NALU FAN-FIC
Hi so I'm going to do a quick introduction before I start.
My name is Zadel, or at least my screen name is at least. This is my first fan-fic so it may not be the best. However I do have a lot of free time on my hands so I should be able to update every few days, considering that I will probably make 2 fan-fics at a time and I do have sooooomewhat of a life... Anyway if you have ANY suggestions please tell me so I can hopefully incorporate them into my story. If you notice any mistakes or anything that should be changed please alert me. Other than that please enjoy the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tale or any of its characters. (Though I wish I did)
THE NEWCOMER
It was a normal day at Fairy Tale. Kana was engulfing barrels of alcohol, Elfman was going on about being a "True Man" Almost everyone was fighting that normally does, and Natsu, Happy, and Lucy had just returned from a mission.
"HEY EVERYONE!" Natsu shouted loudly, making it very obvious that there team was back.
"Don't you know how to be quite?" Gray stood up and walked towards Natsu being quite obvious that he was annoyed with him already.
"What did I do to you! I just got back! And put some clothes on ice-brain!" Natsu said making Gray jump back in recognition that he had stripped... Again.
"Gray-Sama!" Juvia said with adoration in her voice.
Gray ran off leaving Natsu be for a bit, when all the sudden a beautiful shy girl, with long flowing silver hair, and a short pink dress that barely came to her knees that was about the same height as Lucy and wore her hair straight down with a small teal headband that she wore as an accessory. Her hair came down to her lower back. Her pink dress had small red tulips that were scattered around as a design. She had purple eyes and she became flushed as she stepped out of the crowd.
"H-hello," she said meekly while starring at the ground and playing with her hair. "N-Natsu can I s-speak with you?"
Natsu looked at her surprised, he had surely never seen this girl before and had no idea how she knew his name. "Sure but first what's your name?" He said with a large smile and holding out his hand for her to shake.
"U-umm," She hadn't thought about the Right after she came out of the crowd part. She didn't even think she had a chance in the world to talk to him none the less he would ask for her name, but with what she was about to do she should have seen it coming.
"E-Emily," she said while shaking Natsu's warm hand.
"Well nice to meet you Emily," Natsu said still with a huge smile on his face.
Emily's cheeks went bright red at hearing him say her name.
"I-if you don't mind, c-could you come with me to t-talk?" She said as she glanced up slightly from the ground.
Natsu looked confused for a moment but decided that a small girl like her would most likely not be too strong if she attacked him.
"Sure," He said as he followed her out of the guild to an ally behind a small seafood place.
"I-I realize that this may come o-off s-sud-dden b-but," She started stuttering uncontrollably not being able to calm down. She had run through this moment so many times in her head that she couldn't believe it was about to happen.
"Calm down take a deep breath," Natsu said in an attempt to calm her down.
She did as he he instructed taking deep breaths in through her nose and out through her mouth, she continued this for about a minute before she tried again.
"I realize that this may come off sudden but I have had a very large crush on you for a long time and have been admiring you from afar and well..." she stopped to take a breath. As she was saying that she hadn't realized how fast she was talking but then resumed after she had gotten air, "I love you, Natsu, I realize that you probably don't think of me in the same way at all but I have been meaning to tell you for weeks and I had just worked up the courage to finally just say it. If you reject me I completely understand. You just barely met me after all and I just confessed my love to you. This must be very awkward for you right now! I'm so sorry!" She said and ran off.
Meanwhile At The Guild
"I wonder what that was about," Lucy said as she walked to the counter and ordered a milkshake.
Mirijane looked at Lucy with amazement in her eyes. "Lucy, your not worried at all?" She said as she set the shake down on the counter
Lucy looked at Mirijane, "About what?" She said as she began to slurp the milkshake.
Mirijane looked even more shock then before "Wait you mean you haven't heard?" She said in a slightly louder voice than normal. Happy had noticed the loud voice and came over to see what was going on.
