There Were Sunflowers and Daisies Too…

Disclaimer: Fairy Red doesn't own Mario, Nintendo, or any love song that may appear in this fanfic. That is all.

A/N: Valentines Day is my favorite day of the year. What else then to celebrate love?

Zelda: I couldn't agree more.

Me: Exactly! So let's get on with it!

Chapter One: A Secret Plan

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Luigi sat in front of his desk, tapping the pencil onto the desk. Come on, you're a genius… you can come up with something… Luigi sighed, scribbling something in the margins of a notepad.

Mario looked into the room. "Luigi! Come on, I'm-a hungry! You promised-a that we'd go to the all-you-can-eat-a spaghetti restaurant-a!"

"Hum? …Oh, yeah! I owed-a you some lunch-a for losing the tennis-a match! Fine, I'm-a coming, Mario!" Luigi sighed again, and stood up. "I'll meet-a you outside the house-a!"

"Okay," said Mario, and cheerfully walked away, anticipating a good buffet of spaghetti.

But Luigi had other things on his mind. After making sure that Mario was outside, Luigi quickly opened a secret drawer from behind his desk. Inside was a picture of Princess Daisy of Sarascaland. "Daisy…. My princess Daisy…"

Valentines Day was next Tuesday, and all the "Mario Party" members were going to the Star Summit to celebrate the Day of Love with the Stars, and Luigi wanted to surprise Daisy with a serenade.

"Luigi! Hurry up already!" shouted Mario.

"Coming!" said Luigi, hastily closing the drawer and running outside.

In the 'slums' part of Mushroom Kingdom…

Little did Luigi know that his rival was planning the same thing. Waluigi sat at his desk too, with a blank page in front of him. Come on, how hard can it be to write a poem or a song or something? he thought in annoyance. He had been up since 6:00 AM, and with the knowledge that Valentines Day was next Tuesday, he needed a song write away.

Someone knocked on his door. "Hey, its me! Come on, I have something to tell you."

Waluigi rolled his eyes. Ugh, what else does Wario have to show me? It had better not be another squad of Bob-Ombs to terrorize some little kids again… He stood up and walked to the door, letting Wario in. "Well, what is it?" he asked his brother.

"It's really cool! I have a plan we could devise to sabotage the Day of Love celebration on Star Summit. I already contacted DK, and he says it's a great idea!"

"What, pray tell, is this great idea?"

Wario paused for a second. "Uh… well, we don't know yet, but it'll involve the celebration. Come on!" Wario walked out the door, and called over his shoulder, "Daisy will be there too!"

Waluigi blinked in surprise. Was that a hint of shrewdness in his voice? "Coming, coming," he muttered, following Wario to the warp pipe to the 'secret hideout'.

Back with Luigi…

Luigi stared at Mario as Mari snarfed down endless amounts of spaghetti. "Mario, calm down-a, there is a tomorrow!"

Mario chewed, chewed, chewed, swallowed, and started chewing again. "How do you know therth a tomorrow?" asked Mario through a stuffed mouth.

"There always is, right-a? As long as we maintain love and happiness throughout our world, the world-a will never end-a!"

Mario nodded, and swallowed a big load. "Yeah, if you say so." Mario raised a hand. "Hoy, waiter, another round-a, please!"

The waiter nodded. "Right away, Mario!" he said, hurrying away with the order.

Mario sighed contently, taking a long drink of non-alcoholic cherry-flavored cocktail. "I know thy say that-a you shouldn't drink a full pint of cocktail-a, even a non-alcoholic one, but-a in this case, I have to make an exception, eh Luigi?"

Luigi nodded. "Yes, Mario, if you love cherry-flavored-a. I, on the other hand, like soda over-a cocktails-a."

"Yeah, cause you're a big baby," said Mario, refilling his cocktail. "You hafta have guts-a, Luigi!"

"Look who's talking, Mario," said a voice behind Mario.

Mario looked lazily back. "Oh, look who it is," he said blandly.

"My, Mario, aren't we cutting on the carbs?" asked Wario. "I counted, you know. Isn't that, like, over 15,000 carbohydrates?"

"So what-a?" asked Mario. "I can at least-a maintain a balanced diet-a!" yelled Mario.

Not this again… thought Luigi.

Not this again… thought Waluigi.

"What, you got something to say!" demanded Wario.

"I thought you weres gonna tell me off, man, what's up-a!"

"Man, I'm gonna tell you what I feel like, man, shut up!" said Wario, shoving Mario.

"Oh, wanna get physical-a!" asked Mario, shoving Wario back. "Come and get me, pudgy!"

"Make me, bulbous!" snarled Wario, shoving back.

"All right, let's take this outside-a!"

"Yeah, lets!"

Both throwing sparks at each other, they stormed out for some kind of heated argument.

Luigi shrugged. "Could've been worse," he mused, looking at the food that the Toad waiter had set up on the table.

"While no-ones looking," muttered Waluigi, and snatched 5 bowls from the table. "Bye, Luigi, you can pay for it."

"Wha--! No-- Oh shoot! 5 big bowls down the drain…" Luigi glared at his rival. "That'll come out of your pockets one day!" he yelled.

"Oh, you're soo sharp, Luigi!" said Waluigi sarcastically. "My overalls HAVE no pockets!"

"It was a figure of speech!" said Luigi back angrily. But Waluigi just laughed and walked away.

"Come on," he said, booting Wario. "I got us lunch, let's go!"

"Okay," said Wario, giving one last punch to Mario before hurrying after Waluigi.

"Hey, I'm not-a finished yet!" yelled Mario. But the warp pipe was already gone. "Aah, foozles!" said Mario angrily. "Now we have to pay for the stolen food."

You mean I have to pay for it… thought Luigi bitterly. "Well come on, Mario, let us not start any trouble. Just sit down, and eat the spaghetti-a."

"Sigh… You're right." Mario sat down again, and took a strong whiff of the fresh spaghetti aroma. "YEAH! Lets-a eat!"

Meanwhile, awaiting in the 'secret hideout'…

Daisy looked out the window. Why call me out all the way to Mushroom Kingdom when I, a princess of Sarascaland, doesn't even celebrate "The Day of Love", she wondered. "Well, maybe it'll be the best opportunity to tell… him, how I really feel…" she smiled. "Now's not the time for secrets. I'll tell him, at the Day of Love celebration…"

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Well, not a bad ending, right? Who do you suppose is this 'him' Daisy mentioned? Is it Luigi? Or is it Waluigi? Or could it be someone else? Find out in the next installment of "There Were Sunflowers and Daisies Too…". Don't forget to R&R, okay! Bye!