Hey guys! Thanks for reading! I'm just gonna jump into it, so here goes. This takes place directly after the first chapter.
Erza P.O.V
After several minutes of mindless chatter, Master finally decided to greet his newly returned returned child.
"Welcome back Kimiko, you were starting to worry me. Leaving for so long without any letters." Gramps chuckled to himself.
Kimiko blushed, scratching the back of her head like she always did when she was embarrassed. "Sorry, that dark guild you asked me to destroy was surprisingly hard to find."
Lucy's jaw practically fell to the ground, "You took out an entire dark guild all by yourself!?" She flailed her arms around as she said all of this.
Kimiko simply blushed harder. "Well the master did put up a harder fight than I had anticipated," she pointed out, referring to her heavily bandaged legs.
That was so like Kimiko, always showing such modesty. Every time someone attempted to praise her, her pail skin would suddenly turn pink with embarrassment, even when they were children.
I walked through the market, Kimiko's tiny pale hand in mine. In my other hand, I held a tiny woven basket in which I carried the groceries.
"Just go a little faster," I ordered, my voice giving off a gentler edge as it usually did when I spoke to Kimiko.
The nine year old struggled to keep up my quick passe, and sooner then later I had slowed so that she might catch her breath. And so we walked at Kimiko's passe (which seriously grated on my patience). Eventually we made it to a sunny little park not far from the guild. I laid out a plaid picnic blanket under the shade of an oak tree while Kimiko played by the water.
"Don't fall in," I warned, almost teasingly though it really was quite dangerous.
I smiled, spreading my body out on the picnic blanket. It was peaceful times like these with Kimiko that I could almost forget the horrors of the tower of heaven... I began to dose off.
"Excuse me" A man interrupted my sleep. A sat up to see a man with graying hair and a bushy mustache smiling down at Kimiko. "I couldn't help but notice how adorable you are. Would you like some sweets?" The man said kindly, pulling a handful of sweets out from deep within his pocket.
Kimiko blushed deeply, and before he could place the sweets in her delicate hand, she had run to my side, berrying her face into my armored chest.
"I hope in the two months that you've been gone you haven't forgotten how Fairy Tail parties!" Makarov said, receiving a cheer from the guild
"Not in a million years, Gramps!" Kimiko cheered, receiving yet another cheer from her rowdy guild mates.
And so the party began.
What do you think? Kinda short, but I hope it was good. If you haven't figured it out yet, that italicized bit was a flashback. Erza was remembering back when she was eleven and had recently joined the guild and had befriended the young an delicate flower known as Kimiko. If you like or dislike the flashback please review... Or just review anyway ;)