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A bright smile appeared on the brunette’s features when she saw the familiar face, running forward to wrap her cousin in a tight hug.
"Rikku! It’s been a while. How’ve you been?"
"Yunie," Rikku exclaimed brightly, giving her a warm hug. It had been a very long time since she'd last spoken with her, and it was really nice to see her again. "I'm doing great! What about you? You must have sooo many stories to share!"
"Helloooo~ Anyone around?"
Unexpected Reunion || Masamunemaster
The happiness that suddenly exploded from Rikku brought a smile to his face, this was the girl he knew and had left behind and he was happy to see her again. He got the reaction that he was expecting from his speaking to her in Al Bhed that shock on her face made him chuckle.
"I started when we were on Cid’s airship, at first it was because I didn’t like not knowing what half the people were talking about especially when they were talking about all of us, but after that I thought it might be a way to get closer to….. someone" he said chickening out at the last second
"I wasn’t very good, but I had time to brush up on it with the spare time I had in the farplane, all thanks to Yuna’s mother she helped alot" he smiled thinking about one of the few fond memories he had from those years stuck there.
"You never annoyed me Rikku, it was something else I … " "It was something I couldn’t say and was something I ran out of time to say and I could never work out the best way to tell you" he said looking deeply into Rikku’s eyes
"E muja oui Rikku"
Rikku was almost upset that he hadn't asked her to teach him. She would have, if he'd asked. In fact, she would have been grateful for the excuse to talk to him about something other than what they had to say to one another to be effective guardians. By then, her feelings had become less confused and she would have been grateful for the opportunity. But, he'd asked someone else and they hadn't even told her. In fact, she had never thought anyone in their group was interested. After all, the Al Bhed people weren't well liked.
"I wish I could have heard that," she giggled, trying to imagine him struggling to grasp the language. It was difficult, if you hadn't started young like she had.
She would have liked to have met her aunt, too. She'd died when she was only two, too young to have remembered her, and the rift between her father and his sister had been too great at that time anyway. But before she could ask after her (what she'd been like, among other things), his words distracted her and she was once again surprised by him.
Her cheeks flushed, made nervous by his words as well as his intense stare.
"O-oh? What's that," she asked, and without realizing it she held her breath. It seemed to her more intimate, those three words being said in her own language. And for a moment, she thought she'd misheard. "O-oui muja... sa? Are you feelin' okay, Auron?"
She laughed, though it was more awkward than cheerful. She'd wanted to hear those words from him for so long, had dreamt of this moment. But now that it was happening, she wasn't sure how to respond. Of course she felt the same. Just seeing him again had ensured that. But it seemed so... unlikely that he would feel that way about her.
"Whoaa! Look at all these people," Rikku exclaimed, taking a moment to process all the people milling about before she began waving enthusiastically at them all. "Hellooo strangers~"
Unexpected Reunion || Masamunemaster
"More alive than you’ve ever known me" he smiled to Rikku as she walked closer and closer , "I didn’t tell anyone I was back, except for Kimahri, he was the one who found me, he promised not to tell anyone, he said that was my job" he explained with a chuckle.He had made him promise, so he had time to get certain things sorted in his head on the way.
"You know I was waiting on the far plane for so long, I was ….scared that I would see one of you walk that path to join me" he said shuddering at the memory of that place
"I’m glad I found you, Rikku"
"E seccat oui"
Rikku found this so unbelievably exciting, though shocking too. Him being alive. Hearing his voice after so long. And even though she'd made herself move on, trying to forget the ache which came along with knowing he was gone and never coming back... she was relieved to see him. So incredibly glad.
A grin spread across her face. The most cheerful expression, like pure sunlight. "Like he would have said anything anyway," she commented. Kimahri was always so quiet. He'd give Auron a run for his money in the department of who was most stoic. More often than not he just stared, looking intimidating. Besides which, none of the Gullwings had been to Gagazet in months. Their sphere-hunting had taken them elsewhere. There would have never been an opportunity to visit.
There had been a couple times on their journey when they'd come close to death. Close enough to be frightening, but she didn't feel like sharing that. Now wasn't the time to discuss sad things, it was time to be happy for what this meant, and what the future held.
"You're here now," she said softly, unsure how to tell him glad she was that he had found her. Or how amazed she was that he had wanted to find her specifically. Before she even had a chance, she was shocked to hear the familiar tones of her native language.
