Author Note (Important):
About rating Change:
Hello everyone. Thank you all very much for sharing your opinion with me last chapter. I was happy with all your reviews and participation and I couldn't just stop smiling. I've decided that this story will not contain Major sexual adult themes, because the majority liked the story as it is (especially M-RATED lovers! that's a shocker!# and they didn't want it to get into many details.
Guys. you freaking ripped my heart. Is my story that innocent, that you can't imagine it getting into these details? If it's innocent then ok... but childish... nooooooooooooo!
Anyway, this story, however, might be changed to (M) Because of language only. I looked into the rating system lately and found out that (M-rated) stories are not all about the explicit adult themes, but also about language. M-rated stories are for 16+ whereas (T-rated) is for 13+ so I think that will change the way I look into things.
For those who so badly wanted it to contain major sexual details, I might add a chapter after the story is finished that have these things... I don't promise anything soooo good, but I wanted to not disappoint you either.
Thank you so much for all of your passion to this story. It made me want to scream out of joy!
Story Title: Magnolia's Shounen Ai
Rated: T (For now...)
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 7:
...THE UNREQUITED
Gray and Natsu were dismissed temporarily from the building as promised by Gildarts for a short weekend. Gray appreciated that generosity from the old man.
It was a very good opportunity for him to get away from the shitty building and breathe natural straight fresh air that can clean his mind and soul. He thought of it as a chance to make him forget all what had happened with Natsu the whole three weeks and restart his mind from it. All of it was hell, and he needed that break.
He was happy while sitting in front of Mirajane on the bar stool, drinking beer in quietness while watching the young lady indulging herself in organizing the glasses and serving utensils.
Lucy, Natsu and Happy were creating some sort of a handmade scarf for Wendy as a present while Erza watched silently and it was so wrong in this guild. Normally, it would be like you're touring in some rich Zoo, however, it was different this time mainly because it was late afternoon and not so many members had the energy.
Gray felt something also messing. Oh yeah.
"Where's Juvia?"
Mirajane smiled while wiping a small glass with a kitchen towel and replied, "She's on a mission with Gajeel-Kun. It's rare that you ask, Gray."
"I was just wondering."
"She went because she refused to accept the fact that you're being so close with someone other than her even if that someone is Natsu. The guild suffered those three weeks because of you two."
"Really? How bad was it?"
"Oh not so bad. We almost drowned in her tears."
Gray laughed. "Typical Juvia."
"I know, but she didn't have to almost destroy the guild for it."
"What can we do? Shit happens." Gray mumbled while drinking his beer making Mirajane laugh slightly.
Gray sighed. He should've dated Juvia long time ago. If he did, then he probably didn't have to go through all the mind torture and sleepless nights. He tilted his head to his left side to see Natsu sitting with Happy and Lucy and Levy who joined them later. Natsu was not allowed to wear his usual outfit by the magazine editor Sally who obviously was irritated by Natsu's choice of clothing.
Gray was natural when picking attires that suits an adequate model, but Natsu….. Let's say he just didn't care. So Sally wanted Natsu to get used to different choices of clothing articles and encouraged Natsu to have a 'Style' for photo shoots. In Gray's theory, it was just to get the idiot to at least be decent when choosing clothes for the modeling pictures.
Natsu didn't get that shit, and Gray was just sure of it as he sighed. Sally forced his choice of clothes on Natsu who was wearing dark green Jeans with a simple three quarter sleeves white shirt and somehow Natsu's fascination with the soldiers' necklace made him look even more attractive than he already is and his pink hair was nicely spiked up like always making Gray remember something about hedgehogs…..
In all honesty, it was freaking Gray out. He was outside the fucking building, yet, he was still checking out the clueless idiot who sat there showing off those grins and smiles, not giving a damn about anything in the whole world. However for a minute, their eyes met accidently making Gray quite nervous, not knowing what to do as those surprised light green eyes looked at him, obviously not knowing the reason Gray was looking at him for in the first place.
