Chapter 9:

No Matter How Much Cats Fight, There Always Seem

To Be Plenty of Kittens

Today was one of those days that I wanted to grab a vase and smash it on the floor, then spend the rest of the time gluing it back together to calm myself down.

As soon as Gajeel and I got into our room, the first thing I noticed is that we only had ONE BED.

Mirajane just gave us a knowing smile.

I resisted the urge to pull one of the delicate paintings off the wall and chuck it at her head as she walked to her room, which was at the other end.

Fairy Tail Academy had the entire seventh floor as well as the pool that was at the rooftop. Every room had a balcony and an exit every five rooms down as well as an entrance to the center of the floor, which had a bar and a dance-floor. A small casino was there as well as an arcade. It was like a mini park without the roller-coasters and with AC.

The moment we walked it, Gajeel started stripping.

I raised my hand to block my eyes. "Please don't tell me you're taking lessons from Gray."

He chuckled. "Calm down. I just took off my shirt."

While we were in the lobby (for several hours) it began to become really cold so most of us had boughten something to throw over to keep us warm.

Gajeel just bought a long sleeved T-Shirt that read "Dokidoki Ryuzetsu Land 2013."

I ended up getting a black oversized hoodie that Gajeel bought for me. He kept on mumbling about people staring at what was "his".

"I call the shower first!" I exclaimed as he headed toward it.

Gajeel raised an eyebrow. "I was here first."

I tilted my chin up a fraction. "Well I'm am a girl."

He snorted. "So? That doesn't exactly give you brownie points, Shrimp."

Suddenly he gave me a lecherous look. "I know. How about we take a shower together?"

"We've done that already. At the park."

He smirked. "Then you should be comfortable with it. Of course, this time you'll be in your birthday suit instead of your swimsuit."

I opened the door of the bathroom, glancing around. He followed me.

"Jacuzzi." I stated, turning around.

He blinked, then grinned slowly. "It's pretty cramped for the two of us. You know you're gonna have to put your back against mine."

"We've done that as well. On that Love Love Slide."

"You have an answer for everything."

"They don't call me bookworm for nothing."

Gajeel picked me up and set me on the edge of the sink, his hands resting on either side of me. "How about we do this later. Lucy wanted to talk to you at the rooftop pool, right?"

I nodded. She figured that I was dating Gajeel again when I had his hand in mine while we were walking to the resort and she wanted to know what exactly made me date him again.

He leaned forward, kissing my temple. "Well you better get going."

"What about you?"

"Natsu and Gray want to try and beat me at the Arcade games."

I passed through the bar, spotting Cana drinking with some guy with long black hair. I blinked. Wait, I don't remember Cana going on the boat.

I walked up to her and she spotted me. "Hey Levy!"

"Hi Cana. How did you get here?"

She hiccuped and the guy with long black hair tied up put his arms around her. "Please, my dad is Professor Gildarts, and you know he couldn't resist being the first to see chicks in bikinis. I got here yesterday."

I smiled. Of course. That was the only reasonable explanation.

"Levy! Don't tell me you were gonna ditch me to drink with Cana and Bacchus!"

Lucy was by my side, glaring at Bacchus, but in playful way. "You weirdo. You said I needed to be more 'wild' and pulled off my bikini top!"

Cana lifted the empty mug and gave the guy named Bacchus and good thunk. "Don't be tearing off my friends' bikini top, understood!"

He nodded, rubbing his head.

Lucy pulled me away and onto the rooftop.

She had already taken a shower, so she just let her legs dangle in the water. No one was here except for the Exceeds and themselves.

I dipped a toe in the water. It was fairly warm. As I gripped the ladder and lowered myself into the water, I was bombarded by questions.

I swam around with no certain stroke, waiting for her to finish her questions.

"-and lastly, did you know you look like a turtle right now?"

I looked at her with a calm, sarcastic face. "Yes. Yes I did."

I took a deep breath and made bubbles underwater before I answered her questions.

"Yes; he earned my forgiveness. And no; we did not 'do it' in the pool or anywhere else in the waterpark."

"Eh? That's only two of my questions."

"Those were the only ones that were relevant."

She tied her hair into pig tails. "So tell me how he earned your forgiveness."

"Well, it has two parts. Three actually."

