Here I am with another story when I've got a few that aren't even finished yet... whoops. ANYWAYS, enjoy!


Mushroom Kingdom Castle - 2 a.m.

Luigi woke up in the middle of the night, once again, due to shouting. He grumbled and put his pillow over his head, in an attempt to cancel out the noise he's hearing. Why did they even ask me to come and live here when all they do is fight with each other night and day. Luigi thought. A couple of months ago Luigi's brother, Mario, had asked him to come live with him and the princess, his brother's girlfriend, in the castle. At first he was glad that he wouldn't be stuck alone at his mansion, living in fear that a boo might return, but now he's regretting moving here. The first week was alright, but then his brother and the princess stopped hiding their arguments/fights. He could live with that too, he'd just leave the room or ignore it, but by now it's night and day and they even drag Luigi into the fights, forcing him to pick sides, which he doesn't (for good reason). Tomorrow's the day that I'm gonna say something about it. Luigi thought. Who am I kidding, I've been saying that ever since they've been fighting at night. he continued arguing in his head. It was a big shocker to Luigi when he found out that they weren't even sleeping in the same room. He thought that it was just because they're fighting, but when Luigi found the courage to carefully ask his brother about it, he informed him that they've never in their 3 year long relationship slept in the same bed. Luigi isn't one to judge, he just assumed that Peach knew about his brother's snoring problem and didn't want to deal with it, which is understandable, but Mario assured him that that wasn't the case.

*Flashback to the brother's conversation*

"So, you've really never slept in the same bed together?" Luigi asked. "Is it because of your snori-"

"No! It's not even fucking that!" Mario replied annoyed.

Luigi looked confused at his brother. Mario sighed in return, put his head in his hands and explained "Weeg, we haven't done anything further than kissing on the mouth."

Luigi's expression grew surprised. "You're fucking with me, aren't you?"

"I wish I was." Mario grumbled "We've been together for over 3 fucking years and I haven't even seen her naked. A fucking kiss once in a while and sometimes on the mouth is all I get!"

"Oh... I don't know what to say Mario, isn't this a princess thing?" Luigi asked carefully, not wanting to intervene with their relationship.

"Now you're starting to sound like her!" Mario growled at his brother "All this a princess should not lay the bed with someone unless they're married bullshit is driving me insane!"

Luigi waited a few minutes to let his brother calm down, before he said "Mario, I'm not taking sides but hear me out."

Mario huffed in response, but listened to his brother.

"Peach grew up royally in a castle, with all these rules and her life basically already mapped out. She grew up with these morals, heck, Toadsworth reminds her of them daily." Luigi paused and put a hand on Mario's shoulder. "It's how she was raised, she already broke the rules by choosing to be with a commoner, none the less a plumber of all people." Luigi reminded him.

Mario sighed and said "You're right, Weeg, it's just, I'm fucking 24 and still a virgin, even though I've been in a relationship for 3 years."

Luigi rolled his eyes and said with a small blush "So am I, heck, I haven't even had an actual girlfriend yet."

"You just turned 19, you'll be fine." Mario said. He composed himself and said "Thanks, Weegee, I needed this."

"Anytime." Luigi replied.

*End of flashback*

The fighting did stop for a couple of weeks after that talk we had. Luigi thought. After some more thinking about it, the yelling stopped and eventually Luigi fell back asleep.


"Mario, we already talked about this a million times! We can't!" Peach yelled at Mario.

"No-one has to know!" Mario insisted.

Great, another fight. Luigi thought while walking into the kitchen.

Peach spotted Luigi in the corner of her eye and said to Mario "End of discussion, drop it now."

Mario noticed that Luigi walked into the room too. "As if Luigi hasn't seen us fighting before, jeez." Mario grumbled.

"I'd rather have you two doing that during the day instead of the middle of the night." Luigi mumbled, but not loud enough to hear.

"Did you say something?" Mario asked.

"No." Luigi answered. So much for telling them today. he thought.

Mario and Peach starting glaring at each other instead of yelling.

