Story Title: Magnolia's Shounen Ai
Rated: T
Pairings: NatsuXGray
World: Anime World/Canon
Beta Reader: Gothpandaotaku
Warning: Shounen Ai, Yaoi, Language
Author Note:
Hello Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the start of Flame-Belt's Extra series for Magnolia's shounen Ai-emotionally-messed-up fanfic. First, I would like to thank all of those who reviewed this story, and I just hope that this series of extras compensate for the waiting and stuff.
I would like to thank two members, Donotinquire and BohemianRebel for showing me some light regarding the last chapter. Apparently, the word "Shur'tugual" is a word used in another series… or a book-movie or something. I got to say, I was somehow surprised, because I have used a word generator that looked like that is was based on the series. I think it's called "Eragon".
I want to say that honestly it was a coincidence. I just didn't concentrate on the generator's name. And if anybody is interested, I could send you the website's name to check it out. I didn't know about the book, so I am really sorry if I caused any confusion. I will be more careful when choosing my generators.
Enough with my rambling, I hope you enjoy the first chapter of the extras. Also, I am incredibly sorry for not answering your reviews in a while. I will try to do that next chapter if my sleeping habits got better and my life is looking brighter and not so much filled with chores.
Also... I have been asked several times why I haven't marked this story complete. Guys, sorry for the confusion, again, but I am not marking it complete until I finish all the extra chapters. It just doesn't settle well in my stomach. Call it a writer's dilemma or something and blame it on the "Fantastic cheese flavor Rice Crackers" that I am currently addicted to.
I don't own Fairy Tail.
O.o.O Magnolia's Shonen AI O.o.O
Extra 1:
Some Gajeel Issues
Ever since Porlyusica ordered Gray to stay in town for at least two weeks before going anywhere outside Magnolia's borders, Natsu made sure that Gray isn't engaging himself in any physical activities including fighting or challenging anyone in the guild or even going to missions. He was like a guardian, watching him wherever he goes, and Gray… didn't appreciate it.
Like for example, instead of sitting like a sack of potatoes doing nothing next to Natsu drinking some beer at the guild bar, he could be doing other useful things. Try telling that to Natsu, he won't have any of it.
"Natsu. I am bored. I can NOT live like this."
"I am not listening."
Gray frowned and looked at Mirajane's direction who shook her head. How long has he been begging Natsu to do something, and the boy totally ignores him?
The uncountable.
"Why don't you give up, Gray?" Mirajane asked like it was an obvious option in front of his blind eyes.
"No way. Hey Natsu! Seriously, this so annoying."
"Do I even need to remind you?" Natsu looked mockingly at the boy next to him with the sunglasses. The pink haired crossed his arms, and prepared for yet another one of the boring lectures that Gray could swear that he memorized by heart. "You are helpless. Do you know what is helpless?! You are wounded, you are blind and you can't even have a shower by yourself. Do I need to clarify anything for you more?"
"I-"
"You know what?! Say nothing please, I am not interested in listening to you talking about wanting a death wish."
"But-"
"I said stop. No talking, unless you want to tell me that you got your sight back."
Gray banged his head on the bar's counter and the members snickered at how bitterly defeated he is in front of Natsu.
"Congratulations Salamander. You became officially a fine spouse." Gajeel snorted while sitting next to Natsu on the bar stool.
Natsu glared and turned himself around to look at the opposite direction where Gajeel was sitting.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you being such an asshole ever since I saw your stupid face after such a long time?" Natsu was dead serious.
"What now? You are going to lecture me too? You really are a bitching pussy."
"Gajeel-" Natsu tried.
"This is not even your place to sit down, you should go sit with the girls and help with folding the clothes or something."
Gray immediately slammed his fist on the bar's counter, and stood up walking towards Gajeel like he exactly knew where he was. His eyebrows were twitching in anger, and even though no one can see them under the sunglasses, everyone was positive that Gray was glaring.
"Hey. I will have you know that I get very much irritated and fast, especiallyafter missing how I used to see everything colorful around me. I could kill, seriously. So, stop talking to my very-manly-boyfriend like that, unless you do have a death wish."
Gajeel snickered. "Yeah? Or you will do what? Punch the wall behind me, blind eyes?"
Gray suddenly snapped. He growled and tried to launch his—whatever he was thinking about and Natsu immediately stood up as if knowing what's on his mind and stopped him as he held both of the black haired boy's arms.
"Gray, Stop!"
"He is fucking asking for it!"
