Disclaimer: Do not own Fairy Tail, All creation rights goes to Hiro Mashima
Lucy was in her study room, on her desktop writing a new chapter for latest novel called Chasing Destiny. And reviewing her previous chapters to make sure there was no errors or left anything out that was supposed to be in it. A few hours had gone by when suddenly she hear the fire alarm goes off. She quickly got up from her chair and ran out the door. Upon reaching down stairs, she saw Natsu with a magazine in each of his hand to fan away the smoke away from the fire alarm. Lucy quickly then ran into the kitchen to see that two of the three pots of whatever it was, white smoke was rapidly coming out of them and the smoke smell like burnt charcoal. She quickly stepped in front of the stove and turned off everything off.
Quickly she turned around to see two towels on the table, grabbed the towels and picked up the smoking pots to sink. Then she open the lids of both pots to see all the content was burnt and everything was black like ashes. She turned on the cold water to cool off the pots and hopefully the smell will go away soon. She then realized that the fire alarm was still ringing throughout the house. She ran back into the living room and grab a medium size fan and turn it on high, placing the blowing winds next to the fire alarm.
She glared at Natsu with an angry look, "Put them stupid magazines down and go open the door, you idiot!"
Natsu dropped the magazines in a split second and ran to the front door and opened it for the cool air to come in, relieving the smoke, but the horrible smell was still there. Within a couple of minutes the fire alarm had stop it's beeping. Natsu walked back into the living room to see Lucy and let the door open for the time being to air out the house.
"Natsu are you trying to burn my house down on purpose now?" questioned a non-angry but annoyed Lucy.
"No I was not trying to burn down your house on purpose, even though this had happened before." said an apologetic Natsu.
Lucy expression had soften knowing Natsu likes to do crazy stuff but sometimes it can get out of hand. "Natsu what were you trying to do in my kitchen since you never cook before." asked Lucy with a confused expression.
Natsu walked up to Lucy, took her hands and motion her and himself to sit on the couch. "Well Lucy since you're always working so hard on your latest novel, even though the ones you have published right is selling really well. You even make a lot of time for me, even if I am like a die beat after work. So I thought I would make a homemade dinner for you." said a sadden Natsu.
Lucy took her right hand to hold the cheek of Natsu and motion his head, so their eyes would meet. "Natsu, the novels I write is from my heart. I love the people who read my novels as they can read and feel my emotion through my writing." She lean in to kiss him the lips for a quick second. "Even if you're tried from work, the time I spend with you, they are precious to me. Whether they are filled with fun or not. You make me really happy and I wouldn't trade for anything in the world." She move forward to Natsu and embrace him and smelling his warm scent.
Natsu put his warm arms around Lucy's waist and put her for a tighter embrace. "Thanks Lucy, you have no idea how much your words means to me." whispered into Lucy's ear with content tone.
Lucy pulled away from the embrace with a content smile of her own. "Natsu hmm I am curious on how you learn to cook." questioned Lucy.
Natsu took a moment to gather his thoughts. "Well since I wanted to accomplish something for myself and make you really proud of me. I asked Mira to teach me how to cook since her dishes are always delicious."
Suddenly they heard the door closed and wonder who had enter into the house. Natsu and Lucy turned their eye to the small hallway that lead to the front door. Waiting to see who had enter since the door was left opened to air the house from the burnt pots of food. Whether it was a friendly face or a burglar ready to rob her house, they did not know.
Much to their surprise, Natsu little sister Wendy had walked into the living room. "Hi Natsu and Lucy, let me guess, Natsu try to burn down your house without knowing It." said a giggling Wendy.
"Hey! I did not try to burn down her house." retorted a pouted Natsu.
"But Natsu, for the last couple of days, our house were filled with smoke and the fire department wasn't too happy about the false alarm." said a still giggling Wendy. Lucy also giggle along since it was funny that Natsu was trying so hard for his girlfriend. Natsu just sat there almost emotionless between the two.
