Warning: graphic sexual content & bondage

Chapter 3: Disgustingly Beautiful

Onlywhen the cage was halfway down did Natsu's heart literally stop pounding in his chest since he could finally see what was in inside the cage. Or rather who…

Gray.

The fair object of Natsu's obsession stood inside the cage, his arms raised high above his head, cuffs around his wrist connected to the roof of the cage by chains keeping him in such an uncomfortable position. His was stripped bare of everything except for what seemed like leather boxers, though when the cage turned slightly, Natsu could see that his behind was bared despite the fabric covering his front. Around his neck, Natsu found a collar with a dog tag with some inscription that Natsu couldn't quite read over the distance. A gag with a red ball was placed in his mouth, the leather strap around his neck keeping him from making any significant noises, whilst also allowing the drool to drip down Gray's chin onto his chest. Gray's eyes were wide and Natsu wondered if that was because he was shocked or embarrassed or sad. He wondered if the raven even wanted to be inside that cage, or maybe if it was all part of the character he was supposed to play. Maybe, however, maybe it was because he was hurt, Natsu thought as he looked closely, finding what looked like angry red marks on his skin that could possibly be created with a whip. He also spotted traces of bloodred substance that may or may not have been candle wax.

Natsu swallowed hard in shock as he found Silver beside the cage, which now hovered only centimeters above the pedestal, with a predatory smirk on his face. He also saw Gray's eyes narrow when he spotted the other. "Look what I made for you, I put a lot of effort into this." Silver said to the audience with clear amusement in his voice, all the while that one word he'd said stuttered in Natsu's head; son, son, son, Gray didn't have a father. But he kept his eyes trained on the man who shared a striking resemblance with his childhood friend and gasped in horror when Silver put his hand up to the cage and pushed it roughly, making the cage turn harshly around its axis, due to which Gray got flung aside and hung limply in his chains. As the caged started to turn slower, Natsu could finally get a good look at his crush' ass; it was completely red, like it'd just gotten a beating. At the edges the bruises even seemed to hint towards the shape of fingers and in the middle the skin seemed so raw that it looked like there were some drops of blood on it.

Natsu's heart was beating in his throat. What was Gray doing there? Why did he look like that? Who was the man who claimed to be his father and why, God why, did Natsu feel his tight pants stiffening at the sight of his crush so helpless and bound. The last thought Natsu knew to shake off, which wasn't so hard as he was also fighting the urge to throw up at the miserable expression the gorgeous man wore.

"Guah!" Hibiki squealed once more beside him, "bondage!" and after the initial shock of the audience wore off, it seemed like the rest of the audience shared his excitement. "God," he continued and Natsu felt like placing his hands over his ears like a little kid so that he would not have to hear any more of it, "Ren, babe, look at that gorgeous face!"

Ren groaned in response, "he looks so damn submissive, God I just wanna…" He ended that sentence there, which didn't really help Natsu battle his upcoming rage at all.

The pinkette looked at his brother for support, but the bastard seemed equally smitten with the sight of Natsu's classmate, and what's worse is that he could just hear the raven when he hung into his conversation partner and said with a chuckle in a seductive voice; "what do you wanna?"

Natsu stormed off before he could see the reaction of the other guy and didn't listen when Hibiki shouted his name. He was storming off. Not towards the exit, although it was tempting, not towards Gray even, but towards the fucking prick that claimed to be his father and put him on the spot like that. Oh how Natsu was going to teach that douche a lesson.

He stomped through the masses, trying to find that bastard raven when his ears picked up something; a loud gurgling noise that could have been a muffled moan. When he looked up Natsu noticed he'd been a lot closer to the cage than he'd thought and his curiosity pushed him to break through the thick crowd that was cheering and whistling and pushing and pulling even more than they usually did. Apparently, everyone wanted to get a closer look at Gray. When he finally came in contact with the iron bars he wasn't quite pleased with what he saw. From the opposite side an older man had reached into the cage and pulled Gray towards the bars, his pelvis just barely reaching the bars as the chains protested sternly. The strain on Gray's body could be seen by the fact that Gray was using the literal tips of his toes to keep contact with the floor as the man's hands rudely pulled him tight against the bars with his hands on Gray's bare and probably sore butt cheeks. Due to the pedestal, Gray's pelvis was at the same height as the man's chest. A deep blush covered Gray's face, as the raven had thrown his head back, small tears of either pleasure, pain or frustration gathering in the corners of his eyes as the man's face was kept close to Gray's crotch, though Gray's own form blocked the man from Natsu's sight and therefore he couldn't quite see what it was that he was doing though the discomfort on Gray's face told him quite enough already.

