In all honesty this should not be a surprise. She knew him too too well and after what happened in the other world he was intending to make it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that yet him and Lucy were now an item and no one could do anything about it.

"Pretty much. It's actually pretty tame right now since no one's brawling yet." Natsu grinned as if he'd said the most natural thing ever.

If Lucy expected to be rescued, she would be sorely disappointed since he knew the girls would have nothing of it.