"Arigatou Mina" My first ever fanfic. Hope you enjoy.

(Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or the artwork placed as the cover, Hiro Mashima does)

The One I Least Expected

It was a quiet day at the University. Who would have thought that he would be missed? Fairy Tail University housed the brightest people in the land, and the best football team. The Fairy Tail football team had won the Fiore High School Football Championship five years ago. The team was composed of the best players of Magnolia: Natsu Dragneel, the quarterback; Grey Fullbuster, Gajeel Redfox and Jelal Fernandez the wide receivers; Elfman Strauss, the linebacker and Jet, the runner. Natsu was alone in the gym, trying to forget the accident that had happened when they won the Championship …

-Flashback-

It was the finals of the Championship, Fairy Tail vs. Lamia Scale, and the winner would be crowned champion for the next five years. It was a fierce game, both teams where good, but "The Fairies" had a trick up their sleeve, they would have Gajeel score the touchdown. All they had to do was wait for Natsu to make a change in the play. In the last quarter Natsu gave the order: "Silver 33 Long", signaling Gajeel to get ready. After some tense moments, the game started and Gajeel made a run for it. While everyone tried to keep the opposing team from Natsu, he threw the ball and the stadium was filled with silence. There was no one to receive the ball, but then, out of nowhere came Gajeel, caught the ball and sprinted for the touchdown. Thirty seconds on the timer and, he scores!

The crowd went mad. Natsu does his usual grin and runs to the bleachers to hug his girlfriend, only to find her missing. His mood gets killed, "Where could she be?" he asks, then someone sais "I saw her going to the locker room." "What the hell is she doing there?!" "Natsu! Wait!" screamed Laxus, the team coach, "Don't go there!" "WHY NOT!?" Natsu snapped back, but before he could answer the boy was gone. When he arrives at the locker room, he hears some strange noises, though he dismisses them thinking it was Grey making out with Juvia, but gets shocked when he finds out that it was really his girlfriend kissing passionately one of Lamia Scale's players, Leon Bastia. He is speechless, "What the hell?" he screams so loud that the two stop kissing only to find Natsu standing in front of them, with tears in his eyes, how his girlfriend was kissing some other guy and letting him feel her. Lisanna was now trying to speak to her boyfriend, but he had stormed out of the locker room. On his way out, he met with his teammates and friends, but just ignored them. He needed space to think, to get the image of his girlfriend cheating on him. Cheating on him, cheating, on, him. He was cursing loudly as he ignored his friends, making them get worried, they knew that when he cursed he was really mad. But before they managed to ask him what had happened, Lisanna walks out of the locker room, running after the pink haired boy. Laxus, who was watching all of this unfold, told the rest of the team not to disturb the couple.

When Lisanna catches up to the pinkette, she grabs him by the arm, but he, with a powerful tug releases her grip on him. She then holds him by the shoulders and turns him around, facing her. In this instant she notices that he is crying, and sais: "Natsu… I-im- im sorry, I never meant to hurt you and…" but she was cut off by him when he screams: "Didn't mean to hurt me!" While tears where running down his cheeks "I loved you, YOU! … But you showed me that my love was only in vain. You NEVER loved me!" She was now crying heavily and trying to apologize, but he interrupted her "Our relationship is over! Hope that Leon can give you what I couldn't." But before she could say something else, he had stormed off, walking to his house. Then she realized while sobbing: "What have I done? I've hurt the only person that made me feel warm and special, and now he's gone." Laxus was a bit farther away, but heard the conversation between the two, feeling sad for him, he then told Lisanna to avoid contact with Natsu, to avoid any problems at the high school, to which she only nodded, still sobbing.

Hours later, his teammates found out about what had happened and didn't know what to do. Laxus had said that he needed space and time to be able to continue, but Jelal knew better. He made up his mind and went to talk to Natsu, only to find him collapsed on his dorm room floor, crying and sobbing silently. He sat on the bed and asked him about the incident. After a few hour of crying he told the team captain that he would help him with whatever he needed. To what the boy on the floor told him to destroy the pictures of his ex-girlfriend, to which Jelal agreed doing what he was told.

End of Flashback

Normal POV

He started sobbing softly while those memories invaded his mind. But when he heard the gym doors open, he stopped sobbing and wiped the tears that threatened to get out of his eyes. To his surprise, it was Laxus, who said: "What'cha doing here this late in the night?" but the boy didn't respond. "It's about her, isn't it? To which the boy stopped his workout and his eyes, swelled from tears he was just about to shed, he stared at his coach and friend, but didn't utter a single word. The boy then exploded: "Why did she do that to me? Why?" He started to cry again but didn't stop because the coach was like a father to him and he knew that he was the only one that had seen him cry beside Jelal. "Why can't I just forget her!?" To which the coach said: "Because your feelings for her where real, but her feelings were not and you are a very loyal person. Sorry pal, I know that you'll find someone special, and you know that I'll help you with what you need." "Thanks coach, I really appreciate it." Laxus then grabbed Natsu by his shoulder and said: "Come now, let's get something to eat" but the boy said "Nah, better get to my room, its late." The man looked at his watch and saw that in fact it was three thirty in the morning, to which he said "Wow it's really late, better get going before the guards catch you out of the dorms" The boy simply nodded and left for his room. He climbed up through the window he had left open and went to sleep after taking a bath.

