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Chapter 3: Natsu said what?!

Normal POV

3 weeks have passed since the whole incident of Natsu attacking Lucy. Gajeel knew why it happened, which made Natsu angry at the iron dragon slayer for not telling him in an advance of time. Though, the other guild mates have dropped it by now because of the way Natsu's usual behavior was back. When Gajeel had shared what he knew about a certain thing, Natsu was–– yes you guessed it–– confused. He had heard Igneel talk about mating. Hell, the dragon taught him that at such a young age. The dragon slayer decided to let it go. It's not like he would do anything to Lucy like how he did weeks ago.

Lucy, on the other hand, had fully recovered. With many amounts of blood lost, Wendy was not as much of help to her recovery. The Master decided to get a doctor. After the doctor left, Lucy was on her way to recovery. The blonde should have recovered in two weeks advance, but, with Wendy's healing magic, she was all better now.

The celestial mage will be returning to Natsu and Happy's house later that day. She wondered why those two just couldn't get on with their lives. She was going to live for sure, so they had nothing to worry about. Sure, she was injured but, Natsu and Happy didn't have to stay with her for that long. She blushed at the thought, it was kind of those two.

"LUUUUCEEEE!" A hyper dragon slayer was to be heard running through the corridor to see his partner. A blue Exceed trailed behind, flying as fast as he could to take the blonde mage home. The door to the infirmary opened, revealing both living beings. Natsu wore a smile that stretched from ear to ear. Happy wore a maid costume with a wig. The duo were in glee to find out that Lucy could go home. The reason she also had to stay in the infirmary for a long time was because of surgery.

"Whaaaa...?" Lucy was quite disturbed with the Exceed in a maid costume. He even had a wig that had the same shade as his fur. What really disturbed her was how he actually had a bust. Well, she was going to have nightmares that night.

"Are you ready to go home?!" Asked the active Natsu. Lucy rolled her eyes at the two, earning offended gasps from them.

She sighed, "Yes, Natsu." She then paused to take a closer look at Happy. He nervously laughed. "Why are you dressed like that?" She then poked at his fake bust as the 'neko maid' screamed like a girl.

"N-Natsu! She touched my chest!" He exclaimed, covering his chest with his arms.

Natsu looked horrified. "What the hell is wrong with you, you monster! It's not nice to touch a girls' chest!"

Lucy narrowed her eyes at Natsu. "Hypocrite." She muttered, earning herself a hum of confusion.

Natsu stared at her, making the blonde uncomfortable under his glare. "Eh, Luce, what's a hypocrite? Is it a some type of hippo?" She was done explaining things to him.

She just smiled, hiding the 'I want to strangle you' look. "You'll learn when you're..." She trailed off, changing the topic. It didn't concern Natsu that much anyways. "So, I'm ready to go since you two are so pushy. Did you do anything new to the house? It would be nice if I didn't have to share a room with a pervert."

"Hey, I'm no pervert!" Natsu simply said. Lucy ignored his comment and waited for an actual answer. "Well, bad news, Luce. You're still sharing a room with me. But, let's just say there's a little somethin' special there." Happy nodded, agreeing with a hum. Lucy was happy and sad. Sad because she still had to share a room with Natsu. She has no problem but still doesn't trust men as much. Not like Natsu is exactly the definition of man. More like child, or toddler. But, he still had his chances of doing anything to her, so she kept a close eye on him just in case.

She then was happy because maybe they cleaned up the house for her or bought her something. She couldn't believe how much the two cared for her.

"Well, let's get going, eh?" A happily Natsu and 'neko maid' said, fists in the air with looks of confidence.

XxX

Lucy had said her thank you's to her guild mates who have took care of her as well. These people... crazy, idiotic people, were her family. She had never felt so valuable in life after her mother's death. She still visited her grave here and there, recalling the fun memories she had with her mother.

She couldn't wait to get into a comfortable bed. The ones at the infirmary are good but not the best. Wait, she doesn't live in her apartment anymore which means no comfortable bed. No comfortable, pink, fluffy, warm bed.

"Natsu?" She spoke, gathering the attention from both beings. The three were on their way to Natsu and Happy's house. Currently, it was getting dark. To make matters worse, they were in a forest where it was dead silent. All you could hear is the crunching sound of leaves being crushed into pieces by two humans and a cat. Natsu had glanced her way when she softly spoke his name. He made sure she saw it so she knew she had his attention. "Um... Thank you." It was sort of awkward for an unusual reason. In a situation where he saves her, she has no problem saying thank you. Why was it so different this time?

