Moments later they were at the village chiefs house. Natsu knocked on the door and a man of small stature with gray hair and a small bit of bolding pattern on his head.

'Yeesh?' He was surprised and curious about the nobles who came knocking on his door.

'Hello Sir, I was in the area and seen the mansion on the outskirts of your town and I was astonished by the architecture and I was captured by the charm of an old building such as it. I was wondering if you would allow us to purchase the mansion? Name your price.' He spoke in a well-mannered tone.

'Weeel, I doon't seeee why a nooble suuuch as yeerself would want suuch aa rundown mansion.' The old man spoke slowly and stretched his words.

'Me and my…. Wife…Wanted to get away from the noise of the city and take it calm around the countryside.' Natsu looked at Mira.

'Yoou haave a beauutifuul wife, Siir.' The old man peered further and looked at Mira.

'That she is.' He said that with a deep breath.

'I woould be willing to seel it, it juust stands theere. For 650 Golod pieces?' He raised his eyebrows.

If Natsu agreed on the first price he would be getting ripped off and milked of money for the rest of Miras stay here.

'I could buy a NEW mansion and at least 20 Acres of land with that amount. How about we drop it down a bit? Say 350 gold pieces?'

'Hmmmm sir, thaat seems a biit too loow, even with thee mansion beeeing in suuch conidtioon. What saay you too 560 pieces?'

'We're getting better, the highest I will pay is 486 pieces. No more than that, there will be a lot of expenses fixing it up also my wife over there likes to pick expensive furniture.'

'Yoou haave a deeal!' The old man almost jumped.'Keey's right here.' He handed Natsu the key. For a second Natsu paused and thought about how did the man know to have the jey ready? But brushed it over as it made no real difference to him for now.

They made their way to the mansion which was only 5 minutes away and it was really run down. It had 4 pillars supporting a large roof over the door which reached 3 metres donning a massive door knocker shaped like a ram head. Windows and red curtains decorated the windows, they were ripped at parts and some lost their bright colour.

Natsu stopped right in front of the door, stretched out his arms as if to hug the house and took a huge breath. 'This is your new home!'

'…..'

'What? It's nice! Some slight renovations and it will be like the one you imagined.'

'It-'

'Yessss?'

'Looks like shit, I think is the term.' She crossed her arms.

'You learn that from one of your books? What books did I bring you? But look at this, I can guarantee you don't know this spell.' Natsu bragged.

'I know every spell.' She protested.

'Not this one.'

'I KNOW I DO.'

'Nah ah.'

'WHAT'S THE SPELL?!'

Natsu raised his hand in the air and moved it like he was gripping something, his hair began flowing upwards, in his eyes a lemniscate appeared. He slowly twisted his hand in an anti-clockwise. The wind picked up and a massive continuous gust stormed around Natsu flipping his cloak up and down. Mira held down her dress as she watched. Her eyes seen this magic for the second time in her life. It was time manipulation magic performed by the only one capable of it. It was amazing then, and it had even more of an effect now.

The plants that had been growing over the mansion retreated slowly back underground, the dirt on the walls flew off and into the distance where it came from. The red curtains zipped themselves together and as if someone turned up the strength of the light shining on them they started almost glowing. The chairs and wardrobes along with other types of furniture moved into their original spots when they were still new.

'Tempus.' Natsu whispered.

'It looked better the first time.' She pouted.

'It looks cool everytime.'

'Show off.'

'Yeah, yeah, spoiled brat. Time for bed, I'm tired.'

'Sleep?'

'Oh I am not explaining sleep to you.'

'But, what is it?'

'The single best experience there is left in the entire world!' He opened the door to the mansion. 'I'll show you! I can assure you there is no one else better at sleeping than me.'

'Is the spell that hard to cast?'

'Wha-no…' He face palmed. 'Come, I'll show you.'

Natsu lead Mira into the master bedroom, it had a massive bed in the middle and was kitted out with furniture befitting of a queen. 'Alright, lie down on the bed.'

Mira moved onto the bed and lied down in a crooked position. She wriggled a bit and then frowned.

'I don't get it…'

'No, ugh, lie down straight and maybe turn onto whichever side is more comfortable.'

She rolled left, waited a bit, then rolled right and stayed just like that. She put her head on her hands and waited for more instructions.

'What now?' She asked.

'Just stay like that for a bit and listen.' Natsu pulled up a chair and sat down beside her. 'When you were in your prison what did you feel?'

'…..There was this…..emptiness…and nothing to do…..' She struggled to talk about it, she wasn't used to emotions because she never used them.

'Ok, think about that emptiness.'

She lay there thinking about that emptiness and the frustration she felt doing nothing. It slowly got the better of her, and her eyes closed bit by bit. It was the thought of emptiness.

'What now?' She waited.

There was no answer, just a flash of light and smoke.

'Natsu?' She yawned. 'Na-t-su….' Her eyes closed and she finally fell asleep.

It's been 12 hours and Mira was still sleeping like a baby. Natsu wasn't about to wake her, it seemed like it was her first ever night's sleep since….ever. Also the last thing he needed is a demon queen who had her nap interrupted. Natsu decided he can then hold his interview for the housemaid. The woman whose daughter slammed Mira down. It was almos noon and it would be nice to get some help for the massive mansion, it was a stroke of luck that she said she'll do anything.

A knock on the door confirmed she's punctual at least. Natsu teleported to the door and opened it revealing the lady with the same clothes as a day ago. Rugged and tattered dress with an apron over it.

'Afternoon.' He greeted her. ' Please come in, I'll be with you in a second.' He pointed to the living room. She walked to where Natsu pointed, she hesitated and held onto her chest.

He quickly teleported in to see if Mira's still asleep to make this count. She would deny any help no matter what. Natsu teleported back.

