Sutoomu: Eighth chappie is up! Ahahaha! I wrote the first two chappies when I started it, then got really into it the next day and wrote six more! But after this chappie, I have to write some more, so it'll be a little while. No time for chit-chat, I want you all to read this chappie right away. So rest and relax while you read and review, please!

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"Link…?" Duo gaped at him, believing his eyes were deceiving him. "But…but Heero…and you…you were…dead…" Quatre was looking at him with tear stained cheeks. Trowa was glaring at anything that came in his path, angry to see Quatre in pain. Wufei was dumbstruck.

"I'm not dead, Duo," Link explained, rubbing his chest where Heero's weapon had entered. "It's part of the spell I cast with Nayru's Love. It heals you. I can still get hurt, but it heals instantly after. Heero couldn't have killed me no matter how hard he tried." Quatre let out a huge breath and collapsed into Trowa with relief.

Duo looked between him, then Heero, then back at him, unbelieving. Link could tell it had hurt him badly to see his friend shoot him. He looked at the floor, unfocusing as he tried to figure it out in his mind, sinking to his knees.

"Duo," Link said firmly so he would hear and comprehend. "I asked him to hurt me. I said, try and kill me. So he did. He didn't so anything wrong. It was all at my request."

"I didn't want to," Heero whispered. "But I trusted him." Heero had trusted Link, and his emotions were right once again.

"I'd never seriously ask someone to kill me," Link smiled crookedly. "That's a bit too insane for me."

Heero sat beside Duo and gathered the braided one into his arms, holding him to his chest. "Please forgive me," he whispered. Duo breathed deeply and shuddered when he let it out, then nodded and swallowed, a little shaken from the whole episode. Link looked at them and wondered if they were more then friends. He glanced over at Trowa and Quatre and thought the same.

He rubbed his chest, a little sore, but otherwise good as day, and held out his hand, the spell dissapating and Nayru's Love falling into his hand from nowhere. He placed it on the table beside the others.

"I do have a question," Link said. "What did you hit me with! That thing bloody hurt!"

"That would be a bullet from a gun," Wufei stated, since Heero was murmuring into Duo's hair. Yes, definitely more than friends.

"Bullet from a gun…," he said slowly. "Hm. It's formidable, I'll tell you that. Hurt's about as much as an arrow in the back does. Remind me never to make one of you want to kill me." He chuckled and reached for his satchel, figuring to pack everything up. He double checked to make sure he had everything, slipping the boots off Duo's feet. When everything was in his satchel, he strung his sheaths and quiver and satchel and all up onto his back, putting everything where it was supposed to be. In the end, he looked exactly as he had when he first arrived, minus his cap. He now noticed this and frowned.

"Where's my hat?" he rubbed a hand through his light honey blonde hair. If he didn't wear his hat, everyone saw his messy hair, and he didn't like that. Not to mention the hat was of sentimental value to him.

"I think it's in the livingroom," Quatre said, and ran off to get it. Trowa tagged along this time, and they were both gone.

Link's stomach interrupted his random thoughts as he waited and Duo laughed as he spoke. "Do you have any food?"

"Yeah, food!" Duo cried out, happy and joyful once more, dragging Heero behind him wherver he went. "C'mon, hee-chan. Let's order pizza! You'll love pizza, Link!"

So Link sat at the table with Wufei, making conversation about swords while they waited. Heero soon joined them silently, followed by Quatre and trowa with his green fae cap. He slipped it on and waited with them, talking about his items and guns for a while until Duo bounced in. Yes, bounced, with three odd boxes in his hands. He placed them on the table and sat, opening them. A triangle shaped piece of…pizza was placed in front of him. He tentatively took a bite, then smiled and dug in as he enjoyed the taste immensely.

A full hour later, they were fed and ready for Link to call Saria again. As the green wind and leaves came up this time, swirling in beat to the lively music of the forest, none of the boys flinched. Quatre even seemed to be enjoying the tune, because he hummed along for a few bars. When it was over, they waited for a few moments until Saria spoke.

"Link! Perfect timing. We're ready to open the portal. It will be a few minutes. Just stay where you areand you'll be home in no time. I hope you have everything with you."

"I do, Saria," Link replied. "I can't wait to be home. This place is nice, but it smells too metallic for me. I need the woods again."

"See you soon, then, Link," Saria said with a laugh which dwindled away. Link blinked as the connection was broken and looked at the five new friends he had made.

"This is goodbye then," he said. "It was..interesting."

"It was frickin' fun," Duo corrected, hugging Link tightly. Quatre gave him a goodbye hug and he received nods from the other three, a goodbye from them all in their own ways. It wasn't really a heartbreaking farewell, since they had only known each other for two and a half hours, but they had some interesting moments.

They fell silent, waiting for the portal to open up. There was a small star of blue light after a moment, and Link turned towards it. It buffeted, then shot out in all directions to form a swirling vortex of blue, green, violet, golden, red and white light streams, all twisting towards the middle, creating a deep hum. The moment after it appeared, a great and intensely powerful wind picked up, sucking everything towards it. Link went voluntarily, understanding, but the wind was pulling at the GW boys as well, and they did not want to go voluntarily. They resisted, but the pull of the wind was incredibly strong, and, one by one, they were dragged in after Link, into a myriad of colors and then darkness.

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Sutoomu: Oh-kay, now introducing Link, who was missing with the boys in the intro, but can now come in the endo/claps as little Chibi link comes in/ Hey! Where'd big seventeen year old Link go? Why is ten year old Link here? What happened?

Chibi Link: I had to go back to Kokiri Forest for Mido's party.

Heero: I thought Mido and Link hated each other...

Chibi Link: Nuh-uh. /shakes his head/ He used ta hate me 'cause he had a crush on Saria an' she's my best friend, but he grew out o' that when he fig'red out I don't hate him an' that I can grop up so I'm not a Kokiri, an' now we're friends and Saria likes him, too.

Quatre: Good for them. /snuggles Trowa/

Sutoomu: Oh well. Big Link will have to wait until the next chappie, then. For now, we have Chibi Link.

Chibi Link: Wanna play/jumps and hangs of Duo's arm/

Duo: Yeah! We can go hovering/he hovers away with Chibi link in tow. everyone blinks at them/

Sutoomu: Uh...oh-kay, so we don't have Chibi Link or Duo anymore, but we still have the rest of the guys.

Wufei: I'm going to train.

Heero: Hn /heads off for his labtop, no doubt/

Quatre: Wanna go cuddle, Trowa?

Trowa: Yes, little one. /they walk off/

Sutoomu: Gosh, Quatre's such a cute li'l thing /mutters, then sighs and turns back to readers/ Oh-kay, we have no one but me now. And I'm gonna go bake cupcakes and then write some more on this story, so ciao!