Here's Day one of Nalu week for me. For the days I'm going to be doing, it'll just be the regular seven days, except for day for as I couldn't think of anything to do for that day. Now, without further ado, lets get into it.
Day 1 Nostalgia
Summary
Natsu and Lucy's daughter get a school assignment to learn about her parents. Since their family comes over for dinner that day, they all stay and decide to help the youngest Dragneel by talking about everything from when her parents met to where they are now.
Natsu yawned as he walked inside his house with a smile on his face. Noticing his wife was washing dishes, he quickly and quietly walked over to the beautiful blonde and wrapped his arms around her middle.
Giggling, Lucy smiled as she placed her hands on her husband's larger ones and rested against his chest. "Had a good day?" Lucy questioned while Natsu placed a kiss to the top of her head.
"Nope. I had a totally awful day." Natsu remarked, his voice dripping with sarcasm as he spoke.
"Which is why you're in such a good mood." Lucy snorted.
"Obviously." Natsu smiled as he let go of his wife to allow her to continue washing dishes. "But yes, I had a pretty good day." Natsu sighed while he leaned against the counter and watched her continue what she had been doing before he got home.
"Oh, your parents are coming over for dinner tonight." Lucy spoke, smiling brightly at her husband from over her shoulder. "I'm planning on making your favorite since it's also Igneel's too." Lucy explained. Natsu just nodded, hearing the water drain from the sink.
"Sounds good." Natsu smiled as the two walked into the living room with Natsu sitting down on a chair and Lucy sitting on the arm of the piece of furniture before slowly sliding into her husbands lap, her head resting in the crook of his neck and her arms wrapping around her neck.
After turning on the TV, the married couple spent the next half hour randomly kissing the other until they heard a distinct giggle. Both stopped immediately and looked towards the front door when their pink haired daughter was standing, giggling behind one of her hands.
"Nashi, how long have you been there?" Lucy questioned, looking at her daughter with curious look.
"Not long. I just got home." Nashi explained, walking over to her parents after setting her bag down by the door before going over to her parents and crawling onto her father's lap.
"Didja have a good day at school?" Natsu questioned, noticing the smile on his daughter's face at the question.
"Yup. Aunt Mavis is making us do something weird for next week." Nashi explained, making her parents to look at her curiously
As realization struck both the parents about what their five year old was talking about, Lucy smiled before speaking. "It wouldn't be about me and your father, would it?" Nashi gave her mother a curious look as she nodded, unsure how her mother could know
"How'd ya know, momma?" Nashi asked, moving a lock of her pink hair behind her ear as she looked at the blonde woman.
"Me and your father had to do the same thing when we were in kindergarten. It's basically more for you to learn more about your family." Lucy explained, her daughter nodded in understanding from what she had said.
"It sounds really boring though." Nashi remarked, a frown pulling on her face while her mother got up and walked over to go up the stairs.
"It ain't that bad Nashi If I could do it, then you can do it too." Natsu smiled, ruffling his daughter's hair slightly. "What do ya wanna do before dinner?" Natsu questioned, a light smile on his face as his daughter's face lit up in a smile.
"Can we go outside and play?" Nashi asked with a smile.
"Of course." Natsu replied, his signature smile on his face as the two left to go and play outside until their family showed up.
A few hours passed of Natsu and Nashi playing outside while Lucy watched from the porch when she wasn't working on their dinner. While Lucy was leaning against the house, her phone vibrated, making her take out her phone and see a text from Natsu's mother.
"Nashi, you need to go and get cleaned up. Your grandparents are coming over now." Lucy spoke as her daughter tackled her father, who allowed himself to fall to the ground from the slight impact.
"Okay!" Nashi yelled before jumping back onto her feet and running past her mother to go inside and get dressed.
Lucy smirked as she noticed that her husband was still laying on the ground while looking at her with a toothy grin on his face. Deciding to have a little fun with him, Lucy sauntered over to him, moving her hips in a tantalizing way before kneeling beside her husband and giving him a quick but passionate kiss.
