WildCard555 here with the eleventh chapter of Dragon's Tear. Thank you everyone who reviewed, added to Fav/Alert this story. This chapter I will begin the trilogy of half chapters of how Natsu and Lucy became a couple in Dragon's Tear. Note the trilogy won't be happening in back to back to back chapters, as I will be spacing them out. Also the trilogy will contain some hints/slight NaLi, and LoLu. Had to re-write the flash back twice as the first two saves didn't save the data correctly after the power went out on me on two different occasions.
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I Own Nothing.
Chapter 11.
How Our Love Story Began?
Seyru
Inside Seyru's house.
Lucy was laying down on a couch asleep, in Seyru's home. Samuel hands were glowing white as they cupped the sleeping girl's ears. Seyru was sitting down on a chair watching the healer do his job to restore Lucy's sensory magic back to what it originally was.
"How long will it take you to heal her?" Asked Seyru
"I'm doing work on the brain here. Unlike some other parts of the body I cant afford to overlook something and coming back to it later." He was told by Samara that Seyru's arm broke soon after his fight with Lucy started. It made him feel guilty that he didn't even check to see if the bone was damaged or not. "One wrong move and I could cripple her body or mind permanently." Said Samuel not moving his gaze from Lucy. "So in other words it will take me as long as I need."
"What do you think are the chances of her keeping her magic sensory, and life sensory magic?"
"Either a 0% or a 100%, I won't risk any potential damage. From what I can feel it's going to be tricky to get both. If I simply restored her life sensory not caring about the magic sensory I'd be done within five minutes."
"However?"
"Right now its like an on, off switch. I'm going to have to do a lot of re-wiring to get them both to work."
"I appreciate the hard work Samuel."
There was a long stretch of silence between the two men.
"So…" Seyru had a look of guilt on his face. "Is her baby still alive?"
"I don't know."
"What do you mean? With your hands you should know whether on not…"
"I'm respecting her wishes, so we'll find out once she wakes up." There was a minute of silence. Samuel could sense unease coming from Seyru. "Why are you acting so guilty? It's not like you haven't killed before."
"Never a child though." Shaking his head. "I'd never hurt a child." Looking like he was recalling something from the past.
Samuel remembered the site of all the Fairy Tail members after the fight was over. He then remembered how the children looked. The healer then smiled. "You used a sleeping spell on the children."
"And threw a little bit of dirt on them to make it look like they fought."
"So…What are you going to do if she's still is pregnant?" Samuel paused what he was doing to look up at the other man.
Seyru started to run his hands through his long black hair. His face looked like twenty different ideas were running through his head.
"You offered to train her because you took something great from her. If the child is still alive then would you simply return her, and call off this rematch? Sure you did some serious damage to her guild, but if you returned her with child…"
Seyru swept his hand through the air demanding silence from the healer. "My plan will remain the same no matter Lucy's condition."
"Ha ha ha." Laughed the healer.
"What's so funny?" Shooting an angry glance.
"I just don't see you being able to deal with a crying baby, let alone being able to deliver one."
"Honestly I'd be more worried when she starts having mood swings. Besides I took care of you when you were young…"
"I was seven then…"
"And who said I'd let you leave the island under those circumstances?" Samuel tried to say something, but Seyru cut him off. "That and after everything I've done for you a favor of this magnitude wouldn't scratch the surface of everything I've done for you. Also it would be pretty irresponsible of you 'holy-healer' to let me a guy with as little medical experience as myself deliver a baby."
Samuel let out a sigh in defeat. "Fine, but you're the one who'll have to explain to the Master why I disappeared for, I don't know…" Looking over Lucy guessing how far along she could be. " Nine-months."
"WHAT?" Seyru nearly jumped out of his seat.
Lucy
Flash Back: Four and a half years ago
At Fairy Tail
(Quick notes. Okay this flash back takes place six months after the Grand Magic Games arch. As for Natsu and Lucy's current feeling for each other before this day began. For Natsu he only feels friendship for Lucy, while Lucy has started to realize she has deeper feeling for Natsu than just friendship.)
"Good morning everyone." Said Lucy entering the guild. The blonde quickly ducked down expecting something to be thrown in her direction during one of the many brawls that would be happening that day.
This day however nothing was thrown at all. When she stood back us she saw that nearly everyone was sitting down calm, but with a little bit of pity on their faces. The greeting she got from the guild didn't have as much energy as it usually did. "Morning Lucy." Coming from most of the guild.
