Lucy was sleeping soundly in her own bed. She tossed a little and turned to her side. "Never…again…stupid," She mumbled in her sleep.

"She's probably talking about you Natsu," Happy told him as they made their way out from the window and into Lucy's room.

Natsu chuckled. "She's weird like that."

"Why did you ask me to come with you?" Happy asked him as both he and Natsu sat down on the floor besides Lucy's bed. "I thought you wanted to come alone so you could tell Lushii that you lllllllike her~"

Lucy stirred in her sleep when Happy had said this.

Natsu panicked. "Shh! Happy not so loud!"

"You should also lower your voice…"

"Right…" He said more quietly.

"Why did you want me to come with you? I don't get it. Last time when you got sick, you told me if it would be okay if only Lushii came because you wanted the two of you to be alone together. Why not this time?"

"I don't want to scare her off," He told Happy.

"But you have been doing that," Happy pointed out to him.

"No I haven't!" He then covered his mouth as he realized that his tone was getting too loud again.

Natsu was still as clueless as ever; Happy sighed. "Natsu, how would you feel if Lushii out of nowhere came up to you and wanted to kiss you?"

In his brain, Natsu managed to imagine Lucy, in her bunny suit for some reason, coming closer to him and trying to give him a kiss. Her lips were puckered and her arms were wide open. "I wouldn't dislike it, but it is weird…then again Lucy is weird. She was especially weird when she drank that sake with the rest of the girls."

"It really looked like she liked you then."

"At the time it didn't really feel like it was the Lucy I knew. I guess it was because I wasn't used to seeing her like that."

Happy thought back to what exactly happened that night and remembered seeing Natsu run off with Lucy on his back. He was going to ask why he had such a mad face at the time, but Carla, who was also drunk, was holding him back. "You got angry while you were giving her a piggy back ride to the restroom. I never asked you why."

Natsu crossed his arms and frown. "Because she got drunk so easily by just drinking that measly bottle of sake. What if I wasn't there? Then she would've gotten drunk and been all over some other guy! He would've took advantage of her or something!"

"Natsu you liked Lushii back then too didn't you?"

Natsu scratched his head. "Now that you mention it, I don't know exactly when I started liking her. It's strange."

"Aye, that it is. I would've never thought you would like someone more than just a nakama."

"That makes sense. I wasn't really into all that romantic crap to begin with."

"Just food and fighting and Igneel."

"And missions." Natsu then turned to look at his sleeping beauty. He smiled as he thought about all the moments they have shared. The time they first met, the time he first saved her, the time he first saw her cry, the time he first made her angry, the time he first made her sad, the time he first got sad because of her, the time he first saw her smile, the time he first saw her laugh, and the list in Natsu's head went on. "I really like Lucy, Happy."

"Natsu, the first time you admitted that to me, I thought you were broken."

"It's Lucy's fault," He said as he yawned, "Her weirdness is contigeous."

"Last time you said that, Lushii corrected you and said that you meant to say contagious," Happy responded to him as he also let out a yawn.

"Well good night Happy."

"Wait Natsu." Happy rubbed his eyes. "Don't you want to go sleep on Lushii's bed?"

Though it was tempting, Natsu shook his head. "She looks pretty peaceful," He said, not wanting to ruin that. "Plus, when she wakes up she'll probably start yelling at me again."

"But she won't get mad if she sees that I'm there too. Please Natsu? The floor is really uncomfortable and I want to have good dreams about fish and Carla."

Natsu looked up at Lucy again. "I guess if you're here, okay."

Happy cheered as both he and Natsu got up on Lucy's bed. They slowly got under the comforter and closed their eyes. Happy fell asleep instantly; Natsu on the other hand, didn't. He tried keeping his distance from Lucy but it wasn't easy. The more he looked at her, the more he wanted to get closer to her.

He continued laying there. He turned to face the ceiling, thinking that it would help him fall asleep better. It was working, until Lucy turned to her side and snuggled up against Natsu's chest.

"I guess if she does it, then she can't get mad at me for it," Natsu said. With that, he pulled Lucy closer to him that she was practically on top of him. "I think people should stop calling me dense and call you that instead," He said to her, as if she was listening.

"I'm not dense. Natsu is the dense one." Lucy mumbled while her head continued resting on Natsu's chest.

