Yoru

Marth had recently offered to start giving out Japanese lessons, particularly in learning how to read and write in katakana, hiragana, and kanji. Much to his surprise, a lot of the other fighters had seemed quite interested in learning - he had only expected a few close friends to show any interest, but now it seemed like Marth had become a full-time teacher. He sat at the desk by the room's window, a small lamp casting a faint glow over the papers he was grading late at night.

"'Sushi wa oishite, yasui desu'," Marth read out loud. "Very close, Peach, but when you use two adjectives together to describe something, you have to add 'ku te' to the first adjective's root, and not just 'te'."

The prince made a small red 'x' on the paper and kept reading over the other papers. He turned around suddenly at the sound of the door opening.

"Aren't you tired yet?" Asked Link, closing the door behind him. "It's almost two in the morning."

"I only have a few more papers to go," Marth replied wearily. "I know one of those tests belongs to Roy, and he typically does very well on these, so his paper should be quick to grade."

"You certainly sound tired," the Hero of Time replied, slipping off his tunic.

"I'll be okay," the prince restated, frowning as he marked another answer wrong. Then he smiled, turning around to face his roommate. "By the way, you made an eighty-eight percent. You made a few errors with kanji, like confusing 'hana' with 'go', but you had almost no problem with sentence structure and grammar."

Link smiled back, before the prince turned around to resume grading papers. He stretched his arms with a yawn, before resuming reading.

Much to Marth's surprise, two hands placed themselves on top of his.

"Anata wa yasashikute, utsukushii desu," Link whispered into his ear, his warm breath teasing Marth's cheek. The prince shivered, a soft moan escaping him as Link gently kissed the back of his neck.

"Well, I'm going to bed. Don't stay up too late," the Hylian stated, leaving the prince at his desk.

Shortly after Link crawled into bed, the room went dark.

"Come to think of it, those papers won't be going anywhere," Marth replied, as he nestled his head against Link's shoulder.

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Japanese:

Yoru - Japanese for 'night'

"Sushi wa oishikute, yasui desu." Sushi is tasty, and inexpensive. (corrected from Peach's paper)

"Anata wa yasahikute, utsukushii desu." You are kind (or gentle), and beautiful.

I almost wanted to write out Link's lines in actual hiragana, but I decided not to - I didn't want to risk it showing up as a bunch of those 'square' characters that appear when the computer doesn't process the Japanese correctly.