Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy tail nor the song this fanfiction is based off of.

Summary:

Natsu and Lucy grew up together; Along with Gray and Erza. The two were closer than any of their friends and had been inseparable. Until Lucy and her family moved to Arbaless because of her fathers job at the age of 9.

Now, 8 years later, she returns to her old home and old school district hoping to regain her close friendship with Natsu and the others. But, instead of finding her cheerful and loving friends she remembered, she finds Natsu the leader of a feared gang across Fiore while Erza and Gray are his right hand men.

Will friendship be reborn or will love blossom instead?

Can she unravel the Natsu that is upon her now?

N/A: I got the Idea as I was listening to a English cover of the first Tokyo Ghoul opening "unravel" by Unknown Songbird; hence the story title. Therefore, expect Natsu to be very broken and hurt inside. Of course the shippings are Nalu and Gajevy Everywhere! Along with a the subtle suggestions of Gruvia, Jerza, Miraxus and as many others I can fit into this.

Please, NO LISANNA HATE!

I actually like her and I would not like you people bagging on her just because she could ruin the ship; I find it Petty, unreasonable and very annoying. I am sorry if that offended any of you.

But don't get me wrong, I don't really ship NaLi. Not saying it's bad I just... Can't do it.

Anywayyyyyy...

I hope you enjoy (≧∇≦)/

Chapter One: Welcome Back, Lucy Heartfilia

"Sorry," Lucy bowed, not looking at the figure in front of her. "I just thought he'd be here. I've been wanting to see him since I learned I was coming back."

"No worries, Lucy," A deep voice said to her and a hand reached out to pat her shoulder. "And stop the formalities. We're basically family." Lucy looks up with her signature simple smile as the man smiled back.

"Thanks Igneel." Lucy said to the red haired man. "But I really did want to see him." She sighed. "I'm surprised the slacker even comes outside."

"He's probably hanging around with Gray and Erza." Igneel said with a light tone but his face seemed to show disappointment. "They're still as close as ever. I'm... I'm sure you'll see them soon." Igneel looked at the blonde girl for a second, the two just looking at each other as he opened his mouth to speak again but closed it when he couldn't say anything.

"Well, thank you, Igneel." Lucy said, turning to get off his porch. "I'm sure I'll see him since we'll be going to the same school." Lucy turned and began to walk home, which was only a house down and across from the one she just was at. The same house she had when her childhood friend and her had been so close. The one she was looking for just moments ago: Natsu Dragneel.

Lucy had always been thinking about him and the others ever since she left seven years ago. She could never forget the kids she had grew up with and missed them very much, mainly because she didn't really fit in when she was in Arbaless. She wasn't very welcomed there and felt like an outcast, so when she found out she was coming back to her old playgrounds, she was excited; she could fit in with people once again.

"Lucy," Lucy looked up from the ground and saw a girl with silver hair cut short staring at her from the other side of the street. "Is that really you!?" She looked at Lucy like she was a ghost.

"Is that you, Lisanna?" Lucy asked since she did look a bit different. She was wearing a bit of eyeliner and had a nice shade of pink on her lips. She wasn't use to a Lisanna with make up; Lisanna was a tomboy as a child. "I see someone's been messing with mama Strauss' make up kit." Lisanna's shocked gaze became one of amusement.

"It really is you." Lisanna started for Lucy who was in the middle of the street. "Why are you here?" She made it to Lucy and the two embraced.

Lucy hadn't really remembered much about Lisanna except that she had been friends with Natsu since they were born. Back when Lucy and Natsu were close she saw Lisanna as her biggest threat and, secretly, so did Lisanna. Lucy made friends with Natsu when they were in first grade so Lucy always thought Lisanna would have the upper hand when it came to Natsu.

"I moved back." Lucy smiled big. "And I'm here for good." She took a good look at the silver haired girl. "Did you just come back from school?" Lisanna nodded as a reply, both still smiling at each other sweetly. "Cool. I'll be going to." Lisanna's expression changed to one of worry.

