A Fairy Crush

A/N: Firstly, I want to thank all my readers. You guys are absolutely amazing. Thanks for all the favorites, follows, and reviews. I definitely wouldn't have published eight chapters if it wasn't for your wonderful encouragement.

oh-tangled: The birds and the bees suggestion is going to be a tough challenge. I don't even know where I'd begin to write that. Though, I might do your suggestion of Gajeel with his granddaughter type thing as an epilogue.

Sophia: I'm a big fan of child romance; it's so cute. It's why I have a soft spot for Lisanna.

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN FAIRY TAIL. MASHIMA HIRO DOES.


"You're getting to be a strong mage, Squirt," Gajeel complimented as he ruffled Kokoro's dark locks.

"I'll be stronger than you, daddy!" the five year old smiled back as she held onto her daddy's hand while they walked through Magnolia's streets.

"You still have a long ways to go," Gajeel commented.

Kokoro's roar was coming along nicely and so was her iron club. Kokoro still couldn't get her iron club to extend that far with her small body proportions. Her attacks weren't nearly as powerful as Gajeel's but with her hard work and determination, Kokoro might get there. Today's training session consisted of long range attacks. Her close combat was excellent for someone of her stature, thanks to Lily's rigorous training sessions. So, Gajeel taught her two new spells: Iron Dragon's Kunai and Iron Dragon's Lance.

"You'll eventually get there, Koro-chan," Tigris encouraged. "Just work on hitting the target instead of me next time."

"Sorry, Tigris," Kokoro apologized. Poor Lily kept getting attack by sharp metal objects and Tigris had an evasion work out. Accuracy definitely was something that Kokoro needed to work on. There was much needed improvement in that department. However, Gajeel had confidence that Kokoro would be a fearsome mage, a force not to be reckoned with, and bunch of other terrifying title he earned in no time.

"It's been a while, Gajeel," a familiar voice spoke.

Gajeel snapped his head up. A smirk crawled up on seeing the familiar face. "Ryos," Gajeel acknowledged. "Where's the other one?"

"Somewhere," Rogue answered. He ignored the old nickname. "So how's it been?"

Ribbet. Ribbet.

Kokoro's eyes averted to a frog nonchalantly sitting on the sidewalk. Kokoro lunged to try to catch it but the frog hopped out of her grasp.

"Can I play, please?" Kokoro pleaded as she tugged on his pants leg.

"Stay close, Kokoro," Gajeel told her.

"Come on, Tigris!" Kokoro called.

The two friends darted after the green frog trying their best to capture it. She was determined to capture the frog and show her friends back at Fairy Tail. Tigris and Kokoro eyed the green frog sitting on the side of the canal. They had managed to corner it.

"I got it! I got it!" Kokoro exclaimed with glee. The startled frog began to hop away for his life but Kokoro was determined to bring that frog to the guild. The five year old child jumped after the frog but the green creature escaped by hopping into the crystal water.

Kokoro followed the frog into the water but it disappeared. "Dang it!" she pouted. Kokoro really wanted that frog.

"Are you okay?"

Kokoro looked up to see brown eyes staring back.

"I'm fine," Kokoro answered.

Her clothes were all wet and she knew her mother would be cross. The strange boy helped her up. Kokoro noticed Tigris talking to another exceed in a pink frog suit. She had never seen this boy before and he dawned an insignia that belonged to Sabertooth.

"Kokoro," Gajeel called.

"Aiden," the boy turned his head to face his father, the man Kokoro saw her father talking with. "Let's go find Sting and the others."

"Yes, father," the boy with jet black hair answered.

"Don't forget Fro," the cat in the frog suit ran up and jumped into Aiden's arms.

"See you later," Aiden waved at her.

Kokoro brought her hand up and shyly waved good bye as she hid behind her father's leg.

"Koro-chan," Tigris began. "Why is your face red?"

"My face is not red!" she yelled back.

Gajeel looked down at his dripping wet daughter to see what Tigris meant.

He knew that look on Kokoro's face. Kami, he knew that look. The faint pink tint on her cheeks, the shyness, the way she hid behind him was identical to that of Levy's flustered face. The face of denial, he was accustomed to. He knew that look very well.

Dammit!

He wasn't expecting this to happen already. Kokoro was way too young.


Later that day, Gajeel caught Kokoro touching the boy. She touched his filthy hand as she dragged the children of the Twin Dragons to meet the other children and she introduced them to all her friends at Fairy Tail one by one- Dreyars, Fullbusters, Strauss, Justines, and lastly the Dragoneels.

