Today is the real first day of school.
Today is the real day she will start learning with the opposite sex.
Today she will start her new school life in her new school.
Today she will see him. Again.
Lucy sighed and shrugged the thoughts off when she continued to put on her combat gloves and boots, completely ignoring the fact that her hair was still a big, messy…mess.
Grabbing her comb, she descended down the stairs after closing her bedroom door with her foot and met up with the rest of the girls who have absolutely beamed up faces.
Oh she knows those faces alright…evil purposes, as she like to call it.
"What's with the evil aura I'm sensing in this room?" The girls turned their heads towards the blond haired beauty who is combing her hair with a hand on her chin, not erasing the look on their faces. "Are you guys making a plan without me?" They just smirked and Mirajane, who was preparing their lunches, just giggled at her teammates' mischievous grins and raised her hand up, counting down.
"3"
"2"
"1"
"CONGRATULATIONS LUCY!"
"E-eh? EH!?" Lucy screeched as Charles and Juvia pounced on her, giggling like madwomen, followed by the whole house population. "Um eto, what is this about?" Lucy asked, struggling for air at her girls' frantic and suffocating bear hugs. "You're in the highest class!" Lisanna squealed happily.
Lucy blinked. "What?"
"You are an S-class with Erza and Mirajane! We got it from the mail just last night!" Levy beamed as she stood up first. "And probably the best!"
"We're so happy for you Lucy-nee-chan!" Wendy said as she helped everyone up, Lucy mentally thanking her for giving her air space.
"Then I would say thank you. But what about the others?" Lucy asked as she noticed that only Erza and Mirajane were mentioned.
"I'm an exceed so I don't have a class rank, but I of course still have MY classes, in the stinkin' rooftop." Charles mumbled the last part and the girls giggled, excluding Lucy who just shook her head at the female exceed.
"Me and Lisanna-san are B-class!" Wendy said jumping up and down and Lisanna just shook her head at the girl. "Ara ara, calm down Wendy."
"I am A-class and so is Juvia!" Levy said pointing at said girl who was having a determined look on her face with both her fists clenched in front of her. "I will make it to S-class after two months so I can finally be with Lucy-chan!" Juvia said as she raised her clenched fists up and down simultaneously, nodding her head in the process.
Lucy raised an eyebrow at Juvia's remark. "Two months?"
"Oh yeah, we forgot to tell you that it said in the letter that there will be another magic testing in two months. It is the final testing, and that is why our little Juvia here is very determined to the chance of finally being S-class." Erza said as she dusted the invisible dust off her armor, which Lucy frowned to when she noticed. "Erza?"
"Yes, Lucy?"
"Nothing. It's just that…you are wearing armor, again." Lucy deadpanned.
"Lucy…"
"I know, never mind what I said. I understand." Lucy nodded in her direction. "If you want to wear armor then go on, I don't have the right to judge."
"Lucy, it's fin—"
Lucy placed a hand on her shoulder.
"If you're still afraid, don't be." Lucy said in her understanding voice. "Wear you're armor if you want to, but you know when to take it off."
"Lucy, if you really don't want me to wear it I'll just take it o—"
"Showing you're weakness isn't a sin Erza, because it shows something else." Lucy moved her hand from her shoulder to her left chest, where the heart is placed. "It shows that you have no fear in losing, letting them out means fighting back at them, with this." Lucy patted it gently.
"What are you saying Lucy? Everyone has weaknesses, this is mine."
Lucy shook her head. "No Erza, I am not telling you that showing it means to lose it, I am simply telling you that showing it means you don't fear it." Erza looked up at her, confusion shown on her face.
"You are afraid of yourself being hurt. You are afraid of the weakness of being harmed, isn't that right Erza?" Erza nodded. "Erza, wearing armor all the time is hiding your weakness. To you, you might think that this armor will show that you are brave, but it doesn't Erza, it merely shows your fears that are radiating off that armor. It just shows that you are afraid. Erza, taking that off means you are fighting back, that your inner self is making your fear back off. I am not telling you-not forcing you-to lose your weakness Erza. Just don't be afraid, you want to be fearless don't you?" Her eyes widened.
"Then don't hide your weakness, don't hide yourself." Tears started to pool in the corner of Erza's eyes.
"Don't be afraid of yourself getting hurt Erza, we are here to protect you, and you protect us back. Right girls?"
"AYE!"
"Lucy?" She looked up at Lucy, eyes wide.
