Chapter 1- another normal day
A/N: this is my first fanfic I have posted so I hope you all like my NaLu and please if you hate it then don't send me hate, just don't read it.
disclaimer: I do not own fairy tail, Hiro Mashima does
Natsu's P.O.V
Damn it, I thought to myself. "Hey Happy, we can't go to the restaurant today" I exclaimed to my flying blue companion. "Why did Lucy take our share of the money again?" " well it is your fault Natsu. If it wasn't for you getting the town tore in half and having to pay for repairs we would have got the whole amount. But Lucy's rent is due again so she needed the money from you" the exceed said, whilst sitting on my head and smiling. To be honest, I really only went on the job because I knew that Lucy's rent was due, and because she asked me to. I was smiling too, but for a completely different reason. I loved the sight of her fighting, with her golden blonde hair and soulful brown eyes. Not to mention her curves... No Natsu, stop it. She's your nakama! Your team mate, and anyway, I doubt she feels the same way as I do. I stopped walking and lowered my hands from behind my head. I had managed to suppress those types of thoughts and feelings ever since we got back from Tenroujima, so as to not ruin the friendship we already had by telling her what my inner most conscious was trying to say. I sighed at my thoughts, and then as I inhaled I caught the familiar scent of strawberries and vanilla. Intoxicating, inviting and familiar... Lucy. Not being able to stop myself, I followed the scent, knowing exactly where it would leave me. Stopping outside her rented house, I turned to Happy with a mischievous grin forming on my face. Pointing up to her bedroom window and putting a finger to my lips, telling him to be quiet. He got the idea and lifted me through the window quietly, so that I could surprise Lucy with the flowers I had bought for her. I intended to say I found them on her doorstep as I walked past so that she didn't know it was me.
As I entered, I could hear her humming downstairs, and so I sat at her desk and started reading her notes on what she was going to put into her novel, cringing at the fact is was a romance and not an action. I don't like novels anyway, I told myself sighing. Realising my mistake by making a noise, I heard a familiar incantation, "Gate of the maiden, I open thee, Virgo!" Jumping up to hide the flowers under her bedspread, I forgot I had her notes in my other hand. That's when Virgo had me suspended by my ankle looking straight at Lucy. Virgo said her usual, "Punishment, Hime?" and Lucy was stood in her doorframe tapping her foot with her arms crossed, giving me an Erza-like stare. Trying to hide the amusement on her face. I was shocked that the maid was able to have me suspended by my ankle. Lucy's spirits are strong; they must get that from her. That's the last thing I thought when she grabbed another key. Recognising the symbol and design of it, I groaned. Here comes the playboy. "Gate of the lion, I open thee, Leo!" she all but shouted at me, as the orange-haired spirit made an appearance. Holding my other ankle, he grinned down at me when he saw Lucy's dark aura. Before I had time to react, I had a firm 'Lucy Kick' connect to my face and send me flying back out the window. I could hear Happy chasing me out of the window, and shaking his head at me when he saw I had landed headfirst into the river.
Lucy's P.O.V
I was humming happily, now that I had gotten my rent in on time, means I could relax. I remembered Natsu destroying half the town in an attempt to catch a meagre imp, all so I could get my rent money. But in doing so, he halved the money meaning that I needed Natsu's money to pay up to the landlady. I will pay you back Natsu. I silently declared. Noticing something off, I walked up my stairs more cautious than usual, when I heard a sigh that sounded like a certain dragon slayer. Reaching down to my key belt, I grabbed Virgo's key and incited the incantation, "gate of the maiden, I open thee, Virgo!" knowing full well that he would be hung upside down in no time I crossed my arms and started tapping my foot, all whilst giving off a menacing aura that I had learned from Mira and Erza. "Punishment, Hime?" Virgo asked, glancing down at the salmon haired mage. That grin of his was still on his face so I thought, I know a spirit that'll wipe off that smug look, smirking to myself without letting Natsu see, grabbing Loke's key I recited his incantation too, "Gate of the lion, I open thee, Leo!" seeing his eyes quickly change, I merely had Loke hold his other ankle as I kicked him out of my window, knowing full well that he'd be back in my house and in my bed come morning. Watching Happy fly out after the unconscious Natsu floating down the river, I closed my windows, but didn't lock them. A habit I had developed with Natsu concerned. I felt a little bad for kicking him out temporarily but I don't think that I can resist his appealing looks and chiselled, uncovered chest... okay Lucy stop. There is no way in hell that Natsu has any of those types of thoughts, so just give it up already. Sighing to myself I noticed that both of my spirits had already left, but Loke had left a light behind sparkling with letters spelling 'I love Lucy'. Sighing once again, I sat on my bed, but noticed that there was something underneath. Lifting up the covers I found it to be a bouquet of red, orange and yellow flowers, arranged to look like an open flame, smiling to myself, I put them down, picked up all my notes, and laid staring at them. Deciding to keep them I put them in a vase, and took a long whiff. They smelt like brimstone and campfires, which I associated with Natsu. That baka, did he think I wouldn't notice they were from him? Deciding to go to bed I went to the bathroom and brushed my hair and teeth, waiting for a while before changing into my silk pyjamas and going back to my room. I turned the light off and crawled in my bed closing my eyes and waiting for him. When I felt a familiar pair of arms wrap around my body, I smiled and drifted off to sleep, hoping he was still there in the morning.
A/N: I hope this wasn't too short, I have a varying chapter length as I have already planned out and written most of the story. I hope to get 1 chapter up a week and a warning in advance, I made the next chapter the first lemon because it leads into a crucial part of the story.
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