Chapter 1

Authors' Notes: Okay guys, this is my first ever fanfic so I hope you enjoy it! Thank you for reading!

©Hiro Mashima's characters! It's all his.

Spring has arrived. The weather as pleasant as always as the sakura petals were dancing in the air and approaching the grounds of Fairy Tail Academy, swiftly and very gracefully.

Fairy Tail Academy, it was just like any other school but only more laid-back and with a bad reputation because of some of the few students who were able to create a chaos and throw normality out of the window. But it was a good school with efficient education and it was only one of the few schools who offered lots of activities throughout the school year.

And here was Lucy Heartifilia in the field, nervousness taking over her yet very bravely waiting for the person she was going to show her true self and desires. "There is still three minutes left till the appointed time I asked him to come out" thought Lucy while pushing the door and racing in front of the mirror in the washroom.

"Ok you just have a few more minutes till he arrives there" She told herself.

While standing in front of the mirror, Lucy was very pleased with what she was looking at. Her blond hair was in a high pony tail with her bangs falling loose in the front, she made sure she was wearing the proper Fairy Tail Academy uniform, the cream colored sleeveless sweater on top of her white t-shirt and making sure her red bow would fall on top of everything, which she had planned for so long. She patted her gray skirt which was only till thigh length, making sure there were no dirt visible.

She wanted everything to be perfect. One time, only one moment.

She walked back to the meeting point. She noticed that he wasn't there yet, checked her watched and then looked for the awaited person. He must be held up in something. She looked around. She was waiting in the garden right next to the academy and a few meters away from the school pool. It was beautiful there and it was spring which intensified it. She crouched down to her knees and softly touched the yellow petals of the dandelions, it was so open and fresh. Lucy imagined maybe someday she would also be free however couldn't stop her heart from sinking, "That's impossible, he'd never leave me" she thought sourly.

"WHAHAHAHAH" she heard someone shout, interrupting her train of thought.

"Come back you bastard!" another voice screamed

"NEVER!"

Lucy stood up from gazing at the flowers to look at the sources of the voices. She then realized it was, him, Natsu Dragneel storming straight at her direction while being chased by his black haired friend, who regularly fought with him as per the rumors, Gray Fullbuster who was still very far away. He finally came. She smiled but then started panicking as he came closer to her, trying to make herself look good even without the mirror. She noticed that he was holding some sort of cloth in his right hand, waving it around, while looking behind his shoulders to the direction of Gray and laughing mischievously.

"Give back my freaking underwear you idiot!" Gray screamed. Wait, did she hear that correctly? Un-underwear? Does that mean he's nake- Lucy then attempted to cover her eyes before she would regret watching the scene in the near future. But her hands weren't as fast as her eyes as she detected his privet area, yet still covered her eyes from embarrassment.

"Kaaayyyyy!" she squealed

Then suddenly she let out an "omf" as she was pushed down by something towards the ground. She didn't see what it was that brought her to that position because of her eyes which were still covered. She felt strong arms around her waist and recognized a face right under her breasts as she felt hot breath against her skin. Her face became red in response. Oh my god! Who is this! This is so embarrassing. Then the arms left her waist and the head lifted itself from her making Lucy let out a sigh out of relief.

"Dammit he will catch up to me" one said what sounded like Natsu's voice.

She then peeked between her fingers and saw the pink-haired teenage look around cautiously. His body was still on top of her but didn't give much weight since he had his arms to support him. He then looked down to Lucy and stared at her for a while before standing up right. Holy mother of god! It was him?! H-he was hugging me! Lucy's brain was spinning as it was just too much for her to even have him so near. She was about to faint before a firm hand grabbed her arms and pulled her straight to stand properly without any effort.

"Uh sorry about that but I'm in a real hurry" he laughed

"U-uh" she could barely utter a word. It was too soon for her! She had no time to prepare. What happened to the 'perfect confession'?

"Yeah ok bye" he began to hurry off and stopped his tracks when Lucy tugged his shirt. "Wa-wait" don't let him go now!

"Yeah?"

"Um I think I left a note in the in your locker to meet me up at this place to tell you something important."

"Oh? That was you?" Lucy nodded her head "Oh, I thought someone was challenging to a fight but I was too tired to go today so I thought I'd ignore it" Lucy could just do nothing but feel her anger build up inside as he spoke. Why would someone do that?! She exclaimed in her head.

