A/N :- First fanfic for fairy tail, it was supposed to be a one-shot but plot bunnies are getting in the way... .
May contain grammar/spelling errors but please bear with me...
Disclaimer :- I do not own fairy tail, except the plot line although i do apologize if someone had written something similar like this before...
R&R
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Chapter 1: Agony
Not for a single day, by therefore once that the man ever left his seat. He had been seen there for quite some time now that he has been waiting for an opportunity to get back to his one-sided beloved best friend and wanting to know the root of their friendship destruction. While still afar from the point of meeting, still afar from the point of truth, lacking strategy to what he was supposed to do. Being left, dumbfounded, he bangs his head on the mahogany table and grunted as he stares at his phone, waiting for a call and sighed.
'Not a single explanation and you left me hanging.' And her smiling face began to appear in his memories, flashing for a second in his very mind. 'Why?'
It wasn't such a long time ago, when they first met. They were kids in love. The boy would always get into trouble and sooner after that, the girl would come and lecture him until her words were half-filled into his ears. But it was never tiring, she was a blessed goddess given to him by God.
'Were you even listening?' a scarlet red haired maiden, projected her voice, as she was seemingly demanding in people to pay attention to her. 'I said, were you even listening?'
He arched back into his seat, regaining his composure, and simply replied with a 'mmhmm'. The meeting continued for long hours, and he was already daydreaming.
'Natsu!' The scarlet red haired maiden exclaimed, causing everyone else in the room to tremble in fear. Her cheeks were flushed red, and her eye brows were arched to express her annoyance and anger at the same time. Somehow to his reaction, he did not shudder, to him, it was nothing to by-pass his fear.
'Yeah, I think I need to go out.' The lean, tall, muscular young man with a slightly tan skin tone, black onyx eyes and spiky pink-colored hair to compliment his dark eyes stood up and approaches the door.
'We are in the middle of a meeting, but it seems to me, you have been day dreaming.' The woman responded in a daunting way.
'Whatever.' The pink-haired man rolled his eyes and left only to close the door behind him, not caring to hear her shriek to everyone else in the meeting room.
As he walk passed the hallway, hands in his pocket, wearing a distant look in his eye, he made his way through the hallway into the bar, a place where he lets loose of his fury and agony. He chose a seat at the counter while a waitress served him his usual cocktail.
'Good afternoon, Natsu.' The young waitress of below average height greeted him. She had a decent smile, and a long, white hair which gets slightly curly at the ends, with two bangs framing her face and reaching down to her ample chest. She had an upward ponytail which was tying the part of her hair that was covering her forehead.
'Good afternoon, Mira-san.' He responded, in his usual, deep toned, moisturizing the fact that he was nearly slaughtered in the meeting due to his daydreams and personal problems.
'You're out early, considering the meeting had not yet ended.' The blanquette maiden assumed as she was drying a glass with a cloth.
'It was boring.' He responded, and the conversation had merely ended with a long distant silence. The blanquette had only smiled to his answer and continued doing her usual chore behind the counter.
As he was sipping down his cocktail, another figure appeared before him, a young petite girl with short white hair and blue eyes smiled before him. She raised her hand, and greeted him only to leave the pink-haired man to reply a static 'hi'.
She sat beside the pink haired man and stared at the young lad, tilted her head and smiled at him. This has been on-going for the past few months since she left.
'Natsu…'
'Lisanna, I don't want to be bothered right now,' he closed his eyes and sighed as he interrupted the other blanquette girl before she finished her sentence.
'I was hoping if you want to go out for a day, you seemed down.' She cheered him up and brought both of her hands together to make a light clap. 'Mira-nee, can I have a drink?' Her attention was diverted to her sister, whom was tending behind the counter. 'So what do you think?' she draws back her attention to the pink-haired lad whom seemed to re-consider her offer.
He lifted his head and gaze at her face, which caused her to blush a little and feel a little bit uncomfortable. 'Fine.'
She blinked. Out of disbelief that the pink-haired lad would accept her invitation. Another blink. And she smiled, believing it was her victory. She stood up, and faced to him. '9 pm by the fountain, see you later.' And with that, she left.
'You don't have to force yourself you know.' The scarlet red haired maiden interrupts him. She took a seat to his left and browsed through a set of menu book.
'Er…erza?' He stuttered, and was surprised. Heavy downpour of sweat was coming out of his skin, as he was shaking in fear. 'The meeting…weren't you supposed to be in the meeting?'
'You were supposed to be in the meeting as well, but you left.' The red-haired demanded still browsing through the menu book.
'I…I have a logical explanation for it.'
'Forget it, I dismissed them all as soon as you left.' She smiled. There was a long silence in between the time and the pink-haired lad could be seen staring into emptiness, carrying a burdened and sad look in his eyes.
'It seems like they have found her.' Erza began, as she munched her strawberry short cake.
Natsu was stunned and her words brought him back to reality. He then observed her, hoping that Erza would have said more than that.
'Don't bother, she won't come back.' Erza quickly draw her judgement as she kept a cool, straight face while eating her strawberry short cake.
'I didn't say anything.' Natsu claimed, as he crossed his arms. By the time he claimed his pride and dignity, Erza had finished her short cake and drank down her warm cup of English tea.
'Don't you have a 'date' later?' Erza immediately changed the subject, not wanting him to become curious of her.
'Like I care.' Natsu responded, which caused Erza to glare at him. 'Fine, fine, I'll go now.'
'Remember your mission tonight,' Erza whispered to him as he walked past him.
to be continued...