Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail or Naruto.
Warning: So. I have a confession to make. I, uh, haven't actually read or seen anything past the GMG in Fairy Tail and last I've read it was years ago so. OOCs and Inaccuracies abound. And, uh, the title. It was pretty much "Hey! Since I don't know what to title it, lets go to Merriam's Dictionary and look at the list of 'Word of the Day'!"
Chapter 01: Welcome to Fai—
Lucy huffed, dropping the large, dusty box on the wooden floorboards. "Does these really have to be put in the guild?" She asks, coughing a bit at the clouds of dust.
Her companion grunted in reply, ignoring the Celestial Mage.
Frowning at the lack of reply, Lucy turned to face him. "Laxus?"
Laxus sighed in irritation, sending a halfhearted glare at Lucy. "Just get to work, Blondie. The lesser you complain, the sooner we finish."
The Celestial Mage released an affronted sound. "I'm just asking! I mean, what's even in these?" She gestures at the numerous stacks of boxes that surrounded them.
The man drops down the stack of boxes in his hands, resigning to answering the young woman.
"It's guild stuffs; Artefacts, old books, relics and things that the guild collected over time."
With a look of confusion, Lucy asked, "But wouldn't have these gotten destroyed after..." she hesitated, voice becoming a bit softer, "Well, after?"
Laxus shrugged, acting as if he hadn't noticed the change in her tone. "It's been stored in Gramps' house since the first renovation in his term as Guild Master. He's been meaning to return it but after several renovations and rebuilding, it was forgotten."
"So then why are we returning this now? Couldn't we have waited until the others came back so that we'd have a few other helping hands?"
The new Guild Master picked up another box. "The house it was stored in is being sold." He answered simply as he returned to work.
"Oh," she mutters out before starting to pick up boxes again, deciding not to push the man for more answers, lest she really annoy him.
As she heaved up a stack of boxes, a scroll of some kind fell and rolled over the floor, only stopping to a halt when it hit the wall.
Taking notice of it, Lucy walked over after dropping the boxes, reaching out a hand to pick it.
Coming back to Magnolia with the intent of restarting Fairy Tail, Laxus didn't expect the Celestial Mage to be the one helping him set up.
He'd expected the Thunder God Tribe, or Mirajane, or Gramps, even. But she wasn't the worst helping hand to get. It could have been Natsu (Gods, they wouldn't have gotten anything done if it was Natsu) or that Metal Head.
She was relatively quiet; she asked questions, sure, but she wasn't as prone to complaining as she was back when she first joined the guild.
She wasn't destructive and was actually helpful in organizing.
In all honesty, he thinks that she'd really changed. Matured.
Not physically, although there was that. Those curves only improved since he'd last seen her, and she's started to look more like a woman than a teenager. Also, long hair suits her. He can just imagine those golden locks framing her face and body perfectly, or splayed across the sheets of his bed, gold pooling on his pillow.
(He shifts slightly to hide his growing hard-on.)
But mentally. Emotionally. He can see it in her eyes. Can see the pain and the sadness. The burden that was not there before. Or if it had been, it had been a lighter one.
Idly, he wondered what happened in the time that Gramps disbanded the guild for her to look like that.
Last he saw her, she was still tagging behind that flame-brained idiot; a bright smile, and an even brighter laugh following wherever she went.
Turning from the stacks he'd just placed down, Laxus stilled at the bright light that suddenly enveloped the attic.
"Shit, Blondie!" He grabbed her arm as fast as he could, pulling her close to him as they vanished, leaving no traces that they'd been there at all.