Anime: Fairy Tail

Pairing: Lucy x Natsu

Genre: Romance/Angst

A/N: I've thought again and again, about whether or not I'd try to write a fanfiction about NaLu. I've also wondered about the rating; how far I'll let them go - if the situation should arise. I doubt this will be a long story, maybe just 5 chapters. Four. Three maybe. I've been seeing a lot of fanart too that inspired me to do this. Actually, Fairy Tail is the only anime where I want to write something for the different pairings I ship. But I'll work with this one for now. The ramble ends here. Hope you enjoy :)

Chapter One:

The warm shower water beat down over her voluptuous body, sending the lather running into then down the curves of her form. She watched the foam swirl around the drain then disappear. The aches in her neck and limbs weren't as apparent now as when she'd just woken up this morning. She rubbed the back of her neck, pressing her fingers into the sides and felt slight pain that still made her wince. She rolled her shoulders and tilted her face up to the spray as she closed her eyes. It had been hard for her to sleep the night before, her dreams plagued by strange nightmares, though that wasn't the term she meant to use to describe what her mind had taunted her with.

Pushing herself to stand from her braced position against the wall; she turned off the tap and watched the water slow to light drips before stopping altogether as the drain sucked the water down. Pulling the shower curtain back, she reached for her towel and wrapped her body, dotted with tiny rivulets of water that slid down from her movements as she stepped out the shower and onto the soft rug. Her thoughts while showering had been focused on her writing, something that had kept her up the night before. Lucy liked to document her days in her journal, then use those entries to formulate ideas for the novel she was putting together. However, the general theme of her writing had taken an unexpected turn last night and thinking about what she had written made her cheeks flush a deep shade of red. She shook her head and patted her cheeks. It was a story that was all it was. It wasn't even about her. The character's had been detailed to fit Lucy's by sheer coincidence, and that was that.

She walked to the closed bathroom door, moving another towel that she had taken from the rack through her hair with one hand as she opened the door. She stopped short when she heard familiar laughter, the voice high and small. And it belonged to Happy, who was hovering over Natsu's shoulder as the pink-haired guy held up her papers. They both turned to look at her, hearing the click of the door and Happy had a paw at his mouth, his cheeks bloated as the small, blue cat held in his laughter.

"Lucy, I didn't know you liked this kinda thing," he waved the papers at her, grinning stupidly as he pitched the chair on its back legs, his feet up – ankles crossed – on the edge of her table.

"Natsu! I told you not to read those!" She rushed over to him to snatch the papers and she made a grab for it. He moved it out of her grasp before her fingers could grab the edges of the papers. The chair was jerked back too far, causing it to topple over with Natsu and Lucy lost her footing, falling over him.

She scrambled away from him quickly and when she saw him, face angled towards her – eyes slightly wide and his mouth agape – she looked down to see the knot of her towel had come undone. She was buck naked before him. She reached for the closest thing possible, which was a shoe and flung it in his face. "Look away!" She grabbed the towel, her entire face red as she fumbled to make a tight knot with her towel.

The shoe hit Natsu square in the face and he grunted from the unexpected assault.

"Lucy's breasts are getting bigger."

She grit her teeth and got up quickly, trying to get a hold of Happy but the cat flew quickly out of her reach and made a face at her. It all exhausted her and in her head, she raised the white flag of surrender, her shoulders sagged visibly from the exertion. "Why are you guys even here?" she asked, her tone dull.

"To check up on you."

"I don't need checking up on."

"Today's a free day," Natsu shrugged as he set the chair back in place at Lucy's desk. Funny, that was the single, neatest thing she had ever witnessed Natsu do; putting something back in order. "There are no jobs really on the board, so Happy and I are gonna crash here."

A vein ticked in Lucy's jaw and she closed her eyes for a second. It wouldn't be bad if he asked, but the fact that he just thought she'd be okay with it grated on her nerves. Today, she thought, would be her day to finish that story and maybe even burn it afterwards if it still affected her the way it did last night, when she had written it. "Oh? Is that so?"

"Yeah," Natsu said, his hands – which still held the papers - behind his head as he regarded Lucy with an aloof gaze. If he heard the annoyed inflection in her tone, he made no effort to acknowledge it. He went to her bed and laid back as he started going through the papers again.

"We should go out and eat fish, later," Happy suggested and Natsu nodded, grinning at Happy then at Lucy. "That'll be okay, right Lucy?"

She wondered if she was even supposed to answer whe- the papers, he was flipping to the last page! Lucy ran to the bed and snatched the papers then pushed Natsu out of her bed. "Get out! Out! I'll meet you guys at the guild so just wait for me there." Her words ran right into each other and she kept pushing Natsu until they were at the door to her apartment, which had been left open. He had even come through the door? Not the window? But she had no time to appreciate that minor detail as she shoved him right out, saying yes to a question she didn't really here and slammed the door in his face, . Luckily for her, Happy had followed Natsu right out.

Then she heard Happy on the other side, "She lllliiikes you."

A nerve ticked somewhere inside of her at the muffled comment but she had no time to let Happy's tease get to her. She sighed and slid down against the door, completely exhausted in just a matter of minutes. Natsu always managed to drain her energy. She looked at the papers, held together by a single paper clip and flipped to the last page. She stared at the doodle to the bottom left of the page and shuddered inwardly at how much like Juvia she'd become. Drawn and shaded hearts, the first initial of his name with hers connected by curlicues and wave like designs. She sighed and tore it off then crumpled it. Her face heated up. What the hell had even come over her last night? Why did she write this? It wasn't as if she hadn't been in awkward situations with Natsu before that felt like something straight out of a stupid, teenage romance movie.

But it wasn't even about her! The character's name was Fiona and the guy's name...

She looked at it and groaned. How did she even miss that!

No wonder he'd actually read so far, even after she had made a grab for it.

His name was right there!

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