Hey all, this is a request by a good friend of mine.
I hope I do this good. I'm not sure it's going to be any good personally.
This is going to have at the very least one character whose gender has been switched to the opposite one. Male to female, or female to male. This is the first of multiple warnings.
I do not, and never will own Fairy Tail or it's characters or plot. I do not own any music mentioned, or lyrics used within this work of fanfiction
Warnings: Gender Bender, romance, drama, angst, adult language, mentions of adult situations, AUish.
Possible Pairings: Gray x Fem!Natsu, Sting x Fem!Natsu, Gajeel xFem!Natsu, Rogue x Fem!Natsu, Laxus x Fem!Natsu, Lyon x Fem!Natsu or Loke xFem!Natsu
Natsu Dragneel wasn't the girliest girl on Fiore, so when it came time for a guild party her best friends Lucy Heartfilia and Erza Scarlet took it upon themselves to get the girl to dress up.
So here we are now, one very annoyed, very much sopping wet pink haired girl sitting on the floor of her friends apartment while the blonde brushed her wavy pink hair. "Come on you guys, can't I just go in what I normally wear?" Natsu asked, her voice had a bit of a whine to it.
"No! This is a party, you need to dress up, and get out there!" the blonde said. "But Luce!" Natsu whined again. "No buts! You're dressing up tonight young lady!" the red-headed one said. Natsu flinched. "Okay Erza..." she sighed.
Lucy kept taking the brush and running it through the silky soft hair of Natsu. As tomboyish as the girl was, her hair was immaculate. Long and wavy, not to mention shiny.
"I have the perfect outfit for you Natsu." Erza said suddenly, her eyes flashing with what Natsu would say was 'her doom.' "O-Oh? What...is it?" Natsu asked.
"This!" Erza said as she held up a skirt and a halter top. "N-no!" Natsu whined softly. "Oh come on, you'll look totally adorable in it Natsu!" Lucy said, trying to talk some sense into the girl.
The outfit wasn't really bad looking as Nastu took the time to look closer, she hated anything girly, but the skirt wasn't too bad, it was black and layered, Natsu had seen the type before, it was labeled as a 'Gothic Short Layered Handkerchief Skirt' it wasn't too shabby. The color was mostly black, with some darker shades of grey and some deep blue in it.
The top itself was also not too bad, not that Natsu would admit that in a million years, but she'd relent and wear the outfit, if for no reason other then to stay alive. Eighteen years old was awful young to die after all.
The top was simple, just black with gold trim on it, sort of like the single sleeved jacket Natsu constantly wore, only in a short upper belly cut shirt style.
Once her hair was done, she slipped the shirt over her head and pulled the black flame stockings, then the skirt and the combat boots, because she had won that particular argument.
She put on her wristband, then topped her outfit off with her scarf, because there was no way in hell she was going anywhere without it.
Lucy and Erza got themselves ready as well, once Nasu was done, then they tackled the biggest part of the dressing up...the make-up.
"OH HELL NO!" Natsu could be heard yelling. "JUST PUT SOME ON IT WON'T KILL YOU!" Erza is heard yelling back. "FUCK YOU AND YOUR WAR PAINT!" Natsu screamed again, the people at the street could only stare as the shadows of two girls moved towards a third and pounced.
The resounding crash, a cheer and then the fact that a pink haired girl landed a few feet from the side of the river made the people stop and stare. "Hah! I win!" Natsu yelled up at the other two before she bolted towards the guild. If she got there, they couldn't kill her, and they couldn't put make-up on her face!
Natsu kept running towards the guild, before she ran smack into someones back which sent her onto her ass on the ground. "Oww..." she groaned, before moving to stand up.
The body she ran into turned around and looked at the girl sprawled out on the ground, the person was a male and got a full view of the pink haired girls panties.
"Oh! Natsu-chan, are you alright?" the person asked. It was Sting Eucliffe of Sabertooth. "S-Sting! What are you doing here?" Natsu asked, taking the hand the man had offered to help her up. She gave him a bright smile as she dusted her clothes off.
