Natsu was able to sneak back into the guild. He headed towards the bulletin board that contained all the jobs.
He scrolled through the jobs. "Screw it, I'm just taking half of them." He ripped the majority of jobs from the bulletin board and put them in his bag.
Just as he was about the leave, he heard footsteps behind the guild's main doors. "Shit." He said underneath his breath. He quickly ran to cover.
The doors opened. "Stop nagging me shrimp!" A long dark haired man yelled out as he hit the doors opened.
"I wouldn't be nagging if I knew this was good for you, idiot!" A short blue haired woman exclaimed.
"How is getting a haircut good for him exactly?" A small dark furred cat said.
"He'll look less intimidating plus," she explained. "He'll look more handsome."
"Well I thank you for the compliment shrimp but," the long dark haired man added. "I ain't cutting this hair."
"Gajeel!" She yelled out his name.
"Calm down." The cat tried to reason with the blue haired girl.
"Why are you backing him up, Pantherlily?!" She yelled out with an angry tone.
"Oh boy," Gajeel sweatdropped. "You are definitely mad..."
"You won't take my suggestion..." She put her arms across
"Levy..." Gajeel moved closer to Levy. "Hey, I love you ok?"
Levy slightly blushed. "I-I know."
Gajeel leaned in closer and kissed her on the lips. A few seconds passed before the kiss broke. "Fine."
"Fine what?" Levy was confused.
"I'll c-cut my here." Gajeel's face slightly turned red.
"Really?" Levy's frown turned right upside down.
"Y-yeah." Gajeel turned away, hiding his red face.
"G-Gajeel are you serious about that?" Pantherlily was shocked at the words that came out of Gajeel's mouth.
"I decided that...," Gajeel took a deep breath. "To take her advice for the first time."
"Well to be honest Gajeel," Levy added on. "You have taken my advice more than once."
"No I haven't!" He exclaimed.
"Uh no Gajeel, she's right." Pantherlily backed up Levy.
"Have I?" Gajeel was thinking when he had taken her advice again.
"Yes," Levy explained. "Remember the bandana?"
"Or the better wardrobe?" Pantherlily added to her comment.
"..." Gajeel stood there in silence.
Natsu, from his hiding position, saw the couple quarrel. Kind of reminds me of me and Lucy when we quarrel about stuff like this. Natsu slightly smiled at the thought.
Just as he was going to dash towards the exit, Gajeel yelled out. "Oi! You can quit hiding where you are Salamander!"
"Hmpht," Natsu stepped out of his hiding place. "Figured you'd be the one to tell I was here."
"I thought you left?" Levy questioned Natsu's motives for being here at the guild.
"I did but..." Natsu thought of the right words to use.
"Buuut what?" Pantherlily repeated his last word.
"I... I had forgotten something of mine!" Natsu snickered.
"I find that very hard to believe." Gajeel gave Natsu a serious look.
"I-I did!" Natsu exclaimed.
"Ok then," Levy said. "No need to get all defensive about it."
"I'm not really getting defensive but whatever." Natsu said as he walked passed them and about to exit the guild.
"You're leaving for real now?" Gajeel asked.
"Yes." Natsu answered.
"Where are you going?" Pantherlily asked too.
"Where ever the wind takes me." Natsu said.
Gajeel, Levy and Pantherlily looked at him dumbfounded. "That was um... poetic?" Levy said.
"More like idiotic." Gajeel rolled his eyes.
"Hey!" Natsu exclaimed. "It was... uh... uh... what was the word again?"
"Poetic." All three reminded him of the word.
"Yeah that," Natsu said. "It was poetic."
"Well goodbye Salamander." Gajeel turned his back and started to walk away.
"Goodbye Natsu." Levy also added.
"Goodbye guys." Natsu said as he headed out the doors.
Just as Natsu exited the building, he heard Gajeel yell. "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ALL THE JOBS!?"
Natsu heard those words and quickly ran out leaving his trail all dusted with dirt in the air.
Natsu finally made it back to the city. "Phew." He said as he catched his breath.
He then walked to the nearest park and sat on one if the benches located near the entrance. From there he rummaged through his bag finding the right job he had taken from the bulletin board back at the Guild. "Ok now, let's see what my options are..." He skimmed through the jobs looking to find an interesting one.
LOST CAT He read in his mind. "Nope." He threw it back onto his bag.
MISSING FATHER Natsu again read the words in his mind. "Hmm interesting, I'll just put this here." He started to make a pile of interesting jobs.
WANTED CRIMINAL Natsu had already beat up a few earlier. "Nah too much of a clichè." He threw it in his bag.
NEEDING ASSISTANCE IN AN EXPERIMENT Natsu had second thoughts on this particular job. "... I'm probably just gonna be a lab rat so no." He threw it in with the rest.
HELP ANOTHER GUILD He thought about this job. "Hmmm..." He just threw it with the other interesting jobs.
MUSICAL ASSISTANCE Natsu looked at this particular job and at gave it a weird look. "Yeah no, I don't even know how to play an instrument let alone sing!" Instead of throwing the job away, he ripped it to shreds.
DRAGON HU- He stopped. "Dr-Dragon Hunt!?" He said out loud. He looked at the description. "A Red Dragon has been spotted and we are building a search team to try to find this majestic beast. If interested please meet me, Dr. Joseph R. Goulding, at my building, here in Magnolia Town. Location is..." Natsu stopped reading.
"A red dragon... could it be?" He thought out loud hoping his gut was right about this. "Dr. Joseph R. Goulding, I hope you are reliable in finding this dragon."
He put all the jobs except for the Dragon Hunt job back into his bag. "Alright," he said as he got up from the bench. "First things first though, I have to check on someone."
Natsu then started to walk back to a familiar place, his daughter's new family and home.
He had gone back to his old positioned in the woods to check from a far. "She is so happy with them." He faintly smiled. "I wish I could be with you right now... but I'm broken right now. I wouldn't be fit to be the father you need." He started to tear up.
"Don't worry though Nashi," he wiped the his tear away. "We'll meet again. I promise."
He then went on to the location in which the job was at. He walked into the horizon.
A/N: Sorry for not updating soon and making this chapter fairly short. Life gets in the way. Also the next chapter MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS from the newest chapters of Fairy Tail, so have been warned. Hopefully the next chapter doesn't take thia long to update. See you soon :)