Fanfiction

Life before then.
The sun was out on the Sleeping city of Zanerkand it curls its way through the city waking the people of the city. The light hits a boat house on a dock. The water around it glistens in the light. A small young boy lays asleep in a bed his short brown hair moves as he shifts in his sleep. The small boy tosses in his sleep to wake up crying. He gets up putting his hands to his eyes, but the tears keep flowing. Auron had been sleeping in the room to wake to the noise. He gets up and walks to the child's bed. "Stop." Auron's strong voice stops the child's noise, but the tears are still there. "I.....I had a bad." The child begins, but is silenced, by Auron's look. The child wipes his tears and raises his hands to be held, but was rejected. Auron turns and walks back to his seat and looks at the child. The child looks over with a hint of the tears returning to his eyes. The child's eyes begin to tear again and he sits back down legs spread apart. A small stuffed animal sits in his bed its next to the child. The stuffed animal resembled a whale, but with many eyes. The child hugs the stuffed animal, Eyes still teary. "Get some breakfast." Auron gets up and walks out of the room.

The child gets up and walks out of the room still hugging the stuffed animal. He walks out and stands there his tears gone. Auron is sitting on a chair in a rounded living room. His sword about three times as big as the child. The child about seven years old grabs a stool and climbs up to reach the counter to grab a box He takes the box to the table and sits down a bowl and a carton of milk placed there with a small spoon placed on the table. The child pores the content of the box into the bowl some of the content spills on the table and some on the ground. The child reaches for the milk, but is stopped by Auron's hand. He picks up the milk up and pores it into the bowl. The child smiles and picks up his spoon and digs in.

The child finishes and picks up the bowl and walks to the counter again and puts it in a pile of dishes. The child comes back and picks up the box and returns it to its original spot. the child comes back and picks up his stuffed animal. Auron walks over "Change your clothing." The child frowns and drops his head and starts walking back to the room. He walks to his dresser and grabs some things out of the dresser. He unbuttons one of the buttons on his pj's and changes. He walks out and stops infront of Auron. His t-shirt was on backwards and his socks were on his hands. Auron shakes his head and walks over. He lowers himself bending his legs he gets eye level with the child.

"Your hopeless." Auron shakes his head. He grabs the child's t-shirt . The child raises his hands and looks up. Auron takes his t-shirt off and turns it around and puts it back on the child. He smiles and begins to giggle and then he picks up his stuffed animal. Auron doesn't say a thing, he gets up and stands . The child gleams up at him, but auron looks away. "were going out." Auron doesn't look at the child looking up at him. Auron begins to walk out the door the small child following close behind. They reach the end of the dock and the child looks up at auron. Auron looks down at him for a brief second. Then looks away. Auron scratches his head then drops his hand. The child gabs his hand and holds tight. Auron flinches, but walks on with the kid on his hand. They cross the street and enter a tall building.

The building is an old fashion and has a fruit seller in the front. The man selling the fruit looks down at the small child and smile. Auron lets go of his hand walks into the building. The man lowers down to the child's eye level. "How are you today little Tidus." He gets up and grabs an apple and hands it to Tidus. "Good." He takes the apple and takes a bite. He walks over to the big door to the building. He pushes the door open to the building and walks in. Auron is sitting on a stool to a bar. Tidus walks over to Aurons side and grabs his hand. Auron looks down and pulls him up onto another stool and goes back to his sake.

Some time later the sun begins to set and the two head back to the house boat. Books and papers were spread every were and the table still had the bits of cereal on it. Auron walks down the stairs that rap around the rounded living room. "Go to your room." Auron points to the room and then heads toward the kitchen. Tidus sighs and then heads on down. Auron runs some hot water and splashes some water on his face. "Why did he make me do this." Auron wipes his head and looks into the water splashing into the sink. He had promised him to take care of him, but what was he doing. A small tap at his leg then a tug. "Do what?" Tidus was curious about what he was talking about.

