A/N: Hey guys, I'm sowi I haven't posted in a while, schools been getting pretty damn hardcore, I'm in matric this year(Grade 12 or final year as they call it around the world I think, Matric's what we call it in SA) and I've been studying really hard, I'm hoping to get accepted to study BSc Genetics or Law, so you can imagine how hard it is to find time to write. It's going good so far, my overall aggregate is 75% which to be honest is a lil disappointing for me...
My maths mark is really destroying everything…But nevertheless, It's gonna become a 85%!...Well I pray -_-
But yeah, forgive me if I don't update every night, or for a week,or month, my life is really depending on the marks I get this year,thanks for understanding!
You guys are the best!
Chill, I'm not ditching the story,and also, if you feel up to it, check out my other new story I'LL WAIT FOR YOU, that one is going to be more along the fluffy,cute side of NaLu :3
IT CAN BE FOUND ON MY SECOND ACCOUNT STORY LIST.
NAME OF THE SECOND ACCOUNT: Rara Erza Heartfilia
Anywhooooooozzzz,here we go!
CHAPTER 6:
Erza looks at me, and then at Lisanna.
"What's going on here?"She asks.
I glance at Lisanna,who is crying uncontrollably.
I know I should feel bad, but really, what she did was wrong,and what she was planning to do was so much worse than what she did in the first place...
Just imagining Lucy wanting to have nothing to do with me hurt…A lot.
My life would be over.
"Yeah Lisanna,what's going on here?"I find myself asking.
"I-I-I-I-",she stutters out.
Mira and Levy rush over to her.
"NATSU!What did you do!?"Cana yells at me.
Wait hold up.
I'm innocent!
"Me?!What did I do?Ask her what she did!"I shout.
Why do I always get blamed!Sure,I act like a real jackass and bonehead at times, but still!
"Lisanna,tell me what happened."Erza says. Very authoritively.
Its just that I cant really take her seriously when she's in pajamas.
*sweat drop*
"N-Natsu-" She starts.
Oh hell no.
She's gonna pin this on me?
Without even waiting for Lisanna to complete her sentence,Erza has her hand around my throat.
I look over at Lisanna, but she continues to stutter.
"Lisanna tell the truth!"I gag out.
Erza is really looks at Lisanna and waits for her to continue.
"I just thought…I…I…I wanted…I…But…He doesn't like me…I…"
She looks down and gulps.
"I just wanted Natsu to look at me the way he looks at Lucy."
Erza drops her hand and everybody stares at her.
"Lucy is my friend…I would never want to hurt her…Or physically assault her to get her out of the equation…This was the easiest and safest way to get her away from Natsu without hurting anyone…"
I look down.
Utterly disgusted.
What kind of friend does this?
Not only was this twisted…But it was downright evil.
Lisanna knew about dragon slayers,and their need for a mate, and what would happen if the mate hated the dragon slayer.
She knew everything, yet she was so eager and willing to risk my happiness,and my life, just so that she could have her way.
Mirajane shakes her head disapprovingly.
"You said he had sex with you."Mira says.
"What was that about?"Erza asks flatly.
My head shoots up.
So that's what she told people.
She looks at me,panicked.
I raise an eyebrow.
"Why don't you tell them the truth."I suggest.
She looks around at the silent girls.
For a second, I feel pity for her,she was my best friend after all…
But now, I'm not sure.
"He…He…He didn't sleep with me."She says.
Everyone in the room breathes a sigh of relief.
I look at them strangely.
Wait, so they all were hoping I didn't and were relieved to know that I was innocent?
Erza gives Lisanna a disapproving look.
"I drugged him and altered his memory."
Wow.
"He actually downright refused to even touch me when he was drugged so I couldn't make it actually happen,so I just altered his memories."
Sneaky,but I found out anyways.
My mind drifted to Lucy, and for the first time I feel thankful that she's not here.
If she was still here in magnolia, she would have come to the sleepover,and that would have been the worst thing in the world.
I find myself sighing in relief.
Wow, I've been so stressed and serious lately.
Now that this issue is cleared up, I can go back to my usual self and resume the mission.
I walk to the door of the room,about to leave.
I decide to look behind me, and I see Lisanna,crying silently.
"You know,I'm not mad."I say to her,and she looks up at me.
After she wipes her nose,she starts to speak.
"Yes you are,who wouldn't be,who does this to their friends?"
I look down.
"Well what you did was quite annoying, but it was cleared up, and no harm was done, so we're fine,okay?"I say.
