Title: Broken Promises

Game: Zelda

Rating: G

Genre: Romance

Summary: As peace and order returned to Hyrule, he left. But a certain princess has sworn to herself that she will find her best friend and bring him back.

Warning: none

A/N: Hey people, how are we? This idea came to me as I was walking home from school one day, so yeah… I began writing it as soon as I could.

I don't think I've used this coupling before, so yeah… here goes! Read and tell me what you think.

Chapter 1

I stayed eminently motionless from my perch on the rafters of the royal Throne Room where I watched the coronation ceremony for Zelda Daphnes Nohanses Hyrule. The new queen looked sad. I knew she was upset… and I also knew why.

She was waiting to see me. Just a passing face in the crowd, perhaps, but she wanted to see me. And I wanted to let her. But I knew I couldn't.

And for the first time in my entire life… I shall admit… it was because I was afraid.

With my natural ability of stealth, I slowly and silently left the Throne Room. I went home. One last time. She knew where to find me.

Zelda sat in her new throne, her loyal advisors, the six sages, at one side and Link, the Hero of Time on the other.

This was the day she had been trained for since she was old enough to talk. She was now Queen. It was supposed to be a happy ceremony. A joyous occasion and Zelda herself was excited.

But her eyes were damp.

'Why isn't he here?'

She mulled over the thought for the rest of the ceremony.

As soon as she could, she was out of the castle. The crowd parted for her and she was grateful for it. She had something to do and didn't want anyone to get in her way. She walked to Kakariko Village by herself. Impa would scold her for at least half an hour about going out somewhere unprotected, but it wasn't something of major importance at the moment. Finding his house, she pushed the door open and stepped through, not even stopping to see if he was there or not. She already knew that he was.

"Why weren't you there? I waited for you. Three hours and I didn't even catch a glimpse of your face. You promised me that you would be there."

A young man hung upside-down from the top of a bookshelf and looked her in the eyes.

"I do not recall promising that."

Scowling, Zelda glared into the crimson eyes staring into her azure orbs.

"I thought we were friends."

Grinning, the man ran a hand through his sandy blonde hair, which was hanging off his head, which was the reason she could look into his eyes.

"We are friends, Zelda."

"Queen Zelda," the new queen snapped.

The man raised an eyebrow, "Touchy, touchy."

Zelda began wondering how he could hang upside-down for such a long time, not even a trace of red in his face. She came to the conclusion that he was used to it.

"You'd be annoyed too, if you're best friend didn't show up at your coronation."

"Waaagh!" he cried, wrapping his arms around Zelda in an odd embrace, "You called me your best friend!"

Zelda couldn't help a smile, "Of course we're best friends."

"I was at the coronation," he told her.

"Where?" she asked, wondering if there was a possibility that she had missed him.

"In the roof," he replied, grinning.

Rolling her eyes, she slapped his head and grabbed him by the arms and pulled him down, so he lost he balance on top of the bookshelf where he was dangling from knees up and crashed onto the ground.

"…Ow…" he whispered.

Zelda sat down next to him as he untangled himself and sat up. After a whole minute of staring into each other's eyes, they began laughing.

"You do realise that I am going to leave now," he told her as his laughter subsided.

Hers immediately stopped, "What?!"

His grin slowly faded, "It's true. I have no purpose here anymore."

"No purpose?" Zelda cried, "You're my best friend! You can't just leave like that with no reason!"

'I do have reason…' he thought, but kept the thought to himself. He knew that she couldn't stop him.

He stood up and walked towards the door.

"Hyrule's going to go really bad!" she threatened him.

He turned around to face her and smiled, "No it won't, Zelda. I know you'll be a good leader."

"But…" she protested, standing up and following him.

Covering her hand with his mouth to stop her protesting, he gave her a gentle smile and nodded to her. Kissing her forhead, he turned around again.

"Don't forget me."

Zelda's heart sank. She realised she couldn't stop him. She never could.

He was leaving.

A tear rolled down her cheek and her hand rested against the door frame.

"I won't…"

Slowly sinking to her knees, she softly cried.

A/N: So….? Think you know who 'he' is? =D

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And I SHALL make the chapters longer and I SHALL update soon! .

PS: by the way, I just made up the whole Zelda's full name thing... in fact, what I did was just take the name of the King from The Wind Waker and put "Zelda" in front of it, because I think that in medieval times, daughters had their father's name in their name... or something...