(September 2nd,2015)
How tall are you? Why is your hair pink? Do you play basketball? Do you play sports? Where are you from?
Those were all the questions Natsu heard all morning, and he despised it. He wished everyone would stop pestering him with pointless questions. He didn't respond to them and just disregarded them. Why did they care about his height? The sport he played? The color of my hair? Were they going to bully him?
Natsu wasn't a stranger as he had one when he was growing up. It was over his "pink" hair and a boy named Jackal would do it. He would beat the shit out of Natsu every week in elementary school, and it got so severe that Natsu went to the hospital one time.
When Igneel found out what happened to Natsu, he signed his son up for self-defense class and boxing. And after a few lessons, he beat up Jackal as he was just bigger and stronger than Natsu but had no fighting skill. After that day Jackal stopped bullying Natsu but still gave him glares whenever he saw him. Natsu chuckled. The students here could try to torment him if they wanted to get beat up.
It was lunchtime and Natsu didn't make any new friends unless you count the cute blondie in his chemistry class. Well, they also had math together too, but she didn't sit near him as she was sitting next to a blue-haired girl with square glasses. She probably didn't realize he was in her class. He did sit in the back because of his height. What was her name again? Luigi?
He looked around the open-spaced lunch room with students typically seated at the table. He instantly noticed people were staring longingly at him, but that was probably because of his tall height or his salmon-colored hair. He finally saw Luigi in line to get food with her friends.
He didn't know any of them but one of the girls looked familiar. She had red hair and looked so familiar, but he couldn't wrap his tongue around it. Lucy looked happy, and her smile was so cute. Natsu sighed and turned around only to bump into a small fragile woman.
"Ouch." Natsu promptly recognized the girl on the ground as she was the blue-haired girl with glasses sitting next to Lucy.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't see where I was going." Natsu apologized and carefully helped her up.
"Wow Lu-Chan was right, you're unusually tall and hot," Levy muttered under her breath. But that didn't matter as Natsu had great hearing so he pondered who Lu-Chan was.
She was about to say something but Natsu was tackled to the ground by a certain someone. Her overprotective boyfriend was strangling him to the ground until Natsu pushed him off of him. Slowly but surely the three of them were getting crowded by students.
"What the fuck," Natsu exclaims, "Why the fuck did you tackle me?" He properly looked at the guy and was a bit shocked at what he saw. The guy had metal rods pierced into his face. It looked so unpleasant. He was muscular and had long black hair.
"You attacked my girlfriend and now you will pay." The stranger charged forward, striking Natsu's face. Natsu bellowed in pain and heard fight fight fight from the boisterous crowd. He didn't want to get in trouble on the first day, but he had no choice.
The guy went in for another punch only to get stopped by Natsu's hand. They examined each other's eyes and were asking do you want to do this? Natsu was about to uppercut him until he heard a small voice speak out.
"Gajeel stop." He saw the petite blue-haired girl try to say that but clearly the guy named Gajeel didn't hear her as he released himself from Natsu's grasp. He charged forward only to meet a fist into his stomach.
Gajeel could feel his insides turn inside out as the impact hurt like a bitch. He coughed up blood and looked at the person who hurt his girlfriend. Gajeel flung his backpack at him and while Natsu thrashed it to the side, Gajeel was able to strike his face.
Blood came trickling down from Natsu's head. Natsu retaliated with two quick jabs to the face and then one hard punch. One of Gajeel's piercings fell out due to the power of Natsu's punch.
Blood streaming down his face, he saw his girlfriend still on the ground and looked back at him. His eyes started seeing red and just went berserk with rage. Natsu saw Gajeel's rage and dodges every punch that was thrown his way.
Natsu was about to strike back only to find himself being held back by a brawny white-haired man. He was tall, and his Natsu could feel his strength holding him back. Natsu looked up and saw another man holding back Gajeel. They were security guards.
Great. The first day of school and he was already in trouble. He looked at the crowd and saw Luigi's friends looking at them. He found Luigi looking at him with a look like he was going to hurt her. He didn't know what to do so he just looked elsewhere as he was being escorted out of the room and into the main office. The guards continued down a hallway and fling open a door.
Gajeel and Natsu were both thrown into the room onto the chairs. Natsu realized he was in the principal's office as he recognized the room he was in as he was here before his tour. The principal was sitting comfortably at his polished desk and didn't realize they were here until the guards cleared their throat.
"Ahem Makarov?"
He looked up and noticed the boys and the guards in the room with them. His dull expression became happy and cheerful.
"Natsu how are you doing on your first day of school and is that Gajeel? I haven't seen you all summer, did you get stronger and better?"
Natsu and Gajeel were about to say something but were interrupted by the guard.
"Sir, they were fighting in lunch, so Lily and I brought them here."
Marakov's face changed into a glum and frowning face.
