Natsu One-Shots (Fairy Tail)

Crushes Crush (Regular Imagine)

Have you ever wondered why crushes are called crushes? It's because the slowly crush your soul from the inside out. The bigger the crush, the bigger the problems. I would know, I'm in love with my friend, and it sucks.

Said friend was named Natsu Dragneel, and damn he was hot. With scruffy salmon hair, a smirk to die for, a masculine voice, and serious muscles, he was, in a sense, to die for. He has caught the eye of many a girl from Fairytail, so I was nothing special. Of course, boys are oblivious and so he knew not of any crushes the girls had on him, including mine. He only had eyes for Lucy Heartfillia, the blonde beauty of Fairytail. Don't even get me started on Lucy! She's my friend, so I won't say anything negative, but I know for a fact that she doesn't return his feelings. Maybe he loves the thrill of the chase because she's made it quite clear that she doesn't like him that way. "Hard to get," I suppose you could say. Well, if I was honest, my envy for Lucy ran deep. I had brown hair, she has blonde. I had gray eyes, she had a lovely brown shade. Her curves were plentiful, while mine were relatively nonexistent. Her waist was so slim, I wasn't completely sure she was human, and mine was normal. At least, normal according to my doctor. In my opinion, I was rather chubby, but that's probably just stupid female hormones talking. Ah well, having meat on my bones means I'm well fed, and not starving in a remote African village.

So that's my life. Natsu, on the other hand, was not only physically flawless, his magic was off the charts, a trait that I severely wish I had. Magic may not be everything, but to me, it was close. Natsu took the number two spot, and chocolate the first. No one is better than chocolate.

"Lucy!"

I looked up. Natsu was running towards Lucy and I. We had been enjoying a conversation about what one would do if they didn't have celestial spirit magic. Just so that you don't ask: yes. I have celestial spirit magic as well. I may not have many of the zodiac keys, but my silver keys were in great supply. I only owned two zodiac keys: Scorpio and Aries. The rest belonged to Lucy and Yukino. It was a saddening factor, yes, but I try not to dwell on it too much.

"What do you want, Natsu?" Lucy rolled her eyes at him.

He grinned. The butterfly feeling is totally an understatement in comparison to the feeling in my gut. I had a herd of wild elephants in a tizzy storming through my tummy. "I want to know if you'd go on a job with Happy and I. Grey and Erza are coming, too."

"I suppose, I still need to pay my rent." She said in that beautiful voice of hers.

"Oh, and Tracy," he turned to me, "we could use you, too. Wanna come?"

Now, this was a delicate matter. If I refused, I would miss out on one opportunity for Natsu to like me. Then again, I may go and look like a lunatic, as well. It was a tricky thing, but in my haste and nervousness, I hurriedly accepted his offer. Whether that would turn out well or not is a whole other factor.

Time Skip brought to you by Gajeel's... interesting singing.

"Natsu! Duck!"

Another bolder shot through the air towards us and I had to throw myself to the ground so avoid being hit.

Lucy hurled herself to the left to avoid another and landed next to me. "Tracy! What do we do?"

"Try summoning Virgo!" I called back over the loud crash of boulders in the distance. "We have to stop these things! It's what the villagers paid for!"

"Got it! Open, Gate of the Maiden: Virgo!" Lucy wielded her key and fell to the ground again to avoid a boulder. "Virgo! Is there anything you can do to get rid of the boulders? We have to get to the top and stop the source."