Disclaimer: Fairy Tail is not mine. It's Mashima-sensei's.
5.47am – Scarlet household.
It's a nice...nice morning at the Scarlet's household. The sound of birds chirping, people waking up from their sleep, certain Scarlet was preparing breakfast. Indeed it was a nice morning...
"KYAHHHH! STOP SNEAKING INTO MY BED YOU PERVERT!"
Or not...
Natsu Dragneel, upon hearing the scream woke up from his slumber, "What's the ruckus in the morning Lucy, I'm sleeping here," he scratching his still sleepy eyes while the blond in front of him was fuming with anger.
A blue feline popped out besides him, yawning and complaining that the blond was being noisy.
"Lucy. Stop being noisy. People trying to sleep here," he mumbled. Happy was really sleepy right now. Being a cat, a talking one at that, he didn't need to wake up early.
"This is coming from someone who sleeping in MY BED without permission and sexually harassed ME in the process!"
Natsu, feigning ignorant gave a wide grin and laugh heartily, "Hahaha...but it is sooo comfortable sleeping on your bed," and both he and Happy continued, "Right?"
Their innocent facade however, snapped the blond-beauty.
"THE HELL WITH THAT?!" Before Lucy Heartfilia kicked them out from her room.
6.05am – Outside of Lucy's room
Natsu rubbed his aching butt resulted from Lucy's kick.
"Whoa, don't tell me you sneaked into Lucy's bed again?" A dark-haired male appeared while looking bewildered at Natsu's behaviour.
Natsu twitched, "Gray...," he acknowledged irritatingly.
Gray Fullbuster seemed that he just finished his morning jog while having no shirt on and apparently, he didn't have any pants either.
"Huhhh...so what? She's my sister," Natsu pointed out.
"Are you stupid? She's at that age that prohibits her annoying brother to sneak in her bad," Gray rebutted.
"Says who ice freak?"
"Says me flame bastard!"
"Grrr..."
"Grrrr..."
"And can I ask what just happened here," A menacing voice interrupted their spat.
"Eeeeep...Erza nee-sama," both lad said in unison while linking their arms shoulder to shoulder like two inseparable magnet.
"We just having a discussion," Natsu said.
"Yeah. It's not like we are bickering or something," Gray said.
"We are totally...,Natsu initiated"
"...in a good relationship," Gray continued.
"Aye!"
Erza Scarlet looked at the boys with critical eyes while the boys were already sweating profusely.
"Heh. It's good that you're getting along so well," Erza smiled.
"AYE!"
"Stop stealing my signature guys," Happy pouted.
Same old...same old...
Lucy chose the right time to open the door, all prepared to the school.
She repositioned her already neat ribbon at her white shirt collar and dust off imaginary dirt on her patterned skirt. Her cream-coloured sweater was nicely covered her curved body.
"Good morning Erza," she chirped to the red-haired beauty who was ready with her school uniform just like Lucy; except she wore a navy blue blazer and a red tie instead of ribbon.
"Good morning Lucy," Erza acknowledged.
"Morning Gray," she greeted before chuckled, "..your cloth.."
"Gahhh...when did this happen?"
Then Lucy turned to Natsu to proceed to her usual greeting before she remembered what did that guy did. Thus, she turned around without saying anything.
"Wait, greet us too!" Both Natsu and Happy exclaimed.
6.45am – Dining area
Lucy served them tea excluding Natsu before took her seat next to Erza to proceed with her breakfast.
"What happened here?" Erza, curious with Lucy's behaviour asked.
"Huh, flame-brain here sneaked into Lucy's bed last night," Gray answered while pointed at Natsu with his thumb. Natsu growled.
"Natsu, you cannot just sneak in a woman's room even he was your sister. And don't tell me crap like Lucy's bed was comfortable because we already gone through the hassle exchanging your beds and even rooms countless time," Erza started lecturing like a good elder sister does.
But for that, Natsu cracked, "What the heck?!"
"This is totally bogus! Why am I the only one guilty?" He spoke in one breath before continued,
"Erza, you always sneak in when Lucy took her bath and always rummaging her wardrobe! Gray, aren't you also always sneaked in and gone through her things to the point of reading her ongoing novels? And why are you saying like we are real siblings? You know..."
"NATSU..."
Everyone flinched when Erza uttered the name with a most venomous tone that they ever heard
"EEEPPP!"
"GO PREPARE FOR SCHOOL NOW!"
And with that, both Natsu and for some reason, Gray, scattered towards the bathroom leaving Lucy and Erza. Happy was already shivering while hiding his face on Lucy's bosom.
