A/N: alright y'all here's the second chapter! Some of y'all enjoyed it so I thought I'd do a second one. If you wanna see a different couple or even a single character be chased by Natsu and Gildarts please let me know and I'll see what I can do! Omitted characters for this are Grey, Juvia and Lucy though as I have plans for them later if this gets any traction. Thanks y'all!

PS Italicized words are lyrics being sung

"I can't believe you enjoy coming to this place." Natsu tugged at his dark blue tuxedo suit.

"Oh come on. We always do what you want so how about we go somewhere that I want to go!" Gildarts grinned ands strode up to the front doors of the galaxies largest casino. "By the way, what happened to the green?"

"That last job we had. That dumb Laki decided to shoot a hole through it so I had to go for my blue one." Natsu flicked away his cigarette and followed his older partner into the prestigious gambling resort Akane. The large casino was dimly lit with glass orbs. Red carpet flowed along the floor and under the oak tables that held the games. Blackjack, poker, craps, all the usual games were lined up together with a few other ones that Natsu had no intention of playing. Glidarts, in his tan brown suit and hat, had already made his way over to the poker table and placed his banking card into the slot, giving him a couple thousand in poker chips. Natsu smiled to himself and moved towards the bar while listening to the sounds of gamblers and a lonely saxophone player in the distance.

"Least they have live music." Natsu sat down at a large mahogany bar and looked around the casino again. There was a large stage at the other side of the room from the bar overlooking the entire room. A single saxophone player sat on the stage in a black suit and black hat. His short blonde hair came down below the hat a bit with sideburns included, and a single lightning bolt-like scar on his right eye gave the man a very distinct look from everyone else in the casino.

"That guy looks way too familiar." Natsu muttered to himself.

"What can I get ya sir?" A bartender with bright blue hair strode up from behind the bar, cleaning a drink glass and smiling.

"Whiskey on the rocks please, four rocks. No more no less."

"Aye sir!" The tall, slightly plump young man started his routine of pouring the whiskey over ice while somehow not spilling a drop.

"There you go! Why four by the way?" The bartender sat the glass down in front of Natsu and leaned back against the wall of full alcohol bottles behind him.

"An old friend from years ago." The pink-haired bounty hunter swished the drink around in his glass before taking a sip. "She always said that three was to few and five was to many. Four was always just the right amount." The saxophone in the background stopped as his song ended and the player quickly took a gulp of water from the glass that sat beside him. From in front of him the bartender gasped making Natsu turn around to see what was going on.

On the stage a woman had joined the saxophone player. Her long white hair flowed down over her shoulders and swayed with her gorgeous body, covered by a sparkling red dress and her right leg slid out from a slit going up the side. Her white gloves gingerly clasped the microphone that had appeared in front of her and as she brought it up to her beautifully red lips. She didn't seem to notice it but the whole casino had gone nearly quiet as men and women alike stared at the bombshell woman that now stood on the stage.

"Damn I love when she wears the red one." The bartender behind him exclaimed breathlessly.

"I can tell why." The saxophone player had started up another tune and slowly the room became filled with a haunting melody.

"Crap. I hate this song." Natsu was still staring at the woman on stage.

"You've obviously never heard Mrs. Dreyar sing it then."

"Mrs. Dreyar eh?" Natsu looked closer to see a diamond ring sitting on the woman's left ring finger. Upon closer inspection of the saxophone player Natsu also noticed a gold bad on the ring finger of his left hand as well. "What's her husbands name?"

"Laxus." Natsu nodded to the response.

"Well damn. I still hate this song."

"Overplayed I know but you gotta hear Mira sing it at least once." With that the song began.

"I've got a girl crush."

Natsu grimaced with the lyrics. Ever since this song had come out he had been having bad dreams. Not bad in the sense of nightmares, but bad in the way of memories. Every time he heard this song memories of her would flood through his mind while he slept. The song itself was an old country song from the 21st Century that somebody had found on Earth and decided to bring back. This was the first time he had heard a jazz-style version of it though.

"I want her long blonde hair, I want her magic touch"

He couldn't help it. His mind started feeling fuzzy while the woman sang and her partner played his haunting saxophone. He could almost feel her hair in his hands and smell the perfume that she used to wear.

"I don't get no sleep, I don't get no peace"

Natsu was enraptured by the song. Unable to take his eyes off the woman singing. His ears were being caressed by the notes of the saxophone and the words that Mira Dreyar sang brought Natsu more and more into his memories.

"I've got a girl crush, and it ain't slowin down."

With that the song ended and Natsu shook the fuzziness from his brain. He had listened to that song before but never had it given him that feeling. He took a gulp of his whiskey and almost put the glass down for another when he realized something.

