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 6: Realization.

"ISTBY".

Or basically, "it sucks to be you", was what our friend was thinking at the moment, walking back to his classroom with his jailor close behind. Explanations were made, reasons were understood, deal was done; though, try saying that to the president when she has her mind set into something. Of course, there's no reason for not trying, you "could" –keyword, 'could'- try and perish bravely with no-one to remember you, or you could remain quiet and let things go as they are since the first outcome –especially the last part of it- doesn't sounds too encouraging.

Natsu chose the second option, figures.

Preferring to keep his arms and legs where they are, the teenager with the rather weird pink hair, continued to walk back to his classroom; ignoring the weird-pity-amused-shocked gazes of his high school peers… their high school peers to the best of his ability, failing miserably when confronted with his classmates, and you couldn't blame him.

What would you do if your –sort of- best friend looks at you with a shit-eating grin and mocks you while being tortured?

The most obvious, of course, would be ignoring him; the time will come when the asshole would suffer likewise.

And the least obvious, as you all know, would be punching him on the face for being the asshole he is.

Natsu… chose the least obvious; surprise!

Want me to do another situation like before? Yes? Perfect!

What would the student council president do in such a situation? She is in charge of maintaining order and makes the rules be followed, besides working to improve the space of each of the students that elected her –and those who didn't- while she's in charge.

So, a student walked inside a classroom and hit another, without more reason that because the other was making fun of him.

The rational course of action, no doubt, would be scolding both and sent the aggressor to the Principal for a well-earned punishment.

The most irrational course of action that you could think of, would be, mercilessly pound both students for disrupting order until both find themselves in need of going to the infirmary.

And Erza chose the irrational way, for Gray and Natsu's disgrace.

"Don't move!" Yelled irritated the appointed doctor of the High school, Porlyusica G'dine, while she worked on the pink-haired's bruised face; sending a hateful glare towards the next patient.

"I don't get why I got beaten too!" Gray moaned painfully, caressing his left cheek tenderly as he waited for treatment.

"For being an idiot, that's why." Lucy replied swiftly to her childish boyfriend.

"And I don't get why you are here too!" Natsu said to her, pointing a finger under the doctor's arm before this one got slapped down by the president… who was also there, surveying everything.

"Is rude to point fingers, especially to a lady." Erza scolded with a glare in place, the defended blonde sticking her tongue out to mock Natsu as he could only remain quiet in the situation.

"Stop bringing me your victims! You disrupt my lecture hours!" Yelled, yet again, an irritated Porlyusica as her glare changed objective and landed on the scarlet-haired president; who could only nod and apologize for the trouble she cause. The elder woman ignored the apology before finishing with the first patient wounds, turning to see the second victim with disinterest. Preferring to return to her book, she called for her assistant to continue with the droppy-eyes' injuries that now needed bandaging to finish. "Girl! Bandages!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming…" Replied tiredly an all-too-familiar voice for Natsu, who felt a shiver down his spine as the worst thing that could happen that day, happened. Exiting the infirmary personnel's office, was a pale skinned woman with long black hair tied into a low-ponytail, and black eyes, wearing the normal nurses' attire that looked extremely sexy and provoking for the male' eyes of the room. Gray needing to be slapped to return to reality by an angry -and jealous- blonde, while Natsu felt he could die right there and then when the woman met eyes with him.

'I'm doomed…'

"Natsu?" She asked first, walking a few steps and passing through the confuse president as if she wasn't there, while she tried to take a better look of the guy sitting on the treatment's table; Erza immediately felt annoyed. The woman took a closer look, eyed the boy from both sides of his face –making him sweat bullets at the proximity- and returned to stare at him from the front, staying awfully quiet until… "It is you! Natsu!"

Now.

Another situation.

Yeah, not the best time, but I feel like I need to do this. You'll thank me later.

What would you do if a best friend –it works better if he/she and you are of opposite sexes- meets with you again after a long time? 4 years passed, you spent most of your childhood with this friend, wished him/her well when you both had to take separate roads, and tried to keep in contact with him/her besides the long distance because of their shared memories.

Now, the thing is, if your friend and you reunite after a long time of not seeing each other face-to-face or communicating at all:

Would you give him a hug and greetings while asking him/her how's it been for him/her? Normal kind of friend.

Or would you just greet him/her dryly while asking why he or she didn't keep in touch? Cold shoulder tactic.

Ultear Milkovich did… none of the two.

