AN: A tiny bit shorter than usual. I fell from the stairs yesterday and I wasn't able to touch the keyboard all day because I can't move much so yeah I crammed haha.

Day 3: Ribbon

"Hey Natsu."

"Hmm?"

"Why the hell is my kitchen burnt?"

Natsu felt a menacing glare from his blonde partner. His blue exceed, Happy, was able to escape from Lucy's wrath by flying out of the window.

"I will always remember your bravery, my dear friend!" Happy wiped an imaginary tear from his left eye while escaping somewhere far from the blonde.

"L-Lucy….san?" Beads of sweat formed at Natsu's head at he slowly stepped back from the approaching celestial mage. "Uhm, y-you see—"

"I definitely can see! I can understand if you just raided my fridge but why the hell did you have to burn the whole kitchen!" Lucy yelled in anger. Eventually, she calmed down and shot a look at the terrified dragon slayer.

"Clean this up or I'll have to clean your remains." The celestial mage narrowed her eyes while Natsu shivered at the tone of her voice.

"A-Aye!" Natsu rose up immediately and ran to the kitchen.

"Seriously, those guys are a pain." Lucy rubbed her temples as she sat on the bed. 'But I never get mad at them for too long. Guess they really are some lucky bastards." She chuckled at the thought.

After taking a refreshing bath and got into her usual clothes, she went to the kitchen to check up on Natsu. And for someone who lives in a filthy shack that him and Happy call a house, her kitchen was sparkling clean. Oddly enough, the salmon-haired lad was nowhere in sight. Her eyes searched for the dragon slayer and found him slumped near the fridge. He was still wearing an apron and a bandana while holding a feather duster. His head was tilted to the side and some drool was on the corner of his mouth. Lucy noticed his even breathing and yup, the fire dragon slayer fell asleep.

The blonde mage crouched in front of him and smiled. He looks cute when sleeping… while wearing a frilly pink apron and a bandana. She smiled as she poked his cheeks. He grumbled and turned his head to the other side. 'Too cute!' Lucy's cheeks were tinted with pink as she retracted her finger from his cheek. She turned her attention to the feather duster he was holding and she noticed that his arm had a gash on it. Maybe he had a fight with the knives and he's too dense to notice that he was bleeding? With a sigh, Lucy reached for one of her ribbons in her hair (she thought that it was a perfect day for ribbons so she decided to use it for her twin tails but she wouldn't mind to use it for other means) and tied it around Natsu's wound.

After securing the ribbon around the wound, something just dawned on her. She was in her freaking home so she should've used bandages instead of her ribbon! 'Stupid Lucy.' But hey, that was the best thing that she's got at the moment and she just automatically did it. Maybe being on a lot of battles has made her like that.

She stood up and went to the bathroom to get the bandages on the medicine cabinet. After getting some bandages and medicine she went back to the kitchen only finding that Natsu was already stirring in his sleep. She thought that he must be feeling uncomfortable because of his position. But then they have been on a lot of missions and the sleeping conditions are a lot worse so…

Hoping that he wouldn't wake up fully, she sat beside him and tried to untie the ribbon. She was about to tug the ends of it when a calloused hand stopped her.

"Don't." She saw Natsu's eyes flutter open and looked at her.

"But Natsu, we have to disinfect the wound—"

"Nah, I like this better. Thank you, Luce!" He grinned sheepishly while the blond averted her eyes away from Natsu's and blushed. "It looks like a cool wrist band! And I like it because it looks like fire!"

"You weirdo, it's just a red ribbon." She whispered.

"It's not just a ribbon. It's your ribbon! Glad to have it." Lucy turned her head slightly away from Natsu to hide her reddish face. "And oh, I finished cleaning! So uhm…" Natsu rubbed the back of his head and shyly smiled. "Sorry about the mess. Can you forgive me?"

"How can I not forgive you? You're my bestfriend!" Lucy smiled brightly at Natsu. "You did an excellent job. Just don't do that again, though. I might do something that I might regret."

Natsu showed her a wide grin and then hugged her. "Thanks, Luce! You're the best!"

Lucy laughed especially when he just dismissed her threat and hugged him back. "Well then, do you want to go to the guild and eat? And maybe take up a request to burn your flames out?" She grinned.

"Hey, my flames never burn out!"

"Like hell it's not. Anyway, let's go?"

"Sure!" Natsu stood up first and then offered a hand to help his partner up.

'Another thing to add into my Lucy collection!' His inner self showed a victory sign as he glanced at the ribbon tied around his arm. The two went out of the apartment and went to the Guild.

He never took the damn thing off until Erza threatened him to take a bath a few days later.