Fairy Tail: The Guild Hidden in The Leaf: Book One

A lunch date

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It had happened so slow and then all of the sudden so fast. Laxus laid in bed, in the Hokage mansion, reflecting on the events of the previous day. Despite nearly being killed by a mob of about 100 angry villagers who had finally snapped, it was without doubt the best birthday he had ever had. It was on that day that he learned that there were people who truly cared for him: Grandma Tsunade, Kakashi-sensei, Iruka-sensei, Romeo, Teuchi and Ayame Ichiraku, and Lucy. Thinking on that last name sent a few tingles through his stomach as he recalled what Lucy had said to him yesterday. All this time, she had known. She had known the reason why the village hated and shunned him, yet she had felt the complete opposite of what most of the village had felt about him. She loved him and she shamelessly admitted her love to him while defending him from the pack of ravenous villagers. No one had ever said that to him before.

Ever since the chunin exams, Laxus had been developing something for the young Hyuga. At first, he thought it was just the two of them becoming good friends. Until last night, that's all he ever thought those feelings were. It was last night that he realized as well that the way he felt for her had changed over time as well, with most of that change occurring during the time they spent together while tracking down Tsunade. He had gotten a chance to actually get to know her better and realized that there were many things that he liked about her, from her desire to get stronger to her desire to protect those precious to her. These were a few qualities of her personality that Laxus held the highest. And then last night, it finally hit him...after all the teasing by Pervy Sage and all the pushing by Kurama referring to Lucy as his 'vixen', it dawned on him that she saw him as more than a friend and wanted them to be more than just friends. The only things that had stopped this from happening were her shyness, causing her to never come forward, and his own thick-headedness, for not noticing the hints she was giving off sooner.
Continuing with his reflection on the previous day, there was one other thing that was on his mind. He reached over to the table next to him and grabbed the blue book that Tsunade had given him as a present for his birthday. It was about the same size as the books that Kakashi had always read, yet this one wasn't filled with perverted smut. No...this book is a book to learn how to make ramen. Laxus flipped through the book, looking at all the different recipes for ramen and wonder which one he should try first.

"Beep, beep, beep" went Shikamaru's alarm as he struggled to even motivate himself to turn off the alarm. However, even he knew if he didn't turn it off, it would just keep ringing. What a drag. Asuma-sensei had called an emergency team meeting that morning. So much for his plans of sleeping in on his day off.
He met up with the rest of his team at training ground 16, the official training ground of Team 10. Ino and Chouji were already there, looking impatiently at their lazy teammate. The two of them were sitting on top of training stumps as Asuma motioned for him to take a seat next to him.

"So you mind telling us what this is all about?" asked Shikamaru. "I want to go back to bed."

Asuma sighed at the enthusiasm displayed by the sole chunin of Team 10. "Last night, an incident occurred" he explained. "This incident involving two of your former classmates and also your former sensei."

"Wait, does that mean Iruka-sense?" asked Mira. Asuma nodded. "But who were our classmates?"

"It was Laxus Dreyar and Lucy Hyuga" said Asuma. No one was surprised Laxus's name had come up, but Lucy...well that was surprising. "Last night, the three of them were attacked and nearly killed by a drunken mob of civilians. The reasons behind this are still unknown, but we believe that it was due to a significant amount of alcohol and potential drugs in their system. Lady Tsunade and the medical teams are looking into it, but those have been the findings of the preliminary results."