Summary: Sting's attempt to impress Natsu and Fairy Tail fail epically…
Pairings: Hero-Worship Sting/Natsu, implied Sting/Lector friendship, implied sibling Gajeel/Wendy/Natsu, implied Lucy/Yukino friendship, implied Natsu/Yukino friendship, implied Gray/Juvia, implied Sting/Yukino, and implied Natsu/Lucy.
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Sting had hoped to impress Fairy Tail with his new addition to Sabertooth's guild building. After all, each and every one of them was a hero to someone in this guild, and after everything they've been through, the protection they had provided to his precious guild member Yukino, and the kindness they had shown to them despite the things they did to them, Sting was determined to wow them with his new swimming pool.
He decided to forgo the 'stripping' ritual that he tended to start each and every full guild pool party with (he decided on it as a way to mock the previous Master and to help Yukino. Before she hadn't been able to look at anyone in the eye since they had all seen her naked but now she had seen them naked too….okay, she still couldn't look at most of them in the eye but how was he supposed to know Orga had that really embarrassing mole?!) , as he was certain Natsu would fly into an overprotective rage for Yukino, and it would offend all the Fairy Tail girls.
And believe him, he really didn't want to piss off Erza, Cana, Juvia, Lucy, and Mirajane. He shuddered to think what the other girls would react to such an order, and he didn't even want to think what Gajeel and Natsu would do to him if he made Wendy strip in front of everyone.
Sting liked a good fight but he wasn't suicidal.
So anyway, here he stood watching smugly as Fairy Tail were in blatant awe of his swimming pool and were having the time of their lives in his guild building. He turned to grin at Natsu who was lounging on one of the sun chairs.
"Impressive, right?"
Natsu didn't reply as his eyes seemed to be glued to something else. Sting frowned, a little angry that his guest and hero couldn't even bothered to pay attention to him but they he caught sight of what Natsu was staring at and forgave the older Dragon Slayer almost instantly. There, right before them, stood Lucy and Yukino, in their bikinis, and in a deep conversation. Yukino seemed to glow radiantly as Lucy made wild gestures and laughed, she looked really pretty – err he means, she looked pretty happy, and he couldn't blame Natsu for watching….wait. YES HE CAN! Natsu should look at his own girls and not Sting's precious guild members! That little….oh.
Sting flushed in embarrassment as he watched Natsu's eyes follow Lucy and not Yukino as she moved across the room.
Oh.
Well that was all right, then.
But that still didn't excuse him from ignoring Sting!
"Natsu-san!" he snapped causing Natsu to jump. "Did you hear what I said?"
"Huh?" Natsu blinked stupidly. "What?" he asked dumbly. "Sorry, I was too busy….erm... fishing! Yeah, that's right," he laughed falsely, "I was fishing."
"What an idiot," Lector muttered in Sting's ear.
Sting was rather inclined to agree with him but decided to drop the matter in favour of impressing his hero instead. "I asked if you thought the swimming pool was impressive," he said calmly. "Well?" he pressed. "Do you?"
"Eh," Natsu shrugged unimpressed. "It's a nice pool but not as nice as our swimming pool."
"Wait," Sting said as a horrified realisation sank into him. "Fairy Tail has a swimming pool?!"
Sabertooth wasn't original and awesome?! Fairy Tail had beaten them at this already?! Nooooooooooooooooooo! This wasn't fair! If they couldn't be the powerful and strongest guild, then Sabertooth had right to be the coolest guild!
"Yeah," Natsu shrugged again, clueless to Sting's inner turmoil, "For like seven years now. After Gajeel, that bastard, destroyed our original building, Gramps totally built an even more awesome building with a swimming pool and baths in the basement too!"
"R-r-really?" Sting stuttered.
Well here was hoping the sauna in the basement would impress Natsu instead….fuck!
"Yeah," Natsu said, still unbothered and clueless to the fact that Sting seemed to have turned to stone mid-way through the conversation. "Gramps promised if we win the next competition we'll get a make your own ice cream sundae bar." He then smirked and laughed rather evilly. "I can't wait. I'll not only have all the hot fudge sauce I can want but I can do whatever I like with it." His eyes flew back to Lucy and if Sting had been in his right mind, he would be a little disturbed by the fact what Natsu planned to do the with the hot fudge sauce. "Excuse me," Natsu said cheerfully, and still oblivious to the fact Sting seemed to have broken down, "It's been like five minutes since I played a prank on Lucy."
He then ran off, grabbed Lucy by the waist and leaped into the swimming pool (despite the blonde screaming).
This, of course, started a water fight as Lucy had kicked Natsu in retaliation and he flew across the swimming pool and landed into Gray's crotch (Juvia was not happy).
While Fairy Tail seemed to be systematically destroying Sabertooth's swimming pool with their antics, Sting took advantage of the chaos to track down his architect.
"Psst. Rufus," he hissed desperately, he couldn't let the rest of the guild find out. It would ruin his leadership image and lower morale! "Cancel the plans for the make your own ice cream sundae bar. Now! We need to find something more original!"
How about a roller-skating rink? He would bet millions that Fairy Tail wouldn't have something dedicated to fun on wheels….Sting's stomach turned, his face turned green, and he decided right there that Sabertooth will also never have a roller-skating rink either.
