Chapter 2
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Natsu made his way back home, looking both ways before crossing the intersection. When he reached his house, he called out "Gramps! Where are you?!"
"I'm in the dining room you damn brat!" Makarov called out
"Tell me you felt it too" Natsu said exasperated
"Oh believe me. I did."
Lucy woke up the next morning and went through her morning ritual. Brush teeth, shower, breakfast, forget her bag on the way to the door, and finally, leave the house.
When she came out of the gateway she noticed a figure lying on the ground.
She smiled softly and said "Natsu, get up."
Natsu scrambled to his feet, accidentally losing his balance. He grabbed Lucy's bag and caused her to fall right on top of him.
Lucy realized something. Natsu was still incredibly warm. How did she know that? She was wrapped in his arms and he didn't show any signs of letting go.
She tried to escape but Natsu easily overpowered her and wouldn't let her get up, leaving them sprawled on the ground in a hug. They remained in this position for a while; long enough for Lucy to realize how weak she was compared to him. It was also long enough for her to discover that he was still asleep! He overpowered her without trouble at all... ASLEEP!
Lucy deducted that with Natsu's incredible hearing, high pitched noises going directly into his ear must be insanely painful. She cracked a devilish grin as she yelled as loud as she could "NATSU WAKE UP!"
The salmon-headed blabber-mouth woke up instantly, his head spinning in circles.
"Geez, Luce, why'd you have to yell that loud? I was having a good nap."
Lucy looked at him sternly "Natsu, what time did you get here?"
"I don't know... It was still dark though."
"Did you sleep out here or something?"
"I don't think so... I did go home... I needed to talk to gramps. He told me to bring you by after school tomorrow."
"Okay well we need to be going."
Lucy held out her hand offering to help Natsu up when she heard something.
"LUCY YOU GET UP HERE RIGHT NOW!"
She spun around, scared out of her mind, to see none other than her father Jude Heartfilia looking disappointed and angry
"AND BRING PINKY WITH YOU TOO"
Natsu shuddered at the 'pinky' remark.
"Pinky?" Natsu muttered "HEY YOU BLIND OLD MAN MY HAIR ISN'T PINK!"
"I DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT YOUR HAIR COLOR JUST GET YOUR ASS UP HERE NOW!"
Natsu stood up, turned around, and walked off. "I can't afford to get pissed off here. If I raise hell then something is bound to go wrong." He muttered
"Hey, Lucy! You coming?"
Lucy hurried to Natsu's side; somehow feeling... Safer... She wanted to get closer to him in the hopes of him still being warm. It was a cool morning after all. She discreetly inched her way closer to him. When she was 8 inches away from him she had to back away. He was no longer the 'warm and fuzzy Natsu Dragneel' but rather, something scary. Something powerful. Something... Strange.
"Natsu, why are you so warm?"
"I get warm when I get worked up. Don't worry about it."
They made their way to school to be greeted by Gray and Juvia. Gray was at the front gate and Juvia was attempting to get close to him.
"Hey, bro, what's up?" Gray yelled
"Not much. Hey, Lucy!" Natsu called "Come here a sec!"
Lucy walked over to Natsu where she was introduced to Gray and Juvia (who was too timid to stand next to Gray). Several minutes later, after nonchalant small-talk, they had to go to class.
Natsu turned to Lucy and said "What's your first class?"
Lucy was almost hurt by those words. It was towards the end of school and he didn't even know that they were in the same class!
"Natsu, I really don't understand how you have such finely tuned senses and don't even know that we have the same first period. The only hour we don't have together is at 1:15." Lucy sighed
Natsu was more intelligent then he let on. He knew that they had all of the same classes aside from 1:15, she was 3 rooms down during that period. He just didn't want her to know that he knew that.
"Alrighty then. Let's go!" Natsu shouted "and by the way. I don't come to class often. And when I do i sit in the back so I can sleep. That's why I didn't know we had the same class."
