Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks.

Kanji's POV

We had taken three jobs since forming our team, and we got a reward for one. Apparently people don't like it when you destroy half the town to root out some bandits. Lucy had apparently snagged us a job that she was sure would get us money and we wouldn't be able to ruin for her. The job Mira gave her was simple; we were supposed to draw a crowd for a play. At least that was the original request.

"Someone care to explain how we ended up preforming in this thing?" I asked myself.

It's the night of our performance and I still don't understand how we got into this situation. For some reason Erza was playing the male lead, Lucy was the princess, Gray was the villain, and Natsu and Happy combined to be the dragon. I was stuck moving props behind the curtains.

"This sucks, how come I didn't even get to be on stage, not like a wanted to act, but still."

I heard a crash outside on the stage. I went out there and found Natsu practically burning the whole building down, Lucy had somehow ended up practically naked and then the roof caved in.

"Volt Shield!"

I put up a protective dome to block the debris from hitting the crowd. For some reason the crowd thought this was all just part of the act and applauded our failure.

LATER

It took us a week to finally get that nut job theater owner to let us go. As soon as we got back to town I went home. Erza tagged along again instead of going back to her own room at the girl's dorm.

"If you're gonna keep spending the night just move in." I said bringing up the idea out of the blue "You're wasting money renting that room if you spend more time here."

"Your tiny apartment could never hold all my armors so it's not a viable option." She said.

"That's the reason?!" I yelled "Well maybe if you sold some of the ones you never use."

"I can't sell them they all have my precious memories."

"Yeah sure." I said unlocking the front door "You do understand that there are such things as storage units. If we ever get married, you're going to have to move in."

"Don't talk about things like that?" she said blushing.

"What? Marriage, you used to talk about it all the time, those two things, marriage and kids."

"That was forever ago we were just kids then." She mumbled.

"Erza we were sixteen, it was like three years ago. Besides it's not like you don't still think about it." I said

We headed inside and took a seat on the couch.

"Why are you bringing this up?" A look of shock came over her face "You're not going to propose, are you?"

"Whoa! Relax not today, maybe one day. Then once I do, I can have you all to myself." I said kissing her.

"Stop it" She said giggling.

There was a knock at my door.

What the hell is with people constantly coming over when Erza is here?

I opened the door and there was a little girl with dusty brown hair standing there with a bag and a note. She stuck her hand out and gave me the letter.

"Dear Kanji,

The Wife and I are going out tonight can you watch Carole.

Just bring her to the guild in the morning.

Thank a Ton, Wakaba."

"What the matter?" Erza asked and then saw the little girl "Carole?"

I handed her the note "Damn chain smoker. Come on in kid."

Carole is Wakaba's daughter. She's around the same age as Romeo. Her hair is the same color as her father and she wears it in pigtails. She tends to not come around the guild much because her mom won't let her.

"I guess we're babysitting for the night." Erza said.

"Yep, you eat dinner already Carole?" she shook her head yes

Speak kid!

"Can you talk?"

"Yes." She nodded.

"Well why don't you say something?"

"Thank you for watching me." She said taking a seat on the couch.

I pulled Erza aside "What'd we do I've never watched a kid before."

"Just act normal, she's five what could be so hard about it. It's late she'll probably fall asleep in an hour or so."

We took seat on the opposite side of the couch from the little girl at sat there awkwardly. Erza tried to break the tension.

"So Carole are you gonna join the guild when you grow up?"

"I don't know."

"What'd you mean? Don't you wanna join a guild when you grow up?" I asked.

"I'm gonna join a guild I'm just not sure which one." She explained.

"Don't you want to join Fairy Tail like you dad?" Erza asked her.

"I don't know, you guys are kinda loud."

"Won't deny that, but Romeo's gonna join Fairy Tail one. He's you friend I figured you wanna hang around with him."

"Yuck! He'll just try and give me cooties or something."

We just laughed at the young girl.

"What's so funny?" She asked.

"Nothing." Erza said "But boys aren't all bad. You can get them to do things for you just with a look."

"Really? You think we're that easy to manipulate?" I said.

"You mean I can get Romeo and the other dumb boys to get me things."

