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WHEN WE WERE KIDS

CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR

"The postman!" I shouted, as I ran out the door. But as soon as I was on the road, I couldn't see anyone in sight. Just like as if he had vanished from view. I swore, stomping my foot in fustration, before going back inside.

"Was he there?" Silver asked.

"No..." I sighed, picking up the orange. "What is this? A threat?" I asked.

"No." Said Mokarov. "It's mocking." He snarled.

"You were saying something?" I asked, turning to Polyuchka. She nodded.

"Just let me run some tests at my home, and then I'll confirm." She said, taking the soaked leaf, the orange juice carton and the orange. I sighed, and clutched my abdomen, as it still hurt.

"Is it okay?" Silver asked.

"Fine, although could I have some ice please?" I asked. Mokarov nodded, and went to the freezer, before passing me a white bag filled with cold ice. I lifted up my shirt, and gently placed the ice on it, hissing at first, before sighing as the cold numbed it.

"I'm just going to get...the you know what...from my house, see you in a moment." Silver said, as she walked out. I sighed, once again, and sat down on one of the chairs. Mokarov sighed as well, as he sat on the table. I sighed again. Then he sighed. I looked up at him, and he looked at me. We both sighed at the same time, before laughing.

"Hm." He said.

"What?" I asked.

"Natsu made a good choice." He nodded. I smiled, before frowning.

"He doesn't love me anymore, though." I said.

"Lucy, Lucy, Lucy...he never stopped. The first days that you were together, he would come home, smiling, looking almost like a toddler coming out from a toyshop, carrying bags and bags of toys... He was so happy, and then he would talk about you. He tried to talk to me about how much he loved you, but he would always end up stuttering, and then say he couldn't put it into words. Then he asked me if he could marry you at seventeen." Mokarov laughed. I smiled, and a single tear dribbled from the corner of my eye.

"Honestly..." I sighed.

"Did he ever tell you were his scarf came from?" Mokarov asked.

"The scarf he always has on?" I checked. "He doesn't remember, right?" I asked.

I remembered Erza telling me about Natsu's past in the second week of me being at Magnolia... it felt like such a long time ago. Natsu was found, a little five year old, roaming the woods, when Gramps bumped into him. He went to an orphanage for a further four years, till being adopted by Gramps, and meeting who would be his future friends at nine.

Mokarov laughed.

"If you knew the truth..." he said. I looked up at him confused.

"Sorry. I'm blabering." He said.

We sat, nervously waiting for Polyuchka. Gramps sometimes went to check on Natsu, only to come back out, still teary eyed.

"Gramps?" I said, after he came out once again.

"Mhm?" He asked.

"Maybe...maybe I could go and see him?" I asked. Gramps frowned.

"He wants to kill you." He said.

"He's unconscious." I retorted. He smiled.

"Fine, just, if he wakes up, get out." He ordered. I smiled, and walked into Natsu's room.

It was dimly lit, the curtains closed and only a small lamp in the corner of the room on. I could here raspy breathing, and the occasional cough as I slowly walked in, my eyes adjusting to the dark. I saw him, face peacefull, and a tissue in his ear. It was stained red. The poison was killing him, slowly. I knealt down beside his bed. I closed my eyes, and smiled at the memories that flooded in, playing like a film on the back of my eyelids. I put my hand on his cheek.

"Hey...sorry..." I whispered. He sighed in his sleep.

"...Lucy..." he said, once again, in his sleep. I gasped, and felt my eyes sting again.

"I'm here..." I whispered back. He turned over, his face towards mine. I stroked his hair, missing him so much. He coughed again, tiny flecks of blood went onto the duvet. Polyuchka had said that that was happening. I was scared for him. He might not...no. He would.

"Lucy? Come on, Polyuchka's back." Gramps said, opening the door slightly. I nodded, and walked out.

