Natsu and Lucy both are upset, both trying to protect each other. Short little writing I wrote a while back.


"WHY ARE YOU EVEN MAD?" She screams at the boy with the hair that looked like cherry blossoms. He hadn't been letting up since she had gotten back from the infirmary where Porlyusica had checked her over.

"BECAUSE YOU NEARLY GOT YOURSELF KILLED. You can't keep going on like this Lucy or you ARE going to die." He replies furiously. She can see his fists are clenched tightly, and as he breathes, a light mount of smoke joins the breath flowing from his parted lips.

"THAT'S NOT FOR YOU TO WORRY ABOUT NATSU. I'M STRONGER THAN YOU THINK, YOU DON'T HAVE TO CODDLE ME." She was likely more livid than him. How. Dare. He. How dare he get mad at her for trying to fight, when in fact she had been trying to save him. He really couldn't see beyond his rage, and it was pissing her off.

"YES IT IS FOR ME TO WORRY ABOUT. YOU COME ALONG ON THESE HIGH CLASS MISSIONS, BUT HOW MUCH HAVE YOU BEEN TRAINING LATELY? PRACTICALLY NONE. YOU JOINED SORCERERS WEEKLY WHILE I WAS OUT TRAINING, AND WHAT DID YOU DO THERE? YOU WROTE AND MODELED, SHOWING OFF YOUR BODY. HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU USE YOUR MAGIC? PROBABLY NEARLY NONE. IT DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE YOU CALLED UPON CANCER TO CUT YOUR HAIR." He was pacing, ready to bore a hole straight through her floor. She was surprised she didn't already see wear spots.

"WELL I'M SORRY I WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO GO ON YOUR TRAINING ADVENTURE WITH YOU. I'M SO SORRY I WAS LEFT ON MY OWN AFTER THE GUILD CLOSED. I'M SORRY I HAD TO FIND SOMETHING TO DO SO I DIDN'T STARVE TO DEATH OR HAVE TO SIT ON THE STREETS. I'M SORRY THAT I DID WHAT I COULD TO HOLD ONTO ANY HOPE OF SEEING ANYONE I KNEW EVER AGAIN. AND I'M SO SORRY THAT I GOT USED TO HAVING SOMEONE LIKE YOU AROUND THAT I THOUGHT I COULD RELY ON. I GUESS SHOULD HAVE STAYED LONELY AND BROKEN." She shot him a pointed look, waiting for his response. She was ready to call on Aqua- Leo to take his ass out, but that would mean destroying her apartment, which is something she didn't want to happen.

"Lucy, look. I know I fucked up in not bringing you along. Leaving you for a year was one of the worst mistakes I've ever made. But I can't fix that now, and I know you were trying, but you still aren't fully back to where you were before, let alone made progress in your own magic capabilities. But I guess that doesn't really matter does it? Since all you have to do is call upon your spirits to do the fighting for you huh?" He was being an asshole.

Who was this man she had standing in front of her? It surely wasn't her Natsu, the guy who would tell her she didn't need clothes, who would tell her that she had done great when in fact she had completely failed. But it sure looked like him, the same hair, the same clothes, the same face and eyes. Maybe he really had changed as she had feared when he left. It sure seemed that way.

"You know that's not how it is Natsu! My spirits are my frie-" She was cut off by him continuing.

"You've got to stop putting yourself in unnecessary danger." He states with an almost blank expression on his face.

"Like you can say anything about that Natsu, I was trying to save your lousy ass. But I bet you think you think you could have taken that hit and been fine don't you? Well guess what? Next time you can." She says, grasping her side as she hunches over.

"Just because you saved the guild one time doesn't mean you can save anybody at anytime. Give up too many more spirits and you'll have nobody left to save you."

This yelling wasn't good for her, she had taken that hit full force, and although she was going to be okay she was definitely in a lot of pain at the moment. She did not need to be lectured by this jack-ass.

"How. Dare. You. HOW FUCKING DARE YOU NATSU. WHO EVEN ARE YOU ANYMORE?" She screams at him, falling to her knees, where she fell into a coughing fit, tears coursing down her face as the image of Aquarius's key shattering right in front of her flashed before her eyes.

"Lucy are you oka-" He says, reaching to put a hand upon her shoulder.

"Don't. Touch. Me." She spits at him. She wanted him out, now.

"Luc-"

"GET OUT."

"Lu-"

"GET THE FUCKING HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE. NOW. GET OUT!" She screams with all her might as he recoiled from her, slowly turning to the door and opening it.

"Are you-"

"Out." She spat, and out he went, closing the door behind him without so much of a glance back.

She hated him, he had changed. He had left her that day and the man that had come back was no longer him. This was not the Natsu she knew, this was a cruel man. A man like her father had been as she grew up. Picking at all her flaws, rejecting every kind thing she had tried to do.

Memories came to the forefront of her mind as she stared at the wall from her spot curled up on her floor where she had fallen. Her eyes were glazed over with the pain from her injuries, and the emotional trauma she had felt all throughout her years on this earth.

She had come to Fairy Tail for a fresh start, a chance that she had gotten, and taken, but now seemed to be turning into more pain than ever before.

Looking at her guild mark, she almost had the temptation to erase it. They had all left her, Natsu, Levy, Gray, Erza, everyone. Everyone always seemed to leave her alone, thinking she could somehow tend to herself, but in fact they were wrong. She did need somebody, but that somebody didn't seem to need her anymore, and that was the most tragic part of it all.

"Do fairies have tails?" She didn't know, and at the moment she didn't really care. All she cared about was the searing words that the person she cared about most had just burned into her already damaged brain.