Suddenly Lucy saw Natsu on the bed holding on to his stomach. "Oh man Lucy you should have seen your face!"

Lucy's red face was no longer red Because of embarrassment, but rather it was now because of being pissed. "One day, I will kill you Natsu."

Natsu was still laughing when she climbed up her way to the upstairs bunk. When Natsu had finally stopped Laughing and he had reduced to snickering, he got up and went to turn the lights off. He guessed Lucy was already sleeping since it's been a while since he heard any noise. As soon as he turned the lights off a bunch of illuminating dots in the ceeling appeared. There must have been almost a hundred of them, because they alone lit up the room.

Natsu had always known that Lucy was kind of obsessed with stars. Anything having to do with stars always caught her attention. Sometimes he wanted to learn about stars, just so that he could impress her. Unfortunately whenever he tried learning about stars, he always got even more confused than how he began.

"I hope they don't keep you up at night." Lucy now was leaning over the railing of the bunk bed to look over at Natsu. She smiled when she saw Natsu give a little jump from being surprised.

"They're actually really pretty," Natsu said as he made his way back to the bed.
"It took me forever to finish putting them up. They would fall over and over again, at the end I just crazy glued them."

"I'm not ready to go to sleep. We didn't have dinner and there's this hole in my stomach, do you have food?"

It never seemed to amaze Lucy on how much Natsu ate. "Natsu, it is too late to make anything and I don't really have anything done."

Natsu frowned but then got off the bed and made his way to the kitchen. He saw Lucy hadn't followed him and it was only reasonable, afterall it was late. He was tired himself but this was food, and he'd do anything for food. He looked through the cabinets, but didn't see much food anywhere. Mentally he made a note to buy some groceries. It was the least he could do since Lucy was letting him stay over her apartment, besides Lucy tended to buy nasty healthy food. Since he didn't find anything in the cabinets, he proceeded towards the fridge; there wasn't much there neither, but atleast there was some ham and eggs. He quickly scrambled up some food and devided it into two plates. He hoped Lucy was still awake, she needed some food in her system; and if not he could always eat the rest of her food.

Natsu carried two plates into the room, trying to be as quiet as possible. The room was dark and he saw Lucy's shiluete curled in her bed. He walked towards the end of the bed and poked her back. "Hey Lucy, you up?" He was careful to not startle her, but his attempts were useless since she instantly jumped from his touch.

"Natsu, good sweet Jesus. Why are you sneaking up on people like that?"

"I didn't sneak up on you. Anyway I made us food, from your scraps in the fridge." He extended his arm and gave over one of the huge plates. "It's ham and eggs, with like a piece of toast. We need to do groceries otherwise we'll starve."

Lucy was surprised he had actually cooked. Last time she ever saw Natsu try to cook, he ended up almost burning down her house. "Wow Natsu your cooking skills have improved. Who taught you to cook this good?" She almost expected him to say that his girlfriend or ex girlfriend helped him, that kind of scared her; she didn't even know why.

For a moment Natsu was quiet, but eventually he answered in a tired voice, "I uh, I had to learn by myself kind of. Some of the guys helped after they realized that I would burn anything within a mile radius, but I eventually learned."

Lucy noticed his sad tone, she only guessed It was from missing his other fiends. She didn't want him sad and she isn't want them eating in her room since she was a clean freak. "Hey let's go watch some TV over at the living room." Natsu shrugged and waited for her to get down. He held her plate, trying to maintain his balance.

Once Lucy was down she had a good look at Natsu And she realized he still was only wearing boxers. "Did you cook like that?" She immediately blushed once the question was out. Natsu only nodded, she shook her head in disapproval and walked towards the living room.

Once they were both settled down on the couch, Lucy tried her best to ignore the nakedness from Natsu. Meanwhile Natsu was trying to look anywhere but at Lucy, she only had a tank and some flimsy thin pair of shorts. She nagged at him because he was "naked" but her nakedness was more apparent than his. However Lucy seemed oblivious to her lack of clothes and only began to look for a movie while chewing on some toast.

For fifteen minutes everything was quiet except for their chewing. Each of them could feel the heat from their bodies, since their knees almost touched and their elbows constantly bumped. Lucy had a lot she wanted to ask Natsu, things that she had asked before but wanted to ask again in person."Hey Natsu how was it overseas?"

Natsu was was a little surprised by the question, and instead of sugar coating the answer like he once did he decided to answer bluntly. "It was alright, honestly sometimes I was too caught up on academic stuff, that it didn't even feel like I was in another country."

