Chapter 10

'My boyfriend's a stripper. My boyfriend is a stripper.' The same sentence continuingly repeated in Natsu's head. He was currently lying in bed with Gray. He had confessed last night about his job and Natsu had accepted it. However Natsu didn't completely. After their inanimate moment all he could think was Gray on stage, taking his clothes off miserably as perverted men and woman throw money to make him dance. Natsu did trust Gray, it was said perverted men and woman he didn't. At least he knew Loke owned the club and can trust him to make sure no one was to harm Gray anyway while he worked. But he wanted to be the one to protect his Gray. Natsu was brought out of his thoughts when he felt Gray stir in his sleep. Gray's eyes fluttered open and landed on his smiling pinkette boyfriend.

"Hey." Gray said sleep laced in his voice.

"Good morning." Natsu said and kissed his forehead. "Last was pretty fun huh?"

Gray's eyes widen as he remembered last night's events. A red hue donned on his cheeks. Natsu couldn't make out what expression Gray made, embarrassment, shame, fear?

"Hey," Natsu said concerned and placed his hand on his cheek, "What's wrong?"

Gray signed, he turned his faced to kiss Natsu's palm. "I can't believe I told you and that you accepted it. That I'm actually waking up next to you again."

Natsu tighten his grip around Gray, "Of course I did. I'm your boyfriend am I not? It's my job to accept you and care for you as you are." Natsu said and again kissed Gray's forehead.

Tear dot the corners of Gray eyes but he wore a smile happy smile, "Thank you."

Natsu kissed away Gray's tears before they could streak Gray's face. They continued to lay in the peaceful silence. Natsu had never seen this side of Gray before and he was grateful for it. He wanted to see and know everything about the man he was laying with. He couldn't wait. They beautiful moment was shattered when Natsu's roommate had knocked on hi bedroom's door.

"Natsu wake up, it's almost noon. Get your ass up." Lucy shouted from the door.

Natsu groaned loudly and refuse to loosen his grip on Gray."Go away." He said loud enough so Lucy could hear him.

"No!"

"It's ok." Gray said, "I have to use the bathroom anyway." He lightly pushed Nastu until he let him go.

Gray went around the room to collect his clothes. Natsu couldn't help but admire his lover's beautiful body. The way the muscles in his back move, his pale fair skin seeming to glow in the light sunlight and his long slender legs. Perhaps being a stripper had its benefits; for both of them. Nastsu let out a sigh and pushed himself out of bed to follow Gray's actions. After he had on his boxers and a shirt Natsu creped behind Gray and held him in a warm embrace and kissed the nape of Gray's neck.

"You go to the bathroom I'll take care of breakfast, k?" Natsu asked.

"Sure."

Natsu went into the kitchen and gather the ingredients he would he need. Lucy came into the kitchen completely dressed in a black dress, heels, and her hair in a neat little bun with a few strands falling out and face full in makeup.

"And where are you going?" Natsu asked with a smirk.

"I have a date with Loki." Lucy simply answered and pulled out a water bottle from the fridge.

"Already? Didn't we all have a date last night?"

"He invited me to a lunch date."

"OK but isn't it a bit early for lunch?"Natsu asked.

"Natsu it's almost one o'clock."

What? Natsu glance at the clock and was indeed twelve fifty-four. "Wow. We slept in late huh?"

"Well I would assume, Gray and you would be really tired after last night."

Natsu stopped for a moment and the red color darken in his cheeks.' So she heard us again, dam it. This is getting too embarrassing.' Natsu thought.

"I didn't know Gray had the lungs to be so loud." Lucy said taking a sip from her water. "Welp, I gotta go meet Loki at one thirty. I'm going to get going. You two have fun." Lucy left the apartment to leaving the blushing pinkette in the kitchen thinking he should get his room soundproof. He was drawn out of his thoughts went the sound of the shower came on. With a devious smile Natsu sneaked into the bathroom without Gray noticing and took his clothes. Natsu went back into the kitchen to continued cooking their breakfast. A few minutes the shower was turned off.

"Natsu where are my clothes" Gray yelled from the bathroom.

"I don't know? Didn't you bring them with you to the bathroom?" Natsu asked trying hard not to laugh at his actions.

Bathroom door opened and Natsu could hear Gray's feet padding the hard wood floors. The steps had stopped when at the entrance to the kitchen. Natsu turned around to see Gray dripping wet with nothing with a small towel barely holding onto his hips. Natsu eyes trailed down Gray's wet, well toned, chiseled chest down to the dark hair that outlined his navel. Natsu was glaring at the towel, angry that it was covering Gray's. Gray smirked when he noticed that he had Natsu's attention, he walking over to the small table and took a seat in the chair spreading his legs the towel nearly undone and fell and wasn't doing a well job of covering Gray anymore.

