Chapter 4: A Ruined Moment...

Lucy stared at the bright red mark on her neck in absolute horror. That couldn't be a hicky, could it? Come to think of it, it had to be from the events that had happen. Lucy smacked her hand into her head, angered by her own stupidity for letting him get away with what he did to her last night. But who was she to blame though?

If he wanted, Natsu could get away with murder... Maybe not from the magic council if he makes too much of a ruckus though. Lucy sighed inwardly.

How is she going to cover it up?

She walked back and forth, thinking and thinking.

" Ah-Hah!" She yelled victoriously while snapping her finger. She walked over to her dresser and got a button down shirt and some shorts. Once she put it on, she checked herself in the mirror and smiled.

Brilliant Lucy!

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Lucy looked around the market, groceries in tow as she walked pass some clothing stores that she really wanted to go into. But, she sighed, looking down at her groceries. She should've done that last.

As she walked down the aisle with all the newest stores, she noticed as something caught her eyes. In a magic shop that she goes to regularly, she spotted a new item displayed inside by the window and nearly screamed, scarying the people passing by her.

She slammed her face against the window and drooled over the dazzling, shining white key. She had never seen a white key, and obviously, the sellers did not know how rare the key was. She looked at the price and her heart fell.

" 200,000 J!?" Lucy cried and looked up in thought as she calculated how many rents that could pay, making her dizzy. She gave the key a longing stare before giving yet another sigh and walking off. Though the key was VERY special and would most-likely help her a lot in battles, what would she be fighting for if she didn't have a home?

" There's no way I could save that up before it gets sold. Besides, I usually only get a fraction of my pay because of my destructive team..." Tears fell from Lucy's eyes as she sniffed a bit. Maybe it was sign, that she needed to get serious with work if she ever wanted to get something special out of life.

" Oh well." Lucy huffed, before noticing she had arrived at her house. She walked into her kitchen and placed her goods in their specific places before walking over to her bed and plopping herself onto it.

She laid there for a moment before getting up again.

" I really don't feel like going to the guild, but I don't wanna stay at home either." She whinned to no one in particular. She stood there, thinking, then sulked. Might as well, there's nothing else to do.

So Lucy was off on her way to the guild, hoping she wouldn't find the dragonslayer there which she knew she would.

" Hey Lucy!" Lucy turned around to see the very man she was thinking about, along with his companion, Happy. She stared at him for a moment, faultering when his gaze did not waver. She gave the two a smile, acting like nothing had ever happen.

" Where were you guys coming from?" Lucy asked, waiting for her two friends to catch u to her. Natsu held up his hand that had a huge net of fish making Lucy cover her nose from the stench.

" We went fishing for Mira!" Happy chirped happily.

" Don't you guys think that's a little too much fish?..." Lucy asked, a little freaked out by the amount of fish in the net.

" We coulda' got way more." Natsu scoffed gloatingly as Happy cheered an 'Aye Sir!' after him. Lucy gave the two boys a look before turning around again to the direction of the guild.

" Well I'm off." Lucy announced, trying to act as casual as possible. She could already feel Natsu staring a hole into her which started making her extremely uncomfortable under his gaze. Actually, just him looking at her in general would get her all flustered.

" Hey wait up!" Happy cried, flying after her. Natsu could be heard off into the distance as he started yelling at Happy telling him to help him.

" Happy, go help Natsu." Lucy sighed, trying her hardest not to look at Natsu.

" He just wants attention." Happy sighed as he shook his head.

" I heard that Happy!" Natsu yelled off from behind them angrily, making them flinch. Happy then sighed again before he obliged and went to help Natsu, telling him he was a sissy and obviously getting Natsu mad again.

Lucy quietly started walking off to the guild as quick as possible without them noticing before she started to smell like dead fish. Also, she just wanted to get a way from Natsu. When she got far enough from the quabbling two, she finally gave out a big gasp she didn't know she was holding.

She ut her hand to her racing heart as she quickened her pace to the guild.

The guild...

Was too crazy for her at the moment and she did not feel like getting caught up in any craziness or a guild brawl. She immediantly turned left over a bridge and headed back in the oposite direction of the guild, she walked on the other side of the river so Happy and Natsu wouldn't notice.

Lucy then thought about the shops that she had wanted to visit when she went shopping for groceries. She nodded her head and smiled, this should keep her distracted for a while.

Once she arrived to the shoping district of Magnolia, she entered the first store she set her eyes on. she tried on many types of clothes but still wasn't satisfied by any of them.

" This feels weird, I usually go shopping with Natsu or someone else in the guild." Lucy then looked herself in the mirror, still in the dress she had just tried on.

"Natsu..." Lucy said plainly.

" Yes?" Lucy jumped and turned around to see Natsu standing right behind her. Lucy stepped back and looked to see if the blue feloin was around for her comfort.

" Wh-when did you get here!?" She yelled at him, stightly angry. Natsu sighed as he scratched the back of his head.

