Chapter 2: New Team Natsu

When I woke up in the morning Laxus was still sleeping and I panicked. The sky was still dark out luckily and I quickly got dressed. I didn't need Laxus waking up with me and his bed, and thinking that I was one of his groupies who only wanted him because he was the master of Fairy Tail's grandson. What was I thinking last night? If he found out about this it could end up completely ruining our friendship.

Rushing out of his house I was glad that he had been too drunk last night to even recognize me. At least I'm pretty sure he didn't recognize me because he never once said my name. As long as I act normally around him he'll just think that he had hooked up with another floozy at the bar and came home without showering again. If he smells me in his place he'll just assume I helped him home like usual and not give it a second thought.

When I got home I quickly showered and scrubbed my body like crazy not wanting anyone to smell the distinct scent of sex on me. From what Natsu had told me he can't smell a guy's scent on a girl if she's showered, and slayers have no way of knowing if someone is innocent or not by their scent. Meaning as long as I wash really well no one will realize what I did last night.

Looking into the mirror I blushed as I saw the hickies on my neck. It seemed that Laxus likes marking girls with his teeth when he climaxes. Getting some cover up I quickly applied it to my skin even though I knew it would wash off easily if Juvia used her water magic in the guild again. If I really want Laxus to not think anything happened between us I'm going to have to go on a job for at least a week so that the marks will completely fade. Besides if Mira saw the marks she wouldn't stop asking me thinking I was hiding a secret relationship from her.

Heading towards the guild after getting dressed in an outfit that would hide my boobs, which had little bite marks on them as well, and packing enough clothes for a week I prayed that Natsu would want to go on a job. Just the smaller team though because I know if Erza see's the marks on my neck she will be worse than Mira because she will try to drag out of me who 'dishonored' me and she would attack him with her Purgatory Armor.

"Ohayo Minna," I called walking into the guild letting my eyes travel around looking for my pink haired partner and his flying blue cat. As my guild mates greeted me.

"Morning Luce," Natsu said with a smile his arm thrown over Lisanna's shoulder.

"Hey Natsu Lisanna, Natsu I really need to go on a job for rent money, but I need the entire rent this time. So I think it should just be the four of us," I told him giggling as the couple and happy looked at me confused.

"Lushi what do you mean the four of us?" Happy asked looking at me like I had gone crazy, or like my hair color was affecting my ability to count.

"I mean you, me, Natsu, and Lisanna silly," I giggled.

"Wait me, but Lucy-san I'm not on your team," Lisanna told me blushing. Really we hadn't really talked that much, but she had the habit of calling me Lucy-san most likely still confusing me with Lucy Ashley who demanded respect like that.

Really though I thought it would be better to show everyone that I didn't care about Natsu and Lisanna being a couple. Taking Natsu out on a job right after they announced that they were together would make people think I was jealous. So the best thing to do is to invite Lisanna to come along besides with her and Natsu being a couple she should join our team. Maybe when we do the bigger jobs she could help me keep the other three from being super destructive.

"I think you should join Team Natsu. Besides," I started to whisper, "I really need to go on a job, but I don't want those who believe I like Natsu to think I'm trying to steal him away from you right after you two announced you were together. Plus you're a strong mage and would be a benefit to our team, and we need another girl anyway to make the team even."

"Great idea Luce, ok Happy let's go pick a job that we can split four ways that will give Luce enough for her rent," Natsu said punching the air in excitement. Apparently bringing Lisanna was a good idea because Natsu was already pumped up before the mission was even chosen.

"Aye sir," Happy stated before the two started to race towards the job board.

Turning towards Lisanna I was happy to see the ecstatic look on her face. Really I don't know why I didn't think about asking her to join Team Natsu sooner. If I had those two probably would have been together longer then a day by now because they would have been spending more time with each other. Plus Natsu will keep an eye on her more than me and stop treating me like I'm fragile. Ever since I had been beaten horribly be Minerva in the grand magic games a year and a half ago he had been protecting me more than usual. Maybe with her on the team he would realize that I am stronger then I was back then.