Lucy began looking around for her teammates. She saw Erza, Gray, Levy, Gajeel, Wendy, Lisanna, and Panther Lily, siting down at their usual table. 'Strange where is Natsu at?' After another quick look she saw Natsu sitting down at the bar slumped over with his forehead resting on the counter.
Natsu quickly sat up pulling at his pink locks. "How? How did this happen?" He said with disbelief in his voice. He then placed his head back in the same position he was in previously.
'What's wrong with Natsu? I'd better go find out.' Lucy started to walk towards her best friend until she noticed Erza was waving at her to call her over to the table. 'But first I'd better see what Erza wants.' She then walked over to the nearly filled table grabbing a seat. She saw that everyone sitting down had a serious look on his or her face. "What's wrong with…" The blonde felt something smack into her chest. Looking down she saw it was Happy.
"Lucy all my fish got burned." The small exceed crying hard as he hugged his friend tightly.
Carla soon landed next to Wendy shaking her head.
Lucy wrapped on arm around Happy while petting his head with the other. "It's okay Happy just calm down." She looked at the rest of the group for an answer for what was wrong. "What happened to Natsu and Happy?"
There was an awkward silence that stayed at the table for several moments while they silently battled over who would tell the news to Lucy. Finally once the silent battle had ended Erza somehow was selected to bear the news.
"Some how Natsu burned his house down to the ground?" Erza revealed the news.
"What?" Lucy's jaw dropped as she nearly dropped Happy as well.
Both Gray and Gajeel started to laugh. Erza hit Gray on top of the head, while a transformed Panther Lily struck his partner's dome. "It's not funny." Said both Erza and Lily scolding the two men.
Unfortunately for Gray Erza was wearing her Heart Kruez Armor so the blow ended up rocking(A fighting term which translates to stunned, or a point of nearly being knocked out.) him. "Aye sir." Said a dazed Gray.
"C'mon you got to admit it is kind of funny that the fire mage ended up burning down his own place." Said Gajeel still snickering about it. He was quickly hit on the head again, only this time Erza did it instead of Lily. "Aye sir it isn't funny." Now dazed by the blow.
"How did Natsu burn down his house?" Asked a now concerned Lucy.
"We were playing a game of fire tag." Said Happy with a sniff every other word.
"What's fire tag?" Asked Wendy curiously.
"Its like normal tag except in order to tag someone you have to hit them with fire." Said Lucy while continuing to console Happy. Everyone gave her a look asking how she knew that. "Natsu has tried to get me to play it with him, but I refuse to play."
"This time the wall got hit, and just started to burn the house." Sniffed Happy.
"Why didn't Natsu just eat the fire?" Asked Lily.
"A Dragon slayer can eat his own element, but not if he was the one who created it." Carla explained to Lily.
"Oh, I see."
"No wonder the house burned down." Said Levy. "That just sounds like a ticking time bomb waiting to go off."
"Not really. Natsu's house was covered in fire proof seals so it's actually the safest place to play fire tag." Lucy tried to explain, but got blank stares from everyone. "What am I the only person here who has been inside Natsu's house?" They all nodded their heads.
"Natsu clearly told me to never enter his house." Said Gray
"Male dragons never enter another male dragon's lair." Said Gajeel.
"Natsu didn't have his house before I was sent to Edolas." Said Lisanna. 'Wait a second this means my house got burned down too.'
"I'd be to afraid of seeing the mess his place would look like." Said Erza. Wendy and Levy nodded in agreement.
"Don't remind me. I've cleaned it up move times than I like to remember." Said Lucy remembering the first time she cleaned it for him; it took her an entire day to do it.
Erza patted Lucy on the shoulder. "You are a braver woman than I, Lucy."
"Thanks, but we still need to figure out where are Natsu, and Happy going to stay."
"He can't stay with me." Said Gray. "As often as we fight I don't want him burn my house down."
"We'd end up killing each other." Gajeel stated.
"He could stay with me, and…" Offered Lisanna.
Elfman ran over to the table. "No he can't. Natsu's not Manly enough to sleep under the same roof as me." The Strauss sibling all still live together.
"But Elfman…"
"No buts Lisanna." He said walking away from the table.
"Ignore my offer then." Lisanna looking depressed.
"He can't stay at Fairy Hills as only girls can live there." Said Erza. Wendy and Levy nodded their heads in agreement.
"I've been meaning to ask, why isn't there a male version of Fairy Hills?" Asked Lucy. Everyone at the table looked at Gray.
"Let's just say it's the same reason Natsu can't stay at my place."
"With all the damage he does on missions I doubt he could make a down payment on an apartment." Said Lucy knowing first hand just how much Natsu normally gets from each mission.
