A/N: this was initially a continuation of my Nooj x Yuna fic Believe, but it ended up not really discussing their relationship as I originally intended. So I'm publishing it separately.
Lulu and Wakka come to visit sometimes. Wakka likes to take Vidina to Djose beach to tell him about his Uncle Chappu as Lenne, Yuna and Nooj's daughter, eagerly adds to the old blitzer's stories with war tales she's heard from her own father.
Lulu hangs back a little, content to watch her family as she walks leisurely by the water. Yuna is with her, also quietly musing how quickly her daughter grows, now five years old. Shinra's commspheres, now used everywhere, keep the summoner close to her old guardians, but nothing compares to the companionable silence she's always enjoyed with Lulu, the only person who perhaps understands her more than she understands herself.
"I'm happy for you," Lulu says in her usual measured voice that belies the warmth underneath, "Though I'll admit I was a little worried at first, but I always trusted you to find your own way. Nooj is a good man—"
"He's wonderful," Yuna interrupts, almost automatically, bashfully smiling at the waves caressing her feet.
Lulu barely catches her laugh. When was the last time she's seen her former ward so smitten? And to a man she's been married to for seven years. "—and Lenne looks more like her mother everyday," she finishes.
Yuna lets herself laugh too. "It's just like you said, sometimes the best changes are the ones you can't force, you just have to let them happen to you." She stops to turn to the sea. "Who would have imagined, first lady of the Youth League? And I swore I wouldn't get involved with Spiran politics ever again!," she says, but there is no bitterness or regret in her voice.
"Well," the former guardian begins sagely, "Spiran politics would have found you one way or another, whatever you do."
"I suppose it would," Yuna laughs again.
They hear a whistle and the women's attention is taken from the sea. Lenne is teaching Vidina how to do it as Wakka watches them.
"I taught her," Yuna explains, even though Lulu already knows it. Wakka's eyes find them with a look that mirrors the familiar sadness in theirs as they listen to the bittersweet sound. Yuna and Lulu walk to where their children are.
The little girl laughs at the older boy's failed attempts. "How am I supposed to find you then, if you get lost?"
Vidina considers this. After a little thinking, he tells Lenne "How about you whistle, and I'll come find you."
Yuna's daughter smiles, clearly liking the idea. "All right!," she beams
As the children continue trekking the shore, Lenne insists that Vidina still learn how to whistle, to which the boy answers that he'll probably find Lenne faster than she would find him, anyway.
"Did you teach her that?" Lulu asks quietly.
This time, Yuna's laugh is a little softer and a little sadder. "No. That she figured out on her own."
For a while, the silence is filled only by the children's distant chatter, with Lulu and Wakka letting Yuna listen to the last strains of her daughter's whistle in the wind, and perhaps hear something else that they couldn't.
When she makes a comment about how Vidina is starting to look like Chappu, Wakka excitedly agrees and tries to convince a slightly skeptical Lulu.