Disclaimer: I do NOT own Zelda, Link, or Sheik. If I did then I'd make sure everyone knew Sheik was male.

Title: Shadows in the Light

Pairings: Male Sheik/Link

Rating: T / Pg-13 (M later on?)

Genre: /Romance/Humor/Drama

Summary: As one of the last Sheikah, I have a huge responsibility. I have been trained my whole life and kept away from the world. Then Impa HAD to go and hire me a body guard and one that wears too much green!

Timeline: Alternate universe/ Take note that it is written in current timeline.

Warnings: Sheik is his own person and also male. If you don't like, please don't read. Also this is yaoi. Meaning two boys! And with two boys in love, you know what's adrift!

Status: Ongoing

A/N: So I actually finished this chapter last week and I am sorry for the delay in updating. Hopefully since I already wrote this chapter, I'll have another one to post later on today. We'll see. o.o I hope you guys enjoy it. I am working really hard to make sure it's perfect, but I don't have a beta reader, so yea...enjoy my raw messy work. xD Thanks for the reviews, I know there aren't many of you, but to those who do write to me, it truly makes me smile. *_* you have no idea. ENJOY CHAPTER 4!

Shadows in the Light

Chapter Four

"Impa…." I muttered off my tongue, but the words lingered as I stared into her eyes. She avoided visual contact with me which brought me pain.

"It's time for me to say farewell temporarily, Sheik."

I bit the corner of my lip and gazed down towards the floor with a short nod. I had a bad habit of avoiding eye contact when I got anxious, but I think I got that from Impa because she did the same as me.

"Yea, okay." Was all I managed to let escape my mouth.

I began to follow Impa out of the kitchen, quickly stealing a look back towards Link who remained silent sitting at the kitchen table nursing his injury that I sorta-kinda inflicted on him. Why did he have to butt in anyway? He tries to act like he knows me and he doesn't. He just rubs me the wrong way. I shook off the thoughts and back to Impa.

Once we made it to the front door, I reached out and opened it for her. Impa finally grabbed it and I backed up in discomfort. What was this strange feeling; this silence? Why did it hurt so damn much to say farewell to her? She would come back…..and with the rest of the Sheikah. This was a good thing. I had to remind myself of that. Even Link being here had to be for good, I had to believe that even if he made me anxious.

"Let's talk." I glanced back at the kitchen in confusion.

"Alone. Outside." I nodded to Impa and we both headed outside shutting the door behind us.

Suddenly I was engulfed into a tight hug and became tense. "Impa…?"

"Sheik, this is me speaking as your guardian, the woman who raised you and not as your trainer." She released me and grabbed the corners of my face and pulled down my cowl and wrap that hid my identity, "You must stay alive and safe and you must trust Link because he is all I have to offer you while I am away."

"Impa….but you didn't send him."

She shook her head sighing, "That doesn't matter right now although I do know you can trust him."

I scowled, "How do you know?"

"Sheik." She warned.

I hurt because I was made out the enemy and yet Link was a complete stranger and she took his side over mine. I don't care if he seemed to have good intentions. Typically the quiet, sweet ones end up being cold blooded killers. Impa was just confused by his good looks.

Wait…what did I just think?

Huh….no way! Ew! Th-that was totally false!

I crossed my arms, "Impa, I apologize." My emotions were not normal currently and before I decided to flip a table in frustration, I decided to do what I was best at, which was assisting others.

I packed Impa's suitcase into the trunk of the SUV and turned towards her as she climbed into the car, "Sheik…listen, what I want you to know is that no matter what happens I love you and I'm glad I got the unexpected time with you that I did. I'll be back and please oh dear goddesses please stay safe and never show your face to outsiders."

"Impa…" I reached out and took her hand, "Thank you for everything."

I knew there was more the both of us wanted and needed to say, but it wouldn't help the inevitable and we knew it.

Impa reached out and swept a hand under my chin and up my cheek bone, "You're dreadfully pretty Sheik. Don't let anyone know that."

She immediately shut the door after she said that and I was left blushing. Impa was insane. She had only called me that once before. Typically she called me a brat, lazy, or useless. There was a list and I was pretty sure I could write a book on them all. No way did she ever used the adjective pretty. Heck I am a dude, isn't that a more feminine term? I scrunched my nose and tried to get the words out of my head. Pretty? Pfft!

I covered my face back up and the words once again came flooding back into my head. Also what she said about staying safe and hidden. I was good at that and trained for that…..right?

I would miss Impa dreadfully and I was praying to the goddesses she'd return swiftly. Otherwise I was going to lose my sanity from being around Link. That stupid wheaten green little- Tch, it was pointless to worry about that guy.

Now that Impa was gone I couldn't help but fall back on my memories of her when I first met her. When we first arrived in America, we stayed at this hotel for a week while our new house was being settled. She and I had been through it all and we faced it with brave faces that no one could compete. I knew that no matter what happened from here on out, that she was forever burned into my memories. She had been there from the beginning protecting me and no matter what she never left, she never gave up.

"Sheik, come here, I want you to try this."

I wouldn't come out from under the coffee table. It was rather tiny, but so were I and I supposed it made me feel safe. I was wrapped in a parka that Impa had given me once we arrived in America. It was extremely cold here, especially coming from where I originated.

Impa held out a piece of chocolate in ball shape to me and I stared at it like it was the devil.

"You understand a little of English, yes? I am going to be using only English in front of you so you become more familiar with it. This is going to be your new home now and I think you'll be happy to discover caramel filled chocolate."

