The Road To Love

Rating: Rated T

Disclaimer: Fairy Tail® by Mashima Hiro

Normal P.O.V:

A wave of emotions came over Hiroki. Confusion, shock, anger. He stormed towards the bed and pulled Lucy out of Natsu's grasp.

"Who is he?!" Hiroki shouted, waking up the pink-haired boy.

The fire mage groaned and rubbed his eyes. "What's going on...?"

Natsu stretched out his arms, opened his eyes and pushed himself up from the bed. His eyes darted towards Lucy, then at Hiroki and then back to Lucy.

"Luce, do you know this guy?" Natsu asked rubbing his neck.

"Isn't that my line?" Hiroki asked, glaring hard at Natsu. "

"Who is he and what was he doing in your bed" It was hard to miss the coldness in Hiroki's voice.

"H-Hiroki, this is Natsu" said Lucy pointing at the pink-haired fire mage. "And, Natsu this is Hiroki."

"And about him in my bed... Well, you see-" started Lucy, but Natsu cut her off.

"What the hell is your problem? I'm Lucy's best friend and her teammate." He stated.

'That's all he thinks of me...?' the blonde maiden thought, a sudden feeling of sadness invading her heart.

"Well it didn't look like that when you were being all cozy in bed together!" Hiroki raised his voice.

"The hell? We weren't in bed together!"

"A-Actually Natsu, in your sleep, you pulled me in bed with you, b-but that's all that happened!" explained the Celestial mage.

'I have to put aside my feelings right now, so that I can fix this situation...'

"What was he doing in your bed the first place" snarled Hiroki.

"Why the hell do you care?" growled Natsu.

Things were not looking good and it seemed that both the men were ready to fight.

"Guys please, stop this. It's all a misunderstanding, Hiroki. Natsu usually comes into my house so that we can go on missions together." Lucy said trying to make the situation better.

"So he always breaks into your house? I'm starting to hate this guy more and more."

'Crap. I ended up making the situation worse...' Lucy sweat-dropped.

"Looking for a fight bastard?" Natsu asked with a smirk.

"Maybe I am" answered Hiroki with a smug look on his face.

With that, a burst of flame came from Natsu's palm.

"Bring it on asshole!" shouted Natsu.

Taking his cue, Hiroki summoned a large Scorpion Scimitar Sword in his hand and aimed it at Natsu.

"I don't intend on losing!"

Natsu charged at Hiroki with a fist full of fire, but Hiroki swiftly dodged the attack, letting Natsu's fist crash into Lucy's bookshelf.

The books collapsed on Natsu, but the fire mage shook them off with ease and turned around, but was one second too late to stop the attack. Hiroki's sword sliced through Natsu's abdomen, which made the pink-haired boy stumble back and clutch onto his stomach.

Hiroki didn't even give time for Natsu to fix himself, but instead his balled fist made contact with Natsu's cheek and sent the fire mage flying into a wall. Natsu gasped for air as he collided into the wall.

Lucy stared at scene in front of her with disbelief. Natsu was one of strongest people she knew, but now he was losing to Hiroki? The blonde maiden had never seen Hiroki fight in all the years she had been with him. Lucy did sense magic power when she had met him today... But, who knew he was this strong?

If someone didn't stop them soon, Lucy's house was going to have giant holes and a huge bill from her landlady!

Natsu weakly pulled himself up and smirked at Hiroki. "That all you got?"

"Unlike you, I don't want Lucy's house to be destroyed. So be glad that I'm taking it easy on you." Now it was time for Hiroki to smirk.

This ticked Natsu off, since he was too engaged in the fight, he hadn't thought of the idea of Lucy's house being destroyed, so he replied with something that surprised Hiroki.

"Then why don't we take this fight outside?"

Even though Natsu was losing, he still wanted to fight? At the thought of it, Hiroki let out a chuckle.

'This guy must really be an idiot...'

"You got guts, you know that? But I'm ending this fight now. I have important matters to discuss with Lucy." answered Hiroki.

'Important matters? Is he finally going to tell me why he wants to bring me back home?' thought the blonde maiden. Questions that she wanted to ask Hiroki clouded her mind.

"Well too bad for you, because I'm going anywhere. I'm not going to leave Lucy with some guy she barely knows!" announced Natsu.

"Some guy she barely knows?" Hiroki burst out laughing, hugging his stomach, but soon controlled himself, and continued "I'm her best friend, just so you know. NOT YOU."

"The hell you are! She'd never be friends with someone like you!" shouted the fire mage.

"Actually... You're right. She's not my best friend." Lucy gasped at that, which earned a confused look from Natsu.

"No... She's not my best friend anymore..." Hiroki's sword disappeared from his hand.

"She's my fiancée."

With that, Hiroki took out a purple velvet box and faced Lucy. He got on one knee and asked that one question every girl wants to hear,

"Lucy, will you marry me?"

DUN-DUN-DUN *plays dramatic music*

ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER!? :O WHY DO I KEEP DOING THAT? XD BAHAH *evil laugh* I LOVE TEASING PEOPLE :P

Thank you for all the reviews! :D I would post the people who reviewed... But I'm feeling lazy today :3 BUT! I really am thankful to those who reviewed!

OMFG! READ Fairy Tail chapter 294! EPIC! :D Natsu & Gajeel TOTALLY WIPED THE FLOOR WITH Sting & Rogue! ;D AND THEN Sting & Rogue WENT INTO DRAGON FORCE! :O

OMG NOW I CAN'T WAIT FOR Fairy Tail chapter 295! XD