A/N: Thanks for the reviews. The third chapter is soon to come. I am also currently working on another fanfic... so the next update may take more time.

EDIT: I went back and edited this story because I was disgusted after rereading it recently. It was my first fic and it's still pretty bad. I did the best I could without completely rewriting it. Haha.

Chapter 2

Gray watched him as he inhaled and exhaled quietly. He was scrunched, fitting his whole body on the bench using Gray's lap as a pillow. Gray blushed and turned away, he was still unsure what to do. He was glad that Natsu seemed settled but didn't understand why he was suddenly fine now that he was in his lap. He racked his brain for reasons, but was unable to come up with anything. Mostly it bothered him because Natsu spent plenty of train rides in Erza's lap and he was still sick. They ended up knocking him out almost every time. Gray had never seen Natsu look so calm and peaceful on any sort of transportation.

Gray watched him for a long while waiting for him to get sick and throw up again. He figured once Natsu did that, he would then realize that he was sleeping on Gray's lap and feel embarrassed. Gray felt he would at least get that kind of reward for his kindness. He chuckled to himself as he absently went to put his hand on the back of Natsu's head. As soon as his finger tips felt the soft pink hair, he immediately pulled away realizing what he was about to do. He crossed his arms and turned away as his face flushed furiously. Now refusing to look at Natsu, he squeezed his eyes shut as tight as he could as if trying to disobey his body. Natsu moved around a little more and moved his left hand up on his 'pillow'. Grey felt the heat slide across his leg, an intense heat that rushed over him and spread to all his limbs. Gray blushed harder and couldn't hold his eyes tight anymore. He opened them and saw Natsu's arm was in front of his face, his hand very close to Gray's inner thigh.

Gray had enough at this point; he closed his eyes and tried to justify his reasoning on letting Natsu stay like this. He thought that it was fine because Natsu was not sick anymore and he didn't have to put up with the sound of him throwing up, though it didn't really bother him all that much. On that thought, he let the train work its magic to put him to sleep, but was having trouble.

After some time, Natsu started to stir, eyes still closed. He felt a cold sensation all down his arm, neck and head. 'So soothing and comfortable,' he thought as he debated on waking up yet. He stayed still for a while until he realized the sound he was hearing was the train.

"Mmm?" Natsu groaned out loud. 'How am I not sick? I'm still on the train!' he thought and as those thoughts ran through his head, his eyes shot open. He saw the wall first but it was still dark and it was difficult for him to make anything out. His eyes wandered toward his feet and saw the open window. The night was beautifully speckled with stars. He stared for a few moments, not moving, afraid of ruining his comfortable position. He looked straight in front of him again as he slightly moved his left hand. He wondered what this amazingly cold feeling was.

Natsu eyes could make out something in front of him on the wall but was unsure of what it was. He stared at it for quite some time before his eyes adjusted and he was able to make out a shoelace. At that moment, everything suddenly made sense. 'This cold feeling is Gray,' he thought. 'This cold feeling is Gray.' He jumped up and pulled himself away from the sleeping pillow. Face fully flushed, he didn't have any time to think before his stomach went sour and he was head-out-the-window throwing up again.

"Man, I was comfortable. Stupid train...," he said in a low tone, looking over at the sleeping Gray. "Stupid Gray..."

Gray pretended to be asleep as he heard Natsu throwing up again and thought to himself that he wasn't cured yet. Natsu continued this constantly for the next 10 minutes, Gray started to wonder if he was throwing up because of the train or the disgust that he was laying on Gray's lap. This made Gray a little unsettled since he thought he was being nice by allowing him a place to lay comfortably which prevented him from being sick for a while at least. Gray started wonder why he hadn't pretended to wake up and make fun of him yet. He didn't fully understand Natsu's reaction yet, so he decided to wait. Natsu couldn't take it anymore; he was dry heaving at this point and out of breath. He looked over at Gray and debated on lying on his lap again. He wanted to do anything that would stop him from being sick again. He leaned over toward Gray, making strange moaning and groaning sounds again to calm his stomach. He watched Gray carefully making sure he didn't wake up. Natsu, blushing heavily, laid his head down on Gray's lap again, being careful not to move too much or stir him from his sleep. As soon as the cold touch of Gray's leg made contact with Natsu's cheek, he felt the instant relief. Natsu moved to a similar position as before, arms down on the bench.

