It was morning in oak town motel were natsu huskily groaned pulling the pillow onto his head.
"Five more minutes..."
"I wouldn't need another five minutes if I were you."
Natsu blinked. He quickly pulled himself up looking around the room. His eyes met his both sharing the same blue ice magic he has.
he was perched on the bed crossing his fingers.
"Lyon what the hell are you doing here!"
Natsu jumped up. He grabbed Lyons collar shaking him as he just kept his head down.
"Oi lyon speak up you bastard what the heck are you doing here!?" He asked again.
Lyon began to quiver looking away at the fireplace.
"Im sorry natsu...I was walking around magnolia when I met one of grays companions. They said. ..he...he.."
"He what? Tell me lyon!" Natsus patience was starting to vary.
"He killed himself."
Natsu eyes widened. His hands began shaking with his heart dropping pace. His eyes began to water keeping intact the whole time.
He let go staggering backwards on both legs. His heart began to ache slowly reaching its time of passing too.
His hand worked its way towards his mouth covering the shocked expression it breed.
He reached the wall sliding down from the weight lifted on his legs, plumping himself down.
"G...g..Gray...y...you didn't...no..." a fresh load of tears began to shed over the brim of his eye. He clenched his hand harder greeting his teeth.
"Gray!"
He jumped up. Panting heavily coated in sweat. He clenched his top regaining consciousness as his other hand glided through his hair.
Just a dream...
The sunlight illuminated the room with a single spotlight on him. He brought his hand to his eyes covering it for sight.
It was quiet. The only sound heard was the morning birds chirp alarming them that a new day was beginning.
Natsu sighed, bringing his hands down clenching the bed sheet tightly. He was glad it was just a dream. It felt so surreal that for a moment there, he wouldn't know how to recuperate if he was brought back to sanity. He loved gray and he just now realized that. He didn't want it to all blow away after one night.
He was desperate to find him and pour out all these words he had to say. He loved him so much he didn't care what lisanna would say.
he just wanted him and him 's what natsus true love is...
He placed his hand over his heart feeling the sudden warmth of the mentioning of gray. He loved this feeling he had never experienced before with lisanna. It was something he could really claim as his and grays only.
But one thing natsu fears most is if gray will except him. He's hurt gray so much when they were young it wouldn't be a coincidence if he hated him. Yes he might love natsu back but it all depends on if he could trust him and put his faith into him.
"Gray...would you put your faith in me and let me love you?" He thought.
The door swung open. Lucy and loke came in with a tray with tea and scones. Loke separated from Lucy as she placed the tray on one side.
"Yo hows it hanging natsu?" Loke asked casually.
Natsu adjusted himself on the headboard looking down at his chest.
"Never been better to be honest-" natsus eyes looked at lucy who was grinning madly like a fan girl.
"Why is she like that?" He asked loke worried.
Loke shrugs as natsu felt a hand on his. He turned to Lucy awkwardly as she nodded in respect.
"I fully support you natsu. " was all she said.
Natsu brows furred as he looked at her confused.
"Full support-oh. uh thanks lucy." He mumbled. He turned to loke peeved that he spilled the beans on his current 'sexuality' status. He glared at loke as loke signaled for Lucy to get out.
She groaned in annoyance getting out of her seat. "I'll see you later natsu. I hope everything goes well when you reconnect with gray." She smirks.
Natsu blushes a little awkward how his crush has leaked to Lucy. He was happy she accepted his new love but he knows how its gonna deeply affect lisanna.
He looked over to loke. "You didn't tell anyone else right?" He asked.
"Well..." he began. "I only told Lucy and erza that night. Im a little worried to tell juvia in all honesty. You know how much she loves him." He gestured.
"Yea but it's the exact reason he left from all the pressure put onto him. If you ask me I'm actually so pissed off at you for letting her come with us." Natsu huffed un amused.
Loke chuckled. " someones jealous."
"I..I am not I just...she doesn't truly love him for who he is. I mean hes sweet and gentle and kind. He's always thinking about you first before himself...he always tries to put on a brave smile even when he's down. He's beautiful, hes really... -" natsu gasped as he saw himself drifting off into a mind all about gray.
"Your really maturing you know that? You've finally learnt how love works and you can even pin point what makes you fantasies about him so much. Your really something natsu." Loke shared impressed.
Natsu blushed smiling. "Guess im no longer heartless anymore..."
Loke smiled before his face change to a different tone. "About the route were taking... its been altered."
Natsu glanced at loke as he crossed his legs."were supposed to be visiting uls house but what I've heard the people who a after lyon have traveled there assassinating the house keeper who lived there. " he explains. Natsu eyes widened with annoyance. "Why are they killing innocent people just for power?"he asked.
"Its simple, deliora and take over fiore."
Natsu clenches the sheets harder. "But why now? We just had that predicament at tenou island for the s class tournament. We saw what terror was with that dragon." He rebukes.
Loke rubs his head. "Its not like I can read there mine specifically. But if they need gray and lyons power its definitely a threat to the city. Which is why we need to recover gray as soon as we can. Evidently if we travel to galuna island, we can speak to some of the people you and gray met and ask for one of there mail devices."
Natsu tilts his head. "Mail devices?"
"There special envelopes that record your message and deliver it to the person. It can't tell us his location but, we have to give it grays scent so it can track him down giving him a short message."
Natsu mouth dropped with excitement. He thought about being able to finally tell gray how he finally felt for a long time now.
But, some of him made him worry.
