A/N: I had every intention of getting this out yesterday, but due to an unfortunate and quite severe allergic reaction to my painkillers, that caused me to expel the contents of my stomach for almost twelve hours, that coupled with crippling pain from my wrist and stomach…Well yeah I think my reason is sound, anyway Now I feel better, so let's do it.
Natsu ran down the street as he pulled his arm's through his jacket, yes the one day he has a friend to walk to class with and he oversleeps, 'I h hope she just went ahead.' he thought as he ran, he rounded the corner and continued past the street light they set as a meeting point.
"Where the hell have you been!" He recognized the voice instantly, Erza was practically cannon balling at him as he continued to run.
"Alarm didn't go off!" Natsu shouted back.
"First class of the year and you make us late!" Erza yelled at him.
"Well pick up the pace you crazy midget I don't want to be any later!" Natsu shouted back, he did not however think she would catch him before he made it to the classroom, he placed his hand to open the door and turned around, *crack* the woman's foot found his head and he slammed against the door.
He rubbed the back of his head and wiped at the small amount of blood leaking from his nose, he noticed he had her hood drawn up covering her ears and her tail was still inside her pants, she huffed and opened the door leaving him standing with a blank look on his face in the corridor. He opened the door and practically stomped inside, the teacher merely looked at him "Find your seat." The man said flatly.
He raised his eyebrow, he expected a detention or something.
Due to them being late, Natsu was sitting two row's down from Erza who merely smirked at him as he sat down and he shook his head.
"All right, there shouldn't be any more…interruptions so, my name is Macao Conbolt and I will be your teacher for the remainder of this year any questions?" The Dark blue haired man introduced before looking over the class "No? Good. Now" And so began the lecture Natsu paid little attention too.
Natsu was gathering his things when he looked at Erza, who was finishing off her notes, a kid walked down the aisle behind her 'accidentally hit the back of her head with his books "Sorry." The kid basically mocked. Natsu gritted his teeth and bent over his chair to get his bag, as the boy walked past him he caught his ankle sending him toppling down the stairs, Natsu straightened and mimicked the kids tone "Sorry." He said a simply knowing smile across his face.
The kid shot a glare at him as he got his stuff back together and walked away. Natsu walked up and stood in front of Erza's desk, he placed his elbow's on either side of the book she was writing in and resting his chin in his hands as he watched her.
"Take a picture, it'll last longer." she shot at him, raising her eyes to smirk at him.
"Eh, I'm hungry so hurry up." Natsu half complained half demanded.
"Not every is content with just average grades," Erza taunted "Some of us have to study…And listen."
"Hey, I do both of those things…sometimes." Natsu retorted.
"Your argument is so compelling." Erza taunted again.
"So what your saying is you don't want any cheesecake." He cocked his eyebrow and he watched her reaction, she seemed to take a long breath to contain excitement as she set her pen down.
"I suppose I can accompany you," She said flatly, he just grinned at her "But we are getting it to go, I want to show you something."
"What?" Natsu asked curiously
"It's a secret…And a surprise." She answered cryptically, her smile was not reassuring.
And so Natsu was led eyes closed to Erza's Secret/surprise, he had the cake in his bag to use as lever-*cough* because he was so nice he was carrying it.
"Okay, open your eyes." Erza instructed, he did so, and was met with quite possible the best view he had ever seen in his life, a small patch of grass overlooking the rooftop of the university and out of the city skyline, the sun was beginning to go down in the distance and Natsu allowed himself to sit heavily on the grass, letting out a relieved sigh.
"Oi! Give me my cake you Giant!" Erza snapped, he shifted his weight and retrieved the small plastic container.
"Here." He tossed it up to her and she caught it, shooting him a look at his rough treatment of her favorite treat.
She pulled her hood back and let her ear's twitch atop her head freely, she sighed "This is easily my favorite place in Tokyo."
Natsu continued to look over the city and smiled "Yeah, I can see why."
Although he tried to hide it, his eyes constantly flickered too the two small ear's on Erza's head every time they moved, he suppressed the overwhelming urge to reach out and pet her, he had a feeling she would likely destroy him if he did.
Erza smiled, wanting to torture him further she continued to twitch her ear's and watch his reaction, Natsu seemed to notice her he looked away pointedly and scowled.
She giggled at him "Nice job with that kid in class I could barely tell you actually tripped him on purpose till you copied his tone." She smiled approvingly.
Natsu shrugged "Racism like that is just ignorance, people who judge others from their outside appearance are in fact incredibly stupid. I mean you have to be to look at someone and decide that they are worse than you."
She place her forearm over her head dramatically "Thou art a righteous warrior at heart." She mocked openly.
"Yeah, well someone has to look out for you," Natsu fired back "You're so very tame in class, almost an entirely different person."
Erza bopped his head with her fist "What was that about tame?!" she demanded.