Gray tried to Ignore that look and drink his beer, but out of control, his eyes took a glance at Natsu who already was looking at the table with frustrated confused look and…. Were Natsu's cheek always that red? Gray shrugged. Probably it was because of his constant grinning habit.
Things became slightly awkward between him and Natsu these days. It looked as if Natsu lacked the courage to initiate any fight, argument, or even a talk with him unless if any other member from the guild is with him and Gray didn't complain. He didn't need a private time with dumbass to make it more complicated than it already is. God, he hated that headache. And he hated feeling like some kind of a corrupted human.
"Ohaio Fairy Tail!"
Gray Looked at the source of the sound only to see the annoying team from Blue Pegasus along with their 'Male' master who immediately greeted Makarov and started a conversation. Meanwhile, the idiots fooled around Erza, Lucy, Levy and the rest of the guild 'Female' members making Gray sigh exasperated. It was always the same.
"Let's not forget the reason we came here for!" Hibiki said drawing the attention from both of his friends along with Ichiya.
"Men! You're right."
"Congratulations Natsu, Gray! We didn't know you were in love!"
Gray almost died because his drink was choking him, and Natsu stuttered incoherent words with a total Vermilion colored cheeks making Lucy and Erza sweat-drop.
"You g-g-guys! What-what the HELL are you talking about?!" Natsu blurted.
"What? You didn't see the Vision Lacrima(S) in Fiore? All the ads are now about Magnolia's Shounen AI magazine's best couple of the month-"
Before Hibiki could complete with his explanation, all Fairy Tail guild members rushed outside in Fiore's streets along with Natsu and Gray to see what Blue Pegasus was blabbering about.
They stopped surprised when they saw the vision-Lacrima for advertising posting Gray's and Natsu's Individual photos. Gray was slightly astonished as he saw Natsu's photo as he remembered that they were separated the first two weeks for Individual photo shoots and truly, he was amazed that Natsu could pull off that cold-calm expression while standing high looking like cold beauty.
The Lacrima had two sides. One is for Natsu who was wearing white pants, and white sleevless vest over a dark blue sleeveless V-neck along with white gloves with many shiny belts over his arms showing off the red Fairy Tail emblem over his shoulder.
The other side was for Gray who had the same outfit with reversed colors so that he was wearing all dark except for the V-neck. It was a theme for an Angel and a Devil. Apparently, all people were obsessed with how Angels and Devils portrayed famous and breath taking models.
Damn, Natsu really looked like an Angel. Gray was lost in the photo for moments….
"Your lover is charming, Ne?" Eve said making Gray want to drill the moron's head, but before he could say anything….
"LOOK! That's Gray Fullbuster From Fairy Tail!"
"And that's Natsu Dragneel!"
"Oh that's bad…." Hibiki mumbled.
He heard a stream of ear screwing squeals from girls who ran like Crazy to his direction.
Somehow Gray and Natsu were in the guild panting and surprised that they were still in flesh and blood. Girls….. Girls were scary.
Meanwhile, Lucy was explaining to Blue Pegasus that both males weren't lovers and that they were just participating in some competition and she earned groans.
"Eeeeh? We thought it was weird at first because both didn't show interest in one another, but when we saw the ads, they looked perfect together. That's disappointing."
Gray laughed that evil laugh that promised death and Lucy kept holding his arms from behind as she sensed Gray's thirst for blood.
Soon, the topic was left aside and the guild celebrated for nothing as usual with Blue Pegasus who decided to bother Fairy Tail for the day. The masters were chatting happily bragging about their accomplishments for their guilds while Gray fought with the stupid trio, and Erza kept running away from Ichiya who won't just learn that she doesn't like him any better than a pathetic pest.
Natsu sat down busying himself with Wendy's handmade scarf with Happy and Levy who were giving him doubtful looks.
"What?!"
