Hey guys! So instead of this just being a two-shot deal, I was thinking about making this an actual story. Yeah, character develop and such, so this is just a quick chapter. They will get longer, I swear. I don't own Fairy Tale or the characters used. Enjoy.
Natsu never knew he could wake up feeling so great. Through thin curtains light shown through, warming Natsu's face, making him scrunch his nose and blink his eyes open. Adjusting to the waking sun with a slight hum. He felt like he was refreshed, that all his energy had been replenished from the night before. From waking up in the middle of the night, to learning about the fight, and then to having sex with the mage. But the last part felt odd to think, yet it was contented. He wondered if the rainy night had been a dream, not because it was so wonderful, but because it was almost unrealistic.
But he felt the cool skin around his waist and the small face burring in his hair. Gray did a small groan and nuzzled deeper in the back of Natsu's neck, tickled by poking hairs. Natsu looked behind him, seeing the peaking color of navy of Gray's eyes opening.
"Hi." Natsu said
"Hey." Gray replied
Gray's grip became tighter as he closed his eyes again to cuddle in Natsu's back. Natsu's body tensed up.
"Uh, hey! This isn't an all- day cuddle thing going on!" Natsu exclaimed. "Let me up, spooning time is over."
Gray opened his eyes again in a narrowed glare, letting his arms off of Natsu's body.
"Sorry, force of habit," Gray muttered. Natsu started to sit up and stretch on the bed. "Me and Juvia usually cuddle for a while in the morning."
Natsu turned his head and looked behind him. "I'm not your girlfriend."
"I can see that."
Natsu rolled his lip and clicked his tongue. He unraveled his scarf and evened out the length on his shoulders.
"What time is it?" Natsu asked.
Gray shrugged. "Nine, nine- thirty maybe. Did you sleep all night in your scarf?"
"Yeah."
"Doesn't it get warm?"
"Are you really asking me that?"
Gray chuckled and laid in his hip. Giving a sleepy smile to Natsu. He was still trying to wrap his scarf right instead of the sloppy way he used to, but he started to struggle and scold himself. Gray raised an eyebrow.
"Can you not wrap a scarf Flame Brain?"
"I can, Ice Stripper," Natsu scoffed and glared back. "But Lucy had started to wrap it in a certain way and I can't remember what she did. It was like, over tighten, wrap loose, something like that."
Gray rolled his eyes and sat up next to Natsu and started to undo the scald scarf.
"I know what she's talking about. Here," Gray turned Natsu towards him and let his hands move. "Let me do it."
"I can do it myself."
"Not the way Lucy does it apparently."
"You're not my girlfriend." Natsu pointed out.
Gray smirked up. "I can see that."
Natsu sighed and slouched his shoulders and let Gray continue. Eying the loop and wraps happening around his neck, but mostly looking at Gray. It seemed like he was determined to actually make something the way Natsu was accustomed to. Even so, it was still hard to mimic.
"Shit I messed up," Gray huffed and undid the scarf again. "Let me try again."
"Uh, okay."
Before Gray was going to try again, the sound of a door closing came and it alerted both the boys. Feet walking around the house, going room to room to check for anyone.
"Gray? Are you home?"
Both the boys gasped and straightened up in the fear of being caught by the familiar voice heard.
"Juvia." Gray breathed.
"Shit, what do I do?!" Natsu hastily whispered.
Gray ran his fingers in his hair and sighed out. "Fuck, I don't know!" Gray replied, thinking of a plan. "Um, get your stuff and head out the window."
"What?!"
"Gray? Are you still asleep? "
"Okay, help me get my stuff," Natsu agreed and hopped off the bed softly picking up his pants and vest. "God this is bad, really bad."
"Just hurry and she won't know a thing, okay?" Gray said unlocking the window and pushing it open. "I'll see you at the guild, just act normal."
"Is this how you feel when your clothes come off?"
"Stop dicking around and get the fuck out!" Gray quietly said
"Okay, okay, I'm out." Natsu said pulling up his pants and going towards the window. His other clothes under his arm.
"Natsu." Gray called
"Gray I need to leave."
"I just wanted to say thank you for yesterday."
Natsu's lip hung out for a moment from the phrase, his hand tight around the sill. The knob jiggling and turning broke the moment. Natsu leaned in for a kiss before jumping out the window and dashing away from the building. His scarf hanging out between the inside and blowing outside. Gray held the fabric in his hand with his fingers curling around it. The effect of the sudden kiss sinking in. The door creaked open and Gray stuffed it underneath the bed. Hiding the evidence that Natsu was ever there, but that idea was unsettling to Gray.
"Gray," Juvia said. "I think we should talk."
The guild had its usual rowdiness to it with the smell of cheap drinks of bitter alcohol in the air. Loud comments and booming laughter floated around everyone, Natsu quiet at the bar. Kana raised her eyebrows along with her glass.
"Hey Natsu, what's up with you today?" She asked.
Natsu shrugged to show he paying attention to her. "I don't know. I guess I'm just tiered. The storm last night kept me up." Natsu lied.
The rain did keep him up and out in the night, but not because it caused freak flashes of light and pounding noise of thunder. Because of a women with an angry cloud over her head who wanted to melt snow with hot rain. And because it was all fires' fucking fault.
"It was a pretty bad storm yesterday huh?" Kana said "I didn't see you come in with Lucy so I thought something happened between you two."
"No, no, nothing like that. Me and her are just fine."
"The where is she at?"
"I don't fucking know, Kana," Natsu groaned. "I don't keep her on a leash for her to follow."
Kana punched Natsu's arm hard, making him tilt on the chair.
