OMG Chapter 378.5 was SO FREAKIN CUTE! 3
Sorry allow me my old lady fan girl moment. Natsu is going to be an amazing dad. Mashima is so mean. Lucy, you know you wanted it. And Natsu acting like it's no big deal, but I see that sweat drop. Of course the buildup and anticipation is one reason we beg for more. I read that chapter twice. The feels, oh the feels.
a-hem, and now back to our irregularly scheduled chapter.
I have been working on this for a month now. It's seriously takes so much longer to write a chapter when you only have an hour to spare here and there as opposed to just sitting there for 4 hours flat. It's like I have to re-read and re-immerse myself into the world each time I sit down to wrote; to try and make sure I keep the tone correct.
Thank you everyone for your understanding and for the ideas. Without further ado I give you Chapter 14 Slave continued.
As usual "Fairy Tail" belongs to Hiro Mashima
"Skip Beat" belong to Yoshiki Nakamura
Chapter 14 Slave continued
We walked back to the room, in kind of a stuffy silence. Too much tension, this was no good. We got in the room, and I took a look around. And got a most sneaky idea. I plopped myself down on the nearest armchair. "Alrighty slave, break time is over."
She jumped a little at my statement. Before she said anything though I commanded, "The view from this chair is boring. I want you to change the pictures on the wall."
"What?!" She said in a confused surprised tone.
"What aren't you understanding? That picture is boring, I want you to replace it with something else." She stood there staring at me, so I snapped my fingers and said "Chop, chop slave." That seemed to snap her out of it. And she gave me an annoyed look.
"Your wish is my command master." She said with a slight bow, and went about the task I gave her. Awe, the sexy tone from earlier was gone. Probably better for me anyway, though I did really like it.
I watched with what I hoped passed for indifference. As she lifted her arms above her head to remove the oversized picture, her shirt lifted up exposing her smooth lower back and sides. It looks soft. I tried not to think about how nice it would be to touch.
She finally managed to take down the picture, with a lot of puffing. I felt a little bad, and had to seriously hold back my instinct to go and help her. I really, really didn't like seeing her struggle, but I did rather enjoy bossing her around and seeing the little flashes of skin. So I kept my butt glued to the seat and enjoyed the show.
She took the mirror from the other side of the room and put it up. Looking proud of herself she turned to face me with a smile, when I said "I don't like the little statue thingies. Remove them from my line of sight." Her face a fell a little at that, but she got to work obeying my orders. I used a lofty tone as I started whining about a variety of different things. All she did though was just responded with "yes master", and did them. Hardly any real reaction at all. I have got to try harder, because this is getting boring.
"Bring me some tea. Make sure it's hot."
"Pure lava wouldn't be hot to you." She muttered.
"Say something slave?" Because of course I heard her perfectly. I'm pretty sure she still severely under estimates what I can and cannot hear. Which works for me, I've done my part and informed her that my hearing is excellent. Perhaps not as good as Gajeel's, but that nosy old git just sits around and eavesdrops on everybody all day.
"Nope, right away master." She said. My eyes followed her as she went to prepare it. She brought me a tea kettle. "Would master kindly show compassion on his slave, and heat this for his poor slave. You're much faster than the fire place is."
"Since you asked so cutely." I leaned forward, and stared at her face while I heated the bottom of the kettle while she held it. My cute comment caused a blush. She's so easy, though I think I made her uncomfortable with my staring. I just can't help it sometimes, she's so beautiful.
"Thank you." She said when it started whistling less than a minute later. And scurried back to the counter to finish making it. "Does master want a big cup or normal sized one?"
"You know me, I like everything big." Hmm, pretty sure I heard a snort.
She brought me tea with a big smile. I took a sip. "You know, with the new set up, The angle of my chair isn't really good to view it. Turn it."
She breathed in deeply, and said "Yes, master." Only a touch of annoyance. Oh I think we can do even better than that. I thought just a little evilly. She walked over to me and seemed to be waiting for something. "Well?' She finally asked with a hand on her hip.
