Summary: Erza, Gray, and Natsu take their very first bath together….if only it could be the last one as well.
Pairings: Siblings! Erza/Gray/Natsu and mentions of Sibling Elfman/Lisanna/Mirajane.
YouTube Prompt: Tribute to the friendships within Fairy Tail to the song 'You got a Friend in me' from Toy Story.
It started after a particularly vicious fight between Gray and Natsu, which fortunately happened outside, otherwise the guild building might not still be standing, after a particularly rainy day, and therefore they came home caked in mud and trod it all in much to Erza's displeasure.
"You two, pigs," she hissed fiercely, a dark purple aura of hatred and anger rolled off of her, which, of course, had people nearby tremble. Especially Natsu and Gray. "Go and have a bath!" she ordered.
"A-Aye!" Natsu and Gray squeaked, and then promptly vanished to obey Erza's wish.
An hour later they arrived back into the guild, not that anyone really noticed they were gone, Jet and Droy kept the noise levels up rather high with their argument over who will marry Levy when they grow up, and after a couple minutes of enjoying the guild's company they were back to fighting. Immediately Natsu pounced onto Gray and pulled him into a headlock, he was just about to give the dark-haired boy a noogie when the ice mage pushed him back.
"Urgh! What the hell, Natsu?" Gray whined as he clutched his nose. "You still stink!"
"I do not!" Natsu shouted.
"You do too!" Gray retorted back. "I can smell it from here!"
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"Do not!"
"Do too!" Fed up of this particular argument (unlike Natsu, Gray enjoyed a more verbal challenge), Gray decided to continue before Natsu could get his next 'do not!' in. "I bet you didn't bathe at all! Erza is going to kill you!" he said delightedly.
"I bathed!" Natsu wailed childishly. "I obeyed Erza! I went to the river and cleaned myself!"
"Did you use soap?" Gray raised an eyebrow.
"…What's soap?"
Gray sweat-dropped and resisted the urge to find something hard he could bash his head against. Of course Natsu didn't know what soap is. The boy was a fucking moron!
"It's something to clean yourself with, you fucking moron!" Gray screamed.
(In a corner Macao and Wakaba are trying to hide from the glower that Gildarts was sending them for teaching the children such foul language.)
"Who are you calling a fucking moron?!" Natsu roared back.
"You! You fucking moron!"
"Why you-"
Natsu tackled Gray onto the floor and the pair of them wrestled, and rolled around on the dusty floor that had probably last been cleaned before they were even born. It was when Gray was just about to win when Cana interrupted them.
"Gray!" she cried out. "You're naked again….and dirty."
"Crap!" Gray swore as he jumped up to see dark smudges all over his chest, legs, and arms. "Erza is going to kill me!"
As if his words had conjured her up, Erza appeared right beside him and Natsu. She glowered at the pair. "Obviously neither of you can be trusted to bathe without supervision," Erza said as she eyed them in disgust. "I will have to oversee your future baths. Come along."
Everyone winced in sympathy as Erza dragged the two by the ear out to the nearest bathroom while Natsu and Gray kicked and screamed for their lives….no one helped though. They weren't suicidal.
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The bath did not go well.
First Gray complained it was too hot and literally froze the bath. While he sighed in blissful relief and enjoyed the ice numbing his legs, Natsu shivered and sneezed on the other end of the bath, and rightfully complained that it was too cold, before he melted the ice and boiled Gray half to death. Gray then, of course, retaliated by throwing a sponge at Natsu's face, and Natsu returned the favour by squirting shampoo in Gray's eyes.
Before they knew it a full out war using everything they could get their hands on as weapons had been started. They would never know the winner though, Gray threw the bar of soap at Natsu the same time Natsu chucked the rubber ducky that Levy kept, and both of them smacked Erza on either side of her face.
There was a moment of silence.
And then another.
And then….
"YOU IDIOTS!" Erza exploded. "CAN'T YOU JUST SIT BESIDE EACH OTHER WITHOUT TRYING TO KILL ONE ANOTHER?! WE ARE GUILD MATES. BROTHERS AND SISTERS BONDED BY THE FIGHT OUTSIDE. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO HAVE STUPID, PETTY, IN-FIGHTING. IF I CATCH YOU TWO AGAIN I WILL MURDER YOU, GOT IT?"
"Aye!" Natsu and Gray squeaked in unison as they suddenly clutched one another out of fear. They took one look at one another and realised just how gay it looked and leaped away from one another, yelling.
Erza got splashed in the face by the soapy water. Instead of exploding, however, she merely twitched furiously, and then suddenly started to strip her armour off.
It was when she started to unbutton her blouse that she got a reaction though.
"Erza, what the hell?!" Gray screamed.
"Don't take your clothes off!" Natsu agreed shrilly. "I don't want to see you naked!"
Erza ignored the pair of them as she shimmied out of her skirt and then stood before them, proudly, and very naked. Gray will one day, in the near but still far future, comment how there wasn't much to look at, and end up in hospital with a broken leg, two fractured ribs, and a concussion for such a comment….and he got off lightly. But for now, Gray looked uncomfortable and uncertain where to look while Natsu had covered his eyes in complete horror.
"Move up," Erza commanded imperiously, "Obviously I have to bathe with you to ensure you'll behave."
Begrudgingly, the boys moved as far as they could, to make room for Erza. And shyly, they obeyed her every order as they scrubbed her back, washed her hair, and allowed her to do the same for them. Before they knew it, Erza wrapped them in fluffy towels, and uncharacteristically (it was so very gentle!) petted them both on their heads. Their bath together was declared a success.
Unfortunately the bathroom did not agree, nor did the cleaner that had to clean the mess they left, or Master who was very unimpressed with the bill he received for damages…
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Lisanna giggled when Natsu recounted the traumatic story. She had just come home from a gruelling mission with her brother and sister and needed something like this to cheer herself up. "Don't worry Natsu," she said between giggles, "it's perfectly normal."
"It is?" Natsu asked bewildered.
"Of course!" Lisanna cried out sweetly. "I used to share baths with my brother and sister too! Still do sometimes when we're are a hot spring. Elfman-nii-chan knows all the best bubble baths."
"THEY'RE NOT MY BROTHER AND SISTER!" Natsu suddenly exploded. "WHO THE FUCK WOULD WANT TO BE A BROTHER TO THAT ICICILE OF A PERVERT?!"
"WHAT WAS THAT ASH BRAIN?!"
"YOU HEARD ME!"
"WELL AT LEAST I'M NOT A COMPLETE MORON!"
"WHAT WAS THAT?!"
It is needless to say, with the fact they were far too far apart from one another, there was no choice but to fight through the medium of food. "FOOD FIGHT!" Jet and Droy screamed. And before you know it everyone was joining in. Natsu was spaying Gray with hot sauce, Gray was lobbing ice cream everywhere, Elfman hid under the table as he tried to desperately keep his gourmet meal to himself, and Cana had taken to throwing mashed potato everywhere.
This, of course, is when Erza decides to come in and enjoy a slice of cake and some conversation before going to bed properly.
"Natsu!" she barked. "Gray!"
The pair of them froze and Natsu looked down to find himself covered in chocolate pudding. "Natsu, Gray," Erza repeated in a more deadly tone. "It looks like I will have to give you another bath…"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Have fun, Natsu!" Lisanna called after the two screaming, kicking, and being dragged out of the guild against their will, boys. "And behave Gray! Bye Erza!"