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Chapter One: How do you say Good-bye?

The Guild Hall

Natsu sat there thinking of how he was to tell everyone about his new plan. He was sure they would flip and give him the fight of a life time to make him change his mind, but what else could he do? Then he thought, "what if I were t-"

"Hey Natsu! What's the glum look for?" Lucy asked, sitting next to him at the bar.

"It's nothing Luce, just thinking about... Stuff!" Natsu said, forcing a smile.

"If you say so... So how about we go out on the town this afternoon?" A cheerful Lucy proposed.

"Nah, I've got some stuff to do today, sorry." He replied, suddenly having a look in his eyes.

"Oh... Well what kinda stuff?" A curious Lucy asked, getting a bit suspicious.

"I've got a um, aaa... A job! Yeah I have a job today!" Natsu said putting a smile on his face, but Lucy was starting to worry.

"Well if it's a job why don't I come al- ... Natsu?" Lucy said in shock as Natsu had disapeared, "Natsu..."

Streets of Mongolia

"How could I tell anyone, and of all people Lucy at that? Maybe I should just... Nah that would be too harsh... But, what else could I do?" Natsu said as he fell into deep thought... "AAARRRRGGGGG!!!!!!" As he shot flames out of his mouth, " It's the only way, I'm no good at good byes..."

The Next Day

"Hey Mira have you seen Natsu at all? I can't seem to find him..." Lucy asked, with a look of worry all across her face. Not to mention the bags under her eyes from searching all night.

"No, not since yesterday at the bar. But don't worry, he's probably on a job or just goofing around across the town!" Mira said reassuringly, and she honestly thought so too, well, I mean, it's Natsu so why wouldn't she? Lucy continued to ask around the guild, and search across the whole town for Natsu, but nothing.

"I know, he's probably at my house dead asleep! Why didn't I check there of all places?!" Lucy exclaimed as she started to run to her apartment, and her eyes were full of hope. She had made it, she opened to door, and searched her whole apartment, but nothing was there... All her hope and excitement had disappeared, and her worry, anxiety, and sadness had started to grow again.

But then, she noticed a folded up piece of paper on top of her unfinished novel. "That wasn't there before..." Lucy walked over to her desk, and picked up the paper. As she started to unfold it, she had recurring thoughts, like what if somebody kidnapped him and asked for a ransom, or somebody have apologized for an accident with Natsu, or her landlady was warning her about rent!

"No... It couldn't be any of those, Natsu would never let that happen to himself, and I just paid rent 3 days ago." Lucy unfolded the final fold, and then she started to read, and her heart sank to the floor. No, further than the floor, to the depth of the basement of the building(pretty far).

It read:

Dear Lucy,

I'm sorry you have to get this by letter, but it was to hard for me to say it to you. But I'm going on a mission, that I made myself, so I can train and improve. Everyone else in the guild is learning new magic and improving, and I'm falling behind. So, I'm leaving for about 2 years. Give every one at the guild my best wishes!

Yours truly,

Natsu

(P.s I never told you but --)

(That parts a secret)

"What! He's leaving for 2 years!!!!! But, who will I do missions with, who will I talk to and then lecture when they say something inappropriate... Who will I come home to find sneaking around every day?" Lucy asked herself, and then suddenly ran off to the guild hall to tell everyone, and find Natsu!

The Guild Hall

"Now that you mention it, it is quite strange for Natsu to not be here... And for the past 5 hours or so Lucy's been missing too." Mira replied to Erza.

"What about Natsu? Has he disappeared?" Gray butted in, starting to have an interest in what Erza and Mira were saying for once.

"Yes he has, and so has Lucy, but they're probably out on a job." Erza answered.

"Maybe... Nah I don't think so. I haven't seen Natsu at the job board in 3 days, and Lucy just got back from a job. It has to be something else." Mira said as she started thinking very deeply.

"Well what if... nah it couldn't be, that would never happen!" Gray said, with a serious look on his face, which quickly turned to creeped out. Mainly due to Juvia staring at him from a corner, and Erza with her glare, as she stared down on him.

"What were you just thinking of gray?! Tell us, if you know something spit it out!" Erza demanded, which put the whole guild in shock and fear, and Gray ready to piss himself, in his underwear since he had suddenly stripped from his shirt and pants to his boxers.

"I-I-I was just thinking that uh... They maybe uhh.." Gray started to smirk, "went out on a date at a restaurant or something." Juvia jumped in and popped her hands onto Grays shoulders exclaiming,

"Why can't Juvia and Gray-sama go on a date as Lucy and Natsu are?!" "Aaaghhh! What the, well... Because... Cause I don't want to! That's why!" Gray answered, blushing all over his face. This had made Juvia quite sad, and she just sat back in the corner, but not staring at gray, just into... Nowhere.

Then out of nowhere, the guild doors opened and a blonde came running in yelling, "Natsu left, he left us all and he isn't coming back for the next two years!!!!"

"WHAAAAATTTTT!!!!!!" The whole guild yelled back, and some members even started to have a ferocious look in their eyes, like they were about to kill someone. Everyone rushed over to Lucy and were about to barrage her in questions, when they finally noticed that she was on her knees crying into her hands.

"Lucy what are you talking about? Where did he go?" Erza asked, after less than a minute. But all Lucy could do was hand her the paper that was now crumpled and slightly wet from Lucy's tears.

Erza read it, then again, and a third time to make sure she read it right. "This can't be, he actually left, he's left the guild for the next 2 years!"

"What! Read the letter to us Erza!" Makarov demanded, and Erza started to read it. She read it all, and then added also that the bottom of the page was ripped, and that maybe said something. But when asking Lucy all she said was,

"It was like that when I found it..." In between sobs, which slowly started to stop. Lucy also started to get a little flush when she spoke... Was she hiding something?

"Well, there's nothing based off this that could help us find Natsu... But maybe he doesn't want us to go after him." Makarov said, which made some members ease up, and others ready to object.

"But master, we can't just let him go, what if he didn't write it? What is someone took him and left this so we'd just let it go and forget about him? Besides, he left Happy behind, he never does that!" Gray protested, not letting himself believe Natsu actually left them.

"No! We must let him go, I agree with master." Erza replied for Makarov. The whole guild discussed, and Happy just sat there on a table while being gloomy, Lucy sitting at the same table while thinking of what the last part of the letter said, the part that Lucy had torn off.

"Guys, we should just let him go..." Lucy said, which shushed everyone.

"Lucy, but... Don't you wanna bring him back?! Don't you wanna make sure he's ok? I thought you were on my side of this?!" Gray responded, but Lucy quickly responded.

"I'm not your side, true, I'm on Natsu's side! I believe in him enough that I trust him to come back!" Lucy's words made everyone stop protesting. And after this problem, life went back to normal.

2 Years Later...

"Lucy you should really eat something, you haven't moved at all in the last 3 days, he hasn't come yet, you don't have to go this far." Mira tried to convince Lucy.

"No, I have to be here when he comes back, I have to say something important to him." Lucy said drowsily, as she hadn't eat or slept in 3 days.

One Month Later

Everyone in the guild was chummy and having the time of their lives, except for two specific people. Happy and Lucy. They sat next to the guild doors waiting for a pink haired boy to walk through. But nobody had come through that door with pink hair.

"Happy, what are we here for again?" Lucy asked,

"I'm not really sure anymore Lucy..."

Happy replied, with a hypnotic look in his eyes.

"Let's join everyone else ok?" Lucy proposed to Happy.

"Aye Lucy"

They walked over to Erza and Gray and Mira to talk and have fun, like they did before He left.