"I see, thank you elf man and lily. I will take care of this, you two are free to go."
The guards left the room, making sure the door was closed just in case Marakov would yell.
"So why are my two teammates fighting?"
"Huh, teammates?" Gajeel and Natsu said. Marakov was not only the principal, but he was the coach of the basketball team too. Natsu realized this metalhead was his teammate.
"Sir, it was a misunderstanding," Natsu said quickly," This metal idiot thought I attacked his girlfriend, and what happened was we bumped into each other."
"Is this true Gajeel?"
"I don't know, I just saw Levy on the floor and went crazy."
"Ah young love," Gajeel blushed."I see now, I am not going to punish you guys but if you guys misbehave again. I will not hesitate to punish you. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes sir!" They shouted fiercely at the same time.
"Great, remember our first practice is tomorrow after school. Don't be late."
They nodded and exited the room. Natsu and Gajeel didn't look at each other and quickly went opposite directions to their next class. Natsu couldn't believe he already got into a fight on the first day of school. He wondered how worse this year can get.
X
"So you're telling me I got it wrong?"
Levy was explaining Natsu just bumped into her accidentally to her boyfriend Gajeel.
"Fuck me, how am I going to look at him at practice" His face soured at the thought of apologizing to Natsu.
"He plays basketball too?" Gajeel looked up and saw Lucy ask this question. Levy, Gajeel, and Lucy were in 7th period and she must have overheard them.
"Yeah" Gajeel chuckled "he's tall so it's only natural."
Lucy went back to her thoughts, and Levy's face bore an angry expression.
"You better apologize to him or else Gajeel!" She whispered harshly. She hoped Natsu understood that Gajeel didn't mean any harm.
"Maybe shrimp, if he is nice to me."
"Gajeel I mean -"
Ding Ding Ding
The bell had rung and students got out of their seats and headed out of the school as the school had finally ended. Gajeel rose from his seat and immediately rushed out the door, not wanting his girlfriend to get mad.
"Bye shrimp! I gotta go to practice."He yelled as he ran out the door.
"Ugh, boys," Levy says as she shook her head. She turned and looked at Lucy, she was so deep in thought that she didn't hear the bell ring. Levy wondered what was on Lucy's mind.
"Lu-Chan you coming to the book club today?"
"Huh? Oh sorry, Levy, I wasn't listening," Lucy said, as she pulled herself back down from the clouds.
"I said are you going to the book lunch meeting today? I see Natsu has been on your mind" Levy teased.
"Levyyy! I don't know what you're talking about and yes I am let's go."Lucy hurried out of the class having Levy chase after her. Levy knew that Lucy had feelings for Natsu from that moment. Now she waited to see how her best friend would act on them.
X
Natsu had changed into his gym clothes as he was just wearing plain red shorts with Jordan 3s while on top was a mesh jersey. He walked into the gym and saw he was the only one there. Perfect.
Natsu could work on his skills before his new teammates arrived. He snatched a ball from the ball rack and started dribbling. He did two quick dribbling drills where in the first one he had to do 100 quick crossovers in under a minute. The other drill did as many combo dribble moves as he could. Some combos are crossover, between the legs, behind the back, hesi and so much more.
After he had finished, he headed over to the free-throw line and promptly proceeded to practice his free throws. He worked on his form, making sure he lined it up with the hoop correctly and flicking his wrist correctly. He shot 10 free throws, only just making six of them.
He genuinely knew he still had to work on his free throws to be the best player he could ever be. A free throw is where you take 1-3 shots (typically depending on the foul) from the free-throw line. It's the only time where you have no defense on you while you shoot so it's easy money if you're an excellent shooter.
"If you keep practicing, you can make all ten of them." Natsu diligently looked behind him and saw a familiar face. It was the redhead from the group. But why was she here and why did she look so familiar?
"Thank you but why are you here?" He asked as sipped on some water.
"Oh I'm Ezra Scarlet; I'm the assistant coach of the basketball team." So that's why she looked so familiar, he had identified her picture in Makarovs office.
"It's nice to meet you then Ezra, I'm Nat-," Ezra abruptly interrupted.
"Natsu Dragneel, the new player who fought with his teammate on the first day."
Natsu shook his head as he realized he was going to have a rigorous practice if his teammates regarded him like that. A hostile teammate.
"It was a misunderstanding; I swear." Natsu pleaded eloquently to her. She started laughing gently.
"I know I'm just messing with you, the coach already informed us what happened."
"I see, where is everyone else?" As soon as he said that, the doors opened and the whole team came walking in. They were led by Gajeel and a blue-haired man with a distinctive tattoo over his eye.
(Disclaimer I don't own fairy tail sadly. did you guys see that new drake drop man I can't wait for clb. when clb drops I'll give you guys 4 chapters, 2 here and 2 in my other one. Alright hope you enjoy, I'm go write and edit my other chapter. Peace :)
