Erza had managed to finish off the bandits, and went to go help them fight just before hearing them scream 'unison raid' and witnessing the entire attack.

Natsu and Gray were the first to stand up, and like the gentlemen they (very) rarely are, they both offered a hand to their partners in crime so they could stand back and admire their work; and then the excitement kicked in.

"YOSHHH!" Natsu shouted whilst punching the air, Juvia almost crushed Gray to death in an overenthusiastic hug, but strangely he allowed it this time even going as far as to hug her back, Lucy jumped in the air for joy and Erza applauded their teamwork walking over to Gray and Juvia to explain everything to her.


Apparently, this gave both Lucy and Natsu the same idea as they both headed towards each other and Lucy leapt into Natsu's arms while he spun her around in their rare celebratory hug, only this time differed as instead of holding her in the hug for a few seconds afterwards like they usually would, he released her from it almost immediately.

The split second of confusion that Lucy felt, was only replaced by a larger amount of bewilderment as Natsu pulled her in again, but instead of pulling her into a hug he leant down and pulled her up slightly so he could plant a kiss on her lips.

The kiss was soft, but firm and had an underlying sense of urgency. It only lasted a few seconds, but those few seconds were all Lucy needed to melt and for her brain to flip, and although she was not rejecting this action, she was going into overdrive, until Natsu finally pulled away to give her the toothiest grin she'd ever seen him wear.

His grin was bashful, but full of pride and adoration.

Finally realising what he had just done, Lucy took a step back in shock and confusion as Natsu walked off to congratulate the others about their job well, seemingly no different than before, but looking slightly more relieved than he did before.

'What. The. FUCK. Was that?' Lucy thought to herself. 'He.. Natsu?! He kissed me? What?' She took in a deep breath to calm herself down. 'No no no Lucy.. He doesn't think of you like that, stop getting false pretences into your head. It was probably the adrenaline rush going to his head.. he uh.. he acts on impulse so when he just lost all that power he wanted to be close to something familiar, which now makes sense because I am his partner.. okay phew so he probably would have done it to any other person if they were his partner.. okay no false hope for you Miss Lucy.'

She smiled to herself and walked over to the others, forgetting about the kiss knowing it probably didn't mean half as much to him as it did to her and focusing solely on Juvia and Gray and how they seemed to still be holding hands.


Little did she know, Natsu kept stealing glances at her and wondering why she wasn't acting the way she usually did when she saw people do that in films, or like she did with the boyfriends she had a couple years back, or why she was just acting as if nothing even happened!

'Did I do something wrong?' Natsu began wondering to himself, and once he had started, it was almost as if all that time he hadn't been thinking was catching up on him; he ended up being oblivious to the world outside until he heard a familiar melodic sound.

"..tsu.. atsu.. Nasttuuu? Hellooo anyone in there?" Something tapped his head gently, it was Lucy knocking on the side of his head and giggling when he looked up all confused at her.

The others had started walking back already and he was still standing there in thought, while Lucy had waited for him.


"Sorry Luce, we going back now?" He absentmindedly scratched his head and glanced over to where the others were walking away to. Lucy tilted her head to the side and moved into his line of vision with a slightly worried look on her face,

"Are you okay Natsu? Did you use up too much magic back there? Do you have a fever?" She moved closer to him and lifted up one hand to push his hair out the way, before lightly pressing the other onto his forehead that felt like it was getting hotter by the second. "Natsu are you okay, your forehead does seem a little hot.."

"Luce, jeezz stop worrying I'm fine," Natsu tried to stop her from talking and gently pushed away her hand, but she carried on regardless.

"Though granted it IS usually hotter than most peoples, you know, because you're a fire mage and all.. hang on lemme check again, just in-." She stepped closer to check his head again and even got her hand inches away from his head again before he grabbed it and turned to face her, cutting her sentence off.

"Luce, seriously, I'm fine." Natsu let her hand drop leaving her standing there stunned.