"Are you alright, Natsu?"
"Yes."
"Weird. You look like something is troubling you."
"No not at all! I just want to finish this before Wendy comes back."
"Alright, chill. We'll finish it with your incredible skills."
"Thanks." He offered Levy a half-hearted smile making the blue-haired girl more worried. She knew that something was wrong and she didn't want to pressure Natsu with asking as she knew how men hated that in women.
They were lost in completing the scarf for a moment, then Natsu started a chat with Levy.
"Levy, what is love?"
The girl was taken a bit by the question. "Um…. That's um… a difficult question Natsu."
Natsu was still doing the scarf as he looked at her.
"Love is… So far there is no definition of Love, and it has many kinds…. Do you mean Romantic Love? Family Love? Platonic Love? Unrequited love? There are maaaany."
"Ah…. I know family Love at least…. So what is unrequited Love?"
"Unrequited Love is…. When you love someone who just won't love you back no matter what you did. And that is kind of a romantic love. It can't happen in any other kind of love."
"Oh… that means the other person hates you?"
"Hmmm, not quite. Ok let me give you an example. You see Happy right? He likes charle, but she won't like him back. That's unrequited Love."
Happy cried in the background while helping Natsu with the scarf.
"She-she likes me! I know it!"
"Until she admits that she likes you, your love is unrequited Happy."
"Aye…."
Natsu stopped doing the scarf and had a slightly hurt expression for some time, then resumed.
"Unrequited love makes you feel like a loser, Natsu. That's why Happy is so sad."
"Ha… Haha… is that so?"
"Yeah. And by the way, Romantic love, is basically a friendship that is set on fire. It begins in a form of friendship and then it develops into something more. You just can't imagine living without the person you have these feelings for, and you want to be with them all the time, and sometimes feel possessive over them."
"You….. Look like you know a lot."
Levy blushed a little as she continued the scarf.
"Do you Love someone?" Natsu asked without any emotion in his voice.
"N-N-NATSU! DON'T JUST ASK THE QUESTION SO LIFELESSLY LIKE THAT!"
"Eeeh? How should I ask?"
"You have to be more…. Like more sensitive about it!"
"Why? Is it wrong if you love someone?"
"N-N-NO!"
"Then why are you hiding it? Why should you be embarrassed about it?"
"Because…. Because you never know what might happen if the other person knew about it. He or she might stop being your friend… and if they didn't, they might feel pathetic over you, or even bully you! And you don't want people to know that you have unrequited love!"
Natsu released a small gasp then continued looking at Levy shocked. He also saw some tears in her eyes.
"Oh…. You do love someone…." Natsu said after a while.
"….."
"Well, Levy. You should be not a coward and whoever you love, the person will be a dick if he didn't like you back. You're a wonderful girl."
Levy wiped her small tears away and playfully punched Natsu's shoulder. "Stop it you. You're gonna make me over-confident."
"You should be."
"Aye!"
They resumed making the scarf while Happy and Levy didn't notice how Natsu's eyes were holding so much confusion mixed with sadness.
Team Fairy Tail decided that it was time for a mission. Erza was getting bored and she was the one who picked the ad on the mission board which was very dangerous and mysterious. Lucy didn't complain because bored Erza was not so good.
Travelling for that mission would take at least a day, so they decided to stop by an Inn to sleep for the night. However, they were surprised that the Inn had only two small rooms that had one of them in a bad condition due to the heavy rain. It had water leaking from the windows.
"Excuse me lady! We need two more rooms!" Gray negotiated in agony while the disappointed faces of his friends and Erza were making him slightly annoyed.
"I'm sorry brat, but we don't. All full. You take the two rooms or look somewhere else!" The lady was also annoyed from Gray's constant bitching at her.
Erza finally stepped in cutting in their argument, "Fine. We'll take those two rooms."
Gray sighed as he and the idiot were trapped in one room. They stood for a while looking at the extremely tight room with the leaking water.
