Sup people, I guess I'm going to try another chapter of this story. For this chapter, and possibly the next, we'll be focusing on Erza, as she was the first to find out about the pain Natsu hid from them. Again, sorry if the whole angst and comforting isn't that good, as I'm not good with this stuff. There will be some differences that from canon, just to let you all know.

Enjoy, or not, I don't care you all have your opinions.

Warning, may contain dark themes, such as self-harm or mentions of it, just to let you all know.

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Chapter Two: Flashback: Erza

Erza was simply enjoying her strawberry cheesecake as usual. The guild was as rowdy as ever. It was a few weeks since the whole Edolas crisis, and Lisanna had return, as she apparently was alive this whole time. She remembered how everyone threw a big party and celebrated her return. Natsu himself was extremely happy, heck he was probably the happiest out of all of them. Erza understood due to Lisanna being the most closest to him in their childhood.

As she was enjoying herself, Natsu and gray were fighting like usual.

"What did you say ice fresk?!" The fire dragon shouted at the ice mage.

"You heard me flamebrain!" Gray responded to Natsu as they continued to fight.

The two kept on fighting, but then their magic attacks had gone flying… right into Erza's cake. Needless to say, everyone in the guild froze.

"M-My Cake…" Erza had anime tears going down her face, but then she stood up, rage filled her eyes as she locked on to her two targets like a predator to it's prey.

"We're sorry!" Natsu and Gray shouted and begged, but their pleas went unheard as the red haired woman proceeded to beat them up.

"Some things never change huh?" Lisanna asked her sister, who was cleaning a mug.

"Yup." She replied with a giggle, as everyone else watched with pity as Natsu and Gray receive a beating for defiling Erza's cake.

It was some time later did Erza stop, satisfied with the punishment she dealt to the two as she returned to the bar to get another piece of cake. The rest of the guild could only look at the two beaten forms of Natsu and Gray.

It was a few minutes later did the two eventually recover from their beating. As thing went to the way it was before the beat down happened. However, after some time Lucy noticed that she couldn't see the pink haired dragon slayer.

"Hey, where did Natsu go?" The blonde asked the others who were at the bar. The others then look around to notice that Natsu was no where to be seen.

"Weird, I could have sworn he was still here." Mirajane responded as she tried to spot the pink haired mage.

"Did you think he may have gone home?" Lisanna wondered, "I mean, it is getting a bit late, so I wouldn't be surprise if he decided to head that way already."

Erza finished her cake before standing up. "I'll see if I can find him." She replied as she decided to check his house to see if he went there already.

As she headed toward the dragon slayers house, she wondered if Natsu actually went home, why would he go back now? Natsu usually leaves the guild later than during this time. Erza then began to wonder about the dragon slayer. When Lisanna was revealed to be alive, the red haired woman could see how much happier Natsu is now compared to before. However, Erza started to see that Natsu's smile's looked a bit forceful recently as well. She wanted to talk to him about it, but she figured it was nothing to worry about. After a while, she managed to reach his house. Happy would be staying at Lisanna's house for a few nights, since Happy wanted to be with his 'mother' for a while, so Erza didn't have to worry about Happy deciding to show up.

"Natsu?" Erza questioned as she knocked on the door, only for it to open, revealing the insides of his house. Erza, deciding it wasn't a problem to enter, went into the house. She sweat dropped as she saw the mess that was on the ground. The red haired woman kind of figured that Natsu and Happy would have a mess around in their house. Putting that aside, she looked around in order to see the pink haired male, but no sign of him so far.

"Natsu?" She called out again, a bit louder this time. 'Is he not here?' Erza wondered, as she couldn't think of anywhere else the dragon slayer would be. As she looked around the house a bit more, she then heard something. It sounded like… crying?

Erza was confused, that couldn't be Natsu, could it? She then followed the sound that leads her to the bathroom, at least to the close door of it. The crying was definitely coming from here, and since she was a lot closer, she could recognize who was crying. However, it shocked her, Natsu was in there… but why was he crying? The only times Erza saw him cry was when Mira would pick on him when they were younger, when they thought Lisanna died, and when he rescued her from the tower. Hearing him like this tore her heart, he should be happy, not like this.

Erza then leaned on the door with her ear on it, hoping to hear him say anything that might explain why he was in this state.

"*Sniff* W-Why? *Sniff* W-Why do I keep screwing things up?" She heard Natsu told himself in a broken voice that didn't fit him at all. "I-*Sniff* I made her m-mad again. *Sniff* I d-didn't mean to *Sniff* I d-didn't mean to get into a fight…" Erza was shocked, why was he crying over what happened earlier? Why would he cry about that? Erza then heard Natsu go on. "*Sniff* I-I didn't mean to r-ruin her cake. I didn't *Sniff* m-mean to ruin everything…"

This didn't make any sense, why would belittle himself like that? The more he went on, and the more she heard him sob, it broke her heart even more.