"I guess I should go tell Mira-nee and Elf-niichan that I'm going to be going on a mission with your team," Lisanna said dragging me over to the bar where she could talk with Mira.

Well she was distracted by her sister I let my eyes wander around the guild trying to see if a certain Lightning dragon slayer was at the guild yet. I had only left his place two or three hours ago, and I was worried about him remembering what had happened. There was no doubt in my mind that if he knew that we had slept together he would confront me without paying attention to who was near us. That's why I was hoping he was already at the guild because if he was already here and had seen me enter without doing anything that meant that he had no idea what we had done last night. Unfortunately even though I could see the Raijinshū there was no sign of him.

"Oi Luce Lisanna we found one, Mira the four of us are taking this one," Natsu said sliding beside us in the bar.

Well we waited for Mira to sign off the mission the guilds eyes turned to us in shock. I guess they hadn't figured that Natsu would go on a job with the both of us. Not that I was really surprised at their shock, I had heard some of them say that now that Natsu was with Lisanna they thought he would kick me off at lest the core group of Team Natsu. Only going on missions with all of us when Gray and Erza came as well, probably none of them had considered that we would just add Lisanna to the core group.

Even Mira was looking at me with pride in her eyes although there was also pity. She was one of the biggest shippers for Natsu and I before Lisanna came back. Especially after she had heard about how Natsu had broken me from that charm spell when we first met. She had seen it as a sign that Natsu and I were supposed to be together. I saw it as a sign that Natsu and I were supposed to be great friends. Only once had I thought that there could be something more between Natsu and I, and that was only after Mira had put the idea in my head. After I had learned that he had only wanted to burrow Virgo I had been upset, but more because my idea of a relationship was ruined. It was also what made me realize that I saw Natsu as a brother since only my pride was hurt.

"Ok let's go," Natsu said once Mira was done. He grabbed both mine and Lisanna's hands and started to drag us out of the guild laughing as he did.

On our way out I slipped my hand out of his and stuck my tongue out at them running towards the doors trying to beat them to the train station before I ended up crashing into something. At first I thought I had hit the wall and was going to painfully land on the floor before to very large and warm hands grabbed onto me pulling me up into a hard chest. Looking up I blushed as I realized that I had just literally ran into Laxus, and prayed that he didn't remember.

"Oi Blondie I know I'm hot, but you shouldn't throw yourself at me," he teased a familiar light in his eyes. Letting out a barely heard sigh I smirked back up at him knowing by the way he was acting that he didn't realize that I was who he had slept with last night. Heck I would have been the first girl he had stayed the night with if I hadn't snuck out before he woke up.

"As if Sparky, you so aren't my type," I lied through my teeth as I tossed my hair over my shoulder in a total stuck up princess move.

Everyone thought that Laxus and I couldn't stand each other especially considering our nicknames for each other. At first that was true I had seen Laxus as a jerk, although I had long forgiven him for Fantasia. We just seemed to rub each other the wrong way at first although for me it was the attraction running under the surface that at that time I was hiding even from myself.

Once I started making sure he got home when he was drunk we had become good friends, but decided to hide our friendship from the guild. We both knew that Master and Mira would think there was more between us, so we acted the same as we always had when we were at the guild. In private though we had become really close friends. Heck we even had lunch together at his place once a month when we were both in town. There was no set date, and sometimes we met more often, but until last night I had never given into my attraction for him. I needed Laxus more as a friend then something else anyway.

"Luce you can argue with Laxus later, come on we have to go," Natsu whined grabbing me and dragging me away again.

"See ya later Sparky," I said smirking as I let Natsu drag me towards the train station. Looking at Lisanna I was glad to see that she didn't see anything more between my relationship with Laxus.

"Oi Natsu what's our mission anyway?" Lisanna asked as we both finally freed ourselves from his grasp and were walking beside him.