"What?"
"Are you going to get up so I can move the chair?"
"Why do I have to do that?"
"Because you're heavy?" I could hear the unsaid 'baka' in her tone.
"You can manage. Besides how will I know when I've reached the absolute best angle?" I said taking another sip.
"You're kidding." She more stated in a dead panned voice then asked. I just smiled in response. "You're serious?" Ooo, ooo, eye twitch. Yessss. Now we're getting somewhere.
"You might turn the chair too much." I said and leaned back more in the chair, putting a hand behind my head. With a roll of her eyes, she bent over and started turning the chair. I'll admit, it was hilarious watching her struggling to move me. She was huffing pretty hard. "Turned it too much, back the other way." I said, desperately trying not to laugh at her angry, red face. As she moved me back to where I was, I said "You know it was better the other way actually." Yup, that was definitely a growl.
"Yesss master." She practically hissed.
I smirked into my cup "You know, Happy has no problem carrying me all over the place, and he's just a tiny 10 pound cat." Suddenly my chair was knocked over. I landed on my back, tea spilling all over me.
"Oh master, I am so terribly sorry for my clumsiness. It was an accident, Please forgive me." She said in an overly sweet tone. I looked up at her from the floor. Accident my foot. I was still "sitting" in the chair, just with my feet hanging up in the air. I could hear her attempting to hold back her laughter. Failing miserably I might add.
"Sure I'll forgive you; after you right my seat." That stopped her laughter, but she continued to quietly chuckle. I did absolutely nothing to make her life easier, as she tried to put the seat up right in different ways. She eventually came to where my head was and gave me a very full view of her boobs hanging over me, as she bent down and lifted me up. Well that was fun. She was huffing pretty heavily again. I could smell her sweat. A nice workout for her; which gave me another idea.
Then I looked down, and noticed how my tea had splashed all over me. "Well you naughty slave, look at the mess you made." I said pointing at my clothes. Shirt and pants, and yup underwear too.
"Sorry master." She said in probably the most unrepentant voice ever.
"Well I'll forgive you this time. Guess it doesn't matter since we're gonna get all sweaty anyway." And without any notice, I stripped my shirt off.
"What are you doing!?"
"Well I don't want to do it while wearing a wet, sticky shirt." Her face was priceless. "You should probably take that off as well, since you're gonna get all sweaty too."
"Wh-wh-wh, " Her face was bright red, and she was stuttering. It was so hard to not laugh.
"Well, come on Lucy what are you waiting for? You're wearing way too many clothes." I said walking towards her.
"What do you mean?" She managed to squeak out, backing away from me. I swear there was steam coming out of her ears.
"We're gonna work out of course. What'd you think I meant?"
"Work….Out?"
"Well yeah, what else would I be talking about weirdo?" Nope, no dirty thoughts from naïve, dense Natsu. Not a one.
"I'll go change." She walked over and grabbed her bag, and headed towards the bathroom.
"Need any help?"
"NO!" She yelled while slamming the door.
Oh well it was worth a shot.
I stripped out of my wet clothes, and walked over to my bag butt naked. I heard the bathroom door open, "Hey Natsu…" I turned towards the sound. And saw a shocked Lucy staring at me. We made brief eye contact, and then she quickly turned around and slammed the door with a loud "Eep!" Whoops. She usually takes forever in the bathroom so I thought I had had more time than I did. Oh well, if I get my way eventually she'll be seeing me naked more regularly anyway.
After a few minutes, I heard her call out. "Are you decent yet?"
"I've got shorts on."
She slowly opened the door a crack, and I saw her slowly peek through the crack in the door. What a goof. "Come on slave, you're taking forever." She came out, and damn, my plans really seem to bite me on the ass lately. She wore a pair of tiny, tight, black booty shorts, with matching low cut, sports bra. I swear it could have been painted on. How do her boobs not pop out? Please pop out, please pop out. I silently chanted.
"Natsu, why didn't you say you were changing?"
