But I was on writers block and I've been trying to search for some ideas, cause all I could get my mind on is ideas for this chapter and writing out my ideas down for the Book Seven: Time of my Avatar stories. But trust me, all you HopexVanille's out there are gonna enjoy this. All this waiting and think has got me for an ultimate idea to do for this chapter. It's all come down to this, at the Yuna Akimura concert. Any of you LightningxHope's out there (Who see them as a couple) you all might wanna walk away, unless you wanna suffer:

Craziness, fainting, nashua, smelly feet, being thirsty, sweating, amnesia, dumbnesia, harassing the author, lack of sleep, bieber fever, screaming, uncontrollable crying, weird cravings, spine loss, disabled legs, seeing rainbows, madness, tasting colors, hearing ghosts, toe fungus, crushing on Miley Cyrus/Justin Bieber, itching, and strange dreams.

With special guest star: Yuna from FFX/X-2

Vanille and Hope make their way to the concert. It's not very far, so they were able to walk. It's really no other choice since Hope is too young to drive and Vanille isn't licensed. Of course they could ride to the concert on Chocobo, but it doesn't matter.

When they arrive at the concert, the parking lot area is completely packed. There's like hundreds of people trying to get in. Hope and Vanille even have to squeeze through the crowd, holding hands even just so they don't lose each other. Hope takes the lead through the crowd since he knows his destination: The backstage.

Hope and Vanille arrives at an open path, which leads to the backstage door. The door was guarded by a security guard. They approach the man, he stops them and ask if they have any passes. Hope and Vanille shows their backstage passes, which are being worn around their necks. The guard lets them in. Hope and Vanille travels around the backstage. There aren't many guards out here, there's mostly stage workers and such.

Hope and Vanille arrives down the hallway. There are many doors in the hallway, but Hope knows where Yuna would be at. He finds the one door with a gold star on it, and it's been guarded by two security guards. Hope and Vanille seems a bit worried, but Hope takes a deep breath, then he approaches at the guards. He was about to speak, but the two guards stands in front of him, blocking his way.

"Halt!" The guards say. "Yuna Akimura doesn't allow crashers."

"I'm not a crasher." Hope shows his backstage pass. "I have a pass."

The guards didn't listen, they grab Hope by the arms, lift him and take him away. Hope struggles and complains. Vanille jumps in to help, then a voice calls out. "Hey, hey. Boys!" The guards stop and they turn to see Yuna by the door of her dressing room. "It's okay. He's cool. Put him down." The security guards lets go of Hope. Hope falls on his butt however, he stands back up with the help of Vanille. "Come on in."

Yuna walks back into her dressing room, then Hope and Vanille follows her inside. When they're in, Yuna closes the door behind them. She turns to Hope and smiles. "Hey there...Faith, right?"

"Hope." Hope corrects.

"Right. Sorry." Yuna walks up to Hope and hugs him. "It's so good to see you again. I can't thank you enough for your help."

Hope feels lost in Yuna's hug. Not so much cause he's crushing on her or anything like that, but it's cause...well, she's a Songstress. Getting a chance to talk to her would make people go crazy. Vanille looks at the two, she honestly has no idea how to feel about this. She knows that Hope is her boyfriend, but she can't help but feel jealousy cause Yuna is a popular Songstress.

"Well, it was nothing." Hope says. Yuna ends her hug. "Uh, Yuna..." Hope moves aside, revealing Vanille to Hope. "This is Vanille, my girlfriend."

Vanille smiles and waves. "Hello."

"Oh, so you're the amazing Vanille." Yuna walks up to Vanille, grabs hold of her hands. "Hope told me about you." Yuna gets a good look at Vanille. "You look beautiful."

Vanille gives a mouth open smile. "Thank you. I am a huge fan of your music." Vanille was jumping a little saying that. Yuna admires Vanille's upbeat attitude. "It's such an honor to meet you."

