"Natsu, I need to speak with you immediately." A stern voice called out.
A twelve year old pink haired boy clumsily ran to the front of the door, he paused before entering the room in slow strides moments later with a confessed look on his face as he stared around at his surroundings. He wasn't called into this room a lot, the study room was a room he wasn't to enter.
"Yeah dad?" He asked looking straight at the desk to the person occupying the chair that was facing the other way.
The chair then spun around to face him revealing a man with spiked red hair similar to the young boy's and dark black eyes that grown cold over the years, he had some facial hair grown along his jaw and chin. He was visibly much older than the boy with wrinkles and worry lines visible. The older man wore a black pen stripped suit with a red tie that complimented his hair. His cold black eyes soften up when he caught site of the boy standing there. He sighed heavily before standing up and walking around his desk to the boy.
"Natsu I think it's time you began to learn our family business so that you may operate it in your own image when your older." The man began.
"What's are family business dad?" Natsu asked confused once more.
"Come." The red head man said leading the pair to a small couch that was against the wall of his study. Once they were seated he began to speak once more. "Now Natsu what I am about to tell you, you might not understand nor should you be frighten by the things I say. The Dragneel family is a long line of business men in a sense. What we do is buisness, keeping people we care for safe. We are paid to protect establishments that requires our assistance. The Dragneel buisness has many people in there influence whether they are politicians or policeman; anyone who has some kind of authority over us, those people let us conduct our buisness like we want it. There are some who don't appreciate our buisness though remember that. We are a large organization with men that are loyal to us and only care to fulfill what our organization needs to accomplish. Those men help us protect and do our buisness. They help us do the 'dirty work' that must be done, their family. Their the reason why we are the biggest organization in this whole land which means we are the most rivaled upon among others. We are Dragon Lord."
The man declared proudly with a smile staring down at the young boy. Igneel Dragneel, the current master of Dragon Lord a guild established to run the streets of Fiore. He's become the most powerful and dangerous man among those that are his 'competition'.
"I started to learn the buisness when I was your age with my father before he passed away and I'll do the same for you. Everything I pass to you will be your own fortune." Igneel spoke softly in a regretful tone staring the boy down. He swallowed hard looking straight ahead. "Our guild is going to be very complicated to learn at your age but I know you'll do very well."
Natsu looked at his dad in a serious way before nodding his head. "Don't worry dad, I'll do my best to make you proud!"
Igneel chuckled at his son declaration patting him on the back. "I know you'll do fine. You always prove me wrong in the long run, haven't you Natsu?"
The boy only nodded his head in a playful matter that only made the man smile wide.
"Now Natsu as next in line to be guild master you'll endure lots more studying other than your school work. All your free time will be nothing but work." Igneel spoke in a soft matter again, there wasn't any other way he could speak to his son. He was his most important prize possession. He wanted to do nothing but protect him, though he knew he couldn't shield him from the world.
"Does that mean I can't go play with Gray and Happy when I want to?" The twelve year old boy questioned. He was very intelligent among his classmates even if he acted out a lot.
"I'm afraid not son." The older man said grimly.
"Oh." Natsu said in disappointment.
"Hey Natsu wanna come out and play with my new ball my dad got me?!" A raven haired boy asked standing on the porch with a bright blue ball in hand.
The pink haired boy in the open door way looked between the boy and the ball with a pained expression.
"I don't think I can come out today Gray."
"Why not? You always can't come out. It's been like 6 months since we played and at school doesn't count." The boy exclaimed with a pout. "Aren't we suppose to be friends?"
"W-we are. It's just I been busy..studying."
"Studying what? You been failing every test we take. And your usually the smart one between the two of us."
"Well I been busy with other things too."
"I bet you been busy with your other friends, flamebrain!"
"What other friend ice princess?!"
"Whatever, I'll fine someone else to play with since your too 'busy' to play." Gray said lastly before turning away with a 'hmp' leaving the boy shocked.
Natsu stared glumly at his best friends retreating form. He turned away and slammed the door closed. He walked to the dinning room table of his home and returned back to the papers of previous financial records of his father's guild. He began to calculate the numbers and then find the source of where their money went to and then see the difference from the year before that revenue as a sort of mathematical problem.
When he finished that he began to read a thick book that was filled with buisness jargon. He was busy craming words he hardly understood and even had notebooks for everything. He even had a notebook filled with jargons pertaining to his father's guild.
His dad had told him that once he had accomplished a year worth of studying and understanding of how buisness work then he could be taken on as an apprentice where he could be in the same room as his dad and helping him work real situations.
Half an hour later Igneel entered his home in his usual business attire with sleep in his eyes looking around for his son but hearing nothing but silence.
"Natsu?" He called out panic in his voice before looking into the usual places he would always find his son lurking which were the kitchen, his bedroom, and the TV room. He rushed into the dining room in defeat shaking with fear after looking into every room of the house. His frantically scanned the room until his eyes finally landed on his pink haired son who laid asleep on his books and papers.
"This boy will be the end of me, I swear in it." The man groaned lifting the boy into his arms. The older man carried the sound a sleep boy up the stairs into the boy's bedroom tucking him into bed. Igneel then walked back down the stairs and picked up his son's mess he left.
Stacking them into one single pile, he review all the papers that passed from his hands. "Huh, he sure has shown a lot of dedication. If only his work could reflect his character."
He only chuckled before leaving the pile on the table.
"Oh Natsu your making me proud alright."
His words echoed throughout the walls of the silent home only to be heard by the man who spoke them and the pink haired boy who sat at the top of the stairs listening, he then smiled sleepily before crawling back to his room and falling asleep again.