/Author's Note/
Chapter 4! ^^ I think it's time to make Natsu go back to our old-loud Natsu again. Enjoy!
Sorry for the mistakes in grammars and spellings…^^;
/Special Thanks to/
darkhuntressxir , Ly-Jane , Ana-chiaaan , kyouko68 , yuri is awsome , Shuiro , Indh13 , EternalLoveHitsuHina , DivineCluster
for the review ^^
/Disclaimer/
Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima. Not mine.
Chapter 4 / Lovely Disaster Date
"So, what's the first place we're gonna visit, Gray?" Natsu was very excited. It's like he's on a trip with Gray as his tour guide.
"How about if we go to the shopping district? It's about 10 minutes walking from here. We always hang out there together with Lucy and the others almost every week." Gray suggested.
"Okay then! Let's go there now! Show me the way ~! Hehe.."
"Sure, Natsu. But first of all, could you please…let go of my hand? Haha.."
"A-ah… R-right.. I'm sorry, Gray.. Guess I'm a little bit too excited…" Natsu blushed. He then let go of Gray's hand.
"No problem, Natsu." Gray smiled. It's not that I don't wanna hold hand with you, but if we keep holding hand, I don't know how long I would 'survive'. Haha.
They walked while chatting about everything related to Natsu's memory. But still, Natsu couldn't remember a single thing. That's until they arrived in front of the shopping district. They looked around and sometimes they entered one the shops if they found something interesting. Suddenly, Natsu stopped in front of one shop. He looked at the displayed items and got interested in a strap with unique shaped emblem. (A/N: it's Fairy Tail mark actually)
"What's wrong, Natsu? See something you like?" Gray asked.
"This strap's emblem…" Natsu still stared curiously. "It's…very well made…"
"…Hmm… Excuse me, sir, how much does it cost?" Suddenly Gray asked the shopkeeper.
"3$ for each. But if you buy 2, you just have to pay 5$. And these two in the display are the last two. Do you want to take them both?" The shopkeeper offered the straps and placed them in front of Gray.
"Okay, I'll take those two. Here's 5$, sir." Gray pulled out his wallet and gave the money to the shopkeeper.
"Alright. Thank you so much, young man. Here's the straps." The shopkeeper handed the straps to Gray.
"Here you go, Natsu."
"H-hey..! You don't need to buy me that! Besides, I'm bringing my own wallet too.. Let me pay you, how much, Gray?" Natsu panicked, tried to pull out his wallet.
"Don't worry, Natsu. It's not that expensive anyway. Just think it as a gift, okay?" Gray put the straps on Natsu's hand.
"W-well… Then you have to pick one! For yourself! It doesn't seem fair if I got these two.. Besides, I just want one. Which one do you want, Gray?" Natsu showed the straps. The emblems weren't in the same color. One of them was blue, and the other one was orange.
"…Fine. I'll take the blue one." Gray took the blue emblem strap from Natsu's hand.
"Yaayy ~! Let's put it on our own mobilephone! Here, let me do yours. Lend me your phone, Gray." Natsu took Gray's phone and attached the blue strap on it. After that, he attached the orange strap on his own phone.
"Look, Gray! Look! Aren't they cute ~?" Natsu showed the phones with the straps hanging. "Now we have the same strap ~.. Hehe.." Natsu hugged his phone after handed Gray's phone back. "Thank you so much, Gray ~!"
Gray blushed seeing Natsu's super cute smiling face. But you're much cuter, Natsu! And he could feel that uncomfortable feeling started to roam in his stomach again. "Y-you're welcome, Natsu." Damn you stupid hormone!
Guuuu~…
Natsu's stomach growled. Come to think of it, they haven't eaten anything for lunch. So Gray tought it's time for lunch now. And he brought Natsu to their favourite café, Fairy Café.
"Whoaahh ~…This café is great! It's so comfortable.." Natsu looked around the café.
"Here you go, boys. Fairy Café's Special Menu of the Day. We have Clear Vegetable Soup for appetizer. Beef Stroganof as the main course. And don't forget our special dessert of the day, Fairy Fruit Pudding ~…" Mirajane served to foods on the table.
"They look delicious! Thank you for the food, Miss~..!" Natsu licked his lips, looking at the delicious foods on the table.
"Miss? Haha. Natsu, what are you playing today? An actor? You always called me 'Mira'. And you look like it's your first time being here... Haha.. You're so silly, Natsu~.." Mira laughed a little.
"Erm.. Actually, Mira, this Natsu here is not the usual Natsu, you know.. He's having an amnesia and he totally forgot everything including this place. He even acts that cute because he hit his head, hard." Gray scratched the back of his head, tried to explain the situation to Mirajane.
"Oh my…That's make sense since Natsu will never act this cute. Even you admit he's cute right now, right Gray? Hehe~…" Mira teased. "Well then, I better leave the two of you. Just put the money on the table before you leave the café as usual, 'kay? I wish you luck, Gray~!" Mira said as she went back to the kitchen.
"W-what? I'm not thinking about Natsu like that! Aaargh! Whatever, I'm eating!" Gray ate the food along with Natsu who didn't even listen the conversations between Gray and Mira.
Finally, they finished eating and left the café.
"Let's go back to the school. The school must have been over now. We should take our bags." Gray suggested.
"Okay! Thanks for everything, Gray! I'm having so much fun today~! Hehe.." the rose headed smiled.
