Guts

Staying inside for a whole day, had him stir crazy the next day as Guts found himself waking up again; The sun peeked through the window shutters of Saria's home, just enough to where the sun rays passed over Guts's face. Scrunching his face a bit, Guts opened his eyes while hearing the muffled sound of the early birds tweeting their lungs out.

He grumbled a bit as he picked himself up from the couch, while paying due diligence of being careful to not move too much with the stitches still keeping his wounds closed; Raising his arm up to carefully rub his bare chest pot marked with old wounds and new ones that were in the process of healing, Guts furrowed his brow as he took a more observant look around the house of his new temporary caretaker.

A small wooden stove and all manner of cooking supplies and utensils were situated all around in that one area, Guts then looked around more to see what else the Kokiri girl kept inside her home; by the look of things, she did in fact have a bed that was situated at the far end of her circular home.

Guts grunted in discomfort as he removed himself from the couch he slept on for two consecutive times now, he would have to see if the Kokiri had a spare place he could crash at, after he healed up enough; the green hair girl was the first actual person that had ever given him kindness, and it felt weird.

Feeling the tenderness on his shoulder, and checking the sutures Saria redid, he was satisfied to see they stayed in place, allowing him to see to himself in leaving the 'house' and getting some fresh air; tracing his eyesight towards the entrance and exit way, he found that Saria did not have door. "I suppose Kokiri don't have anything to worry about with thieves or other such things…" Gut's mentally told himself, thinking how an average Hylian's home was built with a door on it.

That, and the Kokiri probably live more with nature, letting all manor of wildlife into their own homes.

Keeping himself from rolling his shoulder to work the morning stiffness out from sleeping all night, Guts made for the exit and in the process needing to squint his eyes from the sudden brightness as he exited Saria's home; with his hand over his eyes to help the process of adjusting to the light outside, Guts removed his hand and blinked a few times to take in the sight of the fabled wooden forest village of children.

As he stood outside the doorway of Saria's home, Guts viewed how large the woodland village was that housed the forest folk; already he saw a variety of different looking children, and if his eyes saw them right, quite a few wooden creatures that peeked from up in the treetops; the many wooden creatures that did catch him looking at them, swiftly disappeared into the leaves of the trees, while the more curious and adventurous one kept their heads out to look at Guts with leaflet faces that had faces drawn on them.

Paying no mind to the onlookers from above, Guts shifted his focus elsewhere; to his right was what looked like a massive stump-like entrance and exit into the village. It was hollowed out from the inside, leaving just the outer edges to be left as some frame for the entrance into the village. Standing not far from the entrance of the village, was some orange haired kid, all dressed in green like Saria.

The boy in question that stood not far from the entrance, was in the middle of hammering down a wooden sign with a wooden mallet; Guts squinted a bit to look at the words, and cursed the inability to read. He scoffed in annoyance at his own ineptitude of illiteracy, yet in the end, he had no other chance to learn to read basic Hylian.

It was one of the many things he had grown up without, and something he had left pondering about how he'd go about learning to read; one of the men in his former mercenary band always carried with him a book on hand, something about a story of how Hyrule came to be, but Guts never had the chance to ask the man if he could read it to him.

Guts was always busy sharpening his skills with the blade, to be studious in the ways so as to survive the next battle and so forth.

Moving off from where he stood, Guts began his slow stroll through the village, dozens of houses were built into massive stumps; there were even houses built into the treetops of the various trees that surrounded the village. By Guts's guess, the tree top houses probably belonged to those wooden creatures with leafs for faces.

As Guts waltzed on through the village, he bore witness to various children walking around, some paid him no mind from afar aside from minor curious glances, while the Kokiri children that strayed anywhere near him, made sure to avoid being within arm's reach as they went about their day.

"Yoohoo!" A girl's voice spoke up from above a pillar that Gut's was soon making his way passed, prompting his attention upwards with a slight glance. "You're up after a few days already!" The girl giggled with her hand covering her mouth.

Guts looked at the girl, glaring a bit at the attitude he was given, not like he had any choice but to rest, hell, he had yet to even bother to ask Saria how long he was out for. Looking up at the girl with yellowish hair that was done with twin buns hanging low on the back of her head, Guts spoke to her with an annoyed look, "Something funny about that?" he pointed out with a glare.

