Chapter 3: A declaration

While in the match Link would not leave me alone so I could charge my Thoron, but I guess that was pretty much his whole plan since everyone else was fighting Shulk. But something happened that made me start to think in a wrong manner, whenever I was about to be knocked off the stage even before I recovered and made it back up Shulk would be there attacking the person who knocked me off and the one time I did lose one of my six lives he wound even out the score with everyone, excluding himself. It got me to thinking, Why is he acting this way, is this just his showmanship or a deep connection he feels towards me… but how can he feel a close connection after all were not even from the same world and he has someone, who is no doubtably waiting for him to come back. I sigh then knock out Little Mac, it was actually pretty easy seeing as how it you just knocked him off the stage he couldn't recover, so Dark Pit had to fight twice as tough to make up for him and that he did. He knocked out both Link and Toon link seeing as how they would wait on the edge of the stage to 'meteor', as they called it, me downward out of the stage. But the unthinkable happened I was hit with a very strong electrical attack from Dark Pit and sent flying off the stage from that, before I lost I saw that Shulk was also hit from that and was knocked downward making Dark Pit the winner. We were all pushed out of the stage seeing as how Dark Pit was showered in gold while a booming voice announced he was the winner for this match, we smiled at one another.

"Wow good match, I didn't think of you as any good but looks like you are!" Link says to Dark Pit.

"What is wrong with you, do you just underestimate anyone you haven't seen before?" He slightly shrugs.

"No it's just that I know how Pit fights and he was kind of unstable so I figured you'd be as well" I decided to add in.

"Never assume that, Dark Pit obviously doesn't like to be compared to Pit, for some reason, but still other wise what you did was a cheep shot" He looks at me.

"A cheep shot, says that sword of your that can kill even without dealing ANY damage before hand" Little Mac adds in.

"Could we just leave it at we all have cheep shots, I'm no sore winner or sore loser so I just accept it" We all nod agreeing with his statement.

"Well we should have another match like this with more people!" Toon Link nods.

"Yeah, maybe we should get all the newcomers and have a practice match, or like a tournament type thing!" I nod.

"That's actually a really nice idea, your very smart for a child!" Toon Link snickers.

"Yeah, I guess so" Shulk claps his hands together.

"Great then I guess we should figure it out soon then!" We all nod.

"But still the way Little Mac fell is just too funny" I expected him to burst out but to my surprise he doesn't instead he starts to laugh as we all do. Our laughter subsides when we hear the booming laughter of Crazy hand, we slowly turn around to see Master hand with his finger tapping on the ground. None of us speak.

"Now who would like to answer the question of…" Crazy hand finishes for him.

"Why the hell are you morons up, it's like past one in the morning and your up fighting?" We all look down, then Link steps up.

"If I might say, this was all of our ideas so I believe that we should… RUN!" Link tosses two bombs in their faces, (Or finger tips, as I should really be saying) then goes speeding off in the opposite direction, no one hesitates as we all run off and try to find out rooms. I get back into my room and slam the door, and take a breathe I stop my heavy breathing when I remember that this part is Lucina's room, she's still asleep thankfully. So I quietly go into my shared room, I look on the other bed and still see Marth and Ike holding on to one another, I smile at them then get into my own bed once more. I sit there for a few seconds when I suddenly blush at the slight thought of Shulk doing that to me, I look down at my hand and shake my head slowly. No, no I can't be thinking of something like this… but almost everyone around here is just encouraging the fact of relationships I groan and bury my face into my pillow accepting it's slight coldness on my heated cheeks. I turn my head and just stare at the wall.

"I have to be sure that this thought never comes back…"

The next day comes around and sine I only slept for about three hours I get up and change into my robe and boots along with get my book and go the dining hall. The smell of eggs, bread, and other assorted foods fills my nose as I get closer to it, once there I see the whole room empty aside from two fighters standing by the table talking to one another, I really should have said a child talking to a small adorable looking pink ball. They hear the door close and look to me, the pink ball runs over to me and says hello to me.

