"Natsu I think I'm ready I just need –" Lucy stopped talking when she noticed her pyro friend wasn't in the room anymore. She walked into the hall seeing Levy lean up against the door behind her, reading something or another.

"Where is Natsu?"

"I don't know." levy said glancing up only slightly. "You look pretty though. Really pretty."

"Thanks. I'm going…out tonight." Lucy held in her laugh.

"Out? In strapless, all black dress decked in sparkles? Your make up is done and your hair isn't in pigtails – what is out? Are you going on date?"

"No – yes- just – I'll be back later okay. And when can I get my room back?"

"Yeah never. Gajeel is a super fun roommate. Of course I'd be willing to compromise you know . " she winked at her friend before Lucy rolled her eyes and walked away.

That Levy is somethin' else.

"Natsu!?" Lucy called out slamming her foot on the ground. She looked around the area and noticed that it was empty. Everyone was gone. IT was 9 at night where would they all go at the same time? The house was quiet so she knew no one was doing the do thank god.

They had all had an easy day. Erza and Jellal went fishing with Gajeel and Levy. Erza demanded it, said the boys needed to bond. Lucy didn't understand it. She dealt with Natsu being odd all day. Weird things he would do. Simple touches. Like rubbing her arm at random, placing a hand on her thigh when they were talking, slinking an arm around her when they were sitting next to each other. Yet he would still say very Natsu like things. Making fun of anything she did, complaining about food, trying to pick a fight with Gray. He still managed to keep his closeness to her. It wasn't like this was too weird though, he was like this a lot of the time, but now that he had something to prove she considered it weird.

Not that she was complaining. She never did it always made her feel close to him.

As a best friend would of course.

But now he was hiding from her when he promise the best date of her life. And she couldn't help but think he was just being an ass, because he would hide from her when he's supposed to take her out. He would think it's funny for him to disappear on her first date ever.

She didn't think it was funny.

"Dammit Natsu." She then heard a knock at a door, completely confused. She opened it to see the one and only…

"Your date for the evening."

"Natsu, what – what on earth?"

"It's a date. I'm taking you out. I'm being a gentlemen."

"You're weird. You left the house to knock on the door and be a gentlemen?"

"I'm doing this properly. Remember. I'm boyfriend material."

"You're an idiot."

He feigned an offended gasp.

"C'mon milady."

"Oh god." Though Lucy wouldn't admit it she was looking forward to the night, even if he was a big weirdo. He cleaned up real nice. He wore a really tight black shirt which accentuated his muscles nicely, but it wasn't so tight that you could actually see the outline of his abs. which was nice because that's just a bit much. He paired it with black slacks, and she mentally questioned where he got the clothes from. Most likely Gajeel he liked the color black. "So, where are we going?"

"Well off this private beach for one, because I'm hungry."

…

Natsu and Lucy arrived at this beautiful restaurant right on the outskirts of the beach. Natsu had ended up carrying Lucy on his back, because the woman wore heels not realizing they'd be walking. She felt like an idiot though, why wouldn't they walk, how else would they get anywhere. They're on a beach.

"This place looks beautiful." Lucy murmured as she got off his back and stepped inside. "Like really beautiful, how did you find this place."

"Because I'm a man, and as such I am able to find things."

"That doesn't make any sense." She quirked her brow at him as they waited to be seated. "You sniffed it out didn't you?"

"Well when you say it like that you make me sound like some sort of animal. But yes I did do that."

Lucy laughed at him, slipping her 6 inch heels back on. They chit chatted for a few minutes about the lack of friends around tonight. Natsu joked that it was date night for everyone and Lucy brushed him off stating that this wasn't a date.

He countered with it totally was and by the end of the night she'd be begging him to be her boyfriend. She laughed, he laughed, and the hostess looked at them quizzically.

They were seated next to this aquarium filled with lobsters, Natsu tapping at the glass.

"What are you doing?"

"I wanna play with them."

"they're got looking at, not playing with."

