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zombieskae · 19 days ago

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Hi dear @starswritewhispers i am your gift giver for the @allaboutnalu gift exchange! I hope you are having a good end of the year and will be happy with the contents of the gift i made for you!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61491538

Is the work, though i will put it below in case you don't have a AO3 account!

Heaven will kill you

In the valleys of Edolas, there was a little mess made in the guild.

Natsu was a good driver, same couldn’t be said for Lucy, who had a knack for breaking everything within touch. Not to say Natsu didn’t try teaching her the ways of the streets, but honestly, Lucy was way better at talking, taking the lead and guiding, than she was at receiving instructions.

Currently, her relationship with Levy was doing better than ever, she was the trusted mechanic of the guild, and Lucy was the best at making plans and taking odd jobs, which put her in the eye of the storm.

As the guild master, she had a duty with her comrades, she behaved well now that she took the lead, not causing nearly as much damage or riots. She had gained confidence, even if Natsu saw that tender side of her that wanted her hair to grow, she never showed it outside of the comfort of her own home.

She barely spoke to him as of now, but they had to go for a little road trip, all for the guild’s sake, as they needed supplies for the sustenance of their teammates. Levy’s needs specifically, were pretty urgent and while Lucy had been oddly quiet and shy about asking for his help, saying she could go by herself to catch the deal, Levy was adamant of Natsu tagging along.

Lucy grumbled something on their way out, which sounded pretty similar to “I didn’t want to go with him” But he denied the thought. He was sure they had been friends from way back, since he joined the guild late, she had a closer relationship with everyone, but that didn’t exactly mean she hated being with him, at least that’s what he thought.

“Lucy… I” He began, as the confidence of taking his car with him made him feel better.

“Natsu, I need to secure the deal by noon, can we make it?”

“Ah! Yes, if I put all the speed I can make us arrive before 11 am!”

He was quite happy to be relied on, more so if it was about Lucy relying on him. He had always harbored this weird feeling, if it was for him, they would have been together by now, but out of his car, his confidence faded away, and was left with a messy personality and a stuttering speech for voice.

They made their way silently, as when Natsu turned the power on, he saw Lucy get right into her documents about the repairs that needed to be done. She had made the blueprints and had planned a lot for the city they were allocated, making many advancements during her reelection as Guild Master of the famous Fairy Tail.

Soon, as they reached the next city, Natsu began to slow down through the highways, he knew the way as the back of his palm, but he was careful not to make a mistake unknowingly and end up passing right through the correct exit.

They made it to the next growing guild of the countryside city. It was tiny, compared to the big one they had constructed in the main city of Edolas.

It was quite barren, but they were known for being a secretive and quiet association of crafters. They were the main supply chain they had from the days when the guilds were fully growing in Edolas. After the last king, however, they had disappeared, and entered a dormant state, that was the information they had and also the same that Lucy had recovered from the guild of informants a few days prior to the outing.

Fairy Tail needed the supply to continue, as they never fully relied on magic, but on mechanics, and as they were labeled as a guild, they were heavily persecuted for facilitating the life of people for low cost.

Lucy wanted, and Natsu too if they were to question him, to make a deal with them, to make gadgets and make a team with some of their people, and Levy, so they could both benefit from the exchange, Lucy would also take part in the making. One thing Levy would compliment her on was her creative strive.

Natsu looked at the new watch he had in his pocket, and looked like they were going to be in and out, as they arrived early.

That was completely wrong though.

Lucy got out late, really late, five hours in and she went out of the little conference room to take a breather from all the talking.

“We’re not going yet, book a hotel room for two, I’m sick and tired of their shit” She mumbled, as close to him as she could, not to be heard by the people on the other side of the room. Natsu tried hard not to blush, brushing his hair softly as her breath made her way into his neck.

“Okay” He managed to squeeze it out as a word and not as a stut.

