HeorieOtaku: Hey everyone. I'm not even going to say anything about it being so long since we all know me. Lol. Well, yeah. I've been busy with school and all, so I've been trying my best...*doges all the things thown at me* Hope you enjoy the read. See you later. :D

Chapter 10

Only half a day

Yawning, i sat up and looked next to me. Natsu was laying there in my bed, fast asleep. I smiled and blushed lightly as I remembered last night. We've gotten so far, Natsu. But there is also so much more we have to uncover. I'm still grateful for what you and I have found so far, though. My eyes grew a little watery, but I wiped them away, getting up out from under the covers

Probably feeling the disappearance of my warmth next to him, Natsu's eyes cracked open. "Lucy...why are you getting up already...come snuggle in the bed with me more." His voice was a bit drowsy, but I still could understand him.

A small tinge of pink returning to my cheeks within a mere few seconds, I replied with a sigh. "No, pervert. If you want to sleep more, then you can. But today I have to go meet up with everyone. And if you don't get up soon, I'll leave you behind."

"But Lucccyyyy!" He winned.

"No buts. It's either you sleep in and don't go with me, or you can get you sorry butt up and get ready to come along. Your choice." I must of sounded a bit mean there, because he frowned at me, but still got up out of the bed. His hair a complete mess.

"Fine." He sighed. "But you have to help comb my hair, because one: You made me wake up, and two..." He blushed very slightly at me as he said the last part under his breath.

I cocked my head to the side, confused. "What was that?"

Natsu grumbled. " It feels nice, okay!" Plopping back down on the bed, he folded his arms up like a child and pouted with a tinge of pink on his cheeks.

I shrugged my shoulders. "Well, okay. But you should get dressed." Something then dawned on me. "Hey, have you seen Happy since last night?"

It took him a minute to think about it before he responded."No. Last I heard, he made friends with a stray cat named Carla and apparently they are starting to get along. When he came back then, he had a whole thing of fish in his hands and backpack. I made him clean it out because i know you wouldn't like it if he brought them inside."

"Hm. Well, we will just have to keep an eye out for him. You said that cat's name was Carla, right?" Natsu nodded. "Didn't we used to know someone with the cat of that name? I think it was Wendy or something?"

"Yeah. I think that there was someone by the name..." His face went blank as if in thought. "Well...we'll have to keep an eye out for all of them. So that means we have to watch out for Carla, this Wendy girl, and Happy. That's a lot." Yet again he pouted.

Grabbing a pair of cloths out of the closet, I handed it to him. "Here. Go change in the bathroom. Knock before you came back in, and then I MIGHT brush your hair." Natsu jumped up in excitement at that and quickly took the pair of clothing out of my hands, only to leave with a 'I'm all fired up' that made me giggle a bit.

How long has it been since I meet Natsu? Well, since the pet store, atleast... Glancing at the calendar where I had marked the day I would pick him out, I saw that I was actually on a whole new month. I then proceeded to walk over and unhooked it, looking to see that it had been a little over a month since we had meet each other at the pet store.

Wow, time flies by... Hanging the calendar back up, I looked over to my walls that had a few pictures of Natsu and I over the time we had lived in my house together. A smile crossed my face. I remember a lot of this, but it's gone by is such a blur at the same time. Taking the tack off of the oldest one of the pictures, I saw two different things fall. What?

Picking up both the picture and what seemed to be another picture that was stuck to the other before. "What the-?" I stared at the picture. Turning it around, I examined the date, only to look back at the picture in disbelief. "So this is what we used to look like together." A smile crossed my face, as well as some tears slightly welling up a fresh memory of Natsu from before popping in my head.

He was smiling like none other. And that's one of the many things I loved about him: His endless vou to protect his friends. I do miss this Natsu. The one that was innocent, while at the same time loyal. Well...in a sense he is still like that, but it's just not the same without all of his memories.

Setting that picture down on my desk, I took a deep breath and then let it out, then wiped my watery eyes with the outside of my hands. Taking a hold of my clothing, I quickly put it on, only to hear a knock on my door shortly after I finished zipping it up.. "Hey Lucy, are you okay? I've knocked twice and you are not answering."

I quickly ran over to the door and opened it slightly to the point of being able to peek my head through. "Sorry, I was thinking about something. Anyways, sit down so I can fix that messy hair of yours." Opening the door the rest of the way, he sauntered in and sat down on my bed, only for me to close the door right behind him.

Walking over the the bed, I climbed onto it, then went behind to comb through his hair, only to find that he was too tall for me to properly comb it. I tried to go up on my knees, only feel like I was going to fall because of the imbalance on the bed, so I sat right back down. Pouting a bit, I sighed.

"Something wrong?" Natsu turned his head and looked down on me. I could see him become slightly curious about my reaction though my bangs that went and covered my eyes as soon as I had let my head down. You're taller than me...that's the problem...

"Um...could you sit down there in front of the bed? It's sorta hard to reach..." I could barely hear myself, let alone him hearing me, but he seemed to hear me as he laughed and gave a small remark about how he had grown a lot. "Yeah, yeah. I know." As he stopped laughing, he gave a small smile, then pointed in front of him. "What?"

