1. Chapter 1 (1/2)

the fight was over. he

was gone. there was nothing he could do. just keep moving forward,

strange thing to do while you're in the past. all he could do was

hope to find her and find out why he was seeing her in his dreams.

this is the story of what happens when he doesn't remember her, and

nor she him. this is the story of how they will remember what their

heads have forgotten, but what their hearts have always known.

a.n.-i have deleted all

of my other stories, besides the one-shots and am starting this one.

i'm going to start working on my other stories that i deleted

again. since i'm in a final fantasy kind of mood, after this one

just the girl will be re-written. i was just so disgusted with my

past writing that i decided my few fans deserved something better.

spoiler

alert-fair warning! if you haven't beaten at least

final fantasy x, i am warning you that i am giving away the ending. i

will also be using key plot elements from x-2, unless you want the

game to be ruined i suggest you beat it before reading on.

moving forward

chapter 1

the beginning

she said she loved him.

he tried to comfort her. then he jumped. first was a man who looked

like yuna, then auron, finally jecht appeared, he held out his hand

and the other boy slapped it before moving on. he was falling,

falling, falling. the air rushed past his ears and whipped the golden

hair back. he was sad, but the sensation

ought a smile to his face.

just like she had.

those eyes, that hair, those lips. he couldn't believe that he left

her like that, better to end it than to prolong her suffering, he

though bitterly. suddenly he wasn't falling anymore. a shimmering

ball of light appeared before him.

"tidus, you were part

of the dream zanarkand, i intend to put you back in the real

zanarkand, 1000 years in the past." the mysterious light told him.

tidus couldn't speak as he looked at the light; he wanted to ask

who it was. or how it knew his name and how he was going to be sent

to the past. but before he knew it the light flashed, and new

memories joined his old ones. "i'm placing you in an almost exact

place that you were in while a part of dream zanarkand. the memories

from present spira will be erased, but i must warn you, i cannot

erase them completely. they could appear to you in flashes or dreams.

i don't know what affect they could have on the future." the

light bobbed up and down before flashing away, just as tidus began to

fall again, a smaller dark blue ball of light appeared.

"tidus, you must

listen to me quickly! the one you love will also be transported back

to the real zanarkand. you must find her! in order to stop the future

from happening you must find her and set a series of events in

action. if you do not innocent people will die! although i warn you,

the one you love will have no memory of you at all and you will only

have flashes of her face.. she will not remember you ever being a

part of her life. you must find a way to unlock those memories! if

you don't all will be lost." tidus stared at the light again

before answering.

"how will i be able

to find yuna? zanarkand is huge!" tidus got slightly annoyed before

the light flashed again.

"she will find you

tidus. i must go now before my

other realizes what i have done.

watch out, as other people may also have been transported into the

past. some are friends, other enemies. be wary tidus! the fate of the

future rests on your shoulders! goodbye for now, i'll be in touch."

the ball of light vanished as fast as it had appeared.

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sky blue eyes tore

open, as tidus woke for the first time in the past spira. he slowly

went over the dream in his head. there was a beautiful girl in the

dream. her eyes were two different colors, he remembered. they were

in a lake together, she had been crying. tidus had comforted her, and

called her 'yuna'. then he had kissed her.

tidus went over those

details in his head before heading out of his room and down the

stairs to the kitchen. he wanted to engrave that moment in his head

for eternity. he felt as if he knew the girl from somewhere, maybe a

past life? if it was a past life then maybe she was someone he had

loved. he continued walking and he heard slight noises coming from

the room, while someone shushed someone else. thinking nothing of it;

he should have, tidus pushed open the kitchen door.

"oh my god! my poor

eyes! shuyin! can't you keep off her for like ten minutes?!"

tidus shouted as he found shuyin and lenne sucking each other's

face and shuyin's hand up her shirt. shuyin laughed and backed a

couple inches away from lenne.

"what's a matter

o? jealous of our pda? just cause' you ain't got a girl to have

pda with!" shuyin laughed again before wrapping an arm around

lenne's waist and pulling her towards the stairs. tidus didn't

want to think of what they were going to do while up there…

tidus scoffed at shuyin

as he dragged lenne upstairs. he didn't want to think about what

they were gonna do. in the back of his mind tidus heard that annoying

little that said shuyin was right. he was a player and a ladies man

yes, but not once had he actually been in a steady relationship like

shuyin and lenne's.

letting his mind

wander, tidus thoughts went back to that girl, yuna. the girl who had

been crying in his dream. 'why i kiss her? did i love her? but i

can't remember.' tidus was confused; it was too vivid, too

detailed, to have just been a dream. it was like he was reliving a

moment. a moment that his head had lost, but his heart still

possessed.

it was odd, when he

thought of this yuna, there was a tightening in his chest. why? he

didn't know. it went back to the theory that his heart knew

something about her that his head did not. shaking his head, golden

hair flopping back and forth, he cleared his mind of the girl and her

mysterious, beautiful eyes. he grabbed toast from the food machine,

then walked back upstairs to change into blitzball clothes. again he

heard slight noises coming from shuyin's room, but ignored them

while he changed.

suddenly he heard a

loud cry, "shuyin!", and tidus turned to see his

other and

lenne making out against the door frame, her legs wrapped around his

waist. tidus slapped his hands over his ears.