"I'm just saying, if I hit you in the back of the head with my book's you'd probably toss me out a window." Natsu replied flatly.
"Yeah, well I would get kicked out of school, I used to fight them, but as you can imagine this school isn't really massive on equality." Erza explained simply.
Natsu shook his head in annoyance "Well whatever, they won't throw me out for 'accidentally' tripping some idiot's."
Erza chuckled as she finished the last piece of her cake, (A/N: If you assumed it is anything other than strawberry cheesecake, you do not have the right to be reading this fiction and should leave now -.-) she shuffled a bit and laid her head down on Natsu's thigh, he looked down at her and smiled, she just turned her head and watched the view.
"You know if you want to touch my ear's you could always try asking." Erza announced flatly.
Natsu looked down at her, she didn't move she just sat there 'That explains why she decided I am a pillow.' he thought with a small chuckle.
"May I pet you?" Natsu, regretted the words he chose as soon as they exited his mouth.
She turned and looked at him, the amused twinkle in her eyes made him swallow hard. "You wanna pet me? And after that can you roll a ball of yarn for me? Oh, and then you buy me a big saucer of milk!" She exclaimed in mock excitement.
"Well you are the only Nekojin I have ever met, how they hell am I supposed to know how to ask other than how I just did." Natsu argued defensively.
"I'll let it slide, just this once." Erza patted his cheek lightly.
Natsu shook his head and slowly placed his hand in between the two appendages, he scratched at them lightly.
Erza practically melted into him, a very soft moan escaped her lips as he found a specific spot, he stayed there "Getting a little excited?" Natsu taunted.
Erza kept her eyes closed "You wish!" She snapped.
'Why is he so good at his?' Erza thought wondrously, no one had ever actually scratched her ear's before, and when she did it, it was never quite like this, she shrugged 'Doesn't matter anyway.'
"Well, if we stay here you are going to be late for your next class," Natsu said flatly as he stopped, Erza was disappointed, not that she'd ever let him know that "I will see you tomorrow."
She nodded "Yeah, don't be late this time."
"Yeah yeah I know." Natsu waved it off as he walked towards the front gate of the school, he combed his fingers through his hair and sighed, not really wanting to go anywhere but he was fairly sure you weren't allowed to loiter around at school.
As he neared the gate he recognized the kid he had tripped earlier, he got a better look at him now, half his hair was white the other black, it hung lazily over his face he had brown eyes and wore a long white coat, Natsu sighed he recognized that look.
The boy recognized him and called out, it was Natsu turned to growl the same asshole from the café stood in front of him, none of his injured lackeys were with him. Natsu stopped a small distance from them.
"Well well," Natsu said flatly "Something you boy's need?"
"Hah, never would've thought you'd be the one to find him Totomaru." The black-haired man announced loudly.
"Well, that Neko-bitch goes here too so it makes sense." Totomaru replied.
Natsu emitted a low growl "You may want to watch how you speak about other's around me." He warned dangerously.
"Right, forgot your one of those furry fuckers." The black-haired man announced again.
Natsu eyes narrowed and he forced himself not to simply destroy the pair in front of him.
"You mind if we take this off premises, I would rather not get expelled for beating you two to a pulp." Natsu said flatly.
"Get a load of this guy Gajeel," another voice joined, the black-haired man nodded "Guess he really is suicidal."
Natsu sighed, he looked at the gate of the school, technically they were on the outside 'You only live once right?' He though wryly as she shot forward, slamming his fist into Gajeel's stomach he stumped backwards as the air left his lung's Natsu rotated and proceeded to quickly kick him in the chest before whipping his leg around and slamming his heel down on his forehead, Gajeel's face hit the concrete with a thud, a small amount of blood shot from his mouth.
"You have two simple choices, you can scoop up your friend here and leave without any broken bones…Or you can try to fight me." Natsu said simply, planting his foot in the downed man's ribs for emphasis.
Totomaru gulped before walking forward and dragging Gajeel to his feet, he glared at Natsu defiantly "I'll make sure they expel you for this."
Natsu gestured to the school and point at the gate "School rules do not apply outside of school you would do well to treat Erza with some respect around me boy, I would hate to have this conversation again." Natsu warned.
Natsu shoved past the group and continued on his way home, a small smile played out on his face 'With any luck they will leave Erza alone…well at least when I am around her.'
He walked into his apartment locked the door behind him and plopped down heavily on the couch a long sigh escaped him as he relaxed, he slipped his phone out of his pocket and sat it on his coffee table, he stretched out and smiled, he had an idea for a drawing at that moment he got up and made his way over to his stocked art room, the same small smile plastered on his face as he started.
A/N: What's Natsu drawing I wonder? Only 3:00 Am, the side effect's of sleeping all day are being to awake to sleep at night, remember what i said about real life being my troll, yeah this is what i was talking about.