"Apartment that's it." Said a now cheered up Happy. "We can stay with Lucy at her place."
"WHAT!" Lucy's eyes popping out of her head.
"That sounds like a good idea Happy." Said Wendy turning her attention to Lucy. "You told me before that you and Natsu quite often sleep together."
"WHAT?" Coming from everyone at the table besides Wendy and Lucy.
'NOOOO!' Screamed Lisanna in her head.
"Why would you tell that kind of stuff to Wendy?" Gray now concerned about what else Wendy may know that a girl her age shouldn't even know about yet.
"Damn it." Gajeel complained pulling out his wallet. He quickly slapped 25,000 Jewels in front of Gray who quickly pocketed the cash.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Asked Levy looking a little offended that her best friend kept information about her relationship with Natsu a secret from her.
"I didn't think you were that kind of girl Lucy." Said Erza. "I though you would have waited until you got married."
"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa hold it Natsu and I have not." Lucy began whose face was flushed. "I repeat, have NOT 'slept' together."
"Yes you two have." Said Happy. "I've seen it."
"WHAT?" The group again said in unison.
"You two let Happy watch?" Asked Lisanna disgusted that the cat she helped raise saw her Natsu sleeping with another woman.
"That's messed up!" Said Gajeel.
Lucy was about to clear things up, but heard a question that made everyone at the table go silent.
"So is Natsu any good in bed?" Asked Erza. Everyone gave her weird look that made the color of her face match her hair. "What I'm just curious." There was nearly thirty seconds of silence before the silence was broken. "Well is He?"
"We haven't slept…" Said Lucy angrily
"Yes you have." Countered Happy.
"Together in the way you are all thinking." Lucy was blushing as hard as Erza was. "He just breaks into my house and sneaks under the covers with me when I'm already asleep." 'Although I do get a good night of sleep each time I wake up next to Natsu.'
'Thank you God I still have a chance." Thought Lisanna.
Gray took the 25,000 Jewel out of his pocked, and slapped it back down in front of Gajeel. Gajeel then put the money back into his wallet.
Erza placed her right hand on Lucy's shoulder. "Lucy please punish me for jumping to the conclusion you and Natsu did it." Turning her cheek so the other girl could strike her.
Lucy ignored Erza's offer as she looked down at Happy. "I'm sorry Happy I just don't think you and Natsu staying with me would be a good idea."
"Why not Lucy?" Happy was starting to look sad again. "Don't you like us?"
"Happy I do like you to it's just…its just…" Unable to think of a good excuse on the spot.
"Yeah Lucy, why not?" Asked Mira smiling as she sat a tray of drinks down in the middle of the table.
"Because…" Lucy kept trying to think of an excuse, but kept thinking of how it would sound if Natsu heard her saying it. He's already in a bad state of mind, and didn't want to think how he would take hearing his best friend telling him he couldn't stay with her.
"Aren't you always complaining about paying the rent?" The barmaid began. "If Natsu stayed with you it would cut your rent in half."
"But what if he ends up destroying…"
"It's your name on the renters agreement so you would get to set the rules."
"He could end up burning down my apartment."
"Just make sure you get everything fire proofed…"
"He burned down his own place that was supposed to be fire proof…"
"By someone who actually knows how to fire proof things correctly."
"I hardly get any privacy from him now. If Happy and Natsu move in I won't get any privacy at all." 'Even if Natsu does make me feel safe just by being around him.'
As if she could read Lucy's mind Mira bent down positioning her mouth just over Lucy's ear and whispered. "Is that really a complaint?"
Lucy's face darkened as she blushed at the question. "I…Uh…He…We…" All she could do is look as Mira as she tried to think of any other excuse.
Mira stood up as she lifted the now empty tray from the table. She went back to normal speaking levels "Lucy do you think Natsu would hesitate to let you stay with him if your roles were reversed right now."
Lucy closed her eyes as she quickly answered the question, as everyone who knew Natsu would already know the answer. "No he wouldn't, and that's one of the reasons I love him." When she opened her eyes she realized that everyone had heard her say she loved Natsu causing her to blush a deep red. "I meant like, yeah I meant to say that's why I like him."
Happy looked up at Lucy. "You llllike him?" Rolling his tongue.
The celestial mage's blush darkened further after hearing Happy's words. Normally she was quick do deny it, but she just said she liked him only a moment ago. She then felt everyone just not at the table, but everyone within earshot was looking at her ready to hit her with a barrage of questions. Her focus was back on Happy. "Alright you and Natsu can stay with me." Speaking fast as she jumped out of her seat to go tell Natsu about her decision.
