Date: June 24, 2015

Prompt: [Bonus] Shine

Summary: It was moments like these where he loved her the most because suddenly she was just glowing and her hair was shiny and her smile radiated and her eyes shimmered like diamonds and she just shone.

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Despite what people say about Natsu Dragneel, he was not dense.

Yes, he was oblivious to things such as emotion and, yes, he tended to ignore things that were obvious to many others, but he was by no means dense.

He just simply didn't care enough to pay attention to the obvious things.

If they were obvious, why pay attention? If they were so obvious that everyone else noticed, then obviously he needn't pay attention to them, because everyone else could do so for him.

So, by this logic, he tended to instead pay attention to the unobvious things.

Being a Dragon Slayer only helped that.

In example, he never noticed Juvia when she was practically attached to Gray's hip.

He did however notice the salty must of tears as she time and time again was rejected, could smell the undying affection she held for him that was never reciprocated.

He, also, failed to notice the way Mirajane and Laxus almost never communicated, barely even made eye contact.

Although, he made up for it by noticing the subtle winks the demonic mage would send the lightning Dragon, faint as if never even there, and the smallest of smirks that tainted his lips in return; the ones he promised the Raijinshuu were just exasperated smiles at their antics.

However, these rules didn't apply to just the world around him. He ignored himself just as much as he ignored everyone else. This being said, it didn't surprise him at all that he never noticed his growing feelings of love and lust for a certain blonde-haired Celestial mage. He unfortunately only noticed the way his body felt… weird whenever he was near her, the way the world visibly brightened at the mere mention of her name.

That is, until he started noticing the obvious.

It was the day of the Blossom-Viewing Festival. Due to having missed it all those years before, Lucy Heartfilia had been thankful she was well enough to attend that year. Especially having prepared so diligently for such an event as well.

Her hair was pulled into a high-ponytail and perfectly curled to frame her face in beautiful waves. She dressed in a blue sleeve-less dress that went down mid-thigh, black leggings hugging her legs down to the knees, and a white sash dotted with pink roses wrapped tightly around her mid-riff. Her feet were covered with black sandals decorated with silver diamonds, and her nails were painted a light pink to match her lipstick.

She had looked beautiful.

This was when he had first noticed these… feelings.

But, it wasn't until later in the night that he noticed just how he truly felt.

No, it wasn't until he turned his head to look over at her from where he laid back on their shared blanket, staring at the giant Sakura trees as they burst into rainbows of color.

No, it wasn't until he saw the wide smile that radiated as it tugged at her lips, showing her perfectly white teeth as she watched them for the first time.

No, it wasn't until he saw the way her eyes shimmered in fascination like diamonds at the display, looking simply magical in the purest of its element.

No, it wasn't until he noticed the way her hair looked so shiny and slick compared to the show that was so close they could almost touch it.

No, it wasn't until he sat up, entranced by the way the light of the darkened sun and the oncoming moon lit her up just so, and admired the way she just shone at the moment, glowing in the purest of ways.

He swears it wasn't until he kissed her.