Fairy Basket chapter 5

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

Continuing from where we left off in Lucy's POV...

My body dangled uselessly on my kidnappers' shoulder as he ran down the many backstreets of Magnolia but he was tiring quickly and I heard what I assumed to be Natsu's footsteps gaining on us. 'Thank god,' I thought.

The man abruptly came to a halt and threw me off his shoulder with almost superhuman strength into a brick wall and I gave a muffled yelp of pain.

He menacingly sauntered up to me and lent down until his nose was almost touching my face and I could smell his rancid cigarette breath. "This is your own fault that this happened to you, 'Lucky Lucy Heartfilia'," He sneered. "Guess what? Your rich daddy that you left wants you back." He slowly started to pull out his long knife out of his pants and smiled maliciously. "Jude did say to deliver you unharmed but that pained expression on your face is just priceless. Mmmmmm, I think I'll just call it an accident." He pulled the gag off my head and held the cool metal of the blade against my right cheek. He started pushing the dagger into the flesh of my cheek until I could feel a steady flow of blood flowing down from the open wound. He slightly turned the blade and I let out a cry from the pain flaring up in my cheek. I tried to lift a shaky hand to cup my cheek. "Don't you even think about moving a muscle!" He yelled.

I motionlessly sat there with tears dripping down my face for what felt like hours but must've been a few minutes until I heard my name being called in the distance. "LUCY!" Nastu called out. "Hey Luce I finally found you! Sorry I was late but I had to fight a few guys to get here!" He started sprinting faster than anyone that I have ever seen and in a matter of seconds he was right in front of me. "Lucy why are you bleeding? What happened? Did the guy that abducted you do this?" I slowly nodded my head. "Where-"

"If you're looking for the guy who cut her pretty little face, look no further. I, the great Bora, did it." Natsu's eyes flared up in rage as he tugged his scarf off and draped it on my head and turned to face Bora. I could almost see flames of anger dancing on his body as he put his fists up and egged on Bora to attack him. Bora flashed his long dagger at Natsu which still had my blood on it. He was obviously trying to scare Natsu away but as much as I prayed for him to run he didn't, instead the flames that I imagined on Natsu grew brighter and stronger.

"Are you trying to scare me?" Natsu asked Bora. "'Cause it's not working."

"Natsu," I said. He turned around to look at me. "Please go," I begged. "I don't want you getting hurt because of me."

"Tch, as if I'd leave you here by yourself. You really are the weirdest weirdo I've ever met." He declared. "I might not know you well but you seem ok."

Tears ran down my face, stinging my cut. "But- Natsu watch out!" I screamed as Bora ran at Natsu with his knife. Natsu simply jumped out of the way and shoved him hard, making sure he didn't hit me. Bora stumbled a bit before regaining his balance and angrily ran at Natsu again with his knife. Natsu sighed and firmly grabbed his arm that had the knife in it. He then sent a punch flying into Bora's gut, effectively knocking him out.

Natsu brushed some non-evident dust off his hands as he said, "That was almost too easy. I thought I could finally find a worthy opponent other than the stripper." I didn't reply so Natsu waved a hand in front of my face. "Hey Luce, you ok?" He asked.

I looked up at him with blank eyes. "I'm fine." I lied.

He took my hand and pulled me up. "C'mon let's go." I was unstable on my feet but I didn't fall over. Natsu guided me out of the backstreets and onto the road we were on before and eventually back home.

Gray was pacing around the front deck with a worried look on his face when we finally made it home. "What the hell happened!? You're almost an hour late and I know that walk only takes 10 minutes." Natsu said he would explain later and led me up to my room. He tucked me into bed like a little kid and stayed with me until I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

"'Night." He whispered.

Natsu's POV:

I closed Lucy's door and went into the lounge room to see Gray. I told him about what happened to Lucy and me on our way back.

"I understand the situation and I have decided that you will escort her to and from work," Gray said.

"Why do I gotta do it?" I asked the stripper.

"Why not? I think this'll be a good challenge for a stupid cat like you."

"Hey! I'm not the one who strips all the time."

Gray started to get irritated. "Look, you will be on Lucy protecting duty even during school."

"Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine," I sighed.

"Also, you're sleeping on the couch."

"God dammit."

Time skip to the morning.

"Bye Guildarts, we're off to school," Lucy called out as Gray, Lucy and I left for school.

"Bye, be safe!" He called back.

We walked to school and I found out that I was in the same class as Lucy. "This is great," I said to Lucy. "I have someone to follow around to class other than the stripper."

She nodded her head, "Yeah. Sure..." Her face was kinda red.

"You ok?" I asked her, "You look like you might be sick or something."

"N-no I-I'm not sick. I'm fine."

We entered our classroom and a whole heap of girls started to crowd around me and started asking me billions of questions like, "Is it true that you're prince Gray's cousin?" I couldn't handle this. It was just too much. How Gray puts up with these crazy girls every day and doesn't transform I'd like to know. I started to walk away, trying to get to Lucy who seemed to be the only normal girl in here. A girl with short brown hair tried to stop me by holding my arm and I snapped. I grabbed her arm and pushed her onto the ground. I ran to the window and jumped onto the window sill.

"Leave me alone!" I yelled as I jumped out of the window. I landed on the ground two stories below and ran for it. 'That was definitely not the best way to start school.' I thought. I ran up stairs on another school building and ended up on the roof. I laid down on the concrete with my arms behind my head and I almost instantly relaxed. Cats started to surround me, including a strange blue cat which I immediately named Happy.

Lucy's POV:

'Poor Natsu,' I thought, 'When all of those girls started crowding around him, I bet he was feeling like a fish trapped a tank of sharks.'

"Hahaha, I can't believe he actually jumped!" Erza said.

"Yeah," Levy said, "He looked like a cat trying to get out of water," I froze, they couldn't have figured out the curse yet. After a few seconds on contemplating this idea I decided that they didn't know and it was just a coincidence that Levy used a cat analogy.

When the bell for the start of little lunch (AN. Yes I still call little lunch), I raced out of the classroom to find out where Natsu went. I ran up the stairs to the roof to see if I could see a head of pink hair somewhere in the crowds. I pushed open the roof door and saw Natsu sleeping on the ground. Twenty or so cats surrounded him and a blue one was sleeping on his chest. I silently sat down next to Natsu and picked up a cute small brown cat and started petting it. 'This is nice,' I thought to myself.

After a while I curled up around the cute cat and soon after, fell asleep. I didn't notice the bell signalling the start of the next class, nor did I hear Natsu wake up and put me on his legs. When I awoke, the last bell went off and I heard the rush of people walking out of the doors. Still half asleep, I burrowed into my warm 'pillow' more. "So warm," I murmured.

"Do you mind?" Natsu's voice snapped me out of my sleepy state. I saw that the 'pillow' was actually Natsu's legs.

"Oh my god I am so sorry!" I apologised and got off his legs. "What am I still doing up here? Is it the end of the day?"

"One, you fell asleep and two, yes, it's the end of the day." Natsu replied.

"How could you let me sleep like that?" I asked in an annoyed tone. "You know that I need to go to school."

"Yeah, yeah. You'll be fine... I also looked through your bag when you were asleep." He laughed.

"I can't believe you looked through my bag! I'm going to go to work so I'll see you later. Goodbye." I practically ran down the nearly deserted hallways of the school building. 'I actually was pretty tired but he still should've woken me up.' I thought as I took the usual route to my job.

My job was finally finished after I cleaned at least 5 rooms and took out too many bags of rubbish. I heard Cana talking about A pink haired boy again and I saw Natsu just outside of the doors. I ran to my locker and hastily pulled out my bag and rushed into the foyer. I heard a whistle and I turned around to see Cana was the culprit. "So you finally got yourself a boyfriend!" She laughed.

I turned as pink as Natsu's hair. "T-that's not true," I stuttered. "He's just a friend."

"Oh come on Lucy, I wasn't born yesterday. What 'friend' would walk you home at," She checked the time, "10:45." I was now the colour of Erza's hair and I ran out of the door extremely embarrassed.

I'm so sorry I didn't update in forever. I haven't had any internet for ages and I got really stuck on this chapter.