You explained everything to Natsu as you walked home with him. You answered every question with the best answer you could manage. You don't know why you were so open to a boy you had just met, he just felt… Safe. Like you could trust him.

After 20 minutes of explaining to Natsu why you were trying to get away from this man he embraced you in a hug that lasted way longer than it should have. You backed up and looked up at him with a bit of pink dusting your cheeks.

"I'm terribly sorry that had to happen…" He looked down at you almost looking as if he was going to cry himself.

"It's okay… it's almost always been like that, my mom was the only one who cared for me in the entire family. Nobody else wouldn't give a damn about what happens to me. Hell, they wouldn't even care if I was kidnapped, raped, or killed. They just didn't care." You explained as tears started to form in your eyes, you blinked them away before Natsu could notice though.

Natsu was looking down as you finished the sentence; he took your hand gently and walked the rest of the way home, no words, nothing, he just walked with his hand in yours, him close enough to you that you could feel heat coming from him.

It was about 10 minutes later that you and he both finally reached his home in a small quiet neighborhood. And that's when he spoke up.

"I'm terribly… terribly sorry that happened… It sort of reminds me of myself as well. See, the current dad I have is just the guy that adopted me. Yes, I'm adopted. Nobody knows where my parents are, they just walked up to the orphanage in a town a few miles away from here and just dropped me off, said nothing, did nothing, they just dropped me off and left. They didn't care one bit for me. All I remember from that day is being put in a basket and set at a doorstep as the motor of the car got quieter and quieter as it drove away." Natsu said still staring at the ground.

"Well maybe they had a reason why they did that." You said hesitantly trying not to hurt the already hurting boy in front of you.

"Maybe, but the least they could have done is explained to the orphanage owner about why they dropped me off, but instead they just ended up leaving me in a basket on the doorstep." Natsu said as a tear rolled down the side of his face. He wiped it away and looked up at you and smiled. Just a big old grin.

"But that's far in the past; I shouldn't be worrying about that now! But what I should be worrying about is what my dad is going to say to me when I get insi-" Natsu was cut short of his sentence as he heard a door open hastily, he slowly turned to look at the figure standing in the door frame. It was his father and he looked pissed. Not your average pissed, but the 'I'm about to whoop your ass so hard' kind of pissed. But the look went away as his eyes flicked over to you.

"Natsu? Who is she?" His dad pointed to you with a concerning look on his face. "I don't think I've seen her around campus before, or as a matter of fact in this entire town."

"She's a girl I met on the plane back." Natsu replied innocently.

"Oh, well do her parents know she's here?"

That's when the dam broke.

You fell to the ground and sobbed; you missed your mom, the only person who actually cared, who was actually there for you. You were forced to run away from the only person who supported you as she was being beaten to death by a psychotic man that she fell in love with. The hourly fights they used to have, the way your family never cared for you, the way your father couldn't care less about if you got raped or killed, the times you always questioned if you should be alive or not, and the way you questioned if you were a mistake or accident. It all buzzed in your head so rapidly that you started to feel light headed. You fell to the ground; darkness consumed you as you heard the last screams of your mother.

-_Time Skip_-

It has been a total of 10 hours since you passed out on the sidewalk in front of Natsu's home. You sat up as you caught your surroundings you stretched and rubbed your eyes, you noticed that you were in a living room of some sort; you examined the room once your vision got better, that is until a familiar figure walked out of a room carrying a cup of hot chocolate.

"Hey! (Y/n)! You're awake!" Natsu said as he speed walks over to you and sets the hot chocolate down on the coffee table.

You pulled in your legs to a criss-cross position as Natsu sat down next to you on the couch you were just sleeping on.

"Hey sleepy, how was your 10 hour nap?" Natsu said laughing as you hung your head in shame because you slept for so long, but there was still a smile on your face.

"Hey it's alright! If it makes you feel any better my dad and I set up a spare room for you!" You looked up at him in shock.

"You didn't have to do that! I mean, I could have found a hotel and stayed there…" You looked down to your legs.

"Nonsense, I can't let you do that! Hotels in this area are extremely expensive! And after that plane ticket I doubt you have very much money left. So I just asked my dad and well we worked something out so you could stay!" The boy said happily.

