AN: Hi guys! I put in a new kid here, even though he was just mentioned. Originally, I planned Steele to be an only girl but then I decided to give her a twin brother. It's just a random idea that popped in my mind. I'm glad that I'm getting good reviews in my fic! I was really surprised that someone was even inspired to make a fanart about it! So, I give my thanks to that particular reviewer and to those continued to read my fanfic! Anyway, here's the latest chapter! Hope you enjoy it! :D

CHAPTER 5

Wendy Marvell sat quietly at the bar stool while staring blankly at her empty glass. The guild was silent. And that doesn't happen every day. It just so happened that Gray and his family went out for a trip, and Levy was busy with her job in the town library while Gajeel took his son, Ferro to train with him and they will probably be gone for another day. Makarov and his 6 year-old great-grandson left to get the groceries since Mirajane was busy tending the bar while Erza and her 5 year-old daughter Seira went to visit Jellal in Crime Sorciere.

Wendy smiled. She found it rather amusing that the guild's troublemakers already has a family to take care of. It was hard to believe that they all grew up already. Wendy had her share of aging too. She was no longer considered as a child in the guild anymore.

"Wendy?" Wendy heard someone call to her. Wendy turned to see Lucy with two girls at her side. The girl on Lucy's right has a deep frown on her face, but Wendy found her adorable because of her pink hair was tied in a pigtail. On Lucy's left was a girl with raven-black hair with a pair of violet eyeglasses who hid her face with her thick book.

"Yes, Lucy-san? What can I help you with?" Wendy asked politely as she waved at the girls.

"Natsu and I had planned to get a job, but we can't leave these two children alone. Levy left Steele in our care for the whole day. Unfortunately, I forgot that Natsu and I already took a job that was scheduled for today and we can't back out anymore. But we won't take long! We will only be gone for a whole day. And I was wondering if you can babysit these two while we are away? I hope it won't be too much to ask" Lucy said and Wendy nodded in understanding.

"Sure, Lucy-san! I'll do my best! I'm quite excited!" Wendy said cheerfully and Lucy sighed in relief

"That's good to hear! And here I was, already worried that no one might take care of these two."

"You won't have any problem, Lucy-san!"

"Hey!" the two mages turned to see Natsu and Romeo walking towards them.

"W-wendy-chan!" Romeo blushed when he saw Wendy. Wendy felt her cheeks become warmer as well and looked down on her feet. Lucy gave her a knowing smile while Natsu raised a brow at the two of them.

"What's wrong with you two? Anyway, Romeo here agreed to take care of Nashi and Steele. I guess we don't have any problem anymore, Lucy" Natsu grinned as he patted Romeo at the back.

"But Wendy already agreed to babysit the two as well" Lucy said

"Bah! Then let them babysit the girls together. They need all the help they can get" Natsu said and Lucy agreed.

"Babysitting with Wendy-chan?" Romeo asked, his face was now redder.

"Got that right, kid! Here's the key to the house" Natsu threw the keys at the younger Conbolt. Romeo barely caught the keys and frowned at Natsu.

"Oh, Wendy. The fire extinguisher is just in the living room. Spare extinguishers can be found at the storage room. If you are going to feed them, use the plastic utensils that is in the cupboard. Hide all the metal utensils, okay? And if ever, you ran out of fire extinguishers, you are free to use the water in the water drums at the backyard. I advise you to fill up any possible container for water at home. And please keep the cooking oil in the highest possible spot you can find. I guess that's it. Oh, I forgot, just add one table spoon of chili powder in Nashi's milk. As for Steele's, you can probably get some screws at the toolbox. I think I didn't miss anything. That's probably it" Lucy said.

Wendy and Romeo can only nod, not understanding some of Lucy's instructions.

"Alright! We'd best be going! Be good girls, okay?" Lucy kissed Nashi on the forehead and hugged Steele before waving goodbye at the two.

"Stay cool, Natsu-nii!"

"Goodluck at your job, Lucy-san and Natsu-san!" Wendy waved and the two left. Leaving Romeo and Wendy with the two girls.

