I'm so sorry for the long wait! It's hard balancing school and writing! Without further ado, here's the chapter!
It was a normal day at Sabertooth. There was lots of drinking, talking, laughter, and mages moving in and out of the guild. There was hardly a quiet day ever since Sting became guild master. Although the job of being master was hard, occasionally there'd be a lull in chores for guild masters to do. For Sting, this was one of those lulls. There were no job requests that required him nor the Twin Dragons. But that didn't matter since Rogue was nowhere to be found. Instead he just lounged around on the Master's throne. He only sat there when there was a guild meeting or he was very bored.
"Sting-sama." Sting looked up when Yukino walked over. "Are you bored?"
"Is it really that obvious?" Sting asks.
"Um, yes. You're sitting upside down on the throne."
"You're very observant, Yukino." Sting smiled.
"I'm not that observant... The entire guild can see you." Sting looked around. Mostly the newer members were staring while the others ignored him since they were used to their master's antics by now.
"Yeah I should get up. I think the blood is rushing to my head." Sting shifts until he's sitting upright. "I'm super bored."
"Hm... I know! Sting-sama you should accompany me on a walk around town!"
"Why? I already know the place. I mean I live here."
"Yes, well a new marketplace opened up! Plus Fairy Tail's ball is coming up so we could buy some nice clothing for that!"
"Well I've got nothing else to do." Sting shrugs. He hops off the throne to stand by Yukino. "So where to first?"
Yukino skipped through the crowd with Sting following close by. Yukino was in a great mood, after all she often didn't get to spend time alone with Sting. They reached the new marketplace. When leaving the guild, Sting thought there'd be a few vendors selling cheap knock-off. Instead the street was lined with vendors selling almost anything you can imagine.
"Sting-sama! Look! Let's go there first!" Yukino pointed to a vendor. Sting wasn't paying attention. This place was filled with as many sights, sounds, and smells as Crocus during the Grand Magic Games. It wasn't until Yukino was almost out of sight that he snapped out of his trance. He followed her to a vendor selling jewelry.
"Sting-sama how does this look?" Yukino held a colorfully beaded necklace up to her neck.
"It doesn't suit you." Sting grabs a necklace from the counter. "This looks better!" Yukino starts laughing.
"Sting-sama, that's a bracelet. It won't fit around my neck."
"I-I knew that!" Stings starts to put the bracelet down. Yukino stops him and takes it from his hands.
"It's still cute. I'm going to buy it." Yukino smiles and talks to the vendor. She gives him some jewels and slips the bracelet on her wrist. She then turns back to Sting, holding up her wrist. "It's really cute! Sting-sama, you have good taste!" Yukino smiles.
"Well you gotta know these things when you're a guild master."
"Um... I don't think you do..."
"You don't... I just wanted to sound cool."
"Well I think you're cool as you are." Yukino smiles. It takes a moment, but a blush spreads across her face as she comes to a slow realization of her words. Sting doesn't notice. He had already caught a whiff of good food.
"Yukino! I can smell something good! Let's go find it!" Sting grabs Yukino's hand and guides her through the crowd.
The two had searched for half an hour for the place that had the food Sting smelled. By the time the two got there, Yukino's feet hurt and she was glad it was a restaurant so she could sit down. Sting had ordered his own personal buffet while Yukino only order basic dishes. The two had small conversations between Sting's pigging out. Eventually he was finished so the waiters could take away the mountains of plates.
"Could I offer you some dessert?" Their waiter asks. He seemed almost afraid to ask.
"Just some vanilla ice cream." Sting replies.
"I'm fine, thank you." Yukino smiles. The waiter nods, relieved, and rushes to the kitchen. A few moments later, he returns with a platter with a bowl of vanilla ice cream. "You really like white, don't you?" Sting looks up at Yukino's question. He hadn't started digging in yet.
"Well of course. I'm a white dragon slayer, I eat white things. It's the same for all dragon slayers. Rogue can eat shadows, Natsu can eat flames, Gajeel eats metal, and Wendy... I guess she eats air. But that's really no different than breathing, I guess." Sting shrugs and starts eating his ice cream.
"Sorry, I sort of already knew that..." Yukino says. "I mean you ate the bones of some of the food and part of a plate."
"I never knew what plates tasted like. That's one thing off the list." Sting states. Yukino giggles at his statement.
"What other things do you have on your list."
"The moon."
"The moon?"
"Well yeah. I wanna be the first person to ever eat the moon! Or at least part of it. It's like a pure white and I'm dying to know what it tastes like." Sting pauses. "Hey Yukino! You should make a bunch of float cookies. If I eat enough I could float all the way up to the moon!" Sting throws his hands in exaggeration. Yukino started laughing her head off.
"I don't think they can bring you that far up." She says between laughs.
"Aw. Then can you help me with the next thing on the list?"
"Of course. What is it?"
"You're gonna find it weird."
"I can't find something weird if I don't know what it is."
"Um... It's your hair." Sting avoids eye contact. Yukino's immediate reaction was to put a hand to her head.
"M-My hair?! Why would you want to?!"
"I-It's really pretty. But eating it was a joke." Yukino lets out a sigh of relief.
"So you think my hair is pretty?" Yukino blushes lightly after she got over the shock of his joke.
"Well yeah. It's pretty just like the rest of you." Yukino's face was completely red now.
"I-I don't think a-anybody has said th-that to me before..." Yukino stutters.
"Really? Well I'm sure tons of guys try to ask you out."
"Sting-sama! Are you flirting?!"
"A little." Sting smirks.
"W-Well stop. There's no point to flirting unless you mean it." Yukino pouts, a majority of her blush was gone.
"Well it's a good thing I mean it." And there it was. The blush coming back at full force.
"W-What?"
"I really like you, Yukino. You're pretty, kind, smart, and I'm not even bored anymore!" Sting laughs. "What I'm saying is, I really like you."
"Sting-sama," Yukino adorned a wide smile. "I like you too."
"Great! I guess that means we're a thing now?"
"I-I guess so." There was a moment of silence between the two. During this time, the waiter came by with the check. They hastily left before they could be asked for anything else.
"So is it safe to ask you to go to Fairy Tail's dance with me?"
"Of course! I would love to go!"
"Awesome! So... I guess we should tell the guild now." Sting leaves a bunch of jewels on the table before standing up and holding out his hand for Yukino. The two leave and walk back to the guild hand-in-hand.
Minerva walks back into the guild. She had just returned from a quick and easy job. The guild was the same as always, Sting and Rogue were talking at a table with Yukino sitting beside Sting, Frosch and Lector stood on the table. She walks over to them and sits in the spot next to Rogue.
"Miss! Welcome back!" Lector greets her.
"Hello Lector, everybody."
"How was the job, Miss?" Yukino asks.
"It was quite easy. I just had to find something in a maze, it wasn't too complicated." Minerva responds. She pauses when she notices the cute bracelet on Yukino's wrist. It had dark blue beads painted with little stars and a moon charm in the middle. "Yukino, where did you get that cute bracelet?"
"Oh! This?" Yukino holds up her wrist. "Sting-sama and I went to a marketplace earlier! Sting-sama picked it out."
"Really?! Sting, I didn't know you had such great taste."
"It comes naturally." Sting smiles.
"That's our Sting for you!" Lector boasts.
"Sting-sama thought it was a necklace at first." Yukino points out.
"Why am I not surprised..." Rogue sighs.
"Fro thinks so too!" Frosch cheers.
Next up is RoKa (Rogue x Kagura)!