"Did you tell him why I broke down crying the other day…?" You questioned warily.

"No, well not completely, I didn't tell him about your dad or mom but I just said that you probably wouldn't want to return home any time soon. I hope that's okay?" Natsu questioned.

"That's good, because I kind of wanted to tell him myself… I bet he's extremely confused on why his son walked home with a girl he has never seen before…" You said slightly laughing at the last part.

"Yeah, he questioned me a few times on how we met, and he even tried to get the full story out of me once or twice but I didn't let it slip. Don't worry." Natsu said looking you in the eye, as if he was trying to earn your complete trust.

"That's good; well I suppose I better go talk to him about why I'm staying here…" You got up and stood next to the couch looking down at Natsu.

"Oh and one more thing (y/n)...?"

You had started to walk away but then turned back around to answer his question.

"Yes, Natsu?"

"How old are you?" He asked raising one eyebrow.

"15." You stated rather quickly.

"Awesome, that's my age too! Oh and one more thing, do you go to school?"

"Uh, well, before I ran away from home, yes. It's always been my dream to go to one school though… But I doubt it's in this town." You said hesitantly as you smiled at him.

"Oh, what school is that?" Natsu replies smirking.

"Fairy Tail, It's in Magnolia.. Even if it was in this town, I doubt I'd get in… It's super prestigious and very expensive, it's filled with really talented and smart people." You said internally laughing at yourself for sounding so fangirly.

"Hmm. It sounds like an awesome school to go to!" Natsu said trying to hide all signs that this is the school he goes to. 'I'll wait for a little while to tell her about school. She's going to freak.' Natsu thought in his mind as he watched her walk out of the room pulling her (h/c) hair into a pony tail.

You walked out into the kitchen in shorts and a baggy T-shirt that was probably Natsu's, you questioned how you even had had his shirt on because it was completely different as to what you were wearing the previous night, but quickly losing that thought you sped through the house looking for his dad, when you couldn't find him you returned to the living room to see Natsu laying on the couch watching TV playing with the ends of his hair that had fallen down on his forehead.

'That's actually kinda cute..' You thought to yourself as you walked up to the boy as he let go of his hair.

"Uhm… Natsu, Where is your dad…?" You asked shyly.

"Oh, well I guess I forgot to mention that he had to go to work today, usually I go with him but he told me to stay home to make sure you were okay…" He replied as his phone buzzed on the coffee table behind him.

He picked up the phone.

Gray: Dude, hurry up and get here schools about to start!

Natsu: My dad told me I had to stay home today.

Gray: Seriously? You've been gone for two and a half weeks and your dad let you stay home? -_-

Natsu: It's a long ass story, I'll meet up with you guys later and explain.

Gray: O-okay man, see ya later then…

Natsu put his phone down and noticed that you had looked in a nearby body-length mirror. You turned to him and pointed at the shirt.

"Is this your shirt? And why am I wearing it?" You replied kind of shocked and scared that he may have put it on himself and saw you without clothes on.

"Don't worry, Yes, I put it on by myself but you had a tank top on so I didn't see anything." He replied putting his hands up in a scared like manner.

"Okay, but, explain how I got these shorts on…" You pointed to the shorts.

"…Umm" Natsu kind of smiled and looked up at you with a sorry look on his face.

"OH HELL NO, YOU DIDN'T DO WHAT I THINK YOU DID, OR DID YOU?!" You stomped over to the couch raising your hand up to a petrified looking Natsu.

"Nonononono! No! I didn't! I was blindfolded I swear!"

"Were you really?!" You said, your hand still threatening to smack the boy in front of you.

"Well I may have-" Natsu was cut short when you smacked him in the face twice.

You ran into the other room as he quickly recovered from the slap and ran after you, you ran down a long hallway and found a stairway behind a door. You ran up the stairs that led to a shorter hallway you walked down the hallway to find only one open door. You walked into the room with curiosity and found that it was much like a teenage boy's room. But only one thing, it had pictures of the Fairy Tail school logo on his wall and dresser, you walked over to the dresser and picked up a picture and sat on the boy's room floor and stared at the picture with shocked wide eyes.

