Hi ya, this chapter is kinda longer than the previous ones so I hope you like it, also chapter 334... yeah we all know he's coming back so don't worry and can we stop with all the oneshots of it, its getting out of control!
Natsu was trying to find Lucy as Iris was running to catch up to him. He'd made up his mind, he'd do as Iris had instructed and ask Lucy out. He was ready for this as he saw Lucy ahead with tickets in hand waiting for them to arrive.
At her sight, Natsu immediately ran toward her with determination in his eyes as Iris swore under her breath trying to keep up with the DragonSlayer to make sure he didn't screw anything up. Natsu's happiness was on the line and she would do what she could to make sure he didn't lose this battle.
As Lucy waited for the two wizards to find her, her mind was else where. She kept wondering how Natsu and her would coexist from this point forward. It felt like she may have ruined the one friendship she treasured the most but these thoughts were quickly snapped when she heard a familiar voice call out to her
"Lucy! We need to talk!" she heard as she looked up and saw Natsu running toward her at full speed with Iris struggling to keep up as panic set in for her as she couldn't even reply as the only thought in her mind was not yet! As she turned to the entrance and ran inside the train not bothering to look back as she ran and hid inside one of the rooms praying that they wouldn't be able to find her. She wasn't ready to talk about what happened but she couldn't even finish her thoughts when the door to her cabin slammed open as she saw the DragonSlayer she didn't want to talk to huffing and puffing trying to regain his breath as Lucy stood frozen as he closed the distance between them slowly
"Why... did you... run like that?" he asked in-between breath as Lucy nervously thought of an explanation that never came
"For some exercise?" she said with an awkward laugh as Natsu looked at her a second before he nodded
"Ohh makes sense" he said as a sweat dropped from Lucy at the man's stupidity before she and Natsu made eye contact which brought back the butterfly's as she quickly looked away as Natsu sighed before beginning
"Luce we need to talk about this" he said as Lucy instantly flinched at those words as she still avoided eye contact with the man in front of her before Natsu took both his hands and placed it on Lucy's cheeks and turned her head so she would face him as a shocked Lucy then looked into Natsu's eyes.
"Natsu let go of my cheeks" she squeaked as Natsu held his gaze
"Not until you listen to what I have to say" he replied back as at that moment Lucy was actually glad that Natsu held her cheeks for the simple facts that it hid her very red cheeks as she tried to move her head away but his warm grip held on as he continued
"Look, I know where not acting like we should and I want things to go back to the way they were before" he said as Lucy felt her chest hurt at those words, she had lost she thought but Natsu continued
"So i want to ask you something, would you consider... would you want to ahh come and ahhh" Natsu began to stutter as the once determined DragonSlayer was now nervous at the thought of asking Lucy on a date as Lucy kept her gaze on Natsu waiting for him to finish
"And what?" she asked as she felt her heart stop at that moment, the moment was killing her, she just needed him to finish this so she could crawl up in a ball and act like this never happened
"Would you come and ahh and " but before he could finish the train started moving as Natsu immediately began to show signs of motion sickness as his head began to swell and his cheeks began to inflate as his hands left Lucy's face and fell head first on the ground leaving Lucy dumbfounded as the door once again slammed open this time upon the arrival of Iris
"Dammit Natsu why the hell would you run off without me?" She huffed as she then saw a down and out DragonSlayer on the floor and a confused Lucy sitting down
"Iris where have you been" a flustered Lucy asked as Iris felt a vain pop
"Well I've been looking for you guys. After you guys ran off I've been trying to find out which cabin you guys were in and since I don't have that idiot's dragon senses it took me a while to find you guys" she complained as Lucy just awkwardly laughed
"Ohh I see well why don't you sit down" she asked as Iris would have complied but then saw Natsu on the ground and grinned
"What did you and Natsu talk about" she asked suddenly as Lucy was surprised that she knew they had as she looked away from Iris
