Falling Rain
Natsu and Lucy have been partners for quite some time now, he could remember the first day they met, their first mission every memory with her stuck like glue to the inside of his mind. He'd always cared for her even in her darkest moments he was there for her, isn't that what partners do?
He leaned back in his chair, crossing his arms behind his head, "Gaaahh I fucking hate the rain, cant do a damn thing and I'm stuck in here with all you losers!" he whined. "Hey, no one gives a crap Natsu why don't you do us a favor and get out of here, your constant complaining isn't making matters any better." Gray shot back obviously sick of Natsu's shit today. "Get out and go wheeerrreeee? It's raaainnningggg!" Natsu whined again. Erza stood from her seat suddenly, "Natsu, One more word about the rain and I'll throw you out there myself! Now shut up before I get angry." Erza sat back down with a hard thump and crossed her arms, "Why don't you go bother Lucy, we haven't seen her all day she's probably cooped up in her house." Natsu thought for a minute looking up at the ceiling, hearing the raindrops fall onto the roof of the guild, 'Where was Lucy' he thought. Sitting back in his chair he stood and headed towards the door, "Tell her I say hi!" Mira said with a smile. "No problem." He said pushing the door open.
The wind from the storm hit him like a wall of bricks, pushing him back into the guild slightly, "Fuck man..." he groans to himself. It really wasn't a good time to be out on the streets but what else was he supposed to do, also it was weird Lucy hadn't stopped by the guild by now. Taking a few more steps outside he manages to close the guild door; the rain was practically sideways the wind was so strong. He covered his face with his arm the rain stinging his skin as he made his way towards Lucy's house, 'She better be home' he thought to himself.
Halfway to his partner's house he realized how bad the storm really was, almost every shop was closed not a soul outside their houses and he didn't blame them it sucked outside, he only hoped it wouldn't get worse; no missions come in when it's raining and he needed money soon. He knew Lucy would need it too it was almost the next month and her rent would be due soon, damn their high prices. He ducks into a alleyway trying to get some relief from the horrid rain, he heard a gasp and some hard shivering, teeth clashing together as the cold rain set in. "Who is there?" he calls down the dark alley, "Natsu?" A faint voice is heard over the rain, "Natsu is that you?" the voice said louder this time. "Lucy?" he asks surprised. What was she doing down a dark alley in the rain of all places, "What the fuck are you doing out here?" he asks worried now, had something happened? Was she okay? He thinks suddenly walking briskly down the alleyway. He reaches the voice and it defiantly was Lucy, crouched on the ground pitifully dripping as she held the soggy grocery bags. "I was headed home after picking up a few things from the store and I got caught in this horrible weather, the rain was so strong I've had to sit in this stupid filthy alley waiting for the rain to let up!" she exclaims shivering violently clutching her arms in attempt to keep warm. He sighs picking up her bags, "Come on, I'll walk you home." He says walking back through the alley; she quickly catches up to him thanking the gods she had someone like Natsu to always be there for her. A quiet thank you escapes her lips and she walks beside him. A small smirk finds its way to his lips, "Who else is going to help your sorry ass." He chuckles to himself. "Hey screw off, I didn't ask for your help I'm just glad you're here, I'm sure I'd be blown away in this wind." She pouts. "Yeah yeah you can make it up to me later." He says with a crooked smile. She almost felt a blush creep onto her face but she quickly looked away, now interested in the ground in front of her.
They arrive at her building, Natsu waiting patiently as she fumbles with the lock, "Damn these cold hands." She grumbles to herself. Finally getting the door open they climb the stairs towards her room, she opens the door and she takes deep breath, happy to be out of that mess. "Really, thanks for your help Natsu. I don't know how long I would be stuck out there freezing my ass off." She says to him. He gives her his famous Natsu grin, "Hey no problem man, that's what partners do right?" he says giving her a thumbs up. She smiles back at him, and starts to put her groceries away. "Want to stay for dinner? It's the least I could do for you." She asks suddenly feeling very shy.
