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In this chapter, I'll tell you, some problems may start to arise and things will get a little bit serious starting this moment. *clears throat*
So, enjoy~~*waves like crazy*
Disclaimer: Fairy Tail belongs to Mashima-sensei…Yeah, I'm sick of telling you the same thing over and over again. -.-"
"Ex-quip: Black Wing Armor!"
SLASH!
The bandits fly to the air before come crashing to the ground with wounds on their torsos. Natsu's punch comes afterwards. "Karyuu No Tekken!"
Again, they fly but this time, towards Gray. "Ice Make: Arrow!" Numerous icicles is shot at the criminals and after that, Reika's silhouette is seen in front of them, grinning.
"Water Slasher!" The hot water glaciers cook up the backs of the bandit, making them crying out pitifully.
"Ittai~~! Hot!" was one of the obvious voices among them. Then, all of them lie on the floor, having no energy left to fight these monsters.
At the side, "Ano Lucy, why didn't you help them?", Happy asks.
"I'm out of spirits to be used today, and I have only Aquarius left so I think I would just leave it to them. Summoning her would only mean increasing my number of passing out," she replies while making that not-so-cute expression (the blinking eyes and sparkles, just like Ichiya). They sweatdrop.
Suddenly….
"UWEEEKKKK!"
A familiar voice come into their eardrums. It is Reika!
"Guys…..Help….UWEEEKKKK!"
Erza quickly changes into her Heart Kruz armor and runs towards the vomiting Reika. Though it is disgusting to look at, she wouldn't leave her like that, because she is one of her nakama.
"Are you okay, Reika?"
Reika shooks her head slowly, doesn't have the energy to talk back to her, and focuses back on her 'emptying stomach mission'. Lucy comes after that. "Better to get her quickly to the hospital. She might experience food poisoning."
Her body becomes limp after throwing out all of the contents in her stomach. Lucy hands her a bottle of mineral water to wash her stained mouth. "Here, don't let your tummy empty without any food. It might rebel again."
But Reika doesn't hear anything anymore. Her vision gets all blurry and then, she shuts her eyes as her pupils scrolls up her eye socket. She passed out!
Erza holds Reika carefully on her back, while Natsu and Gray decides to just watch. They are feeling something different about Reika somehow. "Lushie, I think it's not food poisoning."
"It's not? I mean, she did ate like a monster like you two back in the restaurant," her face look shocked. Natsu puts his hands at the hips and confidently says, " I think she's pregnant."
"Natsu, you're a genius!" Lucy yells as she pats his back lightly.
"Of course, Lushie! Look, I'm not that hopeless guy, right Gray?" he boasts in front of his rival. But sadly, Gray looks away with a mocking face. "Actually I was just to say the same thing but you blurted it out first so it doesn't change my opinion to you that you're none other than a plain baka." He looks back at Natsu and continues, "With some basic knowledge of life."
"Say that again, iceberg!" His mouth lits with fire.
"I said you are a baka, bakemono." Their foreheads meets with a 'thunk' sound. But out of nowhere, Erza comes and crashes the heads of the two, making two good swollen marks on Natsu and Gray's heads.
"I thought you two are best friends?" she asks with a really grim voice. Even Lucy, who was witnessing it, shivers to her bone.
"A-Aye…We…A-Are bestie best friends~!" They put their arms at the back of each other's neck, pretending to be close.
"Minna….," Reika's voice intervenes their conversation. Happy flies out of the room together with her. "Natsu, she is two weeks now!", Happy says with glee.
Hearing that, everyone's face lits up. "Really? That's good. When will you tell Hibiki?"
"I'm not sure…", she touches her chin whilst smiling. "I'll tell him when the time comes."
"When is that?"
"We'll see…"
"Hibiki?"
He turns his face and saw Christine standing beside him. "Oh, hi Christine! Hisashiburi!"
"What are you doing here?", her hands picks up the chosen breads using the plastic pair of thongs. "I mean, didn't Reika-san usually cook for you?"
"Naahh….she's not in the house for a moment. She's on a two-days mission, and will come back tomorrow." He picks the bug-shaped chocolate bread into his tray. Seems like he had overcome the phobic of his towards creatures named bugs.
"Oh…I see….", she goes quiet for a moment, spending the rest of the time enjoying the man of his heart's presence.
"A-Ano…..Christine."
"Y-Yeah?" She blushes as she hears her name is being called by her crush. "Anything I can do for you?"
