Crystal: I know this will be frustrating, but I seemed to have gotten some inspiration for yet another NALU story. I know I'm being cruel by putting up stories and then not updating them quickly, but if I don't write out these things I will be stumped for like an eternity. Forgive me!

ON A REALLY IMPORTANT NOTE: AYUMICHI-ME ON TUMBLR GAVE ME PERMISSION TO BASE THIS FANFIC OFF THEIR AMAZING AND AWESOMELY CUTE DRAWING OF NATSU ASKING FOR HIS "NERD PRINCESS". IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE SKETCH YOU SHOULD SEE IT CAUSE ITS SO CUTE LOL

Ayumichi-me, this might not be like you were expecting, but I tried my best lol

Name: Nerd Princess
Summary: Lucy was never one to call attention to herself especially considering she was the school nerd. Unfortunately, for her, she's noticed by the one person who she least wanted to be paid attention by. Natsu Dragneel, the school's popular and handsome gangster, who brings it upon himself to tease her. When the nerd and gangster meet, how will things turn out? NALU
Pairings: NALU side of Gajeevy, Jerza, and Gruvia
Rating: It'll be a 'T' rating for now unless I add lemons later.

Nerd

Lucy's POV

If there's anything that I hate more than a lot of noise, it's attention. I hate loud places with too much noise than I would like. I'm not a people person not that I'm even liked by people anyways, but that's not the point. I take enjoyment from sitting in a quiet corner where I can just read a novel or simply write out my stories. I'm like a shadow, or I'd like to think so at least, always hiding from uncomfortable and troubling situations.

Sometimes I'm lucky and I avoid it, but other times I just barge into trouble and get these people to bother me or call me names. In general, I try to keep a low presence, but the fact that I have blonde hair makes people turn their heads thinking it might be a pretty girl only to find me, a nerd with glasses. Don't get me wrong, I have friends… well…there's Levy. I do feel lonely sometimes, and I'd like to make more friends, but it's hard for me to muster the courage to talk to someone new.

I hope that maybe one day, I can have more friends, but well I think that's just asking for too much.

~~Normal POV~~

17 year old Lucy Heartfilia walked down the halls of Fairy High as always trying to pass everyone quickly so that she could quietly go to class without any incident. She was what every school called her 'kind', a nerd. She had long ash blonde locks tied in two long pigtails and a pair of glasses in front of her chocolate colored eyes. Her uniform consisted of a white polo and a red skirt to her thighs. She sighed heavily as she finally reached her locker and retrieved a few of her books for classes.

"LU-CHANNN!" a voice yelled as she grasped onto the blonde's neck from behind. The blonde squeaked in response having been startled. She glanced to the side finding her best friend, a blue haired girl, Levy Mcgarden smiling widely at her. "Levy-chan, you startled me", Lucy huffed in relief before returning the smile. "Oh, it's just I found the most wonderful book at the book store yesterday and I just had to show it to you", Levy inquired excitedly as she rummaged through her book bag. Lucy perked in interest when she noticed that the book was completely different than the usual ones Levy bought.

"Is this manga?" the blonde questioned her as Levy nodded with a slight blush. "Well, I just…uhh…I was just browsing and well a guy happened to drop it, and when I picked it up he said I should try reading it. Said it was new and all and that I would probably like it", she chuckled nervously as Lucy smirked amused at her cute display. "So Levy-chan, has a crush on a certain mystery guy?" the blonde questioned her teasingly. Levy covered her face with her hands and made a whining noise as Lucy examined the cover of the book.

It seemed it was a romance about a girl who is very plain and a popular guy who happens to have followed her to every school since elementary out of a determination to beat her in getting the highest grades. They end up falling in love but neither wants to confess in fear of rejection. Lucy smiled sadly. It sounded romantic. How she would have liked to have an exciting romance like that, but well this is why these sorts of things were fiction. They never really happened; it was a too-good-to-be-true situation.

"Lu-chan, are you okay?" Levy asked her suddenly. She jumped slightly before feigning a smile. "Yeah, I'm fine. I'd love to borrow it after you're done", she laughed as Levy nodded. They finally parted and Lucy noticed that she still had the book in her hands. "Ah, well, I'll just keep it with me until I see her again", she muttered to herself as she placed it inside her book bag. She went into class and for some reason she kept getting this bad feeling. As if something would be happening today and it didn't seem like it was anything good.

