My first one shot!
i'm not really good with 'fluffiness' but i want to try.
I do not own Fairy Tail. (SPOILER ALERT: Coz if I do, i wouldn't let the darn raven tail cheat on Lucy! ugh really frustrating.. *sigh)
Incomprehensible
Sunny day. It was such a nice day for a picnic. And Natsu Dragneel, a pink- haired fire dragon slayer, thought of spending the day fishing since aside from eating and fighting, it was his way of relaxing and enjoying the sunny day. He would want to be with Happy, his flying blue cat, but the cat seemed to have plans of his own (spending the day with Charle and Wendy, that is). Apart from Happy, there is also one person he wanted to spend the day with. Lucy. And that's what he's trying to do as he climbed at the window of an apartment not far from their guild – inviting Lucy to go fishing with him.
But what Natsu saw just made his very good mood turn into a very sour one. From the window outside, he saw his no other than rival/friend Gray lying nonchalantly on Lucy's bed with only his boxers on.
What the heck is happening here?
Just then, before Natsu could lift the windows up and yell at the pervert ice head, Lucy emerged from the bathroom clad only in a light blue towel, her blond hair dripping wet. Natsu's mind was spinning and for some unknown reason, he felt like punching the hell out of Gray at that very instant. And because Natsu is known to be a hot-headed and impulsive moron, he forcefully pulled up the windows open and let himself in uninvited surprising a newly-showered Lucy Heartfilia and a startled Gray Fullbuster.
"Natsu?" Lucy shrieked as she gripped the towel tighter. "GET OUT!"
"Oh? And he doesn't get to go out?" Natsu pointed at the now standing Gray giving Natsu a mused look, his arms crossed across his bare chest. The pink-haired mage looked at him dangerously as if he was about to slit his throat open.
"Wh-What–"
Lucy was cut in when Natsu, after giving Gray a piercing look, headed to the drawers, snatched some clothing and threw them over at the puzzled Lucy. "Dress now!" he bellowed a little too forceful that Lucy winced and scrambled back to the bathroom and closed the door shut.
"You pervert!" Natsu turned to Gray who was still giving him that mused (and for Natsu's case, irritating) look. "What are you doing here?"
"What do you care?"
"Why you little-" With a flaming fist, Natsu punched Gray making the latter fall back and land on the pile of boxes and drawers with a loud crash. Still without brushing her hair, a fully-dressed Lucy emerged from the bathroom to see what is going inside her apartment and her eyes went as wide as saucers when she saw Gray slumped on the pile of the fallen things.
"Don't fight in my apartment!" she shrieked at Natsu who was still glaring at the slumped figure of the ice mage.
Still ignoring Lucy's protest, Natsu turned to Lucy, "What are you doing with that ice pole with only on his boxers and you with only your towel?"
"I've just taken a bath, Natsu!"
"But he's lying on your bed, Lucy!"
"So? You're lying there most of the time and I don't complain or make a big fuss about it!" Lucy shot back defiantly. "Okay, so I complain most of the time, but Natsu, I'm the owner of the bed and if there's someone who has the right to complain about who's lying there, it should be me."
Natsu scowled at her. "So you're saying that you prefer Gray lying there than me?"
Luc y shot him a look of pure aghast. Does he know what he's saying? "You, idiot!" She screamed and started grabbing random things and threw them at the mad but a little afraid dragon slayer. "STOP-ugh!-THINKING-ugh!-MORBID THINGS! Uggh!" Lucy shrieked as she threw her journal, a bestselling horror book, and her lamp.
"Getting jealous there eh, Natsu?"
Both Lucy and Natsu turned to raven-haired who by that time had already stood up and watched them with a smirk on his face. "SHUT UP!" And with that, he instantly zipped his mouth shut, the smirk disappearing from his lips.
"Forced gate closure!"
'Gray' suddenly disappeared in a poof leaving a fuming Lucy and a dumbfounded Natsu.
