Flames and Steel

Natsu awoke with a start as his alarm started blaring in his ears. He quickly rolled over and slammed his fist on the alarm clock, which made it stop, whether because he hit the snooze button or he broke it doesn't matter to Natsu, because all that mattered was that the sound had stopped. Natsu laid still for a moment then slowly dragged his feet from the warmth of his covers. As Natsu sat there on his bed, staring blankly at the wall, only one thought was going through his head. 'School...' Just then, one of the maids that worked for his father knocked on the door and walked into the room, making sure that Natsu was up.

She glanced at the zombie looking form on the bed, and a small smile formed on her face. "I'm glad you are up, young Master! Breakfast will be ready in about 15 minutes, plenty of time to take a shower and get dressed. Now if you may excuse me, I'm going to go make sure that your brother is awake." Natsu merely grunted as an answer as he got out of bed and walked to the bathroom in his room.

Natsu walked over to the shower and turned to nozzle to hot. 'Better use the shower quickly, so I can get a good amount of hot water before idiot Gray starts to use the shower.' Although he wasn't really worried about losing the hot water, since Gray liked to take cold-water showers in the morning. He had said to Natsu when asked why, "Wakes me up in the morning, Flame-brain!" Natsu had stared at him incredulously, before commenting, "Whatever, I don't even care. If you want to be a popsicle in the morning, be my guest! Guess that explains your stupidity, you are stupid because your brain is frozen!" Natsu said the last part over his shoulder as he walked out of Gray's room, which caused him to get tackled from the back by Gray causing a brawl between the two of them to start.

As he got in the shower and started to wash himself, he started to think of the new school he was going to attend this year with Gray. It was a nice public school that their father, Igneel Dragneel, had found after they were kicked out of their old school. He had told them its name a few days before, and its name was Fairy Tail High. Natsu and Gray had looked at each other in confusion at it's weird name, but they both had shrugged that off and looked through the information sheet that Igneel had given them about the school. It had seemed like quiet and nice school, much more relaxed than the uppity private school they had been attending, and gotten kicked out of, before. They both had been kicked out of the school due to what the school had called "Disrupting School Property", which really was bullshit to both of them because they had fought off school bullies that had been picking on some new freshmen. That would have been a good thing, if the leader of the group of bullies wasn't the school principal's son. So since his father was the principal, and believed that his child was an angel and the Natsu and Gray had attacked them out of nowhere, they had been kicked out of the school.

Natsu shook his head clear of those thoughts and got out of the shower to get dressed. He walked into his huge closet to look for something to wear, and found it quickly since the school had a dress code. The school dress code for men was a white polo shirt, a choice of white long sleeved undershirt for the cold days, and a choice between grey pants or shorts. That done he walked down stairs towards the delicious smells of pancakes and bacon that was wafting out of the kitchen. As he neared the door to the kitchen, the smell was so overpowering that he was almost drooling in anticipation for the breakfast. He opened the door and walked into the kitchen, quickly making his way over to his seat. He smiled and said his good mornings to the maids and servants that he passed on his way to the seats; he liked to be friendly to the servants since they were always around to help out with anything he needed. As he sat down, a maid brought over a glass of orange juice and the days newspaper to tide him over until the pancakes and bacon were ready. Natsu smiled up at the maid and nodded his appreciation, then picked up the newspaper to read what was going on in the world. It was a habit that his father had instilled into him, and it was a helpful habit since it was a good idea to know what was going on in the world.

The news headline read in bold letter "Serial Killer Kills Another Victim in Mace, Sheriff Tells People to Watch Out and Be Careful at Night." Natsu shakes his head in disgust; he couldn't understand why anyone would have the urge to kill someone like that. Anyone with those thoughts deserves to rot in jail for the rest of their lives. Also he took note of the fact that Mace was just a town or two over

'Hopefully he doesn't come to our town, this town doesn't need trouble like that.' Natsu then hears the door to the kitchen open, and sees Gray walk in with the same look of anticipation for the meal as Natsu had.

Natsu smirked at Gray. "Good Morning, ready for school today?" Natsu knew that out of the two of them, Gray was the one who hated school the most. Almost every morning since Natsu can remember, Gray has always made a comment about having to wake up so early up for school, and that school seems like a huge waste of time.

Gray glanced at Natsu before sitting down in his seat and saying with a cheery tone "Actually, I'm kind of looking forward to going to this new school. Seems like a nice place and it is definitely going to be a lot more relaxing than our old school." Natsu was a bit surprised at his comment, but also know what Gray meant. Their old school was very stuck up, and you had a very strict dress code. Women had to have their hair in a pigtail, with their bangs out of their faces, and men had to have short cut hair with no facial hair. At least at the new school, you didn't have to wear pants everyday, so on hot days you can wear shorts.

A few minutes longer of them reading the news waiting for breakfast, the cook and some servants brought breakfast to the table. Natsu and Gray dug into the food, and the servants sweat dropped as they began to have a competition of who was going to eat more bacon. After breakfast, Natsu and Gray raced up the stairs back to their rooms to get ready for school. They had about a 15 minutes before they had to leave, so he got out his guitar to see if he could get a tune going for another song for his band. He also started thinking about how their music career started.

