Don't leave me

by shadizsato

Natsu's tired of being pushed away whenever his partner wants to go on a date. He is tired of being alone, of being abandoned. What happens when he falls back on a friend that watched him go through those rough patches. Does he even have the trust to let them get close? Rated M for obvious reasons. Previously a one-shot!

5. Regretful Actions

I do not own Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima does!

Keep an open mind in this! The further the plot goes, the more confusing it might get.

Mirajane ran her hand up her neck with her left hand, shaky fingers brushing over the bruised and bitten skin. In the heat of the moment she had found the gesture sweet, sexy even. She had wanted him to claim her, but it hadn't even crossed her mind for him to go so far. Now, all she was worried about was what the guild would say about it, about them. 'With this mark, I am claiming you as mine. You could remove a ring and no one will know... You can't hide this.' The memory itself was enough to stir desire within her, more than just a desire for his body, but for everything he was. The more she thought about it, the more she realized she wouldn't have stopped him even if she knew he was going to do it.

Mentally shaking herself, Mirajane double checked the rest of her appearance, she had taken a quick shower and brushed the tangles out from her hair, and then had scrounged through the clothes she had brought over to his place while he was gone with Lucy on her mission. She had finally decided on a long red sun dress that held loosely to her body down to her ankles and a pair of heels to go along with it.

Peeking through the back door of the guild, she slipped inside and moved back behind the counter, going about her business as if she hadn't left in the first place, but continued to ignore the surrounding conversations as she worked. Her presence was recognized almost immediately. "Mira!" Hearing her name called, Mirajane smiled brightly and looked up to see who had called her. "Where have you been!? Lisanna cut me off!" Cana, the resident drunk, was currently screaming, her eyes glaring at the take-over mage.

A knowing smile crossed Mirajane's lips and she poured a tall mug of alcohol and plopped it down in front of the woman, holding a single finger over her lips. "I won't tell if you won't." Cana's frown quickly warped into a smile and snatched the mug for a quick drink. "You're the best, Mira!" She called out with a cheer. Mirajane smiled brighter and shook her head, happy that she could brighten the woman's day with such a small act.

Movement over at the other side of the bar caught Mirajane's attention, a flash of blonde and red hair taking up a couple of open seats. "What can I get for you Lucy?" She asked, her smile ever present. "A milkshake perhaps?" She offered.

"Strawberry please!" The celestial mage said with a cheer before turning back towards Erza. "How long do we have to wait for him? He hasn't been in since early this morning! Why don't we just leave him?" She whined, throwing a bit of a tantrum.

Erza glared at Lucy, her mouth opening to reprimand her for being so impatient, but Mirajane cut her off by placing a large slice of cheesecake in front of her. Erza completely forgot about their conversation and snatched the fork from Mirajane's outstretched hands and Lucy gladly accepted the milkshake from Mirajane as well, nodding her thanks.

Erza looked up briefly from her snack and frowned at Lucy. "If he isn't back by the time I finish my cake, we'll just go without him." She stuffed another bite into her mouth and turned to Mirajane, gesturing with her fork. "Do you know where Natsu is?" She asked, going back down to her food while waiting for an answer.

Mirajane blushed and felt her hand trace over the mark on her neck once again, vividly reminding herself of their time together. Both Lucy and Erza looked back up from their snacks, staring quizzically at the woman in front of them who was obviously not paying any attention to them as she was in her own fantasy world. "Mira?" Lucy asked worried, tilting her head to the side trying to find out what the woman was thinking so intently on. She watched as a shudder ran through Mirajane and caught the hickey on her neck, a dark purple with fiery red teeth marks dug into her skin around it. Lucy gasped and blushed brightly for the woman. "Did… did Natsu…" She asked, not bothering to finish her question since Mirajane noticed she was looking at her neck pointedly.

Mirajane blushed brighter, her face turning as red as Erza's hair. She dropped her gaze to the floor in front of her and bit her lip before nodding. "WHERE IS HE?! I'LL MAKE HIM REGRET IT!" Erza cried out, standing with enough force to knock over her barstool, completely forgetting about the half eaten dessert in front of her on the countertop.

