HeorieOtaku: Hey, guys. have any of you seen Soul Eater? If so, do you like Soul and Maka together? If both of those are a yes, then do you mind giving my SoMa one shot a chance. Trying to spread it around a little, so the story is called 'Death Scythe Feelings'. Anyways. A couple of my friends say that the last chapter of this story was a little confusing. Sorry if that is true, but I will try to see if I get time to re-write it. And one other thing. To the few that say it is out of control, sorry. I am trying my best. I will see what I can do. Hope you enjoy this chapter. It is an extra long one, scene I didn't write for so long.

Chapter 10
Another's Path: 2

Huh? What happened? I rubbed my head, and looked around. This place looks familiar, but why. "Where am I? Wait." I thought for a second and it came to me. "Isn't this Lucy's house. Last time I remember, I clasped after seeing..."

I slowly turned around to see that Lucy was right there in front of me."Luce?!" I was in shock. What happened! Did I do anything to her to hurt her?!

"Hi...Natsu." She covered her face to where I couldn't see it, but then she removed her hands so I could see her face.

I must find out what I did. And what happened last night. Wait. Wasn't she at the bar? "Um. What am I doing here. I don't remember coming here. And what were you doing at the Bar last night?" I was very confused.

I had to know everything, since I hadn't talked to her and only her in so long. She hesitated for some reason though. She even looked a little nervous. "Um. Well. Do you really want to know?"

I just wanted to know what happened so badly, but I didn't know why Lucy was hesitating so much. It must be my fault, I guess, even though I don't know what I did. "Yah. If you could tell me, that would be nice."

I was ready for what she was about to tell me. It didn't matter how much it might hurt me, if it was my fault, I would say sorry and walk away. "Well. I. Um. I have had a lot going on with Gray. Then Mira showed me a mission that I just felt like I could not pass up. In the end, I felt overwhelmed with all that has happened with me and Gray, that I just had too much on my mind." To hear that, I was shocked, and it surprised me that it was mostly Ice cream boys fault. I will tear him to shreds next time I see him.

She was done, I thought, but then she continued. "Then I decided. 'Why not go to the Bar. It will get my mind off things, if I drink'. So I went to the bar, not seeing you at first. After having a few sips, I then heard someone talking, or more like trying to, and saw that it was you. In the end, I payed for your drinks and took you to my house." I was in even more shock than.

I don't know what to say to her. She has so much she has had to do. When I was drunk, was I really that bad at talking I wanted to laugh, but didn't. Wait. She paid for my drink. When did she do that.

I couldn't remember, then something flashed in my mind from what must have been yesterday. It was the fight that I had jumped into that was happening between Lucy and Popsicle breath were fighting. Oh, yeah. I have to apologize for that.

"So. That is what happened. Huh. By the way. Sorry for trying to help you yesterday." I felt bad for doing that, because of what happened and all. She didn't want my help anyway. When has she needed it, anyways. Not much.

She gave me a short straight answer. "It's ok"

I am glad she has forgiven me, but she still hasn't answered one of my questions. What happened last night! "Hey, Luce. Did I do or say anything to you last night?" After saying that she looked at me as if I did something so bad, she couldn't even contemplate it.

"Well, you didn't do much." What does not much mean? "It was only a little past what you normally do when you come here." It's like she is giving me a riddle. I want to solve it, but I can't. "All you did was snuggle with me a little. I didn't mind."

Wait. I stopped for a second, my face feeling like it was going to go red when it wasn't. She didn't mind snuggling with me. Since I was drunks she was sympathetic for me. Normally she would kick me off the bed if I did that.

"Oh. Is that right. Good. Glad I didn't do anything else. But for some reason I feel like I am forgetting something." I am not lying because it does feel like I am forgetting something.

"Well. You probably said something, but forgot it. It's fine. Its not like it was something important, or I would have asked you about it." As she said that she tried to smile at me, but I could tell something wasn't right.

Lucy? Why are you acting so strange. Why are you faking a smile. That's not you."Ok. You are probably right." I tried to smile, knowing that she probably wouldn't notice that I was faking it too, or so I had hoped at least.

"I should probably take a shower, and change. Do you think you could ask Virgo if she has some close I can borrow again. I kind of need to change too." I suddenly realized what I had said and felt ready for a slap in the face. It didn't come, though.