Happy flew up in the air excited. "Aye Sir. I'll go catch some fish to celebrate." At that Happy flew towards his favorite fishing spot.
On the walk over to Natsu Lucy heard a bunch of questions being directed at her, but she ignored them all. When there where only ten feet separating the soon to be roommates a golden light appeared before Lucy.
"Hello there beautiful." Loke flirting with his owner.
"Hi Loke." Greeting her spirit. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to ask you out for a date tonight." He pulled out a small bouquet of flowers from behind his back while giving her as charming a smile he could.
"Sorry Loke, but tonight is not a good time." Trying to turn him down as gently as possible. 'Why does he keep trying to hit on me. He knows we can't have a real relationship with him being a celestial spirit.'
"Why not all the stars will be out tonight. It would a beautiful night for a midnight picnic dinner. Of course the stars beauty can't match up to your own beauty Lucy."
"Sorry again Loke, but I have to help out Natsu tonight."
Loke felt like his heart just got stepped on when she turned him down, and used Natsu and tonight right next to each other while turning him down. "What did that idiot do this time." The spirit sighed knowing there would be no date tonight.
"He burnt down his own house."
"What?" He then began to suppress his laughter only to fail after a few seconds
Lucy hit him on the top of his head. "It's not funny." Letting out her inner Erza, who by the way was proud of her at the moment for popery disciplining someone.
The strike didn't hurt Loke, but he fell on his ass knowing he could play this out to his advantage. "Ouch Lucy!" Rubbing where he got hit. "Did you really have to hit me that hard?"
"Sorry Loke." She stretched out her hand to help her spirit back to his feet. "But it's still not funny laughing at someone losing their home.
"I know." He had regret covering his face while Lucy helped him back to his feet. "I shouldn't have laughed a Natsu's misfortune."
"Just make sure you apologize to him latter." She started to walk toward the fire mage again, but Loke gently grabbed her by the wrist.
"How are you going to help Natsu in a way we can't go out tonight?"
"I'm going to ask him to moving in with me."
'NOOOOOOOOOO!' Inner Loke screamed not liking the idea of his crush letting another man sleeping under the same roof with his master.
"I don't like the idea of leaving him alone at my place until I know for certain that my place if fire proof."
"Then how about we have lunch together." Loke pointed at the window to show how gorgeous the day was.
"Sorry again, but I already know the rest of the day will be busy. After all everything Natsu and Happy owned is now gone. That means we need to get them all the essentials, plus extra food now that we'll be roommates."
"Why can't he just do the shopping by himself?"
"Look at him." Pointing at Natsu who was still pathetically sitting at the bar slumped over. "He probably wouldn't even now where to start in that state of mind. Also I doubt he had a bank account so I'm going to have to lend him the money to get all the supplies."
"You sure are doing a lot for him today." Adjusting his sunglasses.
"He'd do the same for me." Said Lucy with a look of sympathy saying she wanted to help Natsu. "He'd do the same for any of us."
Loke let out a sigh of defeat. "Once everything gets settled after the move could we go on a date then?"
"Fine." Giving into Loke so she could get to Natsu.
"Looking forward to it." He then disappeared into the same golden light that brought him to the guild.
"I've really got to sit him down one of these days to explain to him why we can't be together." She liked Loke, but knowing he was immortal she worried what he would do when she would eventually die. Also with him being a spirit she didn't know if there were any rules against one of them marrying a human, or even if they could have any kids. The last thing Lucy wanted was to age while her love wouldn't, and not having any kids didn't sound good to her. She knew that once she found Mr. Right she wanted to have a family, and eventually grow old with the one she loved. With Loke she wouldn't be able to have those things happen.
After thinking over the possibilities of her and Loke, Lucy remembered she still had a job to get done. When she finally got to Natsu she lightly tapped him on the shoulder. She knew that he must have been feeling super down so she made sure she had a heart warming smile ready for him once he turned to face him.
Natsu mind was in complete disarray thinking of everything that had happened today. 'How did my house burn down? How, I had everything fire proofed?' His was starting to get a headache from all the thinking. He sat himself up rubbing the indent on his head from resting it on the bar for so long. 'Everything I owned is gone, all of my treasures gone. Where are Happy and I going to stay now?' Trying to think. He then felt someone tap on his shoulder. He turned around to see Lucy smiling at him. That smile instantly started to make him feel better. "What is it Lucy. If it's about a job I'm not in the mood right now." He immediately regretted saying those words a he turned his back to Lucy. 'What are you doing Natsu that smile felt really good to look at?' Inner Natsu yelling at outer Natsu
"I'm not here to talk to you about a job Natsu."
