AN: Hey guys, I know it's been a long time since I updated, let alone written anything. I've been extremely busy this summer with taking classes I didn't need to and working . Most of this chapter has been done for a while I just haven't had time to finish it. Hopefully I'll have more time soon for all my pending fics. Anyways, hope you enjoy the chapter!
That cough was enough to snap Lucy out of her trance as she stood back and tried to push out of his hold on her. For half a second he didn't budge, there was a dark lust in his eyes that forced Lucy to still with a shiver down her spine but she was able to ignore it as mostly amusement shinned through. Eventually he let her scramble away, though she should emphasize, that he let her. Lucy didn't know how to feel about that. What she did know she felt, was flustered and highly mortified.
Lucy panted with flushed cheeks and a crumpled brow as he just smirked knowingly back at her. Everyone was watching. The realization of it made her head grow steam, and by the amused grin on Natsu's face, she must have become way redder than before.
"What's going on Lucy?" The blonde tore her eyes away from Natsu's teasing own, long enough to look at her friend to see her concerned face. Questions piercing her with her hazel eyes but the worry seemed to be the most demanding emotion.
"Yeah, Lucy," Natsu purred, though she detected a hint of spite in the undertones of his voice, "what's going on?"
In that moment, Lucy wanted to deny the implications in their voices, in everyone's eyes, to tell the truth and run away. High tail it out of that place and never see him again, but when brown gazed back upon amused green, those hateful lips of his started moving without a sound. 'Remember,' the syllables were formed upon his lips dreadfully.
Lucy's brow crinkled into a scowl, 'Fuck you,' she mouthed. Natsu stared at the damning syllables. A heated stare taking over his eyes on her mouth before he directed them back to her eyes with a sensual lick of his lips.
He didn't say it, didn't even mouth it, but she had an idea of what he wanted to say.
That can be arranged.
Ugh
"Luce here, is my girlfriend." Natsu stated, crossing his arms in his plain white cotton shirt, Lucy tried not to pay attention to how his muscles bulged. Convincing herself she wasn't attracted to him, just warry of his next move. He was a slick one, she had to remember that. A huge gasp seemed to echo around the compound at hearing that and Lucy was definitely one of them.
He had told her what he had wanted out of her, no matter how much she understood it or not, but the feeling was different from him speaking about it just between the two of them and bluntly stating it front of a crowd of people. The realization of what she was getting herself into hit her hard and a familiar stinging burned the back of her eyes from her shame.
"Lulu?" Levy's look was a lot less worried now, this time more shocked and a little indignant. She couldn't blame her.
Knowing she'd have explanations by the dozens to give, Lucy decided to play along. "Ahem, well yeah. I guess…" A violent blush sprouted on her face as she turned away from Levy's burning gaze, she felt the heat move to her shoulders—or maybe it never left, as she flattened down the back of her skirt and tried even harder to distract her gaze from Levy's. "We're dating…ehem, Natsu and I."
And that was enough for a commotion to start of banter and gossip with the girls next to them.
Natsu smiled, and if Lucy were stupid, she'd probably think it were genuine. The twinkle in his eyes did get her heart to flutter, but the darkness that always shadowed there didn't dissipate showing it was all an act. It did little to stop her reaction though, and as if that wasn't enough, her heart picked up even more speed as he moved closer towards her. Pulling her into his embrace as his long fingers ran through her hair, with her hands in between them on his chest. She actually hadn't been wearing a bra today, the cute blue and gold halter halfie (what she liked to call a half top) she wore demanded it, and was a little mortified that he could've possibly known from their earlier embrace. Though the spicy smell of him fully engulfed by her senses somewhat dulled the thought. How could a terrible person like him smell so nice?
"Squuuuuuueeeeeee!"
Lucy jumped again, just as Levy jumped from her seat and tackled her into a bear hug. The small girl somehow swinging her around as she yelled to the high heaven. "Oh my! I'm so happy for you!" She said with stars in her eyes. "When did this happen? How did you meet? Tell me everything!" Lucy tried scratching the back of her head while thinking up a way to answer all her questions. 'Last night, in a slave auction, he actually hates me and wants to kill my father…' The truthful answers came as quickly as she asked them. They hadn't thought this far; hell they hadn't thought up their earlier confession. It was lucky she could read mouths pretty well and was rational enough to not just cuss him out as soon as she saw him or this plan would be toast and her father would be the same.
