Story Title: Magnolia's Shonen Ai

Rated: T

Pairings: NatsuXGray

World: Anime World/Canon

Warning: Shonen AI/Yaoi. Language...

I don't own Fairy Tail.

O.o.O Magnolia's Shonen AI O.o.O

Chapter 2:

...THE FIGHT

Natsu was sitting on the roof of the magazine's publishing building as the strong wind brushed his hair and cheeks. His Hands were still holding the object of the present that he was supposed to be giving to Gray, but never actually got the chance to do it. Natsu felt something strange. He never really cared about Gray and never will. Actually he cared about Gray in missions when they are fighting together as a tiny part of his heart will be always afraid for his fellow mage's safety, but that was it. If Gray died, then he'd find no body to fight with anymore, and he'll feel somehow empty because part of his daily routine would be missing. He admitted that, but never gave Gray much of a credit in the end of the day.

So, No. he didn't care about Gray. He only did because he was selfish and wanted to sustain that part of his life. As much as it hurts to say, Gray the stripping bastard was a very strong rendered part of his life as well as heavy Lucy and Erza the demon, so why was he feeling strange again?

Natsu felt strange because he was actually looking forward seeing Gray in that so called 'Date'. The past week did remove Gray from his life and the experience wasn't pleasant at all. Natsu thought that if he actually experienced that, then Gray maybe would feel the same, but as crystal, it was very clear that Gray had no tiny bit of caring in his body system to the fire-shooting mage after he'd run way as if a rabid Dog had bit him in the ass.

Natsu understood that 'Not that he was the Rabid Dog or anything'. After all, if Gray was a very important part of his life, then he might be just an annoying aspect in Gray's world. It's not like Natsu is the only one to blame. Gray had the Nature that made Natsu naturally irritated and competitive. Like that time the challenged each other to eat a million rocks, or toilet paper, or Lucy's novel 'actually that was a dare', and the point is, they've done many unbelievable things and fought many times because maybe that's the only way they could understand each other. At least Natsu thought so. And because he thought of that, he didn't expect Gray to just….. Run away. He could've hit him in the face, or kicked him in the gut, but running away?!

That actually hurt.

Not physically…. But, Natsu couldn't understand why he was hurt or why his chest was so so heavy.

"Natsuuuu!"

Natsu was snapped from the trance and looked upwards to find his blue cat flying towards his direction. He shook his head, and grinned and boy it was hard. Naturally grinning would be so easy, but pretending is something else. His eyes said it all.

"Yo! Happy!"

"Aye! Was the Date over that fast?!"

Natsu's grin threatened to fall apart when he was again reminded of what happened. He thought for a while then grinned again. "Yep! The bastard ran away! Hah! I bet he was scared!"

"Scared? Of what?"

"…. I dunno! Of something!"

"Natsu…. What happened?" Happy said as he sat in front of Natsu on the roof looking confused to his caretaker.

Natsu sighed and played with the present box in his hands. "Lucy and Erza came today to prepare me for the Date, but when we were supposed to see each other, he…. Ran away. Happy, do you see that I look funny?"

Natsu was still wearing the clothes of the date, and it was his first time putting on those. Yes he used to disguise in some missions, but he didn't wear them in daily life, it wasn't his style.

"Now that I think about it, Natsu you look great!"

"…. How do you know that?" Natsu doubted that his cat will understand. His cat was a cat, so how could he understand the human's latest fashion?

"According to the humans' latest fashion, this is the best! Lucy did great!"

Natsu sighed. "Ok, I can't figure out what made him run away…."

Happy furrowed his eyebrows thinking along with Natsu. "Mmmm. I don't know, but oh well, why should we care?! Natsu! You promised you'll go with me fishing after the date!"

Natsu smiled. "Can you wait just a little longer? Sally still wants me around and I can't say no to him or Erza."

"Aye! I understand, I just wanted a reason to ditch you and go with Charle!"

"Ahhh! You traitor!"

