To answer many questions that seem to be popping up a lot XD yes FairyTail does find Natsu again. And it's one hell of a surprise for them. The relationship between Natsu and Cobra will grow as you see in this chapter. I enjoy the ideas you guys give me I might use them cause they are good ideas. If you want to see it happen I might make it happen. might...
First step
Natsu was laying in her bed for hours just staring at the ceiling. There were multiple reasons why she couldn't fall asleep. She wasn't that tired, fear of nightmares...
Multiple times she could hear Cobra role over and sigh in the bed across from hers. She was debating right now to see if he was awake, and if he wasn't if she should wake him up or not.
"Natsu..."
The pinkette jumped under he sheets. The poison dragons soft voice in the too quiet air had surprised her.
"Y-yeah?" She whispered back, almost inaudible.
"I am awake. Did you need something?" She could hear his sheets rustle at the movement of him sitting it. Natsu roles over and say up a little so she could look at him.
"It's just... I can't really sleep.." She mumbled feeling stupid.
Cobra's eyes, looking more silver than purple in the moonlight that came through the widow, glanced to the clock on the wall next to his bed.
"One a.m... You been awake the whole time?" He looked back at her as she stared at her hands while they played with the bed sheets.
"Yeah... I guess, sense it's out first night... You know, free. I'm just finding it weird to sleep in a bed for once."
There was silence between them. Natsu chuckled. "I'm sorry if I woke you I didn't mean to." She then rolled over pulling the sheets close to her face and closed her eyes. "Sorry for bothering you..."
She didn't know how much time passed. But she didn't hear Cobra move, which means he still sat up and watched her for however long it was before speaking up.
"You really liked my cooking huh?" He whispered.
Natsu slowly looked over her shoulder at him. He was looking out the window, probably feeling awkward. She knew what he was doing.
There were a few times when Natsu was younger, after just loosing Igneel and joining FairyTail, where she had trouble sleeping. She missed her dragons warm red scales as a pillow and the feeling of his breathing as he slept. Because she didn't have them at that time she couldn't sleep well at all. Erza or even Gray on occasion would stay up with her and talk about random stuff until get got tired enough to fall asleep with ease. Or they would even play in the empty guild hall till someone like Gildarts or Makarov caught them and sent them back to bed. Luckily after getting sent back they were tired enough to not complain and sleep again.
Cobra was doing that. Occupying her till she was comfortable enough to sleep. She smiled to herself. She could remember her first impression of him back at nirvana: a cocky smart ass who loved to tease and mock her...
Guess when you've been with a guy through hell and back you get to know him better.
"Yeah. I liked it a lot. All I do is burn food but then again that's how I like it..." She sat up and smiled at him, happy to start a conversation. "You said your mom taught you, what was she like?"
Cobra got a glint in his eyes as he spoke. "She was really nice. I loved her a lot. I didn't have a dad growing up he abandoned us, never really cared about him anyway. Mom kept me happy all the time." He started talking faster, getting excited. "I remember she built me a tire swing and I nocked my face against the tree it was attached to!"
"How'd you manage that?!" Natsu laughed.
"I was swinging to fast." He shrugged. "I knocked one of my teeth out and gave myself a bloody nose. Cried for a while... But mom made me happy then."
"She must have been great."
Cobra's smile faltered. "Yeah she was... I wonder where she is now..."
Natsu paused, swallowing a lump before asking. "What happened...?"
Cobra glanced to her then back out the window. His voice had gone cold and lifeless. "Some band of occultists came to our village and raided it... They captured as many people as they could... They separated me from my mom and took me away to the tower of heaven... I was ten..."
"I'm sorry..." Natsu could remember Erza's stories of the tower. She came to the guild with a missing eye and wounds all over we body... God only knows how Cobra survived.
"It's fine... Nothing worth crying over now..."
Natsu didn't like the silence that followed or the look on Cobra's face. She wanted to do something fun. "Cobra!"
He looked over.
"Wanna be little kids again?" She had a big toothy grin and was getting out of bed. She wore a night dress that wave around her knees.
"What do you mean?" Cobra asked as he watched her move about the room pulling sheets from dresses and chairs from a little table over.
"Lets build a fort!" She threw a bundle of blankets at him and he caught it.
"At one in the morning? Why?"
"Why not!" She declared as she started dragging her own bed more towards his. Cobra shook his head and got out of bed. The air was cool against his bare chest.
Natsu grabbed pillows and threw them onto the floor and put chairs strategically around them so the beds were in pattern with them.
