Supermarket

Maybe working in a supermarket with your closest friends isn't a good idea, especially if you keep getting distracted by your co-workers. Nalu. supermarket!AU

"Hey pinkie, mind giving me a hand?"

"What did ya call me, ink-head?"

A crashing sound and a string of curses resounded through the empty aisles of the supermarket, and soon came the sight of hundreds of cans rolling around the area. It was way to early in the morning for this.

A sigh, the blonde behind cashier number 4 rolled her eyes and got off her seat, before a tall red head briskly walked past. Another sigh, and Lucy Heartfilia sat back down on her tiny, backless swivel chair.

"Forget it, Lucy," the tiny girl behind cashier number 5 said with a smile, "Erza's sure to get them all cleaned up and ready for today."

"Yeah, like every other day," drawled the brunette at cashier number 2, "it's not like any of the boys would go against the mighty Erza."

"I don't think any of us would dare go against Erza," muttered the bluenette in charge of cashier number 3, as she silently picked at her long blue nails.

"I don't get why they still go at it, I mean," Lucy huffed, took a sip from her plastic cup, and faced her fellow co-workers, "we've been working here for how long and they still manage to mess something up everyday. Why?"

The blonde looked to her left, where Levy McGarden sat with her head downwards, probably reading her take-along book. She looked up and shrugged as a response to Lucy's question.

Another sigh, and cashier 4 turned to her other side, where Juvia, Cana, and Lisanna responded akin to Levy's shrug. The five of them had grown extremely clOse in the months of working together. And on slow days, sitting on a chair the entire day with only each other as way of making time pass by, there wasn't really a choice, but they loved it all the while.

"They're boys, Lucy. What else'll they do?" Cana, who was draped across her tall chair, lazily tilted her head to look her straight in the eye. Her eyebrows waggled along with her next sentence.

"I mean, if they could take all this... Passion... And put it elsewhere then surely they won't be this rowdy"

Her mouth agape, Lucy squared her shoulders and straightened her back, eyes never leaving the doors of the mart, all the while cashier 2's bark of a laugh filled the large space. Somewhere back at the aisles she was sure she heard manly voices pleading for mercy, and proclamations of 'I won't do it again', but she paid no mind to them,

It wasn't like it was anything new at Fairy Mart, after all.

About 15 long minutes later, the mart was quiet, save for Lisanna's gentle humming. It was rather peaceful, and none of the girl's wanted to ruin that. They knew that once the place opened it wouldn't be any more peaceful than a fully booked arena.

The sound of stomping and the dragging of a body came in, and Erza passed Levy's counter, the very last one. She made her way to her table, which was situated a little ways away from Lisanna's, and right next to the door.

The sound of dragging didn't stop, and Lucy found it wasn't a body, but two.

"Aah, Gray-sama~ you shouldn't keep getting into fights, you'll ruin your beautiful face~" Hearts appeared in Juvia's eyes and the two girls beside her couldn't help but flinch.

Erza dropped the bodies beside her table and promptly sat down, cracking her neck before typing away at another progress report. "Progress;" she took a quick glance at the two boys laying beside her, groaning as they gained consciousness once more, "None."

The blonde couldn't help but stifle a giggle at that. It was no surprise, after all, the two boys never had any progress. They were always fighting in front of customers, making babies cry, or ruining the product display Elfman spent hours on building.

Being the student manager meant that Erza was in charge of all employee affairs. The true manager of Fairy Mart was Makarov, but his work didn't require him to be there 24/7, so he merely visited every time he could.

All other work Makarov could not take was put to the student manager, and student manager because although Erza took her job very seriously, she was still in her last year of college. She was determined though, and made sure the mart was always left in capable hands.

Let's just say that every time she was gone, the regulars knew not to visit them.

One role that a student manager must perform, is the progress reports. Each employee has a progress report, and inside is the important history of that employee in the establishment.

Some are relatively clean, save the occasional positive remark, like Levy's and Lisanna's.

The reports of people like Natsu and Gray, however, are pages upon pages of bad reports, all the while they have been put under the no progress tab. There are more with a handful of cases, but Natsu's and Gray's had the most in the list.

Others are at least a page long, with 'accidents' and the occasional rule broken, like Mira's and Lucy's. Although Mira was the favorite guide amongst customers, she was as scary as Erza could be, and may have been caught threatening an employee once or twice.

Lucy on the other hand, was dragged into most- if not all- of the bad cases on her report. Working with your friends was great and all, but when your best friend was an overly energetic pyro with a love for destruction, a supermarket isn't really the best place to hang out.

"Hey, Luce!" Ah, when did he get back up?

"Hey Natsu, trouble again?" Her eyebrow lifted, and she smirked. He scowled playfully at her, and knocked his fist gently against her temple, "Yeah, yeah, whatever."

He disappeared behind a shelf farther back, and Gray soon followed. Eventually, it got quiet again.

As the big clock above the long set of automatic glass doors ticked 8:00 am, Erza sat straight, leaned forward into the mic of the intercom, and cleared her throat.

"It's 8 am, everybody!" Her voice echoed through the large supermarket, "this place is officially open! Remember, be nice, don't fight," the pause gave certain people enough time to register her words, "and make this the best day of work you've ever had!"

The usual morning spiel, the cheers and claps that came from practically every spot in the building, and the joke tossed in by a certain cashier 2 officially started the long day of work, and Lucy mentally prepared herself for whatever chaos was sure to happen.

A/N: haaiiii! Here again, and I don't know why but I just wrote this. My sister talked about wanting to see a supermarket au a long time ago, and I got some inspiration from vday. See the connection? Because I don't.

This will just be an introduction-like thing, so it's not as fluff-filled as the rest, promise!

I wrote this really late at night, and I don't feel like harping on it all that much, but I know there are an awful lot of errors inside. I'll be fixing it in the morning when I'm not bound to sleep every time I blink my eyes.

So, tell me if you guys like this! I have a plan for it, but it isn't that long, and I kinda wanted this thing to last, so please help give me ideas! I want to know what you guys want, because I honestly have no idea.

And if ya didn't like it, then please tell me why. It helps, and any review will make me automatically happier for the rest of the week.

I wanted to write something for vday, buuuut I see no point this year, and I may or may not have spent the entire weekend sulking and reading some sad stuff until I fell asleep. Yayy. (T ^ T)

(It's all ur fault deg, I hope you know that)

Again, please f and review! It means so much to me, and it gives me motivation to write more and update faster!

Thanks for reading~

-UnderratedOver :33