"So, we're off to the Dragneel Residence?" Romeo asked as he took Nashi's hand

"Yeah, that's the first we should do" Wendy smiled and put her hand on Steele's shoulder.

"Let's go then!"

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"We're here!" Romeo said cheerfully as he carried Nashi over his shoulders. The 2 year-old Nashi pointed at the stuffed red dragon while swinging her feet, causing her to accidentally kick Romeo in the nose.

Romeo grunted in pain as he slowly put Nashi down. Nashi ran to her toy, without even looking back at Romeo.

"Oh my god, are you alright?! Your nose is bleeding…" Wendy let Steele sit on the couch before looking at Romeo's nose. Romeo groaned in pain as he tried to touch his nose.

"Nah, I'm good" Romeo said but Wendy left to get some cotton balls in the medicine cabinet. As soon as she returned, she tended Romeo's injuries, adding a bit of magic in her work.

"That should do it. Feeling better?" Wendy asked and Romeo nodded

"Seriously, how can a 2 year-old girl kick that hard and break a grown man's nose?!" Romeo exclaimed and Wendy laughed.

"Well, she's Natsu-san's daughter. What else can we expect from her?"

"Yeah, you're right" Romeo smiled, and Wendy blushed realizing how close she is to him. Wendy pulled herself away and laughed awkwardly.

"Anyway, we'd better keep the kitchen utensils just like what Lucy-san instru-" Wendy was cut off when she heard something in the kitchen. She ran to the kitchen, only to see Steele stuffing the metal fork in her mouth. Something that looked like a spoon was now on the floor, with a small bite mark on it.

"What happened?!" Romeo followed and exclaimed when he saw what the little girl was doing.

"So that's why Lucy-san said that we should keep the utensils!" Romeo put his hand on his forehead and Wendy took the girl her arms, while pulling out the half-eaten fork from Steele's mouth.

"That's bad, Steele. Metal is bad for you" Wendy said as she fixed the girl's glasses. Steele frowned.

"Daddy and my twin eats metal! Can't I eat one too?" Steele said in her cute voice and Wendy was tempted to take the nearest metal she can find and feed it to the girl. But then again, it was very odd for her to see a kid eat spoons and forks rather than real food, so she pushed away the idea.

"Daddy is a different case, and your mommy doesn't like it either when Ferro eats metal too. So, don't be upset" Wendy said and the child simply nodded.

"So, what do you want to do?" Wendy asked and the girl's eyes brightened under her glasses.

"I want to read something!" she said happily and Wendy smiled. She is just like Levy-san after all.

"Alright! Let's see if we can find any storybook here, shall we?" Wendy said as she and Steele left to look for a book.

"Romeo, keep an eye on Nashi, okay?" Wendy whispered as she was being pulled by an enthusiastic Steele.

"I'll get there soon" Romeo assured Wendy. As soon as Wendy and Steele left, Romeo swore he smells something burning.

"Oh shit, don't tell me…" Romeo dashed to the living room, only to see Nashi put the rug on fire. Romeo remembered that Lucy said that the fire extinguisher was just near the living room. He quickly looked around and saw the extinguisher just across the burning rug.

Romeo took Nashi away from the fire. The girl's laughter was ringing in his ears. How the fuck can she still be laughing now that her own house was now in a threat of burning down into ashes?

"Stay there, Nashi!"

"Yes, sir!" she said in a happy tone as she watched Romeo jump over the rug. Romeo safely got over the burning rug, but a part of his clothes ended up getting fire on it. Romeo quickly put it off. He hastily took the fire extinguisher and put the fire out.

Romeo opened his eyes, only to see that the entire living room was filled with foam. Nashi herself was now covered with foam, and was now playing with it.

"Romeo-san! I thought I smelled something burni-" Wendy stopped when she saw the condition of the living room.

"Foam! More foam!" Nashi squealed as she threw some foam on Romeo's face.

"Ah! A winter wonderland!" Steele yelled happily as she ran towards the foam, with a book in her hands.

The two girls began to play in the foam. Wendy looked around, beneath the foam was only burnt furniture, the rug probably turned to a pile of ash by now.

