Natsu had left Rissa after that. Letting her have the bath until it was his turn. And when he came out he had a seduction plan that he felt would work. He was determined that Rissa would admit both to herself and to him that she was mated. Or else.

That night he walked out of the bathroom with nothing but a towel wrapped around his hips and padded through his house feeling a little weird. It just wasn't his nature to walk around naked without a reason. Which he had, he simply had to continuously remind himself of. Or he would have run into the bedroom and put some clothes on.

However he kept firmly reminding himself that Rissa needed to know his body. Every beauty mark, every erogenous zone- Even texture and taste, though those things would come gradually when they finally started sleeping together.

He noted that she tried to ignore him at first. Her eyes fixated on the TV as one of her shows came on, yet from time to time when he walked in front of her he could feel her eyes on him.

On his back, glaring at the towel around his hips. Then just before he went to bed, he made sure that he was in front of her when his towel 'accidentally' slipped from his waist and fell to the floor.

He'd grinned at her as she flushed, her jaw hanging open as she got a full frontal before he turned on his heel and walked to the bedroom and closed himself in it.

A few hours later when she came in to go to bed, he was still wide awake enough to see her balk at seeing him laying on his side on top of the covers- still naked as a flipping jaybird. She tip toed over and hesitantly reached out to put a hand on his shoulder when he grabbed her wrist and pulled her down on the bed and rolled so that he was partially on top of her.

She let out a furious sounding hiss and squirmed a little bit until one of his hands settled over one of her breasts then went eerily still. He could feel her heart thudding against her ribs under his palm. And had to curb the impulse to curl his fingers over the soft flesh of her breast and squeeze. He felt her take a shuddering breath and saw her use the tip of her tongue to wet her lips before stuttering. "N-Na-tsu?"

He didn't respond. If he bothered, she'd just freak out so he stayed quiet and waited for her to settle down and doze off. It took longer than he expected since it seemed that Rissa didn't trust him not to pull something while she had her defenses down.

Which was smart.

But resistance was futile. And in the end she wound up tiring herself out and falling asleep anyways. Which left him free to use some lost dragon slayer magic to weave pleasant dreams for her. After he was satisfied with the dreams he'd created for her, he gave her a small kiss on the cheek then left the room to sleep on the couch.

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Rissa knew something was up the second she found herself standing in a field of wild flowers wearing a white sun dress. Oh that sorry son of a- He's woven a dream for her to help his plans further along! "Natsu, you bastard I'm going to-"

"Going to what?" Natsu's voice asked curiously from somewhere behind her. She turned around, startled and blinked at him as he leaned against a tree wearing nothing but what looked like black man's bikini style underwear with sheer gold colored material attached to them. There were gold earrings in his ears and and three bangle bracelets around both of his wrists and biceps.

And four around his ankles.

His pink colored hair hung a little bit past his shoulders and framed his face, partially hiding his molten gold colored eyes from veiw. Rissa's jaw dropped as she looked at him. In his current state of semi undress, with the jewelry and so on, he looked... He looked...

Holy wow- Rissa thought in disbelief. When had Natsu become such a looker?

Natsu's lips quirked as if he could read her mind as he pushed away from the tree he'd been leaning against and closed the distance between them. "You look shocked." Duh, that's because I am. Rissa thought as he grinned at her.

"You know, if you had bothered to look closer when your around me you would know that I'm a hottie." He said in a half teasing half chidding tone.

"I already knew that!" Rissa snapped. Earning an 'oh' look from him as she said in a more subdued tone. "I...just don't like to think on it."

"Thinking on it makes me harder to resist, doesn't it." Rissa blushed then seemed to shake herself and hissed at him like a cat causing him to chuckle. Ah, some things never changed.

Even in her sleep she was still hellbent on resisting him. Not that it mattered much since he already planned on seducing her in her sleep and letting her curiosity about the real him get the best of her and lead up to their mating. "You know that you don't have to be so on guard here. After all this is just a dream."

"A dream that you tampered with so you could mess with my head." Rissa growled as he gave her a slightly nervous look. How the hell- Whoa... How had she managed to figure that out so soon? Natsu wondered as he rubbed the nape of his neck, the bangles around his wrist clinking together as he moved his hand.

"Geez, woman can't you just relax and have some fun for once?"

"Sure I can. I merely prefer not to with you around." Rissa said in a sugary sweet tone that made him flinch a little bit.

"Ow. That hurt." Natsu muttered before reaching out and running his fingers through her long dark hair and finally asked. "What do you think of it so far?"

"It?"

"The field and such. I created it to look like the area close to where I grew up with my adopted father. My favorite part of that place was always the flowers. I'm not sure how my adopted father managed it, but somehow he kept the flowers vibrant and beautiful all year long." Natsu said in a wistful tone as he looked around.

"I never knew that you had an adopted father."

"You never asked. Not that I can blame you much. It seems like here lately the only thing that passes for descent conversation is you squeaking and fleeing from the room."

"Well it's not like you contribute much when all you want to do is corner me and feel me up. If you were in my place Natsu, you'd run too."

He snorted. Highly unlikely. He didn't run from anything. Execpt Erza but then she was really the only person alive that he had a healthy fear of. But he supposed that if he and Rissa were to change places she might be right.

If nothing else it was definitely food for thought. "Whatever. I didn't weave this dream to sit here and gab at you all night. I want to show you some things."

"You're planning to keep your...uh..." She glanced down at his pants with a doubious expression. "Pants on right?"

"Nope. I plan to lose them at some point. But for now I just want to show you around. Nothing more." Natsu said as he held his hand out to her. She gave him another dubious look with a hint of wariness and hesitantly took his hand.

"Fine. But warn me before you lose your pants okay." Natsu smiled at her.

Like hell he'd warn her. He wasn't going to give her a chance to run away from him again.