Day Five: Investigation between the relationship of Natsu and Lucy
Natsu-nii seems to stick to Wendy a lot. He always goes red after Wendy laughs at something. When Lucy comes near he seems to have some sort of chore or job. According to rumors, Natsu-nii never does housework and is quite lazy. Lucy also seems to be quite distant from Natsu-nii as when Natsu-nii leaves her face becomes full of embarrassment and she covers her face and runs to Levy and Lisanna. Nothing out of the ordinary in the pattern.
Conclusion: No movement in the relationship between Natsu and Lucy.
Questions: Rumors say that Natsu-nii and Lucy used to be inseparable. Why all of a sudden be so distant?
Rose closed her notebook. She was on one of the beams in the old shack. Although it creaked a little, she was always quick enough to stay on the ceiling when it fell apart above her.
She looked like a ninja all right. Her katana was now on her back and she hade half her face covered to try and not stand out. She even tied her long hair into a plait bun.
"Natsu-nii is shy when it comes to love" She chuckled and she climbed to a small broken window near the ceiling and did her assigned work. To scout for a few hundred kilometers to see any movement with Black Blood.
When she spotted them in the same spot as she saw a few days, she dared not go any closer. She looked closely at all the tents. Each was open except for the one that was closed. Rose assumed that was were the master is. After a few days research, Rose found, (to her disgust), that the tents were open so that if anyone who was found to give 'compassion' or be 'softhearted' was killed as they slept by some of the Master's right hand men.
Day ten: Investigation of Black Blood
No movement with Black Blood. Thirty seven deaths so far. Unknown number of remaining lives. Census is unattainable due to constant additional members.
Conclusion: Numbers may be a problem in strength. Assassination may be necessary.
Questions: What is the Master doing in the tent?
Closing her book, she went back to the shabby looking guild, climbed up the pipe near the high windo until she was interrupted by
"Hey! Rose! Whatcha doing climbing up the wall? I mean there's a door right there?" NAtsu yelled out. Rose sweatdropped.
"Natsu-n I mean Natsu! What are you doing outside the guild?" She slid down the pole and landed right in front of her 'brother'.
"I had to uh clean my room hehehe" he scratched the back of his head and looked up.
"You know lying isn't going to help ...onii-san" the last part of that sentence slipped out of her mouth and she regretted it deeply.
"What did you say?"
"I said that you shouldn't lie! Anyways, I gotta get back to Master otherwise I'll get into big trouble if I don't give in my report and-'
"What report?"
"Uh" Crap why am I mess? I need to focus Rose began to panic and she was losing control of her magic within her. It was starting to leak out of her bdy. The amount of magic she had within herself was starting to set itself free. Natsu began to wobble a bit.
"I- uh- report about the-uh financial crisis in the magic council and if Fairy Tail had any more debts and-" Rose stopped when she saw Natsu was choking. Remembering that she lost grip on keeping her magic in control, she gathered it back up and kneeled down to see if he was okay. She motioned her hand from his chest to his mout and he started to wheeze to get his breath back. He looked at Rose with wide scared eyes.
"What are you? That wasn't normal! What kind of magic is that?"
"I don't know... Well see ya!" Rose grinned carelessly and left the dumbstruck Natsu. For once Nasu was thinking really hard.
"That was not normal..."
He entered the guild and saw Rose enter the Master's office. He followed her to give hre a piece of his mind. No one leaves me feeling dumb with a stupid smile on their face.He thought. He opened the door just a crack only to hear Master say something that confused him even more so.
"You know, Rose, it's been more than a week since your investigations. You have given me much valuable information. But have you give Natsu the information that he has a right to learn about?" Master asked.
"No, Master, I can't. Not right now."
"Rose-"Master started but Natsu couldn't stand it anymore. He opened the door and looked at Rose with dark eyes.
"What do you know about me that I don't?" Natsu asked.
"Um.." Rose began. She looked at him with teary eyes. Natsu felt something within him stir. It was different to the way he felt with Lucy. It was more like déjà vu. Natsu cocked his head to the side trying to figure out why that expression was so familiar.
.
mama...
.
Natsu's eyes widened. "Who are you?"
Rose looked at him. "Natsu-nii" she began. "Why did you leave me alone?" She sniffled. Her face was red completley covered in tears by now. "Natsu-nii"
"Rose, what are you talking about?"
Rose sank to the floor. She was shaking. Natsu was scared. He wanted those tears to stop. He wanted to give her a hug and tell her that everything was okay. Like how when he saw Lucy cry at the gravestone of her mother and Father. But this time it wasn't the new found or discovered love Natsu had for Lucy. It was a strong bondage and friendship that he had already felt before. Something inside him connected Rose and Natsu.