A dark aura surrounded the three women. "You won't touch him." Mirajane said, her voice dripping in near physical venom. The sudden change in her demeanor reminded Lucy that Mirajane and Erza had once fought over nearly everything in the past, and that they were bound to explode at one another eventually. "I told him to make me his. Maybe I didn't expect something like this…" she said with a gesture to the mark, still glaring intently at Erza. "However, that is what makes Natsu the way he is. Besides, I'm not too sure he would let you… He has started to be rather… possessive lately…"

Lucy giggled and leaned towards Mirajane. "Possessive how? I think we deserve some details." Mira looked down at the ground before glancing around the bar to see if anyone was paying them any mind and found that everyone was just calmly going about their business.

"Well you see… we got into a bit of a fight… I sort of pretended to be Lisanna to see exactly what he felt for her, and if he would act on said feelings… But he knew it was me and led me along before confronting me on it once we got back to his place. He was angry and things may have gotten a little rough." Mira recounted for them, sparing them the details of how they had ended back at his place.

Growing worried, Lucy frowned at her, concern evident on her face. "Rough? Did he force you? Is that why he bit you?" Lucy gasped at the thought of Natsu hurting one of his friends, let alone someone he had feelings for.

Mira brought her hands up and waved them quickly, shaking her head in the process frantically. "No no no no no, nothing like that!" She finally dropped her hands after a moment, sighing quietly once she saw that they weren't accusing him once again. "I kind of asked him to make me regret the decision of trying to deceive him like that…"

"I can't believe you!" Erza said shocked. "Since when did you become so… so perverted? It's indecent!"

"What's indecent?" The three women turned quickly to the new voice, Mirajane groaned as she saw it was her younger sister. Lisanna was one of the few people she really didn't want to see her this way, knowing her sister's feelings for the Dragon Slayer.

"Mira here was just telling us how she tried to seduce Natsu… While using your body might I add." Mira spun and glared daggers at Erza, vowing silently to herself to pay her back for that comment.

"Oh? And how exactly did that turn out?" Lisanna asked with a gasp, taking a seat next to Lucy. Lucy tapped her shoulder and pointed over to Mirajane's neck, Lisanna gaping at the sight. "That well?" She giggled and blushed. "Maybe I do have a chance after all!"

"I don't think so. He knew it was her all along." Erza answered.

Mirajane blushed brighter and dropped her face into her hands in embarrassment. "Oh come on Mira! I've seen how he looks at you; he even came to me to help find you!" Lisanna said, trying to comfort her sister. "Besides, he made his choice perfectly clear to me… Even if you did steal him out from under me…" She said mumbling the last part, but Lucy heard her anyways.

"Stole him from you did she? I'd say she stole him from me! He hasn't even tried to sleep over at my place in the last month! It's almost as if I'm not enough to keep him company any longer." Lucy cried out, feeling slightly betrayed. "I know I don't have quite the feelings for him, like you do Mira, but still… After all this time I can't but hope that he might have felt something for me."

Mira spun on the blonde and poked her finger sharply into her chest. "That is your own fault and you know it. If you hadn't kept telling him to leave you alone so you could go on dates, this probably wouldn't have ended up happening. He felt abandoned again, this time by a friend. He even told me that he felt more at home at your apartment than he did in his own place!" Mira stepped back and forced herself to take a calming breath, knowing that any louder and she would have started to cause a scene, and people were already starting to look over at them curiously.

Lucy's eyes widened at Mirajane's words. She opened her mouth to explain, but Mirajane kept going, in a hushed tone this time. "I hadn't even planned on making a move for him, but I wanted to give him something to look forward to. The look on his face when he said he didn't want to be alone again, I couldn't stand back and just let him feel that way. I was content with just letting him stay over, just to be company for him. I thought I could let it be nothing more than that, that I could sit back and watch long enough to see one of you two show him your love, but things just kind of happened." Mirajane folded her arms below her breasts and glared between the two women. "He isn't as dense as he looks… He just couldn't make himself throw away your friendships for the chance to have more. That chance that you would drop his friendship was too much for him, so he pushed his feelings away."

