A/N: This will be the last one I do for this years Nalu week since I didn't have the time to do tomorrows prompt.
Day 6 – Tattoo
Summary
For their anniversary, Natsu and Lucy decide to get tattoos. When they go to a party and find out that Lucy's parents are there. They try to figure out a way to not have them see the tattoos.
Lucy sighed as she stood in front of Gajeel's Tattoo parlor while waiting for her boyfriend. It was their two year anniversary, so they both decided to get matching tattoos that symbolized them both. She smiled as she felt the paper in her jeans pocket, her and Natsu had spent a good six hours trying to find what they wanted for their tattoos. It took a few hours more to do a rough draft of both of the tattoos before sending them to Levy to get a better version done.
Suffice it to say, when they got them back, they were honestly amazed how perfect they looked.
Lucy was brought out of her thoughts when she felt a warm hand rest on her shoulder. Looking back, she smiled at her pink haired boyfriend. "someone's nervous." Natsu mused smirking towards the shorter blonde.
"Of course I am. I've never liked needles. Even if the needles are being used by someone I trust. Albeit not as much as I trust you." Lucy smiled when Natsu placed a kiss on her forehead. Natsu smiled down at the blonde before the two walked into the tattoo and piercing parlor.
"Oi, Gajeel, you here?" Natsu questioned, curious why the long haired man wasn't in the room. The two waited a few seconds before Gajeel walked into the main room from a back room, levy following suit with her clothes being slightly messy.
"Do you guys really need to do that in Gajeel's business?" Lucy sighed, rolling her eyes in annoyance, knowing exactly what the two had been doing.
"Do I really need to remind you what you and Natsu did in the school locker room right before the final game of the basketball season last year?" Levy smirked when Lucy shook her head. She didn't have to be reminded what her and Natsu were nearly caught doing their senior year.
"can we just do this? I don't want to be reminded what Salamander and Bunny-Girl did that day. Remember, I walked in as they were getting dressed." Gajeel grumbled, annoyed that he had to be reminded.
"Yeah. So who goes first? Me or Luce?" Natsu questioned, wanting to get the whole thing over with as soon as possible.
"Hold on. Give me the sketches that Shrimp did for you guys so I know exactly how I'll be tattooing you guys." Gajeel explained, a light smirk on his face when the two gave him the sketches that Levy had done for them.
"Your girlfriend is a really good artist." Natsu smirked, nodding to Levy who scratched the back of her head in embarrassment
"That she is." Gajeel nodded as he looked over the sketches. "I think I'll do salamanders first." Gajeel started getting everyone's attention. "Before I begin the tattoos, there's some stuff I need to explain. Once I clean up the tattoo, I'm going to have to bandage them up. Take the bandages off after six hours and you'll have to put this ointment on." Gajeel grabbed a small jar and handed two to Lucy. "it's call aquaphor and it heals the tattoo area faster, as long as you get it into the skin deep." Gajeel smiled as the two nodded.
Right as Gajeel was going to continue, Levy spoke up. "Because of the tattoo's going to be on one of your arms, you won't be able to put much wight on it for at least a week maybe two. I'd suggest buying bandage wraps you can put on your arm. It'll help in case you accidentally put some wight on it. Also, you'll need to put a bigger amount of the stuff in the palm of your hand and other areas where that part moves more." Levy finished explaining, smiling as everyone nodded.
"Now that that's over, salamander, take off your shirt and lay on the bed stomach first." Natsu nodded as he stripped off his shirt and laid on his stomach. He sighed as he relaxed, waiting for Gajeel to get his stuff ready.
After a few minutes, Gajeel walked over to the pink haired male, a smirk on his face as he started tattooing the man, starting on his shoulder. "Oi, you coulda warned me first!" Natsu growled at the long haired male, annoyed that Natsu wasn't told he was started until he felt the moving needle on his skin.
"Man up. I have a feeling Bunny girl is going to be screaming the entire time." Gajeel chuckled, knowing that both of the women were glaring at the back of his head. "Now your back will take the longest so don't move too much." " Gajeel growled as he got to work, happy that Natsu wasn't talking and just laid there while he worked on Natsu's back.
While the buzz of the tattoo gun was heard through the place, Lucy and Levy were sitting down while watching Gajeel work. A shiver ran down Lucy's spin at the thought, but she knew that she wanted it done.
