Ruto hasn't given up so easily, and has found just the mask for herself to continue a relationship with Link.

If Link thought that Ruto had given up on him so easily, then she didn't know the Princess of the Zora's as well as she thought she did. With her new Sage powers, it had been a relatively trivial matter locating the Happy Mask Salesman, who was at that very moment traveling on the sea between Hyrule and Holodrum. Of course, as both a Zora and the Sage of Water, the ocean proved no obstacle for Ruto, and within an hour she jumped onto the deck of the ship, and before anyone could stop her she ran downstairs, into the ship, and to the correct cabin that housed the salesman. To her own surprise, he seemed to expect her. "Ah, the Sage! Or would you prefer Princess?" he asked, his voiced happy and obsequious, as he bowed at her.

Ruto was unsure if she should be happy at the respect he showed her, or annoyed at how fake it was. "Enough, Salesman. Princess will do. I need a mask-"

Before she could finish her sentence, the salesman interrupted her. "Of course you do, Princess! We all wear masks, and sometimes find ourselves in need of another! Especially when we find that the one we love has chosen a new mask."

Annoyed Ruto scowled at the man. "He isn't wearing a mask, however. The mask you gave him made people see him as a Gerudo, but then it turned him into one and disappeared! I've looked, and I can't find any way to bring him back to normal."

The salesman laughed at that. "That is because it doesn't exist. That is his, or rather, her true form now. But would you be interested in a mask that could help you mend the gap, and finally allow you two to finally achieve true love?" Ruto nodded fervently, and the salesman showed her,