Night Three - Day Four

"Give me back that book Samus!" Ike called, taking after the nimble form that dashed out the room.

"Make me!" she yelled back childishly, knowing that her distance and speed gave her an advantage. A smirk of challenge crossed his face. She asked for it right? Knowing the only place she would go is her own room, he stood outside the door of it and chuckled. "Samus..."

"Ike..."

"Give it back." he chuckled. As he figured, the door was locked. "Hey Link, toss me that bag next to the bed." As the bounty hunter heard the item being caught, she quirked a brow. What was he doing? She shrugged, sliding herself against a pillow supported by the wall. Smiling, she simply replied:

"It's my book. I'm simply taking back what's mine..."

"Not completely true...I found that book in the sand remember? Therefore, I can say it's mine..." he countered while shuffling through his bag. Pulling out what he wanted, he smirked. "So, I can say that that's my book that you just stole from me...is that not correct?"

"It could be...but you forget the fact I asked you too help me find it, therefore making your claim of property invalid." she grinned. At least until the door opened. She looked at him quizzically before he shook a tool with a bent up looking tip to it.

"Although that is true, you forget. You forced me, not asked. Another thing, it does not have your name in it hence you still can not claim it as your previous property..." he placed the object in his bag before looking back to her. "Oh, and if you're wondering how I got in here, I'll just say being a mercenary has it's benefits, just as your job does bounty hunter..." he stepped towards her now, dropping the bag beside his feet. She frowned deeper and slid the book under the pillow behind her as her eyes narrowed.

"How bout you leave as you came then?" she grumbled as he came closer still.

"I do not want to nor am I going to...just so you know."

"It's my room. Get out..."

"It is your temporary residence, reason being that you do not own this bus as a whole, therefore you can not govern the people inside it, including myself." he smiled wider. "Any other things you wants to clear up in legal matter?" he teased, earning a growl from the female.

"Why is it lately that you've changed the meaning of your existence just to bother me?"

"Because, if no one were to do that, you're would turn into an anti-social outcast which could lead to further problems such as depression and angry that could soon lead to symptoms of you becoming homicidal against everyone. To prevent such actions both for legal reasons and personal, I've been appointed to the task of keeping you clinically 'normal'."

"I swear if I ever get arrested Ike's gonna be my lawyer..." Link laughed from the hall, no one daring to stand in the doorway. Zelda and Peach laughed as Marth nodded in agreement.

"With as stupid as you are sometimes...you might just need it..." a certian pink princess added.

"Ey...if the charge is 'Aggravated manslaughter of a princess' remember, you started it..." he huffed, putting his hands behind his head."And your lovely prince Marth won't be able to save you..."

"Like you'd dare!" a brief glance towards her way told her he was completely serious, but then he smiled. "I won't unless I had to...or unless we're in a brawl and someone presses the special attack button when I happen to have a smash ball and you were also coincidentally in my path..."

"...what?"

"Nothing Princess...just know a wall has been broken..."

"What?"

"Twice...three including this..." Marth added.

"What are you all talking about?" she asked again.

"Nothing Peach..." they all chimed, "Nothing at all..." Ike and Samus inside the room shook their heads, having had stopped when they heard Ike's name mentioned outside the room.

"They're a bunch of idiots...Peach and Link more so then the other two..." Samus mumbled. Ike chuckled.

"Anyway, back to you...Give the book back please?"

"How bout no?"

"How about yes?" he inquired back, leaning down to her level before being stopped by her foot to his chest. He was surprised it wasn't a kick by how quick it was but just placed there to make him keep his distance. She some what pushed him back with it as he just stood there. Instead of stumbling backwards, he grabbed unto her foot, incidentally grazing his fingers along the bottom of her foot. She laughed, then covered her mouth and immediately began yanking her foot away from him. A sneaky smile crossed his face. "Sam...are you ticklish?" her face began to pinken as she refused to meet his stare. he ran his fingers across the sole of her foot again, earning almost the same response as the first time. "I believe you are..."

"I...hate...you...right...now..." she growled out through forcefully grit teeth. His expression remained unchanged.

"I wonder where else you're ticklish..." she flinched before glaring harshly at him.

"Ike Greil, I swear to freaking god if you so much at touch me-" she was then cut off by her own laughter as she stifled it to the best of her ability. Seems the bluenette was taking full advantage of the fact that he still had her foot. Again, she yanked her foot but he used the momentum to land over her. Finally taking a breath, she looked at Ike through one eye panting, an unintended smile on her face. "Get off me! Seriously!"

