Nighttime at Magnolia, with the whole scent tracking done by Natsu. The young boy had found the source of the faint smell as it led him straight to Cana who is looking bewilderedly confused at the moment.

"you have the scent, Cana!" said Natsu with a smile while pointing at Cana. "it was from you this whole time!"

"eh? Scent? What are you talking about, Natsu?" Cana asked completely confused while blinking twice.

"it was like this!" Natsu exclaimed as he began to blabber about a faint scent that was coming from the young girl that was identical to the faint scent that he smelled on Gildarts, he also added on how he was trying to find whoever has the same scent as he was sure that he had smelled it before. "after that! I followed the scent right to you! You got the same scent as Gildarts!"

"G-Gildarts…same?" Cana muttered out with a rather sad and nervous look on her face.

"right?!" said Natsu, all satisfied and excited. "you really got the same scent as Gildarts!"

"no!" Cana cried out loudly as she surprised Natsu who looks a bit taken aback, the tanned brown haired girl turning to look at the salon haired boy with tears running down her eyes. "I'm not the same as him! don't say such things!"

"eh? Cana?" Natsu looks surprised and confused to see her crying. "what's wrong?"

Cana cries in tears before she instantly ran off.

"ah! Cana!" Natsu called out as he reaches a hand towards the running girl who is just crying in tears.

Natsu instantly looks more confused than before as he didn't understand what was going on.

"what's wrong with her?" Natsu asked as he scratches the back of his head, thinking on what he did to cause Cana to cry and run like that.


The next few days soon passes as it is morning and Natsu is currently at the guild and moping by the bar where Makarov is sitting by and is drinking up beer.

Fairy Tail's 3rd Guild Master gulps down his alcoholic drink for a few seconds before he burps in satisfaction and then looks at Natsu.

"just what is the matter with you, Natsu?" Makarov asked. "you've been moping around for three days straight. What's the matter?"

"it's Cana…" Natsu grumbled out. "I've been waiting for her to come to the guild to ask her something, but she hasn't been coming here at all.."

"hmm, now that you mention it.." Makarov muttered as he glance around the guild and sees no sign of the tanned brown haired girl. "Cana has been rather absent." He then looks to the side and at Erza who is coming nearby. "Erza, have you seen Cana for the past few days? Is she still at Fairy Hills?"

"Cana?" Erza replied while blinking her eyes once and then looks up while cupping her chin. "hmmm…she came home about three days ago but left the next day and now…" she turns and looks at Makarov. "I'm sorry, Master. I don't think I have seen Cana at all. I haven't seen her at Fairy Hills."

"that's not good…" Makarov spoke while scratching his chin. "she left Fairy Hills and haven't come back at all? just where could she have gone to?"

"hey gramps!" Gray suddenly calls out as Makarov turns towards the boxer wearing boy who is pointing a thumb towards the front door. "if you're looking for Cana, she's coming right in right now."

"hmm?" Makarov and also Natsu who hears Cana's name turns and look to the front door to see Cana walking in with a rather nervous looking face.

Cana made her way to the bar as she went near Natsu while looking at Makarov who looks a bit stern.

"Cana, where on earth have you been for the past few days?" Makarov asked the young girl. "Erza says that you haven't come back to Fairy Hills for three days. Just where have you been?"

"i-I've been…" Cana spoke out before she looks down with a frown. "I needed some time alone. Just that, Master."

Makarov looks rather curious to Cana's behavior as he raised an eyebrow while scratching his chin a few times.

After a minute of silence, Makarov let out a sigh and nodded once.

"I won't ask you on what you were doing for the past few days, but please try to be considerate of others." Makarov stated. "everyone was a bit worried about you not coming to the guild, you know?"

"I understand, Master." Cana nodded before she looks at Natsu who is looking back at her. "I need you to come with me, Natsu."

"eh? To where?" Natsu asked before he yelps when Cana grabs his right hand and pulls him down from his seat by the bar and started to drag him to the guild's front door. "h-hey, Cana! Where are you!? Hey!"

"just shut up and come with me!" Cana yelled at Natsu with a rather stern face that instantly shut the young boy up.

Cana leaves the guild with Natsu as her action got many to look very curious.

