I was actually trying my hardest to get these two latest chapters up and ready for Christmas day but the last few days before Christmas I was really ill to the point where moving my fingers was just plain painful. Anyway, it was only on Christmas day I was feeling remotely even a wee bit better hence why the previous chapter seemed so rushed with all the repetitive phrases and such. Anyway, I hope you're all still in the festive spirits because that's wat this chapter is gonna primarily focus on. Still trying to get my writing rhythm so don't expect much more than 3k in terms of chapter length. Anyway, I hope you all had good holidays and I'd like to thank all of you for the favourites, likes and reviews over the last year and a half I've been doing Fanfiction, I know I'm not the greatest when it comes to sticking to schedules but thanks for putting up with the inconsistency and the constant support

"KAGURA TELL YOUR BOYFRIEND TO CLOSE THE DAMN DOOR IT'S BOLTIC OUT THERE!"

Kagura's face adopted a crimson glow to it upon hearing her guild master's words, and not wanting to attract any more attention to herself than her guild master had already done so the swordswoman ushered Natsu in to an empty booth doing her best to put up with all the 'you go girl' and wolf whistles. So, caught up in doing so she completely didn't even notice the multitude of bags hanging from his arms.

Eventually when they felt they were out of ears reach they began talking again, "So what do you mean…are those present?" Kagura began but her question quickly deviated when she finally noticed all the bags and in particular an average sized box. Natsu nervously nodded he knew if he worded this incorrectly it could put him in an even deeper hole than he was already in.

"I told you earlier, I have a lot to make up for; I broke my promise to you, the time we spent together we were each other had to family and I wouldn't trade that time together for anything" Natsu began explaining in an even tone before giving the swordswoman one of his infectious smiles which in turn caused her to smile. She definitely had to agree with Natsu, the couple of months they spent together was the happiest she had been in a long time and Natsu was the closest thing to family she had.

"As much as I say I'm sorry and as much as you say that me being here and you forgive I can't believe it myself, which is why as shallow as it seems I got you a gift for every birthday I missed, and then a few for the holidays" Natsu continued scratching his head sheepishly causing Kagura to stifle a laugh. "You're right it does sound shallow, even if I was mad at you buying me things wouldn't have been the right move…" Kagura started but paused when she saw lower his head.

Then reaching over she took the Christmas jumper and slipped it on, before whispering "But I appreciate the sentiment all the same" she knew she shouldn't have but she also tonight may have been her one chance to see if what she felt back then was still just that or something more so in an act her guildmates would deem far too daring for her character she gave Natsu a peck on the lips immensely surprising the Salamander.

This time it was Natsu's face which was beat red which Kagura took as a proud achievement and seeing that he was struggling to form words she giggled before pointing up revealing some mistletoe. "You really have never celebrated the holidays if you don't know the tradition about kissing under the mistletoe" Kagura said in a very amused manner which was followed up with her very rare bright smile.

"S-so what you wanna do with all these presents, you wanna open them now?" Natsu asked stuttering a bit at the start. "Well I don't see how anything you could have gotten me could be better than you…*BARK*" Kagura stopped talking as did most of the guild upon hearing the noise causing the dragonslayer to smirk. "Oh, she's finally awake" Natsu said in a childish tone as he lifted the box onto the table before removing the lid to reveal a….

"OH, MY GO YOU GOT ME A PUPPY THIS IS THE BEST PRESENT EVER, SHE'S SO CUTE, I'M GONNA WALK HER AND FEED HER AND CALL HER SQUISHY AND SHE WILL BE MY SQUISHY!" Kagura suddenly squealed out in the most girl way possible and in the most girly fashion anyone had ever seen her. Immediately everyone gathered round the booth to gaze at small animal. In terms of looks it had small copper paws while the rest of its legs and body was primarily black. A single black stipe ran down its forehead while the rest of its face was white dote with smudges of black here and there. (Imagine a badger as a puppy trust me it's cute af)

Even the guilds avid cat lover Milliana had to admit that the pup looked cute, "I've never seen Kagura get this attached to an animal or thing for that matter, I don't know what's cuter her or the puppy" Milliana admitted, it was nice to see this side of her usually stoic and serious friend. "So, what you going to call it?" Natsu asked with a smile on his face as he watched the swordswoman and pup playing together. "You weren't serious when you meant squishy were you?" Natsu then followed up with another question although from the tone of his voice it was obvious it was a rhetorical question.

