Hello all! It's been FOREVER so I'm not gonna take much of your time. Here's the final chapter! Enjoy.
Nastu: Lucy...you...
Lucy: Thank you for worrying so much about me.
-No One's POV-
"So, you're finally a couple?"
Lucy shifts uncomfortably, then sighs into the pink hair's chest as he slowly strokes her shoulder. "Yeah that's right. Don't touch her," Natsu growls, and the blonde laughs awkwardly.
"Um...sorry Gray," she apologizes. The man shrugs, looking away from the couple as Natsu plants an affectionate kiss atop her forehead. "Well, I kinda understand him," he says offhandedly, casting a wry glance at a certain blue haired girl.
As if sensing his stare, Juvia turns and casts her wide, deep blue eyes upon the ice wizard. "Did you just call me cute?"
Gray's expression morphs into one of confusion. "What?"
The girl perks up, practically slithering across the floor to reach her man of interest. Gray tenses, backing away slowly. "Did. You. Just. Call. Me. Cute?" she asks again, a mischievous light shining in her eyes.
"Um, no, Juvia, I didn't," Gray dead pans, pushing down the overbearing teen. The girl blinks a few times before tears swim within her irises.
"You didn't?" she says defeatedly, looking down at the floor and sniffling. Gray throws Lucy a helpless look, to which she responds with a half smile. Natsu roars into laughter, and Juvia looks at him through the curtain of her hair shielding her face.
"Oi, Lucy! I heard Gray was thinking of asking Juvia out to a movie and dinner tonight. I'm not sure if I heard right though," he begins, loud enough to attract Juvia'a attention. Her countenance morphs from one of pain to one of excitement, and she dries her tears quickly, listening in on the faked information.
The pink haired winked at his girlfriend, who in turn reddens softly before getting the idea. "Oh, yeah, I heard about that too. Apparently, he was too shy to ask her personally, so looking at her was the only thing he could do."
"Looking at me!" Juvia repeats, flabbergasted, stealing a glance at Gray, who sweat drops at almost an unhealthy speed.
"I wonder if Gray will ask her out tonight?" Natsu asks Lucy loudly.
"Who knows?" replies Lucy with a smile on her face. The two return to a normal volume of conversation, secretly watching the two lovebirds from the side of their eyes.
"Way to go Natsu," comments Lucy with a beam, "I never knew you had something like that in you."
The pink haired scratches the back of his head absentmindedly. "Well, I mean, after I got you, I feel as if I can do anything."
Lucy bites her lip to keep her face from breaking in two because of her smile.
"Everything's back to normal, no?" asks the Master from beside them, and Lucy almost jumps at their sudden company.
"M- Makarov!" she exclaims. "I, um, yeah. Everything's pretty much normal now."
The man looked older than usual as he sighs. "You kids always cause me trouble. Even a week after the incident, I still feel as if the flames were still tickling me as I drift to sleep."
Natsu's head is down, and the blonde frowns slightly at him. "Is he still taking responsibility?" the older asks, and Lucy nods.
The two had explained everything that transpired concerning Zeref and Lucy, and details were added as the other Fairy Tail members appeared not long after. Y's sacrifice, Zeref's sealing, and the journey of the Wizards were all tied into a spinning, golden weave of a tale, told for all and everyone. It took so much time, though, that the entire guild had to shift locations to sleep for the night, only to return in the morning to start to rebuild the hall. Apparently, Lucy and the rest were told afterwards that Makarov had almost died in that fire due to him sleeping during the occurrence. As it was a scary time for all of them, and mostly the result of misunderstandings, so no one held it against Natsu. Well, except for the dragon slayer himself.
As it seemed, the Fairy Tail hall didn't take that long to reconstruct, taking into account that it was destroyed almost every other week, Natsu's burning it didn't really surprise everyone, as they were used to the drill. But, regardless, the fact that the pink haired even did it hurt him, and to the present day, he continued to beat himself up over it.
"I told you already, Natsu, that though you're stupid at times, you tried to to what was right," Makarov tells him, and the dragon slayer nods. "You saved Lucy. You saved one of us. Isn't that enough?"
"Wendy and Carla was right, I destroyed the guild. A thought that I'd never would've realized without..." Natsu trails off, and the thought is cut off by a quick peck on the lips, an action which the older man had the courtesy to look away for.
"Hey," Lucy begins, and the flame user glances at her. "You have me, right?"
"Yeah."
Lucy leans forwards, slipping slightly out of his hold around her shoulders and looks up at his lowered face. "Aren't you glad?"
Natsu turns and looks at her fully, studying her reaction, before smiling slightly, causing the blonde's heart to beat loudly in her ears. "Yeah," he affirms with a smile, and pulls her back to him.
"Um, Natsu-san?" squeaks a young girl behind him, yet another interruption. Everyone was really starting to annoy Natsu. "What is it, Wendy?" he sighs irritably.
"Everyone is really uncomfortable with you all doing such things in the open, so could you, like. Go elsewhere?" pipes up Carla, with crossed arms and a narrowed, heated gaze. "Such indecency."
Lucy looks embarrassed as she glances around the entire guild. How had she unknowingly acted in such a way with all of the Fairy Tail guild member's eyes on them? Natsu, though, didn't looked fazed in the least. "Why should I not be able to do this in public?"
