"I swear Lu, you're going to love them" Natsu said as he looped his arm through Lucy's.

"Are these the same friends that make you show up at my office monthly?" Lucy asked with a raised eyebrow as she let him lead them towards a nearby bar for her to meet his friends for the first time. According to him since they were now an 'official' couple she should meet his friends.

"Um, yes?" Natsu said sheepishly with a small tilt of his head, damn he was cute when he wasn't showing up to her office covered in blood and burns.

"I don't know how much I'm going to be able to like them then" Lucy said with a sigh as they stopped outside a small building with a lit-up sign that read "Cana's."

"Here we are" Natsu said as he waved at the sign with his one free arm. "My one friend owns the place; I think you two will get along great."

"Is her name Cana?" Lucy asked as Natsu pushed the door open.

"Yeah, how'd you know?"

"Oh, lucky guess" Lucy said as she followed Natsu into the bar.

They were waved over to a booth in the corner by a woman with scarlet hair.

"So Natsu" the woman that had waved them over began, "You're finally introducing us to your girlfriend."

"What do you mean finally?" Natsu asked as he scooted into the small section of the booth that was open, leaving enough room for Lucy beside him. "We've only been dating for a week, and I tried to get you all to meet her a while ago but no you were all too busy."

"Don't be so nitpicky Natsu" the women waved at him before turning to Lucy and offering out her hand. "I'm Erza Scarlet by the way."

"Lucy Heartfilia" Lucy said as she took Erza's hand. The other women's grip about crushed her hand but she figured Erza hadn't meant it.

"I've known Natsu for years; he's practically a brother to me." Okay so maybe she had purposely tried to crush Lucy's hand. "But I got to admit that I can't believe you and Natsu are dating, you're far too pretty to be dating him."

"Thanks for saying the exact same thing that we all were thinking Erza" said a man with black hair, a large smirk spreading across his face.

"Oh shut it popsicle!" Natsu growled before kicking the other man under the table.

Popsicle meant the man must be Gray, one of Natsu's main encouragers for his stupid stunts. She had a thing or two she wanted to say to him.

"Yo, I'm Gray" he said as he gave her a small wave

"Lucy Heartfilia, nice to meet you" she said with a small nod, was she going to have to repeat her name to the four other people sitting at the table as well?

"Okay, let's make this a whole lot easier" Natsu said as he placed his hand on Lucy's shoulder. "This is Lucy."

A chorus of "Hey" was everyone's response.

Lucy waved weakly and let out a small "Hey" back.

"Now then" Natsu said with a sigh. "Here's the hard part, telling you everyone else's names." A few people grumbled at this remark but stayed quiet.

Natsu pointed at Gray and then Erza. "That's Gray and Erza, but you already knew that so let's move on." He pointed at a woman with brown hair who was currently chugging down a large cup of some sort of alcohol. "That's Cana Alberona; she's the owner of the place."

"Yo" Cana said as she slammed down the cup onto the table.

Natsu moved on to the guy sitting next to Cana who had their hair up in a ponytail. "That's Gajeel Redfox; don't be offended if he doesn't talk to you. He doesn't have too many social skills."

"Natsu, I'm not scared to reach across this table" Gajeel grumbled before turning towards Lucy and giving her a small nod.

Lucy waved at him before Natsu moved onto the next person.

"The girl sitting next to him is Juvia Lockser" Natsu said as he pointed at a girl with blue hair.

"Hello" Juvia said as she offered her hand out to Lucy. "It's nice to finally meet you, Natsu's been talking about you so much."

"Oh, uh, really?" Lucy said as she took Juvia's hand. She looked over to Natsu whose entire face had turned pink. "It's nice to meet you as well."

"Hey Juvia, I think you broke Natsu" Gray said with a snicker as Juvia turned all her attention towards Gray.

"Juvia is telling the truth, she didn't mean to embarrass him" Juvia said as let go of Lucy's hand.

"Then you're much nicer than the rest of us" Gajeel said as he tried to hide a snicker behind his hand.

"Oh shut it you guys" Natsu said, slamming one hand on the table. The tips of his ears were still pink, but other than that he looked like he had recovered from the embarrassment.

