Chapter 1

Natsu Dragneel entered his office and was greeted by many faces, one of which rushed over to him with her platinum blonde hair. She was his assistant, Mirajane Strauss. "Good morning sir!" she said in her usual chirpy attitude with a wide grin on her face. "Hey! How many times have I told you now? Stop calling me 'Sir' Mira!". "Sorry!" She nodded bashfully with a smile and continued "Anyway, Mr. Sting Heartfelia is waiting for you in your cabin. He says that he is done with the house plan. You just have to tell him what all furniture you want in the rooms. He says that the house will be ready in a month or so." "Oh, that's great. Lead me to him then." Natsu replied with a satisfactory grin. He was finally going to buy a house for his mother, Grandine. His father, Igneel, died when Natsu was only seven and his sister, Wendy, was only a year old. His mother never went to college and was not able to find a good job because of it. She sometimes worked three jobs a day to earn a living and raise her children. She devoted her whole life to her children and now Natsu was the owner of one of the biggest electronic companies, Dragneel enterprise.

When Natsu entered his cabin he saw Sting sitting in his chain tapping his feet wearing an outfit which was a sorry excuse for formals-Blue jeans, a black shirt and converse. 'At least he's wearing a shirt' Natsu thought. "Good morning Mr. Dragneel! How are you?" Sting said with a grin getting up from his seat. "Good morning Mr. Heartfelia. Is the plan ready?" Natsu said sitting on his chair with Mira standing next to him and Sting sitting opposite him "Yes! It is. I've worked on it the way you wanted. Here, have a look." Sting said taking a huge blue print for the house and spreading it out on the table "There will be three rooms with en suites- your room, your mother's room and your sister's room. Then there are two guest rooms with a common toilet, a home office, a study plus library and I also made the kitchen bigger like your mother wanted. There is a garage on the right side of the house which can fit around six cars and a small backyard. If you want we can install a patio in the backyard. So, how do you like it?" Sting explained, biting his lower lip to the point of drawing blood, hoping Natsu wouldn't reject his plan again like he had four times before.

"What room will be on which floor Mr. Heartfelia?" Natsu asked. "Your mother's room, your sister's room along with the study will be on the ground floor. Your room, your office and the two guest rooms will be on the second floor." Sting explained nervously believing that Natsu was going to reject his idea one more time but he was proven wrong when the pink haired man exclaimed, "Perfect! I think Wendy would like to stay on the same floor as mom. They would love this and the backyard is of the perfect size for mom's home garden. They would love it! What do you think Mira?" "I think it's great Natsu." Mira said with a smile. Sting sighed with relief, "So, should we decide the colour schemes?" Sting asked, opening his backpack and taking out his notepad along with two books, one with colour panels and the other with different laminate options.

Sting carefully noted down Natsu's specifications. He wanted Grandine's room to have white walls with brown furniture, Wendy's room to be mostly in the shades of blue with black furniture and his room to be mostly red and white furniture. Natsu explained him the colours of the other rooms in the house just as how his mother and sister had specified. Sting carefully noted everything down trying not to mess up anything. He was surprised when Natsu asked him to install a very small bathtub, the size of a baking tray, in Wendy's bathroom to which Natsu explained that they had two cats at home. Sting couldn't help but smile all the time thinking about how hard Natsu was trying to make the rooms just like his family wanted. After Sting was done noting down all the specifications, he walked out and took a taxi back to his office since his twin had taken their car to work. After sitting in his taxi and giving the driver the address, he began to text his twin sister.

STING: HE APPROVED THE DESIGN LU! Now, I can take a breath of relief! :')

LUCY: That's great, but don't take a breath of relief so early big brother! You still have to see how the furniture is to be made and other small details. : P

STING: Yeah yeah, don't remind me of that tiresome work. Anyway, did you feed Lector this morning?

LUCY: My break's over, I'll text you later. Bye Sting :D

LUCY: Yes, I fed Lector this morning. Don't worry.

STING: Sure! Bye Dr. Heartfelia XP

After almost two months, Sting was able to finish everything that Natsu had asked for. From cat bathtubs to the lighting of the house, everything was designed and the making of which was supervised by Sting himself. He was proud of what he had done. Since the Dragneels had decided to move into the house on a Sunday, Sting gave the house keys to Mira at the office early in the morning as he had a date with his girlfriend. After Natsu came to the office that morning, he was given the house keys by Mira.

