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A/N: Well this is my first attempt at a FLight fanfic, been reading lots and decided to give it a try! Well I've got chapter 1 edited and with some new stuffs in it, for readers already reading the chapters further ahead, reread it if ya have the time! Nothing too much of a change, just a lil' more spice added. :) well for new readers to my story, enjoy!

Show Me Your Love

Chapter 1 – Lost in the woods

"Damn… where's the map…?" Lightning cursed under her breath as she continued to look around, but the map is nowhere to be found.

"Now, now, don't be so pissed off Light, I'll lead us out of this place," Fang said as she calmed down the slowly enraged soldier. Lightning threw her an angry glare.

"And how on earth are you going to do that without a map?" Lightning snapped at Fang.

"Hey I'm born on Gran Pulse, I'm sure my instincts could get us both out of this place, and this forest isn't that huge to be lost in here for a week! Besides, I'd been here before just that it's been a long, long time ago, I could try recalling if I'd been to this part of the forest if we walk around," Fang said in a reassuring manner with a grin as her hands gestured around the woods.

"Fang-" Lightning tried to reason with her but then was interrupted by Fang.

"Light I'm sorry I've got us both into this mess… please trust me and let me lead, I want to make it up to you…" said Fang in an apologetic manner. Lightning soften at her words and closed her eyes for a moment to make a decision. When a decision was reached, Lightning opened her eyes again and looked at Fang.

"… You'd better get us out of this place…" Light said sternly but with a soft look in her eyes.

"Alright ma'am!" said Fang saluting with her usual grin. Lightning rolled her eyes. "Right then, let's get going before the sun is down." Fang started to walk further into the forest and gestured at Lightning to follow.

"Sigh… how did it ended up this way…?" Lightning shook her head and a long sigh escaped her as she follows Fang.

*What happened earlier*

It was a nice sunny day and Lightning had a day off for today, knowing this, Fang suggested they go for a hunt in the nearby forest in the Yaschas Massif.

"What? I want to rest at home today Fang, maybe another day…" Lightning said lazily.

"Uh-huh, the great Lightning Farron being lazy and all huh? What a sight." Fang teased.

"Fang, I'd been on a mission all day yesterday, all I want is a good rest today…" Light shot back, not really happy at the Pulsian's remark.

"Oh c'mon Light, the hunt would be fun!" Fang tried to pull Light along.

"No Fang, I'm tired." Lightning crossed her arms in front of her chest.

Seeing that Lightning was being so firmly standing her ground, Fang almost gave up. Almost. Then a thought came across her mind.

"Aha… don't tell me it's an excuse to avoid losing to me?" Fang teased the soldier, grinning.

"What…? What do you mean by 'an excuse to avoid losing to you'…?" Lightning shot a glare over to the Pulsian.

"Like I said, you're making an excuse saying that you're tired to stay at home to avoid going on a hunt with me because you're afraid that you'd lose to me, yea? Since you know I'd been training again recently. Ah, that would be understandable, now I get it, alright I'll just go on hunting alone then, you can just relax at home Light." Fang teased and smirked at the soldier.

"… You're on." Lightning, displeased at Fang's comment decided to tag along and go on hunting with the Pulsian.

"Hah! The challenge is on." Fang said grinning widely. Victory for me! I knew Light would never back down from a challenge, you sure are easy to get tricked, Sunshine, Fang smirked at the thought of Light taking up the challenge just like what she had expected.

After preparing some food and water they headed out to the forest in Yaschas Massif. They slowly followed a path leading into the forest while cautiously looking out for any monsters at the same time. As they continued further in, Fang spotted a Humbaba a few hundred yards from where she stood and decided to slaughter it. Aha! A nice target! Fang thought.

"Gonna go ahead of ya Light! First to kill it wins!" Fang said as she started dashing towards her target.

"Tch… oh no you don't!" Lightning started to dash towards the Humbaba which she set as a target as well.

The Humbaba who sensed the two huntress' threatening aura coming its way quickly scrambled away deeper into the forest. Lightning and Fang continued to chase after the Humbaba, not realizing that as they continued to chase the Humbaba a Leyak was nearby casting an aero spell at the two intruders. Lightning and Fang were caught off guard as the aero spell hit them, causing them to fall off the cliff right beside them. Thankfully, the cliff was not high enough to have them injured badly as they fell to the ground below. Lightning slowly got up with her head swaying slightly from the fall and looked over to Fang to see if she was alright. Slowly, Fang started to sit up as well with a hand holding her shoulder.

"Are you alright?" Lightning noticed the slight pained expression of Fang as she moved her shoulder.

