Love between two worlds

Chapter 10

Confessions

Rushing to Lucy's apartment, Natsu's grin found its way back onto his face and his eyes were filled with a newly found determination. Gray was completely right, whether he liked to admit it or not didn't matter. Natsu is not the type to give up and he wasn't about to start now. Especially when it came to Lucy.

He finally arrived and went straight for the window to find that it was still locked. All of them were locked including the door and knocking produced no answer. Worry began to take over as Natsu kicked the door down in fear that Lucy was hurt or something. He rushed through the small apartment, checking each room but turning up with nothing. Fearing the worst, Natsu ran outside and searched for her scent. People looked at him as if he were crazy as he ran from spot to spot smelling around. He ignored the looks when he finally found her scent, the sweet floral smell of her shampoo, and followed it.

He ran as fast as he could and was worried that something may have happened to her. What she kidnapped? Did someone break in to her house and take her? His pace fastened even more as pictures formed in his head of her tied up and being tortured. He shook his head trying to rid himself of the horrible thoughts and proceeded to follow the scent.

As her scent grew stronger, so did the scent of her tears, almost masking her own. I came to a large field where the giant sakura tree sat. The sun shined brightly down over the lush green grass and sparkled against the cool blue of the stream that ran at the bottom. My eyes landed on a figure sitting at the base of the tree, their back against it and their head was looking up into the cloudless sky.

Natsu approached slowly, not wanting her to run once more. Her beautiful blond hair was left down and flowed to her shoulders, swaying lightly in the gentle breeze. She looked like a goddess to him and he wondered how it ever took him so long to notice her beauty. Maybe he really was dense.

He walked forward and sat down next to the blond. She did not turn nor even acknowledge his presence for a few moments as she continued to look up at the sky. Her eyes were still red, but not nearly as bad and they didn't still hold the moisture of tears to be shed.

"Natsu." Her voice was low and she seemed much calmer than before. Maybe even relaxed. He wondered what could have happened to cause such a change in her but maybe it was giving her the space she needed that helped.

"Everyone at the guild misses you." He kept his voice equally low, feeling as if the mood was too calm to speak too loudly. He couldn't stop the small smile that crossed his lips as she spoke to him. He was just happy that she would talk to him again.

"I know, I just haven't felt up to seeing everyone just yet. I was planning on going in tomorrow." Natsu nodded but he knew that he had to apologize. Say what he needed to and hope that she would understand, whether he deserved it or not.

"Luce, I'm sorry for what I said that day." She finally turned her tired eyes to Natsu, looking at him as if searching for the truth.

"How could you say something like that about your friends? Your family?"

"I didn't mean to say something like that. You know that I would never feel that way. This is my home, I could never just leave them." He explained as he gazed deeply in her eyes trying to relay the truth behind his words.

"Then why did you say it?" Natsu's face tinted a light pink as his eyes shifted to look at the ground. He wondered how she would take the truth behind his reasoning.

"I wanted...to make you jealous." Her eyes widened slightly and her mouth was parted slightly in surprise.

"J-jealous? B-but why?"

"I know about you dating Fireball to help him with Ashley. We overheard you two talking in your apartment that same night. She decided that we should do the same I guess to upset Fireball. She wasn't very happy about it. But I became jealous of the time you and Fireball were spending together and I started taking it further. I wanted you to be as jealous as I was."

"Natsu, I don't understand. Why would you be jealous?" Her brow furrowed together as if she was trying to piece the whole scenario together in her mind.

"Lucy, I always call you weird but you never understood that did you?" She shook her head, not sure where he was going with this. How did these two things connect? "You seemed weird to me because from the moment I met you, I always had the funny feeling. I never knew what it was but my stomach felt all queasy, I would have trouble breathing, my heart would beat faster and my head would even spin. The only thing I could think of was that you were weird."

