Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail

Rating: M. Don't read if you're under 18 or uncomfortable with M-rated stuff

Status: Incomplete, multichaptered story.

Pairing: NaLu, implied Gajevy and Elfgreen. You can assume all the other usual pairings but they won't be on screen.

UPDATE: TYPOS CORRECTED HOPEFULLY

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*The Dare*

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Lucy sighed.

Natsu and Happy's place was disgusting as always.

It didn't matter if she had cleaned it a week before or a month before, she would always find it in a disarray. Maybe that's why they liked hanging out at her place so much?

She did pick on them for it but never too seriously, Natsu had been raised by a dragon after all, she doubted Igneel kept house-err or cave?

She didn't even mind cleaning it, it was a mindless task that while keeping her hands busy, it let her mind wander freely, she always had her best story ideas while cleaning. But she couldn't concentrate on anything today.

Today was a big problem.

Last night, at a girl's night at the guild celebrating Levy and Gajeel finally becoming a full fledged couple at last things had quickly gotten out of hand.

Cana, of course, had gotten them all good and wasted and suggested a game of truth or dare.

It had consisted of the typical truth or dare fare like who had a crush on who and dares to eat gross stuff but them all being rowdy Fairy Tail wizards, it quickly devolved into high stakes shenanigans.

And that's when Lucy's world ended.

"Lucy I dare you to clean Natsu's house and make him dinner in nothing but a maid outfit!" Cana had smirked, the girls all oohing and ahhing around them.

Lucy figured she meant the outfit from their first mission together or maybe her Virgo star dress and shrugged, Natsu hadn't thought anything about either costume before, both were pretty tame compared to most of her outfits, "Okay."

Cana gave her an evil laugh as Mirajane sprung up from her seat on the floor and stumbled drunkinly behind the bar, giggling the whole way.

Lucy watched the eldest Strauss in confusion.

A moment later she popped up with the skimpiest maid outfit Lucy had ever seen. Now Lucy knew went Cana had said maid OUTFIT instead of maid dress.

Lucy's face burned as scarlet as Erza's hair when she got a closer look at it.

The top covered less than her bras did and was composed of only thin white lace, the "straps" black ribbon, did they really think those tiny blank ribbons would hold her breasts up? The bottom of the top that would circle around her ribs was a stretchy piece of see through black fabric.

Her face burning even more she looked at the skirt, it consisted of the same see through black fabric and a tiny white lace half circle in the front that seemed to be pretending to be an apron. Also on the hanger appeared to be white fishnet thigh highs, garter clips and a little maid hat.

They all had as good laugh at Lucy's expense and Lucy took over Cana's role of getting everyone drunk, hoping they would not remember Lucy's dare.

The next morning Lucy had woke with a pounding headache, she made herself a cup of black tea and sat at her small desk, ready to spend the morning writing when a knock at her door sounded through her apartment.

It sure wasn't Natsu, the dragon slayer didn't seem to know how to use a door let alone politely knock.

With a sense of dread filling her, Lucy opened the door to see Mirajane, Erza, Cana and Levy.

Mirajane held the outfit in her arms.

"No!" Lucy tried to slam the door but Erza stopped the door with one hand, glaring at the celestial mage. Lucy cowered under her stare and trudged to her living room in defeat.

"Time to pay the piper, LuLu," Levy laughed, following Lucy in with the rest of the girls.

"Why are you guys making me do this?!" Lucy grumbled, sitting on her couch, and crossed her hands in her lap.

"Because you would have cute babies!" Mirajane yelled enthusiastically.

"I kinda just want to see if he has any interest in girls," Cana gave a perverted grin, "And if he likes anyone it'll be you! Who can resist a scantily clad Lucy? I don't think anyone can."

The other girls nodded in agreement.

Tell that to all her failed seductions on missions, Lucy grumbled in her head.

"While I would usually believe offering up a barely dressed female to a man as wrong, I believe Natsu to be the chivalrous sort, he would not do something you wouldn't want him to do." Erza crossed her arms, sprucing what the other girls had planned.

