The challenge (Natsu x Lucy) [COMPLETED]

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It's fluff time!!!! Yayyyyyy!!!!! (I'm probably going to be screaming while writing this so idk but maybe you'll fangirl-scream while reading this 0.o)

Lucy's P.O.V

    I skipped home, a certain pink-haired boy following behind me. His hands looked awkwardly shoved in his pockets. I shrugged, smiling and opened my door, stepping aside to let him in.

"You know it's supposed to be the other way around, right?" He raised an eyebrow at me when he passed through.

"Oh whatever, I was just try9ing to be nice!" I frowned at him.

"Yeah, what's up with that? You're never nice to me." Natsu smirked, looking back at me.

"I'm in a good mood right now, try not to ruin it please?" I said softly, looking up at him.

    His cheeks went pink then he looked away. Wordless, he sauntered over to my futon and sat down, sliding under the cover, he finally pulled out his hand and unzipped his backpack, pulling out a textbook.

"What happened to your hand?" I rushed over and picked it off the table.

    It was poorly wrapped in a white bandage and there was blood seeping through.

"Nothing." He pulled it away from me.

"Let me see it please." I asked softly, holding out my hand.

    He rolled his eyes and put it in mine. I carefully unwrapped the bandage and turned his hand over to uncurl his callused fingers. Four crescent shaped were indented into his palms just above the heel of his palm.

"Can I clean it?" I asked softly, looking up at him through my lashes.

"Sure...whatever." He sighed.

    I got up and walked to the bathroom to grab a first aid kit and a face towel. I ran the tap and put the edge of the towel under the aqua. Natsu looked at me curiously as I walked back. Taking his hand softly, I grazed my line of sight along the marks. 

"Why did you do this to yourself? I know no one else could have done it." I asked.

"I was frustrated." He growled, obviously remembering a bad memory.

    Silently accepting that this was as far as I would get into finding out what happened, I dabbed the damp area of the towel on his pierced skin. He groaned in pain and put his forehead on the table. I took his other hand, which he had pulled out of his pocket. It looked worse, his knuckles were bleeding and one of them had a open cut that would require stitches. The top of his wrist was bruised badly, the mark so dark it looked black. I put some ointment on the bruise and cleaned his knuckles, earning some more groans in return. Finishing up on the first hand with a delicately wrapped dressing, he immediately grabbed my thigh tightly. I knew it wasn't anything seductive due to his expression. If squeezing something would reduce the pain, I would let him. 

    Once both his hands were finished, I lightly kissed the back of each. Blushing slightly. He  scooted in closer awkwardly and put his forehead on mine.

"Thank you." He whispered, looking into my eyes.

    I smiled in return. His eyes widened in the slightest and then he blushed, leaning back slightly. He slipped his hand behind my neck and pulled me in, I closed my eyes and felt his warm, soft lips against mine. Blushing, I kissed back a little. His other hand cupped my face, the bandage slightly irritating my skin but I ignored it. He pulled away and we seemed to have opened our eyes at the same time. He smiled softly. It wasn't a playful smirk or a gloating grin, it was a pure, adorable smile. 

"Lucy?" He asked softly.

"Yeah? Natsu?" I tilted my head to the side.

"Please...don't smile at Gray like that again." He said and wrapped his arms around me, putting his head over my shoulder.

    Suddenly it had all fallen together. Natsu was there. When I was helping Gray and listening to him when he was telling the story of his childhood.

"Okay." I nodded and then stroked his pink hair. It was softer than I expected.

"So...anyways, can we do this problem? I have no clue on how to do it." Natsu questioned, pointing to number 5 in the textbook.

"Sure," I laughed and sat down across from him. "Can you write with that hand though?" 

"A few little scrapes never hurt me." Natsu frowned. 

Yeah, it's short. Whatever. I'll update the next one today or tomorrow. Cya