"I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was." ― Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

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It is a known fact that Lucy Heartfilia had run away from her home when she was relatively young; only sixteen years old.

Only a year after that she had a fateful encounter with none other than Natsu Dragneel, who took her to her dream guild; Fairy Tail.

The minute she had the guild stamp placed on her hand she knew- she had come home.

For the first time since she was ten, when her mother passed, she had people to protect, people to look after and love; and in turn they took her in and protected her and loved her.

When Lucy was seventeen, she had found home.

Despite finding this home, though, a small part of her yearned for her past mother. Her mother had always given her a sense of comfort and love that no other had provided.

She knew it was a silly want, and only Loke knew of this and he disagreed with it being silly, but she couldn't help but feel homesick for her mother.

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Natsu Dragneel never really had a home when he was young. He didn't live in luxury, and he certainly didn't live in poverty.

He lived in the woods with Igneel. It was a short time compared to his years at Fairy Tail, but in those years he had a home. The large fire dragon was all the home he had ever needed.

Then Igneel left, he just disappeared one day. With the disappearance of Igneel so went the only home the small dragon slayer had ever known.

Eventually he found the Fairy Tail guild, which became both his family and home. But it really never was the same. A small part of him always yearned for the home he had with Igneel; the home he had with his father.

Natsu had always been homesick deep down, always searching for Igneel to reclaim that lost feeling of comfort in his "home".

Then he met Lucy.

And as stories where "boy meets girl" goes, he fell in love. Albeit it was without his knowledge, but the moment she was taken by Phantom Lord he knew- he couldn't loose her.

Loosing Lucy felt like loosing Igneel, plus being stabbed by a hundred of Erza's swords all at once. She was something precious, something he couldn't bare loose.

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"Lucy," Natsu's voice was more serious than usual, which perhaps was why she snapped her head so quickly in his direction only to nearly collide with the pinkette in the process.

"N-Natsu what's the matter?" The blonde sputtered out.

"Can I... Stay here?" He asked, never breaking eye contact. She blushed furiously but furrowed her brows.

"Yeah, of course you can. Why do you ask?" She asked in confusion.

"I was just curious. This place is like... Where Lucy is at is my home." Lucy swore that she saw the faintest blush on his cheeks.

"W-what?" Her voice rose an octave or two of its own accord.

"You're my home, Luce!" He smiled brightly and hugged her so suddenly she felt her heart might leap out of her chest.

"I... I'm your home?" The curvacious blonde smiled softly at the boy. He could be innocent at moments, and then a giant pervert the next.

"I've always been homesick, ever since Igneel left." She nodded and the two were now laying side by side on her bed, faces inches apart.

"Me too... I was always homesick after mom died. She was my home, my home was always a person; not a place. But now that I'm older and have found the guild, I know that it's my home. That and you, Natsu, when I'm with you I feel safe and comforted like you do when you go home. I knew that you were my home when you saved me from Jose after I jumped off the edge of that prison. I knew you were there... I knew that you'd come for me." She smiled so brightly Natsu felt his own heart beat faster in his chest.

"The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was until recently." She giggled slightly when she felt something brush against her toes. When she looked down at the end of her bed, and there was Happy sleeping soundly and smiling.

Their home was never just a place, it was always each other. And as the saying goes, home is where the heart is.

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This was for the bonus NaLu week prompt: school or home. I picked home. I'm not to happy with how this turned out... Oh well...

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