"You're not fooling anyone natsu we both know that you're not doing fine just talk to me natsu and maybe i can help you get over the pain of losing your father if you just let me help you"she said as she stared at Natsu and waited for a response it was a long time before Natsu stood up from the spot he was sitting in and looked at Lucy and he said

"I am going to the forest for a little while to clear my head and think things over" as he said that he helped lucy stand up and then he turned away from her and walked in the direction of the forest, lucy stood there in shock for a few moments before she was brought out of her thoughts by the master yelling and he was saying

"After him bring Natsu back home" he was telling the other guild mates to go after him she stood there for another few moments before she yelled to the other wizards and she said

"Stop just leave him alone he needs to be left alone for right to think over of what just happened and to clear his head and to grieve over the loss of his father" that made every wizard stop in their tracks and turn to look at her as if she was crazy but she just glared at them Ezra was the first one to speak out of the group and she walked right up to Lucy and she asked

"Are you sure about this Lucy I don't think it's a good idea for him to be left alone right now" she said with sadness in her voice as she looked at Lucy and lucy glanced back at the group before sighing and then she spoke and she said

"No it's not a good idea but for now that's all we can do for him just leave him alone for as long as he wants and nobody is to follow him wherever he goes am I clear" she glared at the group and everyone nodded in understanding and turned and left to go back to the guild Hall and wait for their dragon slayers to come back to normal.

Somewhere deep in the forest

Natsu was walking through the forest thinking about what he would do now that his father was gone for good and that he would never get to talk to him again. While he thought of that tears formed in his eyes as he thought about the good times he had with his father and then a flashback came to his mind

Flashback

It was sunny day somewhere up in the mountains and a little boy with pink hair was doing some training with his dad. The little boy blew a small funnel of fire towards a mountain and then he turned towards his dad and he said

"What did you think dad am i getting good at breathing my fire" he said in a cheerful tone as he looked at his dad and waited for a response and his dad said

" You call that breathing fire you couldn't cook anything with that" he said with a chuckle after he said that as he looked at his son who started to pout and he said

" Fine lets see you do it then" he said as he looked at his father waiting for him to do it his father looked at him for a few moments before agreeing and then he said

"Fire dragon roar" as he said the attack a huge funnel of fire came from his mouth and destroyed a mountain on the other side and then he turned back to natsu and he said

"How was that son for an attack" he said in a happy tone towards his son natsu said

"That was awesome dad you're always the best at that attack

End of flashback

Natsu continued to walk forwards until he came to a clearing in the forest and he looked around for sometime and he thought to himself Guess this is going to be my new home for a while as he looked around and he found a old tree trunk with a hole big enough for a person to sleep in. so he decide that was where he was going to sleep for the time being as he crawled into the tree trunk and got comfy before thinking about his father and then he fell into a deep sleep,

It's been 3 days since Natsu and the other dragon slayers had to say goodbye to their parents the guild was quiet no fights were going on everyone was quiet Lucy still wouldn't let anyone see Natsu and every time they would ask to see him she would glare at them and tell them no not right now just leave him alone. Finally everyone had given up on asking her not wanting to make her mad but one faithful day the master went up to her and he said

"Lucy why won't you let anyone see natsu" she glared at the old man before she spoke and she said

"The reason is because he need to be left alone for right now and to come to terms of what happened to his father and he doesn't need people pestering him about it right now" she said in glareful tone as she looked towards her master before he spoke and he said

"Sounds like you know what to say from personal experience" he said as he looked at her waiting for a response she sighed and then she spoke

"When my mother died I acted the way Natsu is acting right now just leave him be and he will turn back to normal hopefully" she said as she turned and walked towards the bar to get a milkshake from Mira as she approached the bar and sat on a stool she looked at Mira and said

" Mira may i please get a strawberry milkshake please" mira nodded and then handed her a shake before turning around to tend to other customers not bothering bringing up Natsu not wanting to make her mad about asking about him.

It has now been a week since the dragon slayers had to say their goodbyes and they weren't doing good at all Gajeel only sits up on the guild's rooftop eating scraps of metal and wendy locked herself in her bed room at her house not wanting to talk to anyone for the time being not even the exceeds could get them to talk.

It has been more than a week and Lucy walked into the guild and grabbed the exceeds except for happy and he walked towards the stairs that lead to the guilds rooftop and then she turned towards lily and she said go to him and sit with him and don't say a word let him talk on his own time when he ready to start talking. Lily nodded in agreement and then he walked upstairs towards Gajeel once he was on the rooftop he walked towards where Gajeel was sitting and sat next him not saying a word and waited for him to start talking to him. Once that was taken care of Lucy and Carla walked out of the guild and towards Wendy's house Once they were outside her house she looked at Carla and she said

" Go to her and sit outside her door and don't say a word just wait for her to come to the door and let you in and once you're in just sit by her and let her do the talking if she wants to". She said as she looked at Carla who nodded in agreement and took off to the front door. Once Lucy knew for sure carla was gone she turned around and started to walk back towards the forest to go talk to she arrived to the entrance of the forest she took a deep breath and started the journey towards the spot where Natsu was. It took five minutes for her to reach the spot where he was sitting once she arrived she saw a very sad sight Natsu was sitting with his back against tree log and his knees were drawn up against his chest and his head hanged in between his knees hiding it from view for who ever saw him. She stood there in shock for a few moments before she walked towards him and stood right next him and didn't say a word to him and waited for him to start talking to her. It was a long time before Natsu finally looked up from his current position and when he finally did he saw lucy standing next to him he was in shock at first but then he began to speak and he said

"Lucy what you doing here I thought I was alone out here how did you know where to find me" he asked in a hushed tone it broke Lucy's heart to hear him so heart broken but she pushed those thoughts away and she said

" I am here to comfort you and to talk to you about your father I am here for you Natsu whatever you wanna do now just let me help you I will be by your side no matter what" after she said that Natsu broke down crying and she knelt down next to him and held him as he cried. It was good fifteen minutes before Natsu finally stopped crying and now was looking at Lucy for a long few moments before he spoke and he said

" I don't know what I am going to do without him lucy he was the only father I ever had Maybe I might go on a training mission for a year to get away from everything" he said in a clear tone for lucy to hear who had a look of agreement on her face it was silent again before either one of them spoke and then Lucy broke the silence between them and she said

"Whatever you wanna do Natsu is fine with Me I told you I will go where ever you decide to go no matter what but why don't me and you go back to the guild and we can continue talking about it then just me and you to see what you wanna do from here" she said as she stood up from her spot on the ground next to Natsu and reached out her hand towards Natsu who took it without hesitation and then he said

"OK we can go back to the guild for now and then we can discuss what will happen next" he said in happy tone as they started walking back to the guild. It took five minutes for them to reach the guild once they were there they stood outside the doors and then Lucy looked at Natsu and nodded at him and then they walked in Everyone looked to see who came into the guild