Natsu goes on an adventure to find his cat.
Again.
"Happy?"
The pinkette looked around for his blue cat, pulling the sheets from his bed off the corners to see if he was hiding under the bed, but to no luck. He ran a hair through his pink ruffles, a sigh escaping his lips in frustration. This had been the third time this week he'd run off, most the time just hiding in the building somewhere. But Natsu had a feeling that Happy wasn't going to be here tonight, though.
"Dammit. I really wanted to just go to sleep."
He quickly removed his work clothes and searched for some that didn't smell like he's worn it all week. He had this naturally bad habit of not cleaning, and it wasn't helping him out at all. After a few minutes of searching he managed to find a black V-neck shirt and straight cut jeans that didn't look too bad. He's going through so much more effort than he needed to to find his cat. But he had a feeling he was going to be walking around a lot and he'd much rather be in comfortable clothes than his work clothes.
"I really should keep my room locked up."
Natsu left his bedroom, making sure that it was properly locked before he set out for his cat. Thankfully, everyone was in their rooms so they wouldn't question him for leaving so late again at night. It's been way too many times this week he's had to search for Happy that everyone's been questioning him being up and out so late.
It's not like he had a choice. He worried about Happy. He was slightly stupid. But only slightly. Natsu made his way outside and looked around his building, calling out the cat's name. There would be days that Happy would pop up and he could chase after the cat, but mostly he had to search for a few hours for him. And today was one of those days. He trudged his way around campus, lazily calling for Happy as he went on through the night. He made his way around the entire dorm area, not even seeing any signs of his blue cat anywhere. He huffed in annoyance before he realized where he was. He was fairly certain that Lucy lived around here. He could go see if she's seen Happy at all today. It took him awhile before he was able to figure out which apartment building was hers. He really only remembered it because she likes lemonade, which is yellow, and her apartment building is yellow and her hair is yellow and she smiled brightly like the sun which was yellow.
She was yellow.
But in a pretty way.
He saw her window open to her room, which was thankfully only on the second floor. It looked like it was a fairly easy climb, but he wanted to make sure she was awake before he thought of coming up. He looked around on the ground for small pebbles that wouldn't break the window if he threw it, and grinned when he was able to muster up a handful of pebbles. One by one he threw them at her window, hoping to grab her attention. When he realized that throwing them one by one didn't work, he grabbed another handful of pebbles and threw them all at once at her window, grinning when he heard a small yelp come from inside the room. He watched as the lights in her room got brighter, and the thin curtains were pulled aside to open the window. She peeked out the window slowly, looking around the ground and gasped when she spotted the pink hair.
"Natsu!"
He grinned up at her, noticing how her hair was in a messy braid and she looked exhausted.
"Hiya! I just have a quick question. Well, two, really. First, can I come in?"
Lucy rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, wondering why in the world the pink idiot wanted to see her at this late of an hour. She simply nodded to the man below her on the ground.
"Yeah, just give me a second to go to the-"
"Just move away from your window, I can climb that."
"Natsu, don't be an idiot. You can't climb this!"
His comment woke her up immediately, and she watched in horror as he started to scale the wall to her window. It wasn't far, but it was still an insane thing to do.
"This is easy Luce! Now move, I gotta get in somehow."
The woman scrambled away from the window just as Natsu rolled over the windowsill and onto her bed. He looked up at her with a grin, and spotted a ball of blue fur on her pink pillow.
"Happy!"
The cat looked up with bleary eyes and yawned before going back to sleep, nuzzling his nose into his paw.
"How long has he been here? Why didn't you bring him back?"
Lucy got comfortable on her bed with her legs crossed and her oversized t-shirt was pushed to cover her extremely short shorts, and she looked away with a pout on her face.
"I only found him a few hours ago when I was getting back from practice. It was already 12 so I thought you'd be asleep. It is nearly 2 in the morning Natsu."
The man shrugged it off, reaching for the blue ball of fur before Lucy smacked his hand away.
"Leave him alone! He's sleeping!"
Natsu pouted at the woman, holding his hand with a hurt look in his eyes. She just rolled her eyes before pushing him off her bed, snickering as he just fell to the floor with a loud thump.
"You're filthy, stay off my bed."
"It's not my fault that your bed is right where your window is!"
"Why are you even this gross?"
"I was looking for Happy."
He stared at her like it was obvious, but she just scrunched up her nose in distaste. She didn't think it was worth getting that dirty just for a pet. She ran a hand through her bangs, sighing at the angry pout he was giving her.
"It's not going to help you."
"Come on! I'm not even that dirty! If I take my shirt off, it'll be like I never climbed a tree."
"You climbed a tree? What gave you the idea that Happy was in a tree?"
"He's a cat. Don't cats like trees?"
He watched as the woman sighed in exasperation as she grabbed her other pillow and threw it at him.
"Not all cats like trees and I highly doubt any of them would just sleep in it for fun this time of night."
Natsu just stared at her blankly, not taking what she said to heart. He had to believe that Happy liked trees, otherwise how else was the cat getting so dirty? He turned away from her, crossing his arms as he pouted and she rolled her eyes at him. He ignored the pillow that she threw at him, scooting away from her bed and the pillow as well. Lucy moved back to the head of the bed, sliding under her thick blanket next to Happy.
"You should just sleep here, it's late and I don't want to get out of my bed to lock my door when you leave."
Natsu turned and stared at her like she was insane. They barely even knew each other and she was already asking him to sleep with her? He could feel his heart beating faster, his face heating up as he took a small peek over his shoulder at the girl lying in her bed behind him as he took in a sharp breath.
"T-there's no way that I can stay the night here!"
Lucy grumbled, rolling over in her bed to be facing away from him.
"Natsu, it's 3 in the morning. Go to sleep."
Natsu sighed, plopping down on the floor and he grabs her pillow, pushing it under his head. It smelled fairly strongly of vanilla, but he could smell a faint scent of coconut. Maybe it was her shampoo she used? He didn't notice it when he first met her, but she smelled slightly like sweat and coffee. Sighing, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep, but it wasn't exactly working. There was a woman sleeping right next to him.
"Luce?"
He held his breath for a second, waiting for a response but the only thing he heard was her faint snoring. He tried to count sheep, but he kept thinking about the woman sleeping next to him. Why would she suggest that he should stay the night? Was it just because it was late? That had to be it. He would consider them friends, pretty good friends actually, but he never really thought anything much more of the woman. He heard teeth chattering and looked over to see Lucy shivering slightly, the blankets wrapped tightly around her.
"Does she not use the heat in her apartment?"
He crawls to her, but remembers that she didn't like how filthy he was. He quickly removed his shirt, pulling at her blankets when he had taken off his shirt and slid in next to her. He used to sleep with his cousin all the time when they were younger because she liked how warm he was; surely Lucy wouldn't mind a space heater? He turned himself so that their backs were to each other, and he sighed. Her bed was abnormally comfortable, and having Happy there purring helped lull him to sleep. It wasn't too long before he was snoring away with Lucy by his side.
Sorry that this chapter is so short! I'm hoping that this next chapter is going to be quite long. It's going to be a filler for what the world is and lots of Nalu fluff.
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