"Hi~!" I smile and reply back to him.

"Hello there, your Kirby I take it?" He giggles and nods.

"Yeah and he's Ness and your Robin right?" I nod as the boy named Ness comes over me, and nods. I recognize his face and his name from something Samus told me. Ah so he's in a relationship too… wonderful. I smile anyways.

"Well it seems a bit early to be up for you two" Ness shakes his head.

"I'm always up anyways up, plus I just need like maybe three hours of sleep to keep going!" I nod then Kirby starts to explain.

"I can just sleep whenever I want in my world!" I chuckle at them then we find some seats that were placed in the main hall.

"Oh so can you do spells with that book?" Ness asks me, I nod.

"Yes I can" He beams.

"Cool, I can do that too, but where I'm from it's called PSI, wanna see?" I take note of the flammable… everything in this room and shake my head.

"Thank you, but I think we might start a fire in here, maybe in a match sometime?" He nods, once more we hear the door open up and this time it's a yellow mouse type animal with red rosy cheeks,it's with a much taller blue type animal, I'm honestly not sure exactly what it is but by the short description I read it happens to closely resemble one of those animals seen in ancient text(1), there names were Pikachu and Lucario? I'm probably right, but who knows. Lucario speaks and goes over to us.

"I really hope that Kirby doesn't eat all the food, like last time!" Kirby giggles.

"I get hungry sometimes and I have to eat!" Pickachu runs his way up the table and stands on it for better view.

"Well just leave me some, don't worry about anyone else OK?" Kirby nods.

"Common were all growing here just wait until everyone get's there fill then Kirby can have the rest" I decided to add in.

"Well I don't think that would fill Kirby seeing as how when I got here last night there was barely anything to eat" Lucario nods then holds out his hand to me.

"I forgot to ask you your name when I came in" I smile then shake his hand.

"Well I'm Robin and I'm sure it'll be a great experience facing someone who uses the aura of others against them" He chuckle deeply.

"Well by the feel of it I can already see that you're a strong wielded person, but your also a bit confused" Pikachu finds his way over to my lap and rests in it.

"He's warm, I like you already!" I smile and pat his head.

"I am a bit confused to be honest…" Ness chimes in.

"Is it because you miss home, or someone from home, or are you just sick of being here?" I shake my head.

"No none of that, It's actually quiet enjoyable here, plus the whole home thing for me it doesn't really feel like I left since I still have Lucina, Marth and Ike around me" He nods.

"Oh is it about that dude your always with?" Kirby suddenly asks, my eyes go wide but I keep my calm and go back petting Pickachu.

"Well, um, not especially" Lucario sighs.

"There's really no use in trying to lie, I can tell by your aura changing, so it is about him" I shake my head.

"He's denying it, maybe we should beat the answers out of him!" Ness suggests, I grunt when the door is closed once more and the Villager walks in and joins us with a more then happy expression on his face, Ness goes over to him.

"Oh Villager, can I see your bowling ball real quick?" Not exactly sure what that's suppose to me I wait and see what he does, he takes out a large sized heavy looking ball out of his pocket and he drops it on the ground. It makes a dense sound, I assume that it's pretty heavy juts from that sound.

"Sure what for?" Ness smirks.

"So I can get answers out of Robin, he won't tell us why he's confused about that guy he's always with" I chuckle awkwardly.

"Your not really going to use that on me are you?" He nods and picks it up.

"Yeah, I'm pretty used to beating people up, but not for any reason you'd think" I finally cave when I see him holding it over my legs. Pickachu has moved on to Lucario's shoulder to it's all me here, I groan.

"Fine then, just don't drop it!" Ness snickers then hands it back to Villager and he puts it away, "If you must know ever since I got here there's been a amazing amount of relationships thrown my way, I'd be ok with it, it if wasn't for the fact that there pertaining to the same sex. That's fine with me but recently I've began to accommodate some unwanted feelings for Shulk…" I pause "I mean it's not that I don't like him as a friend but it's just there's this desire that wants to be filled with it, and I have no idea of how to deal with it" There silent for a few seconds then they all start to laugh, with the exaction of Villager as he just watches in the middle. I slightly flush as their laughter. "What is so funny, you've all asked me to share this so now what?" They stop then Kirby speaks.