"Hehe...," Lucy chuckled.
The ready-to-murder Erza reverted back to her old self.
"Lucy?"
"Thank you Erza but please forgive Natsu. He just said that on the spur of the moment. You know that among us, he is the one who treasured our relationship the most," Lucy said while smiling. Seeing the warmth reflected from her eyes, Erza smiled back.
"Thank you for being a sister that I will never have and thank you for adopting us," Lucy continued while holding Erza's hand and gripped it slightly, showing her sister how she appreciated her.
Yes, indeed they were adopted; by none other than Erza Scarlet herself. This all happened seven years back.
The seven years back – THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES
The Scarlet Home was an orphanage founded by Erza's uncle; Rob. Among the orphans that lived there was Erza herself, Natsu and Gray. Lucy only came three months before its closure.
At first they were many orphans and they lived like a family. But years passed by and almost all of them was adopted. Fate and world's metamorphose was a cruel thing because the house's debt keep on pilling. They were disturbed by loan-sharks everyday and Natsu would always fight them until he was terribly wounded.
Things got a lot worse when Rob fall ill and died a month later. Erza struggled really hard. She tried to search people who could adopt the remaining children and with Rob's influence, the people there were more than happy to adopt the children.
Then, three children left. One of them refused an adoption till everyone got adopted. Two of them were too destructive to be adopted.
Thus, Erza took on herself to adopt them.
The three excluding Erza, without saying were Natsu, Gray and Lucy. Well, Happy was considered a pet at that time. He was already there when Lucy came to the orphanage.
Thus their name changed but still maintaining their family name.
Erza sold the orphanage and by luck, the money was enough to pay all the debt.
Then, Lucy came to her with a secret and with the secret; they managed to start a new life in a new town.
Oh, and how Erza managed to adopt them? Let's don't pry much into that.
7.20am – Current time,Scarlet's household
"Urghh...help me with my tie here," Gray grumbled, fondling unsuccessfully his blue-coloured tie.
Erza smiled, "You're so helpless Gray, let me hel..."
"Aaahh Erza, I will fix it," Lucy interrupted Erza. Thank goodness she was standing nearby Gray to immediately fix his tie.
It's not that, she didn't want Erza to help Gray but there's one time she did that and Gray almost died from choking.
Just remembering it made her shudder. Really, how could a catastrophe happened just from someone nice intention to fix others' tie?
"You llikkeess him..."
""Shut up Happy! And stop rolling your tongue like that!""
"Haha...you're so lame Gray. You don't even know how to fix a tie?" Natsu mocked while putting his favourite scarf over his shoulder. He wore patented pants and white, short-sleeved shirt. Of course without a tie.
"Aye."
"SAY THAT WHEN YOU ACTUALLY WEARING ONE," Gray rebutted.
Lucy just laughed half-heartedly, "I hope this time the tie will stay longer around your neck," she mumbled.
And oh her wish was fulfilled for Gray never untied it apart from discarding all his clothes.
"WEAR YOUR CLOTH GRAY!"
7.45am – Fairy High
"Good morning."
"Yo whatsup!"
"Kyaaa...how are you..."
"Lucy, as usual, what a nice body~"
"Yes..yes..."
It's always like this whenever the Scarlets minus Erza (because she's came early for her student council work) came to school.
Gray was adjusting his bag over his shoulder when a gloomy atmosphere passed him with an almost inaudible, "Good Morning."
Shocked at first, Gray looked at the owner of the gloomy atmosphere who was already passed him and grinned.
"Good morning to you too Juvia," said he.
Juvia Lockser turned with a really red face before speed-walking into the building.
"Whoa, isn't that Lokser-san from my class Gray?" Lucy tilted her head towards the almost sprinting girl.
"...talk about gloomy," she remarked.
Gray just chuckled at her comment before replying, "Yeah, but you know Lucy, she's actually pretty cute."
"C...cu...cute!"
Did she heard him right?
Gray never stated a girl cute even though he thought that. Well, Lucy's an exception since sometimes, Gray would compliment her.
But now he just leisurely commented a girl cute?!
It's true Juvia Lockser had a good body proportion. True, her short hair looked good on her. True that her white, pale skin made her desirable but, did Gray just admitted all that in his 'cute' statement?!
The shocked and over thinking Lucy snapped from her train of thought when she realized what it meant and automatically covered her grin with her right hand.
"You llliiiikkkeee her," she said slowly that only Gray would hear.
"Shut up and stop talking like Happy and you're annoying," Gray shouted.
