heartstrings - nalu oneshots

come back home, please

[part one of: come back home, please.] 

it's been 3 whole years. three years since my favorite person in the whole wide world disappeared off the face of the earth. well, besides Happy, that is. after all the things we've been through together and sorted out our feelings, we finally got together. we were 2 years strong until the day that she just, poof, went missing. if she wasn't gone we'd be 5 years in. every single day after we found out that Lucy disappeared i've searched high and low for her. day and night until i was out of it. Lucy would never leave just like that. i tried tracking her down a million times but i never got her scent down. it would lead me somewhere but then leave me at a dead end. i was the only one left who kept searching for her. even gray and erza gave up trying after 2 years. but i've kept going. i'm not gonna rest until i find my precious baby. when it was only me that was looking for luce, everyone just figured that she'd be dead.

but i don't believe it. not one bit. all of them keep telling me to just move on. can't they see that i just can't?! lucy was my everything. my world. and she just disappeared. my heart has been aching since the day she mysteriously disappeared. none of them get it. i was walking to the guild all slump like, like i've always been the past 3 sad and lonely years. i entered the guild paying no attention to the people who stared as i sat next to lucy's spot at the bar counter. today's the day that we found out lucy got taken. i'm sure as hell that she got taken.

" hey natsu? you still gonna keep searching for her? " i heard the ice prick ask me. what kind of a question is that?

" of course i am, " i plainly say, turning around.

" can't you let it go, natsu. she's been gone for 3 years. i think it's best if you just leave it to rest, " i hear the oh-so mighty titania tell.

" you don't get it. " flames started rising from my fists that were so clenched up i would think that my nails would dig into the flesh. " i know that you all want lucy to come home. i know that. i know that i think that you feel the same as i do. i truly do. so don't just think i'm being an ass. it might be the same for all of you. but mine's different. you might just be thinking that just because i'm dating her―that i have more feelings to express. that might be the case, but it also may not. my feelings towards her have been shot through the roof. and into the moon. my heart sank to earthland's core when i found out that she disappeared. the majority of your hearts probably only sank down to a foot because you didn't know her that well for your heart to go down that far. we made a promise that we'd come back to each other no matter what. my heart is aching for her and i just want her to come home, "

tears that i didn't even feel, started to go down, " the minute that we both walked into the guild it was a forever type thing. we'd never leave each other's sides. i didn't know how i felt at the time but i do now. and i know that i love her so much as to not give up on her like that. even if it takes me decades. she's my heart and soul. without her i'm nothing. you have no idea what it's like to know that the one you loved isn't gonna be there waiting for you when you get home. i mean, you might, i don't know. but our bond intertwined with our feelings and sky rocketed through the roof. our love is different from your average lovey-dovey thing. the love that we have doesn't even begin with the definition of love. it's special and it's more elite than love can ever dream of. all i want is for her to come home. to come back into my arms safe and sound. because that's all i truly want. i'm torn to shreds. i'm a complete mess. i know i am. lucy, just come home... please. " right then and there i cried in front of my entire family. no one has ever seen me cry this hard. not for a girl that i truly love. lucy, if you can hear me, come back home. come back to fairy tail. come back to me.

the guild's gates burst wide open.