Natsu turned back towards Lucy seeing she still that same smile on her face. He felt like someone just took a huge portion of the mountain of concerns off his shoulders. "What is it then?" Unintentionally sounding grumpy, but after being in a depressed state all day it was hard not to.
"I've come to invite you to come stay with me."
'Really?' Excited in his head. "Why?"
"After all the times you've helped me out I thought this time I could help you out."
"Thanks, but you don't have to." He turned to face the bar placing his elbows on the counter, and his face in his hands. 'Why are you doing that? She wants to help you.'
Lucy sat down in the empty stool next to him. She started to pat him on the back. "You won't be staying with me exactly…" Trying to think of the best way to bring up the idea of the two being roommates.
Natsu looked at her confused. "Are you inviting me to stay with you or not?"
"As roommates."
"As roommates?"
"Yeah as in sharing the costs to live under the same roof."
Natsu looked back at the bar. "I don't have any money." Depressed that this opportunity was slipping away.
"I know that." Natsu turned he gaze back to the blonde. "You can pay me back when you have the money to do it, but don't worry about that for now."
"Thanks for the offer Lucy, but I don't want to be a burden to you." 'Stop doing that to yourself. Just say yes, and be thankful to her.'
"Natsu I'm not offering this to you like I have to, I'm offering to help you because I want to." She donned a small blush after finishing her words.
The dragon slayer again turned to face her. His face was unreadable. 'Come on she said she wanted to help you.' "But..."
The celestial mage placed her right index finger over his lips silencing the normally loud Natsu. "Natsu after all the time you saved me…"
Natsu moved his head so Lucy's finger no longer covered his mouth. "Lucy you don't save someone expecting them to pay you…" Lucy placed her whole hand over Natsu's mouth.
"And everything you've done for me it's the least I could do." Her smile came back. "I know I'll never be able to pay you back for all the time you've saved me. But I can try to pay you back for everything else you have given me." Natsu tried to free himself from Lucy's grip, but failed. "Natsu you are the one who brought me to this wonderful guild. Sure it's lead to several dangerous scenarios that could have been fatal, but it gave me the family I always wanted to have." 'The family I always wanted to have. He, he. Natsu gave the family I always wanted.' Thinking of what ran through her mind after Loke left. She let go of her grip on Natsu placing her hand on he bar counter. "What do you say? Will you let me pay you back?"
After hearing those heart-warming words come from Lucy he somehow forgot about his house burning down, and his headache vanished. All of his doubt was replaced with joy. 'If you don't say yes to this then you truly are the idiot people claim you are.' He placed his hand over Lucy's as he smiled at her. "Thank you Lucy."
"No problem Natsu." She then stood up out of her seat dragging Natsu along with her as she headed out the door.
"Where are we going?" Trying to free his captured hand.
"The only things you have right now are the clothes you are currently wearing. If you are going to live with me you are going to need more clothes to wear. You also don't have any other essentials. If we are going to be around each other more than we are now you are going to have to keep up you hygiene. Finally with how much Happy and you eat I'm going to need a lot more food at my place."
"You mean we're going to go…" He couldn't bring himself to say the word her feared most whenever he hung around a girl.
"That's right we are going to go shopping." Giving him a smile before she walked out the door.
'NOOOOOO!' "NOOOOO!" He shouted before being dragged out of the guild.
Gajeel took the 25,000 Jewels back out of his wallet as he slapped the cash on Gray's bare chest as he had stripped down to his boxers. "Hmmm! After seeing that its safe to say it's just a matter of time now."
Gray looked down to grab the cash. He saw that Gajeel had smacked him hard enough to leave a replica mark of his hand on his chest. "Why did you hit me so hard?" Asked an angered Gray.
"Just be glad you won the bet." Answering grumpily.
"You wanna go Iron Maiden?"
"Bring it Ice-Cube!" The two then began the first fight of the day. A new fairy Tail record as they had gone until twelve-twenty in the afternoon before the first fight of the day.
"You know after seeing that Lu-Chan and Natsu like that they might make a good couple." Said Levy to the rest of the girls at the table including Mira who was just then passing by.
'No that should be me.' Thought Lisanna as she kept silent trying to keep her poker face up.
Mira patted her baby sister on the back. 'Sorry Lisanna I know Natsu was your first crush, but you will get over him.'
"You know they do." Agreed Wendy
"Especially since they have opposing personalities with Natsu being so carefree and reckless, and Lucy being so caring and gentle." Said Erza. She looked at Mira for a while as the barmaid remained silent consoling her sister. "What do you think about them Mira?"
