A.N/My first Fairy Tail fic. :D I hope it goes well. I'm doing this for Fawndapple's contest. I'm starting this chapter off with NaLu. :D Read and review please!Tell me if you liked it! :DD
One Moment
Chapter 1: With Fire
The ice punch sent Natsu flying over the tables and knocking into the bar, where Lucy sat, reading. She ignored the fight as Natsu retorted with some choice insults before socking Gray right in the eye. Gray wasn't too happy about that.
"Ehhhh...what's the matter?" Natsu scoffed. "Had enough?"
"Enough?" Gray roared. "Natsu, I'm going to-"
Over at the bar, Lucy sighed. The stupid fight had been going over for nearly half an hour already and her head ached. Mirajane came over, a pitcher of juice in hand.
"You okay, Lucy? " she asked, refilling Lucy's empty glass with the bright pink juice.
"Yeah..." she smiled weakly. "I wish they didn't fight so much. My head feels like it's going to burst."
"I can't even focus on my book!" she added. "It's good that all I have left is just a few more pages. I'm just rereading it. "
Mirajane smiled widely. "Oh? What's the book about?"
"It's a romance. I-" Lucy was cut off by the hug weight that abruptly fell down on her. "Natsu!" she cried out, her glass having been knocked over on her top. Her top was completely soaked.
"Um..." the pink-haired boy stood up from where he had crashed, brushing bits of debris of himself.
"Lu...I, uh, I'm really...sorry...I.." he stammered, seeing the blonde girl's face go red with anger.
Gray took the moment to run off to a corner of the guild, knowing that all hell would break loose. He, for one, did not want to be anywhere near the perpetrator when it did.
"Natsu..." Lucy slowly said. "Did you just spill my drink on my top?"
The boy swallowed.
Lucy looked up from trying to wring the water out of her top and turned to her book. "Well, at least," she began, "My book isn't..." .
Her face paled.
A few miles away, people dropped whatever they had been holding in their arms.
"What-what was that?" a man asked.
The screams could still be heard, piercing the relatively noisy atmosphere at the market.
"It sounds like someone's being murdered," a woman said, the others around her nodded in agreement.
Natsu was shaking, even after Lucy had left the guild minutes before. Happy flew down from the rafters and landed smoothly down to a table.
" Lucy sure was mad, aye." the flying blue cat said.
"I...she didn't have any right to say that!" Natsu said. " I do too care about her! It's just a book!"
" It's not just a book, Natsu." Levy called over from another table. "It's Lucy's favorite romance."
"A romance?" Happy asked. "Lucy's weird. Why does she like books like that?"The cat flew back up and did a few spins, trying to impress Charle at the other end of the guild. He flew over and tried to give her a fish. Charle turned her nose up at his attempt to romance her.
"Maybe it's you who needs a lesson in romancing, male cat." she sniffed.
"Natsu," Mirajane spoke up. She had been deep in thought, thinking of how to get Natsu and Lucy together. Would this be the golden opportunity she had been hoping for? "Why don't you read the book a bit and see what Lucy likes then?"
"What for?" he asked ,scowling. "It's not like I can read it anyway. It's wet."
Mirajane sighed. "You could try drying it."
He brightened up immediately. "Yeah! Why didn't I think of that? Lucy wouldn't have been so mad then!"
Gray scoffed from his corner of the guild. "It's because you don't have a brain."
"What?" Natsu whipped his head around. "Do you want to repeat that, underwear boy?"
"You looking to fight again, Natsu? " The ice mage stood up and unbuttoned his shirt unconsciously.
Natsu stuck his tongue out. "Go put on your shirt back first."
"I, uh, wait-what?"
Natsu started to dry the book, breathing out small puffs of heat. He tried not to burn the book. The last page, however, was a goner. The words were smudged too badly to be read. Remembering Mirajane's advice he flipped through the pages and found a page that looked as though it had been read many times before.
He smiled at her, melting all resolve on her part. His lips were far too close to her for comfort and she tried to take a step back.
"No." he said before closing the distance between their lips with the softest kiss imaginable. "No," he repeated. "I want you."
Her eyes fluttered open at his confession and her lips parted to reply but he caught them again with his own.
She was melting, she had never felt anything like this before.
He swallowed. Lucy read this? She liked this? His throat felt dry.
"I wonder if she's ever kissed anyone before," he thought. "Of course, she has! She's Lucy!" he remembered all those times she had tried to seduce men and used her body to get what she wanted. He felt tight then. He felt insanely jealous, imagining another boy with her, their lips locked together. He imagined her saying another boy's time, tightening her arms around him, pushing him, pulling him...Natsu stopped. He wasn't jealous. Of course not. Lucy was just Lucy. She was his nakama. He just didn't want her to be with anyone else but him. "As friends, I mean." he thought. If she had a boyfriend, she just would have less time with the guild.
"With me," he said in his head guilty.
But then a thought unbidden came into his mind, of Lucy with her arms around him. Lucy, saying his name as he fiercely kissed her . Lucy, smiling at him and just him.
He shook his head, trying to clear those thoughts.
"Stupid boy," he muttered under his breath. Maybe seeing Lucy and giving her back her book would help? She would be happy to see it in better condition. She might even cook him some food. Maybe that was why he'd been thinking so strangely. He must have been hungry! He nodded. That must be it. Thinking of her, he felt a swoop in his stomach and he grinned. Yeah, he must be hungry.
He started to walk out of the guild, Happy following him.
"Eh? Natsu! Where are you going?" the blue cat asked.
"To Lucy's place!" he smiled widely.
At the bar, Mirajane watched the pair walk off. She smiled to herself. Maybe she should put out some romance novels around the guild where Natsu might find them. She knew he was a bit dense. "A few hints can't hurt." she thought.