The girl giggled again, and plopped herself down to sit at the edge of the pillar she stood on, and dangled her legs off the ledge as she conversed with Guts, "Not really!" she said to Guts with a broad smile, "I'm just excited to see you up and about! You were all covered in wounds and blood when I helped Saria and Mido carry you back to her house to heal!" she explained to Guts.

That made sense, as Guts surely doubted Saria worked alone in bringing his unconscious body back into her home; He was taller than most of these kids of the village, but not by much, not to mention the fact that he was sure he weighed quite a bit for a single one of these kids to even try and lift his body alone.

Guts nodded once towards the girl, before asking her, "What about my sword and stuff I had on me?" he questioned the girl, his gaze was firm, "Not that I need it right now, but I'd like to know where Saria put my stuff." he questioned the upbeat girl who kicked her feet back and forth from the ledge in idleness.

The girl simply kept a smile up as she spoke with Guts, "Oh simple! Saria put your stuff up in one of the vacant houses! She figured you'd want to have yourself a place to stay rather than simply mooch off from her for your duration of stay~!" The girl said with an air of amusement around her, before speaking some more, "You know, until you're all healed up fully…or until you desire to leave~" The girl said with a close eyed smile.

"Right…" Guts drawled out, while looking around a bit before looking back at the girl, "I see ... .well…thanks…" He tried his best to smile, only to receive an amused giggle from the girl.

"My~" the girl spoke with a look on her face while covering her mouth with her hand, "Quite the nasty smile~!" The girl remarked, amusement shined in her eyes.

"Tch, whatever…" Guts grouched, as he removed himself from the conversation, and walked off. He never had a reason to smile much for all his life, and the one time he tried to express that emotion, he got laughed at.

"Oh! Come on~! It was a good smile!" She hollered over at Guts, before she spoke some more with amusement still in her tone, "By the way, My name's Fado! Nice to meet you, Guts!" Fado hollered, no doubt cupping her mouth for her voice to carry over to him.

He shared his name with Saria, so the logical point being that Saria shared that fact with everyone else…or perhaps just with that girl Fado; he supposed it was fair, some random child ends up in their village, and all manner of curiosity is shared amongst the populace of the forest village.

While Guts walked away from Fado, he lifted his left arm a bit to wave her off in response, keeping himself on the dirt road that led through the village. His little jaunt through the village, eventually led him towards a stump where a lone girl sat atop the awning of. Said girl, like most of the other children, wore a green tunic. Stretched across her forehead was a green headband that held back her orange hair, and like the majority of her peers, her eyes were the color blue.

"Hey~!" The girl greeted Guts from her sitting point with a wave, "I heard Saria took in a wounded Hylian boy, fancy finally seeing you!" the girl said in excitement, before palming her hand back down while looking at Guts from her perch.

Gut simply looked back up at the girl with a raised brow, "..,right…" He expressed with a flat tone and look, while examining the stump 'building' she sat off from, "..uh…" he tried to figure out what else to say, only for the girl to take that as a que to say more.

The girl palm her chest to greet Guts more, "My name's Zutie! And this here is Nuro's store!" She gestured down towards the entrance way below her, and gave him a mischievous wink, "Of course, that is, open to only for those that have rupees on hand." she added.

With a raised brow however, Guts gave Zutie a skeptical look, "What, do you guys sell weapons or something?" he half joked, half asked with a smirk.

Zutie responded back to guts with an amused giggle, "Sure!" She answered, making Guts drop his expression, "The lost woods isn't a place to traverse so easily, so we like to keep stuff on hand in case things get dicey out there!" she explained to the boy with a simple smile.

Giving the Kokiri girl a nod of understanding, Guts supposed that checked out; some of the soldiers he's worked beside, had told tales that the deeper you go into the woods, the more dangerous it was. It was said children and adults that get lost in the woods, never return and are transformed into some mockery of themselves.

He should ask for help on the way out, once he heals enough to leave.

Guts grunted in acknowledgement of Zutie's explanation, before excusing himself from the premises of the store.