Internally, Lucy scolded herself for the crass joke.
"I mean honestly Lulu, I didn't want to tell you sooner but it was about time you got a boyfriend. I thought you'd be alone for life. I mean it's not your fault, your dad is pretty freakin strict, but then again it kind of is your fault too…," Lucy's brow ticked in annoyance, Levy made her sound like a prude…which she was NOT! "You gotta live life Lucy and not care about what your dad says! Find yourself a hot boyfriend!" Levy glanced back at Natsu then back to jumping with Lucy in her arms again, "And you did!"
Lucy's jaw ticked, "Levs…"
"Oh Lucy, I thought I would have to bring you a new cat every year or something and make sure you weren't dead! I'm so happy I could cry!" Tears pebbled down Levy's cheeks.
A pulse started in Lucy's forehead, "Thanks Levy." Well, if that didn't help her seem even more pitiful. If the crowd knew the truth, they'd probably think Natsu was doing her a favor.
"That's about it shrimp," Gajeel came from behind Levy and plucked her up by the cuff of her shirt, stopping her mid ball. The girl wide eyed at anyone having the gall to do so. Lucy was equally as surprised but didn't say anything. "Let's leave the two lovebirds here alone so they can talk."
"Ladies…"
Lucy looked to see the black haired guy from earlier stand in front of the sizeable crowd of girls. His hands were in the pockets of his dark wash ripped jeans and a devilish smirk was on his face. They all swooned at the sight of him, a few calling out Gray-sama, Lucy assuming that to be his name. She couldn't help but also think he was pretty attractive, if it weren't too long ago, she would've fangirled over him herself.
"Leave." He deadpanned, his face now brought to a bored, blunt expression.
Lucy sweat dropped.
Not the reaction to be expected, all the girls screamed as if he said something sweet, despite it being quite the opposite and most certainly rude.
"Yes, Gray-sama!" They all replied, walking away to where Gajeel was headed. When all of the girls finally left, Gray gave them a slight glance over his shoulder before he then left himself.
A couple tense moments passed by and Lucy decided it was better to ignore everything and fidget with her skirt, than face her problems head on. It had been such a beautiful day too in the small park area of campus, they had foliage, trees and bushed to give them privacy and yet they made her claustrophobic. Now she was able to notice the small grey clouds in the sky and the random breeze that brought a chill to her spine.
The man before her didn't speak, he just continued to drill his gaze through her head as if to get her attention.
More uncomfortable moments rolled by and Lucy threw in the towel. With a huff, Lucy finally directed her attention to the man in front of her, "What are you doing here Nat-Dragoneel?" The blonde corrected herself, saying his name felt too friendly and familiar, the last thing they were.
Natsu arched a brow and a noise came out of his mouth that suspiciously sounded like a snicker.
Lucy twitched. Turning around, she had decided she had enough, but before she could fully walk away a firm hold wrapped around her wrist.
"Now, now Luce. Is that how you treat your boyfriend, and soon to be fiancé?" Natsu pouted at the enraged girl as she grit her teeth. A spiral of golden almost whipping in his face twirled before a heated glare came to view.
"We are NOT boyfriend and girlfriend. I HATE you!" Lucy yelled, trying dutifully to break out of his hold. When tugging didn't work, she tried placing her manicured hand against his chest and pushing.
He didn't move an inch, he barely even looked like he noticed her pushing at him, "Awe, Luce don't say that." Natsu pouted some more before pulling the hand that was on his chest and making her collide completely against him. Soft lips brushed over her ear as a sneaky hand grazed down the curves of her back and smoothed around to her waist. "Don't you remember the way I made you feel?"
Lucy gasped when his warm breath hit her sensitive lobe. The hateful images of their night together that she tried to forget started flashing through her mind. "Only a good boyfriend would give his girlfriend so much pleasure."
The hand still held by his, now laying against his chest, balled a fist against his shirt. Her breath was caught and her insides twisted and turned but she wouldn't allow him to seduce her, "You pig." Lucy was finally able to pull away, but only enough so that she could see into his eyes. His eyes that were a sea of dark passionate green. They were still dulled; by what she didn't know. She imagined that before whatever had happened to him, they used to be a fiery inferno of emotion sparking even the dampest log. What she could see now was just a small kindling. Eyes that only showed rage, or in these instances with her, amusement, arousal and distrust.