However, his rhetorical question caused for quite the adorable site, "What's wrong with squishy?" Kagura asked before pouting making everyone around them burst into either a fit of laughter which was the majority or in the minorities case awe's.

"Well it isn't what I would say is a dog's name, what about you guys?" Natsu admitted before turning to get the opinion of Kagura's guildmates. "As an idea for a pet name I like it, but as a name for a dog I don't think it works, sorry Kagura" Milliana said scratching the back of her head. Looking around the group Kagura could see everyone had more or less the same opinion. "Trying using some of its features to give her a name, like her copper paws, or…" however before Risley could continue Kagura instantly thought of a name she fell in love with.

"Smudge"

"Huh?" Natsu questioned not catching what Kagura had said even with his advanced hearing, "Smudge that's what I'll call her; now that I've said it and I've seen her she can't be anything else" Kagura repeated with a genuinely happy expression plastered across her face. "I have one question though, where'd you get the puppy Natsu?" Milliana brought up peaking everyone's curiosity. "Milliana brings up a good point, how'd you find such a well-maintained puppy in such a short span of time?" Kagura asked curiously.

"Well believe it or not it was just on my way over here, I heard some whimpering coming from down an alleyway and decided to check it out" Natsu said in an even tone as he reached out and gently pet the dog on the head. "I found her in perfect condition albeit a little hungry and cold in a box that said please take care of, free to good home" the pinkette said as the dog began to settle down and fall asleep.

"I didn't even know if you liked animals or not but I couldn't just leave her there, I thought if push comes to shove then I'll take her but I don't think there will be an issue there" Natsu said in an amused tone especially when he saw Kagura subconsciously tighten her grip slightly on the puppy when he mentioned about him taking it.

"AAAAWWWWEEEEEE!"

"I knew you were a nice guy Mr. Dragneel but that's just really sweet" the master of mermaid heel said with a smirk when she saw Natsu blush slightly but his expression darkened slightly. "Yeah well there's a lot everyone doesn't know about me" the pinkette said in a completely neutral tone before getting up and walking away.

Kagura gave a sympathetic look in Natsu's direction knowing that whatever he meant had something to do with whatever he was gonna tell her later on. "Give him a few minutes, he's been through quite a bit I'm not sure on all the details but from what I now it's more than any of you could understand" Kagura said in a saddened tone as she absentmindedly stroked the sleeping pup in her arm.

5 minutes later

After a few minutes or so had passed Kagura left the sleeping pup in the care of one of her fellow guild mates so she could go see what was up with Natsu. Luckily the pinkette wasn't far and was only sitting on the bench outside her guild's lodgings. The snow had already made a fine white layer across the flower capital of Fiore.

"Can we talk?" Kagura asked as she took her seat down beside Natsu, "Sure, you wanna start, or will I?" the pinkette replied before letting out a sigh, the temperature in the air evident by his now visible breath. "I have a question or two I want answered so I'll start" Kagura said turning to make sure she was facing the dragonslayer.

"Why were you on Tenrou Island seven years ago, when the majority of fairy tail disappeared?" Kagura asked surprising Natsu slightly before causing a puzzled expression to make its way across his face while he had basically told he a modernised version of his life it was essentially a lie.

"Well right off the bat there I'm just gonna have to come clean and tell you the truth" Natsu said resulting in a sense of fear creeping in for Kagura. "I'm not the person I told you I am, I am but I'm not him" Natsu said in a saddened tone greatly confusing Kagura. "What do you mean Natsu, how can you be you and not you at the same time?" now the swordswoman was growing concerned at her friend's words.