He looked down anxiously thinking of a way to describe his new profound love for him.
Loke sighed getting up."we'll leave at noon I'll see you downstairs in the lounge." He exclaims walking out.
"Loke."
Loke turned around looking at natsu.
"Do you think after all the shit I put him through, he'll accept me?" He asked.
"That all depends on the heart natsu. If you've cut a big slit in his heart with all the torments and rudeness, there's no doubt, he'll turm valgure towards you. But it can be changed if you change the way you speak to him." He noted.
Loke opened the door walking out. Natsu groaned, Slipping down from the headboard back onto the pillow sighing loudly.
"Gray..please forgive me I was clueless back then..."
Natsu walked out of the motel passing by the few maid and Butler saying thankyou. He walked out into the blistering heat putting his hand towards his forehead.
He watched as his comrades all huddled together in the shade talking and discussing about fairy tail.
The town was fairly quiet. Everyone was particularly worn out from the scorching heat that was rapidly increasing.
Natsu was the only one who could stand the heat. He was practically made of fire so heat never bothers him. But for Gray its epically hard. Heat wears him out quite easily.
"God I hope hes ok..." natsu mumbles looking out into the horizon.
"Natsu are you better now?" Erza ask walking up towards him.
Natsu nods. "Yea I feel more fired up than before. Although im sorry for what I said back then." Natsu remembers getting all worked up about them saving him. Hes glad hes alive, he wouldn't have found true love if it weren't for them amd gray.
"Its alright now that I found out more about the situation, I can't be mad at a usual thing people go through." She grins patting natsu on the back almost breaking him. Loke told her aswell. Natsu wonders how she would've reacted to the news. It probably would have been a rare sight for him to see.
He smiled, rubbing his back. "Thanks erza i appropriate it. I promise ill bring him back for the sake of fairy tail..."
"Thats the spirit." She beamed hitting him again.
Natsu groaned as he joined erza walking towards their nearly past out squad all hunched over the brown seats waving their hands in the air.
"Juvia can you summon a rain cloud over me I want some of that." Lucy groans watching as Juvia created her own cloud to keep cool.
"Sorry lucy its only capable for the person who wields the magic."
Lucy slides down the seat before jumping back up. "I know!"Everyone watches her in anticipation as she digs into her pocket picking out a celestial key. "Open gate of the sea aquariu-"
"NO!" Everyone intervened forbidding that action to hapen.
"Waaa why?" She ask.
"You really want to handle her on a day like this?" Loke ask.
Lucy thinks about it.
she shakes her head.
"Good, now lets head to the docks. Erza and I have organized boats to take us to galuna island." Loke explains hauling himself up. Lucy groans getting up joining erza as they both start walking.
Natsu sighs pulling his head down. It was haunting him what he was going to say to Gray. He didn't want to be to direct but he wanted to get the point out there. He wanted to show he actually cared what happens to him and how ever since they were young he secretly thought gray was something unusual that always pricked his heart.
But how was he going to say it?
Loke pats his shoulder gesturing if 'he was ok'. Natsu nods as he starts to walk off joining erza and lucy.
Natsu looks back watching Juvia twiddle her cold arms looking depressed. She wasn't moving at all but instead was moving her eyes around like she was going insane.
Natsu worried,walked closer to her peering his head down to look her in the eye.
"Juvia, everything alright?" He asked.
She glanced up. She looked back down. "Yea...I guess..."she says.
Natsy smiles heading back.
"natsu?" She calls.
Natsu turned around sharply."Hm?"
She bit her lip. "Do you... love gray sama?..."
Juvia sighed walking agmnost the cold dim halls of the motel thinking about gray. She hasn't talk to him in awhile, this did put her off. She loved gray so much but gray would always bypass her or pretend shes not even there. She wished he could notice her for who she is not for persistent sweet talks to him.
Lately his eyes would always be fixated on natsu. When they sat at the counter he would drift off into starring at him for a good couple of minutes. He even mumbled once "if only he could notice". Was he bisexual?...
Juvia stopped. She heard grays names echo through the salamander and lokes room.
She shook her head submerging the thought as she took another step away.
"I LOVE HIM!"
Juvia stopped again. Her eyes gasped open with her mind going at a rate faster than normal. Her hands clenched her skirt tightly.
Natsu sama loves...gray sama...is it possible? ...
She ran past there door reaching for the exit.
His eyes widened. He could see her nearly about to lash out at him asking questions his heart still has to ask.
He gulped looking down as his hair covered his eyes. They stayed there both fixated on the popcile trying not to dwny the other.
"Did natsu sama get mad at me that day cause he secretly love gray aswell?..." she pondered. "Did natsu pick the wrong love to marry when he picked lisanna?..."
Natsu bit his lip stuttering. "I...I...I...-"
"Natsu doesn't love gray, he loves me. He said he hated how gray would always be around me and get to share an apartment with me so he wanted to explain to me himself last night that he really loved me."
Natsu turned around. He saw loke looking at juvia coldly. He looked over to natsu, hinting with his eyes to shut up.
Juviad turned towards natsu who was blushing differently at them. He wasn't embarrassed he was humiliated.
Juvia looked down sighing to herself.
"Right, sorry I didnt know natsu."
She stood up walking past them oddly. Natsu stood there shocked and confused as loke approached him.
"Now might not be the best time to tell her. Lets keel the alluby up for now until we reconnect with gray." He reassures.
Natsu still perplexed and mentaly frustrated, looked at him nodding.
Loke took his arm walking off to rejoin them.