The time has come for another chapter to enter; because of taking so long to update this, I've decided to put up two chapters just for my lovely readers. I hope you enjoy.

"I'm telling you lately I feel like I'm being followed!" Lucy argued

Natsu looked at Happy "What's that called again?"

"It's called being overly self conscious" Happy said pulling out a dictionary.

"Well I'm saying you're being paranoid. Lucy I'm with you almost all the time and I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary, I'm sure it's just your imagination." Sakura said turning to Sasuke who was seated right next to her. "Tell her"

"Hn" was his reply

"There you go" Sakura said

Lucy gaped at her "He barely said one syllable how the heck can you say he agrees with you?"

Sakura shrugged "I guess I just speak Sasuke."

"Speaking of which" Natsu said looking over to the raven haired boy "Why the heck are you sitting here?"

Lucy smacked Natsu behind his head "Don't be rude, Sasuke is a member of Fairy Tail now."

"Yeah I know..." Natsu said rubbing his head "It's just that-

"Sasuke's scary" Happy said bluntly

Sakura started laughing "Hear that Sasuke?"

"Hn" he said still not bothering to look at anyone "Anyway; Sakura are you sure?"

"Huh?"

"That you haven't felt like you're being followed?"

Sakura nodded "Yeah I am sure"

She then looked at Lucy with a reassuring smile "Don't get paranoid now Lucy; after all we're finally heading out on a job tomorrow and it won't be good if you're jumpy."

The blonde let out a small sigh "I guess you're right."

Standing up; the blonde slipped on her jacket before turning to Sakura" I'm going to head home now, you coming?"

Stealing a quick glance over at Sasuke Sakura shook her head "Na, I think I'll stay a while I'll follow in a couple of minutes."

Lucy gave her friend a suspicious look but seemed to brush it off as something they could come back to later before she waved and headed out.

"Well we better get going to, we're meeting up at noon okay Sakura" Natsu said as he and Happy left the table.

Sakura nodded and waved them off "Sure, see you later."

"So why?" asked Sasuke

"Huh?" Sakura asked turning back to Sasuke puzzled.

"Why didn't you go with your friend?"

She shrugged "Well you're still sitting here and it would be rude to just ditch you right?"

"Hn" was his subtle response

"We've been in the same guild for a while but we hardly talk to each other." Sakura said with a softly smile. "And to top it off we have a history together-granted I don't remember so well..."

Except for a few vivid visions that churned her stomach in a very bad way; her last couple of dreams about him. When he left her; when he called her annoying-even in a dream it made her feel like her heart was being torn in two; she had wanted to ask him about it so badly yet at the same time she couldn't bring herself to tell him.

Sasuke was silent for a while just starring at his cup in front of him; it wasn't exactly untrue that he and Sakura hadn't spoken to each other. Sakura hadn't even asked him any questions about her past for a while now and he wasn't certain but he felt that Sakura may or may not be hiding something from him. He brushed it off though after all it wasn't like he wasn't hiding things from her to. Not that it mattered now. What mattered was that he had another chance and he wasn't going to let it slip through his fingers. Gray wouldn't say anything to her about their little conversation because then he would risk losing Sakura.

Speaking of Gray...

Sasuke glanced over at the counter where Gray was sitting with Juvia right next to him, it was obvious that the water wizard had a huge crush on Gray but he didn't appear to notice that. Either that or he was ignoring her advances but it didn't matter. When he was talking about promising to take Sakura home that first time, he wasn't thinking about the opportunity he had here. If they went back they would have to return to the way they were before but if they stayed here...then; yes then there wouldn't be anything to stop them. Sakura's memory loss was merely another blessing in disguise for him.

A second chance.

One he didn't deserve

Yet it was one he couldn't pass up.

"Sakura."

She looked up at him from her plate "Mm?"

"Let's go on a quest sometime."

The pinkette stared at him slightly surprised "You want to go on a quest with me? Where did that come from?"

He nodded "Why so shocked?"

Rubbing the back of her head Sakura smiled "Well I just figured you'd only want to go on quest with your team mates."

Gajeel; Juvia and Sasuke may be in Fairy Tail now but they still took on quests together if not then solo but they haven't gone with anyone else by far.

"I am" Sasuke told her "We're both in Fairy Tail so does it matter who we go on quests with?"

She shook her head, he wasn't wrong but most people preferred to make a permanent team and just stick with them.

Sasuke's face seemed to brighten ever so slightly; she didn't even think that was possible for him. "Alright then we'll do that sometime." Sakura said with a big grin "So where would you want to go?"

