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June 3rd, 2003The various personalities settled in for the month-long wait. Some plotted, some trained, some just talked. Tidus and Yuna in particular were so happy to see each other, after being apart for so long since Sin had been defeated. Except Kefka, who planned to destroy them, the onlookers were happy for the young couple. But for one young boy, looking at the reunion caused him only pain. Sora sat on a nearby rock, head in his hands. It had been tough on him, apart from his two best friends for so long. He had been so eager to go on this voyage, hoping to see his friends, Kairi and Riku, once again. It had been a huge blow to the brown-haired boy when he found none of his friends there, and his mood had been very off for the first day. Smiling wasn't going to help this time, and he had no heart to do it. Luckily for Sora, not all the participants present where as cruel as Kefka and Wario, who seemed inclined to only laugh at him. Mario, Yoshi, Luigi, and even Magus, who could relate to the kid, had spent some time trying to cheer him up. But it hadn't helped Sora, his mood of depression continued as it had done ever since the destruction of Ansem. Three pairs of eyes saw the moping Sora with sadness, as they knew him well. Aeris, Cloud, and Squall were looking at Sora's distraught form, as the conversation had drifted to him. "I almost don't have the heart to face him, guys. I have to face Sora first match... But the way he's looking, I couldn't take putting him into deeper despair," said the kindhearted Aeris. She knew what being separated was. The Lifestream had not been a pleasant place... Cloud sympathically patted her on the shoulder, but the ever stoic Squall didn't agree with her dilemma. "Way I see it, Aeris... Whatever. Even if you let him win, and we don't even know if that will cheer him up, that cyborg over there won't show any mercy." Squall had been carefully watching the gunman, Master Chief. Squall had seen him shooting the moving targets set up in the training center, hour after hour. And Squall hadn't seen him miss. Cloud shook his head. "I don't even know why the kid came. It must have been hell from him getting there, through those walls between worlds. They were awfully bad transport blocks." "Don't you even know Sora, Cloud? He came for Kairi. Knowing him, he probably wants to see her more than anything else right now... But he won't now." Aeris bent her head in pity. "I'm just worried that if I win, Sora will hurl himself off the nearest cliff," Aeris continued. Squall grunted at Aeris's last words. But inside of him, his emotions were there, and he remembered a time when he had been like Squall, after he lost his only friend in the orphanage. He had been like the kid, long ago. Squall strode over to Sora, grim. The boy looked up, sadness etched on his face. "Leon." "Squall now. I changed it back, Yuffie's constant chatter about calling me Squall again would have driven me nuts before too much longer." Sora was silent. By his downtrodden face, it was obvious that he was not in a talking mood. "I understand what's wrong, Sora. I lost a sister at a young age. I felt that way, what you're feeling." Squall got up. "When that happened to me, I just blotted out all emotion from myself. I said to myself that if I ever got too close to someone, that I would just lose them, and be reduced to the same sadness that was within me long ago." Squall paused, while Sora started to talk. "But I ca-" "Don't take that advice. But you can't mope forever either." Sora nodded. "But it's just so hard to be cheerful when I have no reason to feel that way." "The reasons will come back in time. They always do." Next Entry Back |