Lucy pulled her in for a hug. "Did you forget my words already Erza?"
Erza cracked up a smile, hugging her back. "I just remembered. I am such a fool for not acknowledging it until now. I am still a coward. Don't worry Lucy, I will be fearless." Lucy can't help but feel proud. "But before that, I would like to say it again, with a little favor." Erza nodded against her neck.
"There is nothing to be afraid of, so don't hide yourself." Erza smiled widely and changed to a smirk afterwards. "Already on it."
"You already changed did you?"
"Yup!"
"Hey! I want to hug Lucy-chan too!" They heard the girls shout.
Lucy pulled away, her arms still on Erza's back. "Who said you can't?"
"ME FIRST!" Charles said as she tackled Lucy to the ground, earning a small 'eep' from the blond girl as they crashed into the carpeted flooring.
"NO FAIR!" Juvia whined as she jumped on them, followed by the rest of the girls, excluding Erza who was still standing, giggling.
"E-erza! He-he-help me…" Lucy struggled to say, completely out of breath for the second time today.
Just how much strength did she actually made these girls have through training?
"Sure Lucy. Girls! Get up and hop in the car! We still have school so move it!" Erza shouted sternly, making the girls flinch and stood up, running out of the house into the car.
"Thank you E-erza…" Lucy said, trying to catch her breath as she helped her stand up.
"No problem Lucy. Let's go to school because well, we don't want to be late now do we?" Lucy nodded and walked outside. When she was out for about 5 seconds she heard the door close behind her, probably Erza. She found the car and raised her eyebrow when she saw that the girls were stuck in the car door frame.
"Um Erza?"
"On it."
Erza walked ahead of her and paused behind the girls bottoms that were sticking out of the backseat. In just a flash, they were all kicked inside the car, courtesy of Erza. As soon as Erza went inside, she noticed that Lucy was already in the driver's seat, tapping on the steering wheel.
"Everyone inside?"
"YUP!"
Lucy nodded and started the engine, adjusting her front-view-mirror. She leaned back in her seat and exhaled deeply.
Off to school, she just hopes he would keep his distance.
And with that, she stepped on the gear.
"Ain't that Ashley over there?"
Natsu looked over to where said girl is and saw the blonde-haired girl stepping out of a black mustang followed by the rest of the girls. She was wearing a bluish black tank top and a black miniskirt with leggings underneath, completed with the same black combat boots and fingerless gloves.
And her hair was down, which made him admit that she looked HOT.
"Hm. What about her Ice-brain?"
"Nothing. Just thought you would actually like to finish that punch you ALMOST pulled yesterday." The raven-haired boy shrugged and nudged his arm. "You gotta admit that she looks pretty hot, Flame-brain."
"Shut up."
He rolled his eyes and placed them once again on the blonde who seems to be in a middle of a tug-of-war battle between a blue-haired girl and a white exceed.
"I will walk Lucy-chan to class!" Charles exclaimed and pulled harder on Lucy's left arm.
"No I will!" Juvia retorted, pulling on Lucy's right arm.
"Ara ara, here we go again." Mirajane shook her head.
"Can't Lucy-nee-chan just go to class by herself?" Wendy asked only to be yelled at by the two girls.
"NO!"
"Um, Juvia, Charles, can you please let go of me?"
"Only if you will go to class with me!"
"No, YOU are going with ME!"
"No ME!"
"NO ME!"
"NO ME!"
"Enough!" Erza shouted as she pulled Charles away, Mirajane pulling Juvia. "Lucy can go to class alone, got it?" Juvia and Charles flinched at her stern tone and nodded their head up and down.
"Fine." Charles grumbled and looked back up at Lucy. "Can we go to class together later Lucy-chan?"
"Sure Charles."
"Me too!" Juvia said and raised her right hand.
-RRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG-
"Schedule anyone?" Levy asked.
"We have been informed by that old hag that we are separated into different classes and that we are already assigned in them. Juvia was supposed to have them. Juvia?" Erza and the girls turned their heads towards the bluenette who seems to be holding the schedule firmly on her left hand and a pen pointing at it in her right, looking back up at them in panic.
She quickly shoved the pen back in her pocket. "I wasn't doing anything! No, no! Nothing to see here! Schedule!? SCHEDULE!? Oh YEAH! Schedule! Here you go look at the schedule! Haha….." She waved her hands frantically in the air and held out the schedule to Erza like it was stuck to her palm or something, making the girls sweatdrop at her actions.
