A/N: Hey guys! Insanelee here and I'm here to introduce a side project that I'll be working on along with The Dragon's Regret. With the Grand Magical Games Arc, three female mages caught my attention: Yukino, Kagura, and Jenny. Sure there were other mages that were interesting but these three kind my attention as pairing options for Natsu. Out of all of them I think it would be easier to write a NatsuxJenny fic, which would be the first of its kind here on this site.
Enjoy something new!
Note: This is set after the Lullaby Arc and before Galuna Island.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Hiro Mashima owns everything.
A/N: It has come to my attention that I made some errors regarding the canon of the anime in this story. I have since made the appropriate changes in dialogue, backstory, etc, and I now I am posting the edited version of Chapter 1. Sorry that this isn't an update, but I promise that I will get to it!
Fairy Tail, X784
Natsu sighed as he put his head on the Guild bar. He was completely bored out of his mind. Lucy went on a mission with the rest of the team except for him. When he asked Mira why they did it, she mentioned something about "getting more money in the end than losing it." Even Happy went only because Lucy bribed him with lots of fish. It pissed him off, the team was called "Team Natsu" for crying out loud! How could they not take him with them! Natsu slammed his head on the bar and let out a sigh. He wanted something to do, but couldn't figure out what. He didn't want to go on a mission alone; that would be too boring. No one in the Guild was fighting, and there was no one he wanted to challenge. Gray, Erza, Laxus and Gildartz, the people he challenged the most, all left on missions, leaving him alone with his bored. He sighed again.
"Natsu, what's wrong?"
Natsu looked up and saw the concerned face of Mirajane, the barmaid of Fairy Tail. She knew that Lucy and the others left without Natsu, and she couldn't help but feel bad for him. He looked really bored and was about to blow his brains out.
"Lucy and the other left without me. I'm so bored Mira!" Natsu cried as he put his hands in his hair out of frustration. If he didn't find something to do he'll go crazy!
"Ara ara, no need to be so edgy Natsu." She said with a smile. It was interesting to see Natsu like this. Usually Natsu was always on the move, destroying things or fighting people. Instead here he was fighting the strongest enemy he has ever fought: Boredom. And he was losing pretty badly at that. She looked at a clock nearby and gasped at the time.
"Oh my, I have to leave for my photo shoot today." Mira said. Aside from being the barmaid and S-Class wizard of Fairy Tail, she was also a model for Sorcerer Magazine, a popular magazine that features articles about various Guild related stuff. Fairy Tail has been the topic of many articles of Sorcerer Magazine, much to the annoyance of Natsu due to him thinking that the magazine slandered his name. Mirajane posed for the magazine several times on Tuedays. Wednesday is publication day for the magazine. As Mira was getting ready to leave she took one last glace at Natsu. Feeling sad for him, she turned around and gave him a smile.
"Natsu, do you want to come with me to my shoot?"
Natsu's head perked up. Finally he was getting something to do! As he was about to leave he stopped in his tracks, surprising Mira.
"Wait a minute, are you posing for Sorcerer Magazine?" Natsu asked cautiously. He didn't like that magazine not just because they ruined his name, but because of a specific person.
"Of course Natsu. You know that I've been posing for years for them." Mira said. She knew that Natsu didn't like Sorcerer Magazine, but did he really not like it so much that he didn't want to go? Even if he was bored out of his mind?
"Forget it then. I'm not going. They're probably going to say something stupid about me like I destroyed a bathhouse or something." Natsu grumbled as he went back to the bar. Mira wanted to help Natsu get rid of boredom, but he was making it hard for her to do so.
"Natsu you did destroy a bathhouse." Cana deadpanned from the bar, having heard their entire conversation. "Remember? Last night at Hosenka you were having a fight with Gray and it escalated from there."
"Whatever! I'm still not going!" Natsu indignantly replied as he sat down on the bar.
"Fine, suit yourself." Mira said with a playful tone in her voice. "It's such a shame, I happen to know a model who's just as strong as me. Too bad you'll miss out on meeting her if you stay here." Mira said as she smirked in expectation. Natsu suddenly appeared right beside her.