The Great Deku Tree

His roots stretch far enough throughout the country of Hyrule, to let him see the goings on of the wider world; the civil war had just finished, and with it, peace came. It warmed his inner core to see Saria and her current job of helping the young Hylian boy heal back to nominal health; it also put the Guardian of the woods on edge.

He had dreamt of a young boy fleeing the dying flames of war, seeking safety in the woods while fending himself from beasts.

Checking through one of his many roots, the Deku Tree saw that the boy was now walking around, while being careful with not moving too much. The Deku Tree curled a wooden lip of amusement, and saw the boy was paying heed to Saria's word in not aggravating his wounds and stitches.

Bringing himself back out into reality from his roots, the Deku Tree peered around his domain in thought; the boy was doubtlessly the champion that would be set forth from his woods to save Hyrule, it was from the many dreams he's been having, of a struggling young lad dealt a brutal hand in life.

But that left the question, would the boy accept the quest of saving Hyrule? He did not want to force something onto the boy, at least, not without telling him he may have a destiny ahead of him…

Coughing a bit, feeling the age of himself, he curled another smile of amusement; he didn't need to cough, but he felt quite a few cobwebs inside him that needed to be removed from the leftover skulltula. With a heave of his inner core, the Great Deku tree blew out dozens of skulltula and the cobwebs they strung up inside his trunk; the insectoid creatures themselves splattering against the various trees that surround his area.

Seeing his work, the Deku Tree frowned. He would not be able to do the same trick again soon, once a certain man comes to visit him; He did not know how that man would make his way into the woods without him knowing, but his dreams foretold of a man from the desert, demanding the treasured Kokiri's emerald.

Black Magic of the sorts, that was all the Great Deku Tree could assume the man would be using; and he would die within a given week from a curse placed on him, that meant he would need to prepare his next sapling incarnation. He'd rather leave the Kokiri and Koroks with a part of him left behind, much like his predecessor before him.

Peering back through his roots, he spied on the young Hylian boy once more, and saw him still waltzing around, more than likely getting himself air after laying down for more than a few or so days; Returning back to himself once more, the Great Deku tree pondered on a thought for a few moments. The boy would probably do well with a fairy companion, early on than later, whether he takes on the journey or not, the boy at least deserved some help in life.

The Deku Tree peered around at all the fairies swarming around him, one fairy in particular, "Navi! Join down hither!" he urged the female fairy.

"Oh my!" Said fairy remarked in excitement, finishing up in tending to one of the many leaves of the great Deku tree, and floating down to look up at her creator with earnest eyes. "I'm here!" she answered with an excited look on her face, her pale pink eyes contrasted to her bright pink dainty small body.

The Deku Tree smiled warmly down at the fairy, "Sayeth to me, wouldst thou like to be the companion to a Hylian boy?" he questioned her, the expression of Navi switched to that of surprise.

"What!?" she asked, Navi reflecting a very shocked look, before expressing an inquisitive look while tapping her chin with her finger as she float in front of The Great Deku Tree's face, "I mean…uh…jeez…that's quite a question…" she began to mumble to herself in thought, "I'd be the first one to have a Hylian boy as a companion!" she whispered to herself while expressing a thoughtful look, while at the same time, making it look like she was sitting on something as she floated.

"Navi…" The Deku Tree spoke, his tone sincere, "If thou hast need to regard more on it, grant it time, but know we are on borrowed time." he urged her.

"Ah! Wait, no! I'll go." Navi waved her small arms, and gave her creator a nervous smile, "I'm sorry, it's just that this decision is so big! I'll leave right now and meet this boy!" she declared while bobbing around in the air in excitement.

The Great Deku Tree responded in kind with a smile, "Be off with thou then." he urged Navi off, before said fairy went fluttering off to meet with her soon to be life companion to help guide. Once Navi was outside of eyesight for the great Deku Tree, the Guardian himself allowed himself to frown for a bit. Things were now setting into motion, it all relied on the boy now and how he wanted to progress his life.

Guts

Staring up at the ladder that lead to the vacant home of the Kokiri village, Guts expressed an annoyed look; That girl Saria really went out her way to keep Guts from doing anything other than resting and healing, and seeing where he was given lodging once he was healed to move well enough, his personal belongings were up in a treehouse that required him to climb the ladder of.

