So the thing is like this, I spent my time reading stories for a long time and now I want to try and write one of my own.
I would try another manga but Fairy Tail got my attention, I'll go with it.
Disclaim: I don't own Fairy Tail.
AN: Reading over some of the reviews I got for the past two chapters I wrote, thanks for them by the way, I paid special attention to what one of them had to say. Regarding my decision of making this story by jumping through random scenes and arcs of the original work, Roxas, I cannot say anything more than ***** you. No offense, I'm just following your words; I like how my story is going, I'll continue like this despite what others may say.
Though I also took some other things into consideration; reading a bit more of the pairing to get some more ideas on how to write it, keep on with the quality of my chapters, watch over my grammar and "update more soon".
The last one is a bit hard to fulfill, with college and all getting in the way.
And yes, Fafnir, I AM a JELZA fan. Why do you think I said NatZa wasn't my forte or my obvious choice?
Yeah, I like the rival pairing, even if I never wrote a story about them, so what? I'm still writing this despite that, and I'll see it through for as long as there are scenes for me to write about the switched Natsu and Erza.
Today's scene: Just another random thought that occurred to me after reading Neoshadows' story.
Natsu Rose
by Froxlozeddy
Year x784…
"Can you explain me now?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"You're a moron, that's why."
"Hey!" Erza stood up from the cold floor when the armored mage sitting cross-legged in front of her with his arms folded and his head down answered her with an insult, her eyes glaring at him despite his lack of attention to it whatsoever. "I just saved you from being jailed here for a month!"
"You did no such thing," Natsu commented, sighing tiredly at the Dragon Slayer's antics and how that got them in trouble, yet again. "I was going to be released immediately after the trial, you," he pointed a finger to the now stiff Erza. "You are the cause of us being here tonight instead of in our warm beds."
"S-so what?!" The red-head exclaimed before sitting back on the floor with a loud groan.
"I wanted to polish my armors today." Natsu said with his eyes narrowing when meeting with the red-head's. "Now that won't be possible."
"Y-you can do it tomorrow!" To her words, Natsu's eyes glinted dangerously, making her shut her mouth tight and turn around to not face him, even if he was facing her all the same. "Tch…"
"…" Natsu continued to stare at the woman sitting at the other side of the cell, feeling the place warming up when the red-head's anger started to be vented out of her, letting him be more comfortable in the cold cell where he was sitting with his cold piece of armor.
He wouldn't say it, but he was glad to see she cared that much for him to intrude in the middle of a trial… pretending to be him and all. But that was it; he would never say it to her out loud. God knows what might happen if he encourages her crazy ideas all the time. He sighed tiredly when he heard her mumbling some incoherences to herself, surely about his attitude and reaction to her good action.
He would never encourage something like that to happen again, but he could still explain what she wanted him to explain. "…are you still curious?"
Erza's head snapped up when he talked, tilting to look at him in questioning of what he meant. "What?"
"About what happened…" Her eyes widened in realization. "…do you still want me to explain?"
"Of course I want you to explain!" She shifted in her spot and faced the man again, eagerly waiting for an explanation regarding his strange behavior around one of the councilors sitting in the judges' row that day. That woman of dark-purple hair never stopped staring at him with that weird smile of her. Even Erza was able to catch that, despite her quick entrance and arrest.
"Well…" Natsu looked down, thinking hard about it. If he were to explain why the councilwoman was looking at him like that, he would have to explain his whole past to the dragon-slayer. And even if he trusted her with his life… he still was nervous of what she might think or do if she were to know of what happened in his childhood.
He was mostly scare of what Erza might try to do. Knowing her as well as he knew her, she would dart straight to the place and burn it to the ground, searching for the cause of his torments. He decided to mislead her rather than telling her the outright truth. "…she and I, we started with the wrong foot."
"Started?" Erza blinked a few times at the words, not getting what he was saying.
He swallowed some saliva. "We… had an encounter of sorts a long time ago… we fought and I… lost to her."
The eyes of the Dragon Slayer widened in complete and utter shock.
Natsu?
The strong and fearsome knight that everyone in Fairy Tail, including her, respected… lost to that woman?
"We fought during a mission I had a few years ago; it was even at the start but she eventually upper handed me and… I lost…" Natsu sighed when he finished telling his half-lie, closing his eyes to mentally berate himself for lying to a friend like this. But she was not ready to hear about his past.
Erza and the rest of his friends were not ready to hear about what happened to him in the Tower of Heaven.
They would not understand it as Makarov did.
"Since that time, she has kept a close eye on me… watching my movements and so." His eyes narrowed when he felt a presence outside the cell, it was surely the woman of whom he was talking about right now. "She said it was because… I was interesting."
"…" Erza remained silent, digesting the information. Her mind was screaming to her that there was something more to what she was hearing from the man, but with the events of that day, and seeing that the issue was a great deal for her friend, she let it slide. She shrugged, accommodating herself to rest on the cold floor while Natsu looked at her curiously. "…strange woman."
"…indeed," Natsu agreed silently, leaning against the cold wall behind him, closing his eyes as he felt the presence outside their cell vanish, leaving a trickle of sweat travel from his sideburns down to his mandible. "She… is a strange woman, indeed."
Erza nodded at his words, even if they were barely above a whisper, shifting in her spot when trying to find a more comfortable position.
"…" The onyx eyes of the Knight opened slightly when he remembered something he forgot to do before leaving the land of the awake, his eyes wandering from the stone floor to the form of his sleeping scarlet-haired teammate, who seemed to be sound asleep by now. He felt bad for waking her up for such a stupid thing, but his correct mind was bugging him to do it. "Hey… Erza…"
"Hmmm, yeah…?" She mouthed drowsily, moving a hand to move some strands of hair from her face, showing to be somewhat awake.
"I… just wanted to say…" Natsu looked down for a moment before returning his eyes to the woman's back, steeling himself for what he wanted to say. "…thanks..." He remembered how she entered the trial room with what looked to be a copy of his normal Heart-Kreuz armor and a wig of spiky pink hair, thrashing her arms around while yelling to the Council that she was Natsu, and the Natsu standing on the stage was a fake. He contained his unconscious chuckle the best he could, wanting to end what he wanted to say and stop bothering his tired partner. "For what you did today… thanks."
"…" Erza remained in her spot, her breathing coming and going as if he hadn't said anything, which bugged the Knight somehow. When he was going to question if she heard what he said or not, she tilted her head to look over her shoulder, her tired eyes meeting with his expecting ones. "You know I'll do it again… don't you?"
Natsu looked surprised for a moment, which lasted that, a moment.
He wasn't that surprised to hear that.
He should have expected her to say such a thing.
He gave a small smile to her words, nodding slightly to her and seeing her return to her previous position before closing his eyes.
"And I'll do the same for you… some time."
And that's all I thought for it.
I thought showing a lot in this chapter would be bad, since I took inspiration for it by reading Neoshadows' story, I felt like I was copying his story somehow. I kept it short and simple, but meaningful. I'm no NatZa fan, people, there's not much in my head to write a scene involving these two characters except for the normal teases and somehow-romantic scenes we all see in most stories.
Anyhow, I hope you liked it. I'll be off for some time from today onwards; there's some serious things I've got to take care of before sitting to write again.
Trashing out.