Hello everyone :D I didn't realize that last chapter was such a cliff-hanger, well, maybe this will satisfy you, probably not, but maybe :) Enjoy reading, and thank you for all the wonderful reviews again! :)

Last time:

"Say, Natsu... you said something about hiding my scent, right? How would you do that?" Lucy asked, glancing at the dragon slayer from the corner of her eye.

"Oh yeah, about that, haha, do you wanna know?" Natsu asked, pulling himself slightly closer to Lucy, causing her to back up in response to the sudden movement.

Lucy closed her eyes, not wanting to see, thinking it would shield her from whatever Natsu had planned. She felt a warm hand grab her wrist, and she squeaked in response, trying to wriggle her wrist free of his tight grasp.

Natsu pulled her up from her spot and dragged her out of the living room, much to the terror of Lucy, he threw her onto his bed. She heard a click and she shut her eyes tighter than they were before, and closed her ears to the outside world.

Natsu just stood at the door with a questioning look plastered on his face, what was Lucy doing? "Definitely weird," he thought as he saw her shut her eyes even more when he had let the door shut on it's own.

~Normal POV~

Natsu could smell that Happy, Carla, and Wendy were no further than fifteen minutes away. Lucky for Lucy, Wendy was still young and her sense of smell wasn't as great as his was. She would be able to smell Lucy when they were probably about five minutes away, he guessed.

"Lucy, it's okay, the door shut itself," Natsu said, worried for his teammate.

She let one eye peek open, and then she opened both, letting out a sigh of relief as she sat up from her curled position. She shook her head and let her mind clear. "I did not just freak out, I did not just freak out," Lucy told herself as she looked at Natsu from across the room.

He walked closer, stepping slowly at first, but then he began to quicken his pace. Soon, he crashed on top of her, his high body heat warming her quickly, she hadn't realized how cold she was.

After relaxing a second because of his warmth, she noticed how close she was to him, and a deep blush rushed to her cheeks. Natsu raised an eyebrow at this, and she quickly tried to hide it by her hair.

"N-na-natsu, get off of me," Lucy stuttered, feeling the words getting caught in her throat.

"No," he replied simply, and he pulled her with him as he sat up.

"W-why not?" she asked, trying to calm herself down as he basically crushed her in his arms.

"Easy! Happy, Carla, and Wendy are coming here! You said you need to hide from the guild, right? Well, Wendy has a good nose, and she'll be able to smell you, so I'm covering your scent with mine! You'll blend right in!" Natsu explained with a smile plastered on his face.

Lucy let the information sink in, and soon, reality hit with it. Carla, Happy, and Wendy were coming. She attempted to slow her heart-rate back to normal, and hoped it would quiet from the loud thudding it made as Natsu held her against him. She squirmed a bit, but to no avail, she could not get out of his grip.

"Luce, stop squirming!" he told her, and shoved his face into her hair.

She blushed quickly at this action, and she felt his breath on her neck, it only made her squirm more. She desperately wanted out of the death grip he seemed to have on her, and she wanted to run and hide in a corner.

"Natsu! Stop it," she hissed, pushing her hands against his chest, trying to get away.

He laughed lightly, causing Lucy to pull harder to get away. After what felt like hours to Lucy, he finally let her go with a grin on his face. She looked away, trying to act mad at what he had done to her.

"Come on, your scent is almost covered! Luce, if you wouldn't have squirmed so much, I might have been able to cover it entirely with just that," Natsu said, a small pout on his face.

She giggled lightly at this, and he gave another confused look to her. Lucy waved it off with her hand, letting him remain confused. He shrugged and threw something in her face and walked out of the room.

She mumbled angrily to herself as she looked down to see what she was holding, and much to her horror, it was a pair of Natsu's clothes. It had a zipper on the shirt and the pants were exactly as he wore.

"He can't be serious, he actually wants me to change into this!" she angrily screeched as she looked at the clothes in her hands.

A voice outside the door said, "Hurry up! Luce, they're coming closer, soon enough, Wendy will be able to smell you!"

With a final huff of frustration, she quickly changed into the clothes, and found them to be quite comfortable. She stepped out of his room to find him sitting on the couch flipping through empty papers, making it look as if he was doing something. She scoffed lightly at the sight, and that drew his attention.

"Luce! That looks great on you, but I can still smell you slightly," Natsu said, standing up and making his way over to her.

Lucy tried to back up once more, but he caught her wrist and pulled her into his embrace. She felt warm once again, and the clothes she wore seemed to retain the heat as she felt herself get hotter than she was before.

He pushed his face once again into the side of her neck and played with her hair lightly. She stood there, letting him do as he pleased, not wanting to be found by the guild. After a few minutes of him hugging her, he let go and backed away a few steps, taking in a big breath.

"Nope! Lucy's smell is all gone, well, except for the clothes in the bedroom," he explained as he grabbed a few blankets from the floor.

Lucy forgot she had left her skirt and shirt laying on his floor and she quickly turned on her heel to grab them, but was stopped by his hand. He shook his head as he grinned and threw the blankets on top of her.

"Now, stay quietly under those blankets until I get you, okay?" Natsu asked as he laid the blanket mass called Lucy against a pile of pillows and blankets. He heard her muffled response and smiled as he left the room.