Gray felt the heat that is Natsu, back on his leg again. He tried to hide his shocked expression and thought to himself that it must have given him some kind of relief or there is no way that Natsu, in his right mind, would realize what he had done and still do it again. He peeked an eye open to find Natsu already asleep again.

The train slowly came to a stop. Natsu's eyes came open and he shot up out of Gray's lap hoping that he wouldn't notice. The ice mage pretended to stir awake, opening his eyes. He stretched his arms back, taking his feet off the wall stretching them as if he had just woke up. Natsu was so red that he had to hide it by staring out the window. Gray already knew what he was doing and involuntarily smiled as he started to make his way through the packed train. Natsu followed with his head down.

The town was dark except for a couple of street lights and a building fully lit.

"Yosh!" Natsu said, excited that the train ride was over.

"Hey Natsu, let's stop at the hotel for the rest of the night. I didn't sleep well on the train and it's really much too dark to see anything anyways." Gray said yawning in between sentences, walking towards the bright building with the pink haired boy not far behind. Natsu thought back to Gray's sleeping face, it looked like he was sleeping well to him.

"What? You're stalling this time? HAHA I slept grea-!" Natsu stopped mid-word as he thought back to him laying on Gray's leg and the comfort his cold body gave him. Gray smiled still walking ahead of Natsu. He knew what Natsu was going to say and also why he didn't. Natsu scratched the back of his head in nervousness, "Eh, a hotel is fine, I wouldn't mind getting a little more sleep." Natsu lied, on the contrary, he wanted to have some time to think about what was going on with him and understand his own feelings.

They entered the hotel and walked up to the clerk who was reading a magazine. She didn't seem to notice the two boys as she flipped the page and continued to read, smacking away on some chewing gum. Gray lost his patience and cleared his throat while staring at the woman. She slowly looked up as if they were bothering her while blowing a bubble, then she let it pop as she went back to looking at her magazine. "We only have one room available and it only has one bed," she said as she blew another bubble.

Gray smacked his hand down on the desk.

"You've got to be kidding," Natsu sighed heavily.

Gray was highly irritated at this point and started to get irrational. "Can't you kick someone else out?! I'm not putting up with this right now! I was squished on the train and now I have to share a room with him!" Gray had more to say but Natsu covered his mouth.

Gray immediately felt guilty for going off on the woman but he was tired and just ready to get rest before the big fight with Jellal; He already knew what kind of fight that would be. Natsu still had his hand over Gray's mouth and spoke for him.

"We'll take it. Thank you." Natsu released Gray's mouth as he calmed down and pulled some money out to pay the woman for the night. She gave them a heart-shaped key and started to laugh as the two boys went up the stairs to look for the room number. Once they found the room number they quickly opened the door and turned on the light. When they saw the room they immediately froze. Gray's eye twitched furiously as Natsu dropped to the floor laughing hysterically. "I'm sorry dude, it's just the irony of the situation is just ridiculous!" He said between fits of laughter.

Gray just stared at the room for a few moments feeling extremely annoyed. The room was all white and quite roomy with a heart shaped bed in the middle. The sheets were red and there was white and red rose petals everywhere. Upon seeing this, Gray just gave in. He admitted defeat and started to laugh as well. After he calmed down a bit he shot Natsu an evil smile.

"Well, I guess I'll take the bed. Good night Natsu!" Gray started to run for the bed. Natsu stopped laughing and jumped up. He ran as fast as he could toward the bed. Gray reached it first, somehow losing his clothes in the process. Natsu tripped half way on the ice mage's shirt and landed on his face. Gray laughed at him as he stood on the bed waving his arms in the air as if he was a champion in just his socks and boxers. Natsu looked up, out of breath.