They both went out of the guild and Lucy looked for something in her pockets. Natsu never knew she had pockets on her shirt, but he didn’t comment anything, as he feared being kicked again for looking at that place on her shirt.

Lucy took out a box of cigarettes, pressed unevenly against her body, making the slim but long tubes into wrinkly ones. She searched for her lighter and Natsu stood there baffled.

“What are you doing?”

He asked, completely put out by the sight.

“Smoking?”

She finally found the lighter and started trying to light the cig. Natsu put his hand on hers before the flame came out and made her lower the lighter. All of that without realizing he was actually touching her, of course, leather gloves on, but usually, just brushing against her made him really nervous.

“You shouldn’t”

“Hah…” She made a grin, sarcastic and mean, raising her eyebrows at him. “You better go book room if you don’t want me kicking your ass right here”

Natsu frowned, but let go, and turned his back on her to head to the nearest inn.

He was mad, so mad. He didn’t know she was down in a vicious addiction? He knew she was stressed, but a cigarette wouldn’t help! It would bring more problems in the long run!

He took the keys to the room and headed out without looking properly, after all, he trusted the innkeeper to know better, they were obviously not a couple, and if they were, Natsu would perhaps have more will to say anything about her smoking, or hell, even her drinking habits. Thought the last one was a bit better right after she became the Guild Master

When she came out once again, Natsu was begrudgingly waiting for her out of the guild’s doors.

Lucy patted his shoulder and started walking. Natsu sighed, How would she know which direction to go?

As she was going to take a wrong turn, he took bravery on his side and stretched his hand towards her own.

“This way” He said, quietly into the poorly light streets.

If Lucy cared or not about it, he didn’t check, eyes on the prize, he was on a mission to get her some sleep at the inn.

Arriving at the place, Lucy extended her free hand, asking for the key, impassive, cold face.

She didn’t look all that mad, but it was weird how silent she was.

“Oh, right. Sorry” He let go of her hand, and searched for the keys in his pockets. Again, eyes on the prize, not focused at all in reading that soft grin she had on her pretty little lips.

Then they entered the room and Lucy crossed her arms in front of her chest.

“Y’know, i was wondering what got you so brave today”

“Huh?”

Natsu entered behind her and blushed to the core.

“It wasn’t intentional!!” He said loudly. “I am sure I told them to book a room for two!”

“Well, this IS a room for two.”

She sighed and covered her forehead with her hand. One bed.

“Take a shower Natsu, I’m going after, so be quick”.

Natsu’s heart was beating hard, What did that mean? What did that MEAN?

He took the quickest and most careful shower he could in five minutes. Lucy was sitting on the bed, rereading the documents.

“You didn’t tell me what came off the deal” He mumbled as he got closer to her, all while drying his hair softly.

“Well, they agreed, but we also have to provide assistance in getting materials.”

“Oh…” She lifted her head and finally looked at him, he looked away.

“I was thinking I could sleep in the car, but you wouldn’t like that, right?” She ignored his shyness.

“Wh-? What do you mean?” He frowned, a little confused.

“We’re not kids to be sleeping on the same bed, Natsu.” Her eyebrow rose again, and Natsu, this time only, found it quite weird, it wasn’t the usual aggression, but a little nervous. He, who had always been looking quietly at her, noticed in an instant.

“So, sleeping in the same room makes you nervous?”

“What?” She said, baffled at the response. He crossed his arms in front of his chest.

“That’s it, isn’t it, you don’t trust me anymore”

“What are you even talking about?”

“You’re right, I’ll better sleep in the car.”

Natsu had a really uncomfortable night. But he managed to sleep.

Lucy woke him at sunrise, he checked his watch, 7:30 AM. She must have been really mad to sleep, he figured, as he saw bags under her eyes.

They said goodbye to the guild master and a few members and went on their way back.

Silently, Natsu looked at the road, and Lucy tried to look at the scenery.

