This is Your Space, and This is My Space!
"In an inn, and in a small room, Lucy knows her friend is a dense idiot, that knows no boundaries, she thinks that if she told him to not cross her space he'd listen. She thinks he'll invade her space, but guess who invaded someone's space?"
"Lucyyy! How...long do w-we have to ride this t-train?" Natsu says as he lays down on his seat, feeling nauseous because of his motion sickness.
Lucy looks at Natsu who's only sitting opposite from her and goes back to what she was doing, but Natsu keeps on groaning, so the only thing that she can do is to reassure her friend.
"We'll be at our destination in just an hour, Natsu, don't worry!" Lucy said as she back and forth reads the job request form and the book she got from the guild's library room that might help them in their job.
Natsu keeps on complaining while he's gagging, and Lucy wonders why Natsu can't keep his mouth shut when he's already not feeling well.
Lucy sighed as she kept on hearing and sensing Natsu's distress. She puts the job request form and book in her bag, and she moves next to Natsu and lifts his head, and she lets his head rest on her lap. "I know one hour is just short but when you're suffering one hour feels like a year." Lucy said as she felt a blush on her cheeks.
"T-Thank you, L-Lushi! Blargh!" Natsu gagged.
"Don't say my name if you're just going to gag!" Lucy was annoyed at how Natsu said her name, but she still smiled.
Lucy stared at her companion, she just didn't know how she ended up being alone with her salmon-haired friend—oh wait, Happy ditched them! They were about to go to the train station when there's a man dressed in a fish mascot distributing fliers, and of course the cat can't take his eyes off that mascot, and the man in the mascot noticed Happy staring at him, he then gave a flier to Happy. Then, Happy who's obsessed with fish, invited them to go with him to the new fish buffet restaurant in Magnolia. Lucy, knowing that her rent is due in like two days, can't accept Happy's invitation, but she's expecting Natsu to also ditch her, because after all we're talking about food here. She was surprised that Natsu declined Happy's offer, and went together with her. Lucy just hopes that Happy has money to pay for the meal he'll have in that restaurant.
Lucy looks at the window watching the view of the rice fields and trees disappearing from her view, and it's funny how she only gets a few alone time with Natsu, because usually they always have Happy as their company, and if there's Happy, there's Natsu. It's like you can't separate the two from each other, almost like these two are soul mates. Lucy chuckles at that thought.
Well, they're partners right? Lucy thought.
While Lucy's deep in her thought she didn't notice that she's stroking Natsu's hair, and when she looked down, she stopped herself, but Natsu grabbed her hand and said, "k-keep on doing that, Lucy."
Lucy complied, she thought that maybe it's helping her friend ease his discomfort from traveling.
After an hour, they arrived at their destination, and Lucy woke Natsu up, and they gathered their stuff, and went to their client. The client's place isn't really that far from the train station, it only took them almost an hour to get there by walking.
The job that they went on only took seven hours to complete, and Lucy thanked God because Natsu didn't destroy any stuff while doing their job. It's already ten in the evening by the time they arrive again at their client's place, to let her know that they finished the job. After the client gave them their reward, the client offered them dinner, and the two gladly accepted the offer.
It was quarter to eleven when they finished their dinner at the client's place, the two bid goodbye and said thank you their client, and soon after they got out of the client's gate Lucy stretched her arms and sighed, satisfied with the job they just did, "This client sure is nice, right Natsu? She even gave us dinner."
"Yeah, but her food isn't spicy enough, I was really expecting it to be really spicy, when she said she made a spicy curry. We didn't even encounter some action along the way!" Natsu huffed in disappointment.
"Hush, Natsu! It's too spicy for me, but it still tastes great!" Lucy paused and looked at her friend, and smiled teasingly, "well, at least you didn't break some stuff, right?"
The two of them walked for a while, when both of them realized that they have nowhere to sleep.
"Lucy, you think we can sleep in the forest for the night?" Natsu suggested.
"Natsu, we're in the middle of the city, finding a forest here will take us like five hours, and by that time the first train to Magnolia will arrive, and we wouldn't have the time to sleep." Lucy replied as she looks around for an inn to stay at.
"Well, we could sleep on the train, though it wouldn't be too comfortable for me, given that I have motion sickness." Natsu's face paled at the thought of sleeping in the train.
"Natsu, what if both of us didn't wake up on time to get off the train? Knowing that both of us are tired from the mission. I'll find us an inn, or hotel." Lucy then started to look for an inn, or a hotel to stay at, but unfortunately all of them are fully booked.
Before losing hope, there's a small inn Lucy spotted, though the inn may not be as nice as the other inns and hotels, they've seen earlier, she thought that she shouldn't be choosy when it comes to this.
When they entered the inn they were welcomed with the scent of lavenders, and a middle-aged woman standing behind the desk, who Lucy assumed was the innkeeper.
"Looking for a room?" The innkeeper asked the two with a warm smile.
"Ah, yes! Two single-bedrooms please!" Lucy said as she smiled back to the older woman.
