Chapter21

"Okay, I'm going to leave now."

The blonde stood up from the couch and started to amend his clothes. He smiled as he saw the pink haired girl stands up and looking at him with light pink color on her cheeks.

"Okay,… see you later." She said and wanted to force a smile but she couldn't. What was happening to her you ask? She was sad because the time ran already and he was leaving her so quickly and the time that they had spent together finally ended. For her, she didn't want him to leave because she wanted to look at him more. And of course he didn't want to leave as well but both of them couldn't say a thing because they know that their relationship hadn't lasted for a whole week already and it will be weird if he stayed here without a reason.

And while both of them were staring at each other without saying a word, Happy was watching them from behind with a weird reaction on his face. When did they become this close? How did they even get close? A lot of things couldn't enter Happy's mind because he is too confused to see them like that. They feel really weird to him. He shook his head and started walking away from them because he couldn't bear it any more.

Lucas and Natsumi watched him leave the room and quickly, Lucas took Natsumi in a tight warm hug surprising her. "L-Lucas?!"

"It doesn't feel like we were together for only 3 days, it feels like we've been together for years now." He squeezed her and started to move his fingers in her pink locks. He took a deep breath and didn't leave her go.

"L-Lucas, Happy might sees us." She said while struggling in his grip to leave her but the more she struggles, the more his hug tightens around her. Lucas smiled when she finally gave up on struggling and wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Y-Yeah, it feels like we have spent years together." Natsumi said quietly putting her forehead on his chest. Lucas finally broke the hug and looked at her eyes. He smiled at her and leaned down to peck her. Natsumi got surprised and froze for a moment. She moved her head to look at him with flushed face. She touched her lips slowly and couldn't react at all.

He took a breath through his mouth and faked a frown. "I wish it was your first kiss but it's not, what should I do then?"

"L-Lucas,"

"You are going to make up for it." She flushed at hearing what he said and looked at him with a surprise.

"L-L-Lucas!" she was hopeless and didn't know what to do too. She was the innocent one who actually doesn't know much about love and what she should do.

"I'm waiting," the boy smirked as he looked at the shorter girl before him who was already flushed. He loved her reaction and loved teasing her.

"W-W-What do… you want?" Narsumi took a step to the back as she tried to keep on looking into his eyes.

"I want you to kiss me." It was so sudden and that made her feel that she actually heard him wrong for the moment. She gulped and started to look right and left for an exist to escape this situation but, she didn't find any. She looked at him slowly with a very red face, she squeezed her eyes shut and started walking towards the man raising her head to his direction.

Lucas actually didn't expect that much and got shocked when she neared his face and was going to really kiss him. His eyes widened and froze in his place waiting her.

Natsumi pressed her lips on his but didn't stay except for 2 seconds and quickly kept staring at the ground leaving the blonde frozen in his place. She glanced at him and realized his reaction. She quickly moved his head back as she buried her face down in her hands in embarrassment.

"W-W-Well… l-let's call it a… k-kiss." The blonde boy moved his body away from the girl as he walked to the door like a drunken person who didn't feel or hear anything. He went outside of the house. Natsumi felt him leaving as she slowly removed her hands away from her face. She pouted and her face was still red.

"Idiot,…"

"Well, welcome back."

The little small girl smiled happily as she looked at the group entering through the door. The group which the master was in greeted the people sitting before them with a smile curling in their lips.

"Guys, welcome back." The pink haired greeted happily as she rested her hands on tables and started walking to them.

"Ah, Natsumi!" she heard the white haired girl's voice come out. "You're back."

"Really, then what about Lucas?" Erza the red haired girl said.

"I'm over here," the blonde waved his hand as he started to walk to where the pink haired girl stood. Erza raised a brow and then was about to talk but then someone interrupted

"Did you bring her back like you said?" Juvia asked.

Lucas smiled and nodded slowly moving his head to look at the pink haired girl next to him keeping the smile on her lips. She realized his stare and then looked at him to find him smiling too.

'What? Did they make up already?' she thought inside of her head. The black haired realized that smile and stare at the both of them with a weird look in his eyes like a blaming eyes. He didn't speak up though.

"So," the girl moved her head to look at the rest of the group then back at the master. "Who became the s-class mage?"

"You still don't know Natsumi-san, it's so obvious." The blue haired girl cheered while looking at the black haired guy who was looking down on the ground deepened in his thoughts. The pink haired girl moves her head to look at the ice mage and smiled happily. She started walking to him and stood before him to stare at his face.

