This is My Space, and This is Your Space!

Chapter 2

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Natsu doesn't know if he's getting any sleep, because every time he'll drift off to sleep, he can either feel Lucy shift a little, or Lucy would mutter something incoherent. Natsu thought that maybe why he can't fall asleep is because his body is trying to remember every little thing of this moment.

He knows that by the time they wake up Lucy will either kick him out of the bed, even if the bed's not hers or she'll just be flustered and wouldn't find any meaning behind it, because their private barrier has long been broken since he and Happy first broke into her house.

Natsu hugged Lucy tightly, and he earned a sigh from the blonde. He knows that his arms are growing numb from that position, but he just wants to savor the moment.

Lucy's eyes fluttered open, and her eyes were welcomed by the sight of the blue violet sky from the inn's window that indicates that one hour from now the sun will rise. Lucy doesn't know why she woke up early, when she's been tired from a mission they took yesterday.

Lucy blinked as she came to realize that she's laying not on the the other side of the bed, which is her space, but she's laying on Natsu's space, and to top it all Natsu's head is resting on her left upper arm, while her right arm is hugging his neck. The position they have now is like Lucy's hugging a teddy bear with its neck being hugged on. Lucy's having the hard time to breathe because of her close distance with Natsu, well the good thing is that Natsu is not facing her, or else he'll be facing her chest and she thinks that she'll either push him away with a LOT of roughness, or she'll die from a heart attack.

She removed her right arm from his neck, and she lay on her back, and looked at the ceiling. Lucy can almost hear the fast beating of her heart, she can also feel the blush creeping on her face, and some weird thing going on on her stomach. Lucy knows she's not hungry and she knows she doesn't have a heart disease, but having this close proximity with Natsu, even though his face is not facing her side can have this effect on her.

Just when Lucy's about to calm down, she felt Natsu shift, and there he goes, now facing Lucy and he even moved closer to her, his face close to her neck, his arm hugging her, and his leg on her waist, she can almost not breathe.

She can feel Natsu's face getting closer and closer to her neck, and she can feel him breathe on her neck. Lucy bit her lip, she doesn't know how to react with this, do normal people just shrug this closeness off? Do normal people just go with the flow? Do normal people take advantage of this?

What am I supposed to do? This is Natsu we're talking about! He doesn't know romance, and he also doesn't know about privacy and space, Lucy thought.

"Would you calm down, Lucy, I can hear your heart beat here."

Lucy's eyes widened, and she slowly looked at the guy who's invading her personal space, she can only see the top of his head, and she can only feel the soft wind coming from his nose.

Lucy couldn't take it anymore, using her strength she pushed Natsu away from her and quickly stood up, and she touched her chest, and she felt her heart was going to burst any second because she didn't know that Natsu was awake.

"W-When did—"

"Ah, when did I wake up? When you moved your arms away from me. I have been drifting in and out of sleep since last night. You really move a lot when you're sleeping, Lucy." Natsu said and yawned and he sat up.

"W-We've been like that for the whole night?" Lucy's blush darkened, Natsu pursed his lips to stop himself from smiling.

"Yeah, you even invaded space that you've given me, and you even threw the makeshift divider you made."

"I-I did that?"

"Yeah, you even said that I'm warm," Natsu paused and looked at Lucy, "I mean if you enjoy it that much why won't you come back here and do it again? I wouldn't mind, since you're so soft and—"

Then Lucy whacked Natsu's head using her hand, "Ow! What was that for?!" Natsu stared at Lucy's face, her face is really red, and he can tell that she's really embarrassed.

"C'mon Lucyyy! There's nothing to be embarrassed about!"

"Embarrassed my butt! You know, you should've moved me back to my space if I was invading yours."

Natsu looked down and mumbled to himself, "But I loved it."

"What did you say, Natsu?"

"Oh, nothing!" Natsu forced a smile on Lucy, and lay down in his own space, and turned his back to his friend.

Natsu frowned, and he's really annoyed at Lucy, is he some kind of virus to be avoided at? She's always setting this barrier between them, that he suddenly grew afraid of what he's supposed to tell her. She's really annoying, that making all the advances he did to her is pointless, trying to also make a move on her using Asuka's command is also pointless! Sticking to her side even if it invades her privacy is pointless! Uprooting a Rainbow Sakura Tree is pointless! Trying to tell her that he has some feelings for her is pointless, that's why instead of telling her the way he feels, he just invited her for that long mission that it took them almost two years to complete. All of it is pointless! He is not the oblivious one! Lucy is!

She thinks she knows about all romantic stuff? She does not! She doesn't know what romantic stuff that he can do, or she just chose to ignore all of it? Either way Natsu's still annoyed at Lucy.

