A/N: I know this update is WAAAY overdue, A lot of stuff happened around my personal love life and writing a happy romance just aggravated me, yeah, one of those deals. Well, onto the chapter! Also, I couldn't get the actual lyrics for the song I mention in this chapter, so I just with what it sounded like to me (So, Yeah, it's more than likely wrong XD)
Erza's nose twitched at the enticing aroma that filled it, lifting her head tiredly she rubbed at her eyes, noticing the lack of Natsu's warmth she could only guess he was responsible for the aroma currently causing her to salivate.
It was almost the same as the last time she had stayed, she could hear music from the kitchen faintly and she already knew the boy would likely be singing quietly in that odd way he did when he was distracted.
She got to her feet slowly, pulling a blanket around her shoulders that dragged along the ground as she peered around the doorway into the kitchen and as expected Natsu stood in front of the stove rocking slightly to the beat of the music and singing softly.
You built walls to stand tall, crashed to the floor one by one.
Erza padded into the room softly, seating herself at the table her eyes closed and she swayed slightly to the tune, Natsu smirked to himself as he spotted her sit down at his table.
Tomorrow comes creeping your boats are strucked on, walking full of bravado, but your eyes weighed a ton.
He stopped as he placed a small tower on pancakes in front of the small cat girl, the mess of syrup melted butter and small berries that topped It made her mouth water.
"Why do you sing when you cook?" Erza asked curiously, hers ears twitching cutely.
Natsu scratched the back of his head in embarrassment "It's stupid."
"Come on, tell me." Erza pressed
"I-It's something my mum used to do, Whenever she used to cook she would sing or hum or something like that, It just feels wrong if I don't." He explained with a small amount of red in his cheeks.
Erza had a small smile on her face "You don't have to stop you know." She'd never admit it but she liked his singing voice, it wasn't that he was good, he opted to harmonize with the singer instead of mimicking them, it almost sounded better than the song itself.
Natsu smirked as he moved around her, brushing her hair back behind her ear, and action that still brought a blush to her face at the unfamiliar closeness, the chorus started as he moved and he decided to oblige her.
"I'm shining for you, brighter than the morning star," He sung sweetly into her ear "Shining for you, Light in your darkest hour, When your hopeless and hiding, effin and blinding, I'll bring your ship home, I'm shining…shining for you."
Erza leaned into the boys shoulder, her boys, shoulder as he continued he would occasionally stop and place a small kiss on her temple in the small breaks in the song. When the song ended she began eating slowly, still silently enjoying Natsu's proximity.
The food was at Natsu's usual moan educing standard, she finished it quickly and leaned into the warmth of her boyfriend, she paused and frowned 'boyfriend doesn't sound right to me.' She thought simply, she tilted her head and looked at the pinkette.
He raised a questioning eyebrow at her as he glanced at her expression "What?"
"If you were to introduce me to your friends, if you had any other friends that is, what would you say?" Erza asked, her ears twitching in excitement.
"This is my Girlfriend?" He led with apprehensively "Hm, You're not much of a girlfriend though."
"I know right, I can't introduce you as my boyfriend either, we aren't lovey-dovey like other people are we?"
"Not in the traditional sense I guess," Natsu admitted, he snapped his fingers and a smile appeared on his face "This is my aggravator!"
"Aggravator?" Erza questioned, she wasn't sure making up words was the right way to go about this.
"Yeah, You enjoy arguing with me and it annoys me that you do, it aggravates me, you're my aggravator!" Natsu looked at her with a slight glint in his eyes. He fully expected her to shoot down this idea.
"So you would be my…aggravated?" Erza rubbed at her chin for a moment, her ears perked up slightly at the thought "Yeah, let's go with that!"
Natsu stared at her in disbelief "You know, yesterday I chased you until my legs felt like they were going to fall off, saved your life, became the happiest man on the planet and I did all that, to become your aggravated?"
"Yep," Erza chimed happily, leaning towards his and planting a lingering kiss on his lips before snuggling into him cutely "Would you like me to tell you how my yesterday went?"
Natsu rubbed his cheek into the top of her hair happily "Sure."