"I don't belong in this world, I'm not from this world; what would you say if I told you I'm actually 425 years old?" Natsu asked with no trace of a lie in his words, his tone and expression completely serious as he faced Kagura. Kagura, as absurd as it sounded she couldn't find any fault in his words. Suddenly Natsu got up and took two steps forward, "earlier you said you believed in me because I was so special to you, even if I have no rite I'm asking you here and now once more for that trust to at least hear me out" the dragonslayer said in a strong voice upon turning to face Kagura and extending his hand to her.

"Do you trust me…Kagura?" the dragonslayer asked in compassionate tone accompanied with a smile. Placing her own smaller hand in his Kagura smiled in response "With my life". "Well for starters I wasn't lying when I was born over 400 hundred years ago, in fact it was around the time of the dragon civil war I mean it's the most solid piece of evidence I have for you, when was the last time an actual dragon was seen in this day and age" Natsu explained with his usual fanged grin making Kagura think he had a point there.

"I suppose you have a point, the dragon civil war or shortly after that time is the last documented sighting of a dragon bar Acnologia" Kagura said unaware that the mention of the black dragon's name caused a frown to appear on Natsu's face. "Another thing, Acnologia isn't evil she's actually my friend Lilliana, if anything Acnologia is like another personality that my brother is using to control her" Natsu revealed causing a look of shock to spread across her face. "She has a good bit of control over the form but he has some sort of emergency fail safe that caused her to go nuts, that's why she tried to destroy Tenrou Island" Natsu continued.

"Wait rewind how are you still alive if you're over 400, you can't be immortal are you?" Kagura asked making Natsu nodded in understanding. "That's actually relevant to the rest of the story, but to understand that you also need to know who my brother is…Zeref, Zeref Dragneel" Natsu then spent the next ten minutes explaining about his life four hundred years ago, how Zeref brought him back as a demon, Lili sealed him away and his awakening as well as anything else she wanted to know which wasn't much else.

"Wow that's a lot to take in, you've got a lot riding on your shoulders" Kagura said as emphatically as possibly. "Yeah even after hearing myself say it I know it would sound crazy to anyone…" "I believe you" Kagura interrupted the pinkette defiantly making him go wide eyed. "You understand that what I've told you, you can't tell anyone else; me being Zeref's brother, my past none of it?" Natsu asked just to make sure.

"I know, it's still hard to believe that someone like you is related to the Dark wizard Zeref though, you're such polar opposite" Kagura said with a kind smile alleviating any worries Natsu may have had. "So, the fact that we're related doesn't bother you?" Natsu replied with a small smile before Kagura got up and placed her hand on the centre of the pinkette's chest.

"I have no rite to judge you, we don't get to choose our family Natsu; blood may be thicker than water but when it comes to family do blood ties really matter?" the swordswoman said causing the dragonslayer to smile.

"Now if you don't mind, we've got holidays to celebrate" the purple haired woman said in a kind tone before giving Natsu the brightest she could give him and dragging him back into the lodgings to continue the festivities.

"Okay good you guys are back, Milliana just found a game she all wants us to play and since there's no games tomorrow seems like a great time to do it" Arana said usher the duo over to the table Milliana, Risley, Luna the guild master and herself sat at along with the sleeping pup under the table.

"What sort of game, the last game Milliana wanted us to play involved naming all different species of cats…and every time we couldn't we had to take a shot" Kagura said with a sigh, everyone bar Milliana that took part that night ended up drunk. "I found this when I was looking around town today" Milliana said with a smile as she held the game up in the air causing the group to quirk a brow at the cat like woman.

"You want us to play Jenga?" Luna asked sceptically thinking her guild member had picked up the wrong game…that was until she saw the mischievous glint in Milliana's eyes. "Sort of, but this is Jenga with a twist; each block has a rule written on it and whatever block you pull out you must follow the rule on it" the cat lady said with a mischievous giggle.

"Rules can include but are not limited to kissing the person to either side of you, downing the contents of your drink and my favourite, the removal of an unspecified number of items of clothing" Milliana said before bursting into laughter making everyone look at her like she was insane.