"You also need to get cleaned up." Lucy giggled at the way his face fell to one of annoyance before getting onto his feet, helping Lucy up in the process as he did so.
"You're such a tease." Natsu replied, placing a kiss to her cheek. "But I really shouldn't be surprised, considering who we're friends with." Natsu smirked walking by his wife slow enough to give her butt a squeeze and darting into the house.
Lucy just rolled her eyes as she walked back inside of the house to check on their dinner. Going over to the over, she smiled when she turned on the oven light to see that the spicy chicken looked nearly done.
"Now I just need to make the salad and get the taco stuff prepared." Lucy smiled, taking out the ingredients for the salad and started making it. As Lucy finished making the salad, she heard what sounded like Igneel's truck pulling into the driveway.
Placing the salad bowl on the dining room table, she walked into the living room as there was a knock on the door before Igneel and Grandina walked inside. "Why do you always make my favorite food when we come over?" Igneel questioned his daughter in law as she hugged the red haired man.
"Well, it is Natsu's favorite too." Lucy reminded the man as she stepped back before getting pulled into a hug by Natsu's white haired mother. "Is Zeref and the others not coming?" Lucy asked curiously once her mother in law was done hugging her.
"Zeref and Mavis will be here soon with Wendy. They just needed to pick up a few things." Grandina smiled before the three heard footsteps heading towards the stairs. After a few seconds, a pair of feet were running down the stairs before Nashi ran and hugged her grandparents.
"Hey kiddo, where's your dad?" Igneel questioned with a smile similar to that of his son's as he put his granddaughter down on her feet.
"Right here." Natsu remarked, walking behind his wife and hugging her. "Had to clean my face after getting a little dirty earlier.
"You're still a child." Grandina remarked while she smiled at her son.
"Not really. I was playing with Nashi." Natsu explained as Lucy went into the kitchen to work on getting the tacos ready for dinner.
After a few minutes of silence, Nashi and Natsu talked to Igneel for a while as Grandina went to help Lucy with their dinner. "You said Zeref, Mavis and Wendy are coming over too?" Natsu questioned while Nashi got comfortable on his lap.
"Yeah. They should be here soon." Igneel smiled as he stretched his body, making his bones pop as he did so.
"Daddy can make the same noise as you." Nashi giggled as the two men shook their heads at the little pink haired girl.
"Which still creeps me out." Lucy spoke as she glared at her husband when she noticed he was going to stretch to pop his bones. "Hey Nashi, mind helping set the table? Your Uncle and Aunts should be here soon." Lucy explained a smile on her face as her daughter hopped off her father's lap and walked towards her blonde mother.
As the three in the kitchen were getting the table set up, Natsu and Igneel decided to go outside and wait for the others to get to the house. They waited for no longer than five minutes before Zeref's black car pulled up the driveway behind Lucy's silver car.
"You're almost late for dinner!" Natsu yelled as Zeref turned off the car's engine. This earned him a deathly glare from his older brother as he got out of the car.
"Like I want to be late." Zeref remarked with a sideways smile. "Someone wasn't ready when it was time to leave." Zeref remarked, looking at his shorter wife before she glared at him.
"For a teacher, you don't have the best track record of being on time." Natsu joked at his sister in law as she walked past him and playfully hit his shoulder.
"Been a while, huh Wendy?" Natsu smiled as he hugged his blue haired sister.
"College has been rough lately." Wendy smiled as the four walked inside and got hit by the smell of spicy chicken and tacos invaded there noses.
"I think I made something everyone likes. And because most of you eat like dragons, I made enough to feed an army." Lucy joked as everyone took their seats and started taking their food and digging in.
After everyone was done eating and the dishes were cleaned and put in the dish washer, the Dragneels were sitting around the living room and talking when Mavis decided to speak up. "Nashi did tell you guys about the project I'm having the kids do, right?"
"Yeah. It's not any different from when we were in school, is it?" Lucy asked her sister in law with a curious look.