Lucy looked down and shook her head. "I tried to tell him, but he said he wouldn't be a second choice. I had burned that bridge a long time ago, well before I had even though of him in that way." She sighed and continued to shake her head in disbelief.

"I don't think that is quite correct." Mira said. "That first night, when you had told him to not come over because you were going on a date, he said he was going home. But when he said that, I couldn't help but think he was going to your place, though he wouldn't have gone in, he would have stayed nearby just in case you changed your mind. I brought him in with me instead, and that had started him to think differently about me. He saw that no matter what happened between us, whether he accepted my feelings or not I just wanted him to be around. That was just two nights before you confessed to him. Now? I think your chances have set sail. We all know him, he is loyal to a fault."

"Then why do you think he would turn any of us down if he would have accepted our feelings at the time? What changed?" Lucy asked hesitantly.

Mira smiled brightly, her heart warming at the sight of the Dragon Slayer enter the guild to take a seat next to Happy, Charle, and Wendy. Their eyes met only briefly, but it was enough for her to see his desire for her despite the distance between them. "He asked her to marry him." Lisanna answered for her, a small sad smile gracing her lips.

Lucy and Erza gaped at the sisters unable to believe what they were hearing. "But… but neither of you are old enough!" Erza said challengingly, making those around look at the group of girls. "You haven't even been together that long, why would you try something like this at that point? Don't you want to wait to see if you are ready?"

"And why should that matter?" Natsu's joyous voice caused Erza to flinch as she hadn't expected their conversation to bring him over. "Besides, she did say that she wanted to wait a while until we can work a few things out." Wrapping his arms around Mira, he pulled her back into his chest and burrowed his head into her neck, grazing his teeth over the mark he had left on her, drawing a quiet moan from her. All four women blushed at the sound and at his bravery to draw it out of Mirajane. "Not here Natsu…" She whispered. "Our friends are here…."

"Why are you two so happy then?" Erza continued. "If she said no, then why are you both in such a good mood?"

Mirajane frowned at the scarlet haired woman. "I never said no, Erza." This caused both Erza and Lucy to look at one another confused before turning back to the couple.

"Excuse me?" Erza questioned. "But… Natsu just said you wanted to wait, how is that not a no?"

Mirajane ran her hands along his arms, looking over her shoulder lovingly at the Dragon Slayer. "After giving me this mark, I told him that he would have to prove to the guild and Elfman that he is enough. That even if they do not accept us, I would love him all the same. However, until the day that everyone accepts us and what we think of one another, we can be nothing more than in love and dating." Her words were soft, but full of sorrow that they would base their love on the jealousy and thoughts of others. "But if we can't have our friends accept us…"

"I don't want any of you to tell anyone about our arrangement. I want everyone to accept us out of their own will, not because they would feel guilty that they are keeping us from being together." Natsu said quietly, staring at each of the women individually until they nodded.

"I do not see why you are so worried about it, I cannot think of anyone that would purposefully try to harm your relationship with one another…" Lucy added after she gave her word not to say anything to anyone else about their proposal.

"Sometimes people do not realize what they had missed until it is out of reach. They will use any means to try to get it back." Lisanna explained in a hushed tone. The five remained silent for a few moments as they let their situation sink in.

"What if someone downright refuses to accept you two?" Erza asked finally.

Natsu dropped his chin to Mirajane's shoulder and gave Erza a grin. "If it comes to that I will just have to convince then. If that doesn't work… Then I will wait until Mira here gets tired of me and tells me to get lost."

"Then what if I refuse, knowing it could push you apart so I can have an attempt to be with you in the future?" Lisanna asked bluntly, concern evident on her features. "I don't want to hurt either of you, but if there is a chance, why would I let that chance go?"

Mira touched Natsu's arms gently and attempted to push against them, but he only tightened his hold on her. Letting out a small sigh, Mirajane peeled his arms from around her and walked up to her sister to stand in front of her. "That is your choice Lisanna; I won't make you accept us. But this is what we were talking about, if people know they have a chance to push us away, they might take it."

