After Lucy changed into some changeable and comfortable clothing, she and Natsu headed out for the beach shop. "I can't believe Natsu asked me out! And right after Grey too…. I wonder what's going on with these two. Im surprised he had the balls to ask me out. I wouldn't have thought that he liked me anyway. I always thought he was only into fighting and eating…I guess he has a side that I haven't gotten to know." Lucy snuck a look at Natsu, but he didn't notice because he was too excited about the multiple swimsuits he was going to pick out for her. "I wonder if they have the ones that are one pieces but also have sexy features to them. I think I might have more fun than I thought that I would."
Lucy and Natsu had finally gotten to the beach shop. Natsu took a deep breath because at this point he knew that he was gonna lose a lot of blood. They walked inside and the cashier had welcomed them with a blush on her face. "How are you two doing this lovely day?" Lucy and Natsu gave warm smiles to the cashier and proceeded to the back of the store towards the swimsuits and the dressing rooms. Lucy walked towards the two pieces and asked Natsu to pick out some different ones. "I'll look through some of these while you look for some other ones okay?" Lucy asked. "Y-Yeah, sure, no problem." Natsu walked away and started to look at all the one pieces first. He looked at some of the basic, clean ones and then he made his way down to the more revealing ones. "I need to look for a good one for Lucy. If I give her one of these more revealing ones then she might call me a perv and then make a run for it." Natsu decided to get three different ones. A pink and white stripped two piece, a green one piece, and a black and white with gold lace two piece.
"Hey Lucy, I picked out some for ya!" Natsu walked up to the dressing room and Lucy came out with a strap bathing suit that only covered some areas. Natsu looked up and gushed out blood. It's safe to say that Natsu almost died in that split second. "H-Here, I got some other ones for you to try out." Natsu got up and sat in the chair and tried to recover. "Oh thanks, I think this one is too much for me anyway." Lucy went back into the dressing room and laughed to herself. "Wow I honestly didn't think he would blow up like that! Maybe he is serious about taking me out on this date. I should really give him a chance….. He really did pick out some good ones for me." Lucy tried on the black and white with gold lace first. She went out and showed Natsu, who was still in the process of recovering. "I like that one…" Natsu sighed. He was still in agony and he felt like he was gonna pass out soon. "No…. I can't pass out now. My mission was to go out with Lucy no matter what!" Natsu knocked some sense into himself. "Yeah, I thought this one was good too. But I wanna try on the other ones too." Lucy went back into the dressing room and tried on the green one piece. She felt really bad about the way it looked on her, so she decided to take it off. "I don't really like this one…hmmm, if he asks I'll just tell him that it didn't fit me." Lucy then tried on the pink and white two piece.
"Wow I like this one better than the other ones. But I said that I'd leave it up to Natsu, so I'll let him choose." Lucy went out and showed a recovered Natsu. Natsu wasn't paying attention at first, but when he glanced over at Lucy, his nose blew up again. This time Lucy couldn't help but notice. She went and helped Natsu up since he flew back in his chair. "Oh, God, Natsu are you okay!?" On the outside Lucy looked completely worried, but on the inside it was a completely different story. "I can't believe he's freaking out this much! Maybe this date won't be so bad after all!"
Lucy helped Natsu back into the chair and he started re-recovering. "Wow Lucy you look better in that one!" Natsu tried standing up to get a better look, but he just fell back in the seat. "Man this kinda feels worse than my motion sickness. I don't think I'll reccover from this." Natsu thought. "Okay then I'll go with this one!" Lucy said excitedly. Lucy and Natsu walked over to the register to pay for the swimsuit. The lady looked at them and started to blush again. She looked like she was about 40 years old. "Aww you two make a lovely couple. You're the cutest couple I've seen in all my years of running this shop." Natsu and Lucy looked at each other and smiled. They blushed too, but at this point they didn't even care about how nervous they were.
After they got the swimsuit, they went back to Natsu's place to get his things, plus some other things that they needed. "Hey Natsu, where are your blankets?" Lucy asked. "They're in the back in the closet." Lucy went to the back to grab a blanket and saw something that caught her eye. It looked like a picture of the whole Fairy Tail guild. She was hugging Erza and Wendy in it. When she looked over at Natsu and Grey, it seemed like they were looking at her and blushing with smiles on their faces. "Aww they look cute in this picture. I think we took this picture a few months ago." Lucy looked at the picture a little longer. "Hey did you find the blankets yet?" Natsu asked. "Uh, yeah!" Lucy put the picture back where she found it and walked back into the living room. Natsu looked around. "Alright, we should have everything that we need, and it's still pretty early so we should have plenty of time to kill at the beach…." Natsu looked around the pile of things that they had. "Wait I think I need something from the kitchen-WHOA!" Natsu slipped on something and fell on top of Lucy. "Oh…Owww…" Lucy moaned. She looked up and started blushing. "I didn't realize Natsu looked this cute." She thought. "Oh crap… this is akward…. Should I kiss her? I don't know." Natsu looked back down at Lucy. He went in for the kiss and Lucy started blushing even more. "Wait, is he gonna try and kiss me?! I would actually mind that…let me just see how it is." Lucy went in for the kiss too. Their lips touched and they sat there kissing each other for what seemed like an eternity, and a good one too.
They pulled away and they started blushing. Natsu got up and helped Lucy up. "Uhhh… we should get going if we wanna have enough time to have some fun." Natsu said. "Okay then let's hurry." Lucy was so excited that she could hardly contain herself. "Wow, that was just amazing! I want this date to go even better now! That kiss was amazing! I felt like I was on fire for a second…. And it felt good." Lucy almost passed out from blushing so much. Natsu had been in the kitchen and he almost passed out himself. "Oh my God! That was so cool! I can't believe I kissed her! I could barely plan this date out, then I kissed her when the date hadn't even started yet?! Jeez…." Natsu grabbed what he needed and left the kitchen. He walked up to Lucy and then asked if they had everything that they needed. They double checked and as soon as that they were sure that they had everything they left. Lucy and Natsu talked a lot and they both felt like they were a couple even though they weren't. After a while they had finally gotten to the beach. "Well let's see what Natsu has in store for me here. Im sure it'll be really good." Lucy helped Natsu set up the blanket and the umbrella. "Okay, everything's going pretty well so far. Actually it's going better than I had expected. I just need to keep this up." Natsu started thinking about how this date was going to end.
END CHAPTER 11