Grumbling a bit, Guts turned around and faced away from his temporary annoyance. He resolved to find something else to do than see if all his belongings were in one place, he had a few rupees to his name in a rupee wallet, his shredded shirt, of which he doubted the shirt was around for him to wear anymore, and finally his sword that was wielded by most men twice his height. Said sword was a tad taller than him if he lined it up next to him, it was what he grew up wielding, and he sincerely doubted he'd get used to wielding a sword smaller than him anytime soon.

Walking up the slight incline that led to the tree house, Fado, who was still sitting on the ledge of the one pillar he last saw her sitting on, spotted him coming back; the Kokiri girl smiled impishly as she hopped down and approached Guts with an easygoing smirk, "Oh, I've seen that look before…annoyed you can't have what you want." she teased as she walked over and stood across from Guts with her hands folded behind her back.

Guts simply gave Fado a flat look, "You're really a star of sunshine in the village, aren't you?" he questioned the girl sardonically, earning a giggle from Fado.

"Oh come on~ I'm just having a bit of fun with you~" Fado expressed with an impish smirk, while giving the treehouse a passing glance before looking back at Guts. "But hey!" she said with an expressive wide eye look, "You should probably go back to Saria's home, she will probably be back any minute now!" she warned the boy.

Giving Fado an annoyed look, he rolled his eyes at her, "Yeah, no thanks, she can deal with it." he scoffed while walking off away from Fado, "I'll go back when I please." he spoke to Fado gruffly.

"~I don't know~!" Fado caught up with Guts to walk beside the boy, while speaking in a sing song voice, her eyes glanced towards Guts as she walked beside the Hylian boy, "Saria can be really cross when she wants to be, and Mido, as much as he likes to boss everyone else around, can never beat Saria in a contest of wills!" she affirmed with a twinkle of mischievousness in her eyes towards Guts.

An annoyed grunt escaped Guts's throat, before he spoke back to Fado while the both of them waltzed up an incline that led up to a fenced area of bushes and rocks, "You like being a busybody, don't you?" he challenged the Kokiri girl, only to earn another giggle from Fado as he leaned up to sit on the fence.

Fado hopped up and began walking on the fence Guts sat on while holding her arms out to balance herself, "~yup!~" She declared without any remorse, making emphasis on the 'p' at the end while keeping an expressive smirk on her face. "And of course, cause you're the first Hylian we've ever had in a long while to ever visit this village!" she added.

"Right…" Guts responded with a bland look, he gave Fado a sideways look of disinterest, before expressing a savage smirk, "Who knows, you guys just might get an unsavory outside to visit your village sometime and ruin this peaceful place." he tried to tease back, to get the girl away from him and mind her own business.

"Nah." Fado responded with a care, she hopped off and landed next to Guts, and palmed her hips as she viewed her entire woodland village, "We have the lost woods to protect this place!" she puffed her chest out with pride, then gave Guts a sideways glance and smirked at him, "We even have the Great Deku tree, our greatest protector!" she declared with pride.

Guts scoffed at Fado, and glanced in the direction of where he saw a towering tree that towered over all others, "Yeah…right…I'm sure he's some protector." he sarcastically responded. How a tree of all things could protect a village, was beyond him. Guts angled his head to stare directly at Fado who was rocking on the balls of her heels in idle amusement, "So what, does he have some sort of thing going on with him that repels monsters or something?" he challenged with a smirk.

"Yup~!" Fado answered with a cheeky grin, earning a drop in Guts's attitude towards her, making Fado all the more amused at the Hylian boy.

"Tch." Guts grunted as he stepped off from sitting on the fence, he felt the need to stretch but withheld himself from doing so.

"Hey~ Hello~! Greetings~! Ah, There you are!" A tiny voice hollered throughout the village, before a fairy finally flew over to Guts from around the large brown fence that walled off the ledge of the ground, "You must be the Hylian boy, right!?" the pink fairy asked Guts, while earning a curious look from Fado.

Guts expressed back a dry look at the fairy while she floated in the air in front of him, the question had to be rhetorical. He was the outlier amongst all the children and woodland folk, "Pretty sure I am." he retorted.

