Ukyo was happily walking through the Lost Woods, humming a merry tune Saria taught her several days ago.
Her fairy friend Tatl nervously hovered near her shoulder. "Um, Ukyo... perhaps we should go back... You know what those woods do with kids that stay for too long within them, do you?"
"Yeah, I know," Ukyo replied. "But if we head back in time, the magic of the woods won't effect me. Besides, I'm itching for a fight with a Wolfos, or even a Moblin... I wanna try out the new moves I came up with."
"I have to disagree... I could imagine much more pleasant things to do than meeting up with a wild Wolfos or a brutal Moblin..."
Suddenly, Tatl's yellow light turned a bright red, and she tingled in warning.
"What's up?" Ukyo said in alarm. Such a reaction could only mean that there are some hostile creatures nearby...
"Over there..." Tatl whispered. "Hidden within the leaves of that tree... I can feel it, someone - or something - is there!"
Frowning, Ukyo pulled out her Fairy Slingshot, a birthday present from Link. Normally she would avoid using such weapons, but if there was something she didn't liked, it was being spied on.
She grabbed into her pocket and pulled out some Okonomiyaki flour (she always carries some of it with her, in case she would get into a battle).
She wrapped the flour into a tiny leaf and put it into the slingshot. She aimed, pulled the sling... and fired!
With a surprised squeak, something fell out of the tree!
"Bullseye!" Ukyo cheered and grabbed her Kokiri Spatula. "Now it's mine... whatever it is."
"Ukyo-sama, it's me!" a squeaky voice shouted. Recognizing the voice, Ukyo relaxed and put her spatula away.
"Konatsu, you really can give a girl a heart attack..."
Her friend looked out of the shrubs he landed in - nearly indistinguishable from them. "I'm sorry..."
Tatl yelped. "Ukyo, raise your shield! Don't tell me you never heard of the Deku Scrubs... he will shoot nuts at you!"
"Relax, Tatl," Ukyo told her fairy friend. "That's just Konatsu... he's a friend of mine!"
"Pleased to meet you!" the Deku said, jumped out of the shrubs and bowed.
Tatl peered out from behind her friend's shoulder and took a closer look at the little forest dweller: Like all Dekus, he was short and stout, his body made of wood, and leaves growing from his head. In the middle of his face, a small, tube-like appendage replaced a human's nose and mouth, and his glowing eyes gave him a melancholic expression.
Ukyo shook her head. "Konatsu, really... do you have to follow me around all the time?"
"It's a ninja's duty to protect his mistress," the Deku proclaimed and knelt down in front of her.
"Ninja?" Tatl asked curiously.
Ukyo grinned. "Yeah, Konatsu's pretty much the only Deku Ninja in existence... He adores the battle skills of the Sheikah, so he trained hard to become a ninja himself. And he's good at it, too... You really have to look hard if you want to find him." She grinned. "Well, but that could also be because he looks just like the scrubs he's hiding in..."
"But why did he call you 'mistress'?"
"Well, I once rescued Konatsu from his cruel stepmother and her two daughters... who are really ugly, even for Dekus! And he has been thankful ever since... I just can't get rid of him."
"Ukyo-sama... You're not rejecting me, are you?" the little shrub asked in a sorrowful voice.
"No, of course not," Ukyo sighed. "But at least try not to scare my friends like that any more, okay?"
He bowed his head. "Understood, mistress... I'll go back to do my duties, then."
He hurried back into the shrubs, dove into a big flower, vanished in the middle of the broad petals... and then he came shooting out of the bulb, vanishing in the treetops.
"You have some strange friends..." Tatl muttered as they continued to walk through the forest. She peered up into the treetops, and while she couldn't see the little plant-ninja, the knowledge that he was still following them somehow unsettled her.
"Well, he might be a little eccentric for a Deku... but he's a very nice guy." Another sigh. "I don't think we'll run into some Moblins today... let's head back to the village."
"Your first good idea this morning..." Tatl grumbled.
They turned around, walked through one of the massive, hollow tree trunks and immediately found themselves in the village of the Kokiri.
The female twins waved as Ukyo walked past them. Ukyo waved back as she continued past the hut of Mido, the Kokiri's leader. As usual, one of Mido's followers was in the front of his house, getting rid of the rocks that were lying within his leader's yard.
Suddenly, a small, blue blur came shooting through the air. Tatl yelped in surprise, but it was already too late: She and the other fairy collided.
"Hey!" the other fairy shouted. "Watch out! I'm in a hurry!"
"Well, you could watch where you're flying, Navi..." Tatl grumbled as she rubbed her head.
"Listen... I'm sorry, okay? Look, could you tell me where someone called 'Link' is living? I have an urgent message for him."
"Oh, Link's living over there," Ukyo said and gestured towards her friend's little tree house. "But I think he's still asleep... I'm Ukyo, a friend of Link... and I guess you already know Tatl."
"Hello," the blue fairy nodded. "Okay, I'll see if he's awake... thanks for the directions! Bye!"
And as the little blue blur zipped over to Link's house, Ukyo turned around to her yellow fairy friend. "Say, you know her?"
"Yeah, most of the fairies know her... She's a pretty smart girl... Almost as smart as me, heheh... And I believe she's the personal messenger of the Great Deku Tree."
"Wow!" Ukyo whistled. "She must be proud, being in the service of our protector..."
Tatl nodded. "Yeah, but sometimes, when I see her, she's just sitting by herself, looking at the ground... I think she's sad that unlike most of us, she hasn't got a Kokiri to guard."
"Well, she's not the only one," Ukyo said, with a side glance at Tatl.
"Hey!" Tatl said in annoyance. "It might be that I don't have a Kokiri to take care of, but..." She blushed. "I... I'm glad to have you instead..."
Ukyo smiled. Her friend was always acting so sassy, but on rare occurrences, she showed that she was caring for her brother and her friends.
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