This story will be a squeal for my other story which name is Natsumi so, to understand what's happening you have to go check the first part before advancing to read this.
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Chapter1
She felt the soft breeze hitting her skin as she let a small smile because what she felt. She was like that, a kind hearted and an innocent young lady. She opened her eyes to meet a blue fresh cleared sky. She took a deep breath and smiled once more. This weather was perfect for a picnic. No rain, no anything that could bother you from being fresh. She moved her head to look at her friends that were preparing things to play volleyball. They were setting the net and making the lines to play. She grinned widely and stood up walking to them standing in front of them and smiling.
"Let me help too!"
"You can't do anything!" A friend of hers looked at her and smirked letting what he was doing trying to tease her. She didn't response as she pushed him away and started to do it herself.
"You are aggressive as usual!"
Natsumi is the girl that was deeply hurt from being in love. Natsumi is the girl who was ready to sacrifice anything because of the pain. Natsumi is the girl who had courage to face whatever coming through her life except for love. She is finally here smiling again after so much pain and so much suffer.
After the blonde had left the guild for no one knows how many days or months, she tried to get rid of her sadness and letting him do whatever he wants to.
The match started as she was in the team that was rivaling Gray Fulbaster, the black haired ice mage.
"Go, Gray-sama." And that was the blue haired water mage who always had something deep in her heart to the black haired guy.
"Gooooo, Natsumi, Mira-nee." The short white haired girl shouted above her lungs to cheer her dear friend and her big sister as she got a thump up.
The pink haired is now an s-class mage just like Mira, Erza, Gildartz and Laxus. For her, it wasn't that hard to get to that place but what was harder to be a great s-class mage. It's a great rank no one easily could reach it and the one reaches he should deserve it. And she deserves it, she deserves to be great. Everyone was so happy for her to be like that. Everyone was happy to see her great. Everyone was happy to see her happy. And today, they are in a picnic to freshen their moods and minds. As usual Erza was the one to give the idea of going out in a picnic and Mira was the one suggesting playing in teams and the team that will win will order the other to do something for them. Just like fairy tail.
Team A had, Natsumi, Erza, Mira, Elfman and Max.
Team B had Gray, Alzack, Gajeel, Cana and Jet.
"Go for it papa!" Asuka cheered.
"Hic…" Cana said while smiling widely and drinking beer.
"Hey Cana!" Gajeel twisted his body to look at her to find that she was out of the world and completely drunken.
"Don't worry don't worry!" she said wiping away her mouth and throwing the bottle away. She grinned, "Bring it on!"
"I think we need to change her." Gray said as he looked at Gajeel. Gajeel looked at her and rolled his eyes to the back, he then looked back at the front.
"We can't help it." he said, "We have to focus!"
The match started very well with the both teams that wanted to win it. They were trying really hard on winning and having fun in the same time. For Natsumi, she tried to do everything she could for winning and will lead her team too. But for Cana who held her team back because of how drunken she was drinking so much beer. And that made Natsumi laugh really hard on them, she tried to hold it but failed to do so since she looked funny running like that. When it finally Gray's turn to throw the ball to the other side and he decided to aim for Natsumi so it would be her punishment for laughing. With her sensitive ears she heard two people talking and that that wasn't her intent to do so but she did without knowing that she actually did.
"It has been a year since Lucas-san has left right?"
"Yeah, it's already year. What do you think the reason he left for?"
"I really don't know but it has to be a very big thing for him leaving without telling us a word."
Natsumi frowned at hearing Lucas's name. It was a taboo topic for her to hear that name even when was trying to be fine and trying to a normal person but whenever she hears her name she returns to zero again. She was pretending to be fine but she wasn't.
"Do you think he will return?"
"I don't know about that too. The only thing I know that Natsumi is hiding a thing from us."
"What? Natsumi does!"
"Yeah remember that she was with him in a mission before he leaves so she might be the reason too."
Natsumi was actually shocked about what she was hearing. Even if it was true, they don't have the right to say something like that. Without focusing in the match, the ball came flying to her and hit her head making her fall from her place to the ground.
"Natsumi!"
Everyone hurried to her checking her and how is she. "A-Are you alright?" the black haired mage said as he looked down at her nervously because he was the one who hit her with ball. Natsumi put her hand on her head feeling that the world is spinning with her. Her eyesight was blurry and she barely saw who was talking to her. They helped her to get up and cleared the way to her to move on it. The little girl Wendy started to check on her to see that if it was something really dangerous about being hit by such a throw. But thanks God there wasn't but she kept unable to see well.
