Hi, everyone! Almost to the twentieth chapter; I really am excited!

And I never got to do this, but, thank you. Every one of you who's favorited or reviewed, I am truly indebted to you.

This is my most popular story and the one I've put most effort into.

Thank you, everyone, for turning this small idea into something truly incredible.

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Gray leaned against his desk, staring outside the glass window. The sky was a beautiful light blue and no clouds in sight. The sun was radiating golden beams of light.

And it fucking annoyed him to hell. Why the fuck was the world so damn happy when he wasn't?

Gray scoffed and roughly pulled the dark navy blue curtain over the scene, and instantly he was flushed into a gloomy darkness with barely any light.

Whatever.

He preffered it this way anyway.

The young man collapsed onto his bed face down, the cool sheets brushing his bare skin. He didn't bother to search for his discarded shirt.

He felt so empty.

So tired.

So frustrated.

So angry.

All these emotions swirled within him, yet at the same time, he felt nothing. A bleak horizon with no substance nor thought.

He closed his eyes, slowly dozing off in the deathly silence.

CRASH!

Scratch that.

Gray almost broke his neck as his head lifted up so fast in alarm at the loud noise.

Not noticing that his pants were flung away, Gray nearly tripped over his own feet and skidded to his door.

He flung said door open, and was shocked to see Lisanna and Lucy on the floor, a mess that he guessed was once breakfast around and on them.

Lisanna stood up and reached for Lucy, and the two started to talk as Lisanna pulled the blond up.

"What the hell happened?" Gray was quick to blurt out as he speed-walked to them.

"Gray?" Lisanna asked in astonishment as she turned around to face him.

He faltered.

Even after all these years, her face was still that cute heart-shape, her blue eyes were striking, and her hair was that adorable pixie cut.

"You know each other?!" Was Lucy's own exclamation.

"Of course! Didn't Gray tell you?" Lisanna said, looking over at Lucy to smile at her.

Gray started to feel sweat form at the back of his neck when he realized what Lisanna was about to say. "U-Um, Lisanna, how 'bout we - "

"I'm Natsu's ex-girlfriend."

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Natsu jumped out of hs light napping and was shocked to see a furious Lucy stalk to him.

Oh god, what'd he do this time?! He thought they made up already!

"Why the fuck," Lucy spat, grabbing the collar of his vest and pulling him so close that he could see the fire in her eyes. "Did you not tell me I was a damn AUNT!"

She shook him back and forth furiously.

Natsu dizzily looked at her, and with that combined with his drowsinness, he suddenly blurted out, "you're pretty when you're mad."

Lucy flushed instantly, and he seemed to snap out of it. He could feel his own cheeks go red.

"I-I mean you're not pretty! Well you're not not pretty but like I d-don't mean you're - wait, aunt?!"

Lucy growled as her previous anger came back. "YOUR EX NOW CONSIDERED SISTER HAS A CHILD AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME THAT I AM A FUCKING AUNT YOU DAMN BASTARD!" She screamed.

"L-Lucy..." Natsu whimpered. She was definitely not that sad, mopeygirl from before - she was fueled with what Wakaba and Macao liked to call 'period power'. Whatever that meant.

"AND WHAT'S MORE, LISANNA IS A PRINCESS AND RELATED TO MIRAJANE! THE MIRAJANE STRAUSS! I'LL KILL YOU AND THEN BRING YOU BACK TO CHOKE YOU WITH YOUR SPINE!"

"Lucy!" Two alarmed voices yelled, and Natsu felt his stomach churn as Lucy continued to shake him back and forth rapidly.

"Calm down!"

"As much as I'd like that flame ass to die, I don't want to be sent to jail." Gray said in a soothing tone, his pale hand grasping Lucy's shoulder.

For some reason, that really set Natsu off, and he jumped up in an instant while pulling himself away from Lucy's grip. His fist met Gray's jaw. "GET YOUR OWN WIFE YOU DICK!"

Just as Gray was about to retaliate back, Natsu froze in shock as he saw the other person who had spoken out and had just noticed. "L... Lisanna?"

"Hi, Natsu!" She smiled. Her kind smile never changed. "It's been a while, huh?"

"I can't believe you never told me about Lisanna," Lucy huffed, her anger melted down to a soft smolder. "And she has a kid! Natsu, you idiot, if I'm an aunt then I want to know!"

"Yeah, I - " Natsu paused. "KID?!"

Gray groaned in exasperation as he walked up to them. "Stupid. Lisanna and Bickslow had their kid like three years ago."

"B-But why would that make you an aunt?" Natsu sputtered to Lucy.

The blond scoffed and crossed her arms over her chest. "Because you said we're all family, right? And Lisanna said I was an aunt, anyway. Ah, Lisanna-chan, I can't thank you enough~!"

"Oh, Lucy-sama~"

"Lisanna-chan~"

Both Natsu and Gray were disturbed as these two woman clasped their hands together tightly and what seemed like sparkles surrounded them.

"But, Lisanna," Lucy said as their disturbing sister love dissolved. "You look our age! You had a child when you were sixteen?"

"Hm? Oh!" Lisanna laughed. "Lucy, I'm twenty-five!"