"No. You know you're cute when you laugh, Sam."

"That's why..." she finally fixed her face into the usual frown, "That is the exact reason why I don't do it..."

"You should...it suits you..."

"A fist to the face is gonna suit you if you don't get away from me..." is what came from her in a low growl. Being the one that liked a calling to trouble, he only smirked wider as he attacked her sides, resulting in quiet giggles.

"Can't hear you, what was that?"

"I-I'm gonna-" a laughing outburst of her own, "I'm gonna punch you! Stop!" although, everyone knew she meant what she was saying, her laughter wasn't being very convincing at all. She pushed against his chest, non-verbally begging him to stop, tears forming in her eyes. He eased up, leaning back onto his legs seeing that he was on his knees at the moment. She glanced up at him tiredly, sighing as she finally caught an even breath. "You know...I'm not so sure I like you being so close to me..."

"Why is that?"

"Cause...bad things happen..."

"...what?" he nearly laughed. "What are you-oh wait...I think I know what you mean..." he mumbled, appearing as if in thought. Samus raised an eyebrow at him.

"Really?"

"Yeah...you mean things like..." his voice became barely above a whisper as he neared her, "...this..." he connected his lips to her own, gently and slowly. Her face reddened considerably, considering that she still wasn't quite used to him doing things like that, let alone the concept of kissing at all... He placed a hand on either side of her body, allowing himself to be more on top of her, she herself leaning back under his guidance. He placed one hand at the small of her back, deepening their contact as well as pulling her closer. Then he moved back, separating them and beginning to stand. She looked at him, dazed and confused but more dazed than anything else. He smiled at her. "Seems although you say it's bad you don't seem to mind it much..." As he began to walk toward the door, a smile crossed his face. Seeing as she hadn't noticed, seems like there was more fun to be had with her today. "Hey get dressed. I want to go out for something and you're coming with me."

"You kidnapping me or something?"

"Maybe." he chuckled. "Come see me when you're dressed." she stared at him skeptically, eyeing him for anything suspicious.

"I guess...it wouldn't hurt..." As promised, a little while later, Ike found him looking into an angry face of Samus. His very expression read confused until he saw she was wearing another "bought by Peach" outfit and how she even heard him ask her out is beyond him. Today, she was wearing an (almost) hot pink under tee with a midnight blue half jacket and matching pants that was stuffed into knee length black boots. A hat came with the outfit but she just stuffed into the tote bag she was carrying (that was also pink and forced on her by Peach). Ike smirked at her as she scoffed. "She refused to leave the room...and she refused to let me go without something...pink..." she then looked down to her shirt. "...ick..." it was then that he chose to laugh at her completely, causing a glare to be shot at him. "You wear something pink, I dare you!" She yelled, noting his outfit wasn't very different from the other day. Random shirt, dark jeans, all something to do with red or blue.

"I'll leave that to you but you should change your hair. People will recognize you too easily..."

"...true...hold on..." she reached up to her hair, pulling out her classic red ponytail holder and flung her hair free, ruffling it straight before digging into her bag for a puffy pink hat, sliding it on fluently then looking back up to him. "Better?"

"Huh..." he leaned, examining exactly how long her hair was. "Knee length huh? Okay, let's go." he smiled, slapping on a cap of his own and walking past her to the door. Sighing, she walked out not far behind them. On the bus to the shopping district, Samus found herself falling asleep as the bus strolled along slowly, music playing in her ears and sitting next to the one that had dragged her out there, taking the window spot of the two seats. Her head bobbed slightly as the vehicle continued on its way. He nudged her, putting her head on his shoulder. He fiddled with the visor of her cap, seeing as she didn't really have much to do until their stop came. Getting tired of that too, he found himself just staring at her out of bored curiosity. Examining her face, he noticed that she had on a light tint of pink eyeshadow, only noticeable from being that close. Leaning closer, he tried to make out what type of music she was listening to but had the thought of distinctly hearing the words "from left to riiiiight" and didn't know what to make of it.

