Chapter 2: I'm the mafia princess

"Who is this girl anyway? And why is she being followed by those people?" Rogue said as he kept on looking at the beautiful blonde girl he was carrying.

"Sorry if this is a bad timing but could you mind telling me why those men are after you?" Rogue said as he continued running with the damsel in his hands.

"I'll tell you when we're in a safe place. For now, just continue on running," the blonde commanded.

Though Rogue really wanted to know the reason why but it is a really bad timing to do so since the men behind them are still after them. Rogue, being too focus on running, accidentally tripped on his own foot.

"Sorry about that Miss," Rogue apologized. During the fall, the men in black had successfully surrounded the two.

"You are now surrounded. Just give us the girl and we'll let you go without harming you," said the guy before.

Rogue quickly stood up with a nonchalant expression on his face. He sighed.

"You think I'll just give you this girl just because you told me so?" Rogue said nonchalantly. "Fat chance of that ever happening!"

"You don't even know–" the guy stopped talking when Rogue landed his foot on his tanned face.

"Boss! Boy, do you know who you are dealing with?" shouted by one of the men.

"Shut up, you butt!" Rogue ordered as he laid a forceful punch on the guy's cheeks.

Rogue continued on fighting with the men while the girl just continued on watching him fight them. She was so surprised that a stranger was so willing to fight the bunch of men just for her safety. She gripped onto Rogue's bag which he threw to her before he started to fight them. It took some time before Rogue finally finished off all the men who tried to fight him.

"C'mon, we need to go now before they wake up," Rogue said as held the girl's arm and ran away.

Rogue's body was full of bruises even his mouth had some blood coming out of his mouth. The girl felt guilty for what had happened to her rescuer.

"Gomen," whispered the girl.

"Nani? Did you just say something?" Rogue asked as he continued on running towards a certain direction.

"I said sorry. I'm so sorry," the girl said as she looked away from Rogue.

"Why say sorry?" Rogue asked.

"Because I was the reason why you're all bruised up."

Rogue just smiled a bit at the girl's response.

"Don't worry about that. By the way, the name's Rogue. Rogue Cheney," Rogue smiled.

"M-my name's L-Lucy Heartfilia," Lucy blushed.

"Nice to meet you Lucy-chan. Hey! I didn't know that we're already here," Rogue said.

Rogue finally stopped at a house. It was his house. Lucy looked at the house for a second and noticed that Rogue already took his hand away from hers. She kind of felt lonely when he did so.

"Come on in, Lucy-chan," Rogue said, giving some space for Lucy to go in through the gate. Lucy didn't think twice and just went in the house.

Rogue opened the door for Lucy and they were both been welcomed by Rogue's brothers.

"You're finally here, Rogue-niisan," Romeo said, coming out from the kitchen with a sandwich in his hands.

Romeo dropped the sandwich when he saw his older brother bruised.

"Niisan! What happened to you?" Romeo said.

"I-It's noth…," Rogue said unfinished when he collapsed to the floor.

"Oh no! Rogue…" Lucy and Romeo shouted.

"Alzack-niisan, come here quick!" Romeo shouted.

Romeo's shouts were the last thing Rogue could hear before he finally went to sleep.

Rogue's dream…

"Rogue…"

"Rogue, I just love the days I spent with you. I just wish I could spend more days with you."

"I also love spending my day with you…"

I was in a grass field. With her. We were lying on the ground. The sun was brightly shining on the fields. I think this may have been the last day I've been with her.

We were both happy just by being with each other every single day. We would only meet after our classes were done. Everything was just peachy except the last day.

"Rogue, I have to go now."

"Chotto! What do you mean by that? Will you be back?"

"I don't know when I'll be back. I'm not sure if we'll ever see each other again."

"Wha…"

"Just remember this Rogue-kun… Just before you go to school on the first days, you should always wish for something before you go into school. You would never know that your wish may come true. Goodbye Rogue-kun."

"Chotto!"

End of Rogue's dream

"Wait!" Rogue shouted, awaking from his dream.

As he awoke, he noticed that he was now placed on his comfortable bed with new clothes on. He looked around his room and spotted Lucy resting on his desk. He then averted his head from Lucy when he heard a knock on the door.