"I'm fine, it's just gonna bruise for a while… Damn Leyaks… I'm gonna stick my lance into their damn mouth the next time I see a bunch of 'em…" Fang winced at the pain where her shoulder made contact with the ground just now. After checking that Fang had no serious injuries, she looked up at the cliff which they had just fallen from.

"… It's impossible to climb back up…" Lightning said with a little frustration.

"Guess we'll just have to walk our way out of here then, from this part of the forest." Fang said as she slowly climbed to her feet. Lightning followed the motion.

"Right…" Lightning then started to run her hands into one of her pockets to take the map out but the map is not in there. Confused, Light ran another hand into her other pocket to check if the map is there but still there is nothing in it. Lightning gave out a long sigh and cursed.

"Where's the damn map…?" Lighting let out a frustrated groan and began looking around the area where they fell but saw no map.

"You lost it?" Fang glanced over at Lightning.

"… Must've fallen out of my pocket when that damn aero spell hit… Damn Leyaks…" Lightning let out another groan.

"Sigh… when I see the Leyaks next time I'm seriously gonna send them flying over Cocoon." Fang let out a frustrated groan as well as she too followed Lightning's motion and looked around.

After they looked around, the map was still nowhere to be found. And that ended up with Fang trying to rely on her memories to lead them out of the forest.

*Back to present*

They continued to travel for a long while without rest, trying to get out of the forest as soon as possible.

"… Should have stay at home and rest…" Lightning murmured softly to herself as she tiredly shook her thought of being tired out of her mind.

Fang looked over her shoulder to see the somehow exhausted Lightning and felt guiltiness washing over her for having pulling the soldier along into this mess. "Hey Light…" Fang started.

"What is it?"

"I'm sorry… for pulling you into this mess… shoulda've let you stayed at home and rest instead, never knew you were actually this exhausted…"

"I'm glad you pulled me along into this mess."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Fang said looking puzzled.

"Otherwise you'd be alone in this mess and I wouldn't know where to find you when Vanille starts to get all worried over you and start bugging me to find you." Lightning stated with a smirk.

"Heh, great job cheering me up, Light, thank you." Fang said with a somewhat apologetic smile.

"Hey Fang, we're friends and family, don't go all sorry with me, you didn't want this to happen either. And if you do get lost I'd come find you even if Vanille don't come bugging me." Lighting said as she placed her hand on Fang's shoulder softly.

"Then is thank you allowed?" Fang joked with a smile on her face.

"You better be thankful that I'm here with you though." Lightning playfully slapped Fang's back as she smirked.

Fang winced a little at the contact but that went unnoticed by the other woman. Damn… must be from that fall… Fang thought silently as she hid away her slight pained expression. "Hah, ouch Light, that hurts." Fang continued to joke.

"Since when did the warrior woman I knew become so weak that even a soft slap on the back could make her complain?" Lightning smirked as she teased the Pulsian.

Fang chuckled at Lightning's remark, "Being with you it's alright to be weak once in a while."

"Huh, is that a compliment?" Lightning smirked.

"Consider it as a compliment; I rarely compliment other peoples' strength y'know? It shows that ya reliable." Fang's trademark grin plastered on her face as she teased Lightning.

"Hah, right, then I should thank you huh?" Lightning said pulling her hand back and crossing her arms.

"Yeap you should." Fang then started to walk ahead again, leaving Lightning there rolling her eyes at Fang's reply.

"You just have to win every single teasing huh?" Lightning followed behind Fang.

"That's my nature." Fang continued to tease. Lightning sighed and remained silent, knowing that she would not win against teasing Fang, the natural teaser she is.

They continued to wander the woods in silence, Fang started to recall her memories of this forest and slowly leaded the two of them. After a long while Fang spotted the cave that she knew would be there and decided to camp there for the night since the rain started to pour. They hurried into the cave and settled in there.

"Geez… what luck are we having here today?" Fang ruffled her own hair to dry it.

"BAD luck…" Lightning frowned at her slightly wet jacket.

"At first it was a sunny day and now it's raining cats and dogs for God knows how long… let's hope it's gonna let up later at night so that we could gather some firewood and light up a fire." Fang said looking out of the cave.

"Hm…" Lightning hummed a response and sat down tiredly near a rock, resting against it.

"Light…? You alright there? You seem a little under the weather…" Fang noticed the tired soldier seemed to be feeling unwell.

"I'm fine, just… a little tired I guess."

"I see… get some rest Light, I'll watch out for any monsters lurking nearby while you rest."

"Alright…" Lightning slowly drifted into sleep.

So warm… Lightning thought as she slowly opened her eyes. She glanced over to the direction of the source of warmth and saw a fire lit up and Fang sitting near it. She shifted a little and Fang noticed the soldier had awaked.

