BlackLynx17: CHARACTERS! LIST! This includes people who have been in the story and those who aren't yet in it, but will be. I'll only be posting these in this chapter, but if I add more characters I'll be sure to repost this.

Lucy - Luffy

Natsu - Natsume

Gray - Gracy

Erza - Edan

Levy - Levin

Droy - Dori

Jet - Jen

Gazille - Gelsey

Juvia - Julius

Wendy - Wendell

Cana - Cale

Happy - Harmony

Charlie - Charle

PantherLily - Primrose

Master Marvok - Master Madeline

Laxus - Larah

Freed - Faith

Evergreen - Elrick

Bickslow - Bailee

Mirajane - Macklind

Lisanna - Laurence

Elfman - Elflady (Only because saying like a lady sounds better and makes more sense than like a woman.)

And there you have it, quite a list. You never really notice it, but Fairy Tail has a lot of characters to it. Anyways, thanks for your positive reviews for this story. It's my NaLu comeback and I don't know quite how I feel compared to the Mendy's I've been writing. I think I lost my mojo, hopefully this will bring it back. Enjoy! And please, whatever you do, review.

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Opposites

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Chapter 2

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"Mira! Do you have any good missions for us to go on? Everything on the board seems too easy!"

"What are you talking about Natsu? I can see a handful of missions we wouldn't be able to handle without the full Team Natsu!"

"Hmm, now that you mention it we just received a new mission this morning. Apparently it's so simple that the other guilds have been passing it up."

"Perfect, we'll take that one."

"Mirajane! I asked for a hard mission! Not an easy one!"

"But isn't that curious? This mission is all about finding a certain artifact in a distant land and returning it to the owner. If everyone is refusing the mission though, there must be something else to it right? Or else who would refuse easy money?"

"I like the way you think Mira! We'll take it!"

"Pst, Mira? You were only lying before right to make Natsu take this?"

"Hehehe, who knows Lucy? Good luck on your mission though! I'll be sure to send Erza and Gray after you two once they return, I'm sure you'll need their manpower as well."

"MIRAJANE!"

"What are you waiting for Lucy?! Let's go!"


No amount of money was worth this. No amount. Luffy walked sluggishly, dragging his feet with his back hunched, glaring at the road that seemed to stretch on forever in front of him. Edan and Gracy were in the lead, covering the front of their client, while Luffy was (horribly) stuck in the back with her stalker and she clung to him like a koala might cling to its mother's back or how a person might cling for their dear life onto a ledge.

Luffy liked that second one better. Natsume being the person and Luffy being the ledge on a mountain... wait that wasn't right. Luffy wouldn't want Natsume to let go and fall to her death, she didn't hate the girl that much. As a matter of fact, he didn't hate the girl at all. Then why was he thinking of her like this? Luffy wondered looking down at Natsume. There he saw her rubbing her face in his arm and taking deep sniffs.

Oh, that was why.

Luffy sighed as he kept up his bad mood and traveled with the rest of his friends. It was surprisingly a quiet mission. With Natsume busy loving up on Luffy, Luffy wanting the girl to stop and Harmony resting easily on Luffy's head, Edan and Gracy just a had nice chat with their client and looked out for any suspicious characters on the road. For the first half of their journey things were going good for them. They were making extremely well progress for their random team and should make it to the village before the sun even sat. With such great progress, Edan declared a break time, or in his case, a cake time.

Luffy sighed out in relief, finding himself rather tired, and laid down on the ground. Finally Natsume left his side and left him alone as she dug out her lunch from her bag and started chowing down on it, sharing with her partner Harmony of course. Edan enjoyed his cake with a smile on his face while the client tried flirting with Gracy with no such luck. That girl was as cold as ice when it came to men she didn't like, and though she didn't mind the client, she didn't mind him enough to encourage his behavior.

Luffy opened his eyes briefly and pulled out his Celestial Spirit keys. He looked at each key, making sure he hadn't lost any of them, and realized how easy this job was actually. They had been traveling for a while now and there hasn't been a single ambush, they were almost at the village too! There was always a downside though. Luffy knew Natsume was going to be sad that she didn't get to fight any bandits and would most definitely demand to spend the night over to cheer her up.