Mira couldn't control her inner fan girl, even with her grieving sister so close. "Pink-haired babies with big brown-eyes." After saying that all the girls gave her a funny look. Mira then looked around. "Sorry I've got table to clean she said before anyone could say anything else to her.
At Lucy's apartment, and now Natsu's as well.
After several hours of Shopping Lucy and Natsu arrived home. Lucy was carrying two decent sized bags of clothing, and other essentials while Natsu carried nearly ten bags of groceries behind her.
"Did you really have to buy this much food." Complained Natsu as he began to set the bags down on the kitchen floor.
"No that's normal for whenever you end up eating here." Answered Lucy. "Well actually I got more since you are going to be living here now." She started to put away the groceries in the proper spots.
Natsu watched as Lucy put the food away. 'Do I really eat that much.' Thinking of all the time he had eaten at her place without her permission. "Why didn't you tell me I ate so much of your food."
"It never really crossed my mind." She stopped putting away food in the pantry. "I mean it kind of became normal for me." 'Now that I think about it Natsu essentially has been living here for quite some time now.' She then heard something move behind her. She saw Natsu looking through the bags of chill and frozen foods as he started to put then in the freezer or refrigerator looking as though he knew where everything went.
Natsu felt Lucy watching him as he finished emptying the second bag of food. "You could have told me. I would have paid you back if I knew I was taking this much food from you." Felling guilty for what he had been doing for over a year.
"I kind of have."
"What?"
"Once we get our payment from the clients I take whatever I had to spend to restock my kitchen from your share."
'No wonder I don't get that much at the end of each mission.'
After five minutes they had finished putting the groceries away Lucy went trough the bags with Natsu's new clothing, and other essentials. After a two minutes she handed him a towel with clothing, shampoo, soap, a toothbrush, and toothpaste. "Time for you to take a shower."
Natsu took everything that Lucy handed him. "Do I really have to." Lucy shot him stern look. "I mean I took one five days ago."
Lucy looked at him a little disgusted. She knew the young man didn't shower daily, but she had hoped it was at least once every few days. "Yes Natsu, as a matter of fact as long as you live her you have to shower once a day."
"But!"
"No buts mister." Pointing at the bathroom door.
She watched as Natsu sulked his way to the bathroom. Once she heard the water turn on and the water hitting something other than the floor she went back into to the kitchen as she place two frozen pizzas in the over. Normally she would have cooked something but it was already seven-thirty, and she was exhausted from dragging Natsu around as they shopped.
Natsu stood in the shower as the cold water drenched his naked form. Deep down he knew he should still be depressed about his house burning down, but honestly right now it felt like a blessing in disguise. Sure he had built that house alone with his bare hands, but it never truly felt like home. No it was only a house to him.
He turned the water off as he watched the last of the suds wash off his body. He was about to ignite himself like he normally did after taking a shower only to remember it wasn't his old fire proof house. He instead stepped out of the shower to get the towel to dry himself off. Once dried he put on the new underwear and a pair of PJS that Lucy had bought him. They were black flannel bottoms with a white T-shirt with a dragon on the chest. It looked stupid to him since he knew what real dragon looked like, but he couldn't complain after someone else had bought it for him.
Once he stepped out of the bathroom he smelt something had just come out of the oven. He walked to the kitchen to see Lucy slicing two pizzas. He then walked over to the cabinet and grabbed two plates and two cups. Before sitting down at the table he grabbed a gallon of milk out of the fridge. After setting the plates and filled the cups up he sat down and realized something. Everything he had done since he entered his now apartment with Lucy felt so natural.
The new roommates ate in silence. After they had finished eating dinner Lucy showed Natsu how to clean everything up as another rule was placed that he would have to clean up after himself. Once the kitchen was clean the two sat down in the living room while Lucy explained to him the rules of the apartment. It took her a half and hour to get all the rule drilled in his head. It might have been a little to soon to push all these rules onto Natsu, but she knew she had to do it before he started to make bad habits.
"Alright I got it." Yawned Natsu stretching himself out.
"Good." Lucy yawned back. She looked at the clock to see it was nearly ten O' clock. "Looks like its time for bed." She started to walk to the only bedroom. Once in she turned of the light and got under the covers as she had put on her PJS when Natsu was in the shower. Lucy was just about to fall asleep when she heard Natsu say something.
"Lucy where am I going to sleep?" He asked.