His accent was surprisingly good, and it took a moment to process what he'd said. She'd never expected Al Bhed to come from his mouth, let alone with quite that level of skill. And then the message that he'd chosen to say----
She stared for a moment, spiralled eyes wide. Before her smile returned.
"E ymfyoc druikrd E yhhuoat oui," she admitted with the tilt of her head. He'd never really given her reason to think otherwise, not that he had ever been overly vocal about anything regarding her. "Yht... frah tet oui maynh Al Bhed?"
"Wooooah, deja vu! You look just like me! But if I'm me and you're me then... what the heck is going on here?"
It took a moment for her to register that this was real. A girl who looked far too much like her for it to be comfortable was right in front of her.
"Whoaa how is this possible," Rikku exclaimed.
Rikku examined the girl for a bit. Same braids, same feathers, same spiral eyes.
"There’s only one explanation for this!" The thief furrowed her brow, concocting what must have been the most logical conclusion.
"You’re an imposter! Or a time traveler! Or… or a time travelling imposter!!"
"H-hey! How come I'm the impostor," Rikku protested, one hand on her hip, the other raised to point at her twin accusingly. "Accusing me sounds like something the real impostor would say!"
Unexpected Reunion || Masamunemaster
He had been dead, for longer than he had ever been alive it seemed but this time, this time was different he was alive, not a cluster of pyreflys, not a soul with unfinished business he was alive. He found himself backing away from Rikku as she quickly wiped a tear from her cheek he felt the stump of the tree against his heels and his sword against his lower back. He slumped against his sword sliding down the edge of the blade until he was sat on the stump using the side of his sword as a back rest.
"I …." he started leading to a sigh
"I don’t know Rikku, I was in the farplane not feeling a thing just existing then suddenly I felt cold, and somehow I was on Gagazet covered in snow a bruises and cuts" he said rubbing several new and still raw scars on his arms "It took me near a month to get well enough to travel thanks to the Ronso, and I’ve been travelling ever since, I got here this morning and it took me this long to find my sword" he said tapping the back of his head against the blade.
"But I found you too" he added looking up a small smile on his face.
There was enough evidence there that she relaxed. The sadness wasn't gone, but maybe she could allow herself to be content with even a moment with him. He'd never given her a reason to distrust him before, and she wanted so badly to believe him.
The grass beneath her feet made a soft rustle as she walked toward him. She heard what he said, and if it was true... he was back. For good this time. Maybe.
She knelt, watching him with soft green eyes that wouldn't stop brimming with tears no matter how many times she blinked them back. He'd walked all that way. From Mt. Gagazet all the way to Besaid, alone. To find... her? She felt a hopeful flutter from inside, though she didn't let it overwhelm just yet.
"If I'd known, I would have come to get you in our airship," she said with a faint smile. "That was an awful long way to go on your own."
She lowered her eyes, seeing the marks along the muscle of his arms, still red and angry in most places. She wondered what exactly he must have been through all this time. And she hadn't made it much easier, pushing him away as she had.
"This is real, then," she asked, tentatively. "You're really alive?"
[[Seriously the greatest thing. Gregory and the Hawk + Aurikku = best (and worst?) feels in the whole world!]]
"Wooooah, deja vu! You look just like me! But if I'm me and you're me then... what the heck is going on here?"
It took a moment for her to register that this was real. A girl who looked far too much like her for it to be comfortable was right in front of her.
"Whoaa how is this possible," Rikku exclaimed.
Unexpected Reunion || Masamunemaster
Auron looked at Rikku and saw just how scared she seemed to be by his being there and he stopped just beside his sword looking at the shock on her face. "It’s ok Rikku it’s me I promise" he said his hands showing his palms "I am not a fiend I wont hurt you, you know me and you can trust me" He moved a few steps closer but retained his stance “What can I do to prove it to you” he asked fighting the urge to run and take the one he had missed more than any into his arms and promise to never leave again.
Her not trusting him, being scared of him cut deeper than any fiend.
Rikku watching him hold his hands out, glanced at them for a quick moment before turning back to look at his eyes. Everything about him looked just like Auron. The same stoic expression, though she could see something else hidden in the corners of his frown, and what she could see if his eyes.