Luffy didn't get why she was such a tomboy. So what is she was raised in the forest by a dragon teaching her the secret art of dragon slaying... alright Luffy could understand. It didn't mean she got why Natsume loved fighting and burning things though. Luffy thought that he should be acting more like her, fighting and eating crazy, while she should be acting more like him, calm and reserved. It was strange how their roles were reversed.

"Hey Luffy, I saved you some meat!" Natsume called.

Luffy moved his keys from view so he could see her and sure enough, Natsume was holding out a piece of meat with several bites taken out of it for him and smiling. He had to admit to himself, Natsume was beautiful. Those dark yet sparkling charcoal eyes, that imitating yet cheerful smirk, that wild and gorgeous salmon hair. And as much as he'd hate to admit it, she had a body also. She was kind, bright, funny, would do anything for her friends. She was someone Luffy respected and looked up to in some way, but Luffy couldn't just cross that line betw-

All of a sudden an arrow came flying out of nowhere and into Natsume's meat.

"What the?" Natsume asked pulling the arrow out.

She lit it on fire then rose to her feet, "now who the hell did this?!" She roared.

Luffy rose to his feet too and held out his keys, searching in the forest surrounding them for danger.

"Keep on your guards everyone, I think they might have us surrounded. Luffy and Natsume, stay behind to protect our client. Gracy and I will-" Before Edan could finish his sentence the bandits came jumping out of the trees and attacked them.

Their client screamed and hit under his cart full of merchandise while the Fairy Tail mages did their job to protect him. There was a total of ten of them, clearly they had underestimated the mages. Edan summoned out two of his swords and knocked out half of the group before Gracy couldn't even put her fist on her hand while Natsume had fire roared the other half before Luffy could summon out a celestial spirit.

The mages started laughing, wishing there was more of a challenge while Luffy looked over the bandits. They all laid sprawled out on the ground around them unconscious, but none of them had a bow. If that was the case then how had an arrow struck the piece of meat? Natsume turned around and faced Luffy, holding up the now charcoaled meat that he accidently burned when he was roaring out flames.

"It's still good, the arrow added flavor and the flames added color." Natsume laughed as she explained.

Luffy looked up at Natsume then saw a glint of light from the woods. His eyes widened and he acted purely on adrenaline and instincts, pushing the girl out of the way.

"Watch out!" Luffy yelled pushing Natsume aside.

She could only watch with wide eyes when she fell as several arrows seemed to come out of nowhere and strike her partner's back. Even when she landed, she laid there paralyzed as blood coughed out of Luffy's mouth and trailed down his lips. With hazy eyes Luffy looked over at Natsume and smiled, "you're not hurt, are you?"

Luffy only stayed conscious enough to see her nod once silently before he passed out on the ground. Edan and Gracy had already headed into the forest, catching the bandit and beating him badly, while Harmony flew up into the air to see if there was any more hidden enemies. Natsume started crawling up to Luffy and shook him lightly.

"Luffy? Luffy! Come on Luffy! You idiot, why'd you save me?!" Natsume screamed at him.

Luffy groaned in pain and clenched his eyes shut. Natsume stopped and pulled her hands away, biting her lips to try and stop the tears from falling. Her heart was in an utter race at the moment, her body stricken with fear that her best friend might be dead. Finally though, Luffy opened his eyes slightly and smiled weakly at the girl.

"Of course I would, you're," he let out a deep sigh, "you're my friend. Ugh, besides. I couldn't let a pretty girl like you get hurt." Luffy chuckled out.

Natsume knew it sounded forced though, and the minute everyone came back she yelled out.

"Come on! We have to get him to a doctor or something! We have to hurry!"

"Let's just pull the arrows out." Gracy suggested.

"No, if we do that then he'll start bleeding out and we won't be able to stop it. Those arrows are the only things that are keeping his wound close, we'll have to bring him to the village. Quick, put him on the wagon!" Edan ordered.

"Nuh huh, no way! I'm not letting him bleed all over my merchandise! If you do that then you're not getting paid!" Their client argued.

"I could care less about your money! Matter of fact, why don't you go shove it where the sun doesn't shine!" Natsume roared breathing fire out.

The client cringed away while Gracy helped Natsume gently lift Luffy up and place him on the cart. Edan started pulling the wagon forward while Natsume helped push from the back, Gracy making sure Luffy wouldn't fall off while the client tried his best to keep up with them.