She sniffles one more time and I walk out of the room.
I do feel slightly bad for Lisanna, and okay,maybe I'm feeling a bit mad at her too, but being mad at her isn't going to benefit me in any way.
I start walking through the streets slowly,its getting pretty dark now.
I look up at the sky and just stand still for a moment.
I wonder what Lucy is doing right now…
I wonder what she's thinking of…
She's pretty far away… Well that sucks.
Maybe I should go to her house?Her scent is especially concentrated there and at the guild.
Narrator POV
A tiny smile formed on Natsu's face, but before long, it extended into an enormous and devious looking grin,his canines- the distinct trait of all dragon slayers – were clearly visible now as he began to run towards the apartment of his best friend.
After jumping up onto the window sill, he easily opened her slightly ajar window. Lucy generally didn't lock her windows anymore, she always knew that Natsu would need to get in, and since Magnolia was so safe with Fairy Tail around,she was sure that no sneaky individual would get in,except for Natsu that is.
Natsu looked around the neat room and inhaled happily,yep, it smelled like Lucy.
He walked towards her table, only to find pages of her manuscript strewn about.
Tilting his head, he picked up one.
After thirty seconds he found something that could only be described as PG 16.
He burst out in laughter. "So THAT's what she writes!" he mused to himself, and he placed the page back on the table, but as he turned, something caught his eye.
Under the table, sat a big, intricate looking wooden the size of four Plue's.
Puzzled as to why it was under the table, and curious about the contents, he crouched down to hunches and stared at it.
Part of him wanted to know what was in it, and the other part wanted respect Lucy's privacy.
After a few minutes of staring, he slowly reached his arm out, and almost as if he were frightened of the box, he delicately placed has palm on it.
He was still for a few seconds before his curiousity got the best of him and he pulled the box out from its little hiding spot.
It was heavier than it looked, damn it was really heavy…
There was a keyhole.
"Dammit."he said in annoyance.
Lucy would have the key on her, probably with the other keys.
For the sake of curiosity, he tried to pry open the lid,it didn't work.
Natsu huffed in annoyance.
He picked the box up and took a look at the keyhole again.
Now who would be able to create a key that would open this box?Natsu thought for a moment before he placed the box back under the table and jumped open the window.
It took him a few moments before he reached his destination, but he finally got there.
With a swift kick, the door flew open and he rushed into the cottage, it was not unlike his own.A few cat hairs lay here and there and there was the unmistakeable scent of a dragon lingering here.
Natsu looked around the messy place,and noticed that books seemed to be everywhere, and he realised who had been in his fellow dragon slayers home.
He smiled a little noting that Lucy spent a lot of her time at his place,trying to tidy up,succeeding, and then coming back the next day to find the place in utter chaos.
He chuckled thinking about how mad she always got and how she would take out her whip and chase Happy and himself all around before tripping on filth and flying face first onto the floor.
Natsu rearranged his thoughts,and listened to the sounds of clanging metal.
It was coming from the back yard.
In a sprint, he rushed outside and saw the Dragonslayer and Exceed.
Then in a devious way, he ran up to Gajeel and attacked.
The other dragonslayer looked shocked after he was thrown onto the floor, but then he started shouting angrily…
"Bastard!I'm busy!"Gajeel screamed in annoyance.
Natsu rotated his arm.
"Yeah yeah,I know.I need to borrow your hand."Natsu said
Gajeels face turned red,and his face scrunched up.
Lily shrunk down and glared at Gajeel, "Not in the way Levy's romance novels mean it."he said.
Gajeel looked very annoyed as he blushed, "I KNOW THAT!"He yelled,and Natsu caught on before laughing loudly.
'So it's not only Lucy who's a pervert?The girls are weird.'
"I need to open a box,in Lucy's room."He said.
"Why can't you open it here?"Gajeel asked.
"Because I found it in her room."
"Wait, so you wanna open a box you found in her room,inside her room?"
"Yes!"
"But wouldn't that mean that the box is Lucy's?"
"Weeeeell…Yes…"
Gajeel smacked his head.
"Girls don't like it when people touch their stuff,moron."
Natsu rolled his eyes.
"I always touch her stuff,she should be used to it."Natsu reasoned,and Gajeel turned red again.
"Not in the way Levy-chan's books describe,Gajeel."Lily says with a pointed look at Gajeel.
"I KNOW THAT!"He yells.
Natsu huffed, "Come on,are you gonna help me?"
