ELA C.3

Elma's eyes slowly open after a good night sleep. The dazed dragon regains her sight to see what was in front. Who knew that the first person she would see was Kano himself. She could have sworn that she was facing the ceiling before going to sleep. The reason for that was that they were both embracing each other during the whole night. Kano was sleeping soundly with a smile on his face. Elma was embarrassed at first, but she had to admit, Kano looked cute with his sleeping face.

Elma smiles as her cheeks turn into a pink shade. "Kano looks even cuter like this!" She whispered, hoping not to wake him up. She pokes his cheek with her finger so she could touch his soft cheeks. "Hehe, poke poke." She giggles.

It wasn't long until Kano opened up his eyes and found Elma in his arms. He blushes hard when he noticed that their faces were a few inches away from each other. Out of urge, he decided to glance at Elma's body. After looking top to bottom, he tried moving his sight back to Elma's face. There was a problem however. He stops at Elma's chest area, he notices the cleavage of her D-cup breasts. Both of her assets laid on top the other due to the position she was in, laying on her side. He blushes a bright red before escaping Elma's embrace and then jumping out of the bed.

"I'm s-sorry Elma! I didn't mean to touch you during your sleep! I swear on my life that I had no idea about this! Please don't call the cops on me!" He bows to her as she lays there in the bed.

"It's okay Kano! I knew that you didn't mean to! I'm also at fault too." She confessed.

"W-What do you mean?"

"I was...hugging you too. But it was an accident!" She said.

"So...does this mean that we were both...in each other's arms...the whole night?" Kano asked, hoping she would know the answer.

"I-I guess so?" Elma said. Both of them looked away from each other to prevent eye contact

"I'll be serving breakfast for us. You can use my shower while I'm doing that."

"Yeah. Sounds great." She commented.

Kano turns around to face and open the door. Before leaving the room, he apologizes. "I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable." He closes the door without receiving an answer. This showed how much Kano cared for Elma's feelings, even if he did nothing wrong.

"He's so nice." She smiled.

Elma gets out of the bed and stretches out her body. "Now, time for that shower!" Elma walks to her duffle bag to obtain her personal shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, body scrub and towel. She enters the bathroom and takes of her pajamas to reveal her well-defined feminine body. Once the shower has been turned on to a warm state, she enters with her body scrub, soap and shampoo and then starts with the session.

Upon finishing her warm refreshing shower, she grabs her towel and dries herself up before stepping on the tiled bathroom floor. She walks out with the towel covering her body, let's it fall while exposing her whole body, changes herself into her underwear and then finally dressing herself up with her normal attire, which were her scales that was the tan scarf, the black leotard, a purple kimono with pink piping and the dark blue sash over the leotard and kimono. On the side she had her sandals and the bandages wrapped around her knees and feet.

Time-skip...

"All better!" She leaves the bedroom.

After Kano and Elma finished with breakfast, they both decided to wash the dishes together. Kano washes the dishes while Elma dries them up and places them back to their original location. Kano wanted to break the silence while working on the chore, he focused on Elma's appearance, that was when he came up with a question.

"Elma, how you don't have your horn or your tail out?" Kano asked.

"Um, well, about that." Elma said.

"Yes?"

"I'm...not used to letting my horn out in front of other people." She said.

"But don't you show it when you're at Kobayashi's place?" Kano questioned.

"Yeah, but."

"But what?" Kano asked again.

"It's just that...I'm afraid that you're not going to like me the way I am with my dragon parts out." She confessed. This caused him to chuckle, making Elma confused.

"Why would I judge a person by their appearance? Besides, I already know that you're a dragon anyways!" He approaches Elma, then he holds her chin.

"Elma, please, let your horn out?" He asked politely. His polite request caused Elma to blush, and then lets her unicorn-like horn out as well as her blue serpent-like tail.

"That's better!" He steps back a little and continues washing the dishes, Elma continues drying the dishes.

Just to have a little fun, Kano tells her something extra. "You look cuter with your horn out." He complimented.

Steam fuses out from the top of her head as she blushes madly. She looks up at her horn and touches it.

Thank you mom and dad! She said in her head while being proud of herself.

All of the dishes are washed, dried up and put away to their places. Now it was time to start baking stuff.

