"Natsu..."
"Naaaatsuuuuu..."
Lucy poked the sleeping dragon slayer's cheek as he snored on. It was about six o'clock in the morning. Usually, she would let him sleep, but today, Lucy was too excited to wait for him to wake up. She had woken up about two hours earlier and hadn't been able to fall back asleep, she was so eager for today.
"Natsu, wake up." This time she shook him. Natsu groaned and his eyes squeezed shut.
"Natsu, I won't give you a good morning kiss if you don't get up."
Natsu smiled, and his eyes finally flickered open. They immediately found his wife, sitting up on the bed, looking over him.
"You really know what I love, don't you?" He sat up, and Lucy gave him a quick kiss on the lips.
"Yes. You love me," Lucy answered. They both laughed, then Natsu continued.
"But you know what I love even more than you giving me kisses?"
"Hmm... What?"
"Me giving you kisses." And Natsu pecked her on both cheeks, her forehead, her nose, and then her lips.
"Mmm... You really know what I love, too."
"Yup! Me!" The two laughed again. "So... Is there a reason you woke me up so early?"
"What, I can't just want to spend time with my husband?" Natsu gave her an incredulous look, and she continued. "Well, that's mostly the reason! I was excited to celebrate the holiday with you!"
"Huh? Holiday?" Natsu cocked his head. It definitely wasn't Christmas or either of their birthdays, nor was it Easter, Halloween, or Valentine's Day. It was June. What was in June?
"Yup! It's a holiday!" Lucy got up off the bed and went over to the closet. Standing on her tiptoes, she reached to the back of the high shelf. After a few seconds of reaching for it, she finally produced an item. It was a small box, wrapped in yellow paper and tied with a red ribbon.
"Happy Father's Day!" Lucy proclaimed, handing him the gift and sitting back down on the bed.
Natsu immediately began tearing into the box, always excited for presents, no matter what. "Thanks, Lucy! But, you know, I'm not a father!" Natsu gave her a grin, laughing at what he thought was a clever joke. Lucy just smiled warmly, tears threatening to prick her eyes.
Natsu took the lid off his present. Laying over the box's contents was a card with three words on it: 'yes you are'. Lifting up the paper, he read it over and over. Just a whisper, Natsu uttered a single word. "What?"
He didn't look at Lucy yet, but this didn't worry her; he was still processing it.
Natsu picked up the next thing in the box and looked at it. He held in his hands a tiny, pale yellow onesie. On the front of it was a cute picture of a red dragon and the words, "Baby Dragon." Natsu said, "What?", again, this time just above a whisper. He looked at Lucy for a moment with a blank expression, and she gave him a smile.
Setting the onesie aside after looking at it once more, he saw the last item. It was small, and it looked kind of like a thermometer. He had no clue what it was, but Natsu picked it up. There was a large oval on it with two red lines going down. Next to the oval were some words: 'Pregnant' and 'Not pregnant'. Next to each was a small picture of an oval. The first oval had two lines, and the second had only one. Natsu glanced between the bigger oval and the pictures until his mind finally caught up.
"What?" He looked up to Lucy when he said it, his voice cracking a bit. "You're..." Natsu's eyes darted to her stomach, and then back to her face. "We're..."
"Yes, Natsu! I'm pregnan-!" Lucy was interrupted when she was pulled into a hug, Natsu's strong arms wrapping around her and holding her. Now the joyful tears fell from her eyes. After a few moments, Natsu held Lucy's shoulders in front of him. He had a wide grin on his face and his eyes were bright.
"I can't believe it, Lucy! We have a baby! We're going to be parents! You're going to be a mom! I'm gonna be a dad! I'm-" Lucy giggled as the look of realization hit him. "Lucy, I'm gonna be a dad!"
"Yes, Natsu! We're starting our family!"
"I wonder if it's a boy or a girl! Or what kind of magic she or he will use! Well, if they become a wizard, anyways! With parents like us and the rest of the guild around, too, our kid'll be seriously powerful!" Lucy smiled as Natsu continued to chatter about their child and what the future had in store for them. Leaning forward, Lucy pressed a kiss to Natsu's cheek. When she leaned back again, Natsu leaned to her and gave her a kiss, as well, but on her lips. Then, Natsu shifted on the bed so that he was laying on his front, his head in front of Lucy's stomach. He kissed Lucy's belly, then started talking quietly.
"Hey, um, I don't know if you can hear me, but, well, I'm your daddy! You're inside your mommy right now! I love your mommy so much, and she loves me, and that's why you're here! We're both going to love you just as much as we love each other! Like I said earlier, that's a lot of love!" Lucy listened as Natsu continued to talk to their child. Right now, Natsu was promising to tell him or her about all the adventures that 'mommy and daddy' had had, starting with how they'd met. Lucy leaned back against the pillows at the head of the bed and closed her eyes, eventually lulled to sleep by Natsu's quiet, but excited, voice. After a while, they had both ended up falling asleep, which was probably a good thing, since neither one of them would be getting much of it in nine months.
A/N: Another one that I wrote a while ago and am just now getting uploaded. Now, before I get reviews saying stuff like, "How would Lucy know that Natsu would say that when she wrote the card?", just... I don't know. I just think Lucy would know her husband well enough to guess that Natsu would say "I'm not a father."
Anyways, I might continue this. It's definitely not a priority. It wouldn't be updated too often if I were to continue this.
~KatanaNoNeko