Holaaa :) this is the second day of nalu week and honestly I was not feeling so inspired. So it resulted in a very short story
Ihope you enjoy it as well
Clarification: Fairy Tail does not belong to me or its characters, it belongs to its creator Hiro Mashima
Prompt 2: Regret (July 2)
Natsu had experienced many adventures, more than the average person could relate to. His life as a magician brought many conflicts and battles but it also brought friendship and family. As a child he was unruly and a bit of an idiot, well he still is but from a very young age Natsu was seen with a recurring feeling of regret. And although it seems nothing like him, the truth is that since childhood his deep thoughts were reserved for himself. He was never able to freely share his negative feelings, he kept them in a very deep box inside of him. He avoided getting lost in them or even thinking about their existence but when he believed they no longer affected him, he could feel them under his skin, latent and intense. Natsu regretted many things, he always did. As a child he couldn't help but regret not having enjoyed more time with his father, his mind also made him regret that day when Igneel disappeared. If he had done something different, his father would be with him? He regrets not being able to do anything before he left.
In his life as a magician he regretted not having gone with Lisanna to the mission where she supposedly had passed away, for a long time the regret settled in the pit of his stomach. It was very difficult for him, it was his fault, he could have avoided that but he didn't. Until he met Lucy, a girl a bit strange but also sincere, kind and brave. One of the things that surprised him about her was the love that she dedicated to her spirits, the way she saw them as human beings, her iron will of what was right and wrong.
Being together and having adventures as a team made him feel good, he couldn't describe exactly why he felt the need to be with Lucy. But Natsu had fun with her, he liked to go on missions together, get into her apartment, eat her food, see her reactions so unique of hers, slowly Lucy became a fundamental part of his life. She became best friends with him alongside Happy. He considered the blonde to be her closest family , he was happy to have brought her to Fairy Tail.
Natsu always regretted many things but since Lucy entered the guild these only increased. When Phantom Lord kidnapped her and Gajeel beat her up, he had left her alone, vulnerable to all attacks. When Kain beat her in front of his own eyes and Natsu just stood there watching helplessly. When at the Great Magic Games he saw her being practically tortured and he couldn't do anything. When he couldn't stop Rogue from the future and saw Lucy murdered in front of his eyes. Maybe she wasn't his actual Lucy but she was still Lucy. When he left her for a year to go to training and the guild got dispersed. When they were kidnapped by Dimaria and he thought he had let her die.
Natsu regretted, he regretted not having the strength to protect the celestial mage, he regretted leaving her alone when she needed him most. Repentance. A feeling that flooded his chest, he had never failed someone like Natsu did with Lucy so many times. And that hurt like hell, he had failed her so many times and she still believed in him.
It didn't matter how many times he regretted something, Lucy never stopped believing in him, she never recriminated anything and always forgive him. She made his regrets fade but also caused new ones to appear. And it is that Lucy had changed the world from the moment she came into his life, continuously, since she arrived nothing was the same. She became the owner of a special part of his heart and made him understand things beyond fights and food. Lucy was his light and his downfall at the same time. He was completely in love with her and Natsu swore that until the end of the day he would be with her,he would protect her from anything. Because Lucy Heartfilia was the most beautiful coincidence he had ever had in his life.
Natsu regretted many things in his life.
But he would never regret meeting Lucy, he would never regret bringing her to Fairy Tail, he would never regret being her best friend and most of all he would never regret falling in love with the celestial spirit mage.
I just realized that it is like a small reflection in Natsu's mind rather than a story as such. I must admit that it is more difficult for me to write from Natsu's point of view than from Lucy uwu
