Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters; they belong to the one and only Hiro Mashima.

I do own the idea for the fic though.

My candy.

(A I.-.-.I Kuroyagi I.-.-.I original fan-fiction story.)

Chapter 3: Advices.

The last period flew like the wind for Natsu, the poor guy was hollowly sitting on his chair with his eyes staring vacantly at the blackboard and every three or four minutes he released a sigh, letting his friends know that he was not okay at all, not one bit. Gray looked at Natsu and the looked at Lucy, the blonde girl only shrugging when he gave her a look of wonder about what happened with his friend; he would later find out the reason and both him and the girl would end up… well, that would be spoiling the story, right?

The bell rang; everyone stood up from their seats orderly, packed their stuff and left the room, leaving just three people behind; two concerned friends and one depressed pink-haired boy. Lucy sighed sympathetically, telling the boy next to her what happened earlier that left their friend in such state, Gray titled his head to the side in annoyance as he crossed his arms in front of him when looking at the boy mopping in front of him with a scowl. "Come on Natsu! It's not the end of the world, go out before you lose another chance and tell her…"

"...Don't wanna…" Was his only answer before standing up and marching to the door past his friends, leaving his stuff behind on the table and his friends exchanging looks of concern before following the boy with his and their things through the halls until they reached the front gate of the school; Gray stopped his friend from going any further by a putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Natsu, it took us a year to make you at least notice it and now you're chicken out?" Natsu didn't look back at his friends, only shrugged his shoulder off and continue to walk out of the school grounds, not before snatching his things from the dark-haired boy's hands. "Hey!"

And the shouts, insults and hand signs were completely ignored, Natsu kept on walking down the road to his home with his depressed aura making people avoid him while looking him weirdly, thing that didn't mattered to him, too much centered on his own thoughts that he fail to notice a small group of people tailing him since he left the school. "Hey! Pinky! What're you doing alone?"

It didn't take the boy long to get out of his depressed state to turn and face the group approaching him with an angry growl that scared some of them… but the tall man standing in the middle, who just smirked at the action and got two steps closer to the boy, disregarding the small calls from his associates to forget about it and leave before something happened. Something bad.

"Oe, Natsu, taking a walk?" The tall man had dark spiky long hair that reached to his waist, much to everyone-who-looked-at-him's surprise, red eyes and piercing all over his body. He was wearing a simple black shirt with its long sleeves ripped, white cargo pants and black combat boots. He smirked when the boy in front of him growled again, dropping his books that fell on the ground and prepared to face him and his friends. "Oh? Why so aggressive? I'm here to talk…"

"Yeah right, like I would believe something like that, Gajeel!" Though, Natsu could tell from his voice that the man wasn't lying, that and his arms crossed when he was ready to counter whatever move he come up with were things that made the Fairy High student relax and listen to the other man. The tall man, now known as Gajeel, nodded at him and looked over his shoulder, calling for his friends to leave him alone… only that he found himself looking at his friends beaten up and passed out on the ground by the hands of one single person. Gajeel's mouth hit the ground, Natsu's eyebrow raise to the sky and the boy just frown at the first one with a dangerous glint in his eyes.

"I suggest that you leave my friend alone before I pass judgment to you as I previously did with your lackeys…" The arrival was another boy of the same age as Natsu, he had bluish silver hair, most of whose spiky strands jut upwards on top of his head, except for some which are kept pointing down and partially cover the upper left part of his face. His eyes were slanted, with dark round pupils and surrounded by similarly dark lines, and he had small, linear dark eyebrows. He was wearing an unbuttoned black polo shirt, light blue jeans and black sandals; he had his hands in his pockets and was standing defiantly over the back of one of Gajeel's friends.

"Tsk… You… whatever, I was trying to give this idiot a hand, I'm outta here…" And as soon as that was said, he took his leave, leaving the guys that came with him behind and knocked out before the unsurprised eyes of Natsu and his supposed savior, that was now walking calmly towards him with a more relax expression.

"Are you alright, Natsu?" The boy shrugged, making the other laugh at his answer. "What were you doing? Talking a walk...? Or going to a date?"

"Shut up Lyon…" He turned around and started to walk away from the place with his previous mood coming back, which caught the Lamia High student's attention and thus, made him follow him. The pink-haired growled in annoyance. "Stop following me…"

"No, I will not stop unless you tell me what's up with that long face of yours…" And with Natsu just ignoring that comment, the two continued to walk together for almost an hour, because Natsu wanted to make the man lose his patient… such was his luck that he didn't knew Lyon enough to know that he was perseverant. They were nearing the park close to the pink-haired boy's house when the other boy talked again. "Are you going to tell me now?"

