A/n: Thanks for picking up Masked Danger! I've been working on this for a while, and I hope you like it and review! Sorry abt grammer...
oh and these guys'll probs be ooc here and there, but pls read anyways. Thanks to my amaz editor Sofia and puttn up with me.
*Important* in a character's pov it'll be 3rd person, but all thoughts (italics), and dialogue is said by them unless stated or implied otherwise, thanks!
-Ryan Sensei
In the town of Magnolia is the vast kingdom of Fiore. Located in that Kingdom are numerous wizard guilds. The guild that quickly became the representative for it all was none other than the notoriously rowdy, Fairy Tail. Where, at the moment, two of the guild's strongest were in one of their daily brawls.
"What the hell, flame brain?!"
"You're the one that started it, ice popsicle!"
"Me?! It was clearly your fault, so why are you tryna blame me?!"
"Huh? What are you talking about stripper? You wanna go?!"
That was all it took for the loud guild hall to become even louder, as a fight between two of Fairy Tail's best fighters began.
The white haired barmaid giggled at the sight, and made her way over to the violet haired dragon slayer, happily sitting with Carla at the bar.
"Ne, Wendy, got any idea what they're even arguing about?"
"Oh! I'm pretty sure it's something involving Lucy... I'm not exactly sure what, but knowing Natsu it's definitely about her," Wendy replies as she finishes her glass of milk.
"I'm still surprised Lucy hasn't realized how madly in love Natsu is with her. I'm pretty sure everyone but her knows," Mira says as she leans on the counter.
"Speaking of Lucy, where is she?" Carla says, scanning the room.
At the sound of the question, Wendy begins sniffing the air before replying, "well she definitely isn't in the guild right now..."
The heavy clinking sound of metal armor broke the young dragon slayer's concentration as the notorious Titania approached the two fighting teens with a menacing purple aura.
"Natsu. Gray. You two wouldn't be fighting, would you?", she growled at them.
At the sound of the red head's voice, both boys suddenly wrapped an arm around each other as they nervously laughed.
"Of course not Erza! We wouldn't dare! Na Gray?"
"Hai! Natsu and I were just joking around!"
The two boys laughed as they sweat dropped in dread, hoping Erza would quickly drop the topic.
"Hm. I thought so. Where's Lucy by the way?"
Natsu perked his head up at the sound of Lucy's name.
"I'm pretty sure she'll be here soon, she's kinda been coming a bit later for a while now..." Natsu says as he thinks aloud, looking up at the ceiling.
"Pht! Of course you'd know, since you're so in love~ with her," Gray added while smirking.
"S-Shudap Iceberg! We're just partners, of course I'd know all about her!" Natsu retorted with a slight blush, pushing Gray away. "Just you wait, she's coming now, I smell her."
Despite how much Natsu denied it, he was definitely head over heals for Lucy, but admitting it out loud, and to Gray nonetheless… That wasn't happening -any time soon- at least. Right now though, all Natsu could think about was the strawberry vanilla smell coming his direction, and GOD, he loved it.
As if on cue, the guild hall doors swung open and revealed the busty blonde mage. Lucy was wearing a short, white mini skirt, a pink tube top, her usual belt with her keys were attached to her waist, and a small brown leather purse that slung across her chest.
With a large, heart-warming smile, she happily greeted her guild mates.
"Ohayou mina!"
In return, her guild mates greet Lucy -who was publicly known to everyone but the girl herself, as the light of fairy tail- back as she made her way to one of the tables in the center of the guild.
Opening her book, she cups her chin with her hand, arm propped on the table and begins wandering off into her own world as she reads away.
Natsu's POV
As Lucy began reading, Natsu couldn't help but freeze where he was standing, mouth agape.
Once again she looks like a goddess, as usual she smells amazing, and GOD those lips. Could anyone smell that tempting?
"Yo flame brain, you're drooling," Gray says, snickering as he makes his way over to Lucy.
"W-what? Am not! Take that back ice prick!" Natsu shouts, trying to catch up to his rival.
Happy, who was hovering nearby, just covered his mouth with his paws. As he snickers he says, "you liiiiiiiiiike her~." Knowing full well that with his dragon like hearing, Natsu would pick up on his comment.
