Summary: When money was needed the Fairy Tail children try to sell lemonade….it ends terribly (it always does).

Pairings: Some implied Strauss Sibling feels, Erza/Cake, Cana/Booze, mentions of Gray/Juvia, Erza/Mira rivalry, and lots and lots of general family and friendship feels.

Author's Note: Thank you all for giving me over TEN THOUSAND AND ONE HUNDRED! Reviews.This one is especially for all of those that kept asking me…what the hell happened at the lemonade stand in Kissing Booth? (It only took me four hundred or so chapters to finally address that…)

It was early in the day and everyone was getting ready for Fairy Tail's newest fund-raising effort…..the Kissing Booth. There was very little that needed to be done other than to make the front of the guild look presentable and build a wooden stand with a clear sign on it. It sounded simple enough but Lucy had found it was taking a lot longer when Gajeel was eating all the nails, the boys kept breaking into fights, and everyone else was more interested into gossiping than actually working.

And yes, Lucy was including herself in that because there had been something nagging at her from the moment they agreed to do a Kissing Booth…..

"So I'm curious," Lucy said loudly as she paused from her window cleaning efforts, "why exactly can you never again do a lemonade stand?"

It was as if Lucy uttered a spell incantation that caused time to stop because instantly everyone froze and went deadly silent. Lucy regretted asking as all eyes swivelled onto her, apart from Wendy, Juvia, and Gajeel who were now openly staring at the rest of the guild curiously.

"What?" Lucy asked. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing!" Erza, Natsu, and Gray blurted out immediately as they all looked away.

The others followed their lead as Cana whistled innocently, Lisanna suddenly found polishing a great deal more interesting, Elfman was sweating rapidly, Laxus looked like he was suffering from an aneurysm, and Levy's cheeks were now a permanent bright pink.

"No seriously," Lucy narrowed her eyes suspiciously, "What's wrong? Why can't you do a lemonade stand?"

"Because," Laxus grunted, "we're banned from lemonade."

As if this explained anything at all! Lucy let out a small growl of frustration at the lack of information and turned to the only one who explained anything at all. "Why?!" she stressed.

"Well, you see," Mira laughed sheepishly, "you see it all started when the guild ran out of money…."

For the first time ever since all of the children joined, Fairy Tail had run out of money.

At first, at this terrifying announcement, the children's eyes all widened in horror and they began to panic. Erza offered to sell her weapons, Levy tearfully asked if it was because she kept ordering rare books for the library, Gray and Natsu instantly blamed each other and began to fight, and the younger Strauss Siblings began clung to Mira as they imagined the worst.

It was then when Macao and Wakaba burst out laughing and told them all not to worry. That it wasn't the first time Fairy Tail was in debt and it certainly won't be the last time either.

"Gildarts used to keep damaging everything," Wakaba rolled his eyes, "and we were forever fund-raising to pay the damages and before then Master used to inflict a lot of damage that caused the guild a lot of debt."

"Gramps did?!" the children all cried out disbelievingly.

"Oh yeah," Macao smirked, "he might tell you off all the time but he's not be – ouch!" he yelped as Master suddenly lengthened his arm and smacked him, hard, across the back of his head. "What was that for?!" he yelled indignantly.

"For spreading stories," Master said simply. "Now then you shitty brats," he levelled his best stern glare at all the children, "you're at an age now where you can be held accountable for your actions. This debt is mostly your fault, all of you," he stressed when Gray and Natsu opened the mouths to blame each other once more, "and therefore I want you to raise the money."

"HOW?!"

"I don't know," Master shrugged, "a bake sale?"

Erza's eyes lit up with an unholy light of greed as she imagined all the different cakes that would soon be at her fingertips. "A bake sale?" Laxus scoffed. "With that one around?" he pointed at Erza, who was now drooling, "we'd never sell anything."

"Then do a lemonade stand for all I care!" Master snapped impatiently. "Just raise the damn money that you lost with all of your damage repair bills."

And with no better ideas, the others shrugged in agreement and decided to do a lemonade stand.

"….Right," Lucy said slowly after Mira went quiet for what was beginning to feel like a long time, "that explains how you ended up doing a lemonade stand but it doesn't explain why you were banned from ever doing one again."

"I'm getting there! I'm getting there!" Mira huffed. "Patience. You have to build it up to make the story worth telling, you know?"

Laxus and Gray snorted loudly at that. "Bullshit," Gray declared, "she just doesn't want to admit that it was partly her fault."

Mira flushed bright pink in embarrassment. "It wasn't just me!" she protested in an unnaturally squeaky voice. "In fact it was mostly Natsu's!"