"Ow!" Natsu exclaimed rubbing his arm.
"Don't get snippy with me," Kana pointed. "You'll kill my buzz. I just asked a simple question, it's like you're on edge or something. You sure there's nothing wrong with you?"
"There's nothing wrong or going on, I'm fine, it's just," He tried tugging on an invisible piece of clothing he lost earlier. He bawled his hand in a fist. "It's nothing."
Kana rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say," She slid her drink forward to ask for another. "Maybe you need a drink."
"I don't need to develop a drinking problem at seventeen, thank you."
The doors opened with a wind of tiny wings flapping to the bar and heels clacking along with them.
"Natsu!" Happy joyfully said, landing on the counter. "We're so glad to see you!"
"We're?" Natsu questioned
A pale, nimble hand rested on Natsu's shoulder. He looked up and saw the locks of blonde and hazel eyes back at him, smiling wide.
"Lucy." Natsu mumbled.
"We were so worried out you," Lucy said. "When Happy and I came to meet you this morning you weren't home, we check all around but we couldn't fine you. So we just hoped you'd be at the guild."
You could have caught me running half naked down a street this morning.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to make you worry," Natsu said. "I just went on a walk for a while and came here."
"Is that why you smell like sweat and your hair is messy?" Happy asked
"Yeah, sure. I was out for a long time." Natsu agreed.
"Your scarf is gone," Lucy tilted her head and motioned to Natsu's neck. Then having her arms wrap around his shoulder. "What happened to it?"
"Uh, oh, it was windy and blew off. I was going to look for it on the way home."
"Natsu you're so stupid sometimes, you couldn't even tie your scarf tight enough so it wouldn't blow off." Happy said
"I'm not stupid!" Natsu snapped
Lucy giggled and kissed Natsu's cheek, wrapping her arms tighter. "I don't think your stupid," Lucy said "Well not for that anyway."
It was a warm kiss. The kind of kiss that was quick and simple, soft to the touch that showed someone cared. But somehow Natsu didn't feel just the same back. Yes, he did think it was sweet, and yes he couldn't deny he didn't like it. The thing was, is that he felt like he couldn't do the same back. Making him think of the kiss he had this morning with Gray. That was something he couldn't explain, he felt something that was hard to comprehend. But he smiled back at her and let her nuzzled her small chin in his shoulder. The guild doors opening again, with everyone flicking their heads back to mime each other to see who had entered. Natsu gingerly swallowed. Gray.
"Hi, Gray," Mira passed by and greet him. "How are you?"
"I'm alright, thanks. Have you seen Natsu?"
She nodded with a smile and pointed towards the bar. "At the counter, Lucy and Happy are by him."
"Thanks, Mira."
"No problem." Mira said and went to give a table their drinks.
Gray walked towards the bar with Natsu turning his back around and pierce his lips together. After the awkward morning he had with Gray, he really didn't want to hear what Gray had to report back. To warn that Juvia found out and she was ready for a killing spree and he had a ten minute head start, or to tell the guild a flood would come.
"Hi, Gray!" Happy waved.
"Hey, Gray. What's up?" Lucy asked.
"Nothing really," Gray lightly smiled at the two. "Could I borrow Natsu for a second?"
"You're not gonna fight with him again are you?" Lucy said, protectively.
"No, no, nothing like that."
"It's okay, Lucy," Natsu said, standing up and pulling her arms off. "I'll be a second."
He could see the concern in her eyes but nodded. "Okay. But don't start anything."
"Don't worry," He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her lips. "I'll be fine and nothing will go down. Not here anyway."
He slinked off her after a quick rub of her skin and turned back. Gray ticking his head to the side to tell him to follow across the guild and down the hall by the bathroom.
"Gray, what's going on?" Natsu harshly whispered.
"Going on with what?"
"Don't play fucking dumb. Did Juvia find out?"
"Oh, no," Gray shook his head. "We talked things out and that she over reacted. I'm pretty sure we're alright now."
Natsu sighed with relief. "Then what do you need me for?"
"Well," Gray undid a few top buttons of his jacket then buried his hand in the opening created. Rustling around for something. He pulled out the long, worn fabric of Natsu's scarf. "When you left my house you dropped your scarf. I thought I'd give it back."
Natsu's eyes gleamed, he never thought he'd miss a piece of fabric so much. Nothing to grab onto when he was nervous, nothing to keep the jitters and stress away for a simple smell, and nothing was warmer than a memory. He hung his hand out and let his palm glide on the fabric like it was another persons' hand.
"You want me to put it on for you?" Gray asked
"Uh, sure," Natsu dropped his hand. "I don't mind."
Gray threw the scarf over Natsu's neck and started to even the sides. Natsu focused on Gray's wrapping pattern.
"Thank you for bringing my scarf back." Natsu said.
"No problem. I know how much it means to you. I thought you would want it."
"I just think it's really nice that you got it when your girlfriend was walking in."
"Why wouldn't I?" Gray asked, pulling the ends and looking back up."
"Weren't you afraid of getting caught?"
"Well, yeah. But I just thought about you so I kept it until I could give it back."
"Why would you care?"
"Because, Natsu," Gray sighed. "I like you. So I'm gonna care about you."
Natsu lightly swallowed and smiled. He kissed Gray's cheek fast. "Thank you, again," Natsu said, leaving the hall and running back to Lucy. "Hey! Gray found my scarf!"
"Wasn't that nice of him." Gray could hear Lucy reply.
Gray lightly bit down on his lip, the feel of the steamy peck still stuck to his skin.
"You're welcome."
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