"What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I am Lucy's boyfriend!" Natsu exclaimed proudly, making Lucy's face turn into a colour that was even more crimson than Erza's hair and the rest of the guild go silent in shock over Natsu's straightforward confession.
"Is it...true, Lucy?" Kuro asked thunderstruck, while Ichiro were just opening and closing his mouth like a fish on land, while trying to utter some comprehensible words. Since Mira's hand still was covering Lucy's mouth she wasn't able to say anything, not even when the idiot of a fire dragon slayer just stood there as Kuro and Ichiro mumbled something that sounded eerily like an apology before retreating to a corner, while their glances were glued to the floor. Unable to keep still anymore, Lucy ripped Mira's hand away from her mouth, making her able to talk again.
"Natsu! What the hell do you think you are saying!" Lucy yelled at the poor idiot, while her face's colour slowly were diminishing from a striking crimson red colour to a light red colour, that were closer to Natsu's hair colour than Erza's.
"What! Why are you so mad?! I just said that I was your boyfriend. Why are you reacting as if I said something of a big deal?" Hearing this only made Kuro and Ichiro crumble down on themselves even more. The only ones who seemed to enjoy this was Mira and Yuki, which was cause, well Mira had wanted Natsu to say something like that ever since she saw how cute Natsu and Lucy looked together, and Yuki, well she figured out that Lucy wasn't dating that salmon haired guy, when she blushed like an innocent maid at simply hearing him say that he was her boyfriend, yet she also figured out that Lucy probably wanted him to be her boyfriend, by the way her drunken self had gone straight towards the fire dragon slayer, and also by the way her body had unconsciously curled up against his body when she had collapsed on the floor.
"It is a big deal, cause you aren't my boyfriend!"
"What! Of course I am!"
"Natsu, do you even know what a boyfriend is?" Lucy asked tired of arguing with such a thickheaded baka.
"Hai! (Hai = yes)"
"So what does it mean?"
"What, Lucy you don't know what it means?" Natsu gasped while making a shocked face.
"I know what it means" Lucy said slowly, while trying to not let her temper run off.
"Then why do you ask me?"
"Because I want you to tell me what it means"
"Why? You said you already knew what it meant"
"Natsu ... can't you just explain it?" Lucy asked while clenching her hands, and pushing her lips into a tight line.
"Sure, but why? We both know what it means so what's the point of saying it out aloud?"
"... Can't you just say what it means ... Natsu?" Lucy said slowly, while thinking; "I can't call him a damned idiot now, or he will just go mad and deny to say anything"
"Natsu, Lucy is acting weirder than normal, right?" Happy asked, as he flew over them, before landing on Natsu's head.
"Shut up, you damned baka neko!" Lucy finally snapped, only that her anger was directed towards the wrong person/character. (Can you count Happy as a person as he technically is a cat?)
"Lucy is mean!" Happy cried as he flew away from Natsu's head and out of the guild, before Lucy could apologize to him. She felt the guilt surge up in her and looked at the floor, while trying to think of ways to soothe the poor feline.
"Natsu can you just tell me what you believe a boyfriend is, so I can go and apologize to Happy?" Lucy asked tired.
"Hmmmmm, Ok, I will do it on one condition"
"Which is?"
"You got to buy me and Happy two meals each day for a week"
"What! I could pay my rent for two months for that many Jewels!"
"Well, if you don't want me to explain to you, then I will just leave" Natsu said as he smirked and turned around towards the doors. He still couldn't believe why Lucy wanted him to explain something as obvious as that, and it wasn't like he didn't want to tell Lucy what it meant either. It was just that it was such a simple thing, that someone as smart as Lucy should have been able to figure out what it meant, without him explaining it to her. In addition Igneel had told him that it was mean to brag about your strengths to someone who didn't have the same strengths, so that meant that he shouldn't tell Lucy what it meant, right, cause then he would be bragging about knowing a word, she didn't know, right? Lucy on the other hand was thinking completely opposite thoughts, as her was something like this: "Damn I don't get why that baka, is acting so weird today, I mean like, seriously how hard can it be to explain a single word? Well I know that it is Natsu and shouldn't be expecting anything else than this, but really?! And why did have to be Natsu? Why did that baka have to say something stupid like this? Thanks to that baka, I now have to waste my time making him explain something so plain and simple as the word boyfriend. Even a brat knows that he ain't my boyfriend, so why couldn't that baka also realize that? But on the other hand it would have been pretty nice if it had been the truth, after all he is really loyal, trustworthy, nice, and handsome. I mean like look at that body, nicely toned muscles, a six pack and all of that just for protecting his nakama and Me ... What the hell am I thinking?! Natsu is just my friend and nothing more, absolutly nothing more!" Lucy thought as her rambling ended.
"Oi, Lucy why are you blushing?" Natsu's voice asked out of nowhere, making her flinch, before throwing a punch right into his face for scaring the crap out of her.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to scare me like that!"
"But you were the one who wanted to know what the word 'boyfriend' meant, and now you are spacing out, and then blaming me for waking you up again so I can explain it to you. What's up with you?" Natsu asked hurt.
"It is nothing wrong with her Natsu-san, it is simply that she wants you to explain, so Kuro and Onii-san understands that what you are talking about and what they are thinking about are two completely different things. Cause if Lucy explains it, it won't look as truthfully as it would have been if it had come from your mouth, right?" Yuki said with a sly smile in Lucy's direction, making Lucy's face become even more red, but now it was from embarrassment of being figured out so easily.
"Hmmmm, ok. I suppose it is alright then. Ok, here you go Lucy. I will try to explain it simply so please hang on ok?" Natsu told a dumbfounded Lucy in front of the even more dumbfounded guild members. Who the hell had heard Natsu lecture anyone before, about anything at all? Who had heard about Natsu even having any brain cells? And who had heard about Natsu having any cells at all that were thinking romantically? And now he was lecturing Lucy the bookworm about romance?!
"ok, Lucy?" Natsu asked worried that Lucy might already have fallen off, because of her dumbfounded look.
"Umm, yeah, sure, Natsu, go on" Lucy hurriedly assured him, so he wouldn't lose the ball.
"Ok, a boyfriend is a male that you care deeply about, a male that means alot to you and a male that will protect you. You got that, Lucy?"
"umm, yeah" Lucy answered hurriedly while thinking "Who could have thought that the dense Natsu actually could say something as deep and meaningful as that".
"But the thing that defines that I am your boyfriend and not Gray, is the fact that I am 100% boy and I am your best friend. So boyfriend is the same as a male best friend, you got that Lucy?"
"um, sure, Natsu" Lucy said, as her inner self cried over Natsu's density. What would it take for him to actually say something serious, that was true and meaningfull?
"But Natsu, I didn't get why Gray couldn't be Lucy's boyfriend?" Cana, Levy and Mira asked innocently, while they looked at Lucy who had just wanted to run out of the guild.
"Isn't that obvious?" Natsu asked shocked.
"Please don't say that it is cause you care more about me, or because I like you better or anything like that, Natsu, please? But it would have been really nice, if he said something like that about us... No what am I thinking I and Natsu are just friends, just nakama, nothing more!" Lucy thought to herself.
"It is because..."
Sorry for the late update, but since I am working on two stories, I think I will try to upload one chapter for each story once a week, probably Fridays, meaning that this story will get an update each second Friday.