Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail


"You really are going all out for Natsu's birthday." Levy said, peering at the list of things Juvia wanted to prepare for. Some great food, decorations, the best cake Juvia can find and so on.

"Of course, Juvia hasn't celebrated Natsu's birthday before, might as well make it a memorable one. "Juvia first needs to ask everyone to participate in the party, can you help Juvia?"

"Sure!" Juvia went around the guild, asking everyone to prepare a present and to keep the party a secret. We had do this now because it's one of the rare occasion where Natsu isn't here to overhear our objective.

"Levy you need to remember not to give Natsu a book, you know he wouldn't read a book, it'll just end up being a decoration."

"That's fine isn't it? You can read it."

"That's not giving Natsu a present then, it's a present for Juvia."

"I suppose that's true." Levy place a hand on her hip while looking at the ceiling, "Then, do you have any ideas for a good gift?"

"Let's see, Natsu's current fishing pole is quite old, Juvia thinks it can't stand reeling in a large fish. And Natsu knows it too, when we go fishing together, he would avoid place with large fish and settle for places with smaller ones."

"That's it! I'll get him a new fishing pole then, thanks Juvia!" Levy walked off to join her team.

"You're welcome. Also, you don't have to worry about getting it now, there's two weeks left, take your time."

"I will." Juvia squinted at the crowd of people in the guild, looking for Mira. Once Juvia found her, Juvia pushed her way to the bar counter.

"Juvia? Do you need something?"

"Yes, Juvia is planning on ordering a cake for Natsu's birthday, do you think you can come with Juvia to pick a good one?"

"I'm sorry Juvia, the guild is really busy right now, our hands are tied." Mira turned to Lisanna and Kinana—both of them struggling to keep up with the drinks and food orders. "I know! Why don't you ask Erza? She can help you. Though, she only has an expert eye for the cake she loves, so you can only order a strawberry cheesecake. But, if that's fine with you, Erza is really dependable in that regard."

"Thanks for the advice, Juvia thinks she'll do just that."

"Then, I'll call her. Erzaaa!" Mira called out to the happy red head slowly savoring a slice of cake. Erza turned around to see Mira's beckoning hands. Erza reluctantly finished the cake in a hurry and made her way to us, the crowd parted way for Erza upon seeing Erza's displeased look.

"Is Master looking for me?"

"No, nothing serious like that, Juvia wants your help in choosing a good cake for Natsu's birthday."

"But, I can only help with one type of cake."

"Please don't worry, Juvia is planning on getting a strawberry cheesecake."

"Is that true!? Then, allow me to show you the wonders of the ultimate cake!" Erza's determination ignited, voice filled with pride. Juvia is starting to have second thoughts as Erza grabbed Juvia by the hand and left the guild with haste.

Before long, Juvia was browsing at a catalogue of cakes available at Erza's usual bakery. For some strange reason, the catalogue only features strawberry cheesecake while Juvia could see other variations of cake being displayed. The store clerk seemed to notice Juvia's confusion and explained.

"This is Erza-sama's private menu, so you can only find one type of cake here. If you like, we can give you the regular catalogue." Juvia knows that Erza was a valued customer in this place, but to have a custom menu only she can order from is a bit much. Then Juvia looked around and saw a carboard cut-out of Erza promoting her favourite cake. These people really are taking advantage of Erza's popularity…

"Oh, about that, I get free cake delivered to Fairy Hills every week." Erza explained the advertisement. "I also get money too but, I said I make enough money, so they only have to give me cake. They won't agree for some reason."

"That's because we can't treat such an important person to our business like that! Our sales have increased by fifty percent just from you endorsing our products!"

"Mails asking me to promote other businesses won't stop because of that." Erza said with a wry smile. "Anyway, Juvia, do you see anything that catches your eye? I can guarantee that all the cakes here are top-notch."