"What? Who would wanna look at lobsters? That doesn't make sense."

"It's ambiance."

"I don't think you actually wanna look at them either, I think you're just tryna be classy."

"I am classy!"

"You're violent, and obnoxious."

"Shut up I am super classy!"

"Fairy Tail mages aren't classy, Lucy."

Lucy huffed and blew the hair from her face. Natsu laughed at the very classless woman in front of him. He could admit to himself, that she had her classy elements, that she could be a lady when she wanted to be. But it was more fun to rip on her like this.

Wait though boyfriends don't do that. Shit I'm gonna lose this challenge if I don't ignore every instinct.

"Sorry Lucy, you're right, you are classy."

Lucy's eyes narrowed a little bit, a bit perplexed by his sudden apology. He was being so weird today.

"It's…okay." She answered back sounding confused. This caused him to internally sulk, he really felt like he was possibly, going to lose.

The waitress walked up to them and handed them their menus, getting their drinks. Natsu and Lucy both ordered a long island ice tea. Lucy had the mental thought that it was probably stupid for them both to drink. But it's not like neither of them were capable of taking caring of themselves.

And being a fairy tail mage you build a tolerance to alcohol. One long island wouldn't do much. IT's not like they'd end up naked in the ocean.

Naked in the ocean with Natsu…

There was a satisfied smirk on her face, she had tuned out most of what Natsu was saying.

"Lucy!"

"Skinny dipping could be fun…" She murmured.

"Lucy?" he had a very amused grin on. "What was that?"

"What I didn't say anything what."

"You just said hat skinny dipping could be fun."

"What that's – that's crazy. Ha no you're hearing things dragonslayer. Let's order I'm hungry. I'm sure you're hungry cause I'm hungry."

"Yeah Lucy, I'm hungry." He said with a laugh. "Okay so…I think I'll have some chicken, and steak, and gravy, and potatoes. And maybe a turkey leg. You?"

Lucy, no longer surprised by how much he ate, didn't even realize he named almost every dinner meal on the menu. "Yeah that steak does look good, I'll have that too."

The waitress came back and they gave them their order.

"And the turkey leg."

"Wow." She said, a little too friendly. "I would have never imagined someone as fit as you, eating that much."

"Well I have a big appetite." Natsu answered, oblivious to her flirtatious tone of voice.

"I bet you do." She winked. Lucy scrunched up her face, her mouth falling open a little bit. Her brows narrowed, as she put on this disapproving scowl.

"And you?" she wasn't nearly as pleased to serve Lucy as she was to serve Natsu.

"Yeah, I'll have the steak and garlic potatoes."

"Really?" she said looking her up and down. "If you want." She snatched the menu out of Lucy's hand and grabbed Natsu's, smiling at him. She left, going into the kitchen to get the order.

"What the flying – "

"Lucy, what's wrong?"

"Nothing." She wasn't going to say 'I don't like other women flirting with you.' That wasn't about to happen. "I just need to drink my drink. Where is it – " And as she said that the waitress came back with their drinks. Giving Natsu that same wink, he didn't notice of course, and barely looking at Lucy.

Lucy grabbed her drink, and started sucking, hard. She was visibly annoyed, Natsu confused and feeling a little guilty about it.

"Did I do something wrong? should I have pulled your chair out? Or did I forget to get you flowers? It's that isn't it? I forgot the flowers."

"Natsu, what – no don't sulk. It's okay, you did nothing wrong."

"Seriously?"

"What in our time together makes you think I'd want a guy to bring me flowers?"

"Everything about you Lucy. You read those books and sit and talk with Erza and Wendy about your perfect date, and your perfect wedding. And I completely forgot about the flowers."

"How…do you know about those conversations?"

"I have amazing hearing remember?"

"Well don't worry about it, flowers are not a deal breaker." And in that moment Lucy realized she just said, pulling her lips in tightly. Natsu smirked, smugly at her. It would seem that he was closer to winning than he realized.

"Good to know."

