"Idiot."
"What now?" I literally just laid down. Can't I get some rest as well?
"You know this isn't a good idea." He pins down the voice as he hears more words clearly.
"Natsu, if I want to sleep with my newfound self, I think I should be able to."
"But Kyoko will be the one waking up Kuon. Or did your little pea-brain head forget that little detail?"
"She should get used to waking up with him," he brushes it off. "She'll be with him eventually."
"Yes, but this is Kyoko. That prude went into a mental whirlpool just by being kissed by this guy. On the cheek. And you have doomed her to wake up with him? In his arms?"
"But I don't want to move," he whines. "She's getting too heavy with exhaustion every minute and I'm pretty much wiped as it is for holding her for so long."
"But we are all going to hear about this when she gets up!"She hisses at him as she tried to get a hold on Kyoko again and fails.
"If I can't move her at all anymore,you sure as hell can't, Natsu. And it's not like we can team up on this."
"Well think of a plan, hotshot, because Mio gets tempermental when Kyoko is in distress and it will be your fault."
"Fine." He stews on it for a while, and just when he's about to throw in the towel, he thinks of a possibly simple solution. "What you just be there to smooth things over when she wakes up?"
"What?"
"Well, cover her feelings of shock, embarrassment, and despair. Let other emotions play Forward this time and get her not to be so defensive. Put some slight offensive feelings and actions in her head and make it seem natural. She didn't have you with the kiss on the cheek that Valentine's Day. I can't see where you couldn't make her at least feel things are alright."
Damn that boy for trying to put a challenge to me...but "do you think it'll actually work?"
"If it's you, Natsu, it's gonna work. Now that's all I got. If you have another plan than that, be my guest, but I am heading to sleep."
He leaves her with her thoughts. It takes a while for her to find the motivation to go along with his plan. What pushes her in the end is the thought that Mio found out that Kuon had a solid plan and that she herself didn't go along for the goodness of everybody here, then she would be out of luck, not him.