Never Knew I Needed

Chapter two

A/N: Hi everyone! It's been like a month since I wrote the first part of this story! I finally finished it! I hope you guys enjoy the little part of Natsu and Lucy's first date!

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Her heart beat fast as she sat down on the loveseat couch in the reader's corner of the bookstore. Lucy had been asked out on a date by Dragonslayer's lead singer, Natsu Dragneel. She had only met him yesterday when she caught him starting at her in the hallway. Then, Lucy proceeded to go to his concert and there he asked for her to stay with him and his band. They talked briefly, but Lucy couldn't help but feel curious on why the Natsu Dragneel asked her out on a date.

She folded her arms against her chest and began to exhale.

"He's just a boy….we're just friends getting to know each other…" She chanted in her mind. "No need to get all worked up."

"Hiyah Lucy!"

Lucy flinched in surprise at the sound of his vibrant voice. She spun her head to the side to confirm the source of the voice.

It was Natsu.

Lucy nervously brushed back a blonde strand and looked up at him. He looked so happy in his red hoodie and jeans. He had his signature muffler wrapped around his neck, and his dusty rose hair was spiked as usual. She could smell a tint cologne on him. It was subtle but had a spicy scent to it.

"H-Hi." She nervously smiled at the singer. Natsu brushed the back of his head with his hand and smiled. "Can I sit next to you?"

"Yeah, of course you can." She made room for him on the loveseat couch. Lucy sat on the couch firm and uptight whereas Natsu plopped himself onto the couch. "Ahh…so comfy." He sighed as he sunk into the clouds of cushions.

Lucy nodded her head in agreement.

"Sorry, I was kinda late…Traffic y'know?" Natsu casually apologized to her.

Lucy began to wave her hand in front of her. "No worries, I just got here too." She lied. "I was going to look around for something to read anyways."

Natsu smiled at her. "Speaking of which." He now began to say. "I have something for you."

Lucy widened her eyes in surprise. "You do?"

"Yepp! It's in my car." He cheekily smiled, "But I'll give it to you later."

"Okkaay."

"So!" Natsu said as he now sprung off his chair . "The adventure begins."

Lucy slowly got up from the sofa. "What adventure?"

"Our adventure. Here, today…and maybe sort of tonight." He said now waltzing over to the nearest bookshelf. Natsu opened up a random poem book and opened it to the middle page. There laid a crumpled piece of paper with poor handwriting.

He unfurled the paper and began to read.

"To our young ones seeking adventure." He announced with a royal accent to himself. "We, the people of Magnolia, invite you to our daily adventure we would like to send you on. Today, your task is to find a William Shakespeare sonnet. "Love is not Time's fool, through rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come…"

Lucy furrowed her eyebrows. "Shakespeare huh?" she muttered to herself.

"Once, you find the given sonnet, there shall be your next task for the scavenger hunt." Natsu continued . He slammed the book shut and took the paper along with him.

"Magnolia has a scavenger hunt?" Lucy raised a brow at him.

"Duh, it's practically ritual for newcomers to come here and do this hunt." He scoffed.

Lucy softly smiled at her date . She didn't buy one word into it. From the handwriting there was no way some superior in Magnolia created a scavenger hunt for newcomers of the town. The handwriting was chicken scratched and misspelled a few words. It was obviously Natsu's doing, but she decided it play along with her date.

"Well." She now began to say, "If we want to find that sonnet…our best bet is to read one of his bibliographies and see what it says from there."

Natsu widely grinned and messed with the top of Lucy's hair,leaving it a blonde mess.

"Great thinking Luce!"

The scavenged into the bibliography section until the stumbled upon Shakespeare. They searched over the glossary until they found a section titled 'sonnets'.

Lucy placed her fingers on the words and began to read.

"The majority of his sonnets (1-126) are addressed to a young man, with whom the poet had an intense romantic relationship. The poet spends the first seventeen sonnets trying to convince the young man to marry and have children; beautiful children that will look just like their father, ensuring immortality. Many of the remaining sonnets in the young man sequence focus on the power of poetry and pure love to defeat death and "all oblivious enmity."

Natsu placed the gap of his index finger and thumb over his chin. He furrowed his eyebrows in concentration as he reread the passage from the book.

"Well." He finally said. "The hint from the paper talked about Love and time."

"Yeah you're right…"Lucy nodded her head. "And from the passage it does say that his sonnets from one to one twenty six were all about intense passionate feelings."

"You're right." Natsu agreed with Lucy's thinking.

"The passage also says that it's almost like the poet was giving a young man advice about convincing him to marry and have children, and also that some just focus on love and the defeat of pure death."

Natsu reread the words from the paper again. "Love is not Time's fool, through rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come."

Lucy crouched down to the floor and began to lay against the back of another bookshelf. She seemed more at ease with Natsu as she tried to figure out the puzzle pieces to the scavenger hunt. She had to admit, she enjoyed doing things like this. It was his spontaneous gesture that brought warmth to her heart . She did love a sense of adventure and anything new.

"It seems like that stanza talked about time and love…"She now began to say, "Time….revolves with death."

