Me: well I'm only like three or four days late.

Natsu: where the hell have you been?!

Gray: yeah we've been waiting for over a week!

Erza: we thought you were never coming back.

Lucy: Erza, you and I aren't really important to the plot, remember?

Erza: oh right. (Disappointed)

Mira: why don't we go get some ice cream girls?

Me: yes please do.

Natsu: back to my question…

Me: oh right. Well I said around Saturday, didn't I?

Gray: oh you little—You meant LAST Saturday!

Me: well I had stuff to do.

Natsu: and what might this "stuff" be?

Gray: yes, I'm very curious myself.

Me: um… That's not important! Anyway-

Natsu: you were just lazy weren't you?

Me: hey! It's my story! I decide when I get to update!

Gray: I apologize for Ninja_DragonSlayer500 about not updating.

Natsu: I think it's gonna be week in between updates from now on.

Me: whatever…

Gray/Natsu: STOP BEING RUDE!

Me: yes sirs! Anyway, let's get to the story!

Gray/Natsu: finally!

I thought Gray was bad. His friends are horrible! Like BAD! Really bad. And unfortunately, they were in my dorm. On my side of the room, on my couch, in my dorm. Mine.

I walked in and was staring at my phone so I didn't notice them at first. I flopped down on my bed and was about to scream in my pillow until I felt that I was being watched. I turned over and finally saw two guys with annoying faces starring at me. Gray was on his phone not giving a shit as his friends continued to look at me. It was becoming very uncomfortable.

"You know what? I think I'm just gonna go see if Sting and Rogue want to get diner or something, 'Kay?" As I was about to leave, Gray interrupted, still not looking up from his phone, though.

"Sit. Lyon and Yuka are having their dorm cleaned so they're gonna stay here for the night."

My eye twitched. "Shouldn't you consult the other inhabitant of the room before you invite more people to be here?!" I half yelled. "Besides, where are they gonna sleep 'cause it sure as hell isn't on my side of the room.

Ice Princess still seemed unamused. "Their on my side of the room, idiot." They had moved since I walked in, I hadn't noticed.

Anyway, this was gonna be hell.

Fast-forward a few hours. It was like ten and I was bored. I had put on my headphones to block out Ice Block, Eyebrows (Yuka) and other Ice Block (Lyon.)

But before I knew it, they had convened me to play truth or dare with them. But the catch was there was no truth. Just the dare.

"Yuka," Gray said, "I dare you to go to school in your underwire only tomorrow." Lyon laughed and Yuka objected. Me though, I didn't care. Instead, I was checking my Instagram feed.

For, like, five minutes I got away with being that friend that is always on their phone and doesn't care about what's happening. In doing that, I had used all my chickens.

"Natsu," Lyon smirked as an idea formed in his head. "Kiss Gray."

I was infuriated. I'm pretty sure that I accidentally set myself on fire. He was toying with me! LIKE A DOLL! But their was a major blush on my cheeks that I really hope no one saw.

"What the hell, man?!" Gray yelled. I kinda felt bad for Sting and Rogue who were probably trying to make out because of the ruckus we were causing.

(Oh, look at that! I looked down and I had gotten a text from Rogue telling us to shut up. Talk about timing, right?)

I was just a mixture of negative emotions. I was angry because Lyon was toying with me, but somewhere deep under that, I really wanted to kiss Gray. Shut up, stupid hormones!

I flipped Lyon off before hesitantly moving closer to Gray who closed his eyes and held his breath. I was a few inches from Gray's cheek when Lyon stopped me.

"I should've been more specific. What I meant was you have to kiss Gray on the lips. And you're not allowed to part until you absolutely need air. And I'm adding this, Gray, you have to be in control.

Yuka laughed as Gray and I stared at Lyon. "WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL, MAN?!" We protested in unison.

"Did I freaking stutter?"

The dark haired wizard and I stared at each other before the other sighed. "Fine, but I will never forgive you, Lyon." I'm pretty sure it was the lighting, but I thought I saw Gray blushing.

My blush wasn't going to let up ever. Lyon and Yuka pushed my onto Gray's lap, and in turn, we both blushed even more (if that was possible.)

I was in a seriously awkward position and I just wanted it to be over. We both leaned in slowly before our lips touched for the third in less than a week.

("It's time for a new segment called: WHATS INSIDE NATSU'S HEAD?! Let's go see what's going on inside his head!"

Screw Lyon, screw Lyon, screw Lyon! Send him to hell!

