Hello, people. Nightlingbolt here. Welcome to my new fanfiction project, "Don't Forget to Remember Me!"

So the idea for this story took a couple different forms. One of them was that Erza would forget everything after Jellal exiled her from the Tower of Heaven, leaving her with the mentality of a scared, untrusting twelve-year-old girl, who for some reason takes more kindly to Natsu than the rest of the guild. Unfortunately, I can't remember the other form, but hey, that's what happens when you don't write down your ideas. XD

I have this and the next two chapters written out, so I will aim for weekly updates, but I bought the GBA version of Zelda: A Link to the Past the other day, and I kind of wanna work on that. I did have a SoulSilver run in progress, and there's still a fair amount to do on Platinum, but for the former, Clair has me quaking in my boots (and let's not even GET into the Kimono Girls... *shudder*), and for the latter, I tend to get a little lazy after unlocking Stark Mountain.

Why am I even talking about my gaming habits here? They want Natza, Night! Natsu and Erza! Let's just get started!

I do not own Fairy Tail or its characters, Hiro Mashima does.

Natsu and Erza were lying down after an intense sparring session, not far from his and Happy's cottage in the woods. Erza was nuzzling Natsu's bare chest, his coat long since discarded.

"You keep getting stronger every day, Natsu," purred Erza contentedly.

"Heh, I am getting stronger, aren't I?" laughed Natsu. He placed a light kiss on Erza's forehead, causing her to moan lightly.

"You like that, don'tcha, Erza?" Natsu smirked.

"Mmmm, I do," said Erza.

"You want more, don't you?" asked Natsu, grabbing Erza's breast.

"Ohhhh, yes," Erza hissed.

"I love you, Erza," said Natsu. He squeezed Erza's breast again.

"Ooh, I love you too, Natsu," gasped Erza.

"Say my name, Erza," growled Natsu. "Who's your mate?"

"Natsu..."

"Who protects you?" Squeeze.

"Oh! Ohhhh! Natsu!"

"Not Jellal?"

"No... Natsu! Ah!"

"Say my name!"

"Natsu...! Natsu!"

"NATSU!"

"Hunh? Wha?" Natsu mumbled, shooting up in his bed upon hearing a shrill voice call his name. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and saw a blonde-haired girl with brown eyes and a generous chest.

"Lucy?" he exclaimed. "What are you... who let you in here?"

"Happy," replied Lucy. "Now you know how you make me feel, jerk!"

"You liiiiike him!" chirped Happy, rising from his position at the foot of Natsu's bed.

Lucy blushed. "Don't put words in my mouth, you damn cat!" she growled.

"Oooh, Lucy, you'd better make a move soon!" said Happy. "Natsu's been talking about Erza in his sleep! I think he's having nauuuuuuughty dreams!"

Natsu stared at the blue Exceed, a deadpan expression on his face that belied absolute fury. "I'm right here, asshole!" he snarled.

"Dreams? About Erza? Well now, this is interesting," said Lucy with a smirk. However, it disappeared as quickly as it came. "But we have to leave. Now. Erza wanted us out of here an hour ago, and you have the absolute nerve to oversleep!"

Natsu looked at Lucy in horror. They were an hour late? Erza was going to skin him alive for this! He grabbed his scarf from its spot on his headboard, grabbed his shirt and pants from yesterday and put them on.

Lucy managed to catch a whiff of Natsu's body odor. "Hold it, Salamander!" she ordered. "Erza's already going to kill you for oversleeping. But she's going to kill you worse than she already was if you didn't at least clean up! More importantly, she's going to kill me for not making sure you cleaned up! SO GET IN THAT BATHROOM AND DON'T COME OUT UNTIL YOU'RE SQUEAKY CLEAN!"

Natsu cringed. Lucy was scary when she was angry, and especially so when she was scared of Erza. He scampered into the bathroom without a second thought.

Underneath the scalding hot shower, which didn't affect him that much, if at all, due to the nature of his magic, Natsu reflected upon the dreams he had been having recently.

He'd be lying if he said he didn't at least have a crush on Erza, but the nature of his dreams had been growing increasingly sexual, with himself becoming more and more dominant and Erza more and more submissive. And that scared him a little.

The dreams had started after the Grand Magic Games, after Jellal had officially joined up, along with Ultear and Meredy. He had never dreamed about Erza before, or even Lucy or Lisanna, at least not in such an impure manner. Was this his dragon instincts telling him something? Did he really have these kinds of feelings for Erza?

He knew he needed to tell someone about the dreams, maybe even figure out what they meant. But who could he tell? Lucy? Sure, he could trust her with just about any secret, but he wasn't naïve to her feelings for him. She hadn't said anything thus far, but Natsu figured she didn't want to do anything to upset their partnership, and if he told her about Erza, that was exactly what would happen.

Cana could possibly look into the matter with her cards, but telling her a secret was a trickle-down effect that led to one person knowing, then two, ten, and soon the whole guild. Gray had experience in the romance department, being in a stable relationship with Juvia, but it would be a cold day in Hell before he would ask that damn popsicle for any sort of advice.

Suddenly, a light bulb went off in Natsu's head. This had to be a Dragon Slayer problem! And if that was the case, there was only one person he could ask for advice. With the last of the shampoo rinsed out of his hair, he turned off the water, dried himself off, and stepped out of the shower.

Now he just had to ask him to cooperate.

Lucy sat on Natsu's bed, which turned out to be against her better judgment. Not only were the sheets matted with sweat (no doubt an unfortunate side effect of Natsu's magic), the mattress was almost as hard as a rock. She instantly recoiled and stood back up, mentally adding changing the sheets to her Natsu housekeeping list.

If Mira or Levy were there, they would think her actions were either cute, a sign that she liked Natsu, or some weird combination of the two, never mind that she was practically his volunteer maid! It was true insofar that she could no longer imagine her life without Natsu in it, but seriously, she had her limits on how much of the Dragon Slayer she could stand at one time!

Opposites attract. That was a major theme of her writings. But even so, the differences between them were taken to dangerous extremes. She was a neat freak in every sense of the phrase; everything in its place was her motto. And Natsu... Natsu was chaos incarnate. She could barely remember a time when Natsu wasn't leaving a wake of destruction and not costing the team their entire reward to repair the damage he caused, or otherwise making some sort of mess of her house without her there.

But that was part of the reason she loved Natsu, take that as you will. He was wild and passionate, and she was... well, a control freak. She knew Natsu would change his ways almost to the point where she couldn't recognize him, just to be her ideal boyfriend, and she didn't want that. She had always wanted her father out of her life, and when she heard about his death, she realized wanting was always better than having.

So despite her own feelings, she silently cheered Natsu on, rooting for him to find someone who could change him for the better without compromising who he was. And now that she knew Natsu had dreams about Erza, it had started to dawn on Lucy that she was just the kind of woman who could give that to Natsu.

Of course, she still had to bust his balls over it later. Hey, even if she did have feelings for Natsu, she was still his best friend. And that was just the kind of thing best friends did for each other.

And there we go!

Now, I'm building up to Erza's amnesia, which is something I don't really do that often in my stories, so it's gonna be a while before things get exciting. But I promise you won't be bored with the wait.

I think I'll also put up a poll to see if anyone is really interested in me starting Light My Way. If I get enough people, I'll work on that on an irregular schedule. But for now, I hope you enjoy Don't Forget to Remember Me, and until the next chapter, peace and love from Nightlingbolt.