A/N: So a few people requested I add a dash of citrus and it got me thinking, what better time then the present? FYI I'm not good at writing this kinda stuff since I get embarrassed easily and I pretty much awkwardly laugh in my life at this sorta stuff (if you hadn't figured out already, I'm quite immature, HAH!) so just...I dunno, keep that in mind when you think FAIL D; But without further ado...onto the SEYXINESS bitches! (but it's still T, hah!)
071 : Practice Makes Perfect
"So, Natsu, I was wondering..." Gray drawled out as he took a seat next to his best rival.
"What?" Natsu half-snapped back as he lifted his scarf from his eyes. He'd been currently taking a somewhat nap at his table with Lucy and he wasn't too keen on having Gray interrupt his relaxation time, especially since he and the blond had just gotten back from a three day mission that hadn't been as great as it first sounded.
"Well," Gray started with a dramatic roll of his hand that ended with him pointing at the dragon slayer, "I was thinking about how you don't have a girlfriend."
"Ps-h, says the man who doesn't have one either," Natsu easily defended.
"Yeah, I guess you're right, but still. I wonder..." Gray broke himself off with a chuckle.
"Wonder what?" Natsu said blandly, not liking the glint in the ice-alchemist's eyes.
"How experienced you are?"
Natsu didn't seem to catch on at first, but after a half dozen seconds, the tips of his ears steamed and the teen looked away from Gray's piercing stare.
"HAH!" Gray laughed in the fire-breathing teen's face, causing a growl to rise up from the offened.
"Boys, stop. I'm getting to a good part and don't want to be interrupted by your fight that's bound to ignite soon," Lucy snipped from behind her book that looked almost completed.
"How about you Lucy?" Gray asked, yanking down her book and almost causing Lucy to growl at him like Natsu did.
"What?" she said exasperatedly, telling herself to calm down and that it wasn't worth it. His head in a pillar would only cause more brain damage.
"How far have you gone with the opposite gender?" Gray asked forwardly, wiggling his eyebrows for effect.
Lucy blinked before a sultry smile came onto her face, causing both boys to lean back a little, caught off guard.
"I'm not as innocent as I seem, lets just say," Lucy purred out as she gently removed Gray's hand from her book and went back to reading, her sensual facade gone as quickly as it'd come.
The two teens stared at the blond for a good half minute before the gave each other a glance, wondering what just happened.
- X - X - X - X - X - X - X -
Lucy lightly hummed to herself as she ran a hand through her air-drying hair, having just gotten out of the shower. Slipping on her small articles of sleeping attire, the teen opened the bathroom door and allowed the steam from her hot shower to finally be released. Next shuffling to her kitchen in her fluffy house slippers, she put the kettle on the burner before taking out a mug and a pack of hot chocolate mix.
When she heard a loud, demanding knock on her front door she sighed. Already knowing who it was, and wondering why he hadn't just barged in already, she went to the door and opened it to get an eyesight full of pink and teeth.
"Hiya Lucy," Natsu said through his large grin that practically split his face.
"Come on in," Lucy skipped the greeting as she went back to the kitchen, leaving Natsu to close the door and follow. Without a word, she got out a second mug and tore open a new package into the cup.
"Here, let me help," Natsu offered as he came to her side. She was about to say he'd break something, but she chose to watch in quiet appreciation as he grabbed the kettle and burst his hands into fire, making the water boil in under half a minute, beating the time it would have taken her dying stove by bounds. Being careful (Lucy could tell since he since he was sticking his tongue out) he poured the hot water into the two mugs. Lucy stirred it with spoons as Natsu placed the kettle down; proud he did it without incident while Lucy was thankful.
"So what's up?" the blond asked as she went to her bed, plopping down at the top and letting her back lean against her soft pillows and frame. Natsu favored to sit at the end of the large bed, swinging his legs a few times before resting them on the wooden floor.
"Nothin' much. With Happy at the vet and all, I was kinda bored," he admitted as he blew on his drink. Lucy was wondering why he wanted to cool it off, but she noted that his breath was actually making the already practically boiling drink hotter.
"There isn't much to do here," she admitted herself.
"At least there's company."
"Hm, if that's what you're looking for."
Silence fell over the teen partners and Lucy put her drink aside, favoring to lie down so her head was now cushioned by the pillows and her feet close to Natsu.
"So what was with Gray today?" the blond said to start conversation.
"Ch-" Natsu scoffed as he put his empty mug on the floor before going to the other side of Lucy, letting his face fall into a pillow. Lucy bit down a snip at him dirtying her bed, but she let it go in a second. He was her partner and closest friend, so he really did deserve to at least lie down. She just really hoped that he didn't have any ash on him.
