Summary: Gajeel gets a portrait of Levy but Lily doesn't really approve.

Pairings: Gajeel/Levy, Gajeel/Lily friendship, and implied one-sided Jet/Levy/Droy.

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Lily honestly thought he was used to Gajeel's strange quirks, the metal eating, the hoarding, the strange obsession with the thought that he could actually sing…..but it turned out Lily had been wrong, he was not used to Gajeel's weirdness as it turned out Gajeel wanted to go to an art studio of all things.

"Did Natsu-san hit you really hard in the head?" Lily asked.

"Like hell!" Gajeel barked. "Salamander can't hit me for toffee."

Lily thought about pointing out just this morning when not only had Natsu-san managed to punch Gajeel hard in the gut but Laxus-san shocked him, Levy-san smacked him over the head with a book when his face landed in her chest area, and then Lucy-san gave one hell of a whooping kick when both Gajeel and Natsu crashed into her and made her spill her strawberry milkshake over her new top…..

Yeah, typical Fairy Tail morning. Lily couldn't even remember how that brawl started to begin with.

"Then why are we going to an art studio?" Lily asked. "You've never been the one to appreciate good art before."

Gajeel's idea of good art was the spray painted graffiti on the train stations…..Lily would say Gajeel had no taste but the truth was Gajeel did, just not in art.

"Yeah but this is special art," Gajeel mumbled, "Reedus has a painting for me."

Lily raised an eyebrow.

Reedus was nice, very sociable, and a brilliant artist…..but not once, ever before, had Lily seen him and Gajeel even say hello to one another, let alone arrange Reedus to paint something for Gajeel.

This was going to be interesting.

Lily was proven right as Reedus nervously let them in, dithered about stuttering, and shook a little every time Gajeel scowled, eventually Gajeel snapped and demanded to see his painting to which Reedus finally got some back bone to lead them towards a large covered canvas.

"Tada!"

He pulled off the sheet protecting the painting to reveal a stunningly beautiful painting of Levy-san. The background alone was amazing, moonlit hot spring, the colours were rich and detailed to the point Lily was almost convinced he too was standing out in a private hot spring in the middle of the night. And then Levy-san, herself, looked…..different.

Her kimono was slipping off her milky white shoulders, the beginnings of her cleavage could be seen, her hair was tousled and wild as if she had been tossing and turning for quite some time.

The only thing that was Levy-san was her book.

Lily was also disturbed to note that for some reason, one he never wants to know, his face was stitched onto the side of Levy-san's kimono.

"Well?!" Gajeel sounded like an eager school boy. "What do you think? It's bloody brilliant, ain't it?" Reedus slumped in relief at that, not that Gajeel paid him any attention. "Going to look great in the living room."

"Yes, it shall," Lily agreed, but he felt he needed to point at least something about how wrong it was to have a sexually charged picture like that about a girl you're not romantically involved with (yet, but Lily was sure it would happen eventually). Especially when the girl is a dangerous Fairy Tail mage and could have your balls for garters. "But isn't it…..provocative?" Lily asked, uncertain of how to put it diplomatically that Gajeel was a giant big pervert. "It has put Levy-san in a very….compromising position."

"This is tastefully provocative!" Reedus protested. "Gajeel-kun described her perfectly and classily. This is the most beautiful painting of Levy-Chan I have ever painted. You should see some of the things Jet and Droy made me paint of her before you comment- EEK!"

Gajeel had grabbed Reedus by the throat and suddenly smashed his back against the wall. "You will go over to those dimwits' houses, burn every painting of the Shrimp you ever made for them, and tell them that you will never paint them a picture ever again. Do you understand?" Reedus merely swallowed, flashbacks of Gajeel beating the crap out of him were dancing in his mid (which was also the first time they met…..how they ended up being friends again?). "I said," Gajeel growled, "do. You. Understand?"

"O-o-oui!"

Strangely enough this would be the first and last time Gajeel and Lily ever go to an art studio….

(Thank God, because Lily had to spend a month eating tinned tuna because Gajeel had spent nearly all their money on that godforsaken painting!)