"I think the best part was when the fire commander at the time told Natsu to not cook all together or go make charcoal since Natsu only knew how to burn everything to ash." said Wendy now turned into full burst of laughter.
Lucy follow suit and holding her stomach as she was laughing too hard and really needed to catch her breath. After a couple of minutes have died down. Lucy whipped away the tears that came out during her laughing session. "I'm sorry Natsu, I just couldn't resist. I love you for always trying so hard to make me happy." said happy Lucy.
Natsu sighed and he let the situation go as he knew there was no way around it. "Since Wendy told you what happened the last few days at our house. I can continue the story before she came in." said a hopeless Natsu.
Lucy and Wendy nodded in agreement. "Yes continue the story, I'm excited to know what happened." said a curious Lucy.
"As I was saying, Mira makes some of the best dishes, so I asked her to teach me how to cook. I have to say when she teaches, she can be a real demon. I can't that woman can smile like nothing bad has happened to her all the time. I had worked my butt off like crazy." said an exhausted Natsu even thinking about how Mira had treated him.
Lucy looked equally as exhausted when she remembered the time when she asked Mira to teach her how to cook. All the cutting of produces and meats every day. Demon chef Mira sure train whoever wants to learn cooking from her like a line chefs. All the prep work and taste had to be up to her high standard and beyond. Good thing Lucy caught on quick and did not need to learn much from Mira.
"So for couple of weeks, I went over to Mira's place as she teaches me and work me like a dog. I slowly got the hang of it. But good thing Mira does not have the time to teach me no more. I cannot handle anymore of her demon training methods. Another thing was that since I went over there so often to learn. Laxus was probably thinking that I was hitting on his fiancé since I was always so close to her. He probably wanted to file a stalker report on me or beat me up to a pulp. Good thing Mira got back to her busy schedule. " said a relieved Natsu.
"Poor Natsu but I'm sure Laxus is just very protective of Mira as you are to me and Wendy." said a giggling Lucy.
Wendy nodded in agreement. "When Natsu was training by himself at home. He always had a lot of cuts on his hand. I was not even sure if the food were safe to be cook or eat at times. But for some reason, every time he cooks, the food end up burnt." said Wendy.
"Maybe the stove and pots and pans were broken." retorted Natsu.
Lucy and Wendy giggle harder at Natsu comment knowing that it's silly and not true at all. Natsu just pout at their giggling and feel content knowing they love his antics.
"Well anyways, since Natsu had no way of taking care of himself. Every time he comes home or train by himself, I would help him put healing cream and bandage his hands up to heal properly. Good thing he cut himself less and less. Natsu is lucky to have a sister like me since I want to be a nurse or doctor when the time is right for me to choose." said smiling Wendy.
Natsu used his right hand to motion Wendy to come over to the couch and sit next to him. Wendy walk over to the couch and sat next to Natsu. Suddenly Natsu hugged her gently, "Thank you Wendy, you're the best little sister a brother could have." whispered a happy Natsu.
"Same goes to you brother, protecting me and making my life fun." said a content Wendy while returning the hug she warmly accepted.
"Aww. This is a wonderful brother and sister moment you two are having." said Lucy.
"Family bond is the most important to the Dragneel family." said a grinning Natsu.
"Yeah our family is the best and no other family can beat that." said a cheerful Wendy.
Lucy pulled Natsu a little which lead to letting go of Wendy. "I am curious about another thing Natsu, what were you cooking in the kitchen." asked Lucy.
Natsu took his left hand to rub the back of his neck nervously. "Well one of the dishes supposed to be homemade tomato sauce with cheesy meatballs. The second dish is creamy seafood chowder and the third or main dish is slow cooked braised beef with mildly spicy liquid." said a tense Natsu.
Lucy's eye open really wide and letting her jaw dropped a little for couple of minutes. "You've gone through all that trouble just to make my favorite dishes and it's even homemade too." said a happy teary Lucy.