"Thank you for what? Did I do something good?" She realized that he asks way too many questions in a day.

She glanced at him and the cat. It seemed as if Happy was getting tired. She picked up the Exceed from the ground, holding him against her chest. "You can fall asleep, Happy." It was weird having a neko maid in her hands.

Happy smiled and purred when she scratched his ear, "Rushieee is so soft." He mumbled, cuddling against her. Natsu was watching over the whole situation, smiling gleefully.

"Anyways, yes, you did something good. Both of you did and I just want to say thank you for being with me. I know I've said this a hundred of times but you guys are really sweet."

Even though Happy's eyes were closed, it didn't mean he was fully asleep. "Natsu was worried about you. He said 'I have to protect her from now on...' You liiiiiiike her." Happy's words drifted off. Lucy was for sure that he was asleep.

The blonde looked over to her pink-haired comrade. "I was not worried!" He defended with a light tint on his cheeks.

Lucy giggled, "Aw, you're making me blush." She joked, looking down at Happy to hear him mumbling words.

"Rushieeee... Soft and squishy." She would have yelled at the cat for being a pervert but decided to go against the thought. 'Just leave him be, Lucy.' She thought to herself.

After a couple of silent moments later, Lucy herself was getting quite tired. How far was his house? Really far, she guessed. "How much more until we reach your house? I'm getting tired." Whining about the travel, Natsu teased her.

"What? You want me to carry you like my bride or somethin' so we can go on honeymoon at our house?"

"Pervert!" She yelled, hoping Happy wouldn't wake up. Then, the celestial mage thought about what he just said. "Our house?" Sure, she was a bit confused with how he worded it.

His signature smile was plastered on his face. How it naturally stretched that wide never concerned her. "Well, you're living there, weirdo."

"True... Wait, do you even know what a honeymoon is, Natsu?" Natsu was pretty dense, there was no way he could know what a honeymoon was.

"Cana told me it's where two people have sex all day and night for a long-"

"SHUT UP!"

Natsu looked at her in disbelief. "You're the one who asked me! By the way, what's sex?"

Lucy's cheeks turned red. No, not just her cheeks but her whole face! First, she would have a loooong talk with Cana about revealing things to little immature Natsu. Second, no way in hell she would explain what sex is! Especially to the toddler-like teen. "Erm... How far are we from the house?"

"Just a couple more minutes."

"Good." She then groaned, "Tomorrow I'm gonna go to the spa and hot springs." Then, muttering to herself, "Maybe I should invite the girls to go. That would be nice."

"Can I go?" Natsu questioned, surprising Lucy. The hot springs are understandable but a spa? She could never see Nastu and that happening. "I can invite the guys to the hot springs I mean. We could play party games too!"

"Um... Sure? I guess it would be a relaxing day then." Natsu hummed in agreement.

After a couple of more minutes, there was still no sight of the house. Happy had awoken and yawned in Lucy's arms, stretching his arms. He felt cold. Was he not wearing the maid suit?

"Ne, Rushie? Where's my maid costume?" He yawned once more, making Natsu and Lucy yawn. The little blue exceed has heard that yawns were contagious so it didn't surprise him.

"Me and Natsu took it off. You looked uncomfortable. But don't worry! I have it in my bag so it won't dirty."

"Lucy, do you think you can still fit in the maid costume from the second mission we took? Natsu said that-mmf!" Natsu chuckled nervously and held his hand on Happy's mouth. Lucy removed the larger hand.

"Natsu said what?!"

"Natsu said something like... 'She may have gotten fatter...' He didn't want me to tell you because you would get mad."

"Natsu!" She yelled, hitting him on the top of his head.

"OW!"

Then, Lucy had spot the house. It was about time! She had been exhausted from this walk. Huh, she never knew walking in heels could be this much trouble. It was either touching the unusual wet ground, or high heels. Heels it was.

She let the little exceed on the ground, knowing that she wouldn't have to carry him since he wasn't asleep any longer.

"Ahh, I need a bath. Dibs!" She yelled, running to the house. Then, the heels happened. She had tripped over a rock when running and fell to the ground. Natsu and Happy laughed at her attempt. She got up, and continued to run like a mad man. Of course, when she got to the front door, it was locked. "Hurry up! I wanna take a bath!" She whined, gaining a disappointed stare from Natsu.

"Can't I take a bath first?" He questioned politely.

She shook her head. "Nope! Now, open the door!"

"Aw, c'mon! Please?"

"Nope! I'm taking one first, no matter what you say."