Gajeel looked worried.
"Alright but Levy must not find out about this…"He says.
Natsu nods.
A few minutes later they all were standing around the box. Gajeel picked it up.
"Heavy…"He noted.
He shifted his hand into a key and proceeded to open the box, after a few moments they heard a click.
Natsu scooted close to Gajeel who was also very curious at this point.
Slowly, the box opened,and inside they found Hundreds of tiny brown pouches,crammed together.
Picking up one carefully,he loosened the drawstring.
Inside, he just found about 2000 jewel. He frowned and opened another bag,only to find the same thing.
Gajeel tapped him and pointed to the inside of the lid of the box.
There was a little place to put pages.
In it, was one large piece of paper.
Natsu pulled it was a roster sort of every Monday and Friday,there was a tick.
His eyes scanned the page,but at the bottom he stopped at the tally.
It was not a roster, it was Lucy's way of saving money to buy her childhood looked at the photograph of Lucy in front of the house, and then at how many times shes contributed to this saving account that she had based on the ticks,it was well over five hundred.
The chart showed that she was just a little past her hallway mark.
Natsu frowned for a moment, before sighing with a smile.
"She should really lock her windows...Looks like I have my work cut out for me."
"Huh?" Gajeel looked confused.
He and Pantherlily shared a look.
"Well I wont stop you if you wanna help her buy the house… but don't you think that's something she should do on her own?" Lily asked.
Natsu shook his head.
"Maybe, but after all shes done for me throughout the years, I can at least help a little."He said with a shrug.
Just then Gray called from the street outside the window.
Natsu looked out.
"What ,ice-queen?"
"Shut up flame-brain...I heard what happened over at Lisanna's place."
Natsu smacked his face, stories really spread fast in Fairy Tail.
Gajeel came to the window.
"What happened?"He asked.
"He didn't really sleep with Lisanna."Gray called back.
Gajeel rolled his eyes.
"I told you guys, but nobody listens to me,ever."Gajeel said with a little huff.
"But how did you know?"Gray asked.
"Its obvious,he's a dragon slayer,such an act of betrayal is a sin,because Lucy is his-"
Natsu who was repeatedly hitting his head on the windowpane realised what Gajeel was about to say, so he wasted no time in kicking Gajeel out the window.
Gajeel got up.
"That's the second fucking time today you overheated gecko!"He yelled.
Natsu put the box back,and jumped out the window.
"Sorry, you were being stupid."Natsu said pointedly.
He rotated his arm.
"Anyway, I'm all fired up,who's up for a mission?"He said giddily,eager to carry out his plan.
Gajeel nodded.
"The girls will be at the sleepover for today,and maybe tomorrow,so I guess Im free…"Gajeel said with a nodded.
"This could help with your battle training, you've gotten sloppy."Lily said.
Gray looked away with a slight blush.
"…I'll ask Juvia…"
The three other males looked at each other before the two dragon slayers burst out in laughter.
Natsu fell onto ground while Gajeel doubled over and fell to his knees.
"R-r-remember that time when he could do whatever he pleased without permission?"Gajeel asked Natsu.
Natsu nodded and snorted, "Remember when he and Juvia weren't dating and he was allowed to strip whenever he wanted?And now hes restricted to whenever Juvia's around,haaaaaa!"
The boys laughed harder.
Gray rolled his eyes,within seconds he was naked.
"I can do this whenever I want for your information!"
He huffed. "It's just that I find it more fun when Juvia is around."
He turned so that his butt faced the men.
"And at least I AM dating my girl flamebrain."He said nonchalantly.
The guys gasped.
"You cold-hearted man." Lily said with a little smile.
Gajeel patted Natsu's back.
"The princess got you there."
Natsu was about to say something snarky when he remembered the mission.
"Whatever droopy eyes, we gotta get going,I wanna go on a mission with a high reward."
Gray nodded, "Sure thing, you and Gajeel pick,I'll go inform Juvia."With that the boys turned and agreed to meet at the hall.
Natsu smiled all the way there.
He was finally doing something about his feelings,and even though,like Gray said,he wasn't dating his girl,doing this made him feel good.
And he knew then,he would do anything for her.
Well,not that he didn't already know that before...
A/N:Hey guys, sorry about the LOOOONG wait!Guess what,I have a conditional offer for Law!I only have my God to thank for that!God is good
Anyway,if you enjoyed, give me a review!
Ttyl!XOXO
Rara