Erza just kept looking at Juvia suspiciously while reaching for the schedule. "Okay…um, let's see…" Erza took the schedule from Juvia's shaking hands and looked down at it. "Hmmmmm…"
CLASS SCHEDULE
Morning: 8:00 – 9:00
S-class and B-class – Classroom 298 & 165
A-class and C-class – Classroom 177 & 254
D-class – Classroom 523
Exceeds – Rooftop
Erza snickered at the last one and looked back at the girls who had confusion written on their faces.
"Lucy, me and Mirajane are off to room 298, Wendy and Lisanna are off to room 165. Levy and Juvia are going to room 177 and as for Charles…rooftop." The girls giggled at a groaning Charles who was slouching while clinging unto Lucy's ankle. "Why can't I go with Lucy-chan's or Wendy's class? So unfair." She mumbled, her face plastered on Lucy's boots.
"There is no other way Charles. Sorry. Everyone ready?" Lucy asked receiving a nod from the girls and a sulking Juvia and Charles.
"Off to class then. See you guys at nutrition." Erza said sternly and the group began to separate.
Natsu's eyes stayed on a certain blonde who was bidding a white exceed goodbye. As soon as Lucy's part of the group disappeared into the doorways, he nudged his raven-haired frienemy. "Off to class Stripper." Natsu said as he stood up and dusted the invisible dust on his shirt before walking to class.
"See ya later Firebutt!" He heard Gray yell behind him as he was already standing where Lucy and her friends disappeared a moment ago.
Charles wasn't liking what she's seeing.
Not only is their class held in the rooftop which gives the sun more entrance to her sensitive skin, but OH- for her, this is much, MUCH worse.
You know why?
Well, let's just say that 70% of her class's exceed population are BOYS.
And she doesn't like it one bit.
"You have to be kidding me." Charles muttered to herself as she watched her class do stupid things in their seats, making her face palm.
"Hey look! It's one of those BH girls' exceed!"
Charles looked up from the palm of her paw to see the whole class staring at her.
"…What?"
"Are you the exceed of that group whose leader punched Gajeel!?" An exceed stepped forward and shouted at her.
Charles examined him carefully, seeing that he has a scar on his right eye and has black fur. What seems to be surprising her is that he is wearing a big sword on his back and green…pants.
She smirked, a devious plan coming to her mind.
'If he is gonna mess with me now, he won't know what's coming to him later.' She thought to herself.
"What about it?" She asked; her arms crossed. "Are you his exceed?"
"What do you think!? That crazy Leader of yours needs to apologize!" Her eyes narrowed and her right one twitched. "What did you just say?"
In the corner of her eyes, she can see the female exceeds doing warning or death signals towards the male exceed before her. 'Good. Now why can't you just listen to these chics' signals you asshole? So reckless.' She thought.
"I said—!" Before he can continue, he noticed that his back feels lighter than usual and turned his head to see that his sword disappeared. "What the—!?"
He was cut short when he felt something sharp against his neck. He turned it once again and saw a growling white exceed holding his sword against his neck, gulping when he saw just how angry her face is.
"Say that about our Lucy-chan again and I promise neither you nor your sword will live to see another day." She snarled at him, making her fangs visible enough to emphasize her point. "You boys don't know what she has been through and you have no right to call her that nor do you have the right to make her apologize. To you, her punch would probably hurt more than that Gajeel's words, but you know what? To her, it shoots back a thousand memories and pain to her heart." She backed the sword away from his head and slammed it with it.
He shot her a look of disbelief but quickly softened and his eyes widened when he saw her clench her paws tightly.
"Seeing her in pain hurts us. Never seeing her smile is enough." She whispered to make sure only he would hear and stormed off to her seat, bumping on a certain blue exceed on the way.
"I remembered miss Laki saying the room is this way! Come on!" Juvia shouted as she went ahead of the little petite blue-haired girl. "Hurry up Levy!"
"Juvia, wait up!" Levy yelled back as she made her way pass the halls which are filled with students who are also making their way to class, trying to catch up with the taller blue-haired water mage. "Why are you in such a hurry!?" Levy asked when she was now running side by side with an energetic looking Juvia.
"The sooner we finish class, the sooner we will see Lucy-chan again!" Juvia cheered, her eyes sparkling for she was excited to see her favorite blonde again at nutrition.
Levy just giggled at her friend's crazy antics and continued running. "Are you sure this is the right way Juvia!?"