Haru Eufliffe challenged Nashi to a fight thinking that she was the Salamander who defeated his father. She fit the description his dad told him: the pink hair, fire magic, impulsive nature, and white scarf. However, Tarek stopped the two and scolded Nashi for messing up the nice dress that Virgo made. Tarek was mature for being a Dragneel. Haru was pissed because Tarek interrupted his fight with who he thought was the Salamander. Boy, was he in for a surprise when the other blond boy knew how to fight! Capricorn made sure that Lucy's first born was raised properly and would often be his mentor (to make sure he was well educated well). Haru didn't know that Tarek was a Dragneel. Soon the two families began to fight and everyone else seemed to join in afterwards.

Gajeel noticed how, Kokoro was itching to join the fight but something held her back. That's when Gajeel noticed the look Kokoro gave that son of a bitch, Aiden. Aiden looked at the brawl disapprovingly before walking away.

Again, Gajeel caught Kokoro laughing and blushing with the little rat. He picked up Kokoro and told her that he needed her help. As he carried her away from that runt, Kokoro looked over his shoulder and gave Aiden a big good-bye wave and smile with the pink tint still apparent on her cheeks. The pink deepened to a shade of red that could equal of Erza's hair when Aiden waved back.

"Why is your face red, Squirt?" Gajeel pressed.

"Nothing!" Kokoro squeaked as her face began to redden a deeper crimson.

"Are you blushing?" he asked.

"I, uh," she stammered with her words. "I-It's nothing!"

"I want you to stay away from that boy," Gajeel ordered.

"Why?" she cried. "Aiden-kun is a nice boy."

Gajeel did not like the way how Kokoro said that bastard child's name.

"What's going on?" Levy asked as she spotted the two.

"Mommy," Kokoro ran to her. "Daddy is acting weird."

"Am not," Gajeel denied.

"Are too!" Kokoro shot back.

"Am not!" he yelled back.

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

Levy chuckled at the two. She had a guess as to why Gajeel was acting this way. She was surprised that her husband picked up on Kokoro's emotions. It took Gajeel seven plus years to realize her feelings for the dense Iron Dragon Slayer.

"Daddy is just being Daddy," Levy reasoned. "Now, go play with the others." Instantly, Kokoro ran back to her friends- a group that had the raven haired boy in it, to be exact.

Gajeel hoped that Kokoro would go play with Layla and Lana who were having a tea party and dressing up their little exceeds. Some of the boys even joined in when they saw Mira bring a batch of cookies for the tea party.

Currently, Gajeel was helping his wife clean the tables at Magnolia. The guild had thrown a party in celebration of old friends coming for a visit. It wasn't everyday that Sabertooth's master could come and visit. Gajeel eyed his daughter cheerfully playing with the other children, specifically the Twin Dragon offspring of Rogue. He did not like it at all. Somehow, an innocent game of Marco Polo in Fairy Tail's swimming pool did not look right in Gajeel's eyes. He did not want anyone touching his daughter. He just didn't like it.

Minerva was taking care of a few things for Sting. Once she returned to Sabertooth, she took over the position as guild master because paperwork wasn't exactly Sting's forte. Yukino would have come but their youngest child got sick.

"He could have left his damn brat," Gajeel muttered.

"Left who?" Levy asked.

Gajeel didn't realize that he spoke his thoughts out loud.

"Left who?" Levy asked again when Gajeel released another scowl.

"Rogue could have left that bastard son of his at home," Gajeel answered.

"Gajeel!" Levy exclaimed. "The children might hear you use that kind of language."

Gajeel didn't care at the moment. There were concerns much bigger to think about.

"Why don't you like Aiden?" Levy asked. "He's a nice boy."

"I just don't," he answered.

"There must be a reason why?" she persisted.

"I think Kokoro likes him," Gajeel stated as he took a seat at one of the tables taking a break from the work.

Levy joined him sitting right next to him giggling the whole time. Gajeel was taken aback by his wife's reaction. This was a dead serious situation. Kokoro was too young to be liking anyone. She was only five.

"It ain't funny, Levy," Gajeel informed her hoping that she would get the seriousness of the situation.

"Sorry," she apologized. "It's just funny to see you acting like this. I didn't think you'd notice it too."

"Of course I'd notice," he told her. "I'm her father."

"I think it's cute," Levy confessed. "She's quite the tsundere."

"It's hardly cute," Gajeel said with much disgust in his tone. "Aren't you going to do something about it?"

"Nope!" she answered with a smile.

"Why?!" he exclaimed in confusion.

"She's only five," she answered. All the more reason to stop ship Aiden Cheney out of Fiore. "I won't interfere with her love-life for now. It's an innocent and harmless crush. And you, Daddy Redfox, shouldn't interfere either. It's not like they're going to get married."