"Does this bread tastes good?" He reaches for the twisted looking food and shows it to her.
"That one is delicious! One of my favorite", she smiles brightly.
Hibiki blushes, seeing how pretty the girl is when she smiles. But then, reality strokes him. -Tch, I'm married! Don't get all red because she's more beautiful than Jenny!-
Christine gives a strange look at Hibiki as she saw him staring at her long. She waves her hand in front of his face. "Hello~? Are you okay?"
Hibiki stops staring immediately and for a second, he smiles. "You're really beautiful when you smile."
Then, Christine blushes harder than before. "Eeehhh?...O-Okay…Thank you…"
After that, Hibiki walks to the counter and tells the cashier to sum up his pay. But he suddenly got an idea.
"Please count in for the girl too", he whispers.
The cashier is shocked, because he is well aware of Hibiki as Reika's husband, and just now, is he trying to flirt with other girl?
Hibiki understands the look the cashier gave and explains, "Look, she's my friend okay? Nothing more."
"Okay, if you say so." His hands quickly counts the breads' prices and tells Hibiki the amount. After paying, he walks out of the bakery instantly, dashing to his house. His stomach is yearning for food!
Now, Christine asks the cashier. "Please count."
"No need, miss."
"Eh?" Christine looks at the cashier. "What do you mean?"
"That man earlier had paid for you." The cashier puts the breads into a brown paper bag and gives it to her. Bowing her head, she walks back to her home. But all the way, her face blushes furiously.
"Hibiki….Why did you do this to me…"
"Tadaima." Christine opens the door of the bungalow and saw Ayumi sitting on the couch, enjoying her vanilla ice-cream in front of the television.
"Oh, hokhaerik! (Okaeri!)", she replies with her mouth full of ice-cream.
"Where's Julie?" She puts the bag of groceries and the paper bag full of breads.
"In the room. I wonder what she is doing though", Ayumi's mouth protrudes, signaling she is sulking. "She even chased me out of our room."
Christine giggles. "She is a lady too. Sometimes you just have to give her some privacy."
"What privacy would an Exceed need?! Sheesh…It's not like she has some PMS or anything…." Again, she focuses back on the television, still sulking. Christine chuckles seeing the two arguing over simple matters. But honestly, they are the one who had been by her side all the time. Through spick and span, they were there when she needs them. And now, she regards them as her family.
Christine's eyes then caught something at the door. A silhouette seems to be moving around at the front of their house. With the slightest bravery she has, Christine steps outside and sees….
Hibiki with the paper bag earlier. How long has he been standing there? His face shows that he is cold waiting outside.
"Err….Hi!"
"What are you doing here?" Her face is utterly shocked. Why would a man wait in front of an all girls' house?
"Actually…I'm kinda lonely back in my home. So I guess, why don't I hang around with you and your friends?" He chuckles nervously.
"Hibiki, it's nightime." Her voice sounds stern. "Why don't you go to your Trimen's house instead?"
"Ren's married, and the rest is…..you know it. Eve is not in his apartment, he had gone to a date. "
"How about Ichiya?"
"I-Ichiya-s-sama? I-I don't want to go there…"
"Why not?"
"There's just some things you didn't have to know…" He looks away as he remembered the nightmare at Ichiya's house, which is somehow managed to scar his life.
"Oy Hibiki! Come in!", screams Ayumi from within the house. "Christy, let him come in, don't let him freeze to death there!"
"Ayumi, it's 9 pm! It's inappropriate for him to be in our house at this time!"
"I guess I'll just head home then…" he plasters a sad face while his feet starts to turn back.
"Wait!" Christine halts him. The truth is, she didn't like it when a man enters their house but Hibiki's face made her change her mind. She knows how lonely he must've felt in that big empty house. "You can come in but just for an hour!"
"Okay, thanks princess!" Hibiki forms his cheerful smile which captures Christine's heart more. As the two walks into the house, a figure is seen capturing pictures of Hibiki and Christine walking together…
The next day…
Reika happily ambles towards her home with a face full of smile. She holds her bag carefully and is overly cautious to anything that could make her fall. All is to protect her baby. Their baby.
By the time she arrives at her house, her eyes caught something in the mailbox. She quickly opens it and saw a letter.
"No stamps and all…Guess this is hand-mailed…", she tears open the envelope. But in the letter, the words are written in red.
To Reika Dragneel Laytis,
I hope you could see my anger through the color of this fucking alphabets. You know what? Because you had ruined my damn life. But I don't write this effing letter just to tell you a tale of my pitiful story. Read this well.