"So what ya cooking?" Gray asked.

Natsu snapped out his thoughts to focus on making food for the two of them. "Just some eggs and sausage."

"Sound good." Gray replied, he got up from his chair and stood in front of Natsu, he lead his chest his chest on Natsu, their lips a few centimeters. The water on Gray's body was getting Natsu wet as well and hot. Natsu just wanted to take that towel off Gray's body and let Gray have his way with him, Gray went to Natsu's ear slowly licking the shell, Natsu let out a gasp. Gray smriked and whispered, "Where are my clothes Natsu?"

Natsu frowned not happy how this was a devious plan. Gray snickered at his boyfriend's frowning face.

"Oh you think you're so clever don't you?" Natsu asked.

"Yup." Gray replied still snickering.

Natsu let out an irritating sound and thought of something and smirked. He turned aroung and turned off the stove and went back to Gray. He graped the back of his head and smashed their lips into a sloppy kiss but Gray could care less if it was sloppy. He loves to kiss Natsu. The kiss was long and lingering. Gray swiped his tongue over Natsu's bottom lip to ask for entrance, which was greatly accepted. Their tongues collided; Gray took every chance he could to feel Natsu's warmth. Gray eventually began to grind his hips.

That's when Natsu broke the kiss and turned around. He placed the foods he cooked and walked over to the small with two plates. He placed them down and went to the fridge and cup cover to get milk and glasses. When he finally sat down to eat, he looked over at Gray. Gray returned the look with a glare.

"What?" Natsu asked with "innocence", "You should eat before to food gets cold."

Gray sighed and took a seat. He took a bite of the food and glanced at Natsu as he took a bite of the end of a big sausage and Natsu made sure to look Gray directly in his eyes as he did, slowly. Gray could feel himself getting aroused from the simple sight and realized he was still in nothing but the small towel.

"I'm going to get dress." Gray said standing up from his chair.

"OK." Natsu said and continued to eat.

Once Gray was in Natsu's room he went into deep thought. 'How am I supposed to feel ok about this? I really don't have with Gray stripping, just the people who go to see him and throw pity dollar bills at him. It's also not fair, Gray doesn't qualify for anything else but dancing. It's not like there were any dance crews looking for a new dancer every day or a dance studio for that matter.

Gray walked into the kitchen and walked over to Natsu and placed a kiss on top his head, "So," Gray said as he took the place to the sink to be washed, "What are we going to do today?"

"I don't know." Natsu said, "Um, hey Gray?"

"Yeah Pinky?" Gray asked with a little smile.

"I was wondering,"

"Yeah?"

Natsu opened his mouth to speak but nothing would come out. He just sat there his mouth gaping like a fish out of water.

"Natsu what is it?" Gray asked.

"I was just wondering," Natsu had to think of something fast. He couldn't ask what he wanted; afraid he would start a conflict with his boyfriend, "When are we going to your mom's for your birthday?"

"Oh well, let's see today's Sunday so," Gray paused for a moment, "Friday."

"Ok, good. WE can go after I'm done this school." Natsu said.

"Yeah." Gray agreed.

Natsu let out a silent sigh. He wanted to ask if there was a way for him to go to the club with him to protect. He didn't want anyone to touch his Gray. Or see him that way. But he knew that Gray needs to work and this was the only thing he could do. If only he also knew how to do something else that was less shameful.

"Hey you're running out of food." Gray said looking in the fridge.

"Huh?"

"The food Natsu, you're almost out. Write me a list and I'll get it. You stay here, you look so tired." Gray bent down and kissed the corner of Natsu's mouth.

"Thank you." Natsu said.

"No need to thank me. It's the least I could do since I ate some of it too now." Gray said.

Nastu wrote out a list of foods and gave it to Gray. Gray went off to the store and Natsu lay on the couch. Suddenly an idea came to mind. He picked up his phone and dialed down a number. After a few rings the person he called answered.

"Hello Cana?" Natsu said, "I need your help with something."

(A/N)

AAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! What up my little sinners. Sorry it's been awhile. School's ending soon and there are all of these 'end of the year projects' in every subject I pretty much hate. At least during summer I'll get a lot more done. And for those who are waiting for the next chapter of "Weapons Revolution", its coming I've just struck writer's block.

Also do you guys hate these author notes? If so please just tell me. I know I get a little annoyed with author notes instead of chapters. And yes I do know about calling chapter 10, chapter 11. I'll fix it. Eventually.

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