A/N: warning this chapter may contain some OOC ness...on a lighter note please enjoy

Chapter 8

The sound of approaching footsteps and voices was enough to wake Rissy from her slumber, glancing over to her left she realised that Rouge and Frosch were both still asleep, the dragon slayer was sporting a small smile whilst one of his arms was draped over the small exceed. The scene in front of her caused her kawaii metre to overload but to avoid waking any of them up the salmon haired girl just smiled while their soft snores filling the silent forest. Lavender gently rustled in her lap letting out a small content 'nyan' as she further buried herself into Rissy's lap.

The sound of the voices were louder and closer, tilting her head to the side slightly allowed Rissy to further listen in to the conversation.

"Slow down..." One of the voices panted

"Sorry Luce..."

She froze Luce is what Natsu calls Lucy...

He suddenly stood up, causing Lavender to fall to the ground with a thud. She placed her hands in her hair, needing to form a plan. Most likely they would jump to conclusions if they saw her and the other dragon slayer but what worried Rissy most was how her brother would react. She didn't know too much about Fairy Tail and Sabertooth relations but from what Rogue had explained the guild members weren't exactly the best of pals.

A thought suddenly clicked in her mind, if she didn't want Natsu and Lucy to see her and Rouge together she would need to make both the dragon slayer and his exceed partner disappear.

A multicoloured magic circle appeared in front of her lifted hands, the light emitted from it was enough to wake Rogue, sitting up he raised a brow at Rissy, wondering what she was planning.

"Rissy..." He said, his voice groggy from sleep

Rissy froze mid spell, before turning back to hear the voices of Natsu ad Lucy even closer she turned back to Rouge.

"Sorry..."

It wasn't long after his sister had left the guild that Natsu had started to get worried, however those worries were soon forgotten with the aid of a guild brawl. He had set out earlier that morning, along with Happy and Lucy to find his younger sister, however what worried him was that her scent lingered over Magnolia which meant that she hadn't been in the town for a while.

The search eventually lead the trio to the outskirts of a small town all of them wondering why Rissy would have even ventured so far away from home.

Happy suddenly flew from Natsu's head, flying off deeper into the forest.

A toothy grin flashed across his face as he ran ahead to join his partner, a very out of breath Lucy not too far behind.

Happy had already started talking with Lavender while Rissy sat with her back against one of the ugliest looking trees that he had ever seen.

Suddenly spotting him his sister flashed him an identical grin "Omni-Chan!"

He barely paid attention to his sister, too focused on the weird tree. The tree stood shorter than the others, the size of a tall man. Whereas the trunks of the other trees were thick, the weird trees was thinner. The leaves weren't as smooth as the leaves of the other trees, they had a sort of shaggy appearance and were coloured a jet black which contrasted heavily with the healthy green o the normal trees.

"Natsu-Nii...?" Rissy asked, tilting her head to the side "What's wrong?"

Natsu pointed to the tress that Rissy was leaning against, causing Rissy to turn to face it.

"That tree is weird..."

She gasped, a small scowl forming on her face.

"No it isn't..." She paused before she placed her hand on the tree as if to stroke it. "I think that it's kind of cute"

Natsu raised a brow, he knew that his sister talked to trees but this was weird.

Lucy suddenly appeared next to him, she was slightly bent forward so that her hands were resting on her thighs, her bangs hung loose over her face, showing the faint tint of pink on her cheeks.

"Natsu what did I miss..." Lucy said between pants.

"My sister thinks that the tree over there is cute" Natsu said, gesturing over to where the weird tree was.

Lucy looked up the tree its appearance shocked her to an extent that she fell to the ground.

"Wow Rissy your tree is..." her voice trailed off for not even the celestial mage could sugar coat the situation.

"You think that tree is weird...then come and look at this one!" Happy exclaimed as he ushered Natsu over to a slightly smaller tree. Whilst its leaves were coloured pink with black spots, the tree stood about the same height as Happy, its trunk was mainly coloured green .

The dragon slayer didn't know much about trees but he knew one thing for sure and that was these two trees definitely weren't normal.

"Maybe we should head back to the guild..." Rissy suggested as she suddenly stood up.

"Why do you want to leave so badly...?" Happy asked as he scratched his head in thought.

"Because, she wants to!" Lavender snapped, her sudden mood swing causing Happy hide behind Lucy.

"Lavender went scary!" Happy sobbed whilst Lucy tried her best t pry the blue exceed off of her legs.

