Disclaimer: Do not own Fairy Tail, All creation rights goes to Hiro Mashima. Or anything.
Monday came after the nice eventful weekend. Natsu was still in his bed sneezing, the alarm clock had buzzed for several minutes, but somehow his hand was able to turn off the alarm. He didn't even want to wake up just yet and needed another five minutes of sleep. As time passes, his phone keep buzzing and off the next second. It continue till Natsu just got to get up to answer his phone. He slow rise up from his sleeping position to grab his phone that was on the table next to him. He looked at the phone and saw that it was 6:30 am, a few missed calls, and one text message.
He open the message to see what's in it. 'Mom left early this morning for an emergency shift at the hospital. I need a pick up.' from Wendy.
His eyes shot wide open realizing that it was only one hour and a half left before school starts. He quickly drop his phone on the race to the bathroom to get ready as quick as possible. Within 15 minutes, he shot out of the bathroom, having done his morning needs and all dressed. He grab all the stuff he needed and race down to the front door without eating since he had no time to make anything quick. Pulling on his shoes and race out the door to his car, start it up, and drive his way to his mom's apartment.
The drive took longer than expected since it was the first time Natsu was driving from his house to his mom's apartment. Checking the car's timer and it was near 7:30 am and good thing he saw that Wendy was already standing outside waiting for him as he pull up to small apartment complex to let her in.
Wendy quickly got into the car and buckle herself up. "Natsu what took you so long and it's almost 7:30 and we are going to be late." said an angry Wendy.
Natsu rubbed his side neck and let out a nervous laugh. "Sorry kiddo but I overslept and it took longer to get here from my house than expected. I promise you won't be late for school, so hang on tight."
Natsu pull out of the small apartment complex and start to speed up more than normal. Good thing there were no police patrolling the route Natsu was using, since he was over the normal speed limit. Wendy was also experiencing for the first time on how crazy her brother can be behind the wheel. Within 20 minutes of high speed driving, Natsu was in front of Wendy's middle school so make sure she was absolutely not late.
"That was so fun, even though it was very dangerous. I guess that wasn't the first time you drive like that. Do it too many times and I will tell mom." said Wendy with a sweet voice.
Natsu let out a simple laugh. "Don't worry. Let's just call it an emergency today for speeding. And I have gotten you here on time. So hurry up before you are actually late."
Wendy nodded in agreement. She unbuckled herself and got out of the car, ran towards the doors and then to her classroom. Natsu hurry himself to get to the parking lot and to his own class before he get himself into trouble. But that was easier said than done since the school's parking lot was full and he was probably the last one to be arriving at school. Luckily it only took him a few minutes to find a parking spot. With everything set, he dashes to his classroom.
He reached his classroom and open the door as quietly as possible and sneaking in without interrupting the teacher. Upon his entrance, he noticed that every one of his classroom was staring at him like this was something new. He also noticed that the teacher was not in the room either. And the clock said it was already 8:05 am and class was in session. Feeling lucky, he walk to his seat in the backrow and rest his head on the desk until his teacher was in. Unfortunately, still feeling the exhaustion, he fell asleep.
The clock was reading 8:10 am. Suddenly the door opened and the math teacher walks in with what it seems to be a transfer student. Almost everyone in the class look at who the transfer student was. The guys were looking like they are in love, the girls were mumbling things that didn't seem audible.
"Class settle down. Today we have a new transfer student, her name is Lucy Heartfilia." said the math teacher. The teacher look around the class room to see if everyone was paying attention and then spotted a sleeping Natsu. "Dragneel." said math teacher. "Dragneel." said with a higher tone. "Dragneel!" yelled the math teacher.
Natsu quickly shot his head up to realize what is going on. "What, what is it, what is going on."
Everyone in the class laughed at Natsu seeing how this is the first time he had ever done this in class. The math teacher and even Lucy let out a small giggle themselves. "Since I have your attention now Mr. Dragneel and you were the only sleeping one here. You will show Ms. Heartfilia her classes for the rest of the day."
