Erza marveled the structure in front of her, Natsu glanced at her in surprise he didn't think she would turn around that easily, she had been pretty against the idea almost all week, so compared to that this was a complete 180.
"Wow." Erza let out in a an almost breathless whisper.
Natsu inwardly smiled and watched the slightly captivated look on Erza's face and then fought against the image of her chasing a neon laser around, specifically the fit of laughter he could feel in his chest, in order to clear his head he walked towards the door of the club, Erza started as she realized he was leaving her behind and rushed to catch up to him, hopeful and incredibly nervous at the same time.
Both Erza and Natsu were surprised at the number of Nekojin inhabitating the establishment. Erza had never seen so many in one place and they displayed their heritage with what she would describe as reckless abandon. She subconsciously moved a hand to her exposed ear, it was the first time in a long time since she had decided to leave them out in public, she certainly enjoyed the look Natsu had given her and she knew he would protect her if anything bad happened, which brought her a small amount of happiness.
These Nekojin were out dancing, sharing tables with other Nekojin and humans and in some dark places making out with human and Nekojin partners alike. Natsu had done a little research on the place, apparently the club had gotten a new owner and he strictly forbid discrimination against Nekojin, certainly a rare trait in Tokyo, but due to that fact business was flourishing.
Despite all the Natsu had never expected it to have such a warm and relaxing atmosphere. It actually felt, relatively, safe here or at least as safe as a dance club could get.
"Not a bad place, huh?" No answer "Erza?" He turned around and to his dismay his Nekojin friend was…missing! He looked around himself, there were quite a few more Nekojin then he was used to so just looking for a beanie covering ears was not going to be enough, his head shot up as he remembered something, she still had her tail covered, he hoped she was the only one in the club. He turned around quickly and sighed, he had found his friend but he wasn't sure if he should say or do anything really.
Erza stood a few meter's from him, close to the entrance of the club they had a large aquarium inside the wall, displaying a lot of colorful fish, his red-headed Nekojin friend had her face almost pressed against the glass, she tapped against the glass and the fish on the other side simply ignored her, which for some reason seemed to aggravate the Nekojin girl, her ears flattened against their head and she glared at the red aquatic animal on eh other side of the glass, what could she do? It was clearly taunted her!
Natsu chortled beside her and that snapped her out of her trance, her head whipped to him and the look on his face told her he had been watching for a little while, her cheeks flushed and as he opened his mouth she kicking him in the face, effective silencing any remark he planned on making.
"It's a pretty fish!" She defended "It must have been expensive, that's all I was thinking."
"Yeah, I bet, I especially liked the tag team match you two had-
" She hit him in the stomach and pulled his head down.
"I will disembowel you if you tell anyone about this." She hissed and he chuckled and nodded.
Despite the small amount of pain in his stomach, he had to fight of the cute picture of her chasing a laser around his apartment, he briefly wondered what she would do if he bought one for her.
They found a table surrounded by a few chairs that was adorned with various snacks and sat down, the pair looked around a little while longer before Natsu spoke up.
"You want a drink?" He asked flatly.
"I don't drink," Erza smirked, she knew the place didn't actually sell alcohol there was a large sign by the front door, but she felt like messing with him a little "I didn't take you for a ruphie guy, this where you drug all your dates?"
Natsu rolled his eyes and growled "Soda?"
"I'll have a cola, thanks," she made a small shooing motion followed with a mischievous grin.
Natsu just shook his head and walked away from her towards the bar, Erza suddenly became a little more conscious about where she was and had the urge to get small and hide somewhere, she mentally growled at herself for literally sending her form of protection away, before thoughts of her friend brought a small shy smile to her face, she rubbed her knee's almost unconsciously remembering when he had bandaged them, the cuts hadn't even scared, whatever he had used worked wonders.
"Falling asleep on me, midget?" Natsu's voice snapped her out of her semi daydreaming state.
"Who wouldn't, what took you so long?" The mischievous grin returning in full force, she silently hoped Natsu didn't notice her sudden confidence spike, he did, but he didn't bring it up.
"Well I could have taken longer to admire the sights-" A swift kick to the shin cut him off.
