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I really, really, REALLY don't want to be one of those fanfic writers, who suddenly stop writing chapters for... like 2 years. I know that feeling. ESPECIALLY when they leave you on cliffhangers... Anyways, I'll try my best to update as soon as I can, no promises for updating everyday, since I am still in school, and I'll be going back this Thursday... Ugh. Anyways, Onto Chapter two, of, 'Hidden Beauty'!

Chapter Two : The New Kid

Previously:

For that once, Lucy turned her head slightly, and stared at the new, profound boy.

Lucy blinked, as she stared at the boy named, Natsu Dragneel.

He wore a black hoodie, covering his hair, and shadowing his face. He seemed... antisocial somehow.

He was looking down, not letting anyone see any features of his face, as Gildarts continued rambling on about how to treat him.

Finally, he looked up, the shadow of his face, gone, and Lucy blinked in surprise. He was staring straight at her. Well, no surprise there. After all, she was sitting in the desk directly in front of him.

Lucy blushed. She didn't feel comfortable with boys. And she couldn't help looking away at his straight, ongoing, stare.

Lucy turned her head, but slowly, her eyes drifted back to Natsu's face. He was looking away now. Out the window. He seemed... Bored. He was quite tan, with perfect white teeth. His eyes had somewhat, of a mysterious affect to them. Lucy was sure he was quite handsome. Only making her cheeks pink again.

Levy noticed her friend's actions, and shoved her elbow towards her rib. "Ow!" Lucy cried, quietly, shooting daggers at Levy, who simply grinned, and nodded towards Gildarts.

Lucy huffed and focused on what her teacher was saying for the first time.

"Now... I need someone to help Natsu, here, catch up with our studies and show him around the school... Any volunteers?"

Lucy quickly looked away, as Levy sighed. Lucy really didn't want to be this new kid's... Babysitter.

"Let's see... How about Mrs. Heartfilia?"

Gildarts smiled, while Lucy slowly sank down in her chair, and gulped.

"Er... Um... I don't know if I want to... Mr. Alberona." Lucy mumbled, under her breath, as her cheeks grew a hot red.

Gildart's smile quickly vanished. He narrowed his eyes. "Did. You. Just. Call. Me... Mr. Alberona?" He said slowly, and quite dangerously for that matter. Lucy gulped. "I-I meant... Gildarts-Sensei! Ahaha...ha..." Lucy laughed nervously.

Gildarts eyes narrowed into slits. "For your information, My last name is Clive. ALberona is my daughter's last name. And you will be Natsu's mentor. Have I made myself clear?" Gildarts growled.

"Y-Yes sir!" Lucy squeaked.

"Good." Gildarts face softened slightly, but he still frowned. "Natsu. Please sit down." He gave a quick nod to the boy, as Natsu trudged his way towards the back, next to the window sill. As he passed, Lucy thought she saw him give a quick grin, in her direction. But quickly brushed it off. I was imagining it. She laughed to herself. No boy, had every grinned, smiled, laughed... Even looked at her before. Besides, Jellal, Gajeel and her dad... She quickly adverted her attention to the front of the room, where Gildarts was just about to continue on the class, with the actual learning.

After all, it was English class.

Gildarts began talking about the basic things for writing, when he began passing out blank pieces of writing paper.

"Please pair up with a partner. You will create a story, and read it out to the class on Tuesday."

To Lucy it seemed... Kind of... Childish. Creating stories and reading them out. But, there honestly wasn't any point in fighting with her teacher. So she turned to her friend, seeing that she had already been paired up. Gajeel. Levy noticed her friend's sad expression, and quickly began to apologize.

"I'm so sorry, LuLu! But, Gajeel asked me first." She hesitated, staring at Lucy's face, for any emotion that might slip out.

Lucy smiled, "It's okay, Levy-Chan. I'll just ask Gildarts-Sensei if I could write it myself! I'm pretty sure, everyone has a partner already." Levy sat in thought for a moment, before smiling sadly. "I'm so sorry, Lu-Chan! I-" But was cut off as Gajeel picked up his girlfriend by the collar. "Sorry, Bunny Girl. Come on, Shrimp." Gajeel sent an apologetic glance towards Lucy, and continued his way, to his desk, somewhere in the middle row.

Lucy sighed, and shook her head, as she watched Levy began pouting and screaming for Gajeel to put her down.

"Put me down, Gajeel!"

"Nope. You're comin' with me, squirt."

"Hey! I am NOT a SQUIRT!"

"Yeah, okay shorty. Let's go... OW! Stop kicking me!"

"I WILL, if you STOP, and put me DOWN!"

"Shut up, Shrimp... OW!"

Lucy smiled to herself as she heard the two's voices slowly get fainter and fainter, by the second as they continued bickering.

Lucy sighed, and raised her hand. Gildarts raised an eyebrow in return. "What?" He demanded.

"I-I... Um... I d-don't have a partner. C-Could I p-please do the project by m-myself?" Lucy asked, quickly. Although, Gildarts magically made out what she said. It wasn't Lucy's fault, she stuttered. Her teacher was so... demanding. She got nervous everytime he went like that. And he was always like that.

"Sure-" Gildarts said, not caring in the slightest, before getting cut off.

"I don't have a partner." A smooth, yet slightly bored voice called out. Lucy turned around to face a rather, annoyed Natsu. Lucy gulped, as she turned to face a smiling Gildarts. "You two can be partners!" He cried, before waving them off, before they could protest. "Now go on. Shoo. I'm busy." He said, as he reached down to grab his jelly filled donut, sitting their, half eaten, on his desk.

