Hey Readers!
Happy New Year! I hope you have a great one. I also hope that you enjoy the chapter I have done for you!
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FairyTailxNaLu
Chapter 4
"That is definitely not a photoshop, it's a real ring" Erza comments as she leans back to her chair while crossing her arms across her chest,
"Oh my goodness Lu-chan! You have an engagement ring!" Levy exclaims while wiggling in her chair,
"And not just any engagement ring! It's a pink sapphire stone that is surrounded by diamonds" Mira added as she holds on to the hand of Lucy to inspect the ring,
"Where did you even get this Lucy-san? Did you buy it for yourself?" Juvia asks, looking closely to the ring, then glances up at the blonde who seemed to lose her voice.
When the blonde did not respond, all eyes suddenly glanced at Lucy and saw that she was stunned herself. With her mouth agape, the girls all realized that even their friend was not prepared for the sudden revelation that she was wearing the ring.
"Lu-chan?" Levy coos as she leans closer to the blonde, when suddenly,
"AHHHHHH!" Lucy screeched, making everyone at the café look at the source of the scream. All the girls cringed to Lucy's scream and knowing her loud shout, they know that all eyes would be on them. So in a swift move, Levy covers Lucy's lips with her hand while giving her wide eyes.
"Lu-chan, will you relax?!" Levy whispered sternly making the blonde stop from all her hysterics. Suddenly feeling irritated with the hand, Lucy pulls Levy's hand away from her and drops her hand with a ring on top of the table.
"Levy-chan! How the heck am I supposed to relax when I went out of home wearing this stupid engagement ring?!" Lucy demanded as she looks at the bluenette who just shrugs off at her before leaning back to her chair
"Now I'm just making the rumor like real…" Lucy trails as she falls back to her chair. When she hits the back of the chair, she quickly sits up straight and began to pull the ring out of her finger, "I've got to take this off!"
Not minding their hysterical friend, all the girls huddled in their table yet letting Lucy hear their conversation. "So, what are we going to do now? Pretty sure, everyone saw that article even Auntie Layla…" Levy asks as she looks at each of her friends
"How about make Lucy have an interview?" Lissana suggests but then Erza shakes her head in disagreement, "It would be too confusing and late to do that. Everyone has seen it already and if she was to clarify it, she should have done it long before"
"Erza's right, but what can we do?" Mira then glances at her friends who all looked serious thinking when suddenly they heard Lucy, "AH! Damn it! Why won't this come off?!"
"Hush Lucy," Erza said with a poker-face before looking back at her friends
"Juvia thought of a crazy one…" Juvia remarks shyly as she wiggles in her chair because of nervousness, "What is that Juvia-chan?" Levy inquires
"I was thinking, what if we look for someone who would act as Lucy-san's fiancé?" Juvia slowly looks up at her friends who was gently smirking at her comment.
"Juvia is right, let's create a plot and find an actor who can act as Lucy's fiancé" Lissana confirms with a devious smirk and glow in her eyes, "So, we would be holding an audition? Mira, can you do anything about it?" Levy then focuses her attention to the white long haired beauty. Mira nodding in confirmation, she suddenly claps her hand in excitement, "That would be easy as a pie! I know a lot of talent agents who has their bets for this kind of roles!"
"Alright then, it's settled, we will find Lucy a fake fiancé!" Erza exclaims as she raises her fist in the air which the girls found funny at some point. But for Lucy, it snapped her out of her concentration. "Wait, what were you talking about?"
"You, who else?" Levy smirks as she playful bumps the blonde
"Me? What about me? I still have issues to be concerned about, so what are you all talking about?" Lucy then glances at her friends, from left to right then right to left, "Would anyone start speaking up instead of just smirking at me?"
"Lucy-san, we found a solution to your problem" Juvia then smiles at the blonde which perked the excitement of the girl, "We thought of having an audition for your fake fiancé and Mira will handle-"
"Wait what?! A fiancé?!" Lucy wide-eyed at her blue-haired friend
"Fake, fake fiancé" Lissana corrects but was ignored by the blonde
"No! We can't find someone to act as my fiancé! I don't want to get married yet and not just with anyone!" Lucy reasons out as she felt anxious that her life would suddenly change just because of a ridiculous idea, "We are not-"
"Don't worry Lucy, it will be just for show. I thought of a plot now, Lucy here would look for a fake fiancé then their marriage would be in three months. In the first month," Mira explains, all the girls' leans forward to keep track of the story line, even Lucy despite doubting, "Lucy and the actor would act all lovey-dovey, like how a newly engaged couple would be. Then at the second month, Lucy and the actor have to have issues that would cause conflict and this problem goes on until the third month. So when the third-month enters, the couple will decide to call off the wedding since they felt unsure and broke off the relationship. The end, problem solved!" Mira claps her as she ends her small plot making the girls clap as well, except for one, Lucy of course.