"I came to join the party, Rogue is here too." Sting said. He was standing outside the Fairy Tail guild hall. "Ooh! I forgot Master invited you guys too! It's good to see you, but I gotta get inside!" Natsu said, pulling her brightest smile on the blonde haired male.
"See you inside then! You owe me a dance!" Sting called out, but Natsu was already inside the hall and probably hadn't heard him.
Natsu looked stunning when she walked into the guild hall, the chatter stopped, and everyone looked at her. "U-Um..is something on my face?" she asked, bringing her hands up to her face.
"Nothing is, but you look amazing Na-chan!" Mira said from behind the bar. "You're going to have a bunch of guys chasing after your skirt tonight I can see it now!" she giggled, causing Natsu to sweatdrop.
Natsu laughed like her normal self and moved to a table. "It's just me guys, go back to the party!" she yelled out as she plopped down and sat like she normally did.
A few other guilds had members inside the hall as well. Lyon was there from Lamia Scale, of course Sting and Rogue from Sabertooth as well as Hibiki, Ren and a couple others from Blue Pegasus. Any friends Natsu and the others had ever made were there.
Of course this wasn't a normal party. This was to celebrate Natsu and Gray's advancement to S-Class mages!
One of the people of the night was there, but Gray had yet to make his appearance.
Lyon spotted the pink haired girl and his eyes widened, he had no idea she hid that kind of body beneath her baggy clothes!
The shirt was cut low enough that it showed her tanned stomach with her small abs, her chest was a lot bigger then her tubetop/bandage and vest mix seemed to show and her legs were toned.
Rogue walked over and sat next to Natsu. "Hello Natsu." he said, smiling. "Hello Rogue, how are you tonight?" she asked. "I'm doing good, you look really pretty." he said, his cheeks turning a soft pink. "You think so? It's not too much?" she asked. "No. It looks good." he said. Natsu smiled.
After a few more minutes Gray showed up. He was wearing black jeans, and a dark blue button up shirt that had the top three buttons undone. As soon as Gray entered the hall his eyes fell on Natsu who was talking to Rogue.
He made his way over to the two and smirked. "Hey flame-breath." Gray said, the smirk still on his face. He'd not seen the outfit the pink haired dragon slayer was wearing just yet, but she seemed to be into her conversation with Rogue to notice.
"Oi PINKY!" Gray yelled suddenly, slamming his hands onto the table to get her attention.
"What the fuck ice block!?" Natsu hissed, her bright green eyes narrowing as she glared at her rival/best guy friend.
"I've been trying to get your attention for the past few minutes idiot." Gray said, the smirk not leaving his face.
Natsu growled at him. "I'm not an idiot you stripping pervert!" she hissed out, her eyes narrowed. "Wanna go?" Gray taunted her, knowing full well she'd fight with him.
"Bring it popcicle!" Natsu grinned as she stood up. After she jumped over the table is when Gray took note of her outfit. She looked for lack of better description, hot.
Grays eyes widened as he openly gawked at her. "What're you staring at ice pop?!" Natsu hissed, throwing a punch at Gray who dodged it with ease.
"Nothing much." Gray retorted before he threw one back, the two of them never really hurt one another, they just enjoyed to spar really.
Natsu threw another punch, and Gray caught it. "You know you probably shouldn't fight in that skirt." he said, smirking wider.
"Shut up!" Natsu said, before knocking the ice mage back a few feet before she jumped up and went to bring her foot down on him, only to give him a full view of her panties. She really should have thought of that before she did that move.
Gray managed to dodge the foot to his face, only to take a fist to the side. "Shit!" He cursed, he moved to tackle the pinked haired girl, only to have her topple on top of him as she tripped. "Kya!" She squealed as she landed on top of the ice mage, sending them both toppling to the floor.
Her breasts were on his face, and she was turning a dark pink as people stared at them. His hands were on her waist as she sat up. She was sitting on his groin, one knee on either side of him.
"You okay Natsu?" Gray asked the girl, whose face was trying to become the color of her hair. She nodded numbly as Lisanna came over and helped her off of the ice mage.