Erza comes up from behind the two, raising an eyebrow. "Everyone gets really awkward. Take Happy, for example...have you even seen your blue cat ever since you decided to practically manhandle Lucy on the couch everyday?"
"I do notâ"
"He doesn'tâ"
A tentative blue tails swishes from under the chair, and Carla walks towards it, calling out the cat's name sweetly. There was an immediate response, and Happy bumps his head while coming from under the furniture. "Owwie..." he murmurs. He soon perks, and smiles widely at his crush standing before him. "Carla! You looks beautiful and amazing as usual!"
Both Erza and the cat don't look at him, but rather, keeps their eyes trained on the couple above. Happy follows her gaze, and, upon landing on Lucy and Natsu, lower. His ears and cheeks turn a faint red before seemingly shrinking in on himself, sitting down and holding his knees to his chest.
Wendy looks shocked at the reaction, and so does the rest of the guild. Happy was supposed to be, well, happy. Now, instead, he liked plain embarrassed.
"Well?" asks Erza, and the two glance at each other.
They stand almost quietly, walking out of the Fairy Tail guild with silent stares on them. It's right before they leave that Natsu yells, "Have fun on your date, Gray!" The ice shards after his head lodge harmlessly into the wall, melting as laughter bounces off of the reconstructed walls.
...
"How was it like with Zeref?" the pink haired asks as they wander the streets, and it's the middle of the day. Sunlight beats upon them endlessly, casting their dark shadows right beneath them. Within the large, commercial street, there lay a line of houses and apartments to their left, and a sparkling, rushing river to their right. Lucy walks carefully on the lifted shoulder separating the water and street, and Natsu watched her with attentive eyes, ready to catch her the second she looked destined to fall.
"Heaven," she responds immediately, producing a frown from Natsu. She backs off quickly. "What? It was. Until he got a bit, um. How can I put it? Crazy? He kind of put a curse on me, I couldn't say my name, and I was his? It kind of complicated."
"Tell me," Natsu says, "What do you mean, made you yours?"
Lucy smiles to herself, kicking a nearby pebble as they walk. They were on a mostly empty street, which was somewhat unusual, it being the middle of the day and all. "Well, I was given the name 'Z', and I couldn't say my original name. I belonged to him as a maid, and I had no free will."
"That bastard better be glad he's gone," Natsu hisses, clenching his fist in anger. "If he wasn't, I'd have half a mind to beat his ass more." Lucy puts up two hands. "Hey, he's gone now, right? And I'm yours now, right? So no need to worry."
Natsu suddenly turns to her. "You're...mine."
"Yes."
"I swear, Lucy, you'll always be free. You can do anything you want, and hell if I keep you confined somewhere," the pink haired promises, and the blonde smiles.
"Always?" she asks, walking up towards him and staring deeply into his dark irises. "Lucy, you're you. I'm not like Zeref, I'm not gonna try and change that," Natsu says, and the words are warm on her soul.
"Prove it," she whispers. Natsu grabs her waist with an animalistic growl, pulling their hips flush together. Despite his earlier gruffness, he gently tilts the girl's chin towards his, lazily kissing her soft lips. Lucy hums approvingly, reaching up to grab fistfuls of his wild pink hair.
"I'll never," he breathes between pecks, moving from her plump, pink lips to her tipped back head, exposing her neck to her chin, planting long, lingering kisses. Each contact with her sensitive skin made her curl her toes in delight. Lucy was so beautiful, so fuck everything if he didn't treasure her. "I'll never try to change you, your beautiful self."
"N- Natsu," Lucy pants, her knees becoming weak at his touch. She wobbles for a bit under the pleasure creeping up her spine. "I...I believe you."
The teen walks forwards, forcing Lucy backwards, into a minor street out of the view of many houses. "Do you?" he asks alluringly, biting down softly on the flesh at the base of her neck. Lucy's barely able to bite back a moan as his tongue finds her exposed skin, and she shudders all over.
"Y- Yeah," she whispers, forcing Natsu's head up and kissing him fiercely, surprising the dragonslayer. Her tongue dives into his mouth, permission be damned, and Natsu battles for dominance, hands on the teen's wide hips, tracing small circles with his thumb. "Wow," she murmurs before diving back in, her head hitting the wall at the sheer force of Natsu's kissing. It's a crude sucking sound, empty and bouncing off the walls of the narrow alleyway, and it's Lucy who pulls back for air first. "I love you so much," Natsu whispers with both hands in the side of Lucy's pinked face, staring widely into her dilated brown eyes and kissed-softened lips, unknowingly licking his own.
"I love you too," she shyly responds, twirling that particular strand of bubblegum that refused to stay up. "A lot."
The answer makes Natsu smile brightly, putting the sun to absolute shame. He then leans forwards, hugging the woman, surprising the girl, and she soon relaxes into hugging him back. "I'll always protect you."
Lucy wipes away the tears she didn't even know was there. That forbidden love of yesterday was gone. She had finally found what wasn't forbidden, but instead, what was true. Her true love.
Her Natsu.
"Thank you."
I hooooope you liked the ending! (It's over!?) it's been over a month and absolutely no progress in this story has been done, and here I go spitting this out in, what, two hours? XD Hope you enjoyed the story!