"Now arriving at Coconut Mall. To make the exit process easier, please use both exits to leave the bus...thank you!" A female operator announced. He nudged the girl harder this time but seeing as he barely got a reaction from her out of quick thinking he turned his back to her and slid her arms over his shoulders, quickly sliding his arms underneath her and exit the bus in a slight jog to catch the driver before he pulled off. A quick mutter of an apology as he hit the sidewalk and the doors closed on him. He sighed, an exasperated expression sent at the sleeping girl on his back. Then he smiled at this seemingly childish side of her. 'Come to think of it, she's acted more and more this way the more I mess with her...' Then came an amused chuckle. 'Well...that's alright... as long as she's happy...'he jostled her upward to prevent her from falling and fixing his grip before continuing inside. As a little time passed, he found he could hear her music perfectly from their current position, her head resting on her arm, which was on his shoulder and also next to Ike's ears. Some song he'd recognized as "Spirit Awake" was playing. He didn't particularly like the song, he just knew it because of Marth, seeing as when he first met the guy he'd speak nothing but Japanese (which irked the hell out of him) and listened to j-pop/j-rock all the time (which normally resulted in something being thrown at the radio or at the smaller blue swordsman and a shout of "SOMETHING ENGLISH DAMMIT") and told him the name of that song because he was interested in the beat to it. Apparently Samus liked that song for some reason or another.

"Mmm-mmph..." the blonde mumbled, feeling odd. Being asleep, she couldn't place why. She felt weightless and overly warm. That couldn't be right. Wasn't she on an air-conditioned bus? She did feel as if she was still sitting but her feet were dangling. Last she checked, she was too tall for that. Besides, it felt as if something were carrying her, walking somewhere. That confused her more. 'Dammit...I need to wake up...'She grumbled as she opened her eyes lowly just to be blinded by sunlight. "Ah! What the..." she could feel whoever carried her laugh although she couldn't hear them. That's when it all finally snapped together. She must've slept too hard because Ike was carrying her... 'Huh...figured he would've woken me up...' She blinked slowly before shifting her eyes to him and shrugging off her headphones. "Ike..."

"Welcome back." He smiled. A light blush crossed her cheeks as she quickly hid it behind her arm.

"Was I really sleeping that hard?" she mumbled, more to herself than her companion. Ike shrugged, moving her along with him.

"Well...it's expected since we barely got any sleep last night..."

"Damn Link and Zelda..." she grumbled. "And it doesn't help it that I'm still sleepy..."

"That's expected too since you just woke up..."

"Stop that...you've been doing that since this morning..." she ordered, glaring half-heartily at him.

"But it's fun to mess with you, sorry." he grinned back to her.

"Yeah, yeah..." she closed her eyes, not minding the fact that he was still carrying her although she was awake now. She wondered why but didn't think about it. Ike was just strange, she figured, at least since the first day of this vacation. "Um...Ike...I know this a random request but remind me to kill Master Hand when we get back off this death trip..."

"Huh?"

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Samus eyed Ike strangely at this moment for multiple reasons. The first being slightly her fault. When he'd finally put her down, she was unsteady and ended up teetering over just to have him catch her quickly. Thing is...he hadn't taken his hand of her waist since then... Secondly, for some reason, call it paranoia, she felt as if they were being watched. What made her angry about it was the fact that Ike wasn't even bothered. And thirdly, out of all the places to take her he took her to...the book store...

"Ike..."

"What?"

"...is something wrong with you?"

"Not at all." he commented back blankly. "Let's go pick out some books to read...yours is ending, right? Come on." he then smirked and pulled her by the waist into the store.

Nearby to the store, two blonds face-palmed.

"What is that tard doing?" Peach huffed with an exasperated tone.

"The question is what are we doing?" Zelda sighed along with Marth. Even if they were (forced) to follow Samus and Ike, they weren't going to skulk around like the other two.

"Not only that but she kind of noticed us...we'll make her go nuts with how dense Ike is..." Marth added. Both of the blonds stared at them with angry, dead-panned glares, causing the other two to sigh again as they turned away.

"Sometimes, that idiot makes me hate loving him so much..." Zelda giggled airily.

"Hey, not meaning to be rude but..." the Altean mumbled, huddling closer to Zelda, "When they're acting that way...they seem like they could be a perfect couple..."

"Oh, I've noticed that a while ago. But with the way they act when not hatching a plan...that wouldn't work...at all..."

"Yeah..." Marth replied, laughing similarly to Zelda's moments ago, taking into account the other two began glaring at them again.

"Oh, Link must've heard..."the hylian girl whispered to herself.

"You damn straight I did! What the fuck?" He yelled, attracting attention to all four of them. So much for being inconspicuous...

"Oh dear.." Zelda mumbled, holding her hand near her mouth.

"Yare, yare..." Marth smiled weakly, drooping shoulders (for a prince) and the switch back to his native language showing his true mood...