She hadn't even noticed Gray and Juvia now watching the two chatting away.

Juvia smiled looking at them "Sakura-san and Sasuke-kun are certainly getting along well. Don't you think Gray-sama?"
Gray let out a small grunt of disdain; his elbow resting on the counter with his hand on his chin. Sakura and Sasuke were indeed getting closer to each other. Sasuke was becoming more open with Sakura-it was simple things like greeting her at the guild, making light conversation and now sitting with her whenever she was at the guild.

Gray smirked; it didn't matter to him how close Sasuke was trying to get to Sakura. After his conversation with her his doubts about his chances had been subsided.

"You think so?"

Sakura didn't know how but somehow she had managed to hold a conversation with Sasuke for a while and hadn't realised it was getting late. When she got home she nearly jumped when she saw Lucy in her apartment as if waiting for her.

"What's going on?" Sakura asked noticing her distressed friend's expression. Lucy handed her a piece of paper and Sakura looked on it and saw that it was for a grave-sight; Lucy's moms grave.

"What is this?" she asked

"My mother's grave was moved here." Lucy stated

"Why?" Sakura asked

Lucy buried her face in her hands and started to tell Sakura about her trip back from the guild "Turns out I was right about being watched. I ran into my father earlier."

Sakura gasped "What!?"

Sakura sat down in front of Lucy on the floor quickly "What was he doing here?"

Lucy started to tell Sakura the story.

Lucy stared up at her father who had just literally appeared out of nowhere but when Lucy looked at him she barely recognised him. His usually fine clean cut suit was in shreds, his normally jelled back hair was long and he had grown a beard. When she looked back at the past this man hardly looked anything like her father.

"Father?" Lucy asked before hardening her voice in the next sentence "Why are you here? And what's with those clothes?"

Her father looked down "Heartifilia railways was confiscated. I lost everything, my company, my house, my money...All the private property was used as collateral. Is this my reward for being a serious businessman all these years!?"

Lucy's expression turned from cold to concerned "The house? That's where mom's grave is!"

Her father presented a piece of folded paper and handed it to Lucy "I transferred it here."

Lucy remained silent as her father looked up at the sky "It's not so much funny as it is laughable. That much wealth gone in an instant. All my long years of achievement to naught in a single night..." he raised his hands in the air starring up at the sky as if he was speaking to someone "The money I worked so hard for I even sacrificed my family! It's so laughable!"

As her father started to laugh like a maniac Lucy spoke cutting him off "Why have you come here?"

He looked back down at her "To see my daughter's face, Lucy."

Lucy turned away unable to look at the man that had caused her so much pain, the man who was supposed to love her yet showed nothing but annoyance at her existence "Why now? And I told you not to lay a hand on Fairy Tail!"

He looked at her with a solemn expression "I don't have that kind of power anymore. I only came to see how my daughter was doing."

Lucy averted her eyes once again, a glimmer of belief shone in them but she did not want him to see it.

"Please, don't give me that kind of look. I'm sorry about everything that's happened. I don't plan to remain here long. I'm going to work at the trade guild in Acalypha. I'm going to start all over again."

"Acalypha?" Lucy questioned turning back to her father

"You'll see it soon if you travel west from here." He explained

Lucy gave the tiniest glimmer of a smile "I see."

"So, about that Lucy..." her father started "I'm going to need some money."

Her eyes widened in response.

"100,000 jewel would be enough. Would you lend it to me?"

Lucy took a step back bringing her hands up to her chest "T-That much money? There's no way I have that!"

"That much?" her father asked in disbelief his voice filling with anger "It's just 100,000! You're my daughter I'm sure you have that much on hand."

Lucy frowned looking down "What the hell are you spouting?"

Her father's expression changed, to the same one she had grown up with for so many years "Money! I put my pride aside to beg you for it! Yes, even I! Enough now give me money!"

Memories of the past flashed back in Lucy's mind, of all those times she had heard her father speak to her in that tone that sounded as if she owed him the world.

"I don't know what you're saying." Lucy said in a soft voice

"Is this how you treat you father!?"

Lucy's hand shot out to the side to cut him off "I told you before remember? What I want isn't money or pretty dresses, or fortune forced upon me...And the same goes for you father. You don't have any fortunes waiting for you."

"LUCY"

"LEAVE" she shouted before rushing past him to get home.

'How...how could he stoop so low?' she thought, how could he give his daughter hope like that and then take it away so cruelly?

At the end of Lucy's explanation Sakura was crying along with her friend wrapped in her arms with only one thought coming to mind.

'How could someone like that; call himself a father?'

