Chapter 4: Morning Sickness

Lulu woke early.

Her eyes opened slowly. Wakka's arm was wrapped around her. She smiled. She never thought she would be this happy. She had nearly never had it. When Yuna had defeated Sin, they had returned to Besaid. Nothing had happened between her and Wakka then. It had started slowly, first him being attacked by a powerful fiend when he'd been exploring some cave, exploring for spheres or something odd. She had to nurse him, he'd had a fever and kept muttering. One time he had yelled at some invisible person to leave her alone, he would rather die than see her get hurt again. She had been startled, she thought he thought of her as a sister. If she had married Chappu she would have been. She'd been afraid. Thinking it would be...perverted in a way.

When he was better he didn't seem any different so she forgot about it. Then a few months later, she was having trouble with a fiend herself. He had craftily knocked her out of the way and at the same time ended up ontop of her. She remembered with a grin the embarrassment in his eyes when she had seen the want that had been in them, the way his eyes had drifted to her mouth.

Her feelings for him had began to build to that point when she realized that she wanted him too. He had been a gibbering mess after that incident. Then a few weeks later after many glances across the village he had admitted that he loved her. Her heart had soured but she had been scared too so had hidden her feelings. One time he had gotten mad and yelled she didn't have to be scared, he wanted to protect her, look after her, love her for the rest of her life. She had melted then and let him have her, even though she didn't believe in sex before marriage. She smiled at him in his sleep, traced his bottom lip with her finger, stroked his ginger hair. She had cried in the bittersweet pain, the time their child had been conceived.

They had too marry then, not that she had complained. Yuna had been happy for ounce. She had been a bridesmaid along with Rikku and Kimari's wife.

'Thinking of Yuna,'

She sat up slightly disturbing Wakka who groaned lightly. She was doing up the buckles on her skirt when she felt his arms wrap around her waist.

"Where are you going?" He murmured into her ear, resting his head on her shoulder.

"To the temple to look after Yuna," She sighed. She loved Yuna but she wished she wouldn't be so...pathetic really. She felt a pang of guilt. Chappu had gone but she could see him on the Farplane if she really wanted to. Yuna could not.

'As she kindly pointed out the other night,'

"Grrrrr. I can't wait till she's better then I'll have you all to myself!" She giggled and pushed him off her.

"Actually you will be sharing me with the bundle of cloth I'm giving birth to!" He roared with laughter. She kissed the tip of his nose and left the hut.

She grinned at a rumpled Rikku who's eyes were small slits.

"What have you done to her?" Lulu looked puzzled.

"She's been bouncing off the walls like Brother!" Lulu hurried to Yuna who was up and dressed with a huge smile on her face. She looked up at Lulu and her smile broadened. "He came to me Lulu! He was with me!" Lulu stared at her.

"Tidus was here? In the temple?"

"No! No, no, no. He came to me in a dream and said I had to let him go because I was getting ill. He said he was trying to get back to me and I had to be strong for him!"

"For ounce he gave some good advice," Muttered Rikku who was leaning in the door way. "Yuna. It was probably just a dream!" Lulu looked at Yuna pitifully. Yuna wasn't about to let grumpy Lulu dampen her spirits.

"He touched me Lu! He kissed me!" Lulu stared at her.

Could that be possible? She stepped outside to the priest she had left in charge of Yuna the night before.

"Did anyone enter that room at all during the night?" The priest stared blankly at her.

"No! I stayed awake all night. Then she got up at around sun break and wouldn't let me sleep even if I wanted to!" Lulu's heart quickened. She smiled to herself. She wanted Yuna to be happy, she deserved it! She had nearly sacrificed herself for Spira and ended up sacrificing the love of her life. Lulu returned to Yuna.

"We have to find him Lu! We need to find a way to bring him back!" Yuna bounced on the spot in excitement. Rikku began to bounce too.

"Yeah! Go Yuna!" She giggled with Yuna who hugged her and Lulu, even Brother when he looked in to see what all the excitement was about. Lulu pondered for a moment. How do you get someone back from wherever they were when they never existed in the first place? If it helped Yuna get better then she would do anything.

But could she?

Her baby was due any day soon.

"We could go to Bevelle! Ask all the maesters! They would do anything to please me!" "Yuna! You mustn't use people!" Yuna looked a little put down.

"And I'm not going anywhere with you looking like that!" Rikku giggled poking Yuna with her finger. Yuna looked in a mirror and nearly screamed with the horrid face that stared back at her.

"Even if he does come back he would take one look at me and wish he'd disappear again!" "Calm down! It's nothing a little Rikku magic can't fix!" Rikku pushed her into the side room and winked at Lulu as they disappeared.

"What you doing? What's that?" Rikku was advancing on her with what looked like a mini toilet brush.

"Relax! You'll look irresistible. You'll knock those priests of their...whatever they sit on,"

"I don't want to knock the priests anywhere," Yuna looked flustered. Her hair had been trimmed then Rikku had managed to lob most of the right side off so it went back to it's normal style with a new blue and yellow braid behind her ear. Now Rikku was trying to hide Yuna's bags and pasty skin.

"Am I gonna have to do this every day?"

"Yes till your better," Brother poked his head around the drape in the door. In his hands were some of Wakka's famous breakfast buns, filled with tasty meats, sauces and oozing fat.

"For Yuna!" He proclaimed.

"I am not eating that!" Yuna pulled a face and wrinkled her nose in disgust.

"You need to eat something that will put some fat on those skinny bones of yours!" Rikku said as she applied some red to the corners of Yuna's eyes.

"Or we will wait for ages to help Tidus!"

"No!" Yuna grabbed a bun and tentatively bit into it. Rikku grinned and gave her the thumbs up.

"Now Yuna we are going to help Tidus but we are not going to over do it OK? You and Lulu, if she's coming with us, are in...sensitive conditions. So we are going to relax too." Yuna nodded. Her friends really cared for her. She knew she had been abit foolish and stupid, but they were being so understanding. She took another bite of the bun. Brother was still hanging around in the doorway, he stared at her as though she were an interesting bug under a spy glass. Behind him Cid was just getting up. He looked at Brother.

"Hey! Stop sneaking a peak!" Brother leaped away from the door in a nervy spasm. Yuna giggled. He looked so awquered! Rikku tutted but was grinning all the same. She went through the whole wardrobe saying what to wear with what and what to wear when Yuna was better to show off her figure.

"What am I going to wear when we get Tidus back?"

"Yuna! We can't help you change every second! He could come back any moment! That's why I'm packing your stuff so you will look irresistible every day!" Yuna smiled.

"I never thought you were vain Yuna! 'Oh! What should I wear when we get Tidus back? Can you stop him forming a moment so I can change?' He loves you Yuna! He will want to ravish you in a moogle costume!" Yuna whacked her over the head. Rikku failed to avoid and fell on to the bed.

"Hey! You be nice to me! I just made you beautiful!" Yuna span around and looked at herself in the mirror. She looked so beautiful!

"Tidus wont be able to resist!" Rikku hopped around the room. Yuna span in beautiful circles. Her face and arms turned up to the ceiling. Her laughs rang out like fairy bells in the gloomy temple.

Tidus! She was going to find Tidus!

She spun so fast she nearly fell over. That was what it was like with Tidus. Beautiful, exhilarating, fun, laughter, but if she span too fast she would fall.

'And he will catch me!'

She stopped spinning and closed her eyes to steady herself. The face that had been tattooed to her eyelids since he had gone was laughing with her.