"To Magnolia High School?" Lisanna questioned. "Are you sure?" Lucy nodded, not reading the tense aura around the girl.

"Is that strange?" Lucy tilted her head in confusion, getting a forced smile from the girl.

"No, not at all." Lisanna said, turning around and walking from the girl. "I'll see you at school tomorrow." She waved as she walked away from the blonde. The blonde waved as well.

"Yea, see ya!" Lucy said, and started for her home. Once she got to the porch she turned to see the house in front of hers door shut: Lisanna's house. She had the strange feeling Lisanna wanted to tell her something but... She shook it off as her imagination. It still felt strange though, Lucy thought.

The school was on a large piece of land, the school spreading across most of it. As Lucy walked up the hill toward the school she took note of the well dressed students who walked alongside her; the school must be a pretty fancy place. She never remembered much about the high school students around her way, she just knew they were in high school.

"See, I told you!" Lucy was now at the entrance of the school and was about to go in until she heard as girl shout in her direction. "It's Lucy!" Lucy turned to see Lisanna speaking to a petite bluenette. Levy!

"Levy!?" Lucy shouted, now walking over to the small girl. "Omg! It's been forever!"

"It really is you!" Levy ran over to her and jumps into the blondes arms, the blonde hugging tightly back. "I've missed you so much!" Lucy and Levy didn't let the embrace go for a few more seconds until Levy let go and said "how've you been!?"

"So, so," Lucy smiled slightly. "Arbaless sucked." Lisanna joined them as the two walked into the school, getting a few looks from other students. "How about you?"

"It's been okay." Levy said in a nonchalant tone, frowning in the process. "Things have changed a lot." Lucy looked down at her in curiosity as the bluenette sighed.

"Oh, so you finally confessed to Gajeel?" Lucy asked just as nonchalantly as her friend and got a huge blush from the girl.

"N-no!" Levy punched Lucy in the shoulder. "That wasn't funny." And as she said that her face was serious. "We don't even speak to one another anymore. He's gotten into a lot of troubling stuff and, ever since, has been avoided me." Levy sighed a depressing sigh.

"But you still have that crush on him, don't you." Lucy said, catching onto the situation quick. Though Lucy had been gone for eight years she was partially happy that her friends still spoke to her like she had been there the whole time. "That's adorable Levy."

"Whatever." She still had a slight blush on her face as she looked away. "It's not like I can talk to him. I've tried to but he either walks away before I get close or he starts talking to another person." Levy looked up at the blonde who listened silently as she looked ahead. I wonder how you'll react when you see Natsu, Levy thought.

"Lucy," Lisanna suddenly spoke. "Do you know what class you're in this year?"

"Yea," Lucy nodded as another way of saying yes. "Room 3-B." Lisanna and Levy seemed to look at each other with concern. "Could you take me there. I don't know where I'm going." They stopped their looking and turned to Lucy, agreeing to lead the way.

They walked upstairs in silence, the bluenette and silver haired girl giving each other a worried look that the blonde couldn't see. Once they get the class, Lucy is the first to go in. "Welcome to Magnolia High School, Lucy Heartfilia." Levy and Lisanna said, Lisanna leaning on the door frame of the classroom and Levy slightly in the classroom.

"Oh shit, here they come." Suddenly whispers filled the halls of the second floor. Lisanna rolled her eyes, knowing exactly who was coming down the hall while Levy looked back in panic at the fact that Lucy was there. "They're always in packs."

Lisanna looks down the hall to see a pink haired boy, uniform baggy and a mess, as other thug like students followed. Behind him was a red haired girl with a strong glare and stance to match and beside her was a raven haired boy with his uniform shirt fully open so his bare chest was showing. Behind him was a tall and husky raven haired boy with piercings and next to him was a just as tall blonde with a bolt like scar along his eye. It was the strongest of the strongest guild in magnolia: Natsu, Gray, Erza, Gajeel and Laxus of Fairy tail.