"It's alright Natsume, he's going to be just fine." Harmony told her partner.

Natsume bit her lip harder as she pushed, "he better be."


Levin only smiled and waved as he watched his friends leave him. Once they were out of sight he sighed out loud and dropped his hands, rolling his neck around he wondered if it would be a good idea to find those teammates of his? Lately Jen and Dori have been making their intentions pretty clear to the man, especially whenever she was around. At first Levin was grateful, thinking that his teammates knew he was uncomfortable around the girl and tried their best to get her away, but now... Levin started thinking that they were just jealous. Jealous of what Levin had no idea.

He didn't treat her any differently than he treated his teammates. To tell the truth he didn't feel anything special towards them other than love of a teammate. He cared for them and watched their backs, they did the same in return. It was a simply beautiful relationship that the guild had... so why had they broken that simplicity? Levin didn't believe in dating teammates, he kept telling them that every time Jen or Dori would ask him out, but the truth of the matter was... Levin blinked. He leaned up in his seat and blinked again, wracking his brain for the answer.

Levin didn't know what the truth of the matter was. Matter of fact, Levin believed the only reason why he thought up of that rule was so that he wouldn't hurt Jen's or Dori's feelings. Isn't that the same as lying to them though? He's still hurting them, just not as honestly. That still didn't give Levin the truth of the matter, what was wrong with him? What was he thinking of at the moment?

"Levin! Hey Levin!"

Levin turned when he heard his name and spotted his teammates running towards him. He tried to ignore how their boobs would jiggle with every step and focused on their faces. Levin liked to believe he was a gentlemen and staring at a girl's rack, especially a teammate's rack, was not what a gentlemen would do. He liked to believe he was only a secret pervert, if not a pervert at all.

"Hey Levin!" Dori smiled leaning over towards him.

She flicked his forehead to make sure he was paying attention before leaning back up, giggling.

"We found a mission for our team, you ready to go?" Jen asked blinking down at him.

Sure Dori and Jen were beautiful, Levin thought. Any guy would be lucky to have them, lucky to even be their friend and yet... Levin felt nothing from the two. He looked up and saw them both smiling down at him brightly, lovely, cutely. Levin couldn't help but smile back and chuckle a little under his breath.

"Good work you two, let's go Team Shadowgear!" He cheered lifting his fist up.

"Team ShadowGear!" The other two recited doing the same.

Regardless of their feelings, underneath it all they were all best friends. They went together so well, a perfect team one might think. They might have even been a top team if the two girls would stop fighting over Levin, what could he do though?

"Go get it approved by Macklind and I'll meet you two in the front, 'kay?" Levin asked.

The two girls nodded at him before scurrying off towards the bar. Levin chuckled again at his teammates and ran a hand through his hair. It was getting shaggy, maybe it was time to go get it cut again. Levin yawned loudly as he picked up his book from the table and made his way over to the entrance, putting the book in his bag, then paused a few feet away from the doors.

She stood there with her arms crossed in front of her chest, staring at him with her cold eyes. Levin felt a shiver run down his spine as he stared back and gulped. She was wearing what she always wore, her signature black dress with a spikey metal belt around the stomach, black tights and boots with bracelets on her upper part of her arms and bandages around her hands... wait, the bandages were knew. She only wore them when she returned from training, so that's why he hasn't seen her for the past week.

There was a stare off between the two of them and Levin took the time to notice that her little kitty wasn't with her. Wondering where she could be, Levin realized that the two of them were just standing in the middle of the entrance probably blocking everyone who was trying to leave. Levin knew this routine, no matter how far he ran, she would always run faster, no matter where he hid, she would always find him. Levin was finally smart enough to figure out that giving up would be the easiest thing in his life. So that's what he did, he gave up.

"Go ahead." Levin sighed with his head down.

He didn't see how the girl smirked and jumped on him, but he did feel it when they landed with her on top. Levin blinked his eyes open and heard the girl sniffing at his neck. Once she pulled back after having her full, Levin leaned up so that they would both be sitting up. Gelsey sat on the floor between his legs, her own legs wrapped around his waist, and pondered.

"Hmm, why do I always feel strange around you?" She asked.

Levin blushed from the position that they were in, "w-who knows? Get off me please." He also stuttered.