"Toss me a blanket!"
Cobra did so and he glanced around the room. He saw a book case and walked over he grabbed several large books and brought them over. When Natsu laid a corner of a blanket down he would put a book on top of it.
"Switch!" He called and they did. He caught a blanket and Natsu caught the books. The tan male jumped onto a chair and through the blanket over the ceiling fanz it draped over making a canopy around them. Natsu grabbed the edges of it and placed them against the chairs, tying the corners to them.
Cobra jumped down after throwing one more blanket over the fan and eyes the handy work. Natsu slipped inside. "It looks so great!" She cheered inside.
Cobra was about to crawl inside with her when he paused. "Oh hang on."
"What? Cobra where are you?" She poked her head out and saw cobra was gone and the door was hanging open. She shouted after him. "Cobra!"
"Shhh!" His form came back in the room, he looked like he had food and drinks in his arms. "You'll wake our host!"
"Ooh sorry." She backed out of the entrance so Cobra could awkwardly shimmy inside. He closed their entrance and laid down on the pillow pile that was the forts floor. He put the food in the middle and laid back relaxing. He also pulled a glass container out of the pile an held it out to Natsu.
"Light this?" He was holding a candle. Natsu smirked and stuck her finger inside it. Lighting it instantly.
He put it down on the floor and made sure no pillow were close enough to be set aflame. Flickering light was cast over their forms.
"This is cool." Natsu said grabbing a water bottle.
"I never built one as a kid." He looked around admiring the creation. "It's fun."
"I built forts all the time with Erza and Gray!" She cheered. "We would play games like war and stuff and it was great!"
"Sounds like fun." Cobra smirked.
"Oh it was!" Natsu laughed. She told him stories of her own childhood, growing up in the guild and finding Happy. All the fights that would break out, she even told him a little bit about Igneel. She had a hand around that scarf of hers while she talked. She was lucky to still have it through their tortures.
"I'm sorry about Nirvana..." Cobra said playing with an empty bag of chips. "And bad mouthing your dad."
Natsu paused in downing a whole thing of pudding to look at him. "Your apologizing? That's new."
"Oh shut up." He growled at her. "Yes I am. I'm sorry. I'm sure your dad is still out there... Maybe he's thinking about you and wondering where you are..."
"Same goes for your mom."
Cobra's eyes widened as he stared at her. She looked tired and he himself felt it too which was good.
Natsu gave him a toothy grin. "I bet she knows your still alive and is looking for you."
"Yeah right. How would she know in alive when she saw me get take ." He stared at the empty back in his hands.
"Because you're you." Natsu said putting the cup if pudding to her mouth again. "Your a strong guy, your resourceful an I'm sure she knows that. You're her son after all. I know she knows you're alive."
Cobra had started blushing and pouting as she went on complimenting him. He didn't want to admit she was making him feel giddy and happy by talking about this. Making him feel hope that he didn't feel before about his own mother. He glanced up to her, her face light nicely up by the candle, even if it was covered in chocolate pudding.
She was putting the now empty cup down when his thumb suddenly brushed the side of her mouth, wiping chocolate off onto his thumb. She blinked confused as he stuck his thumb in his mouth and licked the pudding off.
"What was that..?" She asked a little surprised.
"Your covered in chocolate." He got an evil idea to make her squirm.
"So..?" She asked bringing the back of her hand up to wipe it all away.
Her hand was caught in Cobra's though and he pulled her closer to him. She saw his face get closer and then felt something wet flick across her cheek, very close to her mouth.
Her face exploded in a blush. "What are you doing?!" She tried getting away but the poison dragon had a good grip.
"You've still got chocolate." He stated simply before licking her face again.
"I can get it!"
"But I wanted too." He leaned in again and Natsu just gave up and accepted it. Letting him eat her leftovers of her cheeks and chin.
He let her go and lean back licking his lips. Natsu couldn't help but think again how he had nice lips.
"You taste good." He had his typical smirk plastered on his face.
"Shut up..." She pouted. She looked down blushing, she distinctively noticed the butterfly's going off in her stomach. 'Must be a chick thing...' She thought.
Cobra was back to laying down and eating a new bag of chips. She watched him subtly.
She new a lot about him... They had bonded a lot in the prison cell, having nothing else to do but talk to each other about stuff. Dreams and fears. She remembered small things too he had told her; the cooking thing, he liked the colors Green and purple, he doesn't like sweets that much, he has a pet peeve where you talk about how short he used to be and hated it when people he was walking behind were to slow. She could go on about little things she remembered, and now she remembered big things about him. He wanted to hear Cubelious's voice, and now had a little dream about a restaurant.
