"Beat it you worthless scum!" The pink hair boy laughed out kicking his bat onto his shoulder.
A group of beaten boys slowly made their way off the baseball field leaving the cheering group.
"Wow Natsu, I never thought you could do something like that." A dark hair boy called out running toward the pinkette boy. "For a guy who spent a majority of the year in his house you got super strong and tough too."
"Salamander ain't that strong." Another boy scoffed walking toward the two with crossed arms. "I seen stronger."
"Oh yeah metalhead?" The pinkette boy yelled before running up and pouncing on the taller boy resulting in a brawl with each other.
"Tch and to think I thought you were cool." The dark hair boy said walking back to the small group they arrived with.
"Gray!" Natsu roared grabbing Gray by his collar and pulling him into the small scuffle with Gajeel.
After a few moments the three boys fell to the ground to the small group's amusement.
"You guys should man up, geez." An older white hair boy called out through all the laughter.
"Are we going to play some baseball or fight all day?" Someone shouted amongst the group.
"Hey I'm cool with either." Someone else shouted with the crack of their knuckles.
"I didn't come for this!" Gray growled getting up.
"Oh well. I'm not done with you ice pop!" Natsu roared kicking the boy down to the ground again.
"Neither am I flame brain!"
"Dad!"
A man with red slicked back hair looked up from his desk with a smile at the sound of his name. "Natsu. Come here."
The pink hair boy ran to his dad's open arms with a wide smile. His father patted the young boy's head lovingly.
"How was your day son?"
"School was alright but after school the guys invited me to play with them again! I was so happy until these guys from another school wanted to play on our baseball field just cause their's was crappy." Natsu scoffed at the memory.
"What happened?" The older man asked interested.
"I took my bat and started to pound their smirking faces in! I fought most of them off and frighten the rest of them."
"You what?" Igneel asked harsher then he intended. "Did you not reason with those boys first before resorting to such tactics?"
Natsu shock his head slowly frowning to himself.
"If your going to take my place as Dragon Lord's master you have to understand something." Igneel said sternly, staring the boy in his black colored eyes. "Showing off what you can do and doing what is right are two different things. Master's are seen first before their organizations. Do you think the authorities that control this city would let us be if I showed my men to knock every smirking face of my rivals off the street at will? I think not. You'll have to think before doing to set an example for your men and even the people our organization is meant to protect. And that includes those boys unless they were rivals."
"I never knew." Natsu said in disbelief before averting his eyes to the ground feeling ashamed by the actions he was once proud of. "I just want to prove I could be apart of Dragon Lord."
"Don't beat yourself up ok? Your still young and learning a master's trade. There will be a time when your ready to show what your made of." Igneel's face soften at his son's sour mood. But the older man's lips curled into a sly smile. "But do tell, did you do all the work?"
"Yeah, the other guys were awing. Gray though we should have left but it was the first time in forever he's invited me to anything. So I did what I did to be with my best friend."
"Haha, my boy's a little brawler!" Igneel roared in laughter at the thought. He clapped his hand onto the younger boy's back. "You know what, I bet everyone would enjoy something to celebrate about."
"Really?" Natsu said going wide eyed staring up at his dad. "Can I do it? Pleaseee?"
"Of course." The older man smiled seeing his son scoot off his lap and run out the door of Igneel's office in an instant.
Igneel stood up and trailed after him to see Natsu climb the rail and yelling for everyone's attention before looking up to his dad to go on.
"Everyone, my son just came to me and told me something rather surprising. He brawled today with a group of boys on his own!" Igneel hollered out, making the guild hall erupt in cheers and 'he's becoming a man' comments.
Natsu looked up at his father and smiled in a goofy fashion.