Her eyes widened once more as a light blush dusted her cheeks. She realized what he was saying and she found herself having a hard time believing what she was hearing. Natsu could hear her heart beat rising and the sudden intake of air caused him to smile lightly. He liked seeing that he had the same effect on her as she did on him.

"Only recently did I finally figure out why you caused such a weird feeling in me. I realized that I was in love with you. I just hope that you forg-" Natsu was cut off by her lips crashing against his. He never expected something like this. He actually came expecting to have to beg for her forgiveness. His arm wrapped around her thin waist and pulled her closer. Her arms wrapped around his neck while one played in his soft hair. His arms pulled her closer until she was fully sitting in his lap. There kiss lasted for several long minutes but still didn't seem like enough to them. She pulled away, her eyes sparkling with emotions that he was sure his mimicked.

"I love you too, you idiot." She giggled while Natsu pouted. She planted another kiss against his lips and looked into his eyes once more. "But your my idiot."

Natsu and Lucy returned to the guild hand in hand. They pushed the double doors open as all eyes turned to them and most were wide with shock. Looking over at the bar, they saw their counterparts sitting there with a smug smile on both their lips.

"What do we have here?" Gray approached from the side, admiring his work. It appears that his advice helped the pinkette. "Look at the two love birds, aren't they cute."

"Shut it ice prick!" Natsu's words held the usual hostility in them but his eyes showed something different. As if something happened between those two while Lucy was away.

"So does this mean what I hope it does?" Mirajane walked forward her eyes full of hope. When Lucy nodded she yelped and clapped her hands in front of her. Her mind roaming over things that Lucy couldn't even imagine. After the guild watched Mirajane's reaction, they could all assume what this meant. Several of the members came forward and crowded around us.

"It's about time!"

"It's manly to confess!"

"What took you so long?"

"Pay up people!"

Shouts were thrown from all directions and Lucy found herself wondering if people were truly betting on her and Natsu like that. As they continued conversing with others members, Ashley and Fireball walked forward, hand in hand just like Natsu and Lucy. They smiled at each other and Lucy couldn't help but blush as she realized that that must be what her and Natsu look like.

"Time to leave?" Lucy asked. The two counterparts nodded, their faces reflected just how attached they grew of each other in such a short time.

"Thanks for helping us Luce, we owe you big time." Fireball laughed. Natsu stepped forward and growled at him who shuddered and quickly hid behind Ashley's back.

"Only I get to call her Luce!" Fireball apologized and we said our goodbyes and thank yous. They walked towards the exit, stopping just a few feet away and turning back around.

"By the way, from what we can see that each of our worlds seem to have similarities, including peoples love life. Meaning that if your meant to be there, it's the same here. So future warning for you two..." Ashley pointed towards Gajeel and Levy who both stared at the blond. "The Levy and Gajeel in our world are already dating. It's the same for Juvia and Gray."

With nothing further said, the two waved before walking out of the guild. Silence followed their departure until finally their comment caused an uproar. Gray began to nervously strip and mumbling to himself about how it wasn't possible while Juvia ran to Gray and latched onto his arm and started talking about their wedding and imagining what their kids would look like.

Gajeel and Levy looked at each other before quickly turning away with a blush coating their cheeks. Most of the guild laughed at their reactions. Gajeel placed one of his large hands on top of Levy's head as if trying to calm her down but only managed to make her blush deepen. Lucy walked towards the bar and ordered her usual drink from Mirajane when a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist and turned her around. She found herself facing the man she loved as he pulled her in for a heated kiss. He pulled away and smiled at her, she returned the smile with pink dusting her cheeks.

"I love you Luce."

"I love you too Natsu."

So that is the end, what did you think? I hope you all enjoyed the story that was originally my very first fanfic. It has been rewritten to include more chapters and overall to be a better story and I hope that you all feel that I managed that. Please let me know what you think! If your looking for more stories to check out, I would love it if you looked at my other ones. It would be very much appreciated. Thanks so much to all those who have followed, added this to their favorites, and reviewed. It means a great deal to me, it really does.

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