Hi guys. I'm here again! Sorry for the late update. Gomenasai~*bows 45 degree*
Great news. I'm going on a holiday for a week!*sparkles* Aaahh, world. How more blissful you can be….*daydreams*
Okay, since I will gonna have a lot of free time, I will do my best to update this story ASAP. You want to know what? Even I was excited to know what gonna happen in the next chapter!
On with the story!
Disclaimer: Yeah….The Fairy Tail's owner, it's Mashima-sensei. Reika and the plotlines are mine to begin with.
"Judging from your magic level now, I think you'll be able to destroy the whole town in one shot", he says. His coffee on the table is already losing its steam. Reika glances at him. "What makes you think like that?"
He shifts his sight from focusing at the screen to her. "You had first try it when you were ten. I think your magic had increased drastically after that. It's just my calculation. Unless you had undergone some special training, you could at least smash the town to bits."
She nods as a form of understanding what he had said. "Why don't you do it?"
He gives her a stare. "You've got to be joking, right?"
Arching her brows, she stares back at him. They lean forward to continue fighting with their stare, without realizing their face is now inches from each other. A voice interrupts, "Mommy, they are going to kiss!"
The mom smacks her son's arm lightly and lifts him to bring him to other place. She apologizes to them before walking away. Reika and Hibiki retreats from their stare and blushes. "So, I won", she boasts.
"What?"
"I won in that staring battle."
"Who decides that?"
"Me. You turned away before me."
He blushes furiously. -It's because if I continue to stare at you, I'm afraid I couldn't restrain myself from kissing you for real.-
"I object!", he protests.
"Why is that?"
"The result is one-sided."
"Care for another match?", she challenges. He stares at her, and the match starts again. The boy from earlier comes back running and accidentally caught the two in the same position again.
"Mommy! They are going to kiss again!"
"This is the town?", she shoot out an unexcited face. He answers with sigh. "Yup. This is Tsul Town."
They stand at the arch with a very unenthusiastic look. Trashes are spilling out of the bins. The street lamps are lit up dimly, only to give enough light for the passerby to walk through. Sewer's stinking scent are piling up at the path. Not to mention, the people there are undisturbed by those unpleasant things.
Hibiki glances back at the arch. The 'TSUL' name on it is written backwards. He can't help himself from wondering what could that mean.
"Are you sure you've searched the right town? This can't be the so-called international trading city!"
"The former international trading centre, to be honest."
She gives him a face telling 'why didn't you tell me earlier?'. He lifts his index and middle fingers and puts them on his temple. "PM, now."
She nods. Flowing her magic into the pendant, his voice breaks through her mind.
"There's something about this town but I'm not really sure about it", he looks around the town while striding slowly along the streets. "Before I figure it out, make sure you stay nearby me all the time."
"OOOHHH! FOOODDD!", she drools. Her feet tells her to sprint into the restaurant and glomp as much as she can, but Hibiki's words after that makes her stop.
"By the way, I forgot to tell you that this city is mobile." He smiles, but she interprets it as a sly one. Her grumbling stomach calms down after considering not to throw up at the path of nowhere. She hates vehicles, all the way of this story!
Hibiki pulls gently Reika's arms for her not to be far away from him as much as possible. They are still telepathy-ing. "From today onwards, I want you to dress up like a man." His gaze wanders through the walking people around them. His face turns sullen, as if regarding those pedestrians as a menace. But they, on the other hand, keep looking at Reika, which is staring at Hibiki with a blank look. He knows what those people are thinking.
"Hibiki, it….won't….fit!", she cries in the dressing room.
"Just try to restrain it a little."
"But", she retorts, "I would be in pain then."
"Okay, now just get out of the room and show me what's the thing that won't fit", he orders.
She opens the curtain, revealing her in a black suit and shining shoes. One could easily see her as a mafia member, but the thing that is slacking off the sight is-
"-Your…..B-Boo-", he stutters.
"That is what I was trying to tell you! It won't fit! If I want to button it up until the neck, I think the buttons will shoot off outside after 2 minutes!", straightforward, without any figurative words, she shouts out.
He turns around quickly, pinching his nostrils as it starts to bleed, as he imagines the situation. -Okay, her boobs are in the way of the mission.-
"Why don't you wear sports bra or something like that? I think it will help", while backing her, he speaks.
She stares at him. "What's a sports bra?"
He gasps. Turning around, he comes towards Reika. "You mean you don't know what's a bra?"
Her blank stare gives the answer. SHE DOES NOT KNOW.
"And all this time you've been wearing nothing inside?"
She shooks slowly. He turns around again, pinching back his nose, preventing from the blood to drop outside.-Man, this is a tough job…-
"Okay...", he calms himself down. "Now we need to do something about that." He calls a shop assistant and asks her to help Reika in choosing her size. "Once you have done, call me."
"Okay", she grins.
She walks outside with the suit she just bought. Hibiki, that was leaning against the wall of the shop, pauses his search in the Archive for a moment. After scanning her outfit, he nods. "Now that is less feminine."
They start to walk back into the street when Reika speaks, "Nee~, Hibiki…..Can we get something to eat?"