"How are we going to explain this, Wendy-chan?!" Romeo cried as he looked incredulously at the room that was once called a living room.

"First, we must clean everything up" Wendy said, just then a fireball whizzed just in front of her face. Wendy and Romeo turned their heads only to see the two girls pulling each other's hair off.

"What the hell?! They were just playing together earlier!" Romeo said out loud, this time he was almost hit by an iron club.

"This is going to be a long day…" Wendy said to herself.

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"We're home!" Natsu Dragneel pushed the door open, with a wide smile painted on his face.

"How are you guys doi-" Lucy stopped and dropped her bags when she saw the scene in front of her. Natsu froze as well, his mouth hung open.

"Wendy-san! Is Steele alrigh-" Levy's eyes widened

"Welcome back, Levy-san… Lucy-san, Natsu-san…" Wendy said exasperatedly as she sat on a burnt chair with Nashi playing with something in front of her. Nashi began to put her toy on fire and Wendy put the fire out with the fire extinguisher in her hands.

"Natsu-nii… How's the job?" Romeo asked weakly as Steele pinched his cheeks for her entertainment.

The room was a total wreck. Spilled milk was everywhere, piles of ashes, burnt furniture, foams from the fire extinguisher, half-eaten kitchen utensils, empty water drums, and is that supposed to be the rug?

"Woah, whatever happened here?" Natsu said as he looked at the two mages. Both of them had dark circles in their eyes, their hair was out of order, they have ashes on their skin, some of the foam were on them, and they seemed to be paler. Why the heck did Romeo have a bandage on his nose?

"I don't really think that needs any explanation now, Natsu" Lucy sighed, and Levy walked towards Romeo and took Steele in her arms.

"Mama!" Steele said happily

"Thanks for the effort, Romeo. Sorry for whatever Steele has done. You too, Wendy" Levy said as she gave a pouch of jewels to Romeo.

"No problem, Levy-san" Romeo said weakly

"I promise I'll give you a new set of kitchen utensils, Lucy" Levy patted her friend on the back.

"Yeah, I'll look forward to that…" Lucy said.

"Daddy!" Nashi ran to Natsu and hugged his leg.

"Hey little fire princess! So, you've done it this time again, huh? Man, you've gotten stronger! Look at this! Now that's my girl!" Natsu and Nashi shared a fistbump and Lucy just sighed at the two of them.

"Seriously, Natsu?"

"What? It's not like this doesn't happen every day…"

Lucy approached the two mages and gave them their share of jewels. Lucy gave them a smile.

"Sorry about Nashi's antics. As well as Steele's antics. The two of them barely gets along together. Just like their fathers. Anyway, this damage is nothing. It could get worse, so don't feel bad. You've done a good job keeping this house together. Hopefully this doesn't discourage you from doing more babysitting jobs"

"Not at all, Lucy-san. It's getting late. We'd better go, see you tomorrow, Lucy-san, Natsu-san!" Romeo said as he and Wendy went to the door.

"Alright! See you soon, you two!" Natsu smiled and waved at them.

As soon as they left, Romeo and Wendy walked in the streets of Magnolia.

"That was something, don't you think?" Romeo said and Wendy laughed

"Yeah, it was fun in some ways"

"Come to think of it, we're a good team" Romeo smiled. Wendy nodded in agreement

"Actually, I never thought we might survive that. Perhaps, you're right"

"Hey, if we get another request like that, would you be willing to do that with me again?" Romeo asked, a faint blush on his cheeks. Wendy blushed as well

"Of course I would! I look forward to it!" Wendy said and Romeo's face brightened.

"Since it isn't that late yet, want to go out for a dinner or something? Well, it's alright of you don't want to, I mean you have all the right to-" Romeo was stopped when Wendy chuckled.

"You talk too much, Sir Conbolt. And yes, I would want to have dinner with you" Wendy smiled, much to Romeo's delight.

"Wendy Marvell is going to have dinner with me!" Romeo cheered and Wendy laughed

"But, is it alright to go out looking like this?" Wendy said, pointing at herself and Romeo.

"Nah, it doesn't matter! Let's go!" Romeo took Wendy's hand and went out in search for a good restaurant.