"If you say so..." The blonde got rather bothered by the devious smile he had on his face. But, she ignored it. The bath was calling to her when Natsu had managed to open the door.

"I'm going to sleep... Goodnight." Happy drowsily said, heading to his little room. Over the months, instead of having hammocks in the living room, Natsu and Happy decided to have their own rooms which explains most things today. "And don't get too wild in bed." He added, giggling like a school girl when he saw the reaction from Lucy.

"YOU PERVERTED CAT!" She screamed from Natsu's bedroom. The blonde gathered a towel and her pajama's which consisted in a tank top and shorts. The bathroom door randomly closed. It startled her badly. Then, the bathtub faucet was running. "NATSUUUUU!" The faucet then turned off as the door opened to a nude Natsu.

"You needed me?"

Lucy squeaked at the boy. "N-No! Just go take your bath!" She covered her eyes. "My virgin eyes..."

He shrugged his shoulders. "You've seen Gray naked before." The pink-haired teen stated before having a smile on his face full of excitement. "You should join! Maybe we can have a bubble fight like how Happy and I do!"

"GO!"

"Meanie..." He muttered before shutting the door. The blonde let her hands down and sighed. Why did Natsu always put her in such awkward situations?

XxX

Natsu came out of the bathroom to find an already asleep blonde in his bed. Was she actually waiting for a long time that she had fallen asleep? He decided to poke at her cheek. "Luce, wake up and take a bath." With no response, he poked her cheek again, but harder. "Luceeeee. Wake uuuuup!"

"Mmf mmf."

"What?"

"Mmf mmf."

"I can't understand you. Your face is in the pillow."

"I said, I'm up."

"Oh... Well, you can take a bath now."

"Thanks for hogging up the bathroom! I really needed to go pee so I had to go outside and pee in a bush! Do you know how hard it is to pee?! Squatting down and-" Lucy sweat-dropped. Natsu had a poker face held on his features.

"How do girls pee?"

"How are you so dense?"

"Do you really squat? That doesn't sound so hard..."

"Trust me, it's really hard." Natsu giggled. "What are you laughing at?" She grouchily questioned.

"You said it's really hard. Pfft!"

"PERVERT!"

To make matters worse... "Keep it down you two! No one needs to know that Natsu is hard!" Natsu stopped laughing. It was always like that. If it were just a Lucy being teased, Natsu was all over the place, rolling on the floor. If Natsu were to be brought into the teasing, he took matters into more serious hands.

"I AM NOT HARD! HAPPY, SHUT IT!"

"AYE, SIR!"

"I'm taking a bath to get away from this mad mess." Lucy got up from the bed and puffed her cheeks from embarrassment. She gathered her items and went into the bathroom, making sure to lock the door. The blonde started to undress when she had forgotten the most important item of all time. Her panties. How could she forget her panties?! She smacked herself in the head. 'Baka, baka, baka, baka!' Grabbing her towel, she wrapped it around her body and prepared to go into Natsu's room. Anything could happen beyond this point. Anything. Imagining different scenarios of embarrassment or horror or even... This made her shudder. Sexual things.

She put her quivering hand on the door knob, slowly twisting it while her other hand was occupied with holding her towel up, just in case. Pushing forward with the door, she spotted no one in the room. This was a good sign! Being very quiet, she looked through her side of the cabinet and found a pair. Quietly walking back to the bathroom, she stopped dead in her tracks when she heard soft murmurs coming from the living room. It seemed like Natsu and Happy were chatting. The bedroom door was closed, leaving her to eavesdrop on a conversation. She considered herself not nosy but rather curious. She caught them in mid-conversation.

"-what to do. It's confusing. I'm not sure if we should show it to her yet."

"Maybe we should just show her already. We did tell her we had a special something here." Oh yeah, they had said earlier that day that there had been something they wanted to show her when they got here.

"Okay. How about after her bath? Should I go check on her? I haven't heard anything yet."

"Natsu, you get too worried over Lucy. You liiiiike her."

"..." No response. Just the noise of shuffling furniture.

"Y-You like her?"

"..." Still no response. Lucy panicked. Her heart rate was quick. Her face was red. Her mind was processing. No way. Natsu liked her?

"Of course I like her, she's my nakama." Lucy stopped in all movements again. So he just liked her as nakama. That was good news for her! But the shuffling of feet getting closer was startling. Uh-oh. Natsu was walking to the room!

'What do I do? What do I do?' She looked around the room and decided to use the excuse of her needing a piece of clothing because she forgot. It was basically true. She did need her panties. The bedroom door opened to the pink-haired mage. He looked at her in surprise.