My best friend raised her eyebrows. "Pray tell."

"All right. Part 1: Remember when I was drunk? Yeah well, I had every memory of what happened that night. Gajeel didn't take advantage of me. In fact, he gave me a piggy-back ride home and made sure I was in the house before he left. When he was talking about our relationship (despite knowing that I was talking about him) he didn't say that he was-well, himself. He gave me insight on what he felt about what happened at the hospital. And this time around, I think he actually cares."

"Just for proof's sake, tell me what you think the nastiest word is."

"Peanut butter."

"Uh huh. And who did you think Gajeel was when you first saw him?"

I coughed uncomfortably. "I thought he was the guy who delivered newspapers to my front door."

She scanned my eyes. "Okay. That's good enough proof for me. Next part."

"Alright. Later that night while you left to go help Natsu move in some furniture with Gray, Juvia came over. She told me about the Gajeel, his past and why he did all of those things. He's just afraid of losing people. He's scared of making friends because he doesn't want them to get hurt, like how Juvia herself used to get bullied. Gajeel was the one who hurrt Jet, Droy, and Elfman. But only because he didn't trust them. He thought of them as a threat. He didn't take anyone seriously, so when I started crying about who would do something like this to my friends, he felt hurt and took it out on the blonde bimbo."

Lucy sighed. "I understand where your coming from. I had the same problem with Natsu when he became my boyfriend. Before, he didn't care if I looked or didn't looked when Gray stripped, but now he pummels Gray everytime we're all in the same room. It's just Dragon Slayer instincts. I read up on it a while ago."

"Now this part's short. That time you and I were fighting with pool noodles? Usually Gajeel doesn't interact with you guys unless he has to, but this time he asked Natsu to use us as noodle fighters. Lu-chan, he's trying to change. He's trying to be everyone's friend and get along because he misses me. At least that's what Juvia says. But I believe her."

Lucy nodded. "Yup. Natsu and I went to go grab a bite because you guys were totally having some hot eye smex."

I giggled. "Yeah, I guess. I don't know. I was just overcome by this urge to touch him. Some kids said he was eating my face when we kissed under the showers to get the kiwi juice off us."

Levy gaped. "Seriously? You guys kissed?"

I nodded, blushing slightly. Not that it was embarrasing, but because I knew what was going to come next.

"Tongue or no tongue?"

"LU-CHAN!"

"Levy-chan!" she gave me jazz hands, mocking me. "C'mon. You can tell me."

I pulled myself up next to her and squeezed the water from my blue hair.

"With." I whispered.

"Excuse, what did you say?" Lucy cupped her ear and leaned forward.

"WITH!" I yelled.

The Exceeds glanced at us, then came flying over.

"Are you okay, Levy?"

I nodded. "I'm fine Lily. So how was your day at the waterpark?"

Carla answered instead. "This one kept going on about fish," she gestured to Happy, who had drool coming from the right corner of his mouth. Lucy grabbed him and flung him into the water. "and this one wouldn't stop about getting kiwi juice!"

"Their kiwi juice is nice." Lily defended.

I smiled. "It sure is."

Lucy was still hung up on me getting back together with Gajeel. "Aw man. So all my evil plans to make him suffer-all gone down the drain."

"Yup. Sorry about that. Next time I'll notify you when I get back together with my exes."

Erza opened the door to the rooftop, glancing around before resting eyes on the small group.

"Lucy, Natsu wants to see you about something. He seems pretty angry. Levy, you too."

I got up and joined everyone who was forming a circle around the arcade.

It was Gajeel and Natsu...with Sting and Rogue?!

Sting noticed Lucy and came ``forward, rushing toward her. He took her hand in his, placing a kiss on her wrist. "Hello there, dear Lucy."

"Don't touch my Luce!" Natsu roared, gripping Sting by his collar and flinging him to the side. Thankfully he didn't hit walls, otherwise he'd be out of the building and falling down seven stories.

Rogue took a step near me, but Gajeel's Iron Fist collided with his face, sending him sprawling. Suddenly I was reminded of the day he saved me from those weirdos who were going to sell my insides.

"C'mon Levy," he muttered, standing beside me. "Get some skills and defend yourself. I'm not always going to be there, you know."

Just to annoy him I said, "Wouldn't count on it."

