Link walked around his old house and sighed when he looked at the things that reminded him of his time back when he was just one of the Kokiri.
"Everything's so... small!" he finally said. He carefully sat down on his bed and was relieved when it didn't break. "Do you... do you think I could live a normal live when all of this is over, back here, in the forest?"
"I... don't know," Navi admitted, as she landed on the blanket next to him. "Now that you know you are a Hylian and not a Kokiri... would you still want to live here, knowing that your friends will always stay like this, while you and Ukyo continue to grow older?"
"You just had to remind me of that, had you?" Link groaned. Then he noticed how unusually quiet Ukyo was. "Hey, what's wrong with you?"
Ukyo stood at the window and stared outside. "Ranma..." she muttered. "After all those years... could he really have forgotten that incident just like that? I... I was reminded of it almost daily, and he... he just blames his father! Dang, I know old Genma's a greedy old bastard, but... but why can't Ranma be man enough to admit that he's just as guilty as his old man?"
"Ukyo..." Link said and walked over to his friend. "Please, stop thinking about that for once, okay? I don't know what happened that day and if Ranma is to blame or not... but don't you think seven years are enough to change a person?"
"The Kokiri didn't change..." Ukyo whispered. "So why should Ranma?"
Link really didn't know what to answer to that. "Listen... it has been a long day, why don't we just go to sleep for now? Tomorrow, we'll see how we can help Ryoga and his clan. Maybe that will also lead us to one of the other sages, who knows? We have more important stuff to think about than Ranma."
Ukyo just grumbled something. Link shrugged and went to bed. "G'night..." he yawned and turned around on his bed. Just minutes later, he and his fairy companion were sleeping peacefully, Navi sleeping in his green cap, as usual.
Ukyo looked over to Saria's hut, where she knew Ranma and his Gerudo fiancee to be. She knew she should probably concentrate on their mission, but every time she closed her eyes, she saw Ranma's face. She gritted her teeth. She couldn't sleep like this.
"I just need to know what's going on in his head..." she grumbled. Quietly, she left the hut and climbed down the ladder. Then she carefully tiptoed over to the other hut. From inside, she could hear voices.
She ducked underneath a window and then peeked inside the room. She could see Shampoo and Ranma, who was still in his female Zora form. Shampoo was handing her a kettle of water.
"Here, Airen!" she said. Ranma took the water and poured it over her head, turning back into his human form.
Ukyo blushed when she saw Ranma's muscular body. The only thing he was wearing was a piece of cloth that was wrapped around his waist. Ukyo remembered that he had worn nothing when he came to the village as a Zora, and she blushed even further. She had never thought about it, as it seemed normal to her that Zoras rarely ever wore clothes.
'Dangit, why does he have to be so handsome?' she thought to herself.
"Is Airen still angry at spatula girl?" Shampoo asked with a frown. "Maybe Shampoo should go over and teach her some manners, Gerudo style?"
Ranma sighed. "That won't be necessary, Shampoo! To be honest, I really feel sorry for her... and I can't really blame her for being mad at me. If only Pops never stole her father's cart back then..." He grumbled. "Man, what was he thinking? He'll have a lot to explain when we get back."
Shampoo thought about it. She knew how it was to have relatives taken from her forcefully... even though she knew there was still a chance that her aunt was still alive. "Airen, maybe you help Ukyo cope with it..."
"I would like to," Ranma agreed as he sat down on Saria's bed. "But what can I do? She's still so mad at me, it's a wonder that she didn't attack me back earlier. I just hope I can show her that I never wanted to hurt either her or her father."
"Not give up, Ranma!" Shampoo said softly as she sat down next to him. "There is old Gerudo saying: 'Even warriors have to wait until sandstorm calms down.' Sometimes, you have to wait for things to work out. Given some time, spatula girl will forgive you. Shampoo sure of it."
'Not a chance, desert girl...' Ukyo thought darkly as she listened to their conversation. 'Death Mountain will freeze over before that happens!'
Ranma chuckled. "You know, it's really amazing... of all places, meeting Ukyo here, and at this time... I often wondered what happened to her. Nice to see she turned out to become such a cute girl."
Outside, Ukyo nearly fell over. 'C-c-cute...' she thought, and her blush made her face look like a red ChuChu with hair. 'He thinks I'm c-cute?'
Shampoo frowned. "Careful, Airen!" she mock-growled. "Or Shampoo might think you are more interested in outsider than in her."
Ranma grinned. "Sorry about that, Shampoo!"
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