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Chapter 12

"Happy, how long have you been sitting there?" I asked. I held my breath, hoping he didn't see everything.

Some shuffling was heard under the bed before he gave an answer. "I saw you guys kissing. Do you guys really liiiiiiike each other?" He really knew how to mock someone because now I was getting pissed.

"How long?" 'Cause we did a lot of kissing earlier.

"Mmmm, well I was sitting here, eating my fish, waiting for Natsu to tell him something and then I see you two barging in here and then you burst out crying." My face burned. Not only did he see us kissing, he saw me in one of my darkest, most embarrassing moment. Shit. I looked over to Natsu and saw his mouth was open as far as it would go, his face bright like a lantern. He then resumed digging under the couch for his blue companion.

"HAPPY YOU GET OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!"

"Why?" Laughter sounded as Natsu struggled with his arm under the couch, growing more and more frustrated.

"If you're going to stay under there, Happy, can you at least listen to us." The laughter stopped and so did Natsu. For a minute there, I actually thought Natsu got him. But then he just pulled his arm out from under the furniture and looked at me expectantly.

"What you saw, Happy, can never be spoken off with anyone. Ever. Both Natsu and I can get in a lot of trouble if anyone knew that we were kissing and touching each other the way we were," I said, annunciating each word carefully. I waited for a response but he remained silent.

"And it's not your place to tell, so can you be quiet about this?" Natsu added, his anger now disappearing.

A blue head then poked itself out looked to Natsu then to me. Happy's wide eyes stared at me, deep in thought before he nodded. He then pulled himself all the way out of the couch and went to sit on Natsu's head. He cocked his head to the side, giving me a curious look.

"Are you guys a couple now?" he asked.

I looked to Natsu uncertainly. He gave me a half smile before answering. "Yeah, I guess we are." I grinned.

"Since when? Because you guys looked all too comfy when Gray balled like a baby." I chucked a pillow at him, but instead I got Natsu in the face by accident. It fell to his hands and he threw it right back to my face. I dodged and smirked, grabbing another pillow and throwing it to him. And again, he threw it right back at me. Then instead of waiting for me to throw another, he jumped with inhuman speed (remember he's a powerful Mortu?) to the bed and took some pillows and started throwing them nonstop at me. I narrowly missed many of them and even was able to throw some back. I laughed and he did too as this friendly pillow fight soon turned into a war.

This went on for a while. Happy seemed to have disappeared again, probably trying to avoid crossfire. I wouldn't blame him. Although we threw the pillows with dead on accuracy, a lot of the throws Natsu gave me were very strong, even knocking me over a few times. We kept exchanging the lighter pillows but then suddenly and very large and very dense pillow came flying toward me.

It was quite a surprise as when it hit me in the chest; it caused me to fly to the wall behind me, knocking the breath out of me. I unceremoniously fell to the ground on the pillow, coughing, trying to catch my breath. I then felt two strong arms pulling me to a warm chest and rocking me back and forth. Natsu held me, crushing me to his chest apologizing repeatedly. I waited for my breathing to return to normal, but it was difficult to do so with Natsu's crushing grip.

"N-Natsu…..ca-…breathe…" I choked out, trying to get out of his death grip. He only looked confused before realization slowly dawned on him.

"Oh, gomenasai! Shit, I can't do anything right. Are you ok? You made a dent in the wall." He took my shoulders and held me up, looking in my eyes. I nodded my head once my breathing was normal.

"Yeah, that was just a surprise. I had no idea you had an arm like that," I complimented. He only gave me a guilty look.

"What?" I asked, confused.

"I didn't realize I was losing control." He sighed. "I'm sorry; I guess I got too caught up in the game." He shook his head. Now I was more confused.

"Losing control?" I asked. He looked away.

"My strength control. Sometimes I forget we're different. I always look at you and see the guy I'm falling for. And now I've hurt you." He then withdrew his arms and backed away from me.

"It was an accident Natsu, I'm not mad at you. And look, I'm fine. What do you take me for?" I crawled over to him to indicate that there was nothing wrong. He only looked at me in that guilty way. It was my turn to take his shoulders and shake him. "Stop looking guilty, it's no big deal. You're sorry right?" I asked. He nodded. "Then that's enough to put this aside. Don't linger over it. Guilt doesn't look good on my face," I teased.

He cocked an eyebrow, smirking. "You mean my face?" I shook my head.

"No." I leaned in and kissed his nose. "I mean my face." I smirked as he rolled his eyes.

"Well in that case…." Quick as lightening, he had me in his arms strutting over to his bed. He set me down and bent down low until we were nose to nose. His hands reached up my shirt, giving me shivers. "Then this is mine." And then he kissed me passionately, his hands roaming the rest of my body. I tugged on the front of his shirt, trying to pull him as close as possible. The kiss deepened as he opened his mouth to let my tongue enter. I then pulled my hands up to his hair and fisted the locks, pulling him even closer.

