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The light spread throughout the city earlier than usual-it was an indication to a new and wonderful day. The sun was just barely peeking over the mountains to the east-far away from the city of Magnolia. The wind blew in from the north, across the variety of trees and plants that surrounded the dragon-slayer's mansion. It was quiet despite the howling of the wind that was heard in this early morning. The occupants were all asleep and were far from cracking an eye open…in the exception of one person.

In a particular room on the second floor, two male teenagers were laying under their covers. The dulled quality of light was filtered through dark red curtains causing a raven head to stir in his sleep-trying hard to avoid the morning light. It was a useless attempt; he was not used to having any form of light clearing his room-his curtains were black so it prevented the sunrays to infiltrate from the window. Not used to it, Gray decided to rouse from his sleeping state and opened his eyes to reveal a room that was not his. Since he was imposing, Gray insisted on sleeping on the couch that was present in his friend's room. Natsu had accepted reluctantly, well to be more precise, he seemed too unwell to argue about it and he just let it go. He must admit, it was not the best of options but for some reason, Natsu's couch was really comfortable so he had nothing to complain about.

After shifting to a better position on the couch, Gray checked the time on the digital clock and sighed loudly, "If Ur was here she'd faint from surprise…seven a.m. is too~ early~," he whined.

Gray got up and lumbered to Natsu's bed. When he reached it, he carefully sat on the side to prevent waking up the sleeping boy. Natsu was curling in on himself under the covers. His head was partially out and Gray was able to see his eyes-his thick pink eyelashes were really gorgeous. The fire mage looked so adorable curled like that, it was as if he was a kitten. Gray smiled warmly at the boy and then stretched his muscles. He then leaned towards Natsu and kissed him on the forehead.

Natsu felt something wet but warm touching him, he frowned and gave out a moan at the sensation but didn't bother to open his eyes. He heard someone chuckle beside him and caught a whiff of a scent he knew so well. Still with closed eyes, he quietly said "Bastard, taking advantage of me while I'm asleep."

"Never thought you'd be the type to talk in your sleep," muttered Gray.

The younger of the two huffed under his breath, "What time is it?"

"Around seven."

"Aren't you the one who said not to wake you up before noon?"

"Yeah but those curtain of yours are so thin. The light came in and woke me at such an ungodly hour," exclaimed the ice mage.

"They're not thin, you're sensible to the light is all…," Natsu slowly opened his eyelids revealing extremely beautiful emerald green orbs behind it, "So? Because it's my curtains' fault you decided that I should suffer with you and get up as well?" Sarcasm clear in his voice.

"That could be a reasonable reason but no, it's more like I'm sure that with nothing to do I'd get bored really fast …I wanted you up so that I wouldn't get to that point." Gray brushed the strands of pink hair that were falling on the green eyes and gave Natsu a soft smile.

Natsu felt warm from the ice mage's actions and smiled back at him before getting up in a sitting position. "Might as well get up then…Wanna shower first or eat breakfast?" He looked at the raven head slyly, "Or would you rather laze around in bed?"

Gray smirked and pushed the pink head on his back in the bed before leaning on top of him, "That's daring coming from you."

"Pervert." The fire mage lifted his arms to Gray's head and lightly ruffled his raven hair that was-as expected- really soft to the touch.

With a raised eyebrow the ice mage replied, "You don't seem to mind though."

"Sure, as long as your hands don't go too far down south then yeah, I don't care but…if your hands roam somewhere there, I'll make sure to rip your jewels off."

"Scary~" Gray let himself fall next to his love interest's right side and placed his arm around Natsu's shoulders, "But you know, I wouldn't dare do such things unless you give me permission to, so you have nothing to worry about."

Natsu turned over to face the raven head, "I know…And I still can't believe you love me. I'd never imagine you of all people would ever confess to me." He was then pulled to the other's chest, "Well then, I'll make sure that you believe it." Natsu stared at the slightly taller teen and grinned before hugging him.

Gray grinned back and pecked the others' forehead a second time, "Now then, maybe you should go back to sleep, you still look pale from yesterday and your body is somewhat shaking, are you cold by any chance?"

"It's nothing, I'm just a bit tired," mumbled Natsu.

"Are you sure? Your face says otherwise…You're seriously starting to shake badly…" Gray started to worry.

"Really…I'm fine," the pink head's voice was getting lower.

"Natsu…I told you yesterday not to think of me as an idiot, I know you're not feeling well," bellowed the ice mage.

Said boy huffed under his breath and reluctantly said, "Sorry…I didn't mean to…Didn't wanna worry you for nothing…To be honest I don't know, I feel some sort of burn in my chest that keeps on coming and going since yesterday… I also feel dizzy and kinda lightheaded." Natsu's breathing was getting a bit uneven.

"You also sound very exhausted and your shaking body is starting to freak me out Natsu…Maybe I should go wake Laxus up…"

"No," the pink head tightly held onto Gray's shirt, "I don't want to bother him anymore, I'm fine…" his face scrunched up in pain.

"Natsu, you don't sound fine! Or even look fine for that matter!" Gray tried to reason with him, "The worst he'll do is take you to the hospital."