After Lucy calmed herself down, Levy went to explain in more detail how to apply everything and how they would have to sleep and clean their tattoos. Lucy just nodded, fully understanding everything she would have to do. She just wished they didn't have to wrap their arms in the bandage but if it would help, they would do it.
After what was probably three hours, Gajeel spoke again, a smirk on his face as he looked at the ink on Natsu's back. "Sit up salamander and keep your arm stretched towards the girls. I need to get the arm portion of your tattoo done." Gajeel explained, a smirk on his face as Natsu did as he was told.
Once his arm was how he was told. Gajeel smirked as he created the outline of the arm portion of the tattoo, stopping the outline in the palm of Natsu's hand. Once the outline was done, Gajeel got right to work, filling it in and making it look as realistic as he could on Natsu's skin.
After another hour of filling in the arm portion of the tattoo and detailing it to the best of his ability, Gajeel smirked as he finished. "Shrimp, get Bunny-Girl ready fro her Tattoo while I clean and bandage up Salamanders tattoo.
Levy nodded, smiling as she helped Lucy undress while making sure neither of the guys would be able to sneak a peak at the blonde. While they were doing that, Gajeel was cleaning up the tattoo Once he was done cleaning it, Gajeel smirked as he took a picture of the full tattoo and sent the picture to Natsu's phone.
As he pocketed his phone, he quickly started bandaging the full tattoo. Gajeel grumbled in annoyance when he had to annoying bandage over his lower abs and part of his sides. He knew he was going to have Levy do the same with Lucy since he didn't feel the need to do that with his girlfriend there.
Once Lucy was ready, Gajeel went straight to work on the blondes tattoo. Everyone was surprised when the only noise coming from the blonde was quiet pained whimpers every time Gajeel had to change needles and pressed it against her skin again.
Once everything was done, Natsu and Lucy found out that the tattoos in total took eight hours to do. They were both told that when they got home, they could take the bandages off and do as Levy said with them. The two nodded, understanding that the number of hours before taking them off, was a maximum amount.
The two paid for everything and thanked them before letting them know that they'd see them at Gray's party at the end of the month Once they got to Lucy's car, the two quickly went to their apartment, happy that they finally got their tattoos.
After they got to the apartment, the two went to the living room and sat on the couch. After Natsu striped off his shirt. Lucy slowly took off the bandages and cleaned the area before putting the ointment on the tattoo area.
Once she was done with that, Lucy took time to admire Natsu's tattoo. Covering a majority of his back was a red fire dragon, it's head on Natsu's shoulder with it's snout barely touching his arm. The dragon was drawn in such a way that it's claws were slightly wrapping around Natsu's sides and it's tail was wrapping around Natsu's midsection and stopping as it got to back around his back.
The dragon's mouth was open as it breathed fire that circled around Natsu's arm before wrapping all the way around Natsu's wrist and creating a flame in the palm of his hand.
Once Lucy finished admiring the tattoo, Lucy wrapped Natsu's arm in the bandage. From what Levy said, they were only supposed to wear it for when they were awake and only then, only when they wouldn't be doing too much stuff.
As Natsu flexed to make sure the bandage wasn't too tight or too Loose, Natsu got to work on Lucy's tattoo, doing the same thing even admiring her tattoo.
Lucy's tattoo was very similar to Natsu's the main difference being hers was a golden dragon and around hers was the 12 zodiac symbols. The dragon head was also on her left shoulder, so the dragon was flipped. The dragon head was also breathing out golden flames with stars in the flames with the golden flame in her palm having a single star in the center.
When Natsu wrapped her left arm in the bandage, Natsu smiled, liking how the blue stars fit the golden flames extremely well. "I don't look weird, do I?" Lucy asked as Natsu tied her bandage.
"You look sexy as hell." Natsu smirked kissing her cheek. "It looks really good on you." Natsu smiled happy that they actually got the tattoos.
"Thanks. Now lets make dinner." Lucy smiled, putting her shirt back on so she could walk over to the kitchen. Natsu nodded, following her to the kitchen shirtless.
It had been a month since Natsu and Lucy had gotten their tattoos. Over the past month they had done everything they were told to and they no longer needed to put the ointment on and even with having the bandage on their arms, the tattoo didn't loose any color or smudged at all.
The two were getting ready for Gray's party when Natsu noticed Lucy was looking at herself in the mirror, eyes looking at the dragon tail going over her stomach. "Luce, you aren't going to get judged for having a tattoo." Natsu sighed trailing over the dragon tail she was staring at.
