A/U: Sorry for my lateness! I should be a little more active now though so that is good! Also, you guys will most likely hte me for this chapter
DSD Ch.4
Natsu's POV
As soon as I opened my eyes, I was greeted by a flying blue cat.
"Natsu! Get up! Today is Erza's Birthday!" Happy yelled, I flipped the hell out.
"What?! I forgot to get a gift!" I screamed as I grabbed my jacket and put it on, I also was running out the door at the same time. I run into the guild and I stop by Erza,
"Sorry Erza, But I forgot to get you a gift for your birthday!" I yelled while bowing. Happy and everyone else in the guild erupt into laughter.
"April Fools Natsu!" Happy yelled, and my aura turned into one with death. I grabbed Happy by the tail and have him a serious look, the guild grew silent. I start laughing and sit down at the bar next to Erza, letting go of Happy's tail, he flew off.
"So, It isn't your birthday Erza?" I ask and she stares at me.
"No it isn't Natsu, my birthday is tomorrow!" Erza yelled, and I freaked, then clapped my hands.
"Ok! I know what to get you!" I yelled and Erza looked at me,
"What?" She asked, I shook my head.
"you'll get it soon, I'll be back" I told Erza and sprinted out of the guild towards my new house.
I get into my kitchen through the window, and start to make the strawberry cake. I get the batter done and set it aside. Then I start to get the insides done, however I hear a twig snap and a large thud. I sigh. I walk outside my front door, grab Erza, and walk back inside.
"Why did you follow me?" I ask as I sit down with Erza on the couch. She starts to pout,
"I wanted to know what my present was." Erza said, folding her arms. I sigh and get back up to finish the cake.
No sooner did I finish it I grab it and put it on the coffee table In front of Erza, she eyes me and I nod. She picks up the spoon and takes a bite, then her eyes widen.
"This is amazing Natsu." Erza said blandly, then ate the whole cake in a record of 5.86 seconds. I freaked. But then she scooted over and patted the couch, signaling that she wanted for me to be next to her. I sit down and we stay there in silence. I feel Erza start to lean on me and I adjust. Erza pulls me into a bear hug and we lay there. Finally I break the silence,
"I know where we can go!" I yelled while I slung Erza over my shoulder, and ran out the door. I ran over to a clearing that had a lake in the middle, and in the middle of the lake was an Island with one tree on it.
" Let's go there!" I yelled pointing a finger at the tree. Ice Make: Bridge I yelled, and blasted a pathway of ice out of my hand, even though I told Erza about it, she still flipped. I ran over to the tree and I lay her down next to me. We stay in silence.
"Natsu" Erza says and I turn my head. Then she finishes her sentence,
"Natsu I-I do have feelings for you." I smile. She leans her head onto my shoulder and I touch her chin. She looks up and I lean in. When I pull back out I get to see her face, she was shocked. Then she relaxes and sits in between my legs, and starts to lean back. Erza rests the back of her head on my chest and asks,
"Was this supposed to be a date Natsu?" I think a bit,
"I knew you would follow me, no this was not supposed to be a date, but now it is I guess." I say after a minute or so. And I feel the smile on her face. I lay fully down and we look up towards the sky, It was night now. But we didn't care, I light my finger on fire and trace a heart above us.
"Natsu... You didn't have to do that." Erza scolded but I grab her by the waist and pull her in closer.
"No I didn't but I wanted to." I told her and I smiled. The last thing I remember was falling asleep under that tree
I smell raspberries before I open my eye, As soon as I do I see nothing but red. Erza shifts in order to face me, her eyes were still closed and I knew she was asleep; I had this sudden itch on my crotch area and I moved slightly to itch it. Erza's eyes flutter open, I smile.
"Good morning, sleepy head." I smile and she sighs,
"Another day of work huh?" Erza asks and I shake my head.
"No, we are going to take the day off today." I replied, she looks up at me. We lean in towards each other for a brief kiss. We pull out as soon as we hear laughter. I sniff the air,
"Damnit Happy, If you tell the guild god forsaken I do not care if I raised you, I will light your tail on fire." I threaten and Happy comes out of the bushes.
