FINALLLLLLLLY! Finally finished this chapter. This was supposed to be published before 'Hold me' in fact.
"I now know why Hild doesn't like us." Sting said, out of nowhere.
This surprised everyone at the table. I mean, it's still early in the morning and he first thing anyone said was Sting just now.
"And what's that?" Rufus was getting tired of Sting's conclusions.
"She's a lesbian."
"Lesbian?!" Rufus and Orga said in the same time.
"Sting, I don't think Hild's a lesbian. She's probably just not interested in you and Rufus." Rogue reasoned with him.
"I can ask Hild if you want?" Fro said.
While Sting laughed at this Rogue frowned. "Frocsh, you have no idea what's a lesbian."
"What are you guys talking about?" Hild appeared out of nowhere.
A few of them jump of surprise to see her teleport from the bar to the table.
"They want to know if you're a lesbian." Frosch said.
"Don't drag me into this. I never asked the question." Orga said.
Hild looked at the green exceed before, ever so slowly, turning her eyes over to the men.
"Rogue stand up."
"Why me? It was Sting who asked it."
"Do I need to repeat myself?" Sparks of lightning were crackling around her hand.
"No." He quickly got up before any trouble could start.
"Closer." She said.
Rogue did just that. Not really sure what was gonna happen. He stood about two feet away from her.
"Closer." She signaled.
"How much closer do you want me?" Rogue inquired.
Hild sighed before grabbing his shirt and pulled him into a kiss. Everyone in the guild mouth and eyes widened. The barmaid dropped the glasses she was holding. Orga's eyes were wide as saucers. Sting's mouth looked like it was about to detach. And what really surprised them, Rogue started kissing back.
"Uhhhh." Minerva was speechless as that was the first thing she saw when she entered the guild.
Finally the two broke up for air. While Rogue was blushing Eferhida had straight face expression. She turned back to Sting.
"Does that answer your question Sting?"
"Mmhm." He hummed and nodded.
She turned her head back to the black haired teen.
"You kiss like a virgin shy boy." After saying that she teleported out. This time, out the guild.
"Whoa…" Sting finally breathed again, "You are so lucky! She actually likes you."
"So, whatcha gonna do?"
Rogue didn't say anything. He ignored everyone's stares. But his eyes did wander over Rufus to see how he's feeling about the whole situation. He soon regretted it when he saw Rufus scowl at him. He looked into Rufus's eyes and saw a glint.
Rogue walked away without saying anything.
-o- (Happy: and so, this happens next)
It was now the afternoon and the two twin dragons, plus their exceeds, were sitting by a tree on top of a cliffside.
"So, since everyone knows Hild likes you. Aren't you gonna do something?"
"Why are you so into this? She probably was trying to prove a point that she wasn't a lesbian."
"Because the girl who don't show emotion unless she's angry… or on her period, kisses you. She always seems to favor you. And let's not forget, you kissed her back. So, it seems you like her too." Sting smiled as he waved his finger.
"Maybe she favors me because I'm pretty much the only one who doesn't do anything stupid."
"And the kiss?"
"…it means nothing." Rogue said. "I'm pretty sure Hild would agree."
Sting looked at his partner for a few seconds before getting up.
"Where you going?"
"I'm gonna prove you wrong. Let's go find Hild. She's probably back at the bar in the guild now."
Rogue got up and followed his partner. "You're wasting your time."
They walked over to Hild, who was greedily drinking out of a large sake bottle.
'I wonder what's her drinking limit.' Sting thought then said, "Hey, Hild."
She put her bottle down, before turning around to them. She had a distant look in her eyes.
"Uh, are you alright Hild?" Rogue inquired.
"Yeah, I'm just a little drunk." She said, waving the situation off. "Anyway, what do you want?"
Sting decided to get to the point. "So, do you like Rogue?"
Hild turned to the shadow dragon. "Was the kiss not obvious? I mean, I'm not gonna kiss anyone I don't like, like that. Well, unless its magic involved."
This was the time when Rogue started blushing a little.
"Told you Rogue. Hild really does like you!" Sting said, a little bit too loud, cause everyone became quiet and turned to the bar. Rouge cursed at this since he was getting this much attention.
Hild notice. "If you don't feel the same way, I wouldn't really care." She assured before turning back to her drink.
"Eferhilda?"
Hild put down her drink again. It seems like anytime someone mentioned her full first name, it was something serious or important. Then again, Rufus says her name more than her nickname. She slightly shrugged it off.
"What?" She said, looking back at Rogue.
"So, are you free tomorrow night?"
Hild raised an eyebrow. "No." She bluntly said.
"Oh."
"But I'm free Saturday."
"Oh, well how about I take you out then."