At least it's quiet now. Luigi thought while walking over to the table, where all kinds of pastries were displayed. He pondered over a muffin and a croissant for a while, eventually deciding to grab them both. He put the pastries on a plate and took a seat at the table to eat.

"Is there any progress on the flower case?" Peach asked Mario, trying to cut the tension.

Mario looked confused for a second, but then remembered what she meant by that. "Um, err, no." Mario replied nervously.

Why is he so nervous? Peach thought. Something isn't right.

Now why oh why is my brother lying and what is the flower case? Luigi thought.

"Mario?" Peach asked, sadness overtaking her eyes "My friend isn't dead, right? You would tell me-!"

"No! Jesus Peach, we just haven't made progress, alright?" Mario responded annoyed.

He's still lying. Luigi thought.

Peach's expression cleared a bit, but she kept being worried.

Always about her fucking friend. Mario thought annoyed.

"What's the flower case?" Luigi dared to ask. If my brother's gonna lie straight to his girlfriend's face, then I'm at least gonna question whatever this is. Luigi thought.

"That's classified information, Luigi." Mario replied coldly.

"Mario! He's your brother and he's tagged along on most of your adventures." Peach butted in "Why would he not be trustworthy, eh?" she added.

"But-" Mario tried saying, but was interrupted.

"Why isn't Luigi in the inner circle anyway?" Peach questioned.

"He's my little brother! I don't want anything happening to him!" Mario angrily replied.

"He tags along anyway! Why not give him the right training, information and means to do so?" Peach shot back.

"I think-" Mario was saying, but this time Luigi interrupted.

"I can think and speak for myself." Luigi interjected "Peach has great points, Mario, I want in."

"See what you did now!" Mario yelled at Peach.

"Oh, cry me a river." Peach said back "You should've let him join the moment he turned 18."

Mario sighed heavily and put his head in his hands on the table.

"Luigi, I will tell you about the flower case, but it's classified information, this conversation can't leave the room, okay?" Peach started.

"I understand." Luigi replied.

"Okay, um, where do I start, this case is kinda personal if you haven't noticed." Peach said while sighing heavily. "A dear friend of mine went missing a couple of months ago, no trace left or anything, we still don't know who or what or when and it's driving me insane."

"No shit." Mario mumbled in his hands.

"Our fighting does not concern my friend!" Peach yelled very agitated at Mario.

"Whatever." Mario said while getting up and leaving.

Peach composed herself and cleared her throat. "Anyway, my friend is a very important person, and if word gets out about the very possible kidnapping situation, all the kingdoms will be in shambles, that's why we're being secretive about it." she explained.

"Why is Mario acting so weird about it?" Luigi asked.

Peach sighed once again and said "I wish I could tell you why, I know he never approved of my friend, who has been in my life since birth for your information, and he's always acting moody and disapproving when I bring it up."

And lying. Luigi thought. "I noticed." he said.

"Anyway, I asked Mario to ask the troops to keep an eye out for my friend, which hopefully leads to their whereabouts, but every time I ask about it, there no progress or it even seems like... No. Mario wouldn't do that to me." Peach said.

"He's lying." Luigi blurted out before his brain could stop him from doing so.

Peach looked at Luigi with teary eyes and asked "He would tell me if my friend is dead, right?"

"Mario wouldn't lie about that, it's something else." Luigi reassured her. Or would he? Luigi asked himself.

Peach sniffed and started wiping her, now visible, tears away. "I'm sorry Luigi, it's just, that friend means an awful lot to me and I don't know what I would do if..." Peach softly said.

"We'll find your friend." Luigi reassured her once again.

"Thanks Luigi." a still teary eyed Peach answered. "I'm sorry about the fighting, I know it must be driving you insane." she added.

Now's my chance, just agree with her and subtly say it. Luigi thought. "Um, yeah, i-if you two could just limit it to not during the middle of the night would be nice." Luigi carefully responded.

