Chapter12

'Tears…? Natsumi's… tears?"

"Lucas, Lucas…" the blonde suddenly looked at the white haired girl who was calling his name. He gulped as he widened his eyes not knowing what's happening around him. He saw a vision of Natsumi crying and he doesn't know if that it was true or not. "What's wrong with you?"

Lucas didn't answer as he looked down at the wooden table trying to force his mind to remember the rest but he couldn't. He raised his head back to look at her and shook his head feeling hopeless because he wasn't able to remember. He shook his head giving up as he stood up from his place not looking at the barmaid.

"Lucas?"

"Mira-san..., tell me where did Natsumi go?"

The blonde Lucas started looking at the map in his hands as he started to draw some line. The train that he should take was going named oak town and it was far from where fairy tail was. He needed at least two days in order to reach there. There would be changing in trains as well. He started to draw lines between the city and fairy tail and realized that sabertooth was in between. As he remembers, Natsumi and Sting were friends and she might go to them and stay. He should hurry up if he wanted to catch her.

He folded the map and moved his body to walk but stopped when the blue cat stopped him and stood before him.

"Lucas,"

"What do you want Happy?"

"... Let me go with you..."

Lucas didn't answer immediately but he kept looking at the eyes of the blue exceed to realize those worried eyes that stared at him. He was very worried about his friend and didn't know what to do. She looked very sad and he didn't know how to make her happy. She was his friend and family but he just couldn't comfort her with anything while she held inside of her and never talked.

"Happy, I... I have things to do with Natsumi and I can't take you."

"If you didn't I might go alone!" Happy yelled in back as he glared at the blonde making him look to the other direction and take a breath letting out a sigh. He moved his head back to look at him and spoke.

"Look Happy, I know you are dead worried about Natsumi but you can't just leave the guild like that, remember?"

"I know but, she didn't even face me when she left... I believe that there was something bothering her!" that caught Lucas's attention, he knew it. There was something bothering her... but what was it?!

"Something...?"

"Yeah, Natsumi is hurt... she needed someone to comfort her but she endured the pain herself." the blue cat said while he was looking down at the ground. He raised his head to look at him in a sad look. "The year you weren't here, she suffered in missions to forget her heart's pain until she broke her bones. She was about to die and no one realized it...!"

Lucas's heart was hurting him more now. He was the reason of everything that happened to her. The bad, the hurt and the depression that he caused her wasn't normal at all. The only thing he wishes for that if he could go back in time to prevent these things to happen. The idea of her suffering because of him, he hated it so much and wanted to change it but he couldn't. He didn't know how to do it.

"Are you going to take me?"

"... You have to stay here. I believe that Natsumi doesn't want anyone to see her like that. You have to respect her decision."

Happy's eyes widened at what he said. Lucas was right. He has to respect Natsumi's decision and be away when she didn't want anyone around and has to be with her when she needs him.

"Then, what about you?"

"I... I have to settle things together with Natsumi that nobody else can settle."

Lucas looked at the train as she he took a deep breath through his mouth and let it go with a sigh. He wanted to know what is happening and why Natsumi left without talking. From what he heard from Mira, she came to the guild at 11:30 and took a mission of s-class's and left to get her bags packed. He doesn't understand why she would do something like that. He believes that she did that because she didn't want to be a part of the exam at the end of the month and she knew it was in that time.

And now, he knows that he really did something really bad making her run away but his stupid mind doesn't want to remember. When he told them about that he wanted to go to find her, they argued with him about the exam and that he has to stay to take it but he just told them that he doesn't care about it. He doesn't care about becoming an s-class wizard.

Lucas hoped inside of the train as he started to search for a place to sit in. The city that Natsumi went to was a little far from Magnolia and needs switching trains for two times. So, he guesses that she didn't reach already since that she didn't reach there yet. He whined as he felt that this trip might take two days or though to reach there. In a second of thought, he started thinking who he would go there. He sighed and looked to the other direction trying to change what he is thinking about since he won't be able to take back his steps now. The only thing he wanted to think about was Natsumi and only her.

The pink haired hoped out of th train as she held her bag close to her. She was feeling a little sic but since the train stopped minutes ago, she is a little fine now. The pink haired girl had her hair tied up into a bun and her bangs were up in clips. She wasn't in the mood for letting her hair for in her shoulders or feel her bangs on her face. Actually, she wasn't in a good mood and when she turns this version, she moves her hair up so she won't feel it. The girl sighed as she tightened the bag's on her back as she started walking away.

Her mission was for guarding a very expensive diamond. She didn't care about the meaning of the mission as much she cared about staying away for the moment. She packed a very large bag for it. The people that sent the mission wanted a very loyal person and a very strong person so he could fight the thieves that will target the diamond.

The diamond was inside of a building and she has to protect it from stealing. And when the month ends, they will take it out of the oak town so they could sell it in auction. This work will be for her and for some other mages from different guilds and they have to stay awake for several days. This was a very hard mission that she might fall down sick but she just wants to do anything that will make her forget what she went through the last few days.

She sighed as she got out of the train station stretching her arms out above her head. She reached a little late because when she asked about a train leaving to the next city, they said that it already left and so she has to wait until the next train is up. She has to wait for severla hours though.

She can go to a restaurant or something to eat because she was really hungry and then she might find herself a room in a hotel. Natsumi went to the nearst hotel she was able to find as she entered. That restaurant suddenly reminded her about the day she drank in and lost control as she was about to hit the waiter. She frowned at that memory as she ignored it. Not only she remembered that, she also remembered that she was in pay for Lucas and he was the one who helped her out.

She sat down on the chair of the nearst table and waited for the waiter. She put her bags next to her as she waited. Suddenly she heard a sound calling over her name and she was surprised that there would be actually someone that knows her in this place. She raised her head to look at him and realized that it was Sting the waiter. From his clothes he wore, he was the waiter.

"Natsumi-san, what a great coincedance!" he said as he moved to where she sat. He knew that it was actually her even when she had done a very different hair do from what people always saw her. She forced a smile and looked into his eyes.

"Can I have the menu, Sting?"

Sting gave her the menu and waited until she ordered. She didn't order that much of food though she was very hungry. What Sting really wanted that moment, to leave his work and go chat with her but he couldn't.

"Where's the rest of your team? I can't even see Happy with you."

"I'm by myself, as you see."

"Ah,..." Sting then smiled and looked at her again. "You seem to be in a bad mood." he said catching her attention to look at him.

"Hmm? How can you tell?"

"Well, I know a lot about you, Natsumi-san."

"Really?" Natsumi laughed mocking. "What do you know about me?"

He didn't answer immediatelly, he sat down first. "I know that you seem to be a very harsh person but you are so different from the inside. She smiled at what he said. He was really right about what he said. He knows what dwells inside of her and knows what really inside of her heart from what she looks from the inside. She moved her eyes to look at him agai.

"What else do you know about me?"

"I know that you have a very white clean heart. A very beautiful person from both outside and inside."

She wasn't really happy to hear something like that because she was feeling a little down since she became like that. At first, she was harsh and prevented people to know the real her and now, everybody can see her true real self. The way she laugh, the way she cry... it was opened to everyone. Natsumi hated to be the subject of the people talk that's why she hid her true self. One day, after all the things was opened to people, she hated herself so much to be like that.

"I'm glad to hear that from you." she looked down at the table as she didn't want to hear anymore.

"I didn't say that for you to be upset."

"I told you that I'm glad!" she yelled.

"... Your eyes are betraying you..."

'... Tears.'