HELLOOOO THERE LITTLE KIDDIES! I AM BACK WITH LE THIRD CHAPTER! I had only one day of school this week so take that suckers :p. But. I dunno. I just hope you enjoy this chapter. My blood sweat and tears were put into it and stuff. So yeah. Enjoy. Or else. But I love you. So I'll shut up now. So read!

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Natsu walked through the cool rain, which had already soaked through his clothes. He didn't notice though, he didn't even see where he was going, and not because of the rain. The image of Lucy looking at him, looking so hurt, was all he saw. And each time he saw it his heart ached more and more. Maybe Happy was right, he should go see Wendy. Happy...HAPPY! Natsu's eyes widened, remembering that his furry friend was still sleeping at Lucy's apartment.

He sighed. Happy would be fine. There was no need to go back. Then he would have to see Lucy, though he wanted to so badly. He wanted to be with Lucy, hear her laugh, see her creepy grin. Yes, he wanted to be with her more than anything, but he couldn't. Being around her, thinking about her, caused him to have butterflies and an overly hot fever come to his face. He was sick, she made him sick. So until he got cured, he couldn't see her.

That thought gave him another pang to the heart. What was a day without seeing Luce? As he was walking through the cold rain, through his thoughts, he was able to sob. At first he thought it was just the rain, but as he continued walking, he heard the sob again, louder. Natsu dashed towards the noise, blindly running through the cobblestone streets of Magnolia. And then he smelled it. The saltiness of tears. He followed his nose, unable to rely on his eyes due to the rain, which brought him to the canal that Lucy always walked along, except much farther down the street. Natsu was able to make out the form of a figure and an umbrella.

He came closer, to see a woman with blue hair that curled at the bottom and a long black dress, the kind that you would wear to a party. Just like Juvia. Natsu crept over to her, and then yelled over the pounding rain that caused, by now, him to even shiver.

"JUVIAA? WHATT AREE YOUU DOINGG HEREE? YOUU SHOULDD BEE INSIDEEEE!"

Juvia looked up, her face covered in red blotches and her bloodshot eyes filled with hope. When she saw it was only Natsu, who kind of resembled a drowned pink rat, she looked down and wiped her eyes. "J-Juvia likes the rain…" Her voice cracked at the end of the sentence, and her eyes filled up with tears again.

"Well okay." Natsu plopped down next to Juvia, accidently landing in a puddle, but he tried to pretend he didn't notice.

"So why ya crying?" Juvia looked at him for just a second before bursting into sobs. Shittttt! Way to go Natsu! "E-Eh I'm sorry! Don't cry! Er, Um," Natsu frantically tried to comfort her, but each attempt seemed to make it worse. So eventually, he just sat there, looking at both their feet dangling over the river. After a few minutes, Juvia calmed down, and looked out blankly towards the canal.

"Natsu-San?"

Natsu hummed, he was too busy thinking about Lucy again to speak.

"Does Natsu-San love Love Rival?"

Natsu broke out of his day dream, and looked up at her wide eyed.

"Love? Lu….Lucy is my nakama, I-"

"Because Juvia saw Natsu-san staring at Love Rival. Natsu-san looked jealous."

Jealous… Natsu thought about the word for a minute. Igneel had taught him about it, just like Mira had taught him about love. But he couldn't remember the entire extent of the lesson now. Only how Igneel had said the selfish get jealous. And Natsu didn't really think of himself as selfish. Sure, he didn't want anyone, especially the stripper, near Lucy, but that didn't make him selfish. Did it?

"I don't get jealous." Natsu huffed, crossing his arms over his chest. Juvia smiled, a weak, sad smile.

"Juvia got jealous-" She paused for a moment, glancing at Natsu, "Juvia wanted to be Lucy. Juvia hated that Love Rival was with Gray-sama. And when Gray-sama kissed Love Rival, she was very jealous. And sad. And angry."

So that's what it's called, Natsu thought to himself, kissing. And there his mind went again, bringing himself back to when Lucy and Gray kissed. He got two stabs this time, maybe because he now knew there was a name for it.

"How did Natsu feel? With them together?"

Natsu thought for a moment. How did he feel. He was angry, yes, he was very angry. He felt hurt. And maybe, just a little bit, he felt jealous.

"I didn't want to take my eyes off Lucy." He sighed and looked down, butterflies entering his stomach once more. "Something about her made me want to hug her, hold her, be with her, maybe kiss her, a stronger urge than I've ever felt before. And...And… She makes me sick-"

Juvia was very confused for a second, until he continued to explain, "- Looking at her, thinking about her, gives me a huge fever in the face, and like she put the butterflies in my stomach. And I never want to not be with her. But… Thinking of her with Gray… I feel like I'm being stabbed a million times in the chest, and it leaves this awful taste in my mouth and I just… I just want to punch him so bad and I can't explain it!" He took a deep breath, or more of a sigh, and then he looked at Juvia.

"Thats how I feel." He said, before looking back down at the canal. Juvia's eyes were wide in surprise and wonderment. That was a lot more than she had expected him to let out. But if anyone was going to be straightforward, it would be Natsu. He suddenly looked back up at her, his eyes suddenly pleading. "Do you know what kind of sickness I have? Some of the symptoms… I never want to go away-" Natsu thought of the butterflies and the occasional warm feeling he got when he thought of Lucy, "-And there are others I never want to feel again." The stabbing, the sour taste. He hated those things more than anything.