Inside the store, however, Ike began to get annoyed. Samus turned to him from the current bookshelf.

"What's your problem? You wanted to come here..."

"Marth is somewhere nearby...and he's speaking Japanese again..."

"...the hell?"

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"Oh my goddesses..." Zelda whined to no one in particular, and under her breath for that matter.

"Dear goddess is correct..." Marth whispered to himself as well, finally able to coax himself back into speaking the English language. Although they both had table manners befitting those of royal families, both Zelda and Marth had their elbows on the table of the food court and were haunched over, not even daring to sit next to the blonds, who instead sat across from them. Link sipped on a drink as Peach nibbled on fries, both acting similar to little kids at the moment. Marth's thumb and forefinger pinched on the bridge of his nose and Zelda's thumb and middle finger massaged her temples, both chiding their eyes from the duo across from them.

"Hey Link, whenever we have a grand prix here, I have so much fun! The tables are all put up and they set up ramps all around and doing a trick off the fountains are just so...exhilarating!" she chimed excitedly. Link nodded, actually interested in the conversation...for once...

"So what type of ride do you use?"

"I normally go for the Mach Bike or the Dolphin Dasher. I love the bikes, y'know?"

"So..." Link chuckled darkly, bringing the straw up to his lips, "You like something hot, hard and vibrating between your legs, huh?" Marth regretted attempting the drink his soda at that time, seeing as he immediately choked, blush dusting his face. Zelda just...stared..she expected these things sometimes but...honestly... Peach was stuck in a red faced stupor with her mouth open until the words finally came out.

"WHAT THE FUCK LINK?"

"Ooh! She used the F-bomb!" Link laughed whole-heartily, gripping his sides with tears forming. Why teasing that girl was so damned fun, no one knew. As Zelda tended to Marth, Peach grabbed Link by the chest of his sweater.

"Like you have any right to talk, horse rider! Don't you dare say anything like that ever again!" she panted heavily after screaming at him. Link, able to crack an eye open at her, calmed his laughter for a moment before adding something to his previous statement.

"Or would you rather want a hot and hard Marth between you-"

"Rinku, urusai!" an even redder face Marth yelled. "Ittai nani ga machigatte iru! Teishi suru yo ni norowa ret tosaku sa rete!" the three stared at him, blinking silently until they all thought of the same thing...

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"...What?"

"Oh dammit..."

"What is it now?"

"He's talking in that damned language again...I think someone made him mad..."

"..."

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'Okay...' Zelda inwardly huffed, 'Marth's lost it...Peach never had it and Link's not using it...and I'm not that far from losing my own as it is...'What the specific item she was talking about was? A mind. A terrible thing to waste and a horrible thing to lose, in Marth's case. No one knew what the hell he was saying...at...ALL. But when he calmed down enough, he would return English, but still. And another thing she noticed. Ever since that comment Link made that set the Altean off, Peach has had a small smile on her face. "Link...please don't do that again..."

"Like I knew he would do that..." Link retorted, but he was still smiling.

"Nani ga sono otokonoko to machigatte iru...?" Marth mumbled under his breath. Everybody glanced his way before looking back at each other. Peach shook her head.

"Well...back to the task at hand. We have to see what they're doing in there. Problem is..." Peach trailed.

"We'd get caught faster than Snake in a spotlight..." Link finished. He put a hand on his chin as he thought. He then got and idea. "We'll send in a spy!"

"And just who in their right mind would help us?" Zelda objected, quickly countering the stupid idea.

"Him!" Link yelled, pointing at Marth as if saying "Counter-Objection!". Marth raised an eyebrow at him.

"Anata wa nani o watashi ga yaru to omou nodesu ka?" he huffed, hand under his chin and one leg crossed over the other.

"...what?" the three asked simultaneously again. Marth huffed, grabbed a napkin and a pen and wrote "What makes you think I'll do that?"

"Just saying you'd be the best spy. You, being the way you are can make the perfect disguise."

"Nani?"

"...I think I get what he means..." Peach added. Then an idea struck her. "Hey Link, let's dress him like a girl!"

"My thoughts exactly!"

"Nanida yo! Ie!" the Altean screamed, slamming his hands on the table.

"Don't 'ie' me! You're doing it. Matter of fact...you're small enough...try switching clothes with Peach."

"I-NO I am not!" he yelled again.

"Oh...your English is back..." they all mumbled.

"I'm not doing it! That's it!"

"Come on Marth! Let's go!" Peach giggled, rising from the table and snatching his hand up. He stumbled and ended up following her at first until she noticed where she was dragging him.

