The next four days passed by like normal. Lucy went to class, came home to edit videos, watched Fairy Tail, went to sleep, and repeated it the next day.

But on this day, things would be different. Today was upload day.

She slumped in her seat in front of the computer with the upload window open, ready to post the video she and Levy had made on Sunday. In this video, she admitted her attraction to another popular YouTuber, which was guaranteed to get some attention. But while she had the title and description written out and the thumbnail in place, she just couldn't seem to stop getting distracted.

Yeah, she was distracted. That's what it was.

Obviously.

Of course it wasn't the fact that she was terrified of posting the video now that she was actually about to do it. And in no way was it the fact that she was almost certain Natsu would see it and she would most likely die of utter mortification.

Why had she agreed to this?

"Lucy, just post it," Levy looked amusedly at her friend's back from her place on the blonde's bed, an old manga on her lap.

"I'm about to."

"No you're not, you're playing Pokemon under the desk."

Lucy stifled her cry of frustration as she accidentally defeated the Ralts she had meant to catch, resisting the urge to throw her DS in rage as any mature 20 year-old young woman would do in this situation. Those were so hard to find! Now she'd likely be spending another 30 minutes running through the tall grass hunting down that elusive sonofabitch again. "I'm not," she lied.

"You don't have to upload it if you don't want to," Levy assured her. "I was just messing with you… for the most part."

She wasn't going to force her to post something she wasn't comfortable with, but she did secretly want her to upload the video. Natsu would no doubt see it, and finally see how much of a cool, down-to-earth girl Lucy was. Hell, he may even want to collaborate with her. Hell, he may even start to crush on her too. He'd be insane not to. Levy's best friend was fucking beautiful, and everyone seemed to know it except her.

She really wanted Lucy to post this video.

After a few more minutes Lucy finally seemed to look up at her computer screen, before swiftly turning in her swivel chair to face her roommate, apprehension running across all her features. "I'm scared," she admitted.

"Lucy, it's not a big deal," Levy chuckled.

"You do it," Lucy said suddenly, moving to the side slightly in her chair and signalling her friend to come over and press the upload button for her. Levy sighed and maintained Lucy's gaze exhaustedly for a moment before giving in to her evil puppy-dog eyes and hopping off the bed to the computer. All she had to do was press the "Upload" button and the video would begin uploading onto the World Wide Web.

She placed a hand on Lucy's mouse and moved it across her Pokemon themed mouse pad, hovering over the button.

"WAIT!"

"What?" Levy sighed, looking at her best friend with a bored expression. The poor girl looked like she was about to throw up. She almost laughed at how much Lucy was overreacting, not that she blamed her. Levy would probably be the exact same way if put in this situation.

"I changed my mind, I'll do it," Lucy rambled quickly, shakily attempting to move her roommate's hand off the mouse and replace it with hers. Unluckily for her, she was a bit too shaky with her movements, and accidentally nudged Levy's index finger closer to the mouse rather than away from it. There was a short clicking sound and a white bar suddenly appeared on the computer screen, filling with blue as black text that read "Uploading… 1%" appeared inside of it. The one percent quickly changed to 10%, then to 50%, before finally reaching 100.

Shortly after a blue link showed up under the phrase "Your video has been uploaded."

"Well," Levy looked at the screen in disbelief, "you did it."

"Wha—" Lucy stared slack-jawed at her screen, absolutely speechless at what just happened. Had she done what she had planned on doing at the very last second, which was close out of the browser completely to prevent any chance of uploading, the video would have been posted about an hour later after some editing, without the Natsu bit.

After a moment, she regained her senses and swiftly moved back in front of her computer, only narrowly avoiding knocking Levy over in her hurry.

"I have to take it down," she muttered hurriedly, quickly clicking through various screens. "I can just take it down."

"Thousands of people are probably already watching it as we speak, Lucy."

"Ahh you're right!" Lucy squeaked, shoving her burning face in her hands. "It'll just look worse if I take it down now," she mumbled through her fingers.

"It'll be fine." Levy placed a hand on the distressed blonde's shoulder. "It's just a harmless comment you said on a video."

"You're right," Lucy said almost instantly, expression almost immediately sobering as she stood and left the room. Distractions. She needed distractions.

If I could bang any YouTuber...

... It'd be Natsu from Fairy Tail.

"Ahh! Why did I say that!" Levy heard Lucy yell from the kitchen. She sighed and rushed to console her roommate before she had a nervous breakdown.

Natsu's fans were acting weird.

He always received links to YouTube videos from them, usually content of their own creation in their attempt to get him to check out their channels. While he did take the time to look at some occasionally, he couldn't do it very often as he simply had no time to watch every single video that was sent to him, as much as he wished he did.

