Heeey! This is my fourth entry for 2016′s NaLu Week! I hope you guys will like it! If you like it please read and comment!

Disclaimer: Fairy Tail, its characters and the settings does not belong to me, but to the wonderful Hiro Mashima-sensei. Only the plot of this story is mine.

Prompt: Secrets

Title: Little Secret

Pairing: Natsu x Lucy

Storyline: Lucy thinks about the times Natsu has invaded her home.

Dear Natsu,

I wonder if you know about how grateful I am to you for everything you've done. I wonder if you know that I have become reliant on you and your presence. I am astonished at how used I am with the fact that you are a constant in my life.

When we met, I thought that you were just a good-looking yet wild guy with a kind soul and jolly smile. I always thought that we were two different people, that you have probably lived a life full of love and happiness. After all, you were raised in Fairy Tail; the guild that cherishes and loves their family, their nakamas, more than anything in the world. But, as I entered the guild and got to know you, I found out that I was wrong. I realized that beneath your perpetual smile, lies a past filled with pain and anguish. You were suffering too! Like me. Hiding your hurt and misery under wide smiles and laughter. At the end of the day, we are the same. Even though we laugh, smile and have fun, but when night comes and the smiles drop, we would be plagued by our tormenting past. Memories of the past replays again and again, making you relive the scarring moments time after time. It was like a never-ending loop of nightmares.

But then, somehow I started wishing for your presence. I started wishing for the warmth that you emit, for that firewood scent that only belong to you. I don't know why but just having you by my side calms me down. Soon, my wish became a need. I needed you to be with me to scare those nightmares at bay. I needed you to feel like I have a reason for living.

Then, one night, my need was satisfied. I was coming home from the guild. When I opened the door to my apartment, there you were, on my couch, with your bright smile and waving at me so happily with Happy by your side. For a few seconds, my mind blanked out. I couldn't believe it! You came! In my few seconds of shock, I was fighting between trying to stop my grin from blooming onto my face and trying to look angry with you for entering my home without permission. Trying to look angry won as my face got red and I started screaming at you and Happy for invading my private quarters. Though I was not really mad. I was just trying to make sure that you don't find out about how ecstatic I am at your appearance in my house. That day, you slept over at my place, and, not a single nightmare appeared.

Since that day, you have constantly visited me when night falls. It was as if you had sensed my reluctance at staying at home alone. I have no words for how relived I am with your visits. With you, my nightmares never surfaced again. You would never be able to imagine how much of a sense of security you bring me. You had slowly become my rock, my world, and... the man I love.

I hope that I can be the barrier that helps stop the scars of your past from reaching you at night, just as you are to me. Hey Natsu? You are my protective little dragon that scares all my bad dreams away! And that shall be a little secret between me and this letter.

By the way, I shall never ever ever let you read this letter because all hell will break loose if you did.

Your grateful nakama,

Lucy Heartfilia

That's it for my entry for 2016's NaLu week day 4 prompt, Secret! I hope you've enjoyed reading it! Do click the follow button for the second prompt or if you liked it!

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