Lucy's jaw dropped in shock and she whirled around to stare at Natsu. "You dated someone SIX YEARS OLDER THAN YOU!"

"In my defense," Natsu yelled. "I was five and kissed her on the cheek cause Gray said I had to make her my girlfriend!"

"DID NOT!"

"DID TOO!"

As the air crackled around the two rivals, Lucy faced a smiling Lisanna.

"I was wondering, Lisanna-chan~"

"Yes~ Lucy-sama?"

"Can you bring Aras over sometime? Oh, I really want to meet my cute nephew!"

"Of course!"

As the two girls laughed and Natsu and Gray duked it out, the door slammed open.

Erza's serious expression immediately caused all of them to lose their smiles.

"Lisanna," Erza said tightly. "His highness wishes to see you."

"Yes, I had expected that." Lisanna laughed gently, and Lucy was concerned as her newly found friend seemed... sad.

"It's good to see you again, Erza." Lisanna greeted the redhead as she walked towards the lady knight.

Erza softened a little and nodded. "I've missed you, Lisanna. Now come. His majesty is not known for his temper."

And with that, the two were gone.

Lucy slowly turned around to see Gray and Natsu. The former was sitting on the ground and only wearing ducky boxers, and latter sittind down as well only the bottom of his feet were presed together and his hands gripped his ankles.

"Guys... Why was Lisanna talking like she's already been here?" Lucy asked slowly.

"Cause she has been." Gray answered, rubbing the back of his neck as if remembering something unpleasant. "It's been ten years since we last saw her."

"What happened?" Lucy asked gently.

"Nothing!" Natsu was quick to snap.

Silence filled the room, and Lucy sighed before straightening her back. "Gray, since you're up, you should make some breakfast for Juvia and bring it up to her."

Gray blinked. "What? Why me?" He cried out.

Lucy raised a brow at him. "Because you're the only one she responds to."

Gray grumbled something about women and demons, so before Lucy could kick him, he dragged himself out of the room.

Satisfied, Lucy closed the door behind him and then looked over her shoulder.

Natsu was still sitting on the ground against his bed, his eyes on the ground as a serious and thoughtful expression was on his face.

Lucy softened. He and Lisanna must have been close once. What had happened a decade ago that made him so... Un-Natsu like?

"Hey, Natsu." She said, hoping to distract him from his troubling thoughts. After all, they had enough drama already for a life time. "Why do you always wear that scarf?" To make her point, she reached out a little and gently tugged at the end of his scale-patterned scarf.

"My old man gave it to me," Natsu said, seemingly pulling his thoughts together. He didn't look comfortable explaining more, though.

"If you don't want to tell me, it's oka - "

"No!"

Both of them fell silent at Natsu's strong word of protest.

Lucy was bright red and Natsu wasn't too far behind either.

Lucy suddenly heard the words he said before ring in her head. 'You're pretty when you're mad.'

"W-What I meant was," Natsu coughed. "I just never really told anyone this, so..." Natsu glanced down at his scarf, burying his nose in it and a blissful look appeared on his face.

"When I was five, my mom died. I still remember it. She'd been looking and smelling sick, but I just thought it was a cold and didn't really take it seriously. But then she... She uh... Collapsed." Natsu's words seemed to choke in his throat, and Lucy's hand rubbing his shoulder in comfort gave him the courage to keep going. "When we were playing outside, she fell down and we got her to the hospital. It was a deep stomach tumor. None of us even realized it until that moment. But by then it was already too late."

Natsu took a moment to just stay silent and relive that terrifying moment. "... I was a wreck. I'm not going to lie; I felt and was a shitty mess. I couldn't stop crying and never ate or slept. Igneel came to me one day and gave me this. He said it was mom's birthday present for me when I turned six," by now both of them had tears in her eyes. "a-and it smelled so much like her. I've had it for years now, b-but underneath the layers of scents I can still smell her. It just... Reminds me that even in death she's not gone."

Lucy cluched her heart as well as Natsu's shoulders. Small tears streamed down her face. "I-I'm so sorry, Natsu," she gasped. "I never should have asked t-that."

"Shut up, stupid!" He immediately shouted. "I told you because I wanted to. Stop being so damn hard on yourself." His hands curled into fists, and Lucy realized what else he was talking about.

"Natsu..."

"I should have been there," he spat. "I should have protected you! And now damn metal head is going to be your dragon instead of me!" He sounded incredibly upset as he shouted this.

Lucy blinked. "How'd you know Gajeel would be coming to school? And..." She squinted her eyes at him suspiciously. "Are you... jealous of him?!"

"What?!" Natsu sputtered, his cheeks a (cute) shade of pink. "Where the hell did you get that idea, weirdo?!"

"You're so jealous! And don't call me a weirdo!"

"Weirdo, weirdo!"

"Shut up, Natsu!"

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I thought that maybe a little more laughs would help cheer up the gloomy mood this fic seems to be in constantly.

Also, P.S, I was confused on the aging of this story; like Natsu and Lucy are nineteen but Lucy is younger than Natsu and... Uh... I actually kinda forgot that I was about to reveal a huge secret right there. Shit. Um... Just go with the ages, alright?

EDITED: I realized that I put Laxus as Lisanna's husband; ew. Changed it to Bickslow!

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