"Always happy to please a fan." Yuna says. Yuna turns to face Hope. "I can see why she's your girlfriend."

Hope chuckles a little. Vanille walks up to Hope, wrap an arm around his shoulders. "Yep. And he's my Hopey-wopey."

Hope widens his eyes open hearing that, and Yuna laughs. "'Hopey-wopey'?"

Hope looks at Vanille. "Please, Vanille. It's really embarrassing."

"I think it's kind of cute." Yuna says. That doesn't really help Hope. "It was nice to see you two, and to see you again, Hope, but I should really be getting ready for the concert."

"Oh, okay. We'll just take our seats." Hope and Vanille heads for the door. Hope looks back at Yuna an waves at her. "See you later."

Yuna waves at Hope with a smile, Hope and Vanille leaves the room to go to their concert seats.

An hour has passed, and the audience is packed with fans, all of them cheering for Yuna. Hope and Vanille are in the front row, right in the center row of the stage. Vanille is cheering along with the crowd, well, not so much, just waving her hands in the air and clapping. Hope is just standing there, waiting patiently, while also looking at Vanille constantly.

The lights go out. Everyone in the audience calms down for a moment, but when the stage lights go on, they begin cheering once again. Music for "Real Emotion" plays.

There was a bit of a pause, Yuna raises from the center stage, and then the crowd screams and cheers for her. Yuna walks up to the front of the stage, the spotlights shine on her, revealing the Songstress from the darkness, then she begins to sing.

Hope and Vanille, mostly Vanille, seems excited about the concert. Yuna begins her dancing as she sings. Yuna starts to make movement around stage, she heads for the front row of the stage. All the fans in the front row, even Vanille, reach their hands out for the Songstress. At the 'And oh, I know, the world of real emotion has surrounded me', Yuna runs across the stage, with her hand out, as if she's giving all of the fans that are reach out a high five.

Vanille receives that high five as Yuna runs past her and Hope, and she jumps with excitement. Hope notices Vanille's excitement, and the way her hair bounced as she jumped. He thought it looked pretty. The kid starts to get butterflies in his stomach.

'Real Emotion' ends with a ton of confetti blasts and bright lights brightening the stage to the audience. The fans unleash a loud cheer at the ending, Hope even had to cover his ears hearing that blast of cheer. He was pretty off guard from that.

Before she begins the next song, Yuna speaks through the microphone. "How you all doing?" Everyone shouts 'Yay' at once. Yuna smiles with her lips open, showing her teeth. Yuna walks down the stage as she speaks. "I am so glad to be here with you all. Especially after what happened in the past few days. You all heard about my abduction, have you all?" The crowd boos at once hearing that. Yuna still smiles, she knows that they're saying they dislike Cain and his men. "I know, I know." The boos calm down. "Those people were insane. But that didn't stop me, cause I'm right here!"

Hope wonders if Yuna is gonna say anything about his rescue. He's not really expecting her to say anything, not cause she would forget, even though he just met her and she brought it up...sort of, but she was still thankful for it. "How about another song, huh?" Yuna asks, all perky. Everyone cheers 'yeah' "I can't hear you!" everyone cheers 'yeah', but even louder. "All right, where we go!"

Yuna turns her back on her fans and walks back into the stage. The lights go down, and a different kind of music plays. A stage light shines on Yuna and she starts singing '1000 words' (The english long version).

The cheering quiets down as everyone listens to Yuna's gentle singing, as if they're joining the melody or something like that. As the song goes on, Hope looks at Vanille, noticing the girl is smiling while paying her attention to Yuna. There was a pause on Yuna's singing after saying 'they'll hold you forever'. The music still goes on however.

"You having fun?" Hope says.

Vanille turns her attention to Hope, still smiling, and nods. "Yep." Hope and Vanille returns their attention to Yuna, and he resumes with the singing. "You know, it's my first time at a concert too."

