Set in Natsu's POV
The end of eighth period marked the end of the school year. It also marked the last time I would see my good friend for the year, Erza Scarlet. When everyone stood up, she turned and faced me to pick up her stuff. Then, she bolted out the door as fast as she could. I noticed a hurt expression on her face before she left though. I get my stuff ready and start to follow her down the path she walked. Erza went to a lake, and I followed her, I sat behind a tree. Watching Erza and what she was doing. She sat down on a rock and pulled out a journal. Erza wrote some things then put it away. After that she just sat, with her shoulders down and her head held low. I got up and decided to go over there to see if anything was wrong. I was halfway there when she stood up, Shit… Does she know I'm here? I think, she would kill me if she saw me. But then she walked over to the cliff with a waterfall on it.
I started to get concerned, I saw her muscles tense, and she bent her legs Shit! she's going to jump, I've got to save her I scream in my head. I'm running as fast as I could but she jumps. I lean down and grab her hand that was above her head.
"N-Natsu, what are you doing here?" Erza asks, with tears all over her face and a hurt expression. I shake my head as I pull her up,
"Why would you want to kill yourself Erza?" I ask and I pull her so she is sitting facing me right in front.
"M-My parent's I-I Can't remember my re-real one's. They died when I w-was young. Also, t-the question is w-why did you save m-me? N-Natsu?" She managed to get out, I sigh. Her parents, she can't remember? I never even saw my damn real parents! I'm street kid! She thinks she has it bad. Should I tell her that I had it way worse? And I did,
"Erza first I saved you because you don't need to die because you can't remember your parents. Second, I had it way worse than you Erza." she stared at me in awe,
"How s-so?" Erza asks. I don't say anything and she asks again, I stand up and start to leave, with anger was swelling up inside of me. Once again Erza asks, this time grabbing my arm. I slap it away and turn around,
"I NEVER EVEN SAW MY DAMN PARENT'S ERZA! I LIVE, ON THE STREET!, I NEVER EVEN KNEW HOW IT FELT TO BE LOVED!" I scream, Erza stares wide eyed and takes a step forward. Erza sprints towards me and give me a hug. I just stand there until she backs away. We walk over to the tree and sit down, she hugs me again. When Erza was about to pull away I put my hands on her back and pushed her in towards me more.
"Erza? Can we stay like this for a bit?" I ask of her and she nods. Erza digs her head into my chest, and I hold her tight. She starts to hum the main theme anthem for our school, Fairy Tail. It sooths me and I relax, I feel her grip tighten around me,
"What's wrong Erza?" I ask and she holds on even tighter.
"Natsu, I wanted to end it right then and there when I jumped, but you caught me, you saved my life. I don't understand something, why were you there to save me at the exact time I jumped?" I tense, but then I soon relax deciding to tell her.
"I followed you here because I saw the pain in your eyes as you were leaving school. I wanted to make sure you were doing good." I say calmly, hoping Erza doesn't flip out. Luckily, she doesn't and just starts to hum again.
A few minutes later a kid walks bye with a rock in his hands, and Erza stands up.
"Erza, You're gonna get it this time! Boys, ATTACK!" The kid yelled and kids jump out from every place possible and starts to throw rocks at her. Erza awaits the pain from the rocks put it never came. I see her open her eyes to look at me getting hit by all of them.
"Don't worry I'll protect you, Erza." I say clenching my teeth from the pain.
"Oh, how sweet, boys, stop." The kid behind me says, I turn around. The dude had black hair and a wicked smile on his face.
"Zeref, Go Home!" I hear Erza scream behind me. I clench my fists as 'Zeref' pulls out a knife. He licks the blade then attacks. I flick the blade away and sock
him in the gut. He gets back up and tries a jab, I swipe it away. We step away from Erza and he grins. I see him pull out a second knife and Stab, I swipe it away and he spins. Zeref hurls one of his knives towards Erza, I run and block the knife, by letting it stab into my gut.
"NATSU!" Erza screams but I put my hand up, signaling for her to stop, I hear Zeref chuckle and start to walk away. Erza starts to cry.
"You are one sick bastard, you know that Zeref? Listen" He turns "I will allow you to hurt me or anything about me, but if you hurt my friends, I will end you. But Erza isn't my friend… She's my best friend and you made her cry." I see Zeref's eyes widen so much it looks like they were about to fall out. They grew that big because of the sight he saw. I was pulling the knife out of my gut and I toss it towards the tree. It hit it with so much force the tree shatters. Zeref looks up just in time to see a tree land on his head. I kneel and cough up blood.
"Natsu!" Erza yells and I get a warm hug from behind.
"Erza, I love you." Was all I could get out before I drifted out to what I expected to be the last time I saw the light again, at least the last thing I saw was the beautiful face that belonged to none other than Erza Scarlet.
I wake up in a room, that obviously wasn't mine. I feel a squeeze on my hand and I look over to see Erza.
"Natsu! You're awake!" She screams and hugs me, I grimace in pain. She sits back down and tells me what happened. I stand up off the bed and grab her hand, I then walk towards the door.
"Natsu! Lay back down! You need to rest!" She yelled at me with a ton of concern in her voice, but I decided I would keep on going.
We reached the tree that was now a stump and I sat down with her next to me. Erza started to hum again and Clutched my chest.
"Erza." I say and she looks up, I lean in because I finally got the courage to and when I pulled back, she had shock all over her face.
"I can understand If you don't have the same feelin-" I was going to finish my sentence when she rammed her lips into mine.
"Erza, I love you." I say
"I love you too Natsu" She replies. and we sat there, on the stump. We later decided to dig up the stump and plant a Sakura tree. And every day, we sit there. Next to each other, enjoying each others company, and. Being boyfriend and girlfriend.
Authors Note:
Hope you enjoyed, Will most likely make more. But not for a while. Hope you Enjoyed! Cya, :P