"Herd what?" Asked happy landing on Lucy's shoulder.
Mirijane motioned for them to move in and whispered as quietly as she could while still being audible. "Emily has had a large crush on Natsu for a long time but has always been to shy to even show her face to him. Some of us have been trying to encourage her to be brave and talk to him but I think she got the wrong idea..." She said mumbling a little bit, "anyways the point is I think she just went to confess her love to Natsu."
Happy looked at her with big eyes and practically fainted. "Wait so she has a crush on- and he- and she took him-" happy said then passed out falling onto Lucy's lap.
"What the- anyway, I think that's great, a girl finally confessing her feelings to her crush, I think that's a great thing. Why would you think I would be worried?" Lucy said while she set the shake down and looked at her confused..
"Its just I thought that you kinda sorta had feelings for him..." she said with much disappointment in her voice. She had lots of ships within the guild, (A ship is when you want 2 people to be together) and Natsu and Lucy was her OTP (Favorite ship).
Lucy looked at her with amazement. She had never thought about Natsu that way except a long time ago when Mirijane gave Lucy the wrong idea by saying "Do you think Natsu really loves you?" Either way she hadn't thought about it in a long time... Well not until recently that is. She just so happened recently to never get him off her mind, no matter how hard she tried. She laughed.
"Mirijane, Natsu can like who he likes, and as far as I can tell, I don't have any special feelings for anyone at the moment." She laughed again remembering that time when she went practically insane because of some rumor type of story that went around cause of Mirajane telling her that famous line.
Back In The Ally Way
Natsu leaned against the wall and slid down to sit. 'What had just happened? Did that girl just say she likes me?' He went through it again and again in his head. 'What am I supposed to do? I just barely met her and someone else has already...' his mind wandered off at the thought of it, he couldn't think of her while he was sorting this out. 'Okay, I can't just leave that girl thinking that I hate her but I don't want to set the wrong image. What should I do what should I do!" Natsu yelled at himself in his head. "I could always just tell her I have feelings for someone else, no then she'll think she was imposing on a currently non-existent relationship. Ma-by I could try and ignore her and hope this all just blows over? No that's just rude Natsu, think!' Then it hit him 'What if I took her out on a date and let her down easy... Well as easy as I can at least, tell her that she was a little too late and that someone else has stolen my heart, that he would like to get to know her better and be friends. Ma-by that will work. But I have to make sure no one finds out who has stolen my heart and most of my thoughts... I don't know what I'd do if Lucy found out how I felt about her... Probably beat the crap out of me till I was more flexible than cooked pasta.' He thought laughing aloud at his own joke.
At Lucy's House
Lucy has been lying in her bed for hours not being able to sleep. She had tried all of the ways she knew to in order to put her mind at ease enough to fall into a slumber but no matter what she tried she could not sleep.
'Come on Lucy you need rest so just fall asleep!' She gave up. She had a headache from all the warm milk she drank. Not even Lyra could sing a song to put her to sleep. 'So... Natsu has a girl I guess? She seemed nice, pretty, looked smart... I wonder if they'll hit it off' Lucy didn't want to admit it to herself but she felt as if her heart was about to pound out of her chest. She had no idea why but it only got worse when she thought of it, thought of... them. 'Gyah I can't take it anymore! Why does my chest hurt so god damn much! And it only gets worse when I think of... No, no, no no no no no no! This can't be I can't I just can't! He's my friend, I can't think of him that way! I... I don't know... How can I... Whats happening here. Do I... Do I have special feelings for my best friend? Not only my best friend but my first friend?' Lucy thought about it all night and only got about 1hour of sleep.
Back At The Guild The Next Day
The guild was how it always was. Fighting, drinking, people looking at the quest board, but now there was an eary feeling in the air between Natsu, Lucy, and Emily. Emily had come back to the guild last night and told everyone what had happened, Lucy had left to go home by then and Natsu didn't go back. Emily now sat at a table with Gray and Juvia, trying to be a little more noticeable. Lucy was sitting at the counter with a new shake and Natsu had just gotten their.
