Wandering Fairies

Ino, Please!

Summary: Inoichi gets called to the Missions Desk, after a report of unacceptable behavior from his daughter. He expects a fight, a tantrum, perhaps some inappropriate Sasuke-involved situation (where DOES she get that from anyway?). Pretty much anything EXCEPT for THIS.

A/N: So, way back in chapter 1 I promised cracky oneshots that weren't canon to my verse, but involved other Fairy Tail characters in the Naruto world.

I am here to tell you. I don't think they'll be one-shots. It's practically become a separate series in my head, with it's own (nowhere near as serious) plot. So. Behold, the first story. Who ends up in Ino's body? Will Inoichi drink himself into a stupor? Will Erza come and kill us all?

Well. No Erza in this one.

Even if Inoichi really really wishes there was. The poor guy's trying his hardest, really. He's just not equipped for Fairy Tail shenanigans.

Anyway, I don't know how regularly I'll write this, since obviously Girl's Mind takes precedence. But I assure you, this is not the only chapter that's going to be in this 'verse, and next time around we get to see what happened to poor Lucy. Who will definitely join Inoichi in drinking herself into the hospital.

Happy Holidays! Please enjoy!

Inoichi had only just exited Sakura-chan's mindscape, was preparing to send Hatake-san to speak with the Hokage and arrange a meeting, when a chunin messenger comes to tell him his presence is required at the missions desk immediately for a situation involving his daughter. Calling back a quick request for Hatake and Natsu to remain in the room, he rushes off at the heels of the messenger.

Only the knowledge that they would have brought his daughter to the hospital first if she were injured keeps him calm. Even so he barges in without pausing, eyes scanning for the blond hair of his only child.

And freeze.

He blinks, rubs his eyes, looks again, nothing changes. Desperately, he turns to the desks, and Umino Iruka gives him a helpless look in return.

Entirely uncomprehending, Inoichi finds his eyes forcibly dragged back to his daughter, standing with her team, glaring up at her sensei.

His.

His... very naked daughter. Th-that's one of her sandals, there, and that must be her shirt in that poor desk chuunin's arms, the man as stupified as Inoichi himself and-

"I-Ino? Darling? Wh-what are... why... wh-ere are your clothes...?" It's a stupid question, Inoichi knows as soon as he asks it. He can see them, after all, spread to all the corners of the room, he hasn't stuttered like this since he hit puberty but.

His daughter looks up at him, only a vague recognition in her eyes, and his heart drops.

"Ino?"

"Yeah, everyone keeps calling me that." He's never heard such a lacksidasial tone from his daughter in all her years, and the meeting with Natsu-kun fresh in his mind he can almost guess what the next words will be.

"I'm Gray Fullbuster, of Fairy Tail! You got any idea how I ended up in this place? Last thing I remember is some crazy dragon trying to blast us to bits, and then we were doin' that Fairy Sphere, and then I was here..."

Ino... Gray, plants one hand on their hip - please oh please, let this one be a girl, don't make me deal with a guy running naked in my daughter's body... - eyes skating over the room as though they might find something familiar if they look long enough.