"I doubt that" Lucy comments as she crosses her arm and drops her back to her chair
"Well, do you have any better idea?" Levy teases, making the blonde groan in defeat, "I thought so…" Levy victoriously grins at her friend before she laughed along with her friends.
When the next day came, Mira called her girlfriends to come over to Laxus' studio where they would hold their audition for the fake fiancé of Lucy. It was 8 am that time, and the girls all promised that they would be there by 9. So when the call ended, Mira had an hour to wait in the studio and since it was too early, she began to roam around the place when a tall, blonde, muscular man suddenly comes out of a dark room.
"Mirajane" the blonde guy calls making the silver-haired beauty to twirl in her spot
"Hey Laxus" Mira greets before waking up to the man who was holding his camera lenses, "Thanks for lending your studio for our small project"
"Uh, yeah sure. It's always open for you, only for you, though." Laxus replies before turning his back and walks to a table full of materials for cameras.
Giggling at Laxus' comment, Mira couldn't help but blush, "So, do you have any outside gig? You're preparing your stuff" Mira then leans to the table as she looks at the blonde man.
"Yeah, I have to cover an event at Bassia town tomorrow morning so I have to leave this afternoon." Laxus just then continues his task without glancing at the curious beauty
"Will there be lots of girls there?" Mira curiously asks as she steps closer to the man
"Maybe…" Laxus replies, oblivious to the distance that Mira is making, "Why?" He then looks at the beauty only to be surprised that Mira was standing so close to him that their arms were brushing against each other. Having the thought that Mira's arms were touching his, it suddenly made him blush so he looks away and grabs his bag to walk over to another table. "I mean, why so c-curious…"
"I don't know, just wondering I guess what kind of event it is…" Mira answers as she walks towards the spot Laxus were in. When she reaches him, Laxus walks away again and returned to the previous table.
"Are you avoiding me?" Mira finally asks as she notices that Laxus was starting to act weird. When the blonde man didn't move, at first, Mira attempted to step closer but the man suddenly turns and looks at her with beads of sweat appearing his forehead, "Are you okay?" Mira suddenly felt anxious seeing the man nervous since the man rarely gets nervous.
"Me? Of course, I'm fine" Laxus states before walking over to the table Mira was standing next to. Laxus was about to reach something in the table when Mira suddenly pushes Laxus' shoulder and trap him to the table. Despite trying to intimidate the man, with the stature of the woman it was impossible for the blonde to quiver in fear. But the way Mira's eyes were stern and deadly, Laxus couldn't help but gulp as he looks back at the blue eyes of the beauty.
"W-what are you doing Mirajane?" Laxus continuously stares back at the girl when suddenly Mira brought her hand to his forehead and flinches at the contact
"You are not sick, so why are sweating like this?" Mira inquires before tip-toeing and leans her body more into the man which made the blonde man, even more, nervous
"M-Mirajane, don't be ridiculous. I-I'm not sick" Laxus then looks away as he felt his face to heat up when he suddenly felt Mira's chest was pressed down to his. When Mira was not moving away, Laxus was panicking because it was too much for him so he grabs her shoulder and slightly pushes her away. "O-okay Mirajane, it's j-just hot in the studio t-that its why I-I'm sweating. S-so don't forget to turn the aircon" And with that Laxus grabs the bag and enters the dark room once more.
When Mira was left alone, she leans back to the table and pouts to herself, "It didn't work", she mumbles to herself when suddenly the doors to the studio open and reveals a scarlet-haired beauty.
"Hey Mira, sorry just now…" Erza says as she lays her bag to the couch before walking up to the other beauty, "Are you alone or is Laxus still here?"
"He's inside that room" Mira points before crossing her arms under her busty chest
"Alright, what's wrong?" Erza shifts in her position, facing the silver-haired beauty while leaning one arm to the table and the other pressing to her hips, "Why are pouting like a little brat?"
"Well 'cause Laxus is avoiding all my advances. I even pressed these," Mira then grabs her boobs and gave it a firm shake before crossing her arms again, "to his chest and he just pushes me away"
"Well, take it easy with the man. I guess he's just overwhelmed by the fact that a hot, kind and focused woman like you would shove her breast to a guy like him" Erza then smirks at the beauty who just giggles as well to the thought, "Maybe…"
"Alright, can we start preparing?" Erza then stands straight making Mira copy her
"Of course, let the auditions begin!"