"Yeah we should um go...now!" Rissy exclaimed as she started to usher Lucy out of the forest. Ignoring his sister's strange behaviour he started to follow, taking a quick glance back at the two strange trees that both had a familiar scent to them. Brushing it off, he carried on after the rest of his friends. Unknown to him his sister quickly ran back to strange trees, returning back to their normal forms of a dragon slayer and an exceed.

The whole idea of this so-called training was to get Natsu and Lucy to become a couple, Rissy had known for some time that her brother had feelings for his best friend. However every time she attempted to call him up on it he would always change the subject to something stupid and irrelevant.

As soon as the group had arrived back at the guild Rissy and Mira started to plan operation NaLu.

"So..." Mira said innocently as she cleaned an already spotless glass "I heard that you were out all night"

Rissy placed her now empty glass on the table, and then raised a brow at the white-haired bar maid "So...?"

A smirk formed on Mira's lips "Hmm and were you out with a certain some one...?"

Rissy suddenly felt a burst of warmth in her face, her tanned cheeks started to get tinted red. She opened her mouth to speak, only no real words came out only loud groans.

At her reaction Mira only giggled "Aww, I think its sweet...maybe it may force Fairy Tail and Sabertooth relations to improve"

Rissy just sighed, hearing a crash not too far away from her she turned to find an angry Lucy drenched in what looked to be a strawberry milkshake, scolding her brother. Her brother suddenly latched himself to Lucy's legs wailing something about 'Erza' and 'please don't tell on me' and 'death times affinity'

Trying to suppress a giggle she turned back to the bar maid "hey Mira is something going on between Lucy and my brother?"

Mira's smirk suddenly disappeared as she sighed deeply "No..." she paused for a moment as Lucy stormed past the pair into the guild bathroom "...but I have shipped Nalu since day one"

"Nalu?" Rissy said with a raised brow

Mira giggled once more at Rissy's confusion "Nalu, a mash-up of Natsu and Lucy's names" Mira explained.

Rissy's mouth formed an 'o' shape at the explanation, her thoughts slightly drifting off to the genius who first came up with the ship name.

"It's a shame that they aren't a couple, they get along well..." Rissy sighed as she glanced to see that her brother was challenging Gray to a fight.

Mira sighed once more "Yeah...so many times I have dropped hints but it looks like those two are as dense as each other when it comes to human emotions"

Rissy nodded in agreement "Yeah I noticed"

Mira sighed sadly, it looked like the Nalu ship just wasn't ready to set sail, turning her attention back to the salmon haired girl she noticed a somewhat evil smirk forming on her lips.

"How about we get them together" Rissy suggested

"Believe me...I've tried" Mira sighed before she placed her elbows on the bar counter and then rested her head on top.

Rissy's smirk only widened "Yeah..but you haven't tried operation Nalu..."

Mira tried her best to stifle a laugh "Operation Nalu...?"

Rissy nodded her head, and then motioned for Mira to lean in closer so she could whisper the plan in her ear.

"Do you think that it will work?" Mira asked once Rissy had told her plan.

Rissy nodded her head once more "Of course I will make it my mission for Nalu to happen"

"I feel like my ears are burning" Lucy said as she took the vacant seat next to Rissy.

Rissy turned to Mira with a smirk, the barmaid giving the salmon haired girl a silent nod, leaving poor Lucy a little confused...and scared.

"Oh Lucy, I was just telling Mira that I thought it would be a good idea to train with Natsu...you know to get my stamina up and all" Rissy said sweetly

Lucy nodded in understanding "Oh wow, that sounds really good Rissy"

Rissy stood up a smirk once again on her lips "Yeah I know...which is why you're coming with me!"

The colour suddenly drained from the blonde face "Eh...!"

Rissy's smirk only widened as she dragged the shocked celestial mage by the arm and proceeded to walk over to her brother.

"Natsu you're coming with me" Rissy stated matter of factly before she dragged her brother away from his fight with Gray by his scarf

"Rissy what are you doing!" He shouted

"Wait for us!" Happy and Lavender shouted in unison as they used their magic to sprout wings and fly after tier respective partners.

"See you later Mira" Rissy shouted before she left the guild

"See you later and good luck!" Mira shouted back.

Rissy smiled as she knew Mira wasn't referring to the training.

It was as if Lucy and Natsu were purposely avoiding each other, Natsu would run ahead leaving Lucy behind and struggling to keep up and when they slowed down Lucy would stop and create distance between them. Even when Rissy had needed to use the 'toilet' and went to leave the mages alone, they sat with a enough distance between them to place another large person, the two not even saying two words to each other.

