I decided to do another chapter, I most likely will finish this story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail.
(Back to the bathroom stall) (Yeah, xD)
"What!? Gray and Erza also did this? Is that why they were so skittish?" Natsu questioned with slight disbelief.
"Yes..they did it too, and that's also why they're skittish. They're so afraid of this request, that they will probably shun you till you finish it or give up." Mira explained sorrowfully, feeling bad for Natsu and Lucy.
"Give up? We're not going to give up! Right, Lucy?!" Natsu asked, sneaking a look at her real quick.
"Yeah.." Lucy agreed softly, yet the tone concerned Natsu. Natsu left it at that though, due to Mira's quickly added sentence.
"Natsu, Lucy. I like you guys, I wouldn't want ANYTHING to happen to you..anyway..I got to go." Mira added and left the stall quickly, leaving the two bewildered.
"I wonder what made Erza and Gray give up on the request. I mean, they're always so persistent..you wouldn't think they would just..give up! Lucy stated, wondering what happened to make THOSE two quit.
"We should of asked Mira." Natsu sighed.
"Yeah.." Lucy said, finally opening the stall door to leave. "Natsu, let's clear our minds for a bit, and then we can try to finish this request."
"Okay." Natsu nodded, and followed Lucy out of the stall.
(In Lucy's apartment)
After Lucy had showed Natsu a comfortable place on the couch, she walked over to grab a can of soda. Once she returned, the awkwardness in the room was petrifying! No word was said. Finally, Lucy slashed the awkward silence and offered Natsu a cup of hot cocoa; Which, Natsu openly agreed to. Lucy rushed over to Natsu eagerly, and handed him the hot cocoa.
"It's a homemade recipe, so tell me if you like it!" Lucy stated with an excited smile, watching him gulp down the chocolaty substance.
As soon Natsu let that "homemade recipe" touch his tongue, he plainly just wanted to spit it out! It was horrible, the worst hot chocolate he's ever tasted in his entire life!
"Well?" Lucy asked, analyzing his every facial expression.
Natsu couldn't speak, for he still couldn't force himself to swallow that disgusting concoction!
"You can't really taste its awesomeness if you don't swallow it! Come on!" Lucy rushed.
Natsu sighed inside his head and swallowed it, even if it ruined his whole digestive system, he just couldn't make Lucy cry! Bad idea..as soon as he swallowed it, he dashed to the bathroom and threw up, therefore hurting Lucy's feelings more.
"It's not that bad!" Lucy cried out and grabbed the cup full of her homemade hot cocoa. She chugged it down, and Natsu watched her in pure entertainment. He couldn't wait to see her face after she gulped down her horrible drink.
"OH WOW! THIS IS..R-REALLY GOOD!" Lucy shouted after gagging a bit in her mouth. She noticed Natsu at the corner of her eye, so she had to at least pretend she liked it.
"Yeah.." Natsu said sarcastically as he rolled his eyes to add effect to his all ready obvious sarcasm.
Lucy realized it, but she wasn't going to lose just yet!
"What?! I like it!" Lucy exclaimed, making Natsu smirk deviously.
"Really?" Natsu asked with a horribly evil smirk.
"Y-yes!" Lucy replied, slightly intimidated by Natsu's sudden smirk.
"Then why don't you make another cup of that DELICIOUS homemade hot cocoa?" Natsu suggested, narrowing his eyes at her with mischievous intent.
"HEY! How about we go ahead and talk about that request!?" Lucy recommended, trying to escape from drinking any more of that..awful drink..
"Oh yeah!" Natsu remembered, completely forgetting about the "homemade" hot chocolate fiasco.
"Thank goodness.." Lucy whispered to herself happily.
"Anyway, how are we going to figure this case out?" Natsu questioned, unsure of why he even chose this case.
"I'm not sure, but let's do this step by step." Lucy answered, picking out a book from her bookcase.
"Hey, what's that?" Natsu asked, eyeing the book in interest.
"It's a book." Lucy answered simply, acting like he was the dumbest person in the world at the moment.
"I know that! I mean what about the book?" Natsu repeated in a more specific way.
