Summary: Fairy Tail doesn't do Secret Santa the normal way…

Pairings: Mira/Lucy friendship, implied one-sided Freed/Laxus, implied Juvia/Gray, Natsu/Happy/Lucy friendship, other friendship feels, and lots and lots of Natsu/Lucy.

Author's Note: Inspired by this awesome drawing of Gray I saw on deviantart. I wish you a Merry Christmas (and hope no naked Santas came down your chimney….or if they did they didn't bring their crazy stalker with them XD).

A week before Lucy's first Christmas with Fairy Tail, the guild were preparing for Secret Santa much to Lucy's relieve. She wasn't sure if she could afford to buy everyone a present and was grateful to only have to buy one person a present this year (though of course she would get Natsu, Happy, Gray, Erza, Levy, Mira, and Juvia one. They were her friends after all). So when Mirajane offered her the big silver bowel filled with strips of paper, Lucy eagerly took one, hoping it would be someone easy (for she had no idea what to get for the likes of Bickslow….armour polish? A new wooden doll? A mirror so he would know how ridiculous he looked?) But before she looked at her own slip, she heard multiple sighs of relief that bewildered her a little, and then she glanced down at her slip of paper.

Lucy blinked in surprise when she saw what her strip of paper said;

You are Santa.

"Erm….Mira?"

"Yes, Lucy?" Mira asked sweetly as she dried some glasses.

"What does this mean?" Lucy asked as she lifted the paper. "Shouldn't we have someone's name on it?"

"Oh but wouldn't that just be boring?" Mira asked in typical Fairy Tail fashion that made Lucy sweat-drop. "It's far more exciting if one person plays Santa and sneaks into people's houses."

"Wait, what?"

"It was definitely fun when it was Gray," Mira's smile took an evilly mischievous shade, "he somehow stripped out of his costume and was spotted by the local authorities trying to get in Cana's chimney naked…..we had a lovely visit at the jail house to bail him out."

Lucy couldn't help but giggle at that. "I bet," she managed to choke out between snickers.

"Fortunately," Mira continued with her evil, mischievous, smile, "we won't have that problem with your costume."

Lucy stopped laughing at that point. "What costume?" she asked a little panicky.

Mira merely continued to smile before she turned to serve Cana instead…..oh dear, God! What costume?!

FTFTFTFTFTFTFTFTFTFT

Lucy was dressed in a stripper's costume. She doesn't care if Mira thinks it's cute and sexy, the tiny red dress lined with white fur was more suitable as underwear than an actual dress, and Lucy should know, she wears some pretty skimpy clothes on a normal daily basis.

It really didn't help matters that it was snowing and she wasn't allowed a coat or anything ("It would spoil the effect!" Mira wailed when Lucy tried to put her coat on and she yanked it out of the poor blonde's hands without hesitation.). So here Lucy stood, with a gigantic sack filled with presents (that she had to buy she might add!), shivering the skimpiest dress known to man, looking like a stripper, wishing she was dead.

Just because there was no one to see her doesn't mean she isn't embarrassed about the fact her nipples were standing on end.

Thank God the likes of Macao and Wakaba aren't here….

With a sigh, Lucy set off with a determination to get this stupid Secret Santa thing over and done with, and at first she had it quite easy (probably because no one was going to think she was some creepy rape-y Santa). She had decided to do it in a circle starting on one side to the nearest house (Freed only lived three houses away from her which she didn't know until recently) and then out to Fairy Hills for the girls, and then Natsu's home, before she went back into the town and finished at the nearest house on her other side (Macao and Romeo).

Lucy had no problem at all slipping a photo of Laxus under Freed's pillow (and found a disturbing shrine to the lightening Dragon Slayer while doing so), or tucking a new bottle of rum in Cana's arms, or a pretty decorative comb by Erza, or a new homemade Gray Doll for Juvia, or….well you get the picture. She had found cheap but meaningful gifts and found it ridiculously easy to break into their homes to place it somewhere they could find it.

And then she got to Natsu's house.

Or should she say Natsu's rubbish tip of a house.

Lucy had hoped to be able to slip the ribbon covered fish next to Happy and then drop the small, pretty, wrapped up parcel that contained a plastic figurine of a red dragon on Natsu's chest before dashing out, without any trouble. Unfortunately though the disgusting smell in Natsu's house was accompanied with rubbish everywhere, and Lucy was able to trip over a big stone from a destroyed building and land into a pile of tin cans that for some reason Natsu kept.

"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!"

"Lucy?"

"Happy!" Lucy squeaked as she tried to cover herself up. "Don't look!"

"Why would I want to look?" Happy asked greatly disturbed. "You look like a prostitute."

"Why you little-"

"Lucy?"

Lucy stiffened slightly. "Natsu!" she cried out. "You scared me!"

Natsu raised an eyebrow at that while Happy looked weirded out. "I scared you?" Natsu murmured. "But you're in my house. You weirdo."

"Aye," Happy agreed, "Lucy is making no sense."

"What are you doing here?" Natsu pressed. "You said you were never coming here again after you found that mouldy sandwich."

"It was crawling on its own!" Lucy shrieked. "And erm…..you see….well…"

"Oh!" Natsu's eyes widened. "I get it!"

Lucy grimaced at that. "You can't tell anyone!" she said furiously. "Mira told me that the rules specifically say that-"

"You're my Secret Santa present!"

"Wait, what?"

"Awesome!" Natsu enthused as he suddenly reached out and grabbed Lucy. "Finally someone actually pays attention to my Christmas list."

"What?!"

"That's nice, Natsu," Happy yawned, "I'm going back to sleep. If you and Lucy are going to play, do it quietly."

"WHAT?!" Lucy screamed. "There is not going to be any playing! I have to – eek!"

Lucy found herself cut off as Natsu smothered her against his very nice, very hot, and very naked, chest. She may or may not have sighed and leaned against it but only because it was nice and warm and she was really, really, cold. There was no other reason for it!

"Whatever," Happy mumbled as he snuggled back into his hammock and snored slightly. "Fish…." He drooled as he instantly went back to his dream world.

"Natsu," Lucy hissed as she struggled to get free, "for the last time I'm not your Secret Santa present, I am – hmmph!"

Natsu completely ignored Lucy as he thumped back into his own hammock, dragging Lucy with him, and smothered her with the duvet before instantly falling back to sleep.

Lucy tried to get away but for someone who slept so soundly, Natsu didn't half keep an iron grip on her…..

….and to be honest, she kinda stopped trying to get away as Natsu was so nice, and warm, and toasty, and comfortable…..

For some reason one half of the guild was really unimpressed with her the next morning.