ANOTHER CHAPTER! :D I was sick this week so I worked on this story a lot. I probably won't update as much after tomorrow though cause I'm gonna be pretty busy but I'll try! Please enjoy!
All of the smashers seemed to be back to their regular daily tasks. A feeling of calmness hung over the area once again hearing the laughter of the younger smashers. It seemed all was right in the world.
Some were not so sure of this though. Both Popo and Toon Link had been increasingly on edge lately, the other smashers didn't know what to make of this. There wasn't anything wrong with them though; they were just concerned about what had been playing out recently. While things were normal they had both noticed Ness and Lucas still seemed to be attempting to get Nana's attention. Toon Link didn't mind too much but he was concerned this would tear them apart again, while Popo felt that this would make his sister upset when she realized that they were both trying to win her over. His sister wouldn't want to hurt either of them after all.
They knew there wasn't much they could do about it though. It was Nana's decision who she liked and they couldn't stop Ness and Lucas so for now they just stood on the sidelines and watched.
"Hey Nana!" Popo ran up next to his sister whom turned and smiled back at him.
"Hi Popo."
"So what you doing, sis?"
Nana turned back to where she was looking. "I was just watching Kirby and Pikachu play tag."
"Sounds kind of boring."
"Well it's not!" She said turning away from her brother again.
"Um Nana…" They jumped turning to see Lucas.
"Jeez Lucas, don't surprise us like that?" Popo managed to breathe out.
"Oh uh sorry. Um here Nana?" He slowly held out a flower he had gotten from the flower garden.
Nana took into her hands, not entirely sure what to do next.
"Um thank you Lucas." Lucas smiled before running off in the direction he had come from.
Popo frowned. Nana looked up at him noticing the look on his face. Is something wrong?
Popo glared into space for a minute before walking off, leaving Nana confused.
Toon Link didn't really understand the stores in Smash City. They made no sense to him, from what he could remember, his original self grew up around small shops where you just walked in and asked for something that they had, paid for it, and then could leave. This 'supermarket' place was really weird. Normally he would get lost when he went to one but Ness had come with him, so he would be okay.
As they walked through the many aisles looking for things they were supposed to pick up for Master Hand, Toon Link found himself getting even more confused. How much stuff do they have in these stores? As he followed Ness into the next aisle, he turned his head up to look at the top shelves. We can't even reach up there? Toon Link slammed right into Ness, as Ness had unexpectedly stopped.
"Oof! Ness what's wrong?"
Ness didn't respond. He noticed Ness staring at something on a nearby shelf. Toon Link turned to see the shelf Ness was staring at was filled with different types of jewelry. Why is Ness looking at jewelry? Toon Link turned to Ness giving him a questioning look. Ness turned to Toon Link.
"Do you think Nana would like one of these?" Toon Link stood in shock. He was completely frozen for a second.
"Um… I guess." Ness walked toward the rack and began looking through it. Toon Link simply stood there lost for words, he wasn't really sure what to do.
"What about this one?" Ness asked, holding one up that was a bejeweled heart.
How am I supposed to know? Toon Link really didn't want to get into anymore love affairs so he simply nodded his head, before turning toward another rack and looking at some objects on that one.
Nana knew that Ness and Lucas both still liked her but she really had no idea who she liked anymore. She was lost, she thought they were both nice but ever since the incident she didn't have as strong of feelings toward Ness anymore and she wasn't entirely sure about Lucas either. She sat outside on a bench near the flower garden.
"Nana!"
Nana turned to see Ness headed toward her, she sighed out all of her stress and put on the best smile she could.
"Hi Ness."
Ness stopped in front of her holding out a necklace to her. She looked at it cautiously. Is this for me?
"Here." He stated. "I got you this. I hope you like it."
Nana took into her hands slowly, she wasn't sure what to do now. It was sweet of him, but according to the girls when you fell in love you were supposed to feel warm inside, and well she didn't.
"So uh Nana," Ness scratched the back of his head, "you wanna do something later?"
Nana froze. What do I do? Is he asking me out? What do I say?
"Hey!" Ness turned to see Popo walking towards him with an angry look on his face.
Ness looked at Popo with confusion on his face
"What's wrong Popo?"
Popo stopped in front of him.
"I'm getting tired of this!"
Ness glared.
"Tired of what?! What did I do?!"
Popo snapped.
"Everybody is going after my sister and I don't like it! So back off would you!"
Nana felt her heart beating fast. No Popo! Stop!
Ness was shocked but he quickly regained himself.
"Well it isn't your decision now is it Popo?!"
"I'm her brother! I should have some say in this!"
"Maybe but it's her decision!"
"Fine! Well then Nana what do-"
They turned to see Nana had run off.
Nana ran as far away as she could, she ran to somewhere she wouldn't be found, the beach. Her and Popo loved cold and ice more than the beach so she knew no one would think to look for her here. As soon as she made it to the shore she fell on her knees and started crying.
She cried as hard as she could. She was so confused and lost. What am I gonna do?
"Nana?"
She turned to look to her side to see Toon Link looking down at her a concerned look on his face.
They stared at each other for a moment. Nana didn't exactly know what came over her. She supposed she just wanted a hug, for she found herself jumping up and hugging the green clad boy.
Toon Link stood still at the sudden contact, finding a blush creep on his face. It took him a second to realize she was now crying on him. He relaxed and hugged her back as she cried.