Erza forced the feeling of jealousy down, how dare he try to abandon her to go pickup girls at this club? She shook her head sharply and took a long sip of her drink. Natsu just sat there grinning at her, her mind raced in a circle and it was not helpful, focusing on the downright seductive grin on his face, to the fact that he had joked about leaving her alone in this place 'And for the love of god why won't he say anything?!' her mind shouted.
Usually he would have complained about her mischief by now, it wasn't any fun if he didn't complain and now she was confused.
"Just don't take so long." she forced out.
"Whatever," His voice held no disdain or annoyance, just mild amusement, she wanted to kick him again to get a more satisfying reaction from him, but her ears caught a familiar song and they perked up as she sat a little straighter, swaying her head slightly to the tune.
Natsu smirked and stood up, holding out his hand "Come on, midget."
She glared at him in annoyance "I am not going anywhere, I want to listen to the music."
"You can hear it better from the dance floor."
Erza became very pale "No." She said sharply, Natsu grabbed her hand pulled her up. "No! No! No! I do not Dance!" Natsu tugged her to the dance floor, which was relatively clear.
"I don't remember you being one to be scared and besides we danced perfectly fine in my apartment." Natsu taunted, getting her onto the dance floor. Erza froze in fear and embarrassment, it felt like everyone in the club was looking at her, even though they clearly weren't, Natsu just kept smiling at her.
After about thirty seconds of his friend standing frozen in front of him, he stepped closer to her still smiling, he took her hands in his and she focused on the backs of her hands intently, he moved his left pushing hers back, her body auto balanced making her sway and he repeated with the right, her smile gradually returned and Natsu added very minimal movement's as she copied him, he rolled the opposite shoulder as his left moved back and smirked, he bopped slightly to the beat, her careful looked changed to one of utter enjoyment after around a minute.
The song ended and Natsu was walking backwards of the floor still smiling, he imitated her terrified face "I don't dance!" He shrieked in a mocking girly tone, Erza found the impression a little funny and in an attempt to avoid laughing at him, and by extension herself she shoved him, a little more harshly than intended and he lost his balance, colliding with a blonde who happened to be walking by him at the time.
He picked himself up off the floor, and after dusting his hands he offered his hand out to whoever he knocked over "Sorry, I guess I lost my balance." He said automatically, as he looked down, he got a view that caused him to stiffen and freeze, the large breasted blonde under him had fallen in a way that made her already sizable breast size seem a little bigger and the open collar gave him quite the view.
She shook her head "It's alright." She took the hand he offered, he noticed the small golden ring on her left hand, he noticed the small swelling in her hand, he moved his hand along her arm cautiously.
"It seems alright but try to be careful after this, you might hurt it again," He suggest with a small smile, somewhere the back of his head he realized he was inadvertently following what he dad would have done, he shook his head and pulled her to her feet.
Erza's face was completely neutral, her friend was making goodly eyes at a woman, who was twice her size and three times her bust! He didn't seem interested until he grabbed her hand and leaned closer, 'what is he doing?!' Her mind yelled, she did the first thing that came into her head, she walked up and slapped him on the back, hard.
He let out a cry and let go of the blonde's hand "What the hell was that for?!" Natsu demanded irritably.
Erza's mind was in defense mode and she was not forming logical plans or idea's for speech, so the first thing that came into her head flew from her mouth "For attacking a poor defenseless girl, you rapist!" She screamed in his face, before Natsu could respond she turned to the girl and smiled overly sweetly "Forgive him he is always like this, he is so incompetent." 'Erza, stop now!' Her mind fought through a haze of jealousy and anger.
"No, no it's fine. It was only an accident after all…" Erza hated her innocent girly routine and scowled.
"Yeah I'm sure it was. I bet you enjoyed him fall all over you.." Her tone was menacing and frustrated. she kind of surprised herself with her offensive comment; it certainly wasn't like her to act like this towards a stranger.
"It was an accident…" Natsu groaned out, a very pissed off glare directed at Erza, one she only ever seen on him once at the café what seemed like a long time ago, she returned it in full force.
"Are you sure you weren't just trying to cop a feel, you creeper?" her voice had none of the usual playful tones; she was being far too serious about all this.
"What are you insinuating, huh midget! I wasn't trying to do anything! Besides, it was your violent outburst that made me fall back into this nice girl-"
"My violent outburst! You were the one who dragged me here and forced me to dance with you-"
"I did not force you here and you were enjoying it until now!" he retorted, stopping her midsentence. "What's wrong with you Erza? Why are you acting like this?" The glare turned to worry almost immediately and his tone didn't have any bite to it.
