TRUTH AND HATE

"So Natsu… what do you hate about Lucy?"

None seem to remember what they were doing or talking about right before the game start. Everything just flowed like usual. Chit-chat here, bantering there, loud cries of the quarrel boys, and more laugh from some females joking. Well, Fairy Tail guild just as lively as ever. And at some point, the barmaid Mirajane approached the most crowded table than others, where the strongest team of their guild resides.

"Nee minna~ I have a perfect game for you…" said her while smiling sweetly.

And after hearing that, Lucy shivered and mumbled that she had a really bad feeling about the game she talked about. Since the night was still young and the mages wanted some refreshment before their separate mission the next day, they just agreed.

Mira put an empty bottle right in the middle of the table. Wendy, who used to see and never played the legendary game beamingly asked, "Is it a truth or dear game?"

"No.. no.. it's quite different,"

"Different? Juvia never heard any game with bottle other than truth or dare," said Juvia confused. Levy who sat just across her nodded her head.

"Well, this game, I personally invented it myself. I called it, truth and hate game~~" Mira said while clapping her hand together enthusiastically.

"Truth and hate?" said everyone.

"Well, this is different from the original game where you have to choose between telling a truth or do a dare. In this game, you only have to tell truthfully what you hate about the other person. You get it now?"

"What?! Isn't that… you know, a bit mean?" Lucy interjected.

"hmmmm….. Let's take it this way, if you know what the other hate about you, shouldn't you feel motivated to change yourself to be better?"

"That's a good logic," said Grey who has long lost his shirt.

"But I think, I'll be depressed about it before I start to change," whined Lucy.

"Don't worry about it Lucy. If you're hated or not Lucy is Lucy after all," said Natsu while patting Lucy's back a bit harder than it should. "What are you waiting for Mira? Let's start the game! Uwou~ I'm all fired up!" the other guild members on the same table just laughed and urged Mira to spin the bottle.

The game was surprisingly going well. There's no heart-breaking comment that was thrown to describe what they hate about the other. Gray said he hated Natsu's idiotic, while Natsu start yelling back to insult him of his pervert behavior that's agreed by Gajeel. Erza said she hated Mira's slyness while the latter just laugh it off. Carla said she hated Happy's persistence with a tint of blush on her cheeks. Lucy hated Gajeel's nickname for her which he responded with his signature "gee hee" laugh. And so on…

"Ok, let's settle it with this last spin," said Mira before they decide to end their little game. The spinning bottle begun to slow down and down, until it stopped to point at Lucy and the bottom part faced Natsu. "Well, this is a climax!" cheered Mira excitedly. Then she continued, "So Natsu, what do you hate about Lucy?"

The table became rigid when Natsu took his sweet time to think about his answer. After what felt like forever Lily said, "I don't think there's a thing he hated about her," Erza, Wendy and Levy nodded their head in approval. But Lucy herself didn't think so. There're so much she had done to both Natsu and Happy that she knew they could have hated her. But Lucy didn't really show her turmoil inside. When she looked Natsu took a deep hale before answering, she braced herself for whatever answer he gave her.

"What I hate about Lucy is…" the said girl slowly pulled her head down while closing her eyes. The others unconsciously leaned on the table to hear Natsu's words about his partner. "I hate her tears!" he said with finality. The others including Lucy put a blank face on display.

"What do you mean about that Natsu?" asked Mira slowly.

"Like I said, I hate her tears. I hate seeing her cry. That's a no-no sight you know," Natsu replied with a little pout and crossed her arms on his chest.

"Natsu…" whispered Lucy. Natsu shot her his usual grin, and then abruptly stood up from his seat. "Well, let's head home already. We got to be somewhere tomorrow," the others responded him with affirmative smile. And one by one, they begin to leave the now quiet guild.

"You guys are going to sleep over?!" Lucy asked flabbergasted.

"Aye… We've brought our carriers to your place before we dropped to the guild," Happy replied.

"You guys trespass my apartment again…" cried Lucy while she chased after the runaway fire dragon slayer and the flying blue cat.

"Yup, this angry Lucy is better than the crying Lucy. But still, the happy Lucy is best of all" thought Natsu when he caught her smile in her chasing.

Mira was still tidying the utensils her guild mates used in the bar. Elfman, Evergreen and Lisanna helped her cleaned the tables. Freed and Bickslow offered to help washed the dirty dishes while Max, Laki and Kinana tried to clean the floor from scattered garbage, crumbs and drink stains. When she's about to put away an empty bottle from the bar, she recalled a little game she shared with Erza and the others. And what lingered in her mind the most is Natsu's answer for Lucy.

"Hate to see her cry, huh?" she mumbled to herself then giggled. "How sweet of you Natsu…"

"What was that, Mira?" asked the only muscular man that occupied the bar stall beside Mira.

"Hmmmm… nothing to worry about Laxus. I just thought, that a young love is so nice,"

"Stop acting like you're older than your age," grumbled Laxus behind his beer glass.

"Hai~~~~" she giggled again before telling the others that they could go home already.

And ended…

Well, I dunno what's gotten into me. I got this idea randomly sometimes ago. And this is born. I didn't bother to check anymore, so sorry if you got ooc in their characters or some grammatical error or typo. And I'm sorry, if the others like Grey, Erza and Gajeel didn't participate so much in the conversation. Just hope you could enjoy this one-shot….

As you know very well, I'll never own Fairy Tail. But I assure you, the original idea of this "TRUTH AND HATE" story is mine! *wink*

I dedicated this to all NaLu shippers, for I'm one of you and they've been my OTP since the first second I watched anime Fairy Tail.

Sore de wa minna-san…. Mata ne~ *waving a handkerchief*