NaLu Week Day 6: Glory Days

Summary: If you live each day to it's fullest, then everyday is a glory day. At least that's what Lucy liked to believe. Yet, she still knew to appreciate the important moments in life. Especially, when her baby is born, that's when she realized all her years were worth that one moment.

A/N: Preggo Lucy for Karolimabean, because she wanted a cute one where little Nashi is on the way haha xD

I needed some inspiration for cute fluffy scenes, so I searched some NaLu pics on tumblr to use as reference. I hope y'all don't mind, cause I'll give y'all credit. I should have asked beforehand, but I was too shy / Also, excuse my lack of knowledge in the Japanese culture.

(Credited art: blanania and karokitten-chan)

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Oh the glory days, the sweet times where you reminisce the sweet ole good days where things went so smoothly. The times where you felt at the height of happiness, where you felt as if things couldn't have gotten better.

However, in life, if you live each day to it's fullest, then everyday is a glory day. At least that's what Lucy liked to believe.

Everyday with her husband, made her happiness reach no bounds. Everyday with him, made fall in love all over again. And her daughter that was due anytime soon, was going to be her pride and joy from then on also.

Yet, the woman made time to always look back at her nostalgic scrapbook she possessed. She had began making in once she had first eloped with her soul mate. Her whole teenage years, she had collected many pictures and wrote several diary entries, so it was easy for her to collect them all together into a book.

At first, it seemed like a stupid idea to the pinkette, but she liked it because it brought back so many pleasant memories.

Currently, the pregnant woman was looking at all her hard work she had put to making the scrapbook. She ran her hands over the hard cover, lightly picking at the soft pink fabric, before opening the book. The treasure gave off a slight new book smell, causing her to smile in contentness.

As she gazed at the pages of glossy photos, an instant smile overtook her face. One picture showed her and her husband sitting upon a wooden picnic bench under a blooming sakura tree at the Magnolia park, a long time ago. Within the picture, the teenage Lucy had a bright vivid smile upon her face, while Natsu stared where she was looking, with a loving gaze. There hair was in a messy flurry, due to the wind.

She remembered that the baby's future godmother, Levy, had taken the picture. That's when she first realized that the once dense boy had feelings for her in return. His look had said it all.

As she shifted her eyes onto the next picture, she noticed that it was from their first date. It was the night of Magnolia's annual festival. That day, Natsu had surprisingly gathered enough courage to ask her out only a few hours before the event had began. Lucy remember her reaction to when he had asked her. She still had doubt in her mind about his emotions towards her, but that night revealed otherwise. It was their first day and first kiss.

The picture was taken by a random bystander who happened to pass by at the right moment. She had offered the colorful picture to the woman as a present, and she was glad she gained possession of it.

Within the photo, was a marvelous and bright scene of the special night. The red lanterns of the city lit up the night in a soft luminous glow. The couple had stood in front of the vast ocean, dressed in colorful, formal kimonos. Natsu's was a grayish-brown color with silhouettes of dragons lining the fabric. Lucy's was a plush hot pink color, that also included a light purple sash around her waist.

Many of her friends were wandering around the streets at such time, so some were included in the shot. Their gorgeous red-haired friend was beside a blushing blue haired boy. At such a time, those two acted so cute and flirted with each other all the time. Since then, they got married and had given birth to two cherubic babies.

Also included was their friends, Gajeel and Levy, cheerfully smiling. With just the simple expression on their faces, revealed that they were having a jovial time that night. Even if the tough man didn't bare too much of a smile, his eyes showed his true feelings about the young blunette.

However, Natsu and Lucy were the main focus in their bright scene. Their lips were locked together in a sweet kiss that conveyed all their emotions to each other. That one gesture expressed all their happiness towards each other, and it was an honest and mutual agreement.

The fireworks in the distance had seemed to approve of the tender moment, seeing as the exploded into bright colorful embers at the exact moment. It all created a magnificent moment, and it was one of the woman's favorite memories.

Before she had a chance the look at anymore pages, she heard the sound a door creaking open. Lucy's eyes looked up at the sound to see her husband walk in dressed in only a pair of black sweats. He gave her a slight grin, before closing the wooden door behind him.

"Hello, beautiful. Are y'all looking at the scrapbook?" The pink-haired man inquired, referring to Lucy and the little one within her large tummy. The baby girl seemed to almost maybe recognize her dad's voice, because she kicked the inside of her mom's stomach in reply to his voice.

"Yes, we are. Oh, and little Nashi says, 'hi' too." Lucy cheerfully giggled at the strange feeling of her baby moving inside her belly. Soon after, the woman felt a sharp pain in her lower abdomen, causing her to quickly drop the album and grasp the table in pain.

"Lucy,are you okay!?" Natsu immediately called out, running over to the woman in shock.

"Ya-yeah. Just….contractions." She puffed, taking quick and steady breaths. The pinkette carefully walked over to his wife, trying his best to remain calm. He reached out and grabbed her hand, allowing her to squeeze his palm in concentration.

They remained like that, until the pain diminished within the girl's body. "Thank you, Natsu." She told him, releasing her strong grip on the man.

