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"You're going on a job so soon?" Hisui brushed away her loose strands of hair created by the winds. "But you just got back, are you sure you're getting enough rest Natsu?" The two was sitting in the outdoor café of Fairy Tail, with Hisui experiencing her day-off by drinking a chilled cup of juice and talking to her pink-haired friend.

"I did spend a bunch of money lately. I need to earn back the money."

"That's why I didn't want to accept this!" Hisui turned her head around, showing the accessory keeping her hair together.

"it's not too bad, I get to go on adventures."

"If you say so." Hisui took a small sip, sighing contently at the freshness of orange rolling down her throat. "I envy you sometimes, it sounds like you have fun on your jobs. Sitting in my office all day can be tedious at times."

"Then when I come back, I'll tell you about what happened."

"How's that going to help?"

"You always like my stories, right?"

"I do, mainly because you're always so silly."

"Do you want me to tell you or not?" Hisui giggled at Natsu's annoyance."

"Please do." Hisui stifled her last bits of laughter.

"Then it's a promise."

"When are you leaving? What's the job by the way?"

"Saving someone in some cave. I'm leaving tomorrow, I should be back in two days."

"Two days huh? I can wait." Hisui drank more of her juice.

"By the way, what have you been up to? You said you're bored and all but, what have you been doing?"

"For now, it's checking the progress of the train station, the expansion is going smoothly, then I have to sign a few things, talk to people about my ideas about improving the slums. After that, I'm wondering whether I should level parts of the forest."

"Sound's boring."

"Some parts are, I wish that I could be working now but, since everyone else is having a day-off, if I work, it would make my team feel uncomfortable."

"Why?"

"This may not be the best way to put it, I think it still helps explain my reasons. How would you feel if Erza does all the work on a job?"

"I'd get mad, she's taking all the good parts!"

"Never mind…I forget that you exceed the norm. Fine, how do you think that Lucy would feel? It might not be fully accurate, but, I wager that she would feel useless, like she's not doing enough. In my case, me working overtime might make the others feel bad that they're resting. Well, it's most likely paranoia, I might as well take this time to rest as well."

"I don't really understand the complicated stuff…if you say so."

"What am I going to do in these two days? I'm going to be bored to death." Hisui said in an exaggerated way, sprawling on the table, peeking at Natsu's face

"How did you normally deal with it then? You're always spending so much time in your office."

"Well that's…umm I don't know. When I concentrate, Karie says I'm hard to approach. I guess that I don't feel bored if I'm not thinking of it."

"Yeah that happens to me too."

"In any case, I'll be waiting for you to come back, don't you dare try to come late, I hate when scheduling goes wrong."

"I promise." Hisui finished her juice and wore a mischievous smile.

"What happens if you break that promise?"

"I won't."

"I need some insurance if you do, you know, to make sure that you don't come late."

"Fine," Natsu groaned. "I'll...do one thing you say."

"Perfect."

The following day, the sky was a serene blue, little to no clouds blocked the soft sunlight drizzling down to the ground. Once again, Hisui won the race against her alarm, stretching as she climbed out of bed, smiling upon lifting back the curtains to see the calm morning that appealed to everyone. One thing that Hisui wasn't used to in a day like this was the additional wardrobe in the corner of her room. The imposing size of it and the complex carvings of trees made it that much more jarring. Nevertheless, it helped Hisui greatly when she was picking out clothes to wear after her shower.

The cool water as it followed Hisui's bristles to her lower back, refreshing her mind and washing the minuscule amount of weariness from her head—humming as she lathered shampoo to her hair. Stepping out of the shower, Hisui quickly dressed into one of the many dresses occupying her wardrobe fixing her hair shortly after. A simple breakfast with Karie later, Hisui was on her way to her office, feet feeling light and having a faint smile on her face.

Hisui was sorting out her files faster than she normally would, humming as she slotted a folder in the proper spot. The people that she talked to left the discussion with a positive impression. When she completed her work for the day, only an hour had passed since she finished her lunch.

"What happened? You're in an awfully good mood, even this morning, you were livelier than normal." Karie asked, storing away a reference book.

"Nothing much, I made some plans two days from now and I can't wait."

"What is it? To have you so fired up."

"I'm just going to listen to Natsu's stories."

"That really doesn't sound like much, it shouldn't really get you this excited…well, I suppose if it makes you happy, I'm fine with not knowing the exact details, I do have a question however."

"And that is?"

"Out of all the people you spend time with, Natsu appears to be among the more predominate ones, I don't think you've ever spent more time with a guy other than Natsu, is that a coincidence?" Karie asked a question that Hisui herself didn't realise, much less know the answer to. A blank canvas waiting to be painted, Hisui's brush didn't move, her paint was confusion, slowly turning to frustration. Drawing upon nothing useful, Hisui opened her mouth, speaking out her confusion.

