CHAPTER 1

So this is what I came up with for NaLu week. I've been tinkering with this for a year and been waiting for this week to upload it. Let me know what you think by leaving a lovely review! Hope you enjoy

"So, what caused the fire this time Mr Dragneel?"

It was 3pm on a sunny Thursday afternoon. A fire had broken out in a small townhouse in the city of Magnolia… yet again.

This was the third fire just this month and the local fire station was getting pretty fed up with the culprit. Especially the blonde female firefighter who somehow always happened to be on duty whenever they happened.

Her brown tired eyes stared at the culprit with an unamused look while he sheepishly scratched the back of his head while he sat cross legged on the floor of his partially burnt home.

"Didn't I tell you last time to just call me Natsu?" he asked with a sheepish smile.

The blonde felt her right eye twitch; a habit she picked up whenever she had to talk to him.

"And didn't I tell you last time to stop setting fire to your house!?" she yelled angrily.

Natsu flinched at her loud tone; for a guy with sensitive ears her voice could be pretty painful.

"Damn Lucy, do you have ta yell so loud?" he grumbled while rubbing his ear.

The blonde huffed at his nonchalant attitude and pinched the bridge of her nose in annoyance.

"That's Miss Heartfilia to you, Pyromaniac. Now, back on topic, the start of the fire?" she asked while holding a clipboard with information on the fire.

Natsu started laughing nervously "Well… funny story, ya see I tried to make one of my dragon sculptures blow fire, and well… obviously some wires touched that shouldn't and well… yeah"

By this time Lucy had covered her face with her hand in exasperation.

'Of all the dumb, moronic, imbecilic, hazardous- ugh, why do I always get stuck with this guy?!' she thought with fake tears streaming down her cheeks.

"And you thought doing that inside was a good idea?" she asked with a raised brow.

"I was so excited about it I didn't really think about 'inside' or 'outside'" he muttered with a pout.

Lucy sighed, he acted like such a child sometimes "Well at least you managed to keep the fire from going out of control this time" she said as she wrote down what he said.

Natsu grinned at this "Course I did, I even bought one a those mini extinguishers you told me to get!" he said while pointing at what she assumed to be an empty tiny fire extinguisher.

She smiled softly at this 'Well, at least the idiot is paying attention'

"Good for you, but I think it's time you get a normal sized one, and this time get at least three" said Lucy with a small smile.

"Eh?! Those things are expensive Lucy!" he yelled in shock.

"So are your insurance premiums! Which, by the way, will keep going up the more you set your place on fire!" she yelled in annoyance.

"I can't help it!"

"Oh you-!"

"Yo Lucy, we're just about done here. Luckily the fire was only in the living room… sorry am I interrupting?"

Lucy sighed in exasperation as one of her co-workers walked next to her.

"No Gray, I'm just trying to educate him about fire safety… again" she said while pinching the bridge of her nose.

The raven haired man burst out laughing and ruffled his sweaty hair "I think you should give up while you can, better men than you have tried to teach this idiot" he said while pointing at Natsu.

Natsu scowled "I hope you're not talking about yourself Fullbuster, coz you know I've always been better than you" he said with a smirk.

Gray stopped laughing and glared in Natsu's direction "Haah? I dare you to say that again Pyro!" yelled Gray angrily as he stomped towards him.

Natsu stood up and banged his head against Gray's "I'm. Better. Than. You" he said with a smirk.

Gray grabbed Natsu's shirt and was about to raise his fist to punch him in the face but-

"Do I hear fighting?"

Gray and Natsu froze; that could only be the voice of one person, the Vice Captain of the Fire Department, Erza Scarlet.

She was glaring at the two men while holding her helmet under her arm, letting her long blood red hair flow down.

Gray immediately went on the defensive and wrapped his arm around Natsu's shoulder like he would for a buddy.

"W-What are ya talking about Erza, us fighting? No way!" he said while sweating nervously.

"Y-Yeah, we're the best of friends, we would never fight!" said Natsu also sweating quite a bit.

Lucy sweat-dropped at the scene, it made her question her sanity knowing that this was a common occurrence.

"Well, I suppose it's only normal for even the best of friends to fight sometimes, right Lucy?" asked Erza with a soft smile.

"Uh, sure Erza" she said with an unconvincing smile.

"Anyway, we're just about done here. You know the drill by now right Natsu?" asked Erza sending a questioning look at the man.

By now the two men had stepped far away from each other and crossed their arms like children who just got scolded for something.

"Yeah yeah, I remember" he said with a pout.

"Good" she said with a satisfied smile.

Which disappeared once she looked at Gray.

"Gray, stop taking off your overalls and let's go alright?" she said while pinching the bridge of her nose.

"Huh?" Gray looked down and noticed that his overalls were now bunched up to his knees.

Lucy blushed and covered her eyes; how this guy developed a stripping habit was beyond her.

"Ah crap, not again!"

"Oi! Don't strip in other people's houses! What, were you raised in a strip club or something?!" yelled Natsu in disgust.

"Say's the guy who sets his own house on fire on a regular basis" grumbled Gray redressing himself.

"Anyway, if that's all I think we should go, I have a report to write up" said Lucy exasperatedly.

"Ah, wait Lucy!" yelled Natsu grabbing her by her shoulder.