"Were not laughing at you, were laughing with you, we've all seen this happen with like pretty much everyone here, none of us know how to deal with it but somehow it just happens, like Ness'!" He slightly blushes.

"Yeah this same thing happened to me, but just not like this because I knew I liked Lucas it's just I didn't know if he wanted to date me… but you have a totally different problem on your hands!" I try and understand what he means by that but nothing come up to mind, when Kirby speaks up.

"You need to figure your self out, you'll never be able to understand anything if you don't figure yourself out first" I just look not actually wanted to say anything for the time being when Pickachu sits up.

"Oh I know what you should do you should visit Peach or Zelda or Samus or Zero suit, they always know what to do in these kinds of situations!" I nod slightly to his comment.

"But I can't just go up to one of them and just randomly ask them how do I figure out if I like men or not, that's just absurd" Villager raises a finger high enough for to see the tip of it finger nail.

"Actually, you just like Shulk not necessarily guys in general, and I'm pretty sure that's the same with Ness, you only like Lucas right?" He smiles and nods.

"You actually made all of this seem a little bit normal, thank you Villager" He giggles.

"Your welcome, now by what everyone tells me, almost everyone should be coming here around now, so look out for them or else I'll ask you to a match!" I chuckle and stand up.

"Go ahead it's not like your not a fighter I'll show any mercy on" He chuckles then get's glint in his eyes, everyone behind him is suddenly shaking with a bit of fear.

"Oh does this look like the face of mercy?" I slightly flinch then I shake my head and leave the group with Villagers little threat of action, I take a breathe when I run into something, that something just so happened to be a someone particularly someone I wanted to avoided until maybe tomorrow when I've figured all of this out. Shulk looks at me then smiles.

"Oh I didn't see you there, were you thinking about something?" He notices my slight flush as I feel my face heating up at our closeness, I take a little step back and shake my head.

"No I just wasn't paying attention as all, but um please don't worry about me but today I hope to battle again in a eight smash" His eyes slightly widen up.

"Oh can I join in your match?" I close my eyes and shake my head with empathy.

"Well I would ask you to join but it seems that the few that I've already asked have found some to fill in the other six" He slightly pouts at my lie but then perks up and pats my shoulder.

"Well ok then I'll just ask next time, but are you leaving now?" I nod and go over to the door, he waves to me and as I close the door then other inside all call out to him. I lean on the door and think. Well he's mad more friends then I can count in one day… me leaving him for a few days, or a few weeks shouldn't be too much of a problem, right? I shake my head at the thought and walk through the well light hall way and ponder the many thoughts of the people I want to ask. I haven't seen Peach but by how people describe her I don't think she be much of help as to cons to this problem, Zelda is a fair lady but Link says that she can sometimes only see the bad of things and make you believe it too. I think about Samus and Zero suit only one of them has the same problem I do, at least that I know of, and they both are pretty fair in their judgment with things. But I can't just go up to one of them and ask this… Then something hits me and I start running back to our room. There I knock on the door to make sure Lucina isn't changing or anything "Yes, come in" I open the door then look at her putting on one of her boots.

"Lucina I… um need your help" She stands up.

"Yeah what is it?" I look down and play with the pages of my book.

"Well you see in recent affairs I've managed to get myself tangled up in a mess as you could say…" She slightly gasps.

"Was it that boy Pit, I can't stand him or his goddess or that Doppelganger of his!" I chuckle and shake my head.

"No nothing involving of them… Lucina are you blushing?" She slightly looks away.

"No, I'm just a little lightheaded from not eating" I chuckle then decided to press on the matter.

