30FF sub
Warnings: Male!Sheik, yaoi, fade-to-black-smut, shounen-ai Shink
Disclaimer: I do not own LoZ, if I did, the next game would be out already!
Note: This is just the y!gallery permitted version of the previous chapter. It is not a continuation of the previous one, nor is it connected to it in any way, shape or form. It is a completely different story.
For one who controlled time, Link waited on it an awful lot.
He waited what only seemed seconds to his soul, but years to his body. He waited on Sheik to finish his speeches. He waited on Ingo to catch up to him when he won Epona. He waited on Talon to return to the farm to set things right. He waited on those poes to become visible so he could kill them and push the tombstone without worry.
So much waiting, and yet he didn't reach the first temple.
He waited for daylight, he waited for those Moblins to turn their backs on him, he waited for that giant one to swing his club.
However, he didn't expect Sheik to be waiting on him. Well, he did but only for the legend which everyone waited on. He didn't think Sheik would wait for him outside of the temple, wait for him to learn the song, to memorize the song.
Listening to Sheik speak wasn't as boring as before, it didn't make him think he was waiting. But that was because Sheik waited on him. Sheik didn't seem like an impatient man but he did seem busy. That could be just what Sheik wanted to show him though. Even if that was so, Link comforted himself with the fact that Sheik was only patient with him.
Soon, Link's waiting turned into one of eagerness, but that eagerness only applied to Sheik. He wanted to see Sheik as soon as he could, but waiting on others always delayed him. That was why when Link walked into the Volcano he looked around curiously. Sheik should have been to see him by then, shouldn't he? He did say "On a high mountain" didn't he?
Link spun around after hearing a quiet [u]thud of the wooden bridge. "Sheik!"
There, Sheik told him of passionate friendship, powerful hearts, and knowledge given through them. He taught Link the song, but was soon off again. Link couldn't even yell "Wait."
It was awhile until Link saw Sheik again. He went to where he thought the next temple was, only to find that mentioned lake to be dry and no sign of Sheik – even after he went to the triforce-marked rock. However, he soon found an important clue from there, and he ended up in the frozen land of the Zoras. Nobody could speak to him, because they were sleeping in the ice (or at least, that's what he hoped), and so he had to wander around in the cold lands. It changed his eagerness to see Sheik into an irritable impatience. He wanted to see Sheik now.
It took an hour of ambling and a cave later before he saw Sheik again. His impatience made his hands clumsy, the sub-zero temperatures made his fingers numb. He couldn't play the song.
Sheik waited for him again. They both wandered out of the cave and eventually out of Zora's domain (after unthawing others and receiving gifts). At a campfire on Hyrule field was where Link's fingers defrosted, where they became nimble again. However, he would not let Sheik go this time. Link had waited too long.
That was why when Sheik taught him the Serenade of Water Link had sat a little too close. As soon as he finished the song, his hand shot out to grasp Sheik's arm. He told Sheik to eat dinner with him, he told Sheik to talk with him, he told Sheik to train him.
Link had forgotten how cold Hyrule field could be. Night didn't wait on anybody. He asked if Sheik could stay with him. Link hated being cold.
(It wasn't because he didn't want to wait on Sheik again.)
Sheik had to decline, but he did offer to accompany Link to the nearest shelter.
Link felt disappointed, but he agreed. The more time be spent with Sheik the better.
(He forgot Sheik was a busy man.)
So Link waited again. He waited for the daylight, he waited for water to rise, he waited for water to drop, he waited for his clone to let his guard down, he waited for Morpha to spiral out of the water, and he waited for Ruto to finally shut up.
The temple frustrated him, it made him wet, cold, wait. If he messed up he had to reset the water; if he ran out of supplies he had to search all over for more; if he was tired he had to sleep; if he was hungry he had to eat. Link lost track how many days he spent down there, but he knew he was hungry nine times. Navi said three days, but Navi said a lot of things.
(He really wanted to see Sheik.)
When he finally left and landed on the pedestal he was quite pleased with the sight he saw.
Sheik had waited for him again.
Link did wonder why Sheik was here, but he dismissed it. If he managed to see Sheik, what did it matter if it was a business or social call?
(Link preferred the latter.)
Here Sheik's words were hopeful, prideful, thankful. Sheik didn't leave right away, but he sat and had a meal with Link. He let Link dry up, because he now knew Link hated being cold and being wet meant being cold if there was any wind. Soon Sheik had to go, but Link let him. Sheik was a busy man after all.
