After a few months of natsu and lucy tag teaming on keeping Nashi feed well and changed regularly. Nashi was finally 7months old. Which meant she can sit on her own already surprisingly and grab stuff and even throw them! But she still drooled a lot and would get into itchy gum attacks because of her new teeth coming out.
Nashi was a very fast learner, she wanted to get up already and go on her own little missions she planned everyday! Like once, she had learned that she can roll over, so she waited till the 'beast' she named was asleep and began rolling out of his side on the floor. She made it to what seemed new territory, she was about to keep rolling to see how far she would go until the 'beast' stopped her with his giant arm. He dragged her back from the few feet she managed to advance. She began to kick out of frustration and began wailing in protest that she was being limited of her power.
As for lucy and natsu, they were very exhausted, this wasn't the only escape attempt there daughter made. She has set fire to a rug natsu had her on, as he tried putting them out with a wet cloth. (Which was stupid of him when he can obviously just eat them, but again he didn't want to eat something he made himself… since Nashi was his daughter that still counted as his fire.) So as he tried putting them out Nashi had rolled over on her stomach quickly, and crawled on her tummy to a shiny piece of metal that was hidden in a pouch. She had managed to grab it and sat with her back facing natsu, and began to teeth on it for a while fingering out what it was as she took it out of her drooling mouth, looked at it, then went back at sucking on the shiny thing. Of course when Lucy came in to help natsu put out the fire she saw she dropped her spiritual keys and screamed more as she saw Nashi somehow grab a hold of them.
Yes… Nashi was a lot of work babysitting most of the time… lucy blamed natsu for being such a rebellious kid when he was younger… natsu didn't protest as he just sighed in defeat for the first time in his life.
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"Okay Nashi, can you say? ... ma-ma?"
"Uuu- uuuu,... uuuu?"
"No Nashi, it's MA- MA…"
"UUUUU-UUUU!"
*natsu sighed in frustration but laughed as he can see his daughter was still learning. It was Lucy's birthday coming up soon and he wanted to surprise her with Nashi calling her 'mama' first. He just looked back at the crazy pink haired mini version of himself who drooled while looking at him sitting on the floor.*
"Nashi, you need to learn how to say mama, I want you to give your first words as a present to your
'MA-MA' understand?"
*Nashi somewhat understood what the 'beast' said as she shook her head to let him know she understood but ended up shaking her head in a 'no' gesture.*
*sigh* "it's ok Nashi we still got some months left till you learn, but who wants to play something fun with me today?"
*natsu was smart to not address who he was yet, he knew that with his luck Nashi would end up calling him 'papa' before 'mama'. It was just something he knew already would happen so for now he kept his identity to her a mystery he had assumed. If only he knew she already put him the lable of 'beast' because she saw him eat fire one night when he had thought she was asleep. She wasn't terrified but more like curious if she can eat the amazing light too! From then on she tried to get the 'beast' to engulf fire once more to get a good look at how he did it but failed to since she couldn't communicate with him well yet. Nashi was as smart or even smarter then the clumsy fire dragon slayer.*
"Natsu! I'm home~"
*lucy yelled into the home as she took off her boots and began taking off her coat she wore since the weather became cold outside and would occasionally snow in the morning. Also lucy and natsu decided that Lucy would take missions that where easy with grey and Erza to keep the house financially stable with plenty of food, baby necessities and water running. And natsu took the responsibility of taking care of Nashi while also protecting her in the well isolated house of his. This was only till Nashi could learn to walk, then they would begin building a new system to begin taking Nashi out and spending time with her*
"Aww how's my little baby girl been? Has daddy, been mean to you~?"
*lucy grabbed Nashi now as she lifted her in the air and rest her little bum on her side to talk to her.*
"WHAT! I'm not mean!! If anything i treat her like if she was my queen!"
*natsu boasted as he was incredibly offended by Lucy's sarcastic remark.*
"Uuu-Uuu…. UUU…uu… aaaagaaa!"
*Nashi babbled in excitement as she knew who Lucy was already too! She was her pouch from before who she labeled lucy as 'luce'… ironically she heard natsu call her luce a lot so she assumed her name was luce, but found out later her name was mama? She was very confused but decided she would first conquer on saying 'luce' first.*
"Aww you still don't know how to say mama? It's okay my little nashi-babashi! Mommy loves you very much and is happy with anything you do, as long as you behave and don't cause trouble that is."
*lucy squeezed Nashi's nose lightly as both giggled with amusement. Till natsu cleared his throat to make his presence known again*
"Welcome home luce…. And where's my kiss?"