Natsu seems dumbfounded at the moment and had no idea what to say. "Ms. Heartfilia take the seat next to Mr. Dragneel in the back row." said the math teacher. Lucy nodded and made her way to her assigned seat. The class had gone on like nothing happened as Natsu and Lucy was just paying attention to the math lesson till the class ended and people were going to their next class.
"Hey Lucy, show me your class schedule, so I know where to take you next." said Natsu while standing up from his seat.
"How did you know my name since you were asleep when the teacher was doing the introduction." asked a shocked Lucy. While handing him her class schedule at the same time.
"Maybe I wasn't sleeping at all when the teacher was introducing you." said Natsu with a sly smile. Taking her class schedule and scan it over. "Well this is easier than I thought since we have the same classes for the last half of the year." Handing back the schedule.
She took back her schedule. "Sure you wouldn't, when the whole class and even the teacher laugh at you for not knowing what's going on." said Lucy, giving a small giggle.
Natsu started to feel a small tingling sensation rising up but ignored it for now. "Let's get going. I want to get the morning over with." said Natsu.
Lucy nodded in agreement and the headed towards their next class. And just like before, nothing really happen in class. The chemistry class was by no means boring, but Natsu was still too exhausted to really keep his eyes open for class, which led to Lucy poking him nonstop to stay awake in class since they sat next to each other. The next two classes wasn't any better for Natsu but luckily Lucy kept him awake to avoid being scold at by the teacher. The bell rang signaling that it was lunch time.
"Finally it's lunch time. Now I can refuel my batteries." said Natsu while stretching his arms and letting out a big yawn.
"Sounds like it's your favorite time of the school day." said Lucy with a smile.
"It sure is since I can eat a lot of food before the last three periods." replied a happy Natsu. "Oh yeah, since it still your first day, do you want to eat with people at the cafeteria or do you prefer to still be in a small group like just us two."
"Eating with you is fine. I still don't know anyone else at this school. Plus I will have to stick with you till I know this school." said Lucy.
"Then let's go to the school's food store." said Natsu with happy grin on his face. Then Natsu took Lucy's wrist and ran out of the class room to the food store. Lucy almost trip and drop everything her hand but managed to rebalance herself quickly with any incident happening.
When they had reach their destination, the line was pretty much gone since all the student had grab their lunch already. "Alright go ahead and pick and buy and enjoy." said Natsu with a bright grin.
Lucy noticed his grin for food and then turn to the food selection to see what is good to eat today. Upon scanning over everything, Lucy had a slight sadden smile. "The food looks good but they also look kind of expensive and I don't have that much money with me." said Lucy.
Natsu didn't want to think too much since he just wanted to eat. So he picked out six items that was best in the display and two bottles of oolong tea, and pay for everything. "Well that solve your problem real quick. So let's go to the roof top and eat." said Natsu with eyes that say it can't wait to dig into the food.
Natsu again took Lucy's hand and with a tug pull her towards some stairs and on their way to the roof top of the school. Lucy in her own mind couldn't believe what just happened. One sentence was all it took and Natsu took care of the rest.
When they had reach the roof top, found a nice empty bench to sit on. "Natsu…" was all Lucy could get out before Natsu cut her off.
"Just eat. And I doubt that you want to have an empty stomach for the last periods. I'm sure you're hungry." said Natsu with a grin.
Right on cue, Lucy's stomach growl wanting food in her stomach. "You're really something Natsu." said Lucy with the gentlest smile. Then she grabbed a bottle of oolong tea and look through the food, and end up with a red bean paste bun and a cream melon bun.
'How can a girl smile be so radiating.' thought Natsu, he put that thought aside for now and went to concentrate the reminding bottle of tea and the rest of the food.