Natsu would steal looks at her, which was how he knew she wasn’t actually looking at the scenery, but trying hard not to fall asleep.

When she finally fell asleep, Natsu slowed down to avoid the holes in the street, and make it a comfortable ride home. They weren’t in a hurry, and they had secured the deal. Natsu thought it was fine to take a little longer.

“Natsu…?”

She opened her eyes slowly and sat straight, realizing she had fallen asleep while laying on the window frame.

“What time is it?”

She asked, and realized the car was not moving.

Then she realized Natsu wasn’t there.

Feeling left out, she left the car with a frown on her face and her ears ringing. If she didn’t know better than to hide her current emotion, she would have been blushing in disbelief.

Natsu was looking at her from the shop window on the other side of the street. He had parked on the road to get a coffee, thinking she wouldn’t wake up yet.

He saw her look around and then at him. She crossed the street, with that way of walking of hers, so stunningly, maddening, endangering, alluringly beautiful.

“What are you doing?”

She almost howled at him this time, Natsu shrugged.

“Drinking coffee.”

“You’ve gotten really good at making comebacks, haven’t you. Let’s go, we don’t have time for this!” She took his arm and started pulling him closer to the car “We should have arrived by now.”

“Well- Why are you so hurried?”

“Because!”

“Yeah?”

She turned to look at him, exasperated.

“Being together with you makes me weird!”

“What?”

“Don’t you think so too?” She had this crazed look on her eyes “Forget it, let’s go.”

She sat in the passenger seat and Natsu took the steering wheel again. He was tired.

Lucy was bouncing her leg up and down, making Natsu unusually nervous inside the car.

“Can you stop that?”

“Oh fuck off”

He pushed the brakes hard, and his hands clasped the steering wheel.

“What’s going on Lucy?”

She avoided his eyes, he knew he had said it too softly, which usually made her laugh at his weakness, but this time, she looked embarrassed.

“Nothin’.”

“It’s not ‘Nothing’ Lucy, did I make you uncomfortable? Did I mess up somewhere along the way?”

“No! It’s… It’s not you”

“You said I make you weird.”

“I said you make me ‘feel’ weird.”

She was looking at him again, but he was too mad.

“So you don’t like being alone with me, got it.”

“That’s not–!”

“Then explain it to me Lucy!”

He looked back at the road, he had improvised and parked at the side of the road, no one was going through at that time of day though.

“I– I would if I knew.” She looked down, Natsu was so confused, he could somewhat hear her heartbeat, because his heart was as steady as he never had in front of her.

Natsu left the car immediately after turning it off, walked all the way to the other side and opened the door, really fast and carelessly.

But he saw what he wanted to see, Lucy’s stunned face, blushing heavily and trying to look away.

Natsu took the courage he never had outside the car.

“Look at me. Does this feel uncomfortable?”

He leaned into her, looking at her eyes and breathing the same air as her.

“I don’t know what you–”

“Answer me” He put his hands on her seat, still looking into her eyes. “Do I really make you weirdly uncomfortable, or is it weird that you want to be closer?”

“I–”

The sun was starting to blaring hot as they tried to talk things out. It was, maybe, working to Natsu’s advantage, as Lucy blushed furiously and covered, or tried to, cover her face with her arms.

“Lucy, tell me. Please”

“I don’t dislike you.”

“Then you like me.”

Lucy looked on the verge of tears. As she bit her lip and looked down.

Natsu, rebellious as he was being right now, thought about Earthland Natsu, and thought “Could it be, we’re actually more similar than i thought”.

He kissed her.

Softly, slowly, moving on instinct. His hands on her chin, pulling her closer, then he felt little, rough and shy hands make their way into hugging his neck.

He didn’t know what heaven was, but if it was something similar to this, he would gladly die on the spot.

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konohamaru-sensei · 1 year ago

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OP, I'm so very delighted to have stumbled over this and I agree with my whole heart with everything you said. I do not come to argue (because I'm very argument shy), I just want to add my five own thoughts.