She looked down at her sheet of paper lazily solving the equations displayed on her paper. A knock at the door made everyone perk up as the teacher blinked in confusion. She casually walked to the door and Lucy paled when she spotted the maid uniform and the pink haired young woman at the door. 'Virgo! What do you think you're doing?!' Lucy panicked internally. "Oh, Lucy Heartfilia, your servant Virgo would like a word with you", the teacher almost said the phrase in shock. Lucy blushed in embarrassment as her classmates looked at her while she walked to the door.

Once she stepped outside and closed the door, Lucy pouted. "What do you think you're doing here, Virgo? What have I told you about showing up at my school like this?" Lucy sighed as the pink haired maid blinked expressionless. "Princess, it's just you forgot your lunch. If it displeases you, shall I receive punishment?" Virgo informed her. "No that's not necessary, and thank you, but now please, go home", the blonde smiled softly. A sudden snort startled both women as they turned to the source of the noise. If anything the blonde became more flustered when she saw exactly who was laughing at her.

"N-Natsu D-Dragneel", she muttered. Said teen side glanced at her with a pair of calculating and very mischievously gleaming emerald eyes. He had strikingly pink spiky locks and a handsome face. His head had a white scarf tied around his forehead and he was leaning casually against the lockers with an amused smirk directed towards the blonde. "Princess? Che", he chuckled before he began to walk down the hall. "H-Hey, what's so f-funny?!" she suddenly sputtered angrily, but slapped her hand over her mouth once she had said those words.

He suddenly paused and turned to her with a surprised, but still amused expression. He laughed. "Well, obviously I'm laughing at you, nerd." Lucy tried to come up with any sort of comeback and he almost seemed to be waiting for it with anticipation, but she simply looked down as he shook his head with a light chuckle and continued on his way. "See you around", she could of sworn he'd said, but she was too stunned to even more from her place. It had to be the most awkward and embarrassing exchange of her life. Not only had the boy heard Virgo call her princess, but he had taken the time to call her out on it.

"Princess?" the pinkette muttered waving a hand in front of the blonde's frozen expression. "Uh…sorry. I'm okay. I think. Just go home and again thanks for the lunch", she laughed nervously as she went back into class. 'Kya! How stupid! He probably thinks I'm more of a loser now', she thought worriedly. Today just didn't seem to be going her way. Once lunch had arrived, she was more cautious of her surroundings. If she could, she'd avoid seeing Natsu Dragneel as much as she could. She felt she couldn't even face him after hearing such an embarrassing nickname. Levy caught up to latching her arm onto her as the blonde jumped again.

"Woah, this is the second time today. You seem sort of jumpy today, are you sure you're okay?" Levy asked her concern lacing her voice. "Well, I can't really lie to you, can I?" the blonde smiled sheepishly. After all, Levy was the only person she could rely on when in a pinch. Levy looked at with a knowing look. "Fine! This morning, Virgo came and well that guy…Natsu…was there and he heard Virgo called me princess and well he obviously made fun of me", she blushed recalling the memory.

If anything, Levy seemed surprised. "You mean, THE Natsu Dragneel, that hot gangster guy, actually paid attention to that? Omg! Maybe he likes you! How cute!" Levy squealed. "No! No no no! I think you have the wrong idea, Levy. He made FUN of me! There's no way someone like him would like me. And I hate the guy anyway" The blonde shook her arms in front of her defensively. "But then again, I heard he doesn't like associating with others outside his gang. He never even glances at anyone, but he did notice you! How romantic!" the blue haired girl sighed dreamily.

Lucy stayed quiet as they finally reached the cafeteria. 'No way! That guy is so rude!' she thought before directing Levy. "No, there's no way. And plus I don't have interest in people who are up to no good", she pouted as Levy rolled her eyes. The rest of the day seemed to pass by and her head was filled with thoughts of her encounter with Natsu. She shook her head firmly before slapping her hands on her cheek. How can someone irritate her so much after they've only spoken once?

She didn't even know why she was so angry. Is it because he mocked her so easily or the fact that she couldn't defend herself? There was just something about him that honestly peeved her, but she just didn't know. She didn't even really meet him until today even when she had heard so many rumors of all the mischief and problems he caused. Because of this and more, she did not want to associate with him at all. But then again it could be the fact that he had made a silent promise to come back and see her. It made her nervous just to think of what he could possibly want from her and she was not in any way anticipating to hear what his reason was.

