Chapter 10

After their comforting talk which lead to a sweet make out session, they sat in a comfortable silence, with his arm lazily resting on her shoulders. A blush crept up her face and she nervously stretched out her legs in front of her.

"Hey Lucy." He called her and she tilted her head to look up at him. "Tell me something about yourself." He added and she held up a finger to her lips, trying to think of anything interesting to say. Then she remembered something and bit her lower lip. She didn't really want to bring it up now, but it felt like the right moment.

"Well, you remember that time when we went out and you said you were afraid my father would open the door?"

Natsu's eyes widened and he threw his hands in the air. "Are you seriously going to tease me about that now?"

She chuckled and her lips curved into a small smile. "No…I thought I should let you know that you can come any time. If you haven't noticed, I live alone."

He rubbed the back of his neck and looked away from her. He felt dumb for not realizing something like that before. "Oh, right. So, where are your parents?"

Her gaze fell to her feet and she ran a hand through her hair. "Dead."

A moment of silence followed her words and she looked up at him. His mouth fell open and his face paled.

He panicked. "Shit Lucy I had no idea. I'm so-" She lifted her hand to his lips and shrugged. "It's alright. You couldn't know."

"I feel like shit now." Natsu sighed with worry filling his eyes, but she smiled at him and continued.

"What about yours?" She asked.

"Same thing." He shrugged his shoulders like it was no big deal, but she covered her mouth with her hand. It was her turn to feel bad and she wished she never started this conversation, although he seemed fine with the topic.

"I'm sorry."

"Don't apologize." He smiled and lifted his hand to caress her soft hair. For some reason he wanted to know more about it. He studied her face and noticed that she's calmed down. "How did they die? When?" He asked.

Lucy was confused as to why he decided to ask her more about it, but she was glad he did. She never liked talking about it, because she'd cry every time, but his hand playing with her locks had a calming effect on her.

"I was very young. My mother died giving birth to me. My dad went ill after that." He sent her a half-smile and his hand left her hair and she immediately missed his touch.

"Same thing happened with my mom. As for my dad..." He clenched his jaw and his face darkened. "Those bastards killed him." He growled and she rubbed her hand up his arm, returning the favor.

"Natsu..." She whispered. She knew her father would die, so she was kind of prepared for it. It doesn't make the pain any easier, but losing someone so suddenly was still different. Then realization dawned on her face. "Wait you know who they are?" She almost yelled, shocked.

"Um yeah. That's kinda pretty obvious." He replied, matter-of-factly.

"Um yeah..." She giggled nervously, playing with the hem of her skirt. "I have no idea how's that obvious." She muttered.

He leaned to her face and his eyes widened. Lucy leaned away, confused. He shook his head and groaned. "Wait. You really don't know anything?"

"I'm not sure what do you mean by anything." She frowned and folded her hands over her chest, feeling insulted.

"The Dragons and Blizzard." He answered, studying her face for a sign that she at least recognized the names, because, who doesn't know about them? Her cheeks turned pink in embarrassment and she felt that even Levy knew more about it than her and she was the one who went there.

"Eh? Well not much. Only that you're the Dragons' leader."

He cocked his head to side and snorted. He began laughing and patted her shoulder like she said something funny. She just gaped at him confused and a bit angry that he was laughing at her and she didn't know why.

"I'm not their leader. I just lead a gang that's a part of the Dragons. But I take orders from someone else." He explained after.

"Oh...Then that means...You don't kill people because you just feel like it?" She clapped her hands together and her eyes sparkled. He wasn't so bad after all, she thought.

"No. Who the fuck kills someone because they feel like it?" He said disgusted at the thought of murdering someone just because he wants to, but he didn't deserve that look in her eyes. The fact that he's not the one giving orders doesn't make him a hero. "Killing someone is bad anyway. Just because I don't want someone dead doesn't mean I'm suddenly a good person. I'm the one pulling the trigger, so it doesn't really-"

"Natsu stop. You're a good person to me." It was a half-lie though. She just wanted him to stop talking about it. He may be a good person to her, but she knew he isn't good to everyone else. "And I'm sure you wouldn't harm an innocent person." She added and his face softened.

"Lucy I...I'd never hurt you."

"Let's go on with the story." She grinned excitedly, avoiding the topic.

"What story?" He looked at her, puzzled.

"About the Dragons and Blizzard."

"Luucy..." He threw his head back and groaned. "Is that funny to you?"

"It sounds like a good story."

"That bitch-I mean Juvia didn't tell you anything?"

"Nope."

"You see...We hate each other."

"I figured that much. You suck at storytelling." Lucy frowned, crossing her arms over her chest, which made her look like a little kid that didn't get a candy.

"This isn't a fairy tale Lucy!" He yelled.

"Fine!" She shot back.