"Juvia will leave it up to you, Juvia is looking for something huge, lots of people are planning to join Natsu's party, so Juvia will feel bad if there isn't enough for everyone."

"In that case, how about this one." Erza turned the pages of the thirty-paged book of non-stop strawberry cheesecakes and stopped at the final page. A five-tiered cake of masterful craft was being displayed proudly. Topped by flowers made of icing, each tier sported a different theme that escalated with luxury, ending with a ring of strawberries and what could be described as a fairy dancing at the centre. 'Quintet Surprise' was the name of the cake. A detailed description of the cake along with the dimensions was hand-written in fine ink and expert hands.

"Have you ever ordered this one before?"

"No, this one was added recently. Also, it would take me a long time to finish it if I were to get one."

"How long would this take to make if Juvia orders it now?"

"Let's see, considering our store's requests, it'll take three weeks. But, since you're Erza-sama's companion, we can do it within a week."

"Juvia doesn't need it that quickly, can you have it done two weeks from now around nine in the morning? Juvia will come pick it up at that time. Also, please write happy birthday on a plate."

"Certainly." The clerk started to write a slip to confirm the order. "If you like, we can deliver the cake to you, you'll have to pay an extra fee. I'm afraid that a cake this big doesn't cover the delivering exemption we have with Erza-sama."

"That's fine, Juvia will take you up on that offer, Juvia is more than willing to pay."

"Thank You for your purchase, please pay a two thousand ordering fee. If you want to cancel the order, please come back with this slip and we'll refund the money." Juvia exchanged money for a slip that Juvia tucked into her purse. "Upon delivery, we'll collect the remaining money. Until then, Thank You for patronage!"

Once we left the bakery for the guild, Juvia stopped by an arts-and-craft store to look for a massive card. Juvia plans to have everyone write a message for Natsu. Juvia will have to mail it to other guilds for them to write a message. Natsu's circle of friends is a bit overwhelming, Juvia even has to mail it to the princess for the royal family to write a message. Since the card is too big for the store to have any stock, Juvia followed instructions to find a factory to have them cut out a card.

Standing taller than Juvia, as wide as her arm to her heart, the card Juvia had the factory worker cut out was really thick to support its own weight. Juvia had two of these cards so that Juvia can make a booklet out of them. The card was a nice pink, a bit lighter than Natsu's hair.

Being held together by metal hinges, Juvia wrote a letter to the princess—explaining the purpose of the massive card as well as requesting the first page isn't to be touched since Reedus-san is drawing a cover—and mailed the card along with the letter to the princess via a special postal service that has the authority to mail to the royal palace—it would be disrespectful to not have the royal family be the first one to write a message after all. Thankfully, the princess sent a letter to Juvia beforehand so, the administration process was effortless.

Juvia's day one preparation was almost finished, she just needs to see how many people are coming to the party so Juvia can make sure everyone has enough food to eat. So, Juvia sent more letters to the other guilds, asking how many people is planning on attending to Natsu's birthday party. Will the guild even be big enough for this party? Maybe Juvia was too ambitious this time…


Juvia underestimated the sheer number of people attending to the party! All the prevalent members from each guild agreed to join the party, and the princess herself replied by saying that she's coming as well! At least it's just Hisui-sama coming, but now Juvia must think about the security of the party! What if something happens and Fairy Tail is blamed? Then our name will be dragged through mud! The princess did say in the letter that she'll be travelling incognito, but still! This escalated to something out of Juvia's expectations! What should Juvia do? This could be ba—

"Juvia, we're all finished writing our message." Lucy announced with Gray who was carrying the card. Sadly, Juvia was too busy going through the name list with Levy to process what Lucy had said. "Juvia?" A nudge at Juvia's side snapped her out of the trance.

"Yes?"