Lucy quickly sat up and turned on her desk lamp. "Crap! I forgot about that." She hurried over to her closet to get the spare sheets and comforter. "I'm sorry Natsu I hope you don't mind sleeping on the couch tonight. I swear tomorrow I'll get you…" she stopped talking when Natsu turned her around arms full of blankets
After Natsu turned Lucy around he pulled her into a hug. He felt all the blankets in the woman's arms fall on his feet. "Thank you Lucy. For everything you've done for me today."
"No…problem." Blushing as she was looking at the dragon printed Natsu's shirt.
"I have one last favor to ask you today." He felt himself begin to blush thinking of what he was about to ask her.
"What is it?" She felt warmer and warmer the longer Natsu held her. It made her feel comfortable, and nothing bad could happen to her.
"Lucy I know you get angry at me whenever I sneak in under the covers with you, but…" Natsu was having a hard time brining up the words he wanted to say. "Do you think I could sleep with you tonight?"
The blonde buried her face in Natsu shirt, as she knew her face was redder than a tomato. 'He didn't mean sex Lucy. You know that. Besides its not like you haven't woken up next to him countless time already.' "I…don't…know." Her words were barley audible.
"All day today has felt like a dream to me. Parts like a nightmare, other parts like a fantasy. I know if I wake up next to you I'll know it was all real. For better or worse."
'He just wants to know that after all the bad things that happened today he got a happy ending to this nightmare.' Lucy let out a sigh. "Alright Natsu you can sleep with me tonight, but tomorrow I'll get you a bed."
"Thank you Lucy."
The two then got under the covers. At first there was separation between the two as they slept backs to each other. It was uncomfortable at first as Natsu had always snuck in after Lucy had fallen asleep, but after seven minutes of trying to get comfortable Natsu turned over and wrapped his arms around Lucy's waist.
This made Lucy nearly jump out of bed. Sure they had slept together several times, However she had only woken up to Natsu holding her a handful of times. Lucy looked back to see Natsu had already fallen asleep. 'So he didn't do it on purpose.' As uncomfortable as she thought it would be sleeping with someone with their arms wrapped around you sounded to her, in actuality if felt extremely comfortable to her. In the mater of seconds she joined Natsu as she fell asleep.
Unknown to them Happy had watched the entire scene in the bedroom from the window. "They llllike each other." He said before flying off to crash at Wendy and Carla's place.
They wouldn't tell this to each other for quite some time, but for both Natsu and Lucy they had the best night of sleep they had ever had currently at that point in their young lives that night. The next day Lucy didn't get Natsu a bed, nor did she ever, as this remains the only time she broke a promise to him. Natsu never complained about it because each time he woke up next to Lucy he felt like he had found the one thing he'd been missing ever since Igneel had left him for unknown reasons years ago(besides Igneel himself.). A place that he could call home.
End Flashback.
Natsu
Three months after being marked by the Phoenix.
Nighttime in the Sengren Desert.
Natsu woke up in the middle of the night throwing his blanket off of himself. He was breathing hard as sweat was rolling down his entire body. He grabbed at his forehead with his left arm. "It was just a dream." He reassured himself.
"You had that nightmare again? Didn't you?" Asked Gildarts who looked like he had been up for a while already.
Natsu looked for Gildarts who was sitting next to the campfire Natsu had made right before the sun began to set.
"I didn't have that nightmare." Said Natsu. "I haven't had that nightmare for a couple of weeks now." He said guiltily. He honestly believed he'd have that nightmare for the rest of his life.
"Then what woke you up from a dead sleep?"
"It's the new dream I've been having."
"Must be pretty bad if it's been able to wake you up like the other one did."
"It's not a horrible nightmare like I've been having. No it truly is a dream because this one never had a change of becoming a reality."
"Why is that?"
"Because in my dream Lucy had the child we would have had."
"Tell me about your new dreams."
"The past two weeks. Whenever I fall asleep I keep having these differing dreams. Each time I'm with Lucy, and the child we would have had doing something as a family." Natsu hugged his knees up to his chest so they would hide his mouth as he spoke. "the child's appearance changes each night. One night he has Lucy's golden blonde hair, other nights she has my onyx black eyes." A tear started to make it's way down Natsu's cheek. "He'll have my infectious grin, or she'll have Lucy's warming smile."
Though the flames of the campfire were beginning to die down, and most of his face covered Gildarts could see that these new string of dreams were having an identical effect on Natsu as the nightmares had on him. "Maybe these dreams are premonitions showing you the life you will have once you get Lucy back." He said trying to ease the younger mans mind.
Natsu buried the rest of his face behind his legs. "If she even wants me back."