"why must you scar me

so?" he yelled before watching shuyin smirk at him before starting

to kiss lenne again. "ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" tidus screamed before

racing downstairs to escape the horrible sight.

before tidus ran out

the door he heard shuyin laughing at his

other's childlike

antics. tidus shook his head before racing out the door and down the

hill to the sandy shores that lined the bottom of the hill. tidus

laughed before he dove into the water. this was what he was made for,

this was what he loved.

when he came up for

air, and for a rest, about forty-five minutes later he saw shuyin and

lenne stretched out on the beach watching the water. the sun was

getting slightly lower in the sky, signaling that it was late

afternoon, around five or so.

"yo! ti! coach wants

us to be at the stadium in one hour to practice before the game

tonight. i'm taking lenne over so she can be at the dress rehearsal

for her half-time performance. she says that there's gonna be a

surprise guest! some

and new talent all the way from besaid!"

shuyin shouted happily as tidus swam further into shore and got out

of the water.

"and does this

surprise guest have any interest in meeting the star player of the

zanarkand abes?" tidus asked, smirking and flexing his toned arms.

shuyin and lenne laughed before lenne answered.

"actually they say

that she just showed up lying on the beach, they think she hit her

head and she's got amnesia or something like that. she didn't

know anything! they had to teach her how to work the machine! but

she's been integrating into our culture quite well. she's a sweet

girl, a little nave for her age and clothing style, but sweet.

i've actually invited her to stay with me in my apartment. you know

how lonely i get when you and shuyin are at away games. but anyway! i

can introduce you if you like." lenne said, shuyin laughed,

realizing how off topic she had gotten. lenne lived in the penthouse

on top of the apartment building near tidus and shuyin's house,

only a couple hundred feet away.

"that'd be great

lenne." tidus said has he shook his hair dry. shuyin laughed then

shrugged as they all trudged up the hill to shuyin's car. shuyin

climbed into the driver's seat while lenne slid into the passenger

seat, leaving tidus alone in the back. tidus looked out the window as

they drove through zanarkand to get to the blitzball stadium. the

lights and sounds and many wonders of zanarkand never ceased to amaze

tidus. he had lived there his whole life and was still in awe of the

beautiful city. they arrived at the stadium with about fifteen

minutes to spare. shuyin waved goodbye to lenne who was going off in

the opposite direction than the locker rooms. tidus playfully punched

his

other as he watched lenne leave.

"man……..you're………..whipped!"

this was all tidus could get out between laughing and running form

shuyin who was currently chasing his

other down to the team locker

rooms.

"oh yea? better to be

whipped and happy than to be single and unhappy!" this was shuyin's

illiant retort as the rest of the team laughed at the younger

player's antics. they watched the two nineteen year old blitzers

chase each other around for awhile before all of them changed into

the zanarkand abes uniform. the uniform consisted of an open yellow

and white shirt with shorts. tidus and shuyin both added their own

personal touches to the uniform, including gloves and mesh lining.

they were playing against luca. the team wasn't bad but the stakes

were in favor of the abes, at least as long as shuyin and tidus were

playing.

the game began and as

time wore on in the half, it found the abes up by two and in

possession of the ball when the buzzer for half-time sounded. tidus

swam out of the dome shaking the water out of his golden locks as his

other did the same next to him. tidus and shuyin both walked up

into the team section of the stands where they could watch lenne and

her "special guest" perform.

there were hollers, cat

calls, and whistles as lenne appeared on the stage. tidus felt shuyin

grow rigid next to him, and then felt him relax as lenne smiled down

at him. lenne performed a few of her new songs from her tour,

including one of shuyin's favorites, 'real emotion'. then the

music stopped so she could talk.

"thank you everyone

for coming out to see the zanarkand abes!" there were shouts and

cheers as she said this, she patiently waited for the noise to stop

before going on. "now that i have finished performing i want to

introduce everyone to the new upcoming star and my new friend, yuna!

please treat her as wonderfully as you've been treating me."

lenne stepped off stage and suddenly the lights went out and a single

spotlight appeared, they were unable to tell what the girl looked

like at the moment.

the name yuna rang a

bell in tidus's head but he

ushed it off as a mere coincidence.