Levy left him and began to clean up the rest of the guild. It may be an innocent and harmless crush for now but what if it grows into something more in the future. Gajeel had to stop this madness, and he had the perfect plan.


Gajeel grabbed the blue haired boy wearing swimming trunks with yellow ducks out of the pool. This was the only kid he could trust, for now. He would prove to be the better choice since his magic was water based, and the kids were playing in a pool filled with water.

"Hey, kid," Gajeel greeted the scowling boy. "I have an S-Class mission for you."

The scowl on his face disappeared and his ears perked at the words "mission" and "S-Class."

"What is it?" he asked hastily.

"You see that boy over there?" he asked pointing to the boy sitting next to Kokoro. Rein nodded his head. "I want you to keep him away from Kokoro."

"Why, is he going to hurt her?" Rein asked. He was confused as to why he should keep Aiden away from Kokoro. Aiden didn't say much and he didn't seem like a bad guy to hang around.

"No, but probably will," Gajeel muttered. "You must keep them away, or you will fail this mission."

"How is this S-Class?" Rein was still confused. S-Class meant that he would get to slay a demon or capture a band of thieves or solve an unsolvable mystery.

"Because this is top priority right now," he answered. "It's a lifelong mission sworn to secrecy. No one must know about it but you and me. You must keep Aiden away from Kokoro and Kokoro away from Aiden."

"I want to help, too! I want to keep Koro-chan, safe." Tigris popped out of nowhere and flew down and rested on top of Rein's blue hair. Gajeel allowed Tigris to help as long as she kept her mouth quiet. The cat was nothing like Panther Lilly.

"Yes sir!" the boy exclaimed as he left to start his mission. Rein's five year old mind didn't know what priority meant, but it sounded fancy, cool, and important. This S-Class mission was life-long and never ending. He won't fail this mission that's for sure.


Gajeel smiled to himself at his work. He was in a good mood after that little chat with the Fullbuster kid. Rein was doing a pretty good job too. In the pool, he would keep Kokoro and Aiden away using his water magic. Rein would sit in between the pair and talk to Aiden. Kokoro wasn't happy about that. Her face would go red with anger as the two boys ignored her presence. Finally, she would get up and leave.

Then Tigris would distract Kokoro and play with her in the pool. For a cat, Tigris sure liked the water. Perhaps, it was because the little exceed grew used to being around a water mage. Tigris and Kokoro would play and laugh and that would keep Kokoro away from Aiden Cheney.

"Aiden-kun," Kokoro began with a tinge of pink on her cheeks, "I brought you some lemonade."

"Thanks, Koro-chan," Rein said as he snatched the glass.

"That's not for you, Duck Butt!" Kokoro barked as she whacked him with her Iron Club.

Rein cried in pain but smiled once he saw that his mission proved to be a success as the raven hair boy left to go get himself some water, and Kokoro began to chase Rein whacking him with her Iron Club ordering him to give her back the cup. Kokoro's face began to go red at realization. That wasn't very lady like of me to do in front of Aiden-kun.

The hurt face on Kokoro's face saddened Gajeel a bit, but she would thank him in the future.

"What are you smiling about?" his wife asked.

"Nothing," but Gajeel couldn't help but smile as he answered. He no longer had to worry about his little problem. Plus, he technically wasn't even interfering.

"Sabertooth is really nice too," Aiden informed. "It has lots of mountains and is a great place for training. You should come over some time."

"Daddy, can we?" Kokoro asked.

The iron mage picked up his daughter and took her away from the shadow boy. Rein and Tigris were suppose to be keeping them apart while he was busy. Where were they?

"Bye Aiden-kun!" Kokoro exclaimed before turning to her father. "Daddy, you've been acting really weird."

"No I am not," Gajeel retorted.

"So can we go to Sabertooth?" she asked.

"No," he replied.

"But why?" she whined.

"You aren't allowed to be near that boy," Gajeel explained.

"But daddy!"


Fred and George Weasley Twins: I have written Fairy Tail kids meeting Sabertooth over and over again. There are literally four documents and six different hand written rough drafts just based off of this. I couldn't decide which one I liked the best and which one would be more plausible/natural in the Fairy Tail universe. Oh well, those scenes will be used for some other time.

A/N: This is going to be a heads up. School is going to start for me soon, but I won't stop writing. It just means that updates are going to be like every month instead of being 1-2 weeks. Also, I'm trying to write another Fairy Tail fic. In the next chapter, Kokoro will be eight or ten years old unless someone has a request which I am always open to. I'm trying to keep in in chronological order. I even typed up her first date and someone requested a mission which I wrote. I'll try to update as much as I can before I go to college.

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