Disclaimer: Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima not me. I'm just a fan.

Warning: It's a yaoi fic of Gray X Natsu.

Author's Note:

This fic was adapted from the RPG my friend had done last year. It's certainly different from the official version he and another friend had written which was dropped as it had gotten too long. I just feel like writing this part when Gray finally admitted his feeling towards Natsu. This part was heavily revised to make it my own version. I'm going to cut this short.

In the original RPG, the culprit who hurt Natsu was named but I'm not sure if I'm going to do the same in this fic yet (That's why Gray is very protective of Natsu in my other fanfic, Natsu's New Clothes). I had changed my perception over that character thanks to a fanfic I read here so I might not ruin that character.

Request for reviews:

I'm aware that my fics are always lacking in reviews Thanks to ahuna67, I decided to try my hand on M rating fanfic but nothing explicit. I wonder if anybody cares to take some time to review my fic. This is the first time I write a fic with M rating. I wish to see feedback. Reviews are motivation to authors after all.

Chapter 1

"Natsu! Natsu!"

Natsu Dragneel could vaguely hear a voice calling for him. His body felt really heavy. Was he dead? He tried very hard to open his eyes with no avail.

"Natsu, I'm coming for you now..."

"Coming for me?" Natsu asked in his mind in confusion.

In reality…

Gray Fullbuster was anxious. They had finally found Natsu a few months after he had gone missing who was in critical condition lying somewhere in the wild. His clothes including his pant were ripped and Natsu was bleeding badly to his horror. Gray ran to him to check his pulse and was relieved that Natsu was still breathing but not for long now considering how much blood he had lost. Gray stripped his jacket and cover Natsu with it.

"No, I'll not give in to you... Gray is the one I love..." Natsu was mumbling unconsciously on his arms.

"Natsu, you will be fine, hang in there ok?" Gray whispered to his ears when Erza, Lucy and Happy arrived. They gasped at the fallen Salamander state. They could not believe that the lively Salamander who was always up and active looked really dead like a broken doll. Natsu had been always powerful enough to hold his own. Who exactly had the power to run him down to this state? Gray looked around his surrounding in hope that there would be a sign of the culprit in fury.

They were unlucky that Wendy was unable to join them as she was out on a mission so they rushed him to the hospital back in the nearby city. The healer told them something about Natsu which made Gray raged in anger.

"We can almost confirm that he was… His injury was resulted from defending himself against his assaulter". The healer spoke to the group. "We will monitor his condition. At this moment, we can't be sure of anything until the patient wakes up. There are chances that he is currently still unconscious on his own will".

Gray sat by his bed. Natsu was bandaged all over his body and he was attached to all sorts of machines which was monitoring his condition and preserving his life. He brushed his messy hair and touched his face. Natsu looked so frail and pale with an oxygen mask over his mouth.

"Gray…" Natsu murmured in his audible voice. Tears silted down his cheek.

"Natsu?" Gray noticed his falling tears. He wiped off his tears on his cheek. Natsu shown sign of waking up but he was not waking up any moment giving them false hope. "Wake up. Flame Brain!" Gray stood up and started to shake him. He could not stand Natsu in his vulnerable state any longer.

A figure shown up from behind stopping Gray from his act on Natsu. "Stop it! You are hurting him!" He pulled Gray away from Natsu's bed. Gray realised that it was Loki. He released him from his grasp when he had calmed himself down. Loki led him out of the room to talk.

"I heard about it from Lucy. It seemed that Natsu had gone through something so traumatic that he refused to wake up. I have a way to find out but your help is needed". Loki took out two golden rings from his coat's pocket. "I suspect as much about your feeling towards Natsu. If your feeling is mutual, this will work."

"What is this?" Gray asked. Loki smiled.

Gray stood beside Natsu holding a ring on hand. He had put on one on Natsu's finger. Gray pondered on Loki's words on top of his instruction.

