Sensory Overload

Chapter 3

     Lucy arrived at the guild before Natsu did. She trudged herself up to the bar and plopped herself in front of Mira "Morning Mira, do you know if Natsu is coming by today?"
     Mira looked up from wiping the bar "I am not entirely sure, why?" Mira noticed the pink heart band tattoo on Lucy's wrist "Ooo that is so pretty, when did you get that?"
     "That's why I am looking for that damned man-child and that blue fuzzball, they think they can just come into my place anytime they please and pull a prank like this!" Lucy angrily holds up her wrist "Seriously a tattoo... they are dead."
     Mira giggled as she examined Lucy's new accessory "How do you know it was Natsu and Happy? At least it's pretty."
     Glancing down at her wrist now "Who else would be stupid enough to tattoo me in my sleep... you're right though, at least it's kinda pretty." At that moment she felt a small pang of unexplainable anxiety brushing it off, she looks up at Mira "You know what, it IS pretty. Maybe it isn't Natsu who did it. Natsu draws like a left handed five year old and this certainly doesn't look like anything he could draw." It was then that Lucy somehow failed to notice the warm feeling of affection run through her body as she sat there deep in thought about her new unwanted accessory.

     Natsu walked up to the guild doors and paused a brief moment with apprehension, he still couldn't get over the feeling that he was in for it. Shaking it off he waltzed into the hall with Happy shouting "Goooood Morning Fairy Tail" he glanced around to see who was around and his eyes immediately caught the image of his apprehension.
     Lucy was sitting at the bar talking to Mira, she seemed awfully animated and then stilled, as if she was thinking too hard. A feeling of warmth and peace washed over him like it always does when he first lays his eyes on her. It was a feeling he grew accustomed to, he stopped trying to figure out the what and the why a long time ago. It started the moment he met her and it certainly hasn't happened when he sees anyone else.
      "Natsu snap out of it you got that mushy eye thing going on again." Happy was fluttering right by his ear. He waved off the cat "alright already, do you have to point it out every time you see it? It's not like I do it on purpose!"
     Happy giggled quietly "That's because you-" Natsu looks over to his buddy to see why he stopped and sees that his face dropped and turned white as a ghost "Shit scary Lucy is coming this way, Natsu RUUUUUUN!!!!" The cat quickly flies up into the rafters abandoning his best friend to suffer the wrath of a very angry Lucy.

     Lucy was snapped out of her thoughts by Happy's giggling behind her 'Well it's about friggin' time they show up...' she whips her head around to see Happy and Natsu by the entrance at the other end of the guild 'How did I hear Happy all the way up here, I thought they were behind me - ehhh- time for answers!'
     Lucy hopped off her bar stool abruptly with balled up fists and started storming toward tweedledum and tweedledee. Adding insult to injury Happy just called her one of her least favorite nicknames "Scary Lucy my ass, you ain't seen nuthin' yet cat!"
     Increasing her pace Lucy shifted her attention to Natsu, his expression fleetingly caught her affection. She never could resist the mischievous smirk he so often sported but no way in hell was it going to save him this time "Oi! I am going to wipe that smirk right off your face!"
     Natsu watches the irate Lucy while laughing "I'd like to see you try" but noticed that she closed the distance pretty fast. He could hear and almost feel her heart racing and could certainly predict her next move, it was a classic. He watched Lucy's arm swing back and her hand open for the wind up. Before he knew it he held her wrist with her open hand only inches from his face "Good Morning to you too Lucy!"
     He didn't have any time to react Lucy landed a forceful foot sweep and before he knew it he was grounded. Natsu felt an odd pleasurable thrill through his body like it was a bolt of lighting. He felt pressure on his chest and as he opened his eyes he looked up he almost lost his breath. Lucy had a boot firmly planted on his chest and his eyes traced along to the bend of her knee and then right up her thigh realizing that her black lace panties matched her black skirt 'I always figured she matched her undies to her skirts'. The confirmation sent another wave of electricity in his body.
     Lucy stared down and suddenly felt her body hum with excitement. She thought she should have felt embarrassed but it never came. This was not normal, she knew she should have, but it just didn't happen. She must have been too focused on getting answers "Hey eyes up here you pervert! Can you tell me what the hell possessed you to do this?" and she bent over him and shoved wrist at Natsu so he could see the heart tattoo on her wrist.
     Natsu quickly threw his hands up in surrender "Yo, that totally wasn't me - I swear!" At that moment both Lucy and Natsu's attention were brought to his left wrist, peaking out from the cuff was the same pink tattoo as Lucy. Natsu removed the wrist cuff "See, I have one too!"