Hey Dark Gothic Lolita here!

So you guys, as I said in chapter 6, I am bringing out 3 chapters and this is 2/3 done! I know that none of you will have time to review so I don't really mind lol.

WARNING THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS BITTERSWEET TASTING LEMON AND IF YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE (which honestly, on fanfiction, no one ever does) THEN PLEASE DO NOT READ AFTER THE PARTY SCENE! Just saying :P

Honestly, I had to write this out well which is why I was stalling the whole thing. I had already written up chapter 8 because I knew how I wanted it to flow. Oh well, we all have problems with our writing lol.

So yeah, I don't own Fairy Tail or any of their characters and I apologize deeply for any useless spelling and grammar mistakes! Trust me, I type too fast and then I'm lazy to edit (much like I did with this chapter actually)

ENJOY!

The pairing project

Chapter seven

Natsu had calmed down considerably and now that today was his birthday, he could either go to Juvia and find out what the hell is going on, or he could ignore her and bear that pain that it will come with for ignoring his mate. He just didn't understand it. Had she changed her mind last minute or something? Had Annie's words gotten to her? He didn't even know, but there was one thing that he knew and that was that girls were WEIRD. They were hella weird.

He had told Happy that he could head out straight to the guild because he needed to shower. He had landed in some mud on the way back after falling into a ditch, while Happy just gracefully flew over it, annoying the dragon slayer to no end. He should have smelt it ahead, but because his mind was so preoccupied by Juvia's weird behaviour, he hadn't even realised it.

Now it was time for him to go and celebrate his birthday like he did every year. A little bit of fishing. He frowned as he realised that he had just sent Happy to the guild without doing their little outing. He groaned, meaning that he would have to walk over there and go get his companion before coming ALL the way back the lake by their house.

When he got closer to the guild, he could smell that everyone was there, but there was one scent that he could smell overall. It was her scent. Her ocean breeze scent filled the whole guild. Her scent was the only thing he wanted. She was in there waiting for him. Well hopefully she was. All his previous anger had diminished completely and he burst into the guild.

"HELLO-!"

"HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY NATSU!"

Natsu almost choked on the air as he stared about the place in utter amazement. There were flame flowers and loads and LOADS of pyro with sprinklers. They were done safely so that it didn't set the guild alight. His favourite flavoured cake was standing on the bar and there was lots and LOTS of food. It was basically a buffet party full of fire.

He stared, still amazed as he looked at everyone's face individually. They were all grinning at him, almost as though they were waiting for him to say something, but he couldn't. He had never actually had a birthday party before, even though he had been in the guild for many years now. It was usually because he hated spending it with anyone that wasn't Lisanna or Happy. That was because he was usually looking for Igneel.

Then his eyes fell on one certain girl's face. She stood in front of the whole guild, her hands clasped together in front of her, her eyes shining. He stared at her as her eyes slowly fell to the ground and she bit her lip. Was he mad at her? She forced herself to look up and when she did, she just about had enough time to register the fact that she was in Natsu's arms.

"You did this for me?"

"Of course Juvia did this for Natsu, who else would this be for?" The way he held her, it was like a husband hugging his wife after spending so many years at war. She had never felt so warm or invited in all of her life. She felt so amazing. The whole guild faded away to nothing as it was just the two of them. Natsu hugged her tightly, not wanting to let her go and he buried his face in her neck. She could feel him quiver before there was something wet on her neck.

"Thank you. Thank you so much for this."

It was a simple thanks that went a long way and Juvia couldn't but shed a few tears in return. "It's okay Natsu-kun." She bit her lip. She always thought that she had it hard, but she was lucky that at the orphanage, she at least got a birthday cake and some recognition on her birthday. Natsu had gone so long without one that it must be nice to have a party for once.

Without even thinking about it, Natsu leaned up to capture her lips. This wasn't lust filled, but this was so sweet and passionate, like they didn't want to lose each other. Their tears ran down their faces as it mingled in with the taste, making it salty. It was their special moment as they forgot about everyone else in the guild.

