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"Hello" - normal talking

'Hello' - thoughts

Chapter 27 - Love (II)

A vague feeling of uneasiness awoke Mirajane from her sleep. She yawned and her hand blindly searched around on the nightstand for the clock. Looking at its glowing limbs, she realized it was barely past midnight. Seeing how it was still night, she closed her eyes and tried to go back to sleep.

'Wait, where is Naruto?' she asked herself when she realized that she could not feel the warmth of his body enveloping her like usual.

She groaned tiredly but she pushed the covers away and sat up from her bed. Recalling the reason she woke up in the first place, her steps quickened as she left the room. Her instincts were telling her that something was not right. When she arrived in the living room, she noticed the light coming through the half-opened door of the bathroom. Quietly, she went there pushed it open.

With his upper body naked and bending over the sink, Naruto was splashing with cold water on his face.

"Naruto?"

She had called out softly but, at her voice, he jumped up startled to the other end of the bathroom and a Rasengan instantly appeared in his palm. His eyes were wide from how badly he had been startled and his heart was beating as if to jump out of his chest.

"Fuck!" he involuntarily cussed. "You scared the shit out of me!"

The sight of him comically jumping like a scaredy-cat was amusing but Mirajane didn't feel like laughing when he saw the expression on his face.

"Are you, alright, baby?"

Naruto extinguished the Rasengan in his hand and let out a drawn-out sigh. He rubbed at his face with his palms and said:

"Why are awake at his hour?" he asked, avoiding her question.

"I had a feeling something was not right. Hard to explain it. I couldn't go back to sleep. Are you ok?"

Naruto was inwardly amazed at what she said. Her intuition was something to be scared of. It only went to prove how deeply connected the two of them were. He came to her and took her in his arms, burying his still wet face in the crook of her neck, making her shudder a little from how cold he was when he touched her.

"You can talk to me, Naruto. Whatever is troubling you, you know that I'm always here for you," she said when she realized how tightly were his arms wrapped around her. She too hugged him and she caressed the back of his head gently, trying to comfort him.

"It's nothing much. Just a nightmare. But thank you," he said but he kept his face buried in the crook of her neck, taking comfort in the floral scent of her hair and the gentle way she was caressing him.

"Come, let's not stay here, it's getting chilly," Mirajane said and led him to the living room. She went to the kitchen and then, in no time, she came back with 2 cups of steaming hot tea before taking a seat on the sofa next to him.

Mirajane did not insist on him saying more about what he had dreamt about. Naruto loved that part of her: she never pushed him when he didn't feel like talking about something. She was very understanding. However, exactly because of that, most of the time, he ended up telling her by himself what was on his mind. By giving him the space he needed, she made him feel the urge to get closer. Therefore, he told her about the visions.

Until then, Naruto had told her everything about his past world - the Elemental Nations - and the way his life ended in the Blood Prison and how he arrived in Earthland. However, he had never told her that the Box of Ultimate Bliss had tried once, around three years ago, to influence him by giving him 2 visions about his past life. The reason for that was that when that happened, they were not together as a couple. They weren't as close as they were now. Furthermore, they were at the Akane resort, on a holiday; he did not want to spoil the mood. After several years passed and with the Box not trying to contact him again, Naruto stopped thinking about it. It was only recently, around 2 months ago, that he got the SS-class mission of investigating Acnologia and he realized that the Dragon was looking for the Box.

That said, it was the second night when the Box pulled him into another vision about the Elemental Nations. Naruto had long since washed his hands off Konohagakure - after all, he had chosen to live with Mirajane in Earthland instead of returning to the Elemental Nations when he saw Sasuke attacking the village to get his revenge - but seeing the entire world succumb to the power of a godlike woman and the enormous god tree that covered the entire planet had left him shaken to the core.

"Are you sure these are not just dreams but visions that show the reality? No matter how I look at it, a tree growing to that size and taking over an entire planet... looks like something out of a fairy tale." Mirajane asked.

Naruto scratched at his hair with both of his hands in distress.

"I don't know... but they were too realistic. And it's not like something like that is impossible in theory. We had legends about the Sage of the Six Paths wielding godly power." Naruto said and his eyes became glazed as he recalled his fight against Pain.

