Summary: sequel to The Best Birthday Present Ever, now its Natsu's turn to be Lucy's servant for the day.

Pairings: Implied Gray/Natsu, Gray/Juvia, and lots and lotsNatsu/Lucy.

Author's Note: Dedicated to all of you lovely reviewers who have given me over a HUNDRED reviews. Thank you all so much, I hope you enjoy this one as well. Special thanks to Tsubaki394 for the suggestion XD.

When Erza and Gray asked Lucy what she would want for her birthday, they were rather surprised when she clenched her hand into a fist, pumped it in the air, and snarled furiously, "Revenge!" they were less surprised and more understanding when Lucy revealed for Natsu's birthday she had been kidnapped, dressed up as a maid, and forced to serve him hand and foot all day.

Then they got a bit too enthusiastic with the kidnapping of Natsu and forcing him into clothes that would embarrass him.

Happy will later claim that it was one of the five reasons he has to go to therapy. After all it looked like Gray was 'raping' Natsu. This of course became the reason why Happy ended up in the Vets with a concussion, and Gray would later end up with a broken nose from all animal lovers.

Anyway, on the morning of Lucy's birthday, it was Erza who delivered Natsu onto her front doorstep, tied up, gagged, and dressed in full butler's attire. It actually looked like Capricorn lent him his own clothes for the occasion as they were a little too big on him. "We had a battle and a half to get him in them," Erza explained as she shoved Natsu into Lucy's arms, "Happy Birthday from me and Gray, I hope to see you later and we can feast on cake in order to celebrate the day you were born. Until then, Natsu," the pink-haired dragon slayer stiffened at Erza's sudden change of tone. She went from soft and sweet to her strictest, scariest, voice. "You will do whatever Lucy tells you. No matter what, got it?"

"A-aye!" Natsu stuttered behind his gag.

"Good," Erza nodded, "goodbye for now."

Once Erza was definitely gone, Lucy helped untie Natsu, and he gladly got rid of his gag and took several deep breaths of freedom….until he remembered he was Lucy's slave for the day and immediately fell into dejection. "So….what are you going to make me do?" he asked wearily. "You're not going to make me do weird stuff like kiss your feet are you?"

"Do I look like I'm you?!" Lucy retorted. Before he could answer, she crossed her arms, turned her back to him, and carried on rather huffily, "If you must know I was going to make you do some household chores. My laundry needs doing, my apartment could use a good cleaning, especially the bathroom, and I don't particularly want to cook."

Natsu moaned. "But Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucy!" he whined childishly. "That sounds boring and too long to do."

"You're supposed to be my slave for the day," Lucy pointed out, "it's not supposed to be fun."

"I'm not your slave," Natsu spat out, "I'm your butler. Erza decided not to go with the slave costume."

Lucy looked mortified but she couldn't help (he knew she wouldn't have been able to, Lucy was just as curious as the rest of them,) asking, "What slave costume?!"

"Some sort of Arabian, sex, slave, thing," Natsu muttered as he ran a hand through his hair, "Gray argued against it because it was just a pair of trousers that look like most of my clothes anyway, and Erza agreed, but only because I think she's planning to make Gray wear them for Juvia." He grinned evilly. "I so want to see that."

"I wasn't aware you had a thing for Gray being topless," Lucy said dryly, "I should have to inform him of that."

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!"

Natsu was so angry at the implication that he almost burst into flames, which honestly wouldn't be the first time, that Lucy decided to backtrack before her apartment got damaged and she either had to pay for it or get kicked out. Neither was appealing. "Okay, okay," Lucy said as she held her hands out in an 'I surrender' gesture. "Just do my laundry while I have a bath and then we'll discuss your next duty, yeah?"

"Okay," Natsu's evil grin made another return, "do you want me to wash your back?"

"NO!"

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Lucy managed to enjoy a two hour bath while she read a brand new book (a present from Levy) but unfortunately it went downhill from there. Although Natsu managed to do her laundry perfectly (years of practise from doing Erza's), he was a terrible cook, unable to produce more than a charred fish which certainly did not appeal to Lucy's stomach, and she ended up making her own lunch.

Then came the big battle to get him to clean her bathroom.

"I'm not doing it!"

"Yes you are," Lucy glared up at him, "the whole point of this servant for a day is that you do what I say."