Lisanna looked away from her sister in shame, staring at the ground intently. "I meant what I said to you Natsu. I love you. I tried to ignore it when I came back because it looked like you had Lucy, but once I had found out that you weren't after her at the time, I felt the need to try and get you to reciprocate my feelings for you. Even when I was in Edolas, I was drawn towards that Natsu because he was like you. But that was the problem, he was like you…. But he wasn't you. No one is like you… Every time I try to go out with someone, it always comes back to you and I compare everyone to what we had before I disappeared…"

Mirajane wrapped her arms around her sister's small frame, hugging her tightly. "If my own sister cannot accept my relationship, then maybe I need to take a step back and fix my relationship with her first. No matter what will or will not happen between Natsu and I, you will always be my sister. No one can take you from me; no one can replace you as my sister. I would do anything for you."

Lisanna's head came up to look at her sister. "Would you even leave Natsu for me?"

"I won't leave him, but I will hold myself back for it. But, if we grow apart, I will still be there for him." Mirajane responded. "I care about him too much to let him go through what he has alone." Lisanna nodded silently before looking at Natsu, sadness etched into her gaze.

"I can only accept you under one condition… I want a chance to prove to you that I am enough for you, that you really do feel something here… with me." Lisanna's words made Natsu look away, feeling guilty that she felt she was inadequate, that his decision to pursue her sister had caused her this much distress. He never meant anyone to get hurt because of it.

Erza spoke up. "I agree with Lisanna's suggestion. If you do this, and it turns out Natsu doesn't have feelings for Lisanna then I approve. If he does have feelings for her, then it only shows that you two aren't ready for this step. This is a test of the strength of your love. And no pretending, you have to actually try to see what could happen if you opened yourself up."

"Do I have no say in this?" Natsu said frowning. Erza glared at him, but he glared back. "It's good to know that my friends doubt my decision so much." Erza's gaze turned cold, her teeth clenching tightly at his comment.

"You said you would do anything to convince us." Lisanna said confidently. "This is what it will take to convince me, I want you to go out on a date with me and we can see what happens, where it goes."

Mirajane grabbed Natsu's arm and pulled him closer to her, pressing his arm firmly against her chest. "So long as you don't try to cheat to take him from me, like drug him or force him into something… I don't like it, but I trust him and his decisions." She turned back to Natsu and kissed his cheek. "I trust you, but I don't want you to lie to me and say there is nothing just because you don't want to hurt me, tell me about everything that happens between you." She said sternly, keeping her eyes locked on his.

Natsu frowned down at Mirajane, furrowing his brow. "What could possibly happen? I'm not going to willingly cheat on you. I want to prove that I love you, not have sex with Lisanna because it will push us apart."

"what if that is where the night leads?" Lisanna asked. "I'm not saying that I'm trying to seduce you into it… Or that I would actually go along with it, at least while you are with my sister. But if the night ends there, then why fight it? It would obviously be an answer if we did."

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Mirajane paced back and forth across the cool ground in front of her and Natsu's bed, biting the nail on her thumb. 'Maybe I was too hasty to agree to this, what if he still has feelings for her… What if he decides I'm not enough!'

As if on cue, Natsu stepped out of the bathroom, buttoning up his single sleeved purple shirt. "Mira?" he asked as concern spread through him. She stopped her pacing and sat at the edge of the bed, taking a deep breath. "Natsu, am I crazy for agreeing to this? I mean… what if it turns out you still have feelings for her? What if you find out you want to have sex with her?" She asked him, looking up into his eyes while wringing her hands together in her lap.