Soon enough, one by one, the girls arrived at the studio and began the auditions. At first, the girls would just giggle whenever a man would start introducing their self while trying to impress them. Then later, the girls would squeal in embarrassment when the men would start flexing their muscles.
One auditionee named Ichiya, started walking in the center, only with his trunks on and started to wink at Erza, "Hello Ladies, please call me Ichiya, MEN!" The said man then started flexing his muscles and winks at Erza, "I am very attracted to red-haired beauties like you!" Ichiya began to walk up to Erza to grab her hand and give it a kiss. However, it was obviously seen in Erza's face that she was in pure disgust so suddenly she pulls her hand away, "NEXT!" Erza shouted making everyone at the room cringe in the loudness.
The audition went on and it continued until Wednesday night. When the last auditionee was sent home, all the girls slide down to their chair and exhales deeply and tiredly.
"I can't believe looking for a guy eligible for the role of fake fiancé would be so hard…" Levy remarks before sitting up straight in her spot and leans her head to the table
"Who would have thought filling in that role would be this difficult?" Lissana added as she places her forearm to the table before laying her head to her arms
"I told you guys, this is doubtful…" Lucy says as she sits up straight grabs her phone which lit up when a call came. Suddenly standing up, Lucy snatch her phone and walks away from her friends, "Okay? Now who was that?" Lissana inquires as she follows her gaze to the suddenly grinning blonde
"Who else? Of course, it would be Natsu…" Mira answers as she places a tray full of drinks which the girls garbs quickly, "I wonder what they are talking about that makes Lucy smile like that…" Mira keeps her gaze at the blonde who was smiling endlessly, making the others glance as well.
When Lucy walked away from the girls to answer the call, she quickly answers the call and turns her back from her friends, "Hey what's up?" Lucy said smiling once she hears his voice, then she peeks at her friends who were keeping an eye to her
"Nothing much…hey, I have a joke" Natsu says excitedly which Lucy easily notices in his tone
"Okay, what?" Lucy replies still her lips are moving upwards in happiness
"Knock Knock"
"Natsu, I have told you many times to quite giving me stupid jokes" Dropping the smile, Lucy replies back but somehow the smile was returning to her face
"Will you just get along?"
"Fine,…who's there?" Lucy tries sounding unimpressed and bored but the truth was she was trying hard not to smile
"A weirdo like"
Groaning at first after hearing the word 'weirdo, "Uh, a weirdo like who?"
"YOU!" Natsu then laughs loudly making Lucy growl in annoyance
"AH! I knew it with your stupid jokes!"
"Hahaha, admit it, Luce, it was funny!"
"Maybe for you, baka" Lucy pouts before glancing at her friends once again. When she did, the girls were all raising their brow at her making her smile sheepishly before turning her back once again, "Seriously Natsu, why'd you call?"
"I'm bored, so I was wondering if we could hang out at your place…"
"Not tonight, I'm not at home yet and I'm tired" Lucy began to pick on the blinds of the windows
"How about I offer you a back massage?" Natsu's voice sounded teasing making Lucy giggle at the other end of the call
"Thanks but no thanks, I want to keep my back thank you"
"Hey, I give good massages!"
"Yeah for those with thick back, but seriously Natsu not tonight." Lucy then leans to the ledge of the window then looks up to her friends who were still looking at her
"Too bad, I'm at your door step"
"What?!" Lucy suddenly stands straight, feeling anxious
"Yup, and I'm planning to jump over your window…I think this would be your bedroom" Natsu replies nonchalantly making Lucy panic since she knows that Natsu would do what he was planning
"Natsu! Don't you dare do that!" Lucy exclaims loud enough for her friends to worry about but Lucy quickly fixes her gaze and assured her friends it wasn't something serious, "I'll be coming over, please wait at the door step"
"Too late Luce, I'm at your window sill," Natsu says back as he taps the glass, "And I'm correct, I'm at your bedroom window!"
"Shut up Natsu and get down there!" And with that Lucy ends the call as she fastens her walk towards the girls to grab her bag. When she did, all the girls were raising a brow at her for speeding up her actions
"Did anything happen Lucy-san?" Juvia asks as she watches Lucy pack her stuff
"Oh, uh nothing, just Natsu" Lucy replies before she gave each of her friends a cheek to cheek kiss. When Lucy gave a cheek to cheek kiss to Erza, the scarlet-haired beauty asked a serious question, "What did Natsu do this time?"