Dumb?

"Of course, just give them your best whimper and sad eyes and they'll be like putty in your hands. And if that doesn't work just beat them up."

"Okay I think it's time for bed." I jumped off the couch "It's late."

Carole went off to get changed and Erza and I got the second bedroom ready for her.

"Don't fill that poor girl's mind with fantasies about boys, she's five."

"I only told her the truth." She said defending herself.

"Am I really that easy to manipulate?"

"Will you please get me some cake?" Erza said looking into my eyes.

I can't tell if this is an example or if she's serious. If I say no she'll kill me.

"Yes dear."

Carole came in and hopped into bed and went to sleep. Erza and I sat up for another hour or two before heading to bed ourselves.

LATER

I was awoken by a sharp jolting of the bed.

"Hey get up!"

I opened my eyes and saw Carole staring back at me. I looked over at the clock and saw it was seven in the morning.

"You're up early, don't kids usually sleep till like noon."

"I wanna go home."

"Carole the guild just open I doubt your dad is even there yet."

"I'm bored. There's nothing to do here."

Erza sat up "Okay we can go but you may end up sitting there for a while."

We got dressed and headed out to the guild. It was mostly quiet on the way.

"Hey Carole?" I asked "You said you wanted to be a mage right, you're not going to use that nasty smoke magic your dad does are you?"

"My mommy said I'm not allowed to use that magic. I'm not sure what kind I'm going to learn."

"Maybe we can look in there." I said pointing to a book store that was opening up.

"Okay."

We went in and wandered up and down the aisles looking at the different beginner level books. Erza tried to convince the girl to take up Re-quip magic like her but Carole wanted something that no one else had.

Carole pulled a book off the shelf and stared at it.

"Can you even read."

"Nope."

"Then say that!" I told her looking at the book.

"The Beginner's Guide to Wax-Make Magic"

"This is an interesting book, it maker magic like Gray but it is wax so it's more fluid than Gray's ice."

Carole seemed genially interested in the book "Maker magic?"

"You'd have to ask Gray about it, he's the expert on this stuff."

"Why don't we get this book and then when we get to the guild Gray can tell you more about it." Erza suggested.

"You shouldn't spend money on me" Carole said

"It's no big deal." Erza told her as we paid for the book.

When we got to the guild not many people we around, just us, Mira, Gray, and Macao.

"Morning everyone." Carole said.

"What are you doing here?" Macao asked her.

"We had to babysit last night." I explained.

Carole ran up to Gray and shoved the book into his face "Teach me about this."

"Huh?"

"Carole wants you to tell her about Maker magic." Erza explained.

Gray read the title of the book "Wax-Make Magic, never really heard of it but it can't be too difficult. First lesson, Maker magic has no restrictions; you have to find your own shape."

The Gray talked to the girl for a while telling her basic concepts of Maker magic. She was still young so she wouldn't be forming any shapes for a while but she was eager to learn.

*Sniff* "I smell smoke." Erza said.

"Morning" Wakaba said walking into the construction site that is now the guild.

"What the hell you jerk. It's one thing to ask me to watch your kid but at least wait for me to answer the door." I said.

"Sorry, but I knew that way you couldn't say no, anyway where's the munchkin?"

"Over there with Gray, we picked up a magic book on the way here that piqued her interest so Gray talking to her about it." Erza explained.

"You guy's shouldn't buy her things." He said.

"It's fine it was cheap" I explained "and it got her interested in something new."

"What's the book?"

"It's about Wax-Make magic. She seemed pretty interested."

"Hmmm, interesting. Well at least she's got an idea about a magic to learn, her mother said no smoke magic so that will be interesting."

Wakaba went over and picked up Carole and the two headed home.

"Thank you Kanji, Thank you Erza!" Carole yelled.

"Anytime."

Lucy came over and told us she had a job taking down some thugs not too far from here and so we got ready to head out on another job.

AN

Thank you for reading. Feedback is appreciated. Feel free to message me any questions or concerns.

Wakaba's daughter is a cannon character, she's never appeared in the Anime/Manga but she has been mentioned in Chapter 262's title page. She has no name so I just made it Carole.

Till Next Time!