"Wendy, I'm not seeing very clear." She said following the sky dragon slayer's scent.
"It should be because how hard the hit was." She helped the girl to sit down on the chair and kept staring at her.
Erza clapped her hands together. "Okay guys, let's take five minutes break." She said as she walked towards the other guild members sitting on the grass. She was followed by the other members as they went directly to the food way and Cana towards the beer.
"Hey Cana, stop drinking!"
She heard someone says and she didn't try to guess who was it as she ignored him and continued walking.
Gray went to where Natsumi was sitting and sat down on the grass in front of her and kept staring up at her face. She wasn't actually seeing him fully and her eyes were only blurry. Natsumi knew that he was sitting there by only his smell. She frowned at him knowing that he came to tease her. They were always like Tom and Jerry and that something will never change. "What?!" she said as she looked at his direction holding some ice bag on the top of her head.
"Hey, flame brain! You have to be more careful while playing. You might let your team loses!" he said with a smirk on his face. He was actually worried about her but he never really showed it except for that period that the both of them dated.
"Over my dead body!" she glared at him and silence was spread. After few seconds, she heard chuckles. She narrowed her eyes and waited him to say what the reason he was laughing at was. Then, he burst into laughing as he held his belly.
"Your face was so funny when the ball hit your face. I won't forget this face all my life!" he laughed so hard at her and she was annoyed because of it so, she reached her hand up to his head and smacked his head so his face was crushed to the ground. And this was the punishment for whoever laughs at the dragon slayer.
"Natsumi." The blue cat came flying towards her as he landed on her lap. "Are you alright now?" she gave him a smile and nodded and raised her head to hear what everyone was doing. She didn't find anything interesting then returned her head back to its position. But, suddenly all of them went silent and didn't say a word. She started to move her head right and left to find out what her guild mates are doing but she found complete silence. Later, she felt loss on her lap as she heard Happy flies away. She didn't get what's wrong and wanted to ask what was happening but something prevented. Then, she suddenly heard cheers coming from the whole guild and that impatient to know what was happening.
"Oh man! You don't know how much we miss you!"
"You finally returned, welcome back!"
"I'm so happy to see you again!"
"Welcome back man!"
It was him.
It was his smell.
She moved her head to where she thought he stood and opened her mouth. She missed him so much. She missed his smell. She missed his voice. She missed everything about him. But why now? Why does he come now? Why does he return at the time she can't see well? Why? she moved her head down with wide eyes. What should she tell him now? She tells him the truth about that she still misses him? Or she tells him that she is fine and she overcame the pain and the love? She didn't even know what she is feeling right now? She is neither happy nor sad. She started to hate herself because of that and wanted to get rid of her feelings that brings her down. She wanted to become different person but she can't, she can't. She is living from his love and dying because of it in the same time. She didn't feel herself until he walked towards her and stood in front of her.
"Natsumi." He called her name. How much she missed hearing her name from his mouth. She raised her head and only saw a flash of blonde and didn't quietly saw the face. She smiled nervously. It was his smell and his voice so why is she not sure about him. Like, like he was a completely different person. He smiled at her but didn't get what was wrong with her actually so he looked at the people stood beside him asking for an explanation.
"Natsumi was hit by the ball her head so she is a little scrambled." Mira said as she crossed her arms together glaring at the black haired guy sending the shiver down his spine. He gulped nervously and looked away. Lucas looked at him and smiled softly.
"You both still the same." He stretched his arm out and put it on Natsumi's head and rubbed it softly giving her a toothy grin. "I hope you get better soon." He said. Natsumi's bangs fell down making her eyes shady as she hid her reaction when he touched her head after a long time. She was frustrated but she hid it. Both Erza and Mira shared a look of helplessly. They tried to help both of them in the past but they failed and caused more pain to both of them. Gray who had something in his heart to her glanced at him feeling disgusted because after he knew what Lucas did to Natsumi, he had a big fight with him and never became like he used to with Lucas. He removed his hand from her head and looked back at them.
"So guys, what are you doing here? I have been searching for you like forever!" he stated as he stood up looking at them in a wonder. Everyone became silent waiting for their boss to talk. He walked through the crowd and stopped in front of Lucas.
"We are having a day off so we can relax." The master said as he smiled.
"Wow, are you playing volleyball?" he asked as he looked at the net and the ball.
"Yup, wanna play?" the redhead smirked as she crossed her arms. Lucas looked down at the ground.