Nana relaxed a bit into the couch she was sitting on. Toon Link had taken her back to the room that he and Link shared. At the moment Toon Link had gone into the kitchen to get her a drink. She looked around. The room wasn't too much different from her's, it was arranged a bit differently but was about the same. There was a kitchen, a living room, two bedrooms and a bathroom.
Nana was pulled out of her thoughts when Toon Link came back in carrying a glass of milk.
"Is this ok?" He asked holding it out for her.
She nodded before drinking some of its content. Toon Link sat next her. He let her drink most of it before he said anything. Nana didn't mind the silence it was actually relieving. Most of the smashers would probably have turned their TV's on by now. Toon Link didn't turn on his though and she didn't mind at all.
"So Nana… why exactly were you crying?"
Nana put her drink down on the coffee table. She bit her lip thinking about what had been happening before she ran off.
Toon Link jumped back a little, waving his arms around. "I'm sorry! You probably don't want to talk about it, right? I shouldn't have asked!"
Nana couldn't help but smile, Toon Link was just so expressive; she supposed it was because he was Toon Link after all.
"No it's ok…" She looked toward the ground. "It's just Ness gave me this necklace," She held up the necklace Ness had given her. Toon Link gasped a little but she didn't notice. "and… well… he asked me if I was doing anything later… that's when Popo appeared," she could feel herself tearing up, "he yelled at Ness and told him to back off. Then they started arguing… I was scared so I… ran off." Her voice faded out.
Toon Link wasn't entirely sure what to say, she looked like she was going to cry again though so he had to do something.
"Nana." Toon Link looked down for a second in thought before looking up: "You can't let that bring you down! Popo and Ness didn't mean any harm they're only trying to do what they think you want. So… you have to show them what you want so that they don't decide for you!"
Nana couldn't help but be blown away a bit. She felt as if a haze had been lifted from her eyes. Toon Link was exactly right, maybe Nana needed to be more independent from her brother. She needed to figure out what she wanted.
She smiled one of the biggest smiles Toon Link had ever seen from her and said "OK." Toon Link blushed a little and scratched the back of his head. For a moment they were both silent, simply enjoying the moment, until the door opened abruptly.
"Hey Toonie, I'm home!" Both jumped at the new voice. Toon Link slowly turned to look over the couch at Link who smiled at the younger boy, until he noticed the other pair of eyes watching him, belonging to Nana.
Link looked at her before turning to Toon Link, "Toon Link why didn't you tell me we were going to have someone over?"
Toon Link shrugged "Sorry Link."
Link gave Toon Link a look before turning back to Nana, "Well Nana, would you like to stay for dinner?"
Nana nodded, "Yes… if that's ok?"
"Of course," Link responded, "Is soup ok?"
Nana nodded. Link made his way to the kitchen before closing the door behind him. Toon Link turned around and sunk back into the couch. For a moment they were both silent. Toon Link suddenly jumped up.
"Do you want to play a card game?" He asked excitedly, Nana nodded.
They played the card games for quite some time. Nana didn't mind playing card games at all, her and Popo used to play them all the time in her memories so it was pretty familiar to her.
"Toon Link! Dinner's ready!" Toon Link must have been hungry for he quickly put the cards away and led Nana to the kitchen.
Nana liked the kitchen's look it was small and homey. Toon Link moved to the table and pulled out a chair and motioned for Nana to come over. Nana blushed a bit before sitting down. Toon Link walked over and sat in another chair as Link placed to bowls in front of them before sitting down with his own bowl.
Toon Link was starving so he didn't waste any time in picking up the bowl and slurping down soap.
Link cringed, "Toon Link!"
Toon Link stopped drinking from the bowl and placed it down, giving Link a glare he picked up a spoon and began eating normally.
Link glared back at Toon Link before he turned to Nana.
"So anyway Nana how have you been?"
Nana smiled, "I've been alright?"
Link looked at her curiously, "You looked kind of upset earlier, you sure you're ok?"
Nana smiled, "I think I'm ok now, I just needed someone to talk to."
She looked at Toon Link for a second who was completely engrossed in his soup.
Link noticed this and a sly look appeared on his face.
"Oh I see." He said slyness in his voice. Nana didn't entirely understand what he meant but went back to eating. She realized she was thirsty so she leaned forward to grab her drink, when a loud bang came from the wall. She jumped knocking over her drink in the process.
Nana quickly tried to pick her drink back up but it had already spilled quite a bit.
"Oh I'm sorry!" Link smiled and grabbed a paper towel.
"It's fine Toon Link's really clumsy so stuff like this happens all the time."
Toon Link glared at Link.
"Link!" He whined.
"What? It's true." Link said defensively. Nana giggled a little to herself.
"Besides," Link began, "When people next door are beating the walls it's kind of hard to do anything around here. Toon Link can you go next door and see what Marth and Ike are doing?" Toon Link had finished his soup so he nodded and got up leaving the room.
Link wiped up the water before sitting down again.
"You would think those two would be more civilized." He muttered softly to himself.
"Does this happen often?" Nana asked a little confused.
"Yeah they're probably having some kind of argument." He stated shoving a spoon of soup in his mouth.
"So anyway Nana, has Toon Link been nice to you?"
Nana looked up, "Oh yes Link, I was actually pretty upset before but I feel better thanks to him."
Link got another sly look on his face. "That's good."
Toon Link walked back into the room and took a seat at the table.
"Let me guess. They were fighting about something again weren't they?" Link stated
Toon Link nodded, "Marth's tiara went missing and he blames Ike." Toon Link simply stated before taking a sip of his water.
"Typical." Link said before taking a sip of his own water.
Nana couldn't help but find the situation kind of funny.