He was about to push aside the crowd and take care of it, when Silver's booming voice spoke over the loud music –the volume had gone up again after he'd stopped talking before- as he Natsu could just see him landing a big hand on the man's shoulder. "That's quite enough, Sugarboy." He said as he pulled his hand backwards, pulling the blonde man away from Gray's crotch. "If you want to lick his dick so bad, you're going to have to make a reservation for tomorrow, like all the other guests, now let go of my son's ass."

Sugarboy dejectedly let go of his strong hold on Gray's buttcheeks, but not before he gave them one firm squeeze. The lack of support made Gray stumble back wards and fall until he hung in his chains again, he quickly pulled himself up with his bulging arm muscles and stood to his feet, his eyes remaining focused on Sugarboy and Silver, who stood bickering by the side of the cage.

Natsu wanted to reach out, to touch Gray or call out for him, to let him know that he was there and show him that he was there for him. But Silver's message held him back; reservations. Reservations to lick… him. Silver was whoring out his son. Although that last term was still greatly doubtful because Gray didn't have a dad and Silver didn't deserve a son.

Natsu was staring at Silver, his eyes wide with shock, and flinched when Silver looked back at him, their gazes crossing and a knowing smirk appearing on Silver's face. Natsu quickly turned on his heels and attempted to run away into the crowd, but as he was doing so he got a sinking feeling in his stomach, Silver'd already seen him. He didn't quite know what that meant, maybe that he couldn't rescue Gray anymore, or maybe he was afraid that Silver was going to beat him up or in the most extreme form he might even put him in a cage beside Gray, that was just sick. The man didn't come across as violent at all, but then again, if Natsu'd seen the scarred man in the streets he wouldn't have guessed that he was a pimp that sold his sold his son to strange men for sex either.

His thoughts got stuck by the lump in his throat when a hand wrapped around his upper arm and Natsu forced his heart to slow down as he turned around, somewhere hoping it was Zeref but knowing that his brother usually had a 'warning: fragile, handle with care'-approach.

Standing face to face with Silver came as a shock nonetheless. As Natsu's rational and logical thinking had made him believe that Silver had no reason at all to approach him, yet for some reason he did.

"Hello," Silver said with a kind smile on his face, "I'm Silver, are you new here?"

Natsu reciprocated with a confused look, only breathing heavily as some type of response.

"Don't worry," Silver chuckled, "I know you're underage, but I won't tell if you won't." He winked, as though this all was a joke to him. As though his age could possibly be the reason Natsu was so freaked out. "What's your name?"

"Natsu," the pinkette choked out, softly tugging his arm to get free of Silver's grasp, without angering him. Silver obeyed him kindly.

"Well, hello Natsu, I've never seen you here before, are you new?"

Natsu nodded so slowly, he wondered if it was even perceptible for the raven.

"And you seem a bit uncomfortable with the scene you just saw, aren't you?"

Again, the miniature movement that affirmed the assumption.

"I'll tell you what," Silver smiled broadly, "tomorrow, Gray's accepting guests for the usual fee, of course, the theme remains bondage. I want my costumers to feel comfortable here and I think the only one who'll be able to convince you that nothing that goes on here is against his will would be Gray himself, right?"

Natsu couldn't possibly have an answer to that, maybe because he was only hearing half the words Silver said. Those words being Gray. That was the first time he'd heard anyone in there say the name out loud, almost as though it wasn't Gray that was drooling over his naked chest and showing his bare ass for a bunch of perverts to see. But it was Gray. Silver knew it, too, it was Gray Fullbuster.

"How about I'll get you one reservation for free? On the house, to get you comfortable." He pulled out his phone, even though Natsu had yet to register, let alone react, to the question. The bright light shone on his face as he scrolled down on his screen, humming in thought before he mumbled some things between which Natsu could just distinguish the "…he's nearly booked solid." Some thing started clicking in Natsu's head and at last Silver asked, "ah, how's 1AM. It's not our premium spot but if you want him untouched you pay full price," he chuckled as though it was funny, "I promise Gray will show you a real good time."

