Chapter Six - An Appealing Job

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This story has a slow start, but give it a shot:)?

(I realize that the beginning isn't that good, but I feel like I am progressing a lot, no:)?)

Natsu walked to Lucy's apartment, the water of the canal glinted in the morning sunlight.

He scratched his head, still a little confused about why she didn't want him coming over the day before. Natsu understood that she wanted to write, but he wasn't that distracting, was he?

The dragon slayer reached her building and trudged up the stairs, his mind wondering back to their dance. Tingles flooded through his body like a wave crashing on a shore, he shook himself to rid them as he knocked on her door.

Lucy swung the door open, her smile indicating that she was happy to see him.

"Natsu, hey!" She exclaimed, bouncing through the frame, but Natsu was already making his way back down the stairs which made her frown.

"Is something wrong?" Lucy asked when she finally caught up with him outside.

"No." He grumbled focusing on his footsteps.

Lucy stopped and grabbed his shoulder, turning him towards her.

She gave him a stern stare and repeated her question.

Natsu looked up, his eyes seeming to burn holes into hers. Lucy's heart exploded in her chest as she remembered Natsu looking at her the exact same way that he had in her dream.

Her face burned as she let go of him, she began walking again.

Natsu leveled with her, matching her pace. They walked in an awkward silence until Lucy mustered up the courage to speak again.

"So… What did you think of the dance?" She looked at him through the corner of her eye, too embarrassed and nervous to face him fully.

Natsu's expression didn't waver, his gaze returning to the ground.

"The food wasn't great." He cleared his throat, his cheeks slightly reddened, but not enough for Lucy to notice.

"That's it?" Lucy's tone was quiet and timid.

"What else is there?" His head turned towards her, his eyebrow raised.

Lucy's stomach dropped like a heavy stack, a weight pushed down on her chest. Why did I ever have any hope for Natsu?! In a split second her emotions had changed from hopeful, crushed and now to anger.

"Oh I don't know Natsu, maybe having fun with me? I swear you are as dense as they come!" She yelled at him, hot with rage she stormed towards the guild, leaving Natsu in the dust.

As he stood there, Lucy's words echoed in his head, words that he had heard before.

As dense as they come. Why does everyone keep saying that! What am I missing? He thought as he stalked off to the guild.

He found himself nervous to approach Lucy, who was standing in front of the job board.

He stood by the bar, watching her back from a distance, gathering the strength to go and help her pick. At the moment Lucy was scarier than any dragon.

"You piss her off again, idiot?" Gajeel slid into the stool next to Natsu, an amused scowl on his eyes and lips.

"Shut up, iron face." Natsu spat back at him with a biting tone.

"Take that as a yes." Gajeel laughed, throwing his head back.

Natsu turned his head towards his fellow dragon slayer, "Do you think.. I'm dense?" The words came out like a thick oil.

Gajeel erupted once again in laughter, "salamander you are the definition of dense!"

Natsu sneered back at him as he got up roughly, making his way towards the board.

He stood beside Lucy, she pretended not to notice him.

Why can't I do anything right? He asked himself as he reached for a job worth 100,000 Jewel.

"How about this one? All we have to do is catch some burglars in Clover Town. Sounds pretty easy and it's not that far away. Aaannnd if we go right now we can get a good dinner and a decent place to stay!" Natsu offered, now hopefully determined to make amends with the celestial wizard.

She put her finger on her chin and hummed in agreement, she then turned on her heels and began to walk towards the exit.

"Gonna go get my stuff, see you and Happy at the train station."

Oh yeah, Happy. Natsu thought as he searched around the guild hall for his blue companion.

He spotted him enthusiastically talking to Jet and Droy. Natsu whistled, getting the cat's attention, he gestured for Happy to come talk to him alone.

"Hey bud, Lucy and I are going on a job but I just want it to be the two of us."

Happy smiled devilishly, his paws placed on his cheeks. "You looooove her."

Natsu ignored him, giving him a salute of departure, he ran towards his house to get his things.

So is Lucy holding her expectations too high or is Natsu really just screwing everything up?

So this chapter is the last one in 3rd person, in chapter 7 Natsu will kick off the 1st person parade!

Sorry for such a short chapter:(

The job upcoming is just a filler but it's going to deal with Natsu and Lucy's progressing relationship.

After that we got a lot of pretty exciting things coming up. I drew an official/not-so-official outline today and so far I have a little over 30 chapters planned out so cheers to that!

Thank you to all the people that read my story, if you like it please review:)