Shadows Live In Heaven {Rouge x OC}

Iron Asshole

Anna had taken a solo job right when she got back to the guild, and she was now coming back from it. As she was walking back, she ended up meeting Gray, Ezra, Natsu, Lucy, and Happy who were seemingly coming back fromt heir own mission. She walked up to them and waved.

"Hi?" He asked/said. Ezra turned around tp greet the blonde while Lucy was yelling at Gray and Natsu. Happy flew over and started chatting with Pandora.

"So where are you living? You just arrived here. I could lend you one of the rooms of the guild dorm" Anna shook her head and hands while refusing. She was grateful for the offer but she couldn't accept it.

"I found my own house. It's nice enough." Anna scratched the back of her head. The two of them made small talk. Just then Anna noticed the towns people were hashed and whispering about them. Anna followed their line of sight and stopped in the guild hall. 

"The guild hall..." Anna trailed off until everyone was looking at the guild hall.

It was completely wrecked. Large iron rods stuck out in every direction. The building was almost collapsed. The others gasped and they all picked up their pace towards the guild hall. 

Mira lead the group to the basement where everyone was. Gramps went on his drunken rant about how the cowards attacked at night. Mira said she was grateful that no one had gotten hurt. Anna stayed at the back of the room trying to stay out of the fuss. She didn't understand. She had never been with other people before. why was a building so important? 

Anna thought back to her time with Zeref yet again. They never needed a house. The man himself was all she ever needed. They occasionally took shelter from rain and snow but besides that they never had the luxury to settle down in one place. She had thought about it often when she was with her big brother, but she enjoyed being with him more than anything and having a house suddenly didn't make any sense to her. 

"I don't understand. Why is a building so important?" She voiced her confusion. Natsu gripped the from of her shirt in rage. The black material that had a split down the middle was being held by three red strings. The pink-haired boy was pulling the side apart. 

"How dare you? This is our home!" Natsu yelled. he other in the guild yelled at Natsu telling him to let go of Anna, but he didn't. 

"Home? I don't know about you, but I think home is a person, not a place. As long as you have that person by your side you have a home" She said in a pensive tone. She looked down at the ground solemnly. Natsu let the girl go and she fixed her shirt before walking out of the destroyed building leaving the Fairy Tail guild silent in her wake. 

It was then that they realized Anna had never truly had a home. She's never had somewhere to go back to. A place where her loved ones lived and where she could feel safe. What kind of life did she live before joining the guild? How could a child of her age not have a home?

Anna walked through the city, then through the forest to her house. She lived alone in the forest. She used her magic to make the frame of the house and built the rest of it by hand using brick. She haven't slept since she joined the guild outside of when she took missions. The roof was still completely open, but everything else was in place.

The walls are made of red brick and she had oak doors. The walkway on the inside was finished as well. Anna used to sleep outside, so she just decided to lay out a thin mattress with a blanket over it. She had built herself a closet, but that was all the furniture she had in her house. A bathing area was in a room next to where she slept and she had bought a stove for cooking before her last mission. She ate at the guild hall for the most part, so she really didn't need anything but the bare minimum.