"I said we're all done, Reedus also finished the cover." Gray turned the card around for Juvia to see. It had an elegant border framing the card, right top, was the symbol of Fiore drawn that branched down to guild marks of the participants 'Happy Birthday Natsu!' was written in fine calligraphy was on the centre. A print of a paw was just above the word 'Happy'. A dragon was sleeping at the bottom of the card—a fire one judging from the red scales.

"It's lovely, can you mail it to Saber Tooth for Juvia?"

"What are you talking about? You haven't written your message yet." Lucy reminded, holding out a pen for Juvia.

"Re—really? Juvia could've sworn that she's written it already."

"You didn't." After a brief pause, Lucy spoke again. "After you write your message, go back home and rest, you're too stressed to do any work, I'll do it for you, Gray can mail the card."

"But Juvia—"

"Natsu will get worried and he'll notice, he's really sharp at times." Those words reminded Juvia of the promise she made to Natsu, and all resistance melted.

"Thank You…"

"You can count on us all well you know, we all want to make this party a great one." Juvia picked up the pen while Gray turned to the first page. Amidst all the unique handwriting, there was a space in the centre that was left blank. Gray told Juvia that it was reserved for Juvia. Without needing to think about what to write, Juvia written 'You were the best thing to happen to Juvia, Juvia loves you and hopes that you'll be with Juvia forever.' After adding a signature at the end of the message, Gray closed the card and left with Elfman to mail it.

"Then, Juvia will get some rest at the infirmary, if you need something, please tell Juvia."

"We will, rest easy."


It's been a week since Juvia started to rely on her friends a bit more, Erza was collecting the present from the early members, Elfman just left to mail the card to Mermaid Heel. Some were working on the decorations, other were thinking on the layout of the table and chairs, Loretta was practicing with other people that can play instruments. Now, we were talking about the matter of food.

"Mira, do you think we should cook the meal or have someone cook the food and deliver it to the guild?"

"Well, it's more work to cook ourselves but, since it's a special day, I don't think anyone will mind. We also cook for the other birthday parties at the guild, it's basically a tradition by now."

"Then there's no need to order food."

"But still, we have a lot of food to cook."

"Everyone can help."

"That's true."

"Bisca? Do you think you can provide some meat for us to cook with?" Juva called out to the couple that was watching over their daughter draw decorations.

"No problem!"

"Then, we get use some of our vegetables from our patch." Mira said. "Now all we need is to buy the other ingredients from the market."

"All is left is the presents, right?"

"Yes, we can rest for a day or two, the cooking will have to start afterwards."


Today is finally the day! Juvia requested the helpers to come around six, the guests are to arrive at ten, same with the guild members, Natsu wakes up at that time so we have four hours to get thing ready. We moved the tables and chairs in to the side. The food is being heated—some being cooked right now. Loretta and her team were tuning instruments. All the presents were being stacked in a pile, just below the stage. Once we were done, we just need to wait for the guests to arrive.

"Princess, I still think that coming all the way out here is dangerous." A rough voice got past the guild doors.

"It'll be fine, didn't father say to look around the kingdom, to see the state of our lands first-hand?"

"That may be, however, with only me as the guard is too dangerous."

"Arcadios! I want to use this time to make some friends, being stuck in dealing with people wearing a mask is tiring. Yet, despite knowing my status, they were indifferent towards me. I want more people I can be truthful to, and Fairy Tail appears to be a great start. To be honest, seeing their guild being so lively makes me envious. Do you think you can deal with my selfishness again? Can you forgive me for discarding the role of 'princess' for today?"

"…forgive me, I didn't realize your troubles."

"It's fine, this is something I hid with everything I had, only my father knew. But, that's not the point, let's go inside."

"As you wish." The guild doors finally opened. Revealing a bulky man wearing lightweight clothing with a sword at his side. Beside him, Hisui-sama walked in wearing a plain white summer dress that you can find anywhere. A sun hat was used to hide shield the summer rays. In her hands, was a small, rectangle box; green cover, pink base.