"Well there you have it folks! See you next time!"

[Don't ask, even I don't know what that was.])

When I thought I could get through this without dying, Lyon and Yuka interfered. At the same time, they hit me and Gray on the heads while we were still kissing. And it was hard. Apparently their intention was to get us to open our mouths to our tongues would meet.

It worked.

Fortunately, (or unfortunately) I had run outa air. And I know it was in my head, but I felt like Gray wouldn't let me leave the kiss. His tongue started dancing with mine and I didn't want it to end, but I was really running out of air.

I pulled away with the heaviest blush I'd ever had on my face. And I was sure this time, Gray had just as big of a blush as I had.

Quickly, I climbed off Gray, threw my headphones on and flung my hooding on before running outa the dorm as Lyon and Yuka laughed and Gray called after me. I knew he'd yell a the two and then run after me so I ran as fast as my legs would carry me.

I didn't know were to go so I ran to the guild hall. On my way there, I ran into an officer.

"Hey there, what's the rush?" He asked as he straightened us out.

Breathlessly, I answered, "I'm running from high school problems." The officer nodded in understanding before I heard Gray yell out my name. "Please sir, whatever you do, don't tell him I went this way." The man gave a small smile and said he wouldn't.

"But you can't always run away from your problems. You'll have to face them at some point." I nodded and bolted in the direction of the guild.

When I got to the hall, I busted through the door and felt to my knees while I tried to catch my breath.

"What's the matter, my boy?" I heard Master Makarov ask. After I had gotten air into my lungs, I sat down a table with Master, Laxus and Cana. Mira, who was working the night shift, got us some drinks which I didn't touch.

I told them everything that happened and didn't look at them once. When I was done, the first one to say something was Cana. "So you like your rival. From what you told me, it seems like he likes you back."

Looking up in surprise, Laxus nodded and I looked over to Gramps who was sitting by me. "Natsu, it doesn't matter if you like Gray or not. You just need to tell him so he knows. It will get a huge weight off your shoulders if you confess."

"I'm not a people person," Laxus stated, "but we'll be right behind you."

I couldn't help but chuckle. "You guys sound like a dad and older siblings."

"That's what a guild is," Master said.

The door to the guild hall flew open and Gray came running. "You stupid Pyro Freak!" He yelled. "Don't run away from me when I have something to say!"

I looked at the other three at the table and they nodded, well Cana half nodded as she drunk a barrel of beer. Getting up, I walked over to Gray. "I have something to tell you," we both said at the same time.

"You first," Gray said.

I took a breath and began. "You're really annoying and you can really tic me off. But…how do I put this?"

"You can put it like this." Before I knew what was happening, Gray's lips were on mine. I was tense at first but soon melted into it. When we parted, Gray said, "I like you too, dumbass."

I was speechless. What the fuck?! Did that really just happen?! Did Gray kiss me?! I swear my brain was malfunctioning.

There was about two seconds of of silence before Cana yelled in hear drunken voice, "Yeah! Finally! You guys took forever to got together!" Laxus glared at Cana and then, after a bit of talking, Gray and I went back to the dorms.

The next day at school, Sting and Rogue found out and congratulated me on a job well done. Lucy and Erza were all over us and telling us how cute we were together. Gray glared at them and they backed off.

And there's more! Instead of moving Gray to the bottom of the social latter, I was moved back to the top! There was still some guys who didn't like me, but I scared half them off with my fire and Gray chased the other half off with his ice magic.

So life was good. We were ending the school year and were starting to go on missions a lot more. That was really fun. I was seeing Happy more and more and Team Natsu started to go on missions together again. We were destroying towns again and Gramps was getting mad at us.

But the best part was that I was with Gray. And yeah, there's been bumps on the road. Actually, there's been a lot of bumps along the way. But we're gonna be fine.

Hey! Remember when I said this wasn't a sappy story? Did I lie? Honestly I have no idea 'cause I don't do romance very well.

Huh? Oh, Gray is taking me on a date today. Got to go! Anyway, that's my story and it was a really tiring one, too. It's almost like a cliché plot that a fan fiction writer came up with.

But yeah, it turned out good.

"Natsu, I'm gonna leave you here!"

"Coming, Gray!" See'ya!

XXX

And that's the end! I really am sorry for the slow update. I wasn't expecting to finish it in this chapter but I did. But really, that was a cliché ending and I'm sorry. That's the only thing I came up with. But I had fun writing this! Hoped you liked it! Bye! I do not own Fairy Tail or any of the characters!