Author's notes: So here I am writing another NaLu fanfic I really just can't get enough of these two J So you guys know the drill let me know what you think of my new story. In an alternate reality I might own fairy tail, but sadly not in this one.

Chapter One

Best Friends

Lucy's POV:

I curled up on the couch in the game room, AKA the basement with a new book as I listened to my best friend curse into the headset as he played Call of Duty with our other friend Grey. I found their banter far more amusing then the actual game, which Natsu has begged me to play with him on countless occasions, but I never do, because the truth is I don't want him to get a swelled ego because he would demolish me and we both knew it. So he played and I read, it was a ritual of ours, one that we have been doing since we were kids and now that we were finally seniors, we still had it. It was comforting to know that in this constantly changing world that something's always stay the same, like Natsu. He is the same, goofy, loyal destructive delinquent with a heart of gold that he has been since we were five.

I chuckled to myself as I heard Natsu scream into his headset,

"Fuck you Stripper that was cheating." I just heard Grey laugh over the xbox. I shook my head, I never knew why Natsu insisted on playing Grey at this game, Grey was better at strategy and Natsu was hot tempered and impulsive so Grey killed him a lot, much to my amusement. I then began to count under my breath as I turned the page of my book,

"Three, two, one…" Bam the controller that was once in Natsu's hand was now across the room where he chucked it. I smiled to myself, nope Natsu never changed. My pink haired friend then plopped himself beside me on the couch with his arms crossed over his well defined chest as he pouted, and I smiled to myself,

"It happens every time you know." He looked over at me, as I still looked down at my book and before he could ask me I said, "No." He sighed and propped his chin on my knees as he whined a bit,

"But Luce." I just shook my head,

"It's not going to happen." He wiggled his eyebrows at me, because we both knew that I was looking at him by this point and not my book and I stifled a giggle to which he yelled,

"I win." I rolled my eyes at him and asked,

"Your Aunt coming home late tonight?" He just nodded,

"Yeah, you should maybe cook me dinner so I don't starve." I sighed,

"I think you set the kitchen on fire so you wouldn't have to ever cook again." He shrugged and gave me that grin of his that said that, that could be entirely true. I gave up and closed my book as I asked, "What do you want?" He looked at me expectantly and I groaned, "No, Natsu not again, I just made that two nights ago." He then gave me that signature puppy dog look of his that he knew that I couldn't say no too, and I conceded curry it was, I then grinned evilly at him and said, "You know this means I get to pick the movie right?" Natsu's face fell just then as he asked,

'You wouldn't?" I gave him my best innocent look as I removed myself from the couch and headed toward the kitchen,

"I don't know what you're talking about." He glared at me a bit as he said,

"Don't play innocent, we both know it doesn't work on me." I just smiled as I said over my shoulder,

"You pick dinner, I pick the movie, those are the rules." Suddenly his arm was slung over my shoulder as he asked,

"What if I picked something not so spicy, I don't think I could handle another chick flick this week." He pleaded with me and I just nodded, and he smiled down at me,

"You're the best Luce."

This was us, this is how we always were since we met in kindergarten and some kids were picking on Natsu because he had pink hair and I stood up for him and told him not to worry about what they thought and that I liked his hair because it was my favorite color. We were inseparable ever since. Natsu was there for everything, my first ballet recital when I was six, he right there beside me eating ice cream after I had to have my tousles taken out at eight, he was there to comfort me when I mom died when I was ten. But it always went both ways, with us because I was there when he broke his arm falling off the roof when he was seven, I was cheering him on at his first baseball game when he was nine, and I was there when Igneel told him that he got a job across Fiore when he was twelve and that his Aunt would be staying with him. Natsu was there to protect me from guys that hit on me, and I was there to help him study so that he didn't flunk out. We were total opposites but we made each other better people and isn't that what friendship was about?

Natsu's POV:

After the movie which, thank Mavis wasn't another chick flick, I walked Lucy home just like I'd been doing since were kids, which was only two houses down, and we both knew she could walk herself, but it was routine. Once we were outside of her big empty house, she checked to see if her dad was home, he usually wasn't anymore, choosing work over Lucy which pissed me off and made me feel bad for her, because even though she didn't talk about it, I knew that she missed him. Lucy then looked up at me and said,

"So tomorrow will be your first day back since the suspension?" I just nodded, I knew that Lucy blamed herself for me getting into trouble, but as her best friend it was my job to protect her, and her feelings so when I caught the guy Dan she was dating making out with a girl that was not Lucy, I flipped shit and pretty much broke his face, which led to my two week suspension and a very long talk with my aunt. Lucy then looked down as she continued, "You know you didn't have to do that? You don't have to get yourself in trouble like that for me, he wasn't worth it." I sighed and pulled her into a hug as I said into her neck,

"Luce, he didn't deserve you, and I hated him anyway. I wanted to hit him so I did. It's not your fault its mine. My short fuse, but know this you are the only person in my life that is worth getting in trouble for, okay?" She nodded into my chest as she whispered,

"Thank you Natsu." I chuckled,

"Any time Luce." I then pulled away and looked down at her face and asked, "You gonna be okay tonight?" She just gave me a smile that didn't meet her eyes, her fake smile, the smile she gave the world, and me when she didn't want me to worry as she said,

"Uh huh." I arched my eyebrow,

"Sure?" She just nodded as she headed for her front door and said over her shoulder,

"Night Natsu."

That night I crawled into Lucy's bed with her, like I did most nights because it was always easier to fall asleep with her there, and I knew that she felt the same way only she didn't say it. We were always like this, together, inseparable, she was my best friend there was nothing I wouldn't do for her.

To be continued…