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Pieces of Pain

Chapter 14

Paine

Paine walked towards the village contemplated how she'd ask Lulu about training the kids. It hadn't ever occured to her that they hadn't been teaching them all along.

She reached the village edge and made her way to Lulu and Wakka's house.

"Knock, knock!" she called standing outside the door.

"Paine? Come on in." a voice yelled from inside. Paine looked around and then entered the house. It was much darker inside and for a moment she couldn't see anything.

"Over here Paine." Lulu called as Paine regained her sight. Paine walked towards her and sat down in one of the many chairs in the small house.

"Hi Lulu, how are you?" Paine asked calmly.

"I'm doing well, and you?" Lulu asked. Paine and Lulu were alike in a lot of ways, their personalities matched each other perfectly and Paine could be found quite often talking quietly with her.

"Fine as always." Paine answered. Lulu nodded with an understanding look in her eye.

"Well let's get right down to it. The kids saw your fight earlier when you saved them from the fiends and came back begging for me to allow you to train them. At first I was hesitant, I didn't think you'd want to be bothered with them. Now however I thought I'd ask you and see what you thought." Lulu said watching Paine intently.

Paine looked up in surprise, "I had come to ask if I could train them." She said with a half smirk.

"Well that settles that, you can train them." Lulu answered as she stood up and went to call the kids into the room. Vidina and the twins ran into the room excited.

At eight and seven they were a little rambunctious and Paine could see the eagerness in Lulu's eyes to have some quiet time.

"Hey guys, tomorrow you start training with me. So go outside and run around, then get some sleep." Paine said as she gazed at them. They all nodded with happy smiles on their faces.

Paine smirked and left the tent, just as excited as they were.

Paine

Paine had been training the kids for almost a month and they were getting better every day. All three had a desire to be as good or even better then their parents and family.

Paine pushed them hard knowing some day they'd thank her for it and she knew Lulu was worshiping her for it every night when the kids came home exhausted and too worn out to be obnoxious.

Paine Padryho had taken down her first helm yesterday on her own, using a plain sword with a shiny black P engraved on the handle. Paine had gotten one for each other kids after they could use a wooden one without killing each other or themselves.

Chappu was a strong and determined fighter and he didn't stop until his enemy was gone.

Vidina was more upbeat during a battle, he'd laugh and crack jokes at the fiends while fighting them. He was their constant stream of commentary.

Paine enjoyed training them even when they were tired and snappish with her, she just pushed them harder until they were too tired to complain.

Not long after they began Nooj and Leblanc announced that they were expecting. Everyone was so excited for them, Yuna and Rikku spent their time running around talking about names and driving Paine utterly insane.

Three days later Paine was so tired of names that she hid in her temple room all day and refused to come out despite their obvious attempts.

Paine's life was flashing by and soon she realized she had been back for over three months. At first she didn't believe it but in the three months time both Leblanc and Rikku became pregnant.

Yuna had been slightly surprised when Rikku had announced it because they still weren't married. Paine had watched in amusement as Yuna tried to talk Rikku into getting married before the baby was born but Rikku stood her ground.

"No Yuna, we're not getting married. We're not the kind of couple that make huge commitments like that." Rikku groaned.

"What do you call having a baby?" Yuna had demanded looking determined.

"It's not the same thing!" Rikku moaned as she walked towards the beach trying to escape her cousin.

Paine had just shaken her head and gone about her business but now she had begun feeling things, things she hadn't felt before.