Hiding In The Barn.

Natsu snorted. He couldn't believe that Lucy wasn't tired of dancing yet.

They'd been at that country festival for the whole evening and a good part of the night. After eating and drinking plenty, everyone started dancing in the middle of the square. Everyone was wearing medieval dresses and Lucy was dressed with a lovely pink one, her hair prettily braided: it was hard not to look at her, dancing and smiling in the middle of square. Natsu looked at her pretty smile and grinned: seeing her so happy made him happy too. In that moment, a pretty drunken lad came by his side, lying against the wall: he was definitely wasted.

"Yo man!" he greeted Natsu, leaning against his shoulder.

"Hey" he replied a bit confused – the Dragon Slayer never liked to drink, so he never really understood people who got plastered that way.

"Ya know… I always thought… my dream was to become… you know… a great rich something… like an actor… or a politician… but now my friend!" he raised his voice suddenly, embracing Natsu with one arm and pointing with the full cup in hand towards the centre of the square "Now… my dream… is to marry… HER!"

"Her who?" asked Natsu, raising a brow confusingly.

"The beautiful blondie dancing over there… man… I do love her!" he exhaled, enthusiastically.

"I don't really think so" Natsu replied, shooting a bad glare at him.

"But I love her!"

"No, you don't."

"Look at her, she's gorgeoooous!"

"She's not only that. She's also funny and very intelligent" Natsu replied, naturally.

"See? I… *hic*… really have to marry her… I'm gonna take her to the barn… later…" he said, before falling asleep against the wall behind them.

"To the barn?" Natsu asked to himself, confusingly.

She had been dancing for hours and was literally exhausted. Lucy ran towards the edge of the square, where Natsu had been waiting all the time – but he was no longer there. Lucy really wanted to dance with him, but he just kept on refusing her invitation, pouting in embarrassment. So, she just kept on dancing with lots of nice citizens, both old and young, children and middle-aged men, and she had an incredible time. That medieval festival of magic was super exciting and she was so happy to be there, she couldn't stop smiling.

Lucy started to wander along a small road near to where she left Natsu and, after a few steps, she managed to find him walking towards the square.

"Hey Natsu" she trilled excitedly, running towards him. His face was red and he seemed dumbfounded. "Where have you been?!"

"Oh, Lucy…" he replied surprised, as she swooped happily against him. He immediately felt his temperature rise and the heat he had been feeling seemed to worsen.

"What's wrong? Where've you been?" Lucy asked, looking at him curiously.

"Ah… er… I've been… to the barn".

"To the barn?!" Lucy winced, surprised. She heard the village girls talking as they lent her dress and as they helped her with her hair, and she knew very well what happened in the barn. "Who did you go there with?!" Lucy raised her voice, her smile fading and feeling a strange pulse wrapping her chest.

"N-nobody… I went there alo—" but Natsu couldn't finish his sentence that a strong thunder rumbled in the night sky, followed by a few raindrops. "Oh, no…"

"Oh! What a pity! All the festival stands and the decorations!" Lucy sighed, but soon she realised that that rain was too painful: in fact, it was hail.

"Let's run for cover, Lucy!" Natsu said, taking her hand and running away along the road. Soon enough, they found cover from the violent hailstorm that had suddenly started to rage.

"Woah, that's crazy! Where did this storm come from?!" Natsu started laughing, as he closed the heavy, wooden door behind his back, feeling the suddenly freezing air coming from outside.

Lucy stood in the weak, dim light of the place, her back towards Natsu.

"Natsu."

"Yeah?"

"Why… are we… in the barn?" she asked, looking at him with lucid eyes and trembling shoulders.

"Ah… eh… I didn't know anywhere else to go!"

"She could've gone back to our inn!"

"It's far from the square and in the rush of the moment… I only thought… about this place" Natsu pouted, his voice trailing off with embarrassment.

"Oh. So…what have you seen in the barn?" Lucy asked, her voice slightly malicious.

The only light illuminating that place, which strongly smelt of straw, was the storm light coming from the dirty windows.

Natsu gulped. "W-well… I-I… I didn't see anything!"

"Really? People told me stories about this place…" Lucy chirped, ironically.

"A-and what did they tell you?!"

"I don't know… things… but then again, why were you here? What did you want to see?" she continued with amusement.

"Nothing at all! There was a lad that told that he wanted to bring you here, so I wanted to check what he meant! And you should really thank me for checking up on this place! People do strange things here and…" Natsu's voice trailed off again. He felt his cheeks on fire as soon as he remembered what he saw there a few moments before. The boy and the girl who were there making out – they were definitely younger than him! – and they seemed to be having a lot of fun, but… the things they were doing… really made him feel strange. Dirty. Even though he felt something catching fire deep within his chest as soon as he saw – and heard – them.

"You know…. I didn't really understand what was going on there, but… I'm happy that you weren't there with that drunken lad, Lucy." Natsu said, almost admitting that truth to himself rather than to her.

"Of course I wouldn't be here with someone who's not you" Lucy sighed, lying down on a soft pile of straw. Her blond hair opened wide, mixing up with the golden straw. With a couple of fingers, she started to loosen the strings of the bustier of her medieval dress, letting her breast expand a little.

