The Catch-Up (Natsu x Reader)

Chapter 66

(3rd PoV)
(Y/N) looked up and balled up her hands into fists again.

"I told you to leave me alone Natsu." She said with a frown.

Natsu walked down the stairs and headed for (Y/N). (Y/N) scrambled up and walked away from him.

"(Y/N), you have to let me explain." Natsu pleaded as he stood next to the punching bag.

"Explain what?" (Y/N) spat out as she went over to the first-aid cabinet and took out alcohol pads, ointment, and bandages.

"Explain what really happened- Wait, what happened to your knuckles?!" Natsu said as he rushed over next to (Y/N) and took hold of one of her hands.

(Y/N) tried to pull away, but Natsu tightened his grip. "Natsu-"

"What happened to your knuckles?" Natsu asked again but sternly.

(Y/N) tensed up from Natsu's tone of voice and blushed slightly.

'Damn that was hot.. No! You're supposed to be mad at him!' She thought as she shook her head.

"I guess I was punching the punching bag a little too fast and hard." (Y/N) said with a slight shrug.

"You need to be more careful (Y/N)." Natsu said as he turned on the water from the sink and carefully ran water over both of (Y/N)'s hands.

She immediately jerked her hands away and hissed in pain. "That stings you know!" (Y/N) said.

"You have to wash away the blood and clean it or it'll get infected." Natsu said.

(Y/N) sighed, but nodded. She moved her hands under the water and then dried off her hands as Natsu turned off the water.

"You are not going to use those alcohol pads on my knuckles. Those things make it sting like hell." (Y/N) said as she glanced at the alcohol pads.

Natsu chuckled, "Don't worry, I won't be using those."

(Y/N) gave Natsu a confused look as she watched him bring bought of her hands up to his mouth.

Natsu then slowly and carefully licked (Y/N)'s knuckles as he kept eye contact with her.

(Y/N)'s face flushed as Natsu finished. She looked at her knuckles and they were already healed.

"Th-Thanks Natsu.." (Y/N) stuttered out. Natsu smirked slightly as he saw (Y/N)'s face.

His smirk then disappeared as (Y/N) snatched away her hands from Natsu's grip.

"You said you wanted to explain, then explain. You're lucky I'm giving you the chance because I can kick you out right now." (Y/N) said coldly.

Natsu nodded, "Okay, but can we go upstairs?"

(Y/N) nodded and they headed upstairs.

-—-—-

"Now talk." (Y/N) said as she and Natsu sat down on the couch in the living room.

"The reason the job went on longer than expected was because it took a while to look for the missing people. Our job was to look for a bunch of missing people that have been gone for a year."

"We found all of them except one person. We didn't know where to look. I was so pissed that I kept wanting to look for him. That damn old man.." Natsu said as he ran a hand through his hair.

"You shouldn't talk about an old person like that." (Y/N) said as she brought her knees up to her chest.

Natsu chuckled and shook his head, "If only you knew."