A/N: First Drangeel Brother's Week One-Shot out of 7. This is going to be full of feels and I hope everyone reading this enjoys it as much as I did writing it. For the purpose of this story, I'm going to assume that Zeref and Natsu are 3 years apart in terms of age. Just to warn you, after Day 4, things are gonna get a bit darker if you read what the themes are for this week in the end of chapter author's note of Chapter 12 of my NaLu fanfic "Finding His Wings".

Don't say I didn't warn you.

But for now, it's just brotherly fluff ^-^

It is my goal to have everyone smiling like idiots at their computers/laptops/phones. Even though I suck at short stories so these One-shots aren't going to be my best work ever.

Enjoy my fluff :)


Day 1- Birth

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Warm sunlight trickled through the summer green leaves onto the face of the seven-year-old boy sleeping peacefully under it. His charcoal black eyes cracked open in response to the warm presence on his skin. Sleepily, he sat up and slowly scanned the tree line. There were proud oak trees towering high above his head and the marble columns of his city's buildings peaking behind the trunks about 30 feet off from the edge of the forest.

The next thing he noted was that the forest was beginning to dim. The sun was dipping towards the horizon, which is why it had peaked through the leaves and woke him from his nap. How long had he been asleep? He had left for the forest just after lunch with Natsu...

Zeref's eyes shot wide open and his head whipped back and forth in search for the familiar head of pink hair that belonged to his younger brother. Alas, there was no sign of the four-year-old boy.

Judging from the angle the sun was at, he had about three to four hours before sundown. In comparison to the size of the forest that encircled Mildian -his home- it wasn't nearly enough time.

Zeref leapt to his feet, hastily straightened his outfit and sprinted through the trees shouting Natsu's name. Five minutes passed before the seven year old boy was out of breath and forced to stop.

"Where...is he?" he puffed to himself.

He swallowed hard again before standing up straight from his double-over.

"NATSU!" he shouted.

Zeref wasn't expecting to get a response. Especially a little head of cherry-blossom pink hair popping out of the bushes between two ancient maple trees.

"Yes Onii-chan?" he asked innocently.

Zeref let out a sigh of relief while Natsu clumsily forced his way through the thick brush, ending with a collection of tiny leaves caught in the folds of his clothes. Zeref straightened and looked disapprovingly at the younger boy.

"You shouldn't wander off Natsu. It's dangerous to be by yourself in these woods." he scolded.

Natsu stuck his bottom lip out in a pout. "I'm sorry."

And there was Natsu's trump card for getting out of trouble. The iconic puppy-dog pout. Zeref has never met anyone who could stay mad at Natsu when he pulled this move. And he was one of them. He could already feel his expression lightening.

He sighed. "Just don't do that again, okay Natsu?"

The cherry-haired child grinned widely."Okay, Onii-chan."

The two brothers walked out of the forest. Natsu was still his light-hearted, energetic self, charging five or more feet ahead of his older brother at a time. Zeref stayed aware of Natsu's position, but at the same time his mind set to work trying to piece together why Natsu had wandered off. Normally, he wouldn't do something like that. If he had found something he would have woken Zeref up and shown him, asking him what it was since he was the older and by default the wiser of the pair.

The black-haired boy shock his head slightly, dismissing the thoughts. This issue is something he'll keep in the back of his mind, but he doubted it would happen twice.

...

It happened twice. Natsu disappeared again while they were in the woods. The cherry-haired boy had eagerly suggested a game of hide-and-seek and nominated Zeref to be 'it'. Naturally, Zeref didn't see the "wolf in sheep's clothing". They played hide-and-seek in these woods all the time, but this time Zeref was having a harder time tracking Natsu down.

This was strange. Because Natsu was never able to keep himself in one place. He always had to be in motion, which made him almost unbeatable in tag but it worked in his disadvantage in hide-and-seek. Whenever Zeref was 'it', he found Natsu within a time frame of 5-10 minutes.

It's been almost an hour.

Zeref stopped and huffed in frustration. He needed to think logically about this, but then again Natsu was four and not the most logical person the seven-year-old knew. However his pattern of movements were always traceable to some extent no matter how haphazard they were. Zeref had already scoured all of Natsu's usual hiding spots so only one place seemed like a viable option.

The bushes between the ancient maple trees.