"I'll do something about that…" Gray said as he went to the window and froze the whole area so that it'll stop leaking water, and Natsu went to the chimney and made fire.
"There you go." Natsu said.
The looked at their luggage and then at each other again awkwardly.
"So…. Shower…" Natsu said.
"You first." Gray replied as he threw himself on the creaking small bed exhausted from the distance.
"Ok…."
As Natsu went to take his shower, Gray was lifelessly on the bed thinking about different things, and mainly now, the situation they were involved in. Damn those cheap uncaring Inns. He should've just slept in the open, out there. Only if it wasn't raining so so hard that it almost made the window fly if it wasn't for his magic.
And it made him stuck with Natsu. They were still having this difficulty in communicating and Gray didn't blame himself for it. Natsu was the one avoiding him all the way this time and he didn't even know why. He thought it was all good. He didn't need to talk to Natsu anyway. The idiot was just an idiot.
After a while, Natsu got out from the shower with a towel over his wet hair that was dripping water. He was going to tell Gray to have his turn, but eventually stopped as he noticed that his guild mate was in another land. He looked so tired as he slept (Taking the whole bed) for himself, making Natsu groan.
The pink-haired boy sighed as he sat on the free spot on the bed and dried his hair looking at Gray who was really out of it.
"Hey. Wake up." Natsu poked Gray's side to have no response whatsoever coming from the sleeping mage.
Natsu sighed more and rested his head on Gray's chest with blood shot cheeks and an annoyed expression.
"You are really a jerk, you know that?"
Moments passed and Natsu surrendered to deep slumber that claimed him after being seduced to sleep by Gray's steady heartbeats.
… Chapter Ends…..
Thanks for reading.
Stay tuned for next chapter, and all opinions and comments are appreciated.
For my reviewers:
EllieGymGirl
Wow…. Hahaha, Ok, I'll make them kiss soon for you. I just don't promise too soon.
Enjoy!
darkhuntressxir
Thank you very much. Well, sharing your opinion was very helpful, and your review was great. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
BohemianRebel
Well, there are a lot of people who had the same opinion as yours.
Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts for me : ) …Boy, a lot of people want them to kiss, and I don't know why. Hehehe, I don't want to torture you, but I don't promise a kiss soon so bear with me a little.
Thank you so much again. Hope you enjoyed it.
AsDarknessSpreads
Your Gray? Hehehe, I hope you like him for Natsu :)
That's interesting…. Having Natsu as the seme in bed is very nice…. However, hehe, I don't think I'm gonna put those details. Thank you for sharing your opinion though. It was very helpful.
I loved your review too and I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
theabridgedkuriboh
Ooooh, noooo. Hehehe, Jesse here is so different. thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with me and I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
dreamscometrue410
Thank you…. Believe it or not, you made life easy for me…
Thank you also for sharing your opinion with me, and I hope you enjoy this chapter.
zakky492
Hmmmmm…. I should say you are quite right. Jesse will be Natsu's key to Gray's heart and…. Opppps… I shouldn't say more, I want it to be a surprise.
Jesse should be remembered absolutely, but pleaaaaase! Jesse is sexier and don't look like Laxus at all! He is charming and I want you to visualize him like that. Green eyes and blonde hair! Don't forget! Charming! Definitely not Laxus!
Hehe, thanks for sharing your thoughts with me. I hope this chapter was enjoyable.
Angel von Ecstasxy
Wow. That was a very sweet review. I didn't know that I write good readable stuff until I read all the reviews for the past chapter and yours just made me too happy.
Thank you very much for sharing your opinion with me. I'm uploading so be sure to tell me your opinion.
Enjoy!
xXxDiStUrBeDxOuTcAsTxXx
Thank you very much! *Bows!*
Here you go. *gives her the chapter and a rose!*
Hope you enjoy it.