"Don't let him get to you," she advised for what felt like the hundreth time.
"It's just... he has the right to brag over that," Natsu groaned as he rolled over onto his back like Lucy, face staring up at the ceiling.
"Well, that's not a surprise," Lucy laughed.
"What?!" Natsu was up in a second, ears red again in chagrin.
"Come on," she sighed from her lying down position, "You're too interested in eating or burning things up, usually both at the same time, for girls."
"Yeah..." he sighed as he lied back down, causing Lucy to be lifted into the air for a second from her springy bed mattress.
"And anyway, the Guild comes first, so why bother getting into another commitment?" she added.
Natsu stayed silent before flipped onto his stomach. As Lucy felt the bed move with him, she wondered if he moved around this much when he slept as well.
"It's just... lame that I haven't really been with a girl at all."
"I'm sure you had some flings, you are 19 now," Lucy cracked open an eye to see Natsu with his face in her pillow. Because of his face placement, he could only groan to disagree.
"So you've really never been with a girl before? No nothing?!" the blond almost laughed out loud, but held it in by slapping a hand to her mouth.
"You can laugh if you want," Natsu had moved his head to the side, not facing Lucy, yet knowing her enough to know this would be amusing to her. "It's not like we can all be as 'educated' as you," he sneered bitterly at the end.
The laughter that had been wanting to come up disappeared with what he said. She sighed before rolling her eyes, not believing he'd believed her vague answer from this afternoon. "When have you seen me with a guy?"
"Um...all the time. With me or others at the Guild."
"No, I mean, like kissing and stuff."
This caught Natsu's attention and he flipped over onto his other side, now facing her.
"But today, you said-"
"It was just to get Gray off my back," she said with a breath of laughter. Natsu really had believed her lie.
"But you're always using your body to get discounts and whatever you want," Natsu commented at to which Lucy snorted at.
"I may know how guys think and want, but I don't go into the whole 'romantic' side of it all," she huffed, as if offended.
"So... you're like me."
As Lucy opened her mouth to boast she'd kissed a few guys, but opted to keep silent and because of that Natsu didn't hold back like her and burst into laughter.
"So I haven't totally made out like crazy or done it, is there a problem? Those missions take up all my time to date now-a-days anyway."
"A-h, that really comforted me," Natsu sighed in contentment, a silly grin on his face.
"We're two, grade-A romantically-challenged people aren't we?" Lucy groaned as she rubbed the heels of her hands into her eyes.
"Yup yup," Natsu chirped, unaffected by his fellow teen's gloom.
Silence once again fell over the two, yet Lucy was too embarrassed to think of something to change the mood and start a new conversation as she kept her hands over her hazel eyes. When she felt the bed bounce around from Natsu's weight change again, she cracked them open to find the teen himself hovering over her.
Alarmed, she scrambled up, but there wasn't really anywhere to go.
"W-What are you doing?" She inwardly cursed herself for stuttering.
"Well...why don't we train?" Natsu asked with a tilt of his head in a comical way that Lucy would have laughed at, if his hot (literally) body wasn't a foot from her's.
"Train?" she questioned as she raised a delicate eyebrow.
"Practice, so we can say we're not TOTALLY unaware," he reiterated with a coy smile that she never knew he could do.
"Oh no..." Lucy violently shook her head as she caught on. "You're like my best friend, I am NOT going to-"
She was abruply cut off by Natu's lips on hers. The kiss was soft and he ducked back out after a few seconds before Lucy had a chance to close her eyes or for her brain to even process what was happening. Putting a few fingers to her lips that his had been covering, Lucy dared to look back up to Natsu who was still above her, knees by her hips and hands above her shoulders, encasing her in his heat.
"Tingly," Lucy said as she slyly smiled.
"Again?" Natsu asked at to which Lucy nodded her head after a half minute of thought and hesitation. What could another cute kiss like that do?
This time, he lowered his head slowly, giving enough time to tickle Lucy's nose with an exhaled breath of hot air, before he pressed his lips onto hers gently. This kiss started easy as the first, but Lucy's hands found their way into his head or hair, pulling him closer. Shocked at the sensation she was putting him through with the simple touch and closer proximity, Natsu reared back.
"Sorry," Lucy flushed in embarassment, taking her hands back from his pink locks. She really had no idea why she did the act herself, she was embarrassed enough at the situation that she knew she should really stop before they got too engrossed, so to say. But when she looked up into his devastatingly delicious face, she found her resistance melting away.
