Nalu Week 2016 I've waited for too long

by fangirlhime

The war is over, the pain is over, or so they wished, Natsu disappeared,alone. After several months, he returns, and Lucy who is at her limit of holding her feelings back, meets him at her house. What happened before the war ended? What has Natsu been doing? Why did he leave? All questions that for which Lucy wants anwsers, that at the same time Nastu is not willing to give.

4. Day 4: Secrets

Why won't you trust me?

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"Enough Lucy!" He yelled making the celestial mage flinch.

She was scared, not of him, but of bringing back memories that were hard on him.

"Natsu…" she got closer to him, placing a hand on his arm "What happened before you went away?"

"Just drop it." he asked, lowering his head, a sign of tiredness.

"I can't Natsu." Lucy told him "I can't. Not when I know you're suffering all by yourself, not when I can see you here in front of me full of regrets."

"I can't tell you!" the pinkette stepped away from her grasp.

"Why?"

"I just can't!" he shouted

"You can! You just have to say the words." she sighed "Please, just tell me, what happened? I'm tired of this secrets."

"Why are you pushing so much into this? Nothing happened!" he yelled "I'm back, I'm fine, everyones fine."

"No, they're not Natsu. Everyone's a mess, no one is fine!" Lucy explained.

"Why are you so obsessed with this, Lucy?!"

"Because I care!" she shouted with an angry tone in her voice "Because I'm tired of knowing nothing, of you making decisions without me by your side. Because," she breathed out "I love you. Natsu, I need you to trust me and tell me what happened, I need you to tell me. What happened?"

Tears were now streaming down the boy's face.

"He was right, Zeref, he was right. I'm a monster." Natsu told her "I'm his monster, his creation, his demon."

"What are you talking about?" Lucy asked a bit scared.

Natsu looked up, tears still on his eyes. "I'm E.N.D."

Lucy kept quiet, shocked.

"I was dead, but then he… he brought me back. Uh then he gave me to Igneel so that I could learn with him, and then somehow, I went through 400 years into the future and came here. I'm a demon." Natsu said at once, coming off as something confusing to Lucy.

Still quiet, a terrefying feeling made the celestial mage shiver.

"Lucy, I would hurt all of you, I had to leave." the dragon slayer explained "I was getting into my demon form, I was about to snap. You have to understand, I had to leave."

"I understand." She simply replied.

"I never meant to leave you guys alone." he was panicking, trying to show her that he was only doing the right thing, that he didn't mean to hurt her, but nothing was coming out of her, just pure numbness. She was simply dull, not Lucy at all.

"I understand."

"Lucy, I-"

"I understand."