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The Table is a Battlefield!

Naruto, Gray, Natsu, Lucy were all in Lucy's apartment. They were each sitting down around a table as they looked at a pot that was filled with delicious food, the pot of food was cooking over a small burner stove on top of Lucy's table. It was a pot of Sukiyaki, Sukiyaki was thin sliced beef with vegetables on a hot pot - it was a treat they rarely got to enjoy.

"Someone should go wait at the door... to open it when Erza and Juvia get here..." Naruto stated as he stared at the pot filled with goodness.

"You go," Natsu and Gray said at the same time, "You'll just eat the food the moment we leave..." They knew exactly what he was trying to do.

"Oi! You think that low of me? I wouldn't do such a thing! So both of you go!" The blond said, his eyes still not leaving the pot.

"Why should we?" Gray quirked, "It's Lucy's apartment... she should go!"

"You're right, Lucy go wait by the door so you can open it for Juvia and Erza," Naruto told the blonde. "Be a great host for your friends!"

"I know they want to eat the food without me... especially the delicious looking meat... I don't usually eat meat but we are celebrating for coming back from the Tower of Heaven... so today I will be eating all the meat I want!" Lucy said with determination in her eyes.

"Not going to happen," Lucy shook her head. If they wanted to play she would play!

"Oi, you were destined to be a great host, have some faith in yourself," Naruto continued to say.

"The moment I turn away and leave you three will just eat the meat," Lucy said as she stared at the pot with intensely, "I rarely eat meat so today I plan on eating without stopping!"

"Oi, do you want to lose that perfect body of yours?!" Naruto asked her, "You'll get fat and no one is going to want you then! Will you let yourself go for a taste of food goodness, huh, huh?!"

"Your little mind games won't work on me," Lucy grinned at him. She wasn't backing down!

"I guess they really won't... but it doesn't matter for I will be victorious... I will eat this entire pot if I have to but I will win for I am justiceeeee!" Naruto thought while shrugging off Lucy's comment.

"Give us a break," Gray then said after, "Do you think us your Nakama would do such a thing?!" He said while smirking.

Naruto's eyes widened, "Oi, Gray you genius! You are making her think she's our comrade... and gain her trust... but when she least expects it we will betray her and eat the pot of food!" He thought as he waited for Lucy's answer.

"Nakama? Not in the table... in the table no one can be trusted!" Lucy thought before saying, "I am your Nakama too... all of us are so why don't go stand by the door? You can trust us!"

"Shit! She used my Nakama line on me..." Gray growled mentally before saying, "W-Why don't we both go together?" "WHAT THE FUCK?! WHAT DID I JUST DO?! WHAT IF SHE SAYS YES?! I'LL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO GO WITH HER! THAT'LL LEAVE NATSU AND NARUTO ALONE AND THEY'LL EAT THE ENTIRE POT WITHOUT US!" Gray yelled mentally.

"That sounds like a good idea," Natsu nodded, "Both of you greet Erza and Juvia and Naruto and I will protect the pot," he smiled at them.

"Yeah, I'm not really that hungry either... so you can trust me not to eat..." Naruto lied to them.

"If you're not that hungry why don't you go wait by the door?" Natsu, Gray and Lucy then asked him at the same time. This made Naruto's eyes widened, "I made a foolish mistake! shit! shit! shit! now I need to come up with a good excuse..."

"O-Oi, I would b-but...my foot is asleep?" That was the best excuse he could come up with.

"That's a load of crap!" The three said at the same time.

"Hey! It's true we don't eat sukiyaki often... especially you Lucy... but that doesn't mean we are gonna eat it while your back is turned!" The blonde stated, "I really can't believe you three would lose trust on each other and especially me! After everything we've been through together aren't we all Nakama?! We should enjoy this pot together!" he said.

"I see what you're doing..." Gray thought as he looked at Naruto. "I guess you're right!"

"This is a day to celebrate, no?" Natsu nodded.

"Yeah... we must not lose sight of what is most important," Lucy smiled at them.