"Hm?" she turned and looked at him questioningly.

"Well, since my house seems to catch fire on a regular basis, maybe you should give me your number? That way you guys can get here faster!" he yelled with a proud grin.

"Huh?! We get here plenty fast already! Why would you need my number, why not Erza's?!" she asked with a blush.

"Pwease Wucy! Pweas pweas pweas!?" begged Natsu while giving her his most effective puppy dog look.

'Are you a two-year-old?!' she thought in shock.

She didn't really want to give him her number, God knows what he would do with it if she did, but, that damned face of his was just too friggen adorable she was losing her resistance.

Suddenly she had an idea; it would be kind of mean but considering how pushy he was being she thought it would be fine to mess with him a little.

"Fine fine, gimme your phone" she said in a defeated tone while sticking her hand out.

"Yay!"

Once she had his phone Lucy punched a number in and put her name in. She smirked internally; this was sure to teach him a lesson about being annoying.

"Alright, there" she finished and handed him back his phone.

"Sweet! I'll send ya a text right now!" he said excitedly.

Lucy froze, he wasn't supposed to text her right away! Great now he'll know!

The message tone went off on a nearby phone and the owner opened it up to check. Once they read the text they scowled and sent a glare in Lucy's direction.

"Really Lucy, you gave my number to the Pyro? That's just mean" said Gray looking at his phone in disgust.

"Wha-! You gave me that popsicle's number instead!? Lucy, that's so cruel!" whined Natsu who looked like a kicked puppy.

Lucy looked to the floor sheepishly. It was just a prank, they didn't need to make her feel so guilty.

"I'm surprised, I never expected something like this from you Lucy" said Erza with a surprised look.

"Oh alright already!" yelled Lucy angrily as she yanked Natsu's phone out of his hand and placed her real number inside.

"There! You can even text to check it's my real number! Geez, since when do you guys not know how to take a joke?" she muttered with a pout.

Natsu grinned happily and proceeded to text Lucy.

"By the way, what did his text say?" asked Erza as she tried to read it over Gray's shoulder.

'Sup Wierdo!'

Erza sweat-dropped at this. If he was going to send these kinds of messages to Lucy she kind of understood why she didn't want him to have her number.

"And send" said Natsu while staring at Lucy waiting for her to receive his message.

Lucy heard the message tone of her phone go off and reluctantly took it out to see what ridiculous thing Natsu had sent her.

'Nice try with the fake number Lucy, but you'll have to do better than that to prank me XD. Ps, your face was so cute when I caught you out :P'

Lucy blushed at that last sentence. She looked at Natsu's face only to see a shameless grin on it. He looked so happy just to get her number… he doesn't like her, does he?

'Maybe I'm reading too much into this, my writer's imagination does tend to go wild' she thought logically.

Natsu was looking at Lucy expectantly. For a second she wondered what he was waiting for, then realised he wanted a reply to his text.

Lucy sighed in exhaustion and typed something with a pink tinge on her cheeks.

Natsu heard his phone go off and grinned when he saw it was a text from Lucy; which he opened immediately.

'You weirdo, if you spam me I'm blocking your number forever XP'

He chuckled at her message and prepared to type a reply… when he was brought back to reality by an annoying scoff which made him scowl.

"Could you two flirt in the privacy of your own homes? Watching this is making me wanna barf" said Gray with a look of disgust.

"We're not flirting!" yelled Lucy in embarrassment.

"I am in my own home droopy eyes, you're the one invading my space" said Natsu with an angry scowl.

"No need to tell me twice slanty eyes, I'm out" said Gray while doing a peace sign and walking out of Natsu's front door.

Lucy face palmed "I can't believe he did that, what is he? A teenager?" said Lucy in shame.

Erza cleared her throat also feeling shamed by her co-worker's actions "Anyway, Lucy we really should be going now. You can text each other once your shift has ended, in the meantime let's report back to the station" she said

"Yes Erza" said Lucy with a tired sigh while making her way to Natsu's front door.

"Be sure to be more careful in the future Mr Dragneel" said Erza with a strict glare.

Natsu flinched and put his hand up in a mock salute "Aye Sir!" he said fearfully.

"Good boy" said Erza with a nod of approval while Lucy sniggered in the background at his reaction.

"Bye Lucy, I'll text ya later" he said with a happy grin.

Lucy blushed slightly at his innocent yet charming expression and just nodded.

Once everything was cleared up and all the firefighters left Natsu was finally alone in his slightly charred living room.

He sighed deeply to himself and deflated into a crouched position, his cheeks starting to redden.

"At least this time I won't have to set my house on fire just to see her again" he said with a shaky breath.

He covered his face with his hands and stared at Lucy's number on his phone. A happy grin made its way on his face.

"Haaah~ she was so cute today, I nearly died! At least I finally managed to get her number".

He could just imagine the look on his dad's face when he told him about this; he would call him an idiot for not asking her directly and costing himself a fortune in repair bills. But Lucy was just… so fucking pretty! There was no way she would have just given him her number so easily; she would have thought he was a creep or something.

'Says the guy who purposefully sets his own home on fire just to talk to a pretty girl' he thought ironically.

"No time to dwell on how I did it! The point is I managed to get her number!" he yelled in excitement.

'Now… how long is a guy meant to wait before asking her out again?'

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