It wasn't a physical hurt she was most concerned about, it was the emotional kind. The hurt she'd been nursing since that day. The one reopened when she saw Yuna get her happy ending, the one which continued to bleed the longer she stared, but she couldn't look away.
"B-but Aur-- you're dead," she protested, almost accusingly. He was dead. Had been long before any of them had known it. There was't any coming back from that... right?
All the pain and sadness which had been held back by the shock of seeing him began to break through. A tear slipped down her cheek, but she quickly wiped it away with one of her gloves. She wanted nothing more than to believe he was back, somehow managed to find his way here again. She'd wanted her chance to tell him how she'd felt, but now that he was here...
"I-- we mourned for you," she said in a whisper. "How are you--?"
Unexpected Reunion || Masamunemaster
"You need to be more careful" Auron smiled from his hiding place in the shadows, he had heard foot steps and he hadn’t had chance to retrieve his blade from its resting place. Kimahri had left it exactly where he had promised him all those years ago, before he was finally sent, before he had had chance to tell Rikku everything.
It had taken him so long to find his way back after he was brought back, after Kimahri had found him once again on Mount Gagazet and helped him back to his feet. It had taken him weeks to work his way back only travelling at night so as not to be noticed until eventually he found himself on Besaid the sounds of the celebration of Yuna saving Spira once more a distant hum.
He was happy to see Rikku again, as beautiful as ever, he left the security of the shade letting the light hit him his signature red coat tied around his waist as he walked closer and closer to Rikku as she lay on the floor.
The silence which followed her tripping over her own feet was broken by the familiar roughness of a voice she remembered so clearly it felt like a dream. Suddenly alert, her head turned towards the voice. Clear as day, he stepped from the shadows. It was like not even a day had passed since she'd last seen him. His red jacket tied at his waist, leaving his arms bare, sunglasses perched on the bridge of his nose. That scar across his right eye.
She took in the sight of him, eyes widened with shock. Her mouth was frozen half-open, words caught in her throat. So many things she wanted to say that she felt like she could choke on them all. Just seeing him stirred up so many emotions all at once, but on top of it all was pain.
How could this possibly be real? How could he be standing right there, teasing her for her clumsiness as he had back then? Acting like nothing had happened, and nothing was wrong with this?
He was dead. She wasn't foolish enough to think otherwise. So then... why did every inch of her seem to plead for this to be real, while at the same time holding its breath for the earth-shattering realism.
She clambered to her feet, stepping back to put distance between her and what she dearly hoped was Auron, but couldn't see how it could be. It had to be a trick. Something using Auron's appearance to trick her... But why? To what end?
"Au... ron," she asked, voice breathy and tense, as if she knew that any minute she'd wake and realize it had all been a dream.
"Kind-hearted, spirited, happy-go-lucky, and energetic, Rikku tries to maintain a positive outlook and but makes a stark contrast when she is upset. Despite her outwardly happy exterior, she carries some insecurities, particularly when it comes to her future and what she wants to be. Rikku is bilingual and skilled in chemistry and alchemy, and she becomes Yuna’s final guardian on her pilgrimage.”
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Unexpected Reunion || Masamunemaster
There was something to be said for a quest coming to an end. Yuna, Paine and herself had spent such a long time together, sphere hunting, that it was almost a shame that they had found what they were ultimately looking for. Or at least, what had interested Yuna into joining up.
She could remember that sphere so vividly, it's like the day they first played it was yesterday. The image of what had appeared to be Tidus, trapped somewhere far away. And he'd always been in the back of their minds as they'd proceeded. She'd always held out hope that he was alive, even with as slim a chance as they had. But a part of her, hidden deep inside, was jealous of that possibility because she knew she would never be so lucky. She would never get to see----- No. She couldn't think about that, or she'd never be able to keep her smile plastered on her face.
Her green swirled green eyes focused on the happy couple, seated off by themselves just a couple feet from the gathering of people. They were clearly wrapped up in each other, focused on making up for all that lost time, all their years of separation. It was sweet. She was happy for them, really. She had missed Tidus, and she'd known what a space his absence had left in her cousin's heart. She could sympathize with the agony she had gone through after they had defeated Sin, because she had lost someone precious to her, too.
