"But what?" Natsu asked Lucy again, but the pain Lucy was feeling was a bit unbearable, the sting from her ankle was retraining her from thinking about anything else but that. Then, finally, Natsu noticed her bleeding ankle and cursed under his breath.

"Oh! I'm so sorry! Let's get you to a hospital!" Natsu panicked and carried Lucy in a princess like way. Blushing as she was, Lucy couldn't, her wounds were too painful to even be blushing.

"No...I-It's fine.." Lucy said, trying to keep all the pain in. "Just...Just bring me back to the house...I can fix this up." She smiled a smile hiding the pain, and of course, Natsu just followed what she said.

"Your house?"

Lucy shook her head in reply. "No, Gray's house."

"Why there?!?!" He said, starting to run to the house of his team mate.

"I live there now." She replied. Natsu kept silent, hiding a bit of jealousy inside him. 'W-wait! Why am I feeling this?! I-I'm not jealous at all! So what? She's now living with my friend/ rival on everything....that's not a big deal, right???' Natsu sighed and Lucy kept her daze on him. He noticed it and couldn't restrain himself on not looking at her.

"What...?" He asked, still running. Natsu technically had a physically fit body so he's not out of breath for now.

"It's nothing." She replied as she quickly looked front, blushing and hoping he wouldn't be more persistent in asking her. And he didn't. When they reached the house, Natsu quickly knocked on the door and it was opened by a tall man in glasses.

"Who are you?" He asked, sounding like he didn't want them in front of the door.

"I live here." Lucy started and Honey jumped in the conversation by greeting Lucy a welcome back then suddenly noticed her ankle.

"Oh no! Layla what happened??" Honey asked, panicking as Kyouya and him make room for Natsu and Lucy to enter.

"I'll explain later, Natsu could you bring me up stairs?" She asked him, trying to hide all the pain and successfully did it, but Natsu wasn't surprised.

"Of course." He replied, nodding.

Natsu rushed in the room and slammed the door, gently putting Lucy on the bed to sit on the edge.

"Wasn't it much better for them to go to Kyouya's hospital?" The twins said in unison, staring at the closed door.

"Yeah, the closest one is just a walking distance from here...." Said Honey. They looked at each other and shrugged acknowledging that it wasn't their business, but they'll surely butt in the moment when it comes

"So where's Haru-chan by the way?" Honey asked, resting on the couch.

"She went to visit her cousin. The brunette director."

"And Tamaki?"

"Probably stalking her." Kyouya replied as if it was normal thing for Suoh Tamaki.

"That makes sense..." Admitted Honey.

Lucy directed Natsu to find things like alcohol, bandages, some she asked for wasn't available in Gray's house so she got an alternative. She used some needle and thread to stitch up her opened wound. It'll hurt, and she knows it. He quickly rushed to find all of those things and handed it to Lucy. Lucy first washed the wound with a bottle water she found, there was a basin below her foot so that the water won't spill to the floor.

"Do you want help?" Natsu offered, scared to make Lucy do it.

"No, No, I can do it on my own. Don't worry." Lucy gently pushed Natsu's hand away and smiled, obviously doesn't want to pour the alcohol on and stitch her opened wound. Her hand was trembling when she was going to pour the alcohol, it will sting. A lot. Especially on such a wound with a big opening. Natsu saw her expression and her shaking hands, so he quickly grabbed the alcohol, gave her a clean hand towel, and gently held her foot, looking very serious.

"Put the towel in your mouth and bite it while I pour this." She nodded and as he was going to pour it, Lucy leaned her hand on his back and clenched her hand on his jersey. Natsu noticed it and tried to be more careful since he knows she's scared. He slowly poured the alcohol and.

"Mmngggg!!!" Lucy moaned in pain as her hand clenched more and bite the towel harder.

"Be strong." He encouraged her. Then after a second, he was done. Lucy took the towel out of her mouth and sighed in relief, but then she got more scared.

"Now that that's done...." She said, a bit shaky in her voice. She gulped. ".....Then there's the hard part...." She grabbed the needle and thread and stared at her wound.

"Don't worry, I'll do it." Natsu stepped up and gave Lucy a very encouraging squeeze on the hand and smile. "I've done this before, so, I'll do it quickly." Then with that being said, Natsu got Lucy's trust and she gave it to her. He gently placed her foot down and stood up.

"Give me the towel." His hand was stretched, waiting for her to give it to him. She hesitated, but gave it to him and he went straight to the bathroom, opened the faucet to see if it had warm water...and it did! He drenched the towel in warm water and gave it to Lucy.

"Lie down." He said as he pushed Lucy's shoulders down to the bed. Surprised, Lucy's eyes widened in shock.

"W-Whaaa?!?" She was too surprised to even say anything.

"Bite this wet towel and hold this pillow tightly." He ordered as he threw a big white pillow to her. It was soft and big. "This is going to hurt so try and bear with it, Layla..." His voice was serious and a bit low than usual. It sounded pretty cool, but it had a bit of hurting inside because he knows he'll expect sounds of pain.

"You ready?" He asked.

"I don't have a choice though." Lucy replied.

"It'll be over soon. Don't worry," Those words were comfort, but it didn't make her feel any better. The fear wasn't gone.

