Disclaimer: Fairy Tail and all related characters belong to Hiro Mashima.

Natsu was back at the guild waiting for Lucy to come by. He waited for a good two hours and Lucy still hadn't shown up yet. He was getting bored of waiting rather fast. Natsu already ate, fought with Gray, ate again, fought with Gray again, stared into space. He looked around for Happy, who was trying to offer Carla a fish, but with no avail. He put his head down on the table

"What's wrong, Natsu?" Mira asked as she cleared the plates that Natsu was no longer using.

"I've been waiting for Lucy for two hours and she hasn't come by yet." Natsu said without lifting up his head.

"Well maybe you should go check if she is okay," Mira suggested, with a mischievous twinkle in her eye.

"Yeah, that's a great idea! Thanks" Natsu got up and started heading towards the guild door.

"Okay, be careful now," Mira waved off. She made her way towards Cana, refilling her beer. "I'm telling you, Cana, my matchmaking is going to cause those two to get together faster than when your cards say."

"My card readings haven't been wrong, Mira," Cana started off, "you're going to owe me a lot of beer when you lose the bet of when they become a couple."


Natsu climbed through Lucy's apartment window like always. He was about to jump right in when he saw that Lucy had fallen asleep on her bed. Was she really that tired from that last mission? He decided to be more careful when climbing in this time to not wake her up. What was he going to do until she woke up? He already ate so raiding her kitchen was not an option. Walking around the apartment seemed like a good idea. He walked around picking up and looking at random objects, then setting them back down. That got boring really fast. He figured if Lucy was taking a nap, he was going to take one too. So he climbing in on the side that he normally slept on, even though he always got kicked out when Lucy woke up.

Half an hour passed and Natsu woke up in a haze and saw that Lucy was hugging him in her sleep. 'Probably cold again.' ¹ Natsu thought and he wrapped one of his arms around her to keep her warm. It was early spring, but Natsu had no sensitivity to temperature change and had no idea what was considered cold. Natsu looked down at Lucy. She was smiling in her sleep. 'She's rather cute when she smiles...' he absent mindedly thought before going back to sleep.

About ten minutes later, Natsu was rudely awakened by Lucy's screaming and her attempt to untangle herself from him. "Wh-what are you doing?"

"I was sleeping."

"What I meant is what are you doing here," Lucy's face was a very bright pink that took up most of her face.

"You took too long to meet me at the guild," Natsu stated, "so I came here. But you were napping so I decided to take a nap too."

Lucy slapped herself for forgetting to meet Natsu at the guild, "Right, I was supposed to meet up with you… Why were you hugging me earlier?"

"I woke up and you were hugging me in your sleep, I thought you were cold again," no lying there.

"I-I was? When I woke up it felt like- Nevermind!" Lucy cut herself off before finishing that sentence, her face only getting pinker. She was going to say it felt like they were a married couple, but she did not want Natsu to know that.

"Okay?" Natsu thought Lucy was being weird again. "Do you still want to go to the guild?"

"Yeah, let's go!" Lucy grabbed her keys and attached them to her belt. Though her walking pace did seem faster than usual today. Along the way, Lucy still walked along the edge of the riverbed in an attempt to focus on something else entirely.

"Hey, Lucy?"

"Hmm," Lucy responded with, trying to not break her concentration of keeping her balance.

"What were you going to say about what waking up felt like?"

Caught off guard by the question that she had been trying to forget, Lucy's concentration broke and she started to fall of the edge toward the water. Natsu quickly responded and wrapped his arm around her waist before Lucy fell into the water.

"We told you that was dangerous, Lucy," called one of the boatmen, "You're lucky that your boyfriend was with you to catch you!"

"B-boyfriend?!" Lucy squeaked with her blush returning.

"Boyfriend?" Natsu said with a I-don't-get-it face and his arm still wrapped around Lucy's waist. "Were they talking about me?"

