Chapter 13
More time passed. Aura and Vidina lost interest in visiting Shinra, and, discouraged by Rin, Llaman and Lila began avoiding him as well.
Eventually, Aura and Vidina got married. On their wedding day, Rikku used the Comm sphere once again to speak to Nooj.
The Comm sphere was old and broken down, and Rikku had trouble making out any of Nooj's words. She saw his and Leblanc's son and Dona and Barthello's daughter, however, and she managed to tell him of Aura and Vidina's wedding. Then the Comm sphere broke down completely. Though Comm spheres were common these days, this was the only one that could connect to Nooj's. Rikku decided to ask Shinra to fix it. Heading outside, she saw Yuna and stopped to tell her what had happened. Yuna didn't seem interested.
Rikku often worried about Yuna these days. The cousins were not as close as they had been. Yuna spent more and more time at Shinra's lab now the children had stopped visiting. Rikku didn't know what they were discussing. Yuna didn't confide in her anymore, or anyone except Shinra and Aura as far as Rikku could see. Yuna had even lost interest in Lila's training, always telling her she was too busy. Yuna was too busy for a lot of things these days, even smiling.
Troubled, Rikku headed to Shinra's lab. Rin stopped her at the door.
"Miss Rikku, what can I do for you?"
"The Comm sphere's broken. I wanted to ask Shinra to fix it,"
"Shinra is a little busy now," said Rin. Inextricably her mind was cast back to that day on the Mi'ihen Highroad. The time all the machina had gone crazy, and Rin had asked Yuna, Rikku and Paine to help him catch the culprit. In the end they had discovered that Rin himself was the culprit. He had set the Gullwings, complete amateurs, to finding someone to blame, hoping they would botch the case. They hadn't however, and Rin's frightening manner as Yuna had told him her theory - that he wanted to hide the fact that the machina were not safe – had chilled Rikku to the bone. It was the same manner he turned on her now as he asked her to leave, suggesting she try again later when Shinra was not so busy.
In all the years that later passed, the Comm sphere was never repaired.