"He's breaking in inside my apartment" Lucy smiles before heading towards the door. When she did, another question popped, "Is that something new?" Mira asks innocently
"Nope" And with that Lucy opens the door and disappears behind it
When Thursday came, Lucy had to go to the Fairy Tail headquarters to submit her new articles that were due on Friday. Since she was the kind of employee who finishes her task earlier than the deadline, she was ensured that tomorrow would be a free day, a perfect for a date. However, she was dateless and the fact that her mother was still waiting for a text or call about the meetup, she was thinking to use the day to find a way to make excuses to her mother.
While Lucy was finalizing her edited articles, Mira suddenly walks up to her office and suggests that she should just ask some of their guy friends since they would be able to handle the situation better than a stranger. Agreeing to that idea, Lucy told Mira that she would start calling some of her friends.
When Lucy was by herself, she opens her contacts and comes across her orange-haired guy friend's number. So in a swift move, she presses the call button. After a few ring, the call was answered. "hey Loke" Lucy greeted when the said man answered
"Oh, hello there my lovely princess" Loke said sounding flirty making the woman shake her head in disbelief yet having a smile on
"Hey listen, I was wondering if I could ask you something?"
"Yeah sure, anything for you" Loke still sounding flirty
"Okay, so I'm wondering if you would be willing for a challenge…" Lucy then bites her lower lip as she anticipates the man's reply
"Of course, what kind of challenge is that?" Loke answers, now with an excited tone
"I'm pretty sure you have read or seen some articles about me being engaged or something?"
"Yeah about that…is it true?"
"No…but I was planning to have someone to act as my fiancé…So I was wondering-"
"I can't" Loke cuts off Lucy who was at the middle of her explanation. The answer that Loke gave suddenly froze the blonde and became speechless for a time until she hears Loke calling her attention
"W-why can't you? I thought…"
"Well yeah I would be willing for a challenge but be your fiancé in front of your mother? I can't do that"
Raising a brow at the man despite being unseen by the person, "What do you mean you can't?"
"Well…I'm dating Aries, so I can't" Loke replies almost in a hushed voice, afraid of Lucy's reaction
"You're dating my mom's secretary?!" Lucy suddenly outbursts making some of her co-workers to glance at her glass office. Smiling sheepishly to them, all of them averts their attention from the blonde, "Why did you tell me just now, Loke?"
"Well, I was afraid of this… I'm afraid you'll hate me because I'm dating Aries and I know how much you adore her" Loke defends sounding really nervous which somehow made Lucy relief because at least she knows that the old playboy is afraid of her is he ever hurts the most adorable she have met.
"Well, I understand. Just promise me you won't hurt her because I'll make sure you won't have balls anymore"
"Got that!" Loke screams out loud making Lucy cringe at the other end of the call
"Alright, got to go. Thanks anyways for being up for the challenge, bye" Soon the man greets farewell and ends the call
When the call ended, Lucy continued her search in her contacts. She started calling Sting, Rogue, Hibiki, and even Gray just to tease Juvia who was with the man. As she scrolls on, she suddenly stops at Natsu's name but then she shakes her head and goes on with the list.
Soon, she stops to a name Raito Aikawa, the guy Lucy dated before. But because of Natsu, the courtship ended too soon. Lucy believes that the courtship ended because Natsu threatened and scared off the man. And since she was left with no choice because her best friend was making a big deal about it, she dumps the man.
"I can't just call Raito and ask him if he could pretend to be my fiancé after dumping him…It's stupid" Lucy debates to herself as she lingers in the name in her contact. "Ah, if I really have no choice, I'll call you"
"No! I can't! this is stupid!" Lucy quickly counters herself making her grip her hair and pull it. But to no avail, nothing improved, "I'm hopeless…"
When Friday finally came, Lucy made sure that her phone would be off the whole day. She was just avoiding a text or call from her mother who has been expressing her dismay about not being told yet when will the meet up happen. So, as Lucy starts her day, she glances at her lifeless phone, "I'm gonna keep you like that…" then Lucy walks away from her night stand and heads to her kitchen.
As soon as she was grabbing herself a cup of coffee, she suddenly hears a crashing sound from her bedroom, making her panic because she was afraid that someone might hurt her. So in her response to her fear, she grabs the nearest object and slowly walks towards her room. And as soon as she was a meter away from the hall to her bedroom, a messed up pink-haired man stumbles out of her room.
