Summary: Nashi comes to the horrifying realisation that she has short genes….

Pairings: Implied Natsu/Lucy, implied Gray/Juvia, implied Gajeel/Levy, and some Nashi/Ur.

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They hadn't seen each other for a whole summer.

Nashi and her parents went for a long vacation in Alvarez, something Nashi didn't want revisit in her mind anytime soon, while the Fullbuster family went up north to train in the icy mountains. This wasn't something unusual, they had often not seen each other for a whole summer (how she would miss those blissfully, long, days without that irritating, smug, self-satisfied, pain in the backside, smirk) but what was different was during those three months apart, Ur had suddenly shot up to six foot.

…and Nashi hadn't grown a single inch.

At eighteen, Nashi had stopped growing a good two years ago while her friends, well her male friends, kept growing. And now Ur Fullbuster towered over her as her forehead barely met his shoulder. She had to crane her head back so she could actually look at him in the eye instead of staring dead straight into his chest.

The chest which she immediately walked right into when she walked right through the guild doors on the warm, sunny, September morning. She immediately staggered back and almost landed on her backside if she hadn't clutched the door frame in time. Unfortunately that meant she swung forwards and got an eyeful of Ur's naked chest as, for some reason, his shirt was unbuttoned.

(Don't think about how beautifully carved his chest is, don't think about how beautifully carved his chest is, don't think about how beautifully carved his chest is…..Shit.)

"Watch where you're going!"

"Me?!" Nashi snapped furiously. They hadn't seen each other in three months and already he almost knocked her down, bit her head off, and looked infuriatingly smug while doing so. "It's you that should watch where you're going!"

"You're right," Ur said solemnly.

"Damn right," Nashi hissed vindicated, "I a….huh?" she trailed off in confusion, after all….since when has he, Ur Fullbuster, ever said she, Nashi Dragneel, was right?!

"Well," Ur's annoying smirk reappeared, "you are a twitchy little midget. It's my responsibility as the bigger person to look where I am going so I don't accidentally tread on you."

"I am not a midget!" Nashi squawked." you-you-you giant!" she spluttered indignantly. She was so indignant and cross and annoyed that she couldn't think of a better insult than that….much to her ever-lasting shame.

"Pfft!" Ur snorted. "Was that supposed to be an insult, airhead?" he laughed at her. It was loud and gloating and was most certainly inviting her to punch him. "Because if anything that was a compliment."

"You think being a great big, brutish, dumb lout is a compliment?" Nashi asked huffily. "How am I not surprised?"

"That's racist!" Ur reprimanded her. "You know full well that giants are just a smart and nice as any other person." Nashi said nothing because she hated to admit that Ur was right. Her mother was friends with a woman who lived in a village full of giants and they were nothing like the fairy tale misconception that everyone knows (inwardly she also tries to suppress a shudder at the thought of Aunt Flare, whose gormless facial expression still gives her nightmares). "But that still doesn't change the fact that you're a midget," Ur added infuriatingly.

Nashi's eye twitched at that as her temper exploded. "I AM NOT A MDIGET!" she screamed.

Ur laughed even more obnoxiously as he reached out and patted her head patronisingly. As if she was a dog or something. "Yes you are!" he quickly pulled his hand away as she attempted to bite it. "Look at you," he teased, "all twitchy and tiny, and twee."

"I am seriously going to hit you so hard that you'll crash back into puberty," Nashi threatened furiously, "Just you wait," she growled, "one day I'll be tall and we'll see whose laughing then."

"Oh please," Ur snorted dismissively, "you're not going to get any taller," he informed her in a rather snotty tone, "This is it for you."

"How the hell do you know?!"

She could still have another growth spurt! There was still time for her body to change! Ur knew nothing!

"Because Aunt Lucy is short," Ur said simply, "She is literally the second shortest woman if you don't count children and exceeds"

"So what if Mum's short?" Nashi snapped. She didn't see what the hell her mother's height had to with this. "What's that go to do with anything? Gilly's mother is the shortest woman in the guild but she's still taller than me by a whole head!"

"Yeah but if you haven't noticed Ash-For-Brains," Ur sneered, "Gilly's Dad is fucking gigantic. Seriously, I think only Uncle Elfman and Uncle Laxus are taller than Uncle Gajeel. While your Dad," another infuriating smirk, Nashi's hand curled up into a fist, "is literally the shortest man in the guild if you don't count children and exceeds."

Nashi scowled as she said nothing. She wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of acknowledging he was right on that score. She had never noticed it before but all of the other men in the guild did seem to tower over her father.

"Face it, Cotton Head," Ur snickered, "you're a midget."

Nashi said nothing to that. Not that Ur needed her to say anything….her strangled scream of frustrated fury was reply enough.