Hope looks at Vanille, surprised. "Really?"

Vanille nods. "Yep...you don't really have concerts on Sunleth Waterscape."

"I see." Hope answers. Hope is really enjoying his first time at the concert. All those years of waiting and losing his chances at all totally worth it. All though the kid still wished he could be here with his mother. But then again, he wondered if he didn't want to be with her cause if he did get to meet Yuna while he was with Nora, she would pretty much embarrass him.

Hope's glad to be here with Vanille too, he wasn't too pleased when Vanille called him 'Hopey-wopey' in front of Yuna, really did embarrassed him. But can't be any worse then he could imagine Nora would have done.

After '1000 words', Yuna skips the chit-chat with the audience and continues with Suteki Da Ne (English Nobuo Uematsu version) Hope really enjoys this song, but it also saddens him at the moment. It was one of the songs that Nora use to sing to him whenever he was upset. Yes, she did sing that Miracles song to him, a mother doesn't sing just only one song to her own son.

Hope looks down, Vanille looks at Hope, then noticed his expression. "Hey." Hope looks up at Vanille. "You okay?"

"Yeah." Hope says. "It's just...this song." Hope looks back at Yuna at stage. "It was one of my favorites and it always calmed me down whenever I listen to it." A pause on the singing happens, then Hope looks down. "My mom use to sing it to me whenever I was upset."

Vanille frowns a little, but she's still mostly smiling. She wraps an arm around Hope, a hand on his shoulder, and she pulls him close to her. Hope seemed a bit startled from Vanille's touch. "It'll be all right."

Hope manages a small smile, he really does feel happy when Vanille smiles, then nods. "Okay."

The concert goes on. Hope and Vanille are having the time of their live at their very first concert. Yuna is at the end of 'Kimi Ga Lru Kara' (The fan made version I put in my 'Light and Darkness, Hope and Despair' story) The song brings tears to her eyes, Vanille really think this is a beautiful song. She's now sad that it's over.

"Let me hear yall!" Yuna says, the crowd cheers. "Sounds like you all are having a fun time." Everyone cheers 'yeah' in agreement. "All right, well, I hope you guys are ready for one last song." The audience goes 'aww' in disappointment. Yuna just smiles and laughs silently. "Aww, come on, don't be like that. This song is very special."

The crowd draws silent, wondering if it could be a new song she made. And they're right. "This is a new song I have been working on in the past few weeks. But that's not what makes it special." The audience sounds confused, Hope is a bit curious. "As you all know, I was kidnapped. But I did had a little help escaping." Hope widens his eyes open, he can tell where this is going. Yuna walks across the stage as she speaks. "A special fan of mine rescued me from my abduction, and he is here tonight with a very special lady." Yuna spots, facing her hands placing her fingers on her chest. "Not talking about myself."

The audience laughs at Yuna's little speech. Hope rolls his eyeballs side to side and lowers his head down in shame. Vanille is happy to hear Yuna say that she's Hope's 'special lady'. Yes, the girl is aware of who Yuna is talking about.

"I figured this would be the perfect song cause this special lady is his girlfriend." Everyone goes 'oooh' hearing that. Vanille gives Hope a playful shove, giggling. Yuna walks across the stage until she's at the center row, basically somewhat in front of Hope and Vanille. "Can we get a spotlight right here?" The lighters move the spotlights right on top of Hope and Vanille. Those near them realizes where the spotlight's pointing and backs up, giving them some space.

Vanille just looks around, smiling, like she has no clue of what's happening (She is aware of what's going on) Hope just seems really nervous. Yuna looks down at Hope. She bends down and raises a hand out. "Come on up, Hope. Both you and Vanille."

Vanille turns her head to Hope. Hope doesn't answer, or accepts Yunas hand. Vanille grabs hold of Hope's arm. "Come on. It'll be fun!"

Hope shook his head. "N-no...no." Hope nervously backs away.