Meanwhile, Natsu was really irritated. Not only Lucy ignored him for the whole morning but now she's acting all buddy-buddy with Gray. Even now, she's grinning like idiot and kept poking on annoyed Gray using her elbow. But she ignored him completely.
What was so wrong in sneaking into her bed? He did it almost every night. No offense but she never snapped like that.
Natsu could hear himself growled. He's the one Lucy would greet every morning. He's the one would taste Lucy's tea. His tie that Lucy would fix everyday (if he wore one) and he's the one that would made Lucy laugh fist thing in the morning.
Ok. He's being biased there. Lucy would always greet all of them, served them her tea, fixed their ties, and laugh at their antics. However today, he's not in the equations at all.
He meant, come on...even Happy was pardoned!
The irritated feeling kept pounding his every patience when he looked Gray and Lucy laughed together until...
"Good morning Natsu."
Talk about a major llliiikkkeesss...
Natsu let out a blessed grin, "Good morning Lisanna."
Natsu looked excitedly at Lisanna Strauss that walked besides him.
"How are you this morning?"
Lisanna just gave out a chuckled, "Natsu, we just met yesterday. Don't tell me you missed me already?"
Natsu could feel the blood rushed over his head and turned sideways, "Wh...what? That's common etiquette to ask that kind of question aren't they?"
Lisanna just laugh, "Sorry...sorry...my morning was great. So, have you finish your homework? "
"Ack!"
"Hahaha...it's okay, you can copy mine later."
Natsu smiled but halted when he spotted both of his siblings. Those two covered their grin with their palm.
'He llliiikkeess her'
Oh great. Now everyone was infected by Happy.
8.00am – Class 2-F
"Damn you Natsu! You put thumbtack on my seat aren't you!" Gray clashed his head against Natsu's.
"The heck! You dare to put ices on my seat HUH!" Natsu returned the head force.
"Why you tabasco otaku?!"
"What did you say yuki-onna?!
""GRRR""
"They're at it again," Cana Alberona, Gray's classmate sighed.
"What a man!" Elfman Strauss, Lisanna's brother and another Gray's classmate exclaimed enthusiastically.
Lucy sighed, how could they still fighting even though they were in different year and different classes?
Usually, classes were divided by floors in Fairy High, but miraculously, both her and Natsu's class located besides Gray's.
And currently, the brawl happened in the 2nd year class and Lucy didn't even know how she tagged along with Natsu to get even with Gray.
The bell rang snapped Lucy from her reverie and she automatically pulled Natsu by ear and dragged him away.
"Class are starting! Come Natsu," she dragged her adoptive salmon-haired brother.
"And Gray, put on your cloth," she pointed out to Gray who was already lost his uniform except his tie. Really, she never understood how Gray managed to discard his clothes so perfectly.
Of course both Gray and Natsu were not satisfied with the interference and they heartily objected her action.
"You're no fun Lucy."
"I still didn't get my revenge."
"You go back first, I'll skip class."
"Natsu, you lazy a**."
A vein popped out of Lucy.
"I'm more than happy to call out Erza to watch your 'FRIENDLY' interaction," she said finally with poisonous voice and received,
"Eeeepp...AYE," from both Natsu and Gray.
8.10am – Class 1-D
They managed to reach their seat right before the teacher came in.
Natsu looked at Lucy who still didn't look him in the eye.
"Lucy, stop getting angry. It kind of awkward since we're in the same class and all," Natsu begged.
"Hmph."
It's not that Lucy wanted to ignore Natsu forever. It's not like her to make it a big deal that Natsu sneaked into her bed at night. Heck, Natsu had been sneaking in her bed a lot more than he was sleeping on his own bed.
But that morning, she woke up with the view of Natsu's chest. She was using his arms as the pillow and the very same hand was placed behind her head as if he was stroking her hair before he fall asleep. His other hand wrapped neatly around her waist pulling her closer. Basically, she woke up with Natsu HUGGING her and she was damn sure she was NUZZLING on his neck before she gained her consciousness.
So, right now; she was more embarrassed than angry and of course she couldn't look at Natsu straight in the eye.
It's fortunate that Natsu was dumb since he immediately shifted his concern towards Lucy into ogling towards Lisanna.
3.30pm- Fairy High's Kyuudo club
"Wahhh...he did it again," a member said in awe.
"That was so cool," a group of male thought out loud.
"Good job Scarlet," the club's vice president, Bisca Mulan praised while looking sarcastically at the awed juniors.
Gray just snickered while looked back at his target. Six arrows were released and not one missed the bulls-eye. Hmph. As expected.
