They hadn't seen each other since just after Yuna's Calm had started. They'd discovered then that things were so different. Too different. He was traveling around Spira to teach people about machina and she was High Summoner Yuna's guardian. He was just Gippal, but she was Lady Rikku now. It was just too different.
Now two years later, here they were.
Yuna had insisted on digging in the desert for a little extra gil. Rikku stood before Gippal listening to him go on and on about how they'd been great together while Yuna just smiled in her serene way. Once Paine and Yuna had gone to fill out their paperwork, she screamed at him. Said things were different now and that he had no right. He just laughed and said that nothing was different. He kissed her and walked away, leaving her dumbfounded