"Not really. It's actually a good thing we had dinner tonight. That way we can tell Nashi about you guys." Mavis smiled as everyone nodded at the thought.
"The project can be anything, right?" Natsu asked, a child-like glint in his eyes.
"Yeah? Why do you ask?" Mavis rose a curious brow, unsure what the hyper man was thinking.
"It is Nashi's choice and it's ultimately up to her, but what about making a map of different things that happened with me and Luce that led to her being born?" Natsu suggested as everyone looked at Nashi curiously
"Yeah! I could write about the things too." Nashi smiled at her father's idea.
"You could use pictures too." Grandina suggested.
"We could all help Nashi out. Well, except for her teacher." Zeref smirked towards his wife.
"This sounds like fun." Wendy smiled as Nashi hopped off her father's lap.
"Momma, do we have any of those big pieces of paper?" Nashi asked curiously.
"I think so, want to help me find it?" Lucy asked, looking at her smiling daughter. Nashi nodded before heading up the stairs, her mother following closely behind.
"So, why can't Mavis help? It's not like we'll be doing anything other than telling her stories and helping her put down pictures." Natsu remarked, walking over to a bookcase and pulling out a binder that had pictures of Natsu and Lucy while they were growing up along with some of Nashi in it too.
Natsu smiled as he took out the picture binder that the front had a picture of the two on their wedding day. Natsu was behind Lucy in a tux while Lucy had on her beautiful white gown and golden tiara on her head. Natsu had his arms wrapped around her waist and his chin was resting on her head.
"I guess when you put it like that, Mavis can help." Wendy remarked, a smirk on her face as she noticed the smile on her brother's face as he looked at the picture on the cover of the binder.
"How long has it been since we've looked at that?" Lucy questioned as her and Nashi walked into the room with a large poster board and set it in the center of the room.
"Well, our anniversary is in a couple months, so almost a year." Natsu smiled as Lucy help Nashi flatten out the paper and put a small book on each corner so that it wouldn't move. They always looked at the pictures on their anniversary, and Natsu didn't doubt they would look at it again this year.
"So, how are we going to do this?" Grandina questioned as she looked at her granddaughter.
"Can we look through the pictures and the stories that are with them, I write them down under the pictures?" Nashi suggested, a curious look as she looked at everyone. Everyone nodded as Nashi took a seat on both of their parents laps, each one of them holding one side of the album while Nashi looked at the pictures. "IS this the first time you met?" Nashi asked, looking at the first picture in the album when Natsu and Lucy were five and standing under a tree.
"Yeah. That was taken when we both had to go home after spending most of the day in the park." Lucy smiled as they took the picture out of the sleeve and looked at it. "I had just moved to magnolia too. Although, me and your father didn't get off to the best start." Natsu and the others besides Wendy snorted at the statement.
"Didn't get off to the best start is an understatement You two got into a fight and threw dirt at each other until Natsu put dirt in your hair." Zeref remarked as Nashi looked at her parents in shock.
"Really? You guys are so happy together now." Nashi remarked, looking at her parents with confusion written on her face.
"Well, once your father apologized for putting dirt in my hair and we found out that my mother was really good friends with your grandparents we decided to play together. I got kind of annoyed by him calling me weird, but we slowly became friends during the day." Lucy smiled as she handed the picture to Zeref.
"We'll be able to remember which ones go where, so we'll make photocopies of them once we pick them all out." Natsu explained while they nodded as Nashi continued looking at the pictures.
"Daddy, why does it look like you are shorter than momma in these pictures?" Nashi questioned, noticing that in the pictures, her father was a good few inches shorter than her mother.
"That's because he was." Igneel laughed at the fact that his granddaughter caught that small fact.
"yeah. It wasn't until we were in either seventh or eighth grade where I was taller than her." Natsu explained as Nashi pointed to another picture, this one was one of both her parents, Grey, Gajeel, Erza, Levy and Jellal. They were all eating Lunch outside under one of the trees near the elementary school.
"When was this one taken?" Nashi questioned, a curious glint in her eyes as she look at the photo.