"Come on Natsu, let's get you some water." Lisanna said, before sending a knowing smirk at the still sprawled ice mage. She winked at him and led the seemingly shocked fire mage to the bar.
Erza and Lucy arrived after Gray had picked himself up off the floor. His mind was going a mile an hour, he was thinking about how soft Natsus skin was, and how nice the fire mage had smelt. He smacked his own forehead against the table he sat at.
"You alright Gray?" Lucy asked as she joined him at the table. "I'm fine Lucy." he said dismissively. Erza frowned. "Gray, what's wrong?" Erza asked in her no nonsense voice. "Nothing." Gray responded, a little to quickly. He also tried to sneak a look at Natsu who was chatting happily with Lisanna and Mirajane at the bar.
Erza and Lucy looked in the direction he was looking and smirked at one another.
Sting walked into the Fairy Tail guild hall with a few other Sabertooth members, the late guests had arrived.
Master Makarov took up a stand on the bartop. "Alright everyone! We're here to celebrate the advancement of Gray Fullbuster and Natsu Dragneel to S-Class! They passed their exams this year! Time to get the party going!" He said, then there was music and alcohol everywhere.
Sting walked over to Natsu and Gray watched him. He growled when Sting slung an arm around Natsus shoulders like they were a couple. Lucy giggled. "Are you jealous Gray?" she teased him. "Fuck no! Why would I be jealous of fire brain!?" he hissed out.
"I wasn't talking about Natsu." Lucy said with another giggle, which caused the ice mage to groan. He put his head on his arms and tried to hide his embarrassment. "Ooh, someones jealous!" Lucy teased. "I am NOT fucking JEALOUS!" Gray all but yelled, which caused the guild to go quiet and mostly everyone to stare at the ice mage.
Natsu stared at Gray, her mouth hanging open at his exclamation. Sting smirked as he wrapped his other arm around Natsu who hadn't said anything in complaint about it, of course she had no idea what he was trying to do to her, she was pretty oblivious to the whole "courting"/"dating"/"romance" thing as it was.
"Hey Natsu-chan, want to dance?" Sting asked.
Natsu blinked. "Um, I don't really know how to dance." she admitted, sheepishly.
"It's easy, come on!" Sting said as he dragged the pink haired girl to the dance floor. "It's simple, you just do this." he said, as he placed her hands on himself, and his on her. It wasn't a slow song, but he made do with it.
Eventually a slow song did come on, and Natsu had only stepped on his feet a few times. the slow song was coming to an end as Sting was trying to make a move and kiss the pink haired girl. She seemed preoccupied, though he didn't seem to notice. As he was leaning down to kiss her, she managed to walk away from him, which led to him falling face first on the ground.
"Are you okay ice block?" Natsu asked, as she walked over to him. "I'm fine Na-moron, go back to your date." he spat. "Date? What date?" she asked, clearly confused. "Your date with Eucliffe." Gray said, he seemed angry, and Natsu was worried.
"I-I'm not d-dating Sting Gray!" Natsu said, her face suddenly as red as Erzas hair. "That's not what it looked like to me." Gray said, as he stood up to his full height over the pink haired girl. Natsu reached out for Gray, but the ice mage simply shrugged her off and walked away.
For some reason Natsu felt hurt as he did so, she didn't know what she'd done wrong, but she wanted to fix it.
The rest of the party was relatively uneventful. Cana had a drinking contest with a few of the guys, of course she won. Which led to a few unconscious males on the floor and table tops.
Natsu had simply sat down after Gray had walked away, her mind was confused and she was worried. What had happened to cause her friend to react like that.
They were friends right? She frowned.
"That isn't a look a pretty lady should have." someone said from her right. "O-Oh Hibiki, hi." Natsu said. "What seemed to be troubling you, beautiful?" Hibiki asked.
"I'm confused, and my stomach is doing weird things...plus my heart sort of hurts." She admitted to him. "Ah, you are in love." Hibiki said, causing Natsu to blanch.
