You're Not Alone (GraTsu)

Six

Natsu's last class passed by rather slowly. He nearly fell asleep a couple of times, but luckily someone had been nice enough to nudge him to prevent it. The person nudging him was a female with long red hair, striking brown eyes, and long bangs that covered the right one. She seemed pretty nice and Natsu had seen her before in another class. If he remembered right, her name was Erza and he often saw her with a rather tall guy who had short blue hair. Natsu was sure that man was her boyfriend or something, though he couldn't be completely positive.

"You look like you haven't been sleeping properly." The girl spoke to him after class had ended. The sudden interaction had surprised Natsu, but he only smiled at her and nervously rubbed the back of his head.

"You could say that.... Thanks for keeping me awake during class." Natsu smiled a bit more as he got to his feet. "It would have been bad if I had actually passed out. Your name is Erza, right? I've seen you in another class."

"Ah so you do pay attention. That's right, I am Erza and I know who you are as well, Natsu. We have science together." Erza grinned slightly and got herself up as well. "I also saw you getting caught by Gray Fullbuster earlier this morning. Are you two becoming a thing?"

"Eh!?" Natsu held his hands up and quickly shook his head. His cheeks were burning red with embarrassment. He had hoped no one else saw that, but he should have known better. "You saw that!? Gah...I'm gonna die..."

"Aw, Natsu it's okay. Honestly, if you had fallen Jellal and I were ready to come check on you. You looked pretty zoned out after all." Erza reached over and lightly ruffled Natsu's pink colored hair. She was definitely giving Natsu motherly vibes, or at least sister vibes. "Jellal figured it would only be a matter of time before you slipped, but neither of us expected Gray to come to your rescue."

"Honestly...he seems pretty cool but I don't know how I feel about him. We did just meet after all and besides, I'm not really looking to get too close to anyone right now..." The pink haired omega sighed softly as he walked over to a trash can and threw away his empty cup. Erza followed him and gave him a gentle nudge once again.

"Natsu, sooner or later your omega urges are going to take over. You should really consider getting close to an alpha just to be on the safe side." Erza did her best to express her concern, but Natsu was a rather stubborn omega from what she could tell. It didn't seem like he had any interest in settling down with anyone. "What are you going to do when you go into heat?" She asked.

"Oh, I don't have to worry about that..." Natsu glanced toward the red head and smiled slightly. "I take suppressants so they don't go out of control. No alpha will smell it and I'll hardly be able to tell." Though Natsu felt that he was starting to need a stronger dosage. Each time he could feel them weakening. He had been suppressing them for about seven years now. He was twenty now, and he had his first heat when he was thirteen. It was rather early for an omega and as soon as it was over, Igneel had allowed him to start taking the pills.

"Natsu, those only work for so long, you know. One day they're not going to work and you're going to have a really bad heat. If that happens, you need an alpha you can trust..." Erza couldn't bare the thought of something like that happening, especially to someone as sweet as Natsu.

"I guess I'll just have to worry about that whenever the time comes. Until then, I'm not going to concern myself with it. It isn't worth worrying about." Natsu wasn't really enjoying this conversation, but he also didn't want to be rude to Erza. He knew she was just trying to help and he really did appreciate that. "Thank you though..."

"Natsu, I want to be your friend and friends worry about each other. I know Levy worries about you all the time." Erza didn't know Natsu's backstory, but she was friends with Levy and she remembered the blue haired female telling her that Natsu had a pretty tragic past, and that the scar on his face was the aftermath of it, along with depression and anxiety.