"I didn't make you clean my bathroom!"

"No," Lucy agreed furiously, "you made me clean your house, cook umpteen different meats, and wash your back!"

"I offered to wash your back!"

"I don't want you to wash my back, you great big pervert!" Lucy shrieked. "I want you to clean my bathroom. There's still residue pudding from when you and Happy decide to bathe in the stuff in my bath tub!"

"We were playing, and you were invited!" Natsu argued. "If there's any of it still left from the last time you made me clean up it's because your hair is clogging the plughole again!"

Lucy glowered so ferociously at Natsu that she could almost feel the aura of her own fury pouring out of her. "Do you want me to tell Erza you're slacking off?" she asked threateningly.

"No!" Natsu squeaked. "Erm, you know what, Lucy-sama? I think I will make your bathroom extra squeaky clean!"

Lucy sunk into her chair and sighed as Natsu raced off to the bathroom and finally did what he was told. She always thought with her heiress upbringing that she would be the one crap at obeying orders, not Natsu. As time passed and Natsu was finally finished cleaning the bathroom, Lucy came to an irritated realisation that her apartment wasn't big enough or filthy enough to be able to order Natsu about. Sure she could make him dust or something equally mundane but she had no doubt he would end up accidentally trashing the place. In the end she managed to come up with the perfect torture for Natsu in order to get her sweet, sweet, revenge….shopping!

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Shopping didn't go as well as Lucy hoped.

Natsu had whined the entire time, which, while was expected, was incredibly off-putting. Lucy hadn't been able to enjoy browsing through the books or comparing shades of lipstick hen she had Natsu moaning in her ear the entire time. To make matters worse he got her kicked out of five shops. Two of which were her favourite! So Lucy ended up storming down the street, with a whinging brat trailing behind her, wishing that she had just asked for a new whip or something from Erza and Gray instead.

"All right Natsu," Lucy said, exhausted from just being around him, "your last order of the day," Natsu perked up at that and Lucy tried to not let it bother her that he was eager to get away from her, "you have to take me out for dinner," Lucy ordered imperiously as possible. She even pointed at him and looked as high and mighty as possible while making this order.

"Aw, do I have to?" Natsu whined. "I'm hot, tired, and the places you like to eat are terrible!"

"You know what?" Lucy snapped, finally losing her temper. "Forget it! Let's just forget this whole day! I understand not wanting to wear a stupid costume and serve someone's every whim, it's fucking humiliating, but I did it for you because it was your birthday, your day, and I wanted to make it special for you, and help Lisanna. You could at least have the decency to play along for my own birthday. It's not like I've been asking you to do degrading things. I just wanted you to clean the bathroom, do some chores, and take me out for fucking dinner for my birthday. Is it really too much to ask? Then I'm obviously not worth that much to you."

And with that Lucy stormed off with the full intention of running back to her apartment, climbing into bed, and crying her eyes out as she remembers once again why her birthday isn't worth celebrating.

"Luce, wait!"

He grabbed hold of her wrist, and before she could pull away from him, he yanked her close, her back against his chest, and wrapped his arms firmly round her waist. "Don't leave," he murmured into her ear, and she deflated instantly as her cheeks flushed pink, his breath tickled her earlobes and she suddenly had to fight back the urge to moan. Goddamnit! She swore to herself, knowing she was going to give in soon. "I'm sorry," he mumbled, "I'll do whatever you want, no moaning, I promise." All of her anger left her at that point, why could she never remain angry with him? It wasn't fair! She relented by covering her hand over his.

"Take me out for dinner?" she asked him quietly.

"Okay."

Her disappointment over the fact he pulled away from her vanished when he took her hand into his. Together they walked hand in hand to find a good place to eat. This was definitely one of the better birthdays she ever had.

"Hmm…" Natsu frowned. "I can't help but think I've forgotten something."

"Eh," Lucy shrugged, "couldn't have been important then."

(Meanwhile back at the guild, everyone was sitting in awkward hiding spots (Elfman was incredibly squashed and cramped but he endured it because it was MAN!) in the dark as they had been for the last two hours. "Damnit!" Gray swore beneath Juvia. "I knew we shouldn't have trusted Natsu in bringing Lucy to her own surprise party!")