Disclaimer: I do not own Black Clover and all rights belong to Yūki Tabata
"Character Speaking"
'Character Thoughts'
-Location-
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Author's Note: By the way I know the pairing can seem a little weird because of the age difference but I will make it work somehow, do not fret this is a fanfic after all :)
Chapter 8- I Want To Get To Know You Better
The next day has come and there's someone waking up this morning with a new mindset and set of confidence.
"I-I'm going t-to d-do m-my best today." Grey says out loud to pump herself up.
Since yesterday after the talk with Noelle she has decided that it's time for her to be the one to instigate the conversations with Asta and be the one to further their friendship.
Her first course of action was inviting Asta to sit next to her to eat breakfast. So she went to the table as fast as she could. After some time Asta came out of his room and it was now time for Grey's first plan.
"H-Hey A-Asta, d-do you want t-to eat breakfast w-with me?" Grey was nervous in doing this but she tried her best to maintain eye contact with Asta.
"Umm, sure." Asta said not thinking to much about his friend's request.
Asta and Grey are sitting down now on the table eating their breakfast and Grey starts to think of ways to start a conversation.
'W-What do I-I say? H-How's h-his day b-been? B-But i's b-barely m-morning?!' Grey is having a hard time making conversation with Asta.
"A-Asta, how's y-your breakfast?" Grey stutters.
"It's delicious, but it's nothing compared to Sister Lily's cooking!" Asta smiles remembering his crush.
"I-I see, t-that's great."
"So Grey, what's up? Have anything planned today?" Asta says while chewing on his food.
"N-No, n-not really. I-I d-don't really e-ever plan f-for anything." Grey says with a little frown.
"Actually neither have I all too much recently, since we've been hanging out a lot." Asta chuckles but he stops when he sees Grey frowning.
"H-Have I b-been i-in your w-way these days?" Grey asks with sadness in her tone.
"W-What?! No, not at all. I'm sorry Grey, I didn't mean it like that." Asta becomes a little frantic from the misunderstanding. "In fact I've been enjoying it a lot, us hanging out."
Grey calms down from hearing that but still feels some sort of guilt.
"D-Do you w-want to g-go somewhere t-together? W-We can g-go and do w-what you w-want to do t-today." Grey comes up with a brilliant idea that coincides with her plan of building a bigger friendship with Asta.
"Sure that sounds fun, although I don't really know what I want to do today." Asta stays there thinking until it hits him.
"I want to get down to some heavy training!" Asta says flexing up from his chair.
Grey stunned has to remind Asta something. "T-Training?! I-I c-can't do the s-same exercises a-as you."
"Ah you're right…how about if we did some light training?!"
"O-Okay." Grey replied but she sounded a little worried.
-Outside The Hideout-
"Alright let's start with some push ups. You can see how I do them first, Grey." Asta sets up and it's easy for him to do.
"Phew, alright it's your turn Grey."
Grey sets up for a push up but as soon as she raises up she starts to shake uncontrollably.
"Aaahh~!" Grey going down failed and hit the dirt with her face.
"Grey are you okay!" Asta yelps in fear she got hurt.
"Y-Yeah I-I'm fine.." Grey is covering her face from the embarrassment.
"How about we do some sit ups instead?" Asta says thinking it'll be easier for her.
Asta does his set and motions Grey to go next.
"Oooo~ah!" Grey gets 1 sit up done but stays still flat on the floor afterwards.
"Are you feeling okay Grey?"
"I-I'm do-doing fine." Grey is still laying on the floor.
Now both are standing up and stretching.
"Alright, this one might be easier. We're going to do some jogging around the hideout."
They're done stretching and set off on a good pace, but after a while Grey seems to be falling behind.
Asta turns around to look at Grey. 'Maybe this training is a little too hard on her, I shouldn't have forced her to do this…' Asta stops jogging and waits for Grey to catch up.
Grey stops next to Asta gathering her breath. "W-What's w-wrong Asta, w-why d-did you stop r-running?"
"Oh I thought we could stop for today, I'm sorry if I made you strain yourself too much." Asta lets out a little laugh.
"I-I see…" Grey looks down at the floor, seeming to be ashamed.
"We can do something else though, whatever you wa-"
"No!" Asta gets cut off by Grey.
Asta is shocked to hear her yell like that.
"That's okay, I want to do this." Grey says with a determined look and no stutter.
Yet again Asta is surprised to see this but he follows through. "Okay, if that's what you want to do let's continue running."
While jogging Asta is still ahead and Grey is struggling to catch up. Instead of jogging the way he does he decides to go at the pace of Grey and jogs next to her. Grey looks at Asta who is now next to her and wonders why he is at her pace.
"I don't want you to be jogging alone and besides it's more fun this way." Asta smiles at her.
Grey blushes a little at the sight.
They run around the hideout for about half an hour until they decide they have enough.
"That was good, how do you feel, Grey?"
"G-Good."
"Do you want to go for longer?" Asta asks.
"Y-Yes, I-I want to s-start from t-the beginning." Grey says instantly getting ready to do some push ups.
'Wow, she really wants to do this. That's great.' Asta thinks to himself admiring Grey's sudden motivation.
Although she is full of determination it's not going so well for her again. After every push up she is falling face first on the dirt but that's not stopping her. She gets back up and continues them, what could be the reason for her not stopping?
'Maybe I should stop her, I don't want her to get hurt.' Asta stops his workout to look at her and heads somewhere inside the hideout.
'I-I c-can't stop n-now! E-Especially n-not in front o-of him!' Grey shockingly is full of anger shown on her face and from that she does 5 in a row. But falls on the floor again.
*Applause*
"You did it Grey, that was awesome." Asta stands there applauding her.
"Asta?!" Grey didn't expect this from Asta.
"Oh and here, don't want your face to be all dirty." Asta laughs, handing her a towel to clean her face.
She grabs the towel and wipes her face.
"You know Grey, you didn't have to do this if you didn't want to. I'm sorry if this was troublesome to you." Asta scratches the back of his head.
"N-No it w-wasn't any trouble t-to me. I wanted t-to do t-this and I had fun."
"You did?" Asta looks down at her.
"Yes, today was fun training with you." Grey said with a big smile.
This time Asta was blushing seeing her smile.
"That's great to hear Grey." Asta grabs her hand to pick her up. "Anything else you want to do today?"
"H-How a-about another jog." Grey says with excitement.
"Okay, try to keep up if you can haha." Asta says, starting to run and laughing.
Grey follows behind pouting but laughing a little too.
'I really want to spend more time with you Asta. I want to get to know you better.' Grey smiles.
Back inside the hideout someone seems to be looking out.
'You're doing great Grey.' Vanessa smiles. 'Who knew that Asta's little mission would turn into this.' She chuckles covering her mouth.
Author's 2nd Note: Oh boy, I really apologize for this time. I don't even know how long it's been *insert nervous laugh*. This time I really promise I will update this story, I have a lot of free time now.