The next few hours of drinking a game playing could be claimed nothing short of chaotic, from the weird rules to the even more insane forfeits. The drinking helped sway almost everyone's judgement after a couple of goes. However, let it be said and known that never in his life to this point or at any future point that Natsu had ever seen someone use a pepper shaker in such an erotic manner as Milliana had.

Nor did the dragonslayer predict Kagura to be so flexible and skilled at freestyle pole dancing, he seemed to get off the lighter of everyone one with his rules or at least that's what he was thinking until he pulled his next block. "Truth?" the pinkette half slurred out in curiosity resulting in new life springing up in Milliana "Oh turn it awournd" she slurred out while wobbling side to side in her seat with a goofy grin plastered on her face.

Doing as he was told the dragon slayer's eyes widened when he saw what he had to reveal was, "Let's see" before he could do anything Luna snatched the brick from his hand and read the question thing on the other side. "Kiss one person in the group that you would have sex with…well looks like it was a good choice to have at least one guy in the group tonight" Luna said in an amused tone before it was followed by 'ooooohhhhhssss' and 'aaaaaahhhhhsss'.

"Look dere's more" Arana pointed out as she took the block from her master, "Special forfeit, whoever forfeits must tell everyone present about their first time!" Arana said in as shocked tone as she could in her intoxicated state. The forfeit made her go more than a little red as well as the others, Natsu on the other hand knew immediately what he had to do; because for one he had been sealed up that many times for that long he never had a first time to begin with.

Everyone no had their attention on the profusely sweating dragonslayer, he knew if Lilli ever caught wind of any of this he was such a dead man and that wasn't even an exaggeration they both had marked each other just never got to the next stage. So steeling himself Natsu for the second time that night kissed Kagura but he this time found himself much more lost than before and what he meant only to be a simple peck lasted a good 30 seconds.

"…..…."

"…..…."

"…..…."

"You sure you two don't wanna just go upstairs now?" Luna teased bursting into laughter when she saw the duo turning a bright shade of scarlet. "Hmm I think it's time to call it a night, Mr. Dragneel if you feel you're I no shape to get back to your own lodgings then you're more than welcome to stay here if as long as you don't mind bunking with Kagura here" Luna said slyly as she noticed the man still had somewhat of a sure footing but was still a bit shaky.

"Thanks for the offer, but if it all the…ugh" Natsu started but soon found himself weighed down on the floor by a purple haired swordswoman who was now teary eyed. "You have to stay!" Kagura said in a saddened tone as she buried her head in Natsu chest. "Kagura" all the dragonslayer could do was utter her name in a sympathetic tone.

"please I'm scared, I don't want to wake up tomorrow with you not there; with you disappearing again, so please just stay with me" Kagura practically pleaded on the verge of tears. Seeing her as she was now it reminded Natsu of the day he found her, how scared and fragile she felt back then did she feel when he… "Okay I'll stay, let's get your stuff and smudge up to your room" the dragonslayer said with a kind smile as he affectionately patted Kagura's head causing her eyes to light up.

It only took a few minutes to shift everything up to Kagura's room and being the gentleman he was Natsu stepped out of room to allow for the swordswoman to change and when he came back he was thankful that she had chosen nightwear that was quite baggy and not very provocative. "I'm just gonna sleep on the couch ok?" Natsu said sheepishly while holding a blanket in his arm but as he turned to make his way to the mentioned item of furniture he felt a tug on his sleeve.

"Kagura?"

"Sleep with me"

Chapter end

Well there you go not as holiday orientated as I imagined but I imagined to incorporated some elements in it. The whole block thing was a game me and a group of twenty people played at uni except ours was explicitly drinking but we have had the idea of doing other rules and stuff like that. Anyway, this chapter has most definitely made this story an immediate priority on my update list. And I'm just gonna say this here Kagura s not asking Natsu to straight up have sex with her. Other than that hope you enjoyed the chapter and till next time next update most likely Angel and Dragon(re-write)