author's notes: This is a CloudxYuna, Clouna or whatever you want to call it. So, this is fanfiction about a romance between Cloud and Yuna. I hope you will respect my efforts at this and not bash the pairing. I truly believe they would be a wonderful couple and deserve someone special after all they've been through.
Please comment and let me know if I should continue! I am already writing chapter 2 but I'm still uncertain. I would love to because there are not enough CloudxYuna fanfics!
The Inevitable: Collide
Chapter 1: Falling the Opposite Way
She had decided to rest her eyes for a few minutes after her friends left. The rosy sky was lit by the fleeting sunset over the beach, her cozy bedroom lit in oranges and red hues like spreading flames.
Yuna had to suffer through another lecture from her friends and felt exhausted physically and emotionally.
Not that she didn't appreciate their concern…she didn't know what she would do if they weren't there with her, especially at a time like now.
Although the comment from Rikku about "that time of the month" did not cheer her mood up as they sat her down in the sand. Earlier that evening… Rikku and Paine had taken her away from everyone else at the barbeque for some heart to heart, girl to girl or something like that. "What's wrong, guys?" she asked as she laid her paper plate on the bench. The two other girls took her by her elbows and began to pull her towards the water's edge. "Rikku! What's—I want to watch the boys' blitzball game! Paine, what's going on?"
They sat at her sides and fell silent. The sun was beginning to lower in the sky when Rikku blurted out about her monthly cycles. "No, it's not that time of the month. Why are you guys asking?"
Paine's ruby eyes focused on her toes digging in the sand. Rikku was staring her with such an expression…she didn't like it when such a perky and happy girl looked so...so…sad. She was sad for her. "Yunnie," Rikku began, tucking a braid out of her face, "Were you having fun with us over there?"
Yuna looked surprised. "Of course I was! You two aren't?" Yuna asked.
Rikku kept that same expression. Paine still wouldn't look at her. "How can we help you, Yuna, if you don't want to talk about…"
"At least be truthful with us. Don't ever wear that fake smile again." Pain finally spoke up. Yuna turned to her other side where the girl was looking at her determinedly. "Please, Yuna…we're just worried about you." Paine sighed with a more tired tone.
Yuna quickly faced the horizon afraid that they would see emotions swirling in her different colored eyes. One could show them she was happy and moving on…the other would betray her pitiful dreaming and mourning. She shut them and gripped the sand in her palms, flowing out like water from her fingers. Just tell them, tell them about the dreams, Yuna! Open your mouth and say it!
Say it, come on, you can do it! Say: Sin is back.
She opened her eyes and her friends gave her reassuring eyes. They reassured her but it reverberated in her head. Sin is back. Why did she have to make her friends worry so? Sin is back. What will her other friends say when they've been away from their get-together? Sin is back.
She wanted to sleep…sleep this time, no dreaming. No dreams.
Sin is back.
Crystal, piercing turquoise eyes entered her mind. Sin is back. "I hope you two are happy…" Sin is… "I still think about you…" Sin… "Aerith…Zack…where…?"
She shook her head. For weeks now she had begun to doze off during the day, not just the night anymore. But it was different, nightmares of Sin…Guado… In the day, her friends would find her standing in front of her breakfast table, eyes closed, and a faint smile on her petal lips… "Are you blushing?" Rikku once asked, startling her from her daydream.
Blushing?
Her mind was tempted to these daydreams…she couldn't focus… She closed her eyes to hear a tender and heart-felt word from her mysterious dream friend. Yuna lived for the voice that knew her suffering and her regret…her fears and her nightmares…
"Thank you, for your comfort, for your words…", "Tidus is close to me, I feel it, but he is still not here,", "Will I ever see him again?", "What do I do…Sin could come back,", were some of the things that she would tell her stranger. They never directly spoke, no face to her dream phantom. She wasn't even sure if he could hear her talking to them. They would just voice whatever was on their mind, their troubles. It was his voice that solely comforted her.
When Yuna had promised to talk to her fellow Gullwigs the next day so they could enjoy the blitzball game (with a hyper Wakka who had practically washed his face in the barbeque sauce), they left her alone and joined her laughing as they ran up to choose sides of the game.
Now here she was, the sun completely set behind the horizon and white stars dotting the black velvet sky…dreading, fearing the nightmares that would plague her once she succumbed to sleep.
"I just want to talk to you again," she murmured as she fought back tears. Who was she talking about? Tidus? Her mysterious dream stranger?
Fighting no longer, she wanted to get this over with so she shut her eyes nervously and felt the tugs of another dream take her away…
She felt the wind pushing against her swiftly, determined to escape from under her not wanting to hold her up. She opened her eyes slightly and saw the large dais in the sky become smaller and smaller. Would they catch her this time? No…they won't. This was her nightmare and she wouldn't be caught or saved, not like last time.
I have been so foolish, she thought angrily to herself. Fear was gathering in her stomach as well as a headache from falling as she continued to go down…down…
She wanted to remover her arms crossed across her chest, the fine white silk of the wedding dress fluttering around her legs, almost attempting to fly and escape her impending doom at the bottom. The veil was still on her head and it made her surroundings hazy in its gossamer fabric. She wanted to reach out, try to grab hold onto anything that would stop her fall.
It was hopeless…
"Alone," she whispered as tears began to fly from her eyes. She watched them dance in the air above her as she fell faster than them. "Alone, no one to help me…"
No, not alone…
Her eyes widened. Tidus. "TIDUS!" she screamed as she began to try moving again. No use. "Tidus, please!"
Silence.
"Tidus?"
Nothing.
She held a tight sob that threatened to pierce the darkening sky that fell with her as she plunged into a black abyss. This will be over soon, she thought, this is just a nightmare. I'll wake up. I will. I must wake up, she thought desperately as she shut her eyes from the nightmare around her.
"Falling…" She opened her eyes at the voice. Not Tidus. "I've lost them all…" It was him. "Aerith, forgive me…" …from her dreams.
She craned her neck to see something approaching her…or as she fell, approaching them. She wasn't sure which way it was. As she fell closer to him, she noticed he was moving too, falling in the opposite direction. Her mind was racing against time, she knew she had to be fast… She needed to call out to him, reach for him.
"Not alone…" she merely whispered from an attempt at a scream. She had meant to yell, wave her arms, scream, but she couldn't. From her efforts, a whisper resulted.
The whisper caught him.
He looked ahead of him, towards where he was falling and saw her.
Their eyes met; turquoise clashing with her blue and green eyes.
"I'm not alone…" he managed to whisper back. And Yuna heard him loud and clear.
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Now, time for shameless spamming of CloudxYuna goodness:
fan music videos are too beautiful for words and show how lovely a possible romance between these two would be!
They are on youtube:
BaltheirKingofSkiez's Clouna - The Mix Tape
TagMog's Cloud/Yuna - Angels
I beg you to check them out! I have not seen any CloudxYuna fanart yet. I would like to start some...
So...um...thanks for putting up with me! Please review! I hope you enjoyed Chapter 1!