Hello! Before I begin I would like to point out something that has questioned on multiple times. Many have asked, "I feel like Lucy forgave the guild too easily." I can understand where you guys are coming from but, to tell the truth, I felt as if holding a grudge against Natsu and the guild would make Lucy more OOC than before. I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything its just that many people have asked me this so instead of writing 5 different responds, I will clarify this before. Anyways thanks for 7,000 VIEWS! I'm so happy that so many people have read my story and 87 FREAKIN FOLLOWERS! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Anyways what will happen to Nalu when the interview occurs? How does Lucy react to hearing the news of NALU! Find out in the next What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger!
Previously On What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger.
"It- it didn't work!" Lucy told herself as tears streamed down her cheeks.
"Natsu, you are the key. I told you this once and I'll tell you again. At first I thought that the key was inside of you. I'm sorry that I caused you so much pain it's just tha-" Before Lucy could finish, Natsu interrupted her with a hug.
"Baka," he whispered in her ear, "Do you think I care?"
"The key was Igneel," Lucy stated. Natsu eyes widened as he ended the embrace.
"…When I learned that Igneel was the key, I… I knew that if Igneel had stood before you one more time, you would be… you would be…" Lucy stammered
"WHAT LUCY!? DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT ONE DRAGON WOULD MAKE ME HAPPY? YOU ARE MY HAPPINESS!" Natsu yelled.
"I told you they're in LOVE!" Happy and Mira exclaimed in unison.
Chapter 10: Past
"NATSU, LUCY!" Gramps yelled from the bar of the guild hall, "GET OVER HERE!"
"Yes Gramps what do you want," Natsu answered blandly as Gramps handed Natsu a magazine with Lucy standing next to him.
"THAT'S THE 5TH ONE THIS WEEK!" Lucy yelled of exhaustion. There on the front cover was, the highlight of the games, Natsu holding Lucy's hand. Natsu burned the magazine to ashes.
"They said they wouldn't stop until they got an interview with you guys so…" Gramps continued.
"So…" Lucy repeated.
"A reporter is coming today," Mira finished with a smile on her face.
"WHAT!" Natsu and Lucy exclaimed.
"I NEED TO CHANGE I CAN'T LOOK LIKE THIS BUT WAIT NOT ENOUGH TIME UG!"
"Lucy calm down its just some dumb reporter," Natsu responded but Lucy didn't calm down.
"OPEN GATE OF THE VIRGIN, VIRGO! OPEN, GATE OF THE GIANT CRAB! CANCER!" Lucy yelled as she opened two of her gates, "Cancer HAIR! Virgo CLOTHES!"
"Lucy they are already here," Natsu said blandly pointing towards Bob blandly as he interviewed Titania.
"OH SHOOT!" Lucy yelled as she quickly closed the gates and ran up to Natsu. Both of them stood, as if they were statues, waiting for their torture to end. As much as Lucy dreamed of being in the magazine, she wanted to be in Sorcery Weekly for her beauty not for Nalu. Each time someone said it, Lucy turned pink while Natsu shrugged it off. Natsu could be so clueless sometimes.
"OMG ITS NATSU AND LUCY!" Bob yelled as he took about a million pictures of the two with the best fake smiles that they could put on.
"So how long have you guys been dating?" Bob asked which caused Lucy to blush.
"WE AREN'T DATING!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Natsu are the rumors true about you sleeping in Lucy's apartment?"
"Um, every so often yeah! Lucy's bed it the best!" Natsu answered dumbly which caused for him to be whacked in the head.
"How much more clueless can you get?" Lucy yelled at Natsu.
"Have you guys ever kissed?"
"Almost," Natsu awnsered again which caused for him to be Lucy kicked. Sadly Bob still got all of this including the Lucy kick and Natsu unconscious on the other side of the guild hall.
"As I was saying, a little girl forced Natsu to kiss me but instead…"
"WHAT! WHAT!" Bob questioned excitedly.
"He… he kissed Happy," Lucy choked out as she burst into laughter, "That was hilarious!"
"So what did Natsu tell you during Day 5 at the arena?" Bob exclaimed which caused for Lucy to instantly stop laughing and to blush.
"No- Nothing!" Lucy stammered.
"Not even we know that!" Mira exclaimed as she interrupted the interview.
"Mira!" Lucy exclaimed
"Well that's enough for today! OH GRAY!" Bob exclaimed as he ran towards Gray at the other side of the guild hall. Lucy sighed heavily as she approached the road-kill of a Natsu.
"YOU BAKA!" She yelled.
"What did I DO?" Natsu responded.
"Nothing other than SPILLED PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ALL OF FIORE! HOW COULD YOU!" Lucy yelled!
"What is it really that big of a deal?"
"YOU IDIOT!" She yelled, "Of COURSE IT IS!"
"Ug Lucy," he groaned as she stormed out of the guild.
"I'm going home!" She announced but was stopped by a hand. A hand pulled her back by the waist as she let out as small squeak as the fire dragon slayer got a hold on her long lost celestial dragon slayer.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Lucy yelled as the whole guild watched as Natsu picked up the poor girl and put her on his shoulder so that her head was hanging near Natsu's back and her legs were squirming close to kicking Natsu in the face.
"Did you forget?" Natsu started, "We need to get your apartment back so we need to go on a job!"
"Yeah but what job do we take?" Lucy questioned.
"How about this one?" Natsu asked still having Lucy on his shoulder as he used his free left hand to give Lucy the job request.
"Help protect the maiden reward 210,000 JEWELS!" Lucy exclaimed, "Okay I'm in!"
"Well let's go then! HAPPY!" Natsu yelled
"AYE SIR!" Happy yelled as Natsu carrying Lucy and Happy ran through the doors of the guild hall.
"Ah young love," Gramps sighed as he went back to what he was doing
…And Then!
"Hah Natsu that's what you get for carrying me like a sack of potatos!" Lucy teased as the motion sick Natsu tried to hold back his barf on the train to the requester's house.
As the wagon stopped the back flap opened as the driver helped us out. Lucy walked out only to see her worst nightmare. Her past house. No not house. More like haunted mansion. The place where she was born. The place where her mother died. The place where her father abused her. The place she ran away from only to come back to where it all started. Now it was Lucy's turn to feel sick.
"AH REVIVED!" Natsu exclaimed as he climbed out the wagon with Happy, "Hey Lucy! Where's the client?"
Lucy didn't respond. Her hair overshadowed her face so it hid the tears on the girls face.
"Eh LUCY!" Natsu yelled, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing!" Lucy stammered as she wiped the tears from her eyes, "Lets go!"
Well that's it cause I got to run! IM GOLFING! Anyways bye until next time!