Herro Minna! Sorry it took me a long time, but here I am with Chapter 2! And I'm glad you guys liked it and I hope you.. keep liking it?

Anyways!

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It's All Different now

Chapter two

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"We grew up.."

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"Natsu! I wanna play with you!" 5-year old Lucy whined and pouted as she watched Natsu beat up his opponent in the video game he was playing.

"Ok, Ok, After this one.." Natsu said tightening his grip on the controller.

"That's what you said last time!" She whined waving her hands in frustration.

Natsu sighed after he lost the game and extended his controller to Lucy, "Jee, Here."

"Nope."

"What?!" Natsu asked in confusion and frustration.

"You were too late.." Lucy said folding her arms and looking away.

"Sometimes.." Natsu mumbled as he put the controller down and crossed his legs, he looked at Lucy, "Now what do we do?"

"We'll play outside!" Lucy said as she jumped up.

"Yosh! That's what we're talking about!" Natsu yelled and jumped up as he high-fived Lucy both of the grinning happily.

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"Natsu?!" 6-year old Lucy asked as she stared at Natsu who was looking somewhere else. She dropped her hands with the batting glove and the baseball as she ran towards him. "What are you looking at?" She asked trying to find what he's looking at.

He pointed his hand up with the bat and pointed at a small basketball field where teenagers were playing at the moment. "That's cool.." He said as he stared at them pass the ball and score in the basket in amazement.

"Yeah.." Lucy nodded smiling, "Maybe we can learn that in the future! Now let's play Baseball!"

"Yeah!" Natsu grinned and stared at her.

Lucy stood in her place and looked at him as Natsu got a look of confusion, "What?" He asked.

"Are you excited for school? Monday's gonna be our first day!" Lucy said with excitement as Natsu grinned.

"Of course! I'll get to beat more people in video games and baseball! And even show my dad how good I am at it!" He said, "So he won't be mad.." Natsu muttered the last part.

Lucy nodded not hearing the last thing he said and smiled, "Now let's play!" She said as she ran to the other side of the field. She stopped at her spot and turned to face Natsu and noticed him glancing every once in a while at the basket ball field. She smirked as she used up all of her strength and threw the ball his way, "INCOMING!" She yelled as Natsu noticed the ball and pouted as he took a step back and swung his bat hitting the ball. The ball went over Lucy's head and fell a few feet behind her.

"That's no fair!" Natsu yelled while Lucy was running to the ball, "I didn't know!"

"I warned you!" Lucy smiled and picked up the ball, "Why does it matter? You still hit it!"

"Hmph!"

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"Your only allowed to play baseball!" Igneel yelled as he threw the ball in his hand at 8-year old Natsu's face making it turn red as Natsu fell backwards, his back leaning against the wall while his hand hit the wall making it turn red as well from the strong impact

"I-I'm sorry pops, I-I just wanted to try basketball since it looked so fun.." Natsu said as he scrunched up his nose at the reeking smell of alcohol.

"You worthless piece of trash!" Igneel yelled as he grabbed Natsu's collar and pulled him up. "Your mom would've wanted you to only play baseball!" He yelled at his face making Natsu cringe. Igneel dropped him on the floor and kicked him in the gut before walking away as Natsu stood up slowly and put his good hand on his stomach and walked up the stairs to his room.

Sometimes, he wondered; What happened to the cool, awesome, nice, funny and caring dad he had? Was it really just because his mom passed away? The things he would be mad and hit him for didn't make any sense!

He lied down on his bed one hand behind his head and the hurt one next to him while he stared at his blank white ceiling before he heard a voice calling his name from the window, his expression suddenly changed as he grinned and opened the window to see Lucy calling out to him.

"Natsu! Let's play!" She yelled.

"Comin'!" He said while opening the window a bit wider and jumped out.

Bad Choice.

He winced in mid-air and held his stomach with his good hand as he landed on his feet, good thing Lucy didn't notice what happened when he was falling. When he landed he faced a pouting Lucy, "Don't do that again! It's dangerous!" She scolded.

"Hehe.. Sorry.." He said scratching the back of his neck. It was then when Lucy noticed his red nose and touched it making Natsu take a step back and cover it while he smiled nervously, "I fell off the stairs.. hehe.."

"Your such an idi—" She started as she noticed the bruise on his hand, she took a step closer to him and touched it making Natsu wince in pain. She looked up making their eyes connect as she held his hand and took him to her house.

"L-Lucy?" He asked as he followed her. She knocked on her house's door and looked at Natsu once again, "I'll wrap up your hand," She said as the door opened.

"Oh, Natsu-chan.." Layla said after opening the door with a sweet smile on her face as bangs of her beautiful blonde hair fell by the side of her face, "Are you ok?" She said after noticing his bruised hand, she led them in and held his hand.

"He fell down the stairs.." Lucy said with her arms folded.

"Hehe.." Natsu looked away and winced when Layla poked his arm.

This was his actual family. This is where he wants to spend most of his time, what he wants to go home to, instead of going home to meet his merciless and cruel dad that would try his hardest and find any reason to beat up his son and yell at him.

"Come on Natsu!" Lucy said as she ran towards the kitchen and sat him down next to her on the stool by the counter as Layla went to the bathroom to look for something to wrap Natsu up with, Jude came into the kitchen.

"Oh, Hey Natsu!" Jude said smiling as Natsu nodded with a grin, "What happened?" He asked making Natsu blush and look away.

"I fell off the stairs.." He mumbled as Jude laughed a bit and walked to the fridge, "And we say Lucy's clumsy," He said as he took out coffee creamer.

"H-Hey!" Lucy and Natsu said in unison making the old man laugh. Layla came in the kitchen with the first aid kit in her hands, she put it on the counter besides Natsu and took out the tools she needed.

Layla took out the bandage and was about to wrap it around his arm before Lucy stopped her, "I wanna try it!" She said making Layla giggle and hand it to her.

"Sure, do you know how to use it?" Layla asked watching her daughter struggle to find the end of it.

"Yes!" Lucy exclaimed excitedly while Layla smiled sweetly an Jude and Natsu sweat-dropped. Jude gave Natsu a 'good-luck' look and walked out of the kitchen with his coffee in hand.

Natsu watched Lucy as she struggled to wrap the bandage around his hand, "Lucy.. I-I don't think you can do this... just let auntie— AHH! LUCY STOP!" Natsu yelled as Lucy tightened it around his hand.

"I got this!" Lucy wrapping the bandage as Natsu's hand started turning purple and he yelled for help.

"I've got this, Lucy-dear." Layla said smiling sweetly as she left the kitchen.

"Hehe.. I'VE got this!"

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