Chapter 7: Confessions and Frustration

The next morning, Lucy woke to the muffled sounds of people moving about downstairs. She was surprised to hear people awake so early. When Lucy rolled over, she noticed that Natsu was still dead asleep next to her. She smiled at the fact that he always looked so peaceful when he slept. She climbed out of bed and decided that she would take a shower before Natsu woke up. Lucy was in a good mood especially because Natsu had invited her to sleep next to him the night before. As she was turning on the water in the shower and undressing herself, she realized something. I don't care if he doesn't get his memory back. I know how I feel for him and that these feelings won't go away and that's all that matters. And knowing how he acted in the forest means something, right? This means that maybe it will happen again and this time he won't forget because of some stupid spell, thought Lucy as she showered. She was just happy to be with Natsu all the time.

While Lucy is in the shower, Natsu finally wakes up and realizes that Lucy isn't there. As he sits up in bed he notices that it is kind of loud downstairs. I wonder if she already went downstairs for breakfast, thought Natsu. He stretched and got out of bed and decided he was going to shower before he joined everyone else. As he gets up and walks down the hall, he hears the water running in the bathroom. As Natsu approaches the door, he notices that someone is singing and of all people, it is Lucy singing in the shower.

"Be the good girl you always have to be. Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know… It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all…" sang Lucy while in the shower. I've never heard Luce sing before. Her voice is gorgeous, thought Natsu as he blushed slightly. "…Let it go, let it go. You'll never see me cry!... I'm never going back, the past is in the past… Let it go, let it go, that perfect girl is gone..." continued Lucy as Natsu listened. Natsu was completely taken back by the lyrics and the feeling that Lucy was putting behind them. I'm going to tell her today. I will tell her that I remember everything. I don't care if she gets angry or upset. I want her to know how I feel, thought Natsu. As Natsu thought this, he turned around from where he was standing in the hallway and walked back towards the bedroom. For the next 15 minutes, Natsu paced the room back and forth trying to figure out what he was going to say to Lucy and when he was going to say it.

"I still kinda want to talk to Mira about this so I could tell her tonight, but what if I chicken out? I've never felt this before. I don't know how to act! Dammit! This shit is hard to figure out! Maybe I should just tell her when she gets out of the shower? No, I have no clue what to say yet!" shouted Natsu as he pulled his hair in frustration. I need to think of something soon before Luce comes back, thought Natsu.

Maybe I will tell him that it's okay if he doesn't remember anything and that I'm won't be upset if he never remembers, thought Lucy as she climbed out of the shower and started to dry herself off. She wraps the towel around her body and walks out of the bathroom and down the hall. I wonder if Natsu is awake, thought Lucy as she opened the bedroom door. When the door was fully open, she saw Natsu, who was fully awake and sitting on the edge of the bed staring at her.

"Oi Luce, I need to talk to you about something," said Natsu in a semi-serious tone. It's now or never.

"C-can it wait? I would like to get dressed first," said a very embarrassed Lucy as she let out a sigh. She wasn't sure if she would ever get used to Natsu seeing her in only a towel.

"Not really, it's important," responded Natsu. Lucy was taken back a little by how serious Natsu seemed to be.

"Uh, okay fine I guess," said Lucy trying to get over her embarrassment. "What did you need to talk to me about?"

Natsu just stared at her, not able to utter a single word from his lips. Lucy was only wearing a towel, and for some reason that made Natsu a little nervous. The way her skin was just wet enough that it made her whole body glisten, the way the ends of her hair were releasing droplets of water down her neck line and arms. He really liked it when Lucy wore her hair down, and this time was no different. Her hair was down and damp and he could smell the perfume from the shampoo she used while in the shower. That damn dragon sense of smell always made things worse especially now. All Natsu wanted to do was just walk up to Lucy and hold her in his arms while breathing in her scent. It was unique and that's why he liked it so much. He had never smelled anything like it before. He was still daydreaming when he noticed that Lucy was now looking at him with a concerned look upon her face.

"Natsu, are you okay?" she asked.

"Hmm? Oh yeah, sorry. I just spaced out a little there," said Natsu.