"Is it lunch time yet?"
"It's 12.30 pm. I'm hungry….", she whines. Really Natsu-like. Hibiki turns to her, smiling.
"I've got an idea. Since you have spent most of your money on those attires, how about I treat you on a lunch?" Her face lits up. "Really? You don't mind?"
"Only if", he continues, "You give me a kiss at the cheek." Like a Cheshire cat, he grins playfully.
Reika's face quickly turns a disappointed one. "Are you giving me a deal?"
"Yep."
"The deal's cancelled." She walks away. "There's no way I would give my first kiss just for a lunch treat."
Hibiki follows her close behind. "I knew you would act like this. That's why I'm here to tell you that", he thinks for a few seconds, "I'll gladly be the one that kisses your cheek for you to get a free meal."
As if wanted to throw a tantrum, she stops suddenly. "Would you just give it up already?"
"What?" , he looks at her, "You should be thankful. You get a kiss and a treat. And from me, to be added."
"Does my face says that I'm grateful for that?", she hisses. "Please Hibiki, I'm not that cheap."
The word 'cheap' really struck through his heart. But after that, he replies, "Are you calling yourself a valuable girl?" Not to mention, he felt insulted by the way she expresses her words. It was like addressing him and the ladies he had kissed as 'cheap items'. He fumes a little. "Really, Reika? You sure you are that high-leveled?"
Okay, wrong choice of words. Reika gives him a killing stare before she storms away, leaving Hibiki by himself at the crowded street. Still angered by her, he 'tch'ed as he walks into his rented inn.
That night, somewhere in a Tsul's tower…
"That girl…", a bald man says. "She has some curve you know." They laugh. Another man speaks, "I would like to see it with my own eyes, then."
"Then, why don't we just 'take' her in?"
"Good idea. She seemed like a naiveté too", he smirks. They chuckle. "Guys", a gruff voice orders suddenly. The man with a mustache smiles slyly. "We've got some capturing to do tonight."
Her eyes lay on the ceiling, trying hard to fall asleep. But the harder she tries, the harder it was to get to the slumberland. Her mind keep repeating the scene. Again and again.
"Gaahh!", she sits up while growling after she failed to sleep. -Great. Now I'm on my own. He's with his flirty methods to get a room and I was stuck in this abandoned building.-
True, she couldn't find any empty inns anymore. Hibiki's was the last one, she guesses. -Naahh….It's not like I wasn't used to sleep on the floor. Better than facing him…..-, she 'tch'ed at the thought.
Suddenly, she smiles. Her mind had remembered the time when she was eight, together with Marn, in an empty shack. They were on a journey to fight and obtain something called furball from a monster at the hills. The thing that was repressing them from killing that monster was that it was owned by an elder. An honorable one actually.
They had to kill that particular creature. They had to. If not, the deleterious disease in their village will be exacerbating. Even if it means to use their magic to the bottom, they will save them. The Water Duo owed them because of their kindness back then.
By the time they killed the monster and gained the furball, Marn quickly apologized to the elder, though it seemed like he didn't really care about Marn killing it. He was smiling too. Reika was puzzled. Why did Marn apologize? Did he had done a bad thing?
She asked him that night, before they went back to the village, in that shack. In the coldness of the night, he answered, "He may looked okay this evening, but what if he felt awful deep in his heart? We never knew what other person feels. So we should have some precaution steps for not to have enemies who bear grudges towards us." He formed his wonderful smile.
"Apologizing is not that hard, Reika. As long as you are doing it with sincerity, anyone would accept them. Even Zeref…..I think." They laughed.
Apologizing can cure any hatreds and can even turn them into love.
She still remembered how she actually saw the stars were like smiling upon them. Marn was always protecting her, educating her, trained with her and many more. He had shaped her the way she is now. And she is grateful for that. Then, something popped out in her mind. She smiles.
-Looks like I need to apologize to someone.-
He lays down on his bed, resting his spine after strolling around the town until night comes out. He had a vague map of the town now. Unknowingly, strategies start to form at his head. He switches on his Archive and starts to search more about the mysterious town.
"This town is hiding something", he says. His gaze is locked at the screen, reading every single data that comes out. Out of the blue, his eyes caught an article. "The economic downturn of a collapsing town".
He pauses. Then, he starts to read the whole article and something snapped in his mind.-Wait. According to this article, Tsul town is destroyed three years ago, then…..- He quickly pokes his head out at the window, -What is this town?-
His vision from the inn's window covers most of the town. He warily observes each detail that caught his vision. Then, it stops at the arch standing just outside of the town. The arch where he and Reika had saw when they arrived earlier. The weirdness of the arch is still bothering him.
Reading the name 'Tsul' backwards from his sight, his eyes snaps open.
LUST.
Running back into his position on the bed just now, he searches back in his Archive and saw a very unpleasant piece of information. His legs sprint out of the room. -I must find Reika now!-
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I love to put some problems in a story. You know, love and friendship can't be strong and tough without overcoming obstacles. So I decided to put those two in a bad term for some time. After that, WALAA!
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