The whole place went quiet until they both pulled away for air, grinning at each other.

"WHAT THE FUUUUCK?!"

The couple jumped as they turned their heads to look at who the hell had just surprised them. Juvia turned red when she saw Macao pointing at them, his eyes almost bulging out of his head. He wasn't the only one though. The rest of the guild stared at them in nothing but pure surprise as they couldn't believe what the hell they had just witnessed. Many people started looking at Lucy or Lisanna, then back to Juvia and Natsu, but everyone was too shocked to say anything.

Natsu didn't find it embarrassing in the slightest and he just held Juvia's waist closer to him and possessively. He gave them a feral smirk, the orange and yellow coming back into his eyes along with the red to show that he was no longer angry.

"That's right, Juvia Lockser is my mate. If you don't want to end up dead, you'll never try anything on her."

Juvia bit her lip in order to stop herself from grinning or from the little moan that may or may not have erupted from her lips. She was safe in his arms as she looked out to everyone else, starring in all their eyes. She could see that secretly, everyone had wanted for him to get with Lucy or Lisanna, but slowly, it looked like they were warming up to the idea of them both. She smiled as everyone was still glued in place, their face in one way.

Lisanna and Mira started grinning as they then turned up the music and Gajeel and Laxus banged on the steel drums that came out of nowhere.

"You guys just gonna stand there, or are you going to PARTY?!"

Juvia sweatdropped at them. They had pitched the idea of having steel drums at the party but she had said no because it was so random. Why did she think that they would even listen to her?

Then everyone started moving again, wishing Natsu a happy birthday and congratulations on getting his mate. Natsu grinned the whole night, Juvia in his arms. He had never been more happy in his life and Juvia was so glad that she was apart of it. Every now and then, Natsu would rest his chin on her shoulder and whisper sweet nothings and thank yous into her ear before nuzzling her neck and planting a kiss on her cheek.

They had given him a flaming crown made from Levy's solid script magic. It looked so royal and majestic that it looked like it belonged to a real Fire King. He kept on eating the pyro that was put next to him as well as partaking in the buffet too.

"Hey Juvia, this is for you!"

They both turned around and Levy wore a smirk on her face as she gave Juvia a water tiara with fire woven into it as the taller blue head blushed and took it from her, secretly promising that she'll get her own back on the bookworm.

Everyone kept on shoving their presents into his face and he opened every single one of them up, thanking everyone and stuffing his face with loads of chicken. At one point, they had also brought up a pinata for him with flaming sweets (candy) that Juvia had made herself. The night was going so well. Sabertooth were invited, Mermaid Heel were invited and so was Lamia Scale, in which Lyon burst into tears when he saw Juvia sitting on Natsu's lap. He started wailing saying that he should have kept an eye out on Natsu and not Gray.

"Hey Natsu, it's time for you to make a speech!" Master was watching the fire dragon slayer with tears in his eyes. The boy was growing up, learning to let things go and to also grow and stand up for himself, though he knew that Natsu wouldn't change. He may be a legal adult, (A/N: you are and adult in the UK when you turn 18) it was going to take a while for the boy to stop burning things down and destroying parts of towns. He had received paperwork from the town that he had just done his latest job in and it almost made the poor old man cry. He decided to ignore it for now because it was his birthday. That meant that tomorrow, he was going to be on his case to pay the damages.

Natsu stood up in front of everyone as they watched him with shiny eyes. It was the first time they had ever been able to hold a party for him and they were happy that they had been able to do so. After all, he had done so much for the guild that they felt that this was their way of paying him back for it.

"Well I actually didn't even know that I was supposed to give a speech, but here I am, giving one. I wanna thank everyone for making it here, to have the best and hottest party." He chuckled when he saw that loads of people were practically wearing clothes that you took to the beach because all the fire was so damn hot. Luckily, Juvia had thought things through and made pools in every corner of the place, making Gray fill the whole thing with ice whenever it melted.

