Pain can lead to Love Chapter 9, a fairy tail fanfic

Well, you've all cast your votes and the two that were selected were: Pain Can Lead to Love and Two Brothers, One Love. Congrats to those who voted for these two! And since this particular fic got the most amount of votes (YAY!) I'm updating this one first :D
In reply to your reviews:

Leoslady4ever: Lyon is being stubborn; he won't go and see Gray. Wahhh! :( Hehe, it's time for some answers, with of course, a side of GraLu!

FairyTailLover333: Why thank you :) Really appreciate the review, oh and the vote as well!

Fairytaillover416: Same, Juvia should just let it all go, but no, I'm stupid and I make all the characters crazy :P Aha, yup! Gajeel and Levy are just so adorable; I couldn't help but put a little GaLe in there. Seriously love that pairing. Also, I decided that I would make Juvia, Lyon, Laxus and Cana live together. Although we didn't see Cana in that chapter, she'll be making her debut any time now. Oh and Natsu... Well we'll find out in this chapter! :D

Psyka: Oh wouldn't we all like to know what's wrong with Lucy. Answers are coming soon! Hehe, thank you very much for the review!

Thank you every one who reviewed and a massive thank you to leoslady4ever, FairyTailLover333, calla-lillies, IYRGirl, noodles swag 101 (that is an awesome name!) and FallingStar93. I was so happy to receive your votes :)
Just note that I'm changing the view point from third person to first person. It's just more convenient. Thanks! Oh and don't forget to READ AND REVIEW my lovelies. I appreciate every single one :3
Well then, here's the next chapter!

Chapter 9: Hurry up and go already!

Natsu's POV

It had been just over a week since I gone to visit Gray.

And I was hating myself so much because it. The last time I'd gone to see him was the second day of his admission.

I felt terrible but I just didn't have the courage or the energy to leave the house.

There was something holding me back. I have no idea what it is but it's holding onto me tightly and just won't let go. Something strange is stirring in my chest, a feeling so overwhelming and exhausting that I don't even know how to cope with it.

Gray, Erza and I have known each other since the last year of middle school, the year after Gray's now memory challenged best friend, Lucy Heartfillia, moved away.

According to what Gray told me last week before I stopped visiting, the two of them were really close. In fact he was closer to Lucy and than he is with Erza and I now.

I feel terrible for him, knowing that he's suffering with not only his condition but with Lucy forgetting about him after she moved away.

Yet I just can't seem to make myself leave the apartment to go see him.

What kind of a friend was he if he couldn't even force himself to tag along with Erza every morning when she went to visit him in the hospital?

My close friend was going through such a rough time and I'm not even doing anything about it. I felt useless. Utterly, completely, useless.

Tap, tap, tap...
The sound of a fist tapping gently against the wooden door echoes softly around the apartment.

I force myself out of bed, untangling my limbs from the covers and eventually I drag my heavy-feeling body down the hall, and over to the front door.

When I open it I'm greeted by a large pair of breast hitting me in the face as arms wrap around my neck and I fall to the floor with a light weight figure on top of me.

"What the fuck?!" I shout out in surprise as I rub the back of my head lightly. I can already feel the bump forming on the back of my head where it came into contact with the ground.

I grimace as I sit up, a sharp pain shooting through my side before slowly fading to a dull throb. I look up to see the girl who had basically tackled me to the ground.

"Gomen Natsu..." She blushes, embarrassed, as she backs away from me, slightly, though still kneeling on the ground in front of me, "I guess I just got a little over excited since I haven't seen you in a while."

A pair of big blue eyes looked up at me innocently, knowing that I had a soft spot for her, particularly when she looked at me in such a cute manner.

She tucked a strand of her short white hair behind her ear and batted her eye lashes, only adding more appeal to her already adorable face, which was tainted by a soft red blush.

"Lisanna! What are you doing here?!" I pulled her up so we were standing before pulling her into a bear hug, to which she tentatively returned by wrapping her delicate arms around his waist and pulling me closer, pressing herself against my muscled physique.

Her smiled quickly turned into a sad frown as they both let go of each other, "Well after I heard about what had happened with Gray I wanted to come check up on him, as well as you and Erza since you both live with him. I've also heard about Lucy and how apparently she's lost her memories? Gray told me over the phone that she's basically lost those two years of middle school the pair of them spent together. It's really quite sad..." Lisanna sniffled a little before casting her eyes to the ground.