"Juvia knows what you have." She said matter of factly, looking at Natsu with calm eyes, where Natsu was suddenly very excited.

"Natsu-san is in love."

"I ALREADY TOLD YA I DON'T LOVE LU-"

"Juvia feels that way around Gray-sama Natsu-san. She knows what you have." Juvia looked down with sad eyes, despite the small smile that hung with a tinge of bitterness on her lips. Natsu looked down, that sour taste entering his mouth again.

"So what? Even if- I'm not saying you're right but- Even if I did love Lucy, it wouldn't matter. Luce loves the stripper not me." Natsu replied in an almost inaudible whisper. Saying those words, acknowledging the fact the Lucy loved Gray, gave Natsu another symptom: A stinging in his throat. That one went away relatively quickly, especially when he wasn't talking, but Natsu knew this wasn't a symptom. He had felt that 'throat sting' many other times before, especially when Igneel left him.

It meant he was about to cry.

Juvia noticed him clenching his jaw, meaning he was either angry or trying to hold something back. So Juvia lowered her voice, calmed it, in an attempt to calm him.

"Natsu-san has to tell Lucy how he feels. Then-" Juvia's gentle voice broke as a strange aura surrounded her and an evil grin took up her face. "-Love Rival will break up with Gray-sama, and Gray-sama will be all Juvia's…" Natsu ignored the new term 'break up' and focused more on not being freaked out by Juvia's evil cackle.

"Well what if Wendy tells me I'm just sick and I don't love Luce?"

Juvia glanced at Natsu, the calm smile back on her face.

"Don't worry. Juvia knows."

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Natsu sat not so patiently on a bar stool, looking intently at the guild doors. Lissanna had already wandered over twice to see if anything was wrong, and Mira had offered food five times. But he told Lissanna he was just waiting for someone twice, and he told Mira he wasn't hungry five times. Those two weren't the only ones who noticed something strange about Natsu's behavior though, just about everyone in the guild, (Including Cana who was already extremely drunk over the 3 barrels of booze she had already downed.) noticed something was up. But everyone else stayed quiet, trying to continue with their normal activities but couldn't help a glance at Natsu every once and awhile.

To Natsu, it was weird not seeing Lucy, even if it was for only a few hours. But he was used to being with her 24/7, and he hated the feeling of being away from her, no matter how long. He was used to wake up to her cuddling up to him, trying to become warmer, or the smell of her baking him breakfast, or the feeling of just walking next to her to the guild. And even though he had only missed it for a day, it felt like it had been years.

Light and cold wind entered the guild as the doors to the hall were opened. Natsu hopped out of his stool, and sure enough, Lucy entered. But she was with Gray. Natsu could feel himself growling, and that urge to beat Gray up again when Natsu saw that Luce and Snowflake were holding hands. Lucy stood up on her tippy toes and gave him a kiss on the cheek before walking off towards Levy, Cana, Erza, Lissanna, and Mira. There it was, that urge to punch him. But Natsu was here to talk to Lucy, not punch Gray. Though that's on my list somewhere. He thought bitterly.

Natsu sat there for a moment, staring at her, and all of his courage that he had built up while waiting for her suddenly vanished.

You know…I think I'll wait 5 minutes…

So he waited, staring at her, attempting to build up his courage that he had so much of before she walked through those doors. But his 5 minutes were up very quickly, and he knew he had to talk to her. Now. So he got up and slowly began trudging over to where the beautiful noise of his Luce's laugh could be heard. He smiled a little, seeing her so happy. He loved seeing Lucy happy. Natsu finally reached his destination, and he poked Lucy in the back. She whipped around, and seeing that it was Natsu, she smiled warmly.

"Hey Natsu! I was going to find you, sorry. Whats up?" Natsu could feel that fever coming again and all the confidence he rebuilt vanished once more. It was so hard to focus when she smiled like that. You don't need to look at her… just talk to her. Natsu thought to himself as his heart rate increased.

"I was...er...I...What i wanted to say was….I… I'm sorry for last night-" Thats not what you wanted to say Natsu! Get your shit together! "-And….I...Was-wondering-if-I-could-talk-to you-later. Alone?" Lucy raised an eyebrow.

"You don't want Virgo again, do you? Because if you do you can have her now-"

"No! I just need to talk to you." She smiled at him, making his face heat up even more.

"Okay, we can meet at my place later. See ya then Natsu," She grinned and turned back to her friends and started talking to them again. Natsu sighed. He should've just gotten it over with. He had no idea it would be so hard.

Well tonight will be fun, won't it?

Mkay, I'm done. Everyone seems so OOC, don't you agree XD. On another note, I am now laying in bed with 50 layers of blankets contemplating whether or not to go and do P90X (My dad said I should after my first soccer practice of the season last night. I won't go into much detail, but it just showed how out of shape I am.) or start on the next chapter for you guys. I dunno. We'll find out later tho, won't we ;). Well that's it, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, don't forget to follow, favorite, and review, aND I WILL SEE YOU NEXT TIME BOOTIFUL CHILDREN!

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