"You usually take forever in the bathroom, so I figured it wouldn't matter. It's not a big deal. I don't care if you see me naked. Now show me some of the exercises you usually do." The change of topic seemed to throw her off a bit, but I think she appreciated it. She doesn't do embarrassed well. Though I really don't care who sees me naked. It's not like I've got something to be ashamed of. In fact all these clothes just get in the way. But, unlike Gray, I've learned that I'm supposed to keep my clothes on in front of people.
"Oh, I love doing yoga and pilates!"
What the fuck is pil-lateez? "Um, I'm not familiar with that second one, The first one is stretching stuff right?" Bad answer. She started telling me all about the health benefits of yoga, and state of mind shit. I think my brain melted a little. I not sure how long she went on about it. I finally had enough, and held up my hands "How about showing me instead?"
And I don't care what she says, it looked like funky stretches to me. I'm not gonna lie, I like the pose that stuck her ass straight up in the air. And a couple looked painful, but explains why the white dough boy guy with his creepy little doll didn't break her bones in half. It looked a little fun, so I had her show me how to do some.
"We have got to play twister sometime, you'd be awesome at it!" I stated, as I did one of the poses. It wasn't too bad. But not gonna build up the muscles doing only this. "Okie doki, enough stretching. Now, let's start with some sit-ups. I think we'll start you off light, how about 1000."
"I CAN"T DO A 1000 Sit ups, are you NUTS?" She yelled at me.
"What? It's half what I do. And no yelling slave, or I'll have to punish you." I warned, sticking my finger in my ear as she attempted to burst my ear drums.
"You do 2000 sit-ups?"
"Yeah?" How did she think I got these abs?
"I can't do 1000."
"How many can you do?"
"I don't know, 50 maybe?" Damn, she'll never get any muscles doing that little. I can't even remember a time I did so few. "I don't believe that you actually do 2000 sit-ups, that's just insane." She then said.
"Are you calling me a liar?"
"I'm just saying I think your exaggerating." She said in a sing song tone, with a shrug of her shoulders, and a shake of her head.
"Oh yeah?!"
"Yup. I'm thinking 500 max."
I'll show you! I'll prove it!"
"No need to embarrass yourself."
"Get your ass over here and hold my feet down. I'll show you embarrassed miss 'I can only do 50'." She obliged. And kneeled on my feet while I started doing my sit-ups. It wasn't until around 650 that I realized, I had been had. I paused in the middle of a sit-up and glared at her. It took her a few seconds to realize I was doing so. She was too busy staring at my abs. Can't complain about that at all, but I was still annoyed.
"What?" She asked in an innocent tone, when she finally noticed my glaring. A blush dusted her cheeks.
"Well played slave. Well played." As I continued doing my sit-ups.
"I don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about." Not looking me in the eye.
"Uh-huh. I should spank you."
"Oh come on Natsu. You just make it too easy." She said, her blush darkening.
"So, you don't think I'm exaggerating?"
"No, not really. I honestly think you're perfectly capable of doing 5000, and the only reason you don't is because it would take a long time. When do you have time for 2000?"
"At night when I'm keeping watch, or when I have some down time. I've been sleeping more on trains, instead of moaning and barfing in agony. But makes it hard to sleep at night." Or I wake up from a random nightmare, and don't want to go back to sleep. Exercising helps. It gives me the feeling that I'm getting stronger to be able to protect my nakama better.
Now that I was focusing on the moment instead of just a blind annoyance, I realized that Lucy was leaning against my legs, her breasts resting on my knees. Every time I came up, her lips were right there. Seriously, an inch or 2 further and I could press mine against hers. How did I not realize this sooner? Or maybe it was a good thing I didn't notice earlier. Closing my eyes, I was now aware of her and it was quickly going to cause me trouble. Never one to run from trouble I said. "So like what you see?" I asked with a smirk, changing the topic from my exercising habits.
"What are you talking about?" Turning even redder. Hehehehe.
"I saw you staring. Just admit it; you like my abs."