Yuna drops her hand. "Aww, looks like someone's a little shy." Yuna stands back up, walking up to the band behind her. "Come on boys, how about we give him some encouragement?"

A soft love music plays, the stage lights dim down, with a spotlight still on Yuna and Hope and Vanille. Yuna looks down at Hope and Vanille from the distance, holding the microphone by her mouth abd begins singing 'Eternal Love' (A/N: This one is also fan made, just like that Kimi Ga Lru Kara I mentioned before. This one was made by the same youtuber: Adrisaurus)

This I swear unto the starlit sky
My love for you will stay forevermore, forevermore
So hold on to this hand of mine
And I promise you, I'll never let go...

As the music keeps playing, Yuna pauses the song, not by choice, that's how the song goes. Hope is still too nervous to come up. Yuna waves at him to come up. Vanille grabs Hope by the arm. "Come on." Vanille pulls Hope up on stage. When they're up, the fans that surrounded them cover up that empty space. If they wanted to turn back, it's too late.

The song continues.

Days just keep on passing by
And you are always on my mind
Naturally, baby you're the only one

Hope is feeling very nervous. He is standing right on stage in front of thousands of people. The kid even looks up on the screens above and around the stage. Clearly, he and Vanille are on the screen. The whole audience is watching them. Talk about a predicament situation for the boy.

Together we face what's ahead
Unafraid of anything
And that's because you're here with me

What the kid doesn't know is someone is recording this live on the internet. At the Farron house, Serah and Snow are watching the live-stream of Yuna's concert. They both cannot believe what's happening to Hope and Vanille.

"No...way." Snow says.

"I can't believe it." Serah says. Lightning walks by, Serah looks over her shoulder to see her sister. "Sis. Come here. You need to see this."

Lightning stands behind Serah, looking at the video over her shoulder.

To look onto those strong eyes
I wish time would stop and leave us here in this embrace
(Baby, we will own the night...)

Lightning gawked at the video, she cannot believe what she's saying: Hope and Vanille on center stage of the concert. With Yuna singing the 'Eternal Love' to them.

"Well I'll be darned." Lightning mutters.

I can see a thousand lights
Shining brightly from the sky onto your smiling face

Hope feels completely frozen on stage. He has no idea what to do. He's on center stage, in the spotlight, with thousands of people watching him, that's over two thousand eyeballs. Can you blame him for being nervous?

And then you'll see...
Eternal love, that's what this is
This feeling that I just cannot resist

Vanille can pretty much see how nervous Hope is. She puts a hand on his check, causing Hope to move his head so he's facing her. Vanille smiles at Hope, then she moves her hand in front of hopes face and taps a finger on Hopes nose. "Boop."

Hope laughs a little from that, mostly nervous.

So hold on to this hand of mine
And I promise you, I'll never let go...

Hope looks at that smile Vanille gives him. It really does make him happy when she smiles.

The day we first met, the day we first kissed
I still remember everything about us, babe
Until the day you when said yes;

Hope looks directly into Vanilles eyes. He notices how well they sparkle. He smiles, staring into those beautiful eyes, his nerves starts to disappear, and be begins to feel like it's now just him and Vanille.

These are the moments I am sure to cherish for all time...
Your lips are so sweet - can you feel my heart beat?
I still remember everything about us, babe
And after all this time
I'm thankful to the stars that I have found you

The music is really beautiful, it's starting to brighten up the mood for everyone, especially Vanille and Hope, mostly Vanille. Serah, Snow and Lightning at all watching this moment on the laptop. Serah and Snow are feeling touched. Lightning shows no emotion, but on the inside, she feels happy for Hope.

Lightning lays her arms crossed on the back on the couch then rests her chin on her arms, looking directly at the video screen.

When I think about it now,
I was probably too blessed to be forever yours
(I am yours, and you are mine...)

