First Fairy Tail fic. And I'm only 13 so take it easy! Okay. Sorry for the typos okay.
Standard Disclaimers apply. I own nothing. (But I do wish I owned Gray, Natsu and Loke (Leo one with the long hair))
"Hahaha." I laughed with Levy-chan as Gray punched Natsu across the hall.
"That all you got baka?" Natsu said as he stood up, wiping the blood that dripped from his lip.
"Plenty more where that came from flame-brain!" Gray said as he dodged Natsu's attack.
"Huh?" Gray gasped as Natsu came behind him.
"Hn. Never let your guard down." Natsu said before he punched Gray to the floor; damaging the wood.
"Haaa!" They both screamed as they went to attack each other.
"ENOUGH!" Erza came in between them. As always.
"A-aye." They both collapsed to the floor.
Now almost the entire hall was laughing. This was our daily entertainment. Gray and Natsu never fail in giving us a show. In fact, whenever they're not here, things seemed dead.
"Clean this up before Master gets back." Erza ordered them as she exited.
"Aye!" They both exclaimed but as soon as Erza was gone they looked at each other with electrifying glances.
"I'll get you next time baka." Gray said as Natsu and him walked over to where Levy-chan and I were sitting.
"Ohayou Lucy." Natsu greeted me.
"Ohayou." I flashed my regular happy, sunlight-like smile.
"Oy Lucy." Gray shot me a greeting.
"Wha-! Why'd you strip..." I screamed when I turned around.
"Hmm," He pondered as he looked down,
"Look at that." He seemed uninterested by his observation as he took a sip of beer.
I've been in the guild for quite a while now. I suppose I should be used to Gray's stripping habit. In truth, but I never admitted to anybody but myself that it wasn't Gray's habit that I wasn't used to, it was the feeling I got every time he takes his clothes off unknowingly.
That view is just... distracting.
"Oy Lucy. Why are you so red?" Happy wondered aloud as he stood in front of me.
"Wha-? N-no I'm not you delusional cat. Hn!" I turned to hide my face.
"Hmm... It is true Lucy. You're reed as a tomato!" Natsu backed his pet up.
"Don't back him up!" I pounded Natsu's head.
"A-aye!" He collapsed.
"Lucy." I heard Gray say my name as he was still drinking.
"Hm?" I turned to look. He had his clothes on now. He was a bit sparkly from my point-of-view.
What the hell Lucy! Stop it!
I slapped myself out of my thoughts.
"Why are you red?" He wondered as well.
"HAI! I dismiss that subject!" I declared to everybody.
"Lucy. Gray. Natsu." Erza called us. She was in her armor again.
"We're going on a mission. We leave immediately." She ordered us and so we followed.
2 weeks later...
"Oy!" I waved to everybody as we entered the guild. We had just finished the mission and thankfully, it was successful.
"Oy!" Everyone else greeted back then returned to what they were previously doing.
But there were special cases...
"Natsu!" I heard a familiar voice call out a familiar name. I turned to look at Natsu and saw Lisanna as they wrapped their hands around each other.
I smiled. I was happy for Natsu. He got his friend back. But whenever I see those two together, an uncomfortable feeling always rises from my stomach... or my heart. I don't know. I just feel it and until now, I didn't know what that feeling was.
"Gray-kun!" I heard a particular blue-haired girl scream a very particular dark-haired boy's name.
Juvia.
Somewhere in my body, I knew I didn't 'wanna see what she was going to do but I looked anyway and of course, that was the wrong thing to do.
I saw Juvia as she wrapped her arms around Gray, much like Lisanna and Natsu but in this case, Gray wasn't so eager to hug her back. I guess it was just out of politeness that he did so.
"J-juvia... Glad to see you again." He gave her a consolation.
They walked away chatting. Something just told me that Gray wanted out of there.
I smiled at my thoughts. After all the assumed "sweetness" maybe Gray didn't really like Juvia...
Why do I care?
I tried to slap myself silly out of my thoughts.
"Lu-chaaaan!" Levy came to hug me, surprisingly Jet and Droy weren't with her.
"Levy-chan!" We hugged then walked over to our usual table.
"Huh." We exclaimed as we saw Gray and Juvia sitting at our table.
This situation was not 'gonna work. I mean there were certain conditions that would allow this to work: 1) if it was only Gray sitting there and he wasn't with Juvia 2) If... No I still can't admit that to myself.
But those things were non-existent at the moment so this was most definitely not 'gonna work.
"Lucy-chan?" Gray said as soon as he saw me and Levy standing right in front of him, er... them.