"Well I guess then we're in the same level then," she said as she grinned happily. Gray didn't react at all as he kept looking at her with his cold eyes. He moved his head to look at the blonde with the same cold eyes and that sent shivers to everyone in the guild except for Lucas who knew that it was coming anyway.

"Yeah, I became an s-class mage." he said sending lighting to Lucas and relieved it back. Everyone was so shocked of what they saw and started asking when did the both of them become rivals?

Gray closed his eyes and walked away from this crowd to where the bar was. Natsumi watched him walking away from them and was kinda worried of his reaction and didn't know why he would act like that. Yes, she was kinda naïve who didn't understand what was going around of her but, thoughts popped in her head and these thoughts were about Gray was angry to realize that something had actually happened and he is kinda jealous though. But, she stopped herself from doing though because she wanted to get over it because she didn't want to get Gray to be hurt again because she knew already that he was in much pain up until now.

The salamander moved her head to look at the blonde guy who was sitting and wearing such a serious face. She gulped as she felt him so serious and that actually scared her.

"Natsumi, what's all this about?" she heard someone's voice behind of her. She turned her body to look at the sudden voice to realize that the white haired girl was the one speaking.

"Huh?" her sweat dropped as she started getting really worried because she didn't want to be asked of this thing that happened.

"I mean, your leg… your hand! And wait… is that wheel's chair yours?" Lisanna asked as she started to scan every inch of her friend's body. What Lisanna said caught the attention of the people's in the guild. The people who knew already about what happened were just waiting to hear her getting scolded and the others that were away were waiting impatiently to hear what happened.

Lucas moved his head to look at her and realized that she was nervous an unable to say the truth. He smiled and his sweat dropped whispering 'Good luck'. Gray was actually focused on what Lisanna said and turned his body to hear Natsumi's answer.

"Haha," Natsumi laughed nervously as she rubbed the back of her neck and looked down on the ground trying to escape her friends' eyes. "W-Well, I-I screwed… and fell off a valley!" she grabbed the hand that was wrapped in gypsum while looking away. Everyone's shot their eyes wide shocked of what they just heard.

"WHAT?!"

"A-And I ended up a high f-fever and I slept for straight three days." Natsumi rubbed her cheek with her finger and raised her head slowly to look at the people that stood in front of her to sense that scary aura that came out of them all. "A-Ah,… I think I'm screwed." She whispered with a very low voice. A shiver went down to her spine as she heard the special steps of the armored woman coming near her.

"D-Don't hit her! Her body is still weak!" happy popped of nowhere as he stood in front of her as he throw his arms in the air and yelled at Erza to stop walking towards them. Erza raised her head to glare at the blue cat that was in the air as she scared the hell out of him. The exceed felt really scared and felt his body moves in its own away from the dragon slayer. Natsumi got scared more when she still heard the steps of the redhead is still going forward. The mighty woman stood before the other one and kept glaring at her. Natsumi, if she had the power to fight in back she could have done that but she doesn't even have the power to defend herself

Erza suddenly raised her hand high up and that was when Lucas stood up and was about to stop her but his eyes widened when he saw what happened. Erza rested her hand on top of the girl's forehead and started to check on her.

"That's great, your temperature is not high at all." Erza cheered out and felt relieved. "You never heard us out when we kept on telling you, don't push yourself too much… see what happened." Erza with a little force put her hand on top of Natsumi's head as she squeezed her eyes shut because of the impact. Erza forced a smile on her lips that looked really scary on her.

"You get better soon and wait for your punishment." The girl nodded her head several times as she wanted Erza to remove her hands away already because she felt really tied and scared when Erza had her hands on her.

"My, my…" Natsumi heard Mira says behind Erza as she started to walk where they stood and hearing her voice made Erza removes her hand from of Natsumi's head and that made Natsumi takes the chance to walk away from her several steps.

"I should make you a lot of food so you could gain back your strength then," Mira said with her usual smile.

"R-Really?" the pink haired girl said happily as she smiled.

"Yes,"

"Thank you!"

The blonde guy rested down on his chair as he felt relieved with the sudden action. He felt really worried that Erza would hit a sick woman but thanked god that she didn't and while watching Natsumi acts happily about being treated like that, he immediately smiled. He turned his head by the chance to glance over the bar. He realized that the black haired was looking to his direction with very cold eyes. Gray didn't move his eyes away from Lucas's direction even after he looked at him and that made Lucas nervous and his sweat dropped. Seconds later, Gray moved his head away from him leaving the man in a confusion o thinking why he would get these eyes from him.

'What?'