"Weirdo," replied Lucy followed by a small chuckle. The tension in the air surrounding Natsu dissipated after hearing Lucy laugh.

"Anyway, what was so important to talk to me about that I still can't get dressed yet?" asked Lucy again, only this time a little more curious and a little more impatient.

"Luce, my memories came back yesterday. All of them," said Natsu. Lucy just looked at Natsu completely dumbfounded. She didn't know what to say. After a few minutes of silence, she finally responded.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner, Natsu?" asked a confused Lucy.

"I didn't want to say anything right away because I wasn't sure how you would react honestly. I thought you might be angry or upset or something because of how I acted and because of how you were acting the other day when you found out I didn't remember anything about what happened between us in that forest," stated Natsu as he averted his eyes from Lucy. Lucy started the close the distance between them before speaking.

"Natsu, I'm not mad or upset or anything like that. Yeah, I was a little hurt when I heard that you didn't remember what happened in the forest and I was a little confused as to why you acted differently once we entered the town, but never once was I angry. And well… all that time in between gave me time to think about some things, and well, I mean, I'm just happy," said Lucy. Natsu just looked at her slightly confused as to where she was going with this. As if picking up on Natsu's confusion, Lucy continued. I knew he wouldn't be able to understand it like this, she thought to herself before speaking.

"I am happy because I realized that it doesn't matter if I am the only one that feels like this. All that matters is that I am happy just being with you, Natsu. I guess I've felt like this for a while now and everyone else seemed to pick up on it except me and this event in the forest finally made me realize it. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I like you, a lot in fact. And also that I'm okay if my feelings aren't met because like I said, all that matters is that I am with you," said Lucy. When she finally finished talking, she noticed that her breath was irregular and her heart beat increase. She was beyond nervous or embarrassed at this point. She just confessed to Natsu and she couldn't believe she said that all even though she wanted to stop herself several times, but her mouth kept moving and her heart came pouring out in the form of her voice. Natsu was staring at Lucy until their eyes met and they both quickly looked the other way. Lucy's faces was steaming red. Natsu still hadn't said anything and now she was beginning to regret what she had said.

Before she knew it, Natsu had stood up and started walking towards her. Natsu's body was completely moving on its own now. Natsu stopped just a few inches from her and was staring straight into her eyes. Lucy immediately tried to avert her gaze elsewhere, but before she could Natsu had pressed his lips against hers. At this, Lucy finally snapped back to reality. Natsu was kissing her and she was letting it happen. She was completely taken back by the fact that Natsu was kissing her, but it wasn't just some stupid peck. This was a full blown lover's kiss. Or at least that's what Lucy though it was based on the novels she had read before. This was her first kiss, and a passionate one at that. Lucy was still in shocked until she realized that Natsu had somehow managed to push her back to the wall. It was then that Lucy started to kiss him back.

Natsu puts one hand against the wall to support himself while taking his other hand and intertwining it with Lucy's. They continued to kiss until Lucy felt something warm and wet against her lips. It was Natsu's tongue looking for entrance which Lucy graciously allowed. Lucy let Natsu's tongue explore her mouth before she fought her way in to explore his. Lucy wrapped her arms around Natsu's waist and pulled him closer to her. With this motion, Lucy's towel fell off of her body and onto the floor. Natsu then moved his arm that was against the wall and wrapped it around Lucy's waist and grabbed ahold of her bare hip. Lucy doesn't even notice that her towel has fallen off her body, and honestly she couldn't really give a damn. All she wanted was more of this from Natsu. They continue making out with Natsu's arms wrapped around Lucy completely and Lucy's arms wrapped around Natsu's neck with her fingers running through Natsu's hair. They continue like that for a few minutes until they hear a knock at the door. It was Gray.

"Oi flame brain! You awake?!" exclaimed Gray and he banged on the door. Natsu and Lucy were startled but the sudden banging and broke apart.

"What the hell do you want, ice princess?!" shouted back Natsu. He was even more aggravated than usual.

"Erza wanted me to wake you and Lucy up! We are going to meet that event coordinator today, dumbass!" shouted Gray.

"Alright, I get it! We will be down soon!" yelled Natsu.

"Fine, I'll let Erza know," said Gray as he started to head back downstairs.