"You sure were sleeping like a log Light, I could imagine how exhausted you've been." Fang smirked at Lightning.

"Yea…" Light replied slowly.

"Felt better after sleeping?"

"Yeah I guess, at least it seems that my head's not swaying anymore…"

"Glad to hear that from ya." Fang said with a smile gracing her lips.

"You went to gather the firewood yourself, Fang?" Light asked.

"Do you think there's anyone else who would go with me here, Light?" Fang chuckled at Light's weird question.

"No but… you should've woken me and have me go with you, your shoulder's hurt right?" Light stated.

"How could I wake up the sleeping beauty there while she's sleeping so peacefully hmm? And I'm fine Light, the firewood ain't that heavy till I can't handle it and I didn't leave the area around here while gathering the firewood, not while you're sleeping, if I left and anything happened to ya I'd kill myself." Fang said with a sincere expression.

"R-right… great job." Light turned away from Fang, feeling her face started to warm a little. What's with my face feeling warm…? Light thought silently.

"Of course, it's Oerba Yun Fang here dealing with the job!" Fang laughed.

Lightning let a genuine smile graced her lips, not the ones which she always wore when teasing the Pulsian or the threatening ones to the enemies, it was a soft, beautiful and genuine smile that was not often shown to anyone other than Serah. Which to Fang's surprise the stoic soldier would let a genuine smile grace her lips while facing her. This time it was Fang's turn to turn away from Lightning, feeling that her face heating up fast and her heart rate increased dramatically. Oh Maker how grateful I'm to have such a dark complexion at times like this… Fang thought as she continued to blush at the image of Lightning's smile reappearing in her mind, memorizing it.

Fang, the strong warrior woman known to many, had always have feelings for Lightning since the first day she met Lightning at Palumpolum. Fang had been in a relationship a few times in the past, before crystal stasis 500 years ago but none of it contained what Fang was feeling right now for the pinked hair soldier who captured her heart in every way.

Fang admired her way of fighting, how fast and strong those hits landed, not that Fang is not strong, in fact she is stronger than the soldier, but Lightning's style of fighting often took Fang's breath away at the sight of her fighting with the enemies. She admired Lightning's strong-willed and interesting character as well, the way the soldier fought so hard to get to Eden, to save her beloved sister, Serah and also her home, which is Cocoon and the fact that she seemed to have an invisible wall around her amused Fang as well.

Fang also loves to tease Lightning a lot since it is indeed really fun and interesting teasing the always tense soldier, making the soldier go red and roll her eyes. What Fang always had for the soldier was admiration at first, but over the time Fang's feelings grew, deepening more for the beautiful Goddess-like soldier. Never knew Cocoon had such a Goddess living there… was, no, is what Fang always thought of the soldier. What Fang love most though, are those cerulean eyes of Lightning's, always seeming so calm and reserved, having a thin icing shielding her true feelings, but she could see that behind that thin layer of icing laid full of emotions and feelings hidden away, wanting to be released but suppressed. It was only once, back when they were still L'cies, Fang stayed up one night and talked to the soldier and that is when Fang saw a brief moment of Lightning's feelings being released under that thin icing of hers under the mention of Serah, but as soon as it was released it was then suppressed again. Curious at what Lightning suppresses, Fang started to make her progress to getting closer to the soldier ever since her decrystallization from crystal stasis, trying to break down the invisible wall around the stoic soldier and getting to know her suppressed feelings ever since the day she realized her feelings for Lightning on Eden, before the battle with Orphan. She never had the chance to really spend time with the stoic soldier, not when they were racing against time instead. Now that she finally had the time, she'd use every mille second trying to have Lightning let her into that invisible wall and to her steeled heart closed away from everyone.

Until then, she'd keep trying before she would confess her feelings to the soldier, knowing that her confession would be in vain if Lightning doesn't let her in and let emotions show.

Fang continued to be deep in her thoughts of Lightning, of how gracefully the soldier fought and busy thinking happily that she had finally made new progress ever since the fall, not realizing that Lightning called out to her several times already.

"FANG!" Lightning shouted.

Fang snapped out of her little world and turned around to Lightning, not realizing that Lightning was actually only inches away from her, she turned and found herself face to face towards Lightning with their faces only inches apart. Lightning and Fang were both startled and stayed staring into each others' eyes. Fang once again saw the brief moment of Light's true emotions revealed behind those cerulean eyes. It was only for a few seconds before Lightning quickly pulled away, face blushing. After Lightning pulled away there was the awkward silence in the air.

Those eyes… they meant something… those suppressed feelings. I'm not over thinking it am I…? Fang thought to herself as she continued to stare at Lightning but not realizing that she was actually doing so. Lightning, feeling uncomfortable with the awkward silence and Fang's continuous staring, decided to break the awkward silence.