"Y-yeah… it's mhpf!" And Natsu committed the fatal mistake of opening his mouth to reply. She lunged forward like a beast on its prey and kiss him without shame, fully on the lips, taking the chance to french kiss him as he had his mouth open… leaving all the spectators with their mouth hanging, and the poor boy with his eyes widened in shock as his hands tried in vain to pushed the woman off of him without true success. And when she leaned forward with her body to make him lay on the bed… let's say that it got awkward. "Get…! of…! me…!"

"Y-you…! Get off him and act properly!" Demanded the president as she tried to help the boy on getting the woman off of him, managing to separate them a few inches, enough for the woman to talk lovingly to Natsu; staring with deep emotion at his shocked black eyes.

"I missed you, my fiery lover…" There was a massive pause and terrible silence after those words, jaws dropping to the floor as everyone felt their eyes bulging out of shock from their sockets; the harassed boy just blinked.

"…your what?"He asked confused in a low voice that only she could hear, she winked at him, probably having some sort of idea she wanted him to follow. He nodded slowly.

"Did you miss me?" Natsu, catching the idea, smirked and kiss her lightly on the lips; cringing a little when doing so and earning even more shocked expressions from his friends… and the president.

"Yeah! I felt dead while you're away…" He faked the sad puppy eyes the best he could, pouting a little to add some extra spice to the scene. Gray lowered his head with his chin still hitting the floor not getting what was going on, Lucy felt a blush coming to her face as her legs wobbled, and Erza narrowed her eyes, her hands and arms continuing to try and get the nurse from on top of the pink-haired student. Ultear kept on clinging to the boy as if nothing was glaring and trying to get her off on top of him, staring lovingly at Natsu until she remembered –pretended to remember- that there was people inside the room.

"Oh! Sorry!" She apologized hastily, cutting the lovey-dovey act to stand properly and see the other students in the room, eyeing their expressions one by one and almost losing her facade after seeing the other boy staring dumbly at her with the blonde girl next to him raising a arm to slap him out of his trance; she didn't missed the stern look from the red-head either, or the small hit of anger that her eyes were sending at her. "My name's Ultear Milkovich, I'm Porlyusica-san's assistant…"

The teens remained quiet. Exchanging looks in between the black-haired woman and their friend while questions continued to pile over on their fooled minds, for example, who was this woman and why did she seem to be a… "close" friend of the pink-haired boy? Was he really that good with women to earn such a reaction from an older one?

And more importantly, fiery lover?

Really?

The questions were obviously made by the female populace of the room, since Gray was still in some sort of shock or better said, still mesmerized by the woman's looks.

Lucy narrowed her eyes in suspicion. "How do you know Natsu? I'm Lucy, by the way."

Ultear smiled mentally. "We were childhood friends… and a couple…"

Gray, having finally grasped the situation and his mind, raised a confused eyebrow. "How come we didn't meet you, then?"

"I know Ul-chan from my neighborhood, she moved out 8 years ago, before I met you guys…" Natsu answered with a shy smile, he was enjoying this.

"8 years ago?" Lucy questioned out loud, doing the math in her head. "But Natsu was 11 years old then… how… you know… 'fiery lover'?"

"Oh, that!" The black-haired woman smiled and blushed at the same time, going to sit next to the smirking Natsu while he hugged her waist with one arm and she leaned her head on his shoulder. "You would be surprise at how mature my 'Salamander' can be when you get to know him…"

"Salamander?" Erza asked in clear confusion, the nurse nodded and moved one hand to caress the pink locks of her –supposed- ex-boyfriend.

"She liked..."

"I still do…" She whispered close to his ear, watching secretly amused at the expressions of everyone when Natsu looked at her apologetically with a playboy's smile.

"She likes to read Shakespeare… and I like to listen when she reads." Both shared a meaningful and tender gaze before returning their eyes to their audience.

"Still… How old are you?" Gray, almost gagging from the sheer sweetness, asked.

"I'm 22…" She said with an uncaring shrug, making shock fill the room again.

"And I'm 19 now, so there wasn't much of a gap between us…" Natsu added.

"Besides, ago doesn't matter," Ultear moved the pink-haired's head with her index finger on his chin, both sharing another meaningful gaze with half-lidded eyes; damn, they were good. "It is love for one another what should matter the most…"

Gray excused himself after the corny scene, entering the infirmary's bathroom and locking the door behind him; not a sound came from the inside. Lucy sweatdropped at her boyfriend's antics but couldn't fight back the blush that spread on her face at the novel-like scene. Erza tapped her foot twice and clenched her teeth in irritation, showing clearly that the situation wasn't of her liking at all… even if she too had a faint blush on her face.