"I'm not a very good player but," he answered. "I'd love too."
"So where should you play? Should you take Natsumi's place?" asked the black spiky haired guy Alzack. But someone didn't like the idea. She stood up from her place.
"No one is gonna take my place! I'm going to continue on playing." She said as she looked at what thought was Erza but she actually looked at the blonde who didn't mind that stare at all.
"But Natsumi-san, you still can't see well!" the blue haired girl interrupted to protect her patient from that war.
"Believe me, I became better." She said looking at the grass thinking that Wendy actually stood there.
"No, you don't" she walked and stood on the spot the dragon slayer stared at. "You didn't even know where I'm standing!" Natsumi narrowed her eyes.
"That's right I'm only seeing a scrambled vision but I can observe the ball and its color!" she said as she walked towards the ball and grabbed it from the ground. "See."
They sighed. No one ever could compete Natsumi in stubbornness. She moved her head towards the blonde and stared at him.
"Lucas, you changed somehow?" Natsumi heard the white short haired lady say. she narrowed her eyes trying to see anything that could changed on him but nothing changed for her eyes because she didn't even saw his face. She let a chuckle of how pathetic she was and Lucas caught it. He didn't know what was the reason she laughed at but let it slide for now?
"Yeah Lisanna, I grew my hair a little." He answered back as he grabbed the long ponytail of his. Growing the hair wasn't bad for people but cutting it super bad. "And Natsumi, you cut your hair." Her eyes widened at hearing what he said because from that time she cut her hair until now, no one ever realized that her hair got shorter. Everyone's attention went to the blonde.
"What are you saying Lucas? She didn't do that for sure." Max said as he looked at the both of then amazed.
"No, she did."
"Her hair length looks normal to me." Macao said in back as he looked at Natsumi's hair.
"No," the pink haired lady finally spoke. "I cut it, just a bit." She was looking at the ground for a little bit then raised her head to look at him. "How come you know something like that? My hair length wasn't that much longer." He smiled and didn't answer. Lucas looked to the other direction and put his hands together.
"Shouldn't we start the match or what?"
"The idea isn't about to start the match, the idea about where are we going to put you." The man Elfman said. They totally forgot about that and started to look at each other.
"Hic." The heard Cana say as she drank up the beer. They all stared at her at once and paused.
"I know now where you are going to play." The black haired dragon slayer stated.
"I agree with you." Jet stated also.
Lucas smiled while looking at them. He looked back at the black haired guy who was kinda glaring at him. He felt uneasy receiving these glares. He smiled and took some steps to reach him. "Gray, I wish to have a good play." His reaction didn't change as he kept glaring at him and Lucas didn't know why?
"Is there something wrong with you?"
"What do you is there for me to be this angry? Did you forget what you did a year ago?" Gray said as the blonde kept staring at him. "Huh!"
"She said to you the reason behind me leaving?" that all was his answer.
"The problem is that she is not saying and trying to act super normal in front of everyone but what did you think would her reaction be when you left? How would she be happy after you left her one day and never came back?" Lucas's reaction didn't change at all as he kept staring at the black haired mage. When Lucas did that he thought that was for her own good and never imagined that something like that would actually hurt her. He moved his head to look at the pink haired girl to find that she was talking with Biska and her little girl Asuka. She was smiling happily together with them. She is fine. She is smiling like she used to before she meets him. She is playing with each other and is having fun. That's all was in Lucas's eyes and he didn't saw what was hidden. He smiled and looked back at the black haired guy.
"She is fine and that's what I want to know." He said as he started to walk away but before he takes another step Gray grabbed his arm preventing him from taking another step. Lucas looked right and left so he would make sure that no one realized what's happening. Gray let go of his hand as Lucas turned his body to look at him. "What?"
"You think she will be fine just when you only look at her like that?"
"I'm fine." Lucas spoke making Gray stop from what he was talking. "And since I'm fine… she should be fine too because that means that both of us overcame love." He left Gray hanging in his place as he walked away. From far away, Erza was watching the both mages trying to figure what was wrong with them and why was that verbal altercation for? She walked and stopped beside Gray to look at his face to see that nervous look he got on his eyes. There was something up for sure and she didn't know what was happening but both of them had something in common and that was Natsumi. Yes, that's right. Natsumi was the reason of his nervousness and was the reason of his coldness. Before she could speak anything to Gray, Mira started to talk catching everyone's attention.
"Ok, let's get started now."