Greetings ladies and gentlemen! I, EternaPhoenix, has come back with another one-shot! This time, zee paring goes to…..-drumrolls- WS x BM! Without further ado, let's get things started riiiiight away!

SHOT #2-Eat Your Carrot

Casts:

Raven-Blade Master

Rena-Wind Sneaker

The hungry ex-mercenary who was expecting a good meal for dinner was very disappointed as his golden eyes kept glaring at the bowl of food in front of him. Making a disgusted facial expression, he looked up at the lime-haired elf standing beside his seat, who was smiling innocently at him.

"…Rena…."

"Yes?"

"…..what is this?"

"It's your dinner!"

"…I ain't gonna have carrot stew as my dinner, El lady no."

"But carrot is good for you!"

"….Rena-"

"Look, I know you've told me the reason you're being reluctant in taking carrots, but let's start from today and get rid of that past trauma of yours against carrots, and start eating them for the sake of your health, okay?"

Sighing, Raven could only stare back at his nemesis-carrots. Well, to be precise, its carrot stews in this case. But, still, carrots are carrots and Raven absolutely despises them.

It wasn't like this before though, Raven isn't really a picky eater, and he certainly doesn't hate eating carrots back in the days….well, at least not until that one mission he participated when he was still just a young recruit of the Black Crows Mercenary.

Back then, they were hired by Velder's higher ups to provide reinforcement for the subjugating forces against the rebellion forces who opposed the political system of Velder. Their role was supposed to provide reinforcements but…..ironically, they are the ones who got into a troublesome situation and they themselves require reinforcements to be saved. In fact, their situation worsened to the point that the Black Crow Mercenaries was surrounded in an abandoned and burned down farm village with shortage of food rations for two whole weeks- for the enemies forces have somehow managed to burn their supplies when they got caught by an ambush.

So then, in order to prevent themselves from starving to death while waiting for extra reinforcements to rescue them, their only choice was to salvage whatever is edible around the deserted farm village. Amidst the desolated farmland, they managed to secure a handful amount of vegetables, which a major part of them was carrots. Although….they weren't in the best condition to be eaten though. Some can be seen to have worms coming out of it, some literally became mashed thanks to getting caught up in explosion, some have fungus on them- well, to sum it up, they certainly aren't appealing nor were they exactly fine to be eaten.

However, what choices do Raven and his comrades have? If they wanted to survive the hunger, they have to eat anything-even if it is extremely gross and close to being inedible. And so, it was at that time Raven tasted the bitterness and felt the gross part of eating carrots, and since then, he has been extremely reluctant to ever, eating or even touch carrots again.

Coming back to the present, Raven is currently trying to figure a way out to prevent him from eating this carrot stew, and instead sneak out to a restaurant or food stall and get something decent. The Wind Sneaker, on the other hand, seemed to be trying to persuade and help Raven to accept the beauty of carrots again.

"Raven, if you don't eat your carrots you're never going to attract any ladies, you know."

"…what does carrots has got to do with ladies going wild over me? Besides, I'm more than attractive enough to make any ladies faint anyways."

Knowing that the sly Rena is trying to challenge his charms so that he will be provoked into eating carrots, Raven instead decided to coolly swipe his silky, black hair upwards as he placed both his elbows on the table and sent a flirtatious wink towards the elf as his comeback.

Trying her best not to blush even a little and squeal like a an anime high school girl, Rena decided to use her gorgeous feminine appeals to challenge back Raven as she purposely move her face nearer to Raven and alluringly lift his chin with her slender fingers so that the golden and green irises are directly looking at each other.

"Ho~oh? I don't think so, gentleman. I mean, after all, this fair elven lady who is standing in front of you certainly isn't fawning over you right now? But maybe, just maybe, if you were to eat the carrots I might fall for you a little bit~?"

Raven, ignoring his excited heart due to Rena's action which seemed extremely attractive to him, he merely smirked back coolly as he countered.

"Hmm~Is that so….unfortunately though, I will never be able to accept the taste of carrots again…unless something covers up their taste? For example-"

Pausing for a short moment, Raven daringly pulled Rena closer so that their faces were merely centimetres away as he continued his sentence in a low, husky whisper.

"Your lips?"

"…eh?"

This time, Rena's face got instantly flustered. Who could blame her though, after all, the swordsman she's been taking a liking to for quite some time suddenly spurted out such words. Seeing her reaction, Raven laughed at how cute she was inside his heart and decided to continue teasing her.

"Oh, did you perhaps not hear that clearly? Well then, let me rephrase it in another version then-if you were to mouth-to-mouth feed me, maybe then the taste of the carrots will be covered up by how your lips taste~?"

As Rena lowered her head and her bangs shadowed her expressions from Raven, he thought that his bold actions have definitely stopped Rena's persuasion-

"S-so, y-you will re-really eat the carrots i-if I m-m-m-outh-to-mouth f-feed you, right?"

"…..what?"

Raven sweat dropped a little as he saw how Rena was shyly looking at him with a huge blush on her face. N-no way, she's totally just joking with me…right? That was what raced through his mind as Raven just decided to shrug it off as Rena trying to flirtatiously persuade him.

"O-of course, haha….er….R-rena?"

Just as he tried to awkwardly laugh it off as a joke, Raven saw Rena putting a spoonful of carrot stew in her mouth and glanced back with a blushed expression. And the next action she did completely caught Raven off guard.

"?!"

Gently cupping Raven's cheeks with both her hands, she shut her eyes closed as her glossy lips clashed onto Raven's one. Using her tongue, she created an opening in Raven's lips and slid it inside as both their tongues naturally dance with each other. Wide-eyed, Raven was completely stunned at was going on as he was blushing way too madly to care for how the carrot stew taste as he just stayed in the same astonished position and letting Rena explore his inner mouth as she pleases.

Moments later, Rena finally pulled off from Raven's face as she was panting slightly with a flushed expression. Realising what she actually just did, her face completely grew bright red, all the way up to her ears as she hastily mumbled out words.

"M-make sure you f-finish off the carrot stew k-kay? I-I forgot I need to do something a-and I need to go now…bye!"

Without delaying any longer, the green-haired elf ran away from the scene as fast as the wind, leaving the Blade Master alone in the dining room, who was slowly touching his lips and trying to register what in the actual world just happened.

….to sum it up, let's just say that the mercenary has two huge improvements in his life since then. One is the fact that he improved in trying to accept the taste of carrots again, and the other, well, it's pretty obvious that his relationship with the elven lady improve by a huge mile from that day onwards.

Annnnd that's it! Well, to be honest I got the idea to write this one shot because I remembered that one fan art of Sword Taker and Fury Guardian trying to push the carrots to one another cause' both of them doesn't want to eat it…..xD anyways, I've completed my mission here, and I'll see ya guys next time. Oh, don't forget to Rate and Review yea, opinions/comments/suggestions are much appreciated! EternaPhoenix, logging off!