I started FT in January because JJK made me so miserable (and this is not to say jjk sucks or whatever, I love that story) and it had this reputation of "nobody dies" and I really wanted "nobody dies" so I thought, why not? I had seen a few ep back in 2009, a long time ago and remembered nothing so I went in with a fresh mind. Let me tell you, I did not expect to cry as often and as hard as I did watching this.

It has the reputation to be "good at the beginning" but then to "fall off" like so many shonen do, but I watched it from beginning to end in a few months and I can't say I noticed a big decline. The opposite really, I noticed how things were set up arcs in advance that got a pay off later, something one piece fans praise oda (rightfully) for. LIke sure, here and there one or two things I would have liked differently but when is a narrative ever perfect?

I don't have a problem with people that want a more gruesome story, a little less friendship saves the day and hey, there are enough manga /anime out there to find with exactly that, but to me Fairy Tail is about love in all forms, family in all forms and bonds in all forms. And how all those different types of bonds and love help you overcome the darkest times. Mashima loves his happy endings yes, so what? I love them too.

What I also noticed is that though all of its fanservice (which, I can blend out well, but I also don't need it), the female charactes are treated with much more respect than in other shonen series. It sounds goofy, but not only is LUcy a clear leading lady (not sidelined for a male character or whatever, she definitely has the center of attention), Erza (and Mira) is also mentioned over and over and over again as being stronger as the main character, even when Natsu punches bad guy. Heck, in the tartaros arc FT would have lost if not for Lucy. Erza gets to take down a big bad in the final arc and there is no guy to help the damsell in distress.

(Inicdentially thats what I love about erza and jellal so much. I mean I love when he jumps in to help her, Im a stupid romantic and thats my otp, but often than not they just nod at each other from afar and go "no, he/ she can handle himself / herself"....ahh)

Sigh, there is so much there! So much pain and misery and love and belonging. But if I would go too much into detail it would just be a rehash of what you, op, already said, so I will refrain. I will just say how much it guts me that all three of Ur's children, that she sacrificed her life for, not only carried that death with them their whole lives but also in turn became self-sacrificial too. Ultear of course gets her own redemption but Lyon doesn't get absolve until the very end and well Gray just loads more guilt onto himself (also not to derail but that scene when gray tells lyon that he needs to move forward is my favourite thing oh my god help me im going to cry)

These characters have so much trauma. They have so much baggage. Friendship wins, yes, but what is the cost? The people who stayed behind SEVEN YEARS and waited for their friends to come back, they suffered, and its not like we don't get to see that. Gajeel still regrets what he did to levy after years have passed, Juvia still apologises when it rains, even though she didn't do anything...

Ok I'm trying to wrap this up, because I'm forgetting things I wanted to say, but, I see you didn't mention Gray and Juvia, which is fine of course maybe you don't like their dynamic - but I do :D (sorry) And i know, I KNOW mashima didn't write juvia that way, I KNOW she is supposed to be a joke character to laugh at, but the dynamic of a boy who just hates everything about himself, looks down on how he is, thinks he is weak and the girl who just like loves him, loud and aggressive and unwavering - its so lovely.

It's a good series. I have been advertising it to friends heavily since I've seen it. It's not the best narrative ive ever read or my favourite anime, but it gets a reputation it does not deserve and I will fight for it.

Probably no one cares but I need to rant about Fairy Tail now that I finally finished it. Because I feel like it gets a lot more hate than it deserves considering that almost everything it set out to do it did right. Starting from characterization and relationship dynamics. Those were fucking great. They're so fucking fleshed out, I love them.