Gesley smirked at him before lifting herself to her feet. She continued smirking down at Levin as he dusted his shoulders off before getting up himself.

"You are slowly submitting to me and soon you'll be all mine." Gesley giggled, which sounded like an evil high-pitched chuckle to other people.

"No, I'm slowly realizing that I can't out-anything you so it's best to let you do whatever you want until your satisfied so I can go." Levin told her.

He didn't like the sparkle that seemed to shine in her eyes as her smirk turned into a soft smile. Slowly, Gesley took another step towards Levin and before he knew it, she had reached for his hair and pulled his head down so he'd be right in front of her face. He could feel her breath on his skin, making his blush worsen and his words choke up.

"Oh really now? Best to let me do whatever I want until I'm satisfied? I'll let you on a little secret Levin since you've obviously been helping me by letting me do whatever I want." Gesley said sweetly.

Levin knew better though, she heard the sarcasm in the girl's voice as she spoke the words slowly to him.

"I'm never satisfied and if you say that invitation to me again, I just might take you up on your offer and steal you away from what you call your 'team'." Gesly whispered then let him go.

Levin flinched back and pulled at his collar, trying to cool off while Gesley just smiled seductively at him.

"You have one thing right though Levi, you can never run away from me. As long as I keep having this feeling whenever I'm around you, I'll never let you escape so it's best that you get used to me before smelling isn't enough anymore." She told him.

Levin scowled making Gesley giggle once more.

"Why me?" He asked.

"Silly Levin, you ask me that question every time even though you and I both already know the answer. I, don't, know." Gesley said before walking passed him.

"Things would be so much easier though if you finally ditched those teammates of yours though and joined me. This urges to smell you while training is really a distraction."

"Don't. Don't talk about my teammates Gesley, that's going over the edge." Levin said.

Gesley looked over her shoulder and pouted, "it's the truth though. I really did miss you."

Levin was confused for a second, finding himself getting drawn in by her cute pout before seeing her teammates making their way over to him. He shook his head, remembering who he was, before continuing.

"Don't talk about my teammates or else I'm not going to let you do whatev-" Levin paused when she remembered Gesley's words, "sniff my scent again." He finished.

Gesley never did what Levin wanted him to do though, ever. Instead of listening, amusement lit up in her eyes as she giggled.

"You say it like you have a choice, it's so cute when you try to act strong." Gesley teased.

Levin gritted his teeth while his teammates walked closer. They finally spotted Gesley and went rushing towards Levin to protect him from her. Jen and Dori stood in front of Levin as guards, blocking him from Gesley.

"What did you do to Levin?" Jen demanded.

Gesley shrugged, "nothing she didn't invite me to."

"Guys." Levin whispered to them.

"That's a lie! Levin would never invite you to anything, if you haven't noticed yet she doesn't even like you!"

Gesley's pierced eyebrows raised as a small smile appeared on her face.

"Really? Is that true Levin, do you not like me?" She asked.

"Of course she doesn't!" Dori yelled.

"Excuse me, was I talking to the anorexic brunette? No, I was talking to Levin." Gesley snapped.

Jen and Dori bit their tongues as they waited for Levin's awaited answer. All the three girl's attention turned to him and never faltered from him. Levin frowned and grabbed his two teammates hands, ignoring how they gasped, and started dragging them away.

"Of course I like you, we're all apart of the same guild hence forth the same family. Let's get going on our mission girls." Levin said.

"Yes sir." Dori said.

"I'll follow you anywhere Levin." Jen smiled.

Gesley watched them leave with a cruel smile on her face. Should she? No, maybe though. Well... he did let her pounce on him as soon as she entered without a chase, but then he did tempt her to do something more and what's worse she let those two airheads sprout nonsense drabble at her. By the time Gesley stopped thinking there was a clear frown on her face.

"Everything alright?" Primrose asking flying back after she bought kiwi juice from Macklind.

"I'm thinking I should let him go." Gesley told her.

"Hmm," Primrose responded taking a sip from his juice.

"But then again, I don't think I've had my fill of him yet. And I do absolutely love pissing off those two teammates of his." Gesley said making up her mind.

"Sometimes, I wonder if your really like him or not." Primrose said flying to her partner's shoulder.

"Well like he said, we're all apart of the same guild hence forth the same family so of course I like him." Gesley chuckled before running to catch up with them.