"Heya, Ice Princess!" Natsu giggled, plopping down beside of Gray. The pink-haired boy had shown up at the guild just about 3 weeks before, and ever since then Gray has been oh so close to yanking his all of his hair out of his head. Natsu was a fire mage; specifically, he was a Fire Dragon Slayer. And Gray couldn't stand him.
"What'cha want, Flame Brain?" Gray grumbled, leaning back against the table and watching Cana with all the other girls. It wasn't fair, he thought, that another boy shows up and he turns out to be the absolute opposite of himself.
"You know you're not wearing pants, right?" Natsu snickered, "Or a shirt. Just undies," he burst into laughter, flaming at the mouth. Gray rolled his eyes and huffed at the boy.
"Whatever, I don't care anymore…" Gray crossed his arms over his chest, "Is that all you wanted to say, you hot-head?"
Natsu calmed down, sitting upright and coughing, "Uh…not really…" He was suddenly acting shy, which was concerning to Gray. "Y'know, Erza's really pretty…" Natsu said in almost a whisper. Gray's eyes nearly bugged out of his face at the sentence. Did Natsu seriously just say that?!
"You like Erza?!" Gray shouted, laughing until he fell off the seat. The girls all looked over at the two with glares. Natsu turned bright red, waving his hands frantically at Gray and trying to get rid of all the attention that was now on them. The girls all made their way over, standing over the boys with crossed arms and heavy glares. Gray stopped his boisterous laughing, sitting up and grinning at the girls, "Hey…meeting over already?"
"Are you being mean to Natsu again, Gray?" Cana leaned over her best friend with her hands on her hips.
"No!" Gray shouted, "He started it!" Gray crawled out away from the girls' circle, taking hold of Mirajane's hand to use her like a shield.
"Nuh-uh!" Natsu shouted, scrambling over to him, "You started it!" he yelled, hoping to cover his blush with loudness. "You were the one pickin' on me!"
"That's not hard!" Gray shouted back, using Mira's finger to point at him. The teen girl pulled away, moving to the side.
"Why were you picking on him, anyway, Nakey?" Mira asked, leaning over Gray's shoulder to look him in the eye. Natsu shook his head, trying to get across to Gray to not say anything.
"He should say it himself!" Gray huffed, stomping away from everyone and crawling under the table to sit with Happy, who was contently gnawing on a piece of fish.
Everyone looked at Natsu expectantly, which flustered the little boy even farther. He wasn't expecting this, nor was he expecting to be so embarrassed about a little crush. "W-well um! I…" he looked away, trying to figure out a way out of this situation.
"Hey, look whose back!" someone in the guild shouted, pulling all the attention away from Natsu and onto Gildarts. Natsu sighed in relief, sneaking beside Erza a little closer than anyone else dared to get.
"Hiya, Erza…" Natsu mumbled, putting his hands behind his head. "So…wanna fight?" he grinned, hoping the girl would say yes.
"Someone recovers quick…" Erza commented, turning to watch Cana scold Gray as her distraction from Gildarts. "But, sure." She nodded, fixing her braid.
"Yay!" Natsu shouted, running over to Happy and grabbing him by the paw to drag him off and prepare for the fight. Erza shook her head but smiled anyway. That boy was a handful.
"Y'know, Erza, he likes you…" Gray snickered, receiving a smack upside the head from Cana. Erza nodded, crossing her arms and commenting on how it was obvious.
"He does?" Lisanna asked, grabbing Levy's hand. Gray nodded and questioned why she cared. "N-no reason!" she responded in a high-pitched voice.
"It's OK, Lissy," Levy hugged her, giggling slightly and dragging Lisanna off with Jet and Droy in tow to play together.
Cana shook her head and turned back to Gray, who was talking with Mirajane animatedly about how if Natsu didn't want him to say anything he shouldn't have told. Mira scolded him harsher than even Cana could manage, which was saying something since Gray had many dark bruises on his arms from Cana's lectures.