"You're so full of yourself." She said with a huff.
"Oh so you weren't just staring?"
"Nope."
"Sure looked like staring to me."
"I was just lost in thought. It's not the most exciting thing to sit here while you do sit-ups."
"That's all your fault." Trying not to sound too disappointed that she wasn't checking me out. Though I wasn't completely convinced she wasn't checking me out either.
"If I apologize, can we do something else?"
"I'm almost tempted to say no, and make you sit there, but that would just be wasting my valuable slave time. Your turn slave." I said as I got up, with a stretch. "And just to let you know, that was a thousand." She stuck her tongue out at me in response. With a groan of complaint, she laid down on her back, with her knees bent. I leaned on her feet, and placed my hands on her knees. When did assisting with sit-ups become so erotic feeling?
"Do I really have too?" She said with a whine.
"I told you, I'm gonna make you sweat. Have a better idea?" She blushes so easily.
She put her hands behind her head and came up. I had to swallow the pooling spit. Her breast squished against her legs, giving me a bountiful view of creamy skin. Since I had my hands on her knees, the backs of my fingers felt them pressing every time she came up. I had to fight to keep my hands from reacting. And her lips, I watched as they came towards me and just as quickly went away. I hadn't realized I had leaned forward till our heads clacked.
"Ouch, damn it Natsu!" She said holding her forehead with her hand.
"Sorry Luce, I guess I was spacing out." I said scratching my head in embarrassment. Perhaps this wasn't one of my better ideas.
"Can I be done?" She said sullenly.
"Sure. " I quickly stood up and offered her a hand. "Let's fight!"
"Oh hell no. We are not fighting. First of all you'd win. Second we are not destroying this beautiful room. Third…"
I cut her off. "I didn't mean a real fight silly. I meant spar. We're gonna work on your punching and kicking and stuff. Actually your kicking is fine. So we're gonna work on your punching, and aim."
"I swear if you break anything…"
"I'm not gonna do anything. You're gonna aim for my hands, and I'm gonna train you to punch correctly and stuff. Anything gets broken it'll be your fault." I said with a smirk. She was gonna argue some more, but I interrupted her again. "Good slaves obey their master's orders."
She narrowed her eyes and punched my hand, looked like she tried to punch it hard, but didn't really affect me much. "Is that all you've got? Seriously I think I felt a fly touch my hand or something." That got her riled up. She started wailing on me. I'd randomly call her pointers for her. Like what to do with her thumbs and using her body instead of just her hands. And some teasing to keep her pissed. I started changing things up, like raising and lowering my hands, and moving around, making her work to get at them.
Pretty soon she was panting, and sweating a lot. Mission accomplished. "Okay Luce we can st…" Pop, she got me right in the face. Knocking me on my ass in shock.
"Oh God Natsu, I'm sorry!" She bent down next to me and examined my cheek. That had actually stung a little.
"Nice to see my training already paying off. That kind of hurt." I smiled at her. Her concern just warmed my heart.
"Does it really hurt?" She looked so concerned.
"Yup, you should kiss it and make it better." And shocking me further she wasted no time leaning forward and giving me a peck on the cheek. It happened so quickly I could barely registered it had happened till it was done. Well damn, didn't even get a chance to appreciate it.
"I'm really sorry Natsu." She said in a voice full of guilt.
"Hey, hey. Lucy it's fine. Gray hits me harder all the time. What you think I'm made of glass or something? It was my own fault when I stopped guarding before making sure you had heard me. I'm all better. No more worries and definitely no guilt."
Guess we were done. One accidental punch and she's all sad.
"We should definitely spar again. That was fun. Just don't tell Gray you knocked me on my ass. Don't want the exhibitionist laughing at me. "
"Not tonight. I'm tired. And sweaty."
"Told you I'd get you all sweaty."
"Yes, yes you did."