Peach chuckled and said "I'm sorry, you're just way too nice all the time, Luigi. I'll try to keep Mario at bay."

"Much appreciated." Luigi answered with a soft smile. Let's just hope I get my sleep back. Luigi thought.

A Toad all of the sudden stormed inside and yelled in distress "Your highness! Your highness!"

"What's wrong?" Peach asked in concern.

"I know master Mario asked us to drop the case, but I think we found an important lead on the flower case!" the Toad replied.

He did not. Luigi thought shocked.

"Excuse me, what did you just say?" Peach asked, rage starting to creep up inside her body.

"That we found-" the Toad tried to say, but Peach interrupted before he could.

"No, before that." Peach interjected coldly.

"That master Mario asked us to drop the case? Weren't you informed of this, your highness?" the Toad responded. "... Your highness, are you alright?" the Toad asked scared.

"HE DID WHAT?!" Peach yelled for the whole castle to hear, rage consuming her.

Oh shit. Luigi thought, never having seen the princess even near this level of anger.


*POV unknown*

I have to get out of here.

That's what I've been telling myself for how long now? I don't even know. Everyone probably already thinks that I'm dead by now.

Why?

I shake with the chains that have been keeping me bound to this room, making them shackle all across the hallway.

I just want to get the fuck out of here. I thought annoyed.

The fuck's even wrong with that asshole? I know he's usually an asshole who kidnaps people, but not the kidnap and abuse/starve kind of asshole. Something's off about him, he doesn't seem like himself.

He's never been this abuse towards his captives.

I look down at the bruises all over my body. "That's what you get for trying to escape... fifteen fucking times!" I can still hear him yelling it in my face. I grumbled at the thought of him. He abused and starved me even before my first attempt to escape, couldn't get any worse after that I figured.

Fucking asshole. The smell of his breath is torture by itself.

I'll survive this though, I've been trained for this basically my whole life. If he wanted to kill me, he would've done it a long time ago. Heck, he can't fucking stand me and I knew that even before his evil ass kidnapped me.

Doesn't mean I won't annoy him every chance I get, he'll regret kidnapping me.

I thought we were on "I leave you alone you leave me alone"-terms, but it appears not.

How long have I been here?

There is something off about him, his eyes weren't black before as they are now. I glared over at him and his eyes were indeed black.

I thought they were red? Why the fuck are they black?

I'm driving myself insane. He caught me glaring at his stupid ass and flashed me a stupid grin.

Once I get out of here and back in shape, I will make sure you never grin at me or anyone else ever again.

"The fuck you looking at?" I dared to say. He just laughed manically at me, not responding in any other way.

Asshole.

There's definitely something up with him, he would've replied to my snarky comments by now but all he does is laugh like a maniac.


"Peachy, please stop." Mario begged after she kept hitting him repeatedly.

Peach was an anger consumed mess, but could you blame her?

"How... fucking... dare you!" Peach yelled in-between hits and breaths while crying hysterically.

Mario looked over at his younger brother again, hoping that he would finally intervene, but all Luigi was doing was glaring at his older brother.

To think I once looked up to you and wanted to be like you. Luigi thought angrily. If lying to your longterm girlfriend wasn't worse enough, you stopped looking for her friend, who's clearly in a lot of trouble and didn't even bother to fucking tell her. Making her believe that you're still looking for her friend.

"Please." Mario pleaded once again.

"I hate you! I hate you! I fucking hate you!" Peach kept yelling over and over again while hitting him and balling her eyes out.

A Toad entered the room, afraid to talk to anyone. He carefully walked over to Luigi. Luigi stopped glaring at his brother and turned his attention towards the Toad. "Can I help you?" Luigi asked as politely as possible, considering that he's mad too.

"I'm s-sorry to just come in here, master Luigi, but um-" the Toad said while looking towards the fighting couple, then back to Luigi. "It's just, um, we should really follow up on this lead, could, um, maybe you, if her highness is alright with it, take over the case? I personally found it weird that m-master Mario wanted us to just drop the case, considering how close she is to the missing person." he finished.