"*Sniff* W-Why did I h-have to be such an i-idiot? W-Why did I *Sniff* have to be such a l-loser?"

Loser? He wasn't a loser! Why would he think himself that? It was taking everything Erza had in herself to stop herself from knocking down the door and confronting the fire dragon slayer.

"*Sniff* M-Maybe… If I *Sniff* wasn't such garbage, *Sniff* M-Maybe they would have l-loved me…" Natsu's sobbing was getting louder as he continued to talk to himself like this.

Erza was getting a few tears in her eyes as she heard him say that. Of course the guild loved him! He wasn't garbage! Why would be think otherwise? However, she froze when he went on.

"*Sniff* E-Erza, Mira, L-Lucy, *Sniff* C-Cana, Lisanna, J-Juvia, *Sniff* Kinana… *Sniff* I-If I didn't looked so ugly… i-if I wasn't s-so *Sniff* stupid… if I w-wasn't so destructive… *Sniff* i-if I didn't keep r-ruining everyone's lives… m-maybe they would have a-actually…" Natsu was unable to finish as he began to cry harder.

Erza however was even more shocked by what she heard. Natsu loves her? He actually feels the same way? But wait, he mentioned the others, did he loved them that way as well? She was both happy and horrified, happy that Natsu loved her, horrified that Natsu would think of himself like that.

"*Sniff* M-Maybe it's b-best this way… *Sniff* t-they deserve better than a-a piece o-of trash *Sniff* l-like me." Natsu eventually stopped talking and continued to sob. The red haired woman couldn't take it anymore.

*BANG*

Erza broke down the door, shocking Natsu as he saw one of the women he loves standing there with a shocked and horrified face. Erza stood frozen as she saw what Natsu had in his hand. He was holding a knife, and there were fresh cuts on his arms dripping with blood. He was cutting himself.

"E-Erza?!" Natsu shouted in shock and horror. He immediately dropped the knife and stood up, but could only stare as the red haired woman looked at the sight of Natsu. She knew he would look awful from all of his crying, but she couldn't believe that Natsu would cut himself.

'NATSU!" She immediately went to hug the dragon slayer, shocking him. Before he could speak, she continued. "WHY WOULD DO THIS TO YOURSELF?!" She herself was now crying as she refused to let go of Natsu.

"I-I…" Natsu was struggling to think of a response, I mean what can you say in a situation like this? "I… I d-didn't mean… I d-didn't think a-anyone would…" He couldn't continued as Erza went on, that and the fact that voice was being painful due to all the crying he was doing.

"You didn't think anyone would what?! Wouldn't care?! NATSU DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH WE CARE ABOUT YOU?!" Erza knew she was being loud, but she wasn't thinking completely straight right now. "YOU'RE NOT AN IDIOT! YOU'RE NOT A LOSER! YOU'RE NONE OF THOSE THINGS NATSU!" She shouted at him.

Natsu was wide eye as she shouted those words at him. Did she really care? Or was she simply saying that?

"E-Erza…" More tears began to spill from Natsu's eyes. "I…I'm, sorry." Natsu then close his eyes to try to block off the tears. "I d-didn't mean t-to make you mad. I didn't m-mean to make you c-cry. I d-didn't mean to ruin-!" However, Erza did something that caught Natsu off guard to open his eyes in shocked.

She kissed him.

The fire dragon slayer couldn't move as her lips were still on his, but eventually he gave in to the kiss, closing his eyes as well. Eventually, they parted, as Erza spoke again, but in a softer tone.

"Natsu… you haven't ruin anything. You're not a piece of garbage. You're not ugly either. We care about you… I care about you. I… I love you Natsu." Erza told him, and Natsu could actually feel the emotions she put in her words.

"Erza…" More tears went down his face again, but these ones were of joy. Erza then kissed him again, as she pulled him out of the bathroom.

It will simply be known that Erza showed Natsu how much he meant to her that night.

Alright, here it is. I hope you enjoyed it, and again sorry if the angst and comfort wasn't that good. And before anyone asks, yes at the end they did… you know… the whole sex thing. People shouldn't actually have sex before marriage; this was simply for entertainment purposes, so please don't actually do it until married. Oh who am I kidding, a bunch of you will probably ignore this won't you? Well it was worth a try.

And before anyone asks, NO, I will not write any sex, or lemons as you all call it here. I will ignore any requests of it if you ask. I don't even look at lemons, stories that have them I usually skip those parts. But I have a question, why do people call the sex here in these stories lemons? I never figured that out.

Anyway, see you all next time, whenever that will be.