This was originally a much more adult piece that I wrote for (That I never got round to posting). However I cleaned it up a little so here we are. I do not own any of the characters in this fic.
Note: Peach and Mario are not a couple in this fic though both have a keen interest in each other.
Chapter 1: A Close Encounter.
Peach sat in the shower room, her teammates had been long gone by now and she was quite alone. Sometimes she preferred it this way. She thought back to the game of football that she had just taken part in. Through all her aches and pains she couldn't complain. It was a contact sport and she knew that some of her opponents wouldn't go easy on her.
Toadsworth had tried to convince her to pull out, but she didn't want to. She wanted to be just as involved as the others. Still in her football kit she stood up and winced in pain as her stomach hurt. She rubbed it gently and closed her eyes. Why did he have to be so brutal? She knew he would be difficult to play against, it was true but he practically almost destroyed her. Well he didn't personally, but his teammates did.
Even Wario's team hadn't been this bad to play against. Her team had beaten them so easily it was more or less a joke. But Waluigi was different. He wasn't top of the league for nothing and Peach knew this. Now she was paying for it. She had cut's and bruises all over self and it was her own fault. She had tried to play it his way and lost. No matter she was still in second place.
She did feel a little downbeat though, because his teammates taunted her cruelly. The man himself ignored her and didn't even shake her hand. This annoyed her. He was so rude and it was uncalled for. She closed her eyes again and imagined herself slapping him hard across the face. A smile played on her lips as she beat him continuously. Then a thought occurred to her. Why should he get away with being rude to her?
She ceased rubbing her stomach and headed for the door. She was going to give the younger Wario brother a piece of her mind. She opened the door and stormed off down the corridor, rehearsing exactly what she was going to say to him. Eventually she found her opponents shower room. She took a deep breath and then stopped herself from opening the door.
What if his teammates were still in there?
She decided to be brave and check it out. She turned the handle on the door and opened it slowly and quietly. She peeked into the room and saw no one. Over by the lockers she noticed his football kit strewn across the bench. Where was he? She was pretty sure he was still around somewhere. Probably taunting some poor toad or something, so she decided she would go in and wait for him. It might work out better for her that way.
She slipped through the door and walked right in. She wasn't going to back down now. She looked around the shower room and noticed that his shower was in a separate room. She rolled her eyes; trust him to end up with the better shower room. As she glanced at the door leading to the shower, she noticed that it was slightly ajar.
Being an inquisitive person, Peach walked quietly over to the door and decided she would see what the shower looked like. She wondered if this was the only difference to the shower room she was using. Upon getting nearer to the door, she realised the shower was still running. Feeling a little nervous she had half the mind to leave. She wondered whether he was still in there.
If the shoe were on the other foot she would have gone crazy if she had discovered him lurking around in her shower room. Good sense prevailed and Peach decided to leave immediately. Quietly she headed for the door, not noticing that the shower had stopped running. She had nearly made it out of there when she was suddenly startled. Feeling the colour drain from her face she turned round.
"Get lost did we?" Waluigi asked sharply, standing in just a towel. Peach gulped, she had really made him angry. She wasn't able to answer him. Words just simply escaped her. She looked at him found that she couldn't quite take her eyes off him. She mentally reminded herself that he was indeed half naked, causing her to blush. Her cheeked deepened their redness when they made eye contact.
"Or did we come to have a laugh? Find the lanky freak in the shower amusing did we?" He snapped viciously.
"Don't tell me the great Peach is speechless?" He continued, glaring at her.
"I suppose this will make great conversation with Daisy,"
"N-No...I wouldn't" Peach stammered. She wasn't cruel.
"Then why did you find it acceptable to enter my shower rooms? Who do you think you are?" He asked, feeling a deep anger burning inside of him. Peach suddenly felt that she should at least have her say, after all this is what she had come for.
"Actually I came here to tell you that you are the biggest Pratt I have ever known and if you ever treat me the way you and your team mates did again you will regret it!" Peach said, hardly taking a breath in between. Physically she was shaking he scared her.
He looked at her, a little surprised. He had expected her to burst into tears at his outbursts, but she actually responded to him. He smiled a sly smile at her and started to laugh. She found his laughter humiliating.
"Are you threatening me?" He asked, trying to control his laughter. Peach looked him directly in the eye.
"I...well… no.…not really…" She answered lamely.
"Go," He said out of the blue. Peach looked at him questioningly. He was just going to leave it like that? Apparently he was because he fixed her a stern glare.
"I want to get changed and I am not about to do it in front of some spoilt vain uptight girl," Peach cringed as he mentioned each insult word for word.
"You're such an ass," Peach mumbled as she turned round and stormed off out of his shower room.
He watched her leave and a small smirk placed it's self firmly on his face. She was the first woman, besides Daisy; to ever stand up to him and he doubted that she actually came in to mock him. He knew her better then that. However despite what ever her intentions actually were he had something bigger in store for her, he would get revenge for her invasion of his privacy.
After leaving his shower room, Peach scuttled back to hers quickly and got ready to face the outside world as quickly as possible. She wanted to go find Mario and hoped to seek comfort in his arms.