Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail as it belongs to Hiro Mashima.

A Wild Fire and A Shining Star II

"I have this certain feeling in my gut when I'm with her. Mira says that I've fallen in love. Igneel once taught me about dragons looking for their mate. Could she be the one?"

Tomorrow I came rather early to clean the bar, of course. But what's most surprising is that someone's here earlier than me. She held a large barrel of beer. There's no mistaking it; Cana.

"Cana! You came quite early." I greeted her. She smiled slyly.

"We doin' it today?" She asked. I nodded, and she began to drink from the large barrel.

"But before that, I have something to tell you." I said with a serious look.

I greeted the guild members one by one as they came, but the 'special guest of the day' haven't appeared yet. I killed time by serving food and drinks, often getting in a little chitchat and gossips. Meanwhile I spent most of my time taking care of a rampaging Cana on the infirmary, insisting for the last barrel of beer remaining in the storehouse before I put her to sleep ('I wanna kill time, ya know?'). She then fell asleep for the rest of the day, leaving me to hook up Natsu and Lucy alone.

Someone opened the door, and surprisingly it was Natsu. He was alone, without Happy or Lucy. He looked sleepy, and for the first time in my life I saw him opening the door normally.

"Welcome home, Natsu." I greeted him with a big smile, trying to lift out the depressed expression he wore as he sat on the stool. "What would you like for today?"

He stayed silent for about ten seconds. Then he opened his mouth. And closed it. Then he opened it again, finally saying "Hot coffee."

This is quite a rare order, knowing Natsu's nature; he often-or perhaps always ordered something that's on fire. Fire whiskey, fire chicken, fire soup, or something like that. Then I remembered about Lucy. Lucy loves coffee. She drinks coffee everyday, and she always ordered a cup of searing hot coffee no matter how hot or cold the weather is.

"You look down."

He looked into my eyes. A deep stare. A few seconds later he suddenly bursted into tears, crying loud enough for the whole guild to hear. Gray walked towards Natsu's seat, with a mocking expression.

"Oi-" he started, but I glared at him. From what it looks like, I scared him out as he began to sulk in the corner of the guild. I moved closer towards Natsu, put my right hand in his shoulder and asked, "What's wrong with you? It's not like you to cry."

I handed him over a box of tissues. He grabbed one and wiped away his tears. I poured hot water to the cup of coffee powder, stirring it with a teaspoon.

"Mira, she rejected my offer again. Now's probably the fifth." he cried silently, lowering his voice so that I'll be the only one hearing. "And I burnt her novel. What should I do? At this rate she will hate me!" he whispered. Burning Lucy's novel was basically a death plea; nobody ever did it and lived to tell the tale. At least that's what I thought.

Actually, the truth is I've been trying to test my matchmaking skills to Natsu and Lucy. Last week he looked down and I asked him what happened, then he began telling stories about him and Lucy. I told him that he might like her, but it took three days long for me to explain what the hell is he feeling. He asked for some advices on getting closer to her, but he always destroys it like he did earlier. I told Cana about this in the morning. She laughed so hard that she fell from her stool.

I brought the coffee to Natsu. "Calm down, dear." I tried to cheer him up. "You realized that it's time, right?"

"Realized what?" replied the boy innocently, who finally got a hold of himself.

Holy Mavis, sometimes I just wanna kick this guy square in his brain. How can he be as dense as a brick when it came to things like this...?

"You want her to know what you're truly feeling all along. Confession time, Natsu!"

Natsu's eyes widened, his face all drowned in the color red. He can only say, "T-t-that's stupid! She almost killed me because I burnt her novel! How would you expect her to say yes?"

"Apologize properly and I know she'll forgive you."

The pink haired mage ran off outside, but not before yelling his gratitude for me. Natsu rarely apologizes to someone, he often blamed someone else, or in the worst case, himself. I asked Happy to follow him, but don't let him notice. Happy nodded and replied with his signature "Aye!" before leaving the guild.

One hour later.

Cana, who had slept in the infirmary, woke up and walked outside, and sat in a bar stool.

"How's it going?" she asked. I sighed and lifting both of my hands to my left and right sides respectively, indicating an 'i don't know' look.

