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POV: Natsu
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A story for a friend, by a friend
When I open my eyes I find the dark smog filled sky above me instead of the familiar bright blue. My heart throbs a bit from the dream which was more of a memory from the day I first opened my eyes to this wondrous world. It's actually been many years since I last had that dream.
Oh how simply easy those days had been compared to now.
Groaning, I sit up while scratching my head as I look down over the edge of the roof at the empty street below. A few hovercrafts float on by here and there both near the ground and high above all of the houses. From how cool the air has gotten I can tell that it has gotten pretty late.
Yawning, I look down at my wrist where a thin silver wrist band wrapped around my wrist and wait for it to light up. Light blue holographic numbers appear in front of me emitting from the small wristband that tell me the time. So far the transparent numbers read that it is one forty-five in the morning. I wonder if Lucy is still awake, though I doubt it, but if she was awake I wonder if she's crying.
The thought of Lucy crying herself to sleep doesn't sit well with me. It has me standing up to my feet in an instant and heading over towards our bedroom window. I mentally punch myself for getting so carried away earlier and probably making her cry again. I had promised myself many times that I'd stop making her cry so much, especially after everything that she has been through, but like usual I have failed to do the most simplest of tasks.
As I stand in front of the window, I pray that Lucy didn't lock it. She sometimes tends to 'accidentally' lock it a lot on me when she's angry. Thankfully, though, the window slides open easily and I quickly jump into the room while trying to make as little noise as possible. I don't want to wake up Lucy in case she's already in bed.
Sure enough I find her in bed with her back facing me and her long golden hair pooled out behind her. My heart squeezes tightly in my chest from guilt, but I suppress it as much as I can as I go about the room getting ready for bed. Once I'm changed I slowly climb into bed next to my sleeping wife not wanting for one second to leave her alone. Sure, at times when we have fights I tend to sleep in one of the guest rooms, but tonight I just can't seem to find it in me to leave her alone. Instead I crawl over the bed as close as I can get to her and hug her tightly from behind.
Her hand immediately finds mine through her sleep and threads her fingers through my own, "Na-su," she murmurs in her sleep as I kiss the top of her head clearly remembering the first time she ever said my name. Keeping the memory to myself for the night, I nuzzle my face into her strawberry scented hair reading to turn in for the night with only a single thought on my mind.
When did everything between us turn so complicated?
She's strange, as there is no better word in my limited words that can describe her.
It's been many suns and moons now that we've been together since we first opened our eyes and took our first breath. Since that moment my eyes landed on her we have not been apart from each other, the both of us too weary to be alone in this strange place.
At first things were well, but after some time I've come to learn that she has tendencies that I've come to name as… curiosity.
"What's this… What's that… Why… Why not?" Those are the endless questions she asks on a daily basis along with more. Sometimes it seems that she forgets that I know less about the things around us than she does. She also tends to get mad when I don't answer her or ignore her when she's trying to catch my attention.
"Lucy!" I growl when a small pebble hits my head just as I was about to catch one of those wiggly thingies in the water Lucy has come to name as fish.
The golden haired girl looks away from me from two steps away, her eyes trailing the fish that has gotten away from me.
"Why?" she asks again and I can't help from rolling my eyes with the knowledge that she's about to ask another question that I might not be able to answer.
"Why what?" I ask coldly while turning my back to her so that I can search for another fish to catch after losing the other one.
She stays quiet instead of asking me her question and when I turn to look at her to demand her to answer me the look she gives me keeps me frozen in place. Her eyes are as hard as rocks with deep lines forming between her eyebrows. She looks almost as frightening as the large animals that tend to chase after us from time to time.
Without warning, she throws me a handful of pebbles before standing up from where she was sitting and storming off away from the lake. I block most of the pebbles from hitting my face, but it still hurts since she threw them at me quite forcefully. When I look up again Lucy is already many steps away and doesn't seem like she'll stop walking any time soon.
"Lucy!" I call before jumping out of the water and racing after her, "Lucy!" I call again but she continues to ignore me while walking further away, "Lucy, stop."
