Ok, now, this is the other romantic(ish) part about the previous chapter.

Please note, I do not EVER go out of the boundaries of my 'T' ratedness. I think what I write is perfectly within that (heck, I SEE worse at my SCHOOL in the HALLWAYS,) range of maturity. And, yes, in a few chapters, there will be a few referrences to that biological activity which I hold with a bit of disdain (because of how many people abuse it...) This chapter isn't as bad as some that are being written, but, I will put a warning for it if anyone doesn't think that they can handle it (I mean, it isn't M, it is underneath that, and everyone who is reading SHOULD be able to handle my level of maturity, seeing as I am fairly young... which is a bit moderate.)

I hope you enjoy.

By the time that Saria and Link made it to the village, Saria was already beginning to lose herself to her unconscious mind again.

"Goodnight Saria." Link quietly said as he began to wander to his house.

"Um, Link?"

Linked turned and faced her.

"Come here, I want to show you something.

Being a bit curious, Link decided to listen and oblige.

Saria led him into her small home, and sat on the bed.

"Yes?" He asked curiously.

"Can you spend the night here with me? I mean, I just feel a bit lonely."

Not really knowing how to respond, Link shrugged, 'Why not?'

"Cool! Hey um, I'll get some of my stuff that we can look at before we go to bed. You know, trinkets, pictures from the pictobox we found in the woods."

Link nodded, and retreated to the small wall that Saria used to change into her own nightclothes. As Link unequipped himself of everything save his nightclothes, he began to feel very awkward. He was about to step into the bed on a girl wearing only a pair of loose-fitting shorts meant never to be seen.

As Link neatly packed away his equipment into a stack next to the wall of the house, he tentatively walked out of the safety of the short wall.

Saria saw him, blushed secretly, and then made a faint whistle at him, which made the poor hylian almost faint.

"Well, I guess that's my cue to go get changed myself then, eh?" Link nodded.

Link began to look at all of the pictures that Saria had collected in her stolen pictobox, reminiscing in the memories.

While Link was in his own little world, Saria's unconscious mind was messing with her again. After she had taken off her main clothes, the feeling of the covers against her smooth skin came into her head, and she wanted to feel that again. But Link will be sleeping with me! What would he think? He may hate me for it… But no. He couldn't hate me, we are best friends! XT himself said that friends can share their space and not mind. And besides, it's not like I'm fully unclothed, and he's already seen my pink lingerie… Ok, why not? Saria solidified her answer not to put on her nightgown, and looked over at Link, who was too distracted by the pictures than to look over at Saria.

Saria quickly bolted it to her bed, and quickly slid under the covers. The slight bouncing of the bed startled Link. He turned to see Saria buried under the covers. He smiled and laughed at her cute little face.

"Come on Link, and bring the pictures!" Saria loudly whispered.

Link did as he was told, and quietly slid underneath the covers himself.

He was shocked to feel the soft skin of Saria's leg brushing up against him.

"Saria?" He looked at her with a bit of uncertainty and then looked under the covers to see why her leg didn't seem to have any clothing on.

"Link, I like sleeping this way, and I really don't mind you being here if you already have seen me like this."

Link hesitated, but then shrugged in acknowledgement.

The two, still getting used to the very strange feeling of each other's bare legs, looked at the pictures and tried to get tired enough to go to bed.

From the window, XT peered in on his clients. (A/N: No, he may seem like a peeping tom, but he isn't. He just likes to see lovebirds cuddle and whatnot. Can you blame him? The poor guy can't love anyone himself... So he has to watch others fall in love to even imagine it...)

"What the heck are they doing?" Rareen almost yelled it.

"Shush you loud ball of light!" XT hushed her up, "They are trying something very strange… Oh, I feel so sorry for Link right now. There is no way that he can be completely enjoying this…"

"Why not?"

"He likes Saria a bit more than a friend, but he is refusing to love her for her own sake, and she is not making this easy on him."