By now Gildarts knew that convincing Natsu Lucy would take him back was a long and emotional conversation that he had grown tired of. Instead he decided take a differing approach this time. "What did the child look like tonight, and what did the three of you do?"
Natsu unburied his face as he recalled tonight's dream. "Tonight it was a little girl. She couldn't have been any older that four years old. As a matter a fact she looked just like you'd imagine Lucy to look like when she was four, except she had my eyes." Another tear made it's way down Natsu's face that donned a small smile. "The three of us where in Magnolia park enjoying a family picnic. It was a beautiful day full of sunlight, so we sat underneath one of the Sakura trees. After we finished eating the little girl pulled at my arm to get me to play with her."
"What did you two do."
"We played tag(Regular tag, not fire tag.). Everything goes by fine for a long stretch of time. Eventually Lucy joins in and the three of us are running around with smiles on our faces." The tears now streamed down his face. "After the last tag Lucy made on me I tried to tag our daughter, but no matter how fast I ran after her I couldn't catch up to her." He breathing became more forced. "Eventually she got so far ahead of me that I lost sight of her and woke up."
'It looks like these new dreams are having more of an impact on him than the nightmare did.' "It may be hard, but I want you to use these dreams as motivation. Think of them as showing you the life you'll have once you get Lucy back."
Natsu laid himself back down on his sleeping bag not bothering to cover himself with the top. He stretched out his right arm, which was covered up by the scarf Igneel had given him. "I hope you truly can help me Phoenix."
'Have faith in me Natsu, and have faith in yourself. As Gildarts said think of these dreams as premonitions of your future.' Phoenix sung to him.
'How can the two of you believe that Lucy will take me back after what I nearly did to her. I know I wouldn't take me back if I were her.' Thought Natsu to the Phoenix. Natsu felt his arm begin to burn where the Phoenix made it's mark. Natsu grabbed a hold of his burning arm. "AGGGGHHHHHHHH! What's this for?"
Through watching him in training Gildarts knew that Natsu could talk with the Phoenix mentally. He found it amusing, as any one who didn't know the circumstances would think the young man to be crazy. He then let out a chuckle. "Natsu you poor bastard. Once you get Lucy back it will almost be like having two wives with the pact you made with Phoenix." He said to himself
'In your dreams she took you back. I want you to promise me you will make it a reality.'
"I won't make a promise I might not be able to keep." Natsu argued with the bird. The burning sensation in his arm intensified.
'If you don't get your Lucy back I'll make sure this arm of yours will forever know the feeling of pain.'
He tried to bare with the pain as best he could, but the feeling of being burned is something he never thought he'd have to get used to. Unfortunately every time Phoenix did this to him she always ended up winning. "Alright I promise to make my dreams become a reality. Now make the pain go away." He pleaded. The pain instantly faded.
'Good. Now let's get back to training.' At that the dark skies began to brighten up from the rising sun.
Natsu then sat up to see that Gildarts had begun to warm himself up. He then followed suit. After a couple of minutes the two mages began to circle around the dying campfire. Both men keeping one eye on the other while the other looked waiting for the flame to die. That was the signal for the two to begin their sparing.
"You ready for this today Natsu?" Asked Gildarts
"You're right Gildarts. You're both right." Natsu said slapping his left hand onto his right shoulder finding a loose piece, which would unravel the scarf around his arm once pulled. "I have to believe I can make that dream come true." He pulled the loose piece as the campfire finally died. "And if I cant I'll die trying." He charged at Gildarts as the Scarf landed on the ground. "I'm all fired up!"
End Chapter 11
I feel like I should wait one more day before posting this chapter to polish it down a little bit more. But I've kept you all waiting long enough. Hopefully I don't regret posting this chapter a little too soon.
I apologize for any and all grammar and spelling mistakes I missed before posting this chapter. Yes I know I didn't give an answer to weather or not the baby is still alive or not. I want you guy/girls to keep wondering what I'm going to do in this story. I hate to say this, but for the sake of keeping Lucy's condition a mystery don't expect to see her for a while. I see one or two more chapters before the rematch starts up. I've shown you how Fairy Tail is preparing so I think I should give Shadow Angel a good portion of the next chapter. So expect the next chapter to be OC heavy.
How was the flash back? Did you enjoy it? Remember this is the first of three flashbacks showing how Natsu and Lucy became a couple in Dragon's Tears. This first third showed how they came to live together, and showed their feelings for each other beginning to come up to the surface. For some reason it still feels off to me, but I can't really see how else I can improve upon it right now. I'll just have to wait till I get to the second half of it.
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