Perfect two

"You can be the peanut butter to my jelly
You can be the butterflies I feel in my belly
You can be the captain and I can be your first mate You can be the chills that I feel on our first date

You can be the hero and I can be your side kick
You can be the tear that I cry if we ever splitYou can be the rain from the cloud when it's stormingOr you can be the sun when it shines in the morning"

The rain was lashing down in torrents while Lucy Heartfilia and Natsu Dragneel were running as fast as they could, jumping over rivers of water that were flowing on the streets. Despite being drenched to the bone and the cold November weather, the two of them were smiling brightly. The people, walking past them under their umbrellas, were giving them worried or disapproving looks.

Great. People either thought they were crazy or decided that they were too wild for their own good and needed a huge amount of discipline.

Lucy couldn't care less. Actually the things that mattered were the incredibly adorable dimples, showing on both sides of Natsu's mouth, and the brightness of his beautiful green eyes, and his hand, gripping hers strongly but gently, guiding her through the stream of raindrops.

Lucy could actually feel happiness running through her whole body like electricity. It was like the most amazing feelings came into collision with one another, making her heart thumping like crazy.

She didn't want this moment to be over.

Unfortunately they soon came in front of the Dragneel's house. Natsu, out of breath and smiling, unlocked the front door and pulled Lucy inside, slamming it after her.

"That was…", she started saying but was trying to catch her breath just like him.

"FREAKING AWESOME! That's what it was!", he waved his hands excitedly in the air. Despite all that running he was still as energetic as ever and ready for action. Lucy laughed for the hundredth time that day, when she saw some wet, pink strands of his hair, splashing against his forehead because of his movements.

"We should seriously do it again", exclaimed Natsu.

"Well, we've done crazier things than that. We had fun running under the rain although it wasn't planned, but we're definitely doing it again."

The dark clouds had already been there when both of them had finished school and began walking on their way to home. But after some time it started raining and they were forced to run to the closest sanctuary, a.k.a. Natsu's house.

While she was remembering these moments, a cold shiver went down her hands. And then she sneezed so hard her head hurt.

"Bless you." Natsu patted her head and opened his mouth in awe, " Wow! Your head is so much smaller when your hair is wet. "

Lucy smacked his shoulder. He laughed, then patted her head for a second time and said to follow him, completely ignoring her deadly stares.

They went to his room and turned the lights on. It wasn't 6 p.m yet, but because of the weather outside it was darker than usual. His room was the same as always. Scattered clothes and other objects were piled on the floor and the chair. On his desk were lying student books, notebooks, pens and sheets of paper. Two changes of underwear were hanging on the opened wardrobe's door. As a whole, it was nothing unusual. The chaos and explosiveness were typical not only for his character but also for his way of living. In the middle of his messy bed a fluffy, blue ball was rolled up – Natsu's cat Happy, which he'd found two years ago and taken home to take care of it. Soon after that the cat discovered the problems, which were following Natsu on every step, and it's beautiful, white fur had a not so nice meeting with a bucket of blue paint.

"I can't believe I helped you last week to clean. Your room is in the same condition before the cleaning. Worse even!" mumbled Lucy disapprovingly, while staring at a half-eaten pizza left on the cupboard beside his bed. "For how long exactly has this been here? "

Natsu muttered something, which Lucy didn't understand. He had buried his head in the wardrobe, searching for some clothes. Finally he pulled a pair of white shorts and black T-shirt and tossed them to her.

"Catch."

" I am not a dog!" She scolded him, but grabbed the clothes with a smile on her face and went to the small bathroom beside his room.

When she came out, she was met by a wild laughter. Natsu, sprung on the bed, pointed towards her and started laughing even harder. Lucy breathed out, trying to calm herself. "Okay. Do not kill him. Just because he's an idiot doesn't give you the right to kill him." Oh, but she was seriously thinking of committing a murder.

"You look as if you're shoved in a sack, "choked Natsu, wiping tears of laughter.

"Very funny."

He was twice her size and had twice more muscles than her. It was only natural for his clothes to be too big for her. He didn't have to nag at her. And though his laugh didn't stop for five more minutes, Lucy discovered that she actually wasn't so angry. She has always loved when he gave her his clothes. They smelled just like him and she felt as if she was wrapped up in his enchanted aroma.