I think half of the guild, if not all, heard what he called me. There was a brief gasp before everyone went back to paying us no mind.
"G-gray-kun!" Juvia said tearing up.
She's such a drama queen.
Juvia ran away but Gray didn't even bother following her.
Levy and me were still standing there. Levy was quite shocked. I was too.
"Gray-" Levy was about to say something but was cut-off by Gray.
"I-I should go after Juvia and calm her down. We wouldn't want a flood. Again," He laughed fakely and stood up awkwardly,
"Ahe... Uhh... Later!" He said as he run off quickly. Levy couldn't even say anything. That goes for me as well.
We sat down, the shock and awkwardness strongly evident in the air.
"Here 'ya go Lucy, Levy. Welcome back." Mira-san greeted us.
Something seems weird...
"A-arigatou Mira-san." I smiled.
"Oy! Where's Gray?" I heard Natsu ask.
"AAAH! When did you get here!" I asked in complete shock. I never noticed him.
"Just now." He smiled at me.
Natsu's smile... I don't know... There was just something about that smile...
"Lucy! You've transformed into a tomato again!" Happy said in full volume; flying in front of Natsu's face.
"Oy Happy!" Natsu said, getting his cat out of his face.
"W-what're you blabbering about again!" I turned away with pouted lips.
"Lucy! I-" I heard Gray's voice before I turned my head, then I saw his face right in front of my face when I turned around.
It took me 5 second to realize where my lips were placed; with Gray's right next to them!
I broke away immediately (though I didn't really want to...).
"Lucy-" Gray said with worry in his voice.
I was frozen in my seat, then I stood up. Gray didn't move away so there wasn't much distance between us.
I saw everyone in the beer hall looking at us, I saw Juvia about to cry again, I saw Happy with his regular... happy face (somehow that was irritating), Makarov-san and Mina-san were weirdly enjoying this, Erza was there too; she was staring at us like everyone else and she had a weird half-smile on her face and lastly I saw Natsu looking too, I couldn't make out his expression though... I couldn't encrypt how he felt about this.
This.
I ran straight home. I felt everyone's eyes on me as I walked out.
What was the big deal?
I tried to reason with myself.
It was an accident!
I tried harder.
An accident that I never want to happen again.
"AH!" I let out a small scream of frustration as I arrived at my front door.
I walked up the small staircase.
It's no use. I couldn't say that it was something I didn't 'wanna happen again.
"Lucy. Snap out of it!" I slapped myself.
"Ow." I collapsed on my bed.
"Gray Fullbuster." I said his name out loud.
"Yes?" I heard his voice.
Was I delusional?
"What?" I turned and saw Gray on the chair near my bed.
"WHAT THE-! WHEN DID YOU GET HERE!"
He shrugged.
"And why did you strip..." I asked the same question,
It's DISTRACTING dude! Put a shirt on!
He looked down then shrugged again.
"Hn."
"What are you doing here?" I tried to regain focus.
"Hiding from Juvia. That woman is crazy." Gray said in cautiousness.
"Oh. So this is a safe house now." I joked.
Doesn't he remember ANYthing! Seriously, anything.
I continued the nonchalant act.
"Lucy-" He started speaking but I cut him off.
I finally decided that I 'wanna straighten things up.
"Gray. You have two- er, three things to explain to me," He didn't look shocked at all,
"So... are you going to?" I asked him as I sat upright on the edge of my bed.
"Where should I start?" He asked in all seriousness.
"Well... How about calling me "Lucy-chan" this morning when we got back?"
"Okay. I believe that was stemmed from our conversation in the mission 2 days ago." He said coldly.
Was that supposed to be normal from an ice mage?
"Hmm..." I recalled our "heart-to-heart" on the mission.
It was night time and we had to share tents because it was raining.
I originally shared my room with Natsu and Happy but since Happy kept mumbling randomly and Natsu kept breathing fire I told Erza that I wanted to switch tents.
Erza had her own tent and so did Gray.
First she suggested that she'd trade with Natsu and Happy but I was hesitant because of all the rumors I heard. Cana once told me that Erza requips in her sleep. So, Natsu and Gray traded. First they argued and punched each other but when they woke up Erza, Natsu hurried to Gray's tent and he hurried to mine. I was waiting for Gray because we were going to divide the tent. When he came in the temperature fell a little... okay, it was so cold I was shivering all night.