Natsu knelt on the ground in front of her and pried her hands apart to press a kiss to the palms of them. "You are crazy, but not for those reasons. I already told you that I want to spend the rest of my life with you. These past few weeks have shown me that there is so much that I have missed and that you have brought that light to my eyes. You; not Erza, not Lucy, and certainly not Lisanna. With you I feel loved, I feel needed and it only makes me want to prove my feelings for you all the more. If this is what it takes for them to see how much I love you, then I am willing to do it. I'm not going to lie here, your sister is pretty, hell there are a lot of pretty girls in the guild that I have thought about before… But if we always acted on what we wanted, then you and I could have been together sooner. We have judgement and love for a reason, and we act on our desires when we want, but at the same time we have to hold ourselves back. But it's different with you, I always find myself drawn to you, looking at you as if you are constantly changing. Your body, your mind, all of you… I can't get enough of it. I find myself not wanting to hold back, I just want to wrap myself around you and keep you with me at all times."

Letting out a tired sigh, Mirajane ran her fingers through his hair and pressed her lips to his forehead gently. "I just don't want you to lie to her, or to me, about what you think and feel okay? It might hurt to hear it, but I would rather know what you felt than to find out you slept with her behind my back or stayed with me because you felt an obligation to me after our time together. I love you and I just hope you will come back to me tonight."

Natsu let his lips cross the distance between hers and kissed her gently, holding back his desire to throw her back on the bed and take her right then and there. "Do you trust me?" He asked once they pulled apart.

Mira nodded. "With everything I have. With my future and that of everyone I love…"

"Then stop worrying. I will be back no matter where the night ends. I owe you that much… and more." He said softly. "Now I have to go, I don't want to make them mad by being late…"

"Them?" She asked curiously.

"Erza said she would watch from a distance to ensure I'm actually letting myself go, that I'm not fighting with Lisanna's attempts just because I don't want to realize there may be something between us." He explained with a tired sigh. "If you are as worried as this, why don't you join us? Or Erza rather, you can watch nothing happen if it will help ease your mind."

The two shared a loving look before she kissed him and shook her head. "I trust you, I should at least act like I do…"

A knock at the door surprised them both and when they opened it, they both felt their jaws drop. "Are you ready to go?" Lisanna asked shyly.

Natsu nodded numbly and said his goodbyes to Mirajane, promising to tell her everything that happened, no matter how little.

Walking next to his date, Natsu scratched the back of his head and couldn't help but look at her. She was obviously trying to get him to look, and it was working. A tight black strapless dress replaced her usual t-shirt and skirt. Natsu swallowed back a lump in his throat and attempted to avert his eyes from her chest. The thin fabric drew his eyes back down to her chest again, her breasts barely able to remain hidden, threatening to spill out of her dress. She caught his eyes on her body and smiled at him, earning a slight blush from the Dragon Slayer. Taking a deep breath, Natsu could tell that he was going to be in for a long night of temptations. But he knew he could deal with it, people thought he was dense, maybe he could play that to his advantage.

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Natsu snapped his eyes open and shot into a sitting position, grabbing his head to rub his temples with his thumbs, his head felt like he had tried to dig a hole with his forehead and lost. A groan left his lips and he tried to take in everything around him. He was in his room, that much he could tell, and somewhere during the night he had fallen from the bed and onto the floor, wearing nothing but his boxers. The lack of clothing struck him as odd, but he pushed it from his mind, lately he had been having more than one reason to lose his clothing at night.

A deep breath in revealed more than he had hoped for and he had to take a few slower breaths to categorize what he could smell. There was alcohol on his breath, which would explain his headache and why he couldn't remember what had happened the night prior.

That wasn't exactly true; he could remember a few bits and pieces after leaving his house with Lisanna. He remembered getting to the restaurant with her hanging from his arm, insisting that she sit next to him in the booth rather than across from him. He remembered that she had refused to east unless he had fed her, seductively taking bites of food from his fork to make the time last just a little longer. That had started his drinking, using it as a crutch to keep his mind occupied rather than stare at her curves any longer. It had already started to create a bulge in his pants at her appearance, but it was something he was used to dealing with for the past years he had been at Fairy Tail.

He had gotten into a fight with the waiter when the man had tried to cop a feel on Lisanna while she was bent over the table to reach for her purse that she had placed on the other bench. It wasn't that he had wanted to keep her to himself, but rather he didn't want to see one of his friends fall to a pervert that wouldn't respect her. From there, after storming out, they had decided to go down to the river to talk and catch up a little bit. That was the last thing he could remember, leaving the restaurant towards the river.

