" YOU IDIOT! HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL US?!" Gray bellowed. Making everyone except Ren and Meena flinch.
" Yeah, Natsu we're your f- family." Happy added quietly. He'd been silent for so long they almost forgot he was there.
" I didn't want any of you to get it in you head that you had to save me. N- not a single one of you is dying for me." Natsu replied.
"... bull." Gray muttered.
" Gray-"
" THAT IS B! #$%^T! YOU ALWAYS GO AROUND RISKING YOUR LIFE FOR US! BUT WE CANT DO THE SAME FOR YOU!?" Gray asked. Erza surprised at how upset he was said,
" At least let him talk." Gray turned and looked at her in the eyes. They were calm yet her true eye also had a storm brewing somewhere in the distance. She was worried and scared but felt it was her job to keep calm. Grays eyes hid no emotion. There was worry, sorrow, confusion, and something else with calmness and anger covering it up. Then before she could tell what the last emotion was he turned away, " Why? Why Natsu," saying it almost like ' Why? Wha-hai Nat-zuu?'
" None of you deserve to die." he mumbled, " Especially not for me."
" Well its time we save you." Gray told him.
" No."
" Natsu-"
" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"..."
" Have any of you ever caused the death of someone you loved? Betrayed your own flesh and blood? Been the reason that someone who has never done anything wrong and some
one you were supposed to be protecting died an unrightfully death?" They just stared at him and he got up, " That's what I thought. I'm going for a walk."
" Natsu..." Lucy started watching him leave the room.
" Let him be." Ren warned.
" He still blames himself?" Meena asked herself and Ren turned to face her.
" *sigh* It would seem so, Na. It would seem so."( cute nickname( shortened name) for Meena right?)
Short again I know. But next chapter will be long and have a wonderfully annoying cliffie. And don't forget you can guess the number again.