"I wonder what was that all about?" Levy asked as she is sitting by a table playing a game with Lisanna, Elfman, and Mirajane.

"if I have to guess, Natsu did something bad against Cana." Said Mira with a smirking grin. "always looking for trouble that kid."

"aren't you the same with Erza, Mira-nee?" Lisanna asked her sister with a sweatdrop.

"don't say it to her, Lisanna." Elfman told her while looking sheepish.

"whatever he did, she sure looked very serious." Said Gray, overhearing the group's conversation. He folded his hands behind his head and walks near the bar while still looking at the front door. "he must've broke something precious of hers and is going to get yelled soon."

"you're about to be yelled for not wearing clothes, Gray." Erza growls angrily as Gray squeaks and screams in shock when he realized that he isn't wearing anything but his boxers.

While Erza angrily yells at Gray in the background, Makarov looks at the front door and watch the small shrinking figures of Natsu and Cana who are walking to somewhere he don't know at all.

"I wonder what is going on between those two?" Makarov asked while scratching his chin.


At the eastern forest, Natsu and Cana can be found walking into an opening in the trees as there was no one but them in the area.

"hey, Cana! Just where are you taking me!?" Natsu called out as Cana had dragged him from Fairy Tail and into the forest.

Cana looks around in the area of the forest before she looks at Natsu who she stopped dragging.

"what do you know?" Cana asked Natsu who made a noise before he squeaks when the tanned girl's expression turned seriously stern and angry which awakened his traumatic fear of Erza. "I said what do you know!?"

"i-I don't know what you're talking about~!?" Natsu cried out while shaking in fear.

Cana looks at Natsu for a moment before she relaxed and sighs a bit.

"sit with me." said Cana as she begins walking to an old fallen log. She sat on it and then patted the empty side.

Natsu looks at Cana all confused for a moment but he soon went with her action and just sat beside her.

Both young kids are now in silence as Cana looks down with a sad frown while Natsu is looking at her very confused.

"first…" Cana muttered out in breaking the silence. "I'm…I'm sorry that I just yelled at you and then just leaving the next second..sorry."

"that's fine." Natsu replied. "I'm more on the why you've not been at the guild for the last few days." He leans close a bit to Cana. "everyone got worried, you know?"

"I know" Cana replied while nodding. "but…" she began to look even sadder. "but I really needed to be alone after that night…i…" she tensed up while grasping her skirt with her hands. "i.."

"Cana, what's wrong?" Natsu asked in seeing her tense up. "you got a stomachache?"

"no.." Cana replied while shaking her head as she tears up a bit while looking at Natsu. "can you…can you promise me that you won't say anything to anyone about what you're about to hear from me? can you promise me?"

Natsu looks a bit confused and startled by the sight of her tears but he soon firms his face and slowly nods his head.

"I promise." Said Natsu as Cana smiles a bit before wiping away her tears and looking front of her position.

"I want you to listen to what I have to say and this is very important." Said Cana before glancing back at Natsu. "Please wait until I finish speaking, okay?"

"Okay." Said Natsu with a nod.

Cana nods back before she looks front and took a deep breath and then sighs.

"okay…" Cana whispers before she looks at Natsu. "I'm….i'm Gildarts' daughter."

Natsu nodded to her words before he blinks his eyes once, twice, thrice and then very rapidly as his jaws dropped and his eyes widen.

"EEEEHHHHH~!?" a sound of a young boy's confused scream is heard as it caused birds to fly away from the trees.

"i-is that really true!?" Natsu asked stuttering towards Cana while his body is shaking from the shocking news. "y-you're Gildarts' daughter!?"

Cana merely nods in reply as this made Natsu gawks in more shock.

"are you sure!?" Natsu asked while pointing at an imaginary bubble that shows Gildarts' face and Cana's face side by side. "I mean! You two don't even look alike at all!"

"We don't!" Cana exclaimed a bit angrily. "I was told that I look more like my mother than my father!"

Natsu squeaks in fear from her angry outburst that soon disappears when Cana calms down and sighs then looks at her lap.

"I wish that I have some distinction as his daughter, but I don't." said Cana with a sad voice. "then people will believe that I am his daughter."

