Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail, Sword Art Online, or any of the other things the characters in this story are connected with.
Hey guys! Sorry it's been awhile, I was on vacation, and afterwards I just wasn't feeling up to start writing this story again yet. The fact that I had an idea for something else (if any of you like the Percy Jackson series, I'm working on a crossover between that and Sword Art Online, the first chapter is posted) didn't help.
Anyway, enjoy!
Yui giggled cutely as she gazed in wonder at the many flowers in the garden they were passing.
"They're so pretty!" she gasped.
The five year old blinked in surprise as she suddenly found herself up high. She glanced up to see that her 'Aunt' Sinon, her papa's best friend, had picked her up and was smiling at her.
Come to think of it, momma and papa were smiling at her, too.
"What?" she asked, tilting her head slightly in confusion.
Kirito, Asuna, and Sinon chuckled, shaking their heads at her.
She huffed, puffing out her cheeks, and Sinon squeezed her.
Why were big people always smiling at her?
She hadn't even made a joke!
Was there something on her face?
An hour later, Kirito and the girls were searching frantically for the little girl.
Yui had been holding onto her mommy's shirt, but apparently she had gotten distracted and wandered off when they weren't looking.
'How could we lose our own daughter?!' Asuna thought hysterically, running a hand through her long chestnut-colored hair and messing it up a bit.
Not that she noticed or cared.
Sinon had immediately gone to the cathedral, the highest vantage point in Magnolia. With her eye magic, which enhanced her vision tenfold, that was where she would be most useful.
Kirito and Asuna, on the other hand, were searching on the ground.
"Damn it!" Kirito cursed.
Yui hummed as she swung on the swings at the park.
When she had realized that she had lost her family, she was scared. She didn't know who to go to for help.
Suddenly, a shadow fell over her, and Yui looked up to see a pretty blonde girl with large brown eyes blinking at her in surprise.
"Hello." The girl greeted, kneeling in the sand next to the swing.
"Hi!" Yui said with a cute smile.
The older girl smiled back. "Are you okay? You looked worried."
Yui bit her lip. "I got separated from my mommy and daddy."
"Oh my!" the girl said, eyes widening even more. "Well, we can't have that, can we?"
With that, she held out her hand, which Yui took with a giggle.
"I found her!" Sinon told her friends through her walkie-talkie.
"WHERE?!" Kirito and Asuna shouted back immediately, probably startling the heck out of the people surrounding them.
"Near the park, heading north." She relayed. "She's with a girl about our age. The girl is giving her a piggy-pack ride, and they seem to be looking for something. Probably us."
Asuna sighed in relief. Her baby was okay, and it seemed that Yui had run into someone who wanted to help her, as opposed to one of her birth father's men who would kidnap her.
In short order, the group managed to find Yui and her rescuer.
"Mommy! Papa! Aunt Sinon!" Yui called as she saw them, waving the over.
The trio ran towards her, and her new friend Lucy put her down so that she could run towards them, too.
Yui blinked up at Lucy, who was smiling awkwardly at the many, many thanks she was getting, though she tried to assure the three that it was no trouble at all.
Pretty.
…OH!
So that's what it was.
Lucy was smiling, which made her happy, so…smiles made people happy!
Well then.
Her family could smile at her anytime they wanted.
Even if she still didn't quite understand why.
After seeing Yui interact with Lucy for a while, and realizing that having another adult that the little girl trusted and could count on was a good thing, Fairy Tail gained four new members.
Please review!
Is Yui a bit out of character? Maybe. But in this story she's not an AI, she's a real little girl. Canon Yui is so mature in part because of her background. This Yui didn't have to watch thousands of grieve and a few hundred commit suicide when she was designed to assist with their emotional issues but wasn't allowed to help them. She's just another little girl who had a hard life because she had a horrible father before Kirito and Asuna came along.
And yes, she's officially a member. She's younger than Romeo by a few years, but her magic is still pretty powerful, especially for her age. She's an empath and she uses Archive magic.