"Oh we have to defeat a sea monster in Hargeon the reward is 400 000 Jewels, so 100 000 Jewels each," Natsu said already starting to look green at the thought of going on a train. Hopefully the sea monster wasn't too far out and Happy would be able to fly Natsu to attack. At least Aquarius would be available today, so that I'll be able to summon her to help if needed.

Two days later they were back at Fairy Tail. The mission had surprisingly been really easy, and since we had to fight the monster in the water no property got damaged so we got the entire reward for once. I hadn't even needed to summon Aquarius instead my whip had been enough to keep it still well Natsu and Lisanna attacked it from above. The only reason the mission took as so long is because we ended up having to rent a hotel room to clean off the monster blood before we could go to our client's house. Then our client, a prominent fisherman, had invited us to stay for super and we ended up staying in Hargeon for the night.

Really I was glad that we had an easy mission, but I had been hoping for one that took longer. I ended up going shopping before our train was due to get water proof cover up to hide the hickies which I had by some stroke of luck been able to hide from my team despite the fact that we had been fighting in the water. Otherwise it would have been difficult to explain to the three of them what had happened. Happy finding out would have been bad, because I knew that he was 'secretly' spying on potential couples for Mira in exchange of fish. Plus that cat didn't know how to keep a secret since he could easily be bribed to tell about any he learned of with fish.

"Oi we're back Minna," Natsu said as he slammed the doors to Fairy Tail open.

"Shut up flame brain," Gray shouted already stripped of his clothes and being stalked by a blushing Juvia. Juvia was another problem I had to deal with. Ever since Gemini had said that Gray had been attracted to me back when we fought Angel Juvia had seen me as a love rival, and believed that Gray was in love with me. No matter what she still believed it, at least she didn't think I had feelings for Natsu, but I still didn't know how to make her see that I didn't like Gray. At least not unless if I kissed another guy in front of her.

"Oh want to go stripper," Natsu said instantly having flames covering his body.

Just like that it was another normal day in Fairy Tail with Juvia being a crazed stalker, and Gray fighting with Natsu. Not even fully aware of it I found myself looking around hoping to find Laxus and sighing as I couldn't find him or the Raijinshū surprisingly Elfman was gone as well, and I wondered if he and Ever were ever going to admit that they were head over heels for each other. When Mira had first told us at the S-class exams that those two said they were engaged to slip past her I didn't see it, but after seeing them fight side by side to protect each other I realized they were perfect for each other. Unfortunately Mira wasn't one of the ones trying to set them up because she believed that the babies they had would be ugly, I personally thought they would be adorable.

"So how did your first mission with team Natsu go Lisanna?" Mira asked as she brought me a strawberry milkshake without me even having to ask. Mira's strawberry shakes are so addictive.

"Oh Mira-nee it was awesome. Lucy held the sea monster in place with her whip, I didn't know she was so strong; well Natsu, Happy, and I attacked it from above. We only ended up staying because we ended up having to wash up, Lucy more than us though since she was down on the boat and got the most splatter, and then our client invited us for super. I can't wait for our next one!" Lisanna gushed.

It was nice to hear that she thought I was strong considering that most people before they really knew me just assumed that I hid behind my spirits. Sure we talked a bit, but we weren't quite in the close friends stage of friendship yet. That's mostly because Natsu usually hogged her when she was around instead of giving us time for girl talk.

"Natsu we got requested for a mission," Erza called looking oddly serious as she looked down on them.

If Erza was saying we were requested for a mission it would most likely be an S-Class one meaning it would probably last at least a month. Meaning I'll have to ask my landlady to wait until I get back from the mission, although this month's rent was covered with our last mission. At least I hadn't gone shopping yet, so there wasn't really much in my fridge if we're gone for a while. Plus it would give me some time away from Laxus and make it so that I can look at him without remembering our numerous bouts of sex when he was drunk.

"Well looks like you got your wish Lisanna, let's go," I said smiling at Mira.

"Wait what, but I thought it was just the core team?!" Lisanna yelped looking a little worried.

"Nope you and Natsu are together now. Besides you'll be able to help me keep those two in line when Erza isn't watching, and hopefully curb Natsu's destructive habits."