"w-what do you mean?" Natsu asked confused and a bit worried now after hearing Cana's sad voice.

"the thing is…" Cana whispered while frowning.

Cana began to tell her life's story to Natsu as she was the daughter of a woman named Cornelia who is the divorced ex-wife of Gildarts. The story of the two is that the wife was sick of the husband going out on jobs so repetitively and this caused the divorce, but what was not known is that the wife was pregnant with a child who is Cana. Some years later, Cornelia had passed away from a sickness, leaving her daughter who was only six year old and is left on the search for her father who is Gildarts.

"and then…I arrived to Fairy Tail where I heard is the place Gildarts is at." Said Cana with tears welling up in her eyes. "I met him, but he didn't even recognize me. I know that it was because he was divorced with my mother, but I wished that he at least could tell just by looking at me!" she began cry while wiping her tears. "I wanted to tell him! but…if people learn that I am the daughter of that great Gildarts Clive, who is so weak compared to him! i! i!"

All the sudden, Natsu hugs Cana who looks surprised.

"N-Natsu?" Cana called out to the salmon haired boy who leans away and showed her that he is crying in streams of tears. "w-why are you?"

"I'm sad!" Natsu exclaimed as he sniffs in hard to stop a drool of snot from escaping his nostrils. "I'm sad for you! Gildarts is a damn jerk! He got a wife and a daughter but he! He's just a damn jerk!" he wipes his tears and soon showed a very seriously angered face. "Cana! Let's go to Gildarts! Let's tell him that you're his daughter and beat the crap out of him for not realizing it! we'll kick him right in the crotch and then jab a pole into his ass! Then we'll see if he can even stand after that!"

"n-no…I appreciate the feelings but i don't want to do that.." Cana told Natsu with a sweatdrop.

"why!?" Natsu retorted. "if what happened to you, happened to me and Igneel. I'll beat the crap out of him for doing so! just why!?"

"it's because I'm afraid!" Cana told Natsu as she looks down with a sad frown. "I'm happy that he's my father, but I don't think I'm worthy enough to be called his daughter." She grasped her skirt tight. "that's why I don't want to tell him yet, I want to tell him when I proved to him that I'm strong and worthy enough. That's why…."

"just why do you think you're not worthy enough?" Natsu asked all confused. "you're strong already, Cana."

"eh?" Cana looks at Natsu confused. "what do you mean?"

"you're already strong, Cana." Said Natsu. "I mean, you got to find Gildarts when you're just six, right?" he smiles and raise a fist. "you didn't give up in trying to find him at Fairy Tail! You're strong cause you never give up! That's why you're already strong!"

"that's not being strong at all, Natsu." Said Cana as she looks down and frowns even more. "i didn't give up, that's a fact. But I didn't even have the courage to tell him that I was his daughter. I wasn't even brave enough to do it."

"Then I'll give you courage, Cana!" Natsu exclaimed as he went in front of Cana and grab both of her hands then put them together. The tanned girl looking very surprised to the salmon haired boy's action. "I'll be with you as we go to Gildarts! I'll give you the courage that you need to tell him that you're his daughter! So don't be scared or nervous or anything! Just be yourself! Okay?!"

Cana looks a bit taken aback from Natsu's sudden proposal as she blushes a bit to see him holding her hands while being up close.

"b-but this is my problem…he's my dad and…you don't…" said Cana while looking away but soon looks at Natsu when the young man Natsu held their hands tighter.

"what are you talking about!?" Natsu asks in a big confusion that turned stern and serious. "you, and Gildarts are my family! Everyone in Fairy Tail is my family! If someone in our family has trouble, of course I want to help!" he got closer and looks seriously into Cana's eyes. "It's obvious that I want to help you!"

Cana blushes even more as she looks straight into Natsu's onyx eyes that shows her the seriousness of his words.

"so let's go and tell Gildarts!" said Natsu. "it's alright if you feel nervous or scared, don't worry! I'll be with you and give you the courage that you need! Okay!?"

Cana looks more nervously scared yet anxious to Natsu's words as she slowly yet shakingly nods her head.

"o-okay.." Cana replied.