And I've seen people complaining about Natsu and Lucy's relationship being dragged out but I feel they're missing on the fact that, first and foremost, they're partners, and no amount of romance or lack thereof can change that. Not long after meeting him Lucy jumps out of a window with no hesitation and no back up plan because she heard Natsu's voice and that meant she would be safe. That is not just a high level of trust, that is insane. And that's the entirety of their relationship. Making them romantic wouldn't change anything. It would just mean slapping a different label on it, because their relationship simply cannot be more deep and meaningful than it already is. (And this might be my aroace ass speaking, but I cannot imagine Natsu being stereotypically romantic. Even if they decided that they were, in fact, dating, I feel nothing would change in the ways they act around each other)

Also about Erza and Jellal, really. They're clearly meant to be together, they love each other. But they can't share any amount of time on the same room without it becoming awkward or dramatic because the amount of shared trauma between them is fucking astronomical. They need twenty years of therapy before they can do any significantly romantic thing and that's great. It's awesome! Just because you're in love with someone doesn't mean that being together will be easy! But that doesn't make their relationship any less meaningful or tender.

And the platonic relationships! The family ones! Makarov will risk himself and use the fairy law and Mavis tries to stop him. Tells him she has a plan that will lead to victory. Only for Makarov to say "I know this. But I need it now because the children are suffering and I won't wait a second longer" before obliterating an entire army.

Gildarts might be a womanizer but he's good with kids and he's so fucking delighted at having a child. He's so proud, and so embarrassing. I love him.

The raijinshuu are friends, and it shows, and I kinda love that the one to have a raging crush on Laxus is not Ever, the only woman among them. And the Strauss siblings have such a good relationship too. And thankfully don't fall into any of the worst sibling cliches. Levi and Gajeel spend the whole time they know eachother developing a relationship on the background, and by the time you pay atention they're sleeping together. That's hilarious. It's fantastic.

And speaking of Laxus, he goes from being a crazy fuck to incredibly cool and dependable without it feeling like he got a complete personality transplant. Partly because it soon becomes clear that most dragon slayers are, at any given time, one wrong turn away from completely losing the plot regardless of their best intentions. But also because his core values remain the same. Guild pride is the thing that drives him. When we first see him he's obsessed with making Fairy Tail strong so that it can stand proud on the face of anything. After taking a forceful journey of self discovery he learns that the guild is the sum of every individual person on it, instead of an abstract ideal of power, but the fact remains that the guild is the important thing to him. That's why he gets Natsu to defeat Hades instead of doing it himself. Because at that point he's not a part of the guild, so if he's the one to win it'd mean that Fairy Tail didn't, and that simply cannot stand.

All in all, it does such a good job of depicting good and complicated relationships with care and nuance, and makes a place for the ones that are bad. Lucy's dad has to work to get accepted back into her life, and that's amaizing. Where else have you seen a parent that doesn't get instant forgiveness after saying sorry? It's certainly not as often as I would like.

But I mostly feel like talking about the "darker" things, because it sometimes gets labeled as childish because no one dies (which is a big fucking lie. And I did not sign up for that. At all. I was fucking counting on it, and it was a LIE. And sure, Silver was technically already dead, but still) and like. I get it. Most main characters who "die" get miraculously saved. But that doesn't mean trauma in-world is any lighter.

On the seven year timeskip most people don't care about the characters that stayed behind, because they're secondary, and weaker, and not very cool. But we're told the reason the guild fell behing wasn't because it lost it's stronger members, but because they spent years upon years neglecting jobs for the sake of searching for the missing ones. And that's very fucking big.

But, again. The darker shit. They're not happy go lucky. They're not naive. They declare war no less than three times and every single one they make it clear that it is not about justice, it's about vengeance. About retribution. About "you don't fucking fuck with us". (And, lets remember, declaring war was fucking illegal).

They repeatedly say that they don't do good things because they're the good guys. They do the shit they wanted to do and it might just be that it could be considered good (and if not, they can convince people in high places to overlook it, pretty please. Because they have the friends to manage that).