You stared at the picture for a good 5 minutes before you heard footsteps rapidly pounding as they ran up the stairs. You dropped the picture and it hit the floor with a 'thud' as you crawled over to the slightly open closet and crawled inside, to your surprise it wasn't messy at all in there much like the room itself. Then you heard the footsteps stop at the top of the stairs and quietly walk down the hallway passing the room, you let out a sigh of relief as you heard them go by.

It's probably been about 10 minutes since you heard the footsteps go by, so you decided you could go out but right as you stood up you heard the footsteps enter the room you were in.

"I don't think this picture was laying here when I got up this morning…" A low voice said as he picked up the frame and set it back on the dresser.

That's when the worst possible thing could have happened. You sneezed.

The sneeze was small though it probably couldn't have been heard through the closet door but, it was. You heard the footsteps jog over to the door, the door swung open as you saw a pink headed boy stand there looking down at you.

"Hi.." You said as you dodged around the boy and out of the closet door.

"Where do you think you're going?" He said and grabbed the back of your shirt.

"Noooo…" You pouted like a child as you tried to pull away from the boy.

"Do you know what happens to people who smack people…?" He asked as he dragged me closer ever so slowly.

"N-No… What happens..?" You said actually becoming a little scared.

He pulled you towards him.

"They get…. Punished..." He whispered in your ear as the urge to get away grew wilder.

You tried to pull away but it was no use. You were picked up and tossed on his bed.

"They get punished…. With a tickle fight!" Natsu stated as he started tickling you in all of your most ticklish spots.

You laughed, almost thinking you were going to die from the loss of air, but he kept tickling until his phone buzzed in his pants.

He stopped tickling you, giving you a chance to breathe, you gulped down the air as he took out his phone and read the text.

Gray: Oi, dude, you still up for coming to the skate park later?

Natsu: Skate Park? Who said anything about a skate park?

Gray: Well, you said that you'd explain why you got to stay home today.

Natsu: Oh, well sure! I'm down. But, who else is coming?

Gray: Just Erza, Jellal, Gajeel, and Levy.

Natsu: Awesome! And hey, do you mind if I bring (y/n) along? She's kind of why I had to stay home today.

Gray: Uh.. Sure why not? Does she know how to skate?

Natsu: Doubtful, but I'll ask her.

Gray: Aight man, See ya in a bit.

Natsu: See ya.

Natsu set down his phone.

"Hey do you know how to skateboard?" He asked

"Uhm… a little bit why?"

"Because, my buddies want me to meet them at the skate park later, and I asked if you could come. They asked if you could skate I said I didn't know and that I'd ask you, but they said it'd be fine anyway and that you could come even if you didn't know how to skate." Natsu said taking a breath of air as he finished.

"Um yeah, I know how to skateboard a little, and sure, I'll come with you." You replied as you got off the bed

"Sure, alright, I guess I should probably show you to your room so you can get ready, and stuff."

"Okay."

He led you down the hallway to the last door on your left. The walls were (f/c) and the floor was hard wood, there was a spare bathroom to the right when you walked in, your bed was in the far upper right corner of the room and your bag was sitting on the bed along with your phone and there was a little black fuzzy rug in the middle of the room.

"Okay, this is your room, if you need anything at all just come and tell me, otherwise make yourself at home and since were leaving to go to the skate park, try and be ready in the next hour and a half. Sound good?" Natsu said with a cheerful grin.

"Thank you so much Natsu…" That was all you managed to say before tears came to your eyes.

You ran up to Natsu and embraced him in a tight hug.

"W-woah there, it was really no big deal… You're welcome I guess!" He stuttered taken aback by your actions as he hugged you back just as hard.

You both released from the hug after a few minutes. You both agreed to meet downstairs in an hour and a half once you were ready.

You checked everything out in your room and to your surprise found a walk in closet. It was a pretty good sized walk in closet for how small the house was but hey, it was big enough to hang all your clothes in.

