Gray sighed softly as he glanced at the dragon-slayer's chest rising and falling calmly (almost in a soothing way), indicating that he was sleeping. The doctor had come in to do another check up on Natsu and he took it as an opportunity to go back home to shower and change his clothes. When he returned to the hospital he found the dragon-slayer sleeping so he came in after gently pulling the door shut as to not wake Natsu up. He then settled on the bench that he was accustomed to after sitting on it for more than a day. The ice mage decided that the best way to pass time while waiting for his friend to wake-up was to stare at said friend. When he took this decision he did not know that it would result with him joining the dragon-slayer into a deep slumber as well.

When Natsu awoke he felt a little disoriented before realizing that he was in the hospital-feeling better than the day before-he tried to shift into a more comfortable position. After settling himself on the bed he turned his head to see if he was left alone or if someone decided to keep him company. Unsurprisingly and with a tinge of happiness, he found Gray sleeping in an uncomfortable position on the bench while leaning his head on the wall. Not wanting Gray's body to protest about the position he was sleeping in by causing him back pains, Natsu pocked his lover's nose in an attempt to make him open his eyes. He chuckled as the devil-slayer moaned softly and furrowed his eyebrows.

Finally dark blue eyes opened, still clouded with sleep but taking note of the tan hand that was lifted in front of him. Gray held it and placed the hand on his lap, he gently squeezed it as he spoke, "Since when are you awake?"

"Only a few seconds ago," he mumbled as he squeezed back on the hand that was holding his.

Gray hummed. "Slept well?"

"Yeah, you?" asked Natsu as he moved his legs from their spot to place them on the floor so he could be facing the ice mage.

"Me too, how was the check up?" said Gray while he held on to the dragon-slayer's other hand as well.

"Nothing special, Dr. Porlyusica told me I can get out Wednesday morning. They're keeping me here just in case."

"That's great to know." Relief flooded in Gray's chest from knowing that Natsu's health got stable and that he can leave the hospital soon.

Natsu nodded. "So why aren't you in school?"

The ice mage intently stared at him before replying, "I'm not going until you leave this place."

Natsu was about to say something to that but changed his mind when he saw the determination that was taking over the blue eyes he felt attracted to. He sighed. "Thanks, but you'll miss too much."

"I don't care, you're more important. Besides, Laxus promised he'll bring us the material we'll be missing. Also Ur said, and I cite, Nope no school! You go and stick to Natsu during all his stay in the hospital, I finally get to see a real smile coming out of you and it's because of him so . .side until he gets out! Now off you go! " Gray shook his head lightly, "Can you believe it? She shooed me out when all I wanted to do was shower! Who said I was planning to go to school anyway?"

Natsu chuckled as he tried to get up, "The others are going to be asking questions when they see both of us missing you stupid ice pervert."

"They can wonder about it all they want, I don't give a damn and I have no idea how my shirt got off of me but it's too far and I'm too lazy to pick it up flame brain," he muttered as he pulled the dragon-slayer on his lap.

Natsu sat so that his back was facing Gray's chest and that his legs were spread in front of him on the bed- he even wrapped the ice mage's arms around his waist for more comfort. His answer to the raven head's statement was cut off before it started when he heard a loud squeal erupt from the room's entrance.

Both boys snapped their heads towards the sound and, instantly, their faces turned darker than Erza's hair color. Lucy was standing in the middle between her boyfriend and the scarlet haired student council president. She was emitting some very weird and high pitched sound that could have broken some fragile glass-good thing the glass present in the room were all sturdy enough. Next to her Erza was shell shocked at was she was seeing. She could not believe her eyes, but eventually did and a red trail started leaking from her nose as her mouth and eyes were wide open. As for Loke, he was holding a smirk on his lips while his hands were trying to muffle his girlfriend's screams but to no avail.


It was later in the evening that Lucy and company found themselves a seat in their friend's hospital room. Loke was the first one to speak, with a mischievous look he said, "I take it that you've gone and changed your relationship?"

Natsu did not want to deal with the situation that he and Gray found themselves in so he opted to ignore anything that was being told and rested his head on the ice mage's shoulder (even with all the commotion, he still did not leave his lover's lap, can you blame him? It was too comfortable to care about his surroundings). Sensing that the fire mage was doing his best to ignore the intruders Gray took it upon himself to answer the question that was being directed at them.

"I thought that with your expertise you'd be able to deduce the answer to such question without having me tell you." The raven head held a sarcastic tone when he spoke.

Loke laughed at this as he replied, "Of course I know what I saw! I just wanted to hear it from you so that you won't deny it if I mention it later on in life!"

Gray was not able to help it when he shook his head at his friend's teasing, "Fine, it's just as you guessed, Natsu and I are a thing now."

This time it was Lucy's turn to interject, she was so excited that when she stood abruptly the bench she was sitting on toppled on the floor.

"Oh my gosh! Since when? Who asked who out? Who's the uke? What about the seme? Were you trying to hide it? Did you al-"

"Woah, woah there! Calm down would you?" interrupted Gray.

