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A Man's Duty	By : galassia Category: Zelda > General Views: 5314 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Nintendo in any way. All non original characters belong to Nintendo and not to me. All parts of the story that are in the game Ocarina of Time belong to Nintendo. I make no money nor do I get any monetary like gain from the story.

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Special Note: Some liberties have been taken with the original storyline. In this story Sheik is his own person and not Zelda. I do realize that Sheik in game canon is actually Zelda and I have no problem with that canon. However, for this story Sheik is a man and his own person. It includes or will include sexual themes between two men, cross-dressing, death, violence, angst and possibly more. If either the themes of this story or the fact that Sheik is not Zelda and a man bothers you, don't read it. You've been warned and I really don't care if you get pissed off for reading something you don't like and were warned about in the first place.

Link chewed his lip as he lay on the bed, he couldn’t sleep. It wasn’t as though the bed were uncomfortable, the mattress was thick and soft, but he could not get the image of Sheik bloodied and broken out of his mind. He sighed heavily and sat up, he had dozed a bit and that was all he knew he would get for the time being. Looking about the room he pushed himself off the bed and walked to the door, searching for the bathing chambers. After opening a few wrong doors he smiled happily when he found the right door, but the smile fell away when his mouth began to hang open from the sight he saw before him.

Sheik sat on a small bench near the bathing spring and wrung his hair out as Navi sat on his knee looking at him appreciatively. He sighed, shaking his head as he looked to the tiny glowing being. “Must you gawk?” He asked, letting his hair fall as he moved on to drying his arms and face.

“Oh yes Sheik, I must... I must.” Navi replied cheerfully, fluttering off the Sheikah’s knee to allow him access to the rest of his body. She fluttered lazily in the air a few feet above him and watched as the man toweled himself off before letting out a long breath, fanning her face, “My oh my Sheik, you have such a beautiful body. Too bad you need all that armor.”

Rolling his eyes sheik laughed softly, “Yes, well just imagine where I’d be right now if I didn’t wear it Bug.” He nodded when the fairy frowned at him and stood up, picking up his armor to shake it out when he noticed movement out of the corner of his eyes. Stopping he turned towards the door, taking a quick step back when his eyes fell upon Link gaping at him. “Uh, hello there,” Sheik said, not bothering to cover his body with as long as the hero had apparently been standing there.

When Sheik spoke, Navi flitted around and spied a blushing Link. She giggled happily, flying over to the stuttering blond, landing on his head, “Ooh Link! You should have gotten here earlier dear, Sheik could have washed your back.”

Link coughed and sputtered at Navi, shaking his head like mad and turned away quickly before bolting away from the door of the room, causing the fairy to fall from his head back into the bathing chamber.

Sheik sighed heavily and shook his armor out before running a hand over it, a gust of wind drying the armor in an instant, “Good job Bug.”

“Me?!” Navi cried out with a angry ringing sound, “Well... well... you should have realized he was there earlier mister Sheikah!”

Sheik nodded his head as he laid his armor out wrapping his hips instead with a towel, “Yes, I should have however, you saw how he stood, only his head within the room. The magic surrounding this room blocked the sound of his approach.”

“Oh...” Navi replied sullenly, her wings drooping as she flitted sadly to the Sheikah, landing upon his shoulder, “I was just having such a good time playing with you that I didn’t think.”

Sheik smiled down at the fairy and gently ran the tip of an index finger against her head, “I’m sure it’s fine, Bug. Let us check that he’s alright, hm?”

Navi nodded at Sheik and held onto the glittering and dangling red and silver jewels hanging from his ear as the Sheikah made his way out of the bathing chambers, his hand holding tight to the towel about his waist. Sheik looked about the grandiose hall for a moment before spotting Link. The young hero was sitting on the floor, holding his knees to his chest as he looked to the ground, his cheeks still blazing with redness.

Sheik walked down the hall and approached Link, bending at the knees to squat in front of the blond hero. He sighed and ran a hand gently through the Hylian’s hair. “Are you alright Link?” Sheik asked softly as his fingers ran through the younger man’s hair.

Link bit his lip and looked up to Sheik, tears welling up in his large blue eyes. “I..I’m s..s...sorry!” he cried, lunging forward to wrap his arms about the Sheikah, knocking the both of them back against the floor.

Sheik groaned as he hit the floor, Link atop him and holding onto him for dear life. He chuckled softly and slid his hand down from Link’s hair to slip it under the young man’s chin. Sheik gently lifted Link’s head until the teen looked him in the eyes, “Don’t be sorry Link. There’s nothing to be sorry for.”

“B..but I didn’t kn..knock!” Link cried, tightening his grip against the Sheikah as the tears ran down his red hot cheeks, “I di..didn’t hear anyone and just opened the door!”

Sheik frowned as Link cried harder feeling as though a piece of his soul were breaking. He slipped one arm around Link’s back and used the other one to push himself up into a sitting position before pulling Link into a hug, “Shh, shush now Link. There is no need for tears. Even had you knocked I’d not have heard it because of the magic surrounding the room... which is also why you heard nothing.”

Link lightened his grip against Sheik and leaned back, looking into the older man’s face, searching it for the truth, “R..really? Honest?”

Sheik smiled and nodded, happy to see that there were no fresh tears forming in the blonds eyes, “Yes, honest.” He raised a hand and ran it lightly over the hero’s cheek, brushing away the tears, “Even were it not true I’d still not be angry with you.”