It was funny, she should be the one to not trust him. Closing her eyes and looking away, down at the tan skin of his fore arm, its tight muscles roped around her waist, she spoke again, "What do you want with me Dragoneel? Seriously…please."
Natsu furrowed his brows. She's resorted to begging? Her look was almost one of defeat, but not quite. "I came to see you, babe." If she finally wanted to give up, he was all for it. Though he couldn't say he wasn't enjoying the chase.
Lucy tensed further and Natsu sighed finally fully letting her go. Stepping away from the frozen blonde but still just a foot apart. He decided the act was up.
"Fine." His blank and emotionless façade slid back into place, "I'm here to tell you how our relationship will continue." Brown doe eyes looked underneath lashes to peer at him. Her stance had become closed off and protective with her small arms crossed underneath her plentiful chest and her stance turned away from him.
His gaze directed to the picnic bench her and Levy had been previously sitting on and Lucy quickly got the hint. A pout formed on her pretty lips but she walked over and sat anyway. He got the feeling that the main reason she gave in so easily was because she wanted answers and not necessarily because he told her to.
Once she was seated, albeit a little haughtily, Natsu found a seat across from her. Levy's mostly finished salad in front of him and Lucy's surely cold, coffee. One of his arms rested against the table while the other balled in a fist to hold his chin up as he stared thoughtfully at his blonde companion. She truly was a beauty he thought. It hadn't taken the light of day to realize that, but here he could really fully grasp it. Her soft features took on the visage of youthfulness especially with the lack of makeup he could see she preferred but the fullness of her pouty lips and the length of her thick lashes gave her no setbacks in the art of seduction. It was those same lips that she sat chewing on nervously while she looked anywhere but him that had him stirring in his briefs. That surprised him, not that she aroused him by doing something so simple, but that he was aroused so simply.
He considered himself a man of great control and restraint…well at least when it came to the opposite sex, he didn't allow himself to get swooned so easily. In truth, he hadn't had much experience with women until he learned that they could be a means to an end, especially when his rage overcame him and fighting wasn't always an option. Women were of plenty even when he was younger though he had no interest, so when he finally did cast a glance their way it was never hard to find one willing. Even during those times of him getting older and learning, he only found himself giving into his baser needs just to settle his emotions and not because he gave into their charms and fell into lust.
This girl before him was different. He had never wanted to claim someone so badly before. At the time he had thought it was just to get back at her father and take action into his plans, but now seeing how just a lip bite made him think about tearing her up from her seat, lifting her skirt and tearing her panties away, just to have her laying under him and begging him to take her over and over as he pounded into her perfect ass, as deeply as he possibly cou—
"Are you going to say anything, or are you just going to keep staring at me?" Lucy's pout became a full on sneer as her brown eyes finally looked upon him. His lip twitched upward as he watched her annoyed gestures, the tightness in his pants never went away. She truly was weird.
"Right." Natsu grin stayed put, enjoying the way his companion squirmed under his gaze as he reached into his pants pockets and brought out a bulky yet small white box and placed it on the picnic table in front of them.
Lucy gathered her wits enough to be able to focus on the new found object. "I want you to have this." Surprised brown orbs looked up into surprisingly serious green.
"What is it?"
His only response was a quirked pink brow, so she assumed he'd meant for her to open it.
Lucy's mind scrambled as she picked it up daintily in her cold hands, well at least it couldn't have been an engagement ring. She was able to scratch that off the list. The box was obviously too big and heavy. Too straight to be a gun, and too small to be the head of her father.
That joke probably wouldn't sit well with Natsu.
Opening the deep lid, Lucy found a simple, non offending iphone inside, similar to her own yet obviously without the dents and scratches she administered over time from her clumsiness. Her poor iphone had procured a lot more damage over the past week including a cracked screen, thanks to her abduction, though she guessed she should be thankful she got it back at all.
"I already have a phone, Dragoneel." Lucy looked up after inspecting the cold hunk of metal in her palms.
Natsu clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth, "About that…this here is going to be your new phone from now on." The serious expression of his seemed to quickly back track as he crossed his arms across his chest. His new expression almost childishly suggestive, "Besides, your old one is a hunk of crap." She didn't have it around her, so for him to know that he must've been the one to lay out her things the morning after their incident.