"okay!" said Natsu as he leans away from Cana who yelps when the young boy carried her onto his back. "hang on! I'll run straight for Gildart's house!"

"eh!? We're going now!?" Cana exclaimed. "I still haven't..waaaahh~!"

Cana screams in surprise as Natsu begins to run very fast out of the forest and straight for Magnolia.

"hey! Natsu~! Stop~!" Cana cried out as she hangs onto Natsu who just runs like a wild horse.

"I don't want to!" Natsu replied, the young boy running while leaving dust trail behind.


About 20 minutes later, Natsu and Cana are in Gildarts' house as they are face to face with the S-class mage who has his jaw dropped.

"w-what did you just say?" Gildarts asked. "C-Cana is my?"

Gildarts looks at Cana who is looking down nervous but she soon looks at Natsu who held her hand in a strong grasp, the young boy looking very stern at the orange haired man.

"she's your daughter!" Natsu exclaimed. "she said that you're her father!"

"b-but…how?" Gildarts asked while getting off his seat. "i-I mean..i don't.."

"my mother's name is Cornelia," Cana spoke out as Gildarts instantly looks wide eyes. The young girl then looks down. "when she left you, she had me and then…"

WHOOSH!

Cana was instantly enveloped in a hug by Gildarts who is crying in tears.

"G-Gildarts?" Cana looks surprised by the hug from the old man who is shaking while crying.

"i-I'm sorry! I'm sorry, Cana!" Gildarts cried out. "it was because of me that you had to face such a life! I made your mother struggle so much and then i! I'm so sorry for not recognizing you when we first met!" he held her closer and tighter. "I'm so sorry, Cana! I'm so sorry!"

Cana looks at Gildarts and hears his apology and cries that soon made her tear up and hug him back.

Both are now crying together as father and daughter that has been reunited with the help of Natsu who is looking happy with what he has done for the two.

Natsu rubs a finger under his nose and left the home quietly, knowing that the two had a lot to talk about and his presence isn't that much needed.


On the next day, Natsu is at the guild and he is looking a bit happy after what he did for Cana the day before.

Natsu sat by the bar and grins happily while moving his legs back and forth.

"hey, you're creeping me out, Natsu." Said Gray with a weirded out look to the salmon haired boy as he is sitting near him by the bar. "you've been grinning like an idiot ever since you came into the guild."

"I guess so~!" said Natsu all happily to Gray as this made the ice wizard look a bit blue to his reaction.

"you're really creeping me out!" Gray exclaimed as he left the bar, not wanting to be near Natsu who is acting very weird.

"I wonder what made Natsu all happy?" said Lisanna as she is by a table with Elfman, Mira, Levy, and Erza. Gray comes near and joins them.

"Something tells me that it got something to do with Cana." Said Mira while pointing a finger up. "I mean, the two left with each other and didn't come back, right?" she grins while crossing her arms. "Something is definitely going on between the two."

"Something like what?" Levy asked Mira in curiosity.

"Something very fishy." Mira replied while smirking. "and I plan to find out later on."

"Whatever it is. It does give a good mood for Natsu." Said Erza with a smile to see how Natsu didn't fight with Gray when the two are close to each other by the bar. "I'm happy about whatever has made him to be in this mood."

"you're happy, I'm creeped out" said Gray while shivering once. "his smile just gives me the shivers!"

"even though you're an ice mage?" Levy asks sweatdropping before pointing a finger at the young boy's boxer. "and also, when are you going to put on your clothes?"

"ah?! where they go!?" Gray exclaimed before running away to find his clothes.

"but Mira-nee got it close, right?" Elfman asked a bit sheepishly. "I mean, Natsu left the guild with Cana and they didn't come back at all. Natsu is the only one who came today and Cana isn't anywhere to be seen…" he then looks at Natsu with the others doing the same. "maybe it got something to do with Cana after all."

"I wonder what?" Lisanna asked.

Before long, the door to the guild was slammed open as this got everyone to look to the front and see Gildarts coming in all smiles while carrying Cana on his shoulders, the young girl looking very embarrassed.

"everyone! Let's party~!" Gildarts cried out all happily while walking into the guild. "it's a damn good time to party~!"

