Continuing from the last chapter, our protagonist has found his long lost childhood friend that he thought was dead. After a series of talking, Tatenashi the childhood friend decided to stay at his apartment. She joined Fairy Tail afterwards. Now, how is the existence of his childhood friend going to change his daily lifestyle?
It's been a week since I met Tatenashi-san. We got some basic necessities for her like clothes, cosmetics and a new bed. She actually paid all the stuff she got by herself! Where did she even get that amount of money?
"I'm a freelance Mage who find jobs to earn money too! Of course i would get rich!" She puffed out her chest to show off.
"Are you sure to just use up your money like that?" I got a little worried that she was pushing it too far by paying everything herself because she didn't want to owe me anymore.
"I still have quite a sum from when I used to work part-time before I became a freelance Mage."
"What kind of job were you doing that earns that much?"
"Ooo, are you interested? I'm not going to tell you even you asked.." she smiled slyly.
"If that's so, I won't ask then. let's get going, shall we?"
"Ceh, you are no fun as usual..' She replied back in a monotone voice.
As expected from a girl, she has a gigantic wardrobe of attire. Usually she wears a blue blouse and a dark blue overcoat with black leggings but when we are at home she likes to wear light clothing like my white shirt with underwear underneath it or a naked apron, although she did wear a swimsuit underneath it. That made me very nervous when she near me. How could she be so bold? I never asked her that.
After multiple times seeing her in this getup, I soon got used to it.
Before this, l always go solo on jobs and never teamed up with anyone before. Now I have a team in Fairy Tail. It's a two person team, consisting only me and Tatenashi-san. We decided to name our team 'Team Fubuki'( Fubuki means blizzard in Japanese, 吹雪).
I got curious of how strong did she become after all those years, and requested her to spar with me using only our weapons without magic. Tatenashi-san uses a spear that her father gave her, called Mysteltainn. It's a spear that could be summoned casually like my MetalEdge (a blade-like boomerang I used, given by the foster dragon). It's has four gatling gun barrels that can shoot water bullets or missiles when charged with magic. We don't need to carry our weapons since we can make the weapons disappear and reappear on our command.
We restricted the stage of magic when we spar to prevent the whole apartment from getting destroyed by the two of us. The spar was on afield behind the apartment. After the moment we drew out our weapons, without saying a word, our weapons clashed. It was a heated battle as none of us was giving an opening to the other. She improved a lot since we last fought. I had a big disadvantage in our match. My weapon is mostly used in long or middle range battles while Tatenashi-san is able to strike in zero-point range while having a distance. The fight started off with my usual tactic, by throwing my blade towards my opponent while taking them head on. Tatenashi-san blocked my frontal attacks and she deflected my blade. My blade acts like a boomerang so it will return back to its previous position and attack her again. Until the last second when the blade was about to hit her, she tapped it away...with the end of her lance?
"You're not the only one who's improved..." She smirked.
"Well said."
I grabbed back my blade and furiously attacked without backing down. Maybe I could find a way to break through her ironclad defence.
"Then let's try this. Seiun Sword Style: Meteor Shower!" I ducked down and avoided her spear thrust and closed in, unleashing multiple stabs like how a rapier is used using the extended part of my MetalEdge. By the way, Seiun Sword Style(星雲剣術) is a series of sword techniques that I devised on my own which are suitable for my MetalEdge since is such an uniques weapon and its very hard to fully utilise its capabilities.
Tatenashi-san spinned her lance around, creating a shield that blocked all my attacks.
The fight went on about five minutes. In the end, I lost... She is really undefeatable with her lance.
It seem like we synchronize well together. We did a Unision Raid in our last quest. Unison Raid is a type of magic where two people combined thier magic together to create powerful magic. It is impossible to create this kind of power alone. But with two people that has a good synergy between their magic, a tremendous effect can be achieved and knocking out almost any opponent.
The quest was a treasure-hunting quest and we didn't need to use our magic at all. We need to find a lightning lacrima for a cilent. Tatenashi-san is clueless in this kind of quests so all she can do was gathering information. On our way back after finding the item, a treasure hunting guild appeared. Treasure hunting guilds can be consist of Magic users or non-Magic users. They find rare items to sell it and make a living out of it. Sometimes, they will attempt to steal. Seems like they were interested in the lacrima we had.