"Natsu, sit here and close the door. We have much to tell you. I'm sorry that you had to find out this way though."
Natsu hesitated."Rose, what is going on?"
Rose breathed in deeply. She wiped her tears and removed the mask that covered her nose and mouth. She walked in front of Natsu. "Natsu-nii"
"Natsu...nii?"
"Look into my eyes, Natsu-nii, if you want to know. If you want to remember. What happened before you met Igneel"
Natsu's eyes widened. He froze. Before Igneel? But he was...always with Igneel. Right?
"I.. I want to know.." He slowly lifted his face and was face to face with Rose.
Rose' eyes began to glitter and shine. She opened her mouth and Natsu heard not only one voice, but two. The other was very familiar to him. It was as if he knew who the other voice was. "carus memoriam redeat" (Latin: Dear memory return; thank you Google translate, but if you check it for real it would be different. Don't ask me why 'cos I don't know)
"Natsu's eyes glowed for a good fifteen minutes. Master watched in anticipation as to what would happen. He saw the expressions of Natsu. At some points he smiled. At others he screamed and his back began to stain with blood. By the time Natsu's memory was replaced he was shaking. He stood up from the chair and went to the door silently. Before he opened the door, he froze, and turned slowly. He looked to Rose with deep angry eyes. HIs eyes puffy form sadness and pain. His face wet from the tears.
He walked to Rose, his eyes never leaving hers. She stared in fear and anticipation. Master watched, ready to calm Natsu down if the situation came to it.
"Natsu-nii" She said as another single tear rolled down her face.
He continued walking and clenched his fist. Rose turned away and closed her eyes ready for impact. Ready for disagreement. Ready to take responsibility for being a coward. Her hand was clenched tight at her side. Her legs, were ready to fall and kneel. She was terrified.
By now her face was covered in tears and Natsu was standing right there looking down and staring at her. Her sobs made her back rise and fall. The time that they were just standing there felt like hours. The time wait was killing both of them. When Natsu moved again, Rose flinched and closed her eyes even tighter, preparing for pain to hit her, but what happened was much worse than she thought. He gave her an embrace that gave her the worst pain of all.
Regret.
HIs hug was warm and forgiving. She was astounded by his kindness and purity of his heart. She began to sob a little louder. Those sobs soon became loud heart wrenching wails. She hugged her brother back, as if to fill in the hugs that never happened over the years.
"Gomen, gomen Natsu-nii" She said between her now quieting sobs. Master just smiled happily and left the room to give them privacy.
They looked at each other for the first time in years as brother and sister. Natsu gave his signature grin. "You're so big! Rose-chan!" They laughed happily and walked out the room.
When they were at the guild hall everyone hushed to see the sight of two powerful mages, hand in hand with puffy red eyes and huge grins on their faces. Everyone was confused and had no idea how to react.
Natsu jumped on one of the tables and announced proudly with a huge,loud voice " MInna! The most poweful mage in Fairy Tail is my sister!"
.
"EHHH?" The guild was shocked. No one had any idea. Lisanna fainted in surprise. Lucy spat out her water. Levy dropped her book. Cana somehow spilled her barrel. Wendy tripped over Lisanna and fell on Carla. Gray choked on something that Juvia made for him. Juvia cried thinking that Gray might die because of her hence the guild was slowly beginning to flood with water. Overall, the guild was pretty damned surprised.
Rose just smiled. Only in Fairy Tail.
Once the flood got up to everyone's knees and Gray finally agreed to Juvia that she would 'help' him get better the guild went from catastrophe, to party (courtesy of Makarov).
That was one of the most happiest days of Natsu's life.
The next day, Natsu walked to Lucy's house and climbed through the window. As always. But Lucy was still asleep and was hugging her pillow. As always. She was drooling a little bit and luaghing slightly.
Cute... Wait what? Natsu shook his head. They're nakama. for now. He hit his head a few times and cleared his thoughts.
"Hey!" He said as he removed the pink blanket off her. She shivered abit and curled into a ball. She opened one of her eyes and closed it again.
"Natsu. Five more minutes. I wanna sleep."
"But, don't you remember? It's we promised Rose-chan that we would 'catch up' or something with her. Happy is already on his way to wake up the rest of Team Natsu. "
Lucy shot up and was lightning fast as she put bread into the toaster, grabbed clothes took a shower, brushed her teeth, got dressed and fixed her hair, then took the toast, hastily put butter on it, putting a corner of it into her mouth . She grabbed her keys and put it on her belt and took Natsu's arm who was still a little dazed as to how fast she was able to get ready.
"Luce, you know you're really weird."
"Shut up!"