"I was right, this is the same leaf." She said, as I walked into the kitchen. "Odium Venenum, or the hatred leaf. While it slowly scrambbles up the vital organs of the one who consumed it, it also gives them a hatred so deep for the last person they saw, or in Natsu's case, you. When I mean so deep, it's a hatred that drives them to kill, so I am astonashily surprised to see you are alive. The beauty of this poison is it's like killing two birds with one stone. So they were obviously trying to kill you and Natsu..." She said, as she placed a dusty book on the table, open at a page with various pictures of a leaf and a person bleeding from mouth, ears, nose, and eyes. I cringed, but stopped when what she had just said sunk in.

So Natsu...didn't hate me? He...still...loved me?!

"Natsu didn't hate me?" I asked, not believing it. Silver smile at me.

"No, Lucy, he loves you." She smiled. I smiled back. It was such a comfort. Those past three weeks I had been obsesively asking myself what I had done wrong, and to find out...I hadn't done anything...

"Is there an antidote!" I finally said, remembering his life was on the line.

"Yes. I just need to add the final ingrdient to this..." She said, taking a small bottle with a golden liquid inside out of her bag.

"What's the final ingredient?"

"Something form the person he was forced to hate." She said, as she pulled a hair from my scalp.

"Ouch!" I exclaimed, surprised. She chuckled, and put it in the vile. She shook it, before going into his room.

"Stay here all of you. The effect of this is immediate so you shouln't be waiting long." She said, closing the door behind her.

We waited. Anxioulsy. Until there was a hell load of coughing, and we were fearing the worst, maybe the potion didn't go well? Maybe it was to late? But when the door finally opened, we all looked around.

"Lucy!" Natsu said, pale as a sheet, but alive, and not giving me the most deathly look ever.

"Natsu!" I said, just as happy, getting up from my chair. He half ran half walked towards me, and held me, hugged me, so tight, around my neck. I did to, so happy.

"I'm so sorry! I'm going to stop saying sorry because that doesn't sum up how repulsed I am of myself! I would never-"

"I know, I know, you were poisoned, I know..." I said, closing my eyes, so happy he was back.

"I hurt you so bad! I hate myself! I am so, so sorry! And...oh god, Lucy..." he said, clutching my head.

"I forgive you, I've always forgiven you, and I always will." I said, whisepering.

"I love you Lucy..." he sighed into my ear. I was so happy to hear those words.

"And I love you too." I said. Somebody behind us cleared their throat. Natsu and I stopped hugging each other, but still stayed near.

"What? I didn't exactly try to kill you." He said, raising an eyebrow.

"Still, something was different about you." Gramps said.

"Sorry. Thanks, Gramps, and you Silver." He smiled.

"Okay, so don't thank the one who cured you or anything." Polyuchka sighed behind us.

"Sorry, and thank you so much, I owe you my life." He said.

"I still don't understand one thing, how come you didn't kill Lucy? The effect of Odium Venenum should make the victim see red. Unless...no..." she said, scratching her head.

"What?" I asked.

"He loved you so much he made a barrier himself. But no, that's way to poetic." She sighed. Natsu looked at me, and grinned. That grin...

"You two, go and do something together. Natsu, you should be okay." Mokarov said.

"What about the-" Polyuchka interveined.

"Leave them just a moment, the poor kids." He said.

"Thanks, Gramps!" Natsu said, before immediatly pulling me out of the door with him.

"Woah! Quick recovery!" I laughed, as we ran along, down into town.

"I feel great! Come on! Let's go to school! They should be coming out by now!" He said, laughing just as much. I nearly ran into him, as he stopped suddenly.

"Wha-?" I was interupted by his lips, his thin, warm, gentle lips on mine, kissing me gently, so sweetly. He wrapped his arms around my waist, and didn't let go. Three weeks, three weeks, wow...

"Do you still remember the weekend?" He asked, once we finally broke apart.

"A bit hard to forget a promise like that." I laughed.

"Do you...?"

"Do you?"

"I do if you do."

"Then I do,if you do that is."

"I do."

We looked each other in the eye, still holding each other, forehead on forehead.

"I missed you." I said.

