It's been five years... Five years and he still wasn't back. You had no contact with him since Nibelheim, you didn't know where he was or how he was doing, if he was dead or alive... You were hoping with all your heart and soul that he was alive and doing fine. You still had a picture of his stupid smile framed on your nightstand, you looked at it every night before falling asleep and every morning after waking up, praying and hoping for him to come back to you... You missed him like crazy, you were losing sanity over him. You just wanted to know where he was. It wasn't rare for you to wake up whispering his name, taking a few seconds before your brain recorded the fact that he's been missing since forever... Every time it felt like a st4b through the heart, an ache so deep that you wanted to scream in pain. He was your Zack, you missed him and wanted nothing but for him to come back. You wished for him to be there, you didn't care if you had to run away until the end of your days or if you had to fight by his side, you'd do anything for your hero... You just wanted your beloved hero back. You didn't care if others might find him an idiot... He was a hero to you and you wanted him there with you. No one could replace him, that's why you kept waiting for him to come back to you.

A knock on your door woke you up, making you walk groggily towards the door... Once you opened it, you found a muscular chest in front of you, making you slowly look up at the owner's face... You saw that stupid face that you've been missing so much, his reassuring smile looking the same as years prior and his loving blue eyes staring directly at you.

"Missed me, beautiful?"