"Do you even know where you're going?" Natsu asked as he pulled his arm away from Lucy's tight grip.
She smiled innocently. "Oops, I got excited" She stuck out her tongue apologetically ( if that even makes sense).
"Weirdo" and he turned around and went the right way to Rose' house. When they got to the big mountain, they saw they we're the first to come. Natsu knocked rapidly on the door. "ROS WAKE UP!"
Lucy slapped hiss arm and kicked him to the side. "brothers" She grumbled as she ate her last piece of toast.
She knocked once more on the door but no answer. "Rose-chan? are you there?"
Lucy knocked a little harder this time, only for it to be opened by itself. Well technically it fell down, The door was old and broken. When Lucy's eyes adjusted she saw everything everywhere. "Someone must of raided the house! Look at it! Its so messy and" Lucy couldn't explain it. It was really messed up. "Wait where's Rose-chan?"
Natsu stood up and smelt the air. "She was just here I can smell it, but where is she now?"
They began to get worried until they heard a voice behind the couch.
"Who's there?" A gruff man's voice called out. He stood up. He was quite muscular and had jet black hair in a ponytail.
"Who are you?" Lucy asked.
"Well I was waiting for Rosie and she wasn't here so I thought I'd make myself comfortable."
"Rosie?" Natsu questioned. He didn't like the look of this guy.
"Yeah. She's a beauty isn't she? Haha! That's why she's my girlfriend!" The man laughed.
Natsu almost threw up. Rose and this dude? Hell no!
"Umm Natsu-nii?" Rose said from behind him. Natsu turned, looking pretty pissed, to find no other than Rose with a brown paper bag full of groceries.
"Rose you have a boyfriend and never told me?" He began to rub his temples in frustration. A very rare sight.
"Uh no, why? I went to the market to get some food for you guys. I wanted to cook a proper breakfast for you guys when you got here and by the way, why are you in here anyways? My door was locked."
" 'cos this man said so. and the door literally fell apart." Lucy explained.
Rose looked over Natsu and Lucy's shoulder and saw the ridiculous amount of mess.
"MY HOUSE! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENNED HERE? I JUST CLEANED EVERYTHING YESTERDAY!" She wasn't angry. She was pissed and furious. (Like I said, there were no words to explain it.)
"Can you not see the man?" Lucy asked exasperatedly.
"What man?" Rose asked. She pushed through them and looked closer to the disgusting mess. Until she was met with a huge suffocating hug.
"ROSIE! YOU'RE HOME! HONEY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH" The mysterious man said.
"Get *wheeze*out *wheeze* of my house" She sputtered, trying to breathe. She was not in the mood to fight back. Yet.
"But baby"
"Natsu-nii. HELP"
Natsu cracked his knuckles and walked over to the man. "BYE-BYE!" and the man was sent flying out of the house and sen to who knows where."
"Arigatou, Natsu-nii. He ruined my house! I spent forever to clean this up for you guys!"
"Who was that?" Lucy asked trying to see if she could put the door back.
"That man met me on the street on morning and followed me home once, I kicked him out so many times this year, and each time my house will be literally torn to pieces. He's really creepy."
"That man better not come back." Lucy said. "Otherwise, he's got Natsu to deal with."
Rose and Lucy looked to Natsu who was grumbling something about never letting his sister out without him there or something.
"Well at least I know he's really protective." Rose said happily. "I don't really want to date anyone though. Love looks... complicated."
At this Natsu lit up happily and gave a whoop and started running around in happiness. "Rose you make my life so much easier! BWAHAHA! NO MAN WILL HAVE ROSE SO LONG AS I LIVE TO KEEP HER SAFE!"
Lucy slapped the back of his head. "Baka! She's your sister not your daughter so calm down before you embarrass her."
"But she doesn't look embarrassed to me" Natsu said. Lucy looked to Rose, who was practically crying with joy to see her brother so protective."
"I'm gonna assume that weirdness runs in the family and start cleaning this place up." Lucy backed away and got Virgo out.
"Is it time for punishment, 'hime?"
"No, please just get this place all cleaned up before I die of claustrophobia."
"Hai"
Within five minutes, the place was neat, tidy and clean. "I have finished 'hime, I will be taking my leave now"
"Arigatou! Virgo!"
Lucy sighed and sat on a really comfortable couch. Natsu sat on the dining table and Rose began to cook.
"Natsu, why are you smiling like that?"
"I bet sis' cooking is way better than yours!" Natsu teased.
"That one time that I burnt the egg was an accident. As if you could do any better."
"I bet I could!"
"HEll NO"
what was the fight about again? They both thought.
*knock knock knock*
Lucy opened the door and found Erza, Gray, and Wendy."