The two arrived at their class in the nick of time. They were not late, but sure cut it close.
"Natsu! Sit by me!" Lucy pouted. Natsu made his way to Lucy and sat on top of her.
"I SAID BY! NOT ON! YOU DUMBASS MORON!"
Lucy yelled so loud she caught the attention of the whole class. The entire class giggled "What is this? Second grade? Grow the hell up!"
"Heartfilia, you have detention after school today." Mr. Justine said; Natsu giggled.
"You too, Dragneel."
Natsu smiled, hit the desk, and begun snoring.
"Heartfilia, when Dragneel wakes up tell him that his grandfather will be getting a call from me."
Lucy saluted with a devilish grin.
The class continued as it was (Natsu snoring and Lucy pouting) for the next hour. "Okay time for me to let you go. We have a test tomorrow so study and you might pass. Class dismissed."
"Hey, Natsu, wake up!" Lucy yelled into his ear. He stirred but history repeated itself and they wound up on the floor in a hug... Again.
"Okay. RISE AND SHINE NATSU!" She yelled, accidentally catching the attention of the whole who did various whistles when they saw it.
Natsu finally woke up to the sound of whistles and a ringing ear. "Hey would you guys keep it down? Can't a guy get some... Sleep?" Natsu suddenly realized that he and Lucy were still hugging.
"IT WASN'T A DREAM!" Natsu yelled pushing Lucy off of him, accidentally pushing too hard and throwing her off of him
Lucy got up, dusted herself off, kicked Natsu, and stormed down to the next class.
"Hey, Pinky, Mr. Justine is calling Makarov so beware." Lucy called back at the fully awake Natsu
Natsu didn't catch her until he reached their next class to see that she was sitting in the corner next to Jet, who happened to have tussled with Natsu in the past only to get his ass handed to him on a silver platter.
Natsu walked up to Jet and asked him politely to move to which Jet responded "I was here first. Sit over there where you always do." Jet gestured to a chair on the other side of the room
"Alright. Allow me to rephrase that. If you don't get your ass OUT OF THAT FUCKING CHAIR RIGHT NOW I WILL WRITE MY NAME ON THE CHAIR WITH YOUR BLOOD!"
Jet is called Jet for a reason. And if ever he was fast, this was the time. He had gone from the chair next to Lucy to across the room in world-record time
"Luce, I'm sorry I pushed you off me that hard. I just acted on —"
"I don't care about some pathetic excuse, Natsu. I'm going to sit somewhere else."
And as if fate had wanted Lucy to suffer, or Natsu to make amends, Mr. Vastia walked in
"Alright everybody, pick a chair that you are right in front of and sit down."
Lucy pouted and sat back down. The entire class was spent Natsu apologizing without giving excuses and Lucy rolling her eyes and attempting to ignore him
The class had ended and Lucy still hadn't forgiven him so Natsu decided to try a different approach. He tapped her shoulder, waited for her to turn around, and embraced her. He apologized in her ear so she couldn't miss a word. Lucy was greatly satisfied with this apology and hugged him back. She buried her face in his scarf when it occurred to her.
"Natsu, why do you wear a scarf in summer?" Lucy inquired
"It was a gift from my father."
When Lucy though about it, she hadn't seen his father before.
"Can I meet him sometime?" Lucy asked him
"Sure. But he doesn't live here." Natsu answered
"Where does he live?" Lucy continually asked
"If I told you, you would have to be 18." Natsu replied
"What's with you? It's almost like you speak in riddles! At least tell me your father's name."
"His name—" Natsu had an intense look in his eyes "—is Igneel"
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so what do you think? Please leave a review and tell me where I'm screwing up. I love constructive criticism. I found that the hardest part to write so far has been the intro. I literally spent an hour just looking at my screen thinking "what the hell am i going to write and how am I going to write it"
Please leave a review and thank you for just reading. This will probably be from 15-40 chapters depending on how the plot folds out and how much i milk it.