"Wait." He said and went outside, calling The twins, Kyouya and Mori. Honey was sitting on the couch worried at what's happening. "Now, I want you to hold her down for me." He told the four boys. They nodded and held Lucy down to the bed, tightly gripping on her. When Natsu did the first, I don't know what you called it, but he started stitching, Lucy wailed in pain, screaming blood curdling shrieks as Natsu was quickly, but carefully closing the wound. The twins were holding her legs down so that she wouldn't mess up what Natsu was doing. They were struggling, but managed to make her legs stay still. Kyouya with stomach area and Mori wrapped his arms around Lucy as she was in pain so that she wouldn't move that much and she could let the pain out on the wet towel and pillow. When it was all over, Lucy was out of breath, crying, sweating, but she was relieved.

"Thanks for your help." Natsu told them.

"Is it alright for us to leave?" Kaoru asked him. Natsu smiled and nodded.

"I'll handle her." He said reassuringly and they all went out of the room. He silently closed the door and turned to face Lucy. She was resting in bed and was still breathing heavily at what happened just now.

"Whew!" Exclaimed Kaoru. "That was intense...."

"Yeah...it was.." Mori agreed.

Natsu went closer and found that Lucy was already asleep. 'I guess she got tired.' Natsu thought to himself. He grabbed a chair and started to wrap Lucy's foot in bandages and after doing that he rested his head beside her arm and tried to sleep.

"I wonder if I could ever find you, Lucy...?" He asked himself. His conscience wouldn't keep him still. Lucy was a close friend to him even if they spent one night together.

"I wonder too..." Lucy muttered and when Natsu heard it he jolted up to look at her and realized she was only talking in her sleep. He sighed and finally fell asleep.

Going back to the basketball guys!!

"I can't do it anymore!!" Loke whined to Mira who was sitting on a bench, drinking a chocolate mousse milk tea.

"You're quitting?" She asked, raising her shades from her eyes and turned to look at Loke.

"I'm not! I'm jus--"

"Yes you can rest," Mira stopped him and went back to drinking the milk tea. "You only have maybe forty left so, yeah you can rest." Then she looked at everyone and made all of them stop as well. Everyone sighed with relief. They all went inside the boy's locker rooms and rested there where it was cool and breezy.

"That was just harsh..." Loke complained. "Wait, why did Laxus have to repeat the same routine four five times?" He asked.

"You're really extreme, aren't you, Laxus? No one could do that five times...much less complete it for the first one." Gray said, stretching his neck, causing some cracking sounds in his bone.

"She's just pissed." He said.

"You really are perfect together..." Loke said. "And where the hell is Jellal?!? Isn't he the captain!!"

"I saw him with the red head the other day at the mall." Gajeel added.

"What were you doing at the mall??" Laxus raised a suspicion.

"........Nothing..." Gajeel replied and hid his face in his locker, acting like he's looking for something.

"I'm betting you went shopping again, weren't you? I know you looove doing that crap all the time!" Gray said as he changed his clothes, chuckling.

"Shut the hell up, Elsa!!" He teased back. Reminding Gray of how Gajeel saw him watching frozen when he crashed in his house. After that event, he told every humiliating thing Gajeel saw from Gray in an extremely detailed description. All of them laughed.

"That wasn't mine! Dammit!! I was just flipping some channels!!!"

"Flippin' channels on a dvd, huh?" Gajeel rebutted.

"Would you two just shut up. Aren't you tired enough?" Loke sighed in exhaustion. "I mean, this fight won't lead to anything. So what if Gajeel is a little bit gay and Gray is a girly disney fan, so what right? Let's just ignore---"

"I'm gonna stab you in the dick if you don't keep your mouth shut, you stupid ass hole...!!" Both Gray and Gajeel exclaimed in unison as they both harshly grab Loke on his shirt. Loke had a nervous sweat dropping and smiled nervously, but his words didn't match his expression.

"Hahahaha!" He laughed. "C'mon! Don't get offended...it's only a joke....although if that pissed you off, then it must be true."

"WHY YOU!!!" Then before their punches could ever hit Loke, the door surprisingly flew open.

"Boys!" Gildarts exclaimed. "We have a surprise for 'ya guys!" He smiled while everyone was raising their eye brows at the suspicious decision of their coach.

Let's go to a very special part! I know you guys'll love this one!!

"Hey! Hey! Look at that! Don't you think that dress suits you perfectly??" The blonde was extremely hyper today, being alone with his Kouhai. "Right, Haruhi???"

Haruhi (Fujioka) sighed. "Senpai, I don't like wearing dresses like those. They're too stiff and it's hot whenever I wear it."

"You've been a girl before, I'm sure you liked wearing those things!" 'Girl before...? Haruhi thought.

"Then what am I now?" She replied.

"What do you mean? Uh....you're...Human?"

"You said I was a girl before, what do you think I am now...?"

'Crap! She's pissed! I might've said something wrong! But what??'

"Uh..No! You're a girl! I just meant you weren't as girly as you were before! That's all, I mean, I'm not saying you're not, All I said was you liked wearing those! Y'know--" He was flustered, but Haruhi cut him off with a single sigh.

"Well whatever, let's just go on." She paused and looked around. "Senpai, what the hell are we doing in this shopping street??"

"Honey-senpai texted me this address. I don't know why we have to go there, but it seems like fun."

"Fun...?" Haruhi questioned. "Then why are we in this shopping district??"

"Because I wanna hang out with you!" He replied, a bit blushing and jumped on Haruhi for a hug, but Haruhi dodged it and moved forward.

"Come on. Let's go. No need to go slow." She replied and walked in front of him. Tamaki sighed and followed her lead.

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Sorry for the short chapter, but I'm sure to update real quick! Alright? I have many books and I need to update them frequently as I can so that the readers would enjoy it.

I hope you understand. They might loose interest in the book, so yeah. I'm doing my hardest!

-HeartInTheKeys 💟🔑