~Levy's P.O.V.~

I smiled at Gajeel as I waited in front of my school. He walked closer as I gripped the transfer papers tighter in my hand. My heart was pounding. I wasn't sure how is transfer would go, I mean Gajeel was rough guy. I really hoped people at the school would get along with him like I did. I thought he was going to be a horrible person at first.

Gajeel reached me and he had a slight smirk on his face, "Oi, shrimp, still as small as I remember." He said.

"Shut-up!" I yelled bitterly, "Again, you're just a giant!"

"Gihihi," He chuckled and I held the transfer papers out to him. "Oi, what are these?"

"These are the transfer papers I said I was bringing." I smiled up at him, my heart racing ever so slightly. "You thought about it right?"

"Y-yeah." He said blushing slightly. That surprised me. I never thought I would see a dragon slayer blush, let alone the Iron Dragon Slayer. "Our school is shutting down anyway." He looked at the papers again then took them from me. "Thanks." He mumbled.

"Yeah." I smiled and waited. I tapped my foot slowly as he read through it.

"And ya promise to help with my grades?" He asked looking down at me. I nodded and he sighed. "You got a pen? I can fill these out now before I end up forgetting."

"Um," I looked through my small book bag. I moved a few things around and smiled pulling out the pen he had sent me. "Here." I held that out to him.

"Gihihi, you kept it." He took. "Ya actually listened to me?"

I nodded loving the look of a smile on his face. His little laugh thing was really starting to grow on me too. I loved it. It was...cute.

I shook my head. Levy?! What is your problem girl?! He isn't cute! You aren't into him!

Then why am I so excited about him agreeing to the transfer? I sighed and sat on the ground while he started filling out the papers. After about a ten minutes of me sitting there somewhat day dreaming, he broke my thoughts.

"Here shrimp." He said holding the papers and pen down to me. I took them and got up. "Ready to work?"

I nodded and we headed in the direction of our job. I honestly had no clue what we were going to do. I let him pick the job.

~Gajeel's P.O.V.~

I led the shrimp away from the her school and towards our job. I was hoping she had some fighting skills because all of the smarts kind of jobs were gone. We had to take out a gang of bandits in the mountains, which wouldn't be too hard for me. I was just worried she wouldn't be able to defend herself while I did so.

As soon as we reached the halfway point, she broke the silence between us, "So where are we going?"

"Mountains. We got stuck with a fighting job. I really tried to find one I knew you would be able to do most of. You can defend yerself, right?" I looked back at her and she looked nervous.

"I-I think so." She gave me a soft and kind smile. "Let's just go."

The rest of the walk to the mountains was really quiet. I think I scared her telling her about what we were doing. I would make sure nothing bad would happen to her, that was for sure. I had a fondness for the shrimp. She was smart, spunky, good with words, and one of the few people who actually showed me kindness. She wasn't too bad looking either.

I mentally smacked myself. You don't have a thing for the shrimp, I told myself as I stopped in front of the mountain.

"Wow." Levy said beside me. "You can see their camp from here." I saw her look at me from the corner of my eyes. I looked down at her. "This should be easy. At least we don't have to find them."

"Yeah." I replied as I started up the mountain. "Come on. The faster we get this done, the faster I get can home and eat."

I coulda sworn I heard her giggle.

It took us about twenty minutes to make it up the mountain but we got there eventually. Levy looked ready to fight, and I was ready myself. The bandits sat around a fire and I smirked and let out a whistle. There was only about five of them, and all five heads turned to us.

"Gajeel!" Levy yelled at me sounding terrified.

"It's fine Shrimp." I said running at the bandits that were now rushing at us. I knocked two out quickly and a third one grabbed me from behind. I threw him over my head and punched him in the face knocking him out.

Levy screamed and my head shot in the direction of her. The remaining two bandits were on her. One holding her arms, restraining her, while the other threw his fist back to punch her. I rushed over and grabbed his fist before he could punch her. I pushed him away and Levy threw her leg back kicking the man behind her where the sun ain't ever gonna shine.

"Good work Shrimp." I said looking at the man laying in pain in front of us. I turned around and gave the last guy a few punches to the face. He had a bloody nose before he was knocked out. I didn't feel bad though.

Levy began tying up the knocked out bandits and I smiled watching her. "You didn't do bad." I said.

"What are you talking about?" She asked finishing the knot on the rope. "I would've been done for if you hadn't saved me. I panicked."

I began laughing lightly, "Shrimp," I leaned down and looked at her. She seems slightly irritated at that, "I had fun."

She rolled her eyes and started on the next solid script rope and tied up the remaining three bandits.