"Ohayou!" They greeted as they walked in.
They sat on the couch and floor and talked until Natsu asked "Oi,where's Happy and Carla?"
Lucy squealed. "Finally they have a happily ever after."
Erza blushed a bit but then spoke. "I'm afraid, Lucy that you have made a wrong assumption. We saw a man on the road who had some sort of connection to Rose, he was badly beaten up, but was also quite heavy, so they are having a little bit of a hard time carrying him."
"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Rose yelled angrily. She slid the omlet onto the plate and took the frying pan. "That man is gonna leave this house alone today. I don't want another tornado in this place!" She said as she walked out the door as everyone else followed.
There Happy and Carla were flying, but their wings were straining. "Carla, I'm tired!"
"Me too"
"Shut up stupid cats! My Rosie needs me!"
"You sound awfully clingy" Carla commented.
"Eh It's Rose-chan! She looks angry!"
"Maybe that pink haired bastard got on Rosie's nerves! That man will pay for landing a scratch on Rosie! But Rosie is strong so she should be fine!"
"OI! I DON"T KNOW WHO THE HELL YOU ARE BUT BACK OFF!" Rose yelled.
The man laughed. "Playing hard to get again?"
"Carla I got an idea!" Happy whispered.
After a few seconds of whispering they nodded and with all their might, they shot up as high as possible into the sky. Then they dropped him, right in front of an angry Team Natsu.
"You're screwed" Natsu teased the man as he let his sister do the work.
They really are brother and sister. Lucy thought. It's so obvious, its scary that I didn't notice it before.
Erza nodded and the man squeaked. "Hey since when did Rose speak so normally ?" Gray asked.
"She switches when she wants to. I don't know why though. And by the way, you're shirt." Erza said as she watched the scene.
"Rosie what are they talking about?"
"How the hell do you know my name?" Rose asked before raising her still quite warm frying pan and whacking his face. She then kicked him where the sun don't shine and slapped his face hard enough for his entire body to go flying a good hundred metres. She just walked up to him and was about to hit him but then put it down.
"I won't kill you today" She said. with utter disgust as she walked off.
"Oh Rosie! I knew you loved me on the inside I love you too! We can have three kids and we'll be grandparents and, and we could ….."
The man kept going on and on and Rose was getting really, really, really, annoyed.
"you know what? I won't kill you, but I could always get my dear friends and of course my brother to get you into jail for 'restraining reasons'. And if it's out of protection for his dear baby sister." She looked at him with a look that could kill. "I'm sure the council wouldn't mind a dead body"
The unnamed man gulped.
With a look that would pass of one of the devil she hissed "You better get your ass out of my face or I swear, I will stop at nothing to see your blood poured out onto this pavement."
The man ran away, crying. Natsu laughed. Rose cleared her throat and went back to her house. Lucy smiled and Erza nodded in pride. Gray was somewhere looking for his lost shirt and Wendy was helping an exhausted Carla and Happy.
"Breakfast anyone?"
After a good omelet and a day of Lucy shopping to extend the wardrobe of Rose (Who only had multiple black jumpsuits). Everyone knew Rose very well. Erza, who already knew Rose from the beginning even apologised for thinking that Rose was a monster. The day was perfect and everyone left to go home.
Rose smiled and after they left her sight she ran inside and quickly changed her long plait into a bun and put on her half mask. She had work to do. She followed Natsu and Lucy. When Natsu left Lucy's house, Rose stayed in the tree and began to write.
Day six: Investigation of the relationship between Natsu and Lucy.
After a rather unnecessary yet enjoyable shopping trip, I find that Lucy and Natsu are back to their original state of being close partners and friends. Although I find it completely obvious and I also believe everyone else finds it completely obvious that those two are absolutely in love. Natsu as he is a protective brother, is just as much a protective friend and is also unusually more protective of Lucy than others.
Conclusion: the relationship has definitely improved.
Questions: ask Wendy and Gajeel at the guild more about dragon life(i.e mates and such)
Rose closed her book and saw a shadow climb into Lucy's room. Rose, being slightly worried went to the window. She climbed up the pole and peeked inside. But what she saw, was something she was absolutley thrilled to see.
"Natsu-nii sleeps with Lucy! Ngaaw he's still soft... But isn't Lucy troubled?"
Hmm they're right. I do switch language types. Meh...
Hmm Very Rose-centric don't you think? Sorry I know this is a NaLu but I really like Rose a lot being the self centred person I am.
I really really will try to think of more NaLu moments. I'm just terrible at writing them without squealing myself to death then forgetting everything which is TERRIBLE!
I really am trying to improve though. I hope you liked this chapter. I worked hard on it. Please excuse my terrible proofreading.
~kochida