It didn't soothe Link's emptiness after Sheik left though. It didn't lessen Link's longing. It didn't change the fact that Link wanted Sheik to stay.
(It really wasn't because he didn't want to wait on Sheik.)
Link discovered something rather odd soon after he resumed his journey. He was waiting on himself, or on Navi – but she had no input for once. He couldn't figure out where to go. "Within the house of the dead" Sheik said, yet Link could come up with no answer. Perhaps the townspeople of Kakariko would know?
Link found fire and smoke in a harem for the people of Hyrule, but there was where he saw Sheik. They had little time to converse however, for Sheik made him wait, but not because Sheik chose to, but because of something that threw him around like the twins threw their rag dolls about. When Sheik fell down, Link knew he had to protect him. He pulled out his shield – and saw black.
When he awoke, he found a side to Sheik that he did not know before. The calm, passive and patient Sheik was impatient – no – worried. There was panic in his eyes and he taught Link a song and told him to save Impa.
He didn't want to make Sheik wait, so he played to notes. He didn't get far in the dungeon so he listened to the eerie voice that whispered for him to get the Lens of Truth. He didn't want to keep Sheik waiting. He didn't turn around.
Sheik was who stopped him though. Sheik was who told him to go back in time, empty a well and find the Lens of Truth. Sheik was who taught him a song, but Link smiled at Sheik and he changed the rules of the game. "We can't keep Impa waiting can we?"
So Sheik became his eyes. Sheik wore the symbol of truth. For once they worked together in the dungeon, and they worked together to free Impa. For once Link didn't need to wait on Sheik. Sheik came with him.
However something formed in Link on their first night in the desert: a new kind of impatience filled him, a new kind of fervour.
(He was waiting on Sheik but for a reason unknown to him.)
Sheik and he talked a lot – more than Navi did, however Sheik was acting off again, and Link couldn't tell why. Sheik did seem a bit hastier, but Link presumed it was because they were so close to the end. That assumption soon was disproved, because Link noticed that in himself. He had to ask if Sheik shared his own distaste for waiting.
The moment Link asked that, things changed between them. Sheik's eye twinkled, and it made Link's apprehensiveness peak. His eyes must have twinkled too, for the next thing Sheik did was kiss him. There was no patience in the kiss, no waiting. It was fast, greedy and then repeated. As soon as one ended, another would begin. They could not get enough. Hands wandered without pause. There was no break. All thoughts at halting were dismissed from his – Sheik's – minds. Wait was not a word that either of them knew.
In the morning, they quickly managed to dress before they were flanked by Gerudos. It resulted in them waiting for turned backs, for noise, for carpenters to shut up – but it did not matter as much anymore, because Link had Sheik and Sheik…
(Sheik never answered Link's question.)
They became legendary men that were recognised by the Gerudo and soon they ran together through the desert of illusion. Sheik had to guide Link through because they changed history. Link didn't want to go back in time.
(He didn't want to wait for Sheik again.)
So, it was Sheik who helped him move that heavy block; it was Sheik who entered the area that was meant for his childhood. Link had to separate from Sheik, but that was alright. It meant that the dungeon would be done in half the time. Sheik was surprisingly fast, but Link also ran into many obstacles when he couldn't move blocks. Perhaps that's what he would have received as a child. That's what Sheik was getting him. So Link did the most he could and when Sheik came, he passed the silver gauntlets Link, and they finished the temple.
The sage was the leader of the Gerudo – he probably would have met her as a child, but she was grateful for Link and Sheik freeing her people from Ganondorf's corruption so she helped them, she was grateful for them releasing her from a seven year mind control.
However, once that finished and they were out of the Chamber of the Sages, Sheik kissed him goodbye. "We have to part," the Sheikah said, "But Sheik – survivor of the Sheikahs will meet you again."
(Link had no idea what Sheik met.)
He was angry when Zelda revealed that she was the man whom his entire adulthood revolved around, he was furious that she made him wait. Perhaps the only reason he rushed to save her was so he could punish her himself.
Link would never know though, because when the chance finally came – it was Sheik who was the first to congratulate them.
(He finally got it.)
Zelda offered to return him to his time, and all that Link replied with was:
"I'm not waiting again."