Lucy stayed still and noticed that she could see slightly out of the blanket if she looked just the right way. Natsu had run off with her skirt and shirt and put them in the forest, so when Wendy smelled her scent, she wouldn't think of Lucy being in his house.

He got back a few minutes before Happy and the rest arrived. Happy burst through the front door and did twirls in the air as he slammed his best friend backwards into the couch.

"Natsu! We're playing a fun game! It's called, 'Find Lucy', Gray and Erza said if I could find her before them than they'd give me a fish!" Happy cried happily as he flew through the air.

"Happy, you took a bribe from Erza and ice-brain?" Natsu asked, obviously shocked that his friend would do that.

"Aye!" Happy shouted as Carla and Wendy walked through the door, Wendy looking as if she would faint because she was trespassing.

"Don't worry Wendy, you're allowed to come in," Natsu said, noticing how uncomfortable Wendy looked.

She nodded lightly and gave a small smile as she made her way to Carla who was floating above a pile of trash with a disgusted look on her face.

"So, Natsu! Where's Lucy?" Happy asked quickly, floating all around their house in search of the blonde stellar mage.

Wendy remembered suddenly why Happy had brought them there and began to smell the air carefully, all she could smell was Natsu and Happy's scent throughout the house, not a single hint of Lucy at all.

"Happy?" Wendy pipped up quietly.

"Aye?" Happy asked, floating over to where Carla floated and Wendy stood.

"I don't smell her here, I don't think she's here," Wendy said, nearly quiet enough where Happy almost couldn't hear her response.

Carla shook her had and said, "Wendy, you need to get more confidence! However, don't let the he-cat's confidence rub off on you."

Wendy nodded quickly, not knowing how to gain the confidence that Carla desperately wanted her to have.

"So, what brings ya here?" Natsu asked casually as he caught Happy by the tail and dragged the flying cat down beside him on the couch.

Happy answered first, "Aye sir! I brought them here hoping that Lucy would be here! I didn't know you'd be home though!" He snickered as he said the last part and covered his mouth with his paws.

Natsu rolled his eyes at his furry friend and focused his attention back on Wendy and Carla, he couldn't let them stay too long or else Lucy might get too warm under the blankets and have to come out for air.

"Oh, so you're looking for Luce, huh? Well, I happened to see her running into the forest, and her scent should still be around," Natsu answered, giving the 'hint' that Happy was looking for.

"Aye!" he shouted in happiness, "Carla, Wendy! Let's go! We don't have a moment to waste! I want that fish from Erza and Gray!"

Wendy and Carla looked at each other and back at Natsu before the ran out of the house, following Happy on his wild-goose hunt. As soon as they were gone and well out of sight, Natsu stood up and locked the door. He then proceeded to close all the curtains, just as he would do if he were to go out somewhere.

"Okay, Luce, it's safe to come out," Natsu said, walking over to the lump of blankets.

He got no response and he began to get impatient as he waited for her to answer him. After waiting what felt like forever, he scooped the blanket mass known as Lucy into his arms and laid her on the couch. Natsu uncovered her carefully from her blankets and noticed she was asleep, no wonder she hadn't made a sound.

"She looks so cute when she's sleeping," Natsu thought with a smile, and then realized what he'd thought. He slapped his face lightly, thinking, "No, Natsu, she is a friend, a best-friend only! Besides, you aren't supposed to think girls are cute, they are supposed to be annoying, right?"

Her eyes fluttered open lightly, but were still half-shut, and she looked up at him sleepily saying, "Na-tsu..? Is that you? What time is it?"

He realized it must have gotten warm and put her to sleep, since she had mentioned the warmer it was the more likely she was to sleep. He ran into the kitchen and peeked out of the curtain and saw that darkness had already fallen.

"Lucy, it's already night time, sorry, I didn't realize that, I didn't mean to keep you here that long," he said as he rubbed the back of his head. Natsu was about to continue his small speech but realized that she was once again asleep.

He was about to carry her to her house, but figured they would have someone guarding it for when she came back home to go to sleep from her day of hiding out. Little known to him, he was right on not taking her back, for Erza stood guard outside her house.

"Okay, Luce, time for you to go to bed," he told her sleeping form.

Natsu covered her carefully with the blanket and had placed a pillow underneath her head. He looked at her for a little bit and leaned over her head lightly, letting his breath move her bangs out of the way. She moved a little bit in her sleep, but showed no signs of waking up.

He kissed her forehead good night, and whispered, "Night Luce."

"Na-tsu..," he heard her mumble and he turned around. She was still asleep, and he smiled happily, not knowing why he did.

When he laid down in his bed, his shut his eyes to go to sleep, but then they snapped open as he realized what he had just done. "I-I kissed her forehead!" he muffled himself with a pillow and felt a warm sensation rush to his cheeks. The feeling was warmer than his own body heat, and he couldn't figure out what it was.

He let himself drift into sleep, not bothering to unlock anything for Happy to come in whenever he returned. Natsu assumed he would spend the night with Carla and Wendy.

Well, there's chapter 3 for you :) I hope Natsu didn't seem too out-of-character .-. I tried to make sure he wasn't, but no guarantee's, huh?

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed it :D