"No, it's...hot," he laughed and she gingerly placed them back. As he grinned down at her, she felt something flip in her stomach and before she could register what she was doing, she pulled his head down to hers.
Feeling as if he needed more, Natsu opened his mouth to deepen the kiss and Lucy followed suit, both of them exploring each other's mouths, prior feelings of shyness and hesitation gone. Before Lucy knew it, she felt her whole body flush and she arched her back up to meet his body above hers, causing a growl to ripple up from Natsu's chest and travel out through Lucy's mouth.
They broke apart, panting lightly as to try and regain their breathing, both noted each other's flushed face and messy hair. Suddenly allowing a smirk to form on her face, Lucy pushed her hands on his chest and he flipped over with a soft 'oof.' Not giving a second for him to contemplate what was happening, Lucy swung her bare legs over his hips and easily straddled him before she brought her mouth to his, craving more of that warmth she'd never felt before.
Natsu, enjoying how she was sitting on top of him with her body melded against his, moved his hands to sit high on her tights, gripping her exposed skin and causing her to break their mouths with a sharp intake of air from shock. She continued to breathlessly laugh as he snaked his fingers up and down her legs with hot fingertips. Natsu stopped, changing the use of his hands to bright her bright blond head to his again, crashing her lips back onto him non-too gently, yet neither of them minding the aggressiveness.
Natsu did another growl yet this one sounded more like a purr as he sat up, holding Lucy's legs steady around his waist so she didn't fall off, before sliding his mouth to her neck, causing a shiver to go down the blond's back.
"N-Natsu..." she shuddered out as her back arched again, pressing her chest against his own all the closer. Growling in content at the contact, the teen continued up to her ear where he lightly nipped in a feral like way. But he couldn't hold out against the temptation of her mouth and he maneuvered their lips to connect yet again, holding her chin steady with his hand.
During the kiss, he was fumbling to take off his vest as he felt his body begin to get hotter and hotter, clothes feeling like a hinderance now. Finally freeing himself from the now unwanted article of clothing, he grabbed the bottom of Lucy's shirt and lifted it over her head before she had time to think of what was happening. If he was hot, surely so was she, so he was really doing her a favor.
"Natsu..." she dangerously purred as he threw the clothing off the bed.
"Yes?" he innocently asked with a grin that Lucy found irresistable to giggle at.
But she didn't have time for laughs as she was suddenly on her back again, and Natsu was looming over her again with those dark eyes. The only difference now, she noted, was that the feeling of skin on skin was exilerating and heightened their kisses even more, almost to a panic-like status.
Yet when Natsu's magically-warm hands found themselves at the elastic-band of her shorts, she opened her eyes and pushed him away, breaking their mouths apart.
Natsu blinked at her before his cheeks became red, even going as far as to roll off of her.
"Shit, sorry Lucy! I didn't- I mean, I wouldn't want-" he stumbled, but gave up as he dropped his hands in his lap. He knew that things had been getting kinda crazy, but he knew there were boundaries with girls, as he'd frightengly learned with Gray from Erza one day when they'd tried to pants her for fun. Although he was unexperienced with the opposite gender, it didn't mean he had no clue about them.
Lucy sighed before getting up, crawling over to him in nothing but a frilly bra and short shorts. "Look Natsu, just not now, ok?" she laughed.
When he still wouldn't look at her, she added comically, "We'll save that for another 'practice' alright?"
At the suggestion, Natsu's eyes lit up again as he took it seriously. Before the blond had a chance to smile back, she was pinned by Natsu again and his hot mouth was on hers. Bringing her hands to first wrap around his back and then moving to loop around his neck, she smiled in their heavy kiss. Out of all the boys, she could trust him the most and his hands never wondered to discard any more clothing. Finally, they rolled apart and stared at the ceiling again.
"That was...interesting," Natsu supplied with a lazy grin, canines brushing the bottom of his used lips.
It was then that Lucy just realized what she'd done...she'd made out, no, more like gone practically two and half bases with her teammate! Her best friend!
"Oh my God..." she muttered miserably into her hands, all warmth from their recent activities gone, and wishing that she had her shirt back on.
"I was bad, wasn't I?!" Natsu yelled out in misery. "This is why we need to practice, you were good but me-"
"No, no, you were great, but it's just..." she interrupted him before pausing to look over at the year older teen, who was waiting patiently for her to continue, "It's YOU! You're NATSU!"
"Yeah?"
"I shouldn't have done that with YOU!"
"Why not?"
"Because we're TEAMMATES!"