"Yeah man, let him show me what he can do." Gajeel looked at Natsu pitifully, as if mocking both of their state and Natsu really wanted to let go of Gray at that moment.
"Shut it Gajeel. DO YOU WANT TO DIE—Hey! Gray stop it!"
"Let me go, NATSU! I SWEAR I WILL MAKE HIM SWALLOW HIS OWN SHIT BACK!"
"In your dreams Fullbuster. You think you can defeat a Dragon Slayer even with your-"
Gajeel didn't get to complete the sentence. Suddenly he found himself looking at shocked Natsu whose arms were now flying in the air as Gray wasn't there anymore. He blinked then when he thought of looking behind, he wasn't able to do that because his neck was in the clutches of Gray. The Ice-mage instantly had Gajeel trapped on the floor, legs between legs, and arms folded painfully behind as well as a dangerous pressure on the neck from Gray's deathly arm grip.
"I think I can defeat a fucking Dragon Slayer without even using magic, how about that?"
Gajeel couldn't respond because, fuck, he couldn't breathe.
"Gray, stop it!" Natsu seemed to be begging. "Please! You know he was just joking!"
"Yeah, well I kept reminding myself with that until I got the feeling that he was NOT." Gray pressed on the other's neck even more, and when Gajeel finally had it enough with helplessness, he tried to use magic only to be brutally negated by Gray, in a way nobody ever saw before. The guild was alarmed, and people, by then, were convinced that Gray was serious about killing Gajeel.
Lucy and Erza were quick, standing by Natsu's side, and other members were shocked that Gray could have so much control over Gajeel who was struggling for a breath.
"I don't care! Let him go!" Natsu ordered, not daring to come close because Gray, was usually unpredictable.
"Gray… Please stop it. Please."
Everyone looked at Levy who stood with almost two tears sliding off her cheeks and trembling shoulders. Sure, Gray wasn't able to see her, but her soft and weak-begging voice that he could remember very well touched him from the inside. It was as if he could actually see her.
He growled, then gave the other's neck a harsh squeeze earning a few gasps from the people around him, then thrown the other off harshly, breaking an entire row of the tables.
Gajeel was having a series of coughs and curses, swearing that he will stand up and crush the mere existence of Gray, but stopped when Levy stood in front of him with tears brimming down.
"Next time you try talking trash about Natsu, you are going to die even if Levy begged thousands of times to spare your miserable life." Gray stomped his way out of the guild and people didn't really stand in his way after they have seen what he was capable of.
Lucy, Erza, and the others looked at Gajeel who gritted his teeth in anger and kicked a table while going out the guild and going as far as destroying the exit.
"G-Gajeel!" Levy called in vain.
Natsu rubbed the girl's shoulder gently, then stopped her from following him. "Leave this to me. I… think I am responsible somehow."
She shook her head while trying to get over how upset she was. "No idiot. This has nothing to do with you… Well, not totally."
"Do you know something? It might be helpful. I mean I was gone for too long, I might have done something bad that I don't know of."
Levy sat down and Lucy followed as the others did as well.
"As you said Natsu. You have been gone for too long…" She breathed, "Gajeel, he—he didn't like being left out not knowing what happened. He kept busying himself with missions, and sometimes ridiculous errands—in away, let's just say that he…"
Natsu whistled. "No fucking way… He missed me?"
Lucy and Erza sweat dropped.
"Y-Yeah... Apparently you promised him going to the grand-"
"OH MY FUCKING GOD! THE GRAND MUSHROOM AND CHEESE CONTEST!" Natsu's face paled, and eyes bugged out in disbelief, "HOW DID I EVER FORGET?! IT WAS ONE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE!"
Lily who was silent all the time, transformed into his stronger form, hit Natsu's head, then transformed back. "You broke Gajeel's heart."
Happy and Charle looked at Natsu from the corner of their eyes, and Natsu felt horrible.
The mushroom and cheese contest. The biggest Contest held before six months. They promised each other to participate and it was something BIG. Natsu needed a time machine. So bad that he wanted to kill himself if he didn't find one.
Ezra and Lucy couldn't listen to anymore of it. So they excused themselves, and left Natsu lifeless.
"Yo Gajeel, What are you doing?"
Gajeel snorted then looked away from the pink haired who tried to look cheerful. Sun rays were glistening beautifully on the small stream while the Iron Dragon Slayer sat throwing some rocks in the water.
Natsu sighed then fell on his knees and bowed in front of the other. "I am deeply sorry."