"Ah sorry, I just got over-excited, you know me when it comes to yaoi, hahaha…" she rubbed the back of her neck as she properly placed her bench back.

Loke slid an arm around her waist as he pulled her closer to him, "I certainly know about that," he turned his head to face the raven head, "There hasn't been a day where she stopped writing about yaoi, she's crazy!"

Gray chuckled and Natsu sighed as he glanced from the side to find Erza waking up. She ended up fainting from losing too much blood because of her nose-bleed and so Loke laid her on Natsu's hospital bed and here she is now sitting on it-looking at her side (where the boys were) in a daze. The fire mage starred back at her and let go another sigh, "Erza snap out of it, this isn't like you to be in a daze, it's creepy." Said girl snapped out of her thoughts and pinched the bridge of her nose before getting an aggravated sigh out. The scarlet head pointed her finger at Lucy and muttered, "Answer to her questions, I'm curious about it as well…"

"Weren't you asleep then," groaned the pink head.

"Just answer to them!" spoke Erza with a menacing tone as she glared daggers at the poor fire mage.

Natsu huffed under his breath, "We've been a couple for only a few hours. Gray asked me out yesterday in the evening. We weren't trying to hide it and the fuck does uke and seme mean?"

"Oh that's simple it's-" Lucy was about to answer but the pointed look that Gray aimed at her made her shut her mouth instantly. Gray then smiled at the boy siting on his lap and said, "It's nothing important, it doesn't matter what it is. You won't be less smart if you didn't know what it meant."

Natsu starred at him suspiciously before asking, "Okaaay…Now then...What the fucking hell on earth are you guys doing here anyways, I don't remember mentioning to any of you that I'm being hospitalized!"

"Both of you were absent during the whole day and so Loke and Lucy went to see Laxus-sensei after class and he said that he got word that you were hospitalized. And sure enough, when we came and asked if there was any Natsu Dragneel that was admitted in they gave us the number of this room and here we are…We just didn't expect to be encountered with such a pleasing surprise, let me be the first to congratulate you," nodded Erza as she smirked at the now blushing duo. "Oh yeah, this better be the reason why you both skipped on Friday!" she hissed.

Both mages nodded frantically their heads and held on to each other for dear life. "So Natsu what's wrong with you? Why were you hospitalized?" asked Loke to change the course of the conversation.

"Nothing special…I ended up spending a month without any sleep and as you can see it resulted with me being here…If it weren't for Gray I would've spent my whole week-end fainted somewhere lost in the school building…" answered Natsu.

"Oh! Is that why you acted weirdly that day? It's because you were crank-y?"

"Guess so…"

"Natsu you're such an idiot! You have to take better care of yourself! Especially since you live alone!" chastised Lucy.

Gray felt the dragon-slayer tense in his arms and he gave him a worried glance to which the pink head smiled to as if to say that he was fine before muttering a "Yeah…" to the celestial mage.

Erza looked out the window to find that the night was starting to fall and so she stood up from the bed and collected her things as she said, "Well it's great to know that it was nothing big, take better care of yourself Natsu. Anyways, we'll be leaving now since it's getting dark outside." She walked to the door, "See you guys, I'll be sure to send the assignments you're missing with Ultear." They nodded to her before she exited the room.

"In that case we'll be leaving as well," Loke and Lucy followed after Erza as they waved their hands goodbye to the boys. In a matter of seconds, Loke popped his back in, in the room and said, "Don't do anything dirty after we leave. You're still young," he winked as he laughed and ran away from the pillow that Natsu threw at him.

"Bastard!" the pink head snarled as he went back to leaning on Gray's chest.

The devil-slayer tightened his hold on the dragon-slayer and asked, "You still don't want them to know?"

"About?"

"You know what I'm talking about Natsu," it came out as a whine from the ice mage's mouth.

"My magic or my heart?"

"Your heart."

"There's no need for them to know…They'd fuss about it and start baby-ing me and I hate that…"

Gray hummed. "I guess you're right, it'd be awful."

"Yeah…So don't you dare mention anything about it to them."

"Sure but I need a silence fee~" Gray smirked as he saw the blush that was making its way on Natsu's cheeks. Said boy sighed and leaned to peck the ice mage on his lips before settling back with a huff. The devil-slayer chuckled and kissed the top of the fire mage's head.

"Gray…"

"Hmm?"

"I still haven't thanked Ur for the trouble she went through because of me," mumbled Natsu.

"It's fine, I'm sure she already forgot about it."

"Don't care, still need to thank her."

"Ok, how about you come over after you get out of here?"

"Sure."

"It's a deal then!" Gray was excited with the idea of having Natsu come over.

"And Gray…"

"Yes?"

"Thank you for everything and I-I l-love you," whispered Natsu as he nervously stuttered the last part.

The ice mage fondly stared at his best friend now lover and had a huge grin etched on his feature as he said, "I love you too flame brain."


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