"No! And why should I? Is not like you and I are that close, right?" Which was certainly correct, even if they both hanged out occasionally, they didn't talked much to each other. Because Lyon was quiet most of the time or just sat to watch the brawls that always arise in between Gray and Natsu, he rarely participated, mostly because he ignored Natsu's taunts while he paid more attention to Gray's. Nodding in response, Natsu raise his arms in victory, turned to walk away again… and again, Lyon followed him… much to his chagrin. "I'm about to lose it, you know?"

"I know, but you're no making any good attempts to get me off your back, Natsu..." He remarked, much to the other's increasing anger, that disappeared almost completely when the boy realized that Lyon was right… or close to. Signaling him to follow him, both boys entered the park and sat on one of the many benches close to the fountain in the middle of the place, Natsu dropping and sprawling his body over the bench while Lyon just sat normally, inclining his torso forward to support his head with hands. "Start."

"Start? Am I a music-player or something?" He questioned half-jokingly, only getting an impatient grunt as an answer, he sweatdropped. "O-okay…! It… it's because of a girl…"

"Hah! I knew it!" Lyon shouted in victory at seen his speculations being right, pointing a finger to Natsu he nodded and urged him to continue. "Who is it? Lucy?"

"W-what? No! Of course not!"

"Then that white-haired woman… how was she called? Mirajane?" Natsu shook his head in dry amusement before cutting Lyon and his next guess.

"Is the… the… well… you'll think I'm stupid…" The silver-haired man chuckled before dismissing his worries with a wave of his hand, this give some ease to the pink-haired but he still struggled to find the words to say it. "It's… the student council's president."

Lyon's eyes widened in surprise, a whistle being his only reaction to Natsu's answer, he encouraged him to continue further.

"I don't know, I just…"

"Love her?" Natsu almost choked with his own saliva, moving his arms frantically in front of him he denied that, making the boy sitting next to him chuckled again. "Then?"

"I'm telling you, I don't know, I just talked to her once and then… then I started to think about her and some other stuff…" Lyon arched an eyebrow at the last word.

"Stuff? Like…?" The pink-haired boy's cheeks tinted with a small pink, a hand going to scratch the back of his head in nervousness.

"For what my friends told me and I didn't realize, I say her name sometimes, look at her when she's close and get jealous when I hear that someone might be interested in her or the other way around…"

"Sounds deep, sure it's not love?" Lyon asked before laughing at the boy's second outburst. "Okay, not love, but it's obvious that you're interested in her… did you tried to talk to her again?"

Natsu shook his head in response; the silver-haired sighed and lean on the bench to look at the sky with his hands behind his head.

"You should as to clear your doubts; it might be just some random crush, Natsu." Said boy nodded at the words, looking at the ground in deep thinking. "Did you felt something like this for another girl?"

"Well, yeah, but…" He avoided telling him the deal with Lisanna, the short time they shared before she passed away and went on. "It wasn't like this, maybe 'cause it was three years ago…"

Lyon nodded. "Then that was the random crush and this is the real deal."

"Maybe…" Natsu muttered softly before leaning back on the bench to stare at the sky in a similar fashion to the boy next to him.

"Maybe, maybe not, all you can do now is talk to her again and clear your doubts," Lyon stood up from his seat and looked back at Natsu with a small smile. "If you want a word of advice, then that's it, go and talk to her. If you feel weird or anything of the sort, it might be…"

"Don't say it." Natsu cut him off, earning another laugh from the silver-haired.

"Okay, I won't, but do as I tell you and you'll get your answer." He walked away from the place in a hurry, leaving Natsu alone without even bothering to say good bye or anything else.

'Surely he was the one with a date...' The pink-haired thought while sweatdropping, smiling appreciatively at the thought of the guy leaving aside his own agenda to help him out. Natsu stared at his retreating form for a moment before looking back at the sky, thinking about what they talk before standing up too and heading home, a frown settling on his face when his house came into view.

'Talk to her… that sounds easier that what it is…'

To be continued

So what do you think?

I bet you didn't expected Lyon to be the one I was talking about! XD

I suddenly realized while writing this chapter, that the other characters from Fairy Tail don't get too much spotlight in FF. At least, the stories that I've read didn't give them much of it, so I'll try to change that too. Write a one-shot or two involving them. Include them in my stories. Etc.

Hope you enjoyed it. ^^

Saludos.