"We were a little bit older than you, so it was probably in either first or second grade." Lucy smiled as she took the photo out of it's sleeve. "We went to school with everyone in this picture and Later on Juvia when he moved to magnolia. For the most part everyone got along, well except your father and Grey." Lucy mused as Natsu and her looked at the picture.
"I think that was the day me, Gray and Gajeel got in a fight." Natsu remarked as Lucy handed the photo to Zeref.
"You got into a fight with them everyday." Lucy replied bluntly, her face unamused as she looked at her husband.
"It was also that day we made a promise, remember?" Natsu questioned, Lucy's face turning pink as they thought back to that day. "We were talking about how I was shorter than you and I said that when I got taller than ya, you would have to go out with me." Natsu remarked as everyone listened to what they were talking about.
"Those two over heard us making that deal, and Grey said something about it being stupid. If i recall correctly, you had said that you could get a girlfriend before a stupid snowflake or metalhead and then started a fight." Lucy rolled her eyes as she remembered the times Natsu, Grey and Gajeel would fight over stupid things.
The family continued talking about different pictures and the small stories attached to them for a while until Nashi noticed a picture that caught her eye. It was a picture of her parents in either seventh or eighth grade. It was the first picture where her father was taller than her mother.
Her mother was wearing a simple red dress that fit her perfectly and her hair was loose and a smile on her face while her father was behind her mother, resting his chin on her shoulder and his arms wrapped around her middle.
Natsu was wearing a red dress shirt and black dress pants, his wild hair the same as it was currently and his toothy grin plastered on his face. Noticing the picture their daughter was looking at, Natsu smiled as he spoke up. "That picture was actually taken by Mavis." Natsu smiled, showing everyone the picture.
"It was the first date we went on. You'd been taller than me for a few months and decided to ask me out to one of the school's dances." Lucy smiled down at her daughter, said little girl looking up at the blonde with a smile similar to her father's.
"And you liked it right?" Nashi questioned curiously
"If I didn't I wouldn't of married your father." Lucy reminded her daughter, earning a kiss to the blonde from her husband. Nashi smiled up at her parents as the family continued to look at the pictures and telling the youngest Dragneel stories about the pictures they took out o the album. The stories were anything from fights that Natsu had with the others to dates that they had went on, even a couple fights the couple had had up until now.
After about a half hour, Nashi noticed a picture and pointed at it, making everyone smile as they noticed which one it was. The entire page was full of pictures that were taken on the same day. It was their high school graduation party, so all their friends were there, most being people who had graduated that day too.
In the picture, Lucy had her hands over her mouth, a shocked expression on her face as she looked at Natsu, who was on one knee looking up at Lucy while holding a small box in his hands, a giddy smile on his face as he looked up at her.
Nashi noticed that all the pictures after that, her mother had a ring on her finger that she now noticed her mother always wore along with her wedding band. There was a single picture that looked to be he mother's hand resting on her father's much larger hand.
"this was during our high school graduation party." Natsu smiled as he looked at the picture that was taken by his mother. "It wasn't needed, but I went to your mother's father to get permission to marry her. He originally wasn't going to, but I think I annoyed him enough to give his approval." Natsu chuckled as he thought back to the many trips he made throughout junior and senior year to Crocus to talk to Lucy's father.
"It was probably he got annoyed by you and realized you wouldn't give up." Zeref remarked, a knowing look in his eyes since he would of done the same thing if he was put in his brother's shoes. Zeref was the calmer between the two brothers, but he knew he had just as much of a fiery temper as his brother, he just kept it in check more than Natsu ever did.
"Well yeah, I'm not swayed from things easily." Natsu remarked with a smile, ruffling his daughters hair and causing it to look slightly messy. As he did so, Nashi moved her eyes to look up towards, her father, one eyes open with a smile on her face.
"Which is something I always loved about you." Lucy smiled while Nashi flipped through the book, noticing that there were still a few more pages but some of the pictures were ones she had seen before and knew the stories about them.