Six years had passed since the accident. Fairy Tail University had new students, like Natsu's little sister Wendy Marvel and a few other students. But what Natsu didn't know is that one of these new students would grab a hold of his heart and take him on a journey that would heal him and help him forget her.

It was the first day, and he arrived to the University with his little sister, he walked her to her classroom and gave her some money for her to buy herself some lunch at the cafeteria. She hugged him and said "Thanks Natsu-nii" "No prob." He answered and left her in the class so she can meet her classmates.

Lucy POV

When we arrived to the classroom, a guy walked in front of us presented himself to us: "Hi, my name is Natsu Dragneel. I am the male student body president. What's your name?" "My name is Lucy Heartfillia, and her name is Levy McGarden." I said gesturing to my blue haired friend. "Nice to meet you." He stared at Lucy's eyes. He thought that he could get lost in them, but his thought was cut short thanks to Grey, who threw his notebook at him and said: "Oii, aren't you going to present the new girls to the class?" "Want a piece of me Ice Queen?!" "Yeah, bring it on Charcoal Brain!" What the hell just happened? I thought, but was interrupted by Loke who said: "Hey babe, what do you say to me and you, dinner, at eight?" I just snapped and said: "No, not interested" He was shocked; no girl had ever rejected him. He left me alone and went to his chair, looking gloomy. Class went slow for everyone. I got to sit next to Natsu. 'He's nice, good looking and sex… What the hell Lucy, stop thinking about him'. Before class ended, he looked at me and said: "Want to join me for lunch?" he said while grinning. I had a blush as pink as Natsu's hair and said: "S-sure…" 'OMG OMG I just met him and he is already asking me out for lunch! The hot guy next to me is asking m… shit Lucy, stop thinking about him'. I thought to myself as I was being dragged to the cafeteria. From the other side of the classroom, Grey watched as the scene unfolded in front of him and whispered: "You finally found someone that makes you happy again, hope you don't screw it." Once there I was surprised about what I saw. "Over here Natsu" some girls called us. We walked towards the table they were seated and I got presented to them by Natsu. "Hi mina, this is Lucy, she's the new girl." Erza, Mira, Grey, Jelal, Elfman and Jet said in unison. "Hey Luce, where's your friend Levy?" The pinkette inquired. "It's Lucy, not Luce, and I wish I knew…"I answered. A few moments later, Gajeel appeared while holding someone. "Yo Flame brain, found Shrimp here lost on the farther part of the campus, you know, the dangerous part and decided to bring her here." "Let me go, and I'm not a shrimp!" Said Levy, tired of being treated like a sack of potatoes. "Damn-it shrimp! Stop kicking me!"

Wendy then appeared with Juvia, who then went to sit next to her boyfriend, Grey. Wendy looked at Gajeel with a murderous look and he quickly understood his cousin, because he placed Levy on the floor gently and started to sweat heavily. The girl in question said thanks, but got scared by Wendy's look. Wendy stood as tall as possible and yanked one of Gajeel's ears and whispered something to him. He then went to Levy and apologized, still very nervous. After that, he left, cursing and mumbling something about big words, small mouth. There was an unusual quiet in the table until: "So, where are you two from?" Mira piped up while trying to start a conversation. "Well…" But got interrupted by Natsu, who said: "Sorry guys, but I have to go." His friends said their goodbyes, but he then looked at Lucy and waved at her. This made the blonde look away, while waving, and blushing lightly. She noticed that he had a sad look on his face and asked when he was out of her sight: "Why is he so sad?" but nobody replied. After some minutes of silence, Juvia said: "Juvia thought that Lucy knew… since Natsu is so nice with you." "What does that mean? You mean he's not this nice to other people?" the blonde nearly screamed, but Gajeel appeared from behind her and said: "It's complicated" I pouted, and then said: "Oh…" Wendy then stood up and told Erza to follow her. She grabbed my wrist and told me to follow her. 'What the hell did I do?' I thought but was interrupted by Natsu's sister who said: "Lucy, my brother… h-he has a dark past. H-h-he was hurt." I was dumbfound. I didn't know what to think. 'What happened to him to make him so sad?… Who hurt him?.. Who would do such a horrible thing?' Erza then said: "Look, It started six years ago…"

Till next time! ;D