TheOneAndOnly123
Thank you so much. Well, I know a lot of people would want it to be M. if I didn't make it M, then I hope the plot line and some scenes will make up for that :)
I was happy when I read your review. Thanks for your sweet words. I hope you enjoyed the chapter.
MentallyDatingGrayFullbuster
*Looks at mentallydatinggrayfullbuster with a twitching left eye and a tapping foot on the ground!*
Maaa… I'll forgive you this time, since I loved your review. Hehehe, I just hope you enjoy reading the story, and I don't want you to have this burden of reviewing. I don't mind if you didn't review, I'm happy you are following the story with me.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me. I hope you enjoyed that chapter.
Dark Sorcerer of Fire
Thank you so much for your review. You gave me some valuble suggestions and I appreciate it really. It helped me a lot.
Your review was very nice, and I apologize again for calling you that…. Johan-san. By the way, I'm a fan of a character named (Johan Andersen) and I just can't help but to remember him every time I see your name. hehehe, don't mind me, I'm that weird.
Thanks for mentioning your opinion. I hope you enjoy this chapter. And I look forward your story's update.
titaniacherry
Thank you for sharing your opinion. You and plenty other people has mentioned that the story was (Cute) as it is and despite that they would want it to be M, they don't want THIS one to Be M. that's really weird, but I don't mind. As long as you find it readable, I'm not complaining.
But also it makes me wonder if…. My story is sickening cute that people don't want it to be M…. Or if it was childish….. Crazy author thoughts you know.
Don't mind me. I can be so weird sometimes.
Thank you very much. Enjoy the chapter. And I'm looking forward your thoughts of it.
Daiki-chan
Wow. I sorta have this difficulty too. I mean I would love to learn other languages, and I can understand them, but not able to talk back mainly because it demands different tone and method of talking hehehe.
I don't mind your english really, I'm not a native speaker, so I'm not complaining. I would love to learn Italian! And I think I would do that after graduation….. I'm in chaos now.
Thank you for your review. I hope you enjoyed the chapter.
LuMidoriiroo
Oh thank you so much for your activity with my stories. I noticed that you read other stories of mine and followed them too, so really thank you! I'm not sure that I'm that great though! You can expect anything from me.
Well…. I'll see what I can do after they get together. Hehe, thanks for your thoughts.
CsillaDream
*Blushes!* Thanks. I'm really happy. Well, I don't mind you not able to review. As long as you're following, it means much to me. of course I'd be super happy if you reviewed, but what can we do? Stuff happens.
Thanks for your opinion. I hope you enjoy this one.
grayXnatsuFT
I-I-I-I-Idol?! *Blush! Blush! Blush!*
WOooooo…. You made me faint just now!
Hhaha, well, I apologize for not being able to update 'All our Children Dreams'. As I said in the previous chapter of it that sometimes, I would want to update a story without the other…. Please bear with my stupid mood swings. Hehehe.
Well, of course I would reply with a very long reply because you made me crazy excited. Gosh, you're so very lovely that I can't tear my eyes off your wonderful reviews everytime. You really get the best out of me.
Well, Jesse is going to appear again yes. I mentioned this to one of my reviewers and I will do to you too. He's going to be Natsu's key for Gray's heart. And I'm going to mention what they were talking about yes. So don't worry, you'll know soon enough.
Thank you so much for your amazingness! Hope you enjoy this chapter.
YolandaStargazer
That was a very interesting answer. I sorta understood now, hehe. Well, I think my stories will be a little difficult for people to like because I don't make Natsu so cute. Man, I can't just do it. And your review also makes me always smiling so thank you so much :)
Hope you like this chapter~~
Anon Banana
Hahaha, thank you so much for your review. Enjoy!
Guest
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts. I would like you to continue reading, so don't worry.
TheSlayerGirl
Thank you for your opinion. I would see what I can do about that, but If I don't make it M, then I hope you don't get disappointed.
Hope you enjoy this chapter!
See you guys.