Sorry I have not updated in a long time. I hope you like this chapter. This will be a chapter mostly of Natsu's flashbacks and the Fairy Tail team.
"Hello sir… are you ok?" said a timid voice Natsu turned to see a girl roughly the same age as him with black hair and blue eyes
"What?" he answered a little colder then he meant making the girl flinch.
"Y-you looked lonely so I thought I would come and join you…" said the girl as she nervously fiddled with the sleeves of the sweater she was wearing. Natsu blinked in confusion 'this girl just wanted to hang out with him because he looked lonely? He didn't even think he looked lonely.' He thought as he stared at the girl.
"Umm… why are you staring at me?" she asked
"Oh. Uh sorry, I just never had someone ask that before." Natsu said as he quickly turned away.
"Can I join you?" the girl asked again Natsu nodded.
They sat in comfortable silence for a while, "what is your Name?" Natsu asked breaking the silence
"Kasumi. What's yours?"
"Natsu." after that day they would meet on the hilltop every day for months each day they became closer to each other sharing secrets and dreams until they became something more than friends.
Natsu POV
I slowly opened my eyes only to groaned and shut them again to the harsh bright light. After a minute I tried again to open my eyes this time they stayed open and I began to look around me I lay on a patch of green grass in the middle of a forest. I was confused on why I fell asleep in the woods then it all came back to me like a speeding train. Kasumi, she was there at the guild with EIJI's monsters. I remember being hurt but when I looked down I didn't have a scratch on me. I sighed I knew I healed fast but this… I wasn't out that, long was I? I asked myself. I thought back to how I acted in the guild and I felt a little guilty, I have never been really mad at them before not like this. I was thinking that I should go back to the guild to apologize but Kasumi and EIJI came back to my mind and I let out a small growl that scared a squirrel and was trying to approach me.
No, I could not go back to Fairy Tail not yet I had to finish this on my own so no one else got hurt.
"I went to your guild two weeks ago, looking for you but you weren't there do you how easy it would have been to kill everyone right then and there or even told them what you truly capable of?" EIJIs words came back to me he would never stop hunting me if I didn't end this… if I didn't end him. "know more about you then the people you call a family do, you have become weak and soft if you were the salamander I used to know you would have taken care of this beast before it could even touch you"
EIJI's words swarmed in my head he was right I was not as strong as I was when I was living with my brother and before I lost Kasumi. Now was I even strong enough to take down EIJI and to protect Fairy Tail? I shook my head I could not think about that now I had to find this bastard and save Kasumi. I got off the ground and began walking in a random direction I was not sure where I was going or how I was going to find EIJI. It was probably not the best plan but right now that was all I got.
After walking for about an hour my mind began to drift back into the past, back before I lost everything.
Flashback
"Kasumi?" Natsu asked as he watched the black-haired girl play in the waters of a small river. That ran through her village.
"Yes…" she said not turning to look at Natsu
"Why are we friends?... I mean most people I meet are afraid of me." Natsu asked as he looks in the direction of Kasumi's village. The young girl turned around with a frown her face.
"Is that why you never come with me to the village? Because you are afraid people will be scared of you?"
"I'm not scared of anything!" Natsu all but shouted making Kasumi giggle which turned into a full laugh when she saw Natsu's confused face
"I think you are scared, but I do not know why you are cute…" She said a red tint growing on her cheeks "anyway I don't think anyone will be afraid of you. Actually, some people think I am crazy that I keep talking about this boy that I meet on a hill but am never seen with him." She said looking at Natsu as his face went from confusion to a sad mask.
"But you don't really know me… what I can do who I am." Natsu said in a quiet voice but loud enough for the girl to hear.
"Are you a spirit?"
"What?" Natsu head shot up to look at the beauty
"You know a woodland spirit. The protectors of the forest, they are magic beings that they said if you see one that you will have a good life and are protected by the spirit." She posed to look at Natsu "you are the only person I have ever seen with pink hair." She laughed as Natsu's face turned into a pout
"It's not pink its salmon!" Natsu shouted, "and no I am not a spirit or whatever."
"You would protect me, right?" she asked in a soft voice knowing Natsu would hear it. Natsu looked confused again but didn't hesitate to nod. "see you would protect me and ever since I meet you I feel happy truly happy and I feel safe all because of you, so out have to be one because no one else can make me feel this way." She said as the blush returned on her face. Natsu was shocked no one has ever said anything like this before and he didn't know what to say. But before he could think of something a new voice filled the silence instinctively Natsu hid in the shadows behind the trees
"Kasumi! Kasumi where are you!" the voice said. Kasumi looked over to where Natsu once stood but she saw that he was gone.
