So, in order to make up for how long the last chapter took to complete, I give you this chapter, it's shorter than how I like to have my chapter (at least 2,000 words) but I say given how fast I wrote it with the time I have available to me, this will do. This chapter, why it was written so fast was because I decided to try to have some fun with this chapter, nothing really serious happens in this chapter, just good humor and fun.
Reference:
Talking - "Quotations"
Thinking - 'Contractions'
Flashback - Italics
Spells, Important people or objects - Bold
A Return Worth Waiting For
Chapter 8
"Gah! I can't believe I look away for a moment and I turn back and she's gone!" The rose haired mage raged at himself. He was following Erza and he saw a fish stall and started strolling towards it before realizing he was supposed to follow Erza. However, once he got back on track he noticed she disappeared.
Natsu was slowly starting to panic. Who can blame him? Everyone in the guild fears the wrath of Erza in all its forms. He started running hoping to find the red head, hoping to avoid such a treatment.
"Natsu!" Erza hollered as she was walking around the town. 'I should have more carefully watched him rather than get lost in my imagination!' she screamed at herself. Despite her self-complaints however, she was once again lost in her thoughts until she walked right into a similar man who was lost in his thoughts; a man who had rose colored hair. Hitting the poor man in the nose with her head.
"Ow! Watch where you're going!" Natsu yelped in pain as he stumbled back clutching his nose.
"Me? Watch where you're going" Erza fell on her behind and began softly rubbed her head, it didn't hurt her much but it still stung and caught her completely off guard.
Both of them forgot what they were previous doing due to the situation and were unable to process that the two they were looking for bumped right into each other.
"Oh, it's you Natsu. Look where you're going next time." Erza slowly grumbled as she started to get up.
At this time Natsu took small notice of the position Erza was in. He was able to see up her skirt and see her underwear. His face turned a very light shade of pink, matching his hair color as he responded, "Yeah, I'm sorry. I'll watch where I'm going."
Erza took noticed of where his gaze pointed for the brief moment and went silent as her hair hung over her eyes. "Natsu, did you just look up my skirt?" She asked darkly, almost fully standing now.
"W-w-what? N-n-n-no. I-I-I mean I looked, b-b-but I didn't m-mean to!" Natsu stuttered hoping to keep on living. He was a man after all so when a women was in a 'vulnerable' position he couldn't help but sneak a glance.
"Oh and how do you not 'mean' to?" Erza asked with her eyes still covered, now gaining a tick mark.
Natsu simply figured negotiations and begging were not going to help his situation, so he turned tail and rain for dear life.
Erza just fumed more. "NATSU! GET BACK HERE AND TAKE YOUR PUNISHMENT LIKE A MAN YOU PERVERT!" chasing after him. Unlike Natsu however she simply barged through people knocking many over like bowling pins. One such unfortunate bystander was the Mira-In-Hiding.
"Oh my, what has Erza so pissed she would rage through town just to get at Natsu?" she asked to herself, but didn't think long on it as both Natsu and Erza were already out of sight. She simply got up and headed back to the guild
"NO WAY I'M GOING TO STOP SO YOU CAN PUMMEL ME INTO DUST!" Natsu yelled back out of sheer terror.
"DON'T OVEREXAGGERATE YOUR PUNISHMENT!" Erza yelled back
"YOU HAVE A SWORD OUT!" Natsu shrieked, growing more terrified of what's to come.
Erza's anger dissipated by the humorous reactions she was getting from Natsu, and her dark glare was replace by an evil smile as she continued to terrorize him. "I'M JUST GOING TO CUT YOU DOWN TO SIZE!" She yelled back
Natsu ran and ran, how he hasn't been caught by Erza, let alone collapse was unknown to him. All he knew was that the two of them were in the woods and he was nearing the place he and Happy called home. Where was Happy?
"THAT'S RIGHT NATSU! JUST SLOW DOWN AND FINALLY STOP SO I CAN GET YOU!" Erza yelled all too 'sweetly'.
Natsu just yelped and quickly tried to pick up speed before he finally noticed how exhausted he had become. It dawned that the current rate he would not make it to the safety and comfort of his home. He had to use a little bit of deception.
"ERZA! LOOK! I SEE CAKE RIGHT OVER THERE!" Natsu pointed in a direction to the side and hoped for the best.
Erza's face went from her dark smile to that of a school girl getting one of the best things in life from the possibility that her favorite could be where Natsu pointed. "REALLY!?" She nearly drooled at the aspect, slowed her pace and looked expectantly in the direction; she saw nothing.
"Natsu did you really…" She didn't finish as she saw Natsu continue to bolt away and into his house. "YOU LITTLE…!" Erza roared and ran full blast at Natsu
Natsu got to the door and as he turned around to shut the door he saw a red headed demon flying towards him at high speeds. He slammed the door shut and held his back against it to brace it from the almost certainty that Erza will try to bash it in. That was not the case. Instead of trying to bust down the door, Natsu found a sword was shoved through appearing next to his stomach.