"Shut up. Just drink."

He laughed at her and they clinked their glasses together.

"So, this is a date right? What do people on dates talk about?"

"I don't know Natsu, I've never been on a date. I imagine they get to know each other."

"Well that's like a first date then. We already know each other though."

"Well if we pretend we don't know each other. Like what do you do for a living?"

"I'm a fairy tail mage and a dragonslayer."

"Oh that's cool, what kind of dragons do you slay?"

Natsu paused and shook his head at her, sipping from his drink. "That doesn't work Lucy, people don't believe me when I tell them about dragons."

"Well I did."

The corner of Natsu's mouth lifted a bit, feeling some sort of warmth inside. A different kind of warmth than his fire. He definitely remembered that, he definitely remembered telling her about Igneel and she immediately believed every word he said. She believed in everything he said and did.

"You're right. So maybe we shouldn't pretend to get to know each other. This is a date? Let's talk about…like things people who are dating would talk about."

"Yeah, or we could just be ourselves." Lucy said handing him the straw to her glass cup. Natsu smiled at her and grabbed his straw, he placed them against his teeth and looked at her.

"I make a sexy walrus right?"

She laughed at him nodding her head. "Oh yeah." She said, picking up some bread from the entrée bucket in the middle of the table. She took a bite and he kept staring at him.

"What? Walrus teeth freaking you out?"

"No, you're hair isn't up."

"Well…neither is yours."

"That's because I wanted to look classy."

"So did i."

"But you don't look like you."

"Neither do you!"

"Fair enough." She said with a smile. "I don't have any ribbons on me though so – hey at least we match."

"I know how did that happen?"

"Well Virgo gave this to me. So I mean – "

"Yeah she gave this to me too."

"Well there ya go." And they laughed again. Natsu took off some bread and through the pieces at Lucy. She in turned started taking pieces of her own bread and started throwing it at him. They ended up make quite the mess by the time their food got there, the waitress putting all the blame on Lucy.

Her good mood dampened.

…

"Lucy are you gonna finish that?" Natsu said with a turkey leg in his mouth. Lucy had half a steak left and feeling a bit bloated herself, she shook her head no and pushed the plate to him. He quickly finished that up and relaxed into his seat.

"I gotta go to the bathroom." He announced to her, almost as soon as he was done eating. Lucy laughed silently to herself, having to wonder why he would announce it like that. She couldn't believe it, but she was enjoying this. She was enjoying this a lot.

Natsu walked up to the bathroom, feeling quite smug. He was having a good time and he knew she was too, because he in fact is boyfriend material. He was so close to winning he could taste it. He still hadn't figured out what it was he was going to win.

The closer he got to the bathroom, the more he heard something odd. He heard low moans, womanly moans. And they were really low, no one else around him could hear them. His curiosity got the best of him and he walked into the bathroom. No one was in there, except for one stall that was closed. He could see pants pooled at the ankles. There was a banging against the door and the moans were louder.

"Oh my god." Natsu whispered covering his mouth. He kept the door open with his foot, and stuck his head out, waving his arms around trying to get Lucy's attention.

Lucy had looked up from her glass momentarily to see Natsu waving around like a damned idiot. He set his hands on fire trying to get his attention even more.

"What are you doing!?" She mouthed at him, standing up from her table. He motioned for her to come towards the bathroom and she did, hoping she could get him to stop making a fool of himself.

"Listen" He whispered to her as he pulled her into the bathroom. And she did. Lucy didn't want to laugh, she wanted to be the lady that she believed she was, but this was comical. Someone just couldn't keep in their pants.

She had to wonder what that was like.

"This is highly inappropriate Natsu!" she whispered to him, as he kept laughing. "Let's go, before someone – " and then she stopped as the moans got louder.

"Ohhhh aaaah – gray – sama."

And their faces fell, the laughter falling off. Natsu opened his mouth to scream out in horror, but Lucy grasped his mouth and pulled him out of the bathroom completely.

