I know I still haven't updated MIA but I'm having a serious mind blank for that right now. Give it some time.

As for this, I wanted to try my hand at another series, where Natsu goes after Lucy yet she wants nothing to do with him. Yes, it's been done before, and yes, it's AU, but I really like the setting.

I'll keep it to T rating, since I'm bad at writing smut. There'll be implications of the stuff, but nothing more.

Chapter 1: I've found the one

"Natsu, you going to Sabertooth tonight? I think everyone else is going too." Gray shouted to his pink haired friend from their student apartment. Sabertooth was an awesome club that the two had found one evening when Gray was thrown into a depression after hearing that his adoptive mother, Ul, had died in a car crash. The two of them stayed there all night partying, and had recommended it to their friends the next day.

Natsu hummed to himself, thinking (which was surprising enough for him) before giving an answer. "Sure! It's not like I've got any major projects due for a while, plus it's been a while since I got laid." He said, as he gave his signature grin.

"…dude, I know that we're pretty popular around the university, but there's no need to act that confident" Gray commented, causing Natsu to give him a glare.

"I'll have you know that I was chatting up a couple girls the other day!" He retorted, causing the two to get into a full blown argument.

"That doesn't mean squat!" Gray shouted, "Just because you were chatting them up, doesn't mean that you got anywhere! You didn't get laid then, did you?!"

"That might be true…" Natsu mumbled, "But they started the conversation after spending like, ten minutes staring at me in the library!"

"So you've got some looks" Gray mocked, "but that doesn't mean shit if they realise that you're an idiot."

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!" Natsu yelled.

"You want some?!"

"ENOUGH!"

The two boys stopped arguing instantly, having heard their door open with a redheaded friend standing at the door, furious.

"Would you two SHUT UP!" Erza roared, "The entire dorm can hear you two arguing!"

"Yes ma'am" Both Gray and Natsu uttered, while they had respect for the redhead, they were definitely afraid of her.

"Good, as long as you understand" Erza said calmly. She can very easily go from furious to friendly like it was easy to forgive someone for their stupid antics. "You guys going to Sabertooth? Levy and Juvia tell me that they're going too."

At the sound of Juvia's name, Gray froze up, causing Natsu to snicker. Gray had met Juvia a long time ago when Erza introduced her to him, and she instantly became obsessed with him. Gray would act like he wasn't interested, but when she was too busy working on one of her projects to hang out with her friends, he would act all depressed, like he missed her. And he called Natsu the clueless one.

"Yeah, we're going," Natsu said, covering up for his friend, "I'll have to remember to invite Gajeel" He said through gritted teeth. He got along with Gajeel to an extent, but the two had gotten into a major fight after a couple of months of constant teasing. Erza had broken up the fight, hitting the two of them in the process. While they still didn't get along, they noticed that they had more similarities than they had thought, such as both of their parent leaving them 7 years ago, and finding out that they were actually cousins. It drew the two of them closer, but they still argued.

"You better do that," Erza said, a cold edge to her voice, "or Levy will be upset"

"…yes ma'am" Natsu muttered quietly, still terrified.

Erza turned around and closed the door behind her, both boys still standing in place even after she had left. Finally, Gray broke the silence.

"Wanna make a bet?"

"What kind?"

"I bet $20 that you won't get laid tonight" Gray said, holding out his hand for a handshake.

"Right back at you! You're on!" Natsu shouted, smacking his hand against Gray's, settling the bet.

Now they just had to go out and pick up a girl.

"Evening, Elfman" Natsu greeted the bouncer of Sabertooth. They were on friendly terms and got along fairly well, engaging in small talk whenever Natsu and his friends would go to Sabertooth. He was a big man, very muscly, and had a weird habit of saying things were 'a man' at the end of his sentences sometimes. "Busy tonight?"

"It would seem so. A lot of people from outside of Magnolia. The party in there is a man!" He shouted, causing Natsu to grimace at his somewhat annoying habit.