Lucy was a little surprised by Natsu's answer, but at the same time she expected it. She knew that studying abroad sometimes involved a lot of studying and she worried that Natsu wouldn't be satisfied with the amount of time he had free. All he ever wanted to do was protect and help others. "Why did you tell me you were having loads of fun when I called you?"

"I was having loads of fun, but sometimes I felt pointless. Like I couldn't help people. That picture I sent you of the house I had help build was one of the not many projects I got to work on. I wanted something hands on, ya know? And then it would be worst because I would see all these poor children with not enough to eat, or women being maltreated by their husbands and I couldn't do anything. I couldn't tell you that Luce, I would only cause for you to worry."

"Natsu, you can't carry the burden of what you've seen all by yourself."

"But that's the thing Luce, it should not be a burden to me when there are loads of people carrying heavier problems."

Just as Lucy was about to answer her cell phone rang. She was going to ignore it when she realized that the ring tone was the one she had set up for her closest friends. Lucy figured it must be something important since they were calling so late in the night. She excused herself and headed to her bedroom for her phone.

"Hello?"

"Lucy? Are you awake?" From the sound of the voice she figured it was Grey, and from the background sounds she figured he was with other people.

"Well no shit Einstein," she responded with a sarcastic tone but cold at the same time.

"Geesh what crawled up your butt? Anyway we were wondering if Natsu is staying over at your place? We tried calling him but his phone is off or something."

She looked over at Natsu in the living room and made a mental note to remind him to charge his damn phone. "Yeah he's here, why?"

"Well everyone kind of wanted to throw him a welcome back party. Now open the door because we're right outside your building."

Lucy didn't even get to answer because right after he finished his sentence he hanged up. At that moment Lucy kind of regretted answering her phone, but then she went to the kitchen where the intercom was and opened the front door for her friends. Then she ran to the living room where Natsu was.

"Who was that? The boyfriend?"

Lucy didn't even bother to answer him she just said, "Put some pants on, we have company." Soon after, the doorbell rang.

As soon as she opened the door she heard the loud noise from different voices, all saying something different. And then once they were all in they froze. It was Gajeel who spoke first.

"Well what do we have here? Bunny girl finally lost her virginity?"

Lucy turned red from head to toe and she swore she had a small heart attack. "What? I-What?" She turned around only to see Natsu still in boxers. If it wasn't for the fact that she as already red form embarrassment she would have turned red from anger. "Natsu I said put some pants on!"

Natsu was still trying to comprehend what was going on when he saw how red Lucy was and then he ran to put on his clothes. He could only guess she was red from anger that was directed towards him, and if he didn't do ys she told him he would sleep in the couch for the night.

Once Natsu had gone to put pants on Lucy turned to her friends, her face still flushed but slowly returning to its original color. "Sorry guys, Natsu has no shame on being naked it appears."

"Well Lucy it's not like you're not almost naked yourself. Makes me wonder if we interrupted something." This time the speaker was Cana, and she had a knowing evil look it almost knocked Lucy out of her socks.

Lucy started to move her hands in a protesting kind of motion. "No I swear it's nothing like that. Dont think like that you dirty pervs." Lucy then ran to the room to put on sweatpants and a hoodie.

Once in the room she rested her back against the door. In front of her Natsu had his back to her and from the looks of it he was trying to put his pants on. His back was so defined she could see as his muscles strained when he moved. His tanned skin glowed under the lighting and after a while of looking at his skin she noticed a small scar around his shoulder blade. She didn't realize as she moved towards his. She didn't realize when her hand had raised itself and touched the scar. As soon as she touched him, Natsu froze and tensed up. Her hand traced the outline of the scar. The scar looked like it was healed, but it seemed to be deep.

"What happened?"

Her voice as barely a whisper but Natsu had heard her. Natsu had felt her. When she had spoken, he had felt the chill of her breath as her lips pronounced every syllable. He closed his eyes and tried to push away whatever feeling it was that was trying to crawl up on him. "I-I got in a fight. Kind of got stabbed a little, no biggie."

As soon as Lucy heard his answer she removed her hand. Natsu felt a little disappointed but soon got over it since she had walked around him to face him. Her concerned expression always managed to amuse him. Then her face was replaced with that one of an enraged one. "What do you mean no biggie? Natsu you got stabbed!"

Natsu reached to scratch the back of his head. "Lucy really it's no big deal, it's over now anyway." Just as Lucy was about to protest they heard both their names being called from the living room.

"We'll talk later," with that Lucy went to look for sweatpants as she left Natsu to stress over later

so so so sorry it took forever I have no good excuse U_U I'll try to update ASAP sometimes it's hard, bc I want to give good nalu moments but I don't want them to be too cliche. Anywho enjoy.