"Nothing, I was talking to myself. "Auron looks down and then back at the water. "Go to sleep." Auron points. Tidus shakes his head. "They'll eat me." Tidus looks up with a frown. "what?'" Auron lets the water drain down the sink. " The monsters. "Tidus tugs on his pant leg more. "Can't go to sleep." Auron picks up tidus and walks into the room. He puts him down and puts the sheets over him. "Now go to sleep." Tidus shakes his head. "No." Tidus pleads and holds onto the sheets. He looks up at him with his small eyes. auron looks away and then back. "Ok mover over." Auron gets into the bed, but doesn't act like he was going to stay. He picks up a small book from the table and begins to read to the little tidus. After he was done with the story tidus had fallen asleep on Aurons arm so there was no way to get him off with out waking him up.

In the morning the sun crept its way through the city waking the city once again. When the sun reached the large house boat on the dock. Auron had waked to the sun hitting his face and the small child clinging to his arm. Auron moved to get the covers off him, but the child had woken up still clinging to his arm. He got up with tidus still dragging on his arm. "Off me." Auron shakes his arm. Tidus falls off and lands on the ground. "Change, before you eat." Auron says as he passes the door. He enters the kitchen and then fills the sink with worm water then he adds some soap into the sink and the water becomes foamy. He drops the dishes in and begins to clean them. As he was doing this Tidus comes out correctly dressed. He stands there watching Auron washing the dishes. Then sits on a chair in the middle of the living room. Tidus watches Auron from the chair and holds his stuffed animal. Auron finishes the dishes and drains the sink, he looks over at Tidus sitting in the chair. "go play outside." Auron walks over to the door and the small Tidus walks out side. The wind is a slight breeze and the sun is in a high rise. Tidus walks up a stair case to a deck on top of the house. He sits down looking at the ocean then the city of Zanarkend. Then he begins to sing the song his father would always sing, his father was horrible at it, but Tidus new the words. Tidus didn't know,but Auron had been listening the hole time. The song reminded him of his home on spira and his journey with Jetch and Braska the battles they fought and how they had to die for the sake of the happiness of spira.

Auron remembered what Jetch told him before he became the final aeon "Take care of him.". Auron new what he meant, but he didn't know how. It seemed that Jetch new some how that he would find a way to find the sleeping Zanarkend. Tidus kept on singing the song as the water splashed on the house boat. Auron remembered the aeon's temples and fayth's hymn the same as the small Tidus was singing. Auron thought about Braska and how he talked about the hope of spira would rely on him to bring the calm. He remembered Braska's daughter when they left she was only about two when they left, but when auron was swept ashore he met Kimahari he remembered her and told him to take care of her, for her mom had died and she had no one to take care of her. Then Auron realized that yuna must be about the same age as Tidus right now. He had enough of the memories some went back down the stairs into the house. A short time after Tidus came back inside. "I was cold." Tidus walks in sitting in the same seat he left his stuffed animal in.

A few years later tidus had grown up some what and was only twelve he wouldn't carry his stuffed animal around because he thought it was for little children, but he still kept in his room. He had taken up Blits ball and he kept on saying he was going to be the captain of the zanarkend abes. He was getting pretty good, but every time he would mess up he would always be reminded of his father and how he said he wasn't good enough for the sport and he should stop before he got hurt, but this made him more determined to win. Tidus kept on getting better and then one day when he was about fifteen he bleached his hair and he became the captain of the Zanarkend abes. After a winning game Tidus came home to see that Auron was gone no trace of him was seen. His sword wasn't any were and his sake bottle wasn't in its usall place. Tidus was sorta glad, but sorta wondering were he was. "probably went out for more sake." tidus said aloud to himself.

A year passed and once in a while Tidus would see a glimpse of Auron some were either across the road or some were in a crowed street. Until the day came when he was seventeen, ten years after the first time Auron appeared. The day when Tidus' story had begun.