Erza shook her head spun on her heel and stormed away, leaving Natsu confused, he pinched the bridge of his nose, 'Erza was acting like she was…jealous? But why? Erza has no interest in me so why would something as trivial as that make her jealous, unless I really did force her here and she got sick of pretending to enjoy it, that seems more likely.' He sighed, he had thought she was really having fun too.
"Um, shouldn't you…go after her? She seemed pretty." The blonde tapped his shoulder lightly and nodded.
He stared at her for a minute, before nodding and taking off in the direction his small Nekojin friend had gone.
"Sorry again!" He called back to the blonde as he disappeared into the crowd.
The blond shook her head "Young love…" She smirked at his back.
Erza pushed through the crowd trying to get back to her seat, she was so frustrated she couldn't think straight 'How dare he make a move on another girl right in front of me!' It shouldn't matter to her anyway, she knew she had a one sides crush on her best friend, she couldn't expect him to stay single forever, it just surprised her when he suddenly got close to a girl that made her look like a child, but seeing Natsu ogling a girl with tits the size of his head just struck a nerve in her, all she wanted to do now was to get her things and leave, with Natsu, he could stay and flirt with his long-haired, big-breasted friend all night for all she cared. Nut if that was true…Why did it hurt so much to see him with that other girl, she thought she had accepted things as they were.
As she tried to rid herself of those thoughts, a hand caught her. 'Damn, Natsu you can't just let anything go can you?' She was scrunched between several people and couldn't look back at him. Unexpectedly, she felt another hand on her lower back. She arched her back a bit in surprise. then the hand moved to down and slowly slipped into her pants, grabbing her hidden tail, she jumped and tried to twist out of the grasp.
The hand in her pants jerked her tail a bit. It was then Erza came to an important revelation. This was definitely NOT Natsu! No way would he be so forward, especially not with her! Also, she knew he'd never do something like pull on her tail like that…he just wasn't like that! Whoever this was, they'd just signed their own death warrant! Unfortunately, because of the tight space, Erza couldn't turn well enough to see or attack her defended.
A Husky voice whispered to her, "You know you want it…" Now she was certain it wasn't Natsu! Erza's anger bubbled up inside her, she let out a shriek, but people around her didn't seem to notice, she bent forward and threw her head back as hard as she could, the back of her head hit something hard and the presence of both hand's disappeared, she turned around and saw a man in a disheveled suit, his cheeks were tinted red, obviously intoxicated, he must have brought his own alcohol or just came drunk, before she could turn the unfortunate drunk into her stress relief ball, she was surrounded by three bouncers.
"Miss I am going to have to ask you to leave." The tallest one sat, as the shorted two, but equally as intimidating men grabbed her arms.
"But he was the one who-"
"No excuses miss. Please vacate the establishment.." His gruff voice carried an obvious threat.
Erza could only sigh in defeat. No use arguing with these idiots. How come every time she defended herself, she was the one to be blamed! Just when she thought it couldn't get any worse, she recognized the black and white sneakers slamming the tallest bouncer into the ground, 'Oh, dear god…'
Natsu cracked his knuckles menacingly and glared at the shorter two, he was already pissed off as it was and he was certainly in no mood to deal with the stupidity of this clubs obviously incompetent security.
"A little tip, When a woman screams, she usually isn't consenting to being touched." Natsu growled
"Natsu! What the hell is wrong with you! These guys are security! Are you trying to get me into more trouble! God, you are so irresponsible, you know that!" Natsu's eyes shifted to her and her voice died in her throat, his eyes seemed…hurt, again he had come to help her and all she did was scream at him.
He had brought her here and attempt to have fun, to show her there was more to life than lay around in the grass and breathe, every single idea he had had gone bad, maybe he was just irresponsible, he bowed his head and muttered "Sorry."
The tall man groaned as he sat up "Only one person on the planet who can kick like that, Natsu!" Natsu recognized the voice, one he had not heard in years.
"Elfman! Now way?" Natsu pulled the taller man to his feet.
"Me? What about you? Finally got away from the crazy old man?" The white haired, scarred bouncer smiled clapping the boy on the shoulder.