"Well, so you want a fight? Okay! Let's make it quick before he comes. Bring it on!" he called while pumping his fist in his hand.

"No that's no-"

"Ah! There you are! Get here you!" they saw Gray run towards them, finally wearing some sports tracks only shirtless to which Lucy could only sigh That's an improvement, rather than being butt naked she shivered as she recalled what had scarred her pure mind.

Natsu looked back and forth between Lucy and Gray. "Come on" he said not waiting for her response as he just he grabbed her wrist, pulled her and started running into the building. They ran past many occupied classrooms which was found out by Natsu always interrupting the lectures and telling them to just ignore them and continue. The chase was tiring Lucy out, she couldn't help but huff and breath heavily yet the fact that she was with Natsu was thrilling enough.

They then reached the nurse's office. It was her first visit here even though she already knew who the nurse was. She looked around her, noticing the 3 beds laid out and the medicines stacked in the shelves. She began looking for the nurse, Porlyusica, who she didn't find in the end. But she did see the girl in the desks working instead of Porlyusica, she noticed a young girl, maybe from middle school, with long dark blue hair reaching all the way till her waist, unlike Levy who had light blue.

"Hey Wendy!" Natsu greeted.

"Oh! Hello Natsu-san and…" she drifted off while looking at me. Lucy opened her mouth to answer the young girl but was interrupted by Natsu very quickly as he said "Can we hide here? Gray is pretty pissed off about me taking away his underwear and now he's chasing me!" he explained with some humor.

"Oh ok yeah sure but be sure to leave before Porlyusica coms back, or else she'll drive not only you guys out but also kick me out!" soundling like this wasn't the first time this happened.

"Sure sure no worries!"

She smiled at Natsu and shifted her gaze to Lucy. They nodded to each other without making an introduction or conversation. Natsu walked to the window looking weather Gray was anywhere nearby. Then he looked back at Lucy and observed her to which Lucy couldn't help but fiddle around since she became the center of his attention.

"So, when do we fight?" he suddenly questioned

"It not about a fight or anything…I called you out for another reason." She told

"Eh? And what is that?"

She glanced at Wendy's direction and could see that her eyes were on her work but her ears were very attentive to their conversation. A confession. She couldn't say that now! Not while someone else is present in the room.

"Um..I don't feel comfortable talking about it here…" she stuggled

"Why not?" he straight forwardly asked, which made Lucy surprised.

"Um..it a-a confession" she whispered

"A what now?" it didn't seem that her voice was as loud as she thought.

She balled her fists and keeping them firm on her both sides "so what if someone's here? This is the only freaking chance" she complained ." "A confession" she spoke louder. Wendy brought her hands infront of her mouth, giving a 'awww' face while blushing and Natsu who stood infront of her just gave a clueless face.

"Huh? About what?"

Lucy could literary feel her jaw touching her floor as she heard him. How could he not know? Isn't he a normal teenager? She couldn't believe that someone couldn't understand her when she says 'confession'! "Even a middle schooler could understand what I meant!" she exclaimed. She heard Wendy giggle in her desk which confirmed that she was eavesdropping.

"About my feelings"

"Feelings? You wanna fight now?" what? How did he come to that?!

"No! Stupid! She is asking you out!" Wendy suddenly spoke up. Lucy turned her head towards the girl and gave her a thankful expression and she smiled giddily in returned.

"Yeah?" he looked at Wendy and then looked back at Lucy. She silently nodded. He just scratched his head and said "Why do you need me to go with you? I mean we were there outside and how is this anything to do with feelings". Lucy wanted to cry! This is becoming too hard for her, explaining romance is not only hard work but also embarrassing mainly when the person is her crush.

"Anyways, do I know you?" he asked

"Uh. Not personally but we've met before" he looked at her to explain further. "Yo-you saved me from the time when I almost got tricked by some guy"

"Eh?" Natsu looked her he with a confused face.

"Yea-" Lucy again got interrupted.

"Ha! Finally found you! Give it back you flame brain!" Gray suddenly shouted. Natsu spun his head towards the door and shot a look to Wendy "I told you to warn me when he comes!"

"I-I didn't notice him myself!" she cried.

