Hey guys! The title sucks because I suck at coming up with title's okay!
Just a quick AN to beg you all to please be gentle with me! This is not my first fanfic, but it is my first FT fanfic. I've read some of the manga (hey it's expensive and there are A LOT of volumes, I'll get there eventually!), and watched all the anime up to the last dubbed episode. I'm not as familiar with it as I am with the other shows I fic for, but I thought I'd give it a try! This or rather the characters are based more off the anime than the manga but I've found myself using Juvia's third person speech. This is set before Sun Village!
I've tried my best to capture the characters here, but I'm aware I probably don't know them or the show as well as most of you, I just had SUCH a head canon about Natsu and Juvia becoming friends and working together because I figure they could team up quite well, and certain people being jealous *wink wink* and I always feel for Natsu when the others get angry about him destroying things...put the two together and here we go! I just really fancied some NaVia BROTP okay.
That being said, this IS a NaLu and a GruVia fic, it will get to that pretty soon! But there's gonna be a lot of NaVia Brotp-ing along with it. Hope you guys like it, and remember I'm fragile so please don't break me if this isn't 100% perfect! I do not have a beta read either so if there are any mistakes it's all my own fault, although if Natsu's name is "Ants" that's my Mac's autocorrect...i think I caught them all! But then it is 2am and I'm barely awake so we'll see. Second chapter is all typed out and ready to go depending on reaction to this! Sorry this was long, on with the fic...
Natsu stood surveying his work, ruined buildings, piles of rubble and the still burning fires here or there, a backdrop behind him.
"Alright, we did it!" he cheered, slapping palms with Happy
"Aye sir!" the blue cat responded.
Natsu laughed, on a high from another successful mission. "Well guys, I'd call that a job well done!" he grinned. Silence greeted him. "Guys?" he frowned at the silence, slowly turning to the place he knew they stood, not far behind him. He sweat dropped at the look his companions where giving him. Erza, Gray and Lucy didn't appear to agree with his assessment if their fearsome expressions where anything to go by, it actually seemed like they wanted to strangle him. And that was being nice.
"uuuhhhh…." he laughed nervously, "we got the bad guys….that's good right?", Erza managed to glower even more than she already was. Natsu gulped.
"You" Erza hissed, "destroyed the ENTIRE VILLAGE NATSU" she bellowed. "All of our reward will have to go to paying for the damages, we essentially just did this job for free"
"Nice going flame-brain, why do you have to destroy every thing you damn touch?!" Gray snarled.
"I didn't mean to you guys, I just wanted to-"
"I don't care what you wanted to do Natsu, every single job you cause some kind of huge damage and it's not good for the team or the guilds reputation. We work hard for nothing because you have a tendency to be a bit too destructive" Erza said tiredly.
Natsu's throat constricted, he turned to his best friend, the person who'd understand he didn't mean to destroy things. Would understand he hadn't done it on purpose. Would be on his side. But when he saw her face his heart clenched. She'd never looked quite so disappointed in him. She wasn't even angry, just…disappointed. That's what hurt him the most.
"I needed that money for rent Natsu. It's due in a few days, it takes twice as many jobs as it should to just pay that, let alone pay for other expenses. It's exhausting Natsu."
She wouldn't look him in the eye the entire time she spoke, she just looked at the ground. Natsu swallowed the lump in his throat. They'd never been this angry before, he'd thought they understood he couldn't help it, it was just his magic but….it was clear they didn't. As he looked at each of them in turn, taking the expressions he felt his heart drop. If it wasn't for him, they wouldn't have to take so many jobs, they'd have more free time, Lucy could spend more time writing her novel. They wouldn't be as tired, as stressed. He was doing that to them. Natsu wasn't sure how to respond to them, what to say. He couldn't just pull out his usual grin and carefree attitude, it wasn't going to work this time.
"Let's head to the train and go home, okay?" Erza muttered. Gray and Lucy agreed and gathered their stuff from where they'd dropped it as the fighting had started, the job wasn't that far from Magnolia, about an hour by train, they had planned on camping just for fun once completing the job, rather than returning straight to the guild.
"But..I thought we where gonna camp!"
"What, and use the homes you set on fire as a bonfire? Don't be such an idiot." Gray growled.
"But-"
"No Natsu. We should leave immediately. Besides, no-one appears to be in the mood to camp, we can be back at the guild before dinner" Erza said with finality.
His shoulders sagged and a few seconds later he felt Happy settle on to his head, trying to comfort him. He'd ruined everything, and he'd never seen the others this angry at him this…disappointed. He was just a huge disappointment to them, he realised. He may be a strong wizard, he may save them when they need it, help them when they need it, take care of them but he'd always be a disappointment to them because he'd always do this. He didn't mean any harm, he really didn't, and he'd thought they'd known that because they where his family but he was wrong.
"I'm just gonna walk back, it's not that far and I don't feel like getting all sick on the train, I still don't feel great from the ride here. I'll see you guys back at the guild" Natsu mumbled as he shouldered his pack and started to walk away. The one member of the team who'd stayed silent up until this point started to follow him, a white exceed at her heels. A white exceed who'd been strangely quiet up until this point, and when Natsu glanced at her out of the corner of his eye he actually saw sympathy on her face. Things must be bad if even Carla feels sorry for me. He thought.
"Natsu I can go with-" Wendy started before Natsu cut her off.
"It's okay Wendy. You get the train with the others, I'll be fine" he said gently.
Wendy looked at him worriedly, opened her mouth to say something, closed it and then opened it again, "Be careful Natsu, okay?" She gave him a quick hug before running over to catch up with the others. The others who'd just turned and walked away without even acknowledging what he said.
Dejectedly Natsu started walking on the path to home. He could control his magic, he could. It wasn't his fault targets moved. It wasn't his fault he got thrown in to things. What did they want him to do about it?! Not use his magic? If he weakened his magic somehow, or used it less he wouldn't be himself. It would take away who he was. What he was. He'd be useless to them if he did that. He wouldn't do that. If they where really his family, they should accept him for who he is. They should know he doesn't do it on purpose and they shouldn't keep getting angry at him. After all, Erza is plenty destructive, so's Gray. It's not just him. It's just him more than it is other people. Happy was silent, but Natsu could feel his worry from the place the exceed was occupying on his head. Thankfully Happy didn't try and talk to him, Natsu didn't know if he could handle talking to the exceed right now. He felt all choked up and unlike himself.
By the time Natsu and Happy made it back to Magnolia it was dark and Natsu had decided to just go straight home. He'd go home, sleep on everything, apologise to everyone in the morning and try and fix things with them. Then everything would be okay and would go back to normal, no-one would be angrier at him than usual and most importantly…no-one would be disappointed in him. Everything would be fine in the morning. He kept repeating that last part to himself like a mantra as he and Happy walked back to their home and got ready for bed. He found it harder than usual to get to sleep.