Natsu has a whole argument with an outright assassin, and it never comes up that "murder is bad". It's framed more as a professional disagreement, rather than a moral argument. Natsu's main problem is that, while taking killing jobs, they call themselves a guild, the thing he asociates with family. The thing he considers sacred above all else. And since killing jobs are dirty (not unethical) they should, therefore, never touch a guild.

Before the final batle he outright says that killing kinda sucks but he will do it if he has to. And then kills around 900 people in a single second. Lucy is ready to kill. She's alone with Brandish in the bath and she's ready to shiv her in the neck. She might feel cornered, like this is the only option she has left. But in that moment she's ready and willing to see it through.

Invel is facing Gray and tells him "yes! Sucumb to the darkness so you may understand and join our purpose". Only for Gray to go "you dumb ass bitch. Do you think I care about going dark? Do you seriously believe I'm playing hero? All I care about is taking you down and if I have to be evil for that then that's how we roll".

All of that. I love that. They don't give a single fuck. Family comes first not because that's good, but because that's the way they are. They don't much care about what place their guild occupies relative to the rest of the world, or where any one member falls on a scale from good to bad. When all is said and done, all that mathers to them is the line between them and us, and they don't care to sugarcoat it.

And so many shows do that wrong. You get good guys who commit untold atrocities that go unaknowledged because they're the good guys! They can do no wrong! And I feel Fairy Tail should get more credit than it does on those grounds alone, but it does help that the character dynamics are good.

And I could write an entire (incoherent) essay on how Zeref is truly the most sympathetic villain I've ever seen. Everything about how he ended up makes perfect sense with his fucked up situation beyond a simple "I suffered so now I'm a self righteous asshole". You can see all the ways his mind had to twist itself into pretzels for him to maintain any semblance of functionality. If you're an hyperempathetic young man who suddenly and involuntarily kills anything he cares about then you really need to convince your brain that you don't care about anything, actually. Problem with that is that you're now convinced that it's true, because it doesn't work unless it's true. But the thing is that you also want to die, and you can't do it while actively wanting to die, so you need to die while thinking you don't want to. What's the best way to do that? You need someone else's help. And the best way to get someone to kill you is probably if they really really hate you. And the best way to do that is to become a supervillain, probably. Which also comes in handy for the whole "convince myself I'm truly an asshole" thing. And you end up becoming a calamity and fucking over the lives of anyone who could have loved you. But at least you can finally die.

And Mavis! The sweet looking, undeniably good person who turned out to be a ruthless strategist, quite detached from the world around her, who has a hard time weighing the value of individual human lives when there's a bigger picture to look at. But she's not an unfeeling stereotype either. She does love people, she wants them to have good things. But that doesn't change the fact that she doesn't relate to people the way others do, even if she could've lived her life without ever realizing (and I love that they tell us the wars the mages participated in were merchant wars. Just a random little tidbit, but yes. Wars do tend to be about money)

And this was a very long post and I said a whole bunch of nothing because I can't keep a train of thought to save my life. I just wordvomited a bunch of things that I liked. Long story short: characteryzation in Fairy Tail is top tier and I won't be taking criticism about it. You can try to critisize me though, I do enjoy arguing when I have enough braincells to put words together in the right order

#long post #there arent even fairies in this show!#sorry op for the long long long answer #and i think you are SO RIGHT about the NALU dynamic #i understandddd that fans want them to be canon! because it would make them very happy #they want the kiss or the wedding and i get it i get it #but they are already ... inseperable #they are a family #they could start kissing yes but their dynamic would be the same anyway #its so obvious in the 100yq when natsu sees that edo natsu and edo lucy married and had a child #lucy is shocked but he just ACCEPTS IT #its like... well who else was i supposed to marry? of course its lucy #so i agree op i feel like he is rather not romantic #not on purpose at least #jumping in to save lucy at any opportunity? super romantic! does he know? NO #in the final scene when he is about to - confess- and then changes his mind #he says #it doesnt matter we will be together always anyway #and its right man #sigh

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