Nalu Fluff Week 2016.

Prompt: FLOWERS.

Rating: K

Word count: 1059.

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Natsu groaned as I placed another stack of flowers in his arms, the baby's breath already blending nicely with the violets and forget-me-nots I had already picked out.

"Why do we have to do this again?" Natsu pulled his nose away from the flowers, screwing his face up in an annoyed grimace.

"Because Erza told us to." I reminded him, for the fourth time since we had gotten to the flower market.

Why I had gotten Natsu to help me with this errand, I would never know. Half asleep Lucy didn't make good decisions, apparently.

"But, why?"

I resisted the throbbing urge to turn around and rough him up a little, just for incessant questions he felt the need to bug me with.

"Because Erza wants the guild to look more feminine and dammit, because she said so!" I threw a glare back at him, almost failing to keep my voice from getting loud, "Unless you want to go whine to her directly, then zip it Natsu."

He shot me back a petulant stare, huffing as I turned back to my list, continuing down the aisle of colourful flora. He followed me, grumbling every so often but the questions stopped, thank god.

I kept a keen eye out for the next flower on my list when I smiled, "Look Natsu." I plucked a stem of small pink flowers with a brilliant red coating the middle.

He eyed it warily, shifting his arms slightly away from his face to inspect the colourful stem of flowed I held.

"Yeah, it's pretty I guess."

I grinned, "Guess what it's called?"

"Pansies?"

"Nope! These are 'snapdragons.'" I told him cheerfully as he tilted his head, "Snapdragons? Why are they called that?"

I shrugged, picking a few more out of the pile of colours they had, "I'm not sure. Maybe a dragon found them and thought it up on the spot."

He seemed to like this idea, "If I ever found a flower, I'd call it 'frosted pants'." I ignored his colourful language and decided to move on, asking, "And why would you call it that?"

"So I could call Gray a flower and he wouldn't be able to argue with it, since it's fact."

I laughed, "Very romantic of you, does Gray know of your feelings for him?"

He gave me a look of complete dismay which only made me laugh harder. He continued to follow me through the stands though, without any more complaints and his mood seemed considerably lighter.

A few hours later…

We had dropped the flowers off at Erza, who gave us both a pat on the head, which felt more like a sharp smack. I swear, I felt my teeth rattle.

Natsu had decided to follow me home, complaining about the smell of flowers stuck in his nose and giving him a headache. I told him to quit complaining and start smelling things right.

Which earned me an exasperated look because clearly, how is he supposed to smell things right?

I brewed over that whilst I found a vase to put my snapdragons in, I suppose with his sensitive and powerful nose, having flowed shoved in his face for half the day would be irritating.

But why didn't he tell me sooner? I would have sent him away and carried the flowers by myself.

He walked into the kitchen, disbanding my thoughts entirely when I noticed he was shirtless and targeting my fridge. I made a noise of distress and almost tipped the vase over as I rushed to the fridge before he made it.

I threw myself in front of the appliance protectively, "No way Natsu! The only thing in here is the stuff for my dinner and you aren't touching any of it."

He stared down at me, when did he get so tall?

"Lucy, I am hungry." He complained as I shooed him away with my hands against his shoulders which were warm and strong, and woah.

Never had I noticed the warmth and strength of his shoulders before whilst shoving him somewhere.

I snatched my hands back but turned my flare up a notch, leaving the "reproachful" stage and heading to "threatening." He plopped down in the seat at my little kitchen island and I sighed thankfully.

"Go find Happy and get something to eat then." I turned towards the fridge to pull out a bottle of water as he slouched, "He's off with Carla and Wendy for the day."

"Is that why you came with me to get the flowers?" I asked, after tinkering with the bottle of water for a few seconds. I handed it to him, and he silently opened it without question, eyeing the snapdragons thoughtfully, "Do you like them?"

Despite the fact he ignored my previous question, whether if he only joined me because Happy was gone or not, I moved on and also stared at the pretty bunch of flowers in the white vase I had found.

"Sure, they are pretty but not my favourite flowers."

"What is your favourite?" He asked, curious as I shrugged, "Lilies usually. My mom loves them as well. I really like Balloon flowers, when they are in season."

"You normally smell like lilies and vanilla." He remarked, and I eyed him weirdly, "You notice what I smell like?"

"I used scent to track down a lot of people in the guild, yours is practically everywhere."

I made a noise of realisation and sat down beside him, also staring at the snapdragons, "Do you like them?"

"I like the name." He told me and I grinned, taking a long drink of cold water. Once I placed the bottle down, he swiped it and I cried out, grabbing at his bicep to stop him.

He had done this before.

I watched his throat work as he chugged the whole damn thing down in ten seconds flat. He made a appreciate noise and I shoved him with my shoulder, "You suck."

"Shh, Luce, I'm having a serious moment with the flowers of my ancestors here." I snorted and smacked him over the back of his head with a smile on my lips.

Idiot.

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Very short and not very fluffy / but it was rushed and I am sleepy! So there we go!