She started to speak, "Yeah. Just let me get u..." ,but she didn't finish her sentence, which perplexed me.

I went to repeat what she said. "Just let you get up..?" I asked her instead though. I don't know why, but I am starting to worry. "You ok?"

She looked at me again and sighed. "Well, you see. When trying to get over you, I slammed my foot agenst the ground, and now it hurts too much to get up. Hehe." She faked her laugh, but I could see the pain in her eyes.

"So you hurt your foot, did you. If you wait for a bit I will help you, but do you think you can still get me the pair of cloths? If you can't then all well, but it would be nice if you could." I could finally tell how bad I smelt, but I didn't want Lucy to know, so I didn't tell her.

"Yeah, I can still do that." Her voice sounded confident and it was nice. She summoned Virgo and got the things I asked for. "Thanks Virgo." She said to Virgo.

"Your welcome Princess." There she goes again. What is with the Princess thing. It fits Luce and all, but why does Virgo always call her that?

I looked in surprise to see what Virgo gave us this time. "The same as she gave us last time, huh. Brings back memories doesn't it." I still remember waking up with Lucy and I having a matching pair. Apparently everyone thinks it is cute when we match. I guess, but then it didn't seem right.

Luce gave me a real smile this time, then spoke again. "Well. You better go take a shower. No peeking at me. Got it!"

If I could only just take one look. But she would kill me. Dang it, Luce. Why are you so strict! "I won't. Just be careful."

I turned and started walking away. Suddenly Lucy's voice stopped me in my tracks. "Natsu! Wait!" She had grabbed my pant leg and almost made me fall.

I thought she wanted me to not look. Why did she stop me from leaving. "Yah." She started to blush, which startled me. What is she thinking?

"Um. Can you please help me. Since my foot is hurt and all." Why is my face blushing again! My heart is thumping again too. Could I actually have a feeling for her that I don't understand? I paused for a second. Maybe, but I can't think of that now.

"Um. Sure. If you need it that bad. I promise I will look as little as possible. You can trust me on that." I wonder how she would react if I told her that she smelled, but in a different form. Hm.

I walked closer and leaned down a bit. "Here. Grab on to my shoulder." She grabbed it and I continued on with my talking. "Ya know. You should probably take a shower too. I know I am not the only one who needs to take one."

'SLAP' She slapped me in the face. Well that didn't go too well. "Sorry. I shouldn't of hit you. You were only trying to help me out." Her comment surprised me. Why would she say something like that?

"You know. You could take a shower, and I could take a bath. That way we wouldn't see each other, and I have a thing that I can put in front of the bath, so that would help too. I just need help getting there." What did she just say?!

Thoughts flowed into my mind of her. Would you just stop thinking like that Perverted Ice Princess! "If you really trust me that much, then Ok. I will help you. Grab your cloths." My face felt like it was on fire, which wasn't normal for me to say, since my magic consisted of fire and all.

I helped her limp to the bath room with my mind filled with all kinds of thing I didn't want in it. "Ok. I will go in first, then you go in when I say it is Ok. Ok?" I looked at her, seeing that we had arrived at the bathroom. Oh, no. Why did I agree to this, again?

I waited there for maybe a half an hour until Luce finally told me it was safe to enter. "Ok Natsu. You can go to take a shower. It's safe now." Oh, how much I want to peek at her, but I won't. I promised anyway.

I walked into the bathroom to see that the bathtub was surrounded by a cover of some sort. Phew. Good thing she had a way to cover her, or I may have just seen her.

Starting the shower with really hot water, I striped and got in. I felt my hair soak in the moisture of the water, which for some reason felt way relaxing. After washing my whole body down, I turned off the water and dried myself off.

After putting my pants on, and before I could put my shirt on, Lucy had to have help again. "Hey Natsu. Are you dressed yet?"

I was dress most of the way, so I just answered her plainly. "Yeah. For the most part. Why?" While saying that, I was drying my hair off.

"Well...I can't get the rest of my cloths on. I am decent, so you can't see anything for the most part, but do you think you could help me?" Wait. She needs help getting dressed. It's like a romance call off of some movie. Why does my heart continue to feel this way.

"Um. Sure. Just let me in, and I can help." I saw the door to the cover open, and that told me to enter. I wrapped my special scarf around my neck then went towards the door. My face, yet again, was beat red. I don't know what she meant by 'mostly' decent.