Lucy noticed that he'd also changed and was now drying his hair with a towel. Before he could open his mouth to say something, she saw another towel prepared for her, so she took it and started rubbing it on her head, while jumping on the bed beside him.

Outside the rain began falling even stronger. The powerful raindrops started hitting the rooftop and his room's terrace like clattering woodpeckers.

"It probably won't stop for a while." Lucy muttered more to herself than to him.

"Big deal. You'll just stay here for the night." Natsu shrugged completely unfazed by his offer.

"I can call a taxi. I don't want to…"

"Lucy."

His serious tone made her turn her head and look straight at his unfaltering stare.

"Stay here."

Without thinking, she nodded. That was how little conviction she needed.

Lucy stared at him. He had turned his attention towards the windows and was watching the rain, which gave her a chance to see his face in profile better. Not that she hadn't seen it many, many times before. But there was something in the glimmering light from the lamps, and in the weather, that threw at his face beautiful shades of yellow and sea blue colors. It made her see him in a completely new light.

Lucy's eyes followed the form of his forehead, then the straight line of his nose. After that she focused on the fold between his nostrils and his mouth, then on his slightly bulging lips and finally on his sharp shin. She had to admit it. He really was perfect, no matter how cliché that sounded in her head. And especially from that angle… He looked like a freaking Greek god.

"Luce? Earth calls Lucy?"

She blinked a couple of times surprised. Her cheeks flushed.

"What were you so thoughtful about?"

"Nothing. Just…"

Suddenly her stomach growled loudly. Her face became the color of a tomato and she bit her lips nervously.

Natsu covered his mouth, hardly restraining his laughter.

"I can't…," he choked and the idiot started laughing so hard he nearly fell of the bed, "You're just… so incredible!"

"Ugh."

She turned on the other side, showing him her back.

"Oh, come on," he muttered behind her.

Lucy almost squalled when his warm hand slid down her stomach and slowly turned her to face him again. Their eyes met and she wished she could just disappear, because no matter how many times he teased her, his eyes were never anything but gentle.

"Come on." he said with a little smile, "Let's go down and find something to eat."

She didn't refuse this offer either.

Soon after that both of them were sitting in front of the TV on the first floor, eating chicken fillets and watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood on Netflix. Both of them were going to each other's houses every weekend for their usual movie nights. So this didn't feel any different.

"Oh, God! Ed and Winry are so…perfect for each other!" She heaved a deep sigh and took a bite from the chicken fillet in her hand.

"Yeah, bud da battl's are bawesome!"

"Natsu, don't talk with full mouth. And the battles are also really cool, but their relationship is something special. They complete each other perfectly. Seriously…" she sighed again.

Natsu looked at her curiously.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"What do you mean?"

"You look…kind of sad. "

Lucy smiled a little, "I'm not sad. I'm just kind of jealous sometimes because these characters that don't even exist have a better love life than mine. "

Natsu's eyebrows furrowed.

"But they get together years later. Right now they're just more than best friends and less than lovers. I really don't see why you are jealous of them. "

Suddenly Lucy turned her head to him excitedly, "Exactly! That's exactly what I love so much! The moment when both of them are on the border between just friends and something more! Like… they know they love each other and show it with all kinds of different gestures, but both are stubborn enough not to admit it out loud!"

Lucy realized that she was probably sounding and looking like a madwoman, but… it wasn't her fault! He started this topic when he knew that she had the romantic soul of a writer.

"I…" he started and Lucy wondered why she got surprised when she saw his confused face, "I still don't understand."

"There is nothing to understand, Natsu." she sighed again, "You know I just love weird stuff like that. Forget it. "

"No, no, no. I'm not talking about that." Natsu shook his head and for the second time this evening looked at her with his serious stare, "I don't understand why you would feel jealous of them, when you already have what they have."

Lucy's mouth opened.

"Wha…" she couldn't even finish her question.

"You and me" Natsu pointed at him and then at her. Lucy traced the movement in unbelief, "Everyone says that we're best friends, dammit, even we're saying it ourselves but…the truth is that these words can't express exactly what we are to each other. We're something more than just best friends. We're something else."

Lucy was completely frozen. She wasn't quite sure if her brain could process this information. Did he just say that he likes her? Or that they were acting like a couple? Or that they were a couple?

