Where have you been?

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Chapter 3

They were pretty much the only people in the train cabin, well them and a few elderlies who were fast asleep since it was late anyways. Erza, Gray and Happy were still asleep, so it was just Lucy who was crouching in front of Natsu and the latter one.

Lucy ran her fingers through Natsu's pink locks, he sat hunched over with his face down and his hands gripping his pants tightly. He was sobbing, she could hear the faint noise and how his tears fell down on his hands. The blonde frowned. 'Was his dream that bad?' Lucy thought, she wondered who this 'Sakura' person was who he mentioned in his dream. It could be anyone, maybe also a mage from their guild who died? Lucy shook her head; people would've already told her about it.

"What's wrong?" She asked concerned, well who wouldn't be? Seeing him so… Vulnerable, made her heart clench. She was used to the carefree, reckless Natsu who take things head-on. Lucy place a hand over his, making his head look up and shrugged a bit.

Lucy sighed and grabbed his arm, forcing him to go with her to another bench –the one behind them–, pushing him on the seat behind Erza, Lucy sat beside him and gave him a serious look. "Tell me what's wrong, Natsu." She wanted to help him, her –partnerbestfriend– Natsu. Lucy would've been lying if she told you that she doesn't have romantic feelings for the Dragon Slayer, when she figured it out it greatly shocked her but eventually began to accept it.

When Natsu still refused to talk, she gave a sigh again. "Look, Natsu. I don't know what you were dreaming, or who this Sakura person is but ignoring me isn't going to help you." At the mention of 'Sakura', Natsu gripped his white pants even tighter if that was possible. He looked out of the window. 'Looks like his motion-sickness is away at the moment.' Lucy mused, looking at her best friend who was glaring at the window.

Seeing that he wasn't going to talk anytime soon, she stood up and walked to her previous seat. Well, that is what she was planning to do when Natsu's voice stopped her. "She's my sister." He spoke softly but loud enough for Lucy to hear. The Celestial Mage turned her head, "Sister?" She repeated, while Natsu just nodded in confirmation. She made her way next to him again.

"Where is she now?" Lucy bit her lip after asking that, for some reason she hoped that she wasn't dead, that Natsu –besides fairy tail – had still a family somewhere. When Natsu was silence for a long time, she feared for the worst. The pink haired boy glanced at the blonde girl next to him. "I-I don't know." He said after a while, "when I woke up she just wasn't there, she wasn't there dammit." Natsu growled out, Lucy could hear their teammates and wondered if they were woken up due Natsu' growl.

"What happend next?" Natsu looked sad, well… As if he didn't looked like that earlier. "The next day, Igneel left me.." He spoke softly, frowning when he remembered that when he woke up that his father also wasn't there anymore, July 7th x777. Natsu gave her a sad smile, "I miss her, ya'know? I still remember everything about her." He chuckled slightly. "Pink hair like me but lighter, big emerald eyes, the cutest smile I've ever seen but don't let if fool you, she is short-tempered." He gave another laugh. "She always used to hit me behind my head when I was being reckless and damn… She could hit hard." Natsu rubbed the back of his head as if he felt the pain again.

The dragon slayer let out a sigh, well… At least he looked better than he was before. "I wonder how she will look like now, I really wanna see her again."

"Was she also a dragon slayer like you?" It was the cute voice of the blue exceed, who was looking over the couch that separated Erza and Natsu. The latter thought for a bit and shook his head. "Igneel thaught us but surprisingly she never was good at controlling fire." He explained to his partner. "However one time during training, I was wounded and Sakura healed me." Natsu told them excitedly, "She healed me with her hands, there was this crazy green thing glowing from her hands, I don't know what it was and she didn't either!"

Lucy looked up when she saw two figures standing beside her, Erza and Gray who woke up because of Natsu's loud voice.

"Who would've thought that Tabasco head has a sister?" The taunting voice of Gray spoke. "Hopefully she's nothing like you." Natsu scowled and stood up but when he was going to say something, the train moved a bit and Natsu fell down on the couch again unconscious.

"His motion-sickness has kicked in again." Lucy stated with a giggle, her three other teammates also laughing.

"What I want isn't money, pretty dresses, or fortune forced upon me,
I'm not Lucky Lucy of Heartfilia anymore, Fairy Tail recognizes me as just Lucy and my other family, i
t's a far more loving family than this!"

— Lucy Heartfilia to her Father

Sakura let out a sigh as she watched the bright stars in the night sky. She sat up and dusted the grass on her back with her hands; she got up and looked at the males laying in front of her. Giving them a questioning look, she crossed her arms in front of her chest. "Let's go back to the camp, it's getting late." The males soon got up and followed Sakura.

