HOLY CRAP! What did I do to get 11 reviews?! Thank you guys so much! I'm in so much shock, you'll have to excuse any grammar/spelling errors. Sorry for the late update, I might've gotten hooked on Soul Eater and watched it 24/7 until I finished it... Now I'm watching Bleach. Anyways onto chapter 6 :D
Natsu Dragneel was going to die. This was it. If not for the lack of oxygen, then it would be from embarrassment. Currently he was on the ground, trying to make sense of the fact that Lucy was on top of him. Her spectacular God-given assets were squishing his face. She didn't move for a moment, and then she jumped off of him after the situation registered in her mind.
As soon as he was free, the first the he did was suck in a large breath of air.
"Are you ok?!" Lucy ran over to him, and looked him over for injuries.
His face was as red as a tomato, and he couldn't even process speaking English. Wait – what's English?
"Natsu," she snapped her fingers by his ear, but he didn't respond. "Natsu?"
…
"Natsu?!"
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"NATSU!" she slapped him across the cheek, and he was able to think again.
"Huh?" his head snapped in her direction.
"Are you ok? I didn't hit you too hard, did I?"
'Doesn't she just realize what happened?'
"N-no I'm fine, r-really. I-I'm really s-s-sorry about it," he couldn't look her in the eye.
"About what?"
"My face and your," he just gestured to her chest.
Then it clicked, and she turned a thousand shades of red.
"No! I mean it was just an accident, r-right? You didn't mean to!" she started getting all fidgety.
"I swear it was an accident!"
"Then I forgive you," she smiled.
"Really?"
"Mmhm," she nodded and pulled herself up, then offered Natsu a hand.
He took it, and she helped him to his feet.
"You want to forget the last five minutes of our lives ever happened?" he asked.
"Please," she agreed.
"So, let's get back to working on that one technique. Ok?"
"Yeah," the corners of her lips turned up ever so slightly.
And then a rampaging red head came charging over.
"Erza, for the one hundredth time – Natsu did nothing to me!" Lucy was standing between Erza and Natsu, who at the moment, was holding an ice pack to his face.
"Are you sure? I looked over and his face was pressed against your breasts. I will not hesitate to beat him to a pulp."
"It was an accident, I swear!"
"If you say so – Natsu," she glared at him.
"Y-Yes ma'am?" he looked at her with one eye, since the other one was swelling shut.
"You better not touch her," with that she left, leaving the pink haired boy to shudder in fear.
The guys were all around them giggling, but that stopped as soon as Lucy shot them a look. Slowly they all backed away and went to do their own things.
"Now, let me see that," Lucy turned back to Natsu, gently removing his hand with the ice pack from his right eye.
It was already purple and he couldn't really see out of it.
"Ouch," she hissed, and he just smiled at her. "Are you sure you're ok?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine."
"Let's get you back to your dorm."
"I can walk myself," he tried to get up, and then got dizzy and started wobbling all over the place.
"Let me help you," she ran over to him, and placed his arm across her shoulders to steady him.
"Thanks," he was trying to get the room to stop spinning.
"No problem," they started walking towards the boys' dorms, Lucy supporting most of Natsu's weight.
"You sure I'm not too heavy for you?" he looked over at her.
"Nope," she kept focusing on where she was putting her feet, since she didn't want to look at his shirtless body. Just thinking about it made her cheeks pink.
The rest of the walk was silent until Lucy asked which dorm number was Natsu's.
"306."
That was the second building of the boys' dorms on the first floor. He searched in his pocket for a minute until he found the key. Trying to unlock the door proved to be a difficult task, so Lucy guided his hand to help.
They stumbled into the dark until Natsu flipped on a light switch.
"This is disgusting," Lucy held her breath and looked at the mess around her.
"Thank you."
"That wasn't a compliment."
He just laughed, and Lucy guided him over to the bed.
"I'm going to get some fresh ice, just stay here."
"Aye!" he gave her a mini salute.
Lucy went to the freezer and got some ice. After wrapping it up in a towel, she went back over to Natsu.
"That's going to hurt for a while," she gently placed the towel on his eye, and his hand covered hers.
"I know."
"It's all my fault, I'm so sorry!"
"How can any of this be your fault? I'm the one who knocked you off of your feet. If anything, it's my fault."
"You didn't do it intentionally, so it's all ok. Don't worry about it," she smiled at him, and he swear his heart melted. They were just in the most awkward and intimidate position imaginable, and she shrugged it off like it was nothing. "You want to watch TV or something? You shouldn't fall asleep, Erza punched you into the ground really hard and your head took the impact."
"Yeah, sure."
She sifted through his junk to found the remote and then flipped on the TV.
"You need anything else?"
"No, I'll be fine."
"Here," she grabbed a pen and paper and scribbled something down. "This is my cell. Just call me if you need anything, ok?"
"S-Sure."
'There's that damn stuttering again. Get it together, Natsu!'
She waved and walked out the door. Once she was gone, he spread out across his bed and tried to figure out his life.
It was about 10 o'clock and Lucy was in the lounge with the girls doing homework.
"What did you get for number 7 Lucy?" Mira asked.
"Uh," she flipped her paper over. "23.49."
"Thanks," she wrote the number down and got back to work.
Occasionally someone would ask someone else a question, but other than that, they were quiet. That was, until Lucy's phone buzzed.
It was a text from an unknown number.
From: Unknown
To: Lucy
Message Reads:
Hey, it's Natsu. How's it going?