"I'm just worried about people thinking I'm something I'm not." Lucy sighed as Natsu helped Lucy tie her bikini strings behind her back.
"People may, but me, you and all our friends know you ain't" Natsu assured his girlfriend, a smile on his face as she put on a pair of her short shorts and one of his shirts over her body. "And I will never get tired of you in my shirt." Natsu smiled grabbing her hand within his, smirking as he pulled her out the door and towards his car so they could drive to Cana's place.
After the duo got to the car and buckled up, Natsu drove straight to the large house Cana lived in. It took them about a half hour until they got to Cana's place. Getting out, they could hear music coming from Cana's.
It was Gray's birthday, and he had decided to have it at Cana's since she had an in ground pool at her house. "Lucy and Natsu had a feeling that Cana may have invited some of her friends too. They doubted Grey actually cared though since he wanted to just have fun with his friends and he could easily ignore the others.
Once the duo reached Cana's backyard, Levy ran up to them completely outta breath. "You guys can't come out here." Levy spoke, worry evident in her eyes. The couple looked at each other and then to levy. "Just come with me for a second." Levy pleaded, the duo complying as they followed the small woman to Cana's living room
"Levy, why can't we go out there?" Natsu questioned, looking at the bluenette, unsure why she seemed so worried.
"It's more like Lucy can't." Levy spoke as the couple looked at her confused until most of their friends walked in.
"So, why are you three standing in my living room?" Cana questioned as Her, Grey, Juvia, Jellal and Erza took note of the tattoo on both Lucy and Natsu's arm.
"Lucy's parents are here for some reason and they'd be extremely pissed if they saw Lucy's tattoo." Levy explained, biting her fingernail as she tried to figure out how to deal with the problem at hand.
"What? The spiral tat on her arm? I've got a tattoo of a Cerberus on my lower back from Bacchus" Cana remarked, reminding the three of the larger tattoo Cana had gotten from her boyfriend.
"Why would he care? You live in an apartment with Natsu He doesn't have control of your life." Grey remarked, unsure why Natsu, Lucy and Levy were in a state of worry.
"Natsu's job can't pay for an apartment like the one we're in. Dad pays for it and if he finds out I did something he doesn't like, he'll stop paying the rent for us. As for the reason it would be my tattoo, it's bigger than just my arm." Lucy sighed, turning her back to her friends as she pulled off the shirt she was wearing.
The room was quiet for a few minutes until Cana whistled and looked at the full tattoo. "Damn. Even I'm not that bold to get such a big tattoo." Cana remarked, a blush forming on Lucy's face as she put the shirt back on.
"Any idea how to get Lucy's parents to leave?" Natsu questioned, not wanting to let them see her tattoo. It especially would screw up everything when Lucy was still a ways off from her first book being published. Even when they didn't know how popular it would be.
"Go grab your parents so we can explain the situation to them." Erza spoke, a glare towards the pink haired nineteen year old. Natsu sighed as he ran out to the back yard to find his parents.
After a few minutes of scanning the backyard, Natsu found his parents. When he noticed that they were talking with Lucy's parents he sighed. He hoped they wouldn't look at his arm, but knowing his luck, they would.
Once he got over to the four, Igneel spoke. "Oh, Hey Natsu, where's Lucy? She was telling me she wanted to show me and your mother what you got her for your anniversary." when Lucy's parents Listened it, Natsu sighed, trying to figure out how to get his parents to help without having her parents follow.
Deciding the best course of action was to have Lucy message them, Natsu texted her with the plan, smiling when she explained that she would message him when his parents were on the same page. "She said she'll come out one she was done getting changed." Natsu explained when he got a text letting him know his parents were on the same page. "But anyway, Cana wanted to see if you guys could help her and Luce with something."
Igneel and Grandeena nodded, noticing the confused looks Lucy's parents gave the three. "Okay, show us the way." Grandeena smiled before letting Lucy's parents know they would be right back. Natsu sighed as he had his parents follow him. "So what's the big problem?" Natsu's mother questioned, noticing how tense her son was.
"If Jude sees what Lucy's anniversary gift is, we won't be able to live in the apartment." Natsu sighed, looking at his parents, worried look on his face. The three stayed in silence until they got to the living room.
"So what's the emergency to where your parents can't see?" Igneel questioned, unsure why everyone was looking so worried.