"Hand us over the lacrima and no violence will be used." commanded the leader.
"Violence? More like an one sided fight right, Zane-kun?" she smiled at me.
"If you say so..." The leader got ticked and gave a hand signal, signalling all his comrades to attack us in one go.
Both of us revealed our weapons and started the fight. We were forced to use our magic to take them out as they outnumbered us.
"Hey Zane-kun, at this rate we will waste too much time! We have to catch our ship!" She reminded me and she kicked away one of the guys.
"Then let's try this... Create a water barrier around us. Make sure the water is always flowing in a spiral way."
She did as I said. Then, I froze certain parts of the barrier and shot out ice spikes. The ice spikes were able to hit 360 degrees due to the flowing water carrying them. After seeing the first few spikes launching out, she grasped the situation and even accelerated the speed of the spikes shooting out. Within seconds, everyone was shot down.
That's where we used Unison Raid and blew everyone away. It is rare to see two people did a Unision Raid just after completing 3 quests. We left the place with full of ice spikes and frozen statues. That's where I believed that we have a special connection. And I'm happy about it.
"Ara, Zane-kun, it is okay to be happy that you could be a help to your princess! Or do you have hidden intentions about this onee-san?" She commented.
Although we work together very well, she still likes to tease me. In fact, she is the first woman who made me nosebleed. It was after we completed our quest, we decided to stay at a hotel and head back home tomorrow. Yes, it was a guy and a girl staying in one hotel room. But, I ensured nothing bad happened.
When I was unpacking the food for dinner, someone hugged me from me back. Then I felt two soft, pillow-like things pressed against my back. It didn't even took me one second to figure out who is behind me and what is pressing against me.
"Zane-kun, did you see this onee-san's shirt? I can't find it anywhere."
"Seriously, can you take your clothes into the bathroom with you before you bathed? It's at the chair."
Then I thought, if Tatenashi-san wasn't wearing her shirt, what was she wearing? My curiosity made me turned around to see what she was wearing. Tatenashi-san was just covering her body with just a towel!? I backed up immediately. Now that I look at her, she really has a good body figure.
"What are you doing?!"
One thing I didn't realised was that blood was slowly dripping out of my nose.
"Finding my clothes, of course, and Zane-kun... Your nose is bleeding."
Tatenashi-san answered casually with a cute smile. I touched my face and saw blood on my fingers. I turned back to get a tissue.
"Arrgghh, quickly get it and put it on!" I exclaimed while covering my nose with my hand.
"I should do it here? So you can see this onee-san body? Zane-kun no ecchi."
"No no, use the toilet. Argghh, why can't you wear more clothing when you are living with a man?" I said.
"So you can see this onee-san body?"
"Seriously, the same thing again?" I gave up, ignoring her.
After dinner, Tatenashi-san lied on the bed saying something that I never expect to hear from a girl.
"Zane-kun, massage me.."
"What!?" I was confused. Why she wants me to massage her? Anyway, it's a bad idea to massage a girl with a beautiful body like her.
"Huh, but I heard someone said you have some good massaging skills."
Where did she get that? I tried to ignore her by making a cup of tea. Suddenly, a strong force pulled me away from my cup and pushed me on the floor.
"Just surrender now and give me the massage!' Tatenashi-san said with a grumpy look.
"Why should I do this? It's not like we are in a relationship."
"Is that so..."
Tatenashi-san jumped and landed on top of me. She is kinda light, so it's not that pain, but she is pinning my arm with a strong force, making me massage her.
"Massage, massage."
I had no choice but to accept my fate. Her body was so soft and tender, and I ended up enjoying it in the process.
"Zane-kun... You're good at this, please continue. Don't stop..." She moaned softly.
This is really bad. Those words sounded like I was doing another thing other than massaging. I quickly blurted out,
"I learned a bit about massaging when I was doing a quest. There, I'm done massaging."
She got out from bed and stretched.
"Wow, those muscle cramps from our battle were gone! Thank you Zane-kun!" she exclaimed. Glad that she was happy. Please don't make me do it again...