"Gildarts, what's the matter with you?" Macao called out to him while sitting at a table with Wakaba. "you got a girlfriend or something?"

"even better!" said Gildarts as he grabs Cana and lifts her up into the air. "Cana is my daughter!"

"eehhh~!?" the guild instantly screamed and caused the building to shake all comically.

"put me down, will you!?" Cana shouted at Gildarts who is running around while having her up in the air. "put me down! Do you hear me!?"

"is he serious?" Gray asked with a bead of sweat sliding on the side of his cheek.

"judging by that reaction from Cana, I think it is." Said Levy with a nod.

"I am so happy that I have a daughter now!" Gildarts cried out in tears. "she's so beautiful and will be so much more beautiful when she grows up!"

An imaginary bubble appears in the air as it shows the image of Cana who is all grown up with a very voluptuous body that made some guild member who are perverts to nosebleed in an instant.

"don't imagine it!" Cana shouted while ripping the imaginary bubble to shreds as she began to punch Gildart's face. "and also! PUT ME DOWN!"

"hey, Gildarts! Cana!" Natsu called out to the father and daughter as he went near them.

Gildarts stopping with what he was doing and puts down Cana then smiles at Natsu.

"Natsu, I really got to thank you!" said Gildarts as he kneels and place a hand to the top of the boy's head while grinning. "thanks for giving Cana the courage that she needed! I don't know what I would be doing if I learned that she's my daughter way too late!" he ruffles the young boy's hair and grins even more. "thanks! A lot!"

Natsu grins in reply before he looks at Cana who made a noise and looks away with a blush on her face.

"see? You're always strong, Cana." Said Natsu with a grin and then a thumbs up. "you just need a little push, that's all!"

"y-yeah…" Cana replied with a small nod as she soon gives a thankful smile to Natsu. "thanks, Natsu. For giving me the courage."

"you're welcome!" said Natsu with a grin before he grabs her hand and pulls her to his side. "and since you're thanking me…"

Gildarts, and the guild looks confused at Natsu who pulls Cana to his side and then motions her to follow his movement which are taking a few steps back.

"on a count of three, I want you to jump with me." said Natsu to Cana who made a confused noise. "just do it. as a favor."

"a-alright…." Cana replied with a nod.

"1…2…" said Natsu as he counted and both he and Cana jumped. "3!"

Natsu and Cana jumps a few centimeters of the floor before they came down and a wooden plank instantly goes down from one end and the other end went up straight at Gildarts' groin.

"OOOOhhhh~!" Gildarts screamed in pain as the plank hit him straight at the family jewels.

"e-eh? Eehh!?" Cana looks in complete confusion as she looks at the floorboard, then Gildarts, and then at Natsu who chuckles while looking up.

"and the finishing touch~!" said Natsu with a snickering grin as he sees a rope falling and that rope has a club with nails attached to the end.

The nailed club came and instantly hits Gildarts on the butt, just as the man is struggling in pain with his hands on his family jewels.

"GYAAAAHH~!" Gildarts' pained scream rang out in the guild as the S-Class mage is now running around with the nailed club sticking to his ass. "m-my butt! My beautiful butt!"

"N-Natsu…you didn't…" Cana looks at Natsu all baffled as she sees the young boy laughing very proudly.

"The 'Teach Gildarts a lesson with a kick to his groin and a needle to his butt plan' was a success!" said Natsu while laughing.

"too long and lame!" Cana and the other kids in the guild exclaimed in unison. "and what the what!?"

"hey, Natsu. The heck did you do?" said Wakaba to the young boy while watching Gildarts getting the nailed club pulled out by Macao and a few other wizards in the guild.

"I helped Cana tell Gildarts that he is her father, and then planned this little payback for him cause he couldn't even tell that she was his daughter!" said Natsu while rubbing a finger under his nose. "I did everything perfect this early morning and was so excited to initiate it that I couldn't hold in my happiness~!"

"so that's why he was so happy and in a good mood….." Lisanna spoke out while sweatdropping.

"it was all for this…" Elfman added in.

"I was so stupid to think that there was something going on between those two." Mira facepalmed while shaking her head.

