Chapter24
The girl couldn't tell who was that person that was holding her dear to his chest and couldn't recognize it. She sniffed the air around of her to realize that it was the blonde himself this time. She moved her head to look at his blonde hair and sobbed.
"L-Lucas…"
"I love you too Natsumi," he whispered softly in her ear as he breathed and inhaled her smell through her hair and squeezed forearms grip around of her. She felt a little uncomfortable to be having such a tight embrace that was choking her. "I love you so so so much and I can't live without you!" but hearing such a thing made her relieved as she turning her body and raised her arms around of him and hugged him in back.
Watching this thing without hearing anything made the black haired guy's sweat drops to the ground while he was still realizing what was happening.
"Oi, oi!"
The blonde broke that warm hug that he felt while holding the pink haired girl to glare at the black haired guy like he was going to kill him because he was the cause of something like that. Though he broke the hug, he still gripped her shoulder with his right hand bringing her closer to his chest and not letting go of her.
She kept blushing as she didn't say anything.
Gray watched their reaction and sighed heavily and rubbed the back of his head.
"I give up." He said with a very low voice and started to walk to continue his way of walking. "Don't be bold and hug her wherever you want!" he said and then realized that he did the same thing once. His sweat dropped as he remembered that he once stole Natsumi's first kiss and it was in front of his friends after all.
"Gray," before he could continue his way he was stopped by the male's voice. He looked at the man over his shoulder and waited him to talk. Lucas tightened his grip around of the girl forcing her to look at him.
"L-Lucas?"
"Natsumi is my girl now," he started looking at him with very sharp eyes. "I won't forget about what I had done to her but I will not also lose myself to these memories." He continued as he kept looking at the ice mage that was focused in his words.
Natsumi looked at Lucas's body and clenched her hand on his shirt from the front as she kept hearing him out.
"Thanks for looking after her all these times; I'm not going to lose her anymore."
Yes, it was one of those happy times that the pink haired girl spends in her life but that moment, she was never able to express her feelings. She was so happy that she couldn't control over her happiness and she was also so embarrassed to hear the blonde saying such words. She doesn't know it anymore.
Gray looked at the both teens' reaction and smirked. He turned his body forward and raised his hand in the air waving a good bye and Lucas kept watching him leaving but the dragon slayer didn't, she was still holding on his shirt and that caught the blonde's attention that made him look at the top of her head. He kept staring at her for a moment wondering why she didn't leave his shirt till now. He suddenly remembered something and stretched his other arm to continue hugging her again.
"L-Lucas, someone might see us." She said as she struggled in his embrace and tried to free herself but he didn't let go of her. When she couldn't just understand why he was hugging her so suddenly and not speaking a single word about it, she calmed down and tried to raise her head to look at his face.
'He might be angry because I went all in my own to talk to Gray.' Natsumi thought to herself as she felt uncomfortable to realize such a thing.
"L-Lucas,"
"Hmm?" the man didn't reply and didn't even look at her face.
"Sorry," she stated silently as she nuzzled her face in his chest.
"What?" he finally responded and moved his eyes to look down on her face surprised by what she suddenly said to him.
"Sorry for going on my own to talk to Gray, I shouldn't have done that." She moved her head away from his chest to look at the man with red face.
"Hmm?"
"Y-You are angry?" Lucas didn't respond for what she said at that time. He just kept staring at her face trying to figure out something and that's made Natsumi actually astonished by what he was doing and her naïve side appeared for somehow.
"Y-You're not going to hit me, r-right?"
He kept looking at her with serious look and then frowned faking an anger.
"Let's see," he stated as he looked into her eyes and then his frown turned into a soft smile that surprised her.
He put his hand on her head as he pushed her back to his chest tightening his grip more and more around of her to feel her warmth that meant for him only. The girl didn't seem a lot surprised that time, she just wrapped her arms around of his back as she hugged him back clenching her fingers in his shirt. Few seconds passed and voices faded as they preferred to be silent at that moment but then, the blonde decided to break this silence and talks.
"Actually," he started catching the girl's attention to look at him. "I should be the one to apologize here."
"Eh?"