"Yosh Mira, let's go!" Natsu said excitedly, raising a fist in the air. Mira shook her head, Natsu was too easy to trick.
Natsu sat in annoyance. He was at the beach where the photo shoot took place, but he was still bored as ever. Though the cameramen and models were there, the beach was still open to the public; Sorcerer Magazine had not reserved the beach for their business. Natsu looked around and saw kids running around, swimming, or building sand castles. He also saw many beautiful ladies in bikinis. Whether they models for the magazine or not, Natsu couldn't tell. Mira was taking her pictures taking so it would be a while before she was done. Natsu looked on with a bored look on her face. None of the people here, except for Mira, looked strong. Did Mira lie to him? Was there really a mage as strong as her here? Natsu sighed for the umpteenth time, before he got up from his beach blanket. He decided to take a look around to see if he could find anyone interesting. As he was walking on the beach, he saw the incredibly annoying reporter Jason nearby. Natsu panicked, he didn't want the reporter to see him. He was afraid that he'll write something bad about it or even worse…. Talk to him! He saw that Jason was walking towards him. Natsu was getting desperate.
He looked to his sides and found a giant sand castle that wide enough for him to hide behind. He was thankful that the camera crew hadn't reserved the beach for the sessions. He jumped behind the sand castle and waited for Jason to walk by. Natsu saw Jason walking past him and got up, releasing the breath he didn't know he was holding. Natsu continued walking around the beach, relieved that Jason wouldn't be a problem for him for a while. As he was walking he decided to sit down and catch his breath. He had been walking for a while but he hadn't found anything that interested him. As he was sitting a woman was walking by with a water bottle in her hands. She opened the bottle and lifted her head to take a big gulp. As she was doing this a beach ball rolled in front of her. The woman however, never noticed it and stepped on it, making her lose her balance and fall on top on Natsu. Natsu saw that the woman was falling and braced himself to catch her. However because he was sitting he didn't have his body's full support to keep both him and her up. As a result, she knocked him over.
"Oww…" The woman whined.
"Oh man, are you alright?" Natsu asked worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thank y-"The woman started but trailed off.
Natsu and the woman's eyes had widened as they looked at each other's faces.
'She's beautiful!'
'He's handsome!' They both thought and blushed at the same time.
Natsu looked at the woman's face. Contrary to popular belief, Natsu was not as dense as they say. He knew a pretty woman when he saw one, and the woman on top of him was magnificent. She had light hair that was long and wavy. Her hair gathered on the back of her head and was tied in a ponytail reaching down to her middle back. She had two short bangs framing her face, and a highly decorative dark flower with large petals adorning the right part of her hair, above her right ear. Her face is soft in shape, has large light eyes with long eyelashes and full lips that created the face on a goddess. Seeing her beautiful face made Natsu blush even more.
The woman looked at Natsu's face and blushed. Whether it was out of embarrassment of the situation or because of Natsu's looks, she didn't care. The man in front of him was the most handsome person her eyes had ever laid on. He had deep brown eyes and pierced into her soul. She looked at his eyes; they screamed power and the will to protect. She also noticed Nasu's distinct hair. It was pink; an unusual color for a guy, and it was spiky. She looked at his face and blushed, this time it was because of his looks. She noticed that her hands were on his abs. She could feel how strong they were. Her face got redder if that was even possible.
They stared at each other for a long time, before the woman realized the position they were in. She quickly got up and brushed some sand off her legs. Her face had a fierce blush, from both embarrassment and Natsu. Natsu slowly got up after her, completely mesmerized by her beauty.
"I… well… I… uh… oh gosh…" The woman stumbled o her words. Natsu was making it too hard for her to speak! "Th-thanks for catching me…"
"Uh huh" was Natsu's intelligent reply. Her beauty was making it hard for him to think.
"M-my name's Jenny Realight, what about you?" The woman asked cordially. At her question, Natsu was starting to sweat bullets.
"Uh… I uh… I'm… uh…. Oh man I can't remember" Natsu gave up after a while. He couldn't even remember his own freakin name! "Can you remember it for me?"