"P-P-P-PEACH! I can't go in there!" His eyes widened with his words as his face was nearly turning the same shade as Ike's hair, his voice rising in pitch with the distance.

"Keep your voice just like that! And besides no one will notice if you come out as a girl anyway. And besides, I'm not stepping three feet near a men's washroom..." she giggled, pushing the door open with her backside and pulling him inside. "Come on!"

"Y-Yamete! Ikou!" he yelled before the door was shut and he was gone.

"Y'know...I...kinda feel bad for him..." Link mumbled.

"Now you say that..." the hylian girl mumbled back.

Inside the bathroom, Peach pushed Marth into a stall, lock the door a turned towards him. She grabbed the hem of his shirt and began to lift it, one undershirt following suit quickly. She put it on the hook for coats on the back of the stall door before turning back and crouching down, unbuttoning the latch and working on the zipper. She was stopped by two hands grasping her wrists.

"C-C-Chotto!" his face was way past flushed and she was to close to his-ahem!

"What?" she looked up, her expression was a mix of annoyed and impatient.

"Um..." well, he didn't have anything to say but still.. After seeing that he had nothing to say, she lowered his pants down, pushing him to sit on the toilet so she could remove them completely. After pulling the pants off his sneakers she looked back to his face, which was crimson at this point. Seeing her smile at him didn't help either. Something else that didn't help? Peach began the stripping process on herself right in front of him although she'd turned her back to him. "K-kore wa waruidesu..."

"What was that?" she asked, pausing to look back at him.

"N-N-Nothing!" he squeaked back. She giggled at him before removing her shirt completely then working on her dress, stepping out of it briskly. She turned to him holding out her clothes.

"Here you go!" she smiled. Seeing as he didn't want to move his hands, she threw the clothes over her arm and began to move them. As much as he fought her off, she grabbed his hands and pulled them away with more strength than he figured she had. Upon noticing the reason, she fought off a smile, although a little one got through. "Oh my...well...you can't wear a dress until you fix that..."

Link looked over at Zelda with a certian smirk that always told her that his mind was up to no good.

"Link...what is it?"

"Nooooothin..."

"...you're sensing something aren't you?"

"Hell yeah..."

"...is...it..."

"Hell...yeah..." his smirk did nothing but grow. Zelda studied him skeptically.

"If you're so sure, then what are they doing? No literal terms!" she quickly added, knowing how blunt her boyfriend could be.

"Okay...I'll say it with stupidity...Peach is playing the flute..."

"..." and that was the apparent moment Link burst out laughing as Zelda's head hit the table.

"Okay! We're done!" a(n overly cheery) recognizable voice yelled to them. They turned to see Peach in Marth's gray sleeveless sweater and light blue polo, finished off with jeans folded up at the bottom. Sure she could fit it but she wasn't as tall as him. It took a moment to notice that her hair was down but once they saw Marth, it was understandable. He looked away, face a horribly dark shade of red. A small sheen of colored lip gloss in the shade of raspberry could be seen as well as a tinge of purple eyeshadow, since a few of his bangs were pulled back by a heart shaped hairpin. He was wearing Peach's blue baby-doll dress, pulling down on it, seeing as he was taller, it seemed shorter. He was also annoyed at the lace on it, seeing as it was making him itch and as well at his hair brushing constantly across his neck as it bobbed in its ponytail. Link managed to hold in a laugh, which Zelda found an amazing feat. Then she noticed he was distracted.

"Peach...how'd you give him boobs?"

"Link..." Marth nearly growled, "That...is not...important..."

"You make is sound like she has you wearing a bra..." at that, Peach looked up in thought as Marth then went silent. "...are you seriou-"

"She does not!" he whined. "Peach, can you tell him so we can hurry up with this?"

"Huh? Oh, what did he ask?"

"...what were you thinking about?"

"Nooooothin..." she smiled, reminding a hylian girl of a hylian boy that said the same thing not too long ago... "Oh yeah, those? That's just his shirt rolled up. since that dress is made that way, it holds it up all on it's own." she giggled.

"Oh...okay...we can go now, come on!" when they got into the store, Marth stood nearby to the two as Zelda, Peach and Link stood in an aisle diagonal to that one. At the moment, they were all in the Drama/Romance section. Samus looked over the titles, skimming each one with thought.

"So, why are you buying me books again?" she inquired, lifting a book and reading the back of it before placing it back down. He looked at a book in his own hands blankly.