"Didn't go smoothly, eh?"

"He burnt her novel."

"Kid's got guts. Then?"

"He's going to apologize to her."

Cana rushed outside without even saying a single word. I stared blankly at the guild door for about five seconds. Then I looked at the table. She had left a Call Cana card but took the whole bottle of wine.

Cana ran towards Lucy's apartment, holding a bottle of wine in her left hand and a tracker card on her right. She hid in a small alley beside the building after seeing Natsu holding a very nicely wrapped pink box with a red ribbon. When Natsu entered the building, she climbed the walls quietly, hoping Natsu and Lucy wouldn't notice her. She sat under Lucy's windows.

She heard a knock coming from outside the room.

"Who is it?" Lucy asked.

"It's me!" yelled the voice from outside. It's Natsu's voice.

"I don't want to see you." She replied coldly.

But the boy didn't stop. Cana felt a heat wave from around her. From the sound of it, he must've melted the door handle and keyhole.

"What the hell were you doing, stupid?" the girl shouted, anger can be heard in her voice.

"I just wanted to say sorry, Luce. I burnt your novel and now I broke your door. Here...take this."

There's a silence before someone tearing down a paper. Sounds like Lucy opened the box roughly.

"Natsu... Thanks, but you know how much these coffee chocolates cost, do you?"

"Nah, I used my share from the last mission. Don't worry about it."

Coffee chocolates... 10,000 Jewels per box. Sounds of munching can be heard throughout the window. Then she exclaimed, "This is freakin' delicious! Here, you try some too!"

"Wai—"

It seemed like Lucy had shoved a piece of the chocolate to the poor boy's mouth. Then she laughed. The boy then asked, "Can I stay for the night?"

"HELL NO!"

The next morning Cana reported all that happened to the pair. Looks like my matchmaking has made a progress on the two's relationships.

Natsu came that morning at 7 a.m telling me that Lucy's birthday is in three days. He asked me and the Master and the others to sold a surprise party, and everyone agreed. Then he left, saying that he would pick her up.

Later, about 9 a.m Natsu came to the guild together with Lucy and Happy. The whole guild stared at them as they banged the door and walked inside. They sat on a table, and Natsu waved his hand towards me, and I walked to them.

"What would you like today?" I asked.

"My usual fire whiskey!"

"A plate of fish!"

"Fruit salad!"

"Coming right in!" I ran back to the bar, preparing their orders. But not before I nodded slightly to Happy, gesturing to leave the pair alone.

"Ah! There's Charle!" Happy yelled excitedly and flew towards Charle and Wendy's table. Natsu and Lucy seemed to laugh merrily, the color pink can be seen flying in their cheeks. I delivered their orders and went back to the bar.

It's going quite well, actually.

Later that evening Natsu and Happy went on a well-paid dark guild annihilation job without Lucy. He hadn't come home until the next day. Tomorrow is Lucy's birthday, and he's the one who suggested to hold a surprise party.

This morning Lucy came alone, accompanied by her books. She looked so bored and lonely without Natsu. She asked me where did he go, and I said he went on a job with Happy.

"Well, don't be sad, he'll return soon! There's probably a reason why he went on that job alone." That was the only advice I could tell her.

"I think he's bored of me..."

This is bad. Real bad.

Later that night we arranged a small meeting, after Lucy got home. Luckily, Erza had just returned and Elfman and Lisanna returned this afternoon. All food and drink, check. All ribbons, confetti, etc, check. Natsu, unknown.

"There's no guarantee he'll came back on her birthday! Geez, he planned it all and now he's gone. What is he playing?" Levy protested, slamming her hands on the table.

"I don't know, but it's not manly!" Elfman also protested.

"I'll make sure I punish him thoroughly when he got back..." Erza clenched her fists.

"Forget about punishment and stuff, who's gonna pick her up?" Cana asked. Then there's a couple seconds of silence.

"I'll do it." Levy offered, and we all nodded.

Natsu, where in the earthland are you?

Author's Notes

Woah, it's going quite well actually.

I wonder, after NaLu finished which pairing should i write next? Pm me!