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~After Story~
-:Chapter Thirty-Seven:-
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"Well?" Natsu puffed out a big cloud of smoke, he started to get really impatient by the boy's silence.
"I-I want t-to thank you!" the blond haired boy said and bowed down. Natsu's eyes widened in shock and slowly he lowered his gun.
"I don't know what you're talking about, kid. I haven't seen you before." feeling how something tugged inside his chest Sting straightened up and scratched the back of his neck awkwardly.
"Ah…haha… I guess you wouldn't remember me after all those years.."
"Huh?" narrowing his eyes the pinkette took the cigarette and flicked it so the ashes fell down to the ground.
"Maybe if I told you the story… you'll remember who I am?" with hopeful eyes Sting gazed up to Natsu who had cocked his eyebrow. Still the pinkette secured the pistol and pit it back inside his jacket, sticking back the cig between his lips Natsu crossed his arms.
"Tell me then." nodding Sting opened his mouth and started to tell the man before him,
FLASHBACK
10 years ago (2002-Spring)
"Oy shrimp, were is our money?" a red haired boy in the age of nine asked a terrified Sting. "Spit 'em up!"
"B-But I don't have any money! I used them to buy lunch!" apparently this happened on the school ground but the teacher nonetheless were in the staff room and didn't see or hear the things going on out in the schoolyard.
"Lunch? Doesn't your mom do food for ya'?" another boy asked, a cruel smirk on his lips.
"N-No…" Sting answered with tears in his eyes.
"Oh? Is the little puppy going to cry?" the red haired boy laughed together with his friends. "Guess you're the weak member of the Eucliffe family, yes?" balling his hands up to shaking fists the blond boy gritted his teeth and forced back the tears that threatened to escape from his eyes.
"Ahaha, look he's crying!" the redhead's friend exclaimed and pointed at Sting's flushed face.
"I'm not…" he said through gritted teeth.
"Huh, what was that?" the 'leader' teasingly asked with cupping his hand behind the ear while leaned down to Sting's level.
"I'm not weak!" he cried and threw a punch in the redhead's face. Jerking backward with a hand over the spot were Sting had hit the older boy glared at him.
"You'll pay for that! Hold him down!" the redhead's friends quickly took a hold of Sting who struggled in their grasps, trying to get free.
"Release me!" he screamed and flexed his arms and legs wildly.
"Oh we will," one of the friends whispered.
"As fast as Russ have paid back for what you did." the second friend finished. Sting glanced upwards when Russ's shadow covered him. Being forced down on his knees Sting closed his eyes shut tightly and waited for the pain.
"I'll pay back the double." Russ laughed and raised his fist, ready for a hard strike down to the boy.
Sting waited for the pain but when nothing came he opened an eye to see a boy with wild pink hair stand in front of him and that the grip on his arms were gone. Looking around he saw a girl with long scarlet red hair hold down one of Russ's friends and a ebony black haired boy holding the second.
"Oy, oy… pick a fight with someone in your own size." the pink haired boy said to Russ who tried to get his hand free from his grip. "You okay there?" the boy asked over his shoulder to a shocked Sting. Nodding the blond boy watched how a smirk formed on his lips.
"Let go off my hand you retarded clown!" Russ yelled but shut his mouth closed when the pinkette's face changed from a normal to a pissed one.
"Oh he didn't just call him that.." the ebony haired boy said. Sting turned around and stared at him with a confused face.
"Well, the guy gotta blame himself for what will happen." the red haired girl said and closed her eyes.
"Jeez, he's gonna be all messed up after this." a long black haired boy now appeared out from nowhere.
"Hm… I think this is going to be interesting." a blue haired girl said and closed her book she held.
"What did you call me?" the pinkette snarled at the now terrified Russ. Without having time to react the redhead found himself down on the ground and his arm ached in pain. The pinky head had one knee on Russ's back and had bent his arm backwards so it nearly could get broken with one powerful yank.
"Gaah! Let go off me! I'll do anything, just let me GO!" the redhead cried and tears streamed down his cheeks.
"Anything?" the pinkette asked. Nodding furiously Russ squirmed when his arm got pulled up backwards a little. "Then remember this that this guy holding you name is Natsu Dragneel and will beat ya' up to a mass of blood and bones." with that said the pinkette let go off Russ who crawled away from Natsu who glared at him with his arms crossed over his chest. Russ's friend had also been set free and were now by his side. "BOH!"
"HIEEEE!" running away from the spot Natsu laughed loudly.
"What a bunch of chickens!" he said making the other laugh with him.
"A-Ano…" silence fell over the group when Sting shyly looked up to the pinkette who grinned down to him.
"You okay?"
"H-Hai!" accepting Natsu's extended hand Sting found himself up on his feet again.
"Well we gotta go, see ya' around." he watched how Natsu's friends joined up right next to him.
Looking down to hi hand Sting snapped his head up when pinkette called from the other side of the schoolyard.
"What's you name?" Natsu asked in a yell.
"Sting, Sting Eucliffe!"
"See ya' another time then, Sting!" with that the pink haired boy turned around to his friends again got smacked by a brown haired girl who approached them.
"But… I haven't thanked you…"
END of FLASHBACK
Natsu looked at the blond teen for a moment, not knowing if to whether believe him or not.
"Let me see your face." placing two fingers under Sting's chin he forced the boy to look up to him. A blush crept slowly up on the blonds' cheeks.
How can he act like this! Sting mentally shouted. His eyes flicked nervously between Natsu and the empty space were the pinkette's face wasn't in his vision. And he reeks of cigarette too! YUCK!