Lucy huffed indignantly, she will admittedly acknowledge that her phone was tarnished, but before the kidnapping she thought it brought it character, she had no problem with a few scratches and scrapes. She may have been rich but she wasn't completely materialistic and wasteful, a new phone for superficial damage was out of the question. "No." Lucy frowned with a cross of her own arms.
Natsu growled dangerously, "This is part of the agreement Lucy." He warned with a deepened scowl.
"I'm not going to get a new phone because I have a few scratches on my old one."
"Don't be an idiot," Her stomach pierced at the insult," I can't have your father tracking you, or anyone else for the matter in case they have something set up on it. We're getting rid of your phone and you're taking this one." Before she had time to respond, he stood. "Now, let's go."
"W-What do you mean?" Lucy's heart stopped, where was he planning on taking her? She still had a couple more classes left today.
Natsu scoffed at her look of fear and rolled his eyes, circling around the table to pull her up to her feet himself by the crook in her arm. "I'm not done explaining to you and plus I'm hungry." As he started to pull her along, he could tell by the dead weight behind him that Lucy still wouldn't budge.
"I have class, I can't go with you!"
"Class-smazh, this is more important, I can tell you're hungry too."
"N—," it was then her stomach decided to make its acquaintance with Natsu. With a sigh, Lucy resigned to being dragged, coming closer to a red corvette that she hadn't noticed earlier. There was still a weight on her mind and just as she was going to vocalize it, Natsu beat her to the punch.
"Don't worry your pretty little head… I won't try to have sex with you. "Lucy let out an imperceptible sigh of relief. Natsu, hearing it nonetheless chuckled to himself, amused by the beautiful blonde. "If anything, by the end of today," He pulled his warm lips to Lucy's ear and let go of her arm to reach around her waist, the car now in front of them, "You'll be begging me to fuck you." Natsu purred, chuckling darkly at the shiver he felt run through her and the cherries that dusted her cheeks, speaking of…
Lucy yelped cutely, both of her hands against her derriere and a growl at her lips as she watched the bane of her existence walk cockily around the pretty red car to the driver's seat.
"C'mon babe," He cooed out, flicking a pair of classic Ray Bans down from his pink locks, over his seductive gaze. "I'm starved!" The man roared as he slid into the sports car.
With little to no other option, Lucy slid in next to him, flabbergasted and confused by his quick changes in temperament, "We'll see about that." She spoke huffily to his earlier statement, eliciting a knowing look from her companion as he sped off down the street. Her disgruntled yell that she hadn't even gotten her seat belt on yet for all to hear, not realizing that that moment before getting into the car was enough time for her to have run.
Footsteps hit hard against pavement, the sound of a foot sloshing into water echoing in the air along with a feminine shriek.
"Crap Na-Dragoneel, you going to pull my arm off!" Lucy huffed. She wasn't able to yell much more before her body was pulled harshly around a sharp corner and into a warm puffing chest. Rough hands slid up her cold, bare arms and down to the sides of her waist as tense moments of silence passed by. Against her wishes, her face heated up from the feel of solid muscle underneath her and the delectable smell of the man she was with.
"Shh," Natsu shushed her, pulling Lucy by the back of her neck even closer to his form, unknowingly causing the girl even more embarrassment. In fact, he had no idea of her current dilemma as his face was turned seriously toward the direction they ran away from, listening intently for their pursuers. It didn't take long until he heard their dreaded footsteps.
"Where'd he go? Did you see him?" One of their pursuers called out, panting in between breaths. Their companion got a few more breaths in before answering. "No, I thought you said you saw him go this way!"
A group of more footsteps followed, making Natsu tense and pull Lucy even tighter if possible to his body, trying to keep them from being spotted as much as possible in their cramped space. A small 'eep' escaped from the girl and Natsu had to hold back from shushing her again, annoyed that she couldn't be quiet even with their life on the line.
Little did he know, when he pulled Lucy closer, he'd pulled her into a straddled position over his leg pressing deep into her clothed center and her face in the cuff of his tense neck, right where she could see a dark red almost purplish mark. Ignoring their compromising position, Lucy wondered where he got such a mark. Had he been with a woman recently other than herself?