"I yelled at you when you were with Happy in my house, I'm sorry." He kept looking at her big eyes that stared at him surprised by what he was saying so suddenly.
"Ah, I'm not angry at you?" she smiled looking at his face.
"Wha-?"
"Well, I was acting angry but I wasn't and that's because," Natsumi leaned down her chin on his chest as she kept looking at him. "For some reason, I realized you were annoyed by what Gray was doing and I just went to kick some senses out of him." She said as she faked a pout. The man just laughed at her reaction and leaned down to capture her lips happily.
"What are you doing?!" the both quickly broke their kiss and hug to look at the sudden voice that sounded very annoyed to realize that it was a man that looks around their ages or even older that the pink haired girl recall seeing somewhere before but she doesn't remember and he was looking at the both with angry look in his eyes.
"Who is that?" Lucas's sweat dropped as he looked at the girl next to him.
"I think I have seen him before but I don't remember who is him."
"That's so mean Natsumi-chan. I'm Yusuke!"
"Ah, yes that was your name. So what do you want?"
"I can't believe that you're cheating on me Natsumi-chan!" the man cried and both looked in a shock as they looked at each other.
"What the hell are you saying?!" Lucas snapped as he held Natsumi's left hand tightly.
"Like you heard me, thief! He wiped away his tears as he swung his finger out towards the guy that looked really pissed at that time.
"What the hell with that man?!"
"And I finally thought that I will ask Natsumi-chan out when she finally calmed and became more beautiful! This world is so cruel!" he started crying once again.
"You!" Lucas lost his temper that time hearing such a thing being told to his girlfriend and he hated to hear that the most. And he believes that she hated to hear the most as well because she didn't like to be treated for her beauty and her face but because of her character.
"Natsumi-chan, come on!" he stretched his hand out for her to grab on it but she just kept staring at him while the blonde hid her behind her. "If I told you that I like you more and more than that man does, well you going to accept my feelings for you?"
The girl didn't answer as she kept looking at the guy that was just sweating all over and waiting for her to accept his feelings. Lucas finally lost it and was about to speak but the pink haired girl did.
"This guy can deal with me in all my states but you won't be able to." She stated quietly as she walked to stand besides the blonde still holding his hand. And her saying that made Lucas look at her and be surprised.
"E-Eh? I-I can do it as well!"
"No, you won't." the girl started again. "You won't be able to accept all my tempers and deal with it because I might have so many states in just one minute. I might end up killing you." Actually, she just mocked at the last part but the man just took it seriously and gulped taking few steps to the back.
"That's why…"
"That's why, this is my woman! Stay from her or I'll just kill you myself!" Lucas screamed as he held the girl next to his chest and glaring at the man who was already running for his life.
"That was great," the woman said with a smile as nuzzled in his chest and he held her dear to his chest and looked right and left naively.
"I will not allow for anyone to take you from me!" he stated and she laughed.
"Yeah, yeah."
"The perfect one, huh?" the black haired guy looked at the sky stopping in the middle of his way as he remembered the girl's words. Now, he gets it. He gets how deep their feelings have become for each other and how weak their rival that can break them will be.
Natsumi and Lucas love each other and their bond is just so strong. He just wishes to find the perfect one for himself and love her so deep like them.
"G-Gray-sama,"
The boy had turned his body to look at that person who cut off his thoughts to just call him and realized that it was only the blue haired girl who was following him wherever he went to.
"Juvia, what brought you here?"
"Juvia was just passing by and when I saw you here I came." She stated quietly as she looked at the ice mage that looked a little busy in his mind. She blushed as he kept staring at her as well.
"Hmm?"
"W-What?"
"The perfect one?" he whispered as he looked at her down upon and that didn't make the girl uncomfortable at all. "Ne, Juvia."
"Y-Y-Yes!" she jumped as her name came out of his own mouth.
"Do you want to go eat something?"
The girl zoned out for a moment as she started to imagine that he was actually proposing to her in her own world. Her tears gathered in her eyes as she jumped and hugged the man that was shocked of what she was doing.
"Gray-sama!"
"Don't let me regret it!"