"I just wanted to play a little trick to teach them a lesson and to get a reaction from the four of the Asahina brothers, but anyways shall we start cooking?" – Lucy replied happily with a joyful smile place on her face.
After two hours or so, the food Lucy and Ukyo are preparing for dinner are all done, both of them cooked multiple compliments of Japanese foods on whole new level as they used a western-style cuisine.
The Japanese cuisine showcase fresher, and aromatic and unique seasoning with the addition of western cuisine of stylish presentation that make a person salivate in anticipation to taste. The aroma of such delish waft in the living room calling the hungry wolves inside the dining room.
A braised pork belly with scrambled eggs.
Miso salmon with soba noodles and ponzu dressing.
And last but not the least, Spanner crab rice with edamame and tobiko.
"Foods ready!" – Lucy yelled towards the others as they come running ready for the feast, once they've see the feast in the table, it's a sight for fooders as they didn't waste anymore time to get seated on the chair and munch on everything they could reach and taste.
Everyone is praising Lucy and Ukyo on how delicious and satisfying their cooking was, it made both of them raised their chest and head high. Proud of themselves at making their family eat with 'gusto', it's quite a surprise for Ukyo as this is his first time someone helping him in the kitchen and the result ended with a fantastic praise.
Lucy offered Ukyo to do the dishes seeing how tired he is. He apologized and went upstairs along with little Ema who wanted to help but Lucy declined the offer immediately. She was alone in the kitchen washing the dishes and cleaning up all the messes in the kitchen since Happy is taking a nap on the couch from eating too much.
Lucy feels someone approaching her from behind, but it's not out of hostility, and so, she turned around, hoping to find who it is. Despite that, her reaction to that sneaky person, Lucy feels something is placed on her lips, it's soft and wet, that tasted kind of like lemon meringue. Lucy sees another pair of eyes and lips intimately touching her lips and having eye contact with her eyes that have a mischievous glint.
Lucy realized who it is only to widen her bulging hazel eyes to see it's Tsubaki.
"T-Tsubaki!" – Lucy stutters red face frozen in place as she cannot comprehend what just happened a moment ago.
"Ah, Lucy-chan that's my goodnight kiss for you, oyasumi~" – he winked walking away from Lucy to go back to his room.
"W-What...*sigh* I should go and get some rest and forget everything that happened. He's just a flirt and a teaser." – Lucy said to herself completely forgetting it faster than the kiss that Tsubaki gave her just a moment ago.
Finishing up the dishes and bringing Happy with her towards their room, she dropped both themselves on the bed as sleep visits both of them immediately.
| Morning |
Lucy woke up early in the morning letting Happy sleep in as he is too cute and adorable at the same time she does not want to disturb his dream of eating yummy fish again. So, she decided to take a quick morning shower and changed into a maroon short and t-shirt dress with her hair in a low side ponytail, slipping on her bunny slippers she went downstairs towards the kitchen to prepare for breakfast.
"Ah! No one is still awake." – she said to no one in particular as she looks around the living room.
"Let's make some breakfast, shall we."
While making breakfast which consists of bacon, scrabble eggs, fried rice, and hotdogs, she takes a quick sneak peek at the calendar seeing who was going to join them for breakfast. She also prepares her special French toasts with slices of fruits on the side placing them on the table at each chair leaving the syrup in the middle.
"Oh, it's good to see someone is an early morning bird." – Ukyo said approaching the blonde.
"And you also prepared breakfast too, I'm sorry I couldn't be there to help you, but thank you, I appreciate it. It's been so long since I had a relaxing morning, normally I'm the busy bee in the kitchen." – he smiles grateful for her making the breakfast, it's the first time anybody in this house has done the cooking or house chores even. Ema helps out sometimes whenever she has time, but Lucy cooking for them instead of him is still a surprise for him.
"It's fine, I would do this when I was back at home too, no worries, is it fine if you place down the drinks? Thank you, Ukyo-san" – Lucy asked as he nodded.
"Ah, Lu-chan you're up early." – Ema said, going to sit down.
"Did you make all of this...hmmm... smells amazing it rivals Ukyo-san's cooking."
"Ehn!" – Lucy beamed happily.
"Ohaiyo... nee-chans." – Wataru said groggily giving them hugs as they happily returned.
"Wahhh...this is Lucy nee-chan's breakfast cooking, it's delicious." – he brightens up, hurryingly taking a bite.
Soon everyone who is still in the house joins them on breakfast enjoying their wonderful breakfast prepared by yours truly.
"Lu-chan, are you going to school?" – Ema asked.
"I don't know actually, it'd be fun though, making friends here and there." – Lucy tapped her chin.
"Might as well, so you can meet a lot more people and get used to our world much faster and more fun." – Yusuke recommended.
"That reminds me, mom figured you'd want to, so she signed you up and you'll be starting tomorrow morning." – Ukyo said smiling.
