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The sun filtered into Natsu's room the following morning, waking him gently from his good nights rest. He stretched slightly but stopped when he realized something was weighing down his body.
Having a strong sense of deja vu, he peaked towards his waist and was completely taken aback at the site before him. Lucy, her hair loose cascading around her, was wrapped around him slumbering in what must have been shortest nightgown Natsu had ever seen. He flushed for a moment, letting his thoughts get away from him.
Recalling the night before he found himself wondering how their current predicament could have come to pass. He distinctly remembered her locking the door between her room and the bathroom, and was quite certain he heard her lock her main bedroom entrance as well. That, he hoped, would be enough to rule out him somehow kidnapping her in the middle of the night and bringing her to his bed.
While his future bride may look like a sleeping angel, he would be lying to himself if he didn't admit his fear at her response when she woke up.
Because she had locked her door, Natsu reasoned she must have come to his bed of her own concession. Thinking logically, Natsu immediately dismissed the idea that she had simply wanted to cozy up with him, especially judging from how she reacted to discovering him in their bathroom. No. If he was to think logically the only possible reason would be that she was a sleepwalker.
"Uhgggg not another one." He whispered to himself.
Over the years Gray would often stay over at Natsu's house when they hung out too late and it was through him that Natsu got his first experience with sleep walkers. The amount of times Natsu found his backpack in the freezer and his shoes in the oven astounded him over the years. It got so bad that he customized a room specifically for Gray where he could lock the door from the outside just to keep him contained.
He had a habit of stripping in his sleep.
Glancing at his alarm, Natsu noticed it was time to get ready for school. Although he was frustrated that he had to wake her, especially since she wasn't such a pain when she was asleep, Natsu did the only logical thing he could think of. Pinching the tip of sleeping beauty's nose, he waited five seconds before she woke with a start, coughing as she gasped for air.
"You know, while it's rather flattering to have you cling to me like that, we really must get ready for school Miss Heartfillia." He joked.
Finally getting enough air, Lucy turned groggy eyed towards the other occupant of the bed. She was sleepy and angry as to who would dare disturb her sleep, especially one without her reoccurring nightmares. Upon seeing Natsu's face, Lucy quickly gave him a mortified shove, successfully flipping him off the bed.
"What are you doing in my bed! Argh! The bathroom is one thing but…" Lucy blinked as she gazed around at the grey walls and the black comforter she had pulled up over her nightgown.
"Why am I in your room…" She marvelled as she finally put two and two together. "No…I didn't. I haven't sleep walked in years. ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?" she screamed into her pillow, embarrassment flushing obviously across her whole body.
Rubbing his now re-bruised head, Natsu shook his head as he got up to get ready for school.
"Just like Gray. I cant believe there's two of them." Natsu mumbled bitterly as he headed towards the bathroom.
The rest of the day went by rather uneventfully for Lucy. She moved from class to class and handed in her appropriate homework, all the while refusing to think of her overly embarrassing morning.
After avoiding the cafeteria (and therefore Natsu) at lunch, Lucy found herself particularly starving as she headed towards her physical education class. She glanced quickly at the activity board to find that they would be doing Soccer for the next few days. She shuddered inertly at the thought of doing an outdoor sport. While she was rather skilled when it came to things like basketball and volleyball, for some reason when it would come to grass and unpredictable weather, her clumsiness level rose twenty points.
Entering the locker room, she headed towards the locker she had been assigned and changed into her gym strip. Giving herself a glance in the mirror before leaving, Lucy shuttered slightly at the form fitting uniform that was standard here. As the weather had yet to turn from the warm fall days to the cold wintery nights, black spandex shorts paired with a loose white jersey was deemed the season's gym strip. Shaking her head at how much of her skin was showing, Lucy reached into her bag and pulled out a long sleeve sweater to cover up.
Once out on the field, the teams were split up by the teacher and Lucy found herself on the opposing team of Gray. Noticing the way he glared at a nearby soccer ball, Lucy concluded he must not like the sport very much. She wondered why for a moment as she glanced at his tall frame. On the one hand, Lucy would be lying if she said that he didn't have an athletic build, so he must work out in some way. On the contrary, the pissed off expression he was wearing seemed to clearly indicate that he did not like the sport.
Shaking her head from her thoughts, Lucy lined up on her side of the field.
"Well, here goes nothing."
Natsu sighed as he placed his head against the cool classroom's window. His teacher was going on and on over problems Natsu could solve in his sleep and it was starting to bore him.
Noticing movement in the field below, Natsu's eyes briefly scanned over the gym class that was emerging from the gymnasium. Noticing Gray right away from his overly tall appearance, Natsu's eyes scanned the group for the familiar face of his fiancé. It didn't take long for Natsu to find her as there were so few girls in her class to begin with.