At first Rissy was sure that the two were just oblivious of their feelings for one another, however the way Lucy would steal glances her brothers way when she was sure no one was looking, and the way her brother would secretly check Lucy out, she salmon haired girl who the two mages were definitely stubborn.

As the three of them suddenly came a stop all panting whilst the exceeds sat in a nearby tree, Rissy decided to take matters into her own hands. Picking up he full canteen, she took off the lid and tipped it upside down, pouring out its contents into a nearby bush

"Oh no..." she gasped as she shook about her empty canteen "looks like I'm all out of water"

Lucy straightened up a smile on her face "I think that we just passed a stream...I can get some water for you if you..."

"No!" Rissy interrupted, her sudden shouting causing the celestial mage to almost topple over "I mean you an Natsu should rest up here and I'll go with the cats"

"Maybe I should go with you..I don't want you to go alone" Natsu said

"Don't worry Natsu I'll take the cats and you and Lucy stay here..." Rissy said sweetly

Natsu reluctantly nodded his head before taking a seat underneath a large tree.

"Happy, Lavender let's go!" Rissy shouted before walking ahead

"But I want to stay with Natsu!" Happy moaned

"Come one Happy, let's not ruin my master plan" Rissy said through gritted teeth, low enough for Happy to hear without Natsu's dragon slayer senses picking it up too.

Before Happy could protest further Rissy yanked him out of the tree by his tail, taking off for the 'stream' with Lavender in tow.

Quikly climbing up a nearby tree, Rissy made sure the tree was close enough to spy on the mages but far enough away that Natsu couldn't sniff them out.

A multi coloured magic circle appeared in front of her lifted hands as she caused certain branches of certain trees to rapidly grow, this in turn caused the suns rays to shine more over the two mages and to Rissy's excitement shine over Lucy.

"Rissy-Chan, so what are you planning?" Laveder asked as she swung her legs over th edge over the branch.

A smirk made its way to Rissy's lips "You'll see"

"See what?" Happy asked

"See what I'm planning" Rissy explained to the blue exceed

"Oh..."

They sat for a few moments just staring into the distance. Lucy had her knees up to her chest, her arms wrapped around them as if hugging herself. The sunlight shone down through the leaves, causing it to give her hair a golden glow which didn't go un-noticed by the salmon haired fire dragon slayer. He was left speechless as he watched the sunlight enhance her features, giving her an almost angelic appearance.

"...Luce"

She turned to face him, a sift smile ghosting her lips.

"Yes Natsu..."

"..." He was left speechless as the sunlight reflected against her chocolate brown eyes, giving them too a golden glow.

He found himself inching towards her, it was as if some force was pushing him towards her, however he felt unable to pull away...because he didn't want to.

"Luce...I..." they were now inches apart and both wondering how they got to this situation, both searching for the answer in the other eyes. The anticipation was killing them. However neither wanted to make the first move.

"Just kiss her already!" A voice shouted

He didn't know if it was the voice, or the way she was staring at him as if he was the only man in the world but Natsu found himself with his lips pressed against Lucy's. A throaty growl of approval left his throat in response of Lucy's moans. Raking his teeth against her bottom lip caused her to gasp, giving him the opportunity to slip his tongue into he mouth and deepen the kiss. She moaned in response once more, draping her arms around his neck, causing him to wrap his around her waist and pull her even closer.

"They liiiike each other" Happy said in a sin song voice, causing the breathless pair to break away from each other, both with red tinted faces.

"Happy you ruined the moment!" Rissy shouted before back handing the exceed into a tree.

"So you planned this!" Lucy exclaimed once Rissy and Lavender reappeared from their hiding spot.

"Don't look so upset Lucy" Lavender said sadly, causing her partner to nod in agreement

"Yeah...and we both know that you enjoyed my plan" Rissy added with a smirk

"Just wait till I tell Mira!" She said excitedly before running off

Lucy's face suddenly paled "Y-you wouldn't would you?"

A smirk appeared on Rissy's face "Payback for making the entire guild believe that I liked the 'v'"

"The 'v'" Natsu said confused, him and Happy exchanged glances.

"You know, Erza bought me a hundred and fifty paged book all about pleasing women...so let's just say it's karma" Rissy said with a smirk before she ran off to the direction for the guild.

"Rissy!" Lucy shouted before taking off after the salmon haired girl.

Natsu just stood there confused, not knowing what this 'v' was; unaware that operation Nalu was a success.

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JustAnotherFairy

Added some NaLu because I can, don't hate me I just couldn't help myself

Stay tuned for the next chapter 'Does that costume give you a wedgie?'