"Natsu?!" Lucy shouts as she prepares herself for an attack
"Luce? What are you doing? And is that a casserole? Are you just about to hit me with that?! Again?!" Natsu finally felt chills in his spine when he saw the same casserole that landed in his head once
"Well, I thought you were a burglar or something!" Lucy retorts back as she lowers down the casserole before turning away from the stunned man
When Lucy started walking away, Natsu carefully follows the blonde back to the kitchen. Trailing behind her, Lucy slightly glances at her shoulder and catches Natsu's attention, "And I have told you, tons of times, to stop barging-in in my apartment. You never know when this casserole will hit your head again" Lucy then places the casserole back to its original place.
After a few preaching from the blonde beauty, Lucy and Natsu rested in the living room, wherein Natsu was lying down to Lucy's lap while the blonde read the latest magazine she bought. After a few minutes of lying down, Natsu suddenly sits up and stares at the surprised blonde.
"I finally remembered!" Natsu exclaims, making Lucy raise a brow
"Uh, okay…what did you remember?" Lucy asks curiously
"I'm supposed to ask you, why do you have an engagement rumor? Do you have a boyfriend that I don't know of? Who is he?! And why are you getting married without me knowing?! Since-"
Lucy cuts of the pinkette by placing a finger against his warm lips, "Will you relax? You're ranting"
Annoyed that he was interrupted, Natsu harshly pulls Lucy's finger away as he grumbles, "How am I supposed to relax, Luce? You're engaged to a guy you haven't introduced me too!"
Shaking her head in disbelief, Lucy looks away from her best friend and continues her reading, "Because there is no one to introduce…"
"What do you mean?! Can you speak in English, please!?" Natsu exclaims earning a glare from the blonde who then exhales tiredly
Closing the magazine and place it back to the coffee table, Lucy then repositions herself, facing the confused man. "Okay, listen…I didn't mean to make a rumor about being engaged. I was being sarcastic to the media and I didn't know that the media would take me seriously. So, now, rumors are spreading about me being engaged to an identified man. Then yesterday, I came out with this," Lucy then lifts her left hand and a beautiful ring shines against her hand, which made Natsu gaze at awe when he suddenly realize the ring looks familiar, "Wait, isn't that the ring I…"
"Yes, I wore it. Sorry" Lucy then lowers her hand and place it on top of her lap as she gazes at the ring
"No, it's fine. I mean, I just didn't expect you'd try it on…" Lucy then looks up and was taken aback to meet a soft expression from her best friend, "So you're not mad about me wearing it?"
"Of course not weirdo…And sorry for accusing you of the rumor" Natsu then smiles sheepishly to the blonde who just smiles back warmly too
As the two got along once again, Lucy moves closer to Natsu and handed her left hand, "I have a problem, the ring won't come off…"
"Really? Let me try" Natsu then grabs the hand of Lucy and began to pull the ring but it just strained the finger of the blonde. And with that Lucy slaps the man at his shoulder, "Ow! That hurts!"
"Well then move closer, so that I wouldn't be pulling you too hard!" Natsu then grabs Lucy's thighs and pulls it over his lap.
And with that, their position changes. Lucy's thighs were now resting on top of Natsu's lap, making her blush with the distance they have. Meanwhile, Natsu's arms were wrapped around Lucy's waist, so that he was able to resist Lucy's hand from following as he pulls the ring out.
And as the two were too focused on pulling out the ring, they were not able to hear the front door open. And soon, a blonde middle-aged woman walks up to the living room. Layla seeing her daughter straddling a man who's scarf was over his head, the older woman couldn't help but raise her brows as she walks closer. "Lucy?"
Suddenly freezing in her spot, Lucy slowly glances at her back and was stunned to see her mother standing before her, "Mom!"
"Who is this? Is this my future son-in-law?" Layla asks nonchalantly as she walks in front of the two. As soon as Layla stood in front of the two, she squeals in excitement, "Ahhh!"
Raising a brow at the squealing older blonde, Natsu glances at Lucy to ask but found her just agape, so Natsu just shyly greets, "Uh, hi auntie Layla"
"Oh my God! It's you Natsu!" Layla then pulls the young man making Lucy tumble off the couch. As Lucy stands and gives an annoyed look at her mother, her face quickly shifts as Layla looks back at her, "Is he my soon to be son-in-law?" Layla asks childishly as she side hugs the man
"Uh…yeah" Lucy carelessly answers back making the pinkette wide eyes before she pulls the man next to her, "Mom, meet Natsu…my fiancé"
"Hu-wha-oh!" Natsu suddenly flinches in pain when Lucy hits his ribs secretly
"Natsu, meet my mom." Lucy then devilishly smiles at Natsu as if she was mentally telling him to get along or else she'll kill him
Laughing defeated at Lucy, Natsu quickly looks away and smiles at the older blonde, "Hi…"
To be continued…