As I looked at her, I looked back at the ground. She's gorgeous. What should I say? There was silence for a minute. "You know. You look really cute now, Luce." I had said something that just came out naturally, but it didn't feel like it was me at all. I didn't even understand what I was saying.

I zoomed over to where her rest of her clothes were, and set them down near her. First I grabbed her shirt. I was nervous. Really nervous. My hands were shaking as I pulling her arms into it, and me reaching around, zipping it up.

In the process of zipping it up, I brushed against her breast. She didn't say anything. I never knew it was that soft. Oh what am I thinking. Why did I have to be so nice to Luce?

I grabbed the skirt quickly and went to help her put it on. In the process of doing that I touched her again, except it was worse now. Ready for a slap, I went to say I was sorry. "Oh! Sorry!" I didn't get a slap, but as soon as I put the belt on, I recoiled quickly just in case.

After going and getting my shirt on, I helped Lucy back to her room. As soon as we got into her room, I set her on the bed. "Thanks Natsu." When she said that with a small hint of a smile, my heart felt warm.

I then remembered her injury. "We should probably get your foot looked at to make sure it is ok." She doesn't look in pain now, but maybe it is because I have helped her so much.

"I agree, but how am I going to get there?" My mind had surprisingly came up with an idea, but I didn't know if Lucy would agree with it.

I probably suggest something more simple first, and if she agrees, then I will explain it completely. "If you want I could help you." I made eye contact with her when she heard me say that.

"If you want I could help you." Was that a 'yes' or a 'no'? Either way, she did ask for an answer.

I opened my mouth, but decided to show her instead. I walked over to her and spoke the answer. "Like this." I picked her up in my arms to where I was carrying her next to my chest. She is so dang cute up close. I turned my head to try to avoid her seeing my blush, but I could tell she did anyway.

"We better get going, if this is ok with you." I knew she already saw, so I gathered the courage and looked her in the eyes when I said that.

She smiled at me and continued to look me in the eyes. "It's fine with me." I could feel her snuggling up to me and it gave me comfort. She...is so nice to me all of a sudden. Not that she wasn't before. It's just so comforting.

I started walking out the door and into the streets. Half way there and we didn't talk at all. she just kept on snuggling up to me. I decided it was time to break the quietness. "Hey, Lucy. How is your foot doing? Is it still hurting? I'm not putting any pain on it, right?"

She turned a bit so she could look at me. "No. I'm fine. You're the one that needs to be thanked. I mean, you're carrying me and all." She smiled brightly at me. There goes that weird warmth again.

"Oh, it's fine. All the stuff I did this morning was to thank you for what you did for me last night and the cloths you got for me." I felt bad for saying that, because that wasn't totally. I can't do anything after the fact.

She was silent for a while which kind of upset me. "Over there Natsu. The doctor's office is right around that corner." I looked to my right to see that the doctor's office was there.

When I looked down at her she had her eyes closed. She looks so peaceful.

I ran to the place, where I thought it was. I arrived there in no time at all. I don't want to set her down, but I have to. "Ok, Luce. Is this the place?" As I said that she opened her eyes.

"Yes." As I went to set her down, she yell at me. "Wait!" I stopped. "Just let me stay in your arms a little longer." I pulled her back up next to me. Why did she suddenly stop me? She is probably afraid that her foot will hurt again when I put her down.

After about eight minutes of her relaxing in my arms, she sighed and said that I could let her down. When I set her down, she showed no signs of pain. "Sorry. It's just that you are so warm, and it is so cold out here."

Oh. So that's what it was. Even though my heart hurts a little for some reason, I could be nice and give her my shirt. "Here. I don't need it as much as you do. Take it." She took it, but she looked surprised, yet confused at the same time. I decided not to ask why though. I just offered my shoulder, like last time instead.

"Hello? Anyone here?" I called it a little louder than I normally would but no one answered my call. I wonder where everyone is.

"Natsu. There is another place near by. Lets go." I turned around to go as she said that, but then i heard the noise of a cart being pushed along. I turned around to see a small girl with blue hair pulling the cart in the direction to where I couldn't see her face.

"Hello. Thanks for coming today. How may I help you?" As the blue haired girl turned around, I noticed her as part of the fellow Dragon Slayer Family thing everyone classifies us as. "Natsu? Lucy? What are you two doing here?" That is what I am wondering Wendy.