Link blinked and tilted his head, chewing thoughtfully on the inside of his lip, “You wouldn’t?”

“Of course not.” Sheik answered as he stood up from the ground, wincing faintly at the aching of his muscles as he held Link in his arms for a moment before letting the hero down.

“S..Sheik?” Link asked softly, looking up to the Sheikah after the man had let him back down to the floor.

“Yes, Link?” Sheik responded, looking down to the Hylian’s eyes. “What is it?”

“Are y’feeling better? Your injuries’r gone.”

Sheik nodded, “I am a bit tender still, but Lady Impa has quite the powerful magic.” He smiled at Link, “So you needn’t worry that pretty little head of yours. How are you feeling?”

“M’better,” Link said softly, the blush that had faded from his cheeks rushing back with a vengeance, “D’ya mean it?”

Sheik raised an eyebrow at Link, blinking at the light skinned blond, “Mean what?”

Link bit his lip, the redness of his cheeks growing redder by the second, “Err, that I... well, that I have a ‘pretty little head’?”

Sheik raised an eyebrow, <I>”Did I actually say that?”</i> he asked himself, genuinely unable to remember the words passing his lips despite the truth of the words. When Link’s face began to fall and a frown began to form upon his lips Sheik smiled and nodded at the teen, “Yes Link, I... well, I meant it.”

Link smiled brightly at Sheik and hugged the older man before jumping back, he bit his lip as he took a step back, “Okay! Well I’m gonna get cleaned up.” He said looking Sheik over, “Oh, an’sorry for gettin' your towel dirty.” He smiled sheepishly at Sheik before leaving the man as he went back to the bathing chambers and closed the door.

Sheik gave a heavy sigh, a feeling of dread overcoming him as he leaned back against the wall, sliding down it until he came to sit upon the floor. He hung his head, closing his eyes as Navi began to flit about him, ringing happily.

“That was absolutely beautiful!” The fairy exclaimed as she flitted about Sheik's head before coming to rest on his knee, “Sheik, you... were... so...” She frowned, unable to continue when she noticed the look of anguish upon Sheik's face, “What's wrong?”

“What's wrong?” Sheik mimicked, “What's wrong?!” He glanced down the hall making sure the door to the bathing area was closed before throwing his head back, pushing the back of his skull against the wall, “I'm falling for him Navi. That's what's wrong.”

Navi beamed up at Sheik and waved a tiny hand dismissively, “Oh, that. I know you are, what's wrong with that?”

“I can't fall in love with him Navi.” Sheik said simply, a grimace on his face, as though the words and the very idea of it cut him, “Yes, it might mean that I'll do anything to protect him and I'd treat him like a king... but what would it do to him once he defeats Ganondorf?!”

Navi raised an eyebrow, she had grown accustomed to Sheik calling her 'Bug' and wasn't all that fond of him using her given name. “What do you mean? What does that have to do with anything?”

Sheik glared down at the tiny fairy upon his knee, “The moment Ganondorf dies, Sheik dies too.”

“Oh... right.” Navi said softly, tilting her head as she looked up to Sheik, “Well, it doesn't have to happen like that.”

Sheik closed his eyes, taking a deep and calming breath before continuing, “Yes. It. Does. It has to happen like that. What am I going to do, run up to my mother and say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. Now you can mourn for your little girl because I lied to you and your baby boy is still alive. But your little girl's been dead for years.' Does that sound right to you?”

Navi shrank down slightly, holding her wings tight against her back, “N..no.”

“Exactly. When Ganondorf dies my life as me dies with him. The moment he dies I return to being Sheia.” Sheik sighed heavily and hunched forward. He felt a ghostly hand press against his shoulder and felt the worry begin to melt away, he looked up and upon seeing the ghostly visage of his sister, looked at her pleadingly.

“Calm down, Sheik. All love is something to be treasured and it is never won easily.” The ghostly Sheia smiled down at her brother, squeezing against her twins shoulder, “You don't have to chase the love if you are afraid, but do not push it away... you will regret it. Should love for Link be what is in store for you embrace that and we can sort out the future when the time comes.”

Navi stopped holding her wings against her back and looked up to the ghost for a moment before giving a hopeful look to Sheik.

Sheik gave a dry chuckle and sat up straight, he smiled weakly, “Dear sister... whatever would I do without you?” He breathed deeply and pushed himself off the ground, careful to go slowly so as not to throw Navi to the ground. Leaning back against the wall he braced himself, “You are, as usual, right Sheia. I cannot fight against it... but I will not actively pursue it either. And should it happen that I fall in love, well, I suppose I'll welcome it.”

Navi fluttered, ringing happily as she flew around Sheik's head. “Hooray!” She cried before fluttering in one place, looking over to Sheia, “You my dear... you are a very wise individual.”

Sheia laughed softly, “Death tends to have that affect, lets you see all sides I suppose.” The ghostly figure turned to her brother and smiled at him, “I must go, just do whatever feels right brother... and get some rest.”

Sheik nodded to his sister's apparition, smiling sadly when the figure vanished. He took a deep breath and turned heading towards the bed chambers, “Rest... rest would be a goddess send.” Walking into a bed chamber he moved to a bed and sat upon it. He slipped the towel from his waist and sat it upon a night table as he pulled the covers over himself and burrowed down into a comfortable position.

“Sleep sweet dear Sheik.” Navi said softly, flitting over to sit upon the mans chest before lying down for some well deserved rest herself.
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