"I thought you were taking a bath? I was just about to check on you."

"Oh, uh." Why couldn't she say anything?! "Bananas."

Natsu looked at her oddly. "Are you okay? You're not acting like Lucy."

"Oh, I'm good! I just forgot something." He still stared at her. Just to make it more awkward, he looked down into her hands where she was holding her underwear. "I forgot my panties... Anyways, gonna take my bath now so... SEE YA!" She raced towards the bathroom door, closing it behind her. Now, that was called an awkward silence and moment.

Lucy took her towel off in relief. That could've gone worse than expected. She placed her underwear on a counter with the rest of her pajamas. Then, submerging into the warm water, the blonde sighed happily. Even though it wasn't her apartment, this still felt like luxury. The moonlight shone through the window, the bubbles in her bath, the clean bathroom, the spider on the side of the bathtub, the shampoo and conditioner scrubbed into her hair. All was so leisurely. She closed her eyes, sighing again. This was pure happiness.

Then, her eyes fluttered open. A SPIDER?! A SPIDER HAD BEEN ON THE BATHTUB AND SHE NOW NOTICED?!

She screamed horrifically, trying her best to back away from the spider. That was when her savior came and rescued her. In a way.

"LUCE! ARE YOU OKAY? I'M COMING IN!" Natsu barged in, looking at Lucy point at the insect. His defense fell when he noticed why she was screaming. "It's just Harold. He's my pet spider!" The dense idiot said gleefully, making Lucy sweat drop.

"What's he doing in the bathroom? And please take him away from me!" Natsu walked closer to the bathtub, eyeing the spider.

"Harold, it's just me, Natsu. Please be a good spider and come to me." But, the spider did the exact opposite. It was crawling towards Lucy. "Harold! Bad spider! Bad spider!" Happy then flew into the bathroom.

"Is Harold being a bad spider again? Natsu, we really need to start training him again. Oh, hi Lucy."

"TRAIN IT?! YOU TRAIN A SPIDER?! EEK! GET IT AWAY FROM ME!" Natsu was eyeing the spider the whole time to see when it would stop. He didn't want to hurt his little friend and squish him on accident.

As Harold was getting closer to the blonde, Lucy could no longer take it. She jumped out of the bathtub, alarming both Natsu and Happy. The two stared at her, Natsu having drool coming out of his mouth. It took Lucy a second to figure out what happened before she hollered at the duo. She grabbed her towel and wrapped it around her, getting Natsu to focus on Harold. When Harold stopped in his tracks, it was time to strike!

The Next Day

It was a dull, cloudy day. The rain had only just begun seconds ago. Three alive beings were outside, each wearing black clothing. They were standing in front of a grave, two of them crying. It was truly a sad day. The three were witnesses of the death.

The blonde female pat her friend's back. "It's going to be okay, Natsu. We can find you another spider like Harold. We can all train it." Natsu looked her in the eyes. His onyx orbs were all red and puffy.

He sniffled, "R-Really?" She nodded, gaining a firm hug from him. "Will you really help us train Harold number two?"

"Yes, Natsu. I promise. But we need to be careful of it, okay? We don't want it drowning like Harold number one. Got it?" He murmured a yes. She tried to pull away from the embrace but couldn't. The grip of Natsu's arms were firm. "You want to let go yet?"

"Please stay and hug me." The male bluntly commanded, creating a blush on the blonde's face.

"Okay. But just for now, alright? Happy, why don't you join in, huh? It looks like you two really need hugs."

Flashback: Natsu's POV

After Lucy got into the bathroom, I exited out of my room, closing the door behind me just in case. I knocked on Happy's door to discuss with him.

"Happy, can we talk?" My companion came out of his bedroom, walking to where I was sitting.

"Whatcha need, Natsu?" Happy asked.

"It's about the present. I don't know what to do. It's confusing. I'm not sure if we should show it to her yet."

"Maybe we should just show her already. We did tell her we had a special something here." I nodded. But it was certainly easier said than done.

"Okay. How about after her bath? Should I go check on her? I haven't heard anything yet." After the incident, I got nervous and anxious about leaving Lucy all alone.

"Natsu, you get too worried over Lucy. You liiiiike her." Even though Happy liked to tease us two about that stuff, I would usually laugh it off when Lucy's around. But now that she's not here...

"..." No response. I just stayed silent.

"Y-You like her?" Happy asked me again, a bit more seriously.

"..." Still no response. I then heard noises from my room. It had to be Lucy. She was listening in on the conversation. "Of course I like her, she's my nakama." Whew, nice save, Natsu. Nice save...

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