Lisanna glared at the leading pinkette as he walked down the hall, students moving out of his way. Soon he was in Lucy's sight and Lucy moved forward to greet her long awaited friend.

She was so happy, so excited and so relieved to see her childhood friends were here. "Nat-" Levy moved in front of her step and covered her mouth, shaking her head. Lucy blinked at her small friend and Levy just edged her head to tell her to watch.

"If you want to fuck just say so." Natsu said as he stopped by Lisanna, smirking and eyeing her. Lisanna's glare became more narrow as she looked at the boy straight.

"As if I'd do anything with scum like you." Lisanna said, earning a chuckle from Natsu and the group following him. "Just get out of here." She commanded.

"Doesn't work like that." He said, walking over to the short haired girl. He leans in, getting close to her ear, and whispers "It's okay to say you want it. You did way back then." Lisanna put her hand up to slap him, Natsu dodging it by leaning back. He chuckles then continues his stroll, the others following and looking at Lisanna with a playfully evil smile. Soon they disappeared down the hall.

"I really hate him." She said, trying to convince herself of her own words. "He's just... scum."

"Was that really Natsu?" Lisanna finally snapped out of her anger when she heard Lucy. Lucy had a shocked and confused look plastered on her face, Levy looking at her with sad eyes.

"Yea," Levy said. She looks around the classroom, a few student looking at Lisanna and the others doing something else. "Look, Lucy, we'll talk about this later. Class is about to start and we need you to-" Lucy ran out the door, discarding Levy's talking and ran down the hall.

She ran after the group that was just basically bullying Lisanna, hoping she would find them and tell them how stupid they were.

She finally found them when she looked out a second floor window and saw the group, with a few others now, sitting around a bench in the backyard of the school. There they are, she thought and ran down the stairs towards them.

"You just love to play with that girl's emotions, huh?" A scarlet haired girl said to Natsu, who sat in the middle of the bench. The girl was Erza. Natsu's arms were stretched out on the top of the bench as he leaned lowly in the place he sat. Erza sat the the right of him, legs crossed and uniform skirt riding up.

"He does this to every girl anyway." A blonde with his hair pulled back said as he stood farther from the bench, arms crossed and looking out at the sky. He was none other than Laxus. "Does it really have anything to do with the girl?"

"Well, a little." A strong looking boy with long raven hair said from the spot on the ground he sat in, him looking at the pink haired boy. Gajeel was his name. "He's been friends with that chick for so long, so he's always going to fuck with her."

"So stupid," A blonde with spiky hair said, as he sat on a different bench and texted away. His name: Sting. He was texting his girlfriend, Yukino. Everyone knew that since that's what he mostly does on his phone. "You could just find yourself a nice little thing. Nearly every girl here wants a piece of you."

"Like that'll ever happen." The boy with raven hair cut to his nap said as he sat by Natsu, his chest and chest tattoo very visible. He was known as Gray. "He's still got the hots for his childhood crush." That statement made Natsu's eye twitch.

"Ohhhh, yeaaaa~" Gajeel said, leaning back a bit. "Bunny girl. The little one with the blonde hair." Erza and Gray looked at each other with wide grins, remembering the cute little blondie that use to always be by Natsu's side.

"They were like a young Bonnie and Clyde." A handsome young man, Loki was his name, said as he sat on the bench with Sting. "Man, how I miss her. I can't lie, I had the hots for her too." Natsu's eye twitched again, no one seeing his annoyance.

"She was pretty cute." Laxus joined, looking over his shoulder at Natsu.

"Gihi," Gajeel chuckled. "So, that's why Natsu doesn't claim a girl. He's waiting for his 'Bonnie'" Everyone nodded at Gajeel's comment, earning a 'mmhmm' from them as well.

"Natsu, it's okay to just say it," Erza said, patting her boss's shoulder.