His eyes coincidently clashed with Juvia who was the manager of Kyudo club before she ran her gaze towards her note.
Cute as always.
3.30pm – Fairy High's Judo club
"I'm all fire up!"
"He's so strong," a nearby spectator claimed.
"Is he a monster?" another one commented.
"Impressive as always Scarlet," Laxus Dreyer, the club instructor praised.
"That's enough Natsu, you already beat up all of the members."
"Tch, you guys are no fun. Gray is more fun than you guys," Natsu spat.
Natsu could see Lisanna laughed at him and his heart fluttered in happiness.
3.30pm – Fairy High's Kendo Club
"She's strong and beautiful as always."
"I heard she also a member of Aikido club."
"She's the ace of Kendo club after all."
"You are always top notch huh Scarlet?" Freed Justine, the red-haired female opponent that just lost, praised.
"Good work Erza," Mirajane Strauss came with her bright smile that melted the entire male on its vacant.
"And now we need you at Aikido club," and with a smile, she dragged Erza away.
3.40pm – Fairy High's Library
"You're siblings are something huh 'Scarlet-san'?" Levy McGarden commented while looking out of the window.
Apparently, Fairy High's Library was located strategically whereas one could see the Kyudo, Kendo and Judo clubroom which situated not far from each other.
It's not that she could see the Scarlets in action, but based on the way the spectators that were outside of the building reacted, she just knew.
Not far from the window, Lucy sat, crossing legs while reading a book about Celestial Studies.
She looked at Levy while wearing a warm smile, "Heh, they are just monsters."
"And I think the Strauss siblings were more amazing; I mean Mirajane is the school's idol and a member of student council, Elfman is strong and on par with Natsu in terms of Judo, and Lisanna..hehe...she's just too adorable and everyone's sweetheart isn't she," Lucy continued.
She only received a cheerful laugh from her friend before they heard a munching noise. Lucy automatically grabbed a paper holder and threw it towards the noise.
"Ouch! What your deal huh Scarlet?!"
A delinquent looking guy appeared. He wore the school's uniform and had a long hair with piercings adorned his face
"Would you stop eating the books Redfox?! What are you? A goat?!"
Gajeel Redfox just gave an inaudible mutter from Lucy's comeback.
Levy came and scowled at the sight, "Mou...and why are you not attending the Judo club. Are you skipping?"
Gajeel looked at Levy and immediately turned his head to the side, pink flooding over his cheeks, "Instructor Laxus forbid me to be in the same training hall with Natsu," he looked at Lucy, "yeah..that brother of yours," as if implying the obvious, "because last week, we cause a great damage to the training hall after fighting each other. Tomorrow, it's my turn to attend the club. "
At that, Levy laughed and Lucy sighed.
"What's that?" Levy asked crouching herself from too much laughing, "I swear that both of you are soooo stupid."
Lucy realized the once pissed off Gajeel suddenly smiled upon looking a laughing Levy.
'Oh..he lliiikkkeeess her.'
7.30pm - Scarlet's Household
Both Erza and Lucy were humming at the kitchen. Lucy's cooking dinner while Erza was baking a cake. When the cake was done, Erza showed a disappointed face because the cream was overly done before she and Lucy looked at each other and laughed.
Meanwhile Natsu and Gray hanging something that looked like decorations across the living room, while arguing of course. And along the way, Gray lost his garments. Erza and Lucy showed up bringing the dishes and while they were preparing the table, Natsu shoulder bumped with Lucy's.
Involuntarily, Natsu flashed a sad face when he thought that finally he could look Lucy in the eyes after being ignored since morning. Maybe Lucy knew what he was thinking or maybe she decided to forgive him; she held out her hands towards Natsu.
Shocked, Natsu hesitantly reciprocated Lucy's handshake and he let out a big, shy grin after looking at her smile. They shouldn't fight on this special day after all.
Happy on the other hand, was sleeping soundly after spending hours playing a video game at Natsu's room. Looking at his lazy partner, Natsu grinned and carried him to the living room.
"Hey Happy, wake up! Lucy cooked a special dinner today," Natsu said.
"Yeah Happy you lazy cat. The day is not over yet," Gray smirked.
"Umm...what's wrong guys? Is it already dinner?" Happy, finally awoke, was rubbing his eyes. He was in disbelieve when he opened his eyes.
They're a lot of fish-shaped decorations across the room, a big cake in the middle of the table, and his favourite dishes were there.
Happy looked at Erza, Natsu, Gray and Lucy. His families were grinning before popping confetti out of a cone-shaped props.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY!"