A/N: Hey guys, it was one hell of a good birthday I had this year. Thank you for your well wishes and reviews as well! Anyways, here's the next chapter that you all were waiting for.

Chapter 6

We went into the main ballroom of the hotel. There were so many people and to be honest, I was feeling out of place. Usually when I go to such event, it will be either for publicity or the press. This time, I'm not coming here for work but instead as someone's guest or you could say 'partner'. And of all people, it was with Mr. Natsu Dragneel the Managing Partner of Fairy Tail Corp.

I could see groups of people socializing with one another; some were grabbing food at the corner where it was stationed for the night and waiters walking around with a tray of drinks on their palm.

We stopped walking as Natsu grabbed two glasses of what I believe should be champagne from the waiter who walked up to us. I released my hold from Natsu's arm as he passed me my glass and I gladly accepted it after thanking him. I took a sip before taking a look around again.

"You alright Luce?" Natsu's concern brought my attention back to him. His glass was in one hand while his other was stuffed in his pocket once again.

"Mm hmm." I nodded before taking a sip again. "I guess I'm just not used to all of this?" I admitted though I wasn't really being honest with him because it came out more as a question than a statement.

"Don't worry much about it Luce, stick by me and just enjoy yourself-" Before Natsu could finished his little encouragement to me, someone came and tap him on his shoulders which interrupted our little conversation.

"Hey flame brains, didn't think the day will come with you having a girl by your side." I looked over Natsu's shoulder and saw it was some guy with black raven hair.

"I didn't think brains for ice could come up with such comments."

"Tch." He just walked around Natsu and stood in front of me as he held out his hand for a shake.

"Hi there, I'm Gray, Gray Fullbuster, nice to meet you." I grabbed his hand for a shake before I introduced myself as well.

"Hi nice to meet you too, I'm Lucy, Lucy Heartfillia." I ended my introduction without forgetting a smile. I couldn't help but realized that there was a tint of blush filling out his cheek after as he stared at me.

"Okay, break it up." Natsu broke our connection and stood in the middle. "Don't get touchy with my woman." I heard Gray scoffed.

"Your woman? She's just your date dude." Gray looked back at me. "Wait you're not his woman right?" I shook my head to confirm his analysis.

"But she's my woman for the night." I couldn't help but to blush upon hearing that. It just sounded so sweet but so wrong at the same time. "How in the world did I let you become my senior partner?"

"Because I bring you the best, duh!" Before they could pulverize each other, another group of people came into our circle.

"Hey Natsu, what's going on?" A guy with orange hair spoke but when he roamed the group and caught sight of me, he immediately teleported in front of me. "Oh hi, who might you be miss? Are you an angel sent from heaven? You're such a beauty." He said before grabbing my hand and giving a light peck on it.

"I, er…" I didn't know how to respond. I was getting a bit light headed with this many people surrounding me.

"Hey Loke you better cut it out." This time, a guy with blue hair and also a tattoo around one of his eyes spoke.

"Why?" Loke, I presumed that's his name since the blue hair guy mentioned earlier, questioned him. I took this chance to slip my hand out from his grasp.

"Because she's Natsu's woman." Gray answered him and before Loke could ask another question, we heard a glass broke. All heads turned to the source of the sound and it came from none other than Natsu. My jaw literally dropped because I could see the glass he was holding initially was shattered in his hands like it was nothing.

"Sorry Loke, you were saying?" Though Natsu was giving off a smile, his face clearly shows 'you sure you want to mess with me' kind of look. I could see a trail of sweat drops lingering around Loke's face.

"Gee-hee, this is fun." The last man who joined with long black hair commented.

"Oh my, was I asking anything?" Loke hard-heartedly laughed out. "Hey guys, let's check out the food. I'm hungry!" And with that, he dragged the blue and black hair guy along with him.

"I'm going to join them too Natsu. See ya." Gray waved at me before walking away leaving just me and Natsu alone together once again.

"Tch." I looked at Natsu and saw he was dumping the shards of glass that was crushed in his palms away into a bin. It clicked to me when I realized that it definitely would have hurt his hand which brought my legs to move towards him.

"Here, let me take a look." I was about to grab his hand but before I could, he hastily moved away from my grasp.

"It's fine. I will just go to the men's and get it washed." I scowled at his stubbornness.

"Oh, don't be stubborn." I announced before grabbing his hand roughly to take a look at it. And as expected, there were some cuts on his hand which this is obviously would not be fine just by washing it away.

"Come, I'll get it clean up for you." I said before grabbing his unhurt hand, dragging him along behind me. Little did I know, Natsu was unfazed by my action that a tint of blush was appearing on his cheeks.

