Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima. I am not writing this for profit, only for fun.

PLEASE READ AUTHOR'S NOTE AT END.

It was Saturday morning as Lucy took a walk through the park. It was at its most beautiful point where the cherry blossoms filled the trees. But why was Lucy out so early? It all began the day before, when she received an unexpected text.

'yo luce! what u up to'

'Nothing much, hbu?'

'same wanna meet at the park tomorrow at 9'

'Sure… what's this all about?'

'its a surprise'

'Anyone else going to be there?'

'nope'

And that was it. A short message without any information whatsoever. That was Natsu for you. Lucy started picking up the pace, realizing it was 8:58, and she still had to walk a bit further.

She arrived at the park entrance and started walking to where she hung out with all of her friends. It wasn't much, just an old playground. It was too special to the people that lived there, so they decided to keep it and make a new playground somewhere else in the park. Honestly, Lucy thought the place was magical, especially when the cherry blossoms covered the ground.

To her surprise, she saw a letter on the swings. It read,

"Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love."

Lucy pondered for a moment, wondering if it was for her. No way, why would it be? Since when did Natsu quote Shakespeare? And what did it even mean?

Lucy reread the note, but noticed something strange. She flipped it over, and there was a bunch of rectangles. She held the note up to the sky and saw that the rectangles were boxing the letters. The letters that were boxed spelled out, "SOUTH."

'South? What could that mean?'

Then it clicked. The park was split into four quadrants, the north, south, east, and west. The entrance and old playground was located in the north quadrant.

She got back on the path and walked toward the south end, where the picnic tables were. She assumed if it was Natsu who put it there, it should lead to where you would eat food. Sure enough, there was another letter. This one read,

"One half of me is yours, the other half yours

Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,

And so all yours."

Again Shakespeare? Lucy was starting to wonder if she was following the wrong letters.

Lucy checked her phone and it was 9:10. Natsu wasn't a patient person, he would have asked where she was, but he hadn't.

Lucy checked the back, nothing. This was getting harder.

Wait, what play was it from? The Merchant of Venice, right? But wait, what did Venice have to do with Japan? It clicked again. When the architect had designed the east section of the park, he said that he loved water, mostly swimming. So the park had stretched to include the lake.

The most important part, though, was the small plaque that talked about the carnival in Venice. Why was it there? Lucy had no clue, but there were some rumors that the people that had owned the land before were wealthy immigrants from Venice and had moved because of the multiple robberies. The story had sounded a little sketchy, but the owners were very kind and hospitable, so nobody questioned it.

Lucy checked the small plaque, and sure enough, there was another letter on the underside of the plaque. This one read,

"Last one I promise.

'Love looks not with the eyes,

but with the mind,

and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.'"

The thought struck her, why were all these quotes by Shakespeare about love? Plus was this even for her? She brushed the thought off; she was too far ahead in the hunt to give up now. She had to solve the last clue. The more she read it, the more confused she became.

What did any of this mean? Maybe the specific person it was for would understand it. It definitely wasn't her then. Or could it mean? That was it! She had solved it.

Every year on Valentine's Day, there would be a parade in the park. After the parade ended, a cheerful old lady would tell the kids about the story of a blind cupid and their encounter. It was obviously a fake story, but the way she told it was entrancing. She told the story at the same spot every year, the old playhouse. Lucy walked over to the playhouse, and to her surprise, she saw Natsu standing there.

"So you followed the clues back here, huh? Wouldn't expect anything less from you. You're the only person I could imagine would solve it," Natsu greeted along with his signature grin.

"You should be happy I was able to make it here anyway! What were those clues? It's like you gave up at the end and wrote down whatever came to your mind!" Lucy scolded.

"Yeah, I may have lost interest after the second quote - "

"Besides, why did you quote Shakespeare? And why was it all referring to love?"

"Hold up, I'll have you know I spent ages looking for those quotes!"

"Well, only 1% of people in the world would probably be able to solve it!"

"Anyway, you asked why the quotes were about love, right?"

"Something tells me I don't want to know."

"It's because I love you, Luce."

Lucy stared at him, her heart pounding, but all she saw in his eyes were complete seriousness, not even a hint of joking.

"Seriously? You're not joking?" Lucy questioned, still not believing it. Why would Natsu Dragneel, the top delinquent himself, have a crush on a goody-two-shoes like herself?

"I wouldn't joke about this. But I understand, I'll give you some time," Natsu replied, devastated, walking away.

"Well, if you are serious," Lucy said, hugging him from behind, "I love you too."

And then they lived happily ever after. The End (or is it?)

Lucy heard a ping from her phone. She looked at it, the reminder on the screen reading, 'Make sure to finish the author's note!'

Hello there people that stayed for this!

I know many of you don't read author's notes, so I'm glad if you are.

You probably have a lot a questions running through your head and I'll answer them right now. This chapter was a time skip after they became friends and started developing feelings for each other. But does this mean the end of this story? Yes, it probably does. When I first started, it was for fun, I made the stupid decision of starting off as an ongoing story instead of a one-shot. Not to mention Fairy Tail ended and people were starting to step away from it and start looking onward to Hiro Mashima's new work, Eden's Zero. I also started losing the interest I had in Fairy Tail and NaLu. This doesn't mean I completely hate Fairy Tail, the new season of the anime seems to be more promising than the manga. I myself was not a huge fan of the end of Fairy Tail. The Alvarez War Arc was not one of Mashima's best. Maybe the anime will have a better ending and it won't seem as if the top-notch villains get beaten in one strike. To continue this story means forcing myself to write about something I lost interest in. I may continue writing one-shots for Fairy Tail because it is still very special to me. But for now, I'm just going to stick around for some Fanfics and hopefully get interested in new animes, like Bungou Stray Dogs (my sister wrote this in). This story will be labeled as complete, as of right now.

Thanks to my sister and schmad20 for editing! And of course to you for supporting it all this way!

-RainbowMagic657