"Whatever!" Erza yelled finally, not standing the lovey-dovey act. "It's not allowed to be like that inside the school!"

"Like that? How?" Natsu and Lucy asked in clear confusion, both staring at the president, waiting for an answer.

"Like…! Like…! Like this is some class of motel or soap opera!" She yelled after finding something to which compare the situation, Ultear and Natsu looking shyly at the floor while Lucy raised a quizzical eyebrow. Was there a rule for that?

Just then, the door to the infirmary opened.

"Are you okay, darling?" Asked a girl while following who seemed to be her boyfriend.

"Y-yes… don't worry about me, honey…" He flashed a smile at her, she blushed and both continued to walk towards Porlyusica's office, with his bruise arm held tenderly by the girl; they knocked on the door and entered after being allowed to, not acknowledging the other people inside the main room.

Silence engulfed the place.

All eyes moved to the president.

And she felt an embarrass blush cover her entire face before growling to all of the presents and walking –stomping- out of the room, closing the door hard as she exited. Leaving a bunch of confused people behind her, that after a minute of staring vacantly at the door, burst out laughing like idiots; except for Lucy, she wanted to live.

She could understand Erza's reaction, not every day you get yourself the embarrassment of your life and stay to hear the laughs, so, the reasonable action would be to get out as fast as your feet allow you. But something about what happened irked the blonde's curiosity; why did the president say that fake rule to stop them? She could have told them to be less lovey-dovey and, with her character, they would have agreed to knock it down a little. And other thing that bothered her; why didn't the girl notice that they were acting?

The moment Natsu saw the woman enter the room, he freaked out and tried to pushed off of him with all his strength until Ultear whispered something to her, making them the reunited couple that they witnessed and made Gray go to the bathroom.

She looked at the laughing pair on the bed, both so into that laugh that they didn't notice that she was looking at them disapprovingly until Natsu stopped to see her. "What's wrong, Lucy?"

"What's wrong? You're incorrigible, Natsu!" She yelled to him, surprising him, she moved close to him and got him up the bed from his ear; earning some pained protests and more laughs from the black-haired woman, she made the boy stand in front of her to tell him what she thought. "You do know that she left because she was jealous, right?"

"Uh? No, I saw her frustrated and embarrassed…" A slap to the head.

"Natsu! There's your sign to know that she feels the same as you do for her!" The boy stopped whatever was about to say and looked at his friend with serious eyes.

"Sign? That's no sign! She could be jealous of how close we looked or whatever!" Another slap, this time from behind him; turning around, the pink-haired glared at the woman who he didn't saw for the past years.

"She's right, Natsu, no girl would act like that because of what you say, she really feels something for you." Natsu looked back between the two staring females before pointing an accusing finger at the older woman.

"But you were the one of the idea!" Ultear shook her head.

"Only because I notice it when I entered the room, as the girl slapped her boyfriend, that red-head was looking at you from the corner of her eyes to witness your reaction." Natsu opened his mouth to say something else, but shut it. "I did it to make her snap and you to notice that she likes you."

"You could have warned me, then!"

"Natsu, go, explain and apologize before she gets the wrong idea…" Lucy advised with a tired sigh, too used about her friend's behavior. The pink-haired looked at her weirdly, and then looked at Ultear, and then at the floor; thinking about what he should do.

"Okay…" He said before dashing out of the room to find the president, leaving the two girls to their devices. Ultear looked at the closing door for a moment before turning to look at the blonde, demanding an explanation about Natsu's situation that the girl complied to give, hearing about her childhood friend's crush and later falling to the strict woman that commanded the student council. To later tell what his friends –she, Gray and some others- planned to help him.

Ultear smirked playfully, liking the blonde's ideas. "Seems like you have all covered…"

"Yeah, but with Natsu, is harder than making Freed-san notice that Mira-chan likes him…"

To be continued.

YEAH!

Update, my fellows! You didn't think I would abandon this story, right?

Of course you didn't! What am I saying! Hahaha!

The next chapter will be up for tomorrow if reviews for this chapter spike to 4!

Until then, you'll have to wait, sorry about it! xD

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PS: I'm pretty sure that some -if not all- of the characters were OOC. But, oh well, I cannot turned them back to normal now, not when I'm at chapter 6 and everything ends in chapter 8, right? ^^