"I am over here!" she shouted just then an older man came out into the open and smiled when he saw Kasumi
"There you are, your mom and I were starting to get worried."
"Uh, come-on dad I was just playing with my friend." She said as she looked down the older man frowned and looked around the clearing Natsu ducked down further to make sure he wasn't seen
"There is no one here." He said looking back down to his daughter "come on let's go home." He said as get grabbed her hand and lead her back to the village she looked back one last time hoping to see Natsu but he was not there she smiled to herself as if this proved that Natsu was her fairy of the forest. She could not stop smiling as her dad dragged her back to their small cottage.
End Flashback
I smiled at the memory I remember waiting her go and follow her down to the village where she lives I remember doing it every day we saw each other making sure she got there safely, I even remember going back home and think what she said about me and wounding what she would say if she found out what I really was.
With fairy tail
Murkwell was a town on the very outskirts of Fiore and one not many people have heard of, and since it was so far there was not a train station even close to the town after three days of riding train after train the group came to their last stop in a small city Azumi.
"We have finally made it to this Azigen place." Shouted Gajeel uncharacteristically as three days on a moving vehicle could do that to a guy.
"It's pronounced Azumi named after a native tribe that lived here a long time ago or something like that." Lucy said "and I thought only Natsu messed up names that badly, or is it a dragon slayer thing?" the group laughed at the joke but it immediately died down at the thought of Natsu.
"Do you think he is ok?" Happy asked his voice low
"Natsu can take care of himself, I just wish he would trust us to let us help him," Erza said
"Do you think we will find what we are looking for?" Lucy asked
"Yeah, of course, we won't know until we get there so instead of standing here we should start walking because we still have a long way to go," Gray said as the group gathered their things and started walking through the town.
"Should we get supplies or something we don't know if there is another town from here to Murkwell," asked Wendy
"Yes, that is a good idea thanks, Wendy," Erza said as she marched to the first Bakery insight the group sweatdropped at the knight's antics but followed her in any way.
After about two hours in the bakery and another three getting other supplies the group needed they were off on their journey to Murkwell. After only walking for an hour it began to get dark.
"We should have stayed in Azumi there we could have some beds to sleep in," Lucy complained
"Yes, but we need to get to Murkwell as fast as possible if we want the chance to find out what is going on to help Natsu," Erza said making Lucy feel bad of course she wanted to help Natsu but she was getting tired
"Erza I think we should stop for the night," Gajeel said and Erza turned around to face the group planning and yelling at them but when she saw how tired everyone looked her face softened.
"Yeah, I think your right we will set up camp here and get an early start in the morning." She said
"I will take first watch," Gray said as the group settled in. Gray watched them all fall asleep thinking out peaceful everyone looked.
"You worried?" Gajeel's voice made Gray jump as he turned to face the iron dragon slayer.
"What are you doing up I thought you were asleep!" he quietly yelled careful not to wake the others.
"Nan, I wanted to stay up for a while." Gajeel said as he moved to sit next to gray "you still didn't answer the question." He added looking at Gray
"I am mad at him." He said frowning silently cursing Natsu for putting them through all of this "I am little worried that we would be able to help him it time… but if you tell anyone that I will deny it." He said pointing a Gajeel. The dragon slayer smiled
"I won't, but you have been quieter ever since Natsu got hurt protecting Wendy I think everyone knows you are worried." He said
"When did you become all wise," Gray asked sarcastically
"I can be serious and wise when I want to be." He growled
"Whatever." They both fell into comfortable silence until Gray spook up again
"What do you think is going on… with Natsu I mean?"
"Umm… I don't really know if I did we would be looking for Natsu and not this Kasumi girl. But I can tell you something does not feel right about this." The iron dragon slayer said as he looked up at the sky in thought
"What do you mean?"
"Those monsters and that girl… they did not smell right like they weren't alive." Gajeel paused to let that sink in then continued, "and the way Natsu was acting… when I was in phantom lore I hurt a lot of members in Fairy Tail but not once Natsu seems… I don't know."
"Yeah, I think I know what you mean… gramps says that Natsu is scared of something and as long as I have known Natsu no once did he seem like this… not even when Erza is in one of her moods. Whatever gets Natsu scared we better be careful." Gray said looking down at the small group Gajeel nodded and for the rest of the night, they sat in silence.
Well, I hope you like the chapter. just as reference Natsu and Kasumi are about 10- 11 years old.