"Ready, Erza?!" Natsu shouted, running into the room and colliding one flaming fist with Erza's back. Too bad she had already dawned her Flame Empress Armor. Erza spun around and easily pinned Natsu to the ground, hitting him hard in the face and leaving a mark on his cheek.
"You dummy, you know you can't beat Erza!" Lisanna fussed, wrapping Natsu's arm with gauze after his latest fight with Erza. It had been the fifth one in two weeks, and Lisanna was getting tired of trying to bandage him up. She put a bandage over the cut on his forehead from his fight two days before that had re-opened.
"I can too!" Natsu stuck out his tongue. Happy hopped up in Natsu's lap, cooing about his boo-boos. "I just need to catch her off guard!"
"Good luck with doing that, Natsu…" Lisanna mumbled, cleaning his knuckles. "You should be go on a mission or something instead of fighting her again, at least then you can get some money!"
"And buy me more fishies!" Happy added, nodding at Lisanna's idea.
"But I gotta beat her!" Natsu whined, dropping his head on the bar. "OW!" he shouted, lifting his head back up to keep pressure off his wounds. "Just…one more fight, OK?" he hopped down, grabbing Happy's tail to make the exceed follow him.
"But, she'll hurt you again!" Lisanna cried. She huffed once he was out the door, annoyed that Natsu ignored her warning.
"Erzaaaaaaaaaa!" Natsu shouted, readying a flaming fist to slam into the girl's head. Erza spun around without requipping, putting her arms up to stop him.
"Enough!" Erza shouted, dropping him to the ground. "I won't fight you again, Natsu," she said, sitting beside him in the dirt.
"But why?!" Natsu whined, sitting up and looking the girl in the eyes. "I know I can beat you, just let me try!"
Erza shook her head, "Why do you want to win against me so bad?" she asked. Natsu looked taken aback, looking away to think.
"…I dunno?" he responded, bringing his knees up to his chest.
"Right…so it has nothing to do with you liking me?" Erza asked, watching the horror grow on Natsu's face.
"No I don't!" he shouted, getting to his feet. "I'mma pound Gray's face into the ground!" he started to run off, only to have his ankle grabbed and to be pulled back on the ground. "Oof! Hey, what gives?!"
"Gray has nothing to do with this," Erza said, getting up and leaning over Natsu. "Just know, if you want to beat me, it should be for something more than a crush, Natsu."
He blushed, covering his face with his scarf. She really was pretty. Stupid Gray.
Back in the guild, Gray and Cana sat in front of a window watching the two. "Poor Natsu, he has to feel so bad," Cana said, leaning on her palm.
"Poor Erza!" Gray added, "She's the one who's got somebody liking her!"
"But Natsu's the one who likes her. He has to feel bad knowing she doesn't seem to like him back…" Cana explained, pushing Gray's shoulder.
"He'll get over it!" Gray snickered, watching as Natsu trailed after Erza with his mouth going a mile a minute about who-knows-what. Cana rolled her eyes, getting down to go talk to Levy about how dense Gray was. "Hey, where are you going?" Gray whined, grabbing Cana's wrist before she went too far away.
"I was gonna go talk to Levy…" Cana said. Gray shook his head, pulling Cana back up on the bench beside him. He held her hand and refused to let her down, laying down in her lap like a cat.
Cana snickered, running a hand through his hair. "You've been spending too much time with Happy…" she commented, smooshing Gray's puffed cheeks and kissing his forehead. "What's gotten into you?"
"I dunno…" Gray answered, rolling on his side and playing with the hem of Cana's dress. "It's boring when you leave…"
"Yeah, of course that's your reason," Cana whispered, looking out the window as Natsu danced around in the street with Happy. Boys. What a waste…
I am sorry I am Natza trash please ignore me I am expanding the simple love-pentagon with Lisanna being over Gray...is that good enough? Also, a lil' somethin' is going on with Gray! What's up with him?
Review and tell me what you thought! The next chapter has something to do with a baby, can you guess who?