Her long blonde hair was pulled back into a high ponytail and, he noted with a smirk, she was the only one who covered up their obscene school uniform with a sweater. His smirk faded however when he watched where her gaze followed. Looking further down the field, Natsu blinked slightly at Lucy's stare at Gray.
Why is she only looking at him? Natsu thought as a faint pang of jealousy began to simmer within him.
Squinting his eyes to get a better view, Natsu almost laughed aloud at his friends evident displeasure. Ask anyone who knows Gray Fullbuster and they will tell you that he is an excellent athlete. While his true ability was reserved for a skating rink or a basketball court, an uncanny jinx of misfortune seemed to rear its ugly head whenever the boy even approached a soccer ball.
So far, in the long time that Natsu has known Gray, he has managed to sprain both his ankles, broken three people's arms, and inflicted ten nosebleeds to not only his opponents, but teammates as well. One time, a soccer ball was just on the ground behind him, he wasn't even playing, and someone slipped on it and broke their collarbone.
Often Gray would skip any gym class that soccer would be played so Natsu wondered why he was out there at all.
The sound of a whistle jerked Natsu from his thoughts as he watched the clumsy game unfold. Lucy, surprisingly, just ran up and down the field staying far away from the action. Natsu would have taken her for an athlete the way she hurled her toothbrush at him the other day. Gray however was a whole other story. While Lucy was at least attempting to make it look like she was participating in order to get a passing grade, Gray had given up and decided to lay down in the freshly cut grass, scowling.
Looking back to Lucy, she was nearing Gray's side of the field. Once she had taken a few steps past him she noticed the ball was flying at her. Kicking her leg out on instinct, Lucy's foot connected with the ball as it soared through the air harshly into the net.
Lucy blinked.
After it had sunk in that she had just scored a goal, she instantly rose her hands into the air and began to hop around as her teammates gave her a high five. Ignoring her surroundings, Natsu watched hopelessly as she backed up over an unaware Gray, tripping over him in the process.
Natsu rose from his seat, his classmates staring at him as he watched, in horror, as two male classmates put their arms around her to carry her to the infirmary.
His eye twitched.
"Mr. Dragneel, what are you doing?" Mrs. Sequen; his math teacher, questioned.
Ignoring her, Natsu ran out the classroom leaving behind a very confused group of people.
Rounding the corner in a beeline effort to reach the infirmary, Natsu's eyes landed on a scowling Gray in the hallway. He looked up at Natsu with a look of surprise that he had already found out Lucy was hurt.
"Gray, how is she?" he questioned as he reached for the doorknob, frowning when the thing wouldn't open.
"They took her in there and locked me out. Something about too many people being in the room at once." he gritted through his teeth, seething.
Gray looked up at Natsu's worried expression and his anger began to subside, replacing it with a dull ache of guilt.
"Sorry…I knew I shouldn't have played."
Waving away Gray's apology, Natsu simply stated that it was an accident as his head fixed on the door separating him from Lucy. Gray was surprised his glare hadn't burned a hole through the entrance yet.
The sound of the door clicking alerted Natsu and Gray that they were finally about to get some answers. Emerging first were the two boys that had carried Lucy to the nurse in the first place. Two boys from Lucy's class, Loki and Gajeel, exited with looks of surprise at seeing Natsu there.
They understood Gray had known Lucy from how she conversed with him freely since her first day at school. Natsu Dragneel's presence however, made them wonder. It was common knowledge that Lucy was billeting a room from his family, yet their connection beyond that was still a mystery to everyone at the school.
Ignoring the two boys, Natsu's eyes fell on Lucy holding herself up with crutches.
A flash of emotion passed over Natsu's face on her injured form, before he put up a mask of indifference.
"Broken?" he questioned.
"No, just sprained." she replied.
Natsu let out a breath that he didn't know he was holding.
"You are aware that only an idiot trips over what's behind them." he smirked.
Natsu watched at the colour that began to creep up his future wife's neck as she scrunched up her nose in anger.
Letting out a huff, Lucy started to step forwards as if to walk away when she forgot the crutches she was suppose to be supporting herself on.
Letting out a loud "eep" as she fell forward, the girl squeaked as she headed towards the floor, unable to be supported by her right leg. Closing her eyes as she headed straight for the ground, Lucy was surprised to have a strong pair of arms wrapped around her instead.
She heard an audible sigh as she felt her body being picked up and thrown over a broad set of shoulders.
Her face turning red for a completely different reason, Lucy began to beat her fists into Natsu's back as he carried her out of the room like a sack of potatoes.
"Put me down you…you JERK" she struggled for words.
"Gray, bring the crutches to my house after class, I am taking Miss. Heartfillia home." he ordered as he started walking towards the parking lot.
After finding her struggles against him only hurt her foot further, Lucy fell limp on his shoulders as she hid her hands in her face in embarrassment.
Natsu Dragneel, she surmised in that moment, was the most infuriating man she had ever met.