Hi! I'm super late to nalu week but i rlly wanted to do it.

So, i'm doing it anyway.

I hope u like it! It's my first work on a long tieme, be understanding 3

*English isn't my first languaje, i'm sorry if something is bad written.

Day 1: Cuddling/Nigthmare

Natsu was a simple man. Sometimes he could be a somewhat impulsive and disastrous person, but he considered that he had a fulfilled life. He navigated life with optimism and passion. He had everything he could ever want, a family that loved him, great friends and his adventure partner, Lucy. They had stopped being boyfriend and girlfriend only a few months ago to be engaged on a lovely trip, where he asked her to share the rest of her life with him. She was his person, the woman of his life, who complemented him and whom he loved most in the world. Natsu would go to hell and back just to avoid seeing her hurt.

Regarding his career, despite never having been very responsible academically, he had found what he wanted to do and was currently the youngest chief of the Magnolia fire department. It hadn't been easy, it involved a lot of effort and training, but it was all worth it in the end, his community had given him a lot and he was doing what he could in return. The only bad thing was the amount of worry that his family and especially Lucy suffered regarding the risk of the job, but they understood that it was important part of him.

Natsu thanked fate for having been born in the circumstances and environment in which he did. Born and raised in Magnolia, his family had raised him and his younger sister Wendy with much love, security, and discipline. His childhood had been full of adventures, fights and friendships that ended up lasting a lifetime. But there was something that marked a before and after in his life and it was when he was only 7 years old. While a little pink-haired boy was playing in the garden of his large home, a big truck arrived at the house across the street. Natsu watched curiously and attentively as the new family moved in and a little 6-year-old girl completely caught his attention. She had a pink dress, soft golden hair and made very funny faces when talking to her parents. With just this Natsu was sold, that girl had to be his friend. So, without wasting any second, the boy with confidence and a big smile went towards the new neighbors, asking the little girl to play together. And that was how an inseparable friendship began that would last for years and would end up being the love of their life.

Currently, a 26-year-old Natsu was arriving at his house after a shift, he had put Gray, his best friend, in charge for the night shift while the pink haired had his day off. If you asked either of them, neither would admit that the other one was his best friend, but everyone knew that they in fact were. Lucy hadn't yet arrived from work, being a lawyer was demanding, but it provided her with invaluable gratification. Natsu believed that she was in some meeting yet. He left his things in their room and put on more comfortable clothes, a perfect outfit to go to sleep after dinner. He decided to wait for his girl with her favorite dinner so he started cooking fast so that everything would be ready when she arrived.

Once the meal was finished, he proceeded to sit on the couch and spend some time scrolling on his cell phone, seeing what their group of friends were doing and the plans they had for the week. This weekend they had a dinner with his parents, he felt a little guilty because with his promotion at work and the work boom that his fiancée had had, they had not seen his parents for a few weeks. He reminded himself that he needed to start organizing his time better and stop ignore them so much.

While he was still on the phone, he began to feel his eyelids heavy and his consciousness slipping, and instead of fighting sleep he thought that about 5 minutes of sleep would not be bad before dinner, so he ended up falling asleep soundly with the device still on his hand.

The pink-haired boy had always had an easy time falling asleep, but his marked senses allowed him to wake up if there was an unusual noise. Likewise, he always managed to sleep soundly and have a good rest, plus he was naturally an early riser. Natsu had never been one to have nightmares, on the contrary, he always had pleasant dreams whether it was about delicious food, his cat Happy or about a certain blonde lawyer. But today was the exception.

Natsu was in a strange place, he looked around and everything was slightly dark, destroyed buildings and ruins surrounded the place where he was. He didn't know what he was doing there but sensed that he was directly involved with the situation around. It was night, there were few clouds but the sky was mostly clear, and he was with two men. He couldn't see their faces clearly, only that they were black-haired, and he felt that only one of them was his ally, the other caused him a feeling of disgust from his core.

He was wearing a black and gold suit with his typical white scarf that looked like scales, a garment that her father had gifted him when he was 7 years old and became infatuated with it at an exhibition they went together. His father had never been one to give in to his whims, but the scarf had been the exception, the old man always commented that at that moment he felt that the scarf fit Natsu perfectly and he was unable to say no, and he also wanted to pamper him sometimes.

His attention was torn away from everything when he saw two huge figures in the sky. There were two giant creatures that covered a large portion of the sky and something deep inside him answered what they were. Dragons. Two giant dragons, one completely black with blue markings that licked its scales with irregular shapes and a dragon with bright red scales and a prominent scar on its eye and face. His chest was tight, a lot of feelings flooding him: fear, relief, happiness, bewilderment and amazement. These creatures were fighting fiercely and somehow, he knew that the red dragon was important to him, he needed to talk to it and help it, they needed to defeat the black dragon.

