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Was it possible to feel someone else's anger from miles away? Cause Natsu swore he could feel Erza's from the guild hall. He was just glad it wasn't directed at him.
Yet.
"I-I'm sorry ma'am, but we simply don't have room for you all to sit in the same compartment together. You will have to go," He glanced over at Natsu, who had just arrived, barely out of breath. "2 and 2." The conductor said. He looked nervous. Natsu couldn't blame him.
Erza let out a frustrated sigh, crossing her arms. "Fine. Natsu, you'll go with-"
"Can I go with Lucy?"
He really didn't want to sit with Erza, she might hit him, and it would definitely raise questions if he said he wanted to sit with Gray.
"With Gray."
Natsu cringed as Gray let out a groan of disgust. He should have known Gray would be opposed to this. After all, if you had to be alone with someone you hated for however long they'd be on the train-he grimaced-you probably would not like it.
"Oh come on, why do I have to sit with fucking Flame Breath over here?"
"Shut up, I'm not exactly happy about this either, Icicle Dick!"
He was.
"Dragon Bitch."
"Underwear Man."
"Dipshit."
"Okay, you're not even trying anymore!" Natsu shouted.
"Oh, and you are?!"
"Stop fighting, idiots!" Erza smacked them, leaving a large bump on both of their heads. "We need to get on the train or it'll leave without us." She marched off, Gray stomping after her. Natsu tried to follow but was held back by Lucy grabbing his scarf. "Are you going to be okay?" she asked. "Yeah, I'm going to be sick the whole time anyway so I won't be able to concentrate on anything but not puking," he joked. He could already feel the nausea and he wasn't even on the train yet. "Well… okay…" Lucy mumbled. "You worry too much, Luce. Let's go before Erza yells at us."
The train started moving right as Natsu collapsed into his seat across from Gray. A quiet whimper escaped him when the motion sickness hit.
He hoped Gray didn't hear that.
"Jeez, took you long enough," said man grumbled. Natsu didn't reply, too afraid that if he opened his mouth he'd puke, and instead curled up into a fetal position, squeezing his eyes shut and burying his face in his scarf.
Usually Gray would keep making fun of him, but now he fell silent. Weird.
Natsu cracked an eye open to look at him, surprised to see the tsundere ice mage actually looking… concerned? He was probably just worried that Natsu might throw up on him.
He closed his eyes again when the train made a wide turn, but as it did, he caught a whiff of something crisp and minty-Gray's scent-and he didn't feel like dying anymore.
His eyes widened. Wait hold on why does Gray's scent make me not sick what does this mean what do I do I can't just be like 'hey Gray when I smell you I don't feel like puking can you come over here so I can smell you?'-
"Why the hell do you look like you've just seen a ghost?"
Natsu jumped and immediately felt nauseous again. "It-s nothing… just s-something stupid…" he managed to say. "Okay…?"
They both fell silent until Natsu spoke up a couple minutes later. "C-can you sit over here?" He didn't care how pathetic he sounded, he found something that would make his motion sickness go away, and even if it was only temporary he wanted it, dammit.
"No? Why the fuck would I do that?" He heard Gray say.
At this point, Natsu didn't care if the whole guild knew that he wanted Gray fucking Fullbuster to sit next to him, he would get this if it killed him. "Just…" He could have cried. "I'll tell you… please…"
To be honest, he was surprised that Gray looked like he was considering it, but he was even more surprised when he actually fucking got up and sat next to him.
His cool minty smell was even stronger than it was earlier, and Natsu actually felt… normal.
"Alright Flame Breath, what's up?"
"Umm…" How should he say this…
"I just found this out, but for some reason when I smell you my motion sickness goes away." Natsu cringed internally after the words next his mouth. That sounded really creepy.
"Oh." Was all Gray said. Natsu narrowed his eyes.
"Why are you acting so… civil? Aren't we supposed to fight all the time or whatever?" he wondered out loud.
He felt Gray sigh beside him and-whoa, he hadn't realized they were that close.
"I like to fight you mostly because you're an idiot most of the time and because I like using my magic, not because I hate you. We're rivals, not enemies. Just because we fight doesn't mean we can't be friends or be nice to each other."
The two fell into silence after Gray spoke.
Did that mean… Gray might be willing to be friends in the guild as well? That would be nice… Natsu thought, right before he fell asleep. He slumped over onto Gray, who was going to make a snarky comment despite what he just said, but shut his mouth when he noticed red marks on Natsu's wrist.
He carefully pulled up the Dragon Slayer's sleeve more to reveal cuts going all the way up his arm. Gray gasped in horror, dropping Natsu's arm.
He didn't know what was going on, but he was definitely going to interrogate the fire mage after the job.
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