Seeing a Cheshire cat for a boss, Mira asked, "Where are you going?", as she saw Natsu dialling on his phone calling somebody while running out of the office grinning "I have to show my family the house right now Mira! I'll work from home!" "Ha-ha! I'm sure they'll love the house."

"Thank you!" Mira just giggled at the sight and began postponing Natsu's meetings for that day.

Natsu was in the back seat of the car with his mother. They were travelling to their new house, he had not been this happy in years when suddenly he heard a sob. He whipped his head around to see his mother's eyes filled with tears.

"Are you not happy mom? Why are you crying?" He asked keeping his hand on his mother's worn and torn one, "Of course I'm happy! It's just that when you're heart is so full of joy, your eyes start to water. Even though it appears to be just a 21 minute journey from our old house to this house, it actually is a 21 year journey. Thank you for all that you've done Natsu. Thank you." Grandine said as her eyes started to tear up a lot more. Natsu tightened his grip on his mother's hand and said, "Stop thanking me, if someone should be thanking somebody, it's me who should thank you for all that you've done for me mom. Now, wipe those tears, let's enter our new home smiling, okay? I love you."

Grandine smiled ear to ear wiping her tears and realizing how far Natsu had come and what a kindred soul he had become.

"When will Wendy be coming home?" Grandine asked, playing with the hem of her long pencil skirt.

"I called her up. She said that she has another class which will last for about an hour or something. Don't worry though, I asked uncle Metallicana and Gajeel to pick her up along with Levy."

"I'm glad that she'll get to see the house with us." Grandine said grinning as she thought of the blue haired girl. Levy was a teacher at the med school Wendy was studying at.

One day, Natsu asked Gajeel to pick Wendy up because the driver responsible for picking and dropping Wendy had to attend to his supposed dying cat (the plead for a leave was complete with tears and wailing over poor little Patricia dying of some cat cancer shit. Cat. Cancer). While waiting for Wendy, Gajeel saw Levy and thought that a mop of blue hair lost it's way and asked if she needed help. Gajeel laughed when he realized that Levy was a teacher.

After that incident, Gajeel started going to pick up Wendy every day and eventually scored a date with Levy. After being together for almost two years, they got engaged and were to be married in a few months.

"Oh yeah! And Gray and Erza are already there. I gave them the house keys before picking you up so that they could show the cook and the maid around the house so that you don't have any trouble." Natsu said replying to Gray's texts telling him that they were almost there.

Gray and Erza were Natsu's childhood friends, who were now the president and the marketing head respectively of his company.

"WHY DO WE HAVE A COOK IN OUR HOUSE? I CAN STILL COOK SON! I understand the need for a maid but a cook? WHY? As far as I remember, That Loxer girl refused to work at our house. How did you convince her to leave her job at that five star hotel?" Grandine exclaimed mortified that her kitchen would no longer be 'HER' kitchen.

"Mom! The doctor has asked you to not overwork yourself. You can cook once in a while but I don't want you to stress over boiled vegetables every day, okay? Don't worry; even I was scared when she agreed for the job after Gray asked her to join". Mirajane had offered Juvia the job to become their home cook five times and she had rejected even though Natsu would be paying her the double of what she would normally earn at the hotel saying that 'It was not good for her resume'. Why she agreed after Gray asked her to work will always be a mystery to Natsu.

"We're here Sir." the driver said parking Natsu's car in front of the house.

Grandine was awe struck. She could not believe that THIS was her new house. It was huge and pure white from the outside. When she entered the house, she was greeted by their beautiful living area. It had black wide-plank wooden flooring with a grey rug in the middle of the floor. It had a four seat sofa in a lighter shade of grey, whose back faced the entrance, which was accompanied by a few chairs of the same shade as the sofa and a small, dark brown and square, coffee table. The wall facing the front of the sofa was grey with the other walls were white. The white walls were filled with paintings from their old house. The grey wall had a little fireplace attached to it and two glass doors on each side of the wall leading to the study behind. There was a family portrait on top of the fireplace. Everyone was in it- Grandine, Natsu, Wendy, Gajeel, Metallicana and Levy as well. On the left side of the room was an eight seat dining table which had a glass top and white chairs and it had a door on its right and stairs on its left. There were two doors on the right of the living area leading to her and Wendy's room. There was a huge crystal chandelier in the middle of the roof at the sight of which Grandine's eyes started to sparkle with awe.