Everybody sat at the edge of the their seats. Wondering how would she answer.
"Alright." She turned back around to her drink again.
"Seriously?!" Sting shouted. He turned back to his partner. "Good luck." Sting said, patting Rogue's back.
Orga had heard a snap sound. He turned around and saw piece of the seat off. He saw Rufus holding the part he snapped off. The blond had a red aura surrounding him and even made a low growl.
"Uh, Rufus?" He said. He regretted getting the blond's attention, cause he was giving off a murderous look.
"Yes?" He growled.
The muscular man sweat dropped. "Uh, if you need to murder someone. Just take it out on the table alright?"
Rufus just gave him a blank look before he got up and walked out the guild. He needed to find and have a talk with someone.
-o- (time skip cause I'm freakin lazy)
"Is there anything you wanted Rufus-san?" A muffled voiced asked.
"Yes there is. I need you to follow Rogue and Eferhilda on their date. And I just want you report me what happens tomorrow."
"Uh, Rufus-kun. If you don't mind me intruding in your business, but don't you think you should just give up on Hild. It's obvious she doesn't like you." The ninja said.
"Well, not yet. Look are you going to do this or not?"
"I don't know. What do you have to offer?"
"What do you want?" He answered the question with a question.
"Hmm, give me all your jewels from your last mission." He demanded,
"I can't do that. That's my money for grocery shopping. I seriously only have around eight items in my fridge and freezer."
"Oh. Well, I guess you'll have to find someone else to do this." Dobengal turned around and started walking away.
"Ugh, fine!" He said. He got out his wallet and gave him the money.
"Thank you for the services."
Rufus sighed and rolled his eyes. This better be worth it.
-o- (time skip cause I'm freakin lazy)
"So, let me get this straight," Hild's dog said as sat in front of the bathroom door. "You're going on a date."
"Yes. I just told you that four times already." Hild eyes then widened and turned back to her dog. "Don't tell me you got Alzheimer's."
"Relax. I'm only just surprised you got asked out on a date…"
"I get asked out a lot, mostly by Rufus."
"You never let me finished." He said, and that made Hild take aback. "What I was about to say was, I'm only surprised you got asked out on a date, that you agreed to go on."
"Well yeah."
"Tell me if he does something to you. I'll go on straight guard dog mode."
"Heh. Don't worry, I can take care of myself."
"And as for the Alzheimer's, let's not forget I been living for sixteen years. I don't have much time left."
"Don't say that. You're the only friend I got." She whined and got on her knees at her dog's height.
"It's sad to know that your dog is your one and only friend you have."
Hild rolled her eyes and got back to her feet when she heard a knock. She opened the door to reveal Rogue.
"You ready?"
"Yeah. Be back in few!" She shouted to her dog.
"Why are you shouting? I'm right here." Rufus said, who was only a foot away from her.
"I didn't know. Give me a break. She growled at him. She closed the door behind her and started walking with the raven.
"So, where do you want to go?" Rogue asked.
"You're the guy. It's you're job to figure that out."
"Well, I was going to take you to restaurant, but due to the fact that your wearing sweatpants, I just cancelled it." He said, 'Which is some what good, cause I forgot to even make reservations.' He then thought. "So what do you normally do on dates?"
Hild didn't even think about it. She just made a quick response. "I can't answer that."
Rogue raised an eyebrow. "Why?"
"Cause, this is my first date."
Rogue stopped walking. Curious, Hild also stopped and turned to him.
"Let me get this straight. You're twenty-two years old and you never been on a date before."
"When you say it like that, it makes me sound like a virgin."
"You're not a virgin?"
"No." And before Rogue could react she finished by saying, "I sometimes have one-night stands when I'm drunk."
The shadow dragon slayer looked at her blankly. "Okay, that's a fact that I didn't want to know about you." He couldn't help but say that.
"Well damn, if I knew you was gonna be an asshole I would've went on a date with Rufus instead."
Rogue started to wonder her feelings for that masked wizard. "Wait a minute. So you like Rufus?"
The storm dragon slayer eyes widened but then squinted them a second later. "I never said that." Rogue squinted his eyes next. "I'm just saying his name as an example."
"Right." Rouge said.
A nerve popped on Hild's head. "Why don't we just take a walk under the moon so we both could calm down."
So that's what they did. They just walked around the moon and the stars in silence. This was not working out so far, and they both knew that.
"Anything you want to say?" Hild asked. "It doesn't matter what the conversation is about. This silence is killing me."
"I thought you preferred it quiet."
"Don't get me wrong. I do. But when you hardly have any type of friends, the quietness seems annoys you. Look at you, you have both Sting and Frosch as your friends while I just have my dog. And I'm not around him like that as I spend most of my time at the guild, missions, or the bar." Hild paused before she went back to the subject. "Tell me a story."
