Sorry this is so late (from October!), but I didn’t forget you!! Thank you SO much for requesting me and liking my fanfics omg, here you go! I hope that you like it!! @michelles-clouds
Natsu always would sneak in through Lucy’s window, late at night, and crawl into her bed. If it was anyone else, she’d be thoroughly creeped out and would have beat the living snot out of them, not that she hadn’t with Natsu, but she digressed. He was her best friend and, as much as she would prefer him not to spend his time creeping into her bed, she supposed there were worse things that he could be doing.
What bothered her the most about the whole ordeal was one of two things, the first being that, if he did not wake her up when he laid down next to her, she would practically have a heart attack in the morning from seeing his drooling face so close to her own. The second was if he did wake her up, she would still practically have a heart attack, who wouldn’t from seeing a shadowy figure slinking in through their window? After that, she was faced with the awkward situation of either allowing Natsu to stay in her bed with her, or make him sleep on the couch. If she was really tired, and post heart attack, she would just pass back out and ignore the snoring dragon next to her. If she was in a particularly bad mood, she’d Lucy Kick him clean out of her cozy bed and threaten to send him back out into the cold, no matter the time of year.
So, Lucy had set up a plan, a plan of revenge. Not only was she going to sneak into Natsu’s bed, she was going to scare the daylights out of him. Just thinking about her plan set a devious smirk on her lips, earning her a concerned look from Mira who backed away slowly from the bar.
“Lu? You’ve got your creeper face on. I’m worried for you.” Levy’s voice interrupted her thoughts, breaking through to her just before she could utter out her evilest of laughs.
“No need to worry, Levy.” Lucy clasped her hands together, letting a little giggle slip past her lips. “Nothing to worry about at all.” He eyes fell on Natsu as he basically ate himself into a food coma; she didn’t even need to do any of the leg work, all she had to do was slip into his bed while he was sleeping. Mira just happened to give Natsu some spiced rum with dinner and that usually knocked him out pretty quick.
“What are you scheming?” Levy questioned, her eyes shining mischievously.
“I’m going to sneak into Natsu’s bed tonight,” She informed her friend who blushed in response, surprise lighting up her face.
“Huh, you guys have a weird way of getting it on.” Gajeel’s gruff reply came behind Levy, whom Lucy had not seen before, causing Lucy to blanch.
“Oh my god, you guys! That is not what I meant!” Lucy hissed, her face heating up in embarrassment. “He always sneaks into my apartment to sleep, so I’m going to give him a taste of his own medicine.” Lucy went back to thinking about her plan, a smirk playing on her lips.
“That’s what the Salamander is doing still? An’ here we all thought he was finally fuc- OW!” Gajeel’s sentence was cut off by Levy smacking his head.
“Well, you kids have fun.” Levy smiled and patted Lucy’s cheek causing her to frown. She didn’t care what kind of perverted thoughts Gajeel had, her intensions were pure. Pure revenge.
It didn’t take long for Natsu to shove enough food down his throat to feed the entire guild, finish his liquor, bid his farewells, promising to go on a job with Lucy the next day, and head home. Lucy stayed at the guild another hour after, just for good measure, and then headed out. She hadn’t gone to Natsu and Happy’s house too often, but she knew the route. The pair usually ended up crashing Lucy’s apartment so often that they may as well live there. Lucy flushed at the thought of living with Natsu, and shook her head. She needed to focus; Natsu usually didn’t worry about locking his door while he was home, which Lucy thought was unsafe, but his smell and hearing were so good that he didn’t bother. Besides, who would break into practically a real dragon’s den? Their house was a mess and Natsu was scary when he was half asleep and pissed. That usually kept thieves away.
Lucy made it to his house in no time; the door was open, of course, so she slipped her boots off. The first thing she had made sure to do that morning was to wear extra plush socks so that her footsteps would be nearly silent. Sure, there was plenty of stuff that she could trip on while she was skulking her way to Natsu’s room, but she wasn’t a complete klutz. The more important thing that she had made sure to do that morning was not to wear her usual perfume. She was sure that Natsu could smell her coming from miles away since he was so accustom to what she smelled like on a daily basis. She had also taken a shower using a different shampoo and condition than normal. She almost started giggling to herself at how ridiculous the lengths were that she went just to pull a prank on him.
Picking through the main part of Natsu’s house, past a passed out Happy on the couch, she made it to his room. She could hear his loud snores practically shaking the house. Peaking through the doorway, she saw him sprawled out on his bed, shirtless and only in boxer shorts. Lucy pushed away the fluttering in her stomach and ignored the inevitable blush that was undoubtedly painted on her cheeks, and snuck in. She wasn’t sure exactly how she was going to go about scaring him or sneaking in his bed, but if he could do it, so could she. So, she decided to wing it. There was a sliver of bed left, closest to where she had come in, where he wasn’t sprawled on. Tiptoeing, Lucy gently shimmied herself under the covers. She froze when Natsu let out a groan and muttered in his sleep, but he didn’t move and Lucy let out a sigh of relief.