"Fine, but you owe me a ton of fish Natsu." Happy gambles and I shake my head. I sit back down and reply,
"Okay" Then, Happy flies away and I'm alone with Erza again. I set my head down into the crook of her neck. Erza gasps and I chuckle, I wrap my arms around her stomach and pull her closer towards me. An image flashes into my head. It was a marking, of a dragon of four colors wrapped around a sword. What does this mean I ask to myself in my head. Erza gets out of my grip and stands up,
"Let's go to your house." she suggested, I nod my head. After I got up I turned and knelt down, I felt Erza jump on my back and I started to walk back to my house.
As soon as we got there I collapsed,
"Natsu, are you alright?" Erza asks and I nod my head while I'm panting. I get back up and start to take a step forward. I fall again, I try to get up once more but Erza stopped me. I look up at her as she leans down and swings me onto her back. Erza opens the door to the house and she takes me into the living room. Erza slowly and carefully lays down on the couch while I'm still on her back,
"I will admit, that was a damn good way to get snuggles" I say, but before I heard Erza's response, my eyes slid into the back of my head and I fainted.
Erza's POV
I feel Natsu's arms relax and fall from my side, I turn to face him, then I notice that he fainted, and I panic. I launch off of the couch and I raise my fist, then slam it onto Natsu's stomach. Nothing. I think about the times that we were near each other, and how he always seemed attracted to my hair. hair, that's it! I think and summon a dagger. I cut a lock of hair off and put it to Natsu's nose. Again, nothing. I break up into tears and lay there for a minute, bawling my eyes out. I look up and outside. I saw light, signaling that it was my birthday. I cry even more as I pick up his body and start to walk to the guild. Every step I took felt like I was stepping on pointy chainsaws that were on.
I look up to see the doors of the guild. I wait a second before I enter. When I did there were all the guild members that jumped out at me and started to yell, then they saw him. I burst into tears as Lucy, Gray, and Happy started to walk towards him. They seemed to have figured it out and a few others started to cry. I collapse to the ground and Lucy runs over to my side. She reached and was about to touch his hand. I notice this, my aura turns black and I summon a hundred swords around her,
"Don't" I say the one word and I can tell Lucy's skin crawled. I get up and Walk out behind the guild hall, where a few holes were located, I neaten one up and lay him down. I lay down under him and cry. I can sense the other members around me. I say two words, "bury us" and every one just freaks. People were shouting at me and pulling me out, I fight back and knock a few down. Makarov walks over to me and gets in position to use his magic.
Makarov starts to count down, all the way to one, I close my eyes, but nothing comes.
"Erza, stop!" he demands. I spin to face him and yell,
"Do it! He's dead! Natsu's dead! I don't know why you guys haven't seen it yet, but he loved me..." I was crying now, I continue,
"...And I love him! Enough to the point where if he asked me to marry him When we just started dating, I would accept!"
I open my eyes to be in a cave, I look around, but there was no exit. I stare dead across the room to see him. The only thing was that he was looking back, I blink. He was still there. I jump forward and tackle him to the ground, "Natsu!" I scream, he doesn't respond. I feel his chest where the heart should be, nothing. I sink to the ground and sob, He was truly gone. Natsu, was dead. I continued to sob and I feel a hand on my shoulder, I turn to see Makarov.
"I am going to give you a test, don't fail." he tells me and a big flash blurs my sight. All of the sudden I'm on a cliff holding him and the whole guild is telling me to back away. I realize that I could either live on. Or I could join him. I latch
My hand onto my wrist then turn. I sprint full speed and jump off the edge. I started to fall when I felt a pulse, thinking that It was his, I yelled. Requip: Flight Armor and glided down to the ground. As soon as I reached it I turned him and Checked for a pulse again. Nothing. I just missed my chance to join him... I thought. Then a flash of light blurred my sight once more and I'm back in the cave.