Natsu was disturbed from his thought when he felt shuffling movement behind him, he looked back and saw Lucy folding the thin blanket, that she put on the bed last night to show them that both of them have spaces of their own, Natsu frowned again remembering the so called "space" Lucy invented.

"What's wrong, why are you frowning Natsu?" Lucy's now looking at him with a concerned look, "Are you hungry already?"

Natsu didn't answer, he just looked away from Lucy. He heard Lucy sighed, and he can feel that she's tidying up the room, before they prepare to go.

"Natsu, you can tell me what's wrong."

Natsu still didn't answer Lucy, he just crossed his arms, still being annoyed.

"Natsuuuu—" after hearing his name all he can see is Lucy's face so close from his face.

"C'mon, Natsu! Talk to me!" Natsu avoided Lucy's eyes, and he tried to turn around, but unfortunately, he was stopped by Lucy's hand holding his arm.

"You are not turning your back to me!" Lucy said in a demanding and frustrated tone, "You've been weird since last night, calling me mean, when I didn't even do anything."

Natsu tried to look away, but Lucy put both of her hands on his cheeks, forcing him to look at her.

Well, she couldn't control where I would look right? I'm just going to look everywhere, except her eyes, Natsu thought.

Wrong move, instead of looking at something other than his friend, his eyes landed on her lips. Natsu wanted to look away, Natsu wanted to control where he's looking at, but looking at her lips is a bad choice he made. Just like being entranced by a delicious food, he eyed her lips without any hesitation. Pink natural lips, and a tinge of a darker pink on it, it must've been the lipstick she used yesterday, or the lip balm that he almost ate the other day because it smells sweet like a candy. Natsu unintentionally sniffed the air, and he was welcomed by the smell of Lucy's sweet scent, he wanted to pull away, but he's trapped by both of her hands like he's some small animal that's been caught.

Natsu gulped, and said, "Lucy, move back."

"No, not until you tell me what's going on with you."

She's so stubborn, Natsu thought, as he tries to pull every self control that he has on his body.

"Lucy, move. Please."

"No! I won't, I don't know what I did wrong, so please tell me!" Natsu looked at Lucy's big brown eyes. She looks like she's about to cry.

He doesn't know what to do anymore, he's really frustrated and annoyed from this sudden turn of events, maybe if he hadn't frowned at her or give her the short silent treatment, they would've been in this uncalled moment, but just like a kid, Natsu had that annoying outburst he had a few moments ago, if he only he knows what to do in this moment.

"Lucy, I don't know what to do anymore," Natsu finally said.

Natsu tries to hold every bit of self control that he has, he just wished that Lucy would move back, away from him, and then he'll pretend that he's okay, that he's only hungry that time, or maybe he could reason out that he had a nightmare.

"Then do what you think that you can do now, I don't know wh—"

Just like how fast Lucy invaded his space, Natsu then put both of his hands on Lucy's cheeks and pulled her into a kiss.

A/N: Hello! Sorry if the chapter's not that good. I really tried, I've been suffering from writer's block since last week. The story's supposed to be a one shot but I decided that your reviews are right, they haven't made any improvement yet. So, here it is! I hope you like this chapter! Please look forward for the next chapter, and I really appreciate your reviews! I was really happy! :)

So, to answer Ulteana's questions:
- this is not my first NaLu fanfic, I have 2 other NaLu fanfics posted on this site, but I still need to rewrite it.
- it's hard to choose my fave character. I love them all except the members of Raven Tail(except Flare).
- my fave FT fic author is always changing, so for now I have to say it's Snogfairy, because I love her fic In Every Little Thing, that fic is like a masterpiece for me.
- I started watching FT when I was in my early teens...Putting aside all the hate comments the FT's receiving from their so called fans, I think the ending isn't that bad, well in fact even though there's a lot of friendship speeches from the characters I still enjoyed and loved it.
- My fave ships are: NaLu, Jerza, GruVia, GaLe/Gajevy
- I'm currently reading EZ! And I can't wait for the anime!

I'm sorry if the author's note is long! I'm not really a chatterbox in real life, I don't know why I'm being talkative here, I'll try to cut short my author's note next time haha. But I hope you'll read the next chapter! I apologize if there are some grammatical mistake or spelling mistakes that I missed. I'll do my best on the next chapter!

All characters belong to Hiro Mashima.

If there's a story similar to this, note that it's only similar and it is never my intention to copy anyone's work.
Thank you for reading! Please leave a review if you like it or favorite (and also leave a review) if you truly LOVE it! See you on the next chapter!