"yes, yes you were." Said Erza with a nod before she and Mira buttheads.

"what did you say, glutton girl!?" "I said that you were stupid, she-bitch!" both shared their insults while glowing in raging red and purple aura respectively.

"please don't fight right now…" said Levy with a tired sigh escaping her lips.

"Natsu, I told you that this wasn't needed!" said Cana all sternly at Natsu. "we're done with making up with each other. So why did you do this!?"

"it was because that he made you cry, Cana." Natsu replied all obviously to the girl while folding his hands behind his head. "Gildarts made you cry and therefore he got this coming."

"eh?" Cana looks all confused.

"we're a family, right?" Natsu asked. "family care for each other and if one of our family members cried because of another. Then that family member deserves a kick to the groin and the ass." He grins while unfolding his hands from the back of his head and then doing a thumbs up to Cana. "Gildarts had it coming. so don't worry about him, Cana!"

Cana looks surprised at Natsu for a moment before she blushes a bit with a smile.

"you're really stupid, Natsu." Said Cana. "a really stupid person."

"well, I get told that very often!" Natsu grins with a snicker before he squeaks in fear when he sensed a terribly powerful blood-lusting aura from behind.

"very often, yeah. You really need a fix on your head, Natsu." A voice spoke out as Natsu turns and let out a scared 'eep!' when he sees that it is Gildarts who looks very furious while wielding the nailed club in his grasp. "so let me fix your head for you. With this special club."

A few seconds later, outside of the guild.

"HELP MEE~~!" Natsu screams as he runs out of the guild while being chased after by Gildarts who looks like a demon with a club.

"COME BACK HERE, NATSU!" Gildarts shouted in anger. "I'LL TEACH YOU TO DO THOSE PRANKS ON ME!"

While both had left, the others watched how the two are just running to who knows where.

"ah….there they go…" said Wakaba.

"you think they'll come back?" Macao asked

Meanwhile, at the bar, Makarov can be found coming nearby as he saw what happened and just sighed about it.

"good grief." Said Makarov as he hops to the bar and sighs yet again. "those two are like two peas in a pod."

He looks at the side as he sees Cana being surrounded by Erza and the others, the tanned girl being bombarded with questions about her relations as Gildart's daughter.

Makarov sees that Cana looks happy as it was a level of happiness that he was sure he would never see before.

'I guess it was a good thing I got Natsu to join the guild….' Makarov thought with a smile. 'if he didn't, Cana would've kept that secret till she becomes a teenager or adult and possibly won't ever tell him.' he looks down and closed his eyes while chuckling. 'that boy sure loves his family.'

Afterwards, Makarov got up and coughs loudly to get everyone's attention.

"alright, brats!" Makarov called out. "when Natsu and Gildarts come back, let's begin the biggest party that we can do!" he raise a fist. "let's party till we drop!"

"yeah~!" everyone cheered in unison, all ready for a party anytime.

Meanwhile at the border of Magnolia. Two large dust trails can be found as they belong to Natsu and Gildarts.

"SOMEONE! HELP ME!" Natsu screams out as he is still being chased by Gildarts who is swinging the club around.

"COME BACK HERE, NATSU!" Gildarts shouted, planning to beat the life out of Natsu for what he did at the guild.


A month later, at Fairy Tail guild

Natsu is at a table with Gray, Mira, Erza, and Lisanna, the young boy looking very tired and pale while also looking skinny.

"u-um…Natsu, are you okay?" Lisanna asked the salmon haired boy.

"i-I'm not…" Natsu replied. "i-I'm dying…"

"serves you right for doing such things to Gildarts of all people." Said Mira with a grin to Natsu while Gray nodded in the background.

"i-I was just trying to help Cana!" Natsu cried out. "why did he beat me up and threw me into a canyon of monsters after I helped him!?"

After Natsu helped Cana in encouraging her to confess to Gildarts that she is his daughter and getting his pranks done to the S-Class mage. The salmon haired boy was chased out of Magnolia, beaten up, and thrown into a canyon filled with monsters by the orange haired man as payback for hitting his family jewels and his buttocks.

"well, all that matters is that your work did well for Cana." Said Erza with a smile. "she's been showing positive attitude ever since you helped her. good work, Natsu."