"Last one who's downstairs is a loser!" The pink haired kunoichi yelled out, before running down the hill leaving the others who soon enough ran down the hill also.

Naruto ran just behind Sakura, the latter accidentally lost her balance and tripped. Naruto tripped over Sakura, making them both roll down the hill. Well, at least they aren't a loser. Naruto groaned when he felt something shifting on his stomach, opening his eyes he saw pink. "S-Sakura-chan, you're heavy." He said and immediately regretted his words because said girl had punched him.

Sakura looked back and saw that it was; Sai who got down last, not like he even bothered to run in the first place. The medic-ninja grabbed Naruto by the collar and dragged him back to the camp, 'accidentally' walking through bushes and lost branches, making the poor boy whimper in pain the whole time.

"Ugly, whose turn is it to watch?" Sakura's eyebrow twitched in annoyance at his nickname for her, even after all this time she still got annoyed. "It's mine turn, Sai." She spat out and Sai could only smile.

After arriving at the camp, they saw that the fire was almost dying out making it dark and hard to see. However, Makarov grabbed some wood and lit it on fire and threw it at the camp-fire so it was burning again. Sakura threw Naruto in his tent, not worrying over his wounds because the Kyuubi will heal it itself.

Sakura sighed and sat on a trunk watching the fire; she felt a presence sitting beside her and glanced at the man besides her. "Aren't you going to sleep?" Sakura asked Makarov who was watching the fire intensely. The tiny man shook his head and turned to face her. "I want to ask you something, Sakura-chan." Said girl nodded, motioning for him to go on with whatever he was going to ask her.

"When did your father and brother leave you?" Makarov stared into Sakura's eyes, determined to know the answer. Sakura sighed sadly, frowning as she did so. "Eleven years ago, 6th of July x777." She answered. 'A day before all the dragons suddenly disappeared.' Makarov thought, narrowing his eyes slightly.

"I see, guess I was right." The Fairy Tail guild master muttered quietly, but Sakura heard him. "What was right?" She asked, narrowing her eyes in suspicion. Makarov sighed and watched the fire again.

"Sakura, your father disappeared the day after he left you."

Sakura gasped, her eyes widening and what she just heard. Her father disappeared? The pink haired girl shook her head, that couldn't be true, but what about her brother? "What happened to him? What happened to my brother?"

Makarov sighed, "It seems that all dragons had disappeared on that day, we don't know how or why they disappeared." He took a glance at her crestfallen face. "I don't know about your brother, what is his name?"

The kunoichi smiled slightly. "Natsu. Natsu Dragneel." Makarov looked at her in surprise, so what he thought was right. His eyes softened slightly. 'At least Natsu has now a family member that is alive and well.' He thought, before he wondered about when they were going to meet. Natsu's team was picking him up after all.

"So, do you maybe know if he's alive?" The voice of Sakura broke him out of his thoughts and nodded in answer. "He's alive and well." He couldn't help but smile a little when he saw her smile, tears gathering in the corner of her eyes. "Natsu is a mage in our guild." Sakura raised an eyebrow and gave him a questioning look.

"Really? I wonder how he looks like now…" She trailed off; the old man grabbed something from his pocket and gave it to her. It was a picture (1) of the guild-members, she could quickly see her brother, and he stood out after all with his hand on Makarov's head that was yelling at him and his usual smile on his face. Sakura smiled at the picture, he hadn't changed at all. Still the scarf from their father around his neck, the big grin on his face.

"He hasn't changed at all." She spoke softly mostly to herself as her fingers traced his face.

Sakura suddenly looked up at Makarov. "I'm sorry if he bought any trouble!" She apologized, knowing Natsu he definitely did some trouble. Makarov laughed and waved his hand, "Don't worry, he didn't." He said but inwardly he was thinking of all the trouble he actually did for not only him but for the whole guild.

The two people turned their head when they heard some rustling in the bushes, letting know that someone was there. Sakura stood up and in a defence pose. The figure came closer and due the fire that was still bright they saw who it was.

They both widened their eyes when the person stepped out of the bushes.

"T-That can't be." Sakura stuttered out, eyes wide and mouth open but her hands covering it.

End chapter 3.

Ta-daaaa, end chapter three! Sorry for the long wait, thank you for all your kind reviews! I ended this with a cliffy, making ya'll wonder who the person is. Oh well, as if it isn't obvious yet! Thank you for reading, don't forget to review cause they make me happy! Hopefully I'll get to 25/30 reviews this time. Also, I'm sorry for making this chapter short. I just wanted to focus about Sakura and Natsu talking about each other… Or something like that. Next chapter will definitely be longer!

(1) – the picture is on my profile if you want to see it!