"No reason. And it's a wonder you're this picky with them..."

"Not really...I just want to get one that interests me...no point of wasting money on a book that bores you out of your mind..." she then crossed to the Romance section of the aisle. "Oh, I've wanted to read this one..." she picked it up and held it with the other two in her arms.

"Hey Sam..."

"Yeah?" she looked up to him. He was already being strange today so she didn't know what to expect.

"Are there any sequels to the book you've got?"

"Well yeah but...we're in the wrong section..." she mumbled, stifling a chuckle at his first reaction, being that he just looked at her, a semi-amused, semi-confused look on his face until he remembered that section he'd panned that day on the beach. Then he chuckled.

"Let's go there then..." They walked farther into the store, looking for the correct genre placing. In the process, Samus blinked as they passed someone else checking out the literature. Noticing her sudden silence, he quipped a brow at her. "What is it?"

"That girl looks...awfully familiar..."

Marth scrambled into the next aisle in a bit of a panic. He crouched down, covering his face with his hands. It was bad enough he couldn't stop blushing and that he was dressed like that but she almost recognized him!

"Y'know...if you stay like that you really do fit the look of an embarrassed girl." Marth glanced up at the speaker, seeing it was none other than Link, hands in his sweater pockets grinning down at him. He glared up at him.

"Shut up! I wouldn't even be doing this if it wasn't for you, you jackass!" the prince(ss) hissed at him.

"You mad? Jeez...just gotta follow them a bit longer anyway..." he said looking over to where the two were now. Then Marth noticed something.

"Link...why are you here?"

"I'm your cover...Peach said since I'm not in the usual green they won't pay as much attention to me if they noticed..."

"...your ears...and where is your hat?"

"Peach is wearing my hat and," he turned his head, "they combed my hair over my ears. Come on..." he held a hand out to the blue haired "girl". Taking it, he stood and they strode to the back of store as well.

"...think they might get caught?" Peach giggled as they trailed not far behind the boys.

"...if they did...it'd be Marth's fault..." the brunet princess sighed. As the blond looked at her questionably, Zelda just shook her head. "Trust me..." As they neared their destination, Link unzipped his sweater and flipped up the hood, revealing a plain black shirt. Not bothering to ask why, Marth continued to walk until they got near the back wall, Link following right behind him. Again, Samus noticed the presence of the familiar "girl" but shook it off.

"It should be somewhere around here..." she mumbled.

"Oh...if you have to go by the author's name it should be back there..." the blue haired swordsman pointed to the back, near where the spies were. Just as Zelda predicted, Marth began to panic. He looked to Link with wide eyes.

"Whatthehellarewegonnadothey'recomingoverhere!" "she" whispered so fast the hylian could barely catch what that meant. Somewhere in the next row, you could hear the smack of two face-palms. Zelda and Peach looked at the situation through the gaps the missing books left, a look of "I told you so" clearly evident on the older princess' face.

"Sorry...but I'm probably going to make this so much worse for you..." Link mumbled. Marth looked confused, noticing the different pitch of voice the other was using. Before he could ask why, he was pushed against the back wall. Not only did that scare him but when he looked up at Link his aura was completely different. His eyes had a sharp look about them and with him bein leaned over him, arms on either side of him boxing him in, his face was overshadowed and his eyes weren't shining like usual. Plus the hood made him look downright predatory besides the fact he was frowning. As Samus got near she noticed the position and froze. Marth grabbed unto the front of Link's shirt, trying to figure out what scared him more. Getting found out or Link coming any closer to him. Seems one was happening without his consent. Link leaned in extremely close then suddenly went close to his ear. "Don't you dare scream..."

Peach at the moment snapped a picture on her phone while Zelda found herself stuck to look at the two until something else happened. Both girls with an evident case of blush across their cheeks. The only thing that snapped her out of it was Peach tugging her sleeve to show her what the screen said, which was "I'm totally getting someone to photoshop that..." Samus, on the other hand, looked slightly worried as she turned back to Ike. He tilted his head at her before shooing her over there. Three people mentally cursed as Samus reapproached the two. Link slightly pressed himself unto Marth as a way to hide both their faces, causing Marth's legs to give out and he let out a small "eep!" as he was caught around the waist with the arm farthest from her and pulled him up. If he wasn't acting like a girl before, he was sure acting like one now. The male blond looked at the smaller one exasperatedly, wondering just what in Hyrule was wrong with him. To avoid being next to what seemed like a "passionate situation" Samus looked for the author as quick as her eyes would allow her, grabbed four books and shuffled out the aisle and right past Ike as quick as possible. He followed her, chuckling at her not less than freaked out face. Link sighed, in relief, slightly dropping the facade of earlier until...

