Well, guys, this is my first 'fanfiction' (if it's still fanfiction when you're not really a fan, per se) centered in OoT's Kokiri Forest. The Kokiri seemed to me like they could do with a bit of toying around, and I just wanted to poke a bit of fun at Mido. At first, I thought I had a copy of Ocarina of Time, but it turns out that I had only borrowed it a long, long time ago.

Brownie points to who figures out what anime I'm referencing with the story's title.

Kokiri Days, Part One, Mido's Day

This morning, like every other before it, a perfect sunrise greeted the Kokiri Forest and its inhabitants. It never failed to wash gently over the greenery as the sun picked its way over the horizon and sparse clouds, and consistently created dramatic, pink colours that would make any romantic poet tear up. Aforementioned romantic poets would describe it as awe-inspiring, or blindingly beautiful.

Mido, self-proclaimed leader of the Kokiri, would merely describe it as blinding.

Thanks to this sunrise, Mido just barely missed seeing the light of someone else's fairy flitting past him. This didn't concern him nearly as much as the rock he also failed to see, or the pond, which he did see, though only after he found himself inside of it. It would take all day for his tunic to dry up completely. At least no one saw him. At least, he didn't see anyone who saw him, and no one would admit to that, even, or maybe especially in the face of his dampened tunic.

"You know, you could have warned me, back there," grumbled Mido to his guardian fairy. "Maybe say "Look!" or "Hey!". All the useful fairies do it, a lot."

The fairy said nothing. It'd learned long ago that help would wound his ego more than the rock ever could.

Mido moodily kicked the rock that had been his downfall into the pond. It fell into place with a splash, and Mido remembered something else about rocks; he had promised to move some for Saria. Frankly, Mido was fed up with rocks and water for the time being. It wouldn't take but ten minutes to get someone else to do him.

As it turned out, it was fifteen minutes until he got fed up waiting for someone to wake up and tapped on Link's window. That idiot seemed to do what he said, though not necessarily respectfully, or even disrespectfully. He'd go along mutely, maybe screaming or grunting if he fell, or rolled into a wall, the latter of which happened all too often. Even if he was berated for those strange occasions where he would walk into someone's house, break all the pots, and get all the money, Link would just stand there with that same intense look on his face.

They never did seem to get around to getting that money back from him...

Mido couldn't get the bugger to wake up, though. As the Mido's footsteps faded away, a fairy bobbed out from behind Link in its own attempts to wake up the Hylian. "You heard him, you lazy bum. Get up!"

After three minutes, Mido had got fed up with waiting and woke someone up to move the rocks in front of Saria's house. He made sure to avoid the Know-It-All Brothers, since they would just talk at him, or talk about how to press a button to do the job (he never quite understood what buttons they were talking about). He found another Kokiri to cut the grass as well before going to stand guard over the path to the Deku tree. Being near something important made him even more so, and no one ever challenged that. Except maybe Saria and Link. Well, really, only Saria. Link would just stand nearby and nod mutely in agreement with whatever Saria said.

Ah... Saria. How nice it was to watch her walk out of her house and greet the day. Waking up early was worth it just to see her stretch beside her door with a smile, and look at her Kokiri... doing Mido's work for him... Shit.

Saria wouldn't say anything to Mido's face, though. No one ever did. She would just talk about it to Link, of course. Mido hated that smug, fairy-less bastard.

Speak of the devil...

Link somehow always managed to look cooler than Mido did. For one thing, Link was considerably less damp than Mido. The foster-child of the Kokiri walked, hopped, swam, and generally meandered his way to Mido, who noticed grimly that Link seemed to have climbed out of the pond completely dry.

"Well, well, what does the fairy-less child have to say to us today?" sneered Mido. "'Raaah'? 'Hng'?"

"Well, we'd like to get through to the Great Deku tree," came the reply. "He's waiting."

Mido did a double-take. Link hadn't spoken before. He hadn't expected an actual reply. And even if he had been expecting a voice, it wouldn't have been so high pitched or feminine. He hadn't even seen the boy's mouth move.

