I'M A BIT LATE IN JOINING THE BANDWAGON

Day 7~

Though unashamed-shipper came up with such a great idea to spread the written love this October~

I do NOT own Fairy Tail, it belongs to Hiro Mashima

That damn cat.

Natsu groaned as he ran his fingers back through his messy, rose-colored hair. Obsidian eyes hardly blinked as he stealthily followed the punk of a cat that had managed to slip through his apartment door while he was carrying one of the few boxes he'd brought with them.

As though moving into a new apartment wasn't hell enough, now he had to catch Happy. It didn't feel as though the day could really get any worse.

Of course, the second he thought that… things indeed got worse.

Happy, who had been moving at a somewhat steady trot before, broke into a run and turned a corner.

"Shit!" Natsu exclaimed before he took off running, though only cursed again when he didn't see neither hide nor hair of the Russian Blue cat. All he could see was a long hallway of multiple different doors, which read to multiple different rooms.

Thankfully, the hallway was actually a dead end. Which could mean only one thing…

Natsu walked to each and every door and beat on it, demanding to know where his cat was.

This earned him quite a few dirty looks, and he had even managed to get himself into a brawl with some stupid looking guy with droopy eyes. How could Natsu resist punching the guy in the face when he began to strip right in front of him?

Rubbing his sore cheek, Natsu frowned when he realized that he'd gone to every single door in this hall except for one.

Setting his expression into that of intense stubbornness, Natsu raised his fist and pounded on the door even harder than he had all the doors previous.

"Oi!" He shouted.

The door then swung open, catching Natsu by surprise.

He couldn't pull his punch in time and wound up decking the blonde woman that answered his insistent noise right in the face.

"Aw shit!" Natsu cursed for what felt like the thousandth time that night and he hurried into the apartment and knelt down beside the girl who was pushing herself up from where she'd landed on her backside. "Are you okay? Gah, I swear I didn't mean to do that! You just pulled the door open so suddenly!"

Natsu sniffed the air then when he realized something, "Are you making something with pumpkin?"

The blonde then shot up and placed her hands on her hips as she glowered down at him, "What is wrong with you?! You punch me in the face, and you ask me if I'm- how would you even know something like that?"

Natsu swallowed nervously before a flash of movement caught his eye.

"Happy!" The cat ignored the rose-haired young man and instead leapt into the blonde's unsuspecting arms, though she somehow managed to catch the cat before he could latch on with his claws.

The little thing immediately curled in her arms and rested his head on her scantily clad chest.

Natsu's cheeks heated up when he noticed just how low her top fell and he looked away.

"Wait, is this your cat? He followed me into my apartment when I came back from getting my mail." She scratched the cat behind his ears and smiled when he began to purr happily.

Natsu turned his attention back onto the cat and he began to glare.

"Yeah? Well, he snuck out of my apartment the first chance he got…" Natsu trailed off before his gaze fell upon the blonde's face and all of a sudden, he couldn't stop laughing.

His outburst took the girl by surprise and she quickly felt her anger heat up a bit.

"What's so funny?!" She demanded, though she'd be lying if she said that she didn't enjoy the sound of his laugh. How strange was that?

"Y-your cheek," Natsu barely managed to get out between chuckles, "we match!" He pointed at his own swollen cheek and the girl immediately shifted Happy in her arms so that she could hold him with one hand and touch her cheek with the other. She winced at the pain that emanated from the swollen flesh.

"What's your name anyway? I'm Natsu! Thats Happy, he seems to like you!" Natsu sported a wide grin that was pretty contagious.

The blonde smiled in return, "I'm Lucy, I don't think I've ever seen you around here though…" She trailed off and looked at him expectantly.

"Oh yeah, thats 'cause me and Happy just got here! We had to move after I accidentally set my last apartment on fire…" he trailed off and Lucy stared at him.

Standing up, Natsu looked around. He took in Lucy's apartment and almost immediately decided that he liked it better than his.

That was when he spotted them.

"Were you carving pumpkins?" He asked as he rushed over to the kitchen table, where two fairly large pumpkins awaited their fate.

"Ah, no. I was supposed to do this with Wendy but…" Lucy trailed off before she stared at Natsu, "But she was busy. Hey, do you wanna carve these pumpkins together? Maybe you can change my first impression of you by doing this with me." Lucy giggled before sticking her tongue out at him.

Natsu felt his cheeks warm again for a reason that he couldn't understand before he nodded.

"That sounds great! I wasn't really gonna do anything tonight except unpack anyway," he turned and grabbed the bigger of the two pumpkins. "Let's do this, Luigi!"

"... Its Lucy."

Natsu only laughed.

I hope you enjoyed!