"You blushed when you said Pit, and he was the only person who's name you actually said, is there something with you and Pit?" She shakes her head…

"Well unless you count the fact that whenever we face off he always has a smile on his face even when I defeat him, it just bugs me so much!" I chuckle "But can we go back to you, I don't like talking about myself so much…" I nod then sigh once more.

"Well I just wanted to ask you if you could ask your friends to help me consider something" She looks at me then slightly giggles.

"OK but can I ask you something?" I nod.

"Are you going to wind up like Marth and Ike because I'm actually starting to like the idea of them being together!" I slightly blush.

"I'm sorry but I will not wind up like them… I'm just trying to assert my feelings" She smirks then pats my shoulder.

"Ok Robin, but I'll ask everyone at breakfast, just come here after breakfast and everyone will be here OK?" I nod.

"Thank you Lucina" She smiles.

"It's not problem, but you have to swear not to tell anyone what I said about Pit got it!?" I chuckle and nod.

"I'll make sure not to" She nods then takes her leave, after a few seconds I go into my shared room to see both Marth and Ike sharing an imitate moment, I clear my throat and Marth breaks from Ike.

"Oh Robin we-" I wave my hands in the air.

"No need to explain, it's actually a rather nice sight to see such romance in the air" They smile.

"Well since you were up did you see Kirby?" I nod, Ike curses under his breath.

"I knew we slept in too late, common Marth before he eats it all again!" Marth chuckles then waves to me as he leaves me alone in to solitude of the room. I take a breathe then rub my hands together trying to think about what would happen if I were to tell him about this confusion of mine. He does like Fiora so maybe I shouldn't tell him, maybe I should just figure out what I should do and just leave him out of it… but then again if I do those events in the one on the dining hall will happen all the time and I doubt he won't start to get suspicious after a little while. I lay back on my bed and just stare at the roof.

"I don't even feel myself anymore, how did this happen…?"

Over an hour passes with me running over thoughts in my head, and still Lucina hasn't come back, maybe they don't want to help me and to be honest I don't really blame them. I get up then leave my room and go into Lucina's where I see Zero Suit, Lucina and Cronus, they look to me.

"Oh Robin I didn't think you were in here, I was about to go out looking for you" I chuckle.

"Same here, you guys really need to be louder" They giggle then Cronus speaks.

"You know I didn't take you for someone who wanted to be in a relationship, but now that I look at it you two would be cute together!" I blush as Zero Suit agrees.

"Yeah they would, but like all of you men for some reason you can't just talk to one another" Lucina adds in.

"I haven't seen much but for some reason I've heard that most everyone had to get outside help just for their relationship to form" They both nod, I clear my throat cutting their conversation off.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your gossiping" They smile then Zero Suit speaks.

"Well it's not like we can actually help you anyway, cause whatever we say probably won't change out you feel towards Shulk" They nod.

"But I guess we could do something to make you more comfortable around him…" Cronus suddenly gasps when she says that.

"Lucina that perfect, what if we set up a date for them to go on!" I feel my face heat up.

"T-there's no way Shulk would agree to a date with me…!" She giggles.

"I don't mean like a real date, but like just a little going out thing with two other people, it doesn't even have to be called a date but it my experience most of the time when you do something together with someone you wind up realizing what you actually want with that person" Zero suit agrees.

"Yes, as me and Snake both hated each other until we went out together to buff up our equipment, then we had a gun war as to who's was better… and I think you know how that one ends" I nod.

"Well who should go on the date with them?" Lucina asks.

"What about you Lucina, Pit won't stop talking about you." She slightly blushes as she looks to her.

"R-really? What does he say about me?" Zero Suit chuckles slightly.

"Why don't you ask him yourself?" She looks at her hands.

"I could never do that, everyone would think something of it..." We all chuckle.

"I'm pretty sure we all do right now…" I say, Cronus sighs loudly.

"Well I'll think of something, since actually I'm the only person out of us three that he actually knows it'll be more relaxing on his part… but the only problem, I don't have, or like, anyone to bring on this 'Date'." Zero suit looks at her.