"Hey! You two!" a random worker called, causing both boys to go rigid. "Get out of here! We don't care if you're in love, this is not a motel!" Although the man couldn't see it, Link was frowning...hard. And baring those sharp teeth as it were.

"I'll show you someone in love you-" he was cut off by Marth tugging his shirt and pointing to show that since the two were still in the area, they weren't in the clear yet, then Link's pocket vibrated (scaring the living daylights out of Marth due to close range). He flipped it open to see the name "Zel" and a message reading "Go to the food court NOW"

"Get moving!" the worker yelled again. When he turned to glare at the man he noticed his hat and brown hair nearly running out the store. He just huffed and began to take a step but found himself unable to move. Marth held a hand across his face as the other gripped his sweater.

"Mylegsaren'tworkingandidon'tknowwhy..." he muttered under a whisper. The hylian stared at him in disbelief before grabbing his hand and yanking him, causing his legs to move even if it was uncoordinated. He continued to pull him until they reached the outside of the store before breaking out into a run, the other being nearly dragged. Samus and Ike glanced at the window they were just running past before Ike shrugged and Samus shook her head.

"Hey Sam. Now that we've got your books, here's the catch." the bluenette started, taking the books from her. "I'll only buy these if we read them together. Including the one you already have."

"What? Not fair! And besides, I'm not letting you get that book again..." she huffed, folding her arms and turning away from him.

"What if I already have it back?"

"You don't..."

"I do..." she grimaced as he began to crack a smile.

"How?"

"Here's a hint..." he leaned down to her height and kissed her cheek. Her brow twitched as she glared at him, instantly understanding. "So is that a yes or a no? Books or no books?"

"...I guess...but you better not read slow..."

"Alright. Let's get these."

In the food court, near the original seats, Each sat there with a different expression. Marth, still in Peach's outfit, seemed on the verge of a breakdown, tears in the corners of his eyes and his face seemed cursed to take after tomatoes. Link was semi-annoyed, more over Peach's fault and that guy who yelled at them. Peach looked happy, smiling ever so perkily out of everyone and Zelda looked tired, but she knew this wouldn't end just yet...

"Maaaarth, you okay hunny? You don't look too good..." Peach asked, stating the obvious.

"I want to cry..."

"Well what's stopping you?"

"Princes can't cry..."

"Well, dressed like that you're more a princess than a prince..." Link mumbled. And with that, Marth just gave up, silently shedding tears into his hands.

"Nice going ..." Peach sarcastically praised. The hylian warrior shrugged, not really caring at the moment. Then he noticed the two come out the store just to shortly go into a nearby photo-booth...

Samus walked next to Ike, fiddling with the chord of her headphones quietly as he skimmed through one of the books he bought. She then frowned at him.

"Stop that. If you do that it'll ruin the story for you."

"The point of me buying these wasn't for the stories..."

"Huh? What do you-oh..." she trailed, twirling the chord a bit faster as she realised the hidden meaning.

"Hey..." he mumbled, stopping abruptly. She turned, answering him with a grunt of questioning. "Let's get some photos. Might as well..."

"Hmm...I guess...alright, why not?" he slid into the seated booth, her joining right after. Looking at the options he clicked the "2 strips for $5", selected a frame for him, being the generic film border frame and let her select one for her, being a powdery blue lace frame. Then the countdown proceeded to sound off in little clicks. He looked at her blankly before asking something of her that probably wasn't gonna work.

"At least try to smile..." the first of eight flashes went off, neither of them smiling, both with bored expressions.

"Says the person who didn't smile for the picture himself." she huffed, folding her arms. The second flash then went off.

"Only cause I was telling you something..." he began to smirk.

"That you didn't have to..." she grumbled, looking opposite him. Third flash.

"It's a shame someone has to make you smile. At least I know how."

"Really? How-" at that moment she burst out laughing, seeing as Ike began attacking her sides. Fourth flash. "S-Stop!" she evened out her breath as Ike pulled her back to his chest, wrapping his arms around her middle. She raised a brow at him as he placed his chin on top of her head.

"Just...smile, kay?" he chuckled. she closed her eyes and a small smile played across her visage as the fifth flash went off. Letting her sit properly, she raised a brow at him. Slipping his hand under her chin, he pulled her in and gave her a peck on the cheek, leaving her visibly confused as the sixth flash went off.

