Natsu woke up and stretched his arms out as he felt the warmth of the body that was wrapped around his chest. He rolled over and wrapped his arms around her. He still couldn't believe that he had her back. It had been almost a month now since he had broken down in front of Lucy, and things had been slowly falling back into place. Of course, he still had the ring he had shown Gray that day in the quad, but he was too afraid to ask her yet. He didn't want her to feel like he was rushing anything out of feeling guilty, or of fear that she might leave again. So he held onto it. Waiting for the right time.

He laid there watching her as she slept. She was so beautiful. Her golden yellow hair laid gently around the pillow framing her beautiful face. Her cheeks held the most beautiful shade of light peach, and her lips were so luscious and pink. He leaned forward, unable to resist the urge to kiss those lips.

She woke to the warmth of his lips against hers. Like looking at sleeping beauty he watched as her eyes fluttered open slowly. Her brown eyes mixed with the sunlight from the window made her eyes shine a beautiful caramel color. He loved looking into those eyes.

He moved his lips away from hers and smiled down at her, "Good morning, Princess."

She gazed up at him as a mischevious grin spread across her face, "You know my love, you could have brushed your teeth before you decided to make out with me."

"Ooohh.." Natsu clutched his chest and rolled onto his back. "You're killing me gorgeous!" He dramatized laughing at her. She reached over and gently punched him in the arm.

"Yeah, well if that was all it took to kill you; you'd have been dead a long time ago." She laughed at him.

"Is that so?" He asked climbing on top of her, pinning her wrists back with one hand, and hovering his other hand above her. She looked up at him as her eyes got big.

"Natsu Dragneel, you better not!" She yelled as she wriggled beneath him trying to escape from his grasp. "I swear to God I'll..."

"You'll what?" He asked with a big toothy grin and deviousness in his eyes.

"No Natsu!" She screamed as his hand came down on her ribs and he started tickling her. "AAaaaagghhhh! I.. Can't... Stand... You... Natsu!" She screamed out between laughs still wriggling her legs beneath him trying to get free.

"What was that?" He asked laughing, "You love me?" He winked at her. She blushed as she tried to look at him through teary eyes. "If you want me to stop, say it" He grinned.

"NO... I.. will.. never... say.. it!" She managed to get the words out between giggles and gasps for air.

"Say it!" He grinned even wider and moving her hands so that they were now pinned under his legs, giving him a second free hand to tickle her with. "You better say it! I can do this all day!" He laughed out and threw both of his arms in the air in a muscle man pose. He bent back over and started tickling her even more ferociously.

"Natsu.. I... have... to... pee!" She huffed out.

"Then you better say it," He tickled her even harder. "Come on, Princess." He grinned at her, "Say it"

"Okay... okay...!" She screamed out. He stopped allowing her to say it. She took a breath, closed her eyes, blushing hard, and mumbled out quietly " you are the king of the dragons.. my merciful Fire God Natsu..." She paused and blushed even harder. He really did love seeing her blush and anything he did that embarrassed her made that happen, so it was a win for him. He rolled off of her laughing and sat up on the bed.

"You look so good pink like that!" He said still laughing.

She stood up from the bed and threw a pillow at him, knocking him off the bed with a loud thump, before heading off to the bathroom. "Shut up!" She yelled back.

He sat up from the floor. "What do you have in these pillows, rocks?" He asked looking at the pillow questionably.

"Possibly," She said grinning at him as she walked out of the bathroom drying her hands with a towel.

"I know what we're going to buy today," he mumbled under his breath tossing the pillow back on the bed.

"What was that?" She asked as she walked over to the bed and leaned over it giving him a little kiss. He grabbed her wrists pulling her over the edge, and down on top of him. He circled his arms around her waist. "Come on Natsu! Let me up." She said pushing on his chest. "I want breakfast."

"I do too," he winked at her. She blushed again as he pulled her face down to his and kissed her deeply. She resisted at first, but quickly sank into the kiss. He could feel her body growing hot against his as she wrapped her arms around his neck. He deepened the kiss using his tongue to enter her mouth. She gladly parted her lips allowing him to overtake her mouth. They stayed like that until eventually they both needed to come up for air.

She looked down at him with a hunger in her eyes that he had seen a thousand times since that first time she had offered herself to him. How can I keep resisting her? He asked himself. He wasn't exactly afraid, but it was the fact that he loved her so much, that made it hard for him to take that step with her. He didn't want to do anything that he felt might hurt her. He moved his hands away from her waist and sat her up. Plus, he wanted to tease her just a little bit longer. He looked at her with a smirk, "So what is for breakfast?"

She slapped his arm as she stood up, "I'm having an omelete," she responded with that sexy smart ass tone he loved, "You're having cold cereal."

"I can't wait." He smiled facetiously.