"Natsu.." She took a step back. "Did I do something wrong?" Lucy looked down at her feet and rolled her ankles out in unease. "Was the Unison Raid that bad? I mean you won't look me in the eyes properly and you keep trying to avoid me, I know maybe it wasn't the type of attack you-"

"I kissed you Luce! Why are you acting like nothing happened!?" Natsu had leaned forward and almost shouted at her in his anguish but managed to keep it just slightly above his normal tone, despite the urgency making itself apparent in his voice.

Almost immediately he looked behind her to see if the others heard what he had said, but once he realised they hadn't he crouched down with his hands holding either side of his head, before slowly looking back up to face Lucy.

"Luce.. I kissed you.."

"N- Natsu I.." Lucy crouched down beside him and put her hand on his shoulder, but he shrugged it off and held her in an intense stare.

"I thought you were gonna die Luce! You almost got hit by its poison -DEADLY poison- more than once! If I wasn't there the first time, and if Juvia wasn't there the second you could be dead!" He broke eye contact and held his head again in panic, before his breathing went ragged and his eyes widened as the reality of the situation hit him head on. "Oh Mavis Lucy, what if we weren't there?! What if you did get hit?! What if-"

"Natsu! Natsu!" Lucy grabbed his arms to pull him out of his growing hysteria and into a tight hug that Natsu gladly returned it as he buried his face in her shoulder and wrapped his arms around her immediately, almost as if to reassure himself she was really there.

Lucy bit back a small gasp as she felt his arms wrap around her, not because of his comfortable warmth but because she felt his arms trembling slightly. In response, she began rubbing small circles on his back to comfort him.

Honestly, Lucy was surprised Natsu was having such a bad reaction to the thought of her being hurt, they'd been in them all the time and she'd had a few close calls before as well, but she had never seen him react like this. Nevertheless she comforted him for a few minutes before saying,

"Natsu, it's okay, I'm here, and I'm fine." She pulled away from a rather reluctant Natsu and held him at arm's length, and studied him.


Dishevelled and pushed out of his face, his pink hair was dusted with dirt from their previous attack; his brows were furrowed but softened the longer she looked over him; his mouth twitched into an attempt at grinning and his onyx eyes, now slightly glassy with emotion, examined her expression as well until she let out a small giggle.

"You know Natsu, I appreciate your concern but you don't have to kiss me!" She rolled her eyes slightly, 'Geez, what am I going to do with you' but before Natsu could reply Lucy began speaking again. "However, you technically saved my life and I have yet to say thanks!"

Extending her right arm, she wrapped her hand around the nape of his neck and pulled him closer to her, so that their foreheads were touching; Lucy closed her eyes and whispered.

"This is my thanks, okay?" She pulled herself up a bit so she could place a soft kiss on his forehead, before leaning back and begin to smile at him until an look of confusion fell over her face.

Natsu. Natsu Dragneel.

The oblivious idiot, had just turned the colour of his hair, and shrunk back into his scarf before mumbling in a quiet but audibly slightly irritated voice, leaving Lucy to turn a deeper shade, almost equivalent to Erza's hair.

"You didn't have to do it on my forehead, there was a reason I didn't do it there earlier, the lips would have been fine.."

'There was a reason.'

'The lips would have been fine.'

'Kiss..reason..'

'Lips.. fine..'

'Kiss.. lips..reason..'

And once again, our poor Lucy's brain fried and went into overdrive as Natsu sat there grumbling at her lack of proper direction.


I didn't know whether to just finish it here or not, shall I continue with it?

Thank you so much for the horrible long waiting I'm putting you through with my other stories as well, I'm starting college in two days AND I'm trying to work on my two Cosplays for October MCM Comic con!

Sooo I just want to say thank you guys for reading, it really makes me happy when I see a review, favourite or follow in my notifications!

Love you all lots! Take care of yourselves!

ContraryMofo out ~~