"Fang…?" Light snapped her fingers.

A few seconds later after Lightning snapped her fingers, Fang's mind finally caught up with the situation. "E-er… w-what is it Light?" Fang asked anxiously, turning away as her face turned red and heart rate increasing again.

"*clears throat* N-nothing… was just wondering if you are hungry because if you are I've some food with me which I prepared beforehand…" Lightning replied, with her heart still thumping hard and fast in her chest and her face pink, matching the color of her pink hair. Damn it, calm the hell down, it's only Fang! Why are you acting all… nervous! Light snapped at her own mind.

"Oh… Oh, right… y-yea I'm pretty hungry… so what've you got there?" Fang desperately suppressed her trembling voice which is betraying her, heart still thumping hard and fast as well. Although her face was feeling hot but the redness was not as obvious as compared to Lightning due to her darker complexion. Geez chill will ya! Fang mentally shook herself.

"Some… bread… and water." Lightning handed Fang a piece of bread and a bottle of water, finally calming her heart down.

"Thanks Light. Huh? There's only a bottle of water?" Fang started to calm down and then eyed Lightning's thigh bag curiously to see if there is another bottle of water.

"Oh… Yeah… I thought you'd bring a bottle yourself so I'd only prepared one for myself…"

"I see, then you can have it, Light." Fang said tossing the bottle of water back to Lightning.

Lightning caught the bottle of water, and then said "You'll need to drink some too after you eat, or else you'd be dehydrated. We can share."

"H-huh?" Fang's eyes widened in surprise. Seriously Sunshine! Fang's mind actually lit up with light.

"I mean… if you want to… if you're alright being dehydrated then-"

"No, no, no! I'd like to share really, I'm really thirsty since just now." Fang quickly stopped her opportunity from flying away. Oh no… not gonna let this chance getting closer to breaking her wall slip from my grasp… I might be able to figure out what those feelings were too from earlier. Fang thought.

"Right…" Lightning then sat down near Fang in front of the fire and started eating her bread. Fang continued to stare at Lightning as the pinked hair soldier continued to chew on her bread. Seconds later Light noticed Fang had been staring and blushed a little, a question followed closely.

"Whuf?" Light asked with bread half bitten into her mouth.

"Nothing, just find that you're cute while eating." Fang teased while grinning mischievously, knowing that this would cause a blush from Light, which she always enjoyed, this made her feel closer to the stoic soldier.

As expected, Lightning blushed and her cheeks once again became red, again matching the color of her hair under the light emitting from the fire. Even while in front of the fire, her obvious redness still clearly visible, and this caused Fang to chuckle.

"You sure go red easily Sunshine." Fang started to bite down on her bread while grinning widely.

"Fang, do me a favor and keep quiet. And don't call me sunshine." Lightning sternly said with her face still red. Fang chuckled at her face still being red, not matching the tone of her sternness.

What's with me always going red with her comments…? It's like I've lost controls of my feelings…

*THUMP*

Great… my heart just pounded even harder when I think of Fang…

WAIT…

*THUMP*

No…

*THUMP*

Please don't tell me… Lightning shakes her head hard and furiously to get rid of that last thought.

NO WAY.

Fang saw Lightning who shook her head furiously made her puzzled, "Light…? Is something the matter?"

"Nothing, just be quiet." Light commanded, her words came out harsher than she had meant to.

"Alright Farron, don't have to get so pissed, was just a joke, take it easy." Fang's tone contained some frustrated tone as how Lightning was acting all of a sudden.

Hearing that, Light felt her heart sank a little but she ignored it. "I'm done." Light drank some water from the bottle and then placed the bottle next to Fang and stood up walking over to the cave entrance, and then sat down while leaning back against the wall. "Go rest after you're done eating, I'll keep watch over the night."

Fang could not understand what brought back the cold Lightning Farron from the past and her walls up, and was frustrated at her with the sudden change. "Fine." Is all Fang said as she finished off her bread and then headed further into the cave and gets some rest. Hmph… right, a chance Fang, a chance which to let Light bring her walls back up and return to her grumpy cold self. Damn… what's with the sudden change? Fang mentally cursed at the thought of Lightning's wall being brought up again, feeling that she was being pushed away.

Lightning, sitting near the cave entrance stared out at the night sky, watching the rain as it poured again, though not raining heavily like the previous one, this rain calmed Light's thoughts-filled mind at the moment.

I mustn't be weak or vulnerable… I need to protect them, those who I care deeply for. Never let emotions take place… that is why I became Lightning, remember that, Claire.

So how was it? Do review, thank you lots for doing that, cause it will make me happier and more ideas would pop into my mind! :D