I got up and offered her my hand. Helping her to her feet. "Well now that we're all sweaty I guess a bath is in order." She was about to smile, but then I said, "Go prepare it." Her lips tightened into a line instead. As she was walking away, I called after her "Easy on the bubbles!" I like bubbles, but they're always overly scented. Hurts my nose. I wonder what the chances were of getting her to join me? Grabbing a clean pair of shorts, I entered the bathroom. And watched as she was bent over checking something.
"What'cha doing?"
"EEE!" She yelled, losing her balance and fell in. I couldn't help it; I burst out laughing.
Sputtering she said "You jerk."
"What did I do?"
"You scared me!"
"Wasn't on purpose."
"I was checking the temperature you ass." She said, as she stood up to get out. I got a bad idea. As she was stepping out I picked her up bridal style. "What are you doing?" She squealed instinctively grabbing onto me. I smiled. "No, absolutely not." She said sternly but I just smiled again, and jumped in.
The tub was very big. Much bigger then Lucy's. It could easily fit 4 people. It was pretty deep for a tub too. I liked it. Maybe I'll install one at my house. Lucy likes baths, so maybe if I had a tub in my house she'd move in with me…
"Why'd you throw me in!?" She demanded.
"I didn't throw you in. We jumped in together. What's the big deal? You would want to take a bath anyway, but that would eat up my precious slave time. So taking one together saves time. You get your much wanted bath and I get slave time. Win-win."
I heard her sigh, but she didn't argue. I turned my back to her, "Wash my back." I felt a wet sponge hit the back of my head. Instead of turning around, I just added "You can wash my hair too." And waited. I knew she would cave eventually. And sure enough. She did. It felt nice having her scrub my back. "That feels nice." I said.
"Lean your head back." She said quietly. And proceeded to wash my hair. Her fingers rubbing small circles on my scalp. It was so relaxing. Didn't care for the rose scent she was using, but it all just felt so nice. I was disappointed when I felt water pouring down, rinsing the soap off.
"All done", she said quietly. Not really looking at me.
"Want me to wash your back?" I offered.
She looked at me. With an unreadable expression, and said "No. Can I get out now?" Why did she sound sad?
"What's wrong?" I put my hand on her cheek. "What did I do?"
Shaking her head, she said "Nothing Natsu. It's nothing."
"You sound sad."
"Just tired." She said with a small smile. "Guess this bath just showed me how tired I am."
"Wait here, I'll bring you, your bag. Okay?"
"Thanks Natsu."
I was concerned. What did I do to make her sad? I didn't mean to make her sad. It was definitely not nothing. I brought her, her bag, "Lucy, whatever I did. I'm really sorry. Please don't be sad. Tell me what I did, and I won't do it again."
"You didn't do anything Natsu. Thank you for bringing my bag. I'll be out in a minute."
I stepped out of the bathroom. Feeling confused. I didn't think I had did anything that bad. What could I do to make it up to her? I looked around the room, and my eyes rested on the pile of books she had grabbed from the library earlier. I looked at the titles.
When she came out I asked "Will you please read this too me?" Holding out the one that looked the most interesting. Reading makes her happy, and I want her to be happy.
She smiled, "Sure Natsu." She sat down on the couch, and I plopped down next to her. Then decided I preferred my earlier position, and proceeded to lay my head on her lap. She didn't protest this time. I couldn't tell you what she read to me. But she eventually stopped reading out loud, and got engrossed in the story. Her face was fun to watch. Her brows would randomly furrow, she'd smirk, smile and just a bunch of emotions would pass by. As time passed, her eyes started blinking and head started drooping. Soon she put her head back and had fallen asleep.
I slowly got up, and picked her book up. Sticking some paper on the page she was on, I put the book on a nearby table. Then I carefully lifted my sleeping princess, and placed her on the bed. Turning off all the lights, I crawled in next to her, and held her close. Fervently wishing every night, could be like this night.
I wanted to write Lucy's POV, but I'm tired and figured a month and a half of waiting was more than I should be doing to my loyal fans. Hopefully I shall write it out faster than I have been. Drop a review and I hope to see you again soon.