"I did too, when I wasn't trying to stop myself from killing you." He joked, as he resumed walking.

"What was it like?" I asked.

"...well, like as if I was 'turned off' when I hated you, but I could still 'see' everything. Like as if I was trpped inside a mind that wasn't mine. Every time I felt the need to kill you, I would go all frantic, and sometimes I ended up hurting myself to stop hurting you. Look." He said, lifting his top up. On the right side of his rib cage were numerous scrathes, small, and sharp, by the looks of it. I ran m finger along them.

"Those weren't there before." I said, noticing abs.

"I've been working out." He laughed. "I have something to show you. Come on, we probably just have time before school rings." He smiled.

We rushed off towards Lily bridge, where he sat down next to the river. He patted the ground next to him, indicating me to sit down.

"To keep my mind of things, I went to the Fairy Tai guild, and I found a wizard who said he would teach me magic." He said.

"What?! You've learnt magic?!" I asked, surprised.

"Yeah..." He sighed, as he lay down. I lay down next to him. "Look. It's still not much, but I'm learning quick." He said. I looked, and he raised his hand to the tree directly above us. It started blossoming, pink blossom, which fell around us. I smiled.

"Wow...is it Plant Magic?"

"Nope." He said, and bought his hand back down. As soon as he did, the blossom vanished, and the tree was back to its normal state.

"Wha?!" I asked, starlted.

"Illusion Magic." He winked. "I can creat illusianory landscapes, and, it requires more power, I can make someone feel something." He said. "Like this." He said, raising his hand over mine. I felt a little prick, like a small needle.

"Ow!" I said, taking my hand, while he laughed. "Tsch..." I said, elbowing him.

"It's really usefull in combat." He said.

"It's awesome." I complimented him. He smiled.

"Do you know what's even more awesome?" He asked, grinning slighly.

"No...what?" I asked. He smiled.

"This." He said, and my hands were pulled out, and my back slammed into the ground. It felt like my hands were strapped down, but nothing was there. I tried to move, but they wouldn't budge. Natsu laughed.

"Pervert." I growled, as lay down closer to me, putting his hand underneath my top, stroking my skin gently.

"Hm?" He asked.

"I said...nope..." I added, closing my eyes, enjoying his usual teasing, which I had missed as well. He laughed, and I could move my wrists again.

"Come on, school'll be over." He said, lifting himself off the ground, and helping me up. I hugged him.

"I love you. I don't think I'll ever be able to tell you enough, but I love you." I said. He patted my head.

"I do too, Luce, enormously."

We walked back to school, and waited for it to ring on one of the benches in the 'play' ground. It did eventually, and kids came rushing out.

"Cana! Gray! Juvia!" I said, as I saw the three. They looked, and walked over.

"Hey Lucy, I thought you went home with Nats-" Cana started.

"I'm here." He said. She looked, and opened her mouth in shock slightly.

"You and I are fighting to the death." She said in a voice so cold I got scared.

"I got poisoned, so that I hated Lucy to wanting to kill her." He said in his defense.

"It's true." I told her. She just looked suspicious.

"Well, I guess we'll have to get used to constant kissing again." She sighed. Natsu and I looked at each other, and laughed.

"Nope, they haven't changed."Juvia said.

On the rooftop of the school, concealed and hidden, a person threw the small bag of Odium Venenum into the gutter. He hit the roof in fustration. The elders were goig to tell the two children today, but the hidden person highly doubted they knew the full story. What was, what is, and what is yet to come was in his hands, and he was using it out of a jealous rage. He stared at the pink haired boy.

"Natsu Dragneel...this time, I'll get you. For sure. Lucy Heartfilia won't be here this time..." He said, low and threatening.

I hope you enjoyed! Are any of you from France? And If you are, are you going to the Manga-Sur-Loire? I'm cosplaying as Mikasa XD

NEXT TIME! UM... I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT'S NEXT TIME...OH YES! IT STARTS WITH A REVAL AND FINISHES IN AN ATION!

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