"Then why didn't you say it like that before?" Lucy questioned with a cocked eyebrow.
"Just tell me what it's about.." Natsu growled, rather annoyed by Lucy.
"Okay, this book is called, "Detective Work for Dummies!", it's a book for beginners detectives, who I assume are dummies." Lucy explained, slightly mad about the "dummies" part of the title.
"I see, and this will help us out with our current case, right?" Natsu asked, also offended by the "dummies" part of the title.
"Yep! Now, let's start with the first step in the book." Lucy proclaimed and read the first step aloud. "First step: Find a case. Done, obviously! Now step two.. Analyze every single detail of the case's info."
"Okay!" Natsu nodded and rushed to get the slip of paper which had the case's info on it. "Here."
"Thanks." Lucy said and read the info analytically. "Want me to read aloud?"
"I guess." Natsu shrugged in agreement.
"Okay. For one-million jewels, we need to find out who murdered Jazzie. In our guild, there was a woman named Jazzie, and she was brutally murdered by someone possibly in our guild. Though, nobody found out who it was, leaving this as a cold case, and nothing more." Lucy read aloud, not really seeing anything of importance.
"It's not giving us much info.." Natsu stated the obvious.
"I know..is there any clues or just something that would give us a hint?" Lucy asked, reading through it again and again.
"Lucy, just give up on it, there's no-." Natsu replied, but got abruptly stopped by Lucy.
"This paper! It's been shortened!" Lucy exclaimed in shock.
"HUH?! What do you mean?!" Natsu asked, also shocked, yet confused about what Lucy meant.
"It means, that this was cut by somebody, and it's not giving us ALL the info. Someone cut this thing, thinking it was a straight, clean cut, but it seems that the person was wrong." Lucy explained, dumbing it down for Natsu's intellect.
"Oh! But how did you notice that it was cut?" Natsu queried in disbelief.
"Look here closely, there's a very tiny part of the piece of paper sticking out with a letter on it. I can't make it out though." Lucy answered Natsu, leaving him befuddled in amazement by Lucy's detective skills.
"Wow..but why would they cut out a valuable piece of info for the murder case?" Natsu questioned, still confused a little by this.
"I'm guessing the murderer found it, and didn't want that part of the info seen by others." Lucy replied, making Natsu finally understand what was going on.
"Do you think it's possible to find it?" Natsu asked hopefully.
"I doubt it, it was ten years ago. But, we can ask Makarov about this, he might know." Lucy answered and quickly grabbed her jacket. "Let's go."
Natsu nodded and ran to the guild with haste.
(In Makarov's office)
Makarov laid comfortably against his chair in utter delight. No trouble, like Gray getting his head stuck in the toilet somehow, or Cana getting too drunk for her own good. It was totally peaceful.
"Ahh..what a nice day.." Makarov yawned happily and rested his eyes for a few minutes, thinking everything was totally wonderful.
"MAKAROV! WE NEED YOU!" Natsu yelled after pushing the door open as loudly as possible.
"I knew it was far too peaceful.." Makarov muttered to himself as he sat up straight.
"Makarov! We have an issue with the case!" Lucy declared with fire in her eyes.
"You want to give up?" Makarov asked, expecting that to be what they yelled out for.
"No, it's about this paper! Look!" Lucy ordered and showed him the paper, pointing at the part that was sticking out.
"And?" Makarov questioned, not getting her point.
"Someone cut the rest of the info off this paper. Do you know who? Or is just some misunderstanding?" Lucy answered, then questioned him seriously, hoping for at least an answer to this.
"Ah, it's no misunderstanding, someone did indeed cut this." Makarov replied, eyeing the paper with saddened nostalgia.
"Do you by any chance know who did it, or the info that was there before?" Lucy asked hopefully.
"I'm very sorry, when it was first out, someone cut this, but nobody knows who. Also, I forgot the info a long time ago, for nobody wanted to do the gruesome request..therefore, making me not care about the info anymore. I'm very, very sorry." Makarov apologized, making the two "detectives" disappointed with their answer.