"I had this hoodie, it belonged to a really close friend who I just so happened to fall in love with, it was driving me crazy having it around reminding me of all these really embarrassing memories, so on my way to give it back of course it begins raining, cause of my wonderful luck. As it turns out me dropping off the map for three days was as emotionally devastating to my friend as it was…too me, I didn't know how to make it better so I bolted," She paused and looked at him, the warm smile on his face held as he listened intently, she knew he had already figured all this out, it was his nature to know about it, just the fact that he was listening to her so intently even though he already knew warmed her heart "I didn't expect him to chase after me at all, then there was this truck and I thought I was going to die, I mean I even saw my whole life flash before my eyes," She emphasized her point with an odd hand movement "Then I became the happiest girl on the planet. Then I think I set a record by becoming the world's first 'Aggravator.'"
Natsu chuckled slightly "That was riveting, specially the part where you almost died, I was on the edge of my seat!"
She punched him in the arm "I didn't mention, My friend was this giant dumbass."
"Really? I think your just super short." He replied "Your friend sounds really lucky though."
"Oh, He knows he is." Erza replied with a smile as she turned her head up, Natsu moved slightly as his lips pressed against hers, she tilted her head back further as he deepened the kiss, he gave her bottom lip a tentative lick, as if he was unsure whether or not she wanted to continue. She hesitated only a moment before opening her mouth, the progress each made was slow and in a word, awkward, neither of them really knew what they were doing, so they just imitated what they had seen in movies, Natsu pressed forward slightly and pulled her small frame into him, as his tongue slipped into her mouth properly, he swirled it against her tongue. Erza let out a surprised moan at the contact, there was no way he was getting away with that, as she wracked through her brain for a way to get revenge apparently her tail was way ahead of her, the appendage wrapped around the inside of his upper thigh and caressed it lightly, Natsu started and pulled back in surprise, both panted and Erza's cheeks were more than a little red.
"That scared me." Natsu sighed out, glancing at her tail.
Erza, not trusting her voice just nodded her head dumbly.
"Did you do that on purpose?" Natsu asked
"No!" Erza exclaimed suddenly, Natsu started but remained silent, she glowed a little redder "I mean, you were doing so well, I thought I had to get a little revenge and then it did that I don't really control it and so I-uh, I'm sorry." She ended her flustered rant with an adorable pout and lowered her head to look at the floor.
He gave her head a playful scratched between the ears as he got to his feet, he buckled slightly as he put too much weight on his injured leg, she had completely forgotten about it, she darted to his side and he stubbornly refused to lean on her.
"It's not that bad, I'll be limping for a day maybe two at the worst." He explained simply
"Natsu." Erza growled seriously
"I'm serious, It's just a little bruised." Natsu defended
Erza pulled the leg of his pants up quickly, revealing a swollen purple and black mass that used to be his ankle, she sent a fiery glare up at the boy.
"A lot bruised?" He smiled nervously
"You've been walking around this hole time like you were fine, go sit down," She sighed in exasperation as she searched around for the first aid kit and retrieved an icepack from the freezer, Natsu hobbled his way into the lounge room and plopped onto his couch with a relieved sigh, Erza entered the room a few minutes later, balancing a glass of water an icepack and some tablets which he assumed were anti-inflammatory, she handed him the glass of water and the tablets "Tale these." She ordered, he took the glass and the tablets and swallowed them quickly before laying back down and laying his arm over his eyes.
Erza set about the task of wrapping the pack around his ankle slowly, trying to avoid causing him as much pain as possible, although she fumbled a little bit, he didn't make a sound to indicate that she caused him any pain. She finished slowly and crawled her way over the top of him, he noticed the lack of, well anything and moved his arm to find her hovering above him, a slightly mischievous smile on her face .
"What?" Natsu asked
"You know I won't be able to just leave you here while you can't walk." Erza noted
"O..kay?" He questioned slowly still not entirely sure what she meant or where she was going.
Erza leaned forwards and placed her lips over his before pulling back quickly "I wonder what we can do to pass the time." She sighed
Natsu's smirk was downright seductive as he flipped her over, carefully maneuvering himself to avoid further injury as the two entered another intense make out session.
A/N: There it is, the aftermath of the confession! I went over a few things I did in the last chapter because I have been away from this fiction for so long, I hope you all enjoyed this and I will see you guys next time. Peace!
Song: Shining for You, Jack O'Rourke