As I said last chapter, here it is.

Snow Day!

Natsu's POV

It had snowed the past few days in Magnolia. I mean, a lot of snow. I had stayed the night with Lucy sense her heater had broken and she needed something to keep her warm for the night. Even if it wasn't because she just wanted me to stay with her, I was still happy to be there.

The truth is, I like her. I really like her. So getting to stay the night with her was great, but it what was even better was that she let me cuddle with her to keep her warm.

Anyway, Lucy and I were now on our way to the guild with a light snow still coming down on us. When we final reached the guild, we found everyone inside doing their usual activities. I started walking over to the request board and Lucy went over to talk with Mirajane. When I got to the request board, I noticed a large sign stuck up on it.

"Quests are not being accepted today," I read aloud. "What the hell does that mean!?"

"It's pretty obvious, Flame Brain," Gray said.

"What was that, Ice Stripper!?" I yelled.

"I think you heard me!"

"Are you two fighting again?" A very angry Erza asked.

"N-No," Gray laughed nervously. "We're best friends! We don't fight. Right Natsu?"

"Aye sir," I responded.

I saw Lucy giggling at us and I immediately tried to make myself look frustrated at her for laughing at me. I don't think it worked very well since I was blushing at how cute her smile was. Oh well.

"Natsu," Mira said waving for me to come over to her. "There's too much snow on the roads and on the train tracks. There are any trains leaving Magnolia and it would be too dangerous to try to travel by the roads. I'm afraid nobody can get any jobs till it all clears up.

"Oooh," I said. "Hey Luce."

"What's up?" She asked.

"How's your rent situation right now?" I asked.

"I'll be fine for now," she replied.

"Alright then!" I yelled. "Then let's go enjoy our snow day!"

"Sounds like fun," Gray said.

"Juvia wants to enjoy today with Gray-sama!"

Of course she does.

I grabbed Lucy's arm and smile.

"And that means you have to keep your promise, Luce."

"Eh? What promise?"

"You said that we would have a snowball fight!"

"Aye! That you did!" Happy agreed.

"Well I..." she started.

"Come on," I said. "Please, Luce."

I tried to give her my most convincing grin and I swear I saw her blush.

"Alright," she agreed.

"Sounds interesting," Erza said. "Would you mind if I joined in?"

Lucy and I looked at each other and smiled in agreement and then nodded to the redhead.

"I'd like part of the action too," Gray added.

"Juvia wants to fight alongside Gray-sama," Juvia said. "Juvia won't let her love rival steal this from her."

"Sure, Sure," Lucy said nervously.

I grinned at how funny it was when Juvia was jealous. She didn't really have anything to worry about, I already knew Gray had a thing for her. He would probably admit it too if she would calm down about him a bit.

"Natsu-san," Wendy started, "would it be alright if I were to join as well."

"Natsu-nii!" Romeo said excitedly. "Count me in!"

"Bwahaha!" I laughed. "Alright then! Yo! Gajeel!"

"What is it Salamander!?"

"You wanna join us too?"

"Why the hell not," he replied. "I kick your all's asses at it anyway."

"Interesting," Mira said coming over to join us. "I think I'll take today of to join you all as well. Why not make these teams of two?"

"Sounds good," Lucy replied. "How do we decide whose team we're on?"

"Just pick your partner," Mira said. "I'll join Erza."

All of us looked at the two shocked.

"Um," Lucy started. "Are you sure that's fair?"

"Of course," Erza responded. "So long as we don't use magic, it will be fine."

"Alright! I'm all fired up!" I said. "I call dibs on Luce!"

I put my arm over her shoulder, probably just out of habit.

"Juvia wants to be with Gray-sama!"

"Do you want to be partners, Romeo-kun?" Wendy asked.

"Sure," Romeo said. "And you don't have to say kun with my name."

"So, Gajeel," I started, "whose going to be your partner?"

He simply held up his finger as if to say to wait a moment and the walks away.

"Hey!" I heard Levy yell. "Gajeel! Put me down!"

"Levy-chan!" Jet and Droy yelled.

"Seriously!" Levy continued. "Put me down!"

"Sorry, shrimp," Gajeel said, "but I need a partner for a snowball fight, and you fit the bill."

"Well you could have asked!" She scolded. "I'll be your partner but you have to put me down."

With that, we had five teams ready.

"What can we do?" Happy asked, pointing towards Carla and Lily.

"You all can keep watch to make sure no one cheats using magic," Mira said.

"Aye!" Happy responded.

"Very well," Carla said

Lily simply nodded.

"Alright!" I yelled. "Let's get to it!"

We had gone to a large field, not far from mine and Happy's house, where we began setting up our own little snow walls in a circle. At first Gray had tried to use ice make to get a better fort, but a swift glare from Erza changed his mind. Not long after we began our battle.