The bushes were huge and had obviously grown side-by-side and grown into very healthy bushes. Zeref had a tough time forcing his way through the leafy barrier but when he did, he was surprised to see a small footpath. Easily big enough for a four-year-old boy to squeeze through. Not so much for a seven-year-old boy however. Although he had a noticeably tougher time, Zeref made it through to a hidden stream that winded its way through the large cliff. The cliff-face was riddled with small caves.

Once again, easily big enough for someone Natsu's size to squeeze into.

Zeref checked through each cave. He was about to check one that would be big enough for him to get into if he crawled on his hands and knees. Surprisingly, this was where Natsu was hiding out. Natsu was huddled in the back of the cave with something considerably larger then him tucked carefully in the back and wrapped in several blankets that had previously gone missing from their house as of yesterday.

"So that's where all our spare blankets went." Zeref noted semi-jokingly.

Natsu jumped at the sound of Zeref's voice and hit his head on the low-ceiling. "Owww~ Onii-chan! What are you doing here?" he asked nervously.

"Natsu. What are you hiding?"

"N-Nothing."

Zeref scowled. "Natsu."

A staring match initiated until the four-year-old boy finally caved.

"It's an egg." he admitted, quietly.

"An egg?"

Natsu nodded sheepishly. "It fell out of one of the trees yesterday."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"...I wanted to take care of it myself. It needed someone to take care of it or it would freeze to death or get eaten by a Vulcan or something like that." Natsu continued, "The kids at the academy tell me I'm irresponsible and reckless and I relay too much on you for explaining things to me Onii-chan. I gonna prove them wrong. By hatching this egg."

Zeref's eyes drifted to the egg behind Natsu. It was roughly four feet tall and two and a half feet wide at the base. He couldn't see it very well in the poor lighting, but he could make out a milky white shell with some kind of dark pattern swirled on it. The massive egg was partially wrapped in blankets to keep it warm. Zeref noted that Natsu indeed knew something about hatching an egg.

He was half-tempted to ask the four-year-old to let him help, but seeing his determination he bit his tongue and smiled instead.

"How about we bring it home? You can take care of it easier there." Zeref suggested.

The pink-haired child immediately perked up, looking at Zeref hopefully. Natsu carefully maneuvered the precious cargo out of the small cave. Together the two brothers swaddled the large egg in the blankets. Since Natsu was so small compared to the egg, Zeref carried it back to the house and tucked it in the warmest corner of their room where Natsu would take care of it until it hatched.

XX-Time skip: 2 weeks-XX

Two weeks had past since Natsu and Zeref brought the strange egg home. When they told their parents about it, they were proud that Natsu wanted to take the responsibility of bringing something into the world and fully supported him. Zeref monitored the egg as much as he could, but Natsu was mainly in charge of tending to the egg.

Zeref was finishing up an essay for the academy when Natsu came crashing through the door. His expression was between excited and frightened.

"Onii-chan! Onii-chan!" he shouted.

Zeref put his quill down and faced the four-year-old. "What's wrong Natsu?"

"It's the egg! I thing it's hatching!"

He stood up so fast that his chair was knocked over. Immediately the four-year-old pinkette bolted out of the doorway, closely pursued by his seven-year-old brother, down the hallway to their shared room. Natsu beat Zeref to the room and when Zeref entered, the egg was indeed hatching. The blue and white egg was vibrating back and forth and cracks were slowly forming in the thick shell.

"What do we do Onii-chan?" Natsu asked, panicked.

He hesitated. "We wait for it to hatch."

The words had just left Zeref's mouth when the egg suddenly leapt into the air and shone a bright blue, so bright the two brothers had to cover their eyes. When the light faded, a light pop echoed around the room and what was left was...

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...

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...a blue cat.

A blue cat with wings.

"A cat?" Zeref asked, shocked.

"Look Onii-chan! He's got wings!" Natsu beamed with excitement.

The little newborn kitten fluttered around the room for a moment before landing on Natsu's head, it's tiny white angel wings in a small flash.

"What should we call him?" Natsu asked.

The sleepy kitten released a small 'mew' that sounded like 'aye'. The strange blue cat was enough to make Zeref crack a smile.

"Oh! I know! How about 'Happy'?" the four-year-old suggested eagerly.

Zeref chuckled. "Happy it is."


A/N: First one-shot, DONE! I hope I got you all smiling like idiots at your screens :)

Next chapter: Family