"Hey, I thought you said you saw him come here!" Another voice yelled, quickly followed by other voices of agreement. Natsu cursed under his breath, there had to be at least ten of them gathered. He remembered there being a full on mob—a handful larger than this, so maybe he was able to shake off those people, but it still left a few more than he might be able to handle. Their best bet was to remain where they were, and hope to God they didn't get spotted. Looking to his other side, he thought again, 'Or maybe…'
The first person to speak from earlier huffed, shushing the crowd with her next statement, "Well wherever he went, at least I got a picture of him. Unfortunately, it's with that tramp he pulled along." Natsu peeked one jaded eye back around the corner, catching with his own eyes the size of the crowd and the person talking. It was a girl with average height and build, a hand cocked on her hip as she held out her bejeweled phone. One of the other girls pulled the phone from her grasp and gasped. "That's not a tramp, bitch, that's Lucy Heartifilia!"
Gasps and murmurs were heard throughout the crowd, "Natsu Dragoneel and Lucy Heartifilia are together!?"
"Shit," Natsu looked down at his companion, ignoring the perplexed look on her face and her contrite look towards his neck in favor for pulling her in the opposite direction of the crowd that he found open a few seconds before. "We have to get out of here."
"Hmm," Lucy moaned in what he assumed was agreement. Finally allowing him to lead them as he dodged behind dumpsters and cut corners with little thought, as quietly as he could while dragging another person with him, until they were back within the bustle of the public.
A sigh of relief left him when he noticed that the group of his fan girls were no longer around or in his line of sight.
"Guurggle, grruuuumble," Great, now his stomach feels like it's on the verge of eating itself inside out and he can't go back to one of his favorite restaurants because of those damn girls.
Flamin' Bun, was where they were headed. His favorite burger place in all of Fiore. They had the most amazing Valcano Stomach Burstin' Burger, which held the hottest peppers in the world under one bun slopped with the restaurants famous hot sauce. Just the thought of it made Natsu's stomach rumble yet again and drool form on his tongue. A scowl quickly formed to cover it when he remembered why he couldn't eat such a delicacy with Lucy today.
Driving through the city, he and Lucy actually had a pleasant conversation, sure it had mostly to do with what they wanted to eat and he bragging about the burger place in question and how he held the record for the most Valcano burgers eatin' in recorded time, ten times over. The story of how that happened and the owners face as he scarfed them down while Gray stood behind him yelling out insults for him to 'Make his pyro ass eat faster,' like an over hyped coach as he held the timer, even got a few chuckles out of the blonde. Their conversation had gotten so lighthearted in fact that he was able to crack a small sincere smile of his own. It was his first in a long time, and it had stayed on his face even as he parked and retold a story of Gray coming back the next day after a bet with Natsu and being unable to get even half a burger down before he barfed all over the diner floor. That story and the description of how red Gray's stupid face was got Lucy to laugh out loud, as she held her sides, his grin that much brighter all the while.
Unfortunately, they couldn't even get the door open before out, burst a group of girls whom he unfortunately recognized as his newly spawned fans. He had a few run ins with them before, ever since his press conference and the minimal interviews he'd done since then, at the shopping mall, on campus, and a coffee shop he happened to frequent when Gray needed to get his buzz, though he never touched the bitter shit. Each time since the first, they'd chased after him, all the while Gray laughing at him until they tackled he himself to the ground and stripped him of his clothing (although a naked Gray wasn't anything unusual). Natsu vowed from then on that he wouldn't ever let himself get caught.
And now here they were, panting and hungry on the side of the road. Natsu didn't know Lucy that well, but from what he did know, he expected her to be complaining about their predicament and lamenting his own thoughts to the high heavens, instead she was being eerily quiet, which was definitely unlike her.
"Ah well, I guess we should find somewhere else to eat." Natsu sighed, a smirk tugging at his lips as he thought optimistically about his next meal. He usually only had one run in with the girls at a time so he wasn't too worried to find them somewhere, and from the sounds of it, they'd gotten enough goods from him to last a few days. He reached behind himself to wrap his hand around Lucy's delicate wrist, pulling once he got a good enough hold, and finding yet again, dead weight.
"Wha—Luce," Natsu deadpanned, glaring at the blonde whom had her body wrapped tightly around the circumference of a light pole.
"No, I'm not going with you!" She yelled, grumpily glaring at him, her eyes dancing from his own to a spot on his neck.
Natsu sighed, "Hey, if it's because of the girls, don't worry, they don't usually find me more than one time a day. We'll have some peace from now on." He smiled trying to coax her.