"The leader of that terrorist organisation that I've told you about, Pain, had the bloodline of the Sage of the Six Path and he had inherited his eyes - the Rinnegan. The power of those eyes was unlike anything I've ever seen. He single-handedly destroyed the most powerful military force in my former world and even after fighting against several thousands of shinobi, he still had enough strength in him to defeat me, my giant summoned creatures and even the most powerful demon out of the nine bijuu - the Kyuubi. He made some sort of mini-planet which entrapped my demonic form in it. I would've died if it hadn't been for a chakra remnant of my so-called father taking control of the demon again and restoring the seal. I managed to pull a victory over Pain by a fluke. Thinking about how powerful that guy was, I can only imagine that the legends about the Sage of the Six Paths were not just legends... still, it was said that the Sage was a man, not a woman..." he trailed off, unsure of what to make of it. (1)

Mirajane didn't know what to say at that. She had no idea what words of comfort she could give. What could one say to someone who had witnessed his former world being destroyed? She could only stay silent and listen to him, help him unload the worries in his heart.

"What troubles me the most is that Acnologia seems to be looking for the Box of Ultimate Bliss... and if that is not enough, the demon that had been sealed inside of me at birth is now inside the Box too. It's not dead. It became part of that cursed Box."

After he said that, the two of them sipped on their tea in silence. After telling her about everything that's been plaguing him, he felt as though a weight was lifted off his chest.

"Have you considered the idea of using your Take Over magic to subdue those demons in the future?" Mirajane asked out of the blue, startling him.

"Can't say I haven't..." he said in hesitation "But that's not a risk I'm willing to take. Last time, I barely managed to escape from the Box's control after a few months of fighting against Satori's possession. Who's to say the other demons in the Box are not even stronger? I don't wanna imagine the result of failing in taking over them..."

"You might think it's cowardly of me but... but I don't wanna lose what I have already. What we have. You're my lover and we're going to have a baby girl too. Having a family is like a dream come true for me. I will never give that up for anything else in the world. I can't risk losing any of you. I can't. I won't."

Mirajane felt her heart tremble at his words. She could feel how much Naruto loved her and their still unborn baby. She was overwhelmed. She took his hand in hers and sat up.

"Let's go to bed, Naruto."

When they arrived in the bedroom, she turned on the lamp on the nightstand and then she gently pushed him to sit on the bed. He did not try to resist her. But when he saw the look in her eyes, his breathing quickened. He let himself fall on his back and Mirajane crawled on top of him. She straddled his waist and his eyes couldn't help falling on her legs where the nightdress she was wearing rode up, exposing her creamy thighs. In the feeble yellow light of the lamp, the shapely muscles of her thighs and the glow reflected from her freshly shaved legs looked even more alluring than usual.

He was going to compliment her, to let her know his appreciation and praise her beauty but his words were left stuck in his throat when he saw her grabbing the lower end of her nightdress and starting to slowly pull it over her head. He had lost count how many times he had seen her naked form before but every time he felt just as excited as the first time. He couldn't understand it himself. They've been living together for almost 2 months and except for the days when she was bedridden after Raven Tail's attack, they've been making love nearly every day. They were deeply in love with each other and their libido was very high too; but since she became pregnant, the two often went at it even multiple times a day. Their thirst for each other was unprecedented.

As inch by inch of her skin was being slowly revealed, the fire in his belly grew stronger and stronger. He felt himself harden as her black panties came into view and he couldn't help bucking against her when he saw her soft abs and the underside of her breast. A low groan of desire escaped from his mouth and Mirajane unconsciously ground herself against him, eliciting a sharp intake of air from both of them.

Impatiently, his hands quickly came up and tried to pull her nightdress off but Mirajane's stern voice made him freeze.

"Naruto. No touching."

The way she said it had him shiver in excitement. It was almost physically painful for him to restrain himself, but he decided to listen. She always rewarded him thoroughly if he managed to hold himself back. But his resolve reached its breaking point when her nightdress was finally lifted off her head and her breasts were finally unveiled. The shadow made by the pale light of the lamp in the valley of her breast made them look even more erotic than usual, even more enticing. Her pink nipples were already hard and pointy, showing that she was just as excited as he was.