"Hey everyone..." Natsu said with a still happy but quieter voice than normal. He walked over and looked at Emily getting ready to address her when she stood up and started to run out of the room. Happy flew up next to her and kept her at bay, long enough for Natsu to catch up to her.
"Emily wait, listen I'm sorry about what happened yesterday..." he said feeling almost dead inside while saying this but acting as well as he could so she wouldn't be to upset. "I was wondering if I could make it up to you by taking you to dinner tomorrow?" By now Natsu wanted to curl up in a ball and die. He hated when a girl was sad but he also felt like he was deceiving her. He felt he was lying to a girl he had barely met, it went against what he always has stood for and the fact that he was lying at all killed him. All he knew was that he couldn't let Lucy hear.
Sadly, it was too late Lucy had heard everything. So as Emily celebrated in joy that she had gotten the guy of her dreams (Tehehe). Lucy clenched the glass of now an almost empty shake. She couldn't believe this. As soon as she had realized that she had feelings for him, he goes and asks her out, a girl he barely even knows. She was too late. Even if she had realized it sooner thou, would it have changed anything? Would she have worked up the courage to tell him or would she have fallen fatal to the deadly illness of nervousness.
At The "Date"
Natsu was wearing a black tuxedo that he rented from a shop near the restaurant. He wore his scarf, as always. But Emily seemed to go a little over board for rhe occasion. She wore a long sea blue dress with a sky blue jacket over the top of it. She had on sea blue heels and had her hair up in a bun. She still however wore her teal headband, to go along with her theme of blue. Natsu was shocked by how radiant she looked in the moonlight, so much that he almost forgot that he would have to let this girl down soon.
"Wow," Natsu exclaimed as he sat at the table with the beautiful girl. They had decided to meet at the restaurant they would be eating at to save the trouble of Natsu wandering confused around town. Emily blushed.
"T-thanks..."
Happy was on watch in case things went bad or Natsu couldn't let her down. He was stationed under the table and had to stay quiet otherwise Emily would know he was there. Happy had put up with WEEKS of hearing Natsu constantly talk about Lucy back at home, he could not let all that time of dealing with hearing the same things over and over again go to waist.
"Soooooo..." Natsu said being at a loss for words cause he didn't want to make her feel so bad so early on into the night. "How long have you been in Fairy Tale for?" He asked trying to create small talk.
"Only a few months, but its amazing here. Everyone is so nice and none of them are mean to me."
Natsu looked at her wondering when would be a good time to say it. "Cool" he said as a last stitch effort to get the ball rolling.
"I'm sorry, you are here cause you felt bad for me arnt you?" Emily said tired of the silence. "Cause I came to you, a girl you didn't even know, and told you I love you. So now were here and I'm guessing you were either going to put up with me throughout the night or tell me that you are in love with someone else. Am I correct?" Natsu sat there amazed that she knew everything that was going on.
"Well I'm not going to say your wrong cause then I'd be lying but the second part was right." Natsu said as he glanced down at his bowl of ram-en.
Emily looked at him with... A SMILE! "I figured, you are always much more happy when your with her, you'd do anything for her and I can tell. Treat her well okay?" Natsu was even more shocked now then before, 'Does she know that I like Lucy?'
"T-thank you for understanding, but trust me, you seem like an amazing girl and I'm sure you'll find someone alot better than me one day. You just have to look around."
Natsu had never acted so strangely in his life, he had an odd seance of relief and happiness flood through him.
"Go ahead," Emily said with a quick wave of her hand.
Natsu looked more confused than he ever had been, "What?" He said with confusion in is tone and on his face.