"You mean that she wants him to love her, but he doesn't want to love her?"

"Not exactly. Link may want to love her, but he is afraid of what would happen in the future if they do love each other, so, he is trying to stay her friend, and not fall in love with her."

"Ok…"

XT turned his attention into the room, and watched as the two put their book away.

"Um Link, goodnight." Saria mumbled quietly, and curled up into a partial ball, and lay in front of Link, facing away from him.

"Goodnight." Link similarly curled into a ball, and he faced Saria.

Eventually, Link's position changed, and his arm came over Saria. To Saria, this was like a pleasant lightning striking her. She felt Link's arm resting on her shoulder, and loved every second of it.

Saria then uncurled a bit and came closer to Link, still facing away from him though. Saria then had a strange thought, and reached behind herself and took Link's other hand, and pulled it between the bed and the side of her that was on the bed.

Link made a slight peep of noise, and blushed so wildly that he feared it would stay that way forever. Saria too blushed, but was thankful that Link didn't see it.

"Link, do this." Saria moved his hand in a slight, slow circular pattern over her stomach and let go of Link's hand. Link did as he was told and continued the motion for his friend, but he couldn't express to her how weird it felt.

Saria was completely lost in her emotions. With Link massaging her tummy, she couldn't help but giggle a bit about it. More thoughts and picture kept popping into her head, and she was overly tempted to try them. Saria then pulled her bare legs around Link's and pulled him closer to her. She then pushed herself farther into Link's chest, and felt his well-toned muscles press into her. She was completely invading his personal space, but she was enjoying every moment of it.

Link's hand continued to slowly massage Saria's abdomen until she grabbed it again, and gave it a lower position. The moment Link felt his hand touch her undergarments, he jumped.

"Please Saria, no." Link got up and hastily put on all of his clothes and ran away almost crying.

Saria sat there in the bed, completely confused as to what just happened. Then it all hit her. She had just tried to use Link to take off her undergarments. Her hand slapped her mouth, and she began crying.

"What have I done?" Saria wailed.

Her tears didn't stop, and for more than fifteen minutes, they didn't show any signs of stopping.

XT, feeling complete pity for Saria's plight, slowly took a few steps into her home. He found Saria, with her blanket over her shoulders covering her back, sitting up and holding her legs tightly.

"What have I done? He hates me now. And we'll never be friends again. I let myself go crazy, and be consumed by these thoughts, and now he hates me."

XT took a seat next to her on the bed and looked in the same direction that she was.

"He doesn't hate you."

"Oh yeah, and you probably saw it all, didn't you?"

"Of course, and I can tell you that for a normal couple, or even friends as close as you and Link, that was completely normal.

"Then why did he run away?"

"He knows something that you haven't quite seen yet. He does like you a bit more than a best friend, his thoughts betray that a bit, but, he is constantly thinking about the future. Let me play the tape for you."

"Ok." Saria wiped her tears from her eyes.

"'Oh goddesses! I know I like her, but I cannot do this to her! If she falls in love with me, then she will be forever devastated!' that is what Link said right before you tried to kiss him."

"Y-you saw that?"

"Of course."

"I mean… I want to be attached to Link like this though, I swear, the more and more he is nearer to me, the stronger the urges are to imitate all of those pictures you showed me… I-I think I'm in love with him… I am. I am so in love with Link… and as much as I want to deny it, I can't. He completely absorbs my mind whenever he is near. And that right there, what I just tried to make him do, that is even more evidence. Why can't I be with him?"

"You can, you just can't live with him forever."

"But I want to! I would give up everything that I have to be with him forever! My clothes, my house, my ties to the forest, even my own immortality if I had to! I want to be with Link so badly!"

"Immortality is a curse…" (A/N: And thus, the title...)

"What?"

"For a person like me, immortality is a good thing, because I always have something to do, and I cannot fall in love. But for you, a young, innocent girl, who can fall in love and have friends and all of that, it isn't as good."

