User blog comment:Crazylittlefreakgirl/Fairy Tail Official Pairings?/@comment-24286925-20131226023643

Well that's natsu's character though. He's not supposed to be easily seduced or easily head over heels. The only time he's shown anything besides friendship to the female species is when he blushed (as a 7 year old) when lisanna asked about marriage. since then, i can't remember a single time. If this is a reason as to why nalu might not happen, why is hiro even developing Nalu then? Why is he strengthening lucy's feelings for natsu, if he doesn't plan on him reciprocating them? The fact is, besides maybe jerza, Nalu is the strongest pairing on the show, and hiro's not making it cannon yet as too keep the other lucy and natsu pairings fan's reading and buying the manga. Same exact thing kishi is doing with naruhina and narusaku. Keep in mind, i dont shit anything besides nalu, because it's so painfully obvious that there going to be end game. Nalu is the most supported by the manga, fans, and hiro him self. There's no debating it. when natsu get's development, I imagine he'll also get romantic development as well. It's also been confirmed by hiro in an extra in one of the volumes, that natsu went too peak on lucy (and gray juvia) specifically in the hot springs episode. The interview then goes on to ask things like "has natsu ever seen you naked" with lucy replying with "...Yes...I'm so embarrased!". So that right there shows that natsu does clearly have clear attraction towards lucy. He also blushed when he saw her in the hotsprings in chapter 355. That could have been due to the heat, or the fact that there was a bunch of naked women around, but you can take that at face value if you want. Natsu's not an idiot. Neither is hiro. He knows there's a huge push for couples in his show and that it'd make him more money, there's absolutely no reason for him to end it off in friendship. It doesn't matter if this isnt a romance manga. Look at DBZ, the grandfather of all shounen, it had pairings out the waazoo. Look at inuyasha, rave master, naruto (sooner or later), Nanatsu no taiza i(seven deadly sins) etc... It being a shounen doesn't mean anything.