He sighed and continued. "It goes way back. I'm not sure how it started. My dad was a Dragons' leader before he...you know." He looked at her and noticed her eyes were ready to spill tears at his sad story. "They killed him. And I had to take his place. Well, not really, but it was the best option I had or else I'd end up on the streets." She still had that worried look on her face and it annoyed him. "Stop with that look!"

"Sorry." She said, but her expression remained the same.

"Look there!" He pointed at something and she felt the blood in her veins freeze, but when she turned around, it was just a tree. She tried to look better, but then she realized that he wanted her to actually look at the tree instead of him.

"Whaa-seriously!?"

"Tsk. Whatever." He sighed. "Wanna hear the rest?" She nodded. "There's not much to it. You see, Lyon, your friend's boyfriend, he's the Blizzard's leader." Lucy gasped. He said Lyon like he wanted to vomit just by mentioning him, but she already knew they hated each other so it's not what surprised her. It was the fact that her friend, Juvia, was dating a gang leader.

"What!? Like, you mean he's the main guy?"

"Yup. That's him."

"I could never imagine Juvia dating a person like that." His eyes harden and his face fell for a brief moment because of her statement. He was no better than Lyon.

"Something wrong?" She tilts her head to side and he lifst his hand to stroke her golden hair, giving her a half-smile.

"It's just that...I'm a person like that."

"It's not the same." She was quick to defend him at his own statement.

"If I were the leader, I would probably do the same thing. So me and my friends could survive." The least thing he wanted was Lucy thinking he was perfect. He was far from it, but then he remembered he was closer to being perfect than being Lyon. "I don't want you to think that I'm the same as that-that...ah! He's a monster! I heard he kills their own."

"No way..." She covered her mouth in horror.

"Yes way. But he seems to like that girl. I don't really know. We thought about kidnapping her and using her as a bait, but he was always there to protect her. Other times, she could handle the situation by herself."

"You mean she..." She suddenly regretted her decision to know more. She knew from the beginning that Natsu was like that, but she could never have guessed that Juvia was capable of killing someone.

"No. She kicked their butts by herself. It's kinda funny." He chuckeled at the thought of Juvia defeating men twice her size.

"I'm glad that's the case." Putting a hand over her heart, Lucy sighed in relief.

They sat in silence, but Natsu wasn't quite comfortable. He imagined Lucy going home, recalling their conversation and realizing that she doesn't want any of it after all.

"Lucy...Are you really okay with all this?" He turned to her with a worried look, but she didn't hesitate to answer him. She already knew what she was going to say.

"To be honest, no. And I don't think I could ever be okay with that." Her lips formed a bright smile that could melt Antartica. "But I do know that..." She continued, but her tongue got tied. She began stuttering and her face turned red. "You just make me feel...Spending time with you is...I don't know! It's just really weird."

He laughed at her silliness, knowing exactly how she felt.

"I feel the same. I never had this kind of a relationship with a girl." And before she could make a witty remark about him actually being gay, he went on. "What I mean is that I've never felt this way with a girl. I've never spent more than three hours with a girl." He wanted to slap himself after realizing what he said.

She made a disgusted face and muttered to herself. "I don't really wanna know about it."

"Way to confess, Natsu." He whispered under his breath, not wanting her to hear it.

"Is this a confession?" She glanced up at him, her brown orbs shining with excitemend.

"No." Her face fell for a brief moment, but then he turned around to face her, taking her small hands in his, holding them gently. She felt herself melting under his gaze. "This is me, asking you to be my girlfriend and accept me the way I am. I want you to know what you'll be getting yourself into. I want you to know that there will be consequences, but I'll make sure to always make it up to you. I promise."

"Natsu..." A week ago, she'd never believe you if you told her that this boy from the east side could say such sweet, sincere words to her. But he did, and it brought tears to her eyes.

"Say yes or no, dammit." He let go of her hands and groaned, pulling his pinkish hair. Completely ruining the moment, by the way.

"How could I say no?" She tried to go back to romantic mode, but he continued sounding dumb.

"Could you say yes then?"

"I just did!" She yelled and slapped her forehead, even though he should be the one doing that.

"Hey Natsu?" She asked after some time, since none of them had the intenton of going back to awkward boyfriend/girlfriend talk. "How did you know I didn't live there? Was I that obvious?" She remembered when she went to Juvia's house, meeting Natsu on the way there.

"That's easy. First, it was our part of the town and I'm sure I would've noticed you before." He smirked at her, causing her cheeks to flush. "Second, you looked so scared. And you obviously weren't from Blizzard or else you would've freaked out when you saw my tattoo." He explained, but she was still confused. She looked at his tatto and thought it wasn't that scary. Why would anyone run away from a tattoo?

"Your tattoo? What about it?"

"You really know nothing."

"Tell meee!" She whined.