Trying to hide his blush, Natsu continued to make his way over to Gray. To Natsu's dismay, not only did the ice mage steal the seat right next to his partner and love, but the whole table was practically full. It was filled with people wanting to sit next to the oh so popular mage. Without a seat, the dragon slayer could only hover behind Gray and Lucy. He purposely stuck his head between the two, so Gray wouldn't try any funny business.
"Ne, ne Luce, what are ya reading?" The pink haired teen says, effectively receiving her attention.
As the blonde slowly puts down and closes the book, she tucks a strand of hair behind her ear and looks back at Natsu. Her brown eyes could make a man go mad just by its temptation. Effortlessly, her body was placed in a seductive position as she prepared to speak. Just this small action earned a few gulps from some of the men nearby.
"Oh, hey Natsu!" She says in a cheerful tone, glancing down at her book then back at him. "This is just a book that Levi recommended for me, it's a really good book about this guy and girl who fall in love. It's between a courtesan and a writer, but the courtesan is dying and there are people trying to get in between their forbidden love..." she turns her head to Levy who's sitting across from her. "It's really good, I'm loving it so far, thanks Levy!"
"No problem Lu-chan! I love that book! It was actually made into a movie, we should see it together some time soon," the small blue haired girl says with an innocent smile.
Clasping her hands with Levy's, Lucy ecstatically says, "I'd love to! It's a promise!"
Unable to control his thoughts, Natsu couldn't help the tilting of his head, joined with a wide eyed expression.
She's too cute. I seriously wanna cuddle with her, and kiss her, but she'd probably get weirded out if her partner just suddenly confessed to her...
His thoughts were interrupted when Lucy continues and rests her chin on her now crossed arms on the table, "It's so romantic, I want someone to love me like that..."
Everyone at the table aside from Natsu simultaneously thought the same thing.
She's amazing, but god is she dense, and Natsu's too slow!
At the same time, Natsu was thinking as well,
I love you, I could love you like that. If you'd just give me the chance. You wouldn't regret it, because I'd cherish you every day...
Gajeel, who was sitting next to Levy cleared his throat, clearing the silence and asks, "hey bunny girl, why're ya coming so late lately?"
Lucy tensed up at the question, but they were too surprised by the iron dragon slayer's bluntness to notice.
"Yeah Luce, you used to come at the same time as me, is somethin' up?" Natsu asked.
As quickly and swiftly as Lucy could manage, she did what she knew best. She smiled even when she didn't want to. Her smile seemed to always to reassure everyone that she was ok. Then says, "Oh, well I'm kinda writing something, and have been using my mornings to work on it..."
"Oh! Is it that book that you're working on? Got it, I thought you were doing something really cool without us, or were late because you were sick and not feeling well for a while or something, I don't know..."
"Hehe.. Yup, I'm definitely writing... How could I even be sick every morning anyways? That's just silly," Lucy nervously said giving a small smile to Natsu.
"I mean people do get sick in the morning when they're preg-" Gajeel starts before getting a hand slapped over his mouth.
"She's not. It's not even funny as a joke. Don't you dare start telling her stuff along those lines, she's still pure," Levy whispers condescendingly.
Lucy just cocks an eyebrow and turns back to Natsu, "Ne, are we going on any jobs sometime soon?"
Natsu was taken by surprise and just nervously laughs, "o-ou! Yea, Happy already picked out a job, we're going tomorrow..." Lucy's gaze made the flame mage blush and turn his head in another direction. "Y-yosh! I'm all fired up! We're going tomorrow, na Happy?"
"Aye sir!" The blue exceed says, as he flies over and sits on top of Natsu's head.
Lisanna, looking at her childhood friend, laughs at his antics from across the table and says, "I'm hungry! Lucy, do you want anything?"
Lucy freezes for a moment, then nervously smiles as she politely rejects the offer, saying that she wasn't hungry.
The day went as usual, loud and full of brawls, until finally the night approached and people began heading home. Natsu wasted no time in asking Lucy if he and Happy could walk her home. To his delight, she agreed.