"OPEN THIS DOOR AND ACCEPT DIVINE PUNISHMENT!" Erza roared furiously; apparently not liking the obvious deception Natsu pulled on her.
Natsu simply said nothing and just tried to keep the door on its….hinges? Well, something of the sort, as Erza simply resorted to bashing against the door in a way to hopefully get Natsu to let her in instead of just destroying it. That is, before an idea struck her…
Natsu was praying so hard he would not become shish-kabob or become a pancake that he was unable to notice that Erza was no longer trying to force her way through the door. "Huh, did she leave?" and in a moment of stupidity he opened the door slightly which ended with….no one there…?
"Wait! She's trying to trick me!" He assumed, and closed the door, thinking he outsmarted the mighty Titania, he walked victoriously to his room. "Hah! Outsmarted her!"
"Outsmarted who…?" A mischievously dark feminine voice softly rang out right behind him.
"Huh?" Natsu absentmindedly said while startled. He turned around at the moment the figure lunged at him, wrapping her arms around his arms and waste to prevent his escape.
"Got you!" The figure said all too sweetly, with a dark undertone. The figure straddling Natsu.
"E-e-erza! How did you get in!?" Natsu asked in a panic while also going red at the close contact between him and her.
Erza would have almost face palmed herself if she didn't have her arms wrapped around him. "You have windows Natsu." Natsu still didn't get the message, and he would never learn for Erza continued, "Never mind that. For now, I shall deliver your punishment." She finished with an evil glint in her eye.
Natsu was not going out his way. He'll be dammed if he wasn't going to put up some form of resistance. Natsu let the strength leave his legs and he let himself fall, taking Erza with him.
"Kya!" Erza squeaked in a girly way. She was not expecting Natsu to do anything like that.
Natsu quickly tried standing back up while Erza was on his back, stunned, and dashed off into the other room. Erza quickly regained her senses and grabbed the nearest thing she hand grabbed it and….'is that Natsu's underwear!?'
"Think fast Natsu!" Erza yelled throwing it at him. Natsu turned at the right moment with his own boxers meeting him right in the face.
"Ack! Gross!" He pulled them away to see Erza coming right at him. He quickly turned to run away starting to dodge the various things Erza would throw at him; clothes, cups, plates, Happy, uneaten fish bones.
"Stop throwing stuff at me!" Natsu comically yelled back at Erza, the two apparently at this point were outside running around the house.
"Accept your punishment then!" Erza yelled back, stifling a small giggle while holding up a battered and bruise Happy, who was sadly used by Erza as a projectile to hit Natsu multiple times.
"Why are you using Happy as a weapon?" Natsu raged in a way that Erza just could not take serious.
"Oh? This? Well, my mistake, I thought it was a ball." Erza absentmindedly dropped Happy and accidently stepped right on him. 'I have an idea!' she thought, thinking to use one of Natsu's favorite things against him. "Natsu! I have fish here! It's yours if you stop running." She said all too sweetly.
Natsu being the gullible person he was, stopped and look back at Erza. What he saw were three things he did not expect. 1, Erza did not have the fish she promised. 2, Erza was charging him still. 3, Erza was in her seduction armor. The reaction Natsu gave, in Erza's mind, was priceless.
"Keep running Natsu! I can do this. She lied about fish and is now using seduction to slow me down." Natsu said to himself as he turn to keep running, Erza now right behind him, just beyond an arm's length.
"Come now Natsu, you know you like what you see!" Erza said in a sultry voice, obviously trying to seduce him to some extent so he would slow down.
Natsu unconsciously decided to peak a glance at Erza who resembled a very skimpy dressed maid. Eying her chest, which only covered by an apron, was the mistake that would cost him however. He ran into a tree. He slammed right into it with a force that knocked the tree over, barely missing his house. He fell back with stars in his eyes, knocked right out.
"Well, I meant for him to slow down so I can catch him, but this works as well." Erza said walking up to his unconscious form, requiping into her blouse. She promptly leaned down, grabbed the back of Natsu's vest, and dragged him into his house.
Well I hope you enjoyed the small little chapter here. I'm not sure if this chapter will be able to remain T for all the adult references I add into it. I have no intentions of writing full blown nudity (if I do, I won't go into detail) or lemons. I may imply certain things (like sex). So I shall ask you, think I should bump the rating to M just to be safe or do you think I'm good at remaining at T? Also, Possible spoiler: I plan to have Erza confess to Natsu in the next chapter, if not the next one. I kind of want something more tragic happen to bring the two together for good. Anyways, leave a review/comment and or suggestions if you want to. I shall see you later.