"Now I know how much you loved him. After the funeral," I bawl as I hear the last part. Makarov continues,
"I will lock you up for a week so you can think. After the week is up I will let you decide if you still want to committ suicide. And If you want to, go ahead, I have seen how much you loved him, and how much he loved you." I look up and smile, then asked something. "I already have my answer, but... Do you know when Natsu started to love me?" Makarov looks at the ceiling and starts to talk.
"His feelings gradually increased for you. But I would say that what sparked those feelings was when you taught him how to write and read. When you finished he ran up to me and told me all the stuff he learned, then he looked over at you and blushed. However there could have been other times, you will have to ask him when you are together again." Makarov said in a sage-like manner. I knew that when he said 'together again' he meant when I was dead and we were joined together. I nod since I knew that I would not alive for more than a week and a half. Then Makarov puts a hand on my shoulder and yells Transport.
I open my eyes to be standing where I was when Makarov almost blasted me. I walk over to Natsu and sit next to the hole. I stay there for a day and a half.
I wake up to see that every thing was in place for the funeral.
I then sigh and get up, starting to walk towards a seat, I notice that Natsu was in the casket already. I sit in my chair criss crossed and close my eyes and think.
Once the funeral was ready to start, I opened my eyes but started to zone out, thinking about when I started to have feelings for Natsu. There were many times, like when Natsu showed me how he made the fire so that It wouldn't burn me. Or how we floated down a river on the top of a giant plastic wrapped, pillow. But there were many more times that I could have developed feelings for him. I continued to think until the part where I had to come up to the podium and say what Natsu meant to me. As soon as I walked up I started to speak,
"Um, Natsu meant everything to me. I honestly don't know what the guild will be like without him, I mean. It wont be as rowdy, but there will be plenty of other things missing, Natsu has been here for one of the longest times. And that I would gladly take anything for him, a bullet, a sword, or a dragon breath attack. He gave me hope, he gave me respect and trust and all this other stuff, that I most likely wouldn't have had without him, that we all moat likely wouldn't have had without him. Thank you" I walk back towards my seat and zone out once again. I went first to speak about him so I waited through the others. Only a few stuck out, Those were Gray's, Lucy's, Happy's, and Elfman's surprisingly. I will need to thank them later Then everyone started to say their prayers individually for him, they walked up, one by one. I decided I wanted to go last, so that I could make mine the longest. So I did, but as I was about to be up at the last of the line, I saw a blurred image of Natsu. It was standing next to the casket looking at me, this time, I smile. Since I know that I would be joining him soon, however, this time, it smiles back. I stand there for a few more minutes waiting for me to be the last person. I stare at the ghost the whole time, I smile again. As soon as I am the last person I walk up next to him, but this time, rather than thinking out my prayer, I spoke it out loud,
"Natsu, I swear, you tend to be quite a handful, but it's worth it. I love you. I. Love. You. There is nothing that could change my mind about that, and if there is, then I don't deserve you. Someone should love with everything they got, or nothing at all. I could tell that you loved me as a whole, with my past included. Natsu, but there is one thing I can't forgive you for, and that was dying. Natsu, I wanted to marry you, have kids, I wanted to go through everything with you, including the 100-year mission that you so desperately wanted to go on, but I wouldn't let you. I just wanna see you and hold you many more times.." I continued to go on for another two and a half hours, no one stopped me. As soon as I finished I looked at Makarov,
"Um... Can I, hug him? One last time?" I asked, Makarov looks at me an gives a thumbs up. I turn to look at him, I lean down and wrap my arms around him. I pull back to look at his ghost standing next to me, I smile once again. But this time I start to tear up. I still have one hand on him, I move it to his wrist. My eyes widen and I spin towards Natsu.
"What is it Erza?" Makarov asks, I respond,
"I felt a pulse!"
Told you that ya would hate me! This seems a little rushed to me but eh, I think it turned out pretty good, tell me what you think! Until next time! But this time it won't be as long! Cya :D