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Hey guys…sorry about the slow updating, I'm in summer school so I'm having the worst time with having to keep up. So I just decided that while I'm burning these CDs for my aunt, I'd start to update on the next chapter. I kinda left you at a left you at a cliffhanger, didn't I? Sorry…I've also noticed that I got a complaint that Link seemed like a wimp… don't worry! He'll get better! Plus, who do you think will win, someone who is used to face-to-face combat, or someone who thrives on surprises and tricks? I'll let you figure that out. Anywho! Link's gonna be awesome in this chapter, so…ON WITH THE SHOW!

P.S.: THANK YOU SILVER! I'M YOUR BIGGEST FAN!

P.S.P.S.: I GOT THE NARUTO SOUNDTRACK! I'M LISTENING TO IT RIGHT NOW! YAY!

Legend of Zelda: Arrival of the Shinobi

Chapter 5: The Shadow of a Hero's Spirit

Link, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura ran down the passage on the third floor and stopped right outside the door and saw an army of Moblins stumping into the center of the city at the entrance. Link stared at how many there were; he couldn't believe it, over 100 at least! Link turned to the three ninja.

"Station yourselves around the city and create a distraction." Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke looked dumbfounded, but before they could hiss something back they heard Link's voice from the entrance.

"Come on you scum! Spread out and find him! Are you even good for ANYTHING!" Link started when he heard his own voice say something that harsh. He laid on his stomache and crawled to the edge of the third story cliff. He peered over and saw a shadow of himself yelling at the Moblins. Link closed his eyes, shook his head in dismay, and sighed.

"…Damn…" He scooted back to the others.

"Why the heck did you say somethin' like that?" hissed Naruto looking thoroughly shocked at what was said, Sakura and even Sasuke nodded, their eyes wide.

"That wasn't me," The three shinobi perked their eyebrows; Link scowled to himself. "That's my Shadow-Self, also known by others as Dark Link. Ganondorf created him to be the evil version of myself. He knows everything about me, can only be touched by me, and he was especially created to kill me back before Zelda and I banished Ganondorf to the evil realm. I'm guessing he's been resurrected for another chance to get back at me for Ganon." That's where Link's explanation ended when he saw some Moblins making their way to the third story and to where Link, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were hiding.

"Crap!" Cursed Naruto loudly; Link tackled the dumb blonde in a vain attempt to keep them hidden. Dark Link wheeled around and saw the green figure go to the ground. His gray mouth creased into a grin, and his red eyes formed red crescents. Dark Link decided that he was going to get the green-clad hero himself because the Moblins that he was forced to bring were to stupid to know how to easily capture him. Link looked over the side and saw that his dark-self was gone. Link's eyes widened.

"Hiya." Link turned around to see the dark figure standing right in the center of the group. On impulse, Link grabbed his sword and lunged, Dark Link smirked, and took out his sword and blocked the attack, but was savagely knocked upside the head with a shield. Link flipped backwards off the edge of the third story, onto the second story, and again to the bottom floor. Link looked up and saw that Dark Link was copying him and went into the stairway hall that led to the second story. When Dark Link finished and landed on the ground floor, he looked around and noticed that Link had disappeared; that wasn't a problem, being the shadow clone of Link he could easily track the hero.

Naruto looked dumbfounded as he saw the Link fighting himself. Then he thought to himself. Didn't Link say that Dark Link is his Shadow-Self? I wonder, maybe I can help him out by sending a shadow clone of MYSELF to fight, but if he's like my Kage Bushin, I should be able to touch him just fine. Naruto gave a small "heh" and looked to Sasuke.

"Sasuke." Sasuke turned around after slicing the throat of a Moblin with a kunai and looked at his comrade "I've got a plan."

"What?" asked Sasuke, in disbelief; "What do you mean?"

"I mean, that I think I know how to get rid of all these freaks, but I'm going to need your help, and Sakura-Chan's too." Just then, Link went flying from the ground floor, all the way up to the top floor yelling bloody murder.