"Now that we're finished, let's start with the pastry."

"Yes! I love sweets!" Elma said as her eyes sparkled. "What are we going to make?"

"Cannoli."

Elma has never heard of such a thing like that. "Cannoli? What that?"

"It's an Italian pastry. Cannoli is basically fried pastry dough in a shape of a tube with a sweet and creamy filling with ricotta. Ricotta is an Italian whey cheese. The cream is what makes the whole dessert so delicious! So I really recommend you on trying it."

"Wow!" Elma drooled over the description of the dessert. "That sounds sooo good! Let's get right to it then!" Elma takes out her notebook and pencil, the dragon was ready to note down the recipe.

"These are the items we will need for this. Ricotta cheese, chocolate chips, gelatin, bloomed in water, powdered sugar, cinnamon, vanilla extract, flour, cold butter, olive oil, sugar, salt, egg whites and white wine."

"Wine? Won't that get us drunk?" Elma asked.

"No, the wine will burn off during the frying phase."

"Ah." Elma learned something new.

Kano starts first by making the cream. He mixes the ingredients together, places the cream in a bowl, covers the top with plastic and places it in the refrigerator to cool while he cooks the shells. Next came the frying phase. He mixes the ingredients for them and cuts them into circles. He wraps them around cannoli tubes, fries them in a self contained digital fryer. He makes sure that each shell is cooked right before taking them out and placing them on a plate covered in napkins to absorb the excess oil.

The shells were finished, now it's time to fill them with the cream. Each of them had ten shells to fill, for the first time she is finally able to help. Since Kano had experience on this, he was easily able to finish them in no time. Elma on the other hand had a rough start, she managed to get used to filling in the shells halfway however. Kano waited patiently for his friend to finish without rushing her. By the time she finished, they brought every cannoli that they filled themselves.

There were two plates set on the dining table now. They both sit side by side at the table. Since the start, Elma wasn't nervous at all. Until Kano decided to ask her permission for eating the cannoli she made.

"You want to try mine?"

"Yes. May I?"

"But...my cannoli...they don't look great. I don't think that you'll like them." Elma doubted herself. Kano ignored her and took one anyway. Elma being surprised by his action, she waits for a disgusted face from Kano. The more he chewed, the more he smiled.

"Want to know why they're good?" Kano asks, Elma nods. "Because they're made by you." He said, causing Elma to blush beet red.

"Th-Thank you. That means so much." Elma smiled, she got quiet for a minute before taking a bite of her own. "They're so good!" She eats another one, and then another one after. Kano blushes of how cute Elma looked while she enjoyed every bite.

"Elma, I love you." Elma stopped as she heard those words.

"Kano?"

Kano starts confessing his feelings after do long. "The day when Kobayashi invited me over, I fell in love with a dragon. That dragon took shape into one gorgeous woman. Even if she wasn't the same as I, my heart didn't care if she wasn't the same species as me. Dragon or not, I loved her. Elma, that dragon is you."

Through out the entirety of the confession, Elma cried tears of joy. She didn't have to hold in her feelings inside anymore. Her crush just confirmed to her that he likes her. Elma receives multiple flashbacks of the times when Kano helped her with work, treated her for lunch, hanged out with her and also the times when he comforted her when things got rough for her. The last memory she thought of was when they first met in Kobayashi's apartment.

"Kano!" Elma hugs him as she places her head into his chest. "I feel the same way." She confessed.

Kano felt at ease as if a huge weight fell off of his shoulders. He hugs Elma back and starts patting her head.

"I'm glad that I met you."

They part from each other's arms, the two look deep into each other's eyes until they trace down to their lips and back to their eyes. They lean into each other and tilt their head, soon ending it all with their first kiss. Kano started warming up from the outside. Elma noticed something strange, the kiss tasted sweet. She thought that it was from the cannoli, but when they kissed again for the second time, it was sweet again. So she kept in mind that a kiss tasted sweeter than any candy. The two departed, they breathe in and out from the long kiss in a dazed manner. They look back at each other and smile. They hold hands and feed each other their own cannoli to each other.

It is now official, the dragoness and the human now became a couple. Kano has finally completed his goal.

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Happy Halloween!