"I'm afraid that we can only offer you one room at this point," the woman smiled apologetically.
Oh, no, Lucy thought. Even though she's been in the same room with Natsu a lot of times, it doesn't change the fact that this is the first time Happy is not with them, and this is the first time her and Natsu will be in the same room alone, plus, Natsu really snores loudly, she's afraid that she won't be having a good night's sleep.
"Don't worry Miss, the available room has a huge bed, and we have extra pillows and blankets." The innkeeper informed Lucy.
Lucy looked at the inn keeper, and she heard the bell from the front door, and she turned to look at it, and she saw a couple who's clinging to each other, Lucy figures that if she doesn't take the room, her and Natsu might be sleeping on the streets for the night. Lucy then turned her head to the innkeeper and said, "We'll take the room please."
"Okay, Ma'am. I'll just need you to write down your name and your signature, on this paper, so we can record who's coming in and out of our inn." The innkeeper handed her a magic paper that she usually finds in inns or hotels in Fiore to validate that they will pay the bill that they've used in hotels.
After writing her name and signing the paper, it glowed for a moment, and she gave the pen and the paper back to the innkeeper. The innkeeper turned her back to them to get the key, and after getting the key, the innkeeper handed them the key and smiled, "Ma'am, Sir, that's the key for your room, and just take the stairs from your right, and turn left and you can see from that hallway your designated room. Don't worry the extra pillows and blankets are already in the room. Enjoy your stay!" The innkeeper smiled, warmly, and Lucy smiled back, and went on her way, and Natsu just followed her.
Before opening their room door, Lucy turned to Natsu and said, "Natsu, you'll be sleeping on the couch."
"Eh? Why?" Natsu, being the oblivious type of person, doesn't understand why he has to sleep on the couch.
"Well, because I need space!" Lucy said as she turned her back to Natsu to unlock the door, when she swung the door open she was disappointed that the room is not what she's expecting.
"Oh, I won't be sleeping on the couch tonight! Hehe!" Natsu smirked as he went inside the room and crashed to the only bed that the room has.
Lucy gaped at the sight of the room. The room is small, and she can see that a couch wouldn't fit in it considering the size of the bed, which is queen size. Lucy went inside the room, and closed it, she looked to her right, and found a door, she suspects that that door is for the bathroom. The only thing that is inside of the room aside from the bed and the bathroom, is a desk, a chair, and a closet.
Well, beggars can't be choosers. Lucy thought.
Lucy looked at her friend Natsu, who's enjoying the softness of the bed, and sighed. The room's not even big enough to let a person sleep on the floor. She then sat at the end of the bed, and put her bag down.
"What's up, Lucy?" Natsu looked at Lucy who's been in deep thought for quite a while.
"Nothing." Lucy answered and smiled at Natsu. What she's been worrying about is just nothing, her friend is really oblivious of anything, that even if she runs around naked in front of him, he won't be bothered by it. She's been worrying about being alone with her friend since they entered the inn, when there's really nothing to worry about.
Hmm, maybe I'm close to having my period this month? Lucy thought.
"Oh, who do you want to use the bathroom first, me or you?" Lucy asked Natsu as she was opening her backpack for some bath essentials, and to get her spare clothes, she hoped that the inn had some free stuff in the bathroom.
"You go first, Luce." Natsu said as he buried his face to the soft pillow he got from the bed. "Okay, don't fall asleep yet! I don't want to have someone sleeping next to me who reeks of body odor." Lucy teased.
"Fine, fine! I won't sleep!" Natsu answered, though Lucy didn't manage to see his face because her back was turning away from him.
After a short bath, well a thirty minute bath, Lucy dried herself up and changed to her spare comfortable clothes, which is a fitted T-shirt and short leggings.
"Natsu! It's your turn!" Natsu bolted awake, and went to the bathroom.
Lucy saw the bed and she didn't see any spare pillows and blankets. She thought maybe it's in the closet. She looked in the closet and found two blue blankets, one that is slightly thin and one that is thick. Then she looked at the bed, and it is also covered with a thick blanket, making it the third blanket that they have for the night, well Natsu wouldn't need a blanket because he's like a walking heater, so she thought maybe he won't use it.
Lucy didn't find any spare pillows to separate her space from Natsu's space because there's only two pillows there, she didn't want to go down to ask for extra pillows because she's really tired. With the things that she has now, like the spare blankets, she can divide Natsu's space and her space. She folded the thin blanket into two, and removed the thick blanket and put it temporarily at the desk, and she put the folded blanket on the left side of the bed, and just like that, the blanket covers that half of the bed, like it is made for it to be folded and be used like that.
Right after she arranged the bed, Natsu opened the door from the bathroom, looking fresh in his black T-shirt, jogger pants and of course his scarf, that is wrapped around his forehead instead of his neck.
Natsu raised his left eyebrow, "What's that?"
"Oh, well this is your space," Lucy motioned to the side where the part of the bed is uncovered with the blanked, "and this is my space."
