This is my first fanfiction, so I might have made some mistakes in the layout/edit and so on, so please let me know if you find any mistakes. In addition I am not a native English speaker, and am just a teenager, so my English probably contains a lot of mistakes, so if you spot some, please report them, no matter how small or insignificant it may look. And my finals are just coming up now, so I might not be able to update the next chapter, before a little while. For that I am begging for your forgiveness.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, it is owned by Hiro Mashima-sama, which is probably a great thing.

Chapter 1

It was just a regular day in Fairy Tail, meaning that Natsu Dragneel, the fire dragon slayer, and Grey Fullbuster, the ice mage was fighting, again, while the rest of the guild was spread out in the room. Gajeel Redfox was leaning up against a wall while eating some screws and nails, while he was discussing which mission he should do next with Panther Lily, his black exeed. Levy Mcgarden on the other hand was admiring the iron dragon slayer, much in annoyance to Lucy Heartifilia, as those two were supposed to discuss a really interesting book they had both read. Since Levy seemed to be occupied by admiring Gajeel, Lucy moved over to the bar, where Lisanna and Cana were sitting and chatting with Mirajane. Lucy had just herself down on the chair by the bar, when a yell sounded through the guild. "Oi, Lucy you wanna do a mission with me and Happy today!", Lucy turned around, and as she had expected, behind her stood a pink haired, fire dragon slayer with a huge grin plastered on his face. "Weren't you and Grey just fighting?", Lucy asked in order to avoid answering the dragon slayer's question, but of course the world was always against her. "Yeah, but I already won over Grey. Like who would really have a problem with beating up that ice princess?" Natsu asked while pointing over to where Grey lay, in a little crater with Juvia beside him. "You want a beating flame brain!"Grey yelled, momentarily forgetting his pain. "There is no point in beating up a weakling anymore, and I don't like to bully the weak either. In addition I and Lucy are going to do a mission now, right?" Lucy who was still frozen in shock over hearing Natsu decline a fight with Grey, couldn't muster up any logical excuse to drop the mission, and was therefore pulled along with him, after Natsu gave the details about the mission to Mira, who seemed to be in heaven. Since Natsu had asked Lucy to do a mission with just the two of them, and Happy was going to stay over with Charle and Wendy.

A few days later, the guild doors were smashed up and a pink haired dragon slayer walked in, with the blonde celestial mage walking in his wake. "Lucy, you have a visitor", Mira called, as she made her way over to the bar. As Lucy came closer to the bar, she saw that indeed there was a stranger in Fairy Tail today. The person was cloaked in a grey cloak and had the hood pulled over his face. "Hi I am Lucy", the celestial mage told the stranger. "Yeah, I know", a male voice said. "Um, did you want something?" Lucy asked unsure. "I did not exactly want something, it is rather that I have to do something." the stranger said. "Um, okay?" Lucy said, still unsure about why the stranger had seeked her out. The stranger sighed, and asked: "Do you still not remember me, Lucy?". "Perhaps I would, if you removed your cloak."Lucy said as her patience was running low .The man chuckled, "You still have your sarcasm intact, I see." Since Lucy wasn't making any other replies, he just got up and took of his cloak, which he let slide down to the floor, before he met Lucy's brown eyes.