Lucy growled, "That's NOT the reason I'm not coming with you," She glanced again at his neck and the burn of her stare almost made him want to bat at it. Unfortunately, he didn't have the skill to look down at his own neck especially without a mirror and him tucking his chin in to look was looking comical judging by the arch in Lucy's brow.
"Then what is it?" Natsu made his own groan, pulling once more but she held still. He was sure he could rip her away with more strength but was trepid about hurting her unnecessarily.
"Hmph!" Lucy looked away from him with her chin in the air, "After what you've done to me, I don't think that should be a question anymore."
"Luce, I thought we were over this." Lucy cringed at the sound of that nickname he was often starting to call her.
"Well are you over your girlfriend, why don't you ask her to go eat with you!"
"Wha.." Natsu started. Girlfriend? He didn't have a girlfriend. Before he could ponder what she meant by that more, watching as she dug through her cross body purse, until she pulled out something golden. Flipping it open with one hand as her other was still preoccupied in his own, he was faced with a small compact mirror. Inside held his own stupefied face but he knew that wasn't her problem. Glancing back at her, his thoughts rung true when her pointed stare stayed on his neck. Green eyes back on his reflection, he looked at where the right side of his neck was, twisting it to get a better look and found nothing more than a red mark, a hick—oh…
Girlfriend, huh?
Lucy fumed as she kept her eyes on the mark from his neck. So he had another girl, maybe one on the side. Or maybe she was the girl on the side! Maybe he was using her for his dark deeds while his real girlfriend had no idea. Lucy knew he was scum, but she hadn't realized his was this bad, the jerk!
"Oh this?" Natsu asked indifferently, pointing to the damned part of his neck with raised eyebrows as his broad build shifted into a wide more relaxed stance. Lucy glared hotly back to his eyes, watching as his face slowly lifted into a huge amused grin, "This is from you Luce, don't you remember?"
Lucy tensed, with each pull and push she was closer and closer to reaching her peak. He moved in different ways seemingly trying to find the spot and set of strokes she liked the best, it wasn't very hard though because she was very responsive and he seemed very skilled. His body hummed against her own, his hard lines surprisingly soft against her feminine curves. She was ashamedly entranced by the way he threw his head back and grit his teeth when she clenched down on him. From her staring, it didn't take long for him to meet her gaze, his jaw set and pink hair falling sexily over his face. His deep dark eyes were a passionate inferno, so entrancing they made her insides twist, she almost came apart then and there. He was too intense forcing her to look away and bury her face into his neck. His thick cock spearing into her harder and more brutalizing, as if he didn't like that she looked away. Her moans echoed around the room as he hit deeper and deeper within her.
"Pleeease," she called, tears bundling in her eyes. It felt so good, she didn't know what to do with herself besides claw her hands down his back and suck on the junction of his neck to muffle her screams as he went even deeper, snapping his hips forward, his grip moving from her neck to the headboard causing the bed to shake. Lucy bit down hard, the taste of old coins on the back of her throat as Natsu yelled out an expletive and sped up his pace.
Without her realizing, her grip had slackened and Natsu was able to pull her away from the light pole. People were starting to stare and he really didn't want the cops called on him right now. He stared at Lucy as her chocolate eyes slowly came back from their dazed look. "Remember now."
Lucy looked up to him in wonder before quickly snapping her head away, a full on pout pulling at her lips and embarrassed tears kissing her eyes. Yeah she definitely remembered alright. And now she couldn't stop thinking about it.
"Alrighty then, let's go. I'm really gonna die soon if I don't eat." Natsu grumbled, "Oh look! That diner looks good!" At least he assumed by the amount of costumers pouring out after the lunch time rush. Natsu didn't think much of it as he pulled Lucy with him in the direction of food. Happily noting she was actually coming with him this time.
Lucy was mortified, not only had she been wrongly accusing him in a crazy spectacle, but now she couldn't stop thinking about how he got that mark and her eyes wouldn't leave it for another reason. The uncomfortable heat between her legs also didn't help anything. She prayed it would go away and Natsu wouldn't notice.
Twenty minutes later, they were sitting in the diner with piles of plates next to them. Only one of them being Lucy's and she was barely done. She learned a lot of things about her bane of existence today, one of them being that he really knew how to put away food. As food flew in every direction and he all but flung his fork at her in preference for his hands, Lucy would tell you it wasn't a pretty sight.