"You do know she herd you ask me to dinner right? If you do love her, you can't just sit around like I did for months on end, cause maybe the one you love will fall in love with someone else and all you want, is for them to be happy. So go to her!" She realized that Natsu didn't look like he was going to leave, "Tell her how you feel before someone like Gray takes her away!"
That was what Natsu needed, he hopped out of his seat and ran for the door he looked back and said to Emily "Thank you, so much." And with that he raced to Lucy's house.
Lucy's House
"LUCY! LUCY!" Natsu screamed outside. No response. He climbed up to the window and climbed through only to find that Lucy wasn't there. "LUCY?" He shouted to see if she was there. #Clunk# Natsu fell to the floor. Lucy had herd someone yelling her name and with her lack of sleep she freaked out and grabbed the baseball bat she kept under her bed in case of intruders.
Natsu awoke in a daze. He looked around to find that it was morning, he looked some more only to realize that he was in Lucy's house! He sat up rubbing the back of his head. 'What happened?' He asked himself noticing that Lucy was asleep on her bed. He waited for her to wake up. Watching her adorable face calmly resting as she slept. All of the sudden, her calm face began to become, 'Scared?' Thought Natsu as Lucy began to kick a little in her sleep. He walked over to her and began to pet her head. He leaned in closely and calmly whispered into her ear "Its okay don't worry, it's gonna be okay." He said still petting her hair. As soon as he stopped to go back to the couch, he realized that her arms had wrapped tight around him. She pulled him in closely and he started to pet her head again, noticing that she was still asleep, or at least trying to fall back into sleep. All he knew was that she was conscious at the moment she grabbed him. "Don't leave me," Lucy muttered quietly.
Natsu embraced the tired girl next to him, nuzzling his nose into her hair, "I never will." He said soothing her back into a slumber.
Lucy awoke a few hours later with a faint memory of what had happened that night, most of what she remembered was dragging an unconscious Natsu to her couch. Why didn't I realized that it was Natsu outside my window!' He was luckily a lot lighter than he looked. She realized that there was something warm next to her, hugging her and breathing warm air into her hair. She slowly opened her eyes, to find Natsu asleep, right next to her, holding her close and smelling her hair in his sleep. She started to freak out a bit, 'Wh-why is Natsu a-asleep right n-next to me!' She said her eyes widening but not moving. 'How long has he-' right then she faintly remembered what had happened. 'Oh god' she said running through what happened in her head. She turned Erza red. Natsu began to wake up due to Lucy's squirming.
"Hey. Morning sleepy head." He said being loopy himself, well aware of where he was, nuzzling into her hair a little more.
"Get off!" Lucy freaked out pushing him off of her and into a sitting position on the ground. Natsu looked confused missing the scent of her strawberry scented hair, though he could still smell it just not as strongly as before.
"What? Your the one that grabbed me last night, all I did was try and help sooth your nightmare." He said with a slight smirk but still being as kind as he could.
"What!" She said pretending she had no idea what he was talking about.
Natsu went over what had happened before they had gone to bed. "And so I climbed into bed with you like I always do and fell asleep."
Lucy remembered all the times she had woken up to Natsu asleep next to her and happy down by their feet. "Okay... I suppose cause my sleepy self did start this I'll let it pass, but why were you coming to my house so late at night!" Lucy said angrily.
"First off it was 9:00pm, hardly late at all, second off I needed to tell you something." Natsu said blushing a little.
'Tell me something?' Lucy thought. 'I wonder... Did his date with her go that badly or...' "What was it?" Lucy had to know what he needed to tell her, she thought she knew since he was blushing and he slightly glanced downward.
Natsu mustered up as much courage as he could, what he was about to say would either take a large amount of stress off his chest, or break his spine. Either way he had to say it. "Lucy?" He said starring at her straight in the eyes, he didn't remember getting up but he was glad he did so he could grab her hands, "I-I love you, I have for such a long time but I've been afraid to tell you, I love you more than life itself and more than anything else in my life. I don't know what I would do if I lost you and I don't want to think about it, I love you and please never forget that." Natsu said, his heart beating faster than it ever had.