"Yea, man," Now Gray put a hand on his shoulder. "She might just come ba-."

"Would you guys just shut up!?" Natsu bursted out, anger now easy to see. Everyone looked at him amused, knowing that he obviously just showed them he still had lingering feelings for the girl. Natsu usually doesn't let something this simple get him angry; but it's not like he doesn't do this any other time they speak of Lucy. Which isn't very much but it does happen once in a blue moon.

"I told you once, I told you twice," his voice was laced with anger. "Lucy isn't coming back! She's gone. She's living her life and let me live mine! I have more important things to do than to think about girl and feelings and crushes. Unlike you guys I don't care for dumb shit like that!"

He leans his head back, now facing the school, as he continues speaking. "Even if she came back would she even like me if she saw me now?" Erza and Gray frowned; they felt the same way. All three of them knew she wouldn't accept them if she saw them now. Like all the others did... She would reject them.

"I won't admit it." Natsu began to open his eyes slowly. "I won't admit that I like-" his eyes fully open, looking at what was ahead of him, and blinked in confusion as a blonde with big brown eyes walked towards them. She really looks like Lucy, he thought as the figure got closer. He narrowed his eyes to get a better look at her. Wait, that is- "Lucy!?"

Now the girl gained a lot of shocked looks as the people around him turned and was met with her big brown eyes. They were shocked. There she was, still with her sweet smile and long blonde hair. Lucy Heartfilia. The girl who left them eight years ago was walking towards them as if nothing had ever changed.

"L-lucy!?" Gray stood up first, walking towards the girl, Lucy smiling at him. "Whoa, is this for real?" Lucy stopped in front of Gray, feet away.

"Yo guys," she changed tones quick when Erza stood up as well, Natsu still looking at her with head leaning back on the bench. "What happened to you guys?" Something hit them in the heart as she asked that question.

"Lucy, things change." Erza was the first to start.

"What do you mean change?" She cocked her head to the side. "You guys acted like asses to Lisanna and everyone seemed scared of you. Is that what you mean."

"Well, yea," Gajeel butt in, putting whatever long speech Erza was about to speak to rest. "This isn't grade school anymore. It's high school."

"Lucy, We aren't people others like to hang around. They don't like us." Gray said. Lucy blinked a few times at them all, feeling a awkward and tense vibe. "It'd be best if you'd stay away from us. Not like you want to."

"Let me cut to the chase." Natsu finally spoke, getting up and looking at Lucy now. "You ever heard of Fairy tail, Luce?" Lucy heard a bit about Fairy tail back in Arbaless but she didn't think much into the group. Well, the gang. "I guess not." Natsu took her silence as a no. "Well that's us. The most feared gang in Fiore." Natsu gave Lucy a stern look, Lucy feeling like she wasn't looking at her childhood friend anymore.

"And if you don't want to get hurt then leave us alone." Everyone looked at Natsu in shock, surprised that he was saying that to his (though he denies it) precious Lucy.

"Stay away from us, Lucy Heartfilia."

End Chapter 1

A/N: So, I tried. I've always wanted to write a NaLu Fanfiction and it's no time like the present, right?

For those who watch the anime, later on in the series, after the Tartaros arc., you'll be hearing about Arbaless. It's a sea away from Fiore and, if you look on a Earthland Map, is usually covered by clouds. I read the Manga and I'm on that part now. （＾ω＾）

Okay, tell me what you think. I think next chapter I'm gonna make it more serious and let you guys see the badass Fairy Tail Gang members instead of them joking around with each other. I started the story off sweet and that was not my intentions.

There are more gang members but you'll see them later. Oh, and, as you'll hear in later chapters, Rogue doesn't go to the school. He's gonna make his appearance though.

I really don't have much confidence in my writing ╮(─▽─)╭ But I love to write and have so many story ideas so just bare with me, Kay?

Please review and follow this story if you liked it. （＾ｖ＾）

Hope you liked.