It stayed silent after that, but even if it was silent there was an intense feeling in the atmosphere... it was the most intense feeling any of them had ever experienced, and they had been through a lot, from fighting demons to dark mages...

"This atmosphere is very intense... I can hardly breathe..." Lucy thought.

"Man, I'm so hungry..." Natsu thought to himself.

"I'm not worried about Lucy and Natsu... it's Naruto I'm worried about... he's too smart for his own good.." Gray thought as he stared at Naruto, "Maybe I can team up with him and then betray him?" Gray continued to think as he eyed Naruto.

"Man this is so troublesome... everything is so intense up in this bitch... one small move and everyone will leap for the pot...I must do something but what?" Naruto thought as he stared at a spoon and a fork in front of him, "What if I use my spoon as a diversion? I'll throw it up in the air and while they are all looking at it I'll leap in and grab the tasty meat!" Naruto smirked darkly as his hand slowly reached in for his spoon.

Gray continued looking at Naruto to see him slowly reaching for his spoon, "He's going to try leaping in for the pot?! N-No... if he was going for the meat he'd use a fork to stab it and grab... so why is he grabbing his spoon? oh! he's going to use his spoon as a diversion... I must be ready!"

Without warning Naruto quickly grabbed his spoon and threw it up in the air, Natsu and Lucy watched as the spoon spinned as it flew up and then they realized they had been tricked!

"THE MEAT! IT WILL BE MINES!" Naruto yelled mentally as he quickly grabbed his fork and then leaped in for the meat, the tasty meat!

"Fire Dragon's Spoon!" Naruto suddenly heard Natsu yell, turning to the pinkette he saw the pinkette throw his spoon at Naruto's fork - the spoon headed directly for the blond's fork and it collided with it. The moment Natsu's spoon hit his fork, the fork flew out of his hand.

"It can't be?! I underestimated him!" Naruto thought as he looked at Natsu who was now smirking.

"HA! YOU LOST NARUTO! NOW THIS GLORIOUS MEAT WILL BE ALL MINES TO DEVOUR!" Gray thought as his fork headed right for the meat... and he would of had it if it wasn't for Lucy, who without warning put her hand in the way... causing Gray to stab the back of her hand.

"EEEEEEEEK! THIS HURTS SO MUCH! WHY DID I DO THIS?! WHYYY?!" Lucy yelled in pain inside of her head as she watched Gray stare at her in shock.

"I-I can't believe she used her hand to save the meat... I-I underestimated you Lucy..." Gray thought as he watched Lucy slowly pull the fork out of her hand.

She looked calm but inside her head she was crying out in pain! She wouldn't show any of them a weakness for she had to win!

"Not cool!" Natsu then glared at Naruto and Gray, "Both of you try going in for the meat... because of you my heart has grown more and more impure! I will never see the world the same ever again!"

"Aren't you glad you just learned a valuable life lesson? You, Natsu are now one step closer to becoming a man, when you find Igneel he will be proud of the man I'm turning you into!"

"Plus... don't you know?" Gray smirked at the pinkette, "The table is a battlefield!"

"Is that so?! In that case I'll hate both of you, detest you, curse you! I will take my hatred and I'll use it to defeat both of you!" Natsu yelled out.

"Oi, the dark side will be proud of you," Naruto nodded, "You are on your way to becoming the Food Jedi! In order to gain unlimited power you must defeat Gray!" he continued to say.

As the trio argued Lucy stared at them intensely, "Damn it, that was a really close one... Naruto and Gray were actually bold enough to reach in for the sukiyaki...if we keep this up we might actually spill the pot over and then nobody will be able to eat meat... I really want meat! like a lot of meat! like so much meat inside of me! I want the meat to fill me up completely!" Lucy thought as she came up with a plan.

"Eh... whatever," Lucy finally said, "I want this sukiyaki as much as you guys... but as a Fairy Tail mage I'll let you guys have it..." She continued to say.

"Hey Lucy that's not fair..." Natsu shook his head, "I can't allow that, gramps taught us better than than this... so I too will let Gray and Naruto eat it if they want..."