"Do you remember me now, Lucy?" he asked. A confused look floated over Lucy's eyes, before it got replaced with a look of shock. "Kuro! Is that you?". The stranger's black eyes, lit up with happiness, before they dimmed down again, as his face became guarded. "Yes, it is me, Kuro, though today I am better known as Senshi Hakushaku (Hakushaku=Earl in Japanese)", he said with a sad smile. "You said that you had something to do here, right?", Lucy asked in order to change the subject from the gloom connected to the old Senshi-san's death. "Yeah, I came here to give you this", Kuro said, as he pulled up an unmarked wine bottle from inside his black cloak. "Oh, no thanks Kuro". "Why don't you want it? The shop owner said it was an excellent wine." "I just don't want it !" Lucy said as she turned to leave him alone at the bar. "Come on, please just a little sip. I paid really much for it, and bought it especially for you." he begged. "No thanks, Kuro" "But Lucy, please." Kuro continued to beg, while Lucy continued to ignore him. But after a quarter of his continually begging, she snapped. "I don't want that stupid wine of yours. Deal with it !", leaving a shocked Kuro. "I am sorry, if I sounded annoying, but if you don't want it at least give me a reason." "Lucy doesn't drink." a male voice said before Lucy could tell Kuro to leave the topic alone. Kuro turned around to look at the guy who had explained why Lucy didn't want to drink the wine, only to stare into a pair of onyx eyes in a slightly tanned face topped with pink hair. "That is bullshit, of course Lucy drinks, right?" he began to tell Natsu, before he turned to Lucy to confirm it. "Not anymore", Lucy whispered while looking at the floor, so her bangs covered her eyes. "Huh", the two males said brilliantly. "Just leave it alone. Did you want anything else, Kuro?" Lucy asked as the strength returned to her voice. "Wait, are you serious? Did you really stop to drink? Why?" "You better just leave it alone, Kuro" Lucy threatened. "Of course, but it is just that I bought this as part of a promise from back then. And it kind of breaks the whole point of that promise if you stopped to drink." "Oi, just leave it, Lucy said she didn't want to drink, right?! So stop trying to pressure her into drinking!" Grey yelled from the table, he and Erza were sitting at. However Lucy lifted her hand up in a gesture to stop in the direction of Grey, as she turned her attention back to Kuro. "You bought this, because of that promise we made back when we were kids?" she asked shocked. "Of course, or well I would have bought you a wine anyway, but then I wouldn't have pressured you to drink it as much as I am doing now." Kuro said. "But we made that promise when we were five years old or something, how did you remember it? It has been about 20 years since". (This story is set a year after Fairy Tail returned from the Tenrou Island, and Lucy is 17 years now).

"So what, be it 20 years or be it 200 years, I would never forget anything you told me, and especially not a promise I made to you, no matter what. I am just really sorry that I couldn't fulfill the promise earlier, as it already been a year since you guys returned from that island." "That is what you are worried about?!" Cana asked Kuro from one of the tables, were she were sitting with a barrel situated in front of her. "Uh, yes, what else?" "How the hell are your mind working. It has been 20 years, damnit! How the hell can you still remember a promise about bringing her a bottle of wine?!" "Huh, that was not the promise. It was about -" suddenly Lucy's hand clamped over Kuro's mouth making him stop talking. "It was about what you said exactly, Cana" Lucy hurriedly said, before taking her hand away from Kuro's mouth, and giving him a don't-you-dare-to-tell-her-about-it - look. "Well you heard her, that was our promise indeed, I was just mixing up a few things." Kuro said apologetically to Cana. "So do you want the wine?" Kuro asked Lucy as he turned his attention back to her. "Um-" Just as Lucy was going to answer his question another voice interrupted her. "Of course, she doesn't want your wine, you bastard!"

Lucy, Kuro and the rest of the guild turned their faces towards the door, where a two cloaked figures were standing. One of the cloaked figures rushed towards Lucy and Kuro, while the other on slowly walked over to Lucy and Kuro. "Of course she doesn't want your wine, right Gorgeous?" the cloaked man asked Lucy, while taking her hands in his own smooth one, making Lucy sigh. "Let me guess, you are Ichiro, and that is Yuki-chan making her way towards us, right?" "Yes! You must really care about us, if you get our names correct on the first try!" the man said as he took of the hood on his cloak, before he smirked in the direction of Kuro. "The only reason why she got you correct on the first try, was because you are the only one who would act as such a big playboy as you!" Kuro yelled in the blonde guys face, making his blue eyes turn into a frown. The third person had by this reached the bar, and was taking of her hood, revealing a brown haired girl with blue eyes and soft, slightly tanned skin. "I am sorry Lu-chan, I really tried my best to stop Ichiro-nii-san, but-" "I know Yuki-chan, I don't blame you at all for this mess. I was the one who brought this mess, so I should fix it". By hearing these words the two boys immediately turned their attention back to Lucy. "Lucy before you settle things, shouldn't you introduce your friends to us?" Mira asked. "Friends! what the hell are you talking about? She is going to be my finance!/She is my finance!" the two boys yelled at the same time, making them glare at each other.