Once it was finally quiet again, Lucy notices that the towel that was once covering her is now laying at her feet. At this, the fact that she was now completely naked in front of Natsu after just making out with him, made her shriek. She immediately kneeled down in an attempt to cover herself a little. Her face looked as if all her blood and flowed into her cheeks. If she wasn't ever this embarrassed before, she sure was now. She shut her eyes in an attempt to calm herself down, but it failed. When she had opened her eyes again, she notice that Natsu was crotched down in front of her and was handing her the towel while covering his eyes with his other hand. Lucy reached out her hand and grazed Natsu's hand before finally taking the towel from him and wrapping it around her body.

"T-t-thank you Natsu," said Lucy.

"N-no p-problem Luce!" said Natsu shooting Lucy his famous grin. "Can I open my eyes now?" he asked.

"Yes, I'm covered now," said Lucy, her cheeks still tainted pink. When Natsu heard that, he removed his hand and opened his eyes.

"Well, uh, I'm gonna go shower and let you get dressed now. I'll meet you downstairs," said Natsu as he quickly exited the bedroom. Lucy just stood staring at the door for a bit before she finally stood up and got dressed. She still couldn't believe her and Natsu had shared such an intimate kiss. Once she was dressed and her hair was in its usual style, she headed downstairs towards the main hall.

While Natsu was in the shower, he couldn't stop thinking about what he had just done. How his body moved on its own towards Lucy and how his lips crashed into hers. More so, he couldn't believe that Lucy actually returned the kiss. I mean yeah she said she likes me, but what does this mean for our friendship now? I mean I feel the same way, but I don't know what I should do, thought Natsu as he was drying off and exiting the bathroom. He headed into the bedroom, got dressed and went downstairs to meet up with everyone else. When he got downstairs, Lucy was drinking tea and Erza, Cana, Gray, and Levy were in a group talking about the festival. Both Natsu and Lucy joined the group at the same time.

"Okay, so are we all here?" asked Erza as she checked the group to make sure everyone was present. "Okay, good! Let's go and meet the event coordinator. He said he would be in the town hall this morning." With that, the group set off towards town hall to meet the coordinator and find out what kind of festival "Attack on Tourist" actually is.

When they arrived at the town hall, Levy went up to the front desk and told them that they were the group from Fairy Tail who would be participating in the festival and that they were there to meet the event coordinator to discuss it. The receptionist lady said that the coordinator would be down shortly to meet with them. About 7 minutes had passed before the coordinator actually came down.

"I'm sorry for making you wait, minna," said the event coordinator apologetically. "My name is Kirito and I am the assistant mayor for the town of Cerulean. Let's go into my office and discuss this." The group of wizards followed the assistant mayor up two flights of stairs before walking down a long hallway and into Mr. Kirito's office. Erza handled most of the questions that Mr. Kirito had asked them and she also asked most of the questions about the festival.

"The Attack on Tourist festival goes all day and starts at 8 am in 2 days from now. It ends when all the games are over with usually happens around 10 or 11 pm," stated Kirito.

"What kind of games are there in the festival?" asked Erza.

"Well each year, as per popular demand, we hold a drinking contest sometime during the course of the festival, but as for the other games, they are voted upon each year by the townspeople and whichever 5 games get the most votes are the ones that take place. But we don't get all the votes in until the night before the festival so you won't be able to know what the games are until the day of the festival," said Kirito. Cana smirked at words "drinking game" she was happy that she was in the festival now. The group continues the conversation with Kirito for about another hour before leaving to head back to the beach house.

"I'm fired up now!" shouts Natsu as the group walks out the door.

"Are you sure about this, Kirito-san? You've also heard of the destructive power of Fairy Tail before," states the secretary to Kirito.

"Yes, but they will make this year's festival much more entertaining," replies Kirito before heading back upstairs to his office to finish up the paperwork for the festival and games.

It was around 8 pm when the group got back to the house. They had decided to stop for dinner in the town and go for a stroll before heading back home. The group enters the house to find it in complete disarray. Everyone was drinking and playing dancing games and be loud like usual.

"It really feels like home now," said Lucy, Erza, and Levy in unison as they laughed. Gray and Cana ran off towards the rest of the guild members to join in their fun.