"Fuck! Haha. That sucks." He started to get up but sat Indian style on the floor staring at Gray instead. "How do you always end up out of your clothes? I didn't even see it happen."Natsu said, now taking off his shoes.

Gray looked down feeling embarrassed as he tried to cover himself up. Looking passed Natsu, he saw his clothes on the floor.

Natsu started to zone out while staring at the Fairytail tattoo on his chest, or so Gray assumed. When he realized that Gray saw him, Natsu immediately looked down, bangs covering his face. Gray sat down Indian style on the bed facing the dragon slayer. He rested his elbow on his leg and his head on his hand.

"Something wrong...? Or did you want the bed that bad?" Gray asked, confused. Waiting for a reply, he started to rub the softness of the comforter he was sitting on with his free hand.

"Nothing's wrong... It's cool, you won." Natsu said while staring at the floor.

"Dude, come on, tell me what's wrong. Are you missing Happy and the others? 'Cause I can take this job myself if you want me to."

Natsu finally looked up at Gray with a glare and quickly jumped up from his position on the floor. He started to run towards Gray with a face full of rage and leaped forward. Gray started to get up slowly, thinking Natsu was playing around. The dragon slayer's foot touched the bed and just when Gray realized he was serious, it was too late. A fist crashed into Gray's cheek and he was sent flying into the wall. Natsu sat on the bed feeling proud of himself while Gray slid down the wall and back on to his feet.

"So it was the bed that made you upset. Whatever then, just take it." Gray said rubbing his cheek where he had been hit.

Natsu was getting more and more irritated, he didn't care who had the bed at all. He was upset about the last thing Gray said, but more than anything, he was mad about the fact that Gray was blind to what was happening to him. He definitely wasn't going to let Gray have all the fun while kicking Jellal's ass but wasn't he able to sense anything different about him? He did notice that the fire mage was acting different but missing Happy and the other's was really the last thing on his mind at that moment.

'Maybe it's just because I'm the only one acting strange, I'm the only being different, I'm the only one who's noticing the changes, I'm the only one who knows that he's able to cure me... But- I'm the only one who feels the changes because the changes are only happening to me.' Natsu sighed heavily as he smacked a hand to his face in shame. 'Ugh... what the hell...'

"Stupid Gray," Natsu said as he pointed at the bathroom door. "Go take a shower and go to bed." He looked down at the blanket folded at the foot of the bed. "You can have the bed I'm going to take this extra blanket and I'll sleep on the floor. You're the one that didn't sleep well, remember?"

Gray stared at Natsu for a moment and thought about what Erza said. She's right, we don't know what would happen if we argued. Gray is picking up the fact that Natsu knew what Erza was worried about. He eventually nodded and went into the bathroom. Within seconds he was out of his boxers and socks. He looked down where Natsu had laid on his leg. There was a large pink mark, nothing serious, just burned enough to darken the color of the skin. He reached a hand down to rub it and it felt really sensitive. He imagined Natsu laying on him again and what it would feel like to stroke his hair as he was relieved by whatever magic of his it was that helped on the train. Once he realized again what he was thinking, he swatted those thoughts away and jumped in the shower.

Gray let the water rush over him for a little while staring down at the burn. 'If he felt that hot to me because he's made of flame, then I must be that cold to him because I'm made of ice,' he thought.

'The cold,' the thought echoed in his mind.

'That's what soothed Natsu through the train ride; it's the only thing that makes sense.' He looked down. 'No, that can't be... Erza tried using ice packs to help him before and it didn't work, in fact, nothing has worked.'

He began to wash himself as he noticed something he hadn't thought of before.

'Maybe, it's just me... My cold...' As much as he didn't want to, as much as he tried to hide it from the droplets of water and the walls of the shower, he smiled at that thought. He couldn't deny that he took pleasure in the thought that he was the only one who could help Natsu; that he was the only one that could soothe him; the only one and the only thing.

Edit: The only reason I didn't take it down is because it is my most popular story. I still don't see how or why; there is so much blushing and the name use is awkward. Again, I tried not to change the story too much but I still wanted to fix the awkward switches from past to present tense, spelling errors and stuff like that.