"How long is that song?" Natsu quizzed the bartender

"About three minutes, why?"

"Cause ice doesn't melt to nothing in whiskey that quickly." Natsu checked his old fashioned watch and almost almost fell out of his chair.

"Ten minutes!" Around the casino other people were starting to notice the sudden movement in time, along with a few other important details.

"Where's my money?!"

"The hell? I had at LEAST five-hundred more Woolong than this!"

"What's going on?!" The casino was starting to lost its mind and on the stage even Laxus was freaking out, holding his banking card above his head exclaiming he was missing money as well.

"Oh not again!" The bartender complained.

"Again?" Natsu turned and looked at him. "What do you mean again?"

"This is the third time in the last five days! Nobody knows how it happens but time goes by and money gets stolen!" Chaos was descending upon the casino as more and more people realized they were missing money. From out of nowhere a hand grabbed Natsu by the shoulder and the young man found himself being dragged out of the casino by Gildarts.

"Where are we going?! I wanna stay and find out what's going on!"

"Hell no. We're gettin out of here and we're doing it now. I saw that look and I am NOT getting involved in this."

Back at the ship

"Please Gildarts! Come on this could be a good break from bounty hunting!"

"No! A break is gambling and drinking. A break is most definitely not getting money stolen and then going after the perps." Gildarts sat back in his sofa and crossed his arms. His left metal arm shone in the overhead lights and he was going to continue his assault but Natsu cut him off.

"Bet you if we find the perp we'll get your money back." There was silence between the two. Gildarts thought about it for a moment while Natsu undid his tie and started wrapping it around his head like a bandana and then sat staring back at him.

"Fine."

"Yes!" Natsu punched the air. "I'll think up a way to catch them tonight, just be ready for a fight tomorrow okay?"

"Ya ya. Jeez. Why do I do these things for you?" Gildarts got up and walked out of the messy meeting place.

Later that Night

Natsu walked silently down a long alleyway. Raindrops fell from the grey skies soaking his blue tuxedo and the bouquet of red roses he held in his right hand. His cigarette was still somehow alive through all this damp though it was probably about to go out. Deciding it was about time he quit anyways Natsu took one last inhale and flicked it away into the streets.

"Time to get to work I guess." He brought the roses up to hold in both hands when he got to the church doors and without a seconds thought kicked them down and opened fire. The men that had been waiting for him were taken completely off guard and before they could retaliate most had been mowed down. Some still remained though, and Natsu was in the open and didn't seem to want to move for cover. Fire was exchanged and the last thing the pink-haired man remembered was her scent as the lyrics to his most hated song filled the air around him and blood poured from open wounds.

"LUCE!" Natsu sat up in the bed shaking and sweating.

"Just a dream" he told himself "always just a dream." He looked to his left anyways, hoping she might be there.

"That stupid song. That stupid song always causes-" An imaginary lightbulb lit above his head.

"The song!"

2 Days Later

Natsu swished the whiskey around his glass and listened to the ice tink against the sides. He was leaning against the bar in the Akane Casino. His bartender, who he had learned was named Happy of all things, was busy staring at Mira on stage as she finished another song. This was the second day of scouting and still so far nothing. Natsu was beginning to doubt whether or not it would happen again when the saxophone player Laxus started up the notes to his least favourite song.

"There we are." Slow as possible Natsu put his left hand to one ear and then the other. Across the room he noticed Gildarts, at a craps table, do the same thing. On stage Mira, now in a dark purple, sparkling dress, began the first lyrics to the song.

I got a girl crush

Natsu waited and watched as the people around him became more and more entranced with the song and what was happening on stage. Soon the entire place was staring at the couple on stage, completely oblivious to what was going on around them.

"Alright, the perp is probably gonna show up now while everyone is distracted."

I don't get no sleep, I don't get no peace.

A few lines in but nobody had moved so far. Natsu was wondering if maybe his guess was wrong when movement from the stage caught his attention. Both Mira and Laxus had moved their left feet just a touch and before Natsu fully registered what was going on they walked off the stage. This should have confused the gamblers, but in the place of the two were exact holograms, following in time with the music that was being played but to Natsu the music itself seemed...slower.

"So that's how they're doing it." The two were quickly going through the room and grabbing peoples cards out of their wallets as silently as possible. For wearing a dress that touched the tops of her feet Mira was quite expertly moving through the crowds of gamblers and pickpocketing people of their wallets. They both had scanners in their hands, no doubt breaking through the security of the cards and grabbing cash as they did so. The rate they were going at the two could steal from almost everyone in the room and get back to the stage to continue the song no problem. The plan seemed to be going quite well for them as well. That was until Laxus got to Gildarts.