The pink fairy, whose light hue made it almost impossible to see her actual body, allowed herself to float closer to Guts's face and allow the boy to see the fairy better as she expressed an excited look, "Hi, I'm Navi, and the Great Deku Tree wishes me to be your companion! I do hope-hey!" Navi cried out in annoyance as Guts walked over towards Saria's home, ignoring her best attempt at introducing herself to the lad.

Fado

Fado giggled at Navi's situation, "Wow! Already got on the boy's nerves!" she commented, earning a look from Navi as the fairy turned to look at the girl.

"What's that supposed to mean!? Grr, this was not how I envisioned this meeting to pan out!" Navi declared while stomping her foot in mid air, before flying off to chase after Guts, "Wait up!" she hollered after the boy.

Fado watched as the boy entered Saria's home, followed by the fairy that the Great Deku Tree sent to be Guts's fairy companion; with an amused smirk, Fado was very curious now about the boy. The Great Deku Tree did not send one of his fairies on a mere whim to be a companion to someone, much less to a Hylian. Something was in the works, and Fado could not help be curious about it.

Spotting Saria exit the Lost Woods entrance from behind her house, Fado afforded herself an impish smirk and jogged over to speak with her fellow forest spirit.

Saria

With a contented smile, Saria walked through the exit of the lost woods with a basket of foraged goods she found; there were quite a few wild carrots and green onions she collected, coupled with a few sprigs of leaf greens she could use for a good steamed vegetable soup. As she made her way down the incline of the hill that led towards to the backside of her home, Saria soon saw Fado within her eyesight as her fellow Kokiri jogged up to her with an impish smirk.

"Oh that boy, what did he get up to while I was gone!?" Saria mentally asked herself, as Fado approached her.

"Saria!~" Fado greeted with a sing-song voice, while Saria herself expressed a welcoming smile, "You'll never guess what happened while you were gone~!" she teased.

Saria sighed, before asking Fado what happened, "Let me guess, Guts left my home, and saw to it to try and get his things." she asked, betting the boy was too stubborn to stay inside her home and heal. The boy definitely seemed the type to get stir crazy if any attempt was made to make the boy stay inside a home, she was definitely sure, without his awful history, he'd still be a stubborn boy, like most other male Kokiri of her village.

Fado giggled while covering her mouth behind her hands, and gave Saria an amused look, before placing her hands behind her back, "Nope~! Well…" she trailed her eyes up, "He did see where his little home will be, and where his stuff was put by you…" she then shrugged and looked back down at Saria, "But yeah, the Hylian boy just walked around." she added.

"Right…." Saria sighed in relief that the boy at least paid heed to not be too extraneous with his body, then looked straight at Fado with a firm look, "But that's not all that happened, was it?" she questioned Fado with a narrowed look.

"Right! The Great Deku Tree sent a fairy to be Guts's companion, and her name is Navi!~" Fado explained to Saria, watching as she began to show surprise.

"Oh,...oh wow…that's…" Saria tried to find the words to express what she was thinking, but could not find anything to say at the moment.

Fado then thumbed in the direction of Saria's home, "If you're quick, you'll probably see them in the middle of talking! Guts just went back into your home!" she urged Saria off, to which she nodded in agreement.

"Right!" Saria said in a hurry as she bid Fado her thanks, and rushed off, leaving Fado to smirk in amusement at Saria as the Kokiri girl headed to her home.

Guts

Spending the rest of the day inside Saria's home was not something he wanted to do, he just felt like he did not need to deal with that Fado girl, combined with the chatty fairy that the supposed Great Deku Tree sent to be his companion.

"And then, He sent me here, I mean, I enjoy tending to his leaves, but being a companion to a forest child is what we fairy strive for!" Navi gushed in excitement while clasping her hands up next to her cheek while floating around Guts's head.

Guts was in the middle of carving something into a short thick branch, using a pointed sharp flint rock he managed to procure from the small creak of the village. He didn't have anything else to use, well, other than the knives Saria used for her kitchen, but he'd rather not test his luck with the girl in using her kitchen utensils to carve wood.