"What about Dark Pit?" She stifles her laughter a bit.

"He doesn't like me only cause I look to familiar, as he put it, plus I don't really think he'll stop being arrogant even for something like this" Lucina chimes in.

"Oh what about the Samurai you were telling me about?" She suddenly looks up at him.

"Takamaru, n-no way he'll agree to it" Zero Suit scoffs.

"You, Marth and a couple of other fighters are the only people who can actually understand him" She nods.

"I just know Japanese for some reason…"(2) She pauses for a second then groans.

"Fine then I'll ask him, but only because he doesn't speak English you two won't have a reason to get distracted, but in the mean time I think you two should get Shulk to agree on this" Zero Suit nods.

"Well actually he'll agree to anything even if it is dangerous" She smiles at my comment.

"Well that makes our job much easier, common let's go find him!" Zero suit starts to push me out of the door along with Lucina and we part ways to find Shulk. We find him and he agreed with no second thought, Zero Suit called it a small gathering for newcomers, even if Cronus wasn't she acted as a guide so I guess that counted for something.

The afternoon hits and we meet where Lucina convinced us to meet at, I stand at the… Wuhu Island door which belonged to the Mii's it seemed like a pretty relaxing place being a resort and all. But for some reason it's taking everyone longer just to get her and it's really bothering me! Just then as I loudly sigh I hear the faint Japanese in my ears, I look to my right and see the Samurai Takamaru that they were talking about. Oh he was an assist…

"Honkidesu ka?" He nods.

"Hai, Sore wa watashi ni atarashi yujin o motarasu deshou." She giggles understanding what he said, she notices me and starts to walk a bit faster over to me.

"Robin, sorry we took so long, I had to wait for him since he was in a two matches" I shake my head.

"At least you had a reason" She nods,

"Oh Takamaru, this is Robin!" He looks at me then bows.

"Nice to meet you." His accent comes out fluently, I nod then shake his hand.

"It's nice to meet you as well" She giggles.

"Oh that what's I forgot to tell you, he can understand English he just can't speak it very well" He bows slightly once more.

"Watashi o yurushitekudasai…" She shakes her head at him.

"Takamaru you don't have to apologize, right robin?" I nod.

"Yes, it's nice to see different cultures every once and a while" He smiles then nods.

"Arigato Robin, Watashi wa anata to onaji seibetsu no kankei de anata o tasukeru tame ni kangei ijo ni naru to omoimasu!" She giggles at what he said.

"What did he say?" She loses her giggle then she looks else where.

"Oh He just said that he's more then happy to help us!" I nod then thank him, as we finish talking we hear Shulk running over to us, he slightly pants when he get's over to us when he says hello to Takamaru.

"Wait where's everyone else?" She shrugs.

"Maybe they had something else better to do, but either way this must go on, now would you to please go a head I need to ask Robin something" They both shrug then walk into the resort.

"Robin, do you have a plan for this? I shake my head.

"How can you expect to tell him this without like an idea of what your going to say to him?" I shrug.

"Look I'm here to figure out if I do have any feelings but if I don't then I won't say anything and this 'date' was for nothing" She sighs.

"Fine then but if something good does happen I'll make up an excuse and we'll leave you two alone" She winks at me, I chuckle awkwardly then nod. Were about to go inside when something comes back into my mind.

"Wait, you said Takamaru can understand English so why do you still speak Japanese around him?" She giggles and pokes at her own cheeks.

"Who says I want everyone to know what I say to him?" I take her subtle hint then I sigh and walk inside along with Coronus.

We wind up doing almost next to nothing inside while in there, I'm not sure but I felt like Shulk would steal glances whenever I turned my head but other then that I couldn't really feel anything else different when I was around him. But then it happened, we were placed down onto a beach and since there was food here as well it kind of made it feel really relaxing. Shulk stood up after eating some tempura and placed his sword on the ground and started to remove his jacket, I slightly blush already knowing what he was going to do. I get up.