"I understand. But someone DID cut this, right?" Lucy questioned after grabbing the piece of paper away.
"Yes." Makarov replied with a nod.
"Thank you very much, Makarov." Lucy bowed respectfully and left the room.
"Oh, thanks old man." Natsu bowed as well, and followed Lucy out.
"Those kids..will they ever find out who killed Jazzie?" Makarov asked himself sorrowfully. "I pray..for this to end in a good way.."
(In the Fairy Tail guild)
"So, where are we going now, Lucy?" Natsu asked curiously.
"Were going to find Erza and Gray." Lucy replied, looking around for those two.
"Hmm, why? They want no part in this case, they're even shunning us." Natsu pointed out, confused by Lucy's odd actions.
"Step three of the Detective Work for Dummies book: Find the witnesses, if there is any." Lucy read a step out of the book. Apparently, she brought the book with her.
"I see..well, it's going to be difficult to confront them, but whatever you say." Natsu shrugged and walked alongside Lucy.
"Ah, Cana, do you know where Erza or Gray is?" Lucy asked.
Fortunately, Cana was drunk, and actually was drunk enough to talk to them. (Remember, nobody wanted to talk to them because of the request.)
"Yeah, he's in the guy's bathroom, I think he got his head stuck in the toilet again." Cana answered with a hearty laugh. Yep, it was official, Cana was flat-out drunk. But that didn't matter at the moment, they needed to pursue Gray.
"Ahh..thanks." Lucy sweat-dropped, wondering how Gray even gets his head stuck in the toilet, let alone do it multiple times.
"Jeez..let's go then." Natsu sweat-dropped and walked to the guy's bathroom.
"Umm.." Lucy blushed, shuffling her feet around nervously.
"What's wrong?" Natsu asked with furrowed eyebrows.
"It just doesn't feel right to go into a guy's bathroom." Lucy answered, blushing even redder.
"It's okay, I'll shield your eyes away from their coconuts." Natsu said reassuringly, though, it just made her not want to go in even more.
"I JUST REALIZED THAT I WOULD SEE A MAN'S COCONUTS IF I GO IN THERE!" Lucy screamed in fear, now totally fixed on not going in.
"Crap..I just made things worse.." Natsu huffed, trying to figure out what to do. He brainstormed a simple idea, and dragged Lucy inside the bathroom.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH! NOOOOOO! N-N-NOOOO!" Lucy screamed even louder. She did NOT want to see coconuts!
"It's empty." Natsu laughed. "Well, except for Gray, his head is in the toilet.."
"Thank goodness." Lucy breathed out thankfully, now eyeing Gray.
"Who's there!? Do you have butter!?" Gray asked, not knowing who was behind him.
"N-no, it's Lucy and Natsu, I'm very sorry that we don't have butter. But! We can get you out." Lucy answered.
"Okay then...get me..out.." Gray said in a whisper tone, he still wasn't comfortable talking to these two whilst they were on that cursed mission.
"Well, there's a catch. You have to give us some answers." Lucy added, hoping to get answers. They were friends after all.
"Yes, I do like bananas, now help me out." Gray confessed.
"That's not our question! Now, do you know anything about the piece of paper from the Jazzie murder request being cut?" Lucy asked.
"I don't know anything." Gray answered as his eyes widened in fear.
"Come on! Just tell us." Lucy urged unsuccessfully.
Gray just stayed silent, hoping that would make them go away. He was wrong.
"Fine, have it your way." Lucy said with evil sprayed all over her voice. "But..we have way of making you talk.."
"We do?" Natsu asked Lucy.
"Yes! We do!" Lucy replied, nodding vividly.
"Pfft, there's nothing you can do to make me talk." Gray stifled a laugh. He was an obviously proud ice mage.
"Oh, really?" Lucy questioned, narrowing her eyes at him, well..his back.
"Yup.." Gray answered, almost stuttering.
"Well, let's just see about that." Lucy exclaimed, cracking her knuckles with a grin plastered on her face.
Woo-hoo! Second chapter, and it seems like people actually like this story. How nice. xD
So, I AM going to finish this story, and hopefully, it won't take too long to update. :)