The mention of the name brought Natsu back to the conversation and he blushed at the insinuation. He was going to answer no, that he did not want to rape Gray, cause that was what it felt like to Natsu. Strapping your lover down and making them unable to protest like that, hurting them like that; that was rape.

But apparently, Silver didn't think so, as he smiled wickedly at the blush that colored Natsu's face, forehead to chin, "I suppose that would be a yes. Natsu Dragneel was it? That's settled then." He walked away before Natsu could come to his senses. When he did it was because he spotted Zeref in the corner of his eye.

He grabbed his brother by his elbow and yanked him harshly, making Zeref stumble and yelp in pain and shock. "Zeref, I want to go home, now."

"Good morning Natsu," Natsu couldn't help but groan at his brother's cheery voice, although his weary eyes contradicted the voice. It was still early in the morning and Natsu was hung-over like a bitch and he could not deal with his brother's scheming at the moment. Zeref on the other hand didn't seem to be bothered so much, "want to tell me what happened last night?"

Natsu whipped his head around to face his brother, in an attempt to throw him a warning glare, but the headache pounded so loudly in his head that he had to grab his temples; which did not help his threatening intentions.

"You kind of ran out on us." Zeref said, curiosity laced his voice but Natsu knew from experience that Zeref was not just curious, he was probably worried and most likely also angry, though those kind of emotions usually didn't help when one wanted to get something out of Natsu and Natsu knew that as well as Zeref did. Thus the pinkette could accept the deceitful tone in his brother's voice.

"Yah," he replied, sighing deeply and letting his shoulders hang low, "remember that crush I told you about? The boy one."

Zeref narrowed his eyes at him, clearly confused and maybe even suspicious of Natsu trying to change the subject or make up excuses. A crush? That couldn't possibly be the reason Natsu stormed off in a strip club. Those were hardly the times you thought about crushes. Instead of wording his suspicions, he nodded, "dark, handsome, brooding type?"

"Right," he confirmed, his eyes glazing over for a second at the terrible terrible thought of what had caused him to freak out the night before, and now to put it into words: "now remember the kid in the cage?"

Zeref was an unusually intelligent man, therefore it wasn't much of a surprise that he'd figured it out instantly, it was even a little weird that he needed a hint. "Natsu, that's…" and now even the all-knowing couldn't possibly think of anything to say. Instead he took a seat next to the obviously traumatized kid, "that's not a fun way to find out." His voice was soft, so soft that even Natsu had trouble picking it up, "but you don't know his situation, maybe…" but he didn't actually have any advice, of course not. It wasn't one of those things every teenage kid goes through, couldn't be found back in one of those pesky parenting guides. It was quiet for almost a whole minute -which doesn't sound long but if the silence is that thick and nervewrecking, believe me, it's a lot- before Zeref let out a throaty cough and said: "father and mother will be home tonight, do you…?"

But Natsu knew to shake his head quicker than that Zeref could finish the sentence, seemingly out of reflex more than a calculated answer, "no, you're right, I don't know the story yet, so I shouldn't be sharing his personal issues with people like mom and dad." Although he said it without any hesitance, his expression gave away his uncertainty, it was confirmed when Natsu sought eye contact with his brother and questioned, "right?"

In Natsu's eyes Zeref was hardly perfect; he was sleazy and mischievous and he brought problems for Natsu more often than he solved them, but Natsu did know his brother front to back –a perk of practically being raised by him- and knew that above all the other things Zeref was smart and kind and very rational and although Natsu's question sounded innocent it was loaded with an appeal to those qualities..

"Maybe it is better to wait, we don't want to be too hasty." He swallowed the lump in his throat and Natsu wished he could ignore the doubt Zeref's face displayed.

AN:

So what do you all think? First off; that was the first time the Dragneel parents were mentioned, and Natsu also hinted towards Zeref practically raising him; more about the family dynamics will be on next chapter, with guest appearances from both Lucy and Mavis (*yay Mavis*). Some of Natsu's own problems will come up that him and Zeref will have to deal with before Natsu can be the hero he thinks Gray needs.
However, some thing are going on at the club as well, no normal business man would just casually hand out his number one money maker for free, right? So what's going on and will Natsu show up for his 1AM appointment?

Please leave your comments in the comment section so I can decide if I'll post the rest of the story too (I've got loads more, but to edit and post them is a lot more work than I have time for if no-one actually reads this).