A/N: I HAVE RECOVERED FROM WRITER'S BLOCK! PRAISE THE HOLY "HISTORY OF TRUNKS" VIDEO! A GUARANTEED CURE! ALTHOUGH OVER-EXPOSURE MAY MAKE YOU WRITE IN CAPITAL LETTERS! Ah. I'm better now. Sorry, high on DBZ.
Disclaimer:
Chibi Goten: Yay! I've finally learnt what a disclaimer is! Bardock's Number 1 Fan doesn't own Zelda, or me. However, she does own the plot and things that do not feature in Zelda, like Kino or The Hylian Inn. Please don't sue her, she needs to pay me.



Link sat on the floor in his room. The curtains had been opened by a staff member after he had left the room to visit Zelda, and the sun was shining brightly on his bed, which was by the window. It all seemed to cheery. Saria was still grumpy and from the fact that Mido hadn't come out of his room for three days, Link figured she had argued with him and had been trying to get them back together to no avail. Zelda was also on Link's mind. He had only just met her, but he found her wonderful and fun to be with, but very strange. For one, she was full of contradictions. She was Daddy's little Princess one day, and then she could talk about "running away from the Royal life" the next. She was also very much a tomboy, for all her pink dresses and long hair. She loved to swim in the castle moat, something which she had literally dragged Link into doing a few days ago. He smiled at the memory. He decided to go and find Zelda again. Maybe she could help with the Saria and Mido problem...



"Link! Hi... but weren't you here half an hour ago?" Zelda said.
"Yeah. Look, Zelda... what would you do if two of your best friends were arguing over something?" he asked. "Strictly a hypothetical question, of course."
"What? Why did you ask me that?" Zelda saw the pleading look on Link's face. "Uh... I'd try and talk to them, and get them to work it out."
"What if that wouldn't work, they were so stubborn they wouldn't say sorry?" Link asked.
"Well, I'd try and think of a way to get them to talk to each other. Like say you're going to the Bombchu Bowling, and invite both friends but not tell them the other one is going."
"That'd be good, but I've already tried it. Oh, and by the way, these two are more than friends."
"Oh... OK. This is a real situation you're in, isn't it?" Zelda asked suspiciously.
"Sort of..." Link replied, embarrassed. "They're my friends Mido and Saria, you know the ones I told you about?"
"Yeah, I remember... What about you make one of them REALLY jealous. Like say you flirt constantly with Saria, and make Mido really mad."
"Then I'll just have a grumpy Mido on my hands and maybe a few less limbs than before."
"You don't get it, do you? People who are jealous like that get so upset the other person realises that they love them after all. That's what happens in the theatre, anyway. So, we need someone to make Mido jealous..."
"I have a better idea," Link interrupted. What about we make Saria jealous instead? I have a plan that just might work..." He whispered something in Zelda's ear.
"WHAT? NO WAY! NOT DOING IT!" Link gave her a puppy dog eyes look.
"I'm melting! The eyes of cuteness are going to melt my icy heart into a puddle of water!" Zelda joked. Link pouted even more. "Alright, alright, I'll do it. But only if you promise you won't tell anyone about this."
"I promise," Link said solemnly." Zelda smiled. Link left for Mido's room to begin Stage One of Operation Jealousy.


He knocked on the door.
"Go away," came Mido's voice from inside. Link opened the door anyway. Mido was sitting in the middle of the room. He had a few empty tisse boxes and a destroyed drawing Link had drawn of Saria.
"Hey! I liked that drawing," Link said, faking hurt.
"Yeah, well, I didn't like the subject," Mido said. Link thought it best to change the subject.
"Hey Mido, do you remember mentioning a girl in the forest who followed you everywhere?"
"Yes. Her name was Tomoko. Why?" Mido asked grumpily. Link continued on, not put off my Mido's mood at all.
"Well, I thought I saw her in town. She was looking for a "boy with a green tunic and ginger hair". She was wearing Kokiri clothes, too, so I thought she was talking about you..."
"Why would she leave the forest?" Mido asked.
"I have no idea... But, anyway, I need to be sure. What does she look like?" Link asked. So far, the plan was going well.
"She has blone hair in two buns on the top of her head. She also has blue eyes."
"Must have been her then! See ya later!" Mido stared as Link left the room. {What was that about?} he asked himself. {Oh well.} He began to continue destroying the remains of what once had been a portrait.


Link went back to Zelda, who was now in Hyrule Castle Town wearing her old brown cloak disguise. He smiled.
"Success!" he said. "She's apparently blonde and has blue eyes. Now all we need to do is get you a Kokiri tunic and do your hair."
"OK. Did you ask how she does her hair?" Zelda asked.
"Two buns on the top of her head. Mido told me. I also hinted she was here." Zelda gave him a high-five.
"Congratulations. But where are we going to get a tunic? I mean, all Kokiri wear them, don't they?"
"Ah... I have an idea, but you're not going to like it..."


"So you're saying we have to steal Saria's tunic?" Zelda asked angrily.
"More... borrow than steal. Anyway, it's all for the best, right?" Zelda gave him a look. Then she sighed.
"I suppose it's the best idea we have. I mean, we can hardly make one in time and I'm not wearing one of yours."
"Thanks for doing this Zelda," Link said. Zelda smiled, closed her eyes and leant forward to kiss him. But he had already left. She nearly fell on her face, then recovered and sighed again. {How classic,} she thought, and ran to follow Link.


They were outside Saria's room. (When Mido and Saria had argued, Saria had gotten a separate room.) She wasn't there. Zelda opened the unlocked window, which was at about as high as her head and Link hoisted her in. She opened Saria's drawer.
"I feel like a petty thief," she said to herself. She rummaged through Saria's stuff, and eventually found a clean, forest green tunic. She grabbed it and jumped out the window, landing cat-like next to Link. He smiled.
"Great. We'll begin Stage Three tomorrow."




A/N: What will Stage Three be? Will Mido and Saria get back together? Will the author be attacked by rabid S/M fans for splitting them up, even for a short time? Tune in to the next chapter or the reviews to find out!