Lucy couldn't help but sob quietly as she clenched her plump fists in her lap as their taxi cab began to start off for their flight. Why was this so sudden?! It was an incredible change of things, immediately leaving for a city on the other side of the country after school, was definitely not in Lucy's agenda of random things to suddenly expect.

What made her temper fuel even more, was the fact that her father was oblivious to her feelings.

Sure, she didn't want to seem selfish and cause a tantrum over his business opportunity at a different location, but he should have arranged for a better time to leave- at least notifying her before hand! Five minutes isn't a lot of time to reflect on a decision to suddenly flip your life completely back from the starting point.

Lucy squeezed her fingers as she looked down at them, not letting herself look up as the driver pulled around the block. Natsu's house would appear soon, and she knew if she even took a glance, she'd burst out crying. Natsu was her one and only best friend and the first person to approach her, disregarding her size and weight. Of course, following soon behind him was Erza and Gray, who also became her nakama, but somehow the pink haired boy seemed a bit more special then just 'best friends'...

Internally screaming, Lucy clutched her skirt with as much force as finger-possible as she quit her thoughts. Shaking her head out she sighed as she glanced out the window -

...To see a sudden flash of pink, and a quick glance of a signature scarf.

"What?!" Lucy gasped as she immiediately attempted to twist her body around to see who the figure was. Her heart began to pound against her chest as she craned her wide neck to see behind her, the car still steadily driving at a slow pace.

With her size, Lucy wasn't capable of turning her head as much as she would like, the skin and flab of her body in her way of the movement, but as she struggled, just as they pulled out of the neighborhood, the blonde caught a glimpse of her familiar friend, clutching a ball in his palms, as he stood staring shocked at the car.

"Daddy!" She cried, as she turned to look at her father sitting next to her. Smiling, he faced his daughter to respond, "Yes, sweetie?" Lucy could hear her heart pounding in her ears. "Stop the car!"

Jude looked at her in question, and the driver looked through the rear view mirror. "Why?" Furrowing his eyebrows her father attempted to think up reasons as to why Lucy would want to halt the vehicle. "'Cause I gotta say bye to Natsu!" Lucy cried, as she attempted to look back again, desperate for another glimpse at her best friend through the tinted glass.

"Oh..." Jude sighed in relief, as he shook his head at the driver as a motion to keep going and disregard his daughter's statement. "That's alright, sweetie, you don't really need to. It's not that important. Besides," Putting his hand out, Jude patted Lucy on the head. "You can move back when you're older. Maybe when you're in highschool, you can move back on your own and live in your own apartment. But, for now, you still need to be under my care, sweetheart." Smiling in content, Jude gave his daughter one last wink before pulling his palm back to his side, to stare out the car window once more.

The lump in Lucy's throat grew bigger, as she twitched in scarce anger. The car then zooming out of site making it's way to the airport.

Natsu was currently, probably the most confused 9 year old of the century right now.

For some reason, Lucy had gone off in a taxi with a giant box on top of the car.

That was weird.

Scratching his head, the oblivious pink haired boy began to bounce the ball on the sidewalk. What didn't make even more sense, was the fact that her apartment had a 'For Sale' sign on it. That was funny, maybe he forgot where she lived again.

Maybe she was off to go to a birthday party, and the giant bags on top were to carry the giant cake.

...Dang. Now he was hungry.

His stomach growling, Natsu began to walk back inside, giving up on asking his friend to play. Maybe... Throwing the ball up into the air, Natsu began to sort through his thoughts (somehow he had begun to use his brain for once). Maybe, I'll just settle with eating cherry pie today, and the boston cream one tomorrow. Folding his hands behind his head, without bothering at looking up at the nearing ball coming straight down to hit him, Natsu gave one swift kick- nailing the toy sphere straight in the middle, causing it's direction to fly towards the already open front door.

Grinning his signature toothy smile, Natsu rushed inside to see where the sphere would end up.

As it flew, he made it just in time for a front row seat to see who or what it would hit.

...And right in it's direction of flight;

...Was Zeref. His older brother.

He was currently reading on one of the green sofas in the living room, and as it happened, the side of his head just so happened to be in the way.

...Yeah, right.

The Dragneel brother's were always playing a game. Every time Natsu could nail Zeref with something, he'd get a prize. It was childishly dangerous and exciting. Smiling to himself, Natsu chuckled as it crashed into his brother.

"Awww..."

Zeref couldn't help but laugh at the sight of his younger brother pounting, giving up by sitting crossed legged on the floor with his arms folded. "You always catch it, Zeref." Natsu whined. "That's so unfair! You gotta let me win at least once!" The black haired boy had easily caught the toy with one hand, without bothering to look up from his opened paged book.

Zeref smiled sheepishly, glancing up to look at his younger brother. "Well, that means you gotta keep practicing your martial arts with dad." Natsu huffed in response, and groaned, falling backwards onto his back with his body sprawled out in a star-wards shape. Zeref gave a chuckle before continuing his reading literature.

"...Hmm...Y'know..." Kicking both his feet up, Natsu propelled himself to jump back onto his heels as he tucked his hands into his pockets of his pants as he made his way into the kitchen to browse the refrigerator. "Hmm?" His brother motioning for him to continue, Natsu pulled out the pie in the fridge before continuing. "For some reason Lucy left her house with a giant box on top to go to a birthday party. I went over to play, but I got the place wrong again, and it said, 'For Sale' for some reason. Ain't that funny?"

Chuckling to himself, and without bothering to cut up slices, Natsu dove his face right into the dessert, without bothering to use silverware or a napkin at the least.

Zeref sighed, closing his book and getting up to stop his brother from devouring the pastry which was supposedly for after dinner. Swiping the pie away from his devious sibling, Zeref knew he'd have to be plainly blunt in order not to fry his brother's brain from complex kindness. "Natsu, Lucy probably moved away."

Natsu blinked, surprised. Mainly due to the shock of suddenly not filling his mouth with the delicious cherry flavored pie.

"Huhmph? Whaf you'sh shay?" Mumbling through his mouth full, Natsu gulped thickly, his brain finally clicking together with the sentence Zeref so plainly plaid out.

Sighing again, Zeref knew his brother would be a pain at the reaction, but it had to be done. Holding the half eaten pie above his head with the attempt to stop the jumping Natsu from reaching the dessert, Zeref tried again.

"Lucy probably moved away. Out of Magnolia."

Natsu stopped.

"...What?"

A/ns: Honestly, this wasn't as good as I would've liked it, but I've always been itching to write about the Dragneel brothers. My personal favorites in all of the show is Zeref and Mavis. This is going to be a very quick fanfic, escalating quickly. Next chapter, will be the real deal- Time skip next chapter. Should be out by Monday, because I'm busy on the weekend. Thanks for all the support!