She had never cooked for him before; they had a very professional relationship. It was always business with him, 'Hey there's a new mission, let's go.' 'Hey how do you want to split the reward?' 'Hey what train should we catch?' There was no room for any other feelings, but they were always with each other, why was eating together so much different? He looks at her thinking of what to say; she had never offered this before, has he ever had a meal made for him by another girl before, especially someone like Lucy. She was everyone's perfect girl, always doing everything right never hurting anyone's feelings always being his mediator when he didn't know what to say, and now she wants to cook for him? How could he say no, I mean was her cooking perfect too? He realized he was quiet too long when she looks down at the groceries, "Never mind I didn't mean to say anything to make you feel uncomfortable I just thought I could at least repay the favor." Her voice was very quiet; he never saw this side of Lucy, so shy and quiet why was she being different around him? "Hey wait no! I mean I just... I don't know what to say, it sounds great to me. I would like it if you did." The last part was barely a whisper. The room suddenly very quiet, hearing the rain again was peaceful when you weren't standing in it. "Oh, okay yeah, uh I'll get it started then!" she said sounding flustered.
'Am I causing this?' He thought to himself, 'What the hell is going on with her?' he sat down on the couch looking at his wet clothes, realizing he's probably soaking into the fabric he gets up, "Hey, uh Luce, do you mind if I use your dryer? My clothes are soaking wet still." He says sheepishly rubbing the back of his head. She looks at him, also noticing that her clothes are just as wet, creating small puddles on the kitchen floor, him dripping onto the carpet. "Oh no! Okay, okay, okay. Um here, the dryer is in here." She says walking down her hallway; he follows behind, soon reaching a small room. She bends down open the door of the dryer, "Okay you can put your clothes in here let me know when your clothes are ready to be dried." she says leaving the room, he listens to her footsteps, traveling down the hall to one of the rooms, he hears the door close, but not latch. Suddenly realizing he needs to use the restroom, he quickly removes his shirt and shorts. 'Crap what if she sees me like this, would she be mad at me? God what if she's embarrassed that would embarrass me even more.' he thought to himself, he had to go though.
Slowly making his way down the hall quietly testing all of the doors, he hadn't been in her house before, 'Where the fuck is the bathroom.' He thinks to himself slowly getting more frustrated which each wrong door. He tries one off to the right, is slowly pushes open to reveal a changing Lucy. His face suddenly heats up as he takes in the sight. Lucy, his partner, his teammate, changing. 'Oh shit.' He thinks to himself, but he cant seem to turn away. Smooth arms above her head slowly removing the sticking, wet shirt from her body, revealing a lacey black bra. Fabric barely able to hold her massive breasts, why hadn't he noticed this before, when did she get boobs? They seemed perfect on her, even if she had a smaller frame. He starts backing up away from the room, but the carpet in her hallway would have none of that. He trips over his own feet falling with a loud thump onto the soft ground. Busted. He looked away hoping she wouldn't scream, cringing at the fact he was also undressed and now on the ground in her hallway and it was very obvious that he saw her.
"What the fuck Natsu!" she says pulling her arms to guard her chest from his eyes. "I-I uh, I d-didn't mean to, I was looking for the bathroom!" he says embarrassed covering his eyes as well. She looked at him, practically naked in her hallway; she noticed how cute he was when he cowered. She never saw this side of him, he was always the strong and confident one, always getting out of every situation didn't matter how bad it was but this, this wasn't something he was going to get out of. Her eyes wandered him, taking in his tan skin against his blue boxer shorts; his toned body seemed to not have a ounce of fat on him. She blushed realizing she was checking him out, 'God when did he get so hot.' Starting to feel uncomfortable warm between her thighs she breaks the silence, "Next door on the left…and I'll start the dryer." He uncovers his eyes, slowly peaking out to see how mad she was but there was no anger on her face, only a deep shade on pink across her cheeks avoiding eye contact with him.