As he chipped off more wood from the small branch, he grumbled a bit before speaking his mind to the fairy, "Last I checked, I'm a Hylian, so try someone else." he grouched, before looking up at Navi, whose small cherubish face glowered at him while planting her fists on her hips, "Unless you can heal my wounds." he challenged.

"Nope." Navi crossed her arms, and made an 'X' with her arms while making a stern look on her face "I'm not some one time use fairy that will heal you from death!" she bent over a bit and wagged her finger at the boy, "And I'm certainly not one of those fairies that heal your wounds!" she denied.

Navi then proudly held her chest out while palming it, while her other hand was planted on her hip as she floated in front of Guts's face, "Nay! I am your special, one and only, companion through life!" She expressed excitement, before scooting through the air to be next to Guts's shoulder, and elbow him in a friendly manner with a sly look, "Pretty great, huh?" she challenged.

Guts simply ceased carving into his procured piece of wood, and looked at Navi with a bland look, "Wow. neat….now buzz off." he gruffly spat and continued his idle attempt at trying to give himself a hobby to do.

Navi puffed her cheeks out in annoyance, and crossed her arms, "Nope, nuh uh!" she shook her head in denial, and gave Guts another wag of her finger, "I'm with you till the end!" she nodded in excitement with a firm nod on her part.

"Greeaaat." Guts sarcastically replied as he continued his little attempt at an impromptu hobby.

"Guts!?" Saria's voice carried itself into the home of said Kokiri, earning both the boy's and fairy's attention as she walked in, "I heard you have a…is that a knife?" Saria questioned Guts once she fully entered her home, and saw Guts carved a piece of wood with something.

With a dull look, Guts shrugged and showed Saria the slightly dull but somewhat sharp flint rock, "Nope, just some sharp rock." He answered, before resuming his little attempt at carving into the small piece of wood.

Saria clicked her teeth in annoyance, before she greeted Navi with a bright eyed look, "Hello!"

"Hi! So nice to meet you!" Navi greeted Saria as she flew over to the Kokiri girl, and waved at Saria's own fairy companion.

After a bit of pleasantries were finished between them, Saria approached her kitchen to begin making lunch while Navi returned to float around Guts's head.

"So, how was your trip around the village?" Saria questioned him, earning a pause from the boy in question, as he looked up from his work, one that was not going so well as much as he hoped. "I'm rather pleasantly glad you didn't climb that tree house I put your things in." she added while she began taking things out from her basket to place onto her small wooden kitchen counter.

Guts inspected his work, and set it aside for later, and stared back at Saria to converse with her, "Not gonna heal much, if I keep pulling my stitch apart." he grouched, earning amused look from Saria, "I'd like to heal as fast as possible, and get back to practicing with my sword." he explained to the her.

Saria offered Guts an chiding look, "Give it a week, at the very least, then I'll see about removing your stitches." she warned, before returning to making a meal for the two of them, "Fairy dust and creme only works so fast, the rest is up to the body to heal." she added.

"Right." Guts responded back, a glowering look crossing his features; it soon faded before he relaxed into the couch Saria afforded him to lay on, "Doesn't make this any easier though." he added with grump to his tone.

Saria on the other hand, giggled a bit, before giving Guts a sideways look, "At least act like you're enjoying this amount of peace! Don't tell me fighting is all you know." she asked.

Scratching at his leg, he inspected his pants and resolved that they were in dire need of repair. Hopefully, the Kokiri have a seamstress somewhere…before silently realizing Saria might have a knack for it, if she can sew as good as she can stitch "Not really." he answered with a clipped tone, before giving Saria a critical look, "What do you do that doesn't involve fighting?" he questioned her.

While Saria began shaving the carrots down with her peeler, she answered the boy with a warm tone, "Oh plenty! We even have slingshot contests, hop rocks, stone throwing…quite a bit goes on around here really." she discussed.

Some of what Saria had said, struck Guts's interests, but for the most part, he stayed silent as Saria went more about what Kokiri did and what sort of culture they had to share. She kept talking until she was finished with making lunch, before the both of them dug in.

It definitely going to feel like a long week for him to heal, if what Saria said was true; and Guts certainly did not know what the future held for him, now that he was bereft of belonging to a mercenary group any longer. It felt weird not having anything other than waiting for the next battle to fight.