It's been 6 months since Yuna, Paine and Rikku destroyed Vegnagun and Yuna was reunited with Tidus. It looked like the Eternal Calm could continue on (or start in some other peoples eyes), but not for Rikku. She missed being a sphere hunter and even more, she missed hanging out with her friends. Life had moved on for them: Yuna lived happily with Tidus, Lulu and Wakka on Besaid Island and Paine had her own delivery service now. Brother and Buddy went to help Cid rebuild Home (again) and Rikku was lately here at the Mi'hen High Road ... Although she didn't meant to, she made quite a mess when she was here last. Rikku tried to chase a chocobo so Callie could ride it. Eventually Callie could, but Rikku had to clean up the mess. There were like a 1000 chocobo feathers! Now she has her own chocobo and uses it to go from one defect hover to the other, trying to fix them. It was nice work and it got payed, still she felt something missing in my life - or someone.
Suddenly she heared a voice behind her that startled her. "It's not really like you to daydream, Rikku"
Rikku jumped up, turned around and looked right into a green and a blue eye.
"Yunie" she said softly and suprised and then hugged her. "you're really here!"
Yuna laughed and hugged her back. Rikku couldn't believe she was here, how did she even know Rikku was here? She didn't had a chance to tell her.
Apparently Yuna saw her suprised look, because she started to explain that Paine told her she was here fixing hovers and stuff. Rikku remembered that Paine came by on her first day, because she had a package for Rin. She was also suprised to see Rikku here, but didn't say much of it.
Rikku looked at Yunie and she must say she looked good.
They didn't had our dresspheres anymore, so their outfits were different. Yunie was wearing a skirt just passed her knees and and black boots. Above that, she wore a cute haltertop with tiny pearls on it and her necklace as always. Rikku on the other hand was wearing a cute dark blue mini-skirt with frills and boots that came to her knee. She also had a black riped top that went over her left shoulder and black fingerless gloves with a light blue cross on them.
Rikku saw Yuna the last time when she jumped ship to welcome Tidus home. Although they spoke on the commsphere sometimes, this was the first time Rikku saw her cousin again in real life. Unlike Yuna who stayed in Besaid, Rikku has been about every where. She went to Mount Gagazet to tell Kimahri that they found Tidus and that Yuna is living happy with him on Besaid. She also visited LeBlanc and Nooj in Guadosalam because she couldn't believe they were together unless she saw it with her own eyes. "Maybe he felt guilty?" she thought.
She has been to Bikanel Dessert to visit her father, her brother and the other Al Bheds. Soon after that, she went to Bevelle to see how Baralai was doing to hold Spira together. And Rikku had to admit, he was doing it pretty well. In Kilika, she heared Dona and Barthelo fight again, while in Luca, she lost all her coins in Sphere Break. She could never get how Yunie could defeat Shinra and win the Lady Luck Dressphere!
She has been in the Calm Lands to see how Clasko was doing with his chocobo's and had some fun playing the games there and then she moved on to Zanarkand. Because of all the matchmaking, the place is swarming with monkeys and nobody came there again!
While she ran quickly across the Thunder Plains (old habits die hard), she saw that he Moonflow was still fading away and would soon be gone forever, but while she was there, Rikku found a sphere! She's not really sure what's on it, but what she does know is that the sphere has a password. Now that was something she never saw!!
There's just one place where she didn't go: Djose Temple. She remember Gippal very well and somehow, when she's around him ... she feels stupid, like she is going to say things she shouldn't say ...
And Rikku knew that Yunie knew that too ...