This is My Place and This is Your Place

Chapter 4

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Natsu's staring at the food Mira brought on his table for a good thirty minutes, that he's starting to earn concerned and confused looks by his guildmates because of how odd he is behaving right now. Gray tried to approach their out of character friend, and even asked him for a fight, but the ice mage was surprised when Natsu just looked at him for a moment and turned to stare again at his now cold food.

Gray approached Mira who's also looking at Natsu, "What happened to the flame-brain?"

"I don't know, him and Lucy are acting strange since they got back from their mission." Mira said while putting beer mugs on a tray to deliver to some of their guildmates, "I never got the chance to ask Lucy what's wrong because she's so out of it, but I'm certain that it's not about the mission that they took, because she's not stressing about the money by the looks of it." Mirajane said while putting the heavy tray to her right hand carefully.

"Maybe let's just leave them be for now, Gray, I think those two got into an argument." Mira smiled and went on her way to deliver the beer to some of her guildmates.

Gray just nodded and shrugged his shoulders and sat on the barstool to wait for a certain water mage to arrive for their day-out.

Natsu tried to act normal after waking up from that stupid excuse of a human invention, which is most oftenly called the train. He didn't want Lucy to feel awkward about it, and most importantly he didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable with him. Natsu knew that it is his fault for grabbing that opportunity to kiss her, and he couldn't erase the fact that he forced himself to her. Maybe he should've asked for permission to kiss her first? Well, how can Natsu think that he forced himself to Lucy, when she kissed him back and didn't even bother to push him away. Does that mean she likes him too? Natsu shook his head, and thought maybe she wants experience for her new novel? Maybe she wants to make an erotic novel? He shook his head again, and thought that that wouldn't happen because this story isn't about Lucy asking him to let her experience it for her own novel, that's for another fanfiction. Natsu sighed and furrowed his eyebrows more while staring at the food he should've been done eating a while ago.

"And now, you're trying to eat using your eyes? *hic* I'm telling you Natsu, that wouldn't work!" Natsu looked up and saw Cana sitting down on the seat in front of him, while chugging a whole barrel of alcohol.

"What? Have you tried that already?" Natsu asked, not really expecting an answer from his alcoholic friend.

"Yeah...*hic*, didn't work!" Natsu looked weirdly at Cana, and moved away from her with his plate. "tch, mind your own business, Cana." He said and finally grabbed a piece of buffalo chicken legs on his plate to eat.

"Hmmm, yah tell me that, but I don't care, I can mind anyone's business, because I don't care! *hic*" Cana reasoned out while laughing.

Natsu just ignored Cana's drunken reasoning, and took a bite from the chicken legs sloppily, not having his usual appetite.

"You two—you and Lucy, have been acting strange, since you got back." He tried to center his attention to the chicken leg he's eating.

"Hmm, something strange might've happened on that mission, for you to act strange like this..." Cana still isn't stopping despite Natsu ignoring her.

"Happy said that he didn't went with the two of you on that mission *hic* something definitely strange might've happened." Cana smirked emphasizing the word strange again.

Natsu wanted to ignore Cana, but he can't blame himself for having an ear to hear the things that she's saying, that he started to remember the things that happened between him and Lucy. From her sweet scent, the locking of their lips, her flushed face, her sweet voice, her touch...and Natsu's face are starting to heat up, that he almost didn't notice that he's trying to already chew the chicken bone.

"Oh, oh, Natsu is blushing! There may be a strange thing that happened between the two of you, am I right?"

"N-No, there isn't." He muttered.

"Oh, there is! You and Lucy, alone somewhere, maybe in a hotel, in an inn or a forest, and without the supervision of Happy *hic*, there must be!" Natsu's face glowed red, and tried to deny it, but instead of denying it like it never happened, he stuttered, giving away the hint that something did happen between him and Lucy.

"Our Natsu is all grown up! Did you enter fast or slow? Because people say that if you enter fast it'll hurt REAL bad! I might be like this but I haven't experienced IT, but I sure read a lot of dirty novels to prove to you that it hurts! And if you entered slow, I gotta treat you with a lot of booze, 'cuz I'll be winning a bet from Wakaba—"

"Cana, shut up!" Natsu managed to say, while trying not to sink in his own place, and at the same time trying to regain his composure for not everyone to notice his embarrassment.

"Look at you! Blushing like a boy in his preteens!" Cana laughed loudly that earned her a lot of looks from the whole guild. "listen, listen, I don't know if you did it right, but don't let Lucy fake her moan, okay? You gotta hit her g—" then Natsu saw a blushing Erza now trying to drown Cana by pushing the beer mug she got from Mira who's now smiling sheepishly at them.

"Y-You should really keep your thoughts to yourself, Cana." Erza said as she still pushes the beer mug on Cana's mouth.

Cana managed to say yes, in between of drinking from the beer mug Erza just pushed to her face.

Natsu winced as he looked at Cana, and he tried not to look at Erza, because he doesn't want to also anger her, knowing that she's like a demoness hiding in a human body.

He tried to munch his third leg of chicken, when he suddenly heard Erza call his name, "Yes?" he squeaked.

"You shouldn't feel bad about waiting, something worthy as that takes a lot of time." He looked at Erza confused at what she's saying.

"Like you're the one to say that, you keep on bugging Je—" then Erza shoved Cana's face to her barrel of booze.

"You keep yourself behaved and quiet, okay?" and they heard Cana's gurgling sound while her face was still in the barrel.

Natsu shivered, and tried to finish his meal before Erza's wrath would transfer to him.

A/N: Hello! Thank you for reading!
I actually made this chapter like three or four days ago, before my online class, and I just made some corrections today, I hope I didn't miss any grammatical errors or spelling errors. Hehe.

I would like to thank the people who reviewed! I was so happy receiving all your reviews and your comments! I REALLY appreciate it! By the way, I actually got the idea of Lucy being the oblivious one here with how clueless she is with romance in the series and in the manga. What do you think? Is Lucy in the canonverse isn't aware of her feelings, or is she hiding it? or is aware of it but doesn't want Natsu to know about it? Let me know what you think! :)

Please leave a review and a favorite! :) and thank you so much for reading! See you on the next chapter.

P.S. I haven't forgotten about the "heat of the moment" chapter...hope you all are looking forward for it! :))

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.