The glitter of a guardian fairy flicked out from behind Link and hovered in front of Mido. Oh, it was just a fairy.

. . .

Wait.

"When did you get a fairy?!"

"I came to him just this morning. Now let us through. The Great Deku tree needs us."

The clockwork of Mido's mind began to pick up speed, thinking fast. Even if jerks can think fast. After all, the true jerks know how to make a good point in an argument. Good points were easier to stab egos with.

"I can't let you through," replied Mido. "It's dangerous on the path there. You'll need a sword and shield before I can let you go."

Hopefully you'll still get a bit beat up in the process, he added mentally.

Though it's nigh impossible to see a fairy's eyes at any distance, he could feel Navi staring at him long and hard as it hovered barely a foot away from his face. "He's got a point," she conceded, turning slowly to Link. "You wouldn't last a second against anything without either..."

"Lets go." Link obeyed mutely, trundling back towards the village. Mido watched him idly, before turning his attention back over towards Saria's house. It seems that she had sent the workers away, already, but she wasn't coming over to him. Well, this day might not turn out all too badly if Link didn't show up again, and he wouldn't. After all, the only sword in the area that he knew of was guarded by a boulder with inexplicable perpetual motion. He'd checked up on it just last night, and the light rumble was still audible in the distance.

Why would Link get summoned by the Great Tree, anyway?

Mido looked behind him to the path. It was mid-morning, but the pathway seemed unnaturally dark to him today... An involuntary shudder ran through his body. In his own opinion, shadows were better when they lurked less, and he could have sworn that one of them had moved of its own volition. He turned away from the scene and found himself nose-to-nose with Link.

He remained remarkably calm at this startling event, however. The child always seemed to stand a tad too close to you when he wanted to talk to you, or, more accurately, if he wanted you to talk to him. It was rather unsettling to turn around and have most of your field of vision taken up by his serious expression. Ever since Link's appearance in the village, Mido and the rest of the Kokiri had trained themselves not to jump at such a sight.

Such self training didn't prepare him for seeing Link with a sword and shield in his hand, however. Mido was about to accuse him of stealing the sword (which he had), when he noticed something odd, even for Link; Link wasn't watching him. He appeared to be watching his fairy who was floating around Mido's torso.

If Mido didn't know better (which he didn't), he would say she was leaving small yellow flecks of light in the air as she floated, and they were pointing at him. "Soo," said a fairy voice with a dangerous sweetness in its tone, "Can we go through now, Mister Mido?"

Any wisecracks or put-downs he had were choked back in favor of not being trapped between a sword and a sharp place, instead saying,"Oh, sure, go ahead."

What he didn't say was "I hope the Deku baba get to you even with that sword and shield."

Link nodded the only way he knew how: mutely. The fairy and her flecks of light darted back to her place by Link's right ear as the boy strode past Mido. Mido tried to keep his eyes on the village, ignoring the screams and rather organic sounds going on behind him.

Mido, realizing that no one other than Link would bother venturing into the foreboding shadows, decided to take a break at the store.

He often pondered why they even had a 'store'. Their money didn't just grow on trees; mowing the lawn could easily yield five or ten rupees at a time! He would have spent this time pondering the more pressing matter of how their store had a constant supply of milk despite a lack of cows or goats anywhere nearby, but, since he had never seen or heard of a cow, he didn't know any better. He walked past the sign to the store, which currently read " Sto". The accompanying "re" seemed to be floating in the pond nearby.

Eh, it wasn't as if the village was large enough to get lost in. It was uncommon to get any new Kokiri, anyways.

Mido went inside, ignoring the girl on the roof. He still had no earthly idea what she meant by "z-targetting".

If you read all the way through, congratulations (it's better than what I've done, since I haven't written all the way through). If I actually come back to this, then the second half of the fanfic will bit decidedly more dark than this first half, continuing from Link's banishment and jumping to around the time when he returns.