Looking down at him and seeing how his control was on the point of collapsing had her core gushing. He was known as "the Raven" and the entire world recognized his strength as being in the leagues of the Wizard Saints... the feeling of dominating such a powerful man turned her on like nothing else.

"Look at you. What would people say if they saw the mighty Raven shaking like that, at my back and call?" Mirajane said with a derogatory voice.

"Pathetic!" she said and ground against him hard, making him let out an involuntary moan.

When she heard him moan, it was like a switch was flipped inside of her. She bent down and her lips crashed against his in a rough kiss. Her hips started to grind against his slowly but the more intense the kiss grew, the faster she started to grind too. She felt herself almost reaching her peak so she quickly pulled away, not wanting to completely lose her head. In this game they were playing now, she was supposed to be the one to make him lose himself first, not the other way around. She knew that the moment she failed to live up to her role, their little game would become null and he would ravage her. It was an unwritten rule between the two of them. At that thought, her pussy throbbed. She was very tempted to just 'fail' and let him have his way with her instead. But when she looked at his flushed face and his blue eyes sparkling with want, her inner sadist won over her lust. At least temporarily.

Mirajane was normally as far as one could be from a sadist. At least that's how outside people perceived her to be. She was kind and lovable and always had a pure smile on her face. There were moments, however, when that secret side of her showed its fangs - like during the incident with the slave traders in Hargeon... or like now, when they were alone together and she could let loose.

She grabbed his wrists with her hands and pinned them above his head. Normally, he was much stronger than her and he could pull away easily if he wanted but, at that moment, he could not resist her. Her big breasts dangled above his face and he wanted nothing more than to kiss, bite and suck on those perky nipples but one look at the evil smile on her face and he knew she would not let him do it.

"Play nice, and I might just let you have your turn too," she said before bending down and pecking him on the cheek. She whispered:

"Remember, no touching."

She nipped at his ear, making him shudder, and her lips started to travel down his neck towards his muscled chest, kissing and biting along the way. She licked and kissed her way down his abs, making his lust soar the lower she went. She quickly pulled his pants and boxers down and her dainty hand grabbed his dick. It was throbbing so hard that it looked like it was going to erupt any moment then.

"Just look at how hard you are," she said in amazement, her hand lightly squeezing his dick. "You're so hard that it's pulsating... it looks painful."

She moved her long white hair out of the way and flipped it onto her other shoulder as she bent down and looked up at him.

"Do you need my help? Should I kiss it to make it better?" she asked innocently and planted a kiss on his bulbous head.

He arched into her and his hands gripped the bedsheets, ripping them apart from how hard he was pulling at them in his desperation to not grab her head and fuck the living daylights out of her.

"Tell me, what you want, Naruto," she teased as she started to slowly pump his dick with both of her hands. "I won't know until you tell me."

When he looked at her, he could see she was drunk with pleasure from the feeling of control she had over him. Her face was feverish and her baby blue eyes were darkened with lust.

"Suck me," he said through gritted teeth.

"You forgot the magic word," Mirajane said.

She giggled perversely and her grip on his dick tightened, making him cringe in both pain and pleasure.

"Mira!" he cried out in a strangled voice.

But her grip on his cock loosened and the ever close feeling of release eluded him once again.

"You little-" he started to say and glared at her but she only smirked at him.

"The magic word," she said, her eyes burning with obscene desires as she watched him quivering under her.

He gritted his teeth and swore to pay her back for this but he was too far gone to resist her at this point.

"Please!" he bit out.

Unexpectedly, hearing him begging made her moan and one of her hands went to her pussy, her fingers pressing against her clit hard, in a fruitless attempt to quench her release. But it was fruitless. With one hand pumping his dick and the other one rubbing herself hard, her body started to shake and convulse as an orgasmic bliss took over her.

The feeling of her jerking him off and the sight of her shaking as she orgasmed pushed him over the edge too. She had been torturing him, keeping him just on the edge of cumming the entire time. When he finally came, he burst all over hand and tummy, painting her in white.

For a few long seconds, none of them said a thing as the euphoria they felt made them unable to think of anything else but the pleasure wrecking through their bodies.

"Look at how much you came," she said and brought her hand up to show him. "You pervert. What should your punishment be for that?"