"Hey...Don't get upset. Gray will be fine. He always is." I attempted to comfort her by placing one hand on her cheek and lifting her head slightly so she could see into my dark orbs.

Lisanna gave a small smile and a quick hug. When she drew away her face was serious again, "Natsu..." She started, unsure if she should continue.

"What is it?" I asked curiously.

"Erza told me that you haven't been to see Gray for almost the whole time he's been in hospital. Is that true?" Her big blue eyes were staring directly at mine. There was no way out. I was trapped within the vast blue orbs.

I nodded in reply, turning my head to the side to avoid her gaze. I didn't want to have to see the disappointed look on her face.

"Why don't we go visit him today? I know that he's coming home tomorrow but I still think we should visit, you know? For moral support." The white haired girl had cocked her head to the side, willing Natsu to come with her.

"Nah," I replied with a shrug, "We can just wait until he gets home. I'm sure he'll be fine. Besides, if he wanted to see me he would have called and asked."

But Lisanna just shook her head, looking at him for the first time as though he was stupid, "You don't seem to understand. Self harm is a serious matter. Did you know they ran some tests on Gray the other day? The results aren't something that can be ignored or left till tomorrow."

"Wait...what? He had some tests? What were the results? Lisanna you have to tell me, Gray is a very close friend of mine!" I panicked and placed my hands on either one of her shoulders, my eyes wild with worry.

She shook her head once more, this time with a look of pity in her eyes, "See Natsu, you would have known all this if you had just gone to visit him. Gray has been diagnosed with extremely severe depression as well as moderate anxiety. That's all they've determined so far but there could possibly be more mental illness' that show up in the future. It really isn't looking good Natsu. As his friend you should be there for him, and you know he never would have asked you to visit. Gray doesn't like people going out of their way for him, he feels guilty about it."

"Oh god..." I whispered, dropping to my knees. I was gripping my spiky pink hair and my eyes had gone wide.

"Natsu? Natsu! What's wrong?!" Lisanna rushed to my side as tears spilled from my eyes, flowing rapidly down my cheeks.

"I've been such a terrible friend. For some reason I just haven't been able to leave this apartment all week. I don't know why... I just don't have the energy for it. I know I should be there at Gray's side since he's got it so rough now, but I just continue to be selfish and think about myself. Who am I kidding; I don't even deserve to call myself his friend. I'm nothing to him. Absolutely nothing!"

Lisanna wrapped her slender arms around my now trembling figure, pressing her head to my chest and whispering words of comfort.

"You know it's not too late Natsu. You can still go see him today. In fact, we can go right now if you like. And you can't just give up on your friendship with Gray.

Right now is when he needs you the most and all you can do now is go with me to the hospital and support him. I know for a fact that if you were to abandon your friendship with him now, it would have such a terrible impact on Gray. You don't want that now do you?"

She stroked my hair gently and rocked me back and forth, almost like a mother would to a child.

"N-No... I don't want to hurt Gray anymore." I whispered into her hair.

Raising her head to look me in the eye, Lisanna smiled, "So what are we waiting for? Let's go see Gray!"

The white haired girl stood up and held out her hand.

I found myself smiling softly as I took it and hoisted myself up.

Even when we were both standing and even walking to the door, our hands didn't part. They stayed linked together and that made me happy.

Right before we left the apartment, just as we had reached the door, I stopped her.

"Lisanna..." I stroked her cheek with my free hand and whispered, "Thank you."

And just like that I leaned down and placed a gentle kiss on her cheek, which made her blush bright red.

I quickly turned away in embarrassment but didn't let go of her hand.

And that's how we stayed as we walked to her car that was parked out in front of the apartment building. And even once we were in the car, we found ourselves holding hands once more as we speed along the freeway to get to the hospital.

It was nice...

Cana's POV

"Laxus, we have to do something about Juvia. She resents Gray for what happened 6 years ago. The girl's holding a grudge and holding Lyon back along with it. And right now Gray needs his brother." Tossing silky chocolate waves of hair over my shoulder I focused my gaze on the tall blonde man before me.