"Of course! I completely remember!"
"Bu—!" Levy was cut short when her front collided with something rock solid, stopping her from running.
She stumbled back and fell on her butt looking up to see what she ran into. Right when she raised her head, her face turned into a scowl.
"Watch where you're going shrimp." When the pierced man finished his sentence, Levy could feel her blood boil, not just by being in his presence, but also for the fact that he called and compared her height in which to that of a seafood.
"What…" Levy stood up on her two feet and glared at the man hovering over her. "What…did you just call me, asshole?" her eyebrows twitched.
"Watch your tongue midget." The man growled at her small form, making her growl back.
"My tongue will say what it wants to metal shit." Levy snapped back, sneakily removing her pen under her sleeve.
"Who do you think you're talking to huh? Little girl?" She smirked. "Rusty iron in a hole."
"Wha—?" Before he could finish, he no longer felt anything underneath his feet, making him fall down with a 'thump'.
"What the fuck!?" He rubbed his sore butt and looked down. He can see the word 'hole' visibly written in dirt beneath him and looked up.
He gawked when he saw the little bluenette looking down on him while twirling a pen in her petite hands. "Midget huh?"
"Get me the fuck out of here you little—!"
"Solid Script: Boulder!"
A gigantic rock appeared in Gajeel's line of vision above him and came crashing down, fitting in the hole perfectly.
"Imph mphonpha mpill mphu mfrhpat!" His muffled screaming can be heard from the boulder lidded hole, making Levy giggle and cover her mouth with her palm.
"Oops. Looks like I can't carry that boulder out because I am too little! Sorry!" Levy laughed and walked away to find Juvia, laughing louder when she heard the muffled responses.
Gajeel snarled at her 'innocent' remark and punched the wall beside him. When he heard dirt moving above him, he looked up to see his friend, who already stripped down to his boxers, holding the boulder in his right arm and looking down at him, smirking. "Wow, the almighty Redfox let himself be put down by a little girl?"
"Shut up Stripper. Put your clothes back on and help me up!"
"What the-!? Where did my clothes go!?"
"Are you actually comfortable with those clothes Wendy? I mean-I know you love Lucy-chan too but, I didn't know you actually like to dress like her a lot." Lisanna said, walking next to a smirking Wendy who has her arms crossed.
"I actually like this style Lisanna-san. It shows off my bad side, just like Lucy-nee-chan." Wendy's smirk grew wider at the thought of looking intimidating and scary but at the same time pretty and cute in the eyes of people around her.
'Lucy-chan's fashion style is really confusing me to no end. I am not even sure anymore if letting Wendy also show off her bad side in her fashion sense is a good or bad influence.' Lisanna sweatdropped.
"Look! I can see the room number!" Wendy pointed ahead to the end of the hallway they were in and sniffed a bit. "I can smell some of those boys from yesterday in there. I don't think I'm actually excited for my morning class already." Wendy said furiously making Lisanna put a hand on her shoulder, not denying the fact that she even growled a bit the moment Wendy told her statement.
"Let's just go. Who knows what Erza will do to us if we miss our first class." Lisanna reasoned and Wendy just sighed in defeat.
"Whatever." Wendy muttered under her breath and made her way towards the room, Lisanna trailing after the blue-haired young teen.
Wendy twisted the doorknob and stepped inside to see the class staring at her. Most of them were her's and Lisanna's ages, not surprising her. She raised one of her eyebrows at them and they quickly went back to what they were doing, probably noticing she doesn't like the way they are staring at her intensely.
She quickly made her way towards one of the seats when she felt Lisanna's presence behind her, noticing that she was blocking the room entrance. She didn't want the looks she got from boys around her so she threw each of them a quick glare, making them shiver slightly, and finally got to a vacant seat at the back of the room.
Lisanna was still standing beside the doorframe, staring at the class before her. The class was mostly filled with men, but her seeing that Wendy scared the wits out of half of them, she knew there was nothing to worry about.
Staring for a few more seconds, she was about to go sit next to Wendy when she felt a light tap on her shoulder. Turning around, she was confronted by a girl Wendy's age who seems to have tears pooling at the corner of her eyes, trembling slightly.
"M-miss L-l-l-lissa-sa-na-san, I-I-I…" Seeing the terrified look in the girl's face, she couldn't help but feel anger boiling inside her. She knew the looks of girl's faces when they are sad, and she couldn't help but feel that it might be because of a boy.