"Naruto," Said Sasuke, "Whatever that plan is, you better do it now, because Link's getting his ass handed to him on a silver platter by his own shadow." Naruto quickly told Sasuke and Sakura his plan; after he was finished, they each went to a different floor to clean the place of Moblins and let Link hold on until they were finished. Naruto took the third story because of his particular theory about the Kage Bushin technique and the possibility that he could kick the living crap out of Dark Link.

Link dodged a right-handed flat thrust by doing a cartwheel around the blade and coming around with his own hoping to slice Dark Link right in half at the waist. Dark Link saw what the "goodie two shoes" was doing and flattened himself to the floor just as the Master Sword barely missed the tip of his hat. Noticing an opportunity that couldn't be wasted, even if it meant stabbing the hero right through the heart, Dark Link worked for himself when he felt like it; he never followed orders to a tee unless it was for his own personal benefit. Dark Link flipped his sword around and poised its tip at the center of Link's on-coming chest.

Sasuke and Sakura continued up the stories, destroying Moblins as they went. It was somewhat of an easy task on their part. Sasuke didn't understand Naruto's part in the plan though, when he asked the dobe, all he said was "you'll see." Sasuke humph-ed in frustration that was given by that blonde baka; he was always trying to best him and it was getting annoying. In his aggravation he started to slash at the ugly pig brigade ahead of them. Sakura seemed to be having at tough time keeping up; Sasuke didn't care.

Link saw the edge of Dark Link's blade moving toward his heart; Link closed his eyes, this is it! I'm a goner! I really messed up…I guess…I won't get to say goodbye…

"KAGE BUSHIN NO JUTSU!"

Link fell to the ground and noticed that Dark Link was gone. He turned around.

"Huh?" Link looked up and saw about 10 Narutos grabbing onto Dark Link. "What the hell!"

"Get off of me!" Dark Link's red eyes were wide in shock. The Hylian Kage Bushin twisted and turned trying to get the blonde clones off of him. "How the hell is that you able to even touch me! This isn't right! GET OFF!" Dark Link tried to sink into the ground but the Narutos held him up. "GRAAAAHHHHH! THIS IS ALL WRONG!" Another Naruto materialized out from a doorway to the side. He was holding his arms in a curious position; Link figured that THIS was the original Naruto.

"Promise that you'll call off your army and leave Link alone!"

"TELL ME HOW YOU'RE ABLE TO TOUCH ME!" screeched Dark Link angrily. Before Naruto could talk again, Sasuke and Sakura appeared beside their blonde comrade. Sasuke spoke first.

"So this is you're part in the plan, right dobe?" Naruto scowled at his comment but answered.

"Yes, got a problem with it?"

"I could have done it; why you?"

"This is different" Naruto didn't get to finish because Sakura had a question of her own.

"How did you figure it out?"

"THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW!" yelled Dark Link. Link walked over his clone and punched him over the head to shut him up. Link turned to the three ninja.

"Before we explain your part, where are all the Moblins?" Sasuke took this question.

"They fled." Link's face paled.

"Where?"

"The way we came in."

"Did they go down the mountain?"

"Yeah." Link paled even worse, then turned green.

"Dear Goddesses! We have to keep them from going into the village!" Dark Link laughed at the panicking hero. The real Naruto wheeled around angrily.

"Shut up! Or I'll have my clones rip you in half, which shouldn't be hard to do!" Sakura jumped at Naruto's sudden brutality, Sasuke's eyes had grown in size, while Link just smiled.

"Naruto." Naruto looked toward the Hylian. "We need to get down this mountain, and fast if we want to make sure that the Moblins don't harm the villagers." Naruto notices that the Hylian's face seemed to have aged in the matter of minutes; Naruto frowned, sighed, and nodded.

"But how are we going to get down before the Moblins?" Asked Sakura, Dark Link laughed again and sneered.

"Hehehheh! It's impossible, they must already be in the village by now." Link's sapphire eyes flared towards the red ones of his counter-part.