"Agreed," Laxus nodded, looking deadly serious despite how relaxed he looked with his hips cocked forward and his thumbs in his pocket, "Natsu and Lyon are our number one problems right now. Since Natsu hasn't left the house in almost a week, I sent Lisanna over to his apartment to convince him to visit Gray at the hospital today. So that should all work itself out. But Juvia is proving to be more difficult. I scolded Lyon last night to try and get him to see his brother but after I left Juvia must have interfered 'cause when I got back, the two of them were going at it on the couch instead."

"Eww, Laxus, I didn't need to know that!" I narrowed my purple coloured eyes at him and frowned in disgust, "Look, I'm really not interested in Lyon and Juvia's love life right now. What we need is to help Gray and the only way we can to do that is by having everyone show their support. So we need to do something about Juvia."

"I know, I know! But seriously Cana, I have no idea what we're supposed to do. You know how possessive Juvia gets over the people that she loves. She's convinced herself that by going to see Gray, Lyon will somehow get hurt in the process. So how are we supposed to convince her to let him go see Gray?" The blonde sighed, exhausted.

I could tell that this had been playing on his mind for a while now. His usual smirk had been replaced by a deep frown and black circles were forming under his eyes from fatigue and lack of sleep.

"Honestly? I don't even know anymore. Juvia's a fighter and sometimes that's a bad thing. Especially in this situation. But you and I have always been there for our friends, so I know we'll find a way. We always do. No matter what, our nakama are always going to be special to us so I won't give up. Gray needs help. But not just from us, from everyone. Natsu, Erza, Mira, Jellal, Lisanna, Juvia, Lyon, Sherry, Gajeel, Levy, Lucy, you and me. He needs his friends, all of them." I was staring intently into his eyes, knowing he'd understand.

"But even if we can all be there for Gray, what about Lucy?" His words shattered every plan in my mind that may have worked eventually. How had I forgotten about my cousin?

How could I forget what she went through?

It hadn't been that long after all.

We'd been in an accident on the high way. I was driving the car while Lisanna was in the passenger seat. Lucy sat on the left, with Levy in the middle and Gajeel on the right.

The bluenette was tickling her boyfriend playfully and giggling when he squirmed under her small fingers.

The music was turned up loud and blasting from the speakers as we sped down the high at 110. Suddenly the song changed and Lucy started squealing in excitement.

I hadn't heard this song in so long and before I knew it the 5 of us were singing along with the radio.

"I got this feeling on the summer day when you were gone.
I crashed my car into the bridge. I watched, I let it burn!
I threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairs.
I crashed my car into the bridge!
I don't care, I love it!
I don't care!"

And right then none of us cared as we sped along with the windows down and the wind in our hair. Even Gajeel, who was never out going, was joining in as he wrapped an arm around Levy's small shoulders and nodded his head in time with the rhythm.

The song repeated again as we all sang in time with the lyrics.

Lisanna had her hands above her head in and was attempting to sway her hips in her seat while Levy had gripped Gajeel's cheeks in both hands and pulled him towards her so their lips could crash against each others.

Lucy was pumping her fist into the air repeatedly and I found my shoulders shifting back and forth in time to the beat as I tossed my chocolate brown hair over my shoulders. We were all having so much fun!

"You're on a different road; I'm in the Milky Way.
You want me down on earth, but I am up in space.
You're so damn hard to please, we gotta kill the switch.
You're from the 70's but I'm a 90's bitch!
I don't care, I love it!
I don't care, I love it, I love it!
I don't care, I love it!
I don't care, I love it, I love it!
I don't care!
I love it!"

And right then as the song ended, we really did crash into the bridge.

Tears threatened to spill from my eyes at this moment. Because of me, the car crashed. Lucy was sent to hospital and everyone who wasn't in that car was forgotten.

Guys, once again, I'm really sorry for disappearing for 2 weeks. I promise I'll return with a whole load of updates for all my fics and maybe even some new one's as well.
Unfortunately, I only had time to update one fic and you people who read this are lucky because this one got the most votes!
It's almost 1 in the morning but I'm powering through for you guys, despite the fact that I have to get up before 7 in the morning, which is a big change since I usually get up at mid-day. Hehe, you're so lucky :D
Sorry for OOC- ness!
Well, I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and continue to read it in spite of all my mistakes.
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Thank you so much :3

LW / Wonder-chan :)