"Wh-Who's that? Your spirit? Gray's your spirit?" Natsu looked at her quizzically.
A vein popped in Lucy's head. "Idiot, that was Gemini!" Then taking a deep breath and deciding that she just have to bear Natsu's idiocy for her entire life, she explained further. "I summoned them to help me carry my bags" – she pointed to a dozen or so bags lying beside the bed –"when I went shopping a while ago."
"Why didn't you call me?" He's using the mad and irritated tone again. "And why does your spirit copied Gray's face? Why did you summon Gemini anyway? You could have summoned Lyra, Aries or Aquarius or whoever girl in your keys."
Lucy clenched her teeth, still struggling so hard to suppress her anger. "Boys are relatively stronger than girls, Natsu, in case you forget. And summoning Loke would be very.." she trailed cringing at the thought of Loke continually trying to hit on her. "…inconvenient."
"What if The Sorcerer Magazine sees you and him, then that would be a controversy," Natsu said defiantly, not noticing the strange look that Lucy is giving him.
"It's not that I am a celebrity to be recognized immediately and be stalked by a dozen paparazzi so I don't care."
"But I do!"
"Wh-What?" Lucy blurted out, her face turning a bit red.
"Besides, Juvia might spot you and kill you right there and then with her water lock. That wouldn't be very good."
Lucy stared at him incredulously. It's not that he's wrong but because he is right. And that's why she is staring at him because he's so damn right. "You're acting weird today, Natsu," she said as she turned her back to him and picked up the things she had thrown hoping to every holy beings that he didn't notice her face which is turning into an alarming shade of red.
"No, I'm not," Natsu said, his tone changing back to normal. He headed to the bed and flopped down on it as he put his hands on the back of his head watching Lucy arrange her room. Pouting, Natsu whined inwardly at how his plan to go fishing was suddenly ruined by the darn spirit. And the weather was very nice, too.
Lucy on the other hand, has been thinking of different things as she placed the lamp, the book and her journal in place. Then after a moment of thinking, she turned to the pouting Natsu. "Ne, Natsu."
"Hm?"
"Why are you mad a while ago?"
Natsu paused. For a second, Lucy thought he forgot why and would just give her a shrug for a reply but she was surprised when he spoke. "I don't know. When I saw Gray and you in those outfit of yours, I just suddenly felt like I could really break Gray's neck that time."
"E-Eh?" She felt another blush on her cheeks.
"There's some feeling in my chest. It's just so uncomfortable and I just want to get rid of him immediately. I don't know but I felt like I don't want to see that scene again. With you and Gray, that is."
Lucy held her breath hoping she could at least slow down her heart which was currently pumping at a faster rate than the usual—it's getting a little dangerous.
"It's weird though, this feeling. This is so alien to me. Wonder if you could tell me what's this, Lucy?" Natsu said his eyes gleamed with pure innocence.
"I-I don't know," Lucy stuttered. But when she saw Natsu looked so down, she piped up, "But I'll try," she said and gave him a reassuring smile despite her red cheeks.
Natsu just gazed at her. "That's cute, Lucy. Do it again?"
"WHAT!"
"Why are you red?"
Lucy blushed more again. Damn cheeks. "It's the heat," she lied. Then she said, "Why did you come here? Have you got something to tell to me?"
Natsu looked down again. "Oh, that. I was thinking of inviting you to go fishing with me since the weather is nice and all."
Indeed, it is, Lucy thought as she smiled more warmly. "So?"
"So?"
"You're still not inviting me."
Natsu hesitated. "Maybe you'd refuse since you're mad at me. You threw things at me in the first place."
Lucy laughed a genuine laugh. "No, I'm not, silly!"
"Really? So can we go fishing?" Natsu's face lit up.
"Of course, you dense dimwit!" Lucy giggled as she picked up a pillow and threw it harmlessly on his pink head. Then she grabbed his hand and grinned. "Maybe I can do something about that uneasy feelings of yours."
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