"They are so cute together." Serah says. Serah looks over her shoulder, looking at Lightning. "Don't you think so, Light?"

Lightning offers a small smile. "I guess. Vanille is a nice girl."

"I just wonder what's gonna happen to Hope if Fang finds out about those two." Snow says with a cocky laugh. He ain't wrong. If Fang ever does find out about this, he's probably dead.

But I try my best to hide;
Tears falling from my eyes, cause sometimes I'm afraid
You might say goodbye

Yuna looks at Hope and Vanille. She really seems to enjoy those two together. All though she does hope that they'll do something other then just stand there and gaze at each other. The audience probably wishes for the same thing. Even Serah and Snow are hoping for the same thing.

The audience stays silent, they try hard to be patient to let Hope and Vanille do their thing.

Hope no long worries about his whereabouts, or the audience that's paying attention to him. All because he has Vanille with him.

Eternal love, that's what this is
This feeling that I just cannot resist
So hold on to this hand of mine
And I promise you, I'll never let go...

Yuna pauses the singing. There's actually a really long pause on the singing, but the music still continues to play. When the song stops, Hope speaks. "Vanille?" Vanille answers with a 'hum' and tilted her head to the side a little.

"I uh..." Hope looks down, he tries to find the right words. Hope grabs both of Vanilles hands, then looks up at her. "I'm glad we've met. I'm...I'm happy to be with you." Vanilles lips open as she smiles. She feels touched to hear that. "I just wish my mother was here...she could love to meet you."

Vanille locks her fingers with Hopes. "I feel just the same way."

Hope and Vanille stands there. After a long moment of silence, Yuna speaks. "Don't just stand there." Hope looks past Vanille to Yuna, Vanille looks over her shoulder to Yuna. "Kiss her."

Hope widen his eyes open hearing that. He looks back at Vanille, Vanille looks back at Hope as well. She's still smiling, she obviously has no worry about it. Hope can feel himself blushing at the thought of kissing Vanille. It would be his first official kiss, unlike that kiss on the head from Lightning or the kiss on the cheek from Vanille. It would be on the lips, both of them doing it.

"I think someone needs some confidence." Yuna says, then begins chanting. "Kiss. Kiss. Kiss." Hope feels a little nervous, now Yuna's cheering for them to kiss. "Come on everyone! Let's help them out."

Each passing second, the audience begins shouting 'Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!', and the crowd also claps. Soon enough, the entire audience is chanting for them to kiss. Even Serah and Snow are joining in back at the house. Lightning however doesn't join in, she just looks very closely at the screen, seeing if they really are gonna do it.

Hope looks directly at the audience, his nerves are slowly returning. Hope returns his attention to Vanille, who's still smiling. The chanting becomes faster. "Kiss, kiss, kiss." Vanille gives a small nod.

Hope starts to relax, and takes a deep breath. He and Vanille leans close to each others face. Moving closer and closer in inches. Their lips are about three inchs close, a small hesitation, then they kiss. The entire crowd cheers. It finally happened, their first kiss.

Serah and Snow cheers for Hope back at the house. "All right! Way to go man!" Snow says.

Lightning just smiles, she's proud of the boy.

Hope and Vanille deepens their kiss, and they wrap around in each others arms. As they have their moment, Yuna continues to sing.

Eternal love, that's what this is
This feeling that I just cannot resist
So hold on to this hand of mine
And I promise you, I'll never let go...

Hope and Vanille are completely lost in their kiss, mostly Hope. All the screaming fans just fade away. They feel like they are the only two people in the whole world, the sounds of the 'Eternal Love' song still fills in their heads. Their kiss feels like an eternity, but it only lasts for a couple of seconds.

They slowly disband the kiss. Vanille rests her head on Hopes shoulder, still holding on to him. She closes her eyes and smiles. Hope does the same, resting his head over her shoulder.

I swear upon the starlit sky
My love for you will stay forevermore
My heart and soul I'll give to you
Cause this warmth I feel is eternal love...