The first shot was when Gajeel decided he had had enough of building his fort and wanted some action. So he lobbed one at me and it belted me in the face. I grabbed a handful of snow and threw it back at him.

I could hear Gray laughing at me over at his fort but he was immediately silenced when Lucy threw a snowball the hit him on the nose.

That's my girl!

Then the free for all began. Snowballs flying everywhere, everyone was laughing at the top of there lungs. It was a ton of fun.

While everyone else was still throwing snow, Lucy and I decided to huddled up behind our wall and take a breather. The two of were laughing so hard that we had hardly realized we were holding onto each other. When finally did we both stopped laughing. Lucy looked beautiful. She was still smiling, her cheeks were red, either from the cold or from blushing, and her golden, blonde hair was lined with snow.

I really want to...

The two of us started to move towards each other like we were about to kiss, when I realized something.

"It's too quiet," I said.

As though reacting to my words, all of our friends suddenly leapt out and started to throw snowballs at only the two of us. I held Lucy to me, like I was trying to protect her from them. When they finally stopped I tried to act mad but couldn't help but laughed.

"You guys are jerks!" I laughed.

"Yeah," Lucy laughed as well. "Ganging up on us like that wasn't fair."

"Gihee! Well you should have been more focused on the game instead of making out," Gajeel smirked.

"H-hey," Lucy blushed, "we weren't...!"

"Sure looked like it," Gray teased.

After that Gray, Gajeel, and I started to brawl in the snow. Erza broke us apart and the rest of the day we spent making snow angels and snowmen. I tried to make one that looked like Plue to impress Lucy but the snow kept melting in my hands. Gray decided to show off using ice make and made a snow statue of Juvia. Needless to say, Juvia loved it. Romeo and Wendy seemed to enjoy spending time together, they had begun becoming better friends lately, probably because of how close the were in age.

Eventually, everyone decided that they were going to head home for the evening, but I had one last thing in mind for just me and Lucy.

"Hey, Luce," I said grabbing her hand. "There's one last thing I need you for."

"Hey wait, I..." She started.

"Just come on."

I pulled her along with me and started off towards a small lake where Happy and I would usually go fishing.

"Happy," I said going past him, "you can go ahead home."

"Aye sir!"

Happy flew off towards our house and I continued along my way with Lucy. Eventually, we reached the lake which was completely frozen over.

"Natsu, what are we doing here?"

"Skating."

She gave me an odd, confused look.

"You know we need skates to do that right?"

"Well then we'll just slide around."

With that I pulled her out onto the lake with me.

"Woah! Natsu!"

Lucy was yelling as she slid uncontrollably but I grabbed her and held her up.

"Bwahaha. You not very good at this, are you Luce?"

"Well I wasn't expecting you to pull me out like that! W-Woah!"

Lucy started to fall again, But I caught here in my arms and held her up.

"You clutz," I laughed.

"Alright fine! I'm not very good at this now let me go!"

"Nope."

"Huh?"

She gave me a confused look and her face was blood red.

"You've almost fallen twice now. I'm not gonna let you do that again."

Lucy blushed and wrapped her arms around me.

"Fine. But you better not let me fall, Natsu."

"Have I ever?"

We started "skating" across the lake and we never let go of one another. We accidentally skated too far and reached the edge of the lake. The two of us lost our balance and fell into a big pile of snow. Lucy and I looked at each other and then started laughing. We still had our arms wrapped around each other when we stopped laughing.

Nobody here to interrupt this time!

Lucy blushed and turned her head away but I pushed on her chin and made her looked. We slowly moved towards each other and pressed our lips together. I tightened my grip around her waist and held the back of her head, running my fingers through her hair. It was my first kiss, not just with Lucy, though that definitely made it better, but all together.

Why the hell didn't I do this sooner?

Lucy and I finally pulled away for air. Lucy blushed and smiled gently.

"How was that?" I grinned.

"Amazing."

We held each other tight for a moment before Lucy broke the silence.

"Hey Natsu."

"Huh?"

"I think I might love you."

Did you know it always feels like I have a fire in my chest? I can't explain why it's there, probably because of my magic, but at that moment it suddenly burst into an inferno.

"I..." Lucy stuttered, "I don't know if you feel the same, but..."

I locked our lips together again and she became quiet.

"I love you too, Luce."

We kissed one last time before we got up out of the snow pile.

"Now then," she said, "its rather late, so I better head home."

"Why not stay with me tonight? You heater might still be broken and my house is closer."

She smiled at the idea and nodded.

"Your house better not be as messy as last time I was over."

"It's not. I made sure to keep it clean like you told me to."

With that we walked hand in hand back to my house.

Best snow day ever, I thought as I kissed Lucy on the cheek

Alright! That's another chapter done! I hope you all are enjoying it. I really want to get your guys feedback, so feel free to leave a comment.

Next Time: Natsu and the guys have just found all the girls drunk in their resort room. How will Natsu deal with the drunken Lucy?