"Excuse me Natsu~ Love has no morals!" and the cat flew away.

"Hey! That's not fair! Come back!"

"Bye bye!"

"The mean jerk….. Gray the mean asshole…" Why was every one abandoning him today? At least Happy had an excuse. And no matter what excuse Gray had, he will not be excused. That was one of the most awkward things that Natsu had been through, and he didn't want to know why.

He spread his legs to be dangled from the room and hummed 'Not happily', but he couldn't think of what to do in his leisure.

Natsu huffed. Well, at least he has nothing to do but to enjoy the air.

Lucy hurried to Gray's studio. The black-haired had run away straight to the studio saying that he has stomach ache and Lucy was beyond angry and past the levels of persuasion and she had Erza with her. She slammed the door of the studio open and entered seeing Gray stand up quickly dropping the act of 'Stomach ache', and his face lightened up.

"Lucy! Thank God!"

"Gray fullbuster! You've five minutes-no-screw that! You've ten seconds to explain yourself! Why the hell did you screw up that date?!"

Gray immediately got angry and didn't care about Erza's cold looks.

"Listen you! I never asked for this. And When I saw that guy, something in my gut just-"

"-You mean in your heart?"

"-Do I look like I fucking care where exactly, Lucy? Something somewhere snapped, so stop screwing with me! What's important is that it wasn't supposed to happen! You've to stop this ridiculous competition and get me out."

Lucy sat down and breathed. "Ok, just sit down and tell me what's wrong."

"-I'm not going to sit down! Lucy, I'm telling you! I felt something and it actually involved Natsu being the most 'pleasant' thing to see on earth!"

"-He's not a thing, but ah well, I know he looked good. Erza knew he looked good, so what's the problem?!"

Gray shook his head in frustration and slammed his fist on the closet making both girls flinch from the sudden anger. "I DON'T admit that Lucy! Especially not to that idiot! And that is scaring me! If I thought that he was attractive then what else do you want me to do? Swallow my own goddamn shoe?!"

"Ooooh, so you think he's attractive?" Erza asked with a smirk.

Gray was taken back. He did it. He did it AGAIN. "No no no no! What the hell is happening to me?! Lucy! Stop it please! Fucking hell, I want to puke!"

Erza and Lucy looked like they both enjoyed seeing Gray being tortured. Serves him right for ditching Natsu.

"Listen Gray. This is my one Golden chance to make my name enter this Magazine, so don't screw it. I'm not stopping anything, and by the way, you've to go and talk to Natsu."

"THE HELL-"

"Ok, you can drop your complains by Erza's box of Doom."

Gray stared at Lucy in horror, not believing that he didn't mean anything to her like that. "Lucy… how could you?"

"Gray, I see that you're acting stupid. So what if Natsu is attractive? Would it kill you that he is? You're not the first guy to think like that as the camera crew already did and even Loke did. That doesn't mean anything; it's a fact unless you have something-"

"I CERTAINLY FUCKING DON'T!"

"-So it's not a problem! Go talk to him, and make sure he agrees to go on that date again after he'd your shitty ass ditching him."

Erza smirked. "I bet Natsu don't know that he's been ditched."

"Technically it wasn't a real date, so he's been not ditched for real."

Gray looked to both girls and resisted the urge to freeze them to death.

Gray was slapped in the gut hard when he saw Natsu waiting for him. Damn! He was waiting for him looking like the most beautiful and sexy guy in Magnolia with the innocent and anticipated expression that added more charm to it all. And no, he wasn't supposed to think that Natsu was anything pleasant, or even ATTRACTIVE. He'd kill himself if he had to before he thinks of all that horse bull!

Natsu was an idiot! A flame-eater! A sex-

GODAMMIT!

Natsu has been sitting on that roof since the morning and now it was noon. He didn't know why, but his energy seemed to be all drained every time he sees the present he'd brought for Gray. 'The one that he was going to keep afterwards.'

He laughed a little.