The music still plays as Yuna finishes the song, then the music slowly ends. The audience cheers once again. The ending of the song and the audience cheering interrupts Hope's and Vanille's moment.

Yuna walks up in the front stage. "Thank you, Bodhum fans! This certainly has been one very special night. Good night!"

Hope and Vanille waits backstage while Yuna is doing some business with her manager. It was certainly a special night for the both of them. Vanille and Hope talked while they're waiting. They told each other that it was their first kiss. Hope was surprised to hear that from Vanille. Vanille...she wasn't too surprised, she pretty much predicted it was his first kiss as well.

Yuna now approaches to Hope and Vanille. "Thanks for everything, Yuna. We had a wonderful night." Hope says.

"You are welcome." Yuna says, smiling. "I'm glad you two had fun."

Vanille nods. "We sure did."

"Oh, I almost forget. Wait here." Yuna walks into her dressing room.

Hope and Vanille wonders what it could be. A minute later, the songstress returns. She approaches Hope and Vanille, holding out two bracelets at them. They look down at the bracelets. They both look like Yuna's lucky bracelet, the only difference is there's an outlined heart in the middle of the outline star, and the small gems on that heart are pink.

"I had the jewelry store remake my bracelet twice, but add the heart." Yuna looks at Hope. "I made them for you and Vanille."

Hope seems surprised. "How did you know I would bring Vanille?"

Yuna giggles from Hopes question. "I didn't. I was gonna give you hers and then you could just give it to her. All though I was kind of expecting you to bring her." Yuna wraps the bracelet around Hopes wrist, clasp it together, then she turns to Vanille and does the same. "And one for you."

Hope and Vanille looks down at the bracelets, Vanille looks up at Yuna with a smile. "It's so pretty."

Yuna nods with a smile. "Thanks again, Yuna. I don't know how we can repay you."

"Consider it a thanks for saving me." Yuna says. "Well, I should get going."

Hope nods. "Yeah. I should get Vanille home before Fang kills me." Vanille laughs at Hope's comment. "I hope we'll see each other again."

Yuna agrees. She gives Hope a good-bye hug, then does the same to Vanille. Then the trio goes their separate ways. Hope and Vanille walks all the way back home. But first, they stopped by at Vanille's place. They made it just in time, it's about five minutes until eleven.

They are now right in front of the door. Vanille turns and faces Hope. "Um..." Vanille looks down, holding her hands behind her back. "I had a lot of fun tonight. We should do it again sometime."

Hope nervously rubs the back of his neck. "I don't think Yuna could pull something like that for every date." Hope nervously chuckles.

Vanille smiles and giggles. "No, silly-willy. I just had fun being with you." Now Hope feels pathetic saying the previous comment. "Well...good night." Vanille walks up in front of Hope, giving him a kiss on the cheek, then enters her house.

Hope sighs dreamily, then he makes his way to his house next door. As soon as he's in the house, he is greeted by Lightning, Serah and Snow. Serah and Snow are smiling happily for Hope, Lightning's just giving her smirk.

"What?" Hope asks.

"We just saw...everything." Serah says. Hope looked confused wondering what she meant, then suddenly feels a mix of nervous and embarrassed at what she really meant...then confused all over again wonder how they could have. "The concert was web-camed, all over the internet."

Hope didn't think he could feel even worse. And he's wrong. "I can't believe this." Hope says.

Snow stands next to Hope, giving him a pat on the back. "Way to go, kid...oh, I shouldn't call you a kid. You're a man now."

"You and Vanille looked like you had fun." Serah says.

Lightning walks up to Hope, putting a hand on his shoulder. "You seemed happy on stage." Lightning says.

Hope looks up at everyone. They all seem happy for the kid. Even though he's been exposed to the world, he still had fun. He's still together with Vanille and the world didn't end. The kid smiles. "I sure did."