Hi guys! I'm super sorry for not writing sooner! We've been having finals at school so I've been super busy studying. I did write it out earlier but never got around to publishing. I apologize for the length as well as how bad chapter 3 was. Hopefully I'll write again soon!
Kimiko P.O.V
I sat with my head on the bar counter. Hangover was really a bitch. My head throbbed and every word spoken to my seemed to echo in brain brain. I couldn't remember very much about last night, but there was one thing that was curtain, Gray had been laid by my hand.
I didn't know what to do. Would he ever want to talk to me about it? Like me, he had been pretty drunk. And what would Erza say if she ever found out? I shivered at the thought.
"You're only seventeen!" I could practically hear Erza's disproving tone. "How could you?!"
Just than Gray took a seat next to me. The sound of the chair being pulled out made my head spin, he didn't seem to be doing much better.
"Nasty hangover, huh?" he said, but we never made eye contact
"About last night-" I began, but before I could continue, Gray cut me off.
"I won't talk about it if you won't talk about it." He blurted quickly.
My heart sank, just as I had suspected. He didn't want to be with someone like me. I was a year younger than him. I shouldn't have let my hopes rise. "Oh.." I was unable to hide my disappointment, despite the fact that I was unsure why it was even there.
Before I continued, Natzu came in out of nowhere, shoving Gray and I close together. "Come on! Just start kissing already! Know you want to!" He laughed as we struggled out of his grasp. I know he was just trying to be funny, but the thought infuriated me, let alone embraced the hell out of me.
"You looking to get your ass kicked?" I challenged once I had freed myself. My face was red but it was hard to decide if it was from anger or embarrassment.
Natzu grinned, raising out his fist and setting it aflame, "You're on."
I was half a foot shorter than him and way younger, which seemed to make the new girl, Lucy pretty nervous. "This is insane!" She tried to get between us.
I shook my head, "No Lucy, he needs to remember his place."
She looked at me with a mixture of fear and question in her eyes before she retreated back to a table.
"Come and get me," I challenged.
The pink-haired dragon slayer charged me, "Fire dragon-"
But he was unable to finish. With one swift kick to the stomach, Natzu was on the floor. His eyes were wide as if his tiny brain was trying to process that he'd been beaten by a "little girl."
"Next time remember who your dealing with," I told Natzu proudly. Then, head held high, I stepped over his shocked form and left the guild hall just as it began to erupt in shocked whispers.
"Get up, Natzu!" Little Romeo called, "You can do it!"
"That's what he gets for picking on Kimiko," Macao murmured next to him.
"She didn't even use magic to take him down, that's a real man!" Elfman exclaimed.
But I was too pissed and too modest to let it go to my head.