"Punishment?" Naruto asked and a dark grin made its way on his face. "I'll show you punishment!" he said and he suddenly sat up and pushed her down.

"H-Hey!" she cried out but it fell on deaf ears.

He grabbed her shoulders and turned her around, with her stomach on the bed. His hands moved to her hips and pulled her ass up in the air. Mirajane pushed against the mattress trying to stand on all fours but one of Naruto's powerful hands came on top of her head and roughly pushed her back down, leaving only her ass up in the air.

"You had your fun with me, now it's my turn to have my way with you," he said and in spite of herself, Mirajane felt her pussy throb at his dark tone.

He grabbed her panties and tore them apart, exposing her pink glistening pussy lips. Seeing how smooth and soft they looked, he felt the urge to bury his face in it and eat her out but he wanted to teach her a lesson, to pay her back for earlier. His cock back at full mast, he lined it at her entrance, about to push himself in.

"W-Wait!" she begged "I just came, I'm too sensi- Aaah!" she cried out as his dick plunged inside her in one go. She moaned in ecstasy and she threw her head back when she felt him hit the deepest part of her pussy. It was both painful and pleasurable but the mix of the two was intoxicating.

Leaving only his head in as he went out, he slammed his dick back into her, his hips making a slapping noise as they collided against her big muscular ass. From dominating him as though she was his mistress, she was now being dominated by him as though she was his sex slave. Still pushing down with one hand on her head and another pressing against her lower back, he fucked her into the mattress so hard that the entire bed started rocking away from the wall, towards the middle of the room.

She felt him raise the hand that had been pressing against her lower back and then, a sharp pain came from her ass as he slapped the side of her asscheeks. The stinging sensation of pain made her pussy clench around his dick like a vice and, against her better judgement, she found herself moaning and crying out:

"MORE! Give me more!"

Another resounding slap was heard and she moaned again loudly in masochistic pleasure. She could no longer keep her ass up and she fell flat against the mattress. The new position made her pussy grip his cock even tighter and he let out a guttural moan. He let himself down with his chest on top of her back and his hands snaked beneath her, grabbing at her large breasts.

"Look at you moaning like a shameless slut." he rasped in her ear. He squeezed her breasts in his palms and pinching her nipples between his fingers while relentlessly pistoning his dick into her pussy.

His dirty talk on top of everything he was doing to her body was like pouring gasoline on a fire. She lost all semblance of control and her sweet moans and cries of pleasure started to ring out freely, without any inhibitions.

One of his hands left her breasts and travelled down to her pussy where he started to rub her clit.

"Aaah!" she cried out again in pleasure.

Her moans of rapture were turning him on more than words could tell.

"So close! Fuck! Fuck me, baby!" she almost yelled. Her entire body felt like it was on fire and despite cumming only a few minutes before, she was about to explode again.

Urged by her moans and cries, he slammed into her harder, her big and toned ass rippling from the strength of his strikes. He suddenly bit on the side of her neck and his fingers pinched her clitoris at the same time. Because of how close to the edge she was, it proved to be her undoing.

"Ohhh! Aaah!" she cried out one last time and her world went white as her release came out explosively.

He reckoned he could've lasted a bit longer but when he felt the walls of her pussy vigorously squeezing his dick and the way her entire body started to shudder and convulse beneath his, he lost it too. Spurt after spurt burst inside her, only intensifying her ecstasy. Their breathing came out in gasps as they were both lacking air from how intense their orgasms were. A small pool of viscous white liquids was formed on the bed where they were joined, Mirajane being the one responsible the most for it when she came.

He rolled to the side and let himself on his back, looking at the ceiling absent-mindedly, his mind fuzzy with pleasure. Mirajane was still keeping her eyes closed, lightly shivering every now and then because of the post-orgasmic bouts of pleasure that shook her body.

Wordlessly, after a while, she shuffled closer to him and laid her head on his chest. He hugged her tighter in his arms and their legs entangled with each other. The rhythmic sound of his heartbeats and the warmth of his body soon lulled her into a state of complete relaxation. Right before falling asleep, she heard him whisper:

"I love you, Mira."

Even after she fell asleep, her lips remained in the form of a smile. Her last conscious thought was:

'I love you, Naruto.'