There was a good four pages full of nothing but pictures of her parents wedding day. Nashi had chosen to use a few pictures from it. A picture of her mother walking down the isle in her beautiful white gown, a picture taken before the vows were said where they were able to capture her parents looking at each other, both looking like they were on the verge of tears, the picture that was taken when the two had kissed, a picture of the two dancing and the final one that Nashi decided she wanted to use was a picture of the two with faces covered in cake.
After those, there were a few more pictures of her parents, but then it shifted to have pictures with her in it. There were still pictures with just her parents in them, but she was now also in some. Nashi finally picked out two final pictures. The first she would use was a picture of her mother's first book signing, where her mother was smiling while signing a few books, her father was behind Lucy while he was holding a three year old Nashi in his arms, her head lazily resting on his shoulder.
The second and final picture was of her father as he was teaching a martial arts class. From the look of the picture, it was taken a little less than a year after Nashi was born as sitting on one of the benches was Lucy holding a pink haired child in her arms while a small toy was in Lucy's free hand.
"Shall we copy all these pictures and get to work on helping Nashi?" Zeref asked, a light smile on his face as he looked at all the pictures. Everyone nodded as Zeref and Mavis went to work on copying the pictures using Natsu and Lucy's copier.
Why they were doing that, the rest were on the floor, helping Nashi decide which pictures were going where. It wasn't long until all the pictures were copied and put back in their correct spots as Lucy and Wendy were cutting out the copied pictures as the rest were helping Nashi put them where she decided they should go.
The entire family was happily helping the youngest Dragneel with her project. While the men were helping her by gluing down the pictures, the women were helping Nashi by writing down what it was that she wanted to say for each picture's story. All in all, it was a fun night for the Dragneel's No one left the house until nearly ten at night when they were all finished helping the youngest Dragneel.
"Night Daddy." Nashi yawned as her father tucked her into bed with her dragon blanket covering her up. Natsu smiled as She cuddled her pink dragon plush as she closed her eyes to slowly drift to sleep.
Once Natsu turned off the bedroom light, he spoke in a quiet voice. "G'night, my little dragon princess." Natsu sighed, happy with the day as he walked towards the master bedroom, where he could hear typing coming from.
Once he walked through the door, he was greeted with a smile from his wife. "I'm assuming she's in bed?" Lucy suggested as Natsu stripped of his shirt and jeans before getting into bed and wrapping his arms around his wife's stomach.
"Course she is." Natsu smiled as Lucy turned off her laptop before placing on the night stand, knowing Natsu wouldn't allow her to get up to put it somewhere else.
"I know you're thinking about something." Lucy remarked as she moved to sit in between he legs while Natsu moved to sit up, resting his back against both their pillows and the headboard.
"I was just thinking about all those memories we looked at. We've been through so much since we met." Lucy hummed in acknowledgment at what her husband had said. "We've been through some of the worst things possible, but we've also had some pretty good ones too." Natsu mused as he thought back on everything.
"There are sure to be tough times ahead. Nashi's growing up and everyone has there own lives where it's hard to meet up with everyone now. Even so, I know we will be there for each other, just like we always have." Lucy smiled as Natsu placed a kiss to her neck. "You know, I have a sneaking suspicion that our friends will want to come over soon." A light smirk splayed across the blonde's lips as she moved Natsu's hands to rest on her thighs.
"Oh? And why would that be?" Natsu questioned, unsure why their friends would want to come over any more than they already do.
"Well, We'll be expecting a new family member in about nine months." As she spoke, she felt Natsu's entire body freeze before he turned her to look at him.
"Lucy? Are you saying that you're pregnant?" Natsu asked, a hopeful glint in his eyes.
"Of course dummy. You're going to be a father again, and Nashi will be a big sister." Lucy smiled before getting pulled into a loving kiss.
"I think everyone's going to be happy when we tell them." Natsu smiled as he pulled his wife into another kiss. They new that whatever happens in their lives, the good and the bad, they would always have themselves to support them, along with memories of the past that have shaped them to what they are today.