"Yes, of course I will." Luigi answered immediately "Peach was talking about me joining the inner circle anyways." he added.

"If you'd follow me?" the Toad asked.

Luigi nodded and followed the Toad, leaving Peach and Mario to fight this out on their own.

Luigi arrived in what was known as the war room, not exactly the most thrilling name. The Toad that was talking to Luigi earlier, showed him a computer screen and said "This is all the information about the flower case, considering that you don't know her highness's friend, I'll give you a couple of minutes to read through this information, then we'll fill you in on what we've discovered." the Toad said.

"Will do." Luigi replied while scanning over the information, reading it carefully. Interesting Luigi thought. How come I've never met Peach's dear friend? There are so many pictures here of them together during all kinds of events and get-togethers. he thought.

"I think I'm caught up." Luigi said while turning back to the Toad. "What was the new found information?" Luigi asked.

"Till now we believed that the last known location of the princess's friend was here, in the Mushroom Kingdom, but it appears that that isn't the case." the Toad informed. However, before he could continue explaining, Mario burst through the door.

"Luigi! What are you doing here?!" Mario yelled angrily. His lip was busted and a black eye started forming on his face.

Peach stormed in after Mario, having heard what he said, and before Luigi could respond, Peach said "I already told you to let him into the inner circle sooner! At least now I'll know that cases, that I specifically request, won't be thrown out without my permission and/or knowledge!"

"We didn't have time for it anyway!" Mario yelled back "You know how restless the surrounding kingdoms have been! We need to be on our guard!" he added.

"My friend was going to help us with that, but you just decided that my friend's life isn't important!" Peach yelled, having tears streaming down her cheeks again.

"Oh yeah? What was your friend gonna do, eh? What can your friend provide us?" Mario challenged.

"Military training, knowledge of literally every fighting sport, connections all around all the kingdoms, even on enemy grounds, experience in leading an army, do I have to go on?!" Peach yelled back. "You know what?! Get out!"

"What?" Mario asked "I will not-"

"I am still above you, Mario, even in this room. Get. Out." Peach demanded.

"But-" Mario pleaded.

"I will have you escorted out if you don't leave right now!" Peach yelled at him.

Mario sighed and glared at his brother. Pussy didn't even say anything. Mario thought, then he left the room.

Peach started breathing normally again, trying to calm herself down, as Luigi asked "Are you alright, Peach? Never mind, that's a stupid question, um, is there anything I can do?"

Peach sighed and gave Luigi a sad smile. She turned towards the Toads and asked to leave them alone until she says so.

"You know I can always be a shoulder to cry on, literally or figuratively, right?" Luigi reminded her.

Peach sighed sadly again and answered "I know Luigi, it's just-" before breaking down crying again.

Luigi offered his shoulder, and Peach gladly accepted, letting all her tears and sadness flow. After about 15 minutes Peach had calmed down and hugged Luigi and said "Thanks Luigi, I can't wish for a better friend."

"Any time, you know that, Peach." Luigi replied while patting her on the back.

Peach composed herself, wiped away her remaining tears and said "Okay, now I have to act strong again, it felt good letting that all out."

"Sometimes we just have to." Luigi said.

Peach chuckled. After a while she said "Your brother infuriates me all the time, but this has to be the worst thing he has ever done to me."

"I've never known him to be this way either. I'm pretty disappointed in him actually." Luigi responded.

"Did you catch up on the case?" Peach asked, changing the subject.

"Yes, but the Toad was about to tell me something new that came up." Luigi replied "Something about the last known location of your friend not being in the Mushroom Kingdom, but then Mario stormed in and, yeah, you know the rest." he added.

"Oh! I'll get the Toads back immediately!" Peach yelled, happy that there is a breakthrough in the case.

She left the room and rounded up the Toads that were in the war room before. She ordered them to go back inside and continue explaining. Mario was still gone, per Peach's request.

"So, what was this breakthrough Luigi was talking about?" Peach asked the Toad.