Today though, when he checked his email many of them had the same link to the same YouTube video, rather than a bunch of individual ones. They also flooded his other social media, and at this point he was convinced that someone had dropped a diss track on him or something. The thought kind of excited him, loving the idea of Fairy Tail creating a rebuttal track and knowing the fans would eat it up as well.

He was about to tap the link to the video from one of the many emails before Erza busted into his room.

"Natsu. Meet us in the living room in 30 seconds," she commanded before slamming the door shut again. Bewildered, but getting up immediately nonetheless (you did not defy Erza), he quickly clicked on the video to see the length of it. 10 minutes. The watching of the diss track would have to wait.

He threw on a plain white t-shirt and shuffled down the stairs, striding into the living room with 3 seconds to spare. He sat at the end of the couch that was already occupied by Gray, Wendy and an annoyed looking Gajeel.

"Why are we here?" The ubiquitously pierced male questioned, agitated at having been forced to come out of his cave.

"Cana's birthday is in two weeks." Erza ignored his attitude as she scanned the couch occupants. "We're going to surprise her with a visit."

"Doesn't Cana live in like, bumblefuck or whatever?" Gray raised a brow.

"She lives in Hargeon, Gray," Erza corrected sternly.

"That's basically bumblefuck," Natsu agreed with the ice queen for once. "Can't we just give her a surprise Skype call?"

"No." Erza's eye twitched slightly, quickly growing annoyed at the lack of cooperation. "I spoke with her yesterday, and she said she misses us. She also mentioned throwing a birthday party." Erza grinned suddenly. "So we're going to crash it."

"That sounds like fun!" Wendy chimed, "Let's go! I haven't seen Cana in so long!"

"That sounds like…" Natsu paled. "... A lot of transportation."

"Yes, and you are going to bear it for our dear friend Cana who we have not seen in two years and misses us dearly," Erza scolded. Natsu slunk hopelessly back into the couch, knowing it was useless to argue.

"I'm not going," Gajeel muttered, also unnerved at the thought of getting to who-knows-where on a train for an estimated amount of time that he really did not want to find out.

Oh God, what if they needed to get on a plane?

Erza's intense brown eyes seemed to burn into his soul, and in a split second Gajeel was defeatedly lying back on the couch as well.

Gray looked up in thought as if remembering something. "... Doesn't your boyfriend Jellal live in Bargeon too?" He smirked slyly at the redhead, a ballsy move. "I'm starting to think there's some ulterior motive her—"

Before Gray could finish his thought he was flung back into the couch from sheer force of a deeply blushing Erza's fist hitting his face, joining the two who still stared blankly ahead, souls basically gone from their bodies as their minds were haunted with the terrifying concept known as transportation.

"Hargeon," she futilely corrected. "And Jellal is not my boyfriend."

Wendy tiredly looked at the disoriented men slumped over on the couch and sighed. "Why do the meetings always somehow end up like this?"

"Because men are idiots, Wendy," Erza answered simply, crossing one leg over the other and lifting a hand to absently examine her manicured nails. "Especially these men."

Wendy giggled and nodded before both ladies stood to return to what they had been doing previously. Erza waved a nonchalant hand at the men as she disappeared through the archway. "Don't forget we leave in two weeks," she called before leaving the room fully to record a review of a new romance anime for the channel.

It took several more minutes for Natsu to shove the thought of death-by-automobile to the back of his mind for the moment, sitting up from the couch and looking back to snicker at Gray, who was still out of sorts after that Erza punch. Gajeel seemed to come to his senses at the same time, getting up and grumbling a bit before retreating back to his room where he would likely not come out for the rest of the day.

Natsu tried to remember what he had been doing before this, whipping out his phone from the pocket of his gray sweatpants when his memory returned to him. Luckily the video was still there when he unlocked it, flipping it to landscape view as the video buffered. He took a quick note of the title.

Answering your weird and personal questions!

Well that was a strange title for a diss track.

It was posted by a YouTube channel named Celestial, the name familiar but not ringing any bells other than that. He didn't really watch that many other YouTubers, only knowing of Lockser because he saw Gray watching one of her anime episode reviews one day. He preferred to spend his free time watching anime, reading manga or playing video games.

He was expecting the video to immediately start with some generic beat, maybe an overdressed guy sitting on a fancy car with some expensive chains or shades or something. That's how those videos usually started, right?

His eyebrows shot skyward and he instantly sat up when the video finished buffering and revealed the most attractive woman he's ever seen in his life.

Natsu's gaze remained locked to his phone as he took in the hot girl on the screen. She had long blonde hair and big brown eyes that basically sparkled as she grinned widely at the camera. She wore a plain gray sweater, and while it was oversized and the collar went up to the base of her neck, it did absolutely nothing to hide the huge rack that put even Erza's to shame.

This girl dropped a diss track on him?

"So I asked you guys on Twitter to send me some questions," the beauty began to speak, Natsu instantly questioning how a sweet voice like that could possibly diss anyone.

