Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start!
"Mario... what are you wearing... this is a diplomatic setting."
Peach was SO confused when she saw Mario and Luigi both arrived, and they dressed like they were about to attend a dance party. With a red and white blazer opened to shoe a yellow and blue shirt, with shorts. He was not wearing his usual outfit of a red shirt and blue overalls with a red hat, instead he was wearing a baseball cap in red.
Luigi was just wearing the green version of Mario's outfit.
"This is the Shy Kingdom though... and when you negotiate in the Shy Kingdom, these are the kinds of stuff you wear..." Mario looked down at his clothes and was curious about why they were weird. He was a plumber, and whenever he came to the Shy Kingdom to install warp pipes and other types of plumbing into the kingdom, he always wore this so that he could negotiate with the citizens of the kingdom.
Luigi nodded his head.
"I don't understand... it looks fashionable... where did you even get that?" Peach didn't know what to make of this.
Apparently the Mario brothers had been to the Shy Kingdom before, and she didn't even know about it. If she had she would have had them come with her in the first place, and not send for them when she needed partners to "shake with".
She still didn't know what "shake with" meant.
"They sell clothes from all over the world here. It's quite fun... though negotiations are hard to understand. If you shake well, you can get things cheaper, if you don't shake well, things get more expensive." Mario rubbed his head in confusion.
'What does 'shake' even mean?'
-That Night-
Dance.
It meant dance.
Princess Peach felt VASTLY overdressed as she entered a well-lit cave that had TONS of Shy Gals all across the cave, she could see several HUNDREDS of them were gathered together and dancing in the cave. There were huge tables filled with punch bowls and snacks, and there was music playing through the cave. Near the middle of the large cave she could see a stage was built that had only around 100 or so Shy Gals who served as part of the Royal Guard, and at the back end of that stage was another stage where only 6 people were.
There was Prince Naruto.
1 was a Shy Gal wearing a red hood with a Kiss Mark on the forehead of her mask, and Princess Peach recognized her as the Representative that she had met with in her own kingdom.
1 was a Shy Gal wearing a dark blue half-hood that stopped at her breasts, her entire belly and the lower half of her breasts was exposed. She had a feather sticking out of the side of her mask, and 2 red marks on each side of her mask. Instead of a long hood, she had a grass skirt that covered the middle of her thighs. She too had a kiss mark on the forehead of her mask.
1 was a VERY TALL Shy Gal, standing at close to 220 cm tall, wearing a green hood, but was otherwise dressed the same as a regular Shy Gall, though her mask was elongated in design. She too had a kiss mark on her forehead.
1 was a normal sized Shy Gal with a white hood on, and a generals hat on her head as well as a kiss mark and a medal of honor on her chest. Her kiss mark was located on the left side of the mask so that her hat didn't cover it up.
Finally was a Shy Gal with no feet, who was floating on her ghost tail with a grey hood on. She was dead, but still bore a kiss mark on the middle of her mask, right between the eyes of the mask. Unlike the others with different hair colors in shades of blue or green, or hair was bright red as the only colorful part of her.
A Shy Gal, a Spear Gal, a Melon Gal, a General Gal, and a Ghoul Gal.
"Who are they?" Peach whispered to Luigi, who was standing right next to her as Mario walked ahead of them with more confidence. She was sure that Luigi would know more about why those 5 Shy Gals were located above the others. She had no personal knowledge of how this society was run, and would really appreciate any information so that she didn't make a fool of herself.
"The Shy Kingdom is broken up into 5 Villages, and each village has a leader that reports to the Prince... they act as the leaders for their villages. They obey the prince's orders, but they are high up on the leadership rankings. Since he can't be all over his kingdom, they act like his eyes and hands... though he lets them do their own thing." Luigi whispered to Peach so that she could get a better understanding of how important they are.
"So the kiss marks on the mask..."
"The Prince kisses the masks of those who are village leaders. If a Shy Gal has a kiss mark, she is an elite among the elite... Ghoul Gal Leader is the scariest among them, Boo Gals AND Boos live in her village." Luigi shivered at the thought of ever having to visit that village.
Mario made it to the big stage in the middle of the party first.
"Oh, they aren't bad people... this is exciting, I've never even seen the Prince before." Mario was the only one who wasn't scared or nervous. All of the Royal Guard on the middle stage stopped dancing and stood at attention. The dancing all over the cave stopped as well, and the music was allowed to quiet down for a mic to be brought to the middle of the stage.
It stayed there for awhile.
Mario nudged Peach VERY lightly so that she would approach it.
"Hello... I am Princess Peach Toadstoal of the Mushroom Kingdom, and I wish to start up trade relations with Shy Kingdom-"
Mario grabbed the mic from her.
"Yo, yo yo... we're here to shake, and if you like it, you should set up some trades with the Mushroom Kingdom." Mario changed the way that Peach talked as he negotiated instead of her. A little excitement was brought back to the room, and the music started to get louder again. Mario covered the mic. "... Shy Gals are kinda stupid, so you need to get them excited." Mario whispered so that the mic didn't pick it up.
Naruto clapped for them.
Naruto nodded his head in approval, before he touched Shy Gal Leader, General Gal Leader, and Ghoul Gal Leader and pointed to the stage. There was a shared nod among the Village Leaders, who made their way to the middle stage.
Luigi gulped.
"It's all about hip movements... they can't read your face well, so they judge a dance based on hips... you need to shake your hips to the beat, and use VERY exact movements." Luigi whispered instructions to Princess Peach.
Mario grabbed his hips and started to dance.
He was confident as he danced in front of the Shy Gals, who all started to sync up with each other as they danced the same dance. There movements were as one, as if they had a hive mind.