The walk back was full of Natsu and Happy cracking jokes and Lucy's contagious and uncontainable laughter. Natsu was overjoyed, the two most important people in his life were there with him; in that moment he was in pure bliss.
The slight night breeze didn't phase him at all, with his abnormal body temperature, he was warm all around. Lucy, on the contrary, let out a slight shiver and murmured, "It's cold..."
Natsu picked up on the slight whisper and held out his outstretched hand towards the blonde with a red blush, "C'mere."
Lucy glanced at his hand, then back at Natsu before nervously taking the hand. She trusted Natsu, so she wouldn't ask questions, but what she did want to ask was why a light blush was appearing on her own cheeks.
Natsu surprised himself as he transitioned from keeping a firm hold of Lucy's hand to lifting her in a princess carry position.
"Kyaaa! N-Natsu what are you d-doing?"
Attempting not to falter at her cuteness, Natsu continues walking. "Just stay like this, and hold on to me, you'll be warm in no time."
Instead of struggling like he thought she would, Lucy just gripped his vest with her free hand and leaned into the crook of his neck. Natsu couldn't be anymore wrong, if he was in bliss before, now he was in ecstasy.
With the dim lights of Lucy's road approaching, he dreaded the thought of having to let his partner go. He wanted time to stand still, just Lucy in his arms and Happy nearby was enough. It was all he wanted.
To Natsu's right was the stream on Strawberry st. and the narrow pathway that Lucy dangerously walked across every night. As if continuing her routine, he hopped onto the elevated cobblestone. This action, effectively earned a small response in surprise from the blonde.
Natsu looked down at the blonde and chuckled lightly at the sight. Her eyes widened in panic as she gripped tighter onto the dragon slayer's vest. She pressed herself closer to Natsu, trying to gain reassurance that she was safe. Catching her unease, Natsu calmly reassured her.
"I got ya Luce, just hold on a bit. We're almost home."
"...Kay."
She's too cute. God I wanna kiss her right now...
"Ne... Natsu?"
"Yeah?"
"A-Aren't I heavy? You know you don't have to carry me, we're almost home. You really don't have to..."
What's she talking about? She's not heavy at all, if anything she's seriously light. Is she tryna get me to put her down? I knew it, she is weirded out. Guess I should put her down. Damn it...
Natsu halted in his tracks, which conveniently was only a few houses away from Lucy's.
"W-What are you talking about? You're not heavy, but yeah, I guess we are close to your house. I'll put you down."
Natsu gently lowered the blonde to her feet, and as she steadied herself, Natsu noticed the uncomfortable look on her face.
Damn it, I was right, she was weirded out... Happy, please make this less awkward! Natsu thought as he made direct eye contact with the flying blue cat. Somehow picking up what Natsu was implying, Happy began speaking.
"Phft! Lucy is heavy!"
"Shut it! C'mere you!"
"Phft! Ahh! Save me Natsu, Lucy's gonna eat me!" Happy said as he hid behind Natsu.
"Who'd wanna eat you?" Lucy said as she puffed out her cheeks and looked to the side. They finally reached Lucy's front door and Natsu decided that the atmosphere was right for him to speak up again.
"Alright Luce, we're here! Can we sleepover?" He said smiling as he rested both hands behind his head.
"No! I mean... I'm busy, sorry. Another time..."
Great now she's really freaked out by me, I guess we should give her some space.
"No, it's all good! Anyways, we'll see you tomorrow for our mission, alright?"
"Y-yea..."
"Yosh! I'm all fired up!"
"Hehe, see ya guys later..."
"Bye Luce!" "Cya Lucy!" The two said while departing. As Natsu turned around, he saw Lucy smile and wave as she shut the door behind her.
Well, I guess things aren't all bad...
"Alright Happy, I'm hungry! Let's get some fish!"
"Yey! Fish! We can still fish at night?"
"I don't see why not. Let's go!"
That night, how would Natsu ever know that if he'd just stayed with Lucy that night, he could've prevented her from how she was going to, yet again hurt herself. How would he know that that night would be the time where Lucy's 'bad habit' would be what set everything into motion.
A/n: thus ends the mellow chapter one, it'll get more action packed, and with some lemon here and there, please continue reading! Follow and Review, thanks
-Ryan sensei
