"I dare you, say that again brain freeze."
"I said," Grey began angrily, "You're an Idiot."
"Oh yeah!" Natsu growled. Everyone in the bar rolled their eyes.
"Do they seriously need to fight over everything?" Cana asked no one in particular.
"Should be used to it by now," Mirajane spoke. "They've been doing it since before this was a bar." A bell chimed and Mira looked towards the entrance. "Welcome to Fairy Tail." she greeted, then went back to cleaning cups.
SMACK. Cana rolled her eyes, and took another swig of her beer.
"I told you Grey would hit first." Jet commented.
Natsu was about to take a hard swing right to Grey's face when he noticed something. He dropped his hand to look at it. On his left wrist he bore a blonde mark with the letters L.H.
Grey saw an opening and tried to punch Natsu, but Natsu easily caught it.
Natsu quickly glanced up at Grey's face a spoke, just as quickly, "Not right now Grey."
The whole bar became quiet, but Natsu didn't notice. Seconds later people were mumbling about how Natsu never refuses a fight.
The door chimed again causing everyone to turn their head. A pretty blonde came through the door. She had been coming here a lot recently, everyone but Natsu knew her.
"Hey Lucy," Mirajane greeted, she set down her cup and went to make small talk with Lucy.
"Who's that?" Natsu asked the person next to him.
"Oh, that's Lucy, She's been coming here for the past couple of weeks." Droy answered. To this Natsu only nodded. Seeing that Natsu didn't have any more questions, Droy went back to his food.
"Lu-chan." Levy squealed as she went up to give Lucy a hug. "Did you do it?" she asked
Lucy nodded. "I turned it in." She and Levy giggled, gave each other another hug to celebrate, whatever it was they were celebrating, and then moved over to the bar to carry out a normal conversation.
"Stop staring dumb ass, It's creepy." Grey spoke to Natsu, causing Natsu to jump.
He hadn't realized he was staring.
"If you think Lucy is that cute, just go up and talk to her like a REAL MAN." Elfman butted in.
"Natsu tried to fake a laugh, but failed miserably. "I don't think she's that cute." he lied then tried to cover it up with another fake laugh.
Both Elfman and Grey just stared at him. Suddenly they burst into laughter.
"Geez Natsu, Grey began as he wiped a tear from his eye. "You suck at lying."
Elfman looked like he wanted to add to that comment but was laughing to hard.
"Oh, shut up." Natsu replied.
"You gonna make me?'' Grey asked, his laughter gone in an instant.
"Maybe I will."
"I'd like to see yo-"
"OMG LUCY! YOU GOT THE MARK!" Levy screamed silencing everyone else who was talking. Lucy turned a bright red.
"Congratulations Lucy." Erza stated, appearing as if to have been in their conversation the whole time.
"T-Thanks I guess" Lucy squeaked, her face now redder than Erza's hair.
"Lemme see the mark Lu-Chan" Levy begged. Lucy checked around the room making sure that most people had returned to their own business.
Slowly Lucy raised her left wrist to show Levy the mark she now bore.
"NO. FREAKING. WAY." Levy exclaimed. Erza! Come look at her mark."
Erza walked around Lucy from her spot to look at the salmon stripe. Immediately her jaw dropped.
"Do you thinkā¦" She mumbled to Levy.
All Levy did was nodded she jaw slack.
Anyone who looked at Lucy could tell that she was beyond nervous about what Erza and Levy were thinking.
"I'll be right back Lu. Stay here with Erza." And with that Levy hopped off her stool and marched right over to where Natsu and Grey sat.
"Let me see your wrist." She demanded.
"Why?" He questioned mockingly.
Without answering Levy grabbed his left wrist and studied his new mark.
"I knew it." She mumbled.
"You knew what?" Natsu asked, suddenly getting nervous.
Levy got a tighter grip onto his wrist and pulled him over to the bar where Lucy and Erza sat in awkward silence.
"Natsu," Levy began, gesturing to him. "This is Lucy. Lucy." She stated, now gesturing to Lucy. "This is Natsu."
Lucy was the first one to snap out of her confusion "Hi." She said and extended her left hand. "Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you to Lucy." He replied extending his left hand to meet hers in a mutual handshake.
Lucy quickly glanced down at their locked hands, noticing that he hand a mark, but didn't see the initials printed in it.
"Did you recently get your mark?" She asked trying to start an interesting conversation.
Natsu glanced down at his wrist, then quickly noticed two things. One: That he and Lucy were still shaking hand, Two: that Lucy also bore a mark.
"Yeah," Natsu replied. "I got it today actually."
A sparkle lit in Lucy's eyes but quickly disappear.
"Neat." She nodded.
"And you?" He asked.
"Same as you," she began. "I got it in the square today on my way home from 8island."
"Cool." Both Lucy and Natsu glanced down at their still entwined hands. Both let out an embarresed laugh and let go of each other's hands.
"Soooo," Lucy began. "I haven't seen you the past couple of weeks that I've been coming here."
"Yeah, I've been away on vacation from work."
"Ahh, that makes sense."
"OH MY GOD." Levy exclaimed making both Natsu and Lucy jump. " Look at your guy's marks." She rolled her eyes. "For Mavis' sakes."
Natsu and Lucy eyed each other. They had noticed each other's marks.
"You feeling ok Levy?"
"No." Levy began. "Would you guys just look at the intials and hair color on each of your wrists." She raged. "Goodness, you guys are blinder than Grey when It comes to Juvia."
A/N: I didn't know how to end this one, so I decided to stop here. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I'll have more free time for a while because of summer and stuff. So I'll try to update often. I love you guys, thank you so much for all of your support.