I hid my face into the carpet. I felt that if I couldn't see her then of course she couldn't see me. Gosh how old could I have even been then? Hmmm, probably about eight years of age and oh boy I was scared of everything. I had no idea what anything was and the world was so frightening!

"Sheik, come here! It's not going to bite you."

I began to sniffle into the carpet as my tiny heart pounded like a small mouse that had just been captured might do. My fingers trembled and I folded them into my palm. I was shaking out of fear and also because I was absolutely freezing.

Soon I muttered words in Sheikah into the floor. Tears were pouring down my cheeks like the rain outside. I hated everything and I wanted to escape, but there was nowhere to go except under this tiny table that was tiny enough for small Sheikah boy as me.

Suddenly I felt hands slip around my middle and I jumped alarmed and let out a loud deafening cry. I was forced out from under the tiny table which gave me anxiety. I clawed at the table hoping that it would be enough for her to release me.

"Sheik, it's only Impa, please calm down."

I kicked, screamed, and jerked my back straight so she would have no choice, but to release me.

What Impa did next surprised me. She took the red scarf around her neck and placed it over my face, "There now child, I can't see you, just your eyes and you'll be warm, too." She tied it behind me, "You'll be safe and no one can harm you, no one will ever harm you again."

I immediately stopped crying and tears dried and stained my cheeks. I hicced a few times and let my crimson orbs flicker into hers.

Without warning she grabbed my tiny hands and placed them to her cheeks and smiled, "Here, I'll use my face to warm your hands."

My face instantly felt warmer and somehow I felt better hiding behind this soft red wool. It had a scent of spice and apples. Never had I felt so safe since I left that camp and that was rather sad, but somehow I trusted Impa. My fingers began to return circulation and before I had realized, the scarf had fallen to my lap as I stared into Impa's reflecting eyes. She was just like me.

"You're really pretty Sheikah….Sheik. I can't simply call you that, so how about that? Sheik is rather adorable for you." Her smiled made me grin back at her and in that hotel with the small fire flickering in the background, the tiny coffee table didn't seem so safe anymore.

I got a laugh to escape Impa's lips once I snatched the chocolate ball from her fingers and shoved the whole thing in my mouth looking like a chipmunk. I had never tasted something so magical before. Impa soon became my new best friend and there were many more chocolate balls to be had.

I had made it back inside the house with emptiness in the cavern of my chest. It was similar to the feeling you had after falling. I locked the door behind me and fell back against the door. If Link was around I couldn't see or hear him. This whole thing was just stupid! How did my life change so much in less than 24 hours and being in the same house didn't make anything better.

It was a headache being here and then tomorrow I would he leaving for college, another place that would make me feel empty. What was even the point? My life was never here and once Impa returned I would be forced to marry and bear children that I have no intentions of raising. Some life. Some fucking life. This emptiness was only to grow and there would be no escape. Just like that prison camp.

My stomach growled loudly snapping me out of my depressing thoughts. I clinched my middle and sighed embarrassed.

"Er…hey." Link appeared from the kitchen as he scratched the back of his head nervously.

I didn't answer him, just stood up and began to head up the stairs.

"W-wait a minute!" The idiot ran after me which only made me walk faster, "Where are you going? Are you seriously going to ignore me?"

I paused at the last stair and turned around snorting, "Go away."

The expression on his face was rather priceless (for everything else, there's mastercard), but I wasn't kidding. That stupid idiot ruined dinner and now I was hungry.

"But I'm hungry!" He complained from the bottom of the stairs.

Great. Join the club.

"So? That isn't my problem!" This was the truth because he was the reason we were both in this predicament in the first place. "You spilled my curry!"

"Yea and it landed on me because of YOU!"

"Because you touched me!"

"Normal people like being touched!"

"OH YEAH!" I stomped down the stairs and glared at him in the eyes. Those stupid blue pretty eyes are gonna- wait pretty?! AHH!

"Oh….your…eyes are um…showing." Link took a step back and pointed at my face.

I stumbled back alarmed and tripped on the stairs falling back onto my ass. Without noticing sometimes my red eyes would show through the contacts masking my eyes. I never meant for it to happen, but my temper at times made me lose control and I was embarrassed to admit it.

"Shut up!" Was my clever retort, but it must had worked because Link didn't say a word back to me. Relived, I ran up the stairs again hoping he wouldn't stop me, "I'm taking a shower." I said as I went into the bathroom slamming the door shut and locking it.

My mind felt like backed up traffic as I ran soap through my hair. I tried to ignore it and let the hot water run over me in peace, but it was no use. The dilemma we were in was only as bad as we made it out to be. I knew that and part of me suggested to try and make amends with the wheaten haired boy, but on the flip side, I also wanted to dump curry all over his face.

Right…? That is what I wanted, wasn't it?

I turned off the shower and let water slide down my face dripping off my nose and everywhere else.

Perhaps I could try and be nice to…err…Link. Yea, that was his name I think. Maybe I could simply try. Though if I regretted it, then I had a free pass to return to my natural dicky-ness towards him.

I started to weigh my options though. If you had the choice to eat old pizza left out on the counter for a few days or pizza dumped in the trash, what would you choose?

Either way, I can't imagine the outcome being a positive one. Besides, I was almost sure this guy was starting to hate me. I already injured him and it hadn't even been 24 hours yet.

I wrapped the towel around my body and opened the bathroom door to leave when suddenly I ran into a tall body that was surprising warm.

I gawked up at no other than the idiot and he was wrapped in a green scarf with a matching hat, "Um…so do you wanna get coffee with me?" His eyes sparkled up at me with delight and I tried to recover my expression with little luck.

"Pizza in the trash it is." I muttered as I side-stepped him and went into my room.

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