"The breads was so yummy." said a content Lucy, and finishing off the reminder of the tea. "Natsu thank you for the wonderful lunch. Natsu, did you even taste the food, I saw you shoved everything into your mouth and just swallow"
"I know the food will taste great since I had it so many times. Also I think I need more food for my stomach." said Natsu, patting his belly for more food.
"You sure love to eat don't you." said Lucy with a small giggle.
"Food is one thing I truly love but I also other things I love." said Natsu.
"Oh like what." asked a curious Lucy.
"Like…" said Natsu. When the bell rang for the start of the next class in two minutes. "Well we can talk about it later, but for now let's just rush to class."
"I will hold you to that." said Lucy. They both got up and start to make their way to their fifth period class.
Fifth period class wasn't the best for Lucy since it was physical ed. And it was never her strong suit, but she did get a good view of Natsu doing any and all activities. She noticed that he had muscular legs and arms. Then her mind started to daydream on how Natsu's whole physic is like.
"Lucy…Lucy you there." said Natsu and waving his hand in front of here a few times.
Lucy had snap out of her trance." N-natsu, what is It." with slight stutter and small blush coming up on her cheeks.
"Gym class is over and we better go change for the last class." said Natsu with a slight confusion at her reaction.
"I see. Time to go." said Lucy. She got up and walk to the change without letting Natsu saying a thing or let him walk behind her. But Natsu had to wait near the girl's changing room for her to get out since she didn't know where her last class would be.
Inside the changing room. Lucy was changing out of her gym clothes into her school uniform. 'It's only my first day of school and my mind is already going crazy over for some guy that I don't even know that well.' thought Lucy. When she got out of the changing room, she saw that Natsu was far away from the girls changing room and then remember that she didn't know where her last class would be. She walk over to Natsu and tap his shoulder. "Sorry about that but I am ready now."
"Okie dokie. Let's go to our last class and then I can finally go home and get some sleep." said Natsu.
While in their last period class English. Natsu was bored out of his mind in that class. It wasn't that he was bad at reading or write at all. He just couldn't get his mood into the subject. But he found out that Lucy really loves the subject. She pay really close attention and taking any note that seem really important to her. After fifty minutes was over, the last bell rang and school was over for the day.
"Finally I can get that much needed sleep for the last seven hours." said a relief Natsu.
Natsu turned to a giggling Lucy. "It's my first day here and I got the sleepy Dorkneel."
"Well I did have one of those extraordinary weekends for my sleepiness." said a laughing Natsu.
"Like how lunch went, I will hold you to that with a story." said a curious Lucy.
"You sure is one curious person or are you just curious about me." said a grinned Natsu.
Lucy trying really hard to hold down her blush. "Well you're the only person I know so far, so the better I know you, the better we get a long."
"Well let's not stay at school any longer." said Natsu.
The two walk out of the classroom, down halls, then out the door where they were free for the day. They were walking towards the school gate until one small walked up to them.
"Natsu, how come you got out so late. I have been waiting for ten minutes." asked Wendy.
"Oh I just got caught up in talking to the new transfer student." said Natsu with a hand gesture over to Lucy.
"Hi, sorry about that. My name is Wendy. I am his little sister." said Wendy with a sweet smile.
"My name is Lucy and it's nice to meet you. And your brother got the case of the sleepiness today." said Lucy with a returning smile.
Wendy just giggles. "I know, he was yawning a lot when he was driving us to school this morning."
"Natsu how can you put your adorable sister such dangerous situation." said a frowning Lucy.
"It's okay Lucy. It was a onetime thing only. He really tried and succeed in not being late for school." said a giggling Wendy.
"You both really love to have a lot of fun huh." asked Lucy with a pleased look.
"Only when we need to relax or bonding time." said Natsu.
Suddenly two phones started to ring. Wendy and Natsu pull out their phone to see that there was no call incoming or any messages. But they did notice that a new app icon was being download. It was strange since it didn't seem it was an app they would know or normally use. Once the app was finish downloading, both of the siblings press the app to find out what it is.