Though he was starting to think it wasn't actually a diss track after watching the video for three minutes and realizing she was just answering questions sent to her from Twitter, much like he and Gray did in their video from last week. Nonetheless, he did enjoy watching it, letting out a chuckle every time she said a joke about a weird question and raising an amused brow at some of her answers. At one point he felt the couch shift slightly as Gray sat up, flinching and rubbing the sore spot on his head. Natsu ignored him, too focused on the beautiful blonde on his phone screen.

"You're watching Celestial?" Gray questioned curiously, having never seen Natsu actually watch someone else's YouTube video other than his friend's.

"People kept sending me this video."

"Why?"

"Not sure yet, but she's cute," Natsu admitted. "And she seems cool. Not the diss track type."

"Diss track?"

He tore his eyes away from the screen to look at his bewildered housemate. "Why else would they send me this video?"

"I doubt Celestial would waste her time dropping a diss track on anyone, let alone you," Gray stated curiously.

"I'm starting to think that too." Natsu returned his gaze to his screen, ignoring Gray's not-so subtle jab. "I'm just gonna keep watching it and see what happens." While it may not be a diss track, he found the video entertaining either way, not to mention Celestial was seriously drop-dead gorgeous.

Natsu and Gray, who ended up staying and watching the video with him, were still snickering at a previous question when the voice of the unseen young woman in the background asked one that he quite vividly recognized from the video they did last week.

"If you could bang any YouTuber, who would it be?"

Gray flinched and Natsu smirked evilly as the memory of the previous video of theirs flashed through their minds. And this girl, who he had eventually learned was named Lucy, seemed to have the exact same reaction Gray had at the time, jaw dropping to the floor and eyes widening into saucers before glaring at a presence behind the camera. The video cut then for a split second, returning to a much more composed, smiling Lucy.

"Hm… If I could bang any YouTuber..." She seemed to look up in thought for a moment before her grin returned.

"... It'd be Natsu from Fairy Tail."

He nearly fell off the couch.

"Holy shit," Gray smirked, brows going straight up. "Celestial's got a lady boner for ya."

"No way," Natsu murmured mostly to himself, fighting the face-splitting smile that was currently threatening to invade his face.

"I'm actually kinda jealous," Gray continued, crossing his arms over his chest and sighing.

Natsu tapped the left side of his screen twice, sending the video back ten seconds. She definitely just said what he thought she did, right?

The last ten seconds of the video played once more, fully solidifying his suspicions.

"If I could bang any YouTuber… It'd be Natsu from Fairy Tail."

This ridiculously hot girl he'd been basically ogling for the past ten minutes just said that.

This stuff only happened in dreams, right?

"Wipe that stupid big smile off your face, I bet she wouldn't be saying that if she actually knew your dumbass," Gray chuckled, bringing Natsu back to reality as he swung at his housemate who managed to narrowly dodge another blow to his head.

"Fuck off you damn ice cube," Natsu fired back. "You're just mad Lucy likes me better."

"Already on a first-name basis, huh," Gray teased, avoiding another punch. "What would Lisanna think?"

Natsu merely flipped off the droopy eyed ice princess, hopping off the couch to head back to his room.

He stomped up the steps and swung open his room door, closing it behind him as he walked over to his desk, navigating through his messy room to get to his laptop that rested beside a half-empty bottle of hot sauce. Once he retrieved it he flopped back on his small couch, unfolded his laptop and opened YouTube.

These days he didn't really watch other people's channels, but this Lucy girl had basically shouted him out on hers so he felt it only right to check hers out. Her 1 million subscribers didn't surprise him, considering how many people had sent him her video. Though he shouldn't have been surprised considering his own content, he didn't expect to see that Celestial seemed to base most of her channel on anime. He clicked one of her most recent videos, a review of the horrible new Death Note live action movie.

He soon understood why Celestial was such a big channel. As he watched, his amused grins soon shifted to chuckles and then later full blown laughter as she mercilessly ripped into the movie with jokes and reenacted scenes that she placed her own twist on to point out the flaws in a comical way. Natsu had wholeheartedly agreed with every critique, but even if you didn't you'd likely still enjoy her method of tearing it apart and may have even ended up agreeing with her in the end.

When it ended, he gave the video a "Like", and found himself almost subconsciously clicking another one.

And another one.

Well, there went his afternoon.

"Stop laughing at my darling Gray!"

Juvia's agitated voice crackled through the speakers on Lucy's computer as the blonde struggled to hold in bursts of laughter every time she looked at Gray in his way-too-small Elsa costume and poorly done makeup. He'd fumbled with the wig so much during the video that at this point it was just a blonde mass on the side of his head, spiky black-hair poking out on all sides. Juvia had recently stopped fangirling about the video where Gray admitted to being attracted to her, likely due to the fact that she would most certainly melt into a puddle if she didn't shove it to the back of her mind.

