The best gift in life is a second chance

Chapter 8 b-1:my days of fun continues with laxus

Natsumi woke up and looked around. Today Laxus would be her babysitter but he isn't here yet. She crawled out of the bed and walked to the door. Her bun was messy, her face drowsy, and her pajamas were dented. She was still half asleep as she walked into the guild hall.

It was very busy, almost everyone was there. They were divided in groups at the tables working on their own float for the parade. Even Happy and the other exceeds were working on something.

Natsumi rubbed her eyes but was still sleepy. She looked around to see if Laxus was there, but he wasn't. But she did see his little fan club.

"Where's Laxus?" She asked them.

"He's coming back from a solo mission today." Evergreen said, but she continued. "I think he doesn't even know he's supposed to look after you today."

"But we'll be there to help Laxus! We'll support him no matter what!" Freed said with passion. Natsumi just stared at him when she looked back at Evergreen. She must have a bit of motherly senses right? "Could you please help me with my hair?"

Evergreens eyes sparkled. "OCOURSE! I'll make you as beautiful as a fairy! But of course not as beautiful as me." She said in an arrogant tone. And with that she dragged Natsumi with her to the infirmary to make her a beautiful little girl.

Freed and Bickslow just watched Evergreen dragging the half asleep girl away. "I thought she only asked to help brushing it or something." Freed said.

Bickslow let out a laugh. "Well that's Ever for you! She's obsessed with beauty!" He said while his 'babies' repeated. "Beauty!"

"What did ever do now?"

They turned around to see Laxus. Before either of the men could answer Makarov walked towards them. "Ah Laxus. You're just on time." Said Makarov.

"For what?" Laxus asked. As far as he knew I wasn't participating in the parade tonight.

"Well Jill and Richard are gone for today and since you're the only one who doesn't has anything to do for today you get to watch Natsumi. Masters Orders" Makarov said and then quickly walked away to avoid his grandson's wrath.

Natsumi didn't mind Evergreen going all out with her hair. She had long hair, she might as well use it. She looked at the ring around Evergreen's finger. After Natsu had died it made everyone realize it could all be over before you knew it. So Evergreen and Elfman finally decided to get it on with and marry.

Natsumi sighed. Another marriage of her nakama she missed because she was gone for multiple years. First she missed Biska's and Alzack's wedding and now Evergreen's and Elfman's.

Maybe she should let Erza and Jellal finally get together as well. Maybe there will be new children! But with the thought of that she felt something nagging in her mind. She knew it had something to do with something she forgot. What did she forget?! She wanted to know! Did it have to do with children?

When Evergreen was done with Natsumi's hair Natsumi looked in the mirror and saw her hair was tied up in two buns on her head. And for some reason Evergreen had decorated it with flowers. The flowers were white and yellow. Evergreen had also forced a Yellow dress with a white belt around Natsumi's waist. And of course there was the signature scarf.

Evergreen observed her work and nodded in approval. "Yes you look almost as beautiful as me!"

Natsumi and Evergreen walked back and they saw Laxus was back and looked as grumpy as ever. Natsumi ignored him and walked over to Bickslow. "Bickslow-chan~! Can I play with your dolls?"

After a moment Natsumi was hanging onto Bickslow's 'babies' and was flying through the guild. She was giggling loudly as the dolls flew everywhere.
Laxus was thankful for Bickslow's 'babies'. Watching after the brat might not be as bad. But he noticed the others in the guild got distracted by the noise and he decided it was better to go somewhere else. He told Bickslow to get his 'babies' back down.

"Why'd you stop?" Natsumi asked disappointed.

"We're going somewhere else." Laxus said.

"No. I don't want to." Natsumi said while crossing her arms.

"We're going." Laxus said sternly.

"No. I want to stay here with the others."

"We're going."

"No."

"Yes."

"No!"

"Yes!"

"NO!"

"YES! Don't be a stupid little brat!"

Natsumi looked at him, she felt insulted. "Yeah well..." She pointed angrily a finger at him and stomped her foot. "YOU SMELL LIKE POO!"

...

Poo?

It didn't sound as a real insult. But for a five year old it's the biggest insult in the book. And Laxus knew that. He picked the girl up and tried to walk away. But Natsumi grabbed hold of a post and refused to let go. "We're going right now."

Natsumi began to yell. "Miraaaa! He's hurting meee!"

Laxus and Natsumi sat down on a bench in the park. Natsumi was scolded by Mira for acting immature. And Laxus was hit in the face and scolded for being late and 'being a big meanie'. Mira had also decided to let the Thunder God Tribe stay at the guild and let Natsumi and Laxus have some bonding time. Natsumi had her backpack with her where she had put her action figures.

She was bored so she took them out and played with them. Laxus ignored it at first, but after like 15 minutes he looked and saw that Natsumi was playing with the figures of him and the Thunder God Tribe. She was letting them fight a bad guy made out of a cloth, held together by strings. It was obvious she made it herself.

Natsumi noticed him and looked him in the eye. Laxus blushed because he got caught. But neither of them said a thing.

After a few seconds Natsumi held out her Laxus Figure, indicating for him to play along. And with a little hesitance. Laxus took hold of the tiny doll of himself and played along.

  Thank you Bloody7851 for making my cover