She smiled and typed a response.
From: Lucy
To: Natsu
Message Reads:
Good, just doing homework. How's your eye?
After hitting send, she put her phone down beside her. When she looked up, everyone's eyes were on her.
"What?" she raised an eyebrow.
"Who was it?" Lisanna asked.
"Who was what?" now she looked even more perplexed.
"Who texted you?! Are you stupid or what?!" Levy leaned closer.
"Isn't that a bit personal? Anyways, why do you want to know?"
"Because you smiled. That person made you smile, so now, you have to tell us," a girl with green hair demanded. That was Bisca, Lucy just met her today along with Alzack. It was obvious the two had a thing for each other, but they would never admit to it.
She was about to protest but her phone buzzed again. As soon as she picked it up, Cana snatched it out of her hands.
"When did you get here?!" Lucy spun around and saw her drunken friend.
"About a minute ago. I want to know what all the fuss is about," she was messing with her phone, and her eyes widened in delight when she found what she was looking for. "Interesting," she smirked.
"Cana, who is it?!" Mira stood up, marching over to the girl.
"Guys! It's my phone," Lucy dived for it, but Cana moved out of the way. Which meant that Lucy fell onto the floor. "Ow," she groaned.
"I am inclined to know who texted you," Erza spoke up, and Lucy started to panic.
"You guys, it's really not that important. Now, let's just give Lucy back her cell phone. Ok? Ok," she got up to get it again, but Cana tossed it to Erza who caught it. She glanced at it and her eyes filled with rage.
"I thought I told him to leave you alone!" fire blazed around the growling beast.
"Erza, it's fine, really. We're just friends!" Lucy tried to calm her down, at which Mira took the phone from the red head.
"Mira!" Lucy ran for the girl, but it was too late. The match making she devil now knew.
"So it's Natsu, huh?" a demonic smile crept its way onto her lips.
"Natsu? Seriously?" Bisca laughed. "That moron is too dense to know what love is!"
"Love?! Who said anything about love?!" now Lucy was really panicking. "We're just friends. You hear that? Friends! F-R-I-E-N-D-S!"
"Sure you are," Levy snickered.
"Not you too!"
While the girls went back and forth Lisanna stayed quiet. Natsu gave his number to a girl he hardly knew? What does that mean? Lisanna had known Natsu since they were kids, she had been in love with him since they were five. Now Lucy thinks she can come and snatch him away?! But, then again, Lucy knew nothing of Lisanna's feelings towards Natsu. This made her calm down a bit. And they're on the soccer team together, and the martial arts team. He probably just gave her the number because of that! Right?
She shook her head and decided not to hold it against Lucy. Then she joined in on the fun of teasing her about it.
Lucy held her phone close to her chest, in fear of someone else taking it, as she walked back to her room. It had taken about three hours to get her phone back, and then another two to convince everyone that nothing was happening between them. Lucy has known Natsu for less than a week! They were just friends.
She unlocked her door and dropped all of her things immediately. Looking at her phone, she realized that she had never texted Natsu back. She wasn't even able to read was he had sent because she was too busy being the monkey in monkey in the middle.
From: Natsu
To: Lucy
Message Reads:
It hurts, but it feels better thanks to you. You want to hang out tomorrow after soccer practice?
That explains why everyone got more excited and frantic after she got another text. That was hours ago though, and now she felt really bad. She sighed and responded.
From: Lucy
To: Natsu
Message Reads:
Sorry, my phone kind of got kidnapped. I just rescued it now. Should you even be going to soccer practice tomorrow? I'm worried about your eye and head.
After hitting send, she stripped off all of her clothes until she was in her bra and underwear. She crawled under the covers of her bed, not even bothering to brush her teeth. It was like 3 in the morning or something, and she had to be awake and functional in four hours. Just as she was about to fall asleep, she heard a beep in the room.
That wasn't her text tone.
After sitting up, she realized someone was in her bed. She cautiously sat up and tore the covers off of the body. There was enough moonlight coming in the room to make out a mop of pink hair.
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"NATSU?!"
Another cliffy. Sorry, I couldn't resist ;) Time for some shout outs! The shout outs are responded to from the first person who reviewed chapter 5 and then the second and third and so on. A couple of guests reviewed this chapter, and I want to make sure they know which review is theirs.
WaterDragonMaverick - Thanks :D And I'm afraid to give you anything, you might start another food fight... Here's a virtual piece of gum, yeah, that seems safe...
Hawkllama - Hehe, sorry :) I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Lucy Fairymage - Haha, I'm glad! I like hearing that I make you guys laugh :D And ok, here's some virtual brownies for you!
Guest - Thanks!
phanakhone18 - Who doesn't drool at Natsu's abs I mean... *starts drooling*...
Ellie-016 - Thanks! And yay, I love smoothies :D
Guest - Here it is, thanks for reviewing!
Guest - Nice idea you've got, but I already have that stuff planned out. Thanks though :)
Koyuki - Aww, thanks! I'm actually kind of happy that I'm making you cry... And nah, it's definitely Jellal and Erza. Jellal just hasn't been introduced yet. And here's some strawberry cake, please don't hurt me!
Cana Alberona - Interesting idea, I'll think about it. Thanks :D
FairyDemonDust - Thanks, I like to make people laugh! And nah, I'm too young for arthritis. I'll be fine, I've just got to take it easy.
I'll see you all next chapter!