"I'm basically an adult you guys! I ain't a kid anymore and that's made me realise that I don't even really need Igneel anymore, even though I would like to see my dad one more time for a proper goodbye. I've had fun at Fairy Tail. This place is amazing and I thank you for putting up with my shit that you've all had to go through. Don't worry old man, I'll pay for the damages I made on my last job." He gave the old man a cheeky wink and Makarov wanted to throttle him for being so disrespectful.

"This pairing project is actually coming to an end guys. This is the last week before we can officially stop hanging out with our partner. At first, if this was at the beginning of the month, I would have been the sort to not wanna do it. I would have wished to get Luce and not change our team. Then I got partnered with Juvia." He heard someone scoff and knew it was Lyon. Natsu in return sent a menacing growl in his direction before continuing.

"As I was saying. Then I got partnered with Juvia. It was like a cat and a dog." Happy shivered. "We weren't going to be the best team and I knew that. Opposite magic, we're sure to fight. But then I got to know her and she was then my mate and I have never been more happy. I like it when I make her annoyed, frustrated, flustered or happy. Also, because she's not following Gray like a lost puppy, I realised that she's pretty cool."

Everyone started laughing and Juvia hid her face in her hands and Natsu just looked over her quickly. "All in all, what I'm trying to say is that I love Fairy Tail, all the friends that I've made outside of the guild and I love you, Juvia."

Juvia's head sprang up so fast that she was surprised that it didn't snap. She stood there, watching him through her cerulean eyes as everyone bumped their way past her to cheer for Natsu and to high five him and whatever. She was watching him as he laughed with everyone else, her eyes in pure shock and her mouth was open slightly. He didn't just say that, did he? Did he really mean it? Well of course he did!

She loved him too! For once, it felt so good for the guy to be the first one to say it instead of Juvia having to force herself upon the guy! Now she just had to wait for everyone else to be done with what they were saying before she went up to him. As if by magic, they all parted and went on talking and having fun before Juvia made her way over to him. He smirked at her and opened wide his arms for her. She jumped into them in an instance, hugging him so damn tightly.

"Juvia couldn't believe that Natsu-kun had actually done such a thing for her! Was Natsu-kun being serious? Does he really love Juvia?"

"That has got to be the stupidest question you could ever ask me Juvia. I said I did, didn't I?"

She nodded her head, unable to stop the tears of joy that fell down her face.

"Happy birthday, Natsu-kun."

~x~

Natsu's party was amazing. It had lasted so long and by the end of it, many people had passed out all over the tables, in the freezing pools and by the pinatas. It was most probably the wildest parties that anyone had ever seen before. After seeing Natsu with Juvia, many people had also tried to start their own relationships. They were both an inspiration to the whole dating world, showing that anyone could match up with anyone.

"Did Natsu-kun enjoy his birthday?"

Natsu didn't say anything as he showed his feelings instead. He was a man who believed in the saying 'actions speak louder than words' and right now, he was using his actions. They were now in his house because it was closer. That and Juvia knew what they had to do on the night of his 18th. He pulled away before looking deeply into her eyes and he sighed.

"Juvia, we don't have to if you're so uncomfortable."

She shook her head, wrapping her arms around her neck. "No, Juvia wants to. Juvia doesn't want Natsu to go all crazy on her." He didn't even waste any time as he lifted her off the floor and kissed her deeply. She wrapped her legs around his torso. Without even breaking the kiss, they made it all the way to his room before collapsing on the bed. She wanted to do this. Not just because they had to for Natsu's sake, but because she was ready to give Natsu all of her, even if it was a bit early in terms of their relationship.

That and she wanted to know what it was like. Her imagination was curious.

His lips left hers finally before he gave her one last peck on her lips before trailing nothing but sweet butterfly kisses down her jaw. She started giggling a little bit which made Natsu chuckle as well. She had said that she was ticklish and it was playing up now too. It made her hold him even tighter to her. His hands started running up and down her sides slowly until he found the bottom of her dress. He was debating whether to pull it off her head when he had the perfect opportunity.

