"Come on Gray-chan! Let's go!" I shouted out grabbing the hand of a small dark haired boy and running towards a tree
"Where are we going!" He shouts back to me trying to keep up.
I grin broadly showing off my newly pointed teeth. "I have something really cool to show you!"
We arrived at our usual hang out spot by the river. We stood underneath the oak tree that sat next to the river. I let go of Gray-chan's hand and twirled my hands together nervously.
"What's up Natsu-chan?" He asks almost nervously.
"I….I have something to tell you, it's really cool but I don't want you to freak out so… promise you wont?" I ask nervously.
Gray-chan smiles at me. "You're my best friend. Nothing you say ever freaks me out."
"Tsk." I say looking away sharply. "Anyway. Remember how sometimes when we are outside playing, there are these really weird things happening like the fire in the basement at mine?"
Gray-chan nods with a glaze over his eyes. I could tell that he was remembering that day. We were in the basement of my house playing hide and seek. I was getting angry that I couldn't find Gray-chan at the time and this fire had randomly appeared out of no where. Luckily my Dad rescued us and he put the fire almost instantly!
Eventually Gray-chan nodded.
"Well…." I say putting my hand out palm up for him to see and with one little thought it was suddenly on fire! Gray-chan moved back for a second in shock but then looked back at me.
"That is so cool!" He said as his eyes widened in amazement. "How can you do that?"
"Dad told me that I am a fire dragonslayer! How cool is that! It's a weird type of magic in me that is rare"
"Does that mean you get to slay dragons?" Gray-chan asked.
I nodded. "Yup. I am the almighty dragonslayer Natsu Dragneel!" I say laughing and puling a pose like a knight swinging with a sword.
"Do you think I could have magic like that in me?" Gray-chan wondered.
"You could do. You just haven't woken up your magic yet!" I say hopefully.
Gray-chan looks back at me hopefully. "I hope I do Natsu-chan! Then we can go to Fairy Tail school together and become famous mages!"
"Natsu-chan! Natsu-chan!" A voice shouts out behind me. It's been three weeks since my magic appeared and Gray-chan's 9th birthday was today.
"Hey Gray-chan!" He looks at me excitedly.
"Guess what! I have my magic!" I look back at him with amazement! "Cool! What did you get?"
He put a close hand onto of an opened one and a cold mist swirled around his hand. To me as a fire dragonslayer, I did not like the cold so I folded my arms over to warm myself up. He removes his hand to reveal an iced version of our oak tree.
"I'm an ice make mage! I can make anything out of ice that I want!" He beams "I'm like Lyon-Ni-chan but I can't make the ice move like he can yet. How cool is that!"
I beam and hug him! "That is so cool! That only means one thing!"
Gray-chan beams at me! "We're going to Fairy Tail together!" We both shout and hug each other again.
"Promise me that Natsu-chan we will always be friends" Gray-chan says timidly.
"We will be best mates forever!" I shout out making Gray-chan smile.
"Promise?" Gray-chan asks.
I nod. "Definitely. I will be even take a friendship oath with you to prove it!"
"Cool! How do you do that?" Gray-chan asked
"According to this book I read, if we share a bit of each other's blood then we will be inseperatable for life! That we will be mates for life!" I beamed. "There was another bit that goes afterwards though that sounds really gross so I'm not gonna do that"
"What's that?"
"I need to bite into your neck and lick the blood there meaning that we are both marked as 'mates for life' but I don't want to do that!"
Gray-chan made a face. "Urgh. I don't want you to bite into me. That will hurt! Let's just do the blood thing.
I nod and go to find a sharp rock. We eventually find one and we both stand under the oak tree that we have spent years playing around.
We both stood there with a the sharp rock in my hand. "Now what do we do?" Gray-chan asked.
I close my eyes to try and remember what to do.
"We need to cut our hands and hold hands so that the blood mixes together and… we make our promises!" I say happy that I remember most of the passages. I can't remember what the wording for the promise was but I'm sure that doesn't matter as long as it is close.
Gray nods and takes the rock from me once I have made the cut of my hand. With a wince he cuts his hand and holds my bloody hand mixing our blood together.
"Doesn't this seen kind of weird" Gray-chan asks
"A little, but it means that we are friends for life!" I said "Okay. I'll go first. I Natsu Dragneel promise you Gray Fullbuster to be mates with you forever!"
Gray smiled and said after me "I Gray Fullbuster promise you Natsu Dragneel to be mates with you forever!"
Suddenly a bright white light appeared around us and it looked like my fire magic and Gray-chan's ice magic were mixing together in the air. The light was so bright that I had to close my eyes!
"Natsu! Gray! No! What are you two doing!" I heard my Dad screaming and running towards us. He looked really scared and it threw me off my focus causing the bright light around us to explode, sending us both flying.
After that everything went dark.
I sat up in bed sweating and panting. I brought my knees to my head and wrapped my arms around them trying to control my breathing. That was the third time this week that I have had this dream. No not dream - memory. But that was almost 10 years ago! Gray and I are both 18 now! Why is it cropping up now?
I lie back down in bed and remember what happened the rest of that night.
I had woken up to Gray's Dad and my Dad shouting at each other downstairs. I turned my head to look at where I was. I was in my bedroom with Gray next to me in my bed.
Gray hadn't woken up yet so I nudged him to wake him up. We decided to sneak out to the landing to get a better listen at what they were saying. I can remember the conversation well even to this day.
"This is your fault Igneel! You should not have given Natsu that book otherwise none of this would have happened!" We heard Gray's Dad shout
"How else was he suppose to learn about the history of his magic Silver! I didn't think that he would get that far yet and I don't think they both even realised the repercussions of this spell that they have done, let alone try it out!" My dad shouted
"They don't have a choice now! They are stuck together for life!" I remembered that we both smiled at that and high fived each other and giggled. We didn't see why what we did was so wrong. To this day I don't think that we fully understand why.
"I know one way to stop this!" Gray's Dad shouted. I remembered him running up the stairs, seeing us both together and looked at us with disgust.
"Say goodbye Gray. We're going home." Gray looked at him with confusion and hugged me goodbye.
That would be last time I spoke to him for many years.
Look who is finally back! I'm sorry it took so long to put something new out but this is "I Hate You But I Love You"! This is the first chapter of many that I am slowly writing. I am looking at putting a new chapter out every week until I have run out (I have not finished the story yet) so I will try and get it all finished for you asap. I have loads of other stories in the pipeline but this is the one I want to focus on the most at the moment.
Thank you all so much for reading this! Hopefully most of you worked out that it was in Natsu's POV. Most of this story will be in his POV. If it changes then I will say so. Either way, please comment and let me know what you think!
Until next time!