*natsu asked bitterly as he didn't like Nashi stealing his thunder from luce.*
"Oh! Sorry.. hi natsu *peck* now let's go upstairs Nashi and get ready to go to bed now… I'll tell you about my day today, ~~~~"
*lucy couldn't be heard anymore as natsu sat on the couch downstairs and sighed. How long has it been? 7 months? No it felt like a year already since he hasn't slept with Lucy in the same bed. Lucy had a fear that he would squish little Nashi on the bed since she refused to sleep alone in her crib.at first natsu didn't mind sleeping on the couch… but weeks became months. Now he felt like Lucy was starting to fall out of love with him, it made his heart ache at night but when she would leave and give Nashi back to him. He was reminded of her love whenever he saw Nashi's adorable face. But tonight was the last straw, she didn't even acknowledge his presence at all today only for a few words here and there. He and Lucy needed to talk…*
Lucy had finished bathing herself and Nashi together in the bathtub upstairs and had changed Nashi into some comfortable clothing now as she saw a sleeping Nashi stretch her tiny body over the big bed. Lucy felt like she had everything in life she wanted now. As she was about to climb into bed now she heard a faint knock, she knew it was natsu but it was rather odd he would even knock in the first place. She made her way to the door to open it as she saw a half naked natsu in only a towel around his waist and wet hair. Lucy sucked in a sharp breath as she saw natsu look like he was planning for her reaction to jump him at that moment but she stood her ground and began talking
"What's up natsu? Is something wrong?"
"Lucy…"
"Hmm?"
"Lu~ucy…"
"If you want to talk let's move from here I don't want Nashi to wake up.."
*lucy took natsu's wrist as she didn't close the door to the bedroom all the way incase Nashi cried out while they talked. Lucy felt that something was off with natsu since a few months back, she didn't question it since natsu never seem to appear bothered by whatever it was. She let it go slowly as days passed but today she sensed a strange tension when she came home. She would oftenly talk to natsu for a while after she came home about her day while he carried Nashi but today was too tense to pretend nothing was wrong, that's why she decided to take Nashi with her upstairs as a excuse to get away from the tension natsu was emitting even by his reply from earlier she can see natsu was annoyed about something. Finally they made it at the bottom of the stairs as she sat natsu on the couch and she went to go retrieve a towel to dry his hair.*
"Tell me what's wrong natsu… I've known you for 3-4 years max… I know when something is clouding your mind.."
*she softly dried his hair in a massaging way. She could feel his wet hair become damp as the towel absorbed the water and felt him shudder.*
"Lucy… do you still love me?"
*lucy was taken a back as that question hit her, why would he ask something so obvious that even a person on the street would known that she still loved him to death.*
Lucy took too long to respond back which made her flinch when her world turned upside down…. Natsu had gotten up grabbed her from her waist and supported her neck and head as he brought her over the couch into his lap. She was upside down now laying on his lap as she looked up to meet his eyes burning in a passionate golden haze color. She saw him clench his jaw studying her facial expressions as he closed his eyes, he took a big breath in and when he opened them once again she saw the midnight black eyes she always knew. She took a breath in now too as she saw this was a serious question he had asked her… he was losing trust in her love for him which broken something inside her but also made her want to fix this in the only way she knew he would understand.
"Natsu… I still love you, and I know you still love me, but if your going through something tell me now… that's why I'm still here, I'm here to help you.."
*she snaked a arm behind his head as she tangled her fingers into the roots of his hair as she got a good grip on him and brought him down to kiss her. She bit his bottom lip as she closed her eyes and felt him gasp and take light breaths as they exchanged kisses. Soon she felt his burning fingers grab onto her clothing and he began to arch his body over her. She wanted to keep going and make love to him tonight to fix this lost heat they forgotten about, but was caught off as natsu got up abruptly and placed her gently on the couch while he stood up and paced on the opposite side of where the couch was.*
Natsu placed his hands on his hips as he kept pacing the back and forth trying to calm himself down. It was too soon to start this hunger again. He knew if he would have left lucy to keep going he would be plunged into a state of no turning back. He wanted this more then her, but this wasn't why he wanted her to come downstairs to talk. He just wanted to have a nice conversation about where they stand, and if she can let him sleep with her and Nashi now. He truly just wanted to sleep in a comfortable bed again, but hearing lucy return or reassure him that she still was very in love with him still. Plus the kids was just like stabbing him into his abdomin were it began to ignite the old flame when they barely began dating and 'kissing'. ….
Yea… he was fucked now….