"You think what you did, will be solved like that? Sorry? Do you even—Ah, go away Salamander."
"HEY! I AM ON MY KNEES HERE!"
"YEAH WELL I DON'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS ABOUT IT!"
"—Geez… Whatever." Natsu stood and rubbed his blue jeans clean. "There will be another contest, we can then participate."
"That if you are not too busy banging with your shitty hulk." Gajeel threw another rock in the water, "Natsu, I want to ask something that has been bothering me."
Natsu blinked then took a rock and threw it in the water, starting a silent rock-throwing contest with Gajeel. "Ask away man."
"How far did that freak develop after your last journey?"
Natsu's flinch of the question was small, but clearly there. He tried to act casual, then threw another rock in the stream, getting ahead of Gajeel.
"More than you will ever imagine." Was Natsu's answer.
"So he prohibited you from telling anyone?" Gajeel almost growled.
"No." Natsu replied, "It's just… everything is complicated. For me, those six months were quite an experience that I will never forget."
Gajeel gave Natsu the blank, yet irritated face, not understanding Natsu's statement at all.
"I can't tell you much except that… I am an idiot. I don't understand many things, but Gray is different, he is smart, that's why… Gray is probably getting ahead of me. I don't know for sure, but he is stronger. I will only say that you can't lay a finger on him now, Gajeel."
Gajeel didn't want to admit it, but he felt Natsu was giving him an advice.
"And Gajeel." Natsu's rock went ahead of Gajeel's again. "Gray is not a freak."
"I can't believe you are defending him now. If I knew that was gonna happen, I would've never kicked you in the Fantasia's parade."
"That is maybe the only thing I will eternally thank you for."
"Shit yeah. My kick is the only reason you are having a sex life now."
Natsu threw the rock in his hand at Gajeel's head which turned to Iron to block the predicted attack.
"For now, you are still the foolish brat."
Natsu smiled. "I sure wish you see me so."
Natsu was home (Also known as Gray's house) and found his partner standing and leaning over an opened window, talking nonsense with kids from the street who were apparently some of his incredibly young friends.
The kids went to play ball on the other side of the road, and Natsu stood next to Gray silently.
"What is it Natsu?"
"How did you know it was me?" Natsu laughed.
"Don't be stupid. I slept with you enough to sense your scent—even if it is mixed with the sewage system."
Natsu gave the look of I-SO-HATE-YOU.
"We have to talk about earlier."
"There is nothing to talk about. The dipshit was acting like an ass so I was about to show him the white lights. There is nothing wrong with that." Gray scratched the bridge of his nose and adjusted his sunglasses.
"There is more to it." Natsu crossed his arms over his chest, "What are you not telling me?"
Gray's turn to laugh was up. "How did you know?"
"Don't be stupid. I lived with you long enough to know when there is something rotten in your closet."
Gray huffed. "I don't know if you noticed, but… My patience is getting pretty slim." he breathed, "All I can see is darkness you know. It is annoying. First I thought that I can live with this thing, but now I feel like a want my sight back and QUICK and I know that is very childish of me, but I can't help it."
Natsu's eyes were wide and compassionate. "—Plus I hate people when they call you names. Gajeel was too much."
"You call me names all the time." Natsu laughed half-hearted.
"Yeah that's different. I am the only one who is allowed to do that."
Natsu sighed then moved forward moving Gray from his position on the window and hugged the black-haired slowly, settling in his chest and warmth. Gray laughed a little, then hugged Natsu in return, rubbing his back.
"I am sorry… Gray." The boy whispered, "I… if there was anything I could do, I would have done it a heartbeat."
"Natsu, I know. I am not blaming you, so don't apologize, you didn't do anything wrong." Gray tightened his hold, "That's why I didn't want to tell you anything."
Natsu shut his eyes tightly and buried himself even more into Gray's chest. "I… really would do anything for you."
"Really?" Gray sounded… like someone with impure intentions.
And Natsu reminded himself to not fall in Gray's trap one more time.
"No. I am kidding—sorry just got caught up in the moment."
"Natsu PLEASE! Let me go with Loke and the guys!"
"No."
"Fucking please! It's just hunting and a small fire camp!"
"No."
"I promise I won't use magic and I will-"
"Hell NO."
"You really are a bitching pussy."
Gray was knocked hard on the floor. "Asshole, go apologize to Gajeel."
Strangely enough… Natsu didn't care about Gray's injury when he used his fists then.
-The End-