"Konbanwa Rogue-niisan! I see you're now okay. We brought some soup for you," Romeo said with Alzack behind him.

"What happened to me? And is Lucy alright?" Rogue asked.

"Well, you kinda collapsed when you arrived here with Lucy-neesan after you were carried here by Alzack-niisan, Lucy-neesan insisted to take care of you because of what you did to her a while ago. She even made some soup for you and for us and she even clothe you," Romeo explained as he placed the tray with soup, bread and milk on it.

"In short, Lucy-chan here is tired of taking care of you so she slept on your desk," Alzack rephrased.

"But why is she sleeping on the desk? You guys could have shown her to the guest room so that she can rest," Rogue said as he started on munching on the bread.

"Well, she insisted on not leaving your side until you wake up so she did," Romeo answered. "Well. I gotta go now Niisan. I still have some homework to do."

As soon as Romeo left, Alzack quickly went to Rogue's side.

"Tell me, have you been awake before we came in or you just woke up now?" Alzack whispered.

"I think I was awake a few seconds before you guys came in," Rogue plainly answered. "Why did you ask?"

"Are you sure you're telling the truth? Maybe you did something to Lucy-chan while she was asleep…hmmm," Alzack duck-faced his brother as he asked the suspicious question.

"What the heck!? Alzack, you got to be kidding me…" Rogue said as he pinched and pulled his brother's cheek.

With the pull on the cheek from his brother, Alzack started to pull the cheek from the older Cheney. As they continue on pulling each other's cheek, Lucy slowly awoken from her sleep.

"Hmm… hey, you two… what are you doing to each other?" Lucy asked as she rubbed her sleepy eyes.

"Nothing," the two said simultaneously.

"Well, I think I should go now, Rogue," Alzack said as he quickly took off.

The room went into silent as the two were alone again. Both of them kept on looking at each other. Rogue looked at Lucy in a nonchalant way yet Lucy found his way of looking at her quite adorable. Unable to continue on looking at each other, Rogue started to eat his meal again. The room was now filled with the gulps and munches that came from Rogue.

"Um…" Lucy said, breaking the silence between them. "I hope you're okay now. I'm still sorry for what I did to you so I hope you didn't mind if I stayed here."

Lucy stared at the brown skirt that she was wearing while talking to the guy who saved her.

"Yeah, I feel a lot better now thanks to you," Rogue said as he sipped some soup.

"Glad to hear that! I hope you also didn't mind if I was the one who clothe and nursed you," Lucy said, blushing.

"As long if you weren't the one who change or saw my underwear, it's A-okay with me," Rogue said.

Realizing what he said, Rogue looked at Lucy's face. Lucy had a surprised expression on her face.

"N-never m-m-mind what I just said," Rogue said as he averted his head from the surprised Lucy.

"You know, Lucy, aside from my family and a friend, I think you are one of those people who took care of me. Unlike my brothers, I'm not much of a people person so not much people try to take care of me so I really appreciate what you did for me today," Rogue said, smiling as he looked at Lucy again.

Lucy was kind of shocked. She blinked a few times until she finally blushed. Lucy returned her attention to her skirt.

"Don't mention it Rogue-kun. It's the least I can do for you for what you did to me this afternoon," Lucy replied yet she was still looking at her skirt.

"Oh yeah… Do you mind if I ask you something Lucy-chan?" Rogue asked.

"Not all," Lucy responded.

"Can you tell me why does men were after you?" Rogue said as he drank some more of the soup.

"Well, it's kinda classified but to tell you in a short way, I'm… I'm the Mafia princess," Lucy said.

Rogue just simply nodded at Lucy's answer. After a few seconds, Rogue spurted out the soup he had drunk.

*cough**cough*"You're the Mafia princess!?" Rogue shouted in surprise.

I have returned (OwO) ... *sigh* I wish what I write comes true...except the part for the Mafia parts only the romance ;) So how was the second chapter? Is it okay? I was on hiatus for a long time now and I think I would be semi-hiatus here again because I still have to draw a lot of things. I hope you guys understand (OwO)

...Review maybe?