The rest of the guild was by this time completely shocked. "What the hell!"Cana yelled, making the frozen guild members come back to their senses. "What these two bakas don't have enough brain capacity to say, is that, the guy over there is Kuro Senshi, and the blonde guy over here is Ichiro Kami, my older brother, and I am Yuki Kami. We are all Lucy's old childhood friends, and have known eachother since we were born almost. In addition I and Ichiro-nii-san are Lucy's cousin, cause our father was Layla-sama's younger brother. Which technically cancels Ichiro's plan of making her his finance." Yuki told Mira. "So that means that Kuro-san is Lucy's finance, right?"Mira asked. "There is no way in hell Lucy would marry such an idiot. She was even given a chance of marrying him, but obviously the single thought of marrying such a fool, gave her such a fright that she ran away from her home, and stayed away for years." Ichiro said matter of factly. "Wait a moment now! You mean Lucy ran away from her home, because she had to marry that guy?!" Levy asked shocked. "Yes" Ichiro stated proudly. "What the hell is wrong with you, girl !"Cana yelled in Lucy's direction. "What the heck was going on in your mind when you ran away from a marriage with such an handsome guy. Slightly tanned, muscular, black and soft hair, smoldering black eyes which pierces your soul, what more do you seek in a man, Lucy?! By the look you had when you told about the marriage you were supposed to attend, I got the impression that the groom was some old, perverted guy. The exact opposite of Kuro here! What the hell!" Cana yelled to Lucy, while the female guild members made sure Lucy heard that they all agreed with Cana. "What the hell does that douchebag have that I don't have?!" an angered Ichiro asked no one in particular. "Nothing, you look pretty handsome too, it is just that we are mad that Lucy obviously are really dense, and we have now confirmed that her denseness were something she has had for a long time, at least since she met you two male gods" Mira said as she eyed the two males, which made Elfman's eyes water, as his poor nee-san was seduced by these two strangers. "Then why won't we let Lucy decide who is the better guy?", Levy asked cunningly, which made Gajeel smirk. "Good idea!"Kuro said, "Ok, then what about fulfilling the original promise?"Ichiro said as he put another wine bottle beside Kuro's unmarked wine bottle.

"Um...I don't think that is such a good idea." Yuki said eyeing the two bottles. "Why not?" Ichiro asked curiously. "I will keep the promise, if you promise to not being sad or feeling guilty because of it." Lucy said slowly. "Of course not!" the two males yelled as they walked at least 15 metres from the bar and each other. So they formed a triangle, with Lucy in one peak, and the two males in each a corner. "Lu-chan I still don't think this is such a good idea. What if-" "Stop being such a worrywart Yuki"Kuro yelled over to her, as she was still standing beside Lucy at the bar. "Mira can you give me a really big mug?"Lucy asked while her eyes were covered by her bangs. "Sure" Mira said as she handed Lucy a mug which could contain at least half a litre of liquid. Lucy put the mug on the bar table before opening the two wine bottles (these are small bottles, containing about 0.25l wine each). After sniffing at them she made up her decision and took one bottle in each hand, before pouring it all into the mug, making both the kinds of wine mix with each other. "Oi, Lucy you sure about this?" a worried Natsu asked. "Sure, what could go wrong?" Lucy asked as she stared at the mug. "A lot of things." Yuki whispered to herself, knowing that once Lucy makes up her decision it would be completely impossible to make her change her opinion about it. However Natsu heard it, thanks to his dragon slayer magic. So Yuki and Natsu was just watching as they saw Lucy make one of the greatest mistakes in her life.

In chapter 3 or 4 I will need a punishment for Natsu, Gray, Kuro and Ichiro, so if any of you have any ideas, let me know through the reviews. Thanks for reading the first chapter.