"Like eating a donut?" Natsu asked, raising an eyebrow. Gildarts shot him a glare, and was about to go into a lecture, when Lucy, without thinking, stood up, grabbed Natsu's arm and ran to the back.

"Wha- Hey!" Natsu cried.

Lucy blushed. "I- I"m s-saving your a-ass okay?" She mentally slapped herself as she heard herself stutter.

With that, Natsu went silent. When they reached the back of the room, Lucy immediately let go of his hand, and backed at least 5 feet away, hands in front of her, looking away. She took no notice to her burning red cheeks.

Natsu raised an eyebrow. "Hey. Natsu Dragneel. Name?" Natsu asked, thinking it would be better to learn the nerd girl's name, before doing the project, as he stuck out his tan hand, in front of him.

Lucy finally looked towards the boy. Her face grew a darker red than before, if that was possible, and took a few steps forward, before shaking his outstretched hand. Quickly she pulled away, and backed up again, once more.

Natsu sighed. "Name?" He asked again, He was getting rather bored. "L-Lucy H-Heartfilia." She stuttered. "L-Look." Lucy slowly grew more confident, with each passing second. "I-I'll write the story. Y-You can go do w-whatever you want." Lucy mumbled, looking away again.

Natsu was shocked. "Excuse me?" He asked, rather loudly. Lucy looked up in alarm. "If you expect me to leave you to do the work yourself, you're out of your mind." Natsu stated, getting rather annoyed. "Do you think, I'm stupid or something?"

Lucy was shocked. "N-NO!" She exclaimed. A bit too loudly, as a few classmates turned their head towards the duo. Lucy blushed and waved them off, before continuing. "I-It's just how m-most projects I did with my previous partners, w-went. Besides m-my friends, a-at least. I did the project, while m-my 'partner' would go off doing whatever they did, and the next day, He or s-she would present it, in front of the class, w-while I u-usually s-stood in th-the b-back."

Lucy didn't notice she was looking at the floor as she spoke... Or rather stuttered. When she did notice, however, she slowly brought her head up, expecting to see Natsu gone. Off flirting with other girls. It's what most boys did when they were paired up with Lucy. But Natsu was still there. And with a rather angry face, might I add. Lucy gasped, and began apologizing profusely. "I-I'm sorry! P-Please don't hurt me!" She cried, putting her hands up in front of her face, squeezing her eyes tight together in fear. When the blow she expected didn't come, She slowly opened one eye. Than the other.

Natsu's eyes had softened, and he didn't look angry anymore. In fact, he looked sorry for her.

"Look. I'm not like them. We'll do the project together. Are you free after school?" He asked, kindly.

Lucy had her mouth wide open. Slowly she nodded, without bothering to close her open hatch.

"Good. Uh... We can work together after school... Er... Could we meet at your house? I'm having a few problems with mine... " Natsu began scratching the back of his head.

Lucy nodded quickly, and passed her phone towards the hooded boy. Natsu hesitated to grab it, but when he did, as fast as lightning. he had added her in his contacts and him in hers. Returning it, He scratched his head some more.

Lucy blushed, as she muttered out a soft thanks. Natsu quickly nodded, Both sort of stared at each other for the next passing minute. Unaware of the black and blue haired couple, who were hiding behind a desk, nearby.

"Aww! I so think they'd be a good couple!" Levy whisper screamed. Gajeel sighed. "Calm down, shrimp." Levy shot him a glare and began to playfully hit and kick her boyfriend. "My name is LEVY! You, of all people should know!" Gajeel ran away from the desk, hands over head, as Levy followed, kicked the back of his feet, as they both ran.

Gildarts clapped his hands together. "Right. Get your things and, get the hell out of my classroom! Let's GO!" He screamed, and pointed out the door.

Lucy ran back to her desk, snapping out of her trance.

"M-Meet me b-by t-the front g-gates, a-after s-school! B-Bye!" She waved, as she quickly ran around the desks, and chairs blocking her path.

Natsu smiled. He couldn't wait. Maybe he could become friends with the blonde girl?

Natsu grinned at the thought. Quite happily, too. And began making his way towards his desk.

At his old school, Natsu didn't have any friends, except for one, raven haired boy. But they had known each other since childhood. So it only made sense, that they were buddies.

Natsu kept on grinning, as he picked up his blue duffel bag. Slinging it over his shoulder, he kept on smiling a quite, radiant smile, as he walked by a group of girls, he made his way to his second period.

Little did he know the girls, were rather, staring at him.

"Wow. Did you see his smile? It's... So perfect!"

"I bet he's a TOTAL hottie underneath that hoodie!"

"He's so tan! I LIKE it!"

"Oh, do you think he's strong?"

"I can't really tell..."

"He couldn't compare to Loke and Laxus though."

"True..."

Natsu heard them, gossiping, but quickly brushed it off. They were probably talking about some other dude. Even if they were talking about him, he honestly didn't care in the slightest. He wasn't looking for love... Yet. He was looking for a friend. And he knew who he wanted, as one. He wanted the girl who had become partners with him. He wanted the girl who blushed every time he looked at her. He wanted the girl who gave him her number. He wanted Lucy.

Realizing how cheesy his thoughts sounded, he shook his head.

It sounded like he was in love, the way his thoughts were jumbled. He laughed. He only wanted her as a friend. Still chuckling to himself, he didn't notice a certain scarlet haired girl, giving him the, 'Hairy Eyeball', from behind.

A/N: Yeah, Yeah. I know the ending is cheesy. He wanted this, he wanted that. But, I wrote down what I wrote down, so deal with it. Lol. Sorry for my rudeness.

I still can't believe people are reading my story... I'm a complete amateur here. I'm pretty new to fan fictions. Ah, well. Thank you for reading!

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