Natsu fell to the ground outside of the bathroom and sat there, causing concerned stares from everyone.

"I'm never gonna get Juvia's moans out of my head." He said shakily as if he'd just seen a ghost. "Never, they'll haunt me forever."

"Calm down Natsu. It's not the end of the world." She said sitting next to him. "I just wanna know how they were here and we didn't notice."

"I guess we were just having too much fun to notice."

She smiled at him and tussled his hair a bit. She stood up, grabbing his hand and lifting him up with her. A waiter walked by holding a fresh lobster in his hand, Natsu's eyes going wide with amusement. As if what just happened was a million miles away.

One of the things Lucy adored about him.

"So we do get to play with the lobsters here!" Natsu said excitedly, causing the waiter to stop. "no, No this is for eating. I'm going to give this to the chef so he can be eaten."

"What!?"

"Yeah you get to handpick the lobster from the aquarium and eat it."

"Wait!? What!? They have to look their murders in the eye!?"

"That's barbaric." Lucy added, folding her arms over her chest.

"Well that's how it is here. Did you guys refuse to eat any of the other meat on the menu?"

"Well if there were live cow in their being slaughtered then no. cause that's messed up!"

"Yeah, besides those animals are bread for that life. Lobsters are not, they're just taken from the ocean and put in an aquarium and then you choose which one too kill?" Lucy glaring hard at the waiter. He shrugged them both off, walking into the kitchen. There was also a bit of worry that the kitchen was next to the bathroom, but that was neither here nor there.

"Lucy! We have to save the lobsters." Natsu hushed as they sat back at their table.

"And how do we do that?" she said sipping on the last of her ice tea.

"You make a distraction and I'll…find a way to set them free."

"I don't know…"

"C'mon Lucy is it fair to the lobsters that they get stolen where the other animals get a nice life and turned into delicious food."

Lucy wouldn't tell him that most of those animals don't have a very nice life. But she did agree that it was unfair that these lobsters were stolen from the sea and placed out front and center like a live show. Like they weren't living things.

"Alright." Before she could place her hands on her keys, Loke and Virgo were already out, standing there smugly.

"Princess! Aquarius asked us to come and get information about your date."

"Really?" Lucy said in shock.

"Yeah she didn't believe it." Loke added, causing Lucy to sulk for a moment, but she laughed it off. It wouldn't be Aquarius if she wasn't rude.

"well yeah I'm on a date, but I need your help. Get up and dance with me. And sing. Be loud."

Loke and Virgo grinned, happily. It was as if this was the best job they ever received. Natsu was slightly annoyed that Loke was there, but it was worth it. Her spirits were always so helpful.

Loke and Virgo started doing their ridiculous dance, Lucy watching, studying them. She attempted the dance herself, though she wasn't doing it well.

Natsu watched in astonishment as Lucy danced with the other two, singing about what It means to be a fairy tail mage. What the hell song was that?

He laughed and turned around walking behind the lobster aquarium. "Hmm…" He tapped a finger to his chin. His fists clenched and he yelled quite loudly. "I'm all fired up!" This caused everyone, including Lucy and her spirits, to stop and look at him.

"No Natsu, not like that!" she yelled, but it was too late. Natsu punched is inflamed fists into the aquarium. It completely shattered, water pouring out and getting on everyone, including Lucy. Loke and Virgo were gone as soon as the glass shattered, the patrons all screaming.

"Maybe I shouldn't have done that…"

"Ya think!?" Lucy seethed, wiping the water from her eyes. "I have lobsters dangling off of me. Lobsters. It's like a damn fashion accessory."

"I love it when you cuss." He said jokingly, picking up the rest of the lobsters, and ran off, pulling her by the hand.

"Natsu!?"

"I'm sure we're gonna get arrested for this, or at least deal with punishment from gramps so c'mon we gotta run."

"What about the bill!?"

"Seriously Lucy? We're stealing Lobsters!"

"Liberating!"