"Natsu is the reason why no one ever wants to buy a cup of lemonade from us ever again," Gray replied calmly, "you are the reason why we can't bare the sight of lemonade ever again. You and Erza."

"TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED!" Lucy bellowed impatiently which caused everyone to jump. "Sorry," Lucy smiled sheepishly, "….I just really want to know."

"Well," Mira smiled back just as sheepishly, "you know that Erza and I have a bit of a rivalry going on."

"Understatement of the century," Laxus muttered darkly.

"We had a differing opinion on the lemonade," Mira said stiffly and hurriedly, while throwing a glare in Laxus' direction, "and ended up splitting into two different teams and well….one thing lead to another…."

There were two different stalls standing outside of Fairy Tail and both were selling lemonade.

One was being manned by Mirajane, the Strauss siblings, and Levy while the other was under the control of Erza, Gray, Natsu (who was missing for some reason), and Cana. Laxus stood in the middle wishing he was anywhere but there. Seriously, why does Mystogen get off Scott free while the rest (and by rest, Laxus meant himself) had to suffer?

"May the best lemonade win," Mira smirked.

"Oh it will," Erza smirked back, "and it will be sweet."

"No one wants a glass of sugar, Erza!" Mira snapped, for the billionth time since they agreed to do a lemonade stand, "There's nothing refreshing about it! They want something a bit more tart and fruity."

"You would know," Erza said coolly, "but I think you'll find people would want my lemonade more than yours."

"You wish!" Mira barked with laughter. "My lemonade will be more popular than yours."

Sparks of rivalry and irritation danced between them as they glowered at one another. Lisanna, Elfman, and Levy all looked on fearfully behind Mira as they wished they were anywhere but here while Gray looked just as nervous until –

"Oi!" he whacked the back of Cana's head. "Stop sucking on those lemons we need them for the lemonade."

"But Gray!" Cana whined from behind the lemon slice she had shoved in her mouth. "Tequila shots!"

"We're supposed to be selling them," Gray said pointedly, "not using them to enable your drinking addiction."

"Oh come one!" Cana grinned. "Everyone knows that hard lemonade is the best lemonade around."

"It's certainly better than the over-sweet crap you're trying to peddle," Mira muttered, "honestly," she clucked her tongue, "who puts a whole cup of sugar in every jug?"

"Oh," Erza said frostily, "like your sour juice is any better."

"You shouldn't judge," Mira sneered, "until you tried it yourself."

And with that she pulled her jug of lemonade all over Erza's head. Everyone around them (apart from Laxus who wasn't paying attention) gasped dramatically at that. Erza's hair dripped loudly as she trembled with barely suppressed fury.

"Nee-san!" Lisanna cried out horrified.

"It's all right," Erza said with a tight smile (Gray instantly flinched away and Levy squeaked fearfully as she could see the demonic glint in Erza's eye), "Mira is quite right I shouldn't judge until I've tried it myself. But you know," she turned and picked up her own jug of lemonade, "you should always practise what you preach."

And with that she tipped the sugary, sticky, drink all over Mira's head.

There was a moment of silence.

And another.

No one breathed.

And then –

"FOOD FIGHT!"

It was probably not the most accurate description since they only had a little lemonade, a lot of lemons, and sugar, but Lisanna's gleeful battle cry did set a war off as everyone began to throw lemons at one another or fling sugar at each other.

It was a recipe for disaster.

Elfman towered over Levy as he reached out for the sugar bowl and Levy, all geared up to fight, reacted instantly but grabbing half a lemon and squeezing the juice in his face in order to defend herself form a perceived attack.

The juice splattered itself into Elfman's eyes.

"ARGH!" Elfman screamed as he clutched his face. "MY EYES! IT BURNS!"

He then clumsily staggered back and accidentally bashed into Lisanna who went flying forwards and accidentally spilled another jug all over Laxus. Laxus let out an animalistic snarl as he flung electricity both sides of him and destroyed the two lemonade stands and sent everyone flying.

Gray moaned pitifully as everything stung from all the lemon juice. His clothes had been missing for a while.

"Congrats," Laxus said sarcastically, "your first endeavour to raise money and you failed before you even sold your first cup." Everyone cringed in shame, Mira and Erza especially looked incredibly embarrassed and ashamed with themselves as they took in the devastation they caused. "Now look at the mess you made," Laxus continued scolding, "you can't even make any more lemonade because you destroyed all the lemons. What the hell are you going to sell now?"

"I don't know," Gray mumbled, "and I don't particularly care. I never want to see another lemon again."