After she was done admiring the living area she asked, "Where's the-" but was interrupted by Natsu who completed her question "Kitchen? It's this way." Natsu said leading his mother to the kitchen. When they entered the kitchen, Grandine was awe struck. It was beautiful with its white marble flooring and brown counters with white tops and silver knobs and handles. Her china was displayed in a tall display rack. The kitchen had tall French windows through which the garden was visible. The windows were accompanied with floor length pure white curtains.

"It's so pretty and so big compared to our last one. I love the whites and browns." Grandine said smiled as her hand made contact with the white silk drapes. Natsu couldn't help but smile either. He was happy that his mother was happy. Their happy moment was disturbed when they heard talking.

"Thank you for showing me around the house Mr. Fullbuster.", a female voice said.

"You're welcome Ms. Loxer. So, you'll be joining us tomorrow then?" Gray asked and they assumed the other voice was Juvia's.

"Please, just call me Juvia and yes, I'll be joining from tomorrow. I better get going now. Bye Mr. Fullbuster" Juvia said, and then you could hear heels clinking down the hallways.

"Bye." Gray replied, before entering the kitchen smiling.

"Why are you smiling like that, stripper?" Asked Natsu in a teasing voice.

"None of your business pink punk! Anyway, congratulations on the new house Grandine. The place is beautiful." Gray said completely ignoring Natsu.

"Thank you dear! Come sit, I'll make you some tea." Grandine offered, but he declined saying that since 'someone', *cough* Natsu*cough*, wasn't at office today, he had to do a lot of work to do and then left the mother-son duo to it.

Just after Gray left, their driver came rushing in. "What happened Max?" Natsu asked seeing the panting driver. "The garage is locked, I need the keys to park all four of our cars."

"Oh sorry.", Natsu said embarrassed, "I forgot to give you the keys, wait a second." He took out the bunch of keys from his pocket and was shocked to find the garage keys missing. He called Sting panicking on the inside while putting on a cool front so as to not freak his dear ol' mother out.

Lucy was in her house taking a bath and relaxing on her day off from work. Since her brother was out on a date with his girlfriend, she was going to have the whole house to herself. Except their cat and dog, Lector and Plue. She got out of her bath, changed and was about to continue reading her book when suddenly she heard her brother's ringtone. She walked into their living room to see Sting's phone lying on their coffee table. 'Forgetful bastard', she thought as she picked up the phone to see 'Natsu Dragneel' flashing on the screen. She picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

"Hello? Mr. Heartfelia?"

"You're talking to Ms. Heartfelia. My brother's not at home right now. Do you want to leave him a message?"

"No! I don't want to leave him a message. I need my house's garage keys! Give him the phone!"

"Stop shouting Mr. Dragneel! Sting's not at home!", 'Forgetful bastard', Lucy thought to herself sighing inwardly wishing she threw the phone in the tub instead.

"Who're you calling a bastard miss?!" Natsu shouted, anger dripping from his voice.

"I didn't call you a bastard and stop howling! You want your garage keys, right? I'll talk Sting and get them to your house, fine with you Mr. Dragneel?" Lucy half spoke, half shouted annoyed by the man on the other end of the phone.

"No, give me your address. I would like to pick the keys up personally." Natsu said in a stubborn voice.

"Fine. Behind Grandine hospital, you'll see apartments for the employees. We live in apartment 104. I'll try and find your 'precious keys' by then. You know where Grandine hospital is right?" Lucy explained the address to him while plotting her brother's murder.

"Yeah I know where the hospital is. I'll be there in 30." And with that Natsu hung up the phone.

Lucy sighed after the call ended and picked up her phone to call her brother's girlfriend, Yukino with pure intention of killing him.

AUTHER'S NOTE:
Hey everybody! This is the first fanfic I'm writing so please review telling me where I'm going wrong and what you would like to see. Sorry about the lack of NaLu moments in this chapter. I wanted this to be for introductions and to make everything clear to you all. I also made Sting Lucy's brother because the story needed a brother for Lucy XP
Hope you enjoyed reading it. ^_^