my answer is you
notes: ok i will confess i don't really like this one, but i do like the premise of it. reincarnation and soul mates - that's what i call true love! and we all now nalu totally fits it. i just don't think i wrote this very well, but i would love to one day write a full story about reincarnated soul mates. one day. :D enjoy!
wander
She has wandered through countless lifetimes, going wherever her feet take her. The years are quiet as they pass, unfulfilled, but she is not sure what—who?—she is looking for. All she knows is that during all the lives she's lived, all the selves she remembers, she has never once felt complete.
She has been a princess, lavished in gold and silk, sheltered from a kingdom of strangers who believed her a goddess and expected glory and wealth from her rule. She has been a gangster's daughter, protected by burly men with bulging muscles and grisly scars, kidnapped countless times for ransom and surrender. She has been a warrior, leading loyal soldiers into battle with pride and suffered through victory and defeat. She has been many things in her many lifetimes, but never has she been at home.
She has been many people, but always she has been out of place, alone and ill-fitting, the piece that belongs to a different puzzle.
So it is with a deep-set weariness, one that has sunk far past her skin and found home in her very bones, that she enters Hargeon, the bustling port city. She has left her prison and become a traveler, in search of a home she has never found, and she does not expect to find it today or any time soon. For now, she is looking for a way into the place she thinks can be like home—Fairy Tail—and for now, that is enough for her.
He has wandered past countless people, seeking out the soul that calls to his own. He's searching, always searching, but home continues to elude him. Sometimes, he thinks he feels it, is on the verge of finding it, but as soon as the moment comes, it's gone. And he falls back into his endless quest.
He has met so many people during his lives, the ones that aren't too old to remember. There was a pirate, he knows, who taught him how to sail the seven seas before he left to command his own ship. He'd known a nobleman once too, back when he'd been a court jester for some king, who had helped him out of trouble many times and treated him like his son. And of course, he remembers the pilot, the one who taught him to fly. He has known many, many people, but never has he known the one he is searching for, the one who will give him the home he so desperately wants, the one who will finally end his travels.
But he is still searching. And he does not expect to find home here, today, in this little place called Hargeon, because in this life, he is searching for someone else: his father, who was his home for the brief amount of time they'd been together. And he knows that it is not his father his soul aches for, but he will take what he can get.
And it is in this bustling little Hargeon that she finds him, or he finds her, or they find each other.
He stumbles through the crowd and breaks the spell on her senses. She shakes her head in mild self-disgust, glaring at the impostor, before moving to thank the stranger who had inadvertently helped her. He gets off the ground and dusts his clothes off, muttering under his breath, before looking around for someone to ask for information.
And this, here, now, is when countless lifetimes and personas collide into gold and pink, two simple halves of an even simpler whole.
Just Lucy and Natsu.
Their eyes meet and, like lightning, recognition strikes.
Ah, they think. Finally, I'm home.
Copyright 2015 by The Siege