After you finished setting up your room you looked at the time and still had an hour left, so you ran to the bathroom and stopped in your tracks as you saw the inside. It was huge. There was a magnificent snow white bath tub along with a snow white walk in shower with a blurred glass door. A marble sink bowl that looked like it was actually sitting on top of the desk it was built on. The desk the bowl was sitting on was a beautiful dark wooden brown with a sierra white granite counter top. The floor was the most beautiful of all, the entire floor was a white birch wood texture with a coating of clear primer over the top so no liquid that spilled on it would affect such magnificent flooring. The walls on the other hand were also one of the most beautiful features of the room, it was made out of blackish tiles with little hints of grey in them.

You entered the room, still marveling at the beauty in which the room contained. You stripped down of the clothing you wore and tossed it in the hamper to the side and stepped on the padded dark grey mat in front of the shower, you opened the door and turned the shower on and right as you were about to step in you remembered that you needed a towel so you ran over to the rack near the hamper and grabbed two towels, one for your body and one for your hair, and set them near the shower entrance on a small table. You quickly slipped your hair out of the ponytail that it was currently in and hopped in the shower.

30 minutes went by as you were finally finishing up in the shower. You stepped out of the shower and grabbed both towels, you wrapped one around your body and one around your head. You unlocked the door of the bathroom and stepped out, you walked over to the closet to grab your clothes you were going to wear to the skate park.

What you ended up putting on is a black bra, along with black underwear, a slip on red sweatshirt, black leggings, and black converse boots, but you wouldn't put them on until you got downstairs because you didn't want to wear shoes in the house.

You had a total of 15 minutes before you had to meet Natsu downstairs, you quickly ran over to the sink and undid your (h/c) hair from the wrapped towel, you took the brush you brought along with you and brushed it out carefully but quickly, you took the hair drier from the wall and switched it on, to your surprise it was really quiet for a hair drier. You dried your hair for a good ten minutes and brushed it again to get all the knots from drying it out. You put it up in another ponytail and quickly cleaned up the mess you made in your bathroom, shut the lights off and ran out the door. You grabbed your phone, wallet, and shoes and ran out your bedroom door. You were jogging down the hallway when you heard a meow and a flash of blue run right in front of you, you ended up missing the blue blur but tripping over your own foot and falling right in front of Natsu's room. You hit the floor with a small squeak and a 'thud', you turned around, your face contorted in pain and anger as you watched a small blue kitten approach you and mew. You 'awed' at the little kitten and picked him up along with your shoes, you saw the little green collar around his neck and read the little tag on it.

"Happy…" You mumbled as you put the kitten down and walked towards the stairs.

You successfully made it down the stairs without tripping or falling, you ran around the corner of the long hallway, through the kitchen and into the living room where the front door was. You turned around and noticed the little blue kitten following you and picked it up again petting its soft fur while you waited for Natsu to get here.

A few minutes passed and you heard thumping above you. Only a few seconds later you heard a 'thud' and then 'bang thud thud thud thud' and then a short 'oww'. You laughed at Natsu's clumsiness, you finally heard running through the kitchen and not long after a big fluffy head of pink hair appeared around the corner. He limped over to you.

"Well hello Mr. clumsy." You giggled as he scratched the back of his neck, laughing along with you sheepishly.

"Sorry bout' that, I hope I wasn't too long?" He said slipping on his shoes.

"No actually you weren't long at all, I actually just got here." You said still giggling about the actions that had just happened a few minutes ago.

"I see you met Happy there!" He said as he pet the top of his fluffy blue friend's head.

"Yeah, I actually met him by almost tripping over him, but ended up tripping over myself instead." You said laughing as you put the little kitten down, watching him run off playfully.

You bend down and tied on your boots. Once you were ready you stood up.

"Ready to go?" Natsu said as he grabbed his skateboard and made sure he had everything.

"Let's do this!" You cheered opening the door, ready to go hang out with Natsu's buddies and have fun for the first time in forever.

X-X-X

Thanks for reading and since I happened to make some mistakes in the last chapter, I gave you an extra-long chapter this time! Next chapter will probably be out around Wednesday or Thursday, but I can't say for sure! Hope you guys enjoyed! =^-^=

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