Shaking his head again, Natsu grabbed the edge of the bed and tried to pull himself up. Blood. Blood and fresh cut grass. His eyes widened in disbelief and his arms gave out, causing him to crash to the ground.

His sudden fall caused the woman in the bed to stir, moaning softly as her eyes fluttered open. "Natsu…?" She called out upon not finding him in the bed with her. He couldn't breathe, his mind running as fast as possible to catch up to what was here in front of him, at what was staring him in the face. Swallowing the fear that had built up in his throat he forced himself into a kneeling position and braced his forearms on the soft mattress. "Lisanna… Look… What exactly…" His words froze when she sat up, the sheet that was draped over her body dropping to reveal that she was in fact naked. His eyes widened at the sight and he slammed his hands over his face to cover his eyes.

"What's wrong Natsu?" She asked cocking her head to the side, a frown crossing her swollen lips. He sucked in another breath and recoiled, it was really her, it wasn't Mirajane in disguise this time. He heard the rustling of sheets and pushed back from the bed, moving away from the bed until his back pushed up against the wall not five feet from the bed, his head shaking again. "Natsu, please talk to me…" She pleaded with him.

"Please… Cover yourself so… So I can…" He whispered and waited until he heard a rustle again and was sure that she had pulled the covers over her body and let a small sigh escape his lips when he opened his eyes. "Wh-what exactly ha-happened last… last night…" He asked hesitantly, fear etched into his features.

"Isn't that a little obvious?" She asked gesturing to herself and to his lack of clothes. "Are you saying you regret it?" He could hear the pain in her voice and couldn't stop the tears from rolling down his cheeks. He felt like he was being torn in two, forgetting about his headache completely. "You seemed like you were enjoying yourself at the time… Ecstatic even when you found out it was my first time…"

Natsu dug his fingers into his scalp. "I don't' even remember doing it… I'm sorry, but I can't… No matter how hard I try, I can't remember!" His fingernails dug into his scalp further as he tried to force himself to remember, creating small drops of blood to well up and mix with his hair, darkening it. "I didn't think I had that much to drink. Oh my god Lisanna, I'm so sorry… Not only did I cheat on Mira, but I should at least remember doing it! I should at least remember taking someone's first time."

Looking up into her eyes, he kept apologizing before she touched his shoulder and smiled. "Does that mean you have feelings for me?" She asked hesitantly.

Natsu shook his head in confusion. "I don't know if I do, or even if I don't. I can't blame you for what happened; I should have held myself back until I broke it off with her… I have to go find her and tell her what happened. She has the right to hear it straight instead of getting it second hand. I told her I would come home to her and explain what happened last night. Considering what happened I have to tell your sister and break it off with her." He continued to shake his head with fear and guild at his actions. "I don't know why I did it, but something has to be there, I don't just go around sleeping with whoever dresses provocatively. Did she say anything when I brought you back? She was supposed to be here when I came back."

She frowned at him and shook her head. "What would it matter if she had been here? You obviously don't love her if you wanted to do this with me. I told her that if I had a chance to get closer to you, that I would. Now that I have, I don't want to let you go Natsu."

Natsu nodded absently, not listening to her any longer as he pulled his clothes that were scattered across the ground and pulled them on. He felt dead inside, shaking physically at what he had done and at what he was going to do. He didn't even hear Lisanna screaming at him, trying to talk him into staying rather than go to the guild and explain himself as he shut the door to his house and started towards the guild.

Natsu's sudden entrance to the guild caused more than one person to look over their shoulders at him to see who had come in, but went back to what they were doing just as soon as they had looked at him. However, a few people caught the look of dread and panic on his face, the tears that stained his cheeks now mixed with a few streaks of blood that had made their way down his face from the cuts he had put into his scalp earlier. "Natsu-nii?" Romeo asked concerned, running up to his role model. "Why do you look so terrible? Ne, Natsu? What happened?" His presence was ignored by the Dragon Slayer as he looked for the barmaid he needed to talk to.