After lying there for a few, silent moments, Lucy’s mind running a mile a minute, the realization that she was, in fact, in Natsu Dragneel’s bed, with him, struck her. Her heart began to pound against her ribs so loudly that she was sure Natsu would wake up just from the sound alone. Her palms were sweaty as she pushed them into the thin sheets beneath her. What was she doing? What an odd thing to do, it was no wonder why she always felt so flustered when Natsu did it to her. Her only saving Grace was to scare him, so she had to gather her nerves and carry out the second half of her plan.
She was eternally grateful that Happy hadn’t fallen asleep on Natsu’s bed because Lucy decided that it would, in fact, be a million time worse and more embarrassing if the little blue cat had been a witness to her intrusion. Lucy propped herself on one side, facing Natsu, and hovered her face over his sleeping one. His snores and slack-jaw were a sight to be held, but she couldn’t help but admire how adorable he really was when he slept. She felt herself getting shaky and nervous looking down at Natsu; she needed to enact revenge soon or she would lose her nerve.
Her wits were about her for a moment allowing her to let out the brilliant scare that she had thought up,
“Boo!” She shook his shoulder, loudly calling in his ear. He snorted out another snore and then blinked his eyes open wide. Not even a yelp, not even a jolt- Lucy was seriously disappointed. She was hoping that he was in shock, or maybe he didn’t realize that she was there yet. She waited.
“Luce?” He croaked out, the raspiness of his voice could have sanded the roughest of boards. “Mm…. When did you get here?” Just as she opened her mouth to reply, snippily to be honest, he rolled onto his side, sweeping her to his chest in one fell swing.
“It’s about time,” He sighed contently into her ear, his eyes gently fluttering closed. “It’s always me comin’ to you… You’re bed’s comfier though…”
“H-huh?” Lucy squeaked, her face burning. He wasn’t even startled by her and now he was hugging her?
“Go to sleep…” He softly grumbled. “Glad you finally came though… Always sleep better with you…” Snore. Lucy couldn’t believe the outcome of her “revenge” and how badly it backfired.
“Luce,” He replied quietly, firmly, without opening his eyes. She was almost sure he was sleep talking. “I’m not gonna ask you again to cuddle me and go to sleep.” Lucy had died and left her body, she was sure. It was an ethereal experience.
“O-okay…” Perhaps her plan had gone just right. If she really thought about it, Natsu probably knew she was in the house without even waking up, he was so used to her. Lucy frowned stubbornly and defeatedly, and snuggled into his chest. It wasn’t the worst outcome that could have become of her plan, that was for sure. Natsu hugged her tighter to his chest, sighing in his sleep.
“Pfft, what did I tell you guys?” A familiar voice loudly ‘whispered’, waking Lucy up from her groggy state. She temporarily forgot where she was, but soon remember when she found herself draped over Natsu’s sleeping form, his arms coiled around her waist. “I told ya it was worth it, fufufu…” Happy’s giggle sent her into an upright position. As she whipped around to let the cat have an earful, she yelped in surprise as a good portion of the guild was crammed into the hallway of Natsu’s small house.
“Wh-what the hell?!” Lucy choked out, mortification washing over her.
“Lu, you said nothing funny was going on!” Levy’s snorts of laughter sounded and Lucy covered her face in embarrassment, Gajeel looking smug.
“My, my…” Erza’s face was red enough to match her hair and Lucy wanted to pull the blanket up over her head.
“Who’s there?!” Natsu shot upright, his hair sticking up in odd angles, more disheveled than normal. Of course he was startled by Happy and not by her. “What the hell are all of you doin’ in my house?” He placed an accusatory squint on their fellow guild mates who let out a chorus of laughter.
“Wow! Do you even have any pants on, Natsu?” Mira questioned sounding genuinely curious as she pointed out Natsu’s naked upper half, not even his scarf to offer any decency.
“Gray-sama, you should be so bold- Oh, wait. Your clothes, my love.” Juvia began and they redirected her sentence to Gray’s mysterious lack of clothing.
“The hell? You’re strippin’ in my house, ya pervert?!” Natsu growled out and Gray shot daggers at him from behind Juvia.
“Alright, enough! What the hell, Happy?!” Lucy hissed at the exceed, who seemed to have merely vanished from existence. Lucy moved to get out of the bed to wring Happy’s neck, but realized she, too, had no pants on. “WHERE THE HELL ARE MY PANTS?”
“Holy crap!” Levy was sent into a fit of laughter while Wendy blushed profusely.
“That is no example to be setting for Wendy!” Carla scolded and Lucy felt like crying angrily.
“I had pants on last night! Why are any of you here… Go home!”
“Eh? You randomly took em’ off last night.” Natsu informed her nonchalantly and picked up her shorts from his side of the bed, swinging them carelessly around his finger. She snatched them from him and shoved them back on underneath the covers.
“GET OUT!” Lucy ordered causing her guild mates to actually mutter amongst themselves and shuffle their ways to the door.
“I want all the details later, Lu!”
“OUT!” Lucy’s heart was beating so hard and her body was so hot from embarrassment, or from Natsu’s body heat, that she was almost sure she was going to have a real heart attack.
“Eh… G’night…” Natsu casually fell back onto his pillow to continue snoring, seemingly unfazed by their intruders.
“They’re gonna think terrible things about us.” Lucy whimpered to no one in particular and Natsu snorted and, once again, wrapped his arms around her torso.
“Who cares?” He murmured, his lips close to her ear. “Let them think.”