The older man was pretending to be entranced by the music and even Natsu had almost begun to believe that his set of earplugs were faulty, but as soon as Laxus' fingers touched his wallet Gildarts grabbed his arm and fluidly flipped the saxophone player onto his back.

"Not today you little thief!" Laxus from the ground yelped and started backing up on the ground before getting up quickly.

"How the hell can you still move?!"

"Cause I got me some special earplugs." Gildarts tilted his head just enough to show Laxus what he was talking about. Sitting in his ears, and Natsu's, were little rubber circles that had small holes poked into them like speakers.

"Resonance plugs!"

"Damn straight! Can hear you perfectly fine but still have the trance-inducing sound waves filtered out." Gildarts was grinning with delight. "So what you're gonna do is give me back my money and get out of here." At that comment it was Laxus' turn to smile.

"Or just have my wife stab you." From behind Gildarts, Mira stood ready and began to thrust a knife that she held in her left hand towards Gildarts. It didn't get anywhere near his back though due to a drink-glass hitting it and knocking it out of her hand.

"Or! My partner could stop you from doing that." Natsu walked over and stood beside Gildarts but facing Mira.

"You think we have long enough to beat them?" Natsu asked.

"You have all the time that I decide you have." Mira flicked her right hand and the music that was playing slowed even more. "There. That should give us another ten minutes to get out of here." With that the white-haired bombshell hid away the bank card she'd been holding and threw herself at Natsu while Laxus went after Gildarts.

Two men in essentially the same suit is interesting to watch fight, especially when they're evenly matched. Though Gildarts was in his tan brown suit was a head taller than Laxus and definitely the larger of the two, but Laxus seemed to be just as strong. Punch for punch and kick for kick the two blocked and landed hits on each other while avoiding the entranced gamblers around them. After what felt like a good ten minutes though Gildarts started to falter. He wasn't as young as Laxus, he didn't have the stamina that he used too. This became apparent to Laxus as with each punch that his opponent threw Gildarts became slower and slower. Finally Laxus saw and opening and charged in, catching Gildarts in the stomach and bringing the older man to his knees in front of him.

"Give up old man. You're not as quick as you used to be." Laxus had another line ready to continue with but without warning Gildarts snapped forwards and stabbed him in the chest with something. Sparks went flying and the blonde saxophonist crumpled to the ground while Gildarts stood up and cracked his neck, holding a tazer.

"And you're not as smart as I ever was." Gildarts grabbed the scanner out of Laxus' pocket and put it to his card. "Now to figure out how to reverse this thing."

Natsu was fast. In fact normally he was the fastest one in a fight. It turned out that this time, his opponent was faster. He had hoped that her husband being zapped by Gildarts would have helped him but that only made the woman fight more ferociously than before. Very quickly Natsu was finding himself on the losing end of this fight as Mira through kick after kick, backing him up and making his brain go wild trying to figure out what to do. In the end talking seemed his best option.

"Seriously. Just give us our money back and you can go!" Natsu blocked a punch to his head only to feel another one hit him in the ribs.

"No can do. What's ours is ours. You want it? Come and get it." She threw a roundhouse kick at his head which he barely blocked.

"Alright then, you asked for it." He threw himself into Mira and sent them toppling to the ground. Once there was wasn't really sure what happened, but at some point she ended up sitting on his chest with sparks flying from her right glove.

"Gah! You broke my controls!" It was true. Around them people were starting to wake up from their sound-induced hypnosis. Natsu just grinned.

"Give me my money back!" He said. Mira glared at him, looked over at her knocked out husband longingly, and made her decision.

"How about I just leave." She bent over so that she was face to face with the bounty hunter. Staring into his eyes she smiled seductively and gave him a full kiss on the lips.

"See you later, Space Cowboy." She hopped up and ran for Gildarts and the downed Laxus. Flicking her left wrist Mira rolled underneath the grab that Gildarts made for her and quickly grabbed her husband, putting him in a fireman's carry. Around the club the gambling tables suddenly started spewing smoke and filling the room with an impenetrable haze. Casino patrons broke from the rest of their trance coughing and confused. Natsu and Gildarts left quietly before anybody could really figure out what was going on. There was no point in staying anyways; Mirajane and Laxus were gone.

On the Mavis

"I can't believe they got away." Gildarts stared grudgingly into his beer.

"Yeah it really sucks. Oh well, we got what we wanted anyways."

"What're you talking about? I only got half my money back!" Gildarts shouted at his partner.

"Oh yeah? Well I guess that means I'm gonna have to share some of this with you." Natsu threw a small black metal card on the table between them. Gildarts took one look at it before obtaining a shocked expression.

"Didn't Mira have that stashed in her dress?" He asked. Natsu just grinned.

"Yup."

Whew alright thanks y'all! Read and review as always!