To my surprise he stopping glaring at Rogue and glared at me. "What's wrong with you, can't take a joke?"

"What's wrong with you! You practically called me weak."

"WHAT? When did I ever call you weak?"

"You might as well have said it with the whole 'get some skills' and 'I won't be there all the time' shit!"

Rogue opened his mouth to say something, but I just threw a penny that was on the ground at his face, startling him. "Don't even say anything, Rogue!"

Gajeel straightened up to his full height. "If you're so tough, try and beat Rogue. But don't worry, I'll save your ass-but only because you're mine."

I gritted my teeth. "Fine. You want toughness? I'll give you toughness."

He seemed hesitant, like he hadn't expected me to say that.

I walked up to Rogue. "Go ahead. Punch me. Try to knock me out. I know that all you want to do is actually kill me."

My words broke through the fake Rogue and the true one came out. He let out and exhausted yet relieved sigh, gestured to my chest in annoyance. "Thank god. I thought I had to keep pretending to like a small-breasted woman like yo-"

I gripped his arm and and gave a sharp kick at his kneecaps and he flew over me and into the ground. Twisting his arm sharply with my foot on the small of his back, "You just got your ass handed to you by a small-breasted woman." I hissed.

"-monster boobed chick-"

Lucy snapped out her whip and swung him into the ground. "Why you little! This 'monster boobed woman' can kick your ass!"

Over my shoulder I spotted Gajeel and Natsu giving each other grins like stupid idiots.

"We should totally put our girlfriends in a fight." Natsu said. "My Luce would DEMOLISH Levy."

Gajeel scoffed. "Please, Shrimp can kick Bunny girl's ass anyday. Unlike Lucy, Levy used hand to hand combat while Lucy used a weapon, yet both had an equal amount of damage. My chick is stronger that your's!"

I glanced at Lucy in shock as money shuffled in between peoples hands... they were making bets on them!

"Unbelievable!" I snarled, flinging the same penny at Gajeel, who caught in his mouth like it was some Scooby-snack.

I stalked back to our room and sat down in the Jacuzzi, tossing a whole bunch of rose scented bath beads in the water. I didn't care if I was still in my swimsuit. I began making faces in the water with the bubbles, trying to distract myself.

The door to the Jacuzzi opened slightly and thankfully Gajeel was still in his trunks. "Hey there Shrimp."

I grumbled incoherent words and twirled my finger on the surface of the water.

Gajeel sighed and lifted me up, then sat down and placed me in between his legs, pulling me flush against his body. "Relax."

I sighed and let my muscles loose, letting his fingers work magic upon my shoulders and my neck.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have betted on you."

"Damn right, I'm not some possession."

"HOWEVER, you are mine. So I'll place bets on you every once in while when I'm confident you'll win."

I sighed and pulled my knees closer to my chest and Gajeel moved his thumbs down the bumps in my spine. He made me lean forwards as he continued his massage. I felt totally relaxed now. But that was a bad thing, because my arms felt like jelly.

"Okay, that's enough," I shrugged myself from Gajeel's warm large hands.

He smirked and wrapped his arms around me, trapping my arms to my chest, then pulled me even tighter against him, until it felt like nothing-not even water-was between our bodies.

Gajeel nipped on my collarbone and my neck, suckling gently.

I moaned, my eyes rolling back. The things this insufferably hot dragon slayer did to me.

"Since when did you decide what's enough?"

I glared at him, but it came out less as a threatening look than I planned because he chuckled and kissed me.

"You're so cute when you're angry. With the whole pouty lips and concentrated look." he teased, feathering kisses on my cheeks, my lips, and my neck.

"Let go of me, Gajeel!"

He blinked at my rather harsh tone. "What? Why?"

"Be-because I feel hot."

He raised an eyebrow.

"I feel like I'm burning up."

He thunked foreheads with me, his red eyes taking in my features.

"You're right. Your cheeks redder than usual, as well as your nose. Your breath has become shorter."

I was surprise when Gajeel stood up abruptly and wrapped me in a fluffy towel.

He left, closing the bathroom door behind him. After a few minutes he came back and lifted me over his shoulder and walked to the bed. He set me down, then removed the towel from me. He handed me his shirt, then demanded that I wear the black hoodie before he made me lie down.