I couldn't sleep. With Natsu it was too hot and now, with Gray it was too cold. Gray couldn't sleep either because he could hear my teeth and my body shivering. I did my best to stop but I couldn't. Specially when Gray turned and touched my skin. I had to scream because it was too cold.
But finally, I was on the brink of sleep until I felt a thick fabric cover the top of me. I stopped shivering. It was more warm now. I turned and saw Gray sitting at the corner of the tent, he didn't have a shirt on because he half-stripped. Again.
"Get some sleep." He told me with those droopy eyes that felt heavy.
"How 'bout you?" I wondered as I sat up.
You're 'gonna be shivering 'till morning. I can't stand the sound of it."
"Well, sorry." I pouted. I felt sorry for Gray and it was all my fault so I decided to stay up with him.
So, really, we didn't sleep.
We talked all night long until the brink of morning.
"So... How do you like it in Fairy Tail?" He started small talk.
"I love it. Everyone's so... happy and close." I smiled.
Another breeze of awkward silence passed us.
"What do you think of Erza?" Gray asked me again.
"She's cool and pretty, but really, really scary."
"True." We laughed.
"Hmm... What do you think of Natsu?"
"Hmm... Well first of all, he has and unbearably high body temperature. He's nice but he can also be scary sometimes. And he's very powerful."
"Hn." Gray frowned in disagreement.
Of course.
"Anyways. Hmm... Well, what do you think of me?" Gray asked once more.
My face became pink at that moment, I was quite sure.
"Well..." I tried to think of things to say about Gray that wouldn't embarrass me,
"You have a very low body temperature," I smiled,
"And... Juvia likes you." I smiled.
"Ugh."
"What? Why?"
"I don't like Juvia. I just don't want to be rude." He said.
"Really? You're 'kinda sending us mixed messages." I laughed but he didn't, his face remained in that scowl.
"Well... Who do you really like?" I smiled.
"W-well," His face flushed. He became a tomato,
"Sh-she's a girl."
"Really? I never would've guessed." I laughed.
"Tell me." I smiled.
"There's nothing to tell Lucy." He regained his normal color.
"Hmph," I let it slide,
"Okay. Well, whaddaya' think of me?" I smiled again.
"Eh." He shrugged.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You're okay. In general."
In general huh...
"Hn. Okay. Let's break it down then. Okay, my power." I started.
"You're in Fairy Tail right? I'd say you can answer that by yourself." He smirked.
Don't smirk! It's distracting too!
"A-arigatou. Okay, now my... physical appearance." I smiled.
"W-well..." He flushed a bit,
"Y-you're... Oh look it's late. Good night Lucy!" He lied down and turned his face away from me.
"Oh no Gray Fullbuster. You're answering my question." I said.
"A-aye." He sat in the corner again.
"I think you're pretty cute yourself. And you have big boobs."
"WHA! I regret asking that question! Go to sleep Gray." I said as I covered myself with his jacket.
It was still cold. Gray went to sleep too and we woke up as soon as Erza entered our tent.
"Oh yeah..." I felt my face get hot.
"Huh." I gasped as I felt a cold hand on my face.
"WAAAAH! C-c-co-old." I shivered.
"Chill." Gray laughed.
"Hmph. Okay... Second agenda." I said awkwardly.
"It was an accident Lucy." Gray stood up from his chair then for some reason my heart started beating faster and I felt my whole body heat up. I felt sweat drip down from my forehead.
"Why are you so red?" He chuckled as he stood in front of me. As close as I stood in front of him this morning.
The air was getting unbearably hot, considering Gray was an ice mage.
"Cold enough?" He held his misty hand to my face, it was freezing cold but it did lessen my temperature.
"Th-thanks." I stood there; frozen. I couldn't fin the will to move.
"Anyway Lucy-chan," He purred into my ear as he leaned in to whisper,
"Heh." He chuckled as he took his hand from my face and stepped back.
"I came to tell you that Erza asked for our help with an S-class mission, we leave tomorrow and hang out in the guild until then. Erza's 'gonna meet us or something' kay." He smiled.
"Bye Lucy-chaan." He purred my name again as he left through the door.
"Grr.."
Gray Fullbuster.
I finally finished it. I worked on it for like 5 or 8 hours. It wasn't continuous because I was watching Fairy Tail as well. Hahaha. So, reviews are very much appreciated. And read my other stories if you like Naruto, Ben 10: Alien Force and Harry Potter. Mkaaay. I'll update soon. 'Till next time readers (if you guys exist)
AYE!
*Little Spoiler: This is a love triangle thing with Natsu, Gray and Lucy. Kaaay. A lot of other couples in the future.