Warnings: Violence, BoyXBoy, Rated T for the moment, although it may turn into M as time goes on. OOC May or may not occur, Slightly AU, and that is all I can think about at the moment.

This is the first Fairy tail story I have thought of at the moment, although I will also be writing a LokeXGray and LyonXGray one later on. I apologize if a chapter at first appears to be one giant paragraph. I write it spaced out but something Fanfiction doesn't acknowledge that. If that does happen I will get around to fixing it... eventually...

Disclaimer: Nope, don't own Fairy Tail. If I did Gray and Lyon would be in it more often.

When one thinks of a strong guild they are encouraged by stereotypes to imagine a tightly run building with a no nonsense master and crowded with serious mages who all found brawling with one another to be trivial pursuits. Of course one is entitled to believe such a thing, however it just so happened to be incredibly inaccurate, at least it was for Fairy tail; the strongest guild in Fiore. They also managed to harvest the reputation as the most destructive guild known.

Quarrels were all too common amongst the wizards in said guild. In fact it was thought of as weird if a day passed when a fight was not started between two individuals, which then somehow managed to progress into a full out dual between nearly all of the male mages and most of the females in the guild. Of course there were the few individuals, both male and females, that strayed away from such unruly events, while others were all too content with starting them. The two guilty individuals usually being a certain fire mage and his ice rival. Fire and ice, complete opposites. It really was not much of a surprise to find the two males at each others throats, freely spraying various insults and in many causes, bits of magic.

The reason behind their constant brawling was not solely due to the hatred they felt towards one another, no, that was far from the truth. While they were indeed rivals they were also rather close to one another, always willing to help each other out in the event of trouble. Their relationship wavered greatly, but that was what was so wonderful about their arrangement. They always had a sparring partner to relieve stress, yet also had a friend they could count on no matter what the situation.

Yes, close friends yet mortal enemies, that was all that was between them. That thought commonly flowed through the dragon slayers mind whenever he found his thoughts shifting to the Fairy Tail stripper. There certainly could not be anything further between them. But if that was true then why did he sometimes find his face turning red when he saw the blue haired rain women constantly linger around Gray, her affection towards him plain as day? Honestly, he figured the only thing keeping him from growing furious at her actions was Gray's obvious disinterest in the woman. Had he actually played along with Juvia's advances than Natsu would... Well... To be frank the pink haired youth wasn't completely certain what he would do.

He didn't enjoy thinking about it for he didn't understand why he felt that possessive urge over the stripper. However, there was one thing that Natsu found particularity strange about the ice mage. He always seemed as content with staying on the sidelines, hardly ever coming to sit with the others unless he was invited over or they came to him. In some ways it almost seemed as though he was distancing himself from everyone else, a sad look lingering in deep blue eyes.

"Hey, Natsu! Are you even paying attention to me?!" Lucy huffed, her brown eyes narrowing in suspicion as she glared at the fire mage.

"Huh? Oh, sorry Lucy." He smiled, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. He hadn't even realized that he had allowed his thoughts to focus on Gray... Again...

"Ugh, you have the attention span of a child!" Lucy fumed, crossing her arms."What were you thinking about anyway?"

"I bet he was thinking about fish!" Happy chimed in, his thoughts revolving solely around fish, as peruse. Natsu chuckled and grinned. His friend could never seem to eat enough of those water dwellers!

"No, that wasn't it, but it doesn't matter. What were you saying, Lucy?"

Brown eyes peered at him for a few more moments before the blonde shrugged slightly, deciding not to push the issue any further. If something was troubling Natsu and he wanted to talk about it she knew he would.

"Rent is almost due and I need to make money fast! I was hoping that you, Erza, Gray and I could get a high priced job. Sure it will be more difficult, but with the four of us we shouldn't have a problem."

"Hey! There are 5 of us!" Happy complained, but as usual, his complaints fell to deaf ears.

"A job? Oh, yeah! Sounds great!" The dragon slayer's eyes darted from Lucy to Gray, who sat at the bar across from them, seemingly ignoring Juvia as she prattled on about how wonderful he was. "Yo, ice princess, we are going on a job!"

The ice mage's eyebrow twitched in irritation and his gaze quickly shifted from the drink he was stirring to the fire wizard. "Don't call me that, Hot head, but I'm up for a mission." Natsu opened his mouth to counter the others insult when a rather annoying whine rang from beside the Raven haired male.

"Juvia wants to come with Gray-sama!" The water mage squealed, her small hands coming up to hold her cheeks happily before her gaze lowered and she taped her index fingers together, a small blush shading her cheeks. "Then at night Juvia and Gray-sama can cuddle together under the stars and..."

Natsu, having just about enough of the female's prattling, stood up from his seat and shook his head, hiding the irritation he was feeling with a grin. "Sorry, Juvia, but this is just for Team Natsu."

"Team Natsu? Why the hell does the team get to be named after you?!" Gray questioned, slightly thankful that the other cut Juvia off before she could finish her embarrassing fantasy. The girl just couldn't take a hint!

"Because I am the great and powerful Salamander!"Natsu roared pridefully, blowing a puff of fire out to emphasize his words, " Also because I was the one who started this team. You just tagged along after."

Dark blue eyes narrowed but Gray allowed the subject to drop, his attention instead turning to the red head that appeared beside him, a smile on her face. "I'm ready for a mission, it's been a while since our last one."

Lucy, having been looking for a job while the males were busy lashing out at one another, spoke up, parchment in hand. "Great! This one seems easy enough to handle! It says here we just have to stop some hooligans who are ransacking a town every night. The reward is 500,000! Oh... Even split four ways this will last me rent for this month and most of next!"

"Wow, that seems kinda high for just stopping some reckless kids." Gray muttered, ignoring the now whimpering water woman.

"Yeah, that's what I thought too..." Lucy admitted, rubbing her arm. "But it says here that they are skilled wizards that should be approached with caution, so, I guess that is why the price is high?"

Erza smirked and nodded. "That should be shouldn't take more than a day or two, depending on how easily we can find them."

"Then it is decided!" Natsu cheered, throwing his hand up in excitement.

Erza nodded .

"Be packed and ready to leave as soon as possible. We are leaving in an hour."

All four mages nodded in approval before leaving to go to their respected households, the thoughts of the newly accepted job now weighting on their minds. That is, all of them except for a certain fire dragon slayer. He allowed himself a moment to hang behind and watched discreetly as the ice mage left the guild, seemingly deep in thought.

This mission would no doubt last over night and Natsu was determined to get closer to the other male on the team. Why exactly he was determined to do that, he wasn't completely sure. All he knew was that a part of him was fond of Gray, wanting to be something a bit more than rivals and friends. That feeling had been haunting him ever sense they left Galuna Island a few weeks prior and he hoped that this little mission would allow him to discover just what these new feelings were.