"...wha?"

"I can't ask you to do something girly so do something Peach would do."

"Same thing." he nodded and was about to say something but she cut him off. "Here." she threw an arm around his shoulders, putting her face next to his and sticking out her tongue while flashing two fingers with a wink. Seventh flash. "That good enough for you?"

"We'll see when they come out. Last one, right?"

"Yup.."

"Uh-huh...Commere Sam..."

"Why?"

"Fine..." he threw an arm around her, yanking her forward and placed the other around her when she was close enough. She placed her arms between them as a reflex but that ended up getting her pinned.

"Don't you dare!" she growled.

"Come on Sam, last pic." he nudged his head toward the camera lens as the clicking got faster. Huffing, she gave in.

"Fine!" she shouted, closing her eyes and frowning.

"So stubborn..." he mumbled playfully before connecting them. In the action, her expression turned from angry to meek as he pushed down and against her. Although they couldn't see it in a literal sense, the last signal of bright light went off before they could hear the processor work on the ink and film strips to give them what they (Ike) paid for. And although they were very aware of this, they hadn't separated yet but were instead further into it, Ike having pushed Samus against the seating and didn't seem to be letting her up anytime was only when the faint clunk of the finished pictures in the slot went off that they parted, both breathing heavily and Samus having a new tint to her cheeks. Clearing her throat, she slipped out the curtain and stood outside the contraption to get the film out. Ike came out a moment later from picking up the bag of books and peered over her shoulder. "How do they look?"

"See for yourself..." she replied, holding his out to him. He skimmed the pictures, stopping on one in particular.

"...Peach really would do that...you pulled it off well though..."

"Yeah...this one actually seems like something Link and Zelda would do..." she commented, pointing to the one when he had his chin on her head.

"Figured...hey Sam...last one...you get scared?"

"What?" she looked at the last frame in disbelief. It just had to catch when she stopped frowning. She glared at him. "And I was not scared...hey...I just got an idea. Be back in a minute." and with that, she ran off to some random part of the mall. Unknown to him it was the Arts and Crafts store. She headed to the back where the workshop area was and began working away. Hole-punched, trimmed up, laminated, strung with a folded over dark blue ribbon with red, black, white, blue and yellow decorative beads. Thread it through and tie it up. Voila! She paid for the items used and ran back out to meet back up with Ike. Since she took a little under ten minutes, he looked slightly annoyed being left there to wait. She held the newly transformed item up by the ribbon. "It's a bookmark now..." his expression changed to one of interest as he examined it himself.

"You did that yourself?" she nodded. "Hmm...not bad...ready to head back?"

"Yeah..." she trailed, sliding the bookmark into her tote bag. He simply took up her hand as they walked out the mall. A certain couple of blonds were smiling from ear to ear as they came from peeking around the wall.

"So, you two happy now?" Zelda asked with a small smile of her own.

"But of course." Link answered.

"So...can we please go home?" Marth sighed, apparently recovered about the outfit he was currently wearing.

"Certianly." Peach chimed.

"Well then, let's be gone." Zelda giggled, casting the return spell to Farore's Wind and returning them to the bus. As they all now stood in the back section of the bus. "Remember, we didn't see a thing okay? We saw nothing that happened today."

"Correction: we haven't seen Ike orSamus today. What we have seen and won't forget is Marth in a dress..." he beamed, forwarding a thumb toward the prince.

"Addition to the correction: although that is true, I won't be forgetting that serious look you had on your face earlier..." The prince added, holding up a finger to the air while looking at the male hylian.

"Extremely needed addition to the correction of the correction: me and Zel will not be forgetting how steamy you two looked up against that back wall anytime soon..." the mushroom princess giggled, taking a stance similar to Marth's.

"Addition seconded..." the second princess laughed. "Well...see ya...and Marth?"

"Yes?"

"Don't forget to switch back..."

"...oh...gotcha...come on Peach..." he mumbled before walking towards his room, Peach following with a smile on her face. As they left the back room, Link shook his head.

"I swear, they're gonna be as bad as us..."

A/N: Bout time I got to this, huh? Lol I swear...if these characters were real they'd kill me for the crap I put them through. I hope to start writing everything a bit faster so...bare with me. In the meantime, leave me a review? They make me happy and give my plot bunnies something to go after. Also, don't be afraid to leave me any ideas of things you'd want to see in a chapter as well, I'd be sure to try and work it in ^^ until next time and next chapter...

~Ruru out