A twist to a overused cliché, stories about NaLu not happening because Natsu choose Lisanna over Lucy, because he kicked Lucy out of Team Natsu, because he never returned her feelings, or something else similar. But we know that Lucy as stated in the manga is "something precious" to Natsu and that most of the time they're always together! He even refused to fight strong guys only to rescue her (I can spend all day saying why Natsu wouldn't break Lucy's heart, but that's not why you're here)

I condesed and expanded the two chapters into a single chapter. And I say as a HARDCORE NALU FAN that I am, I hate this story! But my fellow NaLu fans (not all of them) inspired me to make this. How? Find it out

Chapter I

It was a beautiful day in Magnolia, while a Young Dragon Slayer and his blue exceed friend made it back to the Fairy Tail after a successful mission. It was hard to believe that he finished a mission without causing much property damage like he always used to, so they got the full reward after Natsu defeated a group of ogres who were terrorizing a little town.

Now that he had the money, he'd help Lucy to pay her rent. They've been dating for a few months and since the beginning Natsu made the promise to always protect her, always make her smile and never leave her side. Although that's exactly what he always did even before they became official. He and Happy had to complete this mission by themselves because Lucy preferred to stay home

Flashback

"Come on, Lucy! Why don't want to go with us?" Said a clearly dissapointed Natsu. Lucy just smiled and calmly responded "Look I need to do some housekeeping in my place and I want to finish the novel I've been working on. Besides, it will take you only a couple of days to hunt down those ogres, you won't need my help this time"

Both Natsu and Happy pouted. "But it will be boring without Lucy" said the blue exceed. Even though they kept trying to persuade her to go, they eventually gave up. Lucy promised Natsu she'll be waiting for his arrival and gave him a tender kiss before his departure

Flashback Ends

Now that he returned earlier than anticipated, he thought to visit his girlfriend at her apartment, "she expects me to return tomorrow so I'll show up at her place and give her a surprise" he thought. So he left Happy with Wendy and Carla and rapidly made his way to Lucy's place.

As he neared her place, he felt a weird scent, a musky smell and something very familiar to him, Lucy sweat! He knew not only because his Dragon Slayers senses, also because he slept in her bed often, even more after Lucy became his girlfriend

When Natsu got to her room's window, he couldn't (nor wanted) to believe what he saw: Lucy was in her bed having sex with another guy! And Natsu knew the guy; it was none other than Gray Fullbuster. The sight teared him apart! Gray kept pounding Lucy and Lucy kept moaning obviously enjoying their intímate contact. Lucy moaned Gray name over and over while urging him to go faster.

Natsu slowly stepped in her bedroom and as soon as they bécame aware of his presence they both stopped. How did this happen!? His mind couldn't understand it!

Natsu stood there motionless, while Lucy was too shocked to speak. He could feel an unpleasant mix of anger and sadness. Anger because Gray his friend/rival and guildmate was stealing his girlfriend. Sadness because Lucy, the girl he loved so much, was sleeping with Gray

After a few moments of silence, Gray smiled smugly and asked Natsu "Wanna join?"

After hearing those words, Natsu snapped and punched Gray out the bed. "Natsu wait!" said an alarmed Lucy, but Natsu didn't listen and just kept beating Gray until knocking him out!

After that Natsu just sat in the floor, Lucy could see a single tear running down his cheek but she didn't dare to say anything. Natsu only stared at the floor, he couldn't face her, and how could he after what she did? None of them said a word and during several minutes there was an uncomfortable silence between them. The tension was extremely thick, the scenes Natsu witnessed keep replaying in his mind! The pain he was feeling now was something new, something foreign. He didn't fully understand it but he was sure he never felt so hurt. Lucy still hasn't spoken, but she could see Natsu was shaken by what he saw, so she had a faint idea of how deeply she hurt her boyfriend

A sudden groan broke the silence; Gray was finally regaining consciousness, when he saw Natsu was still there, he quickly grabbed his clothes and exited Lucy's apartment "I'll kick his ass tomorrow" Gray said to himself

Natsu finally stood up and went to the window, "Natsu I can explain it" said Lucy but that didn't stop Natsu from leaving. He never experienced a pain like this, he just wanted to get away from there, from her

The news about this incident spread fast in the Fairy Tail guild, many guild members shared a dim view of Lucy's doings

Lucy's friends were shocked and Juvia was literally crying a river while Mirajane did her best to comfort her friend "Why Gray-sama choose love rival over me!? Why!?" Juvia screamed as she kept crying. It would be an understatement to say she was heart-broken! Worst thing is Juvia and Gray had already went on at least two dates, so knowing of Lucy and Gray last night activities shattered the poor girl's hopes on Gray finally falling for her

Still, the most noticeable change in the guild was that Natsu and Gray fights escalated in both frequency and violence. It looked like they were trying to kill each other!

"You damn stripper why you had to steal Lucy from me!?" Exclaimed the Dragon Slayer as he threw another flaming fist

Gray barely dodged Natsu's attack; he took some distance and shot an ice arrow which Natsu easily dodged. "Maybe if you took a better care of your things, this would never happened Flame head!"

Gray words cut really deep into Natsu, but he still kept on fighting until Erza knocked them both into the ground! As they slowly got up Gray said "You're never do anything romantic for her, no wonder why she looked someone else to properly love her". Natsu felt rage at his statement, even though there was some thruth in it, he wasn't good at romance but he always did his best for Lucy. This time Natsu wondered if Gray was right and Lucy didn't want him anymore because of him being so dense in the love department

A few minutes after the fight ended and Erza went to the bar counter where the girls and a depressed Juvia are, Lucy was seen walking into the guild. She inmediatly headed to her friends in the guild. How will she explain herself? And how will the girls prevent Juvia from killing Lucy?

I don't like GrayLu not one bit! Be sure this won't be GrayLu fic nor a GraNaLu one.

Next Chapter, Lucy's "excuse" (I'm already done with that) and more more reasons for Natsu to angst (still working on it). I beg you all, don't kill me!

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