Natsu groaned as he walked up to the doors of the fairy tail guild, rubbing his sore shoulder. He and Gabriel had finished giving their report to Joshua in Heaven it had only taken all night. Most of the time was spent with Joshua angrily shouting at Gabriel for allowing a hellhound to "use their baby brother as a chew toy". Gabriel insisted he was fine, which Natsu would beg to differ since these wounds were killing him and could not be healed.
They patched him up and Joshua insisted that he stay the night in Heaven with the worry wort he was. After a few minutes of the elder angels badgering Natsu agreed. He didn't get home until now, which was around the afternoon. He was not prepared for the shit show he was about to walk into.
He open the doors and found the the guild was as chatty as ever.
"I'm home," he sighed with his eyes closed rubbing the his shoulder once more.
The guild fell silent and Natsu ceased his moments and opened his eyes. Everyone stared at him with unsure and expecting eyes. Natsu looked between guild mates as he walked to the centre of the guild.
"So... I'm guessing by the stares that Lucy and Happy told you about Gabriel," he assumed.
Everyone silently nodded.
Natsu sighed and dragged his hand over his face "okay...okay," he breathed in frustration "what do you want to know."
There was no use denying them answers. He knew his guild and he knew they wouldn't let this go. Not with out an explanation and a reason to believe that he wasn't putting himself or others in danger. Natsu couldn't fault them for that.
Of course that didn't mean he couldn't lie a little.
Everyone was quiet, no one wanting to be the first to break the still air and ask the question weighing their minds down.
"You...have a family?"Lisanna asked first, after a moment of hesitation.
"I do."
"Then how come you never told us about them, why keep them a secret?" Her tone was one laced with hurt "I asked you if you had a family when we were kids and you insisted that you didn't have anyone other then Igneel, why did you lie?" Lisanna's voice cracked and her eyes glistened with unshed tears of frustration.
"I have my reasons," Natsu's tone was flat "to put it simply I never wanted any of you involved with my family."
That wasn't a complete lie. Even though the family they were discussing was a new development he had never wanted any of them knowing of his ties to Zeref and father forbid they ever find out about his nephews.
At his answer his friends exchanged glances and muttered to each other.
The dragon slayers behaviour was all wrong. His answer was flat and held as little information as it possibly could, not to mention the glint in his eyes that was undoubtedly hostility.
"Any other questions," Natsu voice was stiff and his nature was becoming more aggravated.
"How many siblings do you have?" Happy asked quietly, the cat peaking over Lucy shoulder and nuzzling into her neck for comfort.
Natsu froze for a second.
How many siblings did he have?
"A lot," he couldn't help but smile at the ridiculousness of the fact "in all honesty I'm not sure how many of us there are."
Natsu shifted on the spot trying to take some of his weight off his injured leg.
"You don't know how many siblings you have?" Gray asked in disbelief.
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Jay Bird (aBoE)
Hayran KurguBorn human, died and brought back to life as a demon. Lived as a demon, died and brought back to life as an angel. Natsu Dragneel has truly been it all. His new found existence as an angel as caused some changes in his life, he's lost his insatiable...