Erza was confused, Natsu had quite literally decked the man less than five seconds ago and now they were all chummy? The two shorted men, still held her tightly for some reason, Elfman turned his not so friendly gaze on them and they shivered "What are you two doing? Let her go."
"But-"
Elfman silenced them with a raised hand "Natsu's point was 100% correct, I apologize Miss, I reacted rashly."
"Oh, Um..That's alright?" Erza's head span, as her arms were let go, she felt sick at her behavior towards Natsu, while he was engaged in conversation she stealthily slipped away from them, she found her seat and sat down with a long sigh.
"You okay?" Erza had her eyes closed, but the voice seemed rally familiar, she opened her eyes to fin the blonde from earlier, she almost growled at her.
"Look, I know how that may have looked with your boyfriend and all, but he was just checking my arm, he thought I might have broken it." The blonde explained cheerily.
"He's not my boyfriend." Was Erza's response 'And ii blew up at him, for making sure he didn't break a girls arm…I really am the worst."
A black haired man in white coat walked out of the crowd, he approached the blonde and gave her a quick kiss on the lips "Sorry, Lucy there was a little problem with security."
Then Erza notice the golden ring on the blonde's finger, she let her head fall forward and hit the table with a groan, Lucy chuckled at her "It's all right Grey, business is important now that we have so many people coming here." Lucy tapped his nose.
Grey looked at the top of the red hair and raised his eyebrows the ears twitched slightly and He placed a small white card beside the girls arm "Your boyfriend and Elfman explained what happened, you have my sincerest apologies and if we can make it up to you just give us a call, we can set you two up in one of the private rooms on the second floor…or something." Grey said simply, before taking his wife's hand and walking away.
Erza lifted her head to tell him the same thing she had told Lucy, but he was already gone, she looked down at the small business card on the table, she picked the thing up and dropped it in her handbag. before turning to the table of snacks behind her, she let her nose guide her, a small white bowl was almost overflowing with lightly browned biscuits that made her mouth water, she placed one in her mouth and moaned at the flavor in her mouth, she took a handful and ate them slowly as she waited for Natsu to come back.
Natsu finally made his way out of the crowd and fell onto his seat heavily, he looked to Erza's seat and was surprised her bag was still there, he looked a the snack table and noticed an upturned white bowl, the bottom had a small label on it 'Catnip snacks, please consume responsibly.' Natsu frowned at it, 'Surely Erza is the one that did this?' He shrugged, she would find her way back here and then he would apologize for dragging her out here.
Natsu noticed a red blur out of the corner of his eye and felt a sudden pressure against his chest, it took a moment for him to register Erza was hugging him, squeezing the life out of him was closer to the point. She pulled back slightly, sitting on the edge of his knee, she had the top button of her shirt undone giving him a sizable view of her cleavage as she peered up at him cutely, her ears flattening against her head and her tail swishing about behind her.
"I'm sorry I pushed you." She cooed softly, leaning forward slightly grazing her lips against his jaw line, Natsu froze, that was not what he expected, well he didn't expect any of this but that, she ground herself up his leg slowly and leaned into his neck, it seemed like she was inhaling him "I like this smell." She announced happily.
Natsu's brain lagged, so he just stared at her in open mouth disbelief, she moved her hands over his chest and grazed her nose across the line of his throat, before squeezing him against her tightly, pressing her breasts against him and burying her head in the crook of his neck "Erza?" He winced as she suddenly bit down on his shoulder, drawing blood, he grabbed her shoulders and pushed her slightly away from him.
"Aw, don't you like me? I wore this especially for you." Again in an overly happy tone, Natsu held her in front of him and stared at her face, her cheeks were flushed and her eyes seemed glazed over, her eyes lid drooped considerably and she fell limply against his chest, breathing softly and occasionally letting out a purr, Natsu sighed. before hoisting her onto his back holding underneath her legs, he picked up her bag and made his way out of the club shaking his head and he walked, he looked down the street, and readjusted Erza on his back, his house was closer, 'she can stay at my house for the night and go home in the morning, besides I'd rather not have her wake up like this and walk out in the night."
A/N: Love it? Hate it? I know Erza seemed a little crazy in this one, but jealousy can do strange things to people's rational minds…I think, anyway tell me what you think!