Before their food was plated and Lucy almost stabbed herself in embarrassment with how loud his stomach was growling, garnering the attention of all the patrons in the restaurant (which was a pretty big deal since the place was not quiet) and in-between his swallowing, he laid down his expectations of her. At least how he wanted her to act for the following months.
Basically, just act as his girlfriend, giving the appropriate fan service and skin ship when in the public and around others. She couldn't be disgusted when he kissed her and she couldn't pull away if he touched her. That wasn't so hard, annoying but not dreadful. What she really was on the ropes about was of course the phone, and…that…she had to move in with him.
She being Lucy, of course she argued, but he wasn't having it. As serious as he could look with a stuffed mouth and food around the side of it as he held a turkey leg in hand, he told her she had no choice. That she had to get packing by the end of tonight.
"That's not enough time!"
Natsu shrugged, incredibly swallowing all of the food in his mouth at once. "I don't know what to say to you Luce."
Lucy pulled a distressed hand through her locks, this was not how she expected her day to go.
"Another thing." Natsu rubbed his face partially clean with the back of his hand, "If you have a boyfriend, or someone you're talking to. You need to end it." His stare left no room for a negative response.
Well that wasn't a problem for Lucy, she didn't have anyone…not really anyway.
"And no reaching out to your father. If I find out you have, he's dead." Natsu was deadly serious.
A few moments passed and silence rang in the air. Natsu didn't even continue eating, but kept staring in her eyes to really lock in his statement, and oh boy did she believe he meant it.
"He-here's your bill sir." Their blushing hostess came back with check in hand staring noticeably at Natsu, but Lucy couldn't care at the moment, her chest felt cold with his stare, unlike usual and there was a ringing in her ears.
Standing, Natsu didn't even glance the hostess' way, blindly giving her a handful of bills that was no doubt way more than their bill, even with how high it surely was, before pulling his glasses down and adjusting his scarf back around his shoulder as he turned to leave.
Lucy didn't watch him go, instead putting her head inside her hands.
"I'll call Gray to take you to your place and help you get packed." It was the last thing she heard from him until she was sure he was gone. A few minutes passed until she broke down with heavy sobs racking down her chest.
"Miss are you okay?" Lucy didn't look her way, or even have enough thought to be surprised she asked, instead she barreled out the door and ran briskly down the street. Some pedestrians dodged out of her way, but she was stupid to think they all would. As if it were déjà vu, from her distress she barreled straight into someone. This man was a lot more solid than the last, and instead of falling he held her still.
"Hey, you okay?"
AN: So guess what I found out today that has completely devastated me? Ichifuckinghime is fucking canon. A little note to you guys whom like that ship, to stop here now because I don't say anything nice about it. For the past approx, 6 years I've spent a lot of my life devoted to ichiruki and bleach, I freaking joined Tumblr for it! So for Kubo to just shit on me and the other people who love them together and make no sense of the manga, it really baffled me. I'm close to giving up everything I've done bleach related, my fanart, my tumblr dedications, even my fanfictions.
I'm sure for the point of view of someone who doesn't know what IR is or even care for it, I sound crazy and ridiculous, trust me I understand why you'd think that, but you need to understand where I'm coming from. Everything Kubo did, from photocards, to art he himself drew, MOVIES (they have a movie DEDICATED to their relationship!), quotes from the characters themselves saying that the other is their most important person, you'd have to be delusional to see this train wreck coming. If you don't believe me, just type in pro ichiruki on tumblr. On top of that, before this past year, all I DID was IR. So this is a blow to the gut. I like to think of my self as pretty spot on when it comes to what couple is going to be canon, I called Yume, I called Naruhina, among others etc. so this is literally the first canon ship I didn't see coming. That's including the ships I didn't even like! The fact that Ichigo goes and marries Oriham, quits being a shinigami and NEVER sees Rukia again, when he dedicated his life to do just that-I call BULLSHIT. The only thing that gives me counsel is that Ywach forced him to give up the thing that makes him happy (which was Rukia) and this is his life when you think about it, unhappy. But this life makes ME unhappy.
Anyway, sorry about the rant, I'm just fucking bummed, and questioning why I ever liked this shit. I have Nalu now and Mashima would have to pull an egg out of his ass to make Natsu ending up with someone else even slightly believable.