"I know. I, as of right now, do not want to be immortal. I mean, it is the thing that is preventing me and Link from being together, isn't it?"

"Yes. Link is a mortal, and he doesn't want you to suffer from loving him when he will one day die of old age. Whereas you will stay this way forever."

"I would love it if he could stay immortal with me."

"But, he cannot. He must grow old so that he can pass on his hero's genes to another so that they may take the position of hero from him. And if he were immortal, he would have to be bound to the forest; which would be unfair to the world."

"Then I want to be mortal with him."

"But that is nearly impossible."

"You know everything, don't you? How do I become mortal?" Saria's voice seemed desperate.

"You can't."

"Why not?" Saria began throwing a small tantrum.

"Saria, I am not a deity. I cannot change your fate." Saria began to cry terrible and she fell backwards onto the bed and wrapped herself in her covers sobbing.

"Why can't you be?"

"I just cannot- You know what? I remembered something, a wise saying I was once taught. 'If you truly believe in something, then that something, will come to you.'" (A/N: It is an excerpt from the song 'Fallin' by DJ Nightcore.)

"What does that mean?"

"I am not going to tell you until later. Until then, Saria, good night. Link does like you still." XT patted her warmly on the back and silently walked outside.

"If I truly believe in something…" Saria wondered.

She looked at a small replica of the Triforce hanging over her bed.

"Oh Din, Nayru, Farore, please, hear me. Upon my birth, you let me be a Kokiri, a girl of the forest, immortal, to live a happy, carefree life. But then, you put Link in my life, and I fell in love with him. He is mortal, and he must stay mortal. But I, I am capable of changing. Please, I beg of you, take away my immortality. I do not care the penalties of death, I want to be with Link for as long as he lives. Please! Please! I will suffer the outside world! Please! Let me be a mortal! Let me be with Link! I beg of you! PLEASE! TAKE MY IMMORTALITY! MAKE ME A MORTAL!" Saria screamed it to the goddesses in the heavens. After she had no response, she fell down crying terribly, realizing how selfish and spoiled this made her.

"Why does it have to be like this?" She cried herself to sleep.

XT, as was his queer nature, had stopped to see what Saria would do, and he had recorded the entire prayer of hers.

"Perhaps I can do something after all…" XT pulled one of his ribs out a bit more than normal, and dislodged a small panel. From this, he removed a small, golden ball, no bigger than a small bead. He closed everything of his, and held the golden bead up in his palm.

"And then to the Council, I give control of this fate; please do not become any more irate. My actions are queer, my thoughts remain pure, please do hear her call."

XT crushed the bead in his hand and made a large circle with it. The golden dust that came from the ball had formed a yellow circle in the air next to Saria's house. XT stood in front of this and began to speak.

"This is Saria's house. She is a Kokiri in the land of Hyrule. This realm was created by Din, Nayru, and Farore. As a Kokiri, she is bound to the forest, but is granted immortality. But she is special. Why? Because she is in love; something that no Kokiri is supposed to be in. But, they boy that she is in love with is a mortal. She too, wants to be mortal. If you do not believe me, listen to what she just said." XT played the recording of Saria screaming her plea to the goddesses. "I pity the girl, and I too want to see her happy. Please, I know that my actions have made a great many of you angry, please, bear with me. You can accept, or deny her plea, just please listen to it, and then make your decision. Thank you. This is Xavier saying, 'until next time.'" XT closed his eyes, and the circle of light shot up skywards, and disappeared into the heavens above.

"I only pray they listen to me…" XT leaned sideways onto Saria's house, and began to take a snooze.

I feel so sorry for Saria... in a sense, (I just noticed this...) this is kind of (a LOT) like Arwen and Aragon from 'Lord of the Rings' (in the fact that the immortal girl wants to become mortal so that she can be with her mortal lover)... Except, their love was a tad less 'innocent' in comparison to Link and Saria's.

(PLEASE R&R!! yeppers, I'm a spaz...)

More coming soon...