Mira, Erza, and Lucy raced towards Lucy's apartment. It was kind of like a game. When one of them got ahead of another they would try and get ahead of the one who had momentarily surpassed them. When they finally got to her apartment she got in last.

"I win!" Erza shouted triumphantly.

"No fair! You used your Flight Armor!" Mira and Lucy protested, pouting at her unreasonable actions.

"Girls, now I am only kidding! We can race fairly when we return to the guild, now, time for cake!" Erza added happily. Erza's love for cake wasn't at all a secret; she would always get some at the bar from Mira.

"I think I'm good!" Lucy told the joyful scarlet haired mage.

"Hm, maybe I should've used one of my takeovers…" Mira smiled mischievously.

"Now I'm really not going to race with you two!" Lucy shuddered at the thought of racing with Erza with her armor and Mira with her terrifying takeovers.

"Geez Lucy, I didn't know you were such a back out!" Mira teased. "Maybe if you keep it up, you'll end up backing out of trying to be with Natsu."

"Yeah Lucy, you don't want to have that happen." Cana walked over with a drunk-like smirk on her face. "Then all of our help would be a whole big waste."

"Fine, I'll race you!" Lucy gave in, her voice sounding irritated.

"*Daijobu*, now that we got that settled, let's discuss since it looks like everyone is here!" Erza chimed.

(*= Alright)

"Daijobu Erza, let's go inside Lu-Chan!" Levy smiled to Lucy.

Lucy led them inside the complex and to her apartment door and opened it. As she did, she stopped abruptly, ignoring the complaints from her guildmates.

"What the heck Lucy!" most of the yelled, causing Lucy to spin around to face them.

"Eh-hem, now I have rules for my apartment! 1." Lucy started holding up one finger.

"Oh great, another lecture form Lucy. This is only supposed to happen at the guild! Let us get away from it here at least." Gray grumbled, initiating Lucy to glare at him.

"This is one is especially for the one who just can't keep his clothes on." She went on ignoring the "mph" from Gray. "No stripping in this apartment!"

"It's not like I can control it." Gray retorted.

"Not my problem." She sharply replied. "Anyways, rule 2. No making it a mess. That means everyone here! Now, since we have that squared away, let's go." Lucy finished her tiny lecture of rules.

~o~

After they all got settled down in blankets and pillows on the floor, it was just silent. While Mira was smirking devilishly and Erza was collecting her thoughts, along with all the rest, Lucy was starting to think this was all a waste. Obviously Natsu's just too dense for anyone to think of anything, was Lucy's one thought.

'I doubt I even like him, it must just be a weird phase, right?' Lucy thought, doubting what she thought her feelings were towards Natsu.

"I GOT IT!" the gathering of guild members yelled simultaneously.

"W-what, seriously?" Lucy asked them ecstatic.

"Yes! The strawberry will definitely be in the now! Let's go get the ingredients!" Erza said joyously.

~o~

'When Erza said that we should go get ingredients, was she serious?' I thought. 'Well whatever, if they can help me with Natsu then we can go bake twenty strawberry cakes!'

"Well eh, okay Erza…." I started a little awkwardly. "Since we all have an idea, we can put our ideas on sheets of papers and pick one to see which one we should follow!"

Everyone nodded and started thinking. Eventually Mira smiled and started spouting ideas of how they should draw the papers.

"I think we should do what you said, Lucy, but instead do three rounds! So, the first round we would pick three out the seven, and then in the second round, two, then in the end the last one would be the winner!"

"Great thinking Mira-san!" Levy praised the smiling mage.

"Thank you, Levy!" Mira replied.

"I think that is a great idea Mira-san!" I praised her along with everyone else.

Once the girls and guys wrote down their ideas on the paper I handed out, I gathered them in a pile and started to randomly select three of them after what it seemed like hours of shuffling. I decided to select the two top ones, and a bottom one, then looked and read them aloud to everyone.

"Sheet one; make him jealous, sheet two; get locked in a closet with him, sheet three; give him strawberry cake." I read staring at the papers dumbfounded at the great ideas, not including the cake.

"Ooooo, you got mine!" Mira smiled devilishly.

"Mine too!" Erza and Gray said at the same time.

"I already knew Erza!" I replied. "But Gray? I didn't think you were capable of producing one of these ideas!"

"W-what's that supposed to mean?" Gray huffed.

"Nothing, I just didn't think, well- whatever." I told him, not exactly sure how to tell him I didn't picture him the romantic type.

"Well, should we vote, Lu-chan?" Levy asked me.

"Yeah!" everyone cheered.

"Alright, so I'll vote when everyone else is done voting." I informed them.

"Alright, so I'll go first." Loke started. "Neither! Be mine Lucy!"

With that statement I glared at him and tried to hide my blush.

"Loke, say a real answer!" the others yelled.

"Fine, fine! The cake." He pouted looking at me.

'Well at least it's a choice…' I thought annoyed while putting a tally under cake.

