Draruto sat in the shadows as Wakka and Lulu celebrated their child's second birthday. "Are you ever going to include self in the festivities? You know that they know that you are here, watching." he heard Auron say in his head from the Farplane. 'I just can't, Auron.' thought Draruto as the presents were opened. With a heaviness that never left him, even in torrential downpour, Draruto left the village to wander the island for a while.
Yuna saw Draruto's retreating shadow as she gave a sidelong at Tidus. "Why did he not join the rest of us?" the blonde asked, as he noticed the unseen departure. Yuna had asked that same more than once since meeting Draruto at Luca after defeating Sin. "I have no clue Tidus, we've never asked and he's never volunteered. So we might never know." she replied as her love wrapped her up in his arms. Minutes passed when Lulu told Rikku to find Draruto, which elicited why from the Al Bhed girl. "Because Rikku, today is supposed to be happy. And we know that he isn't happy." As Rikku left with a sigh, Wakka raised an eyebrow at Lulu. "Draruto need this Wakka." she said, hold the dozing two year old on her hip.
Sitting on the beach with no one around, Draruto thought of having someone to hold. And the only person that kept popping in was Rikku. But he hadn't approached her with his silly hope, she knew him as the guy who helped Yuna against Vegnagun. 'I'm so pathetic, I am not worth anything to any one.' he mused darkly closing his eyes to block the feeling. Tensing his shoulders and biceps against the emotional stab of a past memory. "No one see the pain I feel." he mumured.
