Since her introduction at the meal, memories of Lisanna had begun to spark one after another in Natsu's mind, he remembered how they'd played together as children, and how she'd pretended that Happy was their kid. Alongside that, he also remembered how brutal Mirajane had been in the past, nothing like she was today. He was lying on his futon in the deep of the night, fireflies had made it into his room and served as the only light-source. Outside he could hear the sounds of crickets chirping, and the shrieks of small bats that flew aimlessly around, snatching up whatever insect they could find. Happy lay in the corner, following the small glowing insects like only a cat can, hypnotized by their glow.

Natsu himself was in the state of "Not completely sober, but not really drunk", the stage where the headaches began, he stretched his back and stood up, he would go ask Porlyusica for some medicine. In the night-time the hallways were completely empty, almost to a frightening degree, almost no sounds could be heard anywhere, only the echoes of his own footsteps. Porlyusica was the court physician, and had been that for who knows how long, at least since Makarov had become general, which was at least 150 years ago, according to Natsu anyway. A couple of years ago she had taken in an apprenticed called Wendy, apparently Jellal had found her as a baby during one of his missions, since then she had worked none stop under Porlyusica, who happened to hate people. The only reason why the lord kept her was because there was nobody like her, one time she healed a generals leg that had been broken 30 different places by a raging horse.

He knocked the door with immense force, his mind clouded by the alcohol. The door was swung open a couple of minutes later, with a furious Porlyusica standing and fuming in the doorway.

"Go back to bed Natsu" she yelled at him, and miraculously not waking anybody else in the household up. Wendy stood behind her, she was now 14 years old*, short for her age, had long blue hair that was tied into two braids, and ironically her body was still more mature than Gajeel's lover Levy. who was several years older than her.

"What brings you here so late" the little girl asked, Natsu gently clutched his head in pain at Porlyusica's sudden yell. Wendy sighed, "I wish you guys wouldn't drink so much".

Porlyusica sent her a look that said, "Just go get him something so we can get back to sleep" which she did, passing him a small bag of herbs that would dull the pain. Natsu swallowed them instantly and turned to walk back awkwardly, not able to walk in a straight line but with a huge grin on his face.

"By the way" he asked suddenly, suddenly remembering something he had wanted to ask her for quite some time, "How are you and Romeo doing" he asked, referencing to the fact that Macao Conbolt, a senior samurai, had recently offered that his son Romeo be engaged to Wendy, to which Porlyusica had hit him with a broom, and Romeo and Wendy had both blushed, like she was doing now, casuing Natsu to snicker, and get the for mentioned broom in his back, and a door smacked behind him. He slowly walked down into his room, and chuckled as he flopped down on his bed, his sight growing clouded before his eyes because of the herbs, and within minutes he was basically knocked out.

He awoke early the next morning, his head still hurt a-bit, but it was certainly an improvement from the former night. He looked around the room groggily, the effects of the sleeping herbs still hadn't worn off completely. Happy would always wake him by either jumping on his chest, scratching his arms, or lying down on his face, he had eventually grown so accustomed to it that he could sleep for hours without noticing it. However the thing that woke him up was not his blue cat, in fact he was nowhere to be seen. The thing that woke him up was but the sound of people dragging things around, and yelling loudly. Suddenly his door was swung open so hard it was practically flung off the doorway.

"Good-morning Natsu" a voice said from the doorway, he turned and saw Erza standing in a white and gold kimono, to which he immediately stood up and straightened his back, he had learned to always stand straight up or Erza would make him.

"G-good-morning Erza" he stammered, "What's the occasion" he asked, fearing for his life.

She sighed, "I can't believe you forgot the date of your best friends wedding" he body surrounded by a burning red aura of anger.

"O-of course I didn't forget, I was just making sure that you had remembered" he said his knees wobbling and his mind begging for it to work.

"Are you saying that I have bad memory" her hair standing on end in anger.

Natsu was looking for a way out of this, anything could work, suddenly getting an idea just as she lifted her fist, "H-hey Erza, they're busy making the cake, why don't you help them taste it" he knew how horrible the excuse was, but luckily Erza was just as gullible as he was a horrible lier. For as soon as the word "cake" was mentioned, she was out of the door and in the kitchen, ordering them to let her taste, to which they did not dare say that they had not even begun.