"Nothing much, he was trying to ask me something but his motion sickness kicked in and he never finished" she said as Iris didn't look at her but instead glared at the DragonSlayer on the ground who could feel her piercing glare as he tried to move away but couldn't as Iris walked toward him, picked him up and to Lucy's surprise chucked him on the bench across from her as he crashed onto it as Iris then made her way toward Lucy and sat beside her with a scowl on her face
"The idiots a chicken huh" she grunted as Lucy looked at her confused as Natsu just groaned in pain
"Iris why'd you do that? Lucy asked as Iris shrugged
"Cause I felt like it, do you have a problem with that?" she replied as Lucy narrowed her eyes toward Iris as inside Iris was smiling, she would make this work she thought as she waited for her reply
"I do, you can't do that to someone who can't defend themselves like that" she said fiercely as Iris smirked
"Okay, fine then, go over their and comfort him, I'm going to sleep here so move over to the other side" she said as she pushed Lucy off the bench and lay down on it covering it entirely as Lucy looked at her in rage
"What the hell was that for Iris? What's wrong with you?" she rasped as Iris just raised her hand and shooed her away as Lucy just muttered to herself as she walked away from the black-haired mage in spite
As Iris lay with her back turned to the two smirking, Lucy carefully sat down beside Natsu who out of instinct flopped himself so that his head was on Lucy's lap as this surprised her for a moment before a small smile appeared on her face as she then instinctively began to to play with his hair, which soothed the DragonSlayer as the color of his face began to go back to normal a bit as he slowly opened his eyes and smile
"Thanks Luce" he whimpered as Lucy only smiled as she continued to play with his hair as Natsu just continued to look at her before he tried again
"Luce, do you want to ahh you know go and get some food after we get back" he asked softly as Lucy just laughed at his constant wanting of food
"Sure, me, you and Iris can go get some food" she said as Natsu then began to shake his head
"No, just you and me" he said as Lucy stopped playing with his hair and locked eyes with him again
"Ohhh, so you mean like a... like a" she stuttered before Natsu finished her sentence
"like a date" he said with a small smile, as Lucy's eyes grew wide along with her smile as she just nodded her head dumbly at his request
"I would love to!" she basically yelled at the DragonSlayer as he only smiled as the motion sickness soon came back seconds later as he was once again unconscious as Lucy just laughed while continuing to play with his hair with a smile on her face all the while Iris was trying her best not to laugh or move from her position to let the two have their moment
Everything worked out for the best she thought, now all that's left is to fix my problem and we can all be happy together she thought before she felt her eyes get heavy and she fell asleep
As they arrived in Mangolia Lucy immediately left the two to get ready for her date with Natsu as she ran off before any of them could talk to her
"Be at my place 8:00 tonight Natsu!" she yelled as she made her way home as Iris and Natsu just waved to her good-bye before Iris turned to Natsu confused
"Hey, I thought you guys were going to go through all the archives with me today? Iris questions as Natsu scratched the back of his head with an apologetic smile on his face
"Yeah, I guess we sorta forgot, sorry Iris but it can wait tomorrow right?" He asked as Iris sighed and rubbed her forehead
"Yeah yeah, whatever" she said slightly annoyed as she began to walk away
"Oi, where are you going" he asked as Iris shrugged
"I'll be at the guild hall, you better go, get ready and make sure your not late" she said not looking back as Natsu could feel something was wrong but decided to ignore it for now as he waved to her then ran to his house
"Okay I will, I'll see ya later" he said as he went on his way leaving Iris to walk to the guild by herself
As she arrived at the guild hall she still wasn't happy about being forgotten by Natsu and Lucy after they both said they'd help her first thing but she guessed she could make an exception this once as she walked inside the guild hall
It was unusually quiet inside as she took a seat at the bar as Mira came over to her excitedly
" Iris you have to tell me everything you know about the Natsu and Lucy date" she said as Iris fell from her chair in surprise
"How the hell did you know about that?" she asked as Mira only smiled devilishly
"I have my sources" she said as Iris's sweat dropped
"I see, well I don't know much about it, you can ask them about it tomorrow" she said with a shrug as Mira pouted
