Have I been away for a while or what? Did anybody miss me?
C'mon don't be shy, just tell me if you did.
Alright, enough joking. Let's just say that school screwed me over big time and in addition to my recent discovery of artistic talent,I didn't have any time to write.
BUT, now I am free and I have created…
THIS
So please, enjoy
When Natsu's eyes slid out of focus Macao figured it was about time to give up. He knew it was pointless.
When Makarov had assigned him as Natsu's teacher in an attempt to control the child's wild fire magic he had pointedly refused but it was useless. After all, who could go against the master's word?
It wasn't as if he had anything against the kid. Heck no, he loved him like a son and thatwas the problem. Macao had no experience dealing with children, much less one that had magic on par with that of experienced mages.
The whole experience was probably going to be extremely difficult.
And he was right. Though not in the way he expected.
The situation wasn't difficult as in awkward, it was difficult as in difficult. Trying to get Natsu to keep still and pay attention was torture.
This was the fifth such lesson he'd had with Natsu, and at this point there were two things he was sure of.
Natsu was a terrible student and that….there was something strange about his magic.
In all his years of dealing with magic, Macao was absolutely certain that in order to user caster magic some amount of movement was needed. Usually it was the arms but regardless, movement was required by a mage in order to channel the magic through their bodies.
Sure there were some exceptions but with fire magic you had to move.
Natsu would just me sitting there and then suddenly, he's on fire.
No warning or anything. Macao'd be explaining fire control and then poof, flames. It honestly had made him scream the first few times but now it was normal.
Which is why when he did it right now Macao wasn't surprised.
He snapped his fingers in front of Natsu's face, "Oi! Natsu! You paying attention?"
The boy's eyes slowly refocused and the flames died," No. Can I go now? I'm bored."
Well at least he was honest.
"No you can't leave yet. It's boring but you've got work to do."
"Can we do it tomorrow? I promise i'll do it tomorrow."
Macao rolled his eyes," Nice try kiddo but the answer is still no. Now watch what I do and try to copy it."
Natsu grumbled a few curses and complied with his wishes, concentrating flames at the tips of his fingers.
"Now the key thing here is to slowly gather all the fire into the palm of your hand, making a little ball. This is harder than it looks so I want you to- aaaaand he's gone again."
Macao hissed in frustration as his student once again lost focus and became engulfed in his own flames. Natsu's eyes had completely glazed over.
He repeated the earlier process, bringing the boy back to the real world and was met with the same response.
"You can't go Natsu," he repeated," Not until you can do this." Macao gestured to the floating orb in his hand.
A whiny tone started creeping into Natsu's voice, " But tomorrow we can-" "No, not tomorrow, today."
He placed extra emphasis on the final word, hoping to get his point across but to no avail.
Natsu irritably tapped his foot on the floor, " Well can I eat something? I'm starvin' "
"Yeah sure. I got some jewels on me, what do you-"
His question was cut off when Natsu sharply grabbed his wrist.
"What….are you doing?"
Natsu inspected the ball of purple flames, sniffing it.
He licked his lips, smiling, " This'll do." and plucked the flames out of his hand, shoving the whole thing in his mouth.
Pure shock could only be seen on Macao's face as the boy released him, rubbing his stomach with a look of contentment. Natsu burped up a few wisps of smoke and shifted his focus back to his teacher.
"That was good. So what are we supposed to be doing again?…..Uh, Macao? Are you in there?"
He waved his hand in front of his face, trying to get a reaction. Nothing, the same shocked expression was stuck on Macao's face.
"And he says I never pay attention…" Natsu shrugged and started to walk away. It was obvious that this was going nowhere.
"See you tomorrow when you aren't being so weird."
The boy stopped in his tracks and turned back, "Oh and by the way, your flames taste a little spicy. Thought you should know."
"Ah Macao! How goes the lesson with Natsu? Is he showing any improvement?"
The master's warm greeting was lost on the man, who plopped down at the table. His face was a mask devoid of emotion as he pulled a mug of beer to him.
"Macao are you alright?"
No response, unless the rapid consumption of his beverage could be counted as one.
He banged the empty cup on the tabletop and spoke a single shaky sentence, "that kid isn't using normal fire magic."
So that's that!
To be honest, I always think about the guild discovering natsu's many quirks (specifically his magic)
And really I just took the opportunity to write a Natsu/Macao brotp
Hell there might be more random Natsu brotps in the future if I actually feel up to it.