In general, all she wanted was to avoid any more dangerous or annoying situations for the rest of the day with anyone especially him. She leaned her head on her hand as she hear her religion teacher continue his lesson. "Okay, as a little quick review. Who can tell me what kind of religion dominated Turkey back in the day?" their religion teacher asked as everyone remained silent. The only bad thing is this teacher loved calling on Lucy because she always had an answer to the questions.

"Lucy?" the teacher inquired as she had no choice but to try and get class moving. "Back in the day, Turkey had Islam, but were in a current phase of modernization of said religion", the blonde answered without hesitation as the teacher praised her. "Nerd", she heard her classmates whisper. That's all she was ever really gonna be to everyone around her. Just a nerd.

~~xXXx~~

The day had finally ended and Lucy was more than relieved that'd she'd finally get to go home. No more feeling like a target for the day. She decided to take out the book Levy had forgotten to take from her and decided for herself that she'd return it tomorrow after taking a little read for herself. She was taken aback by how much she really did like the manga. Usually, she wasn't really into the stuff, but she felt she saw a lot of herself in the female protagonist, but yet so different.

The female protagonist was so careless of anyone else especially the male who bothered her a lot. She was very smart and had the courage to ignore those around her. How Lucy envied that courage and yet, the female was still able to get lots of friends. She was so engrossed in reading the pages she didn't realize someone purposely placed their foot in front of hers making her fall straight into someone. She cursed silently under her breath as she fell on her knees and her glasses fell along with her thing and the book in her hand.

"Dang it!" she whined as she tapped her hands blindly on the floor to look for her glasses. She didn't even see it coming when someone took a hold of her chin to gently place her glasses on her face again. Lucy blinked as she looked up to see none other than Natsu Dragneel crouching in front of her with the same amused grin on his face. His hand was still grasping her chin as he gave her a cool nod in acknowledgement. She blinked a few times before slapping his hand away as he stood up straight. "Well, ouch, is that how you thank someone who helped you find your glasses?" He asked feigning a hurt tone, but you could hear the dripping laughter in his tone.

She glared slightly at him before she started to rummage around her fallen books trying to find Levy's book before an annoying cough interrupted her. She had finished placing all books back in her bag before she looked up at him. "Were you maybe looking for this?" he asked all too casually as he wiggled the book in front of her face. "Give it back", she muttered. "If you really want this very romantic book back you'll have to do something for me. I don't do anything for free ya know", he wiggled his eye brows suggestively. "Stop with your stupid jokes and tell me what you want", the blonde inquired annoyed.

"Well, if you really want to know", he began to say as he once again crouched down. "What I really want is…", he began to whisper his tone suddenly becoming husky. He was suddenly too close to her as he grabbed her chin once more. "A kiss", he finally finished his sentence as his lips almost connected to hers. Her eyes widened immensely before he suddenly retracted laughing loudly. She blushed furiously as he continued to laugh. "Oh man! You should have seen your face! It was priceless. Sorry, but I ain't giving this back to you. Unless you don't want people finding out about your little romantic fantasies, you'll be doing what I say", he chuckled.

She stood up suddenly, her rage finally getting the best of her. She stomped up to him as he blinked in confusion. She grasped onto his shirt pulling him forward. "Now you listen here. I don't care who you think you are, but if you do that again I will definitely punch you. Don't think that just because you're popular I won't go up against an arrogant guy like you!" she yelled, but to Natsu it seemed like she was squeaking the entire time, but still no one had ever stood up against him before. It honestly made her interesting and he wanted to see more of her reactions. She could just be what he needed in his dull life, and he was determined to bother her just to see what he could get out of her.

"Whatever, I'm still not giving this back until I feel like it", he stuck out his tongue childishly. She blinked having forgotten about the book for a few seconds. "Please just give it back", she requested as politely as she could muster when she was so angry. "Hmm, nope. Anyways I got things to do, later", he sighed beginning to walk away. Lucy groaned in frustration at having been rendered at his mercy. 'Why me?!" she screamed internally. This day couldn't possibly get worse.

He stopped once more and Lucy almost felt he was going to make another nasty remark, but he calmly walked up to her grasping her hand and bringing it to his lips. "See you tomorrow, my nerd princess".

She was so wrong. It did get worse and as her face turned beet red, she knew that this was probably just the beginning of a whole new series of trouble.

Crystal: Well that was the first chapter! What do you guys think? Please review my lovelies and I hope you guys come back for the next chapter