"Shulk what are you doing?" He turns his head to me.

"This is a beach so, it's just right to have fun and you can't have fun in these clunky clothes so I'm getting rid of them" He throws his jacket next to his blade along with his pants, I blush as he does looking away from him.

"What's wrong Robin, you sick?" I face him.

"No, I'm not sick!" I didn't mean to sounds so irritated but it's just hard to look at him now knowing that he's next to necked while being this close to me. He shrugs then nods.

"Well I think you should join me!" I shake my head.

"Ah I'm good!" He smirks.

"Yeah right, I bet your sweating under that trench coat" He tries to remove it I just slap away his hand.

"Common were all friends here it's not like it really matters" I clear my throat.

"For me it kind of does!" He tilts his head.

"Why?" I look away from him,

"I can't say why" He sighs, he's about to say something when suddenly we hear Takamaru talking.

"Gehin! Mitehaikenai Cronus!" She grunts.

"Why can't I look, if there kissing then let me see it!" He continues to block her view of Shulk.

"Watashi wa watashi ga anata no kokoro o toru mae ni, anata ga kare ni yotte uttori to natte kyoka shimasen!" She slightly gasps.

"Really!?" He turns and faces her.

"Hai..." She giggles then waves her hand over his head.

"Well I guess we'll just leave you two alone then, but Takamaru?" He grunts "Anata no hontoni kawai!" He rubs the back of his head.

"Cronus anata no kawaii sugiru!" She giggles then they leave the resort. I slightly sigh sort of relived that it's less awkward now… wait Shulk's still trying to strip me.

"Um Robin what did they mean by all that stuff?" I shrug.

"She's crazy I wouldn't know half the time what she talking about" He chuckles.

"I doubt that… and you want to know why I do?" I humor him.

"Sure" Still only in his swim attire he puts his hand on his hips.

"Well for one thing this morning kind of had me confused me but now it's making much more since. But one thing that I will say is that I hope you can figure out how you feel… because I already have" My face heats up as I'm sure he notices it from the sudden smile he obtains. He already know how he feels, I really hope this isn't a nice way of saying something terrible! I regroup my thought. Do I really think that if he tells me we should just stay friend that it'd be horrible, or is it just humiliation of some sort? Either way I can tell that now I'm very much sure of how I feel about him, about all of this. I open my mouth slowly…


Yet another cliffy, but it'll probably be pretty boring to see what happens... But anyways I hope you liked it, and I really enjoyed saying those Japaneses phrases while my brother kept asking me what I was saying *Snicker, snicker*, but if you happen to know Japanese and see that I got the translations wrong, (Since I was using Google Translate and all) feel free to tell me and I'll find a better translated version of it!

(1): Lucario... I pretty sure not even the Pokémon franchise it's self has explained what kind of Pokemon he is Pokémon he is, so I just assumed by the bandit mask and hind legs that he was a raccoon, correct me if i'm wrong. Since I was politely corrected I made a small change to his description the best way that I could.

(2): I just assumed that because the Mii's have been here since the Wii was released in Japan, and then released all around the world that they must know how to speak like pretty much all languages.

Translations:

Honkidesu ka?- Are you sure?

Hai, Sore wa watashi ni atarashi yujin o motarasu deshou.- Yes, it will help me make friends.

Watashi o yurushitekudasai- Please forgive me.

Arigato Robin, Watashi wa anata to onaji seibetsu no kankei de anata o tasukeru tame ni kangei ijo ni naru to omoimasu!- Thank you Robin, I will be more then happy to help you with your same sex relationship!

Gehin! Mitehaikenai Cronus!- Indecent! Cassie look don't look!

Watashi wa watashi ga anata no kokoro o toru mae ni, anata ga kare ni yotte uttori to natte kyoka shimasen!- I won't allow to become entranced by him before I steal your heart!

Hai- Yes

Anata no hontoni kawai!- I think your really cute!

Cronus anata no kawaii sugiru!- I think your cute too!