"You're our prisoner now! You're going to do as we say! If we say that you're going to dance like a fairy, you're going to dance like a fairy! NOW HOW'RE WE GOING TO STOP THOSE DAMNED MOBLINS!" Dark Link stared at his blue-eyed self.

"Er…um…"

"SPIT IT OUT!" Dark Link nearly jumped loose of the Kage Bushins. He started to heaving breathes from his fright.

"OKAY! If you take me down to the village, I will call them down…but you have to let me go." Naruto scowled.

"Yeah right! Right after, you'd probably come right after Link again!" Link nodded.

"He's right. You're going to call them off, then you're going to Hyrule Castle to be interrogated by Princess Zelda or myself…depending on how you cooperate…take my advice, if you get me, you'll be begging for death before the end." Sakura noticed that Link's eyes suddenly became ice blue; the deep warmth of his heart seemed to escape through his eyes and into eternity; she shivered at the cold look on Link's young face. "Let's go." Link grabbed Dark link by the tunic and motioned for the three ninjas to follow him out the exit.

The walk down the mountain was silent. Dark Link, Naruto, Sakura, and even Sasuke were too hesitant to anger Link anymore. Dark Link walked alongside the ninjas silent until Naruto asked him a question.

"What's up with him?" Dark Link pondered whither to answer the young whelp, and sighed.

"This is the way he was during the War of the Triforce; he had gained the Triforce of Courage and the name of Hero of Time, but he had a rough time of it; he was always a target of the enemy, myself in particular. I think…he wanted to just live his life as a normal Kokiri, even if he wasn't even that. His parents died when he was a baby; his father had died in the service of the King and his mother was slain smuggling him to the forest." Link heard that Dark Link was telling the three shinobi about his earlier years; he just ignored them and continued leading them. "He was thrown into this whole war of politics and violence, which he wanted no part in but it was his destiny and the world "needed him" so he took the task; that's pretty much it;" Dark Link "harrumph-ed" and because silent. Link saw that they were arriving at the gate.

"We're here." Naruto looked up and saw that the Moblins were nowhere to be found.

"Where are they?" Dark Link sighed, and then smirked.

"They must have ran…" He began, "or there's a trap. Heh." Link glared at his Dark-Self.

"Don't try to pull anything. I don't their noisy armor, nor do I smell the stench of your evil."

"Link-Aniki!" Link seemed to snap out of the whole "heartless act" when he heard the call of the kids from earlier: Anjero, Arenikos, and Rinika. Link's face seemed to have a look of painful sadness/happiness fighting over which would show more. Naruto noticed that he looked like Kakashi when he was being kind of embarrassed…it was weird! Link bent down to greet the children. "Look Link! There are Gorons! In the village! Isn't that cool!"

"Yeah…I actually need to talk to one of them, guys can I get with you later…I have some business to take care off." The kids seemed disappointed, but agreed. Just then, Darunia arrived next to Link; a worried expression played with his rock-like face.

"Brother, are you alright?" Darunia started to roughly inspect Link's wounds. Link squirmed away from Darunia's rock-hard grip. Link, for the first time in a while, gave a genuine smile.

"I'm fine! I don't need a over-grown rock to be the one to cure my pains." Darunia laughed heartily, and slapped Link on the back sending him into the side of a house. Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke (yes…even Sasuke…) laughed when Link came up out of the rubble saying something about "the mongoose stole my underwear!" (Naruto told Link about mongooses! That's how you spell mongoose in plural)

A/N: That's it! Fine! No more! Zip! Zilch! NADA! THE ONLY WAY CAN YOU GET ME TO UPDATE AGAIN IS TO HAVE AT LEAST 3 PEOPLE REVIEW! I REFUSE UNTIL THEN! GRRRR! U Just kidding…please review…I'm sorry…

Link: (looks around) You scared everyone off. BAKA!

Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Dark Link, and Zelda: BAKAAAAAA! NOW NO ONE WILL REVIEW!

Kakashi: (busy reading Make Out Paradise Volume 3) Yay…