Hello guys! I just wanted to say I am sorry, the chapters have been really crappy lately, I'll try and make them better ;)

WHEN WE WERE KIDS

CHAPTER THIRTY THREE

I woke up, because of someone blowing on my face. I grumbled, and rolled over.

"Wakey wakey, sweet cheeks." Cana said. I snapped my head up, remembering last night...and... I immediatly groaned and put my head back down.

"What? Hangover or Natsu?" She asked, lying down next to me.

"...both..." I sighed. "Hold on...Sweet cheeks?" I asked, raising my head. She winked, and shushed me.

"Right, let's go into town! Gray-Sama will be there..." Juvia said. We both looked at her, she was already dressed, and looking normal, unlike me. I felt bags under my eyes. We heard a knock on the door.

"I'll get it." I said. I got up, still dressed, and stumbled to the door, running my hand through my hair. I opened the door.

"Gray?" I said, as I saw him, already ready for school.

"Hey...well...did you get dragged through a bush backwards or something?" He said, raisng an eyebrow at my disheleved appearance.

"No, just dragged through Cana's drinking habits along with Juvia..." I sighed. "Why on earth are you in your school uniform? It was burnt down." I asked. He laughed.

"The good thing is that we have an Arc of Time wizard that teaches there, surely you would know that." He laughed.

"Oh...miss Ultear." I said, remembering the time she had helped Silver and I when our house was burnt.

"Come on, school." He said, as he shoved passed me, and walked into my house.

"Hey!" I scolded. He stopped.

"Lucy?" He asked. I nodded. "Are you okay? I mean, I know Natsu's a prick and all, but what he did was-"

"I know. I'm okay, thanks." I said, not wanting to pursue the subject. He smiled.

"I knew you were stubborn." He mumbled.

"What's that meant to mean?!" I shouted after him, as he casually walked into my room where Cana and Juvia were.

"Gray-Sama!" Juvia said, jumping into her boyfriends arms.

"Morning, honey." He said,giving her a kiss. My heart wrenched, remembering the way I would look out the window, and see if he was there, and he would be, and-

"Lucy, come on, change your clothes." Cana said. I snapped out of my daydream, and lifted a hand to my cheek. A little tear had escaped my eye.

"Okay. You guys go ahead, I'll be in the shower." I said, taking the clothes and my towel.

"Lucy?" Cana said.

"Yes?"

"Eat." She ordered. I had completely forgotten about eating, I hadn't since breakfast yesterday.

"Sure." I lied, not feeling hungry, but walking to the bathroom. Once in, I leant against the door, and slid to the floor.

My head was pounding because of the hangover, and my heart was aching. I missed him. Like it was...before... the truth sunk in. It would never be like it was before. Never. I ran my hands through my hair, crying silent, painfull tears.

I got out of the bathroom, in my clothes and freshly washed, went into my room, took my bag and keys, and walked out of the door, locking it behind me. I didn't feel hungry.

"Finally! I thought you were cutting yourself in the shower or something!" Cana said, as I arrived at school. It was once again back to its normal state.

"Pff..." I said, sitting down at the table. On it was Lisanna, Mirajane, Erza, Gray, and Juvia.

"So, where's Natsu?" Lisanna asked. I shut my eyes closed, tight.

"Lucy?" Mirajane asked, putting a hand on my shoulder, as I put my head in my arms.

"Well..." Gray started.

"Natsu and I... broke up..." I said, not letting the tears fall, still clenching my eyes shut. A lump formed in my throat.

"What?" Erza asked.

"Yeah, he just started going all violent over her, kicking her and-" Cana started saying.

"No, it's-"

"No, I kicked her all right." A voice behind me said. I turned around.

Natsu. Smiling. Proudly.

"Yeah, I kicked her. I feel like kicking her now. Fight me." He said, walking towards me. He pulled my arm, and I fell on the ground.

"Natsu!" Erza shouted. My breathing beame quicker, and my tears came.

"What? The bitch deserves it." He said, taking his leg back, preparing it for a kick. I froze.

"Stop it bastard!" Cana said, blocking his leg with her own. He laughed.

"Yep, wimpy, like I said." He said, spitting down at the ground in front of me, and walking away. Cana knealt down next to me.

"Lucy..." she said, hugging me. I hugged her back.

"I swear he has gone mad." Erza said, growling under her breath.

"W-what did I do wrong?" I cried.

"Shh...shh..." Cana said, as she wiped my tears with the ribbon of her school uniform. She got up, and pulled me along with her.

"Lucy..." Mirajane and Lisanna said at the same time, getting up and comforting me as well.

And the bell rung.

My days seemed long and tiring, sleep was the only place I could escape too. The weekends, I couldn't help but spend them alone.I would go out in the forest, and walk. I found myself living in my memories, when we were best friends, and then when we were a couple. I never ventured further than that. Natsu started hanging out with some kids from the year above. I had to endure sitting next to him in bioligie, until one day, he pushed me off my seat.

"Ah!" I cried, as I hit the ground.

"Hehe..." I heard him chuckle.

"Dragneel! I thought pushing off was meant just for Fullbuster!" She shouted.

"I push when I feel the need, miss." He said, once again, with that proud voice.

"Once more and it'll be detention!" She warned. "Heartfilia, where- Heartfilia?" She asked, as she saw me. I was sitting on the ground, trying my hardest to keep my tears in, but it didn't stop the constant stream. I hung my head, hiding my face with my hair.