"Hi guys!" Natsu and Happy cheered as they appeared out of nowhere. Everyone twitched as they were way too cheerful for their liking. "We made something for the stall," Natsu carried on as he held up a huge, china, jug, "wanna try some?"

"Urgh," Elfman groaned as he still clutched his eyes, "no more lemonade!"

"It ain't lemonade" Natsu grinned ecstatically, "its chillin'-ade!" everyone raised an eyebrow at that. Chillin'-ade? What the hell was that? "I made it myself!" Natsu bragged proudly.

"And me!" Happy added as he glared up at Natsu. "I helped!"

"Of course you did," Natsu agreed gamely. "So," he held up his jug proudly, "do you all want to try some?"

Everyone glanced at one another. They never heard of this so called chillin'-ade, and they all held great big doubts over Natsu's cooking ability, but it was just a cold beverage. It shouldn't cause much harm and if it was good they had something to replace the lemonade they destroyed.

"Sure, Natsu, Happy," Lisanna spoke up first, "we would love to try some. Wouldn't we, Elfman-Nii-san? Mira-nee?" she added pointedly.

"Oh yeah," Mira muttered, "love some."

"It sounds nice," Elfman said weakly.

Natsu beamed radiantly as he hurriedly poured out a cup for everyone. With a hesitant glance at one another they all took a deep breath and gulped down the new drink in unison….

…the reaction was instantaneous. The children all turned a variety of pink and red as steam poured out of their ears and they all choked and spluttered on the drink that burnt their throats from the inside out.

"OH MY GOD!" Gray screamed in agony. "MY THROAT IS ON FIRE!"

"IT BURNS!" Elfman wailed. "IT BURNS!"

"NATSU!" Laxus barked furiously. "WHAT THE FUCK IS IN THAT LEMONADE?!"

"It's not lemonade," Natsu scoffed as if everyone around him was a bunch of idiots and he was the only intelligent one in the room. It immediately caused Levy, Mira, and Erza to shoot him matching dirty glare. "Its chillin'-ade," he drawled out patronisingly, "….as in I made it out of chillies!"

There was a beat of silence. "WHY?!" everyone bellowed despairingly.

Because seriously….who looks at chillies and thinks that makes a good cold beverage?

But Natsu didn't reply because at that very moment one of the townsman approached him, raised an unsurprised eyebrow at the carnage that surrounded Natsu (Magnolia was way too used to the damage of Fairy Tail trying to do anything), before he smiled politely in Natsu's direction. "Excuse me, young man," the townsman said kindly, "May I buy a glass of lemonade?"

"Sure!" Natsu chirped as he poured out a cup of his chillin'-ade, "that'll be one jewel please!"

It took a moment (in which the Customer paid for his cup and picked it up_ for the rest of the guild to realise what just happened and what was going to happen. Immediately they all leaped up to their feet and held up an arm in order to reach out and smack the cup out of their Customer's hand. "NO!" they all screeched dramatically.

But it was too late, the Customer drank the chillin'-ade and his screams of anguish could be heard from the other side of town…..two hours later the town council presented a new ruling banning Fairy Tail from ever selling lemonade again.

"….and that's why we can't do a lemonade stand," Mira concluded.

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Lucy, Wendy, Juvia, Gajeel, Charle, and Lily all looked extremely pained, as if they were constipated, from the trauma of listening to that story. (Seriously, what sort of guild had they joined?!) Before they all then turned to look at Natsu. "What is wrong with you?" Gajeel demanded to know. "Who looks at chillies and think that would be an awesome cold beverage? Seriously?!"

"It wasn't cold," Gray grumbled.

"And you!" Gajeel growled at Lucy. "You just had to ask, didn't you?" Lucy flinched back and mumbled an apology under her breath as she twiddled her thumbs nervously. "You just couldn't leave it alone," Gajeel continued, "now I'm going to have to deal with that story for the rest of my day."

"Cheer up, Gajeel-kun," Juvia patted his arm comfortingly, "it's not as if we're doing another lemonade stand. So you can forget you ever heard the story and focus on the kissing booth instead. Ara!" Juvia squealed delightedly, already suppressing the story she had heard, "Juvia wants to be kissed by Gray-sama! She hopes Gray-sama will buy a kiss from her!"

And with that reminder a dark, gloomy, furious, aura seeped over the male members of the guild. "Yes, that's right," Erza said determinedly, "we need to make sure this one goes perfectly and nothing ruins our efforts to raise money."

"I'm sure everything will be fine," Mira said cheerfully, "it's not like we're making different kinds of lemonade again and we're all working in shifts so there shouldn't be any competitive fights to disrupt our day. What could possibly go wrong with this?"

As always….those were famous last words….