She picked up her water bottle and played with the cap of it. This new life of there's was moving pretty nicely along. They had a goal in mind for careers and living. Natsu was trying her hardest to be a new girl that she was suppose to be an she had a distinct feeling she didn't want to leave Cobra's side. She just assumed it was because he was the only one that could keep her sane after everything and was the only one who understood her. She glanced up at Cobra again. He was watching her back and she blushed. Was he listening to her thoughts right now?
"Yes." He said and Natsu blushed even harder.
"I hate you..."
"No you don't."
Natsu huffed and jerked her head away. She felt like such a girl right now, blushing over a boy when it should be a girl... Not anymore... 'Your a girl now it's okay to blush over boys and want to be around them all the time...' She kept thinking to herself. 'You chose to stay a girl... So that mean you might get a boyfriend someday or a husband... Maybe even...give birth to a child...'
She felt so embarrassed, as soon as she thought of boy friend and husband her mind kept bringing up Cobra... She couldn't stop the train of thought as she suddenly pictured herself in a wedding dress standing next to him, or in a bed resting while Cobra held a newborn in his arms.
The butterflies went mad and Natsu's hands flew to her face. She felt so conflicted, the still boyish side of her felt disgusted by the images but the more prominent new female half of her was jumping up and down like Lucy when you talk about famous girls in those magazines she reads.
"If your going to make a move I'm waiting."
Natsu peeked over her hands at the man. He was just laying there expectantly waiting. She stared at his eyes, now a purple red because if the candle light. Oh god candle light and siting together inside this private fort, this was a romantic setting...
"What do you mean..?" She asked trying to sound confused.
"I'm not dumb." He said eating another chip. "You make a lot if facial expressions you know that?"
Natsu froze, she didn't know what to do. Cobra had to have been listening to her entire thought process and new everything she had been conflicting and fighting over with herself. She just kept we hands clamped firmly over her face, hoping this was a bad dream and she would wake up.
She heard Cobra shift and then felt his hands gently grab her own. She looked up and felt something press against her lips. Her shoulders stiffened and her hands tightly gripped Cobra's as she inhaled deeply. She could smell the salt from the chips on him and his own natural scent.
Cobra pulled away from the kiss and smirked at her. "That is a good first step for your change."
Natsu's tongue unconscious flicked out over her lips. She could taste him. She opened her mouth and no words came out at first but she forced them to come. "Our change... We're stuck together you know..."
Cobra chuckled and nodded. "That we are."
"You were all embarrassed when Elipton mentioned us being a married couple... I thought you didn't like it."
"I was embarrassed." He jerked his head to his bed. "What do you think I've been thinking about for the last hour and half trying to sleep over there?"
"We're really leaving everything from before behind aren't we?" She asked.
"That's what we wanted. It's the easiest way to forget, in my opinion."
She nodded her head to him, agreeing. A new life with normalcy and no magic. She'd miss her friends but she didn't want to ever be reminded for found again by those horrible people who captured them.
"Can I do it again?" Cobra asked.
Natsu didn't understand what he meant at first but then it clicked a second later and she nodded her head nervously. Might as well get used to this kind of treatment.
The Maroon haired male brought a hand up to cup her cheek and kissed her again. This time Natsu kissed back. Slowly adjusting to the feeling of his soft lips against her own. They broke apart.
"Think that's enough for now..." Natsu said feeling flushed. That unknown warm feeling was back in her face and stomach. "I need to do things slowly... For this..."
"I know." Cobra gave her a kind soft smile that made her feel giddy again. "I need to adjust to the fact I kissed someone who used to be a man."
He wound up with a pillow in his face.
"Uhhhh" Elipton stared dumb founded at the like of bed sheets and pillows in front of her. "Someone had fun last night?"
Natsu poked her head out looking drowsy. "Yes. Yes we did."
Cobra pokes his head out too, "we stayed up till three am... Can we sleep in please?"
Elipton chuckled. "Yeah sure. I'll get you later. We got stuff to do if you want to get that restaurant."
"Okay." They said before going back inside for sleep.
Hello kittens don't mind this authors note, just leaving this little warning of saying that next chapter will be a time skip, its kind of going to be a big one..by a few years? And it may be split up into sections through out the year or so that Cobra and Natsu have spent together, so its basicly going to be a collection of smal paragraghs about them and the stuff they've done during the skip. maybe towards the end itll be normal time of after the skip. Just pointing this out.