"Shit... I know what you're going Lucy... you're using our pride against us... shit I can't allow flamebrain to be the bigger and better man than me!" Gray thought in annoyance before saying, "No, no, flamebrain you can have the sukiyaki..."

"But I want you to get some first," Natsu smiled at him.

"I must be the bigger and better man so you get some first!"

"Ha! Ice-prick, I'll be the even better and bigger man so you go for it!"

"No! My bigger and better will be bigger and better than your bigger and better!" Gray smirked.

"WHY DON'T YOU JUST GRAB THE FOOD FIRST?!"

"WHY DON'T YOU MAKE ME, ASH FOR BRAINS?!"

"MAYBE I WILL!"

"Hehe, they have fallen for my trap..." Lucy thought as she watched Natsu and Gray argue before turning to Naruto who only looked at her with no emotion on his face, "Tch... you Naruto are on a whole other level... but I know you won't make a move for the food since you already failed your first attempt... it means I'll go for it the pot! I'LL BECOME THE POT-KAGE, BELIEVE IT!"

Lucy quickly reached for the pot and she grabbed it with both hands, she was actually surprised Naruto didn't bother stopping her, she picked it up without thinking twice she started gulping down the entire pot of food with down her throat. She finished it within seconds and smirked while looking at Naruto along with Gray and Natsu who were no longer arguing.

"I WON! I HAVE BECOME THE POT-KAGE, NOW YOU GUYS HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO RESPECT AND ACKNOWLEDGE ME!" Lucy yelled out in victory.

At that moment Erza and Juvia walked into Lucy's apartment and Lucy smiled, "I already finished the pot of food without you, too bad huh?!"

"That's okay," Erza smiled back, "That pot was full of pork to begin with..."

Lucy felt the blood leave her face, "Pork?! IT WAS PORK?!" She yelled out before looking at Naruto, Gray and Natsu who were grinning darkly.

"THEY KNEW ALL ALONG DIDN'T THEY? FROM THE START THEIR GOAL WAS TO GET RID OF THE WEAKEST THAT WAY I WOULDN'T HINDER THEM WHEN THE REAL BATTLE STARTED?!" Lucy thought as she ran to her bathroom to puke.

"THAT'S RIGHT! IT WAS PORK ALL ALONG MWAHAHAHA!" Naruto laughed inside his head.

"The real battle starts now..." Gray and Natsu thought as they watched Erza and Juvia sit down.

"It's time for the celebration to start," Erza smiled as they once again prepared the pot of food.

They all waited patiently until at last Erza finished cooking the food in the pot, "It's a beautiful pot of food let us dig in and let us enjoy this moment!" she said.

"The real battle starts now... I will become the Pot-Kage!" Naruto yelled in his head as he reached in for the delicious meat.

"No, I will become the Pot-Kage!" Gray reached in for the grab as well!

"I won't let any of you win, I'm all fired up and ready to win!" Natsu too yelled in his head as he leaped for the tasty meat that awaited.

It was no use because at that moment it was like a nuke exploded - a dark aura covered Juvia and Erza as they quickly leaped in and both started devouring the food without warning.

"THE DEMON QUEEN HAS AWAKENED! SHE WILL EAT THE FOOD! I MUST GRAB MEAT!" Naruto yelled but it was no use Erza kicked him and he went flying across the room.

Gray before he could grab any was elbowed in the face by Juvia, causing him to fall on his back while grabbing his nose.

Natsu also ended up being kicked and sent flying across the room by other hand Erza.

"They are on a whole other level! Juvia and Erza aren't Pot-Kages... they are Pot-Goddesses! W-We lost to them..." The trio thought as they saw darkness.

The Table was truly a battlefield!

A/N: I had to rush it at the end cause I'm leaving soon but I hope everyone enjoyed! it was a chapter ripped off of Gintama episode 25 so go watch the episode xD it's way better this chapter.

Next chapter I start the Battle of Fairy Tail arc :D

Have a good day/night everyone!