Although, no one had known her feelings. She'd kept them inside, hardly knowing them herself until it was too late to admit to them. But she was sure he'd known. He was-- had been-- too clever not to know. She had seen it in the way he'd looked at her sometimes. Maybe he had even felt the same, although neither of them had said a word.
And now it was too late. All the regret in the world couldn't change that. But watching Yuna and Tidus now, just reopened the wound. She'd learnt to deal with how much she missed him, had learnt to shove it all away, but watching the two impossible lovers together destroyed everything she'd worked towards.
Yuna had Tidus back, when most had thought it impossible. Yet Auron... Auron was gone forever.
She turned away before her smile fell crumpled and she broke down. Getting upset now, in front of everyone celebrating, would only serve to ruin everyone else's fun. Rikku had always been the cheerful one, and she couldn't bring herself to be the downer. How could she explain that it was all because of the death of a man who had been dead when she'd met him?
Lulu, her baby in her arms, caught her eye. There was a level of concern in her expression, as though she knew something wasn't quite right but didn't know what it was. Rikku waved, shooting her one of her widest grins to reassure her. She didn't want anyone to worry, but she needed to be alone. She wasn't feeling the celebration, and even in the large crowd, she felt more alone than she had in a long while. Possibly since he'd been sent.
She turned to walk away from the festivities, not stopping until they were a mere buzz of volume in the distance. She was alone now. It felt... right, somehow. She was free to let herself be sad. And so she did.
She wasn't sure how long she drifted by herself, barely aware of her own surroundings. For once, she wasn't a bundle of energy, she was just... exhausted. And empty.
When she tuned in, unsure of what it was that had caught her attention in the first place, she realized she was in a clearing, alone. Though, she didn't really feel alone. Something was... different, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was. That is, until she spotted a familiar object sticking out of the stump of a long-ago cut tree.
Rikku froze, mouth going dry. That sword. She would have recognized it anywhere, even though she hadn't seen it for so long. Shocked, she moved in a haze to the blade. A hand, trembling, raised to touch the hilt. Her movements where hesitant, slow. This had to be some kind of cruel trick. Someone meaning to tear her apart again, remind her that Auron was dead, though his blade had remained behind.
She was too stunned to even cry, as her fingers brushed the pommel, tracing the outline of the hilt.
It feels real, she thought as she knelt, feeling the coolness of the blade. But why is it here? Could this mean------
She dropped the train of thought just as it began, standing abruptly and stepping away so quickly she tripped over her own feet and hit the ground with a hard thump.
"Ow," she said with a whimper.
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"Oopsie~ I've been gone a long time!"
"Um, good morning Auron," Rikku said, feeling much more shy around him now that they were apparently dating for a week. It still felt odd to her.
"Oh Hello Rikku" Auron blushed awkwardly but smiling at the Al Bhed girl he was now dating, much to the surprise of most of the group, which had led to Auron being up to the early hours of the morning talking to Tidus, Tidus firing questions at him everytime he thought it was over.
"Oh uh this is for you" he said placing a small box on the table, inside were a small set of finely crafted silver tools with ornate black handles inscribed with Al Bhed symbols. The ribbon around it tied into a bow "I had to get Lady Yuna to help with the ribbon" he said looking away towards the window at he now rising sun.
The group had finally set up came with everyone scattered, doing their usual duties when they set up camp, Wakka and Kimahri soon returned from hunting several large animals in tow. He had returned from chopping wood and found it rather liberating as it was the only time he ever took his coat and collar off leaving him free to cut all he needed without worrying about his clothes getting in the way.
Even though they had stopped to rest for the night, it wasn't exactly time for them to relax just yet. The site was a bustle of activity for a little while longer while they all prepared the space for the night.
She'd learned long ago not to complain, even jokingly, while she worked alongside Lulu in fetching things they might need for the night. She was far too busy running around collecting things to notice what the others were up to. However once the chores were done and she could sit down, she noticed Auron had returned with firewood he'd chopped himself.
Even in the coolness of the approaching night, he seemed not to notice the chill and still had his shirt and jacket off. While this was a sight she'd seen before, though infrequently, with the recent.. change to their relationship, she found herself feeling mildly awkward now. Her eyes flickered between him and the ground, a blush colouring her cheeks even in the semi-darkness. She rubbed her arms, part of her wondering just how he could stand it with it being so cool, while the other part of her wondered just how Auron could look so distractingly good without hardly trying at all.