"Welcome back!" said Mira as she walked towards the remaining members of the group.

"Oi Natsu! Get your ass over here!" shouted Gray. Natsu went over to see what Gray was yelling about with Elfman and Macao. Both Lucy and Natsu were absorbed in conversation with their friends for some time.

"I think I am going to head upstairs and lay in bed a bit. I'm tired and I really want to work on my book. I've got some good stuff to write about now," said Lucy. Natsu had overheard this statement.

"Oi Luce, I'll join ya!" shouted Natsu from across the room. Lucy nodded in agreement.

"Oi Lucy, I hear you and Natsu are sleeping in the same bed now," teased Mira. Lucy began to get flustered.

"Well, uh yea. I mean he's always sleeping in my bed back in Magnolia so I figured it would only be fair," stated Lucy.

"You know, you two should totally have kissed by now! I mean sleeping in the same bed willingly and you guys aren't even dating," teased Erza. Lucy just blushed slightly, but just enough for Mira to pick up on it.

"Ah! Lucy! Don't tell me you guys shared a kiss already!" said an elated Mirajane. Lucy was not at a complete loss for words.

"I-I-I n-never s-said th-that, Mira!" replied Lucy.

"I'm just teasing you, silly," smiled Mira. She was proud of herself for making Lucy so embarrassed.

"Well, I'll be going upstairs now," said Lucy as she whipped her body around and headed for the stairs. Levy, Mira, and Erza all giggled slightly.

"Oi Natsu, you and Lucy have been sharing a bed this whole time?" asked Gray after overhearing the girls' conversation.

"Yeah, what about it?" said Natsu.

"That's MAN!" shouted Elfman.

"Oi Natsu, have ya made a move yet on Lucy?" asked Macao.

"Uh, a move? What do ya mean?" asked Natsu.

"You know! Like something to claim her as your girl!" said Macao. Natsu laughed.

"No, I don't think so," replied Natsu. He wasn't really sure what could be considered a "move" and "making Lucy his girl".

"Well, go and be a man and do something about that!" said Elfman.

"We've all known about what happened in that forest between you two and we all know how you both feel about each other," stated Freed as he entered the group. Natsu just turned his head, his cheeks the same shade as his hair.

"And what was that about Mira saying you guys kissed?" asked Gray teasingly.

"None of your business, you icy pervert!" shouted Natsu. Macao laughed.

"Well, it looks like our Natsu has grown up and gotten himself a woman!" said Macao. Natsu just turned around and headed upstairs.

When Natsu entered the bedroom, he found Lucy around under the covers and reading a book and jotting down notes. Natsu assumed it was to help her write her novel. When Lucy heard the door open, she turned a saw Natsu walking in.

"They are so loud sometimes," said Lucy in reference to the teasing of them.

"Yeah," said Natsu as he let out a sigh. Lucy immediately picked up on what he was feeling.

"Oi Natsu, are you okay?" asked Lucy in a concerned tone as she put down her book.

"Yeah, it's just I've been thinking about what happened this morning between us and well…" Natsu's voice began to trail off. Lucy blushed at remembering their kiss from that morning.

"Well what?" asked Lucy.

"Well I'm just wondering what that means for us now, I guess," said Natsu while looking straight at Lucy. As Lucy thought about this, Natsu came and sat down on the bed next to her. "And well, I know how you feel and now you know how I feel…" he continued. Lucy just put her head down and looked at her hands. The next she knows, Natsu is holding her hand.

"Well, I think I've already answered my own question," said Natsu. Lucy looked up at him to see him smiling at her. "I want you to be mine."

Lucy just stared at Natsu for a short while before a huge smile spread across her face. She was at a complete loss for words. The only thing she could think to do was kiss him. And she did just that.

A/N: WOO! Steamy chapter ;D anyway I know I said i would post this before Monday but I had to rewrite it like 3 times before I was finally happy with it. This was the first time I have ever written a scene like that so let me know what you thought of it! I'll try to post the next chapter asap. The song I used was Let It Go from Frozen. The lyrics belong to their respected owners. Thanks for reading!

~Aeroniel