Finally, it was a certain pinkette's favorite holiday...

Christmas!

He loved to give gifts, hang up lights, and, oddly enough, bake! But his favorite part?

It always smelled like Gray.

Natsu doesn't know why he's so drawn to Gray's scent, but he was, for some reason.

'Maybe I should ask Gajeel... Actually, that's not a bad idea.' He thought to himself as he skipped to the guild; ignoring the weird stares from passing people.

"Oi, flamebrain!"

He stopped and whirled around.

"Hi, Gray!" He said excitedly.

"Here."

Natsu looked questioningly at the box in his hands.

"F-For me?"

"Mhm. Go on."

Natsu smiled as he opened the box. Inside was a silver chained bracelet. The charm on it was a white and red dragon. Natsu looked up at Gray with wide eyes, and then wrapped his arms around his waist. Gray 'oomph'ed and hugged him back with a smile.

"Was that a good one?"

"Yeah."

Gray chuckled.

"I'm bringing presents over later, so you can see yours then, k?" Natsu said with the most innocent and childlike stifled a laugh and nodded. Natsu subconciously grabbed his hand and walked with him to the guild. Gray didn't know if Natsu had noticed this or not, but he was fine with it eaither way.

*Natsu P.O.V*

Oh mY GOd i'M HOlDinG ThE HaND Of PerFeCtiOn! I wonder if he noticed? Ohmahgoodness, he squeezed back, he definitely noticed, but didn't say anything.

DOES HE LIKE ME!?

I hope so (๑ᴗ๑)

Okay, Natsu, calm yourself. Easy, boy, we've still got things to do today besides passing out with a nosebleed.

"NATSU!"

I turned to Gray, who had just shouted out my name...

I could get used to that ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

NO NATSU, NOW'S NOT THE TIME!

"Yeah?" I asked back.

"We've been standing in front of the guilld for a solid 5 minutes!"

I must've auto-piloted here, then. Wait, we're already here? Time goes by fast.

"Sorry, I was thinking. Anywho... LET'S GO!"

I heard Gray laugh, naturally making me laugh.

Kicking open the doors, I decided to make our presence even more known.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS, GUYS!"

Some (Gajeel and Laxus) ignored me, some said it back, and a few people, ESPECIALLY Erza, yelled at me for being loud.

We sat with Erza, Lucy, Wendy, and surprisingly, Gajeel.

"Hey, Wendy, come here real quick."

She got up, went around the booth, and stopped in front of me.

"What is it, Natsu-nii?"

I held my hands up in front of her and she looked at them in confusion. Moving them around in more than one way, with my palms facing down, I finally closed them and held two fists in front of her now.

"Pick one."

She looked at them for a minute before poking the top of my left hand. I turned it back up and opened my hand to reveal a little box. Gajeel looked at me in confusion as Wendy's eyes sparkled.

"Woah, how'd you do that!?"

"No-can-do, Wendy, a magician never reveales his secrets! But here, open it."

She grabbed the box as if it were the most fragile thing ever. Our booth watched Wendy, waiting to see what it was. There was a note on the top and she picked it up and read it.

Wendy's Note from Natsu:

Remember when you told me that you and Grandeeney used to go crystal hunting? Well, I thought that you might like this. I hope you haven't forgotten what they look like, but either way, you'll be in for the shock of your life!

Love,

Natsu

*Third Person P.O.V*

After she had read it, she took off the foam, protection and gasped; gaining the attention of a few people around us. Setting the box on the table, she hugged who she considered her older brother. He released a breathheI didn't realize he was holding and hugged her back.

"Do you like it?"

"I love it! Thank you, sooo much, Natsu-nii! But, I have a question. How'd you do it?"

"A magnifying glass, a lot of searching, acrylic paint, and 3,000jewel. Also a lot of patience. I've been making that for 3 months."

Wendy walked back over to the box and pulled out what it was that Natsu had given her. It was a ring, metal not plastic, with a small, square, almost flat surface. The ring itself was a blue that faded to white and back to blue. But, it was the surface that had her in happy tears just seconds ago. It was covered in little slivers of the same exact crystals she and Grandeeney used to look for. He slid one over to Gajeel, too. Gajeel's note was similar to Wendy's, but instead of 'crystal hunting with Grandeeney', it was 'rare metal hunting with Metallicana', and instead of being girly like Wendy's, Gajeel's had rare and unheard named metals imbedded in the top of the black, round ring (has no flat surface on top). Gajeel gaped at it, and looked up at him.

"How... How did you know where to find these?"

"Remember when you showed me that chunk of rare metal that one time? Well, with that scent, I went and found the place you used to go with Metallicana."

Gajeel got up and hugged Natsu. Everyone looked at the two of them, but they treated it like an everyday occurence.

"I'm glad you like it enough to hug me."

Gajeel let go and smiled at him.

"You're an awesome little brother, you know that?"

"Wait, you two are related?!" Levy yelled.

"No, us dragon slayers are close like family, so we claim ourselves as each other's family. Well, except Sting and Rogue... They looooove each other!"

They all laughed as Natsu continued to give the kids and other younger guild members gifts.

"He's so sweet!" Mira exclaimed as she walked over to their table.

"I know!" Lucy said; matching her tone.

"He's like this every year." Erza told Lucy. Oh, wait, this is her first Christmas in the guild, huh? Well, she just might like it, because it's not as rowdy as it usually is. After about 10 minutes, gift bags and wrapped gift boxes started to hit everyone's feet. After they'd all gotten one, everyone opened them, as the person in question watched from afar. The 'From' part of the tag wasn't filled in, so they had no idea of who it was from, but our favorite team has a guess.

"What'd you get, Erza?"

Erza, with a smile, showed Lucy the 5 'buy one, get 5 cakes free' discounts. Lucy laughd and showed Erza hers.

"The weird thing is, I was eyeing this for a few months."

It was a locking journal with a cover that had a golden key on it, along with a new quill and ink.

"Wow, whoever this is really knows everyone." Happy said aloud. They all nodded, and heard Levy squeal.

"What is it?" Lucy asked.

"Remember that book I let you borrow?"

"Yeah, it's pretty good, actually! Why?"

"This is the newly released second part!"

"Wait, didn't you say it cost a lot? What was it again, 200jewel for that one book?"

Everyone gaped.

"Just for one book!?" Someone shouted out.

"Yeah, I know right? That's why I'm so surprised and happy at the same time!"

Okay! Imma post part 2 later, but for now, I'm in a complete Erza cosplay, and getting ready to pick up my little sisters😄😄

See ya!

~Son Chiyu