Gray ran full speed at Natsu before Natsu positioned himself to a fighting stanza "why would he do that?" she screamed internally. When they collided, a huge wave of wind rushed to all directions which was caused by their impact. After the dust had cleared out she saw Natsu's face stuffed with ice and Gray's face stuffed with tobacco sauce. "WHAT THE HELL!" Lucy wanted to shout but just stood there and looked dumb folded. She couldn't believe the scene in front of her. Is this how they fight?

"Eat this you shit head!" coughed Natsu

"Let's see how you survive this!" Gray spat.

They kept forcing their respective 'weapons' into each other's mouths. As they continued to do so, she looked towards blue haired girl and was about to ask weather this is something that happens regularly but stopped herself as she saw her calling someone on the phone. After her call ended, she stared at me and smiled "It's alright, help will come in a moment." She was confused by what she meant by that.

Lucy then heard fast pacing getting louder and louder outside the nurse's office, and then the next second saw the red haired president standing near the entrance with her hands folded. She was wearing the formal uniform with the red blazer with the gray skirt, she looked very smart and responsible that way. Lucy wanted to greet her with nice smile and try to finally get to know the famous and gorgeous president Erza Scarlet, but was taken aback when she sensed the atmosphere around her. She had a very stern look which was only directed to the two guys attacking each other with food items.

"Erza!" the girl known as Wendy finally called

"E-erza?" both stuttered in union and slowly rotated their face to the way where they could feel the anger of the female.

"I thought I told you to get along." She said slowly yet in a threatening manner. Suddenly both of them put their hands around each other's necks and started shaking hands. "of-f course we are!" they both chanted, this not only startled Lucy but also amazed her by how much power Erza had of these two teenage boys. She then gave both of them some bashing where Lucy could only watch the scene move forward speechlessly. Although in many eyes it looked like two guys getting beaten up, for her it looked more like friends spending some time together. She was going to ask the young nurse helped to do something but was surprised that she just continued her work, ignoring the three like it was something totally normal.

"The both of you are going to come to the student council. Right now" Erza ordered while dragging them off out of the room. When Lucy rushed out to the door, stopped and saw what was happening in the corridor she could see that the two of them were trying to struggle out of her grip around their shirt collar but it was just a useless effort. Gray finally gave in muttering something like 'let's just get it over with' while Natsu was still trying his best. Lucy saw him get dragged off and sadly thought "There goes my chance". She then saw Natsu stare at her for a second in deep though, so she lifted her hand and waved good bye with a forced smile.

"Wait Erza!" Natsu yelled in a sudden serious tone. Erza stopped her tracks and looked back down at Natsu waiting for him to continue. "Um, that blond chick right there" he pointed at Lucy for Erza to see "yeah I think she has something very important to tell me"

Erza then glanced at Lucy questionably while she saw Natsu trying to make her support his statement. "Oh yeah! I do!" she said.

"May I ask what?" Erza's question startled Lucy. Was she supposed to tell her? In front of all these people in the corridor? Lucy was getting very nervous and looked around for anybody to help her. When she finally looked at Natsu, he seemed to give her a encouraging smile which didn't make sense because he didn't understand why she was so flustered but made her heart calm down thinking that he is supporting her. She then walked towards Erza and taking her courage by whispering her real reason of talking to Natsu. Erza then watched Lucy's face while blushing and started to stutter. "Isn't much of a strong point is it?"She thought to herself while enjoying Erza's reaction.

"O-o-kay..I mean yeah sure..take him if you want!" she stammered and loosened her grip on Natsu's shirt collar. Natsu jumped up to stand straight, gave a mocking face to Gray which seemed to annoy him a lot and then started to walk towards Lucy. Erza then started to walk away while Gray had a face saying 'unbelievable!'.

"Also Lucy!" she called out without turning. How does she know my name?

"Yes?"

She then turned her head and smiled "Good Luck" to which Lucy smiled back.

"Wow" Natsu looking back at Erza "What did you tell her to get her to leave me alone" Lucy also then looked at the same direction and replied "Nothing much". Natsu looked like he was going to ask on but instead just looked her in amazement.

Then Natsu seemed to remember something "So" he said "what was it you were going to talk about again?"

"Oh, do you mind if we go outside in the garden?"

Natsu brought his hands behind his head and grinned "Sure why not?"

AN: Going to upload the next chapter pretty soon!

PS: I edited here and there but it doesn't change the story line that much

Next time:

Always Another Year