"Lucy, Sakura, let's go on a job!" Natsu spouted happily, his bag already on his back.

"Let's go" Happy chided with his fist in the air

"Sure!" Lucy said with a determined smile

After last night Sakura slept over at Lucy's to make sure that she would be alright and in the morning she acted as if none of that happened and she had kindly asked Sakura not to mention this to anyone else and that the never talk about it again and she agreed knowing that her blonde friend needed this. Hopefully their job would take Lucy's mind off of this.

"So what kind of job are we going to go on?" asked Happy

"Haven't decided yet." Said Natsu

"This." Gray said appearing with a poster saying 'Most Wanted' "Capture the escaped convict Velveno."

"You mean the guild hunter Velveno?" asked Happy "So they found out where he is?"

Natsu seemed to light up with excitement at the mention of him "This guy uses some awesome magic! I'm fired up now."

Erza smiled turning to Lucy and Sakura "The reward is 400,000. You can pay your rent with that."

They nodded happily.

"That's about six months worth." Lucy said excitedly clenching her fist

Sakura gave a big grin to her friends; it seemed like things were looking up for them and everything was going to be okay.

That was before they heard two other guild members speaking about something that caught their attention.

"Hey; did you hear about what's going on in Acalypha?"

"Some trade guild is being held up by a group of armed robbers."

"Damn."

Sakura turned to Lucy with a worried expression and saw that her friends cheerful face had dropped before she continued to listen in.

"And that armed group is actually the dark guild Naked Mummy."

"Seriously? Then the army ain't gonna be able to handle them..."

"Lately the number of dark guild incident has increased a lot."

Stepping closer to her friend Sakura whispered to her "Lucy?"

"It-It doesn't matter what happens to him..." Lucy said unsurely "It's not my..."

Sakura grabbed her hand gently and whispered back to her "I know he's done terrible things to you and the guild but...he is your father."

Lucy's eyes shot open before she ran to the table to ask where Acalypha was.

And when Erza, Gray and Natsu turned around Lucy and Sakura were nowhere to be seen.

Gray rubbed the back of his head in annoyance "Not again."

The trade guild Love and Lucky was situated in the Town Acalypha, when Lucy and Sakura had arrived and found it they were shocked to see a crowd of worried people screaming for answers about hostages that were inside. The army did their best to handle crowd control and explained that they had sent requests from guilds nearby but that wasn't very reassuring at the current time.

"Father..." Lucy murmured

Sakura glanced at her friend who held a determined look on her face "Let's go."

"Right."

They ran through the crowd and ducked under the army trying to hold them back; it looked like they were going to make it in until someone grabbed them from the back of their collars.

"Hey now...civilians can't go inside."

"I might have family in there." Lucy started

"I said no!"

The two were thrown to the back of the crowd. The two girls went behind a wall near the guild to think of a new way to get in.

"We've gotta do something..." Sakura said glancing back "There has to be a way over them"

When Lucy didn't reply Sakura looked down at her friend to see her starring at a colony of ants coming out of a hole and she gasped grabbing one of her celestial keys "I've got it! Gate of the maiden I open thee! VIRGO"

Virgo gracefully appeared before them bowing her head "Princess, is it time for punishment?"

"I've got a favour to ask." Lucy started

A few minute later Sakura and Lucy were still on the lookout in case something happened that would interrupt their plans.

"Are you sure this is gonna work?"

"It has to-

"Princess"

Sakura and Lucy jumped in fright when they saw Virgo appear out of the ground. Lucy had asked Virgo to try and did a tunnel into the guild.

"It seems I am able to enter the building" she confirmed

"Thank you Virgo." Lucy said gratefully

Sakura nodded "Thanks."

"You wish to punish me?"

"I'm thanking you!"

Virgo looked at the two girls concerned "But there are a number of wizards in there, will we be alright by ourselves."

Lucy and Sakura looked at each other, their eyes filled with uncertainty.

"We don't have a choice."

"Let's go" Sakura said looking down at the hole

Inside LOVE and LUCKY was the wizards from the dark guild Naked Mummy. Some of the members were stuffing bags with money into them and others were finishing off tying up the hostages.

"I thought a trade guild would have more money than this."

"We should've just robbed a bank."

"Shut up!" another member ordered "We ain't got no time! Hurry and put the money in the sacks!"

The man who ordered them to shut up looked at the hostages with an irritated expression, getting agitated he pointed his gun at them.

"If we don't get this money soon we're going to be in big trouble."

"Enough man."

"We ain't got no time!"

With that he pulled the trigger and magic bullets started heading towards the hostages.