The woman giggled at Natsu's reactions. Not only was he cute, he acted cute too! They looked at each other and smiled, a blush on their faces. Jenny put her right hand on her left arm, and Natsu kicked the sand, both doing it out of nervousness.
"Hey Jenny, you wanna go get something to eat?" Natsu offered politely. He wasn't exactly hungry, but he wanted something to do with the woman in front of her. He finally found something to relieve him of his boredom, and he was not going to let his opportunity go to waste!
"I'd love too." Jenny quietly accepted his offer. They walked out of the beach and into the boardwalk. They found an ice cream parlor and went inside. Natsu had ordered strawberry and Jenny had ordered vanilla. They took their cones and sat at a table outside of the parlor. They looked at each other and smiled.
"So Jenny, tell me about yourself" Natsu said, wanting to start a conversation.
"What do you want to know?" Jenny inquired.
" Well, what are you doing here at the beach? Are you vacation?" Natsu curiously asked.
"Oh, well, I was here for the Sorcerer Magazine photo shoot. I was done when we uh… you know…" Jenny said quietly.
"Oh yeah... ha ha…" Natsu chuckled awkwardly.
"What about you?" Jenny asked.
"Well I was bored at my Guild and my friend offered to bring me here." Natsu told. At the word guild, Jenny got curious.
"Guild? Are you a mage?" Jenny asked.
"Yeah, I'm a Fairy Tail mage!" Natsu said proudly. He showed her the Guild mark on his shoulder.
"Really? So am I!" Jenny said excitedly.
"Really? What Guild are you in?" Natsu curiously wondered.
"Blue Pegasus!" Jenny said excitedly, showing the mark on her shoulder.
"Blue Pegasus?" Natsu repeated. Natsu didn't really know anyone from that Guild. The only person he sort of knew from Blue Pegasus was its Master, Bob. Natsu met Bob that one time he destroyed Lullaby and prevented it from killing the Guild Masters present for a meeting. That one meeting scarred Natsu due to Bob's appearance, strange personality, and his... preference... for men. He shuddered in remembrance.
"Are you okay?" Jenny asked worriedly. She saw him shudder after he had made this strange expression. He looked very creeped out and scared about something.
"Yeah uh… sorry I was just remembered something that surprised me, that's all." Natsu answered. He didn't want to think of than man... person... thing... while he was with Jenny. He flashed he a smile after seeing that worried look on her face.
"You said you were with Fairy Tail." Jenny said. "Do you know Mirajane Strauss?"
"Mira? Yeah she's somewhere over there having her picture taken. You know her?" Natsu asked.
"We both model for Sorcerer Magazine. We've done a couple of shoots together." Jenny informed him. Natsu nodded in understanding. Before Natsu could ask any further, he saw Mira the distance searching for something. He deduced that she was done, and rose from his seat.
"Sorry to cut this short, but it looks like I gotta go." Natsu said with disappointment in his voice. Jenny looked disappointed too; she was having fun with Natsu. Natsu went inside the ice cream parlor and got vanilla ice cream for Mira.
"Oh, well I hope we meet again." Jenny said with hope in her voice. Natsu was an interesting guy; she wanted to get to know him better.
"Of course we will!" Natsu said optimistically, making Jenny smile. As he turned around and started walking he suddenly stopped, making Jenny look at him with curiosity.
"Natsu."
"Huh?" Jenny replied. What is he talking about?
"My name is Natsu. Natsu Dragneel." He turned and gave her a smile which made her blush. He continued walking toward Mira, leaving Jenny to herself.
'Natsu Dragneel…' Jenny thought before she left to return to Blue Pegasus. She had a smile on her face for the entire trip.
There's chapter 1 for you. Any reviews, whether they are positive or constructive criticisms, are welcome. I'm proud to have created the first Jenny Realight fic here on this site. Like the rest of the mages introduced at the Grand Magic Games, I think that Jenny is a pretty interesting character. Her positive nature compliments Natsu. I don't really know how strong Jenny is because Mira beat her in like one move. But she's really got my eye, just like Kagura and Yukino.