And now I feel some butterflies in my stomach, again. Gray sighed.
On their way back to the school, Natsu found an ice cream wagon. He ran to the wagon and bought a vanilla ice cream.
"Sorry, Gray.. But the owner said he ran out of ice cream. It's the only one left.. Do you want it?"
"Thank for the offer, Natsu. But I'm too full to eat anything again. Just eat it yourself. Haha.."
"Oh.. Okay, Gray.." Natsu smiled and began eating his ice cream happily.
…Arrived at the school…
"It's already empty." Gray said as they walked into their class.
"Aaaahh~… I'm so fuuull ~!" Natsu rubbed his stomach after he finished eating his vanilla ice cream. "There you are, my bag. Let's go home now!" Natsu grabbed his bag.
Stood side by side (because they sat next to each other), Gray saw that Natsu had a vanilla ice cream on his cheek. And it seemed Natsu didn't realize that he had that stain. Without warning, Gray leaned closer to Natsu and licked his cheek to clean up the stain. Realized what he had done, Gray pulled away and covered his face with his hand to keep him from blushing. What have I done?
"G-gray? …Why did you…l-lick me?" Natsu blushed so hard and touched his cheek where Gray had licked it.
"T-there was…some v-vanilla ice cream stain…on your c-cheek…" Gray blushed furiously, pointing at Natsu's cheek. M-my body moved on it's own. Stupid me! Now look what I've done! But I couldn't help it! Natsu is too damn cute! That's it! I think I've fallen for him. B-but, I like the old loud Natsu more. This Natsu is cute but the usual Natsu has his own cuteness!
"Hello? Gray?"
"Natsu! I LIKE YOU!" Gray suddenly bursted out.
"E-eh?"
"Ever since you started acting like this, don't you realize you're so cute that makes everybody wants to do things with you? That's why your dad trusted me to take care of you. But I can't take it anymore. I like you, Natsu! A lot! But still, I like the usual Natsu who's loud, always picked a fight with me, got punished together, being a bad boy, did a competitive sport fight, and grinned his stupid smile!" Gray took a few steps closer to Natsu.
"W-wait a minute, G-gray…" Natsu put his hands in front of his chest and took a few steps back.
"So, please…Come back to the old Natsu I love…"
Because Gray took another step closer, Natsu stumbled his feet on the foot stool when he took another step back.
"Ah…" Natsu fell down.
"N-natsu!" Gray tried to grab Natsu's hand but ended up being pulled down.
BAM!
"O-oi Natsu! Are you okay?" Gray panicked as he fell on top of Natsu's body. Wait. Didn't I just hear… 'BAM'?
"Get off of me, you ice-brain!" Natsu pushed Gray away from him and rubbed the back of his head. "Ouch.. My head…"
'Ice-brain'? Could that be… "Natsu? Is it you? Are you the real Natsu?"
"What do you mean? Of course I'm Natsu, you dumb.." Natsu still rubbed his head.
Gray pinched Natsu's cheek with his hands. "The flame-headed Natsu who's loud and always picked a fight with me?"
"Shaf dhat! (stop that)" Natsu shoved Gray's hands away. "And whom do you call a loud flame-head, you exhibitionist!"
Gray grinned. "So you're back, you stupid flame-head!" He ruffled Natsu's hair. "By the way… Do you remember… anything.. before you fell? I mean, anything.."
"... All I remember is you fell on top of me and my head hurts so damn much right now. Geezz… Anyway, have we finished cleaning the class? I don't want to get yelled again by Ms. Evergreen. She's such a pain." Natsu stood up and fixed the chair.
Gray blinked. Once. Twice.
"Cleaning the class? Don't tell me, you… It's been 3 days after that cleaning day!" Gray shouted.
"…What do you mean?" Natsu confused.
"Look, Natsu… 3 days ago, you fell down when we're cleaning this class. You hit your head, very hard, and lost your conciousness immediately. And the next morning, you had an amnesia. Also, you're acting…so-not-you in the past 3 days.."
"? So-not-me? Like what?"
"Err… How do I explain this… It's like.. you've been acting.. how to describe it.. cute! I meeeaan! Gaahh! How should I explain this thing.." Gray blushed, covering his face with his palm.
Natsu's face went red. "W-wha? What's that supposed to mean!"
"I don't… Let's just… ask Lucy and the others when we're hanging out tomorrow, 'kay? I'm sure they could explain better than me. I can't think of anything right now." Gray scratched his head.
"…Same here. Let's go home for now. I'm not in a mood to fight you either.." Natsu walked away limply.
Gray looked at Natsu for a while. I guess he didn't remember anything about my confession back then. Sighing, Gray followed Natsu out of the class and went back home.
Natsu: Finally! I'm back to normal!
Me: Shouldn't you be thanking me for making you back to normal?
Natsu: As if! You're the one who made me looked like a total uke in the first place!
Gray: But you're making a very cute uke, Natsu. Hahaha.
Me: Uh-huh.. *nodding my head* I agree..
Natsu: Whatever! The fact is I'm back to the super-great-Natsu! Muahahaha!
Me: Well, I could turn you back into the super-uke-Natsu if I wanted. Muahahaha!
Natsu: ! *petrified*
Gray: It's okay, Natsu. Whether you're being super-great or super-uke, I'd still love you. *hugging Natsu*
Me: So sweeeettt ~… Anyway, see 'ya in the next chapiiee! ^^