Aki's perspective.
"Aki, you seem to have a lot of your strength back, if you can hold Lucy and Natsu here for so long," Levy tells me after the brawl dies down and we're back downstairs with everyone.
I think about it and shake my head. "It's weird, I thought I'd only be able to keep them here for a few hours, but I don't even feel a little drained."
"I've been using my own magic to prolong my stay and so has Natsu," Lucy informs me. "I've been making him sit down and focus on spiritual training with me so he's building up his spiritual stamina. In return, he takes the lead with the combat training."
"Sounds like you two balance each other out completely." I remark.
She nods and smiles softly, looking down at the table. "I think so too."
"Lu-chan," Levy cuts in, grinning mischievously. "What's the story on our NaLu? You can't tell me you two stopped seeing each other or anything."
Lucy looks up, startled. "NaLu? What the hell is that?"
"Your couple name, silly!" Levy giggles.
Lucy looks around, making sure Natsu isn't around. She brings her head forward and responds, "so what, you and Gajeel are Leveel? GaLe? Or Ooh! Gajevy!?"
Levy turns red and Lisanna snickers behind her hand. "My personal favorite for them is Gajevy," she says and Wendy nods her agreement.
"What's Gray and Juvia's couple name?" Juvia asks, her eyes intensely curious.
"Uh," Lisanna puts her index finger to her mouth and thinks for a second. "Gruvia?"
Juvia looks ecstatic at that, and she goes all starry eyed thinking about it. I laugh at how cute her crush is. I wonder when she'll ever act on it.
"So, Lucy?" Levy prods, determined to get things back on track.
Lucy sighs. "Fine, if you have to know… We're still together, I guess. Scorpio has been cool and showed us some nice places to go together when we aren't training or here. It's been a little weird, adjusting to things, so we haven't done a lot of stuff as a couple. But, Yes, Levy, our feelings for each other never changed, even when we didn't have our memories."
Levy beams at that, "wonderful! I was kind of worried. Anyway, it's great! Now you can be together forever!"
Lucy laughs and smiles, though I see a hint of bitterness in it. "I'm happy about that, for sure. I'm just a little sad that we can't get married or have kids in the future. It's something I was looking forward to with him, if we ever got to that point in our relationship, I mean."
"Who says we can't get married?" Natsu asks from behind us. I look back at him to see him looking down at Lucy, his expression completely serious. Lucy turns around in her seat to look up at him.
"It's a bit unconventional," someone else says, the voice is coming from my left. I look to see Loke standing, watching us with a grin on his face. "But I don't think there are any rules against spirits marrying each other."
"So are all of my spirits here on their own magic, or?" I ask him, looking around for Aquarius.
"She's on a date," Loke tells me, guessing my actions. "or she'd be here too. And yes. I hope that's okay with you, Beautiful."
"So, Lucy, are there wedding bells in your future?" Levy asks, almost giddy.
"Lucy looks up at Natsu, "are there?" she asks him.
He looks at her for a second, his face unreadable. Lucy's eyes flicker and her smile fades a little. Sudden;y, Natsu is down on one knee. "God, this feels corny," Natsu states.
Lucy laughs, "then don't do it! You look so lame doing that." she teases him and grabs his hand, pulling him toward her. They embrace and I grab Levy, overwhelmed by the situation. She squeals giddily and embraces me.
"I know it's a little fast," Natsu tells Lucy softly. "But why wait? We've both got all the time in the world, and I want to spend every second being married to you."
"Jeez, sappy much?" Gray asks. I look around to see a small group formed around our table.
"Shut up, man," Natsu snaps back at him, not looking at him.
"It was pretty sappy," Lucy giggles.
"Look, he's embarrassed," Laki giggles. "Look at how red his face is."
"You all suck," Natsu states.
Everyone laughs and Lucy reaches up and kisses Natsu on the mouth, regaining his attention.
"We have some planning to do!" Levy tells me quickly, grabbing me and Erza by the arms. She pulls the two of us away from the group. "Wendy, bring Lucy in when she's done making out with Natsu!" Levy calls over her shoulder.
I hope you guys like this. I was kind of hard because I was trying to think of how this would actually happen, and I couldn't really picture it happening at all because they're both so clueless about this kind of thing...
but I wanted it to happen because NALU FOREVER AND EVER BEETCHESSSS
So yeah. I'm super nervous about the next few chapters. My beta reader has left me FOREVER (a Week) and she's not here to make sure this doesn't suck, so forgive me if this sucks. it's all her fault. :P
