Opening her eyes sluggishly, Lucy squinted her eyes once the sun hit them. Groaning she forced herself to wiggle her body up enough to look at the clock on the bedside table. Hearing her husband groan before he tightened his grip around her waist, she finally looked at the time. Her eyes widened when she saw what time it was, she hadn't slept in this long since kids. Now she was beginning to worry what had happened to their early wake up call.
Turing towards her husband she shook his shoulder "Natsu wake up! Natsu!"
"Hmm what?" Natsu muttered without opening his eyes "Kids haven't woken us up yet, can'tcha let me sleep?"
"No I cannot" Lucy hissed before looking at their door, it wasn't open so it looked like either the kids weren't up (which was laughable at what time it was) or well Lucy wasn't one hundred percent sure what the other option was, but it wouldn't be good for sure.
"Fine, fine I'm getting up" Natsu muttered as he opened his eyes. Sitting up he stretched before letting out a yawn. "So why are you the alarm clock today? We have a job or somethin'?"
"No" Lucy said shaking her head before getting out of bed and heading towards the door.
"Then why are we awake, don't the kids always wake us up" Natsu huffed before flopping back into the pillows "I don't see why we have to change the schedule."
"Because" Lucy hissed as she put her hand on the door knob "It's almost ten in the mourning and we have yet to be bombarded by kids" she finished before turning the knob.
"What?!" Natsu said popping back up from the bed "I don't think we've slept in this long for years."
"Exactly!" Lucy exclaimed "So come on and get your ass up!" Watching as Natsu let out a huff before finally getting himself out of bed she followed him as he walked over and rummage through the drawers for a shirt. She knew the minute she looked away or left him he would just collapse back into bed.
Pulling the shirt over his head Natsu asked "So what do you think happened that was so bad that we have to check on them? Maybe for once their sleeping in."
"You know that's farfetched" opening the door Lucy looked out and saw nothing to out of the ordinary.
"Besides, wouldn't Happy have woken us up if anything was wrong?" Natsu asked appearing beside her. Looking out he saw everything seemed fine "Maybe they did sleep in, they were up pretty late last night."
"No, no I know better than to think that" Lucy muttered before walking down the hallway, the bedroom doors where open and each one she looked in was vacant "They never wake up later than eight thirty."
Following her down the hallway Natsu just rolled his eyes; worst case scenario was most likely that they headed down to the guild without them.
"Wait" Lucy said stopping suddenly turning to Natsu she asked "Do you smell that?"
"Huh?" Natsu asked raising an eyebrow before sniffing. Feeling his heart stop for a second he looked over at Lucy whose face had become pale.
"Smoke" they said in unison both of their voices holding fear. Quickly running down the hallway Natsu said "It's definitely coming from the kitchen."
"Shit what could've happened?!" Lucy exclaimed as she slid to a stop in front of the kitchen.
"Kasai?" Natsu asked with one eyebrow raised.
Biting her lip Lucy replied "Most likely" before poking her head in the kitchen with Natsu soon following in suit. The two were greeted by the sight of their children, perfectly unscathed for once, smoke coming from the stove and Happy flying around worriedly trying to fan the flames.
"I told you three this was a bad idea" Happy said as he continued to fly around worriedly "Your parents are going to kill me, well more your mom but that doesn't matter."
"Aww calm down Happy" Kasai said putting her hands on her hips "It's gonna be fine, you saw how well I controlled that fire. I saved us!" she said pumping her fist in the air.
"More like you nearly scorched us" Iggy hissed "You were the one who started the fire in the first place" he said pointing accusingly at her.
"Details shemtails" the girl said waving her hand "I stopped it didn't I?" cocking her head at him she glared at him, challenging him to say more.
Putting his face in his hands he muttered "Why did I let you help with this?"
"Because whose the one who can control fire, huh?" the girl asked. The youngest one was simply watching his two older siblings argue. Glancing back and forth between the two as they yelled at each other.
"Well you're pretty bad at it!"
"Whatcha say you basterd?" the girl said stepping closer and pressing her forehead against his "You wanna go?"
"Please stop you two!" Happy yelled looking back to the pair as he continued his fanning of the smoke.
