Prompt: First time

Title: Firsts

A/N: This is the first one in the series.

The first time Natsu kissed Lucy was during their first mission together.

He had met the blonde girl on one of his many fruitless searches for his father. Following a rumor, this one took him to the city of Louen, where like always, his father was no where to be found. Instead he met her. Lucy Ashley.

When he first saw her being captured by a group of the kingdom's soldiers, he knew he wanted her. He had never seen a woman that he desired more in his life. Was it her long blonde hair, fierce brown eyes, and pink pouty lips? Was it her smoking hot body that he could definitely appreciate through the skin tight clothes she wore? Or was it her skill and attitude as she attempted to fight off ten of those soldiers all by herself?

Maybe it was all of that and more that made him act so out of character and jump in, sword swinging, in an attempt to help her escape. It had been both the bravest and stupidest thing he had ever done in his life.

She did get away that day, but not until she surprisingly returned the favor and saved him from those same soldiers who had cornered and almost seized him instead.

And then to his delight, when he asked, she agreed to come back to Fairy Tail with him. Now the only thing left was to get her as interested in him as he was in her. Thank god that he became more confident when he was traveling in his car.

On the way to Fairy Tail, he tested the waters, using all his best tactics to flirt with her without making it too obvious that he was flirting with her. And he thought she was responding favorably, but alas, the trip home took quicker than expected. Some times it didn't pay to be the fastest man in Fairy Tail.

When his friend Gray realized that Natsu had a thing for the new girl, he was all for helping him. Together, they went to Mira, the only other person that loved romance more than Gray, and found the perfect mission. It would require a lot of traveling in areas that were known to be heavily infested with monsters.

When Natsu showed it to Lucy, asking her to go with him, he got a face full of floor, but in the end she did agree to go, even if it was only for this mission.

The mission went well. There was a lot of fighting for Lucy to do, which put her in a very good mood and every moment they were in the car, she was responding more and more favorably to his advances.

Everything was looking so good to him that when they went around a sharp corner and Lucy involuntarily slid up next to him, he decided to "accidentally" let his hand slip from his gear shift, squeezing her inner upper thigh in the process.

Lucy had instantly grabbed his hand and held it in place.

"Pull over." She commanded.

The moment of truth had arrived.

When they had stopped, Lucy quickly exited the vehicle, forcing Natsu to follow. And while he hated that he would have to talk to her when his timid personality took over, the fact that she hadn't killed him yet was a good sign, right?

"You want me." she stated matter-of-factually when he stood outside his vehicle, facing her.

"Y-yes, Lucy-san." he answered truthfully and pretty bravely, if you ask him, considering a big part of him really just wanted to run away and hide from her.

"Well, I gotta say, I find myself quite attracted to the aggressive guy you were in the car. Outside here, not so much."

"Th-that's a common problem." Natsu quietly said, quickly deflating. The few times he had actually been attracted to a girl in the past usually worked out that way. Whenever a girl liked his cocky, assertive side inside the car, she loathed his weak self outside of it. Conversely, when a girl happened to like his meek outside self, they became totally turned off by his completely opposite inside self.

Lucy stood there considering him for a moment.

"Pull down your pants." she said, coming to a decision.

Natsu almost fainted in shock. He could only stutter incomprehensibly at her as he tried to ask why in the world he should do such a thing.

"Look, Dragion, you want me, right?"

Natsu nodded.

"Well, even I can see that you're still a good-looking guy. I may not care for your personality right now, but it might grow on me if you give me the right incentive. If you know what I mean." She said pointedly, crossing her arms in wait.

So he did what she asked of him after several minutes of fumbling with his belt, button, and zipper. His fingers had been shaking so much that he was just glad that Lucy was patient enough to wait for him to do it. From what he knew about her already, it was kind of surprising that she was.

He stood there, exposed, completely red-faced, and hyperventilating slightly, waiting for Lucy to "appraise" him. When she didn't say anything, he finally looked up at her face. She was smiling. And was that an appreciative gleam in her eyes?

"Get back in the car, Natsu." she ordered, nodding her head towards his four-wheeler. "But, uh, leave your pants undone. We're gonna have us some fun."

What followed was the most intense make-out session of his life.

Mira and Gray definitely got thanked when he got back.