Two Idiots In Love

To say that Lucy was mad was kind of an understatement. However, she was really madder at herself for getting so mad and for expecting too much.

Especially from Natsu, who is the definition of oblivious!

She kind of just…snapped, when Natsu noticed a little too much, yet nothing at…all.

This all started a few weeks ago when right after returning from a mission that saved the world, blah, blah, blah, Natsu had hugged her, and for some reason…Lucy had blushed at least a hundred shades of red.

At first, her reaction was confusing, because yeah…she's hugged Natsu before, but wasn't ever this affected by such a simple gesture, so really, she had no idea what was going on.

But after going home, finally cooling herself down, she had sat down on her bed, and just…poof.

She realized.

What is it she realized? Well nothing so important…just a few things such as how Happy didn't go on the mission, Erza was much more of a girl this time around, and oh wait also that small, not very important, quite trivial revelation that Lucy Heartfilia herself had fallen in love with her idiot of a friend.

That's right.

Love.

Just thinking about it now, made Lucy's whole head dizzy and her face burn so many shades of red that counting seems quite impossible.

After realizing such an important feeling, and that towards her best friend no less, who didn't even know what dating was, she was distraught.

That night, she had stayed up all night long contemplating why she had to fall in love with such an oblivious idiot, and if there was possibly, a "cure".

Sadly, much to add to her distress, she found no answer to this "problem", so finally she decided to try and ignore it, and of course act completely normal.

The first day, was a disaster, where she practically avoided Natsu around every turn, and when they had even made eye contact, she literally ran off screaming quite loudly, and quite highly.

After that first day, she assumed it was Cana, someone told their "suspicions" around that Lucy had finally realized her feelings towards a "certain" somebody.

Lucy had been so mad, wait no; in fact she was still a little upset.

However, that occasion was one where Natsu's ability of being the densest idiot alive came to her advantage, where he seemingly didn't know what was even going on, simply deciding that Lucy had been so hungry that she had to run off to go eat.

That's right. Natsu had mistaken Lucy's revelation and her actions to represent that she was simply hungry, which of course caused her just more turmoil that entire night.

After a few more days, she had finally accepted the stupid truth, and just acted like it didn't really exist, so that she could at least maintain a friendship with Natsu, who still had no idea what was going on.

Now Lucy's a pretty good actor, but apparently Natsu wasn't that dense to his best friend's obvious change in attitude the past couple of weeks. So here he had come, up to her this morning, and openly demanded to know who was hurting her, since a lovely, lovely little birdie named Mira "suggested" that it was boy problems.

Of course, Lucy didn't know how to react at first before realizing that he had been still talking, and quote-on-quote he had said,

"Okay, what's wrong?! Who's this guy causing all of these troubles?! Do I need to go and kick his ass for you?! Do you like him or something? Who is he?!"

Well, after those words had been said, poor Lucy had gotten so angry that he couldn't read her mind and see that she was in love with him, instead of demanding to practically kick his own ass up. So…Lucy had gone off on him calling him a "dense idiot" and "the worst person alive" as well as other various names, which won't be revealed just this moment.

After her explosion of emotions, she had stomped out of there, so frustrated that she almost broke down the guild doors, and had actually "summoned" Loke, who appeared when he felt his mistress feeling upset, only to be forcefully shut down and sent back to the Spirit World.

So here she sat, back on her bed, staring at the wall, thinking about how shitty her life has been now with these unwanted feelings, and unreturned at that.

Next thing she knew, she was crying, and quite hysterically at that. She hated the feeling of love if it was like this, and she just wished that she would "get over it" and move onto a guy who wasn't such an idiot.

She had been crying so hard, that she barely noticed the standing boy who was in front of her staring down at her. Finally, she looked up, still crying and saw that same boy who had been causing her all of this damn trouble.

He was looking down at her with such a troubled expression, that just as sudden as her tears, she had flung herself in his arms, and cried. She just cried and cried, as every emotion hit her again, over and over, pounding continuously at the heart.

It made it even worse as Natsu just held her, shushing her softly, and rubbing her back, only to confuse her feelings even more.

Finally, she had calmed down a bit to look back up at the guy who she was in love with and whisper so softly,

"Y-you're such an idiot…and so am I…"

He gave a small smile, and sat her down on the bed, quickly setting himself beside her, still holding onto her back, and said,

"Lucy…if this is my fault then I'm really sorry…" he looked away, "but you should know that you mean so much to me that if this was my fault then I'll beat myself up just to see you smile again, and not cry so much…Lucy, just, just please…d-don't cry, okay? I'll do whatever, whatever you want!"

Lucy sniffled, pulling herself away from the warmth of his touch, so that she could really see him.

She saw a man or boy in some people's opinions, but right now…he was a man, and she saw one. She smiled in spite of her overwhelming emotions, and slowly leaned in to hug him. He stiffened from the unexpected touch of affection, but hurriedly hugged her in response, squeezing her even closer to him.

He could feel Lucy's smile widen against his shirt, and he smiled too, placing his chin on her head, closing his eyes.

"You'll do whatever?" she asked, teasing, still holding on.

Natsu, still somewhat confused by the situation overall, although that doesn't matter in his opinion when his best friend was crying because of him, laughed slightly, and said,

"Yeah. Whatever you want."

"Okay. Good. Then…then just hold onto me, okay? Just like this…idiot," Lucy whispered.

And he did just that, for almost the entire night, until they both fell asleep literally in each other's arms, right before of course…Natsu had a small revelation somewhat similar to Lucy's. It was quite a shock to him too, as he watched Lucy fall asleep and think nothing but,

You know… I'm pretty sure I'm in love with you… right before kissing her forehead and escaping to dreams just as quickly as she did.

They're both just a pair of idiots, after all.

*Hi guys. It's me again. Okay, so this story just sort of came out of me, and I loved writing every bit of it. It took only about twenty minutes, but I think that it's actually pretty good, but that may just be me NOT being modest :/ so yeah…anyways if you enjoyed it then leave a review, and favorite! I might be doing a sequel a little based after this happens, focusing more on Natsu and his feelings, but it depends on you guys. Actually, it might just be another chapter, but I'm marking this as complete for now, but if I make a sequel then I'll tell you or something... Well, like I said before, leave a review please!

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Bai guys.

-DiAnna44 :)