RIP!

He heard a gasp and he knew what was coming. Juvia's arms over her chest in order to cover herself up from his eyes and Natsu barked out a laugh. "And you're covering yourself because?" She huffed at him. Even though he was going to be her first, he was not making her feel better about doing this in any way! Natsu seemed to have read her mind and he kissed the corner of her mouth. "Have you forgotten? This is my first time too, we can just roll with it."

That washed out every bit of doubt within her as she lowered her arms slowly. Natsu's eyes watched her and her eyes stayed glued on his. He pushed her back as he ran his hand through her her hair. "You're so beautiful, and I don't want you to forget that okay?" Juvia nodded, as though she were in a trance as she stared into his eyes. Then she was laughing as Natsu prodded her left breast. She was still ticklish from that too.

"What the hell Natsu-kun?"

"Just testing it out. Am I allowed to put my mouth on this? I always hear Macao and Wakaba talking about the things they're going to do to hot women." Juvia's face went up in flames as she was so embarrassed to hear what old men had to say about what they were going to do to women they could never get because they were so out of their league. Juvia could only go by what was said in Erza's books that she borrowed.

"Yes, go on then."

Without even waiting for anything else, Natsu latched his mouth to her chest and the blush on her face rose to what lava looks like. She clamped her lips shut. Natsu sighed. "I don't care if you make any noise Juvia. We're in a forest, who the hell is going to hear us? Let's be realistic." Then he paused and smirked. "Okay, I lied. I'm pretty sure that if the old hag strained her ears, Porlyusica will be the only one to hear us."

Juvia blushed and rolled her eyes. The last thing she wanted was for that human loathing woman to burst in on them while Natsu was popping her cherry. That was be so mortifying. "Hey, I've always wanted to do this!" Juvia blinked and before she knew it, Natsu had motorboated her.

"KYA!"

"THAT'S THE SPIRIT!"

Natsu laughed at his own joke and Juvia slapped his arm. "NATSU-KUN! This isn't easy for Juvia, stop cracking jokes like we do this every night!"

"That can be arranged...Okay, that was the last one, I promise."

She sighed and Natsu kissed her cheek again. "Okay, let's start again, like that didn't happen okay?" She nodded her head, glad that he was finally taking this seriously. This was a big deal for a girl like her. She had always thought that she would at least get married before this step happened, but whatever. At least it was with someone who was definitely going to be with her always.

He kissed her yet again, their tongues working with so much tongue action. They were both getting hotter now and they pressed their bodies closer as though that would help solve the problem when they knew it was obviously going to make it worse. She tasted so sweet, of all the things that she had at the party, a party that had been set up for him by her. He will never forget that.

When they pulled away, he grinned. "Someone's excited!"

Juvia blushed, knowing fully well that he could smell her arousal. "Whatever. So is someone else." They both looked down to see that Natsu's member was now prodding her leg. She pouted when she remembered something. "Oh yeah, and why is Juvia the only one in her underwear? Natsu has too many clothes on!"

As soon as she said that, his clothes met the same fate that her dress did and was now on the floor, somewhere alongside the bed, but they didn't care where. Especially not now. Juvia stared at his chest, a chest she had seen many times but never really paid attention to. She had always looked at Gray's, but now Natsu's was this close to her, she could very well say that Natsu's was better. She ran her hands down his abs and a deep growl rumbled from deep within.

Her hand slowly slipped into down and she grabbed his shaft which made his eyes almost pop out of his head. He hadn't really known that Juvia was going to do that and he let a simple groan pass by his lips. Juvia gave him a worried look, but still held on. "Is this okay?"

"Yeah, yeah it's good, GOOD!"