And was it only her or the room was suddenly getting hotter. It was strange because outside was still raining. It shouldn't have felt like everything was on fire…

And was Natsu getting closer? Oh, dear God, he was!

Did she have to close her eyes? Was he about to kiss her? What the hell was happening!?

Suddenly her phone made a loud shrilling noise.

Both of them jumped surprised and diverted eyes. Lucy took her phone out and heard her father's worried voice, "Lucy, dear, I found out only now that it started raining in Magnolia. Here in Crocus is still sunny and warm. Where are you now? I'll immediately send Loke to get you!"

"Dad, chill. There's no need to send Loke." Natsu turned his head to her, now listening very carefully, but she decided to ignore him, "I'm at Natsu's house. I'll just sleep here for the night. "

"You're with that vandal again? You know I don't like it when you go to his house. I will be worried if I just leave you with him. It's better to call Loke."

" Dad! His family is coming back home from their vacation. You've met his parents Igneel, Grandeen and his little sister Wendy. They're good people. "

Her father sighed heavily.

"Please?" she asked with thin voice when she felt he was beginning to give in.

"Ugh, fine. But tell that boy that if he even tries to touch you, I will…"

"Yeah, yeah, I know. Thank you so much, daddy! Love you. Bye."

She hanged up before he could change his mind and smiled at Natsu. "Everything's okay."

He scrunched his nose. "I don't understand why he doesn't like me."

"He caught you climbing through my window at 1 am. He won't forget it so easily."

"But I was bringing you Happy to calm you after that piece of shit made you cry!"

Lucy frowned at the memory of that one date with that football player Dan. She made the biggest mistake in her life when she thought he could actually be decent.

"Yeah, Natsu, but fathers are like that. Don't worry. He'll eventually get used to you. Actually the fact that he let me stay the night and sleep with you is a step forward."

Natsu blinked slowly.

"He… he let me sleep with you. " A huge goofy smile appeared on his face. "Really?"

Lucy opened her mouth, looking quite scandalized (and for good reason).

" Noooo, you idiot! I-I didn't mean it like that and you know it!"

She started slamming his shoulder.

"Hey, are you finally giving in to you desires? And what are these masochistically movements I see you using?" he asked playfully. That made her push his shoulders even harder, which led to them falling on the couch.

"Ah!" screamed Lucy as she came face to face with his muscular chest. She lifted her head dizzily and looked around. Then she realized that he had fallen on his back and she was lying over him. Natsu realized that too because after his short surprise, his confident smile appeared on his face again and he wiggled his eyebrows.

"Damn, Luce! I didn't expect such passion from you."

She squinted her eyes at him, " Oh, right now I really want to…"

"What?" he asked hoarsly, "I'm really curious, so tell me? What do you want to do?"

Jeez. This boy was going to be the end of her.

"I," she opened her mouth after she saw him waiting for her answer.

And then, for the second time this evening, another loud noise came from a phone. From Natsu's phone. Lucy quickly pulled herself back and moved to the furthest corner of the couch, running fingers nervously through her hair. Natsu was looking at her with amusement, while taking his phone out.

"Hey, dad. Hm, no. We got a little drenched but nothing serious. Yeah, Lucy's with me. " he made an annoyed face. "Yes, dad, of course I gave her new clothes. I am not an idiot."

A small laugh escaped from Lucy's lips and he shot her a "I will make you sorry for laughing" glare.

Then he froze. "What did you say?" he asked shocked."Um, yeah, okay. Umm, okay, dad. I got it. I said okay! Bye."

He hung up and stared for quite some time at the screne.

"Natsu, what's wrong?" Lucy asked almost too afraid to ask.

Her doubts got confirmed when Natsu said in too even voice, "It started heavily hailing on the road, so they'll stay in a motel for the night."

This meant…

Lucy pursed her lips.

The two of them were going to be alone for the whole night


Hello lovelies! I'm back with a new nalu story :) Although I've planned some things for my two favourite dorks, this will probably be only two chapters. We'll see about that.

The song I used is what inspired me for this fanfic. It's called Perfect two and it's super sweet. Go check it out. :)

As always please review. I would love to hear your opinions and suggestions! Until next time!