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A/N: I'm having fun as usual. XD English is not my first language. Pardon the bad grammar and stuff... n.n;

Italic words – Thoughts

IT WAS YOU

Part 10

"…ke up."

Gray stirred, not opening his eyes and turned his body to the right side of his bed. "Ngh…Ten more minutes…," he mumbled to whoever's shaking his body.

"Come on, Gray! Wake up!" the voice called again, a little bit louder than before. "It's morning! Didn't you say you have something important to do today?"

"Go away," the ginger continued mumbling as he slapped the hand on his arm away. "Don't bother me…," he added as he changed position and turned to the left side of his bed.

"Stubborn oaf," Kai sighed, crossing his arms over his chest. "You told me to wake you up precisely at 6.00am last night and now you won't budge from your bed?" he placed both hands on his hips, frowning at the sleeping ginger. "Oh, for Harvest Goddess's sake, wake up already!" he continued and bending down to the sleeping figure, grabbed the white blanket enveloping the ginger with both hands and pulled it away roughly.

Gray fall to the floor with a loud thud and a loud scream. "Why the hell did you do that?!" he exclaimed, jolting up from the floor angrily – he was fully awake and was rubbing his nose, giving the tanned bandanna-man across his bed a fierce look.

"Because it'll be ridiculous for me to kiss you - you're no Sleeping Beauty and my kisses are solely for the lovely ladies out there; you're clearly not one of them," Kai snickered and tossed the blanket back onto the ginger's bed. "Now don't you dare go back to sleep after all that trouble I have gone through to wake you up, you hear me?"

"What? It's not like I made you do it," Gray sighed and rose from the floor, yawning in the process.

Kai raised an eyebrow. "Yeah? Remind me again who approached me with a combination of his famous death glare, arms crossing over his chest and demanded that either I or Cliff to wake him up exactly 6.00am last night or something bad will happen to both of us? Huh? Huh?"

"…Me?" Gray tilted his head, pointing a finger to his face and received a well-duh-who-else look from the other man. "I did that?"

Kai rolled his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest, staring at the other man. "Okay, pal. How much wine did you have last night?"

"I didn't drink any!"

"Says the one who dropped dead on his bed when it's only 9.00pm," the tanned man shrugged at the ginger's reply. "Clear that head of yours with a shower, Gray," he said as he made his way to the door. "And come down after you're done. Breakfast's ready. You don't want to be late for that important appointment of yours now, eh?" he continued before opening the door and walked outside the room he, Gray and Cliff shared.

Gray stood still on his spot, blinking his eyes at the wooden door. He tried recalling the events happened last night to try remembering the exact amount of wine he drunk. He raked his hair in frustration when he failed, frowning and cursing himself for it.

"Damn. I seriously didn't remember drinking wine and returning to my room," he rubbed the back of his head. "Maybe Kai's right; I drunk a lot since I can't remember anything and… Oh, man… my head hurts like hell. It's like it's been hit by a 100 tan of ores," he sighed before reaching out for his towel and grumbled about the pain on his head along his way to the bathroom.

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"You're late," Claire shot him a sharp glare as he approached her who was leaning against the door of his grandfather's shop. She had one hand inside of her blue overall's pocket and a red apple in the other – she was chewing said fruit.

Gray grunted and lowered the brim of his blue baseball cap. "I never told you to be early," he replied, shrugging off the blonde's comment. "Heck, I rather for you to not show up at all," he quietly added the last sentence.

Claire heard it though. "Believe me, Sir," she puffed her cheeks, biting out the last of the red fruit in her hand. "If the necklace is not something urgent for me I wouldn't want to spend my day with an arrogant jerk like you," she told him. There. I threw in the punch line. Hah!

Did she just…? "That's two of us thinking the same thing," the ginger waved a hand, again dismissing the remarks about him that the blonde made. "I asked for a quiet and peaceful day off. Yet here I got myself an annoying airhead fussing over a piece of jewellery that she can get by shipping it from the mainland but refused to do so because she hated waiting. Talk about being impatience."

"Are you calling me an airhead?" Claire's eyes widened in disbelief as her ears taking in the words the ginger previously said.

"Are you calling me a jerk?" Gray asked back with the same tone; he was clearly showing her that he's not going to back down from their argument.

"Human, you dare-," the blonde quickly covered her mouth with her free hand before her sentence was completed.

Gray raised an eyebrow. "Human? What? Who are you referring to, human?"

"N-nothing!" Claire frantically moved both hands left and right over her chest, repeatedly telling the young man in front of her that she didn't say anything.

Suspicious. Meh. Like I care. "Riiight," Gray sagged his shoulders. "So, are we going to move soon or not?" I'm tired dealing with this airhead. I just wanted this to get over ASAP and go back to sleep!

"Ah, yes. Let's get going and finish this thing as soon as possible so I can go back spending my day doing something that didn't involve you," the blonde nodded, fully agreed to the ginger's suggestion.

Gray rolled his eyes in annoyance. Thank you for thinking the same. "Move your butt then, airhead," the young man signalled the young woman to walk first and telling her that there's no way he's going to be seen walking side by side with her by the other townspeople.

"Like I wanted to walk alongside you, jerk," Claire replied with a 'hmph' and tossed the remaining of the red fruit in her hand into her blue rucksack. I'm in blue thanks to Jack. Tsk.

Gray heaved a deep sigh before following the blonde. Oh, dear Harvest Goddess. What have Grandpa got myself into? And to think that that old man is nowhere to be seen! Argh! This will be the first and last time I'm doing this. No way, no more, no-Eh? "Halt," he called out the person walking in front of him.

Claire paused, turned around and raised an eyebrow. "Now what?" she grumpily asked.

"That thing over there," Gray lifted a hand and pointed a finger to Claire's leg. "What's that?"

Said young woman looked down to the area the ginger pointed only to be greeted by a black cat looking back at her, wagging his tail left and right. "It's a cat. A black cat to be precise. Duh?"

Gray's frown deepened. "I know that, genius. What I meant here was what was that thing doing with you? Or rather what were you thinking bringing that thing along?"

"For your information, jerk, that thing is called Konoe and he is my cat. Wherever I go, he goes. And you," she pointed a finger at him. "Can't and will not change that. End of story."

Gray stared at the thing – Konoe and as their eyes locked onto each other, the ginger felt a sudden chill in the air and the pain he felt in the morning came back attacking him. Crap. I'm not getting scared of this puny little thing, am I? "As I thought, you're nuts," Gray said as he rubbed the back of his head with his left hand-since he's carrying a hammer in his right-, trying to ease the throbbing pain he was feeling. "But whatever. Just…make sure that that thing doesn't get close to me," he warned and resumed walking; leaving both Claire and Konoe stood blinking their eyes and clearly looking confused on their spot.

"Hm, funny," Claire spoke as Gray was a couple of steps ahead of her and Konoe – she considered it a safe distance for her to talk to her cat. "Do you think he remembered what happened last night?"

"Nah, it can't be. Mineral Town's Harvest Goddess clearly said that she'd erased his memory of last night's event," the black cat replied nonchalantly.

"He's rubbing the back of his head; the place where you landed on when you ambushed him."

Konoe smirked. "Last time I checked, I've gained…a little weight."

"A little, you say?" Claire tilted her head, staring suspiciously at him. She sighed as said cat's smirk widened. "You're evil."

. TO BE CONTINUED .

A/N: I apologize for doing too much filler chapters. This story got a lot of dialogues compared to my other HM stories and I feel like covering them all-uh, some of them. (n.n); Anyway, the story finally reached Part 10. This will be long. Lol. 8D Thank you for reading until this point! XD