"N-NO! You're wrong!" Natsu exclaimed loudly, causing everyone to stare at her, including Gray who was up on the second floor staring down at her. "I-I can't-!" she said before taking off running. She left the guild hall in such a hurry that the doors hadn't even closed before she was gone.
"HIBIKI WHAT DID YOU DO TO NATSU!?" Erza yelled at the male as she held him up by his shirt collar. "I merely pointed out that she was in love." Hibiki said plainly.
"L-love, Natsu is in LOVE!?" Erza yelled into his face. "That's what I said to her yes, and I've never been wrong about that before." Hibiki responded calmly. Erza set him down.
"I wonder who she loves." Erza said. She began to think of all the males she'd ever seen Natsu interact with.
Erza grabbed Lucy's arm and walked into a side room with her.
"Lucy, we need to figure out who Natsu is in love with!" Erza said the excitement clear in her voice.
"Well, let's think of all the guys she's ever been in contact with." Lucy said.
So the two sat down and wrote up a list.
"Alright, so we have these as possibilities." Erza said as she glanced at the list.
"Sting is a fellow Dragon Slayer, and they danced for awhile tonight." Lucy said.
"Rogue is also a Dragon Slayer, they were chatting when some people arrived. Or so I heard." Erza said.
"Gajeel is another Dragon Slayer, and those two beat the shit out of one another during that whole thing with Phantom." Lucy pointed out.
"Gray is a possibility, even if it does seem far fetched, they've been friends since they were kids." Erza said, and Lucy nodded.
"There's also Lyon, I saw him staring at Natsu earlier, while he was with Juvia." Lucy added.
"Then there's Laxus, but I'm not sure if he's a real candidate or not." Erza said.
"Hmm, who have we missed?" Lucy asked, tapping the light pen to her chin.
"Loke!" Lucy and Erza both said. "He always flirts with Natsu!" Lucy said with a laugh.
"Hibiki was the one who discovered our little Dragon Slayer was in love, should we add him to the list as well?" Erza asked.
"Nah, he's got that one girl already." Lucy said. "Oh right.
"Bixlow and Freed are out, mainly because Natsu doesn't really interact with them like ever." Lucy said.
"Max has his broom..." Erza shuddered, which caused Lucy to giggle.
"I wonder who has Natsus heart captured." Lucy said, as she looked at the list.
"Well, we could always start by talking to her. Maybe ask her questions about the guys?" Erza said.
"Might be a good idea, but do you think she'll talk to us about it?" Lucy asked.
Erza shrugged. "I could always beat it out of her." she said, smirking as she put her fist into her hand. "Um, I think that would be too extreme." Lucy said.
Lucy and Erza headed out of the room and back to the party. They didn't chase Natsu down, mainly because they figured she'd probably gotten super embarrassed and ran into hiding.
They'd seek her out the following day, probably sometime in the afternoon. She tended to go fishing early in the morning, and no one but Happy her cat knew where she fished at.
Eventually the party goers all went home, aside from the ones that were unconscious on the floor and tables.
Gray had left shortly after Natsu had, but no one really noticed. His mind was on the pinkette. Who was Natsu in love with, and why was his heart hurting when he thought about it?
He wasn't in love with her, was he? He asked himself, but shook his head and scoffed. Even if he was, there's no way in hell the flame brain loved him. She was fire and he was ice. They were polar opposites. 'Opposites Attract Gray.' A little voice in his head said. He shook it off and went home.
Natsu had arrived back at her place and instantly took off the girly clothes, only to slip into her pajamas. She just wanted to curl up under her blankets and vanish so she'd never have to worry about facing anyone again.
She figured if she laid low for a few weeks the whole 'being in love' thing would simply blow over and everyone would forget it. She'd go to the guild really early and grab a job to get out of town for awhile. See if she couldn't get her mind straight.
She couldn't risk letting her emotions get the better of her, and cause her to screw up.
She closed her eyes and let out a soft sigh as she drifted off to sleep. Her mind filled with various images of her and some guy whose face she couldn't see, and voice she knew but couldn't identify.