Natsu gulped. "What are you doing?!"

"Uff… it's hard to breathe with this thing squeezing my chest…" Lucy complained.

Natsu scratched his neck: why was he feeling so nervous? He had seen Lucy naked more times than he'd seen himself probably, but this time he felt terribly aware of every inch of her skin, every breath that she drew… it was that damn place, it smelt like something strange and intense: it wasn't the straw, it was something deeply human, a mix of sweat and human breaths.

A thunder roared in the sky once more and the hail turned into violent and deep rain.

"Seems it's gonna take a while" Lucy murmured as she patted the place by her side on the straw.

With slow steps, Natsu approached Lucy and lied down by her side, taking a big breath.

"What's wrong?" Lucy asked, turning on her side to face Natsu.

"I dunno know. I feel strange." Natsu admitted, turning towards Lucy and closing the distance between their faces.

Lucy joggled back, surprised by the sudden motion of the boy, but Natsu gently grabbed her by her wrist, stopping her.

"H-Hey Natsu… don't get strange ideas…"

"What strange ideas?"

"I mean… we're in the barn, so…"

"So?"

Lucy lost it "So I thought you wanted to do… things… that people do… in the barn… with me." Lucy's words almost disappeared in an embarrassed mumble.

"Oh." Natsu replied, widening his eyes. "But we can't do that stuff. Can we?"

"Of course we can…" Lucy sighed, desperately. He was so dense when it came to love stuff.

Natsu furrowed his brows, a serious look on his face.

"Then… maybe… we should try."

"WH—" Lucy was totally taken aback, but she couldn't reply anything because Natsu was already over her, his hands on the sides of her head, a serious but flustered look on his face.

He remained there for a few minutes, looking at her in the eye, uncertain what to do. He could feel a strong stab in the stomach, his heartbeat accelerated, his breath heavy and his throat parched. Lucy's breast went up and down quickly, following her quick, shuddering breaths.

Mesmerized by the vision of Lucy lying there, beautiful and excited, Natsu let his fingers slide slowly from her damp hair, along her neck, reaching the heat of her breast. There, he let his hand rest on her heart, right between her soft breasts – so hot. His breath quickened even more and he could feel a strange fire he never felt before burning deep inside of him.

"Lu—" he tried to call her name, but he was caught off guard when Lucy's arms wrapped around his neck, leading him down onto her.

"Natsu…" she breathed softly, rubbing her nose lightly against Natsu's.

Letting his senses take control, Natsu bent forward, letting his lips brush against Lucy's. He stayed there a few seconds, but then the image of the young couple making out a few hours before came back to his mind – their kisses were different. He then bit Lucy's lower lip, making her moan lightly. As her swollen lips opened, Natsu let his tongue slide in slowly, just to find Lucy's tongue ready to welcome him: the contact had been so thrilling, that his kiss became immediately deeper, more intense, almost violent. Lucy strengthen her grip around Natsu's shoulder, pushing him against her body, opening her legs to let him rest against her body: he was boiling. It felt like kissing a feverish flame, ready to burn everything around itself.

Natsu traced Lucy's lips with his tongue, causing her to moan and her nails to dig deep down his back. That mixture of pleasure and pain sent a jolt down the boy's spine, making him throb between his legs: their bodies attached to each other, Lucy could feel Natsu's manhood hard and big, pressing strongly against her lower belly – this could end baaaad.

Lucy started to protest, but she was soon hushed by Natsu's lips, which came back ravenously on hers. She felt his hands sliding up along her bare legs, pulling up her dress.

"Natsu, wait… ah!"

Natsu broke her intense kiss just to slide down her neck, reaching her soft and almost naked breasts to bite them lightly and to suck on them sweetly.

"Oh… my…" Lucy sighed, in ecstasy.

She didn't want her first time to be in a barn, but damn, she had been waiting for that moment all of her life. And Natsu was so damned good and hot in that moment, she would've never thought she would see him in that way. Lucy let her hand slide down against his chest, untying his belt just to let her tiny hand slid inside his pants, under his boxers, to meet something hot and decidedly big. Natsu let out a deep groan, followed by a "Lucy" which was more similar to a growl than to a human sound. She began to pump quickly with her hand, enjoying the intense expressions Natsu's face was making, hearing his sexy, hoarse moans, feeling his hot breath on her skin.

In that moment, the voices of some people started to speak loudly outside the door of the barn and Natsu and Lucy froze in place – the rain had stopped and people were coming out of the houses to continue with the party. They heard them say they needed straw to feed the animals.

Natsu quickly got up from the straw bed, taking Lucy's hand and helping her up. They started straightening their clothes and tidying their hair, just before the heavy door opened right in front of them.

"Oh!" the villager exclaimed "Have you tried out our barn, you two?" he smiled mischievously.

"Oh yeah! Thank you for the hospitality" Natsu smiled, as he took Lucy's hand and both ran outside the barn, smiling and laughing.

"I didn't know barns could be so interesting!" Natsu smiled, turning towards Lucy.

Lucy replied with one, bright and naughty smile. "But I think the inn's gonna be better. Just wait and see."