"It's been a long time, kiddo." straightening up Natsu smirked down to Sting. Sting himself felt how his heart made a flip of happiness over that his hero remember him.
"Natsu-san… is.."
"Hm?" with a new cigarette in between his lips said man questioning gazed down to the blond teen.
"I-Is it okay if me and my friends join D-T?" Natsu stared at Sting with wide and utterly surprised eyes before a small smile settled down on his lips. Exhaling a big cloud of smoke the pinkette ruffled the teen's hair.
"First of all you must be a member of FTG before you can join any of the crews." Natsu swore that Sting's face lit up like a child's at Christmas Eve.
"H-How…?" Natsu's smile turned to a cruel smirk that made the blond spine run cold.
"A duel to death."
Sting's eyes widened in horror and sweat ran down his neck and forehead.
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"Just kiddin with ya', the headmaster will decide if you're made of the right stuffs."
"And… how will he do that?"
"He pick out a member and let you fight with him till one of you can't stand anymore."
"B-But that's-"
"Don't worry, you don't have to die, what's the point of asking for membership if you maybe have to die?" Sting sighed in relief. Laughing Natsu again ruffled his hair so it stood everywhere in a messy mop of blonde locks. "But count in that you will get some wounds and bruises."
Gazing down to his shoes Sting then shyly looked up to Natsu grinned widely.
"By the way, how old are you? Fourteen, fifteen?"
"I'm turning eighteen in two months…"
"Ah, then I suggest you to be careful with the white haired chick." at that Sting blushed all the way down to his neck.
F-Fro? !" Natsu nodded. "B-But she isn't… I mean…"
"Relax, I was just joking around with ya'." the pink haired man took the cigarette between his fingers and exhaled the cloud of smoke. Looking up to the sky Natsu saw how the full moon shone down to the two of them.
"Natsu-san?" said man slowly gazed down to the blond teen, waiting for him to continue. "I overheard what you and your gang talked about… is true that you have kids?"
"Yup, two boys."
"Can I ask you how it feels to be a father then?" at that Natsu laughed softly.
"Let me say it like this, it feels great and unrealistic when you hold your first born." taking a small pause to inhale Natsu then continued. "But you're still afraid of making a bad impression. Believe me, it's normal. Why wondering? Planning on having some fun tonight?" winking teasingly to Sting he watched how the teen exploded in a color like a tomato.
Lucy sighed when someone laid down beside her.
"And where have you been?" she asked Natsu who looked startled for a second before he sighed and laid his arm around her, bringing her body closer to him.
"Out."
"You reek cigarettes."
"Can I blame the habit?"
"Yes, yes you can." the blonde sighed and snuggled closer to her lover's chest. "Was Toshiro asleep?" Natsu nodded while his hand drew circles on her hips.
"Yeah, but I still don't like it that he have to sleep alone in the living room.."
"Jeez, you sound like my father."
"I wouldn't sound like him if Toshiro could sleep in this room instead."
A sudden whimper from the crib took the attention from them both and soon Hoshi started to scream for his parents. Sending Natsu a pleading look she then beamed when the pinkette sighed and got up from their bed and over to the little baby.
As fast as Natsu came in Hoshi's view his screams changed to light sobs.
"What's the matter? Papa-sick?"
"Whaa~" picking up him Natsu laid him so his head rested against his father's shoulder. Lucy sat on the bed, smiling at the scene.
Who thought that a gangster could be so gentle… huh? she thought.
"Maamaa…" Toshiro's voice came and both parents looked over to the door, seeing their oldest son stand by the frame, rubbing his left eyes tiredly. "Nijmaaaree~" he sobbed and sleepily walked over to the bed were Lucy had crawled over to the side and lifted Toshiro up once he was by the edge.
"Did you have a nightmare?" she asked him and got a nod in response. Leaning his head against her chest the toddler let out sniffles.
"Sooo, how did it got? Ribbit~" Frosh asked Sting later when they were back in the small apartment the four shared. "Are we in? Ribbit~"
"No, we need to be member of FTG before joining Natsu-san and the others." Sting answered the whitehead who started to jump up and down. The blond couldn't help but look at her chest bobbed together with her motion. Blushing madly he smacked hi face down to the table and grumbled for himself.
"What's with him?" Lector asked and sat down beside his friend. Rogue shrugged while he read the book he currently held.
"We're joining FTG! We're joining FTG!" Frosh kept on singing. Lector face palmed while Rogue just glanced up form the book and then continued to read.
"Rogue? For how long do you plan on reading that book?" Lector asked the black haired teen. "It's been years and you still haven't complete reading it."
"I read thoroughly and slow."
"I figured…" the brown haired boy sweat dropped. Sting sighed while he stood up from the chair and headed over to one of the two bedrooms.
"I'm going to bed.. night." with that he closed the door. Frosh stopped when he walked past her and confused looked after him.
"What's with Sting-kun?"
"Thank god! You didn't say-"
"Ribbit~"
"…'ribbit'…" face palming Lector leaned back in the chair.
"Bakas." Rogue murmured.
End of chapter 37! :DDDDD
Before you ask! NO! Sting is not gay! Sorry if I made him act like that ^^'
Ooooh, so Natsu saved Sting when they were younger! So sweet of our pinkette~
Sorry if they four of them acted OOC but this is an AU story and most of the characters are OOC and I like it that way ^^ and Sting is soooo cute~
The new pairings are StiFro, RogueXOC and LectorXOC (damn... have to figure out some OCs)
I will draw a picture of how Frosh looks like in human form and will eventually upload the pick on dA when it's done! :3
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