It was their group's responsibility to know.
"Why are you crying?" Lisanna asked politely as she bent down to be face to face with the crying girl, noticing that she is shorter than her usual height. "Who did this to you?"
The girl just sobbed a bit louder, earning a bit of the class's attention. Lisanna grit her teeth in anger. "Who made you cry?" She asked sternly.
"Got a problem about that, bitch?" She looked up and sure enough, the girl before her did so too and panicked, running over to Lisanna's back.
Lisanna examined the man carefully. He was her age and has long, spiky blonde hair. He had an intimidating weird and scary figure that goes so naturally well with his face, making her chuckle inwardly at the very thought of this man perfectly fit into being the class clown if she were ever to beat him up.
Oh, and she will.
"What's your name dear?" Lisanna whispered to make sure that the girl behind her can hear her. "Ch-cheria…h-he-!"
"No need to tell."
And with that, in a matter of seconds, every male mage student in the class, had their eyes out of their sockets at the unbelievable scene that was uncovering before them.
All there was to see was a shocked Cheria, a gawking blonde-haired man, and a growling Lisanna right behind him with her right hand transformed into a cat's paw with claws out.
What really shocked them was that the once blonde-haired man…was bald.
"W-what the-!? My hair!" He stiffened and winced when he felt blood dripping from the side of his right cheek. He wiped it off, but became confused when every woman in the class gasped.
"S-she—She m-marked him!"
"Oh no!"
"You are so screwed man!"
"She is so gonna kill him!"
"He ain't gonna survive this!"
"What the hell are you assholes talking about!?" the man snarled at them, his fist clenching when all the girls in class gave him shocked, worried and terrified faces, all with a knack of sympathy. "What the fuck is going on!?"
At this, he felt himself stumble forward when he felt a punch at the back of his head, landing on the ground face-first.
He heard a hiss and looked up while rubbing his bloody nose, seeing that a girl with a horrifying frown hovering over him.
"Messing with a young female teen is officially going overboard bud." She said before standing up and stepping on him, making him cough up a bit, on her way to a vacant seat next to the thankful looking pink-haired girl. "Don't think she will go easy on you later."
'Ohoho, she won't alright.' Wendy smirked at the thought as she watched the bald man groan and glare at the white-haired take-over mage. She was a bit disappointed she wasn't the one who got to have all the fun.
"What does that mark mean?" Wendy turned her head to her side and saw the same black-haired boy that she competed with yesterday.
'Stupid nose.' She cursed inwardly for being too engrossed at Lisanna's current task at hand to actually notice that one of the last people she ever wanted to see was sitting right next to her.
Oh how badly she wanted to curse out loud at her dragon slaying abilities.
"…Mind your business runt." Wendy said in an emotionless voice and turned her head to face the front once again, pulling out her headphones to place over her ears to keep out the boy's responses while leaning back on her seat, placing her feet on her desk.
Talking to him just makes her want to puke. Not only is this boy a part of that stupid BB club whatsoever, he even idolizes that pink-haired man that had hurt their Lucy.
Guess she now has a new number one boy on her 'who she despises the most list.'.
This class will have to wait. Nature is calling.
Lucy felt her senses tingling.
She was never the one to suddenly feel something unusual and strange in the most unexpected situations; she can't even sense the spreading wonderful fish aroma filling their small house when either Mirajane or Wendy's cooking.
But right now, she felt uncomfortable and weird.
She remembered all her methods in mutual awareness in her self-training, now is the time not to make those efforts of sensing rabid squirrels at night go to waste.
"How many halls left Mira?"
"It should probably take one more to the right." Mirajane confirmed with a nod of her head, chin cupped by her hand as she walked down the hall beside Erza while facing the school map that was given to them by Miss Laki just in case they forgot their way around the building.
"Well since the bell just rung class probably hasn't started yet. We still need to hurry though, I don't need detention on my first day." Erza scoffed and crossed her arms under her big bust. "Right Lucy?"
She didn't get a response. "Lucy?"
Erza turned her head around to see that said girl wasn't there. She started to panic.
"M-mira! Where is Lucy!?" Erza said her body started to whip around and her head darting at all directions. "Hello!? Lucy!"
"Geez, relax Erza. Lucy is just right behin—" Mira said facing Erza with her nose scrunched up while jabbing her finger at her back but stopped when she saw that there wasn't anybody behind them.
"—behind…us." Mira blinked.
Once.
Twice.