I felt him tugging on the hem of my pants when there was a harsh, impatient knock come on the door. Natsu jerked upward, his eyes wild with lust, face flushed. We were both panting loudly as another loud knock came to the door, along with a voice this time.

"Natsu, open this door. I have important news for you!" The knocking then turned to pounding as the Master waited impatiently outside. I looked up to Natsu, the wildness completely gone from his gaze as he released me and straightened his clothes. I sat up as he got off me, straightening my own clothes. I smoothed down my hair and got off his bed as he opened his door. A very flustered Master came marching in. He looked around, slight surprised registered on his face when he saw me, but quickly dismissed me and turned back to his son.

"Lucy Heartfilia is calling off the marriage," he said quickly. Natsu and I stared at him surprised.

"W-what?" Natsu asked.

"You ex-fiancée has called off the wedding," he repeated, annoyed.

"But….why?" he asked confused.

"Miss Lucy was having a secret relationship with one of her slaves and Mr. Heartfilia recently found out about it. But instead of executing the slave, like he should've, he decided to use it as another rebellion tactic. So he called off the wedding to let the love blossom with his daughter and her slave. I'm sorry son." He looked at Natsu, waiting for him to probably explode over the rejection. But Natsu only looked more surprised before turning to me, giving me his trademark goofy grin. I gave him a half-smile back, as he turned back to the Master.

"You look rather happy. I thought you two were getting along," the Master commented.

"We did, but I think it's good that she's pursuing love. I couldn't be happier for her."

"Well that's good, but you still need to find a wife to marry. Maybe we can follow suit and have you mingle with the slave woman…..." He lifted his hand to his chin and looked away in thought. Had he looked down, he would've seen the blush that dusted Natsu's face.

"Why don't we do that today? I'll have your schedule cleared for you to meet all my slave women….." Jealousy shamelessly filled me as he turned around on his heels reaching for the door. Natsu then grabbed his arm pulling the Master back.

"A-actually, dad, there's something I should probably tell you before you do that." I stared at him wide eyed. What was he doing?! The Master turned around, surprised. The blush on Natsu's face reddened and he looked to me, silently asking me if it was alright. I rubbed my arm nervously before nodding, blushing also, and jealousy subsiding. He hesitated.

"Well come on now Natsu, what is it?!" the Master said impatiently. Natsu shifted his weight, looking down, embarrassed.

"W-well, I don't think it's necessary that I choose a slave woman…" he started. He looked up to his dad's expectant expression.

"Ok, why is that?" he asked.

He took a deep breath. "I'minarelationshipwithGray."

The Master blinked slowly, bemused. "What….did you say?"

Natsu took another breath. "I kinda maybe sorta might be in a relationship with…Gray."

The Master gave him a blank look before, "WHAT!?"

Raise your hand if you liked the confession

Me: (raises hand)

Raise your hand if you liked the Gratsu moments

Me: (raises hand)

Now raise your hand (and this is a legit question) if you want to know a little about Lucy's relationship with her slave next chapter. I could add that in, or I could just move on with the confession Natsu just made. You can put your answer in your reviews or just PM me, just please answer me so I know what you guys want next chapter.

Anyway, like, review, and if there's anything I can do better, do tell me. Until next chapter, Scarlet out!

Review Responses:

theabridgedkuriboh: so true! And Natsu is so sweet. And oh I just love Happy sometimes whenever he's being a snoop. It's one of my favorite moments in Fairy Tail! Tehe! =D

sktrgrl13: Indeed, there were many times that I wanted to kill Lyon, but I kind of felt bad making him seem like an ass. And yep, that mood killing blue cat always snooping around, making everyone embarrassed. XD

Crystalangel554: I guess that's true that Lyon does act this way kind of. And! Real men may not cry but (puts on own glasses) strong men do! X3 I'm a girl too tehe!

AsDarknessSpreads: Yeah I guess that is like Lyon, so I guess I wasn't as OOC as I thought I was =)

x0xalexis8: Yeah I'm not much of a crier myself.

IvoryQueen: Two days?! Whenever I'm starting a multichapter fic with this many chapters, it takes me a few days! And thank you, I do everything that'll make people surprised and happy =) And I think this answered your first question, as for Lyon, he might be a hard ass, but who knows what'll happen? ;) And don't worry, I won't change the pairing. This is my favorite pairing and I don't intend on changing it. And ask away if you have questions. I hoped you enjoyed!

Pholas: I haven't even thought about the ending yet! I'm still plotting what's to come! I hope you enjoyed this chapter and we'll have to see what happens with Lucy and how she talks to Natsu personally. =D