Haruto was sitting at home after the defeat of Lullaby. He was drinking a cup of coffee, as he read the newspaper. Wendy was still asleep, he usually woke up earlier than his sister. The battle with the demon Lullaby had proven to him that the demons here were not as powerful as the old man had said, not only that but his Susano'o was more than enough match for them. Then again, Lullaby seemed like a weak demon, he would have to test the truth of the old man's words when he faced off against another demon. Taking another sip of his drink, the redhead continued to read about the dark Guild Oracion Seis. They had been causing some trouble in some villages. They were not an issue for him and frankly he did not care for them nor were they causing him trouble here. But if they chose to go against his Guild then he would retaliate with all his might, he had slowly come to enjoy the company of the Guild, not that he would show it.
"Good morning Onii-san." Wendy called out as she walked into the kitchen fully dressed in her usual dress with Carla in her arms.
"Morning Wendy." Haruto replied simply as he took another sip of his drink and placed the cup down and folded the paper and turned to his adoptive sister, "Wendy, I am free today so what do you want to do?"
"Really? No requests?" Wendy asked with a smile on her face as she pondered things to do with her elder brother.
"Yes, from all the requests I have taken for the past few years, we are pretty much set on money. Now that money wont be an issue, I decided to spend more time with you." Haruto said with a smile on his face.
"I don't know what to do, Onii-chan." Wendy replied with a frown on her face as she racked her brain for ideas, she was never one to think of things on the spot.
"Hn. How about we buy some groceries first? That'll give you more time to think." Haruto offered as he gave her a smile once again.
"Okay."
The two siblings left their apartment and headed towards the market. Wendy was looking around for some sort of activity that she could do with her elder brother, but nothing seemed to click. It seemed like a waste, his brother rarely spent time at home and mostly spent time on requests providing money for the two, not that they would run out, but whatever she wanted he would provide. Haruto kept his eyes forward the entire time, but he caught Wendy looking around the town as they walked but he chose not to comment. The two arrived at the market and they began looking for the food they would need to resupply their refrigerator with. Wendy was looking at some apples when she spotted some cookies a man was selling and she got a idea.
"Onii-san." Wendy called getting the redhead's attention as he turned over to face her, giving her a curious expression, "I know what I want to do now."
"Oh, please tell Wendy." Haruto replied as he eyed the happy girl before him.
"Can we make cookies?"
"Cookies, well I never made them before, but sure."
"Onii-san, how about we ask Mira-san to help us?" Wendy offered as she helped her brother pick out some fruit, "Mira-san knows how to bake so why not ask her for help, after all it is our first time."
"Sure, whatever you want."
***
Haruto stood there wearing a simple white apron over his civilian clothing as he stood beside Mirajane who was wearing an apron as well along with Wendy who was also dressed in an apron. The three were staring at the supplies needed in front of them, Haruto had asked Mirajane for help making cookies and the girl happily agreed. Now here they were, ready to make the cookies that Wendy had wanted. Haruto decided that it would be best if they began so the redhead walked over and grabbed the book with the instructions in it and began reading.
"So how many cookies are we making, Wendy?" Haruto asked as his eyes scanned the text before him in an astounding speed.
"Hmm…" Wendy thought as her face adopted a thoughtful expression and a smile formed on her face, "I know, how about we make cookies for the entire Guild?"
"That's a lot of cookies…" Haruto mumbled as he sighed and nodded towards his sister, "As you wish Wendy. You hear that Mirajane, cookies for everyone."
"I understand Haruto-kun." Mirajane replied with a smile on her face.
The redhead shinobi turned to the clock and noticed it was around noon, and it would take about half an hour to make one batch if they did not mess up and that would have them in the kitchen for a while, but he simply sighed and began helping the girls prepare the dough. He did not want to disappoint his sibling, he had done it before and he did not want to see that expression on Wendy's face, Naruto was forced to go through it but he would be damned if he allowed Wendy to go through that pain. He failed a brother already, he would not fail this sister of his.
"Haruto-kun, is the dough done yet?" Mirajane asked as she worked on the chocolate.
"It's almost done, Mirajane." Haruto replied as he continued working.
***
Four hours. It took four hours to complete all the cookies and get them into the bags, but they had done it. Haruto, Wendy, and Mirajane were all sitting on the kitchen floor, back to back. Haruto got up as he helped the two girls up and he noticed a small smudge of chocolate on Wendy's face, reaching down he wiped it away with a finger. Mirajane noticed this and smiled, it was strange to see the usually indifferent man care so much for something. The sibling bond the two had was amazing. If words were used to describe the redhead, kind, gentle, and caring would not come up. She would not have believed those to describe him if she had not seen how much he cared for Wendy.
"Haruto nii-san, can we deliver the cookies?" Wendy asked happily as she took off the apron and gave the redhead a bright smile.
"Of course, just let use clean up then we'll deliver the cookies." Haruto replied taking off his apron as well.
The three then proceeded to clean up the kitchen and once it was done they carried the bags filled with delicious treats out of the apartment and began their journey towards the Guildhall. It was not long till they reached the building, and it took a shorted amount of time before they were crowed by the Guild members and soon enough the bags of cookies were gone in an instant. Natsu being one with the biggest appetites in the entire Guild ate the bag of cookies in record time by simply pouring the cookies into his mouth and devouring it in a single motion.
"These are great Wendy!" Natsu screamed as gave the younger dragon slayer a smile and a thumbs up before he turned to Happy who had a bag of his own and a gleam could be seen in his eyes as he eyed the bag that was held by the blue cat, "Give me some Happy!"
"You already had your share Natsu these are mine!" Happy shouted as he took off into the air and gobble down a few cookies avoiding his partner as he munched on the delicious treats.
The entire Guild was enjoying the treats happily, but the moment was ruined when the large double doors were pushed opened and a frog walked in wearing robes from the Magic Council and stared at the Guild members. Seeing that it got everyone's attention, it grabbed a scroll from the satchel that it had on and unrolled it for the Guild members to see.
"Erza Scarlet and Haruto Uchiha are under arrest on orders from the Magic Council."