"I don't know, maybe," Lucy screamed a bit, "Can you let go of me now?" After being let go, Lucy walked off a bit, then she stopped, "Th-thank you for catching me," then she continued walking.

"No problem. We're friends after all," Natsu smiled.

"Right, friends." the emphasis on the last word was more for Lucy than for Natsu.

In a matter of minutes they had reached the guild. "Hi everyone!" Lucy greeted when she walked in.

"Hi Lucy," said Happy as he flew towards his friends, "Natsu, where did you go?"

"To pick up Lucy, she was taking too long."

"Oh, Lucy, I'm glad that you're here." Said Mira when she saw Lucy. She was secretly disappointed that she and Natsu did not walk in hand-in-hand together. "A job came in that would just be perfect for you, here." What was being asked on the flyer could have easily been done with her spirits and the pay was pretty good. "It looks like a solo job though."

"I just did a job, but it might be good to have some extra cash… Okay, I'll do it," Lucy said accepting the job.

"What am I supposed to do until you come back," asked Natsu when he saw that the job was going to have Lucy out of town for a whole day.

"I'm sorry Natsu," Lucy said, it was very rare when she took solo missions, most jobs she took with Natsu, "but it will only be for one day. Do you think you can manage?"

"Yeah, I think I'll be fine."

"Okay," Lucy looked at the flyer, "Oh, I need to catch a train in an hour if I'm going to be there on time!" Lucy turned to leave, but stopped. "Happy, if you make sure Natsu doesn't burn anything in my house when I'm gone, I'll use some of the reward money to buy you a fish."

"Fish? Aye sir!" Saluted Happy.

"Hey! When have I ever burned anything at your hou- nevermind"

Walking back to the bar, Mira heard Cana say, "Hey, Mira. I thought you were trying to hook 'em up. Wouldn't it be better to send them on a mission together?"

"It would seem that way, but the distance will pull them together after missing each other," Mira stated.

Cana was not sure if it was the beer, but she could have sworn hearts were coming off of Mira.


Back at Lucy's apartment, Natsu and Happy decided to crash there for the night. Natsu laid down on the bed even though he had no intention of going to sleep yet. "I get to sleep in Lucy's bed without being kicked out when I wake up! Like earlier today" Natsu had no idea what double meaning his words had when out of context.

"We didn't stay here last night," Happy recalled.

"Not this morning," Natsu corrected, "when I picked her up. She was napping so I decided to take a nap too. Then she hugged me in her sleep."

"She lllllllllikes you," teased Happy. If only he knew the truth behind these words.

"Nothing like that, Happy. She was probably cold. She did act weird when she woke up though. Her face was redder than usual. Happy! Are you even listening?"

Happy had gone off to some remote area of Lucy's apartment. "Natsu, look what I found!" said Happy pulling out the diary from the shelf.

"What is it, Happy," asked Natsu getting up from the bed.

"It looks like a diary," stated Happy. "Maybe we should put it ba-"

"No way! Why would Lucy keep a diary? Aren't they books that girls put their secrets in?" Natsu grabbed the book from Happy's hands.

"It has a lock on it," observed Happy. "I don't think Lucy would be happy if we opened it. She gets really scary when she's mad."

"Hmm… You're right… But I want to know what's in it!" Whinned Natsu.

"Why? Do you llllllllike Lucy and want to see if she writes about you?" Happy then pitched up his voice to pretend he was Lucy, "Dear Diary, I love Natsu and want to have 30 eggs with him!" Happy started making kissing noises.

"N-NO," shouted Natsu as he tried to pull the lock with blunt force. It would not budge. "That's weird. Well I guess I'll have to use a stronger approach." Natsu lit a small flame on his index finger, "I'll just melt it off!"

Happy stopped making kissing noises when he saw the flame. For this fish! "No, Natsu, you can't do that!"

Natsu, "Why not?"