The sight of the woman made Natsu shake, the woman he loved and had wanted to spend the rest of his life with, the same woman he had betrayed as if it hadn't even mattered. To him, it didn't matter that he wasn't himself at the time, he should always be willing to give everything up for her, and he had done the exact opposite of that. He forced his feet to move so he could walk over to her, every step darkening his mood until he swore he could tell his heart stopped, his face growing paler the closer he got to her. The closer he got, the slower he walked, catching more and more eyes as he moved. Each step added more pain and dread at the fact that he had hurt her, and was about to hurt her further by telling her what he had done. By the time he had reached Mirajane, Lucy and Erza were standing by her sides while the rest of the guild had gone silent, standing up as if they expected something bad to happen, taken aback at the way he was acting.

"Oh my god Natsu!" Lucy screamed, reaching out towards him, but letting her hand fall when he didn't even acknowledge her. "What happened to you?" She whispered.

"Mira…" He whispered hoarsely. "God Mira…" Tears started fresh in his eyes, causing her to take a step back from him, afraid of what could make him act this way.

"Natsu, please, what happened?" Mirajane asked in a whisper.

Natsu opened his mouth and fumbled with the words, but none came out. He fell to his knees in front of her and grabbed fistfuls of his hair, trying to find a way to tell her so he wouldn't hurt her as much as he knew it would, her trust broken from what he had done. "Last night… I-I slept with Lisanna…" His words were nothing more than a whisper, but the silence in the hall carried his words to the rest of the guild. No one said a word, dared to say anything, let alone even breath as they waited for him to explain. "I don't even remember it happening… but it was painfully obvious when I woke up… I'm so sorry… I'm so sorry Mira…"

He didn't know how long he waited for her to react, any reaction at all would have been better than the silence she was giving him. Before she could react, the guild erupted in screams, most of them calling for his blood while others rushed towards her to comfort her. Erza and Lucy each recoiled at the news, screaming at him and stepping in front of Mirajane while they tried to get him to pay attention to them. He ignored them and watched Mirajane, still waiting for her to say anything, to do anything. He was ready for the onslaught of hurt from her.

He watched as she pushed the two women away from him and smiled at the Dragon Slayer, causing him to flinch when she touched his cheek gently. He stared at that smile, the same smile that she had only been giving him, the same one that showed him how much love she had for him.

Natsu looked up into her eyes confused. She should have been angry, should have screamed at him, and should have cried. She should have reacted in some way, not at being relieved. Why would she be relieved that he had slept with her sister behind her back? Why wasn't she screaming, why wasn't she cursing him and everything that he was? Fear crept into him and he thought of the worst that he could, assuming there had to be a reason for her lack of a reaction.

It hit him harder than the realization that he had cheated on her. No one could be relieved after they had been told that they had been cheated on. He was wrong about that smile, had thought the wrong thing about it for so long and it tore him apart. Not only had he cheated on her, but she was telling him that she didn't care, she didn't care because she didn't care about him. Questions ran through his head, had this been her ploy all along? Had she gotten together with him to hurt him, or to get him to turn to her sister, or had she realized somewhere that she didn't care and had seen Lisanna's love as a way to pawn him off without dirtying her hands by telling him how she really felt.

He pulled back from her soft hand and met her eyes as a fist grabbed his hair from behind. "Did you ever even love me?" He choked out, seeing shock spread across the barmaid's face. He gave into the fist in his hair, stopped fighting completely, knowing he deserved worse than what they would do to him whether she cared that he cheated or not.

The wooden floorboards shattered as the fist shoved his face into them. "You fucked up for the last time Dragneel." Elfman growled, spinning Natsu around to continue to wail on him. Natsu let him, the feeling of Elfman's beast fist connecting with the brittle bone in his face hurting less than what he had just learned.

"Elfman stop!" Mira's voice called out as she fought to get past Erza's arms as she drug the barmaid away, muttering that he deserved whatever he got. "It's not li-" Natsu didn't hear anything else, blacking out as the fist connected with his skull for the countless time that day.

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