"y-yeah…but I'm still dying from not eating for a month…" Natsu replied in pain before he sees a plate filled with a stack of fried chicken placed in front of him. "eh?" he looks up and sees Cana standing by while smiling. "Cana?"

Cana is now wearing a yellow and orange patterned skirt, shorts, a blue shoulder bag, and her hair that was once in a ponytail is now freed and wavy.

"you hungry?" she asked with a smile to Natsu who looks at her and then to the plate of chicken then back to her. "eat up, I got them for you."

"thanks, Cana~!" Natsu cried in tears of joy as he began to scarf the fried chicken piece by piece while bones were flying around. "yum~!"

Cana giggles with a smile as she watch Natsu eat with joy.

"hey, Natsu. Can I ask you something?" Cana spoke out as Natsu hummed in response because he had scarfed lots of meat into his mouth.

"bwhat?" Natsu asked.

"chew and swallow, damnit!" said Gray as Natsu instantly swallowed and burped once.

"What do you want to ask, Cana?" Natsu asked the girl who has her hands folded behind her back.

"can you and I form a team?" Cana asked as Natsu made a confused noise in response. "you want to find Igneel, right? Then let's form a team to help you find him."

"what's with you wanting to form a team with Natsu, Cana?" Erza asked Cana with a bit of a surprised face. "you usually go on jobs with Macao and Wakaba, and now with Gildarts, right?"

After getting along with her father, Cana had spent time with the S-Class mage in various jobs over the month as a way to spend time as father and daughter.

"I do, but I told Macao and Wakaba that I want to help Natsu. They understand and supported me." said Cana before she sighs and looks a bit annoyed while waving a hand to the side. "and besides, ever since Gildarts and I made up, he's becoming really annoying on missions and stuff." She then smiles towards Natsu. "then I thought of forming a team with Natsu."

"eh?" Natsu asked. "What do you mean by that?"

"you helped me in giving me the courage that I needed to confess to Gildarts that I was his daughter, remember?" Said Cana before she raised a hand and formed a hard fist. "so in return, I'll help you find your father, Natsu. It's my way of thanking you for helping me."

"ohh…" Natsu nodded in understanding before he frowns a bit. "but are you sure? I mean, I always go on various of requests that got info of any sightings that I got, and I just make lots of trouble, you know?" he then scratches the back of his head. "I don't think you'll like being on a team with me."

"What are you saying?" said Cana while placing her hands on her waist. "I'm helping you not only to repay you for what you did for me and Gildarts, I'm also helping you because you are family." She then shows a small grin to Natsu who looks a bit surprised. "Family help each other, right!?"

Natsu looks at Cana for a moment before he returns the grin.

"yeah! Yeah we do!" said Natsu as he got up from his seat and then cross arms with Cana. "alright! Team Natsu Cana is a go!"

"alright!" said Cana while pulling her hand back and then reaching to her bag to pull out a request paper that she held towards Natsu. "I got a job that I'll think you'll like."

"what?" said Natsu as he grabs the paper and checks the info. "please find out a strange creature lurking in the Phantasm Valley. This creature is big, red, and looks to have scales!?" he then looks at Cana. "this might be Igneel!"

"right?" said Cana with a smile while pumping up a fist. "I got the tickets for the train, and the necessary supplies for the trip." She then points a finger at the door. "let's go now and we might find him!"

"okay!" said Natsu with a big grin as he grabs Cana and the two ran for the front door. "we'll be going now!"

Everyone watched Natsu and Cana leave the guild as some looked confused and weirded out but Gray and the others, they look in interested and confused.

"is it just me or is Cana looking different now?" Gray asked after seeing how smiling Cana is with Natsu.

"yeah, she was different." said Lisanna with a smile. "but it's a good type of different."

"I guess I was right." Said Mira as Erza made a noise and looks at the She-Demon. "that there was something going on between Natsu and Cana."

"how are you sure?" Erza asked Mira who shrugs her shoulders.

"a gut feeling, I guess?" she replied with a smile while imagining how Natsu and Cana are running to the train station together with smiles on their faces. "a good gut feeling."


That's a wrap!

Bye bye