He gave her a slight smile in return. "So where did y'all get to in the pictures?"

Lucy gave a small gasp, remembering that she was looking through the photo album. She turned back towards the book, picked it up, and resumed to the page she was last on.

"We had just got to this picture," she said, pointing out a picture on the next page, "the one from our wedding."

Her finger landed on a shiny picture of the two on the day they officially gotten married.

"I remember that picture, it was right after the ceremony." He mumbled trailing off in thought.

"Right, the photographer was getting us all to pose afterwards. Out of all the pictures, this was the only one that didn't end up blurry." Lucy stated, placing a hand over her round belly.

The photo behind the plastic cover was one of her many favorites. The whole scene was simply the couple, the rest of the background was blurred out and painted on with a gold border. She liked that, because it seemed like a metaphor to her. As if their moment together was so sentimental, that they lost track of the rest of the world. But perhaps she was thinking too much into the picture.

The blonde was dressed in a marvelous, sleeveless, pearl white wedding dress. It had ruffles flowing down along the gown, with matching sleeves just covering her forearms. Her mid-length blonde hair was in waves to a little below her shoulders.

Natsu had a similar jovial expression as she did, and his attire was a similar shade of white. He had on a neat and formal tuxedo with a matching overcoat over signature white scaly scarf completed his appearance along with his spiky pink locks.

Both of their cheeks adorned bright blushes, and their mouths formed into cheerful and passionate smiles.

After she finished looking at that picture, she flipped the page once again. Right before she had a chance to look again, she began to experience the sharp pain she was oddly familiar with form in her stomach.

Feeling another contraction come on, she quickly sat down the book and grabbed her husbands hand again. She laced her frail fingertips through his, and grasped onto his palm in concentration.

"Another one?" Natsu asked her, furrowing his pink eyebrows in concern.

She gave a quick and subtle nod in reply.

They remained like that for awhile again, as she felt the young one squirm around inside her tummy. After about a minute, the pain subsided, earning a sigh of relief from the girl.

"That one was pretty close to your other contraction, is everything alright?" The pinkette asked worried.

"Yea, I'm good. It just means it's coming closer to the time." Lucy giggled in happiness, and slightly at how worried he was acting.

"Oh okay, do you still want to look through the scrapbook?" He asked her, trying to calm himself down from getting all hyped up.

"Yes," she said before picking up the album again where she left off.

The next picture she looked at, was another one of her favorites. It was a recent picture that they took, almost two months ago.

It was their little family. Lucy, Natsu, and the baby inside the woman's tummy. She was standing wearing a white nightgown that almost reached mid-thigh. The father was kneeling on the ground, leaning his head against her belly with a content smile on his face. He placed his hands on both sides of her stomach, holding the baby in his hands.

She loved how caring and sweet the picture was, because it was her family, and she couldn't wish for anything better than that.

All of a sudden, Lucy felt liquid dripping down her legs. She was confused about it for a moment thinking she may have peed, but didn't notice. However, that's when she realized she knew what it was.

"My water broke…." She slowly mumbled processing things.

"What was that, Lucy" Natsu called out, unsure of what she had said.

"Natsu, it's time." She declared slowly, before turning her head to look him straight in his eyes, giving him a serious expression.

The whole process of the couple going to the hospital, and having the baby delivered was a pretty scary, painful, and gory story, so let's avoid that headache.

All in all, there weren't any major problems, thankfully. The little bundle of joy was born healthy at nineteen inches, seven pounds, five ounces, with pink hair, and beautiful brown orbs. She was almost a spitting image of Lucy, but she had some of her father's features.

The moment the blonde had first seen the child, she broke into tears of happiness. And once she held the baby, she wouldn't let go of her young daughter. She couldn't comprehend that such an amazing creature could join in the world so peacefully and look so adorable.

After sometime, they brought Natsu in the room to view his cherubic daughter. The second he saw the young one, he stared at the two girls in amazement. Then, he had tears of pure enlightenment running down his cheeks. He had never experienced such enthusiasm in his own life.

They held onto their little creation for so long, before having to give her to the nurses. When they were asked what to name the child, Lucy immediately spoke up.

"Nashi Dragneel."

As for the middle name, well they had never exactly thought of one. Yet, Lucy had came up with the name, Eiko, at that exact moment. It was the Japanese word for "Glory," and she had decided upon it because that day was one of their most prized glory days.

Once they got their baby back, they instantly put all their attention on the little angel. Not too long after, many of their friends arrived with their families to see the newborn too.

While the mother was still holding onto the girl, she had asked Natsu, "Did you bring the camera?"

Upon her question, he quickly rummaged through a bag he brought and pulled out his trusty, quality camera.

"Yup!"

And that's when he took a picture of the three of them together, the Dragneel family. That picture was absolutely going into their scrapbook. Because even though she lived each day to it's fullest, she still knew to appreciate the important moments in her life. She wished she could have lived in that moment her whole life, because right then, was worth twenty-five years of waiting for.

UPDATE 8/4: This was my final fanfiction for NaLu Week, because my Day 7 entry was a drawing (I set it as the cover), and I was too lazy to participate for the last day. :3