"I guess I better introduce myself" said the small girl sitting next to Juvia. Offering her hand out to Lucy she said "Hello, my name is Levy Mcgarden. I'm still pretty new to this group myself."

"Really" Lucy said as she took Levy's hand. "It's nice to meet you, do you minding what you meant when you said you're new to the group?"

"Oh, well you see, Erza works at the same place I do and she thinks I'm a good match for Gajeel" Levy said, gesturing to Gajeel with her head. "So she's been bringing me in hopes that we'll hit it off."

"Have you?"

"Ehh" Lucy said as she waved her hand. "I'm thinking that I'll have to be the one to make the first move."

"Ahh" Lucy said with a nod. "I wish you luck."

"Thanks" Levy said with an appreciative smile.

"So Lucy" came Cana's voice.

Lucy turned towards the other girl who had her mouth turned up in a smile.

"Do you want anything to drink, I swear I got the best drinks on this side of town" Cana said as she wiggled her eyebrows.

"No thanks" Lucy said with a shake of her head. "I have to wake up early tomorrow."

"One couldn't hurt" Cana said as she rested her elbow on the table.

"Really, I'm good" Lucy said, holding up her hands.

"Yeah Cana" Natsu said, butting into the conversation, "Not all of us have the alcohol tolerance of an eighty years old drunk."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean Natsu?" Cana said as she reached across the table and grabbed Natsu's collar.

Natsu held up his hands as he said "I meant it in the nicest way possible."

"Uh huh?" Cana said, her grip loosening.

Natsu was opening his mouth to no doubt put himself into more trouble with Cana when his phone went off. "One second" Natsu said as he looked at his phone. "It's work, do you guys mind if I take this."

Cana released her grip as she grumbled "Saved by the phone."

Natsu looked over at Lucy and she nodded at him before sliding out of the seat so he could get out to answer the phone.

Natsu mouthed "Thanks" at her before accepting the call.

Lucy watched as Natsu walked outside before turning her attention back to his friends. Folding her hands on the table Lucy couldn't believe her luck, she now had the perfect opportunity to talk to Natsu's friends about the topic that had plagued her most.

"Now then" Lucy said, drawing the attention of the others. "I have something important I want to talk to you all about."

"What is it?" Gray asked "Are you actually only dating Natsu for his money only to find out he has none?"

"Or are you actually into girls and your relationship is all one big ploy you're putting up for your parents, cause if so I'm single" Cana said with a wink.

Lucy frowned before shaking her head. "None of those things are true; I'm happily in a relationship with Natsu by my own choosing. What I want to talk about is how Natsu ends up in my office at least twice a month after participating in stunts that his friends have encouraged him into doing?"

"I'm getting mixed feelings from you right now" Erza said before asking "Are you angry at us or something?"

"A little of both" Lucy said with a sigh. "I care about Natsu, so you must understand that I hate seeing him so often after he's gotten himself hurt. As his friends I thought you would feel the same way."

Four of the listeners shifted awkwardly in their seats.

"You don't mean Juvia correct?" asked Juvia, raising her hand slightly. "Juvia hasn't ever encouraged any of those stunts. Juvia tries to convince him to not do them."

"And me too right?" Levy asked. "I mean, I've only started hanging out with everyone. I didn't even realize something like that was going on."

"No, then I'm not talking to you two" Lucy said before diverting her attention to the others. "But you four better listen up." Lucy hoped she was giving off the threatening aura like she had planned. "Listen, the next time Natsu shows up at my office better be for a check-up, and if it's not for that reason then I guess I can try out all the different things I learned in med school that I don't get to use in my job on you four. I would really hate to do anything to you guys but I feel that if you don't start getting consequences for convincing your friend to do all sorts dangerous activities that at one point Natsu might end up with something worse than a sprained wrist or a few burns."

A smile crossed Lucy's face as she tilted her head and asked "Do you understand?"

The four stared at Lucy with different forms of fear crossing their face before slowly nodding their heads.

"Good" Lucy said with a smile as Natsu came back inside.

"Hey guys, sorry about that. They wanted to know where I put my notes for-what happened to you guys? You look like you all have seen a ghost" Natsu said once he noticed his friends' fearful faces.

"Yeah, something like that" Erza said weakly as she kept her face forward. The other three nodded their heads in agreement.

A/N: This was requested by DorkyMonster707