He gets up quickly and heads to said door, shutting the door immediately pressing his back against it, he dodged that bullet didn't he, she didn't seem upset at all in fact she seems to enjoy their little encounter, he was a dragon after all how could he not smell her getting hot and bothered by him. He smirked to himself, 'Oh really Lucy, you like looking at me?' he turned to look at the sink, hands on the cold granite, 'Damn man, she was fucking hot. Why is she getting me so worked up!' he looks at himself in to mirror, recalling that smell, god it smelt good. 'Wonder if I can make her do it again.' He thinks again, a glint in his eye he hadn't seen in awhile. 'Shit' he shakes his head 'What am I doing she's my partner!' he turns on the facet splashing water onto his face. Turning it off he pats his face with the hand towel, 'Get out there retard she's probably waiting.' He lets out a sigh and opens the door.
Stepping back out into the living room he finds Lucy, make herself busy with cooking dinner, in a new change of clothes. She's grumbling to herself, something about being nosey and wishing she double checked her door. He clears his throat startling her, "Oh! Uh clothes are drying, I'm sorry I don't have anything for you to change into, would you like to try my robe?" she says trying to keep her eyes on to the pan of stir fry. He chuckles to himself seeing her try to focus on the food, "Would you like me too?" he teases her, comes out a little to deep for his liking but it seemed to affect her again, 'Jackpot.' He smirks in her direction awaiting an answer but her smell says it all. "Um, it would probably make it less awkward eating dinner." she states trying to sound serious. Feeling the heat radiate off her skin, she tenses up when he speaks again. "Want to show me where it is?" he says slyly crossing his arms in front of him. She turns around to face him, 'He looks even better in this light.' She thinks to herself, feeling her blush again. 'Damn you hormones.' she thinks defeated; she knew he was enjoying this. "Lead the way." He says gesturing down the hallway with a grin. 'Damn him!' she thought again.
She ventures down the hall way towards her bedroom, Natsu in tow. "Okay here." She says coldly throwing the robe in his direction. She hated him for doing this to her. He catches it throwing her a cocky grin, "Thanks Luce." He winks at her. Her faces flushes again, did he, did he just, wink at her! 'Oh no no no no,' she pleads in her head, 'Stop doing this to meee.' He quickly puts it on, tightening the tie around his waist. Suddenly he comes up to her, closer than she would like. Touching her chin with just two fingers, "How do I look?" he says licking him lips staring directly into her eyes. She was starting to feel light headed, what has this day turned into, he was touching her, being mildly sexual, what the fuck is happening to them she wanted to faint and wake up from this crazy dream.
Suddenly leaning away from her he was gone, back to the living room like nothing happened. She still felt his hot fingers on her face, touching with her own hand; yes it was hot to the touch. Trying to pull herself together, she also headed into the living room. He was lazily sprawled out on her couch, stupidly playing with the tie around his waist, pretending like nothing interesting had happened in the last ten minutes. "When's the food going to be ready?" He says bluntly, she tenses up annoyed stirring the food in the pan. "Um, maybe a couple minutes, it's almost done." She says hoarsely suddenly feeling parched. She reaches up into the cupboard grabbing a glass, again from the couch, "Hey can you get me some too." He calls. She halts, reaching up to grab another cup. She fills them both with water and brings it to him; he looks up at her no longer playing with the tie. "Thanks Luce." he says quietly eyes innocently looking into hers. 'What game is he playing?' She wonders curiously, he suddenly grabs her hand with his taking his glass from her. The feeling of him touching her skin again sends shock waves though her veins, she lets out the slightest whimper and quickly makes it back to the kitchen.