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The first train from Magnolia Town to Era left very early in the morning, just a few minutes before 6 am. Naruto and Mirajane were so exhausted from their lovemaking the previous night that they almost did not make it on time. However, they had to take that train because the next one was a few hours later, around noon. If they left Magnolia at noon, by the time they arrived in Era, most shops would have already closed. So they had no other choice than to leave very early.

Naruto was jumping from one rooftop on another just like he used to do it in Konoha when he was a young teenager. It brought him a feeling of nostalgia. Unlike Konoha where something like this was common, jumping from one rooftop to another was not normal in Magnolia. Several angry yells could be heard after he passed, those people that were awake at that hour cussing up a storm. He merely tightened his grip on Mirajane's thick thighs - she was on his back - and continued on his way. As for why he was carrying her on his back... Mirajane couldn't walk properly by herself. She could walk at a normal pace but she could definitely not run or jump like him from one rooftop on another because the rough sex from the previous night had left her too sore and weak for that.

Since they were in a rush to catch the train, Naruto offered to carry her there. Normally, she would have refused - she didn't like to be seen like that in public - but due to how terrible the weather was and due to how early it was, there was hardly anyone on the streets. And now, she was on his back. Her head was resting on his shoulder, her arms were wrapped around his neck and her legs around his waist.

"Last night you fucked me so good," Mirajane suddenly said in his ear, out of nowhere, and Naruto slipped and almost fell off from the rooftop's ridge.

"Shit, Mira, that came out of nowhere!" Naruto yelled, making her burst into laughter.

Even after arriving at the train station, she was still giggling at his expense. After quickly buying their tickets, they jumped into the train and went to their designated seats. After leaving their raincoats in the hanger, they sat down. It was very early though and they were the only passengers in their carriage so, instead of sitting on her seat, she sat in his lap. She grinned at his wary expression.

"Don't worry, I won't try anything naughty... unless you want me to?"

He groaned and she giggled again.

"Are you sure your first Satan Soul was not a succubus? You're insatiable."

"I didn't hear you complaining about it yesterday." she quipped.

The lovemaking session from the previous night was not their first time doing it yesterday. There was almost no morning without them getting frisky and jumping at each other.

"I'm just surprised. I'd have to be insane to actually complain about that," he said, also smiling, and pressed his lips against hers.

When they parted, she nestled herself more comfortably in his lap and let her head rest in the crook of his neck. His manly scent was oddly relaxing.

"I think my pregnancy messed with my hormones. Porlyusica-san said that it's normal for some women to experience an increase in their libido during their pregnancy."

"Wait, you're talking about our sex life with that old lady?" Naruto asked weirded out.

"Of course I do! She's a doctor. And I had to tell her exactly what's happening to make sure there's nothing wrong with me."

Though he was still peeved at the idea of others knowing about such intimate parts of their private life, he didn't pursue the matter. If it was for the sake of their baby, it didn't matter.

"She said it's normal so I'm not worried. Apparently, this will last for half a year at most. After that, my hormone levels should come back to normal. It won't even be safe to have sex in the last trimester anymore...so I gotta enjoy it while I still can, right?" she said and grinned impishly at him when she felt something poking at her from beneath.

But she didn't continue to stir his lust up. She truly was sore from the previous night and they were on a train too. She nuzzled his neck and closed her eyes. They got very little sleep the previous night due to their erotic activities. It was best she tried to get some rest during their few hours long trip on the train before they arrived in Era.

Little did they know that, by the time they arrived in Era, the entirety of Magnolia Town had been sucked in an Anima, disappearing from their world.

AN: A surprise lemon between Naruto and Mirajane in this chapter - I tried to write a sex scene more graphic than the last time. Don't worry, the plot will start moving again from the next chapter but, as I said at the beginning of the fic, this story is focused primarily on Naruto and his relationship with Mirajane. Therefore, once in a while, chapters like this one where they just spend their time together will appear too.

(1) I know Nagato's Rinnegan eyes were not his - he was not born with them, they were Madara's - but Naruto doesn't know that. He had died a few weeks after Pain's attack on Konoha so he had not lived long enough to meet Madara and learn the truth.

Hope you liked the chapter. Till next time!

(Not an English native and I have no beta either. Sorry for any mistakes I may have made.)