"Not really a breakthrough, just some new information." the Toad corrected.

"Better than nothing like the last few months." Peach reminded the Toad.

"Yes, of course, I'm sorry your highness." the Toad apologized.

"So?" Peach asked eagerly, which isn't normally in her nature to do.

"The last known location of your friend isn't in the Mushroom Kingdom, actually it's in-"

*Alarm sound*

"What's that?!" Peach asked while being deafened by the alarm.

The Toads rushed to the pc's to see what's going on, meanwhile Mario rushed into the room.

"What the fuck is going on? Peach?! Luigi?! You two alright?!" Mario asked in a panic.

"Like you care about my feelings!" Peach yelled back, while Luigi was still glaring at his brother.

"Your highness! Masters Mario and Luigi!" one of the Toads yelled before more arguing would occur.

"Yes?" the three of them replied at the same time.

"The alarm is going off because there's a break-in, we're trying to locate where exactly." the Toad informed them.

"Why is this locating thing going so slow?!" Peach yelled annoyed "It wouldn't be so slow in any other castle!" she added.

"I'm sorry your highness, we'll have to discuss that issue later on." the Toad said apologetically.

"The break-in happened in the underground tunnels, that's why we couldn't locate it immediately. The service down there is terrible." another Toad informed.

"I'm trying to get live footage from down there." another Toad stated.

"I'm going down there!" Mario yelled.

"Not before we've seen the live footage, Mario, who knows how many people are down there?!" Peach yelled back.

"I agree, I'll join you down there when we see the footage though." Luigi agreed.

Mario just huffed in response, waiting for the footage.

Thank god Luigi agreed with me, otherwise Mario would've gone anyway. Peach thought.

"I've got the footage!" one of the Toads yelled.

"Put it on the big screen to analyse!" another Toad ordered.

The Toad did as the other Toad said and put the footage on the big screen, clearing it up because it was blurry.

"We really need to fix these technical issues." Peach mumbled.

Once the live footage cleared up, a small single person, covered in a big black coat with a hood, was shown on the screen, slowly making their way down the tunnels.

"It's just one person, let's go Luigi." Mario said.

"Don't attack, as you said it's only one person and not many people know about the underground tunnels." Luigi said.

"Why wouldn't I attack?" Mario asked annoyed "Someone broke in."

"Maybe that someone had good reason, would you want to get attacked like that?" Luigi asked annoyed back.

"Luigi's right, Mario. This is why we need him in the inner circle, he helps keep you sane." Peach said.

"Whatever, if the person tries attacking me, I will strike." Mario grumbled.

"Wait up! I'm coming with you two." Peach said.

"What? No!" Mario said.

"It's just one person, Mario, and they're breaking into my castle." Peach reminded him.

"Let's just go." Luigi said while taking the lead, tired of their fights.

Luigi at front, and Mario and Peach close behind, made their way down to the tunnels. After walking for a while they saw the hooded person.

"Who are you?!" Mario yelled with all his might.

"Jesus, Mario!" Luigi and Peach yelled at the same time, almost having a heart attack.

After they composed themselves, they heard the hooded person chuckle, and then the hooded person hissed in pain while grabbing their side.

Whoever it is, is clearly hurt. I don't think this is a threat. Luigi thought.

Peach, thinking the same thing, asked kinda awkwardly "Um, excuse me, why did you break into my castle? And who are you?"

The hooded person slowly, and kinda wobbly, made their way towards the three.

"Watch it!" Mario warned.

"You're still an asshole I see." the hooded person said, making Luigi chuckle.

That voice- Peach thought, then realized. She ran past Mario and Luigi at a speed they'd both never seen the princess have. She ran up to the hooded person and hugged the person tight and gave multiple kisses on their hood.

The hooded person hissed in pain again and said "You're kinda hurting me, Peaches."

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I thought you were dead or something, I'm so happy you're here and alive." Peach cried out.

"Yeah, about that, barely." the hooded person said, collapsing into Peach's arms right after.