" I don't know. saw you on the other side of the river running towards town so I got curious."

" Whst about Happy?" Lucy asked still looking around for him. Natsu then looked at her like she was crazy before realization hit him hard in the head.

" Oh crap! I forgot Happy!" Natsu yelled looking guilty, Lucy stared at him before turning around so he couldn't notice the blush forming her on her cheeks.

" Well, I'm going to change back into my clothes, I exect you to be gone by the time I finish." Lucy warned him, receiving no answer. When she finished getting dressed, she wasn't surprised to see Natsu still there.

" You dress so slow..." He whined, leaving Lucy to give him a sideways glare.

" I thought I told you to leave." She reminded him. He looked at her before smiling.

" Nah. that would ruin the fun." Lucy blushed and was dragged out of the store before she could ask him what he was talking about.

So, the two of them started walking around the town together, not that Lucy was uset about that, but she was a little nervous about what he would do next to her and when. Lucy felt another tug at her wrist and she looked down at his hand that was still on hers.

" Come on Lucy, why are you walking so slow?" He asked her while looking into stores with boredom written all over his face.

" You know Natsu, you can let go of me now." Natsu gave her a glance over his shoulder before looking forward.

" Have you not seen the crowd?" He asked in what seemed to be amazement to her dense attitude. Not like he didn't have one too, Like seriously, he was doing things to her yesterday that friends shouldn't do to eachother and is brushing it off today like nothing had happen!

Lucy did look around to see the area was in fact swarming with numorous amounts of people. Lucy suddenly felt skittish as she looked at his hand.

" B-but you don't need to hold onto me..." Lucy retorted akwardly. She looked at the back of Natsu as he shrugged, letting go of her hand.

" If you say so then." He acknowledged, letting go of her hand. She gave a soft sigh of relief as she put her hand to her chest, as if it would calm it down. She looked at the boy infront of her again who now had his hands behind his head.

As they visited some shops together, Lucy soon started to forget the incident from yesterday as her and Natsu had a blast. Lucy smiled, this was the first time she's had fun with him in a while.

" Hey Lucy, look at this!" Lucy turned to the boy who had on a funny looking dragon mask. Lucy started to laugh as she picked up a mask that looked like a toad and put on. They looked at eachother before breaking out into a fit of laughter, they kept laughing until their stomach started to hurt. Not even caring about the weird looks they were getting from strangers passing by.

" That mask really suits you Lucy." Lucy looked up to the boy who was taking off his mask, she snarled before ripping off her own mask.

" What's that supposed to mean!" She barked making the dragonslayer flinch.

" A joke! It was a joke!" He shuddered from the glaring blonde. She huffed and turned away from him, stomping to the store's exit. Once she walked out, she was immediantly soaked.

" It's ranning?" Natsu laughed as he came out of the store shortly after Lucy. Lucy stood there as the water continued to pour. She looked at the boy who was also drenched, but he was enjoying it, not her.

" We need to get to shelter, but I'm not going back into that ridiculous store you just brought me into." Lucy crossed her arms and started walking out into the panicked crowd trying to get out of the rain as well.

" Come on, let's play!" Natsu rejoiced as he walked up next to her, jumping up and down like a child.

" I'd rather not." Lucy sighed as she and Natsu struggled through the crowd. Natsu just shoved whoever got into his way or bumped him. But Lucy, who actually was olite and said 'excuse me', was falling behind from Natsu. Once she finally caught up to him in a more calmer section of the crowd, she walked close by his side.

As they walked on a bit more, Lucy looked down at Natsu's hand. Well, Natsu did tell her about the crowd earlier. Slowly she slipped her hands into his, he looked down at her, not even noticing he held onto her hand too.

" Lucy?" Lucy refrained from looking at him, a slight blush on her face.

" Well we don't want to get seperated from eachother, do we?" Natsu stared at her for a few more seconds before smiling.

" If you say so... Oh! There's this place I've been wanting to show you!" Natsu chirped as he brought the two into a sprint.

" What about the rain!?" Lucy whinned, trying not to trip from their speed.

" What about the rain?" Natsu asked her. Lucy shook her head when she understood he was taking her there whether she liked it or not.

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Lucy put her - unoccupied - hand on her knees as she huffed and gulped up all of the air.

" Why... Exactly did we... have to sprint all the way here for?" She gasped. Natsu shrugged, pretty winded too.

" I don't know. Because I felt like it?" He said in an unsure tone.

" Anyways, look Lucy, we're here!" He chirped pretty much to himself. Lucy looked up and gasped.

Natsu had brought them to a cliff shaded with trees that showed over the ocean of Magnolia and Magnolia. It was truly a magnificent sight.

" It's gorgeous, too bad it's ranning though." Lucy sighed, upset. Natsu looked at her before at the veiw.

" You're the first person besides Happy that I've showed this to." Natsu spoke with pride, confusing Lucy.