Natsu himself was surprised that he had forgotten about the date, but then he began to remember how Gray had drunken significantly less than any of the other Samurai, and had kept his face out of reach as to not get a black eye, which Natsu had been more than happy to deliver to him. He went back in and pulled off his sleeping clothes, pulling on his Yukata, he presumed that the first thing he would do was find Happy, if he had to sit through another wedding he would take him down with him, the only good thing was that this was the only time that they were served actual food with actual flavor.

He started looking the general places, just to be sure, though he was critized by many, including Elfman and Gajeel, that he wasn't helping setting everything up, to which he ignored them, resisting the urge to punch them for no apparent reason. Eventually he reached the place he presumed that Happy would be, he knocked gently and Lisanna opened, sure enough, Happy was lying in the opposite end of the room, basking in the sun.

"Good morning Natsu" she said eagerly, her normal smile on her face, wearing a pink and gold kimono with a floral pattern, "Excited for the wedding".

"Yeah, sure" he said as he sat down on the doorway, not really caring about the wedding to be honest, he didn't see the point in marriage, well except for the food.

"I never thought that Gray would end up finding a girl especially with his, habit" she said tear-dropping and sitting down beside him.

"Well Juvia is a special case, he didn't really have a choice" he said snickering and thinking about how they had originally met her.

"Oh how so" she asked curiously.

"Well she was originally a Kuniochi of Phantom Lord. You know, the former northern squad alongside Quatro Cerberus, they kept loosing members members in battle and had this idiot of a leader named Hose".

"Yeah" she said though she was slightly confused, she had always thought that Quatro Cerberus was the only northern squad, but then again, she had never bothered to study warfare, and they didn't sound like very nice people anyway.

"Well for a long time they wanted to take us down, you know since we're the strongest" he said strutting his chest causing Lisanna to laugh at him. "They would often challenge us to competitions that we would win more than we would lose. But then they had their strongest member, Gajeel" he said nodding at the iron slayer, "Attack Levy our bookkeeper, Jet and Droy, and kidnap Lucy, what's worse is that they threatened to eliminate us if we didn't admit defeat".

"But wait, aren't Gajeel and Levy lovers" she said, turning her head towards Gajeel who was busy setting up the altar together with Elfman and Loki, and Levy who was busy talking wit Bisca, who was lulling her baby to sleep.

"Yeah I'm getting to that" he said with a smile on his face, "Anyway we took them out, pretty easy, they only had 6 strong members*, and one of them was Juvia, turns out she became a huge fan of Gray after he let her go. And began to stalk him like mad" he said laughing out loud "But I guess he eventually fell in love with her".

Lisanna was confused, "But what about Gajeel" she asked again, eager to know the story, she did find it quite strange that the big brute called Gajeel over there was the lover of a small woman like Levy who looked no older than 14.

"Oh that, well you see, I have no idea" he said proudly as Lisanna tear-dropped.

"Come on you must know something" she said with curious intent

"Nope" he said as Happy jumped on his face as he always did when he was hungry.

Lisanna was about to take him off, if she could stop laughing, when a voice interupted her, "Hey Fire-Face I need your help with something" Gray shouted across the garden, with his normal angry voice.

"Get Metal-Head" to do it Natsu shouted back at him pulling Happy off, to which Gajeel grunted annoyed, ready to pound the crap out of him if Levy hadn't sent him her, "Do this and no sex for a month" look.

"Just get over here" he yelled back annoyed walking into his room.

Natsu followed annoyed, if it was wasting his time he could always beat the crap out of him, that would be fun. Lisanna was left to stroke Happy, she smiled as she remembered when they had been younger, and Natsu would always fight with Gray, until Mira or Erza showed up and they would cower in fear. She looked at her pendant, it was simple, silver, in the shape of a drop, but it meant a-lot to her, she remembered that Natsu had remarked about it being pretty as well, if only she could remember where she had gotten it from.

