the_brightest_sun | 007th Meatbun ☼ Action / Voice

[It has been already a month, hasn't it? Goku isn't really sure, he remembers that a month is supposed to have around thirty days and though he hasn't been counting he has the impression that such a length of time has passed. At first he hadn't minded it too much, even if he had asked Hakkai to promise to leave a note next time he left before the kid woke up Goku was aware that there were times in which it wasn't possible. And seeing that there was nothing left that belonged to Hakkai in the apartment the kid had assumed it had been one of those times rather than Hakkai merely leaving on his own.

So he had waited. He had kept going to play around the village and helping Ukyo at the okonomiyaki restaurant. He ate at the restaurants before returning to the apartment to wait for Hakkai. And he kept waiting. Eventually the days turned into weeks and he got tired of waiting. He wanted his friend back already, it was lonely without him, the apartment was big and cold and the drawings hanging on the walls didn't make him smile proudly anymore, happy that the older man appreciated his work, instead they made him want to cry and hurt inside. It wasn't the first time that being alone hurt, but the pain this time felt worse. Why wasn't Hakkai coming back? Had he done something bad? Had he got the other man angry? Had he been a burden? An annoyance?

Sitting and crying wouldn't help, so he had grabbed a bag, left a note at Ukyo's restaurant and gone to search for Hakkai. Everyone said they were trapped inside that barrier, they only went outside during those draft-things, so, of course, wherever Hakkai was it had to be somewhere inside, he just had to search for the man. He knew Hakkai's scent so he could track him, he was sure of it. Wherever Hakkai was hiding or trapped, he would find him and bring him back home with him, even if Hakkai was angry with him, it wasn't a reason to hide from everyone else too.

More weeks passed and Goku is finally back at the village. Alone. Hakkai was nowhere to be found. He isn't in Luceti. How had he left? Why? Had he gone back to search for Kenren and Konzen and bring them to Luceti? The two men were taking a really long time to get there after all... But why hadn't he left a note. Why leave without a word? And what if he hadn't found them? What if the army had got them instead and hurt them as Nataku got hurt? Goku has no idea, he can't understand and he is tired, exhausted and hungry.]

[There's a kid walking slowly around the streets, he wobbles and trips at times, but he keeps moving. His appearance is a real mess, he's dirty, full of mud and looking very much as if he had been out and without an umbrella during yesterday's rainfall. He isn't paying much attention to where he's going, or what or who he bumps into, mumbling a soft sorry before he continues his way.

It feels strange inside. It has stopped hurting as the days went by with him unable to find Hakkai, but he doesn't feel well either. It feels as when he's hungry, but he isn't sure how to fill that gap. Sure, he is also hungry now, if the growling stomach is any indication -no, people of Luceti, that's not a lion trotting around the village and roaring, it's just a hungry monkey-, but he knows it's not only that. He feels hungry in the chest too, where it hurt before.

He probably end at Seventh Heaven, he should go with Ukyo but he's worried about seeing her now looking like this. She probably won't like it, maybe she's angry that he left to begin with. So he just sits there, dirty and hungry, waiting for someone to ask him what he wants to eat before he starts munching the table.

Eventually he will open the journal and ask a question he didn't want to ask.]

How long does it take for someone who leaves Luceti to return here? Anyone knows?

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[Sheik nods.] I am. I was born in Kakariko Village, at the foot of Death Mountain. But I left when I was very young to go live at the castle in Hyrule's capital.

[And this, Link, is the load of crap Sheik feeds just about everyone about his origins.]

[Link blinks a little, but he doesn't make any indication that what Sheik said is a lie.] Kakariko is really nice, Goku. It kind of sounds a bit like Kaka, huh?

[It sounds pretty good for Goku. Then again he's a kid whose origins are basically "I woke up alone in the top of a mountain with a broken stone around me".]

It does! But Death Mountain doesn't sound like a nice place, was the village safe despite being so close to it?

Death Mountain is more like a guardian than a fiend. The Gorons who live there ensure that the mountain will not erupt. The village is safer, perhaps, because of it.

[Link nods emphatically.] It's only dangerous right near the top and inside the crater. The lower bits of the mountain are really nice! Sometimes there's Tektites, but they're just annoying.

[He had camped up there a couple of times, actually. Watching the sun setting over the expanse of Hyrule had been nice.]

What are Tektites?

[The kid is obviously interested in learning more, he likes to learn about other worlds and such.]

Why give Death Mountain such a scary name if it's a good place?

I imagine a long time ago it was named as such to scare away trespassers. [He'll let Link handle the tektite question. Chances are, he knew a lot more about the things than Sheik.]

Uh huh - and tektites are big things that kind of look like crabs that jump around a lot. They kind of hurt if their claws scratch you, but they're really easy to beat. [Reassuring smile is go!]

[He pauses thoughtfully, then adds with a slight sheepish grin,] I guess some of the Gorons are scary when they try to give you hugs.

[He ran screaming. Shh.]

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