They both smiled, watching the view. Lucy gave Natsu's hand a hapy squeeze, getting one from him in return but slightly tighter. Lucy looked over to him with a playful glint in her eyes.

" You trying to break my hand?" She challenged, he looked down to her with the same glint in his eyes.

" You wanna fight?" He smiled mischeviously, Lucy smiled and pushed him to the ground. He looked up at the laughing girl, surprised, before smirking.

" So you like it rough huh?" He grabbed her hand, making her laughter faulter as he pulled her down to the ground, caging her. He started tickling her sides with such force that Lucy started screaming in laughter, you would've thought she was dying.

He laughed victoriously at the girl who was now in a fit of tears as she begged him to stop. She squirmed in his hold, struggling to get away.

* pop *

the two stopped from what they were doing and looked at Lucy's shirt. Lucy gave a horrified shriek before punching Natsu in the face yet again.

" I loved this shirt!" Lucy cried as she looked at her exposed cleavage and neck. The first four buttons had popped off and it was all Natsu's fault.

" Atleast you can't see anything THIS time." Lucy said with anger as she stood up looked away from the boy who was currently rubbing his now aching face.

" No, but I can see that mark on your neck." He said suggestively, earing another smack. Lucy glared at him. The moment totally ruined.

" And who do you think did that!?" Lucy yelled at him, covering the mark with her hand as he smiled.

" I did." He said pleased with himself. He then stood and walked up to the girl before moving her hand that covered the mark and gave it an admired look.

" And I want to do it again." Lucy jumped as he looked up at her. She looked at him nervoulsy and then to his hand that was holding onto her wrist.

" Have you been feeling okay lately Natsu?" Her voice wavered in her question as she averted her eyes from him, feeling her blush get heavier.

He stared down at the girl infront of him.

" Of course not." Lucy looked up at him, shocked. His face was dead serious and looked pretty sexy as the ain poured down on his wet hair and face, going down his slick, strong- Lucy!

" Whenever I'm by you lately, I want to do something to you." he spoke straight forward and blunt. Lucy gawked at the boy, the way he said that to her got her jittering inside. Her legs squeezed together and her back arched up. Why did what he just jad just said make her feel so... Happy?

" Natsu..." This desire that was starting to flood through her as well as all she wanted was to have him kiss her again.

He stared at her as he put his other hand around her waist and brought her closer into her. She allowed herself to fall into his arms as his face leaned towards her, she tilted her head up as his lips planted softly on her lips again since yesterday.

She pondered to herself why she wanted it so badly this time as she slowly put her hands on his shoulders. As he continued to kiss her sensless, she thought of the man in her dreams, was it Natsu? Was he using some unknown dragon skill to seduce her in her sleep or... Was she just dreaming about him herself.

She shuddered at the embarassing thought and also as Natsu slipped his tounge into her mouth. His arms wrapped tighter around her waist as she threw her hands around his neck and put her hands in his hair.

Nastu then started backing up, bringing her with him, not even breaking from the kiss. Soon his back was haulted by a tree and he sat down, bringing Lucy into his lap. His hands ran up her waist slowly.

Their tounges entwisted together, battling for dominance. The arousal was already starting to flood over Lucy and she was pretty sure the same was happening to Natsu as he broke their kiss and kiss trail down to her neck.

" Natsu" Lucy whispered as he hummed into her neck. As much as she was enjoying this stuff, she knew they shouldn't even be doing this in the first place seeing they're only friends.

Just friends. That struck Lucy with a feeling she had never felt before as she gently massaged his head, running her fingers through his hair.

" We shouldn't be doing this." She felt Natsu stop as the kisses she had previously been enjoying haulted to a stop. He lifted head up to give her a confused, and impatient glance.

" Why should we?" He asked, dissapointed. Lucy sighed and rubbed his face.

" Friends don't do this to eachother..." She said almost sadly. She really did not want them to be friends with benefits, no way. His eyebrows furrowed in understandment, well, what Lucy thought was understandment.

" I don't care." He spoke before kissing her again. It just felt too good for either of the to stop. Lucy didn't really like where this was going but accepted her fate and kissed him back.

His hands ran up to the buttons of her shirt as he started to unbutton it. Lucy gave off and embarassed sound in their kiss while he just smirked against her lips. So there they were, Luyc on his lap as Natsu was taking off her shirt.

His hands then found their way to her breasts and he grabbed hold of them. Lucy moaned into his mouth before he brought his mouth down to her chest too.

" N- Natsu." All Lucy could remember was saying his name before drifting off into their own world together.

She just hoped what ever they did, she wasn't going to regret it in the morning...

Author's note: Hey guys, sorry it took a while for this chapter to come out. I was just really lazy and didn't feel like writing anything at the moment. Well, I wonder what's gonna happen to the two now... Do you? Hoe you enjoyed! Check out my other fanfics too.