"Eh? What's the point of that?" Natsu asked, still not understanding why Lucy had to put that blanket like it's a boundary or something.
"Well as you can see, I'm a lady—"
"Says who?"
"Me—what the heck Natsu?!"
Natsu cackled at his friend knowing that she's the type of person you want to tease a lot because of how she reacts.
"Ehem!" Lucy cleared her throat, "as I'm saying, I'm a little conservative—"
"Pfft, conservative, my butt." Natsu mumbled while having a wide grin.
"What?" Lucy stared daggers at him. Natsu flinched, he just hoped that Happy didn't ditch him for a fish buffet restaurant so that he won't be scared of Lucy alone.
"—well as you know, ahh, well...just don't ask!" Lucy is now blushing because she doesn't know how to explain it to Natsu, well how will she explain? That she's not really comfortable sleeping beside him, because it's almost like they are dating or like a married couple? For goodness sake, Lucy doesn't even know why she's acting like this when she and Natsu have been naked together when she warmed him up using her body when his body is getting colder and they have no other choice but to use body heat.
"You're not going to use a blanket?" Lucy asked Natsu.
"Nah, blankets are for the weak!" Natsu exclaimed.
"Pfft, you used a blanket when you were unconscious before, so who's also weak?"
Lucy then took the blanket that she put at the desk and rolled it and put it in the middle of her and Natsu's space, and while she's doing that Natsu is following her movements.
"Lucy..."
"Yes, Natsu?"
"You're mean!" Natsu said and stuck his tongue out and crawled on his place and turned his back from Lucy.
"Eh? Why am I mean?" Lucy mumbled.
Lucy turned the lights off, and crawled inside the blanket and lay down, and the moment her head touched the pillow, she eventually fell asleep.
Natsu couldn't sleep, and he knows that when he hits the bed, he'll immediately fall asleep. But why is sleeping so hard for him to do tonight?
He lay down on his back, and turned his body to her side, Lucy's back was facing him, and he looked at the makeshift divider she made, and rolled his eyes, and smiled. Although most people think that he's oblivious, he can still read situations like this like a normal person, of course he knows that Lucy is trying to tell him that this is their first time being alone together in a room, without Happy or without their other friends, asking her why, is just an excuse to see how adorable her face was when she's trying to explain something embarrassing.
Natsu stared at her back and his eyes trailed at her golden hair and to the part of her neck that remained uncovered by her hair. He stared at her hair again that grew longer after that one year they've been apart. He wanted to touch it, but afraid that she might wake up, and glare at him for disturbing her sleep. Natsu felt Lucy move, so he immediately closed his eyes, but after like a second or two, he opened it again, and was surprised at what he saw.
Lucy is now facing him, with eyes closed, bangs already on the side of her face, mouth slightly opened, and the moonlight from the window shining on her face, she looks almost like an angel, the complete opposite when she's awake, who's always loud, sometimes shouting and "Lucy kicking" him when he did something unnecessary. Natsu laughed at that thought.
After a couple of minutes, Natsu saw Lucy moving near his space, and she hugged that blanket that separates her space and his space, and Lucy cuddled it as if it's a real person.
Lucy is like twelve or thirteen inches apart from him, but Natsu wants to move closer to her, but still afraid that a sudden movement from him might wake her up, so he stayed still, but still staring at her sleeping face, hoping that she won't wake up while he's gazing at her.
Natsu noticed Lucy's blanket is not covering her upper body. He doesn't want to extend the blanket to her upper body, scared that he might wake her up, but he saw Lucy shivering, even though he doesn't want to move, he forced himself to reach her blanket that's only covering the lower part of her body, and tucked it until Lucy's neck. When Natsu was about to put his hand away, he was surprised at what Lucy did next.
Throwing away the makeshift divider she made, Lucy moved next to Natsu and put her arm on his waist, hugging him like he's a pillow. Natsu's eyes widened and he looked down, only seeing Lucy's head, and having a whiff of the shampoo she used on her hair.
Natsu is going crazy, having Lucy hug him like that while she's sleeping is one of the things he wanted her to do to him, but he can't experience it before because Happy is always in the middle of them.
"Warm..." Natsu heard Lucy mumble in her sleep, and he smiled, then put his arms around her hugging her tightly, he then sniffed, and kissed her head, enjoying the moment he had with Lucy.
"So who's invading the space now?" Natsu muttered, while having a smile on his face, and eventually drifting off to sleep.
A/N: Hello! Thank you for reading my NaLu fanfic, and I hope you liked it!
Here's a question, should I make a second part of this fanfic or not?
I honestly got the cover picture of my story in one of the episodes of Fairy Tail, hahaha, I don't really have the time and the patience to make a nice cover photo, and also I apologize if there are some grammatical mistake or spelling mistakes that I missed.
All characters belong to Hiro Mashima.
If there's a story similar to this, note that it's only similar and it is never my intention to copy anyone's work.
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