"Please," Natsu was unable to hide the pain he was feeling anymore and his voice sounded like he was suffering, "Gray I'm fi-" he was abruptly stopped by the other boy, "You're not fine Natsu! You-" he stopped mid-sentence, "Shit! There's blood coming out of your nose!" At this point, the raven head panicked and got up to call Laxus, ignoring the small whimper that came out of the younger boy.

When Gray reached the door, he heard a cough which was not the weird part, but the incessant coughs that followed was what made him freeze in the spot. He ran back to Natsu's side and rubbed the latter's back with worry etched on his face.

Natsu's hand flew to his mouth and the coughs made his chest go through more pain which made him clutch at it and he felt liquid draining into his windpipe. It resulted into a louder cough and more chest pain. Natsu turned around on his back and his fist tightened on his chest before giving another cough that caused some sort of liquid to come out of his mouth on his hand.

Gray's eyes were so wide it felt like they were going to fall out of their sockets. In front of him Natsu was clutching at his chest, but that was not what sacred him-it was the liquid that was leaking from in between the fingers that were in front of the fire mage's mouth. Blood! Natsu was coughing blood!

Gray backed away from the bed that was holding the coughing teen and with a shaking voice he said, "N-No… N-No…Nonononononononononononono!" He slowly shook his head and ran out of the room.

"LAXUUUUUS!" Gray banged at the door of the lightening dragon-slayer's room with so much force it would have broken if it was not for the fact that it was made out of very solid wood. "LAXUS WAKE THE FUCK UP!" He kept on knocking loudly, "OPEN THE FUCKING DAMN DOOR NOW!"

An enraged Laxus unlocked the door of his room and angrily glared at the person who bothered him in his sleep. "THE FU-" he started but when he saw the state Gray was in he stopped.

"N-Natsu…he…he's coughing b-blood!" a panicked Gray said.

The blond man stared wide-eyed at the boy in front him before glancing across at the open room that belonged to his younger brother. When his brain calmed down enough for him to think rationally he ran past the ice mage who collapsed on the floor to Natsu's room.

With their accurate and strong sense of hearing, the other dragon-slayers woke up from their slumbers and got out to see what the loud noise was all about. Wendy was the first to leave her room and she was slightly surprised to see Gray slumped on the floor and shaking. "Gray-san…What's wrong?"

The raven head turned his head to face the only girl present in the mansion, "N-Natsu…h-he…"

"Natsu? What's wrong with him? And I can smell blood are you alright?" confusion and worry were clear on her features.

Gray whipped the tears that somewhat found their way rolling on his cheeks and stood, "Wendy…You have healing magic right?" He got a nod as an answer. "Then please…please heal Natsu…"

Her confusion transformed to worry and asked him, "Why? What happened? Is he okay?"

Gray did not bother to explain, he lifted her up in his arms and took her to Natsu's room where they found Laxus frantically talking on the phone with the-presumably-emergency care.

"Please send an ambulance to this address rapido-presto I'm begging you! My brother is coughing blood!" There was a pleading edge to his tone.

After Gray gently placed Wendy on the floor, she ran to her brothers' side and tears started forming in her eyes. Gray joined her and stared at Natsu whose breath was labored. He settled next to him and placed the palm of his hand on the pink head's forehead, on the spot he kissed twice before all of this happened.

Natsu was in so much pain he was not able to comprehend what was happening. He started feeling numb after a while and his coughing subsided but his chest was still causing him a lot pain. When he felt a hand on his forehead he directed his eyes towards the hand's owner and was not surprised to find it was Gray's. "G-Gray…," he flinched at how weak his voice sounded.

Softly Gray asked, "What's wrong?"

Natsu did not answer and tried to change his position but he was not even able of moving a single finger. He suddenly felt himself being lifted; he was grateful for it and leaned on his helper's chest without saying a single word. With heavy-lidded eyes, he chanced a glance around his room. He found all of his siblings present; they must have come-in only a few seconds ago, he thought. At the corner of the room, Cobra and Gajeel were listening intently to Laxus who was still on the phone. On his bed, Wendy was sitting and trying hard not cry. He gave her a weak smile which made her crumble and let the tears out. Gently she made her way towards him and hugged him while sobbing. In front of the door stood the two youngest members of the family holding each other's hand. Rogue was trying hard to keep his tears at the rim of his eyes and Sting was frowning at his older brother. Feeling bad, Natsu averted his gaze from them and stared at the one holding him.

Gray's head was hanging low in a way that allowed his blue eyes to be covered by his bangs but at the same time allowed him to stare back at the exhausted green eyes. With a shaky and quiet voice he pleaded, "N-Natsu…Please don't die…"

Feeling awful Natsu spoke softly, "I won't…I promise," he lifted a shaky hand to Gray's face and clumsily wiped a falling tear away, "I s-still have things I want to do…A-And we still h-haven't tried going on a d-date." His slid down Gray's cheek and plopped on his side. The last thing Natsu could remember was smiling warmly at Gray before his consciousness slipped away.


There you go guys! *grins* hope you weren't disappointed and that you enjoyed it! Do give me your thoughts by reviewing ;)

and I'd like to remind you that if there's something that you'd like to see in this fic then don't hesitate to tell me! I don't bite! really! I swear I don't! one thing though...this is a Gray x Natsu fic Seme!Gray and Uke!Natsu...that is the only thing I'm not willing to give up on :p