Natsu slammed to door open to find Gray in his wedding uniform, a dark-blue/grayish kimono with a back jacket over it, with the Oda clan symbol on the side. He was sitting on a small cushion, and on the table were two small cups of sake, and a couple of onigiri.

"What do you want" Natsu said tapping his foot.

Gray was obviously restraining a-lot of anger, "Please sit Natsu" he asked, his voice shivering in anger.

Natsu sat, instantly begging to eat the and drinking from the food and sake on the table. "So" he said before he emptied his cup, "What do you want", he finished once the food had been eaten.

Gray sighed, "I need your h-he-help with the wedding" he stammered, his fists clenching in anger.

Natus chuckled, "Come again" he said to tease, which made Gray's teeth grind in anger.

"I need your help with the wedding" he eventually said.

Natsu was truly enjoying himself, "What do you need me to do, and what will I get out of it".

Gray was ready to punch the bastard out of his room, but then again, he really did need his help, "We need someone to drum the taiko*" even asking it was embarrassing, "The group we had asked to do it awhile back were stopped due to the war in the south".

"What's in it for me" Natsu said with a large grin on his face, thought to be fair the satisfaction of Gray having to beg him to do something was enough.

Gray sighed, and pulled out a large string of coins from his pocket*, there was enough for at least 3 bottles of sake at any reasonable inn.

Natsu pretended to consider it, knowing it would piss Gray off, which it did. Eventually he snatched the coins out of his hands, "I guess it'll due, for now" he said and walked out, leaving Gray to fume in anger over his loss, and increase his hate for the rose headed samurai.

However in the south there was no time for relaxation, no time to prepare for any festival, in the south the battle was raging like mad, the armies were ten times the size that they had been in the east, and samurai from both sides were waging war on one another. The head general of the south was Bob, he knew that it was an odd name for a japanese man, however his ancestors had come from the west. He was in his early 50's, bald, odd, though intelligent when he had to*. The sky was pumping warm sunlight down on them, and the battlefield was completely visible, not one detail was hidden, everything could be seen from where he stood. By his side stood the trimens, a smaller group inside the squad that were probably amongst the strongest samurai in the entire clan.

"What are your orders master" the largest of the Trimens, Ren, said. Unlike most other samurai, the Trimens all specialized in using katana's, and could use them both beautifully, and deadly.

Bob sighed, the battle would not last much longer, "Get me a pen and brush, I have a note to send".

TBC

GOMENOSAI FOR THE LATE RELEASE. I was sick, very, very sick. But hopefully I can start with the weekly releases properly, from now on. First things first 13 reviews on chapter 2 and 9 followers already, AWESOME, thank you guys, it really inspires me. There isn't much to say to this chapter, you may find it odd that I'm having a marriage this early on, but I have a plan for it to tie in, there are some definitions and some thought, so let's get to them:

Wendy's age: Yeah I know she's supposed to be 12 in the manga and anime, but again, this will tie in later why she has that age, also I laughed my ass off when I saw her reaction to Reedus's drawing of 19 year old Wendy, I can't help it.

Only 6 strong members: Yeah seriously the only ones that stood a chance against anybody was the Element 4, Gajeel, and José, granted there are a-lot of weaker members in Fairy Tail as well, this just struck me as odd. They clearly showed that the guild was led with a "The Strong Survive" concept, so what's with all the weaklings, I mean it took almost nothing for Fairy Tail to beat them, am I just reading to much into this, what do you guys think?

Taiko: Are drums used for festivals and other events, like weddings. During a traditional japanese wedding 4 or more drummers, often family and/or friends, would perform for the couple, wishing for luck and prosperity.

String Coins: From the 12-17th century there the currency in Japan was the same as China, and designed with a square hole in the middle so you could tie them together and store them. If I was to be completely accurate the Royal Samurai would not get paid for their work for their lord, however they could make money helping villagers or, I don't know selling pies.

And time for review replies, you guys are awesome:

Fire girl 108: Thank you, and yes, once this arc is over I'll be switching every week, I know I already replied with PM, but others were probably wondering about this, so yeah.

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Maiden Warrior: Thank you for the advice, and yes Lisanna isn't just some prissy little weakling, she will have a badass moment, when and where, wait and see.

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