After a long persuasion, we managed to get the first aid kit box from the hotel's front desk. When they found out that Natsu was injured or you could say he was just a bit hurt, it was hard trying to retrieve the first aid kit box from them initially because they insisted that he should be brought to the hospital. The things they do to impress him. Thank God for Natsu convincing them or not I will never see myself home tonight.

Since there was no way Natsu was going to enter the ladies with me or I'm going to enter the men's with him, I told him to get his hand washed up and come out once he has done it while I wait outside.

I was humming as I looked around and took in my surroundings of the hotel interior. The next minute or so, Natsu came out while wiping his hands with some tissue paper. I tapped the empty space beside me, indicating to him to take a seat and he obliged to.

I took his injured hand and placed it on my lap. I opened the first aid kit and pour the antiseptic on the cotton wool.

"This is going to hurt a little." I informed him before I wiped the cotton wool on his first cut earning a hissing pain from Natsu. I looked up and saw he scrunched in face in pain.

"Sorry." I sheepishly apologized.

"You said it was going to hurt a little."

"My bad." I continued to wipe his other cuts. Once I was done, I grab the bandage and started to wrap his hand.

"Thanks Luce." I heard him though he kind of mumbled the words out.

"It's okay. I used to do this all the time."

"What do you mean?" Natsu asked and I could see the sincere curiosity in his eyes.

"Well, believe it or not, I used to be a nurse before I did all this." And I couldn't help but to laugh softly. "Okay, you're done." I announced and went ahead to keep everything back into the first aid kit box.

"So why did you leave?" Natsu just had to pop up the question which left me to pause to whatever I was doing.

"I, I didn't enjoy it anymore." I answered him without looking at him and concentrated on closing the first aid kit box instead. "Anyways…" I decided to change the topic. "What was that all about huh? Breaking glasses in your hand?" I saw Natsu pouted before he looked straight ahead of him with his arms crossed. He was like a little boy who didn't get his toy that he wanted for Christmas.

"It's not my fault." I couldn't help but to giggle upon his childish behavior.

"Okay… then tell me whose fault is it?"

"Duh, it's Loke. He was making you uncomfortable and I didn't like it." I blinked at his answer. He didn't like what Loke did to me? What did Loke did to me? I thought back to my little meet up with him and remembered he called me angel, beauty and oh, he kissed my hand.

I just had to laugh out loud at this. I could see from my side glance that Natsu was looking at me like I was crazy.

"Oh Natsu, Natsu, Natsu, please try to make me understand this. Don't tell me you're jealous?" Natsu didn't deny my analysis. He just kept quiet and looked away and I saw a tint of blush covering his cheeks.

"Natsu, you don't get to be jealous."

"Why not?" He snapped back to face me.

"Because we're not a couple and, and I can get to do whatever I want." I couldn't help but to blush at my courageous statement.

"Really? Who says?"

"Who says?" This guy was unbelievable. "It's not anyone says but it's the fact Natsu." I crossed my arms as I looked at him. "I'm just here with you at this party because you forced me to base on my little observation I declared to you on our interview." Ouch, that got to hurt.

I saw Natsu was looking down, his bangs covering his eyes. I didn't mean for my words to come out in such a way. Did I really want Natsu to back away from me? I didn't really like or hate this guy. Maybe I was just frustrated with the way he toys with me.

"Fine." He suddenly stood up and positioned himself in front of me. "But get this straight, you're here with me at this party because not to prove me wrong but because I want you to be."

"W-what?" Before I could get my sentence form up, he grabbed my hand and started pulling me back to the main ballroom I believed.

We were walking passed groups of people and I couldn't help but to be embarrassed that everyone was looking at us. I keep hissing out his name but he didn't seem to hear or care.

We came to a stop upon a particular group and when I looked over Natsu's shoulder, I saw a really short old man that had his eyes on us.

"Yes Natsu?"

"Gramps, do you have a moment?" The short old man nodded before walking towards us.

"What is it Natsu?"

"Gramps, I want you to meet my girlfriend." What?! I immediately pulled Natsu away from him.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I hissed loud enough that it can only be heard between us.

"What do you think? Claiming you of course." Natsu smirk grew ever so wide. "This way, you can't do anything you want right?" I was ultimately dumbstruck.

"Oh my, what a beauty! My grandson has finally gotten himself a girlfriend!" He shouted happily which caught everyone's attention on us. Oh no.

A/N: So how was this chapter folks? Sweet moments turn into cunning scene. Heh. Please leave review before you go. Will really like to know your thoughts. Thanks!