A Secret Revealed: A Fairy Tail Love Story

Chapter 1

"Natsu, what do you mean?" Lucy, the girl I had been attracted to since the day she joined Fairy Tail, asked me.

"I mean that I love you." I blushed the color of my pink hair as my eyes avoided hers.

"Natsu..." she met my eyes with hers, "I love you too. I know it's been complicated between us but you have been there for me since the first day I met you. I love you."

I felt a fire beginning to burn in my stomach, and I smiled my famous smile as I peered back into her eyes. My blush had grown into a full, burning red as I leaned forward.

"Natsu, what are you doing?" She blushed as she began to realize what I was doing.

"Natsu..." I was just inches away from her lips as I longed to be connected to them at long last.

"Natsu! Natsu Dragneel!" I opened my eyes to see Lucy standing at the side of her bed as she was hitting me with the pillow I had been sleeping on. "Natsu, you have to stop sleeping in my bed! It's becoming, I mean it's been, annoying!" I sat up and yawned, seeing that it was now dark outside.

"How long was I out?" I asked, confused. I remembered that I had come to Lucy's in search of food, but did not remember falling asleep.

"I don't know; I just got home. I'm assuming all day, since I, nor anyone at the Guild Hall, had seen you all day." She frowned at me and I stood up, stretching.

I smiled then, remembering my dream. "So, did you happen to grab food while you were out?"

"You baka! I have food here!"

"Yeah, but it's ramen.."

"Since when do you have standards?" She asked, crossing her arms in front of her chest.

I chuckled softly, knowing she was right as always. "I guess you're right..." I sighed softly as I made my out out of the bedroom into the kitchen, hearing Lucy follow shortly behind. "Luce, I need to talk to you," I said, blushing softly as I set the water to a boil.

Lucy noticed the blush instantly and sat at the table, watching me as she slowly grew a blush of her own. "What is it, Natsu?"

"I have been having weird dreams. At first, I laughed them off as I normally would. However, they have started becoming a nightly thing and I need to get this off of my chest before it drives me crazy." I turned to her, scanning her face, hoping for a glimmer of realization, hoping for the possibility that I wouldn't have to tell her everything. Something inside me hoped that she knew, and would make this easier on me.

Lucy developed a slight blush of her own, only this blush was caused by sheer anticipation rather than the aforementioned feelings that I was having. "It isn't bad, is it?"

I chuckled softly, hoping to break the tension slightly. "No, it's not bad at all. I promise that from the bottom of my heart. I just can't stop dreaming about this." At this moment my water had come to a boil, and I set the noodles in it carefully as I turned back to her to continue the conversation that I had dreaded, and longed for, for so long.

` "Natsu, please just sit down and talk to me. You know I hate it when you're not perfectly clear." Her blush had disappeared, and had been replaced with a frown as she stared at me annoyingly, daring me with her beautiful brown eyes to waste her time.

"Fine, Lucy. However, if I tell you and we feel differently, we can continue being friends, right?"

"Of course, you baka!"

I sighed deeply, and looked at her. "Lucy, for the past month, nearly every night, I have been having these very detailed dreams about... you."

"Me? Why, of everyone, would you be dreaming about me?" The frown was once again replaced with a blush, though this one was a deeper red than the previous one.

"Lucy, I need to tell you something and I am in no way prepared for how you will react to it. Whether it is positive or negative, I have not conjured a way to prepare myself for this moment."

"Natsu, please just tell me."

"I am in love with you, Lucy. I have been since the day I met you."