"I didn't know that you worked here Wendy." Luce looked very happy to see Wendy. It makes sense, since they are both girls and all.

"Oh, I do because the boss here begged me to work here after hearing about my sky magic. And since I don't have a particular Group I work with at the Guild now I accepted. She said that I could do other jobs at the guild too, but needed to tell her when I was going to be gone." Just like lucy had said before, Wendy is a little talkative.

"Oh." Luce and I said it at the same time, which made me laugh a little, but I continued the sentence. " That makes much more sense."

Oh yeah! I almost forgot about Lucy's foot! "Oh, right. Sorry Luce. Almost forgot." I stopped to look at Wendy. "Lucy needs her foot checked out. I thinks she may of hurt it."

As Wendy had instructed after I said that, she sat down for her to check Lucy's foot. "Well. It doesn't seem that there is anything wrong with it now. There was a small cut that I could barely see and your ankle was close to being strained , but nothing I couldn't fix."

I looked at Lucy's face which had suddenly gone REALLY red. I wonder. Why is her face so red? "Hey Wendy, you sure Luce is ok, because she is turning really red in the face."

For some reason Lucy's face went even more red as Wendy looked at it. "Yeah, your right. Better make a full examination." Making Lucy lie down, she made a whole examination with her magic.

After a few minutes Wendy was finished. "Everything looks fine to me. Just for when though, take these." She handed Lucy some pills. What are those? What do they do?

With that in my head, Wendy answered my question. "I stored some magic in them. There a work in progress, but I know it won't hurt you. If you don't mind telling me the side effects, that would be nice." Getting up, she started to walk through the door. "See you later, Lucy." She's gone.

"Hey Natsu, it's not that I don't trust her, but can you help me up. My mind got used to the pain of me getting up, that I feel like I will still have it." She giggled a bit, which made me want to laugh a little too.

And upon what I thought I did. "Sure, Luce. No problem." Grabbing her hand-made my heart jump. After pulling her up, I let go with my mind saying it wanted more, but my mouth wouldn't respond.

Too bad. All I wanted to do was hold her hand, but I am just too shy. "Hey Natsu. For everything you did, I don't mind you holding my hand on the way to the guild." What she said had made me happy, but surprised. It's as if she read my mind.

"Shouldn't we go to your house first?" I didn't know why we were going to the guild first, but decided to ask her to see.

"No. I need to talk to talk to you about a mission that you and I can go alone on." Wait. Did she just say...just us alone? Wha-what!

"Ju-Just you and..." I stopped because I couldn't figure out how to say it just right. "...Me?"

I can't believe this. If this is actually true, then that means that it won't be with happy, just like I wanted the other night! Yes!

"Yup!" She was looking so happy when she said that. Does she actually want to go? "We were asked to go on a special mission. It pays so much to." My heart felt like it was ripped out of my chest. It hurts. So...shes only going with me because it was requested to go alone and because of the money.

I sighed and faked a smile again. "Oh. So that's what you meant. Ok." My voice fell to an all time low. Even I was barely able to hear it.

"You ok Nastu? Why are you so sad all of a sudden." She noticed! I have to think up something quick!

After thinking for a minute, I figured it out. Oh! I know! "It's nothing. I just was thinking...about how... I would tell Happy that he wasn't coming."

She didn't say anything for a bit, but then she spoke. "You know. A couple of nights ago you came over, but you didn't come in like normal. Then in the morning I found a little happy sleeping next to me. He said that you wanted to go on a mission alone with me. I did say no at first, but this could be our mission alone. Don't you think."

Wait. She remembers that? She is actually saying that she wanted to go on a mission alone with me! Awsome! I felt so overjoyed. "I agree. Happy can go to Lissanas for a little while, while we go."

Everything was perfect. It was so amazing that I had gotten what I wanted.

After a little while longer, we arrived at the guild."Ok. Your reward is up. Besides. Mira might think the wrong thing if she sees us holding hands." She let go of my hand. I completely forgot that she was holding my hand up until now. It feels so odd now not to be holding her hand. And what does she mean by Mira might get the wrong Idea?

"Lets go. I have to show you the mission I was talking about and see if Mira still has it for us." I was still as happy as could be as we both stepped into the guild. I really hope that the Mira still has that request, because I want to go on Lucy's special mission alone with me!

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