'Damn him, damn him, damn him! He's doing this on purpose, I know it!' she screams in her head, gripping onto her mixing spoon. She scoops up a couple helpings onto his plate and places it in front of him, fixing her plate as well; She sits at the table with him. 'Two can play at this game.' She glares at him across the table. Him obliviously eating the stir fry with no manners, scooping spoonful after spoonful into his mouth he suddenly feels something touch his feet, he almost leaps from his chair. He stops eating, and looks up at Lucy, something looks different about her and why isn't she eating yet. "Your food is going to get cold if you don't eat it soon." He states matter of factly. He feels the touch on his foot again, this time traveling along his shin and down his foot again. 'Is that Lucy's foot?!' his eyes are big, suddenly swallowing all of his food. Finding her eyes again, she fucking winks at him, 'Hey that's my thing.' He pouts to himself.
He gets up from the table, walks over to the wide eyed Lucy and picks her up by her shirt. "Do you really want to do this, you know how I can be with a challenge you want to get into this?" he says sternly. She looks embarrassed but makes a serious face, "Bring it on, fucker." She says with a smirk. Suddenly her eyes go big again when she's thrown over his shoulder, "Hey! What the hell are you doing, hey put me down!" she flails her limbs wildly hoping for him to let go but he tightens his grip around her waist and she gulps, 'Oh god what have I done. What is he going to do, don't freak out Lucy he's probably just bluffing.' She thinks trying to reassure herself. Suddenly she in her room and is tossed onto the bed, she lands with oomph, and thank god her bed is soft. Laying on her back propped on her elbows trying to sit up, he leans over her knees on either side of her legs practically touching foreheads. She blushes deeply, trying to avoid eye contact. "I know you want me Luce, all you gotta say is yes." He says quietly to her, turning her head with his fingers again forcing eye contact on her, "You know I'm a dragon… I can, smell you... You know." He says leaning even closer, her eyes go huge when she realizes what he's implying, yeah she was a little flustered but she had no idea how wet she was. "So what do you want Lucy, tell me." He says more serious now, almost growling at her. She can't stand it anymore, why does he have to be so fucking sexy right now, how could she resist him, in this state. He leans away from her and starts to remove the robe; she reaches out and grabs his hand. "No please, not like this. I need more time." She says with a small voice looking away from him.
He stops everything, suddenly realizing how she's feeling about this, self conscious he ties and robe again sitting back on the bed crossing his legs under him. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to be so blunt, I guess I just got a little worked up." He says quietly scratching the back of his head. It's quiet for a bit, rain still pattering on the roof, "Would you like to stay with me? It's still raining I don't want you to be stuck out there like I was, even with what has happened tonight." She says lying down fully on the bed, looking up at the stars painted on her ceiling. "I'm not really hungry right now." She says turning on her side. Feeling guilty for making her feel this way he gets up from the bed and heads to the door.
"Where are you going?" she says, he turns to her and she's suddenly facing him. "I was going to lay down on the couch…" he says looking away from her again, he couldn't stand to see her face right now after crossing that line and her not liking it how could he mess this up anymore. "There's room here for you, please come back…" she says almost in a mumble. He looks at her surprised, "Are you serious?" he says clarifying. She nods her head at him and turns back to face the wall. He stands there for a minute before climbing back onto to the bed, he lays on his back looking at the painted ceiling giving a small smile to the mediocre job, he puts his hands behind his head, suddenly realizing he's still wearing the robe he gets up and removes it, laying back down in bed putting his arms back up.
He closes his eyes ready to sleep when he feels a small hand on his chest, he dare not open his eyes in case he's dreaming, but he cant help but peak. Opening his eyes slightly, there indeed is a hand on his chest, slowly moving in small circles testing out the skin. Feeling over his toned abs and hot skin, she wonders how he doesn't overheat all the time. Feeling a little cold she moves closer to him, she can feel the warmth radiating off of him, she loved the feeling of a fireplace and he was the closest thing she's had to one in a long time. Feeling brave she drapes a leg over his and puts her face on his chest. She sighs making a happy noise, with her new found warmth. He slowly places his arm around hers and his hand in the crease of her knee bringing her closer. She squeezes him lightly, and he chuckles. He soon is in a deep sleep, her following along right after him.