"TAURUS"

Lucy's celestial spirit appeared using his giant axe to stop the attack. To say that the Naked Mummy members were confused would be an understatement.
"A cow?"

"No, it's a spirit"

"Why is a spirit here?"

"Where did it come from?"

In that moment the two Fairy Tail girls appeared from the hole created by Virgo to face off against the men.

"That's enough!" Lucy ordered

"What the hell?"

"Women?"

"They're wizards from an official guild. Dammit!"

Lucy brought out her next spirit Cancer and the crab-like spirit appeared. While Lucy was summoning up her spirits Sakura made quick work of her half of the unofficial guild members.

"DARK BOLTS"

That gave them a shocking message, in less than two minutes Sakura and Lucy had defeated the dark guild and freed the hostages. At the end of all the chaos the two girls went looking for Lucy's father but he wasn't anywhere to be found.

Lucy continued to look around in worry "Where is he?"

"Calm down Lucy" Sakura said placing her hand on her friends shoulder "We'll find him."

But they never did; there was no sign of him inside the guild and when the two girls went to go and check for him on the outside once everyone was finished crowding them and giving them their thanks for saving they went to look on further but didn't seem like he was there. It was getting late as the sun began to set giving the area a orange glow. People were gathered outside with their loved ones and Lucy was becoming more anxious every minute.

"Why isn't he here?" Lucy asked sadly "Is he safe?"

"Lucy..." Sakura said softly, worried for her friend.
"Father!" Lucy called suddenly

"Lucy?" a gruff voice called

Sakura and Lucy turned around to see Lucy's father standing behind them.

"Don't tell me he just got here?" Sakura asked in a tight tone

Her father brought down his hood of his cloak "I don't have any money so I walked all the way here."

"So it was all for nothing?" Lucy asked in shock
"That's not true Lucy" Sakura tried to console her friend.

"Why are you here?" his voice laced with confusion

"Why? Because I heard that the guild you were headed to was attacked." Lucy said without really thinking

"You came here worried for your dad?"

"As if-

Sakura cut Lucy off "Of course she did! That's what good daughters do which you would know if you ever bothered before to find out!"

Lucy glanced at Sakura "Sakura...let's go."

Grabbing the pinkette's hand she started pulling her away.

"I see..." he said looking at the two girls "Thank you."

"Don't get any strange ideas." Lucy suddenly defended "It's not like I've forgiven you."

"Yes, that's fine." He said "You have also travelled quite a long way. I've also had time to think. I apologise about yesterday. I wasn't thinking straight. I regret what I did, it's shameful. I'm going to change who I am. Even without money I made it here. I'm sure I can do anything."

Lucy kept walking with Sakura hand in hand but the next words from her father stopped her in her tracks.

"This guild is the place where I met your mother. When I was thinking about going independent, that was right when you were in your mother's stomach. The two of us quit the guild. Right then the guilds sign board broke. Lucky turned into Lucy. The two of us decided that if we had a daughter to name her Lucy."

'A name...' Sakura thought

Lucy turned around with a smile on her face "Don't decide your daughter's name on a whim like that."

He gave a small smile in return "You're right. Sorry about that. But I'm glad I got to see you. Not as Lucky Lucy of the Heartifilias... I was able to see you as just Lucy, like you wanted to become."

Lucy's eyes softened as she looked at her father "I...

"LUCY SAKURA"

"Oh no" Sakura murmured looking at the cloud of dust and their teammates who were creating it. Erza, Gray, Natsu and Happy came rushing towards them.

'This looks familiar' Sakura thought

"You guys are safe?" asked Gray

Sakura frowned as they stepped in front of them "You sound surprised."

"Uh well-

"Could it be you guys handled things on your own?" asked Erza

"Again, why do you all sound so surprise?!" the pinkette asked pouting now

"Yeah well..." Lucy trailed off looking back at her father who gave her a reassuring nod.

The team started heading back home to Fairy Tail though Lucy and Sakura were in a lot of trouble.

"What was with you two all of a sudden?" asked Natsu

Lucy gave a sheepish smile "We're sorry; it was nothing."

"Nothing my butt" Gray said

"We cancelled our job" stated Happy

"Sorry" Sakura and Lucy muttered together, both feeling really guilty for the trouble they had once again caused their teammates.

Gray sighed "We're just glad you're both safe."

"Really?" asked Sakura, she was expecting another long endless scolding.

"Yeah."

They smiled. No matter what happened to them it was always great to have their friends with them.

There we go and you may now head on to the next chapter that I followed up this chapter by right away because you my wonderful readers deserves this reward.