"It's this." Lucy sighed pulling off her boyfriend's shirt from her body and showed Igneel and Grandeena her tattoo. Natsu's parents stood there in shock for a few minutes as realization struck them.
"Let me ask one thing. It was your own choice, and Natsu didn't force you, or pester you until you would do it, right?" Grandeena questioned, not noticing the annoyed growl coming from her son.
"Of course not. I actually made less pained noises than Natsu." Lucy mused, smirk on her face as Grey laughed at what Lucy had said.
"That's still not going to go over well with your father." Igneel sighed, trying to figure out what to do while Lucy put Natsu's shirt back on. "Why don't you just tell explain it to him when he sees it?" Igneel suggested, not knowing what else they could do. Her father would find out eventually.
"In all honesty, that's the best idea other than her leaving." Levy sighed, knowing that Lucy wouldn't want to leave. Everyone nodded before heading out to the back yard, knowing that at some point her father would see the tattoo.
After a few hours of not going into the pool, and Natsu pestering her, Lucy sighed in defeat before leaving to where Levy had put her clothes so that hers would be in a safe place While she was doing that, Natsu, Grey and Gajeel were in the pool, having a slight fight in the process.
"So, why'd she get a similar tattoo?" Grey questioned, unsure why Lucy was willing to get such a large tattoo on her body.
"Honestly, I don't really know. She said it would be romantic to get similar tattoos, but I think she's doing it partially because of how strict her life was growing up." Natsu remarked, a smirk on her face as he felt two long legs wrap around him from behind.
"I believe you also said I look hot with it." Lucy smirked as her arms hugged him from behind.
"You two are so fucking weird" Gajeel sighed while the couple just rolled their eyes. They both thought Gajeel and levy's was more weird considering the height difference and Gajeel and Levy's very different appearances.
""Luce, you do realize it ain't smart to be on my back, in a pool right." Natsu smirked, both hands gripping either at her ankles or wrists to make sure she couldn't leave.
Once Lucy realized what Natsu meant, she tried getting away to no avail. " Natsu, don't you dare." Lucy growled before hearing the laugh come from her boyfriend. "Natsu!" Lucy yelled feeling Natsu start falling backwards before she was surround by water.
Once both were under the water, Lucy opened her eyes, and glared at her boyfriend before swimming after him. Once she wrapped her arms around his neck, he immediately swam up for air while she was carried up to the surface.
"Why do you always do that?" Lucy sighed climbing onto his shoulders and looking to see if she could find her parents, surprised they hadn't found her yet, especially since she had been by the pool the entire time.
The two had a shiver run down their spines when they heard a gasp and turned to see Layla looking at the duo with wide eyes. "Lucy? Is that what I think it is?" Layla questioned, looking at her daughter curiously
"Yes. I kinda got it the same time Natsu got his" Lucy explained, closing her eyes in fear for her mother yelling at her for getting a tattoo
"It looks really good. Was it your own choice?" Layla question, curiosity in her voice as she spoke. When Lucy nodded, her mother continued. "As long as it was your own choice, I don't mind. I'll talk to your father and get him to understand." Layla smiled as she left her daughter to her own devices with Natsu.
Lucy sighed as she dramatically fell onto the bed and screamed into her pillow. Natsu frowned as he rubbed his girlfriend's back, trying to calm her down. He knew she was upset, but they knew there was nothing they could do.
"Luce, you okay?" Natsu asked even though he knew the answer to his own question.
Lucy looked back at her boyfriend with a frown before speaking. "No, I'm not okay." Lucy sighed in annoyance. "My father treated me like a child who got into her mother's makeup. I'm nineteen years old and he thinks he still controls what i can do." Lucy groaned into her pillow, annoyance from getting treated like a little kid in her voice.
"At least he's still going to pay rent until your book starts selling" Natsu sighed when Lucy groaned at his comment. "Luce, you wanted the tattoo, right?" Natsu smiled when she nodded. "Then you shouldn't be upset at what your dad did. He knew that saying you ruined your body would upset you. That's why he said what he did." Natsu smiled as she just nodded.
"You think we could take a bath? It normally helps calm me down." Lucy asked, a curious look in her eyes as she sat up and looked at her boyfriend.
"Sure. As long as you like your tattoo" Natsu smiled as she nodded. Natsu chuckled as he lifted her up and carried her to the bathroom bridal style. It made Natsu happy that just a few words from him made her able to realize that she shouldn't have negative thoughts just because of what someone said.