"Okay, I will probably go out shopping today since everyone else will be busy at work or school." – she replied
"Happy had a long day and a big meal yesterday, so I am pretty sure he's going to sleep in today." – she continued.
"Lu-chan, are you sure you want to go by yourself? I can go with you after school." – Ema asked worriedly.
"Don't worry I'll be fine." – Lucy smiled reassuringly towards Ema to ease up her worries.
"Call us if anything happens, then we will surely be there, I'm sure our parents have already given our contact numbers to you before they left yesterday." – Ukyo said
"Yup, they did actually which at first I was confused on why they're the one giving it to me, but maybe they just did that to avoid the hassle of asking all of you (Lucy chuckles slightly before continuing), and also, Ema can I bring Julie with me?" – Lucy asked.
"That will be great, he can guide you outside of the house." – Ema said
After saying their goodbyes to go to work and school, Lucy is left alone with Julie while Happy is still snuggled up in his cocoon of blankets in their bedroom dreaming about fishes which reminds her of a certain pink-haired dragon slayer. She shakes her head to avoid remembering further in that certain memory of hers.
She gets dressed for her school shopping and gets her purse and wallet making sure she had her keys, the right currency of money to buy things, then she walked out to the plaza.
"Lucy, what are you planning on buying?" – Julie asked, sitting on her right shoulder while munching on a sunflower seed.
"Since I'll be attending school starting tomorrow, I'm thinking of buying my materials in stationery supplies since I don't have any and just walk around." – she replied, walking into the store that seemed popular with good quality school supplies.
Lucy was slowly filling her basket with pencils, notebooks, pens, etc. It's a relatively peaceful and quiet shopping until she felt a tug on her dress, both of them look down to see a little boy with short brown hair and a little girl with black hair in pigtails looking up to her.
"Onee-san is very pwetty." – the girl says as the boy nodded his head in agreement to his little sister with bubbles popping around them, Lucy couldn't help but giggle and bend down to their height, petting both of their heads gently.
'They're soo~ adorable' – Lucy thought, the two cute little kids lean on her touch that Lucy imagine a two cute kittens purring under her touch.
"Arigatou~ you guys are adorable and lovely too." – both of them blush cutely as she put Julie in her hands in front of them.
"My name is Lucy, and this is my friend Julie." – they both sparkled as if they were getting new toys, Lucy just wanted to clench her heart as they started to pet him. Julie is enjoying his time getting pet by two cute children as his surrounding area is covered by daisies and the sun shines.
"Hmph, I guess I can accept this." – Julie said even though no one can understand him but Lucy.
"Misaki! Hiroki! There you guys are, don't run away like that, you'll give me a heart attack." – a deep husky voice shouted out, all their heads snap up and see a panting man approach them.
The man is tall and well-built with a great jawline, black short hair with jewel ruby eyes and full lips, wearing a short-sleeve white shirt with a pair of black shorts. He is an ideal man every girl dreamt of as eyes around him is admiring him.
"Onii-chan!" – the kids yelled.
'Onii-chan?' Lucy questioned herself mentally 'Why is it that I feel magic pulse coming from him, yet we are in a world where magic shouldn't exist, he feels like a...'
"You guys know better than to not run off like that." – he scolded the two as they pouted their lips at getting reprimanded by their big brother and got scolded right in front of the pretty onee-san they've been admiring since the pretty one-man entered the store.
"But onii-cham we found a pretty onee-san and met her friend, Julie." – Misaki exclaimed happily jumping up and down forgetting that her big brother is upset and worried about their running off act.
"Onee-san?" – the man questioned and turn his attention to the girl who stands up smiling at him with Julie on her shoulders, he feels his whole world stop and concentrates only on this girl in front of him.
This person is the most beautiful and enchanting woman he has ever met before, yet he knows there is something different about her that he couldn't put his finger on, but shook his head to shake off his thought as it's not the right time for such a thing.
"A-Ah gomen if these two bothered you." – he rubbed the back of his neck.
"No need to worry, you're a lucky big brother to have such adorable little siblings, and besides they weren't causing problems it's actually the opposite, I enjoyed their company." – she gave him a gentle smile.
"I see, thank you for taking care of them for me. We don't want to disturb your shopping any further, let's go Misaki, Hiroki." – he said about to hold their hands, but they refuse to want to leave the blonde as they run towards Lucy and hug her waist tightly on either side pouting, taking Lucy and their big brother by shock.
"E-Eh" – Lucy stammered
"Come on we don't want to give her trouble, right?" – the man said crossing his arm across his chest flexing his firm muscles.
"No, Misaki doesn't want to leave pwetty onee-san yet." – Misaki whines as the quiet Hiroki gripped onto her clothes.
"You guys..." – he said raising a brow, but look at the girl apologetically which the said girl only laugh happily that made the unnamed man to feel tingles in his stomach and a sudden jumpstart in his heart.