You know, Lucy is not the only one who hates Parents Day, Natsu hates it too. Different reasons, he still hated it! We figured out why Lucy was a player, she was betrayed by family, heart broken by a boy and the only person who truly loved her, her mother, died.
Why was Natsu a player?
Family is one of the problems, so let's start with that.
When Natsu was a little boy, his mother left his father even though he loved her, he gave her everything she wanted, she still left. For what? For another man… that she claimed to love. What about his father?
Well, that made him doubt love, didn't his mom think of her son? Of her husband? How could she just leave!? Where was the love?!
His father made all that doubt disappear, he loved Natsu. He made sure to show Natsu, that love does exist. But, even as a ten years old boy, Natsu could see his father was affected by the abandonment of his mother.
Natsu tried to show his father, that he still had him, he still loved him and he won't leave him like his mother no matter what!
So there was a promise between them, they will be a family that loves each other, and they won't abandon each other.
Natsu kept his promise, his father didn't…
One day, Igneel said he was leaving for something important and left Natsu alone.
One week, turned into two, two into three and eventually it turned into five years…
The now 15 years old boy was worried; his father has been gone for five years! It never did cross his 10 years old mind that his father just left him; he thought something happened so he looked for him everywhere, for five years.
Until he found him…
He found him with another woman and a little girl in a park in the town of Onibus, acting like a loving family and he just stood there. When his father turned around and saw him, he just ran, ignoring the cries and pleas of his father… he ran, and ran and ran.
He ended up back to his hometown, Clover, to go to the comfort of his friends and girlfriend. They were the people who were with him for five years.
But when he got to the tree were they usually meet, he saw his girlfriend, Angel, kissing his best friend Midnight.
He just stood there watching as so called friends, talk bad about him behind his back. He saw his girlfriend sucking face with his 'best friend'.
Again, he ran and ran and ran. He got home packed his belongings with a blank and emotionless face and went on a train.
The image of his father with his new family, the image of his mother packing her suitcase and not listening to the pleadings of his father, the image of his girlfriend who he had done nothing to her, he didn't kiss her or even touch her because she said she wasn't ready, the image of his friends talking behind his back were all inside his mind on the way.
He arrived at Magnolia and told his Uncle Gildarts about his abandonment of his parents, it angered the older man and he promised he won't tell Igneel where he is. Gildarts enrolled Natsu in Fiore Academy and Natsu decided to live in the dorms.
On the same day he wore a beanie and went to a club, met a blonde girl who he lost his virginity and he took her virginity too, she didn't even ask if it meant more to him, because she left the second day, and decided he liked it and became a player.
And ever since then, he never believed in love in any shape or form.
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So on Parent's day, he goes on the roof and drinks, smoke and does drugs. It was only on this stupid day that he does that.
But, today was different he was only smoking, before he saw the door being slammed open. And certain girl with blonde hair entered and looking emotionally broke.
He watched her bang her fists on the ground until they bleed, crying and screaming STOP, over and over again. Without thinking his body moved by itself to her, and he held her against him.
"Natsu?" she looked up to him with those big teary brown eyes.
And suddenly she wasn't the girl who he was battling with to see who breaks first. She was just a little girl who looked so vulnerable, so broken, she looked like broken glass, one touch and she will shatter. Those eyes that were looking for a reason to live looked like his…
His eyes softened, and her eyes seemed to tear up even more and she launched on to him and cried. He hugged her close, and buried his face into her neck.
He cried, Natsu Dragneel for the first time in forever cried. He didn't cry when his parents left him, he didn't cry when his girlfriend cheated on him, and he didn't cry when his friends betrayed him. One can only be strong for so long before they just break.
Right now those two weren't the most wanted people in school, they weren't players, and they weren't tough people. They were two broken people who needed to be shown what love is.
They needed to be shown, that they should give love one more chance. That love brings happiness, not bitterness.
But right now and here, they are just going to cry their misery together.
Both lost love in family, both lost love in people and both lost to life.
Nobody could understand them, than the other person. The pain of betrayal, the loss of love and the confusion they went through and still are affected by it.
Is there something called love? Could there really be love without betrayal? Can a person really stay with another and love them and only them? Is it true?
Natsu and Lucy stayed on the roof the whole day, crying…
Today they cry, tomorrow they ignore…
Why?
Pride and the walls that are built around their hearts…
That's the reason… for one gave up on love and the other doesn't believe in it…
And done! How was it? Hope you liked it! Oh, my new friend Nina Hatakana is going to write a song based of this story! How cool is that?!