She giggled before running her hand up and down it, finding that she really liked Natsu's reaction towards her hand movements. It sounded like he was trying his best to control his breathing, but that wasn't what she wanted. She wanted to get him back at his little jokes that he kept on pulling on her. She had read in one of Erza's books that you had to put your mouth on it? Ew! Isn't that where guys peed from?! Well...Natsu did seem to take a long time in the toilet before they left...NO WAY WAS HE CLEANING THIS THINGIE JUST FOR TONIGHT ESPECIALLY!

She blushed and before long, she found herself leaning forward. Natsu's eyes were closed so when he felt something else around his 'Natsu jr,' his eyes were nearly out of his head once more, enjoying the feel of her mouth even more.

Juvia hadn't actually anticipated how big Natsu was going to be, so she had to improvise for the rest of the way that she couldn't really get to. That was easy. All she had to do was use pressurized water to start pumping him. Turns out that it was driving him insane as she could hear nothing but colourful words pour out of his mouth. She knew she was doing something right at the very least which was a good sign.

Natsu was wondering how she was so good. Had she done this before? His possessive side was starting to through as his mind was trying to think of how she got so good. Then he relaxed a little bit. Well as much as he could with a girl sucking him off anyway. This was Juvia he was thinking about! She was devoted to anyone and she didn't seem like the sort of person to do this before marriage...

Natsu then accidentally gripped her hair when he felt something pounding against him. Juvia was surprised as she went down the full way. "I'm gonna blow Juvia!"

As soon as he said that, it was like a bomb went off in her mouth. It blew her away and she was so sure that she wasn't going to get that all in her mouth. Now the question was, does she spit or swallow? She hadn't gotten this far when she was reading Erza's book because it had been so blush worthy that she was too embarrassed to read anymore before she gave the book back.

It was bittersweet as she tried her best to swallow. Natsu's was panting hard as he looked at Juvia. Her hair was getting a bit wet from the sweat that she had accumulated and she was wearing his seed on her. He grinned, his energy coming back and there was life in his southern region once more.

"Come here."

He rolled her under his body and he grinned at her, his canines shining at her. He looked at the mark that he had given to her a few days ago and he kissed it making her shiver. He sucked on that bit of flesh once more, a yelp spilling from her lips. "You're mine. Just mine. And I'm yours too."

Juvia smiled as she ran her hand down his chest.

His mouth latched onto one of her rounded molds. The way his tongue played around with her nipple, sucking, nibbling and biting it. He got a range of reactions out of her, reactions that drove him mad. He may have already bust a nut, but he's a dragon slayer. He has enough stamina to last him two more rounds.

He then latched his mouth onto the twin breast and started his journey all over again.

He then left a trail of wet kisses and hickies down her stomach and down her sides. Gajeel was so desperate to get a taste of her from down below, but he knew that that was for another day and he didn't bother. Juvia felt quite relieved that he hadn't bothered himself with that.

"You better get ready Juvia. This is the part that makes our mating complete." Juvia bit her lip. There was no going back after this and she didn't want to go back either. This was going to be official in terms of a dragon slayer and his mate. She already knew that this is the person she wanted to spend her life with and she didn't want anything stopping her in the future. She smiled before leaning up and kissing him softly.

"Go ahead Natsu-kun. Take all of Juvia."

He didn't need to be told twice at all. He readied himself at her entrance and gave her a reassuring glance. She bit her bottom lip and nodded her head. Natsu almost held his breath when he rammed into her. She cried out in pain as Natsu then hovered over her, whispering sorry over and over again as he waited there, trying to get her used to the size. Her breath was shaky before she spoke again. "Natsu-kun, move."

Knowing that if he was to ask her 'are you sure' she'll throw a fit and say that she's not weak, so he decided to move. Even though she kept on wincing, she was still going through his it. From flinching, it became a relaxed sigh before it then turned into constant groaning. She ignored the blood that must have been pouring out of her due to that fact that Natsu just rushed through her hymen and soon enough got into the rhythm of things.