"Hi Natsu."From Natsu's phone.
"Hi Wendy.' From Wendy's phone.
"Drago." said the siblings in unison.
"What is Drago." asked a very confused Lucy. They both turned to Lucy, seeing as she can hear him too now.
"He is an A.I buddy of ours from our dad's workplace." replied Natsu with a shocked voice.
"A.I buddy." questioned Lucy.
"I asked my dad to ask his team to create a buddy for me, so I wouldn't alone as a kid." answered Natsu with a calmer manner now.
Lucy couldn't think of anything else to say since he doesn't seem alone since he does have a little sister. 'He is definitely interesting since he leaves me with more questions than answers.' thought Lucy.
"Drago, how did you get to our phone as an app." asked a very curious Wendy.
"Over the weekend when you came to play. I was in the process of programing an app that would allow me to stay connected to you two whenever the location is." said Drago.
"So that's why you left us alone and said you had something to do." said Wendy.
"Yes and now I will go back to developing more applications. Good bye Natsu and Wendy." said Drago. With that, Drago has gone away but can be reach when Drago app is pressed.
"It seems like things are working out for the best." said Natsu. And Wendy agrees.
"Your family is very mysterious as far as I can tell." said Lucy.
"Not really, we are as normal as any other family besides having a buddy to talk to whenever we want." said Natsu. "So Lucy since the tour done, you don't need anything else do you."
"No I am all set for today, just point me to the nearest bus stop and I'll be on my way." replied Lucy.
"Do you know how to get home with the city bus system, since it seems like you just move here." said a curious Natsu.
"Well I did research and all and it didn't look at bad." said Lucy while playing with her fingers from embarrassment.
"Wendy it looks like we are going to have to take a detour before going home." said Natsu.
"Actually you can drop me off first and then take Lucy home. The teachers today have dump a lot of homework." said Wendy with a sigh.
Natsu giggles. "Mondays are always the roughest. So is mom going to be home early or late again."
"I would say late since hospital work is always unpredictable." replied Wendy.
"Okay, the plan is to go eat, get food for you for the night, and then I'll take Lucy home." said Natsu.
"Sounds good." said happy Wendy. Then they look like Lucy.
"No Natsu, I don't want to be a bother. And you have already helped enough already today." said Lucy hoping he would accept her answer.
"It's not a bother, plus do you know how long it will take you to get home since all the buses have long rotation time." said Natsu.
"Okay you have a point." replied Lucy.
The three set off to Natsu's car, where Wendy hop into the backseat giving Lucy the front seat. Natsu got in and made himself comfortable, start the engine, and drive towards the mall.
"What are we doing at the mall." questioned Lucy.
"Eating and grabbing dinner." replied Natsu.
The three got out of the car and headed towards the front entrance. Wendy led the way to the Fairy Tail Joint. They sat at a table that would fit for four people.
The same waitress from last time had come back. "Nice to see you two again and with a fresh face with you. So what can I get for you three." said the Kinana.
"I'll take a chicken cutlet with creamy cheese sauce on rice, a medium sprite, and a simple cheese burger with fries on the side for takeout." said Wendy. With the order written down.
"I'll take the spicy meatball sauce on spaghetti, a large coke, and a double chili cheese burger for takeout." said Natsu. With the order written down.
Lucy look a little worried, seeing how she have depending a lot on Natsu after their short meet. "Go on, It's fine." said Natsu with a gentle confident smile.
With her nerves settling down. "I'll take the mild curry on rice, a strawberry smoothie, and honey chicken wings for takeout." said Lucy. With the order written down.
"You three must be super hungry, I'll be back with half of your orders." said the Kinana.
"Do you two always eat out like this." asked Lucy with much curiosity now.