"I'm… not," Lucy barely managed to slip out, slapping a hand over her mouth to stifle a cackle when Natsu ripped off his wig and Gray began to yell at him to give it back, stopping short when realized what he was saying.

"Gray looks wonderful in everything he wears," Juvia gushed, her sigh being heard faintly through the Skype call. "Seriously, how can you like Natsu better when he shares the screen with him?"

"Because look at him," Lucy breathed, placing her chin in the palm of her hand and gazing dreamily at the pink-haired YouTubers signature toothy grin.

"I guess," Juvia reluctantly agreed. "But still."

It had been several days since Lucy had accidentally uploaded the video. She had spent at least two hours nonsensically rambling to Levy about constellations in her attempt to distract herself from what transpired then, until she ultimately forgot about it.

… For the most part. It was hard to forget when she was getting constantly tagged with tweets containing the hashtag "Nalu" nonstop since the video dropped.

She and Juvia were now watching one of Fairy Tail's newest videos while Levy got ready for them to get something to eat in the outside world. As promised in their question video, a recent Natsu and Gray upload included Gray in a child's Elsa costume, the dress barely going down to his knees and looking absolutely ridiculous while they reviewed a disturbingly graphic horror manga. It was glorious, and Natsu's infectious laughter throughout most of the video made it that much more enjoyable.

Juvia had been in the middle of one of her famous Gray-is-amazing lectures when Levy peeped her head into Lucy's room, ready to go.

"Gotta go, we're going to 8 Island before class," Lucy sang, almost impatient to get some food into her starving system.

Levy said a short greeting to Juvia before leaving the room to go wait in the common area.

"Lucky! There's no 8 Island here," Juvia huffed from her seat in her apartment in Oak Town, a place even smaller than Hargeon.

"Well you should come visit then," Lucy said simply, slightly surprised at the realization that Juvia had never actually come to visit them despite being good friends with both roommates and meeting them at various conventions.

"I should. I might come next week, not even joking," Juvia said suddenly, mind filled with mouthwatering thoughts of the world famous restaurant chain.

"Really?" Lucy grinned brightly. "Do it!"

"Hmmm… Okay!" This was one of the many benefits of being a successful YouTuber. You could take your work wherever you wanted.

They excitedly planned Juvia's impromptu trip to Hargeon for a few minutes before the two exchanged their farewells and Lucy grabbed her bag from the desk to meet Levy at the front door.

"Sorry, Juvia just told me she was visiting in a couple weeks and I got excited," Lucy beamed, her roommate's jaw dropping slightly before matching her grin.

"Finally!" She squealed. "I miss her!"

The two giddily discussed Juvia's living arrangements for her visit until they were standing in front of one of the most popular fast food places in the world, 8 Island.

The restaurant was slow on weekday afternoons as a result of being located in a college town, so they were able to order and find a place to sit fairly easily. They had been enjoying their deliciously crisp french fries at a table by the window when the glass door swung open next to them and a pretty brunette woman stumbled into the restaurant.

She turned her head in the direction of the register, but her eye caught onto something on Lucy's navy blue sweatshirt and she quickly changed course, wobbling over to the two girls.

"Y-you guys go to Hargeon U?" The brunette slurred, gesturing to the Hargeon University graphic on Lucy's shirt. Lucy caught the scent of alcohol as the mysterious woman spoke, cringing slightly but smiling nonetheless at her.

"Yeah," Lucy stated simply. The woman's eyes immediately lit up.

"Could you direc' me beck to campus? It's around 'ere right?" She bashfully brought a hand up to scratch the back of her head. "Got in a fight with my boyfriend, so I took a walk an' now 'm lost," she admitted.

The two friends eyed the brunette sympathetically and nodded simultaneously. "Yeah, we were just about to go back if you want to come along," Lucy suggested, feeling uncomfortable with the idea of leaving the woman on her own in her condition. It was kind of a weird and unexpected situation, but she had kind eyes and was only asking to be directed to campus, and they couldn't just leave her there when she looked like she was going to fall over any minute.

She also looked very familiar, though Lucy couldn't really remember where she'd seen her before.

They both stood, Levy picking up their trash to throw away while Lucy placed a supportive arm over the drunk woman's shoulder to steady and help the girl through the exit of the restaurant.

"Thank you so, so mush," she exclaimed happily, throwing them slightly off guard when she swung her arms around both their shoulders and pulled them close. They exchanged giggles when they recovered as they continued their short walk to campus.

"It's no problem," Lucy smiled warmly at her. "I'm Lucy by the way."

"And I'm Levy," piped in the petite blunette.

The intoxicated woman grinned brightly at them both, unable to shake their hands at the moment.

"Name's Cana, nishe to meet ya!"