Once the voting was done 'cake' lost, much to Loke's discontent.

"Okay, so I guess I didn't need to vote there, heh heh." I said gladly, not wanting to put an answer to these embarrassing choices. "Now for the final round!"

Before anyone could reply, Mira butted in with probably the best idea anyone would ever hear. After all, she was made for these kinds of things.

"Now, let's not be so hasty. I think that both of these are great ideas! But, how can we make them better? How-a-bout merging them together?" Mira suggested.

Our whole group stayed silent with awe at the genius before us.

'Why couldn't I think of that? I thought I was genius here! Mph, maybe I really do overestimate myself sometimes. Just must be being too arrogant.' I thought vainly.

"Now, do we all agree with this?" I choked out the words. I really liked this idea, but I wanted to everyone else to agree before I say anything.

"Hai!" they all answered.

(Hai=Yes)

"Alright, I like the idea too. N-now, how should we plan it?" I bombed them with another question that I am sure I could answer myself.

"Well, I have a few ideas…" Mira trailed off. To me it looked like she was mouthing numbers, counting down.

'What's up with Mira? Why is she, counting down?' I thought while looking the white haired mage who was next to me. 'Mira, what are you planning?'

When she got to what it looked like one, she tensed up and pushed me into the boys, while a certain salamander barged in.

"KYA!" I yelled falling into Gray and Loke.

'MIRA, THIS WAS TOTALLY YOUR PLAN ALL ALONG!' I screamed in my head.

~o~

When I pushed Lucy into Gray and Loke, everything happened just like I planned. Natsu came in and saw his blonde partner in the laps of his rival and someone he just didn't like Lucy getting involved with.

'Jealousy; check,' I thought adding, 'for now anyways.'

~o~

When I rushed through the door I saw what I feared, and anger pooled inside me. I'm not sure why I'm feeling, well, whatever way this is. But it's weird, and Lucy's weird, so these feelings must be for her, right?

Lucy was on the boys, and the boys were grabbing at her. For some stupid reason the exhibitionist was gawking at my, uh, at Lucy, and the perverted womanizer was smirking and pulling Lucy towards him.

"Bastard!" I yelled at Gray and Loke. "Get your hands off Lucy!"

When they looked at me my body was engulfed in flames. The new emotion was overwhelming and made me feel uneasy I glared at the mage and spirit. Lucy started to get up off of their laps, but instead tripped onto Loke.

"Loke, help me get up! Don't just hold me here!" Lucy shouted at her stellar spirit, blushing madly because of the incident.

"Nope, I'm gonna hold you here, and there's nothing you can do about it!" Loke gripped her tighter, making rage and jealousy boil inside me.

'I finally found out the feeling. The feeling I've been having about this whole thing. Jealousy, such a stupid thing to feel! Why am I feeling it anyways?'

"You dumbass! Let Lucy go before I rip you apart!"

Loke just smirked and held Lucy tighter. His hands were traveling dangerously low on Lucy's body. For some reason, I couldn't move. I could only watch as the horror unfolded for my eyes. I tried to look at the others to see their expressions, but I couldn't even move my poor jealous eyes from the two.

"L-Loke, what are you doing? Natsu's gonna kill you!" Gray hissed to Loke, making me feel a little pleasure that icicle was afraid of me.

'Seems that that ice exhibitionist finally learned his place, serves him right!' I thought noticing out of the corner of my eyes that sweat was dropping like an avalanche on him.

"Just trust me Luce." Loke whispered lightly. Even though it was light, I could hear it as loud as a shout.

'Trust me? Is he making me feel like this on purpose!? Now I'm really fired up!'

~o~

"Just trust me." Loke told me as his embrace on me tightened. I'll admit it was a, nice, embrace. When he held tighter each time Natsu told him to let go, my heart quickened. 'Natsu cares about me. He doesn't want Loke to touch me. What could this mean? Could it mean, he's jealous? Could this be the 'jealous' part of the plan? You really are a love genius Mira…thank you' I thought about this situation.

"I said get your hand off of her! Get away from my Lucy!" Natsu yelled, making everyone gasp at his statement. 'My Lucy, his Lucy, did he just claim me?' I thought, my heart skipping several beats.

"A confession?" the whole group murmured simultaneously.

When Natsu had realized what he'd done he looked at me straight in the eyes. Many emotions were seen in his, probably as well as mine. Confusion, jealousy, protectiveness, caring, wanting, worrying. Those were the emotions I saw. The emotions I never thought I would see from the one I love. From the one who I knew could never be mine. Yet I apparently was his.

"Lucy." He whispered.

"Natsu!" I cried out his name, getting out of Loke's grasp as he disappeared, his job was done. I stumbled into Natsu hugging him tightly.

"What are you doing?" Natsu asked me, making this moment seem like a whole misunderstanding and not a confession. "You really are weird Luce, but I'm glad I checked up on you!"

The whole room of mages slumped over. They were all thunderstruck by the dense mage. I bet they were thinking; 'Natsu! I knew you were dense, but not this dense!'