"Time to get dressed!" Mira grinned.

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And that was how Lucy ended up in a skimpy maid outfit in her best friends house. Hopefully Natsu being his usual clueless self would just ask her why she was being weird.

They had given her a large bag with stuff for dinner and cleaning supplies since Natsu didn't have his own, she had thought it was weird that they would put cleaning supplies with food but didn't think much of it until she got to his place when she found it only had a feather duster, a large pack of condoms and ingredients for fire chicken.

Apparently cleaning wasn't supposed to really be a part of this little dare.

Lucy had prepped the chicken and put it in Natsu's sad excuse for an oven and got to work. She would clean this mess if it killed her. She found old raggedy shirt she never saw him wear and used it as a rag to first clean his dirty dishes, thankfully there weren't many since he mainly ate at her house or at the guild.

Next she worked on his counters and cabinets, followed by the floors. Soon his kitchen was sparkling clean and she moved onto his living room, it was mostly trash and she quickly got it all bagged up. She shook out his dusty hammock and scrubbed dirt stains off of his couch, it looked so much better even if nothing could be done about the scorch marks all over the poor piece of furniture. Natsu's room was last and was the easiest of all.

She decided to wash his sheets, blankets and pillow cases since that was all that was really dirty. She tossed the blankets and pillow cases into his never used laundry basket. Then she started to pull his fitted sheet off of his ancient lumpy mattress when something tumbled out from between the old mattress and box spring. Lucy quirked an eyebrow and tossed the sheet into the laundry basket and bent over to grab what fell.

It was a magazine, Sorcerer's Weekly, her fave!

She frowned when she realized it was the issue that contained her centerfold and it was creased open to those pages. Her section composed of a bunch of pages in her various star dress forms. But this copy was folded open on the spread that had her in a white and pink bikini, her keys attached to a thin golden chain that hung on her hips, the picture on the left page had her posing with her hand on her hip, her guild marked hand held up proudly.

The other picture, the one that Natsu had to be looking at was her in the same bikini bending over with her knees bent and one hand on her thigh and the other making a peace sign, a big smile on her face. Admittedly, it was kind of a risque picture, her cleavage on full display and squeezed out even more noticeably between her arms.

He had to have been reading the small article on her in the bottom corner of the page. Right? RIGHT?!

But that didn't explain why it was so damaged and kind of sticky.

Lucy's heart started to beat hard in her chest, she needed to rationalize this somehow.

Natsu was known to keep momentos! Lucy rationalized smiling before frowning again, but all of his momentos were hung up on his living room wall, why would this momento be hidden in his mattress?

Maybe he was reading it before he fell asleep and he put it there so it wouldn't fall on the dirty floor but his mattress was dirty and that's how it got sticky!

But that didn't make sense either! Her issue of Sorcerer Weekly came out last year so why would he still be reading the article about her?

She checked the mattress and it was clean too.

Lucy felt a blush burn through her chest up to her face.

No way!

Natsu wasn't doing th-that with her pictures!

But he didn't even notice girls!

All he noticed was fighting, food, Happy and… and her.

There was no way! He couldn't be that way, he was innocent, that was why she let him sleep in her bed, talk to her while she took baths and didn't get mad when he accidentally manhandled her on a regular basis.

Maybe it wasn't an accident?

How embarrassing!

She shoved the tattered magazine back under the mattress and quickly ran out of his room to do the laundry.

She was just going to ignore this, she could not deal with this right now.

Lucy had a pounding headache and was irritated beyond belief at her guildmates. Yup, denial was the best way to go.

Trying to drive the thought from her head, she decided to make some side dishes for Natsu's fire chicken that she could actually eat.

She found an old box of rice in a cupboard that didn't smell bad along with a bunch of spice containers.

Setting them on the counter, Lucy walked over to his small fridge to look for some vegetables to sauté. She thought she saw some vegetables in the bottom drawer of his tiny fridge and bent over to open it.

Lucy had just started to open the drawer when she heard his door slam open and shut and Natsu round the corner into the kitchen.

"Luce?!"

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TBC

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