NaLu One-Shots

Edolas Visits

"Hey, Mira, what's the job-board lookin' like today?" Natsu asked the resident bar-maid, slamming his fist down on the wooden bar, making a loud bang.

The white-haired mage looked up from wiping on of the glasses on the counter in front of her, saying, "I don't know, Natsu, but I've overheard Master saying that there was a decrease in harder, intenser jobs. 

Surprising her, he looked rather okay with the fact that it would be almost impossible to find a job worth his standards. "That's just great 'cause I wanted to find an easy job I could complete in at least an hour."

She turned her chin up. "What's the hurry, Natsu? Did you forget to pay Gray for one of your bets?" Unlike others, she seemed quite interested in what his answer would be. Mira was always one for a pleasant conversation, and this was likely one of them.

"Well, I was hoping to be able to help pay off Lucy's rent because she didn't get enough money gue to me—er—destroying the town." He had an innocent smile etching his child-like features. "I just hope I can find a job in time. . ."

"Aww! That's so cute, Natsu. I knew you loved Lucy!" Mira had a heart-warming smile spreading fervently across her pale face.

"Of course, I love her," he said, slightly insulted by the fact his eyes turned down. "Why wouldn't I."

"So you admit it! You love her." A high-pitched voice sounded from behind the pink-haired man.

"Oh, hey, Happy!" Mirajane waved over to the flying creature. 

"Natsu loves who?" Lucy peeked from behind the cat.

The man had caught a glimpse of the girl's hair; it was tied up differently than usual. She had in a pink headband, almost like Levy had styled her hair—perhaps that was the case.

Before anyone could answer Lucy's question, a bright flash had come from the roof of the building, scaring everyone. It was a humongous light. Forcing everyone to go in attack mode was a thing that happened quite often when there was a threatened attacker.

However, before anyone could start up a fight that would most likely have them lose their entire guildhall again, recognizable people came from the flash. Natsu noticed mirror images of everyone from the guild was standing right in front of them, making him remember when they were forced into the same situation a while ago when they saw their guild in Edolas. 

"Oh, shit. How'd we end up here?" a voice that sounded similar to Lucy's roared. "Damnit, Levy, make sure your machine works before you go about taking us to different worlds."

With the fake Lucy's uproar, everyone in the guild started to understand what was happening. With what Natsu said last time, these were the people from Edolas. 

"Gajeel! Long time, no see." A man that looked somewhat like Gajeel went toward him, making the hulking man's spirits lift. "How you been?" 

With that, everyone separated to go find their counterpart. But before that, they all saw the so-called Levy get into a fight with Edolas Lucy, making everyone's attention refocus on them.

"Well, it's not my fault that you kept coming near my machine with all your stupid germs! Your stupidity probably wore down my beautiful invention," Levy shouted.

However, before Lucy fired back, Edolas Natsu wrapped his arms around Lucy's waist. "Lucy, please don't cause trouble in someone else's guild. It sets a bad example for us."

She huffed. "Fine." Lucy pulled away to just turn around so he could place his head on her shoulder and wrap his arm around her back. 

Everyone except for the Edolas guild was talking; they were all so shock by Natsu and Lucy's public display of affection. However, it seemed like Natsu was more worried about how much of a wuss his counterpart was. 

The more outgoing man stood up and walked over to the shy guy, completely baffled by his ability to control Lucy. "How do you do that?"

The man scratched his head, seemingly scared of his other-self.

"It's okay, Natsu, you can talk to him." 

Now everyone seemed to be listening in. Edolas Lucy was never this nice, and Natsu was asking a weird question. 

He nodded down at her. "How do I do, what?" 

"How do you get Luce to love you like that."

Lucy's heart just about melted from that. "Aww, Natsu, you know I love you already."

He smiled a forced smile. "I know you love me, but sometimes I want to be able to love like them."

Heart = melted