Natsu was then grunting as they could both feel themselves becoming one. "Juvia you're so fucking tight!" He had to announce it because he felt happy. Happy that he was Juvia's first and that he was going to be her only as well, and vice versa. He felt as though he didn't even deserve her.

"Natsu-kun!"

The way she said his name drove him over the edge as his thrusts became quicker and were hard hitting. Her nails dug into his back as her legs were then wrapped around his torso. Natsu then struck her making her scream out. "RIGHT THERE!"

Natsu smirked. It was so obvious that he found a sweet spot. He constantly struck her there, his speed seemingly unbeatable as it was like he was moving at lightspeed.

They kept on at it until Natsu could feel another wave come over him. He gritted his teeth and held onto her. "Juvia!" This time, he didn't even get to finish his sentence before he planted his seed within her and their sweat mingled within one another. He kissed her lips and waited for a while before he became hard again. Juvia laughed a little.

"Again?"

Natsu nodded his head. "You have to cum with me."

The next thing they knew, they were up against the wall, on the bedside table and wherever before they were back on the bed. Natsu had to admit it, Juvia had some amazing endurance levels going on. He had blown a nut at least a good five times and she still had to go a first time. Natsu didn't know how much his limit was, but he could sense that Juvia was about to come to an end too.

"Ride me Juvia."

Her already red cheeks turned to a darker shade of red as she was now the one on top. She straddled him and now Natsu could see all of her without getting interrupted. She moved up and down slowly at first, trying to get a feel of the new position before she had enough of the snail pace that she was moving at. She sped things up, her walls closing around his erect member making his hiss. He also enjoyed the way that she was calling his name, adding the -kun at the end. She must have started doing that without realizing, but he loved it. It had shown how much their relationship had changed during the course of the month.

She rolled her hips into his and his hand slithered up and down her thighs and she hissed. There was pool building up as she could feel the warmth circulating. Her eyes widened and Natsu could feel it too. He was almost coming to an end as well.

"NATSU, I'M CUMING!"

"FUCK JUVIA!"

Both of their minds went haywire as they came together, releasing everything that they have. They were both panting heavily, staring at each other through heavy lidded eyes. They gave each other a weak smile and Natsu then removed himself from Juvia as she lay on top of him.

"That was amazing."

"It was better than Juvia expected."

"That's because you always expected it from Gray. I'm way better."

Juvia couldn't help but laugh tiredly and she turned her head to look at him. The fire in his eyes with the three different colours were staring at her, as though they were trying to look into her soul. She then cupped his face and stroked his cheek. She ran her hand through his hair and his eyes fluttered shut. He enjoyed her light touches and it was like he had fallen into a pool of feathers. She kissed his lips and he responded back, taking his time to kiss the hell out of her. When they pulled away, he sighed and smiled, his eyes still closed.

As weak as Juvia felt, she knew she still had something to do. She pushed Natsu off of the side of the bed, making him yelp. He looked up, a glare taking over his face. "What the fuck was that for? You do know that after sex, we're supposed to cuddle up and sleep right?!"

"Yeah well, Juvia doesn't plan on sleeping in this mess. It's disgusting. Now, the quicker Natsu-kun tells Juvia where all the sheets are, the quicker Juvia can change it and then go to sleep. Oh and Juvia has to rinse off real quick. Natsu-kun too."

He groaned, knowing he wasn't going to get away with this. He was so tired though! He complied with her, showed her where the sheets were before she stripped the bed of the old one and put on the new one. "Now for the shower!" She grabbed Natsu's hand and pulled him in, making him smirk. Maybe this wasn't so bad after all.

Meh, I think I fucked up somewhere in the lemon scene...Not like I actually care lol. But yeah, there you guys have it! This chapter was long than chapter 6 by 1,000 words or so, so kudos to moi! Yay lol.

But yeah, now I have one more chapter to put up before you have to wait a week for the last chapter! I think it will take me less than a week anyway...Not sure!

Please rate or hate, flames or floods! (Gonna get SOO much hate because of the lemon lol) But your reviews are cute, so leave me a hoot!

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