Natsu and Gray had always been into music, since they were young. Both of them, if asked, would say that the reason for this was that Natsu's step-mom (but he considers her his real mom) and Gray's mother, Ur Dragneel, has always had this passion for music. Whenever she would sit down to read or just relax, she would have music playing in the background. When Natsu and Gray asked her about this, she told them that the reason was because depending on her mood, she would play a type of music the relaxed her, such as jazz, classical, or instrumental. So knowing this, they both decided to make "their own band" that they could mess around with music, it first just started off as a game that they could entertain their mother with. As they grew older though, they both started to really get into the game of "Band", with Gray as the singer and Natsu as the guitarist. Gray started taking singing lessons, that his mother gladly paid for, and Natsu started to take guitar lessons which his mother also gladly payed for.

Soon after that, they were coming up with their own music and tunes, while practicing them in the garage. What really kick started their music career was when their mother had them play for a meeting that their father was having for work. They got up there and started playing what they knew best, rock, and little did they know was that one of the people there was a CEO of a recording studio. After they were finished with the party, the CEO came up to Natsu and Gray's parents and asked if they could come in and play for the recording studio. Igneel and Ur gladly agreed to it, and Natsu and Grey's band "Ice Cold Dragon" was an instant hit with the age group 6-18.

This was at the start of their middle school year, and as they grew older their fan base also grew, with the age group getting older as their voices and songs got more mature. As of right now their music career is a huge success and they plan on continuing until they grow bored of it.

Natsu smirked while thinking of Gray. 'Even if he isn't my brother by blood, we are a great team and as close as real siblings are.' Natsu's real mother had died when Natsu was one year old, and she died of a rare disease that the doctors at all the hospitals they visited couldn't figure out. Igneel had done all he could to try and save her, but nothing could be found out about the disease and she had died. Igneel had been heartbroken at her death, but stayed strong for his son and continued on working through his grief.

Igneel had thought that he would never find love again, but that changed one night as he was hosting a party for his business, Deloitte. Igneel had always been poor his whole life, but he worked hard in school and went to college to get his business degree. He then started up a consulting firm called Deloitte, and dedicated all his time to making his company succeed. He met his first wife, Michelle, at a cafe he used to go to before work. They had hit it off right away and he divided his time between Deloitte and Michelle, and they eventually got married.

Anyways, at this party for his company, that was when he first saw a woman whose beauty rivaled his late wife's. Igneel felt something stir in his heart, and he couldn't keep his eyes off of her. He eventually walked up to her and started to talk with her, and got to know her more. He found out that she divorced her husband before because he was a scumbag who was just taking advantage of her, and that she had a son that was the same age as Natsu. This was the start of their relationship, as they starting talking to each other constantly after the party. This eventually lead them to start dating, and Natsu and Gray started to see each other more often and started to play with each other, quickly becoming best friends.

When Igneel and Ur got married, Natsu and Gray were already like brothers and Natsu already looked at Ur like a real mother. Igneel told Natsu about his real mother, and he loves both Michelle and Ur as his mothers. Natsu smiled as he thought of his mother, wishing she was there so he could talk with her, but content with the thought that she was watching him from heaven.

Natsu looked up as he heard a knock on the door, and saw Igneel poke his head through the door.

"You ready to head to school, son?"

Natsu nodded. "Yeah" He picked up his backpack and walked out of the house and into the garage with Gray, both of them saying good bye to Igneel and the servants. Natsu glanced at Gray and grinned "I call driving to school today!" Gray sighed.

"Fine, then I get to drive tomorrow." Gray glanced around the garage "We taking the Porsche 911 or the BMW to school today?"

Natsu crossed his arms in thought. "Lets take the BMW, kind of want to be under the radar as we scope out the place."

Gray nodded in agreement and they walked over to the car, with Natsu grabbing the keys where they were hanging on the wall as they passed by it. Natsu got into the drivers seat and threw his backpack into the backseat while Gray got into the passenger's seat and did the same with his backpack.

Natsu turned the car on and glanced at Gray, a big grin on his face. "Ya ready for a new school year?"

Gray grinned back. "Hell yeah, flame-breath." Natsu glared at Gray for the insult, but shrugged as he pulled out of the garage down the driveway onto the street. Natsu grinned to himself as he drove to school. 'Time to see what this school is like.' I've got a very good feeling about this.'

To Be Continued...

A/N: Well, this is my second official story and my first NaZa story. I said in my other story that I would wait awhile to make this one, but all of yesterday and today I have been coming up with ideas about the story. I actually had trouble getting to sleep last night because I kept on coming up with new ideas haha. Oh yeah and I might be changing the name of Natsu and Gray's band, that's the best name I can think of right now. If any of you can think of a better name, either PM me or say it in your review. If I like the name, I'll change the name and give you credit for the name.

Anyways yeah, my second story and I will probably be updating this more the The Princess and her Guardian but don't worry if you really want to see the other story, I will still be updating that story at least twice a week, and this one once a week. That's depending on how lazy I am feeling that week haha. Also, if you haven't read Never Thought by KnightScales, I recommend you read that if you enjoyed this prologue. I have to admit I took some ideas from that story, such as Natsu being in a wealthy family, having a music career, and kind of the opener being the morning of the school day (I had no idea how to start this story, but I remembered how KnightScales started Never Thought and the ideas just started rushing into my head) but that's all I'm going to be borrowing. The rest is from my own imagination.

Also anyone curious about the time, I don't really know much about Japanese schools, so I'm going to have it take place in an American style high school. There are 4 years, Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, then Seniors. They are going in as Juniors in high school, which is also why they can drive to school.

Anyways, yeah, please review the story. I don't care if the reviews about the story being good or bad, only if you think its bad tell me why so I can improve my writing skills.

Peace!

-Infallible