You're The One (Nalu AU Fanfiction)

~*Chapter 54*~ I'm Here

~Lucy's POV~

I look down on the floor while feeling Natsu's hands, trying to untie the rope. He really did beat them. The fight felt like it was over in a flash, but really it wasn't. The way he looked at me was one of the main images that keeps making me think... Why was he smiling?

"Lucy?" His voice brings me back as I turn my body as the ropes started to loosen. As the ropes fell, I look straight ahead and rubbed my wrists, easing the pain from how tight the enemies tightened those restraints on me. I look at the unconscious bodies and see them breathing by the look of their shoulders moving up and down. I look back at Natsu. The light from above us clearly showed me his expression. He gave me a reassured look on his wounded face. I would see some bruises and some blood visible on his arms and legs. My vision started to blur by the tears dwelling back up again. I cover my face and started sobbing. I heard Natsu's footsteps curling around the chair to face me, but I didn't bother looking at him. The sound of footsteps stops and I can tell he kneels down to my level by the impacted sound of crunching, broken glass.

"Everything's okay now." He reassures.

"N-No," My chin starts trembling. "Everything's not okay!" My voice raised with frustration and full of shame. "Why did you come here, idiot?? Didn't you know the risks?? You could've died for god's sakes!" I broke out in sobs.

"..."

I sniffed and kept covering my face with the palms of my hand, trying to wipe the tears away, but they kept falling and streaming down my face. "Lucy... Look at me."

Him saying that, I just couldn't look at him. I sat there crying way too much and I hate crying, but the pain of feeling shameless was hovering around my chest. I felt both his hands on my hands with a gentle touch and he moved them away from my face, but I tried putting them back where my hands were; he didn't allow that. He slowly lifts my hands up, leading me to get up from the chair. Instead of looking at his face, I looked down instead.

"Lucy." I felt him letting go of my hands. As I was about to bring my hands back up to my face again, I felt a warm, tight embrace in an instant. I felt Natsu's arms wrapped around my waists, holding me tightly. As he did that, it shocked me that I left my arms dangling by my sides.

"Lucy... Did those words on the balcony mean anything to you?" He said. My eyes widened a little and I remembered our talk on the balcony during the dance. The way he spoke to me and the way he held on to me... It was all coming back to me. Tears were slowly dwelling up.

"Those words... I mean it." His embrace is getting rid of my sadness and replacing them with comfort and warmth instead. 

"I promise I would protect you. I promise that I'm here for you. I said that you can share your pain with me. You don't have to face the pain alone. I'm here for you Lucy. I came here to rescue you! That's why I came here! For you." I felt his arms tremble a little when he raised his voice. "Why ask that?..."

"Because you're very precious to me!" I yelled as Natsu pulls away arms length, but puts his hands on my shoulders and looks at me in shock by my sudden rise of tone. "I didn't want you to get hurt. I didn't want you to think that I'm such a nuisance. I didn't want..." I paused and brought back my hands to wipe my tears away. "I didn't want you to think I'm selfish..." 

I felt his hands grab mine and brings them down making me leaving my arms by my sides. He brings up one of his hands and wipes the one tear with his thumb and keeps his hand cupped to my cheek, making me look up at him. 

"Hey, it's okay to be selfish once in awhile. That's how we, humans, are. Yeah, it's annoying when people are selfish all the time, but you're not like that. You're strong, kind, caring, smart, honest, fun to be around with and above all, the brightest person I've ever met. All of this, wasn't your fault. You didn't know that this was going to happen." He explained. "You're very precious to me, Lucy. You mean a lot to me and that's why I fought my way to you. To bring you back with me so we can make more fun memories together." 

"N-Natsu..." Hearing those words made my heart beat fast and making me cry, but not of sadness. It's tears of joy, but the tears aren't streaming down. Those words, especially hearing them from Natsu, made me feel warm inside and out.

He lifts one of his hands off of one of mine and moves his hand towards the side of my face. He carefully moves some parts of my hair that was in front of my messy face behind my ear, making him see me fully. Him doing that made my heart beat faster. He smiles with his lips closed at me and cups his hand to my cheek.

"I love you, Lucy." 

My eyes widened. My heart beats faster and faster. I felt a tear stream down my face. Natsu has always been there for me. All the memories where I'm with him keep playing in my head very fast. No matter how much I push him away, he's always there. I bring my hand from the same side where Natsu has a hold of my cheek. My palm touches the outside of his hand, bringing it closer. I slightly smiled at him with my mouth closed.

"I love you too, Natsu."

I bring my hand down as I felt him bringing me closer to him, closing the gap between us. His eyes closed and starts to lean in closer to my face. My heart beats even faster. I closed my eyes and felt his lips pressed against mine. 

~*~*~END OF CHAPTER 54~*~*~

(A/N hehehe I'm back.)