*Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail.

Transforming

CHAPTER 1

Lucy sagged as she entered her apartment, sulking as she threw down her bag, kicked off her shoes and laid her keys on her desk. "What's the matter Lucy?"

She yelped, jumping at Natsu's surprise arrival through the window, "Dammit Natsu!"

"What?"

"How many times do I have to tell you to go through the front door!"

He cocked his head, choosing to ignore her, "What's wrong?"

Lucy leant against her desk, "Where's Happy anyway?"

"With Charle. So?"

Lucy sighed, "I couldn't get it. Not even a little."

"What? The transformation?"

"Yeah."

"So? There's tons of stuff you can't do."

I slumped, "Thank you Natsu."

"There's tons of stuff I can't do either. And you're the only celestial mage in Fairy Tail. So no one can do what you do."

"Yeah, but you guys are so amazing. Even Wendy surpassed me and all she could do was heal when we met her and now she's this powerful dragon slayer… I just thought it would be cool if I could fight myself."

"Lucy you're plenty strong… And scary too," he reasoned.

She still looked down. Huffing he got on his feet and dragged her to the center of the room, "It was only your first try. We can keep practicing until you get it."

"Natsu-"

"You can get it. You must be missing something."

"Like what? I did what you did and you changed your whole body- and your clothes."

"Because I'm too amazing that's why."

"Didn't you transform into a piece of paper afterwards?"

"I've just seen your face more than you've seen mine, that's all," he joked.

She rolled her eyes, "That's not possible."

"Sure it is. I've seen you sleeping."

Lucy couldn't help the embarrassed blush that crept onto her cheeks, "Well, I see you before you wake up! And that doesn't explain the full body change!"

"I've seen you naked."

Lucy turned red as a tomato, "I- you- well I've seen you topless plenty of times! And you barely wear anything half the time!"

He grinned, making grasping movements with his hands, "But I've touched your boobies."

She smacked him viciously across the face, "Idiot! And Mira hasn't gone around touching everyone!" He rolled his eyes like he didn't care and took off his wristband, shirt and his scarf, tossing them over a chair. "Wh- What are you doing?"

"Maybe touching helped me, so maybe it'll help you." He kicked off his sandals and stood in front of her.

"Huh? Seriously?"

He rolled his eyes, picked up her hands and put them on his chest. Lucy tried to keep her eyes away from his face, shamefully enjoying the feel of his warm chest beneath her palms, his own larger hands lightly gripping her forearms. She spread her fingers, feeling his chest rise and fall with his breathing. After a few moments she attempted a transformation.

"Transform!" defeated from failing again she slumped once more, "I can't."

"You weren't even looking at my face. Try again," he stepped closer so Lucy's loose hands landed on the bottom of his abs. Her eyes still stayed fixed on her hands, eyes widening, surprised at how hard the muscles were. "Lucy, you have to look at me, you didn't then and when we were practicing with Mira too." Lucy looked up, air sucked into her lungs as her nose brushed with Natsu's. Her hands shook as she raised them, sliding them up to his chest. His breath was so close to hers, his dark eyes boring into her chocolate ones.

With him so close it was hard to concentrate on transformation. "Feel anything?"

"N- n- no," she stammered.

"Are you sure? You're all red and you're heating up, maybe it's happening?"

"I- it's… you're too close, it's distracting."

"Hmmm, maybe it's cause I've seen you naked?"

"Eh?"

He nodded, "Makes sense." And then he took his pants off.

"You're stripping?!"

"I am not! Don't compare me to Gray!" He retorted, offended.

"But you're taking off-" he removed his underwear, standing innocently in front of her stark naked "- You're naked!" Her eyes bugged before she clamped her hands over her face to hide the sight before her.

After a few moments he tugged her hands out of the way, "Come on, try transforming."

"It's too awkward!"

"Why?"

"You're naked!"

"So? I've seen you naked."

"It's like- it's like- like when Asca ordered us to kiss and-"

He paled, looking sick, "- and you made me kiss Happy."

"Yeah, it's like that."

"But Happy's not here," he noted, completely clueless.

"But it's like if we did."
"Did what?"

"If we kissed!" she exclaimed.

"But we didn't."

"But it felt weird before we kissed."

"Yeah, like butterflies instead of fire in my stomach."

She shook her head, incredulous, "You were nervous?"

"Well, I'd never kissed anyone before. Let alone you."

"What would be wrong with kissing me?!" she screwed up her face, offended.

"You're the one who made me kiss Happy!"

"But kissing me would be so bad?!"

"No! And if kissing me wasn't a problem then why didn't you?!"

"Well, obviously you didn't want me to because I must be so gross that you didn't want to-" Rolling his eyes Natsu gripped the back of Lucy's neck and pressed his lips onto hers.