Natsu gave her a puzzling look. "How?"

"Well it's kinda complex. There is no such thing as the present if you think about it. We're always moving forward until the day we die. There is no still moment. The clock is always ticking for us until we are laid to rest, hence the relation of time and death."

Natsu smiled at the brilliant girl. He admired her sense of intelligence and psychological thinking.

"That was deep." Natsu admired

"Natsu…that was in our psychology textbook ." She giggled.

Now slightly embarrassed, dug his hands into his jeans as a sense of security. "O-Oh…I knew that."

Natsu offered his hand to raise her back up . When he stood her up, she gave him determined eyes. "Let's go look for his sonnets." She said, "They have to be somewhere from seventeen and beyond if they talk about pure love and time."

"Right."

The two searched on and on and scrambled through Shakespeare's sonnets. Lucy began to wonder if Natsu knew where it was hidden all along or if he picked some random cheesy line from Shakespeare. "Is he pretending to look?" she puzzled in her mind. She glanced over at the singer. His eyes were focused as he flipped through the books. No, those were the eyes of someone who was truly searching for something. Natsu had to have picked a random line from a sonnet.

"Here!" Natsu beamed as he raised a book in front of him.

"Or maybe he was good at pretending to be focused…" she concluded to herself

She sat next to him and began to look over the sonnet he had found.

"Sonnet 116."

"Yeah! It was right here under popular sonnets!" Natsu proudly explained. He handed the book over to Lucy. "Read it." He demanded, "I like hearing you read."

Lucy slightly blushed at his kind words. "Alright."

She cleared her throat and began to read the sonnet.

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,

That looks on tempests, and is never

Shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although

His height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy

Lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never write, nor man ever loved."

Natsu closed his eyes as he took in the spoken words. God, they were so beautiful to his ears. Something about this poem made him feel like a fool in love. He felt the warmth in his heart as Lucy finished the last words. He looked up the brilliant blonde.

"Wow…That's something." Lucy said amazed

"Yeah…it sure is…"

"What do you think it means?"

Natsu bit his lip, "I don't know…I hadn't thought too much into it. What do you suppose it means?"

Lucy smiled as she clutched onto the book. "Well…it's kinda sad at first since he says, 'love is not love', but he says it changes in circumstances another sentence down. It's true though, we do change the way we love through our circumstances. If a poor man and a poor woman are together they're really all they have and they love each other endlessly. And then he says that it is a star to every wandering bark, I don't know, I think he's talking about a love that will always be there even when you're lost. Towards the end he talks about how love doesn't alter with age even if our physical appearance withers away. The love still remains. And Shakespeare even says himself how true this kind of pure love is. 'If this error be upon me proved, I never writ nor no man ever loved.' Meaning, if he is wrong about these thoughts, then he recalls all that he has written and that no man has ever truly loved."

Natsu gazed at her in awe. "Could this girl be any more amazing?" He found herself feeling as if he needed to be closer to her more than he was already. He inched has hand towards her and began to lean towards her. This warmth…this tether, why does he feel this fluttery feeling all of a sudden.

Lucy could see what he was doing, "HE'S GOING TO KISS ME!" In her mind, she began to freak out, "What do I do? Do I want to? No I just met him!" But her body kept leaning towards Natsu. The two were inches away from each other. Lucy could practically feel his heavy breathing he eased out. She wanted to kiss him, but knew she shouldn't due to this being the second meeting. Suddenly, as if she was shocked by wire, she jolted back away from Natsu. "We should find were the second clue is." She nervously laughed.

Natsu leaned back and nervously coughed. "Y-Yeah…let's do that."

He flipped through the sonnet book and found another crumbled piece of paper. "There you are." He whispered to himself.

He handed the note to Lucy, which read, "Beauty peeks, but stays for a while, and it's a time of renewal and fleets nature of life."

"Fleets nature of life?" She wondered, "What could that mean?"

Natsu shrugged. "Beats me."

"Well it says it has to do with nature…" Lucy pondered, "If it's nature of life…there has to be something somewhere that's symbolic to nature and life."

Natsu paced around Lucy waiting for her to figure out the answer. She stood there for minutes until finally a light bulb went off in her head.

"I think I know where this is!" she beamed

"You do? Where?"

"I know I may be new here in town, but I heard there is an old Sakura rainbow tree here in Magnolia."

Natsu snapped his fingers in excitement, "You're right! It's splat in the middle of old downtown."

"Then we have to go there! I bet that's where it is!"

"Then let's go!" He chirped as he grabbed Lucy by the hand. Lucy, slightly happy and nervous from the intimate touch, ran along with him.

"On to our next adventure!"

Took me forever to get this done! But yeah, their adventure continues! I'll have another chapter as soon as possible, I made this story kinda long but it's good! I got the background of Shakespeare's sonnets from there's a lot of different translations of this sonnet but I liked the one from Shakespeare-online better. Hope you enjoyed! I'll have the next part up soon! Sorry for all the grammar mishaps! I Wrote this kinda in a rush! Im adjusting them as I reread through this chapter.