"What are you going to do?"

"Wrap you like a burrito."

"Say what?!"

And he did exactly that. He gave me the comforter and took the thin sheets instead. I rolled over in my burrito of blankets.

"Aren't you cold."

"No. What gave you that idea?"

"The goosebumps along your arms." I stated, sitting up. "Get me out of this burrito. I have an idea."

And thus, here we were. Gajeel had a leg thrown over mine and one hand on my torso. I used his folded arm as a pillow and he tucked my head under his chin. My hands we pressed against his bare chest, alone with the rest of my body, but there wasn't anything lustful, just the need to keep me warm.

"What a compromising position, huh, Shrimp?"

Now it was something lustful.

When he didn't reply back, he gripped my waist tighter, pulling me even closer against him. "Your body temperature is slowly going back to normal. Are you feeling okay?"

I barely nodded.

"Good. Now what I recommend is having a wet dream about us. You'll heat up MUCH more faster."

I just hit his chin with my head lightly, then drifted off to sleep. I could've sworn he said, "Love you, Levy."

So just in case he did, I said, "I love you, too."

Gajeel's P.O.V.

I'm going to be honest.

I told Levy I loved her.

I know, I know, you're all going "What an unromantic way! There was supposed to be flowers and then dinner and then-"

And I agree with you, trust me. But there was two reasons I did it.

1) Because it would raise her body temperature significantly due to her extreme blush. 2) Because... I meant it. And it just came out.

I'm glad I told her though. She seemed happy, and she even said she loves me back. So I'm not going to lie.

I blushed like a second grader getting a confession from a girl he liked.

She kept rustling in her sleep at first, but after about 1 hour, she calmed down.

Levy was so beautiful when she wasn't yelling at me. Her blue hair was soft to the touch, like silk. It had a few tangles here and there but I was surprised that it wasn't damaged. I noticed that with the other Fairy Tail girls as well.

I gently ran my fingers over the contours of her face. Her cheeks were slightly chubby, but it looked cute on her. I hesitantly picked her up and held her over me. She looked like a cat. She was so light and easy to pick up. So fragile. I was surprised she didn't wake up. A whole day at a water park must've knocked her out cold.

I couldn't sleep. And I bet neither could Salamander and Titania.

This entire floor was supposed to be just for Fairy Tail and yet Sting and Rogue were here, which only meant that they were following us.

Back when Levy and Lucy were fighting them, I think they were just taken by surprise. They actually would've been able to beat up Levy and Lucy if they took them more seriously.

Her eyes started to flutter open, so I set her down and moved to get off, but Levy's hand caught on the edge of my trunks. "Gajeel," she moaned.

I checked for the signs first.

Was she was on full-blush? Check.

Was she saying my name? Check.

Was she moaning? Check.

A wicked grin came upon my face.

The little Shrimp was having a wet dream about me!

"Now this I gotta hear," I tucked myself back in, propping my head up on my hand and setting on hand on her hip.

She moved closer to my touch, gripping my hair and tugged gently. She hands roamed around, slowly moving south. I stopped her hand a second before she came in contact with my dragon.

She cried out and pushed away from me all of the sudden, "No! GAJEEL!"

Her screams were loud enough to wake a few rooms, and that would've happened if I didn't pull her close. "Wake up, Shrimp. Wake up." I demanded.

Her eyes fluttered open and were filled with tears. "Gajeel!"

She flung her arms around me, burying her face in the crook of my neck. "Oh my god. You turned into Rogue!"

"Levy, calm down. It's just a dream." I shushed her, stroking her hair gently.

She sat up, wiping the tears from her eyes. "Make me forget,"

I got up, leaning against the black headboard. "Do you want me to make you something to eat?"

What she did next scared the living hell out of me.

She straddled my waist, her small hands on my shoulders, her lips brushing against mine as she whispered, "Make me forget."

I locked lips with her once more, and from the feel of it, she was serious, and that wasn't even the scary part.

I knew exactly what she wanted-and I was willing to give it to her here and now.

Mwahaha I know I'm an evil cupcake but I just had to. Tell me if you want a lemon scene in the next chapter or if you want Natsu to barge in and get a nosebleed. But choose wisely, I can't have him dying from lack of blood.

Toodles,

Sitboy10