Eventually she does stop as she sits on the ground with her bare back facing me. I reach her feeling myself out of breath by the time I do as I stand next to her confused as to why she was upset. I didn't do anything wrong. All I did was ask her what she wanted to ask.
"Lucy," I finally ask after I've somewhat caught my breath, "Why, mad," I ask while sitting next to her where she's dragging a stick across the ground in front of her.
Lucy looks up at me, her eyes still hard as rocks as she stares at me.
"Dummy," she mutters while continuing to stare at me.
"What?!" I ask completely confused with the new word she's using on me.
What does dummy mean?
"DUMMY!" she yells while striking me with the stick several times catching me off guard all over again.
"LUCY!" I yell why grabbing the stick before she can hit me again.
Seriously, what is up with her? Pulling the stick out of her hand, I throw it far enough away that she can't get it to hit me with it again.
"Why Lucy?" she asks after I throw the stick. I look at her not understanding what she means by that, "Why Lucy," she asks again, but this time she points to herself, her eyes wide with that familiar curiosity.
It doesn't take long for me to realize that she's asking why I call her Lucy. It could be from the fact that I haven't come up with a name for myself. Maybe she doesn't understand where her name comes from and why I decided to name her that way.
Looking up at the sky, I notice that the sun is already close to touching the land as it usually does. The sky is an array of multiple colors and it is at these moments that I think that the sky relates to me and Lucy from the gold and pink hues that cover the glorious blue sky. I can't believe that she hasn't yet noticed how much she seems like the sun to me. How has she not noticed that she always finds a way to chase the darkness away whenever she is near?
"Sun," I whisper to her causing her to look at the glowing orb and then at me, "Lucy is like the sun," I say as I take a lock of her golden hair in my hand to show her what I mean, "Beautiful."
Her eyes widen at the last word and I feel myself stiffen. I can feel I hadn't meant to say that word out loud. I had wanted to say bright but before I knew it I ended up saying beautiful instead. Warmth pools across my face reaching the tips of my ears and her own face has turned a dark shade of pink.
I let her hair go and look away feeling that same hammering in my chest that I've felt from time to time along with the heat from my face only intensifying. It's a strange feeling I have yet to understand but am determined to figure out what it is.
A familiar pressure on my nose has me rubbing my hand across my face to make the itchy sensation go away. Instead I end up spitting out air while making a strange noise.
"Achoo!"
Lucy perks up as she exclaims, "Na-su!" She makes a face and then shakes her head as she sits there thinking. I watch her curiously not understanding what she meant just a second ago. What was Na-su? Her face brightens again as she yells out, "NATSU!" looking happy and all too pleased.
I stare at her not completely understanding what she means by that, "What?" I ask while making a face at her.
She eagerly nods while moving closer to me and places a hand on my shoulder, "Natsu," she says again while shaking my shoulder, "You Natsu, me Lucy," she explains while pointing to me first and then at herself.
"Natsu?" I ask not completely getting her at all, "Why?" I then ask making her exhale loudly.
"Lucy like sun," she says while grabbing her hair and then pointing up at the sky, "Natsu like noise," she then says while poking my nose with her finger.
I want to reject the name, especially since she came up with it after a noise I made, but the joy on her face keeps me from turning the name down. Somehow looking at her like this is better than having her give me an angry look and throwing things at me. This Lucy is better than the other Lucy.
Nodding, I smile while pointing at myself and saying, "Natsu," causing her smile to widen and the beating in my chest to quicken.
She's strange, but I guess that's what makes her Lucy.
{And now we're grown up orphans/And never knew their names/We don't belong to no one/ That's a shame/ But could you hide beside me/Maybe for a while/ And I won't tell no one your name/ And I won't tell 'em your name}
- Name – Goo Goo Dolls
So Natsu's name means summer and as I thought this chapter over I tried finding a way for Natsu to get his name. It seemed sort of necessary to have Lucy name him since he named her and that's what I did. Somehow I got the idea of having Natsu sneeze and have Lucy name him after that sneeze from the way Natsu probably sneezed - not sure if that made sense - but anyway, the point is that the boy now has a name.
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