I bet you all are wondering 'what the fuck compelled this chick to write something this weird?' or something along those lines, so I'll tell you. I saw the cover picture and wondered what it would be like if Gray turned Natsu into a toddler. Well, that and a plot bunny decided to bother the hell out of me until I finally typed this up. God damn plot bunnies.

Chapter one: Gray, you're dead

Normal POV

" What did you do?!" Erza furiously demanded while Gray sweated profusely and continued to cower manly in a corner, a frightened look on his face. " It-It was just a prank Erza, I swear! Friends prank eachother all the time!" he squeaked and began to sweat more when the redhead swordswoman pulled a blade from her magical inventory and aimed it at his throat with a murderous expression on her face.

" You seem to think this is a joke?! He's a child!" Yes he was a child. But this child wasn't who anyone would expect.

It was Natsu.

The fire Dragonslayer was currently the size of a toddler; roughly no bigger than a two year old and he stared at everyone with wide-slightly fearful-onyx orbs. The girls of Fairy Tail cooed-well the more girly ones anyway, Cana was teasing him, all the guys were snickering and attempting to get a picture with their lacrima cameras for blackmail later, while Elfman ranted about manly things loudly in the background.

" He's so CUTE!" Lisanna squealed. She and her sister Mirajane both had stars in their sapphire eyes. Juvia watched as Gray-whom had gotten away from Erza's sword-teased the toddler and she blushed, her imagination going on overdrive from the images of herself and Gray, him lovingly teasing a navy blue haired little haired girl while she herself made lunch, smiling.

The steam that was rising form her ears, grew in amount as the daydream continued. Suddenly the large guild doors parted revealing a slightly tuckered out Lucy whom had just returned from a small escort job. " Hey what's going on?"

She lightly pushed her way through the crowd and saw the baby dragon slayer. When the pink haired toddler caught wind of her scent, he struggled more fiercely to get out of Mira's strong yet soft grip, attempting to reach for Lucy. She cocked her head to the side, then gently picked the squirming toddler from the Fairy Tail poster girl's arms, and Natsu snuggled into her chest; tired but a smile on his tiny face.

Seeing Lucy with a baby, let along a baby Natsu, the Fairy Tail girls began to squeal quietly as to not wake the small slayer. " Lucy, do you think you could take him for us? It's too rowdy for a child to be here in the guild, and you are apparently the one who he likes the best." the blonde sighed and agreed.

Now she probably had to go shopping for him.

...

And that brought Lucy to where she was currently. Running around the shopping district of Magnolia while a hyper toddler Natsu ran around, bobbing away form her hands. He was worse as a child. Finally he slowed enough for her to grab him. " Gotcha." she said with triumph. A slightly older woman looked over and smiled. " What a handsome young man. You have such a darling son, his father must be quite the looker as well." Lucy promptly turned red and started stuttering. " I'll take that as a yes then!" the woman chuckled and went on her way.

Now that the blonde had re-obtained the toddler Natsu and had bought her groceries, Lucy made the trek back to her house. " Natsu!" she called. Why? Because the minute she unlocked her door, the child ran in and attempted to scale her bed, only to underestimate the height and fall. He got up and rubbed his head before his lip trembled.

" Oh no no no! It's okay!" Lucy rushed to calm the kid before her landlady came up and demanded she pay more money or something for housing a kid. Goodness knows the woman loved to see her struggle to get the money on time. She had finished shushing the child before setting him on the bed, and went to prepare lunch.

Taking care of a toddler, let along Natsu was a mission in and of itself. " Hey, Natsu?" she was rewarded a gurgle of question. " What do you want to eat?" Quickly remembering that he was a child, and couldn't speak, she went back to her bedroom, set the toddler on her hip, and moved back to the kitchen.

" We have pancakes-though since it's so late in the day I don't think it's a good idea, ramen, I could make some cinnamon rolls if you want.." Natsu clearly must have recognized one of them, because after she'd mentioned cinnamon, he started clapping. Though, it wasn't much of a surprise considering tha fact that he was a fire Dragonslayer, and he liked hot things. " Cinnamon rolls?" she asked just to be clear. Again, she received clapping in answer.

Cinnamon rolls it is then. Within almost no time at all, the toddler had two cinnamon rolls sat on a plate in front of him, " Careful that's-" he paid no heed to her warning and shoveled the food into his mouth. " hot."

Well at least heat was of no worry, seeing as he paid hot cinnamon rolls no heed. After he ate, she took him into the bathroom, and tried to get over her embarrassment. She would have to bathe him since he was essentially a two year old and could not do such a task on his own.

" NATSU STAY STILL!" she attempted to get the child to stay put so she could put him in the tub. It was already hard enough of a fight to get him undressed, and even harder to get him in the bathroom in the first place. " Stay still or...no sleeping on my bed!" surprisingly, that got the child to halt moving immediately and Lucy was left confused. Did this kid really understand her?

Maybe Natsu had just been one of those odd children who almost completely understood those older than him. Finally, the chibi Natsu relented and succumbed to his fate of taking a bath. He pouted the whole time though, almost making Lucy feel guilty. After the bath, Lucy summoned Virgo for some clothes for Natsu, she got them, he got dressed and the maid spirit was dismissed. She wasn't very happy about not getting punished though.

" Hmm. How about we listen to the radio?" Lucy suggested and turned on her radio lacrima. " This just in! Fairy Tail's Celestial wizard Lucy Heartfilia was seen with a pink haired child, who was it?! Is she in a secret relationship? Coollll! With the hair on the small child-who appeared to be the age of two years old-one can only assume that the child's father is the one and only NATSU DRAGNEEL! COOOOOLLLL! Lucy Heartfilia with a child! Coolll!" Okay so it was that weirdo Jason from Sorcerer's Weekly. WAIT! How had they gotten any information about that stuff?!

" WHEN THE HECK DID THEY GET THAT KINDA INFORMATION?!" It'd only been about twenty minutes! How the hell could they get that stuff within that time-frame?! Natsu seemed to sense her distress because he made a gurgle or something and then the blonde's attention was all on him. " What's up Natsu?" she asked.

His head tilted to the side and he stuck a fist in his mouth, onyx eyes twinkling. Knowing that letting out a squeal would hurt his ears, Lucy refrained. Instead she spent the rest of the day caring for the toddler of a Dragonslayer. When it was time for him to go to bed, she had eventually coaxed him into sleeping, while she took a bath before dressing in her pajamas and going to sleep, making sure she wouldn't roll over Natsu during the night.