And this is the last one that I wrote in January 2014. This one was for a self-imposed middle school AU genre challenge. I've always hated school AUs (why put characters in the most boring, typical place imaginable when they live in a world of magic?) but I decided to give one a shot anyways. If you'd like to, you can leave suggestions for new oneshot themes/ideas as a review.
The first day of middle school was intimidating to most, but Link was a rare exception.
He waltzed right into his new school, small hands clasped around the straps of his backpack, and went to homeroom. The teacher—who was actually Link's adoptive mother—gave him a bright smile and handed him his schedule, and told him where to sit. Link accepted the paper, and looked to where Mrs. Smith was pointing. His desk was in the back row, right next to a boy in a purple hoodie who had his head down. He walked back to his desk and sat in it, tapping the boy next to him on the shoulder.
"Huh?" the boy said, not lifting his head to look at Link.
"I'm Link, who are you?"
"Ravio's the name," he said. "Excited to make new friends, I see?"
"Yup! I've always kinda been a loner, so I'm trying to make a lot of friends this year." Link smiled to himself, messing with the sleeve of his green shirt. "What classes do you have?"
The purple-hooded boy handed over his schedule, still not looking up.
"We have science together first, and art and gym together after lunch," Link said as his eyes darted back and forth from the two papers on his desk.
"Cool! Maybe we can sit together at lunch and then head to class together?" Ravio suggested.
Link happily nodded, only to realize Ravio couldn't see him. "Sure," he said, handing Ravio's paper back over.
The two boys didn't talk to each other as the rest of the new students came in. Two girls came in side by side, one with blonde hair and one with dark indigo hair. The light haired girl was sat beside Link, and the dark haired girl sat in front of Ravio. The one beside Link introduced herself as Zelda, and said that the other girl was her cousin, Hilda.
Science went by fast, and the next class Link had was English. It was quite boring—none of the three kids he talked to in Science were in this class with him. At least in Science he had them to keep him awake by passing notes. In English he began to fell asleep multiple times, only to be yelled at by his teacher. After that class was over, he headed to the lunch room and bought his food before sitting at an empty table. He nibbled mindlessly at his fries as he scanned the cafeteria for his new friends. His face lit up when he saw Ravio and Hilda walking over to him, lunch trays in their hands.
Hilda smiled at him. "Hey, Link."
He smiled back. "Hi. Where's Zelda?"
"She went to the bathroom. She'll be here soon."
"Might take awhile," Ravio said. "The lunch line will probably be super long by the time she gets out."
"What class did you guys have last?" Link asked before he began eating his pizza.
Hilda groaned. "Math. So glad it's over."
"I'm glad I didn't have it today. You and Zelda have art and gym next, though, right?" Link asked.
Hilda nodded, and the three babbled on about their schedules until Zelda walked up.
"Lunch is already halfway over, you better hurry and eat," Hilda said as Zelda sat across from her, next to Link.
"I can just eat during rec—" Zelda cut herself off with a sigh. "Guess you're right. But I hear the art teacher is quite nice, so maybe he'll let me eat then."
Zelda soon found out that being nice didn't mean the teacher would let her eat in class. The four kids all sat together again, thanks to there not being a seating arrangement. Their first assignment was to draw a self-portrait.
Link peeked over to Ravio's desk, only to see that Ravio's drawing sure looked a lot like his own. "Hey, uh, you know this is a self-portrait, right? Not a friend-portrait."
Ravio giggled, the large tuft of dark purple hair that fell from his hood bouncing along with his body. "I'm aware, buddy."
Link let out a soft hum before looking back to his own paper. The rest of the class was relatively silent, and then they went to the locker rooms. Link waved to Zelda as she entered the girl's locker room and he entered the boy's. He could tell that Ravio was intimidated by the much bigger boys in there, as he went to get changed facing the corner. Link was hoping he'd get to see Ravio's face then, since he couldn't hide under his hood any longer. Sadly, Ravio left the locker room in his gym outfit, never letting Link or anyone else see his face.
However, he couldn't just stand in the corner of the gym like he could in the locker room. Link gasped as he saw Ravio's face for the first time.
Link quickly ran over to him, and Ravio bit his lip and looked down. "Ravio... What...?"
"Uh, heh heh, hi buddy, how are you?" Ravio scratched the back of his head, peeking up at Link through his thick bang.
"You... Are we related?"
Ravio looked Link in the eyes for the first time. "I really don't know. I was given up as a baby and I don't know who my parents were."
Link frowned. "My parents died when I was a baby."
The rest of gym class consisted of the two boys talking together, not paying any attention to the basketball game they were supposed to be playing. They found out they had the same birthday, but decided that they couldn't be twins, considering their differences in hair and eye color.
They couldn't put their finger on it, they couldn't label themselves as anything. The only thing they knew was that day was the beginning of a great friendship.