"I honestly don't know…if I have to say, he's easy to be around. For someone so frank, he has a mysterious power. Maybe I'm drawn to it, I want to know what it is. Or he's just a fun person to be around. There's even a chance I'm envious of his simple way of thinking, I just can't say for certain. One thing's for sure; I don't hate it."

"Then that's fine isn't it? You followed your heart instead of your brain for once, I don't think that you made the wrong decision."

"Thank You."

It was even more serious the next day, Hisui made the choice in finishing tomorrow's work in one day, hoping that she made enough time for her talk with Natsu. For an outsider, it would seem that the office is in a state of disfunction, columns of documents piled up faster than rain in a storm. However, everything was sorted out neatly for an experienced eye. Using coffee and tea snacks as lunch, Hisui left her office before evening.

"I think that you went overboard today, you barely had any time to rest." Karie chided, throwing some chopped vegetables in pot.

"I want to make sure that I have enough time tomorrow, I can't help it." Hisui handed Karie a bowl of minced meat.

"I don't think that Natsu will have that much time for you, he's quite busy recently." Karie eyed the ornament on Hisui's hair, shaping the meat into a disc shape.

"Didn't he say before? He always has time for friends, even if he doesn't have that many things to say, I can take my time in thinking of my next move. Also, I may have finished the work tomorrow, I'm certain that there will be more delivered when I sit behind my desk."

"I see." Karie slid the meat patties she made into a pan, enjoying the sizzling of its cooking. Karie took out a bag of flour and got to work. Hisui grabbed several eggs, whisked them before finally pouring the eggs into her pan.

"Did we cook too much?"

"Not really, it's around the same amount."

"It looks like a lot."

"That's because you're used to seeing the food split into portions, if you helped with the cooking more often, you would know."

"I can't help it, I'm usually reading something." Hisui flipped her egg around, frowning at the slight burn on her otherwise golden-brown creation. "I won't be able to return Levy's books if I don't."

"Then you shouldn't have borrowed that many." Karie flipped the patties, smirking at Hisui.

"I can't stop Levy when she starts recommending books."

"In any case, your cooking would improve if you helped out more."

"I don't you to tell me."

"I guess that will have to wait." Karie scooped bits of her soup into two small dishes and handed one of them to Hisui. "What do you think?"

"Why do you even bother asking?"

"Well?"

"It's good of course." Hisui smiled, putting more effort in her eggs. When she placed them on a dish, her lips tugged even tighter having seen the results that she wanted.

On the promised day, Hisui took her work to the guild, bringing the recently added workload and a pen with her. She found an empty seat to lay her papers on and got to work, with Karie occasionally bringing refreshments the moment Hisui needs them. Once she was done with one document, Hisui glanced at the door, inspecting the guild for anything pink; her ears were on high alert for sounds that belonged to Natsu; nose tried to detect the faint smell of burning clothes or wood.

As people arrived at the guild, Hisui's pile of work decreased while her nervousness expanded. Each page that she added to the pile of completed work, Hisui's patience was chipped away. Reducing to ashes once the sun started setting. Hisui's friends around her held a worried expression.

"I'm going out for a while." Hisui announced.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Lucy asked.

"Yeah, we're your friends, we can help you with your problems." Levy immediately answered.

"Sorry, I need to do something really quick, I'll be back soon." Hisui broke into a run, pushing pass guildmembers and doing the same with the door. The wind didn't help at all with Hisu's anger, rather, they fanned the flames. Hisui's looked around, but quickly went back inside. A sense of guilt rose at the same time, Hisui felt ashamed for losing herself to emotions, going as far as to push others aside without putting much thought into it.

In the silent night, Hisui lay on her bed. She changed positions ten times already, still can't expel the discomfort. Hisui first ran in her mind at what order will she give Natsu, giggling at a few of them. The happiness was swallowed under the truth.

"Liar…" HIsui turned to her side and laid like that until she fell asleep. Once Hisui was asleep, the flower sitting on the window sill lost a petal, the soft glow dimmed to nothing, turning limp before falling to the ground, touching the cold, lonely floor.

The employees working at Hisui's office felt nothing but awe for the past two days. Today, fear grew in their minds. Hisui's pen scratched blank papers loudly—only to be discarded if she ripped a hole through the medium. Stamping created slight tremors on her desk.

"Hisui, you're scaring the others." Hisui's pen stopped at Karie's word. The maid picked up another ruined piece of paper from the ground. "Don't take it out on others, they've done nothing wrong."

"You can't blame me…well, maybe you can…the point is, I feel like a fool, for getting so excited and not expecting the worst."

"Then that's another lesson you have to learn."

"It's not that easy…" Hisui sighed. "I feel…"

"Betrayed?"