"It's a sign that you're a part of a gang. The dragon is for the Dragons. Blizzard has a lame, weak snowflake." He said and she noted that he enjoyed talking bad about them.

Then the color drained out of her face when she remembered the picture Juvia showed her at the party some days ago, where her and Lyon had similar snowflake tattoos.

"Wait! So that means Juvia is in Blizzard?" She realized and he facepalmed.

"You're slow. Everything alright with your brain today?"

"Jerk!" She punched his arm and he pretended it hurt, which only annoyed her more.

"Ouch that hurt! I forgot you were a natural blonde, blondie."

"Natsu I'm warning you!" She glared at him and she was sure she looked frightening, until he burst out laughing, pointing a finger at her face.

"You...you...look...you look so dumb!"

"Natsu!" She warned again, but he continued teasing her.

"I like it when you scream my name. Just don't sound too angry. Try again, this time with a moan-ouch! Lucy stop hitting me!"

"You stop saying nonsense!" Her hands squeezed into tiny fists and she began hitting his chest, but then a voice interrupted them. They were sure they were alone.

"Alright. What do we have here?" They both jerked their heads in the direction of the voice and Lucy's eyes widened when she recognized its owner. Natsu jumped to his feet and his hands tightened into fists. Lucy caught his arm, squeezing it, trying to calm him down.

"Long time no see, Natsu." Lyon said, smiling at them, like they were friends who haven't seen each other in a long time.

"Lyon." Natsu growled at Blizzard's leader. Lyon's smile faded and was replaced by a glare directed at Lucy, which sent a cold shiver up her spine. She squeezed Natsu's shirt and he put his arm in front of her, as if sheltering her from Lyon.

"Juvia is alright!" Lucy yelled, realizing what he wanted to hear. Lyon's lips curled into a satisfied smile.

"Good."

"What are you two talking about..." Natsu muttered confused and then turned around to look at Lucy. "And how do you know him?"

"Juvia showed me a picture!" She defended herself. Natsu didn't really pay attention to her and turned back to face Lyon with a threatening glare.

"Lyon...If you ever try to-" Lyon interrupted him, sending them another creepy smile.

"Oh but I'd never do that. She's Juvia's dear friend. She wouldn't be happy if I hurt her." Then his expression darkened again. "But if it weren't the case...I wouldn't hesitate a second to slit her-"

"Shut the fuck up before I slit your throat!" Natsu screamed at Lyon and Lucy hugged him from behind, preventing him from trying to fight Lyon. Tears filled her eyes and she squeezed them shut, burying her head against Natsu's back.

"No need for violence here. I said if." Lyon said, nonchalantly.

"What do you want, Lyon?" Natsu hissed, growing impatied and if Lyon doesn't leave soon, not even Lucy could stop him from fighting.

"Can't I walk around the park? Fine, I'll leave." Lyon sighed, but instead of leaving, he walked closer to them, not taking his eyes off Lucy.

"It's alright." She whispered and Natsu hesitantly stepped aside.

Lyon stopped a few inches away from Lucy, taking her hand in his and placed a soft kiss. Before Lucy realized what happened, she was hugging Natsu again, holding him back from attacking Lyon.

"Natsu!"

"He can't just do that!"

"Don't tell me your jealous of him!" Natsu's cheeks turned slightly red and he turned away from her, looking for Lyon, but he was already gone. He sighed and sat back on the bench.

"Whatever."

Lucy sat next to him. Too much has happened in such a short time to let her brain properly process it all.

"Why didn't he try anything?" She asked.

"What do you mean?"

"Well...he didn't point his gun at you and-"

"He probably didn't have one." Natsu looked at her and smiled at her confused expression. She really didn't know anything, but that didn't matter. Even though it annoyed him, he liked explaining things to her. "We can't do that here. The police would come after us. They don't really care what happens on the east side thought."

"But Lyon's from the east side?" He chuckled at her cluelessness.

"So? We can't have a dead body lying at the central park, right?"

"That makes sense." She giggled and Natsu patted her head again.

They sat together, talking about everything and nothing, enjoying each other's presence, until Natsu got the message from Gajeel that he was on his way home. It said that shrimp, which was obviously Levy, was trying to murder him with a frying pan, all because he untied her hair from a bun, so he had to run away.

They burst into laughter, imagining the whole scene.

Lucy went home with a silly smile on her face. She never thought she'd actually enjoy talking about any kind of criminal with a criminal, but it was Natsu and she enjoyed every moment she spent with him.

Hey guys! I updated faster that I thought I would.

Was this chapter good? I hope you liked it even though nothing really happened here. Just Natsu and Lucy getting to know each other better. I suppose I had to write about that too.

I had no idea how to name this chapter so I named it chapter 10 btw.

Thanks for reading! I'll try to update sooner again. :)