A Greeting

Summary: Thinking that groping was some kind of greeting, Gowther proceeds to greet people that way. Request from Taranodongirl1

Characters: Gowther, King, Meliodas, Diane, Elizabeth

Relationships: King/Diane (Romance), Meliodas/Elizabeth (Romance)

Genre: Humour, Friendship

"Good morning, Gowther." King greeted Gowther, who was sitting at a table in the Tavern, King and Gowther were the only ones down there at the moment. Well Hawk was down there but he was still sleeping so he didn't really count. Diane was outside while Ban was still sleeping in the room he and King shared. While Meliodas and Elizabeth were likely still sleeping too. Neither King nor Gowther could say either which way though, King knew Ban was still asleep because they shared a room, they could both hear Hawk's snores and King had seen Diane was still sleeping from the window of his room but neither had looked inside the room their captain and the princess shared so they might not be asleep, it was hard to tell without looking.

"Good morning, King." Gowther greeted in his monotonous voice getting up from the chair he was sitting in to walk over to the floating fairy.

King watched him, confused. Gowther didn't usually get up to greet someone and he didn't move over to them either, so this was an unusual occurrence.

King's breath caught in his throat as he learned exactly why Gowther was walking towards him. The hand on his chest moved slowly as King's eyes widened and his face flushed. He was so surprised by this he just stayed their sputtering for a good ten seconds.

"Goooowtheeeer!" He exclaimed as Chastiefol transformed into its 2nd form and picked up Gowther throwing him outside the Tavern after it opened the door.

King's shout had woken up Diane and she sat up, looking in the direction of the shout to see the Guardian slam the door closed. She blinked and looked around and spotted Gowther picking himself up. She supposed King had used Chastiefol to throw Gowther over there but didn't really know why, regardless it was clear that Gowther had done something to upset him.

Slightly curious Diane moved over to the window of the Tavern and looked inside to see King, whose face was still a little red and who was glaring at the door. "King?" Diane said to get his attention, his eyes were on her almost instantaneously and his face grew brighter.

"D-Diane, good morning." he greeted giving her a smile, Diane smiled back although King couldn't see it and nodded in her own greeting.

"What did Gowther do, King?" Diane asked him, tilting her head curiously. King froze and began stuttering once more, not wanting to tell Diane what had happened.

"I simply greeted him." Gowther answered for him, Diane's gaze moved to him and King moved over to the window to peer out.

"A greeting?" Diane asked him, she didn't think King would freak out so much over a greeting, so the answer had just served to confuse her more.

"Yes. Like this." Gowther told him placing his hand on her chest, which was reachable since she was practically laying down in order to see in the window.

Diane's eyes widened and King's breath caught in his throat once more. "Goooooowtheeeeeeeeeeeeer!" The two exclaimed as Diane quickly sat up and brought her fist down on top of the doll. King transformed Chastiefol into its spear form while he glared at the pink haired doll.

"I don't understand." Gowther commented tilting his head, befuddled by his companions' reactions, neither of them seemed willing to answer his questions though as they both glared down at him. In fact his question just seemed to upset them before as Diane picked him up, stood up and hurled him far away from the Boar's Hat.

Needless to say everyone they had woken up wasn't very pleased with them and Meliodas had only gotten more irritated once he realised part of the Boar's Hat had been damaged.

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Gowther walked back towards the Boar Hat, once he pulled himself out the hole he had created when he landed, pondering over King and Diane's behaviour. He had just been greeting them but they had acted like he had done something wrong.

He was aware there were several different ways to greet someone, perhaps they just did not like that kind of greeting. Gowther thought it was possible. Gowther had seen many not like a particular form of something despite liking the thing in general.

Thinking that was truly the answer, Gowther decided to greet the next person he saw that day the same way he had greeted the fairy and giantess.

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"Oh, you're back, Sir Gowther." Elizabeth, who was cleaning up the outside of the Boar Hat commented as she saw the doll appear out of the trees. "Are you alright?" Diane had told them that she'd thrown Gowther away, although Elizabeth didn't really know why she had done that, Diane hadn't mentioned.

"I am quite alright, Princess." He replied after a short pause in which he walked up to the Boar Hat. "Good morning." he greeted her as he stepped in front of her.

"Oh, good morn-aaaaaah!" At that moment Gowther placed his hand on her breast and squeezed it. Elizabeth's eyes widened and she let out a scream, hitting Gowther's hand away with the broom she was holding she took a step back and covered her chest.

"Elizabeth! What happened?" Meliodas asked bursting through the door, having heard her scream from inside the Boar Hat.

"She hit me." Gowther stated, his voice as flat as it normally was. His hand still in the position it had been knocked back into.

"Sir Meliodas." Elizabeth said straightening up and looking over at him before realising what Gowther had said. "I'm sorry, Sir Gowther but you…" Elizabeth trailed off in her explanation, not quite sure what to say, placing her hand against the place Gowther had touched her, she tried to think of how to finish the sentence.

She didn't need to say anymore however, as Meliodas had figured out exactly what had happened. "Gowther." Meliodas said his voice much deeper than normal, in the next moment Gowther had vanished, flying far away from the Boar Hat once more.

"Sir Meliodas, don't you think you were a little… harsh?" Elizabeth asked him, looking at where Gowther had been a second before, not knowing where Meliodas had sent him flying.

"Not at all." Meliodas replied, simply and honestly as King watched from the window, nodding his head in agreement to Meliodas' answer, remembering what had happened with Diane earlier that day.

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Gowther returned once more to find a group of four waiting for him. Diane, King, Meliodas and Elizabeth stood outside the Boar Hat watching the Goat Sin, with varying expressions on their faces.

They stood staring at each other before Gowther spoke up, tilting his head questioningly "Why are you angry?"

This question caused yet another long pause which was eventually broken by Elizabeth stepping forward to ask a question of her own. "Sir Gowther, why were you… groping… us?" Elizabeth asked, hesitating slightly to say the word 'groping', it wasn't exactly the kind of language she was entirely used to using herself, although she was used to hearing it.

"It was a greeting." Gowther answered her. The group of four had mixed reactions of surprise and realisation at his answer while Gowther looked at them, wondering why they had reacted in that way.

"Gowther." Meliodas started.

"That's not a greeting!" The other three finished off, much louder than the blonde captain had been.

"I see." Gowther repositioned his glasses, back to where they were before, as the combined yell had landed them askew and messed up his pink hair.

This oneshot is over. Pretty small I know but Taranodongirl1's next request will be quite a bit longer. Although I might do another one shot in between this request and Taranodongirl1's next request.