*Flashback*

Natsu was acting weird towards him since that night. Natsu was avoiding him and he wondered why. He had woken up at home and was having a hangover. He recalled that he was drunk from the party in the guild the night before and someone had carried him home.

He went back to the guild when Mira greeted him. "Hi, Gray! I thought you wouldn't come today after a series of brawling with Natsu last night. You were dead drunk and Natsu was the one who dragged you home. You guys really get along very well. I heard from Natsu that you even help Natsu in the selection of his new clothes".

"Nah... There is no way me and that Flame Brain can get along." Gray felt his heartache when he said that. "By the way, where is he?"

"I think he must have a hangover at home. No? I don't recall him drinking last night". Mira scratched her head.

"If it's Natsu you are looking for, he went out for a mission leaving me alone." Happy rubbed his eyes as he walked over to them. Happy just woke up. It seemed that he had stayed overnight at the guild. "It is just unlike him. I vaguely see Natsu picking up a request and left this morning. That was very bad of him to leave me, his partner here".

Natsu returned that evening but he had been avoiding Gray since then. Gray had tried to instigate a fight but Natsu would not take the bait.

"Natsu, what's wrong with you?" Gray dragged him out for a talk by the river where they always fought since they were kids as he could not take it any longer after a few days of being ignored.

"Nothing is wrong with me. I'm still the same as usual". He replied in a deep and serious tone. It was nothing like the usual Natsu Gray knew of."Leave me alone". Natsu took off hurriedly. He did not want Gray to know what he did to him that night.

Natsu grabbed on his scarf tightly in frustration. "How can I let him know?"

That night, Natsu he took Gray home at Mira's request. Natsu dragged him back on his bed before he went to the toilet to get some towel.

"This is?" Natsu gasped when he saw Gray's personal photo board. He had all their drawings from Reedus on the board. On one corner of the board, he had pasted all the pictures of someone labelled as "The special person in my life". Natsu always thought that Gray hated his gut but the pictures of him were taken care of cautiously by the owner. Natsu blushed at his picture with Gray. He had his arms over him and they were smiling happily.

He returned with warm towel and attempted to wipe his head. To his surprise, Gray grabbed his hand which was holding the towel and snatched it from him. Gray was red on his face.

"Natsu…" He glared at him in his eyes with his drunken eyes. Natsu attempted to push him away but was pinned down by Gray's massive strength on his bed. Natsu found himself unable to counter him as he was tired from carrying Gray home.

"Do you know that you had captivated my heart? If it wasn't we are both guys, I will have made you mine." Gray pulled his scarf off and thrown it to the ground. He continued to pull the zip of Natsu's jacket and he sniffed his neck and left a mark on his neck. Natsu looked away. He had wanted to push him away but relented at the thought of the special treatment of the pictures Gray had of him. He felt the same towards Gray. He had his arms over Gray who had begun to kiss him all over and pull him into a hug.

Gray was enjoying his experience while Natsu was grimacing in pain until Gray got tired and fell back into the bed. Natsu was beaming in tears of happiness rather than pain beside Gray. Deep in his heart, he knew that it was impossible between them. Natsu was not willing to let Gray destroy his own future because of their forbidden relationship. That was why he left him after their talk by the river. Natsu had never returned to the guild and Gray had been looking for him since then.

*End Flashback*

Gray was stubborn. He just would not admit his feeling towards Natsu until he found him near dead in the forest with his clothes ripped off. That was when he realised how important Natsu was to him even without Loki telling him.

"Natsu, I'm coming for you now..." With that Gray put on the other ring on his finger and held Natsu's hand which had the ring put on by Gray. Blinding light shone through the room and Gray fell limp on Natsu's body.

Gray found himself in the forest where they found Natsu. "Good! I had got in successfully as per Loki's instruction". He looked around. He was supposed to find Natsu and get him out of here before the time was up.

Unknown to him, someone had closed in to him.