"Welcome, please hand the present to Erza." Hisui-sama gave the task to her knight. "But still, Hisui-sama is early, Juvia thought that the time for guests to arrive was set at ten, why are you two hours early?"

"Can I ask you to not give me special treatment?"

"Is that okay? Juvia will tell that to the other if so."

"It's fine." After giving Juvia's guildmates the instructions, Hisui breathed a sigh of relief.

"We came early because I want to get a good look at what birthday party looks like."

"You mean you've never been to one?"

"Only the ones held by nobles, I never been to one that can be considered normal."

"Then Juvia is sorry to disappoint, our guild and 'normal' doesn't mesh well." Hisui giggled at Juvia's remark.

"I suppose that's true. Perhaps you might even exceed my expectations." The princess said, looking at the decorations around the guild.

"Is anything wrong?"

"Pardon me, I was just looking around, I don't see these things often."

"Then would you like to look at the food beforehand? Juvia is sure something will catch your eye."

"If it isn't a bother, please do." Juvia let Mira guide HIsui to the kitchen—Arcadios tagging along. Juvia got back to work at setting up the tables. It wasn't for another hour until another guest arrived. Though Juvia was reluctant to let a guest help out, Hisui insisted that she help set-up the venue.

"Natsu-san!" The doors slammed open. "Huh? Where is he?" Sting-san said.

"I told you, my memory isn't lying about us being early." A man in a fancy-looking hat said.

"Sting becomes like this when Natsu is involved after all…" Lector-san explained.

"Frosch thinks so too!"

"Hey!"

"Ho—how about we get inside first." A tuff of white hair slowly turned the Yukino-san as she pushed past a few bodies.

"Welcome!" Erza greeted. "You can hand the gifts to me."

"All of us choose one gift to represent our guild." Sting replied.

"That's fine," Erza said, receiving the present. "since you all are early, I'm afraid you'll have to wait until the party starts, Natsu wakes up at ten normally. You're free to use the games machines we placed or explore the town until then."

"Or," Gajeel popped out of nowhere. "you can fight with me."

"Gajeel, don't you have things to do?"

"Done them."

"At least don't make our guest do something so stu—"

"I'm in, of course, Rogue too right?" Seeing the nod from the dragon slayer, Gajeel's magic started to leak.

"Gi hi, Salamander had all the fun last time. You two, follow me!" The Saber Tooth members split into two groups, one that followed to see the sight, the others went to see the town. Leaving us to continue setting up.

No one else came early, all the guests and Fairy Tail members more or less arrived on time, while they were shocked at Hisui's presence at first, they soon quickly adapted, and the guildhall became rowdy, jokes flew around; the socializing began. At the same time, Juvia and her team just finished placing the food on the tables. All is left is to wait for Natsu to arrive.

"Good morning!" The doors were kicked open again like usual, Juvia's boyfriend and his companion entered. The entire guildhall had one, universal response.

"Happy Birthday!"

"So that's why people from other guilds are here, I thought I smelt something different than usual." Juvia pulled Natsu to the huge cake tower.

"Make a wish." After a brief silence, Natsu sucked up the candle flames and grinned.

"Let's party!" The hall went wild with cheers and hoisted mugs; Loretta's taem started to play music, her magic made everything come to life. Everyone was handed a slice of cake to enjoy along with the food that was cooked, free for everyone. Since Juvia knew that she can't monopolize Natsu, Juvia quickly separated from him and went to have fun, leaving Natsu in a crowd of people that gave him birthday wishes and checked out what presents he received. Out of Juvia's eye, she could see Hisui laughing without reserve, no hands were in the way of showing her teeth and mouth.

"Looks like the party is a success." Cana said, downing another bottle of strong liquor.

"It seems so, the two weeks of stress was worth it. Juvia is glad."

"You did go all-out." Looking around, Juvia saw countless smiles; heard endless laughter; felt bottomless delight. Experiencing this, Juvia knew that, Juvia succeeded. Now that the crowd has thinned, Juvia took the card that travelled all over Fiore and advanced towards Natsu, everyone made way for Juvia upon seeing the large card.