"Oh my – " Natsu pulled them both out of the restaurant as they were being chased out by waiters and patrons alike. He dragged her through the beach, noting how empty it was, because once again, it was raining.

"Natsu! I have pinchers on my legs and my arms."

Natsu stopped and pulled the lobsters off of her and held on to them. "So do I. I feel great." He said with a smile. "C'mon Lucy." And he took off again. Lucy looked behind her and saw an angry mob following quick behind them.

She took off, following Natsu wherever it was he was going. It was incredibly hard to see with all the rain hitting her in the face. It was hard to run in heels and a tight dress, so she quickly kicked those shoes off, but she wasn't about to strip.

"Natsu, where are we going!?"

"I don't know. the ocean?"

She wanted to smack him for being so impulsive, but the feeling of running from an angry mob, feet through the sand, rain hitting her face, liberating animals. The feeling of adventure, Natsu being the only one to bring her that feeling, she couldn't help it, she was excited. She was happy. She was having fun.

She followed him onto the pier. The mob still keeping up with them. "They won't quit!"

"Well Natsu, we did steal all of their lobsters and not pay for our meal." She said between breaths, the running wearing on her. They ran past everyone on the pier, mostly homeless people, and fishers. They ran past the small shops, ignoring the blatant smell of fish. They ignored the weird stairs, the murmurs. And even the yelling of one man who said "Be young. Be in love!" both of them finding that incredibly bizarre.

They were reaching the end of the pier and Lucy already knew what he was planning and she was totally against it. But when he reached his hand out to hers she grabbed it and when he sped up with her hand in his she sped up to. And when he leaped from the pier she continued to hold his hand and leaped with him.

They swam underneath the pier, the lobsters loosening up and releasing from Natsu. Natsu leaned up against one of the poles and pulled Lucy into his chest, wrapping a hand over her head. He listened as the footsteps and voices on the pier faded away. Lots of curses, lots of angry people, stomping, slamming, muttering about 'bad for business'.

The two of them started laughing as the voices went away.

Natsu let go of her head and stared at her for a moment. She was drenched, her hair was slicked to her forehead, her bright brown eyes peeking through. She had a certain wanderlust that shone through, and made her sparkle. His hands cupped her face, and he could see just how, happy she was.

He used one hand to push her bangs from her face, using a thumb two swipe away some of the water on her face. He pressed his forehead to hers, keeping their gaze locked.

Lucy could feel his breath hitting against her lips, she felt her tongue involuntarily slip out and slick across her own bottom lip. Her eyes shifted shut, she could feel him getting closer.

Natsu's mouth parted slightly, his lips brushed against hers, her tongue, barely gazing him. He was so close to her, so close to feeling her.

Natsu stop. She doesn't want her first kiss here. She doesn't want it with you. don't take advantage of her. Stop.

He told himself as his mouth crashed into hers. The kiss was wet, opened mouth , Lucy humming pleasurable against his mouth. His tongue pushed into the soft opening in of her parted lips. He slinked his tongue against the roof of her mouth.

Lucy moaned into his mouth, her hands sliding up and down his toned abdomen. She sucked on his tongue, sliding a leg up and around his torso.

Natsu lifted her body and placed her against the pole. The waves, continued to push them around, as he assaulted her mouth relentlessly.

Lucy never dreamed her first kiss would be so heated and so oddly romantic. Their tongues danced together, Natsu pulling back to bite her lip. His hands slid up her dress, trying to keep her body close to his despite the water hitting them.

In that moment, Natsu saw the lust clouding her eyes. She was so beautiful, and she deserved better.

"We should go." He murmured, kissing her forehead.

Lucy looked at him completely dismayed. Her fingers stayed on her trembling, bruised lips as he held her other hand and took her out of the ocean.

Why did he stop? Is it because of the bet? Was all of this just because of the bet?

...

i really wanted to write smut but development wise it wouldn't have made sense so the smut is gonna be a little while later. oh ya. Lucy is gonna be so confused. R&R