'Sorry, let-.' He froze as he seen the woman stand there…naked holding her dress just covering her breasts. He put his hands together, moved his hands up to his forehead and looked up.

'God. I know the last time I seen you I called you an asshole but for letting this miracle happen I would like to thank you.' He took a deep breath and then looked at the woman. 'Miss, that is not why I called you here….'

The woman panicked. 'No?!' She started putting her clothes back on. Natsu turned around. He knew what went through the woman's head, the oldest way of payment. The woman thought she would keep her child safe if she gave in to whatever the passing noble wanted and she was willing to do it for her daughter. He liked it, someone with dedication.

'Although I really appreciate the gesture it really isn't why I asked you to come here. I was thinking you were maybe looking for a job.'

The woman put on her tattered dress and bowed trying to apologize to Natsu.

'I'm so sorry, Sir!'

'No, it is really fine.' He recalled not having seen a naked woman in 300 years, and now he seen two in two days. He really had to apologize to God next time he saw it. 'About the job?'

'I already—have a job, Sir.' She answered quietly, to her Natsu was another rich noble who is probably trying to exploit her and just because he doesn't want to use her does not mean he was nice.

'Yeah, correct me if I am wrong on any of this but back in town you said you were willing to do anything.' Natsu made a cheap move, he didn't let her back out.

The woman knew she made a mistake doing this, the next thing that came after would probably be the pay off, something along the lines of 10 silver pieces a week. She couldn't afford anything with that much money, she could barely do it now and support her daughter. The father of her daughter ran away from responsibility as soon as he found out the woman was pregnant.

'I'm sorry, Sir. I can't' She stood firmly and faced Natsu.

'You said you would do anything.'

'Anything but that, Sir. I can't.'

'So you just go around breaking promises like that on a daily basis?' Natsu said, slightly annoyed. He knew if she doesn't agree then he would have to go look for someone else and that takes a lot of effort.

'No, Sir but I've seen people like you before, walking around with money and preying on the less fortunate abusing what you have!' She raised her voice and stepped forward asserting her position on this. 'There is absolutely NO way I will work here for nothing! I only ever agreed to do anything because it was the only way to get that spoiled princess and you from hurting my daughter but if I take any kind of work from you for a tiny amount of money she will get hurt anyway because SHE WILL STARVE!' The woman was furious, as if everything, every bit of frustration came out roaring like a dragon.

'Lady.' Natsu tried to calm her.

' I AM BARELY SCRAPING BY AND TRYING TO GIVE MY DAUGHTER A HAPPY LIFE!'

'L-Lady.' He was blown back a bit.

'THERE'S NO WAY I WILL TAKE YOUR STU—'

'LADY!' Natsu shouted loosing his temper. A surge of wind radiated from him flipping over the table in front of him and jittering the curtains in all directions. His eyes lit up a bright green and the force emanating from him pushed the woman back. After a second Natsu got a hold of himself. He relaxed and looked around him realising what he had done. He clicked his fingers and the table along with pillows lying on the floor returned to their original place.

'Sorry.' He said. He seen the expression on the woman's face and knew he gave her a fright. He could see the tears in her eyes.

'Do you go around scarin' helpless people now or?' Mira was walking down the stairs, she was woken up by Natsu's magic. She could definitely recognize it, always. She walked over to him and without warning hit him in the back of the head with an open palm. It was powerful enough to kill a normal human. Natsu's head went forward then swung backwards again.

'Blegh!' He grabbed the back of his head.

'I need to say that what you said about sleep what right. It's great.' She sat down beside him, leaned back and crossed her legs while he sat hunched over looking at the floor. 'But when you sense a magic this disgusting but powerful it's hard to sleep and will be for the next week which was my plan. Tell me, what's the point of showing me something so wonderful and then stopping me from doing it because you wanted to scare some poor girl.'

'Tha-That was not the plan, I don't like when people don't listen to me when I'm trying to explain something.'

'Very controlling aren't you?' She mocked him.

Natsu looked up at the woman. ' Listen, I'm very sorry but I like to avoid loud confrontations.'

'Look who's spoiled now, wimp.' Mira butt in.

'I just wanted to interrupt you and tell you that I wasn't planning on exploiting you in any way. I was going to offer you 3 gold pieces a week to work here.'

The woman looked at him and froze. 'H-h-how much?!' She almost screamed.

' 3 Gold pieces for cleaning, doing the laundry shopping and babysitting.'

She couldn't believe it, the man was offering her triple what she earned a year for one week. The horror hit her, she just went off on a person who was willing to pay her enough money to buy a house after a month of work.

'Sir, I am so sorry I-'

'No.' He stopped her.' It was my fault, I shouldn't have shouted either, I hope you will rethink taking this job-'

'I WILL!' She answered instantly.

'…' Natsu got startled. 'That'ssssss great, you start tomorrow!' He stood up and swiped the air with his hand. A set of maid clothes appeared in it. 'Also don't forget to wear these as well and starting tomorrow you will be provided with a room for your stay.'

'Sir, I can't just leave my daughter alone and live here.' She said respectfully.

'She can come with, the job will be very important and I need you here all the time, naturally everything you need for cooking meals will be provided each month for you, your daughter and her.' He nodded his head towards Mira, who sat there with her arms crossed but her head leaned back almost touching her neck. She was asleep and snoring loudly, mouth wide open, drool sliding down the side of her face. 'I would also appreciate if you stopped calling me Sir, Natsu is fine, and this symbol of grace here is Mirajane.'

'Yes Si-Natsu.'

'We're gonna have to work on that but it's fine.'

'But Si-Nat- .' She struggled. 'Where is the baby I will be taking care of and how old is it?'

'The baby is about 500 years old and is right here.' He pointed to the demon queen snoring beside him.