"No not always. It's only when we are in situations when parents are not at home. Or have no time to cook, not that I even know how to cook." said nervous laughing Natsu.
"I would cook but I wanted to have more of this place yummy food and it's only my second time here." said Wendy with happy tone.
"You both are such foodies." said a giggling Lucy.
On cue, half of their order came. Everyone got the hot dish of food placed in front of them ready to be dig in. "I'll be back with the takeout orders and the check." said the Kinana.
"So crispy and creamy at the same time." said Wendy while taking a bite and chewing.
"The meatball is tender and really awesome with this tomato sauce." said Natsu with satisfied smile, chewing and slurping up spaghetti.
"You two are so adorable." said Lucy, giggling at the two facial expression and eating habit. Lucy took a bite of her own food. 'The mild creamy coconut curry is so good. It feels like everything is just melting.' thought Lucy. She didn't want to say it out, make them think I am turning into them too.
No talking was needed since all the chewing and slurping of food was all the three needed to stay comfortable in silence. When they were finish with the dishes, the waitress came back with their takeout order, and the check. Lucy took a look over the check and was shocked that it was over one hundred and twenty jewels. She watch Natsu, as he simple took out his wallet and grab three fifty dollar jewels and hand the check back to the waitress.
"Time to get out of here and get you two home." said Natsu with satisfied stomach.
"I think I can leave the takeout for mom since dish was bigger than I thought." said Wendy rubbing her tummy.
"Natsu aren't you going to wait for the change back." asked Lucy.
"Nope. The change will be her tip." simple reply from Natsu.
'He seem to treat everyone around him like they were his family.' thought Lucy.
The three walk out of the Joint and to Natsu's car. The drive to Wendy's mom apartment was filled with sing along song with the radio. It didn't feel like a long drive when they got to her apartment. Wendy had gather all her stuff and hop off the car.
"Bye Lucy. Natsu don't over sleep okay." said Wendy.
"Bye Wendy." said Lucy.
"I won't, so go on up and I'll see you in the morning if you need me." said Natsu. The three did a short wave, Wendy walk to the complex and disappear a minutes later.
Inside the car was only Natsu and Lucy left. "Since you two are siblings, don't you two live together." said a curious Lucy.
"That's another story for another time. Let's just get you home and I promise I'll tell you what you want to know tomorrow. So give me your address and we will be on our way." said Natsu.
"Do you have a pen and paper." asked Lucy.
"Nope, but here's my phone." said Natsu, taking out his phone and handing it over to Lucy.
Lucy took the phone and unlock the phone, open up a notepad and enter her address, then handed the phone back to Natsu. Natsu look at the address and furrow his brow and put his phone in the cup holder. Natsu put the car in drive and headed out.
"Is there something wrong Natsu." asked Lucy with worried look.
"Nothing is wrong. I was just thinking the three address of our home and how it made a triangle. Which also made the drive really tedious. And for you to take the bus to school and home would take two hours per trip with the bus rotation schedule." said Natsu.
"How do you know all of these things." said Lucy with a curious look now.
"I do a lot of research on geographical locations that's all." replied Natsu.
"That didn't really answer what I wanted to know." said Lucy with two puffed cheeks.
Natsu took a glances at Lucy. "Don't be like that. I'll tell you in due time. But for now let's just get you home in the shady part of Magnolia."
Lucy is even more amazed now at how Natsu knew she lived in the shady part of Magnolia. The sat in a comfortable silence. They arrive at her house within twenty minutes. And it was just before six o clock.
"Well home sweet home." said Natsu.
"Only if it was that sweet." said Lucy. Before she got out of the car, she grab Natsu phone one more time and enter her number. "Now you know where I live and can call me any time."
"Bye, I'll see you tomorrow." Said Natsu.
"Same here." said Lucy. She got out of his car and walk towards a really rundown apartment complex.
Natsu watch her disappear. He put his car into drive and head for his last destination before actually heading home for the night.