"There's nothing in the Guild against teammates doing that. The old man actually likes it, thinks he's like a matchmaker or somethin."
"Natsu! You don't GET it! We know each other, sure, but..."
"But?"
"Isn't this all weird? I mean, when I see you I see a fire-breathing airhead who likes to eat a lot! Not someone I roll around and make out with half dressed late at night!"
He blinked before, "It wasn't weird. It was nice." His grin resurfaced and Lucy wanted to facepalm him.
"Natsu, we're TEAMMATES, FRIENDS, but NOT lovers!" she sighed as she shook her head of messy hair, complementary of Natsu's large hands.
"Look Lucy, I don't see what's the big deal," Natsu huffed, starting to get annoyed from her panicking for no reason.
"Natsu, it's just..." she drifted off as she looked into his dark eyes that gleamed in the dimly lit room, then down to his lips, and finally down to his toned chest.
"Oh, what the hell," she cried as she threw herself at Natsu once again.
"See? You like it, right?" Natsu said from his down position, hands coming to rest on Lucy's legs again.
"...Yeah," she admitted as she looked away. His super-heated hands, hard body, and dark eyes had seemed to pull her into a place she wasn't going to escape from any time soon; she liked it all.
"So then what's the problem again?" he asked as he grabbed her chin and made it so she was looking at him.
Lucy sighed at his handsome face before, "Want to practice some more?"
"Yes please."
- X - X - X - X - X - X - X -
Two months later...
"Natsu, stop it," Lucy giggled as the pink-haired teen snuggled his nose just below her right ear, breathing out hot air from his nose and causing a tickling, yet sensual, sensation to go through Lucy's body.
"Aw, come on Lu, it's been TWO DAYS since we 'trained!'" She rolled her eyes at the nickname he'd given her, saying Lucy was too long to pant out between long kisses."No one is going to come in here when they're all partying out there," he finished as his tongue darted out to lick up her jaw line, making the blond visibly shiver.
"But what if anyone-"
"They're too shit-drunk," the fire-breather laughed as his hands gripped around her waist even tighter, one hand starting to snake low.
"Natsu..." she sighed with condecending eyes.
But he wasn't going to give in, she noted, as he lifted her up and pushed her against the nearest wall in the small room he'd recently kidnapped her to. To keep steady, she wrapped her legs around his waist while he helped by holding-fast to her waist and pressing her to his chest. But, considering they were in a cabinent and the walls were covered with all sorts of canned food, at the impact of Lucy's hit a few objects rained to the floor.
Lucy, liking it when their flush bodies were crushed against each other, couldn't hold out any longer and she took his face, which he'd been using to trail kisses going dangerously close to her cleavage, to bring back up to her mouth. Grinning in the kiss at his victory, Natsu didn't waste anytime as his tongue darted into her mouth, running along her teeth and lips in eagerness. Knowing she was held up just fine without his arms, Natsu moved his hands to the bottom of her already revealing shirt and tore it in two to enhance the view, causing the blond to break the kiss.
"Natsu! That was one of my favorite shirts!" she pouted as she crossed her arms, giving emphasis to what really didn't need it, especially since her chest was now scantily clad in a pink bra.
At the sight of the color in the dim light of the food-storage room, a smirk broke over the dragon-slayer's face, "You like pink?"
Her jutting out lip from her pout moved to form a smirk before she draped her arms over his shoulders and leaned forward to give him a better view, "Of course, silly."
At the sultry smile, Natsu brought his lips to hers again and they picked up what they'd left off. But it seemed that luck just wasn't on their side, as they became too entranced with each other to hear the group of footsteps approaching the room.
"I think there's more booze in here," a still half-sober Kana said as she stopped at the door.
"Really? Nice," a more then half-gone Gray managed to say without slurring.
"Hey, have you guys seen Natsu or Lucy?" Happy asked as he landed on Gray's head, having just flown around the large place in search for pink and blond.
"Dunno, maybe they're off makin-out." At Gray's suggestion, all three of them laughed.
"Ah, I crack myself up," Gray sniffed in self-admiration before grabbing the handle, turning it to shine light (literally) on the pair comprised of Lucy and Natsu scantily clad and sucking face (again, literally).
At the new bright light, the two teens broke apart to look at the astonished faces of Kana, Gray, and the furry one of Happy. Hesitantly, as if he was dealing with a hungry lion, Gray grabbed the knob again and closed the door.
Natsu and Lucy moved their gazes back to each other, shrugged, and then began making-out again.
They were too absorbed with each other to hear the Happy's mournful cry of, "I hate surprises!" or the loud thump when Gray fainting.
