Fairy basket chapter 4

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail and Fruits Basket

Time skip to the morning (Still in Lucy's POV)

I relived the morning that my mum died in my sleep again. I sat up, feeling drained and sad and I felt tears tricking down my face. I tried to run my fingers through my hair but I didn't succeed, 'this is gonna be a pain to brush out.' I thought. I looked to the side and saw Natsu's sleeping face centimetres from my own. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY BED!?" I screamed. He fell out of my bed with a loud thump. Natsu sat up and rubbed his head, his pink hair sticking up all over the place.

"Hey Lucy why are you yelling?" He said in a sleepy voice.

"YOU WERE IN MY BED YOU IDIOT!"

Natsu rubbed the back of his head, "I was?... Oh yeah, I was..." He started staring at me.

"Why are you staring at me?"

Natsu tilted his head slightly to one side and kept staring. I blushed at the awkward situation that we were in. "Have you been crying?" My eyes went wide and I turned away and wiped off my tears. Before facing Natsu again with the best smile I could muster.

"N-no. I don't know what you're seeing but I haven't cried." His onyx eyes grew darker and he didn't look convinced.

Natsu's POV:

'You are obviously lying Lucy... Wait why would I care?' I thought. "Whatever you say, weirdo," I shrugged.

"I'm not a weirdo." She said while pouting.

"Yes you are." I said. She turned around again.

"Well you can get out of my room now. I have to get ready for school."

"Uh sure... See ya." I got up and walked out, closing the door behind me. I shook my head, "Why would she lie about crying? She really is a weirdo." I walked into the lounge room, thankful that Gray and Guildarts aren't morning people so they wouldn't have heard me or saw that I was in Lucy's room.

"Bye Guildarts, bye Natsu, we're off to school," Lucy said as she waved goodbye. I gave her a quick wave and so did Guildarts before he grabbed the back of my black open vest and threw me into the house.

"Ok kid now that Lucy and Gray aren't here I can talk to you about where you will be staying from now on. You will be staying here under Zeref's orders and I expect that you will enrol into Fairy Tail High with Lucy and Gray." I was about to start whining about having to stay here with that perverted stripper Gray when Guildarts gave me a look of death and said, "This is not negotiable under any circumstances. Ya hear?"

I put my hands up in defence, "A-aye sir."

"Good. Now go put on some normal clothes for once so I can enrol you in Fairy Tail before Gray gets back."

"Aye sir," I sighed.

Guildarts and I made it back to his house just before Gray came back from school. I ended up having to do an entrance exam so they could put me in the 'right' grade 10 classes for me.

I was fed up with the amount of people I had to talk to today and I really didn't want to see Gray but he walked in the door anyway. I was expecting Lucy to come in after him but she didn't. I asked Gray where she was and he replied with, "She's at work ash for brains. Why do you ask?"

I shrugged, "Just wondering, stripper."

"Hey why don't you go meet her at the start of the forest at around 10 to walk her home. You never know if a weirdo or pervert is gonna show up." Gray suggested.

"Why should I bother doing something like that? Seems pointless to me. Do it yourself."

"But if you did it then it would be like apologising for hurting her twice and making her look after you. Stupid cat."

"That damn rat actually has a point. Dammit," I whispered to myself. "Fiiiiiiiine. You win," I said, "I'll go walk her home." Gray nodded his head until I spoke up again, "But I want to walk her home from where she works."

"Whatever. I'll go get a piece of paper and write down the directions."

A few minutes later, Gray came back with a piece of paper that had directions to a block of apartments called Blue Pegasus on Strawberry Street. He handed it to me and said, "Make sure she gets back ok and try not to make her hate you, stupid cat."

"Wow, a worried stripper rat, I've never seen that before," I laughed. Gray punched me in the arm for that comment.

Lucy's POV:

"Oooooh look at that boy over there. Ya know, the one with the weird pink hair. Don't you think he is just adorable?" Cana, Blue Pegasus's resident fortune teller, said to Laki, a co-worker of mine.

I looked in the direction of where she was pointing and saw none other than Natsu standing at the front door. He looked very out of place with his pink hair and his scaly looking scarf but wearing a normal shirt and pants. I walked up to him and waved at him. "Hey Natsu what are you doing here?"

"Waiting for you to finish work so then I can walk you home."

I was shocked at what he said and dumbly stood there for a few seconds before replying with, "Oh... Ok... My shift ends right now so I'll just get my stuff and I'll be right back." I grabbed my stuff out of my locker and walked over to Natsu who was standing impatiently by the front doors. "Hey Natsu I'm ready now so let's go."

"Fiiiinallyyyy, you took forever." He said.

"Hey, I took like a minute, I wasn't that long."

"Whatever. It felt like forever and those two over there," he pointed to Cana and Laki. "Kept talking about me like I wasn't here. It was weird."

"Don't mind about them. They gossip about anyone new who walks through these doors." We walked out into the streets and started heading home.

Natsu looked at me in a funny way, "That's just creepy."

"Maybe, but it's not like I can change them." I said. We walked in a comfortable silence and Natsu put his hands behind his head and continued walking, humming slightly to himself. I walked beside him, thinking how nice it was of him to come and pick me up from work when I suddenly felt someone grab my hand from behind and tug on my hand. I let out a small squeak and turned around and came face-to-face with a wildly grinning man with dark bluish-purple hair and a strange black tattoo above his eyebrow. Before I could even react, he put a gag in my mouth and swung me over his back.

"Make one move and your friend gets his throat slit. Got it?" The man whispered while pulling out a long, sharp and deadly looking knife. I looked over his shoulder to look at where Natsu was. He was still casually walking with his hands behind his head about 10 meters away. I made a silent plea for Natsu to turn around and apparently he'd hear it because he looked to the side and didn't see me so he turned around. His onyx eyes locked onto mine as the man with the weird tattoo turned down a very convenient dark alleyway.

I haven't planned any other chapters and school just started back up so I'll take longer to post the chapters from now on. I'll try to update at least once a week.