The next morning, bright and early Natsu made her way to the guild hall. She was in her normal clothes which were made up of a small top covering her breasts, an open vest over that shirt, an open waistcoat with one arm, a black belt, black pants and combat boots, plus her scarf.
She walked over to the job board and grabbed a decent paying one that was a bit of a ways from Magnolia.
"Hey Mira, I'm taking this request." she said, placing the paper down on the bar top. "Alright Natsu, who all is going with you?" Mira asked. "Just Happy." Natsu said, Mira frowned, but Natsu was an S-Class now, so she had to trust her judgement.
"Be careful Natsu." Mira said after she stamped the request. Natsu then rolled it up and stuffed it between her breasts. She popped a pill from a bottle in her pocket into her mouth, chewed it up and swallowed it.
"See you in a while Mira! Take care of everyone for me!" Natsu said as she waved and walked out. She had her pack on her back, complete with her rolled up blanket.
"Come on Happy! We've got a train to catch!" Natsu said. "Aye!" Happy cheered as the two made their way to Magnolia station.
The two boarded the train an waited for it to leave Magnolia. They were going to be on it for a few hours, so Natsu was glad she'd found out about motion sickness medicine*, which actually seemed to work pretty well for her.
Lucy and Erza made their way to Natsu's place, they arrived and knocked on the door. "Natsu! Happy!" Lucy called out, Erza knocked more. "Open up!" Erza demanded.
"Try the door knob?" Lucy said. Erza shrugged and opened the door, it wasn't locked. They walked inside.
They expected the house to be a mess, but it was spotless. Immaculate even.
"Ooh! We can snoop if she's not home!" Lucy giggled. "Maybe she has a diary or something somewhere, that we can use to find out who she likes!" she finished. Erza shook her head. "We may as well look around, but be mindful that she could come home any moment now and catch us." she said.
"Yeah, yeah I know. Be careful!" Lucy said before she began looking around.
"Huh, interesting book." Erza said as she held up a romance novel. "Never pegged Natsu as the type to read trashy romance novels." she finished with a laugh.
The two were inside the house for hours, and they never found a damn thing saying anything about who Natsu liked, that is until they came across a picture of Natsu and Gray when they were a few years younger.
Gray had his arm around the pink haired girls waist, and Natsu was clearly blushing in the picture. They were at what looked to be a carnival of some kind. The two of them had treats, Gray had ice cream and Natsu had some green cotton candy.
They were clearly having fun. "Aww! Look at how cute they look!" Lucy squealed as she spotted the picture.
"Do you think it's Gray?" Erza asked.
"Do you think what's me?" Gray asked as he leaned against the door way to Natsu's house.
"Uh erm..nothing, nothing at all Gray ahah!" Lucy said quickly.
Erza looked at Lucy, then at Gray and shook her head.
"Why are you two here anyway? Natsu is on some job she took early this morning, probably won't be back for a week." Gray said, pushing himself off the doorway.
"We were looking to see if we could find out who Natsu likes." Erza said, shrugging. "There's not anything here really, the only thing we even found was a picture of the two of you at some sort of carnival." she finished.
"The carnival from a couple years ago? She told me she lost that picture." Gray said, shaking his head. "She said she looked stupid and I looked like a pervert." he rolled his eyes, his arms crossed over his chest as he looked at Natsus two best female friends.
Two Weeks Later
Natsu and Happy arrived back home after mission complete! They had done a good job, and Natsu hadn't over did it, she didn't destroy anything, and she even got a nice sized reward for doing the job within the time limit.
"That was a lot easier then I thought it would be." Natsu laughed, her pack on her back and Happy flying around her head. "Aye!" Happy said.
Neither of them had really had a chance to bathe properly in the past two weeks, though they did soak in the hot springs near where they camped, as Natsu refused to pay jewel for a hotel to stay at, it would have costed even more then it had when Natsu bought her house before.
"First stop! Home for a nice hot shower!" Natsu said, and with that Happy and her made their way home.
TBC!
*There's actually a medication out there that works, I should know! I suffer from motion sickness when inside a vehicle for an extended period of time, it actually sucks!
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