Natsu relieved at Lucy's expression. "Yeah I wanted to show that I am more capable than just going to work and being super tired when I see you every day. Maybe not place all the cooking burden onto you or Wendy." Turning to give a quick to Wendy as well knowing she also does all the cooking when it's the only two of them eating.
Wendy did not have to say a word to understand everything and just hug Natsu. Natsu knew what it meant too since they have a really close brother and sister relationship. Lucy just felt herself that she even love Natsu more than ever.
"Why don't we all go to the kitchen to see which dish have been salvage from the burning mess." said Lucy to break the silence.
Everybody got up from the couch and walk toward the kitchen. Stopping in front of the stove with pot of food that have been salvaged. Natsu step closer to the pot and use his right hand to take the lid off. Everyone saw the braised beef, which seem like its normal since there was still liquid in there and the meat did not seem to be burnt at all. Lucy went to one of the drawer to grab three forks. She came back and gave the other two forks to Natsu and Wendy. Each of them poke the fork into the meat and pull of a small piece without using any strength due the beef super tenderness. They all simultaneously put the food into their mouth for the taste test.
"Yuck!" they said in unison. Quickly splitting out the meat back into the pot and give water to wash away the bad taste.
"Natsu you definitely cannot cook." said Lucy heavily breathing.
"Good thing this was the first time that I actually tasted your cooking Natsu." said Wendy looking like someone just tried to poison her. "I do not think I will ever want to eat anything you cook again."
"I'm very sorry to give you two gross tasting food. But I thought that adding mayonnaise, sweet strawberry jam, chocolate syrup, and soy sauce. I'm also sorry for sleeping and almost burn your house down" said Natsu with an apologetic tone.
Lucy sweat drop. "Natsu of course I like all those flavors but putting them all in on pot with meat just spells out disaster waiting to happen. Don't worry about it Natsu, you're always working hard at your job and that's all I need you to do for yourself."
"Lucy you got to admit that he sure put a lot of love into cooking you dinner." said Wendy wondering if it's even love or her brother is just weird.
"I know Natsu always put his heart into everything he does, sometimes it's just questionable. But nevertheless he does show his affection in every possible and impossible way." said Lucy looking at Natsu while she was giving her answer to Wendy.
"I guess I am the man who can make the impossible possible for you Lucy." said Natsu with a big grin on his face.
"You sure know how to make my life feel like its near complete." said Lucy and lean towards Natsu to kiss him on the cheek. "Why don't we clean up this mess now and decide what to do after that."
Natsu and Wendy nodded in agreement. Natsu start to move the remaining pot to the sink for dumbing and cleaning. Wendy went to the living room to watch some TV. Lucy was already at the sink with warm water running and opening the remaining two burnt pots. The cleaning was going to take some time to get done with all the scrubbing they had to do.
Natsu walk towards Lucy and stop at her back. Then he gently put his arms around her waist and head on her right shoulder and making sure not obstructing her cleaning. "I love you so much Lucy. Always going along with the crazy antics." said a contenting Natsu.
"I love you too Natsu. And there is more to you than just your fun and crazy antics." said a happy Lucy while scrubbing away to clean the pots.
About an hour later, Wendy went to the kitchen to check to see what was taking so long. When she got the kitchen, seeing that all the pots was done and had been set to dry. Also seeing Natsu hugging Lucy from behind and standing there like they were in tranquility.
"Natsu!" yelled Wendy.
Natsu turn his head to see Wendy at the entrance of the kitchen. "Yes Wendy." asked Natsu.
"Natsu you're going to have a wonderful life with a wonderful wife and I get to have a wonderful sister." said Wendy and giving the approval sign of marriage.
Lucy did not have to turn around to understand everything that Wendy just had said. Her smile had grown bigger, knowing that one day she will have a wonderful husband and little sister.
"Natsu, Wendy, let's go get some dinner." said a happy teary Lucy.
At that exact moment, everyone's stomach growl and they all laugh it off. The three gather the things they needs and walk out the door. They're going to have dinner like a real family.