Summary: The Master gives up on buying Gray clothes and everyone joins in on the trick.

Pairings: implied one-sided Mirajane/Gray, Gray/Juvia, and Parental Master/Gray.

YouTube Prompt: Tribute to Lucy and Cana, and their troubled relationships with their fathers to the song 'My Reflection' from Disney's Mulan.

It was a tradition that for New Years, the Master brought his children clothes. After all if he didn't several of his children wouldn't be wearing clothes because they were totally useless at buying their own (yes, that was definitely aimed at the boys), and it was an excuse to dress his girls up.

"Master!" Lucy cried out, horrified, as she held up the skimpy nurse costume she had been gifted. "I'm certain this isn't an appropriate gift."

"It isn't!" Mirajane hissed as she led up the slutty police officer outfit that Lisanna had been given. "Master, I thought we have discussed this," she snarled as her demon powers were beginning to seep through her skin.

"Heh," Master laughed sheepishly, "just wanting to make my girls look nice."

"Master!"

"Sorry!"

Okay, maybe giving clothes to the girls wasn't as easy as he would like to make it out, but it was still easier than giving Gray new clothes. It was becoming more and more of a waste of money to buy Gray clothes. Each time he tried within minutes the new, incredibly expensive, clothes would be on the floor, trampled on, dirtied, and sometimes even torn. It had come to the point that he had given up trying to buy clothes for Gray but he couldn't just leave Gray out. It would be entirely unfair.

He came to the conclusion that he had no choice but to trick Gray. That way he would save his money and his child wouldn't feel left out. Fortunately everyone agreed to help them….though Natsu's evil grin when he agreed to ploy did worry him a bit.

"Oi! Gramps," Gray called out lazily from the bar. "Where's my clothes?"

He sounded like he didn't care but Master knew better. Gray hated being left out especially if Natsu got something new. It really made birthdays a difficult affair. "They're in the back," Master said cheerfully, "I brought extra-special clothes for you. They're supposed to be so light that you won't be able to feel them on your body and therefore hopefully you won't strip in the middle of the New Year's parade."

The New Year's parade was another event for Magnolia held by Fairy Tail. In hopes to make the town forgive them for all their destructive behaviour and display a promise that they will resolve to keep most of the building destroying and loud noises to the guild building. They have to succeed in this resolution but there was always the next year to do so.

"Excellent!" Gray grinned. "I'll go get dressed then."

"Hold it!" Master blocked Gray's way before he walked into the back and discovered there was no new clothes for him. "The material is so delicate that knowing how careless you are, you ungrateful little brat, I have employed Mirajane to help dress you."

"WHAT?!" Gray blushed brightly, and the Master had to hold back a snicker. It was every boy's dream to be dressed, or preferably undressed, by their pin-up model. Well nearly every boy, Master was certain that Natsu had been dropped on the head as a baby. "CAN'T SOMEONE ELSE DO IT?!"

"Juvia will dress her Gray-sama!" Juvia declared passionately. "Not any of her love rivals!"

"I'm sorry Juvia-Chan," Master said sweetly, "but I want Gray to be dressed not even more naked than he is now."

"Crap! Where did my shirt go?!"

"It doesn't matter, Gray," Mirajane said commandingly, "it's time to wear your new clothes."

Master watched amused as Gray submitted himself to the humiliations of Mirajane dressing him, and suffering the consequences of a severe nosebleed when Mira bent down and Gray got full view of what was under her dress. It had distracted the boy sufficiently enough to not realise that he wasn't actually being dressed.

The next few hours were incredibly amusing. Gray strutted around like a peacock in what he thought was his 'fine new clothes' while Natsu was gagged and tied up to prevent any slips, Erza enforced a no fighting to rule in a desperate attempt to keep everyone's new clothes pristine for the parade, Cana was trying to not die of hysterical laughter, and Juvia was drooling at the sight of Gray being completely and utterly naked.

(While Wendy and Romeo had been sent out to play in a weak attempt to preserve whatever innocence the two had left.)

It took five hours, three quarters of the parade route, and a little girl crying out "Look Mummy, that man is naked!" for Gray to realise that he actually was naked.

"Fuck!" he yelped. "I lost my new clothes! Guys help me! Gramps will kill me. He said he spent a fortune on these clothes!"

"What clothes?!" Natsu asked, forgetting about the trick, "Gramps couldn't be asked buying you anything new, so he just pretended, you've been the naked the whole time."

"Wait, it was a trick?" Gray asked dumbfounded. Everyone nodded and some of them gave in to the urge of rolling on the floor in hysterical laughter now that Gray knew the truth. "…You guys are all asses!"