"A story?"
"Not a fairy tale story, but something interesting that occurred. I already know about the Tartarus from Minerva."
"Alright, before I start. I want to ask you something."
"Go ahead."
"You was just talking about you're dog is your only friend. What exactly is Minerva to you? I do see you two around together."
"Would you call us friends if we talked about guild and magic matters?
"Emm, sounds more like allies than friends."
"Okay, then we're not friends."
-o-
Rogue discuss about the seven dragons incident and his future self.
"So let me get this straight. While Sting had lost Lector hell broke loose in Sabertooth. If you lose Frosch, hell with break out in the entire world. …something's seriously wrong with you. You're not balanced."
"How would you feel if you lost your exceed?" Rogue then remember what happened on that little vacation' they had. "Oh, I forgot."
"Mmhm. Thanks for reminding me asshole. Actually he's not dead."
Okay, this puzzled Rogue a bit. "He's… not?"
"No. I never said he died now, did I?
"But you was acting like he did before you started crying."
"I was just PMSing."
"So Hild," This had gained Hild's attention. She slightly turned her head towards him. "Why did you accept my offer for tonight?"
Hild thought about this for a moment. "Well, to be honest, I wanted to see how compatible we are to each other."
'That's what a date is.' Rogue thought, but thought it was best not to say it out loud.
"I mean, I'm pretty sure there are people in Sabertooth that's some what like me but, you're the closest I met so far. I consider this as a good and a bad thing.
"What do you mean?"
Hild stopped walking and looked straight ahead. "Look you're a really great guy Rogue. But when I really think about it. You and I aren't a really good match. We both don't show much emotion and it's really hard to figure out what goes in each other's heads. To me, that's not gonna make the relationship stable." Hild showed a small smile. "Sorry it had to turn out this way. No hard feelings?"
"Of course not Hild." Rogue said, looking down.
"Hm, but I think I know what you're thinking now."
Rogue looked up, wondering what she was talking about. Hild then pulled him into a kiss. This kiss only last for a few seconds when she had pulled away. This had
"You're not gonna keep doing that, are you?" Rogue said, keeping his expressionless tone.
"No. I'm not that type of girl. See ya Rogue." She said then turned around and walked away leaving the raven.
He only blinked before turning back to where he stayed at.
-o-
The next day happened and wanted to know how Rogue's date went.
"We're not dating." He only said to the questions.
"So, how did it end?" Sting asked.
"She just thought we weren't compatible."
"Are you upset by that?"
Rogue crossed his arms. "Not really. Cause I know why exactly when she pointed it out last night."
Well you can say that one Mage was happy to hear this news. But it ended when his stomach started to ache a little. Rufus was sitting at the bar, waiting for new requests to hang on the Sabertooth's bulletin board; so he could get some money and buy some food. Unfortunately, when his stomach growled, it got a the two people sitting beside him to hear it. One of them left while the other stayed.
-o-
Hild kept hearing a low and loud growl. She looked over to her side and saw Rufus with his his chin cupped in his left hand.
"Uh, Rufus."
"Yes?" The masked wizard said.
"You do realize that your stomach is growling, right?"
"Of course I do."
"…Aren't you going to do something about it?"
"…well you see. I currently don't have any money right now."
Hild shook her head and looked back ahead. She signaled the barmaid to come over. When the brown haired woman came over.
Eferhilda turned back to Rufus. "What do you want?"
"Huh?" He was confused.
"What do you want to eat?"
"…"
"I'll pay for it. Get anything you want."
"… okay, can I get Caesar salad?"
The barmaid nodded before heading back to the back to prepare the salad.
"Hild, why did you buy me something to eat?"
"Your stomach growl is annoying me."
Rufus raised an eyebrow, but then smiled. "It was something else." He barley whispered, it was enough for the dragon slayer to hear it though. She turned back to him with a questioning face. "You could've just walked away. I didn't even have to ask. What's the real reason?"
Hild looked at him for a few seconds before looking back in front of her, asking the same question in her head.
Finally, she stood up from her seat and put 1300 jewel on the counter. "It was nothing else."
Rufus smile grew a little bigger. "Denial is not just a river in Egypt."
Yay, another fluff between the two. Also, on my poll I got two votes for Rufus and one for another guy. I'm wondering who said that and I'm also wondering who do you think it should be. What other guy would be perfect for Eferhilda Wyvern? (I'm asking everyone this)
Okay. This was a challenge to write. Trying to keep Rogue from going OOC is challenging. Tell me if he seemed a bit OOC. I be trying to keep the characters from going OOC.