Thrice.
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"HOLY SHIT! LUCY WHERE ARE YOU!?" Mira called out, her body moving from one place to another faster than Erza's eyes could follow.
"Maybe you are here? No! Here? Still no! Here?No-oh here! What!? Still NO! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU LUCY!? LUCY!? LUCY! LU—!" Before Mirajane could finish ranting Erza had her palm plastered across her lips.
"Shut your trap! Calm down!" Erza whisper-shouted at her, gesturing to the other students that seem to stop what they were doing to stare at them to emphasize her point.
"We will find her alright!? Now shut up! You're gaining attentio—"
"Why aren't you in class yet?" They both froze at the sound of the oh-so familiar voice that they have been despising to hear for the past couple of hours, a low growl emitting from both of their throats.
They turned their heads towards the voice to see the pink-haired man who has his arms crossed with a smirk plastered across his handsome face(A/N:…uuuuuhhhhhhh…O.o). Still scowling deeply at the man, Erza decided to speak up.
"The hell is it to you?" Natsu's smirk grew wider.
"Awww. Helpless and confused without blondie are we?" Erza's innards began to boil in anger and she knew just the right way to show it.
"I'm gonna mark him."
She held her hand out to the side and a sword appeared in her palm. "I'm gonna fucking mark him!" She raised her sword.
Before she can even lay the tip on his cheek she can feel her wrist being gripped tight by none other than Mirajane. She looked at her shocked expression and felt her own turn the same.
'Of course…if I mark him…'
She felt like a thousand pounds of bricks have fallen right through her skull to crash right into her ignorant and fragile brain. Of course! How can she not think of the consequences? No, better yet, how could she forget their secret and most important secret rule that their leader has no single clue about.
'Never mark him.'
Erza Scarlet; 2nd protector, well-organized, strict, and very faithfully loyal to Lucy Heartfilia. Is she actually becoming a whole different person to be totally unaware and forgetful to go this far in to actually marking the one guy she was absolutely prohibited to mark?
The one guy, though totally deserving, that she herself didn't allow anyone to mark?
Her throat hitched at the thought and gently lowered her sword, her eyes frowning at the perfectly innocent marble floors trying to burn a pit through it and bury her ashamed self in there.
All the while, Natsu just had a bored and lazy expression on his face, yet his insides was burning with curiosity and concern at the girl glaring at the floor in front of him, her eyes showing nothing but anger and regret.
What does she regret though? He doesn't know, but a small part inside of him is whispering something that made him…
made him…regret too.
And fuck, just how much he wanted crawl in to a hole and die. But guess it wouldn't do anything at all; it won't make a difference.
His fists had the strongest urge to clench itself, but resisted it and looked up and what he saw caught him off-guard.
The scarlet-haired woman was holding a stern gaze against him, but he saw that her eyes were filled with hurt. And if that wasn't enough evidence, proof can be seen written all over the tears streaming down her face.
Her eyebrows knitted down further.
"Go fuck yourself!" is what she said before she aggressively shoved her shoulder against his and continued to make her way to class, which did not surprise the white-haired take-over mage.
Natsu turned around and watch as the ex-quip mage disappear in the corner of the halls. He knew what was behind the angst she pulled against him. He wasn't completely certain, but he has the slightest feeling that she wasn't angry at him.
She was angry at herself.
"She cares too much for her to do that."
He whipped his head around to look at the white-haired woman with pure confusion poring off his face.
"To do what?"
It was then he noticed that she wasn't looking at him. When she did, her eyes quickly resembled hatred and her pretty face turning into a full-blown scowl.
"You're lucky I even bothered to tell you two damn sentences Dragneel, now go suck a dick and leave us alone." Mirajane hissed and ran to catch up to Erza, leaving a slightly offended Natsu gaping at the scene that happened before him.
'What the fuck just happened? And to think I have other problems to look into.'
As soon as the thought crossed his mind, his mind was once again filled with the image of a beautiful smiling blonde little girl.
In the verge of tears, he punched the wall next to him, not caring if he pays for the damages.
'I'm so sorry. I missed you.'
His barely audible voice was echoing through his own ears as one tear fell from his right eye, his head down and his hair covering the single drop of liquid holding a huge weight of emotions flowing down his cheek.
"I miss you."
Unbeknownst to him, this didn't go unheard by a certain half-smiling little sky dragon slayer, her amused smile growing wider at the words in her head as if in reply.
'She misses you too.'