The Duku sprout introduced Lee and Kakari to the other Kokiri children. They were all delighted to have two new friends to play with. They watched their two little friends play and tease each other; Kakari's special trick was pulling in Lee's ears.

Soon the two became inseparable, they were rarely seen apart, and they lived in Link's old tree house.

"Com' on Lee! Lets play a game!" Kari said; she and Lee were playing near their tree house. (Note Lee and Kakari are about 6-7 years old here)

"No way Kari, you always want to play some dumb girlie game, I don't like to play those games, let's play sword fighting instead." Lee replied, drawing his Kokori sword. (You can tell Lee is much more interested in learning how to fight,)

"But I want to play my favorite game." Kari muttered, she sniffled and started to cry,

"Kari! Please don't cry!" Lee said, trying to comfort Kari,

'If it'll make you stop crying, I'll play your game, but not for very long."

"Yeah! Thank you Lee!" Kari cried, she stopped crying and jumped on Lee's back.

"Let's just play." Lee muttered, sulking.

"Ok, this is how it goes, I'm the princess, and you're the prince, the princess gets kidnapped, and the prince has to save her, Ok?" Kari said excitedly, slipping off his back. Lee just shrugged.

"Ok."

"After you rescue me, you have to give me a ring and kiss me." Kari said,

"No way! I don't want to kiss you! You're my friend, I don't want to kiss you, hugging you is painful enough. I have a bruise from the last time you hugged me." Lee grumbled,

"Lee! That's how the game goes! You have to, now lets start." Kari began to sing in her little girlie voice and pretend that she was a beautiful princess. Suddenly, she began to scream as an imaginary creature began pulling her away.

"Lee! Help me!" she screamed as the 'creature' continued kidnapping her, Lee sighed and waved his sword around where the supposed 'monster' was,

"Lee behind you! There are more! Quick! Defeat them and save me!" Kari screamed, Lee rolled his eyes and waved his sword around some more until the supposed monsters were gone.

"Lee, you saved me." Kari said a minute later when Lee helped her up.

"Yes ok, can I go now?" Lee asked,

"Lee! Your suppost to give me a ring and tell me you love me!" Kari cried, her hands on her hips,

"No way!" Lee said, backing away.

"You have to!" Kari said, advancing towards Lee,

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!" Lee shouted, taking off.

YES!" Kari shouted, she took off after Lee; Kari chased him all over the forest. Sheik stood in the middle of the forest, chuckling as he watched Lee try to escape.

"Give it up Lee, you're not gonna escape, we both know that. I don't see any point in trying to escape and causing yourself more agony." Kari shot a look at Sheik that sent shivers down his spine.

How is it that she's the only one who can do that? Sheik wondered,

"Ok ok! I give it!" Lee said, "Just stop chasing me!" Kari smiled an innocent smile and led him away to finish their game.

Kari and Lee also, became good friends with Saira, but as they grew, she began to notice a similarity between them and a Hylian boy who had grown up in Kokiri forest named Link.

The two grew much slower than Kokiri children and it took them ten years before they were the same size as the other Kokiri children.

By then they were pranksters, Sheik was their favorite victim. They pranked him every time he came to visit them. They also spent hours playing with their wolf puppy named Mae and Sheik's baby horse Comet.

Saira often watched them practice sword fighting together, training each other. Usually it was Kari who beat Lee, and Saira often joked that she was the only one who could beat him.

But they soon began to outgrow the other Kokiri children; by the time they were eleven, they were several inches taller than the others, so Saira decided to talk to the Duku sprout.

"Saira, Kakari and Lee are not from Kokiri forest, they are from Hyrule castle, princess Zelda and Prince Link brought Lee here themselves, but you must not tell them this, for they must learn on their own, this was princess Zelda's wish." The Duku sprout said.

"You mean; Kari and Lee will have to leave the forest, just like Link?" Saira asked.

"Yes Saira, Lee and Kakari need to be with their own kind, because as they grow older, they will begin to feel emotions that you could never understand. And they will begin to feel emotions toward each other as well, emotions that we cannot help them with. They will also grow even bigger, just like Link."

"Duku sprout, have you noticed something similar between Link and Lee?" Saira asked; she watched the Duku sprout carefully.

"Yes Saira, I do, and that is because Lee is Link's son, after Link left Kokori forest he married princess Zelda and the two of them had Lee. That's why he may seem a lot like Link. But remember Saira, Lee is not Link"

Saira left the Duku tree after that, confused and saddened by the news that she had just received.

Two weeks after Saira talked to the Duku sprout a fairy named Zina came to Saira with a message that said. "The Duku sprout wants to see you, bring Lee and Kakari, he says it's time."

Saira sadly called Lee and Kakari and told them that the Duku sprout wanted to see them.

"Kari! Lee! The Duku sprout wants to see you!" she called, Lee and Kari (as she was called) came racing over.

"Why does the Duku sprout want to see us?" Kari asked in her sweet, innocent voice.

"The Duku sprout wants to tell you something." Replied Saira. "What does he want to tell us?" asked Lee in his much-more-serious-voice.

"I don't know; you'll just have to ask him." Said Saira as she led them to the sprout.

"Ah, Kari and Lee, I have been waiting for you." Greeted the Duku sprout,

"I have something important to tell you." He added; Kari and Lee just looked confused.

The Duku sprout sighed, "a few years ago, three Hylians came from Hyrule castle, two woman and a man, each of the woman had a baby, the two woman asked us to raise their children, for they feared that something evil was going to happen. So they asked us to take the two children.

After leaving their children, they departed for Hyrule.

Kari, Lee, you two are the young Hylian children that the two woman and the man left. And it is your destiny to leave Kokiri forest."

Lee and Kakari were silent for a moment; finally Kakari spoke.

"You mean; Lee and I aren't Kokiri? And we have to leave Kokiri forest?"

"Yes Kakari, it means you are Hylians and you have to leave Kokiri forest." The Duku sprout replied slowly.

Kari turned to Lee, "Lee, where are we gonna go? What are we gonna do? I don't wanna leave Kokiri forest!" Kari started crying, she rushed over to Lee and cried on his shoulder, Lee put his arm on her shoulder and said nothing; instead he stared upwards.

"Come on you two, I'll help you get ready." Said Saira, she led the way back to their tree house, Kari had stopped crying, she was biting her lip and frowning, every minute or so she would let out a little sob.

Saira helped them get their few belongings, Lee's sword and shield, Kakari's bow, arrows, ocarina and Mae. Mae just bounced around in excitement. Saira led them to the edge of the forest, as far as she dared go.

Kari, Lee and Saira all stood on the bridge for a moment before turning to say goodbye. Kari suddenly burst into tears and raced away; Lee turned to follow her, stopped, waved and followed Kari out of the forest.