Calming the chaos | NALU FF

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"Thank you, Happy," I say as I land on the roof of Everlue's mansion. Opening my arms, Happy flies into my chest, and I hold him. Natsu ignores us and walks up to the French doors. "How exactly do we get in from here? The door is locked and I don't want there to be a lot of noise."

Natsu ignores me again. Pouting, I decide to glare at him even though I know it won't do anything. He kneels down and puts his hand on the glass part of one of the doors. I watch in awe as he easily melts the glass, reaches through the hole he made, and opens the door from the inside. That's so cool. Natsu then stood up and walks in without a word.

Rolling my eyes, I walk into the house after him. I look around and see random things everywhere. "I think we're in a storage room," I say. Natsu ignores me again. I sigh. "I thought we already established that it's not nice to ignore people, Na-kun."

He turns around and glares at me. For some reason, I'm not afraid of him this time. Instead, I smile sweetly at him. His glare intensifies. "I don't care," he hisses, "and I already told you to stop calling me that."

I pout again and give him a halfhearted glare. His glare lessens a little, but doesn't go away. "Well, too bad, Na-kun, because that's what I'm calling you."

His glare intensifies again, and we had a glare off. We stay like that for a few minutes. Neither of us is willing to back down. Finally, he gives up and sighs. Turning around, he starts walking without a word. Smile triumphantly, I start walking after him. Peaking out of a door, we discover that the hallway is empty. Quietly, we sneak around the house. I walk around and search every room that we pass. Finally, we find a room with double doors. Does Everlue have a library? Before I can open the double doors, the floor in front of us brakes, and the ugly maids from before jump out of the hole.

"Intruders," they yell. All of them except one was wielding a cleaning tool as a weapon. There goes my plan to sneak in and out. Wait, how did they even know we were here? I grab Taurus' key and am about to call him out when a swirl of black and blue flames shoots past me and hits the maids. They are knocked out instantly.

I look behind me and see Natsu with an irritated look on his face. "Why are you so irritated?" I ask as we start walking again. Finally open the double doors, I gasp in awe. The library is huge. I want a library like this. It's a beautiful library too. Who would have thought a man with no taste would have such an amazing library?

"I hate when a good plan doesn't work out," Natsu finally says. I stare him with wide eyes. He answered me, and I don't even have to keep bugging him about it.

I gap at him again as another thought goes through my head. Did he just say I had a good plan? A goofy grin spreads across my face as I skip into the library. We decide to split up the work. Natsu will look on the bottom shelves. The middle shelves are my responsibility with the help of a latter. Happy will fly and look on the top shelves. After twenty minutes, I sigh in frustration. "I can understand wanting an amazing library, but why would such a short man have such a big shelf?"

Happy tries to muffle his laugh and I smiled up at him. Then I hear something I haven't heard before. I hear a deep chuckle. Is someone else in the room? Turning toward the sound, I find Natsu looking at a book he's pulled out. He has a small smile on his face and his shoulders shake a little. His eyes have softened and filled with amusement.

Heat rushes up my neck and into my cheeks. I stare down at him in awe. He's a handsome man, but when he smiles, he's so much more attractive. And I love his laugh. Natsu probably feels my gaze and turns to look at me. Smiling down at him, I say, "You should laugh more. A smile looks good on you,"