Lucy looked at him shocked. 'Did Natsu just say that?' She thought then without thinking she leaned in and hugged him whispering in his ear, "I love you too."
Natsu pulled back a bit and leaned in and kissed her. 'Take that Gray' Natsu thought continuing to kiss her soft lips. Lucy put her arms around his neck pulling him closer to her and deepening the kiss. Natsu released her letting her come up for air. "So what happened with Emily last night?" Lucy said remembering that he had had a date before coming over.
Natsu sat next to Lucy on the bed next to Lucy still holding her soft hand. "She told me that if you wait to long for something you'll lose it and told me to leave."
Lucy sat there in shock, she could tell almost all of what had happened by just that one statement.
"Well I'm glad she did." Lucy said kissing Natsu again then got up to go get dressed.
At The Guild
Natsu and Lucy walked into the guild with Natsu's arm around Lucy's shoulder and Lucy leaning against his chest. As they walked in a lot of their friends glanced and smiled at them, some even giggled at the sight.
"Looks like I won!" Gray about shouted walking up to Mirajane.
"I guess so but it was kinda devious of you to hire that actress in order to win a stupid bet." Said Mirajane glaring at Gray handing him his winnings. Natsu and Lucy had herd everything of what they were saying and went up to them.
"What bet?" Lucy said still leaning against Natsu's warm chest.
"Oh umm... Well it started a few weeks back..."
A Few Weeks Back
"I wonder how long it's going to take for Natsu and Lucy to realize their true feelings for each other?" Mirajane said to Levy who had been reading a book with her Wind Reader Glasses. She promptly closed the book when she herd Mirajane say this.
"So you've noticed too huh?" Levy said for she had been wondering about this for weeks.
Mirajane looked at Levy, "Of course I have!" 'Their my OTP' she added in thought.
Elfman had overheard the conversation and came to give his opinion, as did Gray, Erza, Wendy, Carla, and Happy who for some unknown reason decided to stay back for the mission Natsu and Lucy went on.
"Confessions help make you a better man!" Said Elfman punching one fist to his hand. "I give them a month."
Gray looked at him confused but understanding what he was going for, "I give them two weeks, give or take a day." Said Gray prompting the others to give their input.
"Normally I'm not a gambling man, but when it comes to things like this..." Master Makarove hopped down from the second floor, "ALRIGHT ALRIGHT, here's what were gonna do," he had silenced the shouts of everyone trying to give their input at the same time. "Put your bets in now, try and guess how long it will take for Natsu or Lucy to confess, the closest time gets half the pot!" Makarove said maniacally.
Present Time
"...After that people started betting like crazy, Gray bet and took it by the reins I suppose you could say, he sent out a mission for an actress to play a shy girl who stayed in the shadows and Emily was the one that took the mission."
Gray laughed slightly, "Yeah I guess I went a little overboard but hey! At least you two are together no-" Gray got shut up by Natsu's fist making contact with his face.
"YOU ICE HEADED BASTARD" Natsu screamed.
And so the guild went back to how it normally was, people fighting, laughing and drinking. The only change, was that a new love story had begun.
Hey guys, Zadel here, this is my first ever Fanfic so please leave a review and tell me what you think, what I need to change, and all in all what you thought of it, even if its to tell me you thought it sucked tell me. I am open to all sorts of criticism and suggestions. I am thinking about making this a story where I add on to this every now and then, and by add on I mean new chapters, I wouldn't think they would be this long but I did only mean for this to be a short little introduction fanfic but my imagination got the better of me. Anyway please review and I will be coming out with a My Little Pony fanfic soon. Chow!
NEXT TIME: Natsu and Lucy have started out on there first mission as a couple. WHY DOES HAPPY KEEP STAYING BACK! Follow for more and find out! O.o