"Ohh come on, don't be like that... Your not jealous of Lucy are you" she asked as Iris didn't even flinch at the question as she walked over to the request bored
"Nope, what ever makes Natsu happy will make me happy" she said as Mira smiled
"Okay, but you never answered my question" she said as Iris was beginning to get annoyed when she saw a request that made her eyes light up"
"Mira when did this request come in" she asked as she ripped the paper off the bored and gave it to a surprised Mira
"Ohh, that just got here, maybe an hour or two ago" she said as Iris heart began to pound heavily
"I'll take it and I'm going know" she said as without another word she was out the door as Mira watched her leave in confusion
"She and Natsu are soo alike, it's a pity they couldn't be together" she said to herself as she wrote the mission down in her book and went back to cleaning some dishes
A hour passed at the guild before the doors slammed open as Natsu Dragneel walked in with a smile on his face and strutting around in some fancy clothes as he walked on over to the bar were Mira was impressed at how handsome the DragonSlayer looked at the moment
"Natsu, what are you doing here? What happened with your date with Lucy" she asked as Natsu knew better than to ask how the match maker knew he had a date before he continued
"Where's Iris, I need her opinion on something" he said almost desperately as Mira shook her head
"Sorry, you just missed her, she went on a mission about an hour ago" she said as a small bit of concern was now seen on Natsu's face as a feeling of uncertainty hit him
"It's okay Natsu, we all know Iris can handle herself she'll be fine" Mira said encouragingly as Natsu just nodded but then asked
"I know she can Mira, but I was just wondering what her mission was about" he asked as Mira thought back to the poster before she remembered
"It wasn't too hard just some people in a neighboring town wanted us to check out some mysterious guy in a black robe that was wandering around the vicinity" she said as Natsu's eyes grew wide and his blood ran cold as he could barely speak at this point
"Was this similar to the mission Lucy and Gray took" he asked as Mira again thought about it and nodded her head again as everything else around Natsu became numb as only a feeling of dread was lingering inside. All his instincts were telling him that something bad was about to happen to Iris something and that he needed to stop immediately
Forgetting about the date, Natsu ran out of the guild with blinding speed in the direction of Iris's scent as Mira's yells didn't reach him
"What about your date with Lucy" she yelled but the DragonSlayer didn't stop and kept running as his only thoughts were about protecting Iris as Mira sighed, this wasn't going to end well she thought
It was about 10:00 when the doors to the guild again slammed open again but this time it was by an angry blond mage who walked in with a deadly aura around her as Mira knew this would happen as Lucy walked toward her
"Mira do you know where the hell Natsu is" she asked as even Mira was scared to answer as she took a couple of deep breaths before she calmed herself down
"Well, he was here earlier but he kinda left in a hurry" she said as Lucy just glared at Mira who was sweating bullet at the moments
"Oh really well then where did he" but before she could finish the guild doors opened as both girls looked to see who it was and were all surprised at the sighting
The man who walked in was a DragonsSlayer but not one from their guild as both girls shared glances of confusion as the blond-haired man walked in as Lucy couldn't understand why he was here
"Sting? What are you doing here?"
As Iris jumped from rooftop to rooftop her eyes were scanning the streets for just one thing. She had been looking for over an hour but she had found him.
She was about to call it a night when in the corner of her eye she caught a figure moving in the darkness. She couldn't tell what it was wearing or what it looked like but it was the closest thing she could find as she made a couple of jumps before landing 10 feet away from the person who had its back turned to her as it stopped at the hearing of her landings
"Hey are you the..." but before she could finish the man had taken out his Katana and with lightning speed had turned around and swung at Iris barely had time to react as she blocked his attack with her two daggers as they stood in a stand still with both their weapons holding onto the others
As Iris struggled to hold her blades against his she could only make out a smile on the face of the man as she jumped back giving both of them space as the man only laughed
"My dear, I've been looking for you"
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