I looked forward, only to see that Happy was there, sleeping under the bed in his own blanket I had given him in the past there was also a small white cat that reminded me very much of Happy in size and age. "That's cute." I whispered. "But we would probably go down stairs so we don't wake them."

He nodded in agreement and got up off the bed, being careful as to not step on the cats. I followed right behind and we both went through the door, closing it softly. "Anyways. Let's go to the couch and you can fix my hair." Natsu gleamed as I looked at him funny.

"Hey, why do you want me to do your hair so much? You said it was nice and all, but do I really have to?" His expression told me that he was both surprised and confused by my statement. He Shrugged his shoulders at me. "Actually, disregard that. Let's go." I waved him down the stairs as I walked towards the room, quickly plopping down onto the couch.

Sitting down in front of me, I could see he was anxious because he was fidgeting with his hands a bit. He's probably as nervous as I am. Extending my arm above his head, I tediously stroked it, making him hum in pleasure. "Your fingers feel nice in my hair." I blushed slightly at his statement, but continued play with his salmon colored hair.

As I went, I found that his hair was really soft like a cats, but then remembered his was part cat at the moment anyways. "Your hair is really soft, Natsu. Is it naturally that way?"

Natsu turned his head my way and tilted it slightly to the side. "Donno. I guess it is just that way. Of course, the shampoo helps." He shrugged his shoulders. "Luce, can I do your hair too?" His big, very dark brown colored eyes looked directly into my eyes as if to seduce me.

"Um. Sure." I looked slightly to the side, breaking our gaze because of the feeling of embarrassment flowing through me. I don't know why, but I kind of expected that...well, i guess that it will be nice to have my hair combed through my someone else.

Going to get up and sit on the ground, Natsu shook his head and sat down next to me, patting his lap. I blushed even deeper, but went ahead and sat down on his leg. "Dang, Luce. Your heavy." Suddenly I stood up and glared at him, kicking him in the knee in the process. "Ouch! What was that for!"

"Fine. Nevermind then! I can do my hair myself." I crossed my arms and pouted in annoyance. Suddenly I heard a snickering coming from behind me. "What the...?" I turned and looked to see Happy standing there, his cheeks puffed up and his hand covering his mouth as he continued to laugh.

My gaze went over to Natsu only to see he was staring at the cat in confusion as well. "Lucy and Natsu are acting weird. Could it be that they liiiiikkkeee eachother?"

Both flustered and surprised by his statement, I picked the cat up by his bandana and set him outside. As I did this I could feel a heat comeing over my cheeks. Arg. If I keep blushing like that, it will make it totally obvious. Stupid cat.

Although I dared not look at the Flame dragon, something told me he was embarrassed as well by the way his voice sounded as he spoke. "Um...so...anyways...um..."

Taking a deep breather, I tried my best to calm myself and turned towards him with a grin, only to catch that the clock showed the time to be almost twelve. "Snap! Natsu, we have to leave now! We were supposed meet at fairy tail at ten!" How in the world did the time go that fast! It's probably because of me trying to spend time with Natsu...arg.

He looked over at the clock and jumped as well, only to dash quickly over to the door. "Let's go then, Luce!" With that, I was just about to dash out the door, when I realized I had forgot to grab some things. Telling him to wait, I ran upstairs, only to see that the white cat Happy was with previously was awake.

"Um." I paused and looked at her. "I think I'll bring you along. You look like a nice Kitty, and all." The cat meowed back at me. What am I doing...before this whole ordeal even started, I would've thought myself to be crazy talking to a cat. I laughed light-heartedly, then scooped the cat up with my hands, then cratelling her with my arms. She slowly fell asleep as I swung her back and forth.

I heard someone coming up the stairs, so I went over to my door and steeped out to see that Natsu was climbing up to my room. "Luuuucccyyy! What's taking you s-" I put a finger on his lips and shooshed him. Pointing down to the now fast asleep kitten, I gave him a look that said 'quiet'. He shook his head and smiled.

Natsu came over next to me and whispered into my ear. "It's kinda cute, huh." Stepping back, he laughed a bit, then started to walk down the steps, myself following behind him. Stopping at the end of the steps suddenly, his eyes gazed at the cat again. Lifting his right hand, he pet the cat softly. "Such a nice little one. Sometimes I wish I could go back to being this carless."

Sighing, his eyes wandered their way towards mine as he gave a bitter-sweet smile. "But if that happened, I wouldn't of gotten to get the chance to know you, right?" I nodded, a bit surprised by his outwardness. "Well, I would take being able to know you over getting to rest all the time any day." With that, he broke our gaze and pointed at the door. "Seriously, though. We need to leave before Erza personally comes over and drags us there." Natsu shuddered a bit, probably from the thought of it coming true.

With another half of a day out of the way, we walked through door, out into the streets towards Fairy Tail. Little did I know that soon enough, we would meet both Carla and Wendy, as well as a teenage Jellal.

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