As the two continued to glare daggers at each other the youngest exclaimed "Aren't we supposed to be making breakfast for Mama and Papa and not fighting?!" with a pout he sat on the floor and continued "You two probably woke them up with all the fighting!"
"What? No way, they probably still sound asleep" Kasai said.
"No we are most certainly not asleep" Lucy said finally deciding to step forward and break up the fight before it happened.
"Mama!" the youngest said before jumping up and running over to her.
Picking him up, she smiled and said "Good morning Simon. What are you three trying to do?" Looking down at the other two she raised her eyebrow at them. The two stopped their staring match and stared down at the ground. "Ok Natsu get in here so I don't look like the only bad guy!"
"Yeah, yeah" Natsu said steeping into the kitchen "So why exactly where you three trying to burn down the house?"
"Umm well you see" Iggy said staring down at the ground "We-"
"We were going to make you and Mama breakfast" Kasai said butting in "We got Happy to help since he can reach the high places and stuff."
"Oh" Lucy said looking over to Happy "He let you get near the stove" sending him the evil eye she knew he knew better than to let her match of a daughter near any fire source.
"Umm well I didn't think they were really going to us it, hehe" Happy said as he slowly tried to fly out of the kitchen.
"So why where you guys trying to make us breakfast huh?" Natsu asked before Lucy decided to skin Happy.
"Duh, isn't today your anniversary?" Kasai asked.
"Noooooooo?" Natsu asked looking over at Lucy; he knew it wasn't their wedding anniversary or anything. So what anniversary was there that was today that he didn't remember. He felt a lot better though when he saw Lucy had the same confused look on her face.
"What anniversary is today?" Lucy asked she was genuinely confused. She couldn't think of anything that was happening today. They might have overheard a conversation at the guild that was someone else's anniversary.
"Isn't today the date of when you two met?" Simon asked looking up at Lucy questionably.
"Huh? Is it?" she asked looking over at Natsu.
Shrugging his shoulders Natsu replied "I don't think so." Looking down at the two he asked "Where did you hear that?"
"We heard Gray say something about it" Iggy said glancing between his parents. He would've thought they'd remember they were pretty sentimental after. Wringing his hands he hoped that it was right or else they started a fire for no reason.
Glancing over at Natsu, Lucy replied "It could be, honestly I haven't really looked at a calendar lately."
"Are we in trouble?" Turning their heads around Lucy and Natsu looked down at their daughter. It was rare for her to sound sorry about something.
"What no!" Lucy said shaking her head, squatting down to her level. Looking up at Natsu she nodded her head down to tell him to get down there too.
"It's fine guys it's the thought that counts" Natsu said placing his hand on her head "Besides you still need to learn some more control, so it's not really your fault that the fire got out of hand" ruffling her hair he smiled down at her.
"Should we try again?" Iggy asked.
"Uhh no I think its fine" Lucy said shaking her head.
"Are you two not happy that we tried to make breakfast by ourselves?" Simon asked.
"No were happy that you thought of us but honestly you didn't need to make us breakfast" Lucy said patting him on the head.
"Yeah all we need to be happy is you guys" Natsu said pulling all of them into a hug.
"Papa" the three squealed in unison. Laughing Lucy let herself get pulled into a giant group hug. It wasn't long before Kasai squirmed out of Natsu's grip "We can still make you breakfast" she said before running over to the cabinet.
"No dear really it fine" Lucy called looking over at her daughter, she honestly could already smell disaster.
"I'll make you guys cereal, that's something that we can't burn" Kasai said turning around holding a box of cereal.
"Yeah we'll help too" the other two cried before leaving Natsu's grip.
"Well there they go" Natsu said watching in amusement as the three scrambled around.
"Honestly" Lucy said shaking her head before resting her head on his shoulder "How are we still in one piece?"
"Plenty of glue" Natsu joked.
"Stop" Lucy said hitting his arm.
Laughing Natsu simply looped his arm around Lucy's waist, nuzzling her neck he muttered "You know they make you happy."
"You mean they make us happy, right?" Lucy asked with a smirk as she watched Kasai spill most of contents of the cereal box on the floor.
"Yeah that's what I meant" Natsu replied as he watched their kids make a mess of the kitchen. "Should we stop them?"
"Hmm?" Lucy asked glancing over at him before looking back at the kids. "Nah let them make a mess."