"Natsu, all of us helped to make this, including the people that couldn't make it here." Juvia presented the card to Natsu that became speechless at seeing the hundreds of messages written in the card. "Happy birthday Natsu."

"Thank You…" Natsu managed, he picked up the card and started to read all the messages written.

"Do that once you go back home, it'll take all day."

"I guess." Natsu grinned again. "Thanks guys!"


Seeing that the party is reaching its end, Juvia told Mira that Juvia needs to prepare for her final gift as well as having asking Mira to make an excuse before rushing off to her room. Juvia snatched the bag she prepared earlier from her bed and ran to Natsu's home. There, Juvia made sure to mask her scent after a hot shower so that Natsu will be thoroughly surprised. Juvia waited in the bedroom, waiting for her prey to come.

"Man, that was a crazy party!" Here he is! "Even the princess came."

"Aye!"

"Sad that Juvia had to leave early."

"Aye…"

"Tired? See you tomorrow buddy."

"Aye…" The door to Natsu's bedroom opened slowly, each degree made was nerve-racking, like a waiting for a lover's reply.

"Welcome back!" Juvia shouted, excited to see her lover befuddled.

"Juvia!? What are you doing here? Mira said you have to prepare for a trip."

"Juvia did," Juvia pointed to the bag she brought with her. "Juvia is here to give to one last birthday present."

"What do you mean? The set of clothes wasn't good enough?"

"That's not it, your last present is Juvia herself."

"Still not getting it." Juvia sighed and reached for her bag.

"What Juvia means is that," Juvia pulled out a pillow. "Juvia," Then, Juvia pulled out pajamas "is," A doll popped out from the bag. "moving," A toothbrush with cup came next. "in," Juvia produced some spare clothes until the movers gets their job done. "with," Juvia placed some cosmetics on a night stand. "you." Juvia kissed Natsu on the cheeks, taking advantage of his confused state. "Did Juvia break you?" Juvia asked after seeing that Natsu didn't move for a good ten seconds or so. "Juvia will be troubled if that happened." Suddenly, Natsu grabbed Juvia's shoulders at frightening speeds, drawing a cry from Juvia.

"You mean it!?" Natsu smiled—fangs showing—with an excited expression, the weariness he had from the party disappeared.

"Y—yes." Natsu's grip on Juvia's shoulders turned to a bear hug.

"Thank You, this is the best present ever."

"You're welcome…" Juvia slowly wrapped her arms around Natsu. "Though Juvia isn't sure if this counts, in a sense, this is a present for Juvia too."

"It doesn't matter as long you're here." Natsu pushed out of the hug and pulled into a kiss, to which Juvia gladly returned. "I love you."

"Juvia loves you too. However, go take a shower! Juvia can smell the sweat from the fight you had today. Juvia won't allow our first night sleeping on this bed with you smelling like battle!"

"You got it!" The child ran out the door and to the bathroom. Some things will never change, now will they? At least, it's something that Juvia loves with all her heart.


Thanks for reading! The longest chapter to date! I considered going all the way to 5k but, most of it will just be filler at that point. I will admit, there was less emphasis on the party itself. I was hoping to publish this in-line with my own birthday—to contrast my extremely dull one with Natsu's lively one. However, was a few days late...I blame the heat.

I will apologies for rushing things a bit lately, I'm sure you guys know that I'm looking to start a new story. Another creatives will know: starting a new project is generally more fun than working on an old one. It's at the point where I'm not proofreading as meticulously as before. So, if you spot anything wrong, please let me know.

On other note, feel free to give me suggestions on what pairing to write about next! I'm still thinking on what to do and I'm generally a person that's easily influenced given a good reason. So, shoot away!

Until then, hope you enjoyed, let me know what you think!