Author's Note

Hi, it's been a while huh? Well I've come back to fanfiction (hopefully for a good deal of time) and to commemorate, a NaLu oneshot (sort of?) I guess it is a little OOC... I tried my best with Lucy but I didn't really know what to do... Anyways enjoy! I do not in any way own the characters or Fairy Tail and stuff like that. I don't own the cover image either! (it might have been done my Hiro Mashima, I'm not sure... but anyways it's not mine but I don't know who drew it)

"Who are you?" The world around me was pitch-black except for the shining figure in front of me.

"I am Death." I stared up at Death, dressed in shining white robes. Why did he look so alluring?

"Then do me a favor," I demanded.

"Perhaps I may," Death stated, his voice booming through my head.

"Give him back."

"I cannot do that."

"Why not?"

"I cannot answer that."

"Why? This isn't fair? Why him? Why?" I asked furiously.

"Nothing is fair," Death murmured in my ear.

"I don't care."

"You should," Death advised.

"Just give him back to me."

"Is he yours?"

"Eh? ...No."

"Then I cannot."

"Give him back!" I yelled.

"I cannot."

"Give him to me!"

"I cannot."

"Give him back to me!"

"I cannot do that. This pain in your heart you must live with for eternity. It will stay in your heart. You must always live with this pain, it will never fade. Never." Death's image faded and was replaced with an image of him.

"Ah," I reached out a hand, my fingers stretching to graze against his cheek. But his smile faded, he faded. And nothing was left. He was gone.

I awoke with a start. Tears were running down my face. I stared up at the empty ceiling, my hand outstretched. I could still see him. Just in front of me. If I reached out a little more, could I reach him? No. No matter how much I reached, how much I wanted, how much I called, he would always be just out of reach. A little too far away. I would never reach him. He was gone. Forever.

I rolled over onto my side, curling up into a ball under my covers. Tears flowed endlessly from my eyes. Never. I would never see him again. Never hear him again. Never feel his warmth again. He was gone.

I whimpered, my voice choked by sobs, barely audible above my sniffles. Just one more time I wanted to hear his voice, his laugh, see his smile. "Come back to me…" I sobbed into my pillow. "I miss you… I… I love you."

"Mm," a wispy voice, just barely audible breathed into my ear, "Me too." Ghostly lips, as cold as snow, yet filled with their own warmth, brushed against my cheek. But when I looked, I was alone in the room.

Perhaps it had just been a hallucination, a trick of the mind, or maybe Death really did do favors. But either way, his presence filled the room with warmth again. For an instant, he cured my aching heart, stopped the river of tears. Even after death he was still protecting me.

He was one of a kind, a love like no other.

He is gone, swallowed by death.

Natsu Dragneel.

More Notes!

Did you like it? Was it sad? I wanted sort of a happy ending to it a 'sad, happy' ending! In case some of you couldn't tell, the story is from Lucy's point of view and Natsu is dead. The first part is her having a conversation with an unknown person who says that he's "Death". When she wakes up Natsu's spirit visits her for an instant. And that's sort of what happened. Reviews appreciated. Thank you for reading (and reviewing if you did or will do)! More NaLu to come!