Natsu's eyes widened. Due to being filled with a sense of panic, he ignored Lucy's comment on him being dense. "Are you awake Lucy?" He asked as cautiously as he could.

"Of course not," She murmured. "This is a dream…just like yesterday night…"

"Yesterday? You think yesterday night was a dream?"

"Uh-huh. There's no way the real Natsu would do something like that…when I think about it, it kind of feels like this whole week has been a dream…he's nakama so the theory that he's trying to be some sort of devil towards me is disproven. Natsu wouldn't go that far...What other reason is there for him wanting to kiss me?"

"You think it's some sort of trick?" He asked her, hoping he would get some response out of her.

"Aye…" She said.

Natsu wanted to laugh at how cute the semi-conscious Lucy was being. He shrugged it off and decided to ask another question. "Do you want to kiss me—I mean Natsu?"

"Aye…" She replied in the previous way.

Was it really possible that Lucy did like him back? Natsu was really confused at her response. If she wanted to kiss him, then why didn't she let him?

"Then why don't you let him?" Natsu asked her, hoping that Lucy was still semi-consciously awake.

"…because at the same time I don't."

"W-what?" Natsu was now completely confused. He felt that if would continue to think about what Lucy had said, his brain would fry. "Lucy, what do you mean by that?"

For a while, he heard nothing but the sound of her breathing. His time to get some answers out of her ran out, but he stayed determined. "Lucy?"

Again no response. He then decided to remove his hand from her waist and lightly tried to see if touching her face would get some response out of her.

Instead of it working, it failed. Lucy wiggled her nose and turned to the other side, the side away from Natsu.

Natsu sighed and turned the other way, finally able to close his eyes.

In the morning, Lucy awoke. She found herself alone on her bed as she slowly moved her covers to the side.

"Morning Lucy!" Natsu told her with his classic grin as he walked towards her.

Alarmed by his presence, Lucy shrieked. "Kyyyaa! W-what are you doing here!?"

"You don't remember?"

"Huh? Remember what? I just woke up!"

Natsu frowned, turning away from Lucy the instant he noticed he was doing so. "…I was just waiting to see if you wanted to go to the guild together. Happy left a while ago, he said you were taking too long."

"You could've just woke me up like you always do," She said as she got up.

"Nah, you looked like you wanted to sleep in…I'll wait for you outside while you get ready," He told her as he headed towards the door.

"Um, okay. I'll try to hurry up?" She said, a bit unsure of what was going on.

Natsu nodded and walked out.

Lucy in the meanwhile got ready. Shortly after, she met with Natsu outside. They walked to the guild, for the most part in silence.

Occasionally Natsu would yawn, leading Lucy to ask, "Are you okay?"

He was a bit shocked at the tone of her voice. He gave a small cough. "Why would you ask that?"

"It's just that since I left your house two nights ago, you haven't…well…you haven't been trying anything," She waved her arms frantically at him, in fear that he would try to kiss her once more. "Not that that's a bad thing! If anything it's good!" She put her head down a little, feeling undesirably disappointed. "Yes, it's a good thing…"

Natsu wanted to kiss her. He wanted to kiss her so bad, but he restrained himself. Clearly Lucy was confused about his rash and persistent actions and he didn't want to continue doing that to her; he didn't want to see her cry because of him. Therefore, he was incapable of truly being honest. "Yea well, you looked bothered by it and I was starting to feel like Loke, which in a way kind of pissed me off."

"Eh?" She looked at him, eyes filled with uncertainty and dismay.

"Well we're here," He told her as he opened the doors of the guild.

"A-ah yea," She turned her gaze away from him. "I-I'm going to go with Levy-chan."

"Right. I'll call you over if we decide to go on a mission later or something."

"Okay."

Lucy and Natsu then headed their separate ways, both still confused as to what in the world happened and left wondering as to what was going to happen next.

I'm so sorry! I was supposed to update last weekend because this weekend is my birthday...and then my sister's birthday so yes, busy weekend, but I just couldn't because I had to take care of some school issues...Anyways all this week I focused deeply and made it my top priority to finish up Ch. 6 for The Everlasting Bonds and Ch. 4 for My First. I don't even know how I made that work but yes! I feel accomplished for once, though I didn't get to Because You're Here like I wanted to, but there's still next week for that ^_^ so as usual thanks for the read!