"Come on."
The hundreds of Shy Gals who weren't on the stage were all jumping and clapping to the beat to show their excitement. Luigi started to follow Mario's lead, and Peach realized that she needed to match them as well.
25 minutes of dancing passed.
It was tiring, it was VERY tiring, and she could see Mario and Luigi were getting physically exhausted from the nonstop dancing, while the gals dancing with them didn't seem to be tired at all.
30 more minutes passed.
The dancing stopped when Naruto left the Top Stage and joined them on the Middle Stage, and the Village Leaders took their places and surrounded him. Peach was exhausted and sweating, but she could feel the air around Naruto seemed to be very pleasant. It was clear that he had been very amused by their dancing.
"... Our dancing was horrible, why is he clapping?"
"It isn't just about how good your dancing is. You need to show your sincerity with your dance... your dancing must have showed him you wanted to be real trade partners." Mario whispered to Peach, and even she had to admit their dancing wasn't good. It was a good thing that the quality of the dancing wasn't what was suppose to impress the prince.
Naruto started to dance and got closer to Peach.
He started to bump his hips against her hips, though there was some struggle with that.
"Thank you, it will be wonderful trading with you... I hope that our Kingdoms will have a long, happy-" Peach started to reach for him to shake his hand, before her legs gave out under her. Exhaustion took over when she felt relief.
Jaws dropped.
Peach had fallen backyards when her legs collapsed underneath her, and her fingers hooked underneath Naruto's mask and ripped it clear off his face. She didn't see his face as she collapsed onto her back. All she saw was Mario and Luigi were both covering their eyes the second she fell, and were turning their heads so that they didn't see. Peach saw a mask went flying through the air.
*Clink*
It bounced before sliding across the stage.
"Oh... I'm very sorry, my legs were so tired they gave out for a moment." Peach sat up and tried to play off the accident.
"Don't look."
"Don't look?" Peach was curious why MARIO seemed to be terrified with Luigi as they both hissed at her to not look. Peach looked at Naruto to make sure that she didn't hurt him.
She had spears pointed at her.
Naruto was on the ground with the 5 leaders surrounding him, and they were helping him try to cover his face. Peach looked though and through the barrier, she could see part of his face. She saw one of his cheeks, and how just like his mask his cheeks had whisker marks as well. Still, the spears were brought closer to her face when she realized that she was staring at what little she could see of his face.
A Royal Guard Gal ran across the stage and picked up the mask from the ground, before she rushed as quickly as she could back to the 5 Leaders.
"Peach... jail."
"Eh?"
-The Next Day-
"Eh?" Peach was behind prison bars, Mario and Luigi were not with her in jail.
Her Trial for her crime was in 1 week, and Mario and Luigi were sent to convince the 5 Village Leaders of the Shy Gal villages that she should be pardoned for her crime of publically unmasking the prince. If they couldn't convince the 5 Village Leaders in 1 week that she should be pardoned, then there was little chance for her to get a positive ending to her trial.
She broke the crime.
Not a crime, but the crime.
The number 1 crime that should never be done, no matter what your others crimes were. It was the worst crime in the Shy Kingdom for an outsider to commit.
"Don't worry Princess, we'll be back in no time... and we'll get the Village Leaders to vouch that it was an accident... we just need to convince them to pardon you."
-With Naruto-
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuh... aaaaaaaaah." Naruto was curled up on his bed, his face burning red in embarassment. His mask was right next to him on his bed, and all he could do was make extreme humiliated noises as he remembered what Peach had done. He rolled around his bed and kicked his legs around.
"Sir... Will you really pardon Peach if he Mario brothers can convince the Village Leaders?"
"Uuuuuuh... she saw my face... an outsider saw my face... only a handful of people have seen my face... how am I suppose to deal with that... she saw my face?" Naruto rolled across the bed and grabbed the hem of Shy Gal 1's hood. She just sat on his bed and stopped speaking, and instead rubbed his back.
Less than 20 Shy Gals had ever seen his face.
The 5 Village Leaders.
The 10 Royal Guard Captains.
The Court Mage, which was her.
Finally, the 2 Shy Gals who attended to him during his baths.
Only those 18 Shy Gals in the entire kingdom knew what his face looked like, and it was suppose to stay that way. They were lucky that nobody had really seen him without his mask other than Princess Peach, and even she didn't get a good look at him. While some had seen his face when he was a baby, none could remember what his face looked like.
"It's okay, I doubt she saw your face... at most she saw part of it."
"She still saw my face though... you all told me nobody but another Shy should ever see my face... now an outsider might have seen my face. What if she tells other people what my eye color is... or that the whisker marks on my mask are actually part of my face... I don't think I could handle it if everyone started to put whisker marks on their masks to imitate me..." Naruto rolled so that he was face down on his bed.
Mage Gal started to pat his lower back.
"If you were so nervous, why did you give the Mario Bros the chance to earn her innocence then?"
"She's still a princess... she deserves a chance to be pardoned... she broke our oldest law." Naruto wasn't even the one who made that law, the law had been put into place before he was old enough to make any laws. He respected the laws that were put into place before he was put in charge, just as much as he wanted the laws he made after being allowed to rule followed.
1. Never remove the Prince's Mask against his will.
That was the first law that was put into place when the Shy Kingdom was founded by his people and given to him as a baby.
His people loved him so much that they founded a kingdom just so that they could make him the prince, and they made that the first law. He couldn't just go against the wishes of his people by disrespecting the law that they viewed as the most important law of them all.
Still, he hoped Mario and Luigi convinced the Village Leaders to pardon her.
Chapter End!
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