"Um, uh, Lucy will know you read it if the lock is melt- It's not melting!"

"What!? What the hell is this lock made out of!"

"Well, I guess we'll never know what's in that diary," Happy said nonchalantly. "Let's go to sleep," he said with a yawn.

"Yeah, okay," said Natsu as he set the book down.


The next day at the guild, "Yo, Ice Princess!"

"What did you call me, Flame Breath?!"

No one in the guild paid attention to their fight because it was the norm.

"I need you to do me a favor," said Natsu.

"What kind a favor," asked Gray, not liking where this is going. His trenchcoat had already disappeared at this point. Though it was not abandoned by a certain water mage.

"Make a key for this," said Natsu holding up the diary from the night before.

"What's this," Gray took the book, looking at it questionably.

"I found it in Lucy's apartment yesterday,"

Punch! "I'm not making a key for you ash-for-brains!"

Natsu punched back, "Why not, Icicle?"

"Because Lucy would kill me if she found out!" Gray could have sworn a demonic aura was coming out of Juvia after that statement.

"Oh, I thought it was too hard for you, Snowcone!"

"As if, Ice Make: Key! See?"

"Ha! I outsmarted yo-" Gray punched Nastu in the face again.

'Just to see if it works...' Gray unlocked the diary. Natsu tried to see what was in it, but Gray was keeping him arm's length away from it. 'Nope.' Gray was not trying to read it whatsoever, but the third page caught his eye. 'Mrs. Lucy Dragneel? She's got it bad for the idiot.' Gray shut and locked the diary before letting Natsu go flying.

"Did you see what was in it," asked Natsu.

"Just one page, and that was an accident," said Gray, he looked at the cover then back at Nastu, "I thought Lucy was smart." Though Gray supposed opposites attract. "Anyways, put this back where you found it," said Gray tossing back the small book.

"Gray-sama," said Juvia because she could not stand overhearing the conversation involving her love rival, "Juvia is curious about what is going on here.

"Come over here, Juvia," said Gray as she walked her away from Natsu.

Juvia became very happy when Gray was walking to talk with her, alone. She began to daydream when Gray broke her out of it.

"Natsu was trying to read what was in there," Gray pointed to the diary.

"What is that, Gray-sama?"

"Lucy's diary it looks like. Luckily he didn't see what's inside."

Juvia was not happy about her darling Gray holding her love rival's diary earlier. "I-if it's okay to ask, Juvia wants to know what is in Lo- Lucy-san's diary that Natsu-san could not see?"

Gray looked around, "If I tell you, you have to promise not to tell anyone,"

"Juvia promises, Gray-sama."

"Ok," Gray leaned in towards Juvia's ear, and he could have sworn she tensed up. He whispered quietly, "Lucy wrote 'Mrs. Lucy Dragneel' all over a page."

It was official: Lucy was no longer Juvia's love rival.

"Juvia can see why Natsu-san should not have read that. Lucy-san would have been so embarrassed." Juvia said feeling empathy for Lucy since Juvia had done that herself. Only as 'Mrs. Juvia Fullbuster.' "Please excuse Juvia, Gray-sama." Juvia walked right up to Natsu. "Put that back where you found it, Natsu-san," Juvia threatened, she now had a new connection with Lucy and understood.

"Aye!" said Natsu as he ran out the door to put the diary back.

After Natsu left, Juvia realized something. Gray had whispered into her ear. 'Ah! Perhaps one day Gray-sama will whisper words of love into Juvia's ear...' Juvia was thinking happily into her newest fantasy.

1. Read my other NaLu fanfic "Stupid Heater"

Oops, did I sneak in some Gruvia at the end? :) This was going to be a oneshot, then a twoshot… but I decided to make it however long I need to finish my original intent along with new ideas I get. Also, I do not think it is possible to write a NaLu fic with a guild scene without including Mirajane. Thank you for reading the chapter! Much love to everyone until next time!