"You are so stupid." I mumbled as I got out his hug and wallowed all the way to my bed, collapsing from embarrassment and anger.

"Luce?" he asked me walking over to my bed. When I looked at him I saw that my friends were no longer there. Then I looked to the door to see Mira shutting the door and eyeing me playfully.

'Mira, don't even think that! He's probably too dense to know what it is!' I glared at her before she disappeared.

"Lucccccy." Natsu held my name as he said it while pouting. He came over and pushed me down on the bed when I looked away from him.

"Natsu! What are you doing?" I asked him. 'Of course he wouldn't do it! He doesn't know how!' I repeated in my head.

He just smiled and got on top of me to pin me on the soft bed. One thing I failed to notice, Mira shut off the lights when she went, making the whole situation that more enticing.

"Lucccccy!" He smiled and nuzzled closer to me.

'Natsu, what are you doing!' I screamed inside my head.

"It's time for a nap." he demanded he rolled over to the other side of the bed and threw blankets over his body.

'Natsu….is that what you were planning all along!?' I mentally shouted to him. When I felt his muscles un-tense and his breathing had gone shallower, I knew he was asleep.

'If he was so content on going to sleep in my bed, then I guess I don't see why I shouldn't just take a nap. But that was weird. Why did he pin me on the bed?' I thought to myself before drowsing off to sleep.

~o~

When I woke up I felt strong arms around me. Warm strong arms, Natsu's arms. I couldn't help but smile and blush a little. It might have been intentional or unintentional but it was still what it was. After thinking for a while Natsu stirred and pulled her closer to him, initiating a deeper blush.

"Lucccccy, you're safe, they won't get you." Natsu whispered. "They won't get you because I l…"

'Wait, what was he saying?" I wondered, unaware of what he was about to do.

"K-Karyū no Hōkō!" Natsu shouted in his sleep, apparently protecting dream me. Too bad he failed at protecting real life me!

"NATSU! Stop using your magic your sleep!" I yelled as I barely escaped his grasp to avoid the hit, which didn't hit anything in the apartment at least.

"Mmmm, Luigi?" Natsu asked me, drowsy from sleep. "Why is it hotter than normal?"

"My name is not Luigi! And it's hot because you did your weird dragon slayer magic in your sleep!" I shouted at him, disappointed by him saying my name wrong.

"I don't see what's wrong with the name Luigi. Maybe you should change it to that!" he suggested enthusiastically.

"No! Are you stupid?" I snorted at him.

"Geez, if you're going to be like that then I should ask about what you, the icicle exhibitionist, and the womanizer were doing last night?" he hissed at me, perking up my attention.

"I-It wasn't my fault! Mira pushed me into them right when you barged in! Plus, I told you not to come!" I scolded him.

"Mph, I don't believe a word you're saying Luigi." He murmured.

"Stop calling me that! Plus, I should ask you why you were pinning me down last night." I glared at him, initiating him to look away uncomfortably.

"I wanted to take a nap." He replied nonchalantly.

"A nap!? Then lie down on the bed and leave me out of it!" I told him.

"Sorry, you just looked so tense, so I thought I would calm you down." He frowned not getting how weird that really was.

"Natsu, if you wanted to calm me down, talk with me! Don't pin me down on a bed!" I scolded him once again getting up off of the floor and sitting back down on the bed next to Natsu.

"Well actions are better than words for me." He replied like it was nothing when it was.

'Doesn't he get that people could misunderstand the situation?' I asked myself thinking that he was really hopeless.

Before I could reply grabbed me held me tight in his arms.

"Natsu, what are you doing?" I asked him wrapping me arms around him.

'This is, nice. Awkward, but nice.' I thought looking up at Natsu.

"Do you know how you made me feel last night? I felt crushed. I saw you with someone other than me! I thought I was your partner, teammate, not Loke and Gray!" he told me pouting.

"They are both my partners and teammates, Natsu." I told him, adding; "But you're my favorite!"

He tightened his grip on me, and said something that astonished me.

"But what if I'm not always your favorite? What will I do then? I've only known for you to be mine. If that one thing changed, then everything would."

"Natsu, that won't happen! You must be stupid to think that, because I-I," I stopped myself from confessing; telling myself that now wasn't the time. But it could've been. "I can only have you as my favorite."

"Luigi." He whispered.

"Stop calling me that!" I yelled pushing him away, accidentally toppling him out of the window. "Whoops."

A/N

So, that was some chapter! I kind of made this a bit erotic…..do you like it like that? I kind of made Natsu OOC in this chapter, whoops! Well, thanks for patiently waiting for this chapter! I hate writing new chapters! It's only because you start on a new document so then you feel like you have NOTHING done! Anyways, enough of my ranting! Tell me how you liked this chapter! I really hope I can get chapters out REALLY fast! And also have them around 3,000 words each. Then it's an okay length chapter! Not too long, not too short! Anyways, thank you for the support! Please follow, fav, and review!

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