Wallflowers - Nalu oneshots

Affliction

"Oh Plue wasn't that a nice bath?" The celestial mage spoke to Plue, her Nikola spirit.
In return to her question she received a series of puns and pums from the small white dog.

Lucy was just undressing from her towel and into a tank top and shorts, ready for bed.

She was feeling a little more stressed because her idiotic best friend decided he needed extra money and went on a mission without telling her or asking her, just poof and he was gone.

To relieve her anxiety that was eating away at her she decided to busy herself doing different errands, only for her to be exhausted and in need of a bath.

To keep her mind off the dragon slayer, she invited Plue to bathe with her.

She began readying herself for bed with a book in hand until she heard a crash, not an obnoxiously loud one but certainly an alerting crash with a series of deep groans.

Lucy swung the window open and peered over the edge to see a person crumpled lazily in the fetal position.

This raised alarm bells in Lucy's head as who knows why this person was particularly at her door in a heap. It could be any of her guild mates or it could be a person in trouble, or it was simply a drunk man but her anxiety got the best of her and she raced to her door and carefully opened it with a lamp in her hand.

She wasn't prepared for what she saw next.

There was Natsu, sprawled on the ground, whimpering in pain, his muscles flinching and contracting in spasms of pain.

"Oh God! Natsu! What the hell happened?"
She knelt next to him to assess the damage.

Nothing was severe enough for him to die but he has such a large quantity of injuries that he could become critical if not dealt with sooner.

Lucy bent down and softly spoke "This'll hurt, just bare it for a bit please." She said as she lifted him up, him seething as she shifted his weight onto her small but strong body.

Natsu gritted his teeth, "Lucy please, don't worry about me, I can just go to Wendy!" He spoke exasperatedly.

"Wendy's home asleep, not only that but she is tired from having to heal team shadow gear (just Jet and Droy) because they had a series of unsuccessful jobs without Levy." Lucy grunted as she sat Natsu on her couch "but not just that, I can clean you up and wrap you up right now and Wendy can heal you tomorrow!"

"No Luce, please just forget about me!" He pleaded with a whimper. Lucy sighed, she walked to her kitchen and opened a cupboard, quickly slammed it shut after grabbing her first aid kit.

"I will not forget about you, your in pain and I'm here for you, I care about you so I'm not letting you go while your in this state." She was concerned and wasn't going to let him go without him being patched up and maybe questioned, depending if he's up to it.

"Alright, I'm going to patch you up and if your up to it, get some answers," she said with a small, tired hum.

She knelt down to start wiping blood off his arms and chest, cleaning his visible injuries before lifting his pant legs and gently rubbing his skin with a wet cloth.
"Natsu why have you been going on jobs with no one else?" Lucy started.

"I can't tell you, I'm sorry" natsu whispered.

Lucy feeling a bit frustrated from his vagueness, poured antiseptic onto a cloth and prepping it to be applied to the wounds.

"This'll sting" she warned.

"I know, it's not my-" he gritted his teeth when she placed it on an open wound, "-f-first time being Wrapped up."

"Natsu give me some type of reason to why you've done this to yourself, the least you could of done is take Gray or Erza with you!" She groaned angrily.

"Lucy I went on my own because I needed money for something, if I brought them along then I would of had to split the money!" He huffed out.

"Well then what about Happy? Or even me!?" She roared, but she huffed and then muttered, "I know I'm useless, but even if I am, if you explained it to me I wouldn't have requested half of the money. And if you took Happy with you then you wouldn't of had to split any money." Her sentence started to dwindle into a whisper

"DONT YOU DARE THINK OF YOURSELF LIKE THAT!" He roared out, angry with her assumptions.

"Luce! Your the strongest person I know! I admire your strength and... I've never met someone like you before!" He spoke loudly, this time not as much as a yell but coming very close.

"Natsu..." she whispered, "then why?.."

"Because I love you!" He spoke abruptly, "I wanted to get you a birthday present and I could only think of getting you Aquarius's  key, because I can tell your suffering and struggling with the fact that her key is gone. I know it's been a year and a half but, I wanted to bring you happiness for your birthday!" After his rant, the room went completely silent.

"Natsu, I miss Aquarius, I truly do." She put her head down, hiding her tears and blush littered across her cheeks, she started to wrap his wounds up after finishing with the antiseptic. "But I- I love you. If you died today I would have been truly depressed, but it's because of you that I can still smile"

She finished the last bandage and looked up at Natsu with passion in her eyes.

"Luce..." he whispered.

Out of  anger, sadness and love, she leaned in and captured his lips in amongst her passion, sealing off his bandage and passionately drawing in his lips.

He took very few seconds to respond to Lucy's desperate and angry kisses.

There mouths moved in sync with each other, swirling with love and affection but also pain and frustration in a whirlwind of flavours, strawberries meeting Smoke.

She pulled away and got up abruptly. Pulling Natsu gently along with her and pushed him into her bed.

"Get some sleep, y-you need it" she spoke with red cheeks.

"But don't you need to sleep here?" He asked curious with his own dusting of pink.

"It's okay your injured so I'll go to the c-couch" she stuttered.

He wrapped his fingers around her fragile wrist and gently pulled her into the bed. He tucked her in as she sat there stunned and then wrapped his gentle arms around her waist.

He tucked her head under his chin as he chuckled lightly, "as if I'd let you sleep on the couch, your sleeping here because I love you and will not let you lay on the horrid thing."

"Oi my couch is completely fine" she huffed.

He again chuckled but then went silent.
He snuggled into her hair and muttered to her "stay with me, I need you."

"Okay, I'm not leaving any time soon." She whispered.

She reached over to her lamp and switched off her lamp.

"Goodnight Luce"

"Goodnight Natsu"

She tangled her hands in his shirt and he place his in her hair as they fell asleep.