His body began to run without hesitation, directly towards the dragons, he had to help, talk to it. He watched as the dark dragon was dominating the other, Natsu was shouting, he was shouting very loud but didn't understand what he himself was saying, just knew he was shouting. The red dragon was calling his name, Natsu, trying to tell him something but he couldn't make out what, like they were underwater.

He kept running towards it, he needed to help it, he had to go, he was..., he was...

He was his father, Igneel. The dragon that had raised him.

At the same time the realization hit, he saw how Igneel fiercely attacked the dark dragon in a direct trajectory and how it managed to tear off its arm. But that wasn't all that had happened, Natsu was feeling cold, frozen, his eyes appreciating the scene in slow motion. While the red dragon tore off the other dragon's arm with its jaws, the damned black dragon had passed through Igneel's body, a large part of his torso was missing, and his blood was flowing in the air. Igneel fell, unable to stay in the air, collapsed on the ground and Natsu looked devastated, he couldn't believe what had happened.

¡Igneel! Natsu screamed with all his strength and big tears, the dragon said goodbye, but Natsu could only make out the phrase you taught me to love humans.

The dragon was dead. Something inside him felt like it was going to explode, something had broken.

Natsu. Natsu. Natsu. Natsu. Natsu.

Natsu woke up suddenly, a cold sweat ran all over his body, with eyes dilated, he had had his first nightmare in years. Lucy, his fiancée, was looking at him with worried eyes. She had woken him up after hearing him murmuring in his sleep with an anguished face and sweating profusely.

Without hesitation the pink-haired man took the blonde into her arms and hugged her tightly, he needed comfort, his feelings were still fresh on the surface.

- Are you okay? Is something wrong, Natsu? -Lucy asked with a soft voice and reciprocated the hug of her fiancé.

They settled together on the couch, his head in the crook of the blonde's neck, hugging her tightly. It took a full minute before Natsu gained the courage to respond, Lucy giving him all the time needed.

- I had a nightmare. – he responded softly. He didn't remember exactly what it had been about, he only remembered the sensations, everything he had felt and knew that it had been a terrible nightmare. He felt very sad, a little too much.

Lucy didn't respond and just concentrated on caressing his back with warm hands. She knew that when he was ready to talk, he would tell her more, now he just needed her comfort and her love. So, they both settled on the couch, still hugging each other, feeling each other's warm. The blonde began to play with his curls and Natsu was melted into her body, head in the crook of her neck, inhaling the smell that calmed him so much while with one of his hands made small circles on her hip.

After a few minutes enjoying each other's warmth and affection, the sound of Lucy's stomach was heard. It was already past dinner time, and she hadn't eaten anything yet. Natsu refused to talk about the nightmare, he didn't want to ruin the atmosphere, he wanted his fiancée to eat peacefully, he hadn't made her favorite food to leave her starving and he already felt much better mentally.

He stood up and gave his hand to the blonde to get her up.

- It was just a bad dream, I don't remember anything, I only know that it made me feel very sad. But thanks to you I'm better, thanks Luce. – He gave her a soft kiss on the lips.

- Anything for you, my fiancé. - the blonde responded.

To cheer him up, Lucy suggested having a movie night after dinner. The plan sounded incredible to the pink-haired man, especially when the blonde said she would make spicy popcorn.

Back in a more normal environment for them, they heated up the food that Natsu had prepared and began to talk about their day, what they had done, who they had seen, and the most recent gossip that had reached their ears. The nightmare remained in the background, almost forgotten, only an unpleasant experience behind since after all it was nothing more than that, a nightmare.

A smiling Natsu finished washing the dishes. The blonde always made him feel fulfilled, happy and like the luckiest man in the world. It was a pleasure that she had decided to share her life with him, she was the best adventure companion he could have asked for, she was his ride or die.

While an equally smiling Lucy began to prepare popcorn, Natsu went out to the balcony of their home for a while. He needed a moment to make a call, deep inside he felt it necessary to do so.

Dialing a phone number from memory on his phone, he listened as it dialed, a few seconds passed where they still didn't answer and the pink-haired man's heart skipped a beat, a small anxiety threatened to think the worst. Everything disappeared seconds later when they finally answered.

A smile appeared on Natsu's face as he listened to the person on the other end of the line. It was the greeting he had heard all his life, for as long as he could remember.

- Dad. - Natsu greeted. - What are you doing old man?

Natsu smiled as they exchanged some friendly insults between father and son. Finally, since he woke up, he felt complete.

Heyy

I will never forgive the zero time Natsu had with his dad after finally found him (*cry*)

Thanks for reading 3