Fairy Tail - Fanfiction: Chapter 38; "Moving Day"

"Natsu!"

The dragon slayer opened his eyes and gazed into the girl's chocolate brown ones. "Yeah, Luce?"

"Wake up! Today's moving day, remember?" the blond told him, trying to lightly shake his shoulder. It had been a few weeks since they had originally started looking for the right house to get.

Natsu shot upward, suddenly sitting upright on the bed. "I almost forgot! Sorry, Lucy."

"It's okay, but get ready for the day. Don't forget we're heading over to my father's house sometime."

Natsu tilted his head. "Why? I thought you already asked him-"

"I did!" Lucy replied angrily. Does he ever listen? Even if he does, is it possible that he just doesn't remember anything?

"Then why-"

"Natsu," Lucy began slowly. "We're meeting him over there so we can discuss some work matters. He told me that he wanted me to have his business, and there will be loads of paperwork to fill out to officially sign it over to me. Don't worry," she added when she saw the boy's look. "He has plenty of other businesses, not just one or two. He has like five, actually. We talked about this last night, if you were paying attention."

"Oh," Natsu said, suddenly remembering. "Yeah, sorry."

The girl sighed. "What am I going to do with you?"

"I dunno," he answered. "But go do what you need to do. I'll be over in a minute, Luce."

"Fine," she replied, already starting to walk over to her desk full of papers.

A few minutes later, Natsu appeared by her side. "What's all this about?"

Without looking up at her boyfriend, Lucy said, "It's the paperwork for our new house. There's the monthly payment information that we'll have to pay, and under it is the cost of the house itself."

The pink-haired boy picked up the two papers. "Whoa!"

"Hmm?"

"200,000 jewel as the cost!?" he exclaimed.

"Yeah," Lucy answered. "But at least the monthly payments are low."

Natsu looked at the other paper in his hand. "You're right, Luce. Only 50 jewel! The sellers must be nice people to be generous like that."

"Actually," Lucy explained, still too busy filling out other papers to look at him. "The people selling the house are good friends with my dad. Plus, they love Fairy Tail High, so they decided to cut us a really great deal."

"Wow, we're lucky." Natsu smiled. Lucy looked out of the corner of her eye, catching his goofy grin. She couldn't help herself from returning the look.

"I guess so."

"Natsu! Lucy!"

"Hmm? Who could that be?" Lucy asked, turning around and staring at the door.

"I'll get it, Luce," Natsu offered.

"Thanks."

When Natsu opened up the door, he was surprised to see who it was. "Mira?"

"And...?" the white-haired girl asked with a sweet smile.

Natsu looked behind her, his eyes widening. "Erza? Gajeel and Levy, too! Hi, Juvia. What's up, Wendy, Carla? What are you guys going here?"

"Oi, fire-brain!" Gray started. "You forgot about m-"

"We're here to help you and Lucy move, of course," Erza replied.

"Seriously!?" Gray complained.

"Gray-sama's here to help as well," Juvia spoke up.

"Oh, hey, ice-princess," Natsu said calmly. "I didn't notice you were here."

"Wanna' go, flame-head?" Gray challenged, stepping forward. He was blocked by Erza's arm.

"We're here to help, not fight," the redhead told them.

"So," Mira went on, as if nothing happened. "What do you need help with?"

"Well, Happy and Lily were starting to pack up things at my house," Natsu said. "Some of you could help them out if you want."

"Carla and I can go," Wendy offered.

"Okay. Juvia and Gray-sama will go with them, too," the water mage added.

"Great! Thanks, everyone!" Lucy called happily from inside her apartment.

"No problem, Lucy," Mira replied.

"Come on in," Natsu said, moving away from the door to let everyone else inside.

"Hey, Lu-chan!" Levy greeted. "What are you working on?"

The blond girl sighed. "Paperwork."

"Yuck," Gajeel commented. "You two can do that; I'll go help move boxes."

"Guys..." the bookworm huffed. She turned back to Lucy. "What all is there to do?"

"Well," the blond began, showing Levy two small stacks of papers. "Just these. The pile on the left are already filled out, but the right pile still needs done."

"Alright! It should be easy, right?" Levy smiled and pulled a chair over next to Lucy, grabbing a few papers and starting to do what she could.

"Salamander, where do you want these boxes anyway?" Gajeel called across the room, carrying a large cardboard cube.

"There should be a van here any minute," Natsu answered. "Just put them outside the door."

"Got it."

As everyone got to work, the moving van eventually came up to the apartment. Two men got out and started loading up the back with boxes. One was tall with straight brown hair and ice blue eyes. The other was a few inches shorter with spiky, dark blue hair and bright golden eyes.

Natsu went up to them when all the boxes were loaded in. He started talking about something, but Lucy couldn't hear them clearly.

"There," she said after a few minutes. "The paperwork is finally done!"

"That's great," Mira replied cheerfully, coming over. "The boxes are all packed in except the ones for your desk."

"Okay, then we're halfway done," Levy stated with a smile, getting off her chair.

Yay! Lucy thought, relieved. Now we just have to get Natsu and Happy's things in the van and then move everything into the new house.

"I'll meet you over at your new place, Lu," Levy promised, waving good-bye.

"See you there, Levy-chan!" Lucy called back.

"Hey, Luce," Natsu said, coming inside.

"Hey, Natsu," Lucy replied. "Mira said everything was packed and in the van."

"Yeah. Gajeel got your desk put in there, too."

"Wait... What?" Lucy turned around again and stared at the space where her desk was a minute before. "How'd he do that so fast...?"

The fire dragon slayer shrugged. "Well, we just need that chair. Then we can start heading over to your dad's."

"What about Happy and the others over at your place?" Lucy asked, getting up and watching as Erza came in and took the chair.

"Wendy called me by lacrima. She said that everything is in the second van."

Oh, yeah! I almost forgot that there was a second one. Lucy blinked.

"That's everything," Mira told them, peeking inside. "Are you ready?"

"We'll be there in a moment, Mira," Natsu called over his shoulder.

"So the second van is already heading over to our house?" Lucy asked.

"Yeah. Our van's heading out now, too."

"Good. Then we'll meet everyone over at our house in a couple of hours."

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