8 Timeskip (2/2)

”A-Ah! My bad...”

Erza giggled at her brother as she took out a handkerchief from her pocket and leaned towards her younger twin, ”Here, let me get that for you...”

Ez found himself blushing again at the closeness of his twin. It wasn't because Erza was babying him, no, it was because how close their faces were. He mentally screamed at himself to stop his rapid heartbeats.

As Erza finished cleaning the crumbs off of Ezra's face, she soon looked up to lock her brown eyes with his own. The older twin blushed herself not before sitting back down in her seat.

The twins continued to sit in silence for a few more moments before Ezra broke it, ”U-Um, thank you, Nee-san.”

”Y-Yes, it's no problem, Ezra.” She said as she began to eat her cake again in silence. Wanting to get rid of the current mood, Ez quickly changed to a new topic.

”So, what do you think everyone back at Fairy Tail is doing? I bet they're all doing what they usually do, especially Natsu and Gray.” Ezra gave a light chuckle of remembering the two certain rivals.

Erza gave a low sigh, ”I must agree with you, though I do hope those fools haven't caused too much trouble for the Master. Especially that white-haired harlot...”

She muttered the last one to herself. Ezra however still heard her and gave a small smile, ”You're still angry at Mira, huh? It was only an accident you know...”

The older twin shook her head and scowled, ”That was no accident, Ezra. That slut tried to forcefully have her way with you while your guard was down. If I hadn't been to stop her you would have fallen into her clutches!”

”Nee-san, she wasn't trying to seduce me. Mira tripped on one of the mugs by accident during the guild's last brawl and I caught her. That's all.” He tried to reason with her.

”That was only a ploy! That wench wanted you to catch her to believe it was an 'accident'! Did you see what she did the moment you caught her?! It's just one of her devious ploys to seduce you!”

Ezra lightly shook his head at his twin but still gave a small smile in amusement. Although he wouldn't mind to be in a relationship with Mirajane, his sister absolutely wouldn't allow it.

For as long as he and everyone else knew, both Erza and Mira had a very serious type of hate-rivalry going on between each other. He didn't exactly know what started it in the first place, but it was to say it did not start off on a good note.

Ez could still remember the day that his twin sister and Mira nearly trashed the entire guild for the first time when they were going at it at like mad dogs. No one was safe that day...

Much like Natsu and Gray, both his sister and Mira has been butting each other's heads for years, which now became a daily routine for them.

Only a lot more violent.

Though despite his older twin and the elder Strauss hating each other. Ezra have a strangely friendly relationship with the white-haired demoness. Sure she does tease him from time to time, but that's only to annoy and irritate Erza to no end.

Plus, Ezra did learn from the other Strauss siblings, Lisanna and Elfman, that their sister can be sweet and kind whenever she wants to be, she just rarely shows it to anyone.

He kinda wished she would show it a bit more often. Mira has treated him like that many times im the past and Ezra found it really cute.

Shaking the thoughts out of his head, Ezra turned back to his sister and grabbed her hand as he rubbed his thumb on her knuckles.

”Nee-san, you know that no one is ever going to take me away from you. I promised you a long time ago that I would stay with you no matter what happens.” He comforted her with his usual shy smile.

Erza had a moderate timt of red in her cheeks but gave a smile of relief, ”I know you won't...Forgive me for being overdramatic, Ezra. It's just that I...”

The elder Scarlet sibling stopped speaking as she felt a warm hand cupping her cheek as Erza looked up and met her younger twin brothers brown eyes staring at her own.

”I know...I'm not going anywhere anytime soon.”

Erza placed her own hand on top of Ezra's and smiled beautifully at him, ”Thank you.”

The twins stayed like this for a few moments before stopping as the intercoms of the train were on and announced.

”Attention passengers attention. We have now arrived at the Magnolia Train Station. Please remember to collect all personal items before leaving the train. Thank you.”

The twins separated from each other as Ezra spoke up, ”Good to be home, huh?”

Erza nodded, ”Yes, now let's head back to Fairy Tail.”