Natsu sighed as he finished retelling the events of the previous night to the bar maid.
"Well, do you love her?" Mira beckoned. "Love? Yes I love her! I love all my guildma-""No Natsu, do you love her?" Mira added an emphasis on the L word.
Natsu shifted a bit on his stool while he thought of a response,
Love her? Do I? S-sure I love all my guildmates, but is she even more special than all of them?
The memories they'd made over the past years flashed through his mind, from meeting in Hargeon to the year apart they spent and how much he secretly missed her, to fighting Zeref. She was there for him and he for her. They were always going to be.
"I-I'm not sure... I need to think about it," he said sheepishly, turning his face to the side to hide the small blush that appeared on his cheeks. A gentle smile began forming on Mira's face as a trio of women opened the guild door and walked in.
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Earlier, Natsu's story was interrupted by Erza when she heard Natsu mention Lucy, and noticed she wasn't at the guild yet. The redhead came and asked where she was and Natsu did his best to come up with a cover. "She isn't feeling too good." The requip mage suddenly darted out of the guild, presumably heading to Lucy's apartment.
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Natsu didn't bother to look who had just entered, he already knew by the wonderful smell that aroused his senses. Lucy's natural scent was a mix between strawberry and honey, and it was one of the best things he's ever smelled.
Erza walked up and grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up, "What the hell Natsu? I thought you said she was sick, but she looks fine to me." The dragon slayer didn't fight her, he knew he was a deadman either way. "Erza it's fine don't worry," the blonde whimpered as she was trying to hide behind Levy, and doing a terrible job. Erza looked back and forth between Natsu and Lucy before deciding to put him back down.
Lucy shyly walked out from behind Levy and made her way up to her pink-haired teammate, "Um.. H-Hi Nats-" She was interrupted by Natsu grabbing her wrist and pulling her outside to a secluded spot in the courtyard.
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She whined; "Natsu what the hell was that for?"
"I'm sorry Luce" "Ugh, it's fine just don't scare me like that again" "Not that, I'm sorry about last night." he muttered with a big blush covering his face
"O-Oh.. no it's fine" "I know you wanted to... but I couldn't do it since, ya know, we were both drunk" he said while still looking away.
Wait... what? Do what? Does he mean THAT? She questioned to herself
"What... what do you mean?" a few awkward seconds passed while Natsu built up the courage to say it "We-Well lucy, you wanted to have s-sex... but I couldn't because... well, we both weren't in the right state of mind."
Lucy was so confused she didn't know how to reply. First, Natsu was blushing which was not like him at all, and second he seemed reluctant to say that, another un-Natsulike thing.
"Wait.. we didn't do, ya know, it?" She eeped out. Natsu was now the one who was confused.
Does she not remember it? What the hells going on?
"Wait Lucy... you didn't think we had sex did you?" Lucy was so flustered and her face became the color of a strawberry. "U-um... y-yeah, I thought we did, I can't remember much" she whispered
A few awkward seconds passed between them
"...pft. pft. HAHAHHAHHAH" Natsu couldn't help but laugh when he saw her face and realized she thought they had. At hearing such a childish reaction towards her, anger and embarrassment ran through the blonde's body, "What the fuck is so funny Natsu?" She blurted out.
"You... You thought we had sex? I know you'd never want to do that with me hahaha" he trailed off, still showing his signature grin.
Lucy shifted uncomfortably in her spot but her anger eventually gave way and she couldn't help but let out a small giggle as well.
"And here I was preparing to yell at you," lucy laughed, "jeez natsu." Then, Natsu did another thing that surprised Lucy, he pulled her into a hug. "I'm sorry for scaring you Luce." he whispered into her ear. "Dont worry about it dummy." She whispered back, small tears forming in the corner of her eyes. They held each other in that embrace for a few seconds.
'Jeez, the thought having sex with me couldn't have been THAT bad' They both thought to themselves with a slight frown as they walked back towards the guild.