"Oi! What are you laughing at?!"

Natsu kind of yelped and looked back having an innocent shocked expression. "The hell?! Who told you to sneak up on me like that?!"

"Are you deaf? I already called your name several times!"

"Ah…" Natsu looked away to his feet finding them interesting. Somehow he hasn't been expecting a chat with Gray so soon. And wanted to avoid it as much as possible. Bad luck.

"Our date is scheduled again tomorrow, the same time. Make sure you're there."

Natsu laughed. "Make sure YOU are there. Coward." Natsu didn't care about whatever made Gray runaway, it wasn't his business!

"WHAT did you say?"

"I said coward. Are you deaf?"

"-That does it Natsu!"

"-what did I even do to you? I wasn't the one who chickened out from the 'Date'. And-"

"Will you stop talking? Just be there tomorrow."

"And I'm telling YOU to be there, can't you understand? Why did you run anyway in the first place?"

Gray Turned his back to Natsu refusing to look at him at all. "That you don't need to know-"

Natsu stood up anger eating him up from the inside. He took the present box and threw it strongly in the direction of Gray's head making the raven yelp from surprise and actually….. groan from the pain.

"WHAT THE-?!"

"Wow, now I gained your attention?"

Gray gritted his teeth and turned around to find Natsu looking at him with one blank expression that he'd never saw before-forget that-He can't even look at him in the face.

"Do you want to start something? Because if you are, you should've told me first."

"Hmmmm, still not looking. What's wrong? Why can't you look at me in the eye? Did they tell you not to do that?"

"Hey! Stop asking questions and get off of my back, will you?"

Natsu's anger rose up making his eyes twitch and his body suddenly was highlighted by a red cover of rage and hot fire. Gray have never saw anything like it before in their previous fights and turned to focus his sight on Natsu's face. Was that a challenging look? Perfect. He was angry as hell from the morning, and this was a good chance to release all the tension built up inside.

Natsu stood in an attacking pose waiting for his opponent to be prepared as well and as soon as Gray was a very angry ice human as ice covered most of his skin and half of his face they launched at each other's throats making the building shake slightly from the anger filling the air.

Natsu was surprised as Gray fought with him. The ice trapped him in an instant and sent him to the ground. He groaned and before he could even stand up, Gray's angry now glass blue eyes met his and he felt his gut hurting so much because of the strong blow from Gray's hammer Ice-make.

But Natsu couldn't understand it. Why? Why was he angry?

The fire mage spitted the blood coming from his mouth and stood up to his feet kicking Gray's shoulder sending him back, but Gray's strong Mariku just stopped him for a minute, and Natsu was more than prepared to come with his best at this one cold Gray.

The black-haired groaned as he felt his whole body shake from the salamander's roar and he could only dodge half of the hot blow and damage by his Ice shield, but he didn't waste any time as he stood up and moved in a lightning speed to hold Natsu's arm behind his back sensing the freaked out expression from the pink-haired movements.

"Let go you bastard!"

Gray smirked and part of his anger made the ice crawl to Natsu's legs and Hands. "Why? Didn't you want this?" and he moved Natsu's arm in a way that will only dislocate it from its own place.

Natsu winced from the pain. "You WOULDN'T!"

"I Certainly would!"

Natsu sweat dropped. Gray wasn't serious, was he? The fuck! He was going to dislocate his arm! The pain was very very hard when-

"STOP IT! BOTH OF YOU!"

Erza….. Natsu never thought he'd be happy to see her at all! He took the chance to break free in the moment where Gray flinched from Erza. He rubbed his arm and panted. By the time their magic died down, they had several bruises and Gray had 'Burns' but it wasn't too severe. Natsu couldn't process what had happened, and why his friend was acting like a total jackass. He was going to dislocate his arm for god sake!

Natsu saw Gray panting heavely giving him a dirty look in the process and Natsu felt a bang in his heart.

Just why…..

….. To Be Continued….

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Author Note:

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