"Both of you. To the principle's office." She warned.

"But Lucy didn't do anything!" Cana immidiatly shouted.

"Alberona, I'm the teacher. I have my reasons for sending her too."

"But-"

"Alberona enough! You two, go." She said. Natsu sighed, pushing the table harshly as he got up. I shuddered, and got up.

Can't remember who I 'cast' as the head

I got up, and walked out. I remembered in the corridor when Natsu and I had gone to the library to get the book, and we held hands...

"Honestly." He said. I was walking two meters away from him, and he had his arms crossed.

"What?" I asked coldly. In one flash, I found myself crashing into the wall, a harsh pain in my abdomen.

"Haha! Wimp!" He shouted, as I fell to the ground, hurt by the impact of the wall. I coughed, trying to regain my breaths. He had kicked my solar plexes.

"No! Don't!" I shouted, as he walked towards me. He kicked me in the stomach. I doubled up, lying on the floor, finding it hard to breath.

"Get up! Bitch! Fight before I kill you!" He shouted.

"W-w-why?" I coughed. He laughed.

"Because." He held his hand to his mouth, and cleared his throat. "Because." He tried again, but coughed. He started coughing harshly, until he held his hand to his mouth, coughing harder. He fell to his knees, and he stopped, but fell to the ground, not moving.

"N-Natsu?" I asked, crawling painfully towards him. He didn't react. "Natsu?!"I asked, more worried as I didn't feel his usual heat. "Natsu!" I asked, shaking him. His head lolled from side to side. "Natsu!" I shouted again. His head lolled to the side, and I gasped. From his ear, was a small river of blood,sticking into his pink hair, and going onto the ground. "Oh god! Natsu! Someone! Help!" I shouted. "Help! Natsu is-"

"Lucy?" Obba asked, as she walked out of Natsu's room an hour later. I got up.

"How is he?" I asked, only to sit back down, hand on my abdomen.

"Let me see." She said.

"It's nothing, he didn't really hurt-"

"Lucy." She said sternly. I sighed, and bought my top up. Where he had kicked me, there was a small scab where the skin had broke, and a bruise that covered most of my stomach.

"Lulu..." she said, gently touching it with her hand. I flinched, and hissed. It had been three weeks since Obba threatened Natsu. Three weeks since the first time he hit me...

"Can you tell me how he is please?"I snapped, pulling my top down. She sighed.

"You're too kind, caring about him like that." She said. "He's alive."

"What's that meant to mean?!" I asked, my voice rising a few octaves.

"It means he's lucky to be alive. He ows you his life. If you hadn't been there with him, then..." she said, but shuddered.

"What happened to him?" I asked.

"Polyuchka is in there taking a look." She said. Just on cue, the door opened, and Polyuchka came out along witha teary eyes Gramps.

"So?" I asked.

"Lucy..." Gramps said. "I wasn't aware of what he had done to you, I'm sorry." He said.

"Hell with that, just what happened?!" I asked. Mokarov looked at Polyuchka, who looked at Silver, who looked at Gramps.

"After this, we need to tell them." Gramps said.

"What? Tell us what?"I asked.

"First, you need to know that Natsu was most likely poisoned." Polyuchka said.

"P-poisoned? Who would want to poison him?" I asked.

"Well..."

"We'll tell you once he's cured, but we need to find the source of the poising so I can make an antidote."

"Or?!" I asked, getting scared.

"Or..."

"He'll die." Polyuchka finished. I gasped.

"What poisoned him?!" I shouted, getting up.

"We don't know. Mokarov, if it's...who we suspect it is...then try and think of a habit Natsu has." She asked.

"W-well...he always slams his door after school, he rolls out of bed in the morning, he-"

"Foodwise."

"Oh, he never goes to sleep without drinking a glass of orange juice." He rushed towards the kitchen, and opened the fridge. She opened the carton.

"Right, I can't see anything in there." She said. The door knocked.

"I'll get it." Mokarov said. We heard him open the door, as Polyuchka poured out the orange juice. A leaf fell out.

"Is this...? No..." she said, picking it up, and examining it. She turned to me.

"What is it? Will he live?!" I said. She frowned.

"Lucy, who was the last person he saw before he started having headaches?" She asked me. Mokarov walked into the room.

"It was the postman." He said, and put a small parcel on the table.

"W-well, it was me, I think, or Gramps." I said, remembering the night of the ball.

"Oh, it fits, bec-"

"No." Gramps said, after he had torn open the parcel.

"What?" I asked, turning. I gasped at the contents of the parcel.

An orange.

Okay! I have the next fanfiction I'm going to write ready. It's called 'Jigoku no Baindo' or 'Bound to Hell'.

'"If I told you that Satan and God existed, would you think me crazy? No, probably just a Jehovah's witness. Okay, say I told you Satan and God were normal young adults? Yeah, maybe slightly bonkers. Alright, if told you they were friends, and Hell wasn't actually a place for the bad, and Heaven a place for the good? Maybe slightly more crazy. Okay, if I told you I was the Grim Reapess, and I had my heart torn out by my best friend, and it turned out I was a rebel, would you still believe me sane?"

Lucy is a normal seventeen year old girl, till she meets Natsu, who drags her into his world...'

I hope you'll read it!

NEXT CHAPTER! HOLY SHIT I CAN'T DO ANYMORE OF THESE WITHOUT SPOILING STUFF!

BISOUS :*