"Nothing that extreme…disappointed I would say. Not at Natsu but, at myself."

"I'm sure he'll be back soon, there really isn't many things that can keep him down."

"I hope you're right about that."

"Although, I will say that you're overreacting, Natsu is only a day last and you're acting like someone was killed in cold blood."

"I think I have the right to be anger at someone that lied to me." Hisui huffed. "I will admit that I didn't control my temper too well."

"You didn't control it at all!" Karie teased. "Everyone asked me to relay messages to you because they were so scared."

"Did I really look that scary?"

"If you compare it to your gentle face that people see all the time, then yes, you looked intimidating. Thankfully, they don't have to see you when you really are angry, your reputation as the kind, caring Princess will disappear in a flash."

"They'll have to accept that I can't stay forgiving all the time. Some people, you need to be rougher with them before they fall in line."

"Then why don't you do the same with Natsu? He does own you a favour now." Hisui contorted into a playful smile.

"Would you like to hear it?"

Three days later, Natsu still hasn't returned. Every day, Hisui came to the guild to check for his arrival, her heart sank each time. For once, Hisui was lagging behind in work, spending most of her time worrying for the dragon slayer. To make up for it, Hisui shot out of bed and grabbed the closet set of clothes she could get and rushed into the showers. Just before she opened the door, Hisui spotted something pink stuck to her window—hope crawled back. Surprising her wishes, she turned around. Two faces that was gone for five days smiled outside her window. Hisui threw open the window at once.

"Where were you two!? Do you have any idea how worried I was? Even though the guild told me you were most likely fine, I still couldn't shake to feeling that something bad happened to you two!"

"See Natsu," Happy snickered. "I told you you're in trouble."

"I know that, I didn't think that it'll be this bad. Sorry Hisui, it took longer than I thought."

"Natsu was flirting with this girl." Happy provided. Hisui froze. She didn't know what to say, her brain was failing at formulating an appropriate response. It was falling back to something much more primal. Seeing Hisui's cold expression, Natsu took a step back while Happy watched with glee.

"Happy! Why did you say that? Now she's going to—"

"Is that so? While I was worried sick…you…you were fooling around with some girl you just met!?"

"Happy was messing with you!"

"Then why don't you tell me what happened? Natsu Dragneel, if nothing happened, you should be able to tell me without any problems, right?"

"Sc—scary!"

"Hurry up, I don't have much time."

"I can't explain in such a—"

"Three…two…"

"I got it! When I found the person in the cave, it was this girl that says she's a fan of me. Then she said she twisted her foot, so I carried her out of the cave. Now that I think about it, it was her that made me late. She kept telling me that she had something to do in a forest, so she asked us to help her. After we were done with one favour, she asked for another."

"Why didn't you refuse her? Your job was done, you had no obligation to carry out her requests."

"Now that you said it…"

"That's why I said Natsu was flirting. When he was carrying Sarah, Natsu touched her butt."

"An accident!"

"What about when you walked in when she was bathing?"

"You set me up!"

"All I said was that I want fish for dinner! No one told you to go to that lake to get fish!"

"That was the closest one!"

"Are you done?" Hisui's cold voice broke Natsu's composure. "I was planning to let you have it easy with my order. But now, I don't see why I should hold back."

"Hi—Hisui-sama, please have mercy!"

"I'll have you, dress up as a girl for three days."

"That's so long!"

"I think that's fair, you were four days late, be grateful that I didn't match it."

"Can I do something else?"

"You're backing out on your promise?"

"I didn't think that I would be late so…"

"Fine, I'll change it."

"Really!?"

"Yes," A venomous smile stuck Natsu. "you'll have to be Gray-san's servant for three days."

"That's even worse!"

"You're still squirming? Then, I'll let you off for now, just remember I still have an order to give you."

"You're the best! Come on Happy, we need to tell the others!"

"Aye sir!"

"Oh and Natsu," Natsu turned back, shocked at seeing Hisui's warm expression. Her jewel-like eyes held only relief; her perfect smile made Natsu speechless. The dull background of Hisui's room made her standout even more, a rainbow in a mundane world. "welcome back."

"Yeah, I won't do that again."

"Passable."

"Huh?"

Thanks for reading! God this must be the worst chapter I put out to date, this was written during my slump so forgive me. I wanted to experiment with Hisui's actions as the days goes on, the result...well you can see for yourself.

I've been so busy lately, I haven't much time to write, but I will get back on the saddle soon(hopefully). I've been thinking about something that I had for the story. At the same time, it's a confession. I don't re-write the chapters until I get the best result—terrible practise I know. So I've been thinking that I can take more time with each chapter and up the quality and get rid of the parts of chapters I'm not too happy with. That does mean I won't update as often but, I think that most people wouldn't mind.

Until then, I hope you enjoyed, have a good day!