"It's really spicy!" I looked up from my curry over to Natsu, who was just laughing. "I'm serious Natsu It's spicy!"

Natsu decided to take me out to eat to a really nice Thai restaurant. He ordered mild green curry for me and super spicy red curry for himself.

Natsu reaches over and takes a bite of my curry and laughs even harder.

"Thats so weak!" He pushes over his plate of red death. "Now THIS is curry." He gives me a playful smile. I shake my head at him and put my hands up, as if surrendering.

"I don't feel like dying today, so I'm gonna pass." I giggled. Natsu just shrugged his shoulders and pulled his plate back over and started eating. I just stared as he devoured the super spicy curry like it was a normal stir fry with rice. "How can you eat that?" I gaped at him. "It just hurts me watching you." He stopped eating and set his fork down and just stared at his plate.

"I've always loved spicy food." He leaned back away from his plate and looked up at me. "You used to know that." He quickly slapped his hand over his mouth and stared at me.

"I what?" What is he talking about we've only hung out this once. "Natsu, what's going on?" I stared intently into his eyes.

"Lav, I-" He looked down, breaking my gaze. He just sat there quietly. I watched him, his chest moving slowly, his eyes filled with contemplation, and his mouth twisted into a grimace as he mulled over what ever he was about to say. He took a deep breath and looked up at me. "If you knew, you could be in serious danger Lav. And I don't want you to be in any danger because I want to protect you. So I can't tell you unless..." He trailed off and looked like he hated what he was about to say. "Unless you are truly ready to take on the hardest job of your life." What? So something IS going on. Damn it! I feel like I need to know but ignorance is always bliss. I looked deep into Natsu's eyes for some sort of hint, all I could see was that he already knew what answer I was going to choose. He was looking down like he hated himself and his hands were trembling. He was terrified. Even though I was contemplating it I knew what I was going to pick.

Ignorance or danger? I guess I have no choice. I stood up and looked down at him, he was still staring into his spicy red curry.

"Alright Natsu I'm ready. Whats going on?"