If you love your village, leave that flirt. Or I'll kill him and demolish that freaking beloved Mizu Village of yours. I don't care a flying fuck how you do it. And I give you two days.
Choose well, because I ain't giving you any second chance.
Garul Cahynn
Her hands tremble as she had done reading. -M-Mizu? How did he know where I came from? Wait, he said two days, and now it was evening. Which means….I have only a night and a day left! Damn that Cahynn! Didn't he get caught by those Era members? -
As her mind thinks about the blackmail she had just received, her feets stride into her house, with a fluttering heart.
He walks into his house carefully after seeing the door isn't locked.
-That's weird. I was sure I locked it when I went out to the guild this morning.- he thought. Afraid that a burglar might have crash into his house, he tip-toes into the living room. There, he saw a figure he misses so much. His body automatically moves to hug her.
"Honey….I missed you so much."
Reika flinches as he hugs her from behind. "Hibiki…You shocked me…" She rubs her chest as her heart stomps hard just now. "You know you could say 'tadaima' at least…"
"I don't know you're back this early, if not, I would be knocking you out, because I thought some burglar came to rob." He kisses her cheek. "So how's my sweetie? Does the mission went well?"
Reika tells Hibiki about her successful mission and skips the part where she threw out and the blackmail she got. Hibiki seems to be listening to her every word, and that makes her feels more guilty for not telling him. And the reason she was shocked just now was because of her mind wandering around the letter and the pregnancy issue. She was confused whether to tell him about them or not. She doesn't want him to worry, and had also thought of handling all of it by herself. But still, the thought of leaving him by tomorrow makes her wants to burst out screaming.
Hibiki is worried as he sees his wife goes silent after her adventurous mission. He looks into her eyes and calls her.
"Reika? Honey? Are you there?" He comes closer and closer to her face, wanting to tease her. But seemingly, Reika is still busy spacing out. Then, Hibiki decides.
"Honey~" he pinches both of her cheeks hard, expecting to hear a cute whine after that. But the reaction that comes from Reika is different from what he expected. She slaps both of his hands away from her face. "Stop it", she says coldly.
Hibiki is stunned. Since when Reika had been this sensitive? "Hun, are you okay?"
"Chotto", she rubs her face and sighs. "I'm sorry. I'm not really in a good mood."
"Honey, you could always tell your problems to me", he consoles his wife. True, he doesn't like it when she is keeping all of the problems to herself. He wants her to open up to him about everything, because he wants to know all about her. His beloved.
Seeing how determined Hibiki is on wanting to know about her problems, Reika's face turns upset. And the next thing she knows is that she cries on his chest. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry…"
"Honey, if it's about just now, I'm not mad. Don't cry, please…" he hugs her and rubs her back to comfort her, but that action only results on her crying louder. Reika knows, she must miss his touch when she runs away tomorrow.
"Oy Ayumi!"
"What?" Ayumi turns her head to face Christine that was reading the newspaper. Julie also comes down the stairs after doing her certain something in the room.
"Hey, that Exceed! Done with your constipation problem?", Ayumi yells, still disappointed with her cat's behavior last night.
"What do you say, Yuki Onna?" Julie looks at Ayumi with a vein pops at her smooth furry forehead. "I was cleaning the mess you made in the bedroom and you said I had some intestine problemo? You sure miss my claws, do you?"
"Heh, I could always clip those nails of yours when you go to sleep, feline."
"Say that again, snowman!"
"I'm a woman, you cat!"
"Okay, snowwoman!"
"That sounds wrong!"
"You two, stop it!"
The arguing ladies stops immediately and give a weird look at Christine. "Christy, are you okay?"
"Not really, I just read about a village being washed out by a tsunami, that's all."
"Oh….That's so sad", Julie flies closer to Christine. "Where's that village?"
"It says here, somewhere outside of Magnolia town."
"But how come Magnolia wasn't affected? I mean, we could at least feel the earthquake if it was the cause of the tsunami."
"That's what I was pondering just now when you two are busy fighting." She touches her chin. "I wonder what causes it…"
CUUUUTTTOOO!
And that's the end for this chapter. I know, some of you may start to wonder why did I write about a story of a village instead of the tale of this HiRei couple. But you know what? Time will tell, so just wait! XD MUAHAHAHAHAH….Uff! *nose hit by a flying apple*
Okay, with this swollen nose, I'll just say, please wait until the next chapter update~ X3