"Cool, I guess I'll see you when I'm leaving then" Natsu said, walking past the bouncer and into the club. Like Elfman had said, it was very busy inside, a lot of people that Natsu didn't recognise. On the upside, people that didn't know Natsu meant that it would be easier to pick up girls, so his hopes were high.

Natsu went straight to the bar and ordered a Jack Daniels, being his favourite drink. The barmaid, Mirajane, Elfman's big sister, handed him the drink with a big smile as she went to serve other customers. Natsu was impressed that both Mira and Elfman had managed to recover from the horrifying news of their kid sister being murdered. It had left them broken, and Natsu hated seeing the both of them like that, yet they had managed to move on from the sad news.

Natsu pushed those thoughts to the back of his mind and sipped on his drink. He started scanning the crowd for any girl that he would want to pick up, and there were some stunning girls there. Occasionally he'd spot someone he knew, such as one of his friends, but while there were some amazingly attractive girls in the club, there weren't any that instantly made him think 'her.'

As he placed his now empty glass down, his elbow bumped into the girl's elbow who was sitting next to Natsu at the bar, causing her to spill her drink down her dress. Natsu, seeing the damage that he had done, instantly started to try to help clean her up. "Mira! I need a towel or something over here!" Natsu yelled at Mira across the bar. "Shit, I'm sorry" Natsu apologised to the girl, receiving a slap to the face in response.

"You ass!" She yelled at him. Natsu, unfazed by her slap, continued to try to help.

"Look, I'm sorry, and I acknowledge that it was my fault, but there's no need to act so bitchy" Natsu stated, getting a good look at her. She had a nice body, very large breasts and blonde hair done up in a small ponytail on her left side. She was… beautiful.

"You're still an ass!" She shouted, attracting some attention. "This dress wasn't cheap! Tell me your name so I can give you the bill!"

"There's no need for that…" Natsu said under his breath, "It's Natsu, Natsu Dragneel. And you?" He asked.

The girl huffed, flicked her hair out of the way and stated "It's Lucy"

"Just Lucy?" Natsu tried to flirt a bit, trying his luck. He'd love to get with her any day.

"Fine, Lucy Heartfilia" She said, clearly pissed off by Natsu's approach.

Natsu panicked, realising that he had just caused the Lucy Heartfilia to spill wine down her dress. "Oh shit, I'm SO sorry!" The Heatfilia family was well known, especially around Magnolia, since they were they owners of the railway service that was used throughout the entire country!

"You better be. Buy me another drink and I'll think about forgiving you." Lucy said to Natsu who was desperately trying to clean her dress with the towel Mira had given him. Hearing her request, he quickly looked up.

"Yes ma'am!"

After a long night, Natsu had finally made amends with Lucy, though she threatened that if Natsu tried to flirt with her or even talk to her for the entire evening, she would make sure that he wouldn't be able to have children.

Natsu, heeding this advice, quickly left her to go and flirt with some other girls. He eventually managed to pick up a stunning girl called Cana (though she did seem completely shit-faced, but to be fair, at that point, so was Natsu) and slept with her.

Gray, on the other hand, hadn't managed to get laid that night, causing him to owe Natsu $20, which Natsu felt extremely happy about. However, it was most likely due to the fact that whenever Gray even talked to another girl, Juvia would start to fawn over him, probably giving the girls the wrong idea.

When he awoke the next morning to see the beautiful brunette next to him, he felt some pride for managing to talk his way into that one. However, Natsu did feel like he had done something wrong. Sure, it was probably wrong to sleep with Cana considering how shit-faced she was, but that didn't seem to be what felt wrong to him.

Natsu then realised that it was Lucy. While he had pissed her off, he felt a connection to the blonde. Something like destiny, maybe. That's when he realised.

"She's the one"

How was that? I've tried a few things (and may have taken a little too much reference off of other pieces of work) but I think it was alright. As I said, I left all smut out of it, just because I'm bad at that stuff.

But hey, it doesn't matter what I think, it's your opinion that matters! Leave a review! Constructive criticism welcomed!

Also, I might be taking requests for one-shots (it depends on the pairing). Leave your desired pairing in your review and I'll write a one-shot on it.

That's all from me, I'll see you next chapter!