Hiya! If you read my One-shot, 'Natsu, Don't Eat Candy From a Stanger,' well, this is going to be a fun little cute story based on it! Natsu is going to be nine-years-old and where the same cloths he did when he was a kid. Gray is going to be his same age witch is like eighteen or that. They will still be a part of Fairy Tail and Natsu will still know Fire Dragon Slayer Magic. Anyway, please leave a review on how you think it is and if you haven't seen my other story(as listed above) please read it and leave a review on it too! Farewell and enjoy!

"Natsu?" Gray called out into their small house. He looked under a blanket that layed softly on the couch in search for his younger pink haired brother. "Natsu! Come on! Let's go to the guild!" Gray called out again, letting the blanket lay on the couch again in peace. He crossed is arms with a huff as he looked around Natsu's and his house, hoping to find a tuff of pink hair hidden somewhere, or that scaly scarf Igneel had given him. "Happy!" Gray called for the blue-talking-flying-cat. Happy walked into the room, nibbling on a fish as he looked up at Gray, wondering what he wanted. "Have you seen Natsu?" he asked the blue cat. Happy shook his head; taking the fish he was nibbling out of his mouth to answer the black hair man.

"Nope! But I do think I saw him running outside with his backpack and a flyer in his hand." Happy recalled, eating on his fish once more. Gray raised his eyebrow in question at Happy.

"A flyer?" he asked, almost to himself. Happy nodded, taking the fish out of his mouth again.

"Aye! It kinda looked like a mission flyer! I don't remember I only caught a glance at it before he disappeared." Happy shrugged, eating his fish in one bite this time, burping once he swallowed.

"Why didn't you stop him?!" Gray asked frantically. He gripped his hair in his hands as he started to pace around their messy bedroom, heart pounding in his chest at the thought of losing his precious little brother.

"I thought it was a dream. It was around three in the morning" the blue cat told Gray. Gray looked at Happy briefly, anger and panic mixed onto his face as he continued to pace the living room frantically, breath ragged as thoughts ran into his mind about Natsu and if he got into trouble.

"Come on Happy! Let's go to the guild and get Lucy and Erza to help us find him!" Gray suddenly shouted, running towards the door, but not before he stripped his shirt off unconsciously, the shirt falling to the ground sad that its owner disposed of it without a thought, literally. Happy nodded, wings puffing onto his back as he flew after Gray.

"Aye!"

~Natsu~

Natsu looked at the train; his stomach turning viciously inside of him at the thought of even going on it crossed his mind. His face was set with a frown, tinted with green as the child battled with his motion sickness on getting on the train.

"Train leaving for Martflies leaves in five minutes." announced the train person. Natsu ended his mental battle as he forced his feet to move onward sluggishly toward his train, flyer clasped in his small hand. When he sat in his train set, he already felt nauseous as if the train was already moving, which worsen when the train lurched forward, Natsu's hand flying to his mouth trying to hold down his stomach.

~Gray~

"Natsu is missing?!" Lucy shrieked, silencing the whole guild. Lucy started to sweat profoundly as she sat back down, nervously waving her hand to her guild mates as he face pinked in embarrassment. "Mishap! Nothing to worry about! Natsu is just sleeping at home!" Lucy covered up sheepishly, the guild going back to whatever the heck they were doing.

"Yeah, I looked everywhere for Natsu! I couldn't find him! Happy said he saw him leaving at around three in the morning, with what looked like a mission flyer in his hand and a back pack." Gray said, face in his hands as he worried for his brother.

"Aye!" Happy agreed, nibbling on another fish.

"What mission would Natsu want to go on so badly that he would sneak out at night?" Erza wondered, violet eyes in thought. Lucy looked at Erza and Gray, brown eyes thoughtful.

"I saw that he was looking at one of the missions on the mission's board yesterday. Maybe he took it and wanted to do it alone?" Gray almost jumped up in his seat, eyes shining with what looked to be surprise and hope.

"Did you see him take it? Or at least did you read it?" Gray asked in a rush manner, hope a lit in his voice. Lucy put a finger on her chin as she thought.

"If I remember correctly, it had to deal with this Demon terrorizing a village in Martflies." Lucy replied, looking back at Gray as she dropped her finger and let it rest on the table.

"Why would Natsu take on a mission dealing with a Demon alone?" Gray wondered out loud, eyes downcast to the table as he sat in thought. Mira walked up to them with a smile gracing her features.

"Natsu wanted to prove to you that he can fight on his own. He wanted to make you proud." she told Gray. Gray looked up at her confused.

"He did?" he asked. Mira nodded as she remembered what happened when Gray was participating in one of the guilds brawls.

~Flashback~

Natsu walked up to the bar, having to host himself up on a bar stool to see over the counter and at the barmaid, Mirajane. At the moment, a guilds brawl was happening behind the young child, his older brother fighting in it-he was the one who started because Elfman shouted that it was 'unmanly' to strip in the guild-making it the perfect moment for the pink haired child to approach Mira with a mission flyer at hand. The white haired beauty looked at Natsu with sweet sapphire blue eyes as she cleaned one of her glasses, setting it down to clean another.

"What do you have there, Natsu?" she asked him, her sweet caring smile never leaving. Natsu beamed up at her with his usual toothy grin.

"A mission Mira-san!" he replied cheerily. Mira looked at Natsu curious.

"A mission for Gray and you to go on? Didn't you already finish one yesterday?" she asked him as she set down her cloth and glass to look at the child. Natsu nodded, smile faltering.

"Yeah we finished one, but this one is for me only. A solo-mission!" he told her.

"Why aren't you going on it with your brother?" she asked him sweetly.

"I want to prove to Gray-nii that I'm strong to defend myself! I want him to be proud I'm his younger brother!" he shouted, but not too loud for Gray to here. Mira smiled at him.

"Well okay then!"

~End of Flashback~

Gray looked down at the table, expression unreadable. "He really wanted to prove himself?" he asked softly, almost a wisp of breath. Mira nodded, smile faltering just a bit.

"And I forbid you to go after him! Let him fight on his own sometimes! He won't get any stronger if you are always protecting him." Mira scolded, smile now gone as her eyes looked at Gray, stern.

"I know, but he-"

"I know he is the only family you have, but you can't baby him forever Gray. You have to let him spread his own wings and fly. He has to see the world in his own light, and this is his chance." Mira soothed for him. Gray sighed heavily as he thought about it.

"She is right." Erza commented as her violet eyes looked at the black haired man. Gray nodded, stiffly as he still thought about the white haired waitress's words.

"You're right, but I'm not going to sit here and wait for his return, I'm going to root for him." Gray sat up, only for Lucy and Erza sitting up to.

"We're going too!" Lucy demanded. Erza nodded, eyes giving Gray that 'glare' which told him 'You'll regret ever saying no.' Gray nodded stiffly, swallowing a lump in his throat out of total fear of the Titiana(Did I spell that right?).

"Y-yes!"

Took me a total of some odd time to right this(maybe an hour without corrections done to it yet. Anyway, if you have any questions or suggestions, please send a review about them or PM me! That aside, hope you liked it! Farewell and review and Favorite!

-Let there be midnight