The next day, we left the town and came back to Magnolia at afternoon. Tatenashi-san said that she wanted to visit the shrine. Well, since I got nothing to do, why not visit the shrine? I rarely visit the shrine except New Years. We walked to the shrine together. We didn't speak to each other too much. Tatenashi-san just kept humming while I was just holding her bag for her as we walked.
Few minutes later, we reached the shrine. It was located on top of a hill, with forest covering around it. We had to climb up a very long staircase.
"Hey Zane-kun, let's race to the top of the shrine! Ready.. GO!" Tatenashi-san dashed up as she declared the race. Decided to went along, I blasted powerful flames on the ground that acts like a thrust and pushed me upwards. While I'm in the air, I propelled myself forward by directing the flames behind me. Within seconds, I reached the top and did a somersault as I landed.
"Hey! That's cheating! Look at the mess you made." she pouted and pointed at the floor below the stairs. It was caked with icicles due to my flames freezing the floor. I chuckled and snapped my fingers to crushed the ice into thin air.
The shrine was kinda old and worn out since it is the oldest building in the city and no one wanted to renovate it. When we reached the top, I saw some guys wearing the same uniform doing a bunch of stuff like making a rack, building paper lanterns, carrying boxes full of candles and more.
"Hey Tatenashi-san, is there a reason why you wanted to visit the shrine?"
"Actually, today is the Moon Shine Festival and Lucy told me that they are celebrating it here. So I decided to come here to enjoy the festival with you."
There's a festival like that? I never even heard of it until now..
So we ended up helping them since we arrived too early. It was a lot of work but Tatenashi-san seem to enjoy it. I really don't know what could satisfy a girl.
When Tatenashi-san was hammering a wooden plank, the pole attached to the plank started wobbling, then it fell. Tatenashi-san didn't realised it and I quickly dragged her out while creating an ice pole to stop the wooden pole from falling down.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
"Th...ank...you... I'm fine..." Tatenashi-san was still shocked about what happened.
"It's better for you to help the others to prepare the food and drinks, I will handle this kind of work." I was worried about her and I don't want her to get hurt.
"Okay, sorry for making you worry... But I'm happy that you saved me." Tatenashi-san was kinda upset and walked away. I felt relieved and continue helping.
The sky turned darker and the moon started to show up. It was shining brightly in the sky around 8. Tatenashi-san called out to me.
"Good work Zane-kun! Here, have a drink and a towel." she handed me a bottle of tea and a towel.
"Where you get all this stuff?" I was curious how she got a towel out of nowhere.
"I brought it from the house, is there a problem?" She asked while tilting her head sideways.
"I see. Thank you." I wiped off my sweat. We had dinner with the workers. They prepared hotpot for everyone. It was delicious. Soon, the festival started. We walked around the streets, played some games, prayed to the God and we had a lot of fun in the shrine. Tatenashi-san brought me to a place where you can get an omikuji, a fortune-telling paper that you get by randomly picking one stick from a box, then find the paper that has the same number as the number on the stick. I got 'kichi'(lucky in Japanese) while Tatenashi-san got 'daikichi' (very lucky in Japanese). I was Tatenashi-san's laughing stock for the night. Still, this reminds me when Tatenashi-san first took me to a summer festival when we were kids. She was the one who introduced all kinds of things to me and opened my eyes to see this world as a peaceful and fun place.
We went to the well and wrote our wishes. Then, we fold the paper into a paper boat and place it into the well where moonlight shines directly on the water, our wishes will be granted. I still won't believe that will happen. Than again, what should I write?
I took a glance at what Tatenashi-san was writing but she spotted me peeking and hid the paper, while making a playful place.
The place grew more crowded. Tatenashi-san got pushed down suddenly. I grabbed her hand and pulled her out from the crowd. She was standing right next to me. Our faces were really close together. I got so nervous and blushed. Tatenashi-san blushed too. She was so cute that I wanted this moment to last forever. She thanked me and backed up.
It was getting late so we decided to head back home. I forgot to write my wish on the paper..
Again, we didn't talk to each other during the walk back home. Tatenashi-san kept turning her head away, trying to hide her blushing face.
I couldn't sleep at night. I kept recalling about what happened today. Thinking that if Tatenashi-san was nervous when I was near to her. She blushes everytime I was close to her. This didn't happened when we were small... Sometimes I got nervous too... I can't understand this feeling...