7. Water
12:00 PM on Saturday. A certain pink haired teen was still in bed, at least until someone almost kicked his door off it's hinges.
"Time to get up!" It was Erza
Natsu groaned before sitting up rubbing his eyes 'What'd I do, leave the front door unlocked?' "Okay i'm up..."
"c'mon Natsu and get dressed, did you forget where we were going today?" Erza crossed her arms.
Natsu looked at the red haired female and took notice in her attire, it consisted of a tank top, shorts and a sun hat. 'oh shit, i did forget, we were all going to the water park today!'
"Okay, i did forget! i'll get dressed now so get out of my room!"
Erza left the room and waited for the pinkette to get dressed so they could head to the waterpark. Natsu got dressed, packed a bag and left his room "Okay let's go. Where's everyone else?"
"they're already there. we had planned on meeting there but i had to come get you" she gave him a stern look before walking out of the house.
They made their way to the water park and as soon as they walked up to the entrance they saw Lucy and Gray waiting impatiently for them.
"Bout time you got here..." Lucy was glaring at Natsu.
"Sorry Luce, I slept in." Natsu flashed a nervous smile.
"Forget it! Let's go!" She grabbed Erza's arm and ran inside the water park, leaving Gray and Natsu alone, which made the pinkette extremely nervous so he ran into the park leaving Gray alone and confused.
Natsu hated water, he'd never say he did but he sure did. There was a reason behind it too, One day when Natsu was younger, he had almost drowned and still to this day he cannot swim. Natsu knew why he had said yes to going on this trip, he wanted to watch Gray swim.
Natsu went to sit in a deck chair but instead just laid his stuff down on the chair.
The fire mage walked around the area, mainly looking at the different things to do, he spotted a group of kids over by the wave pool, they were watching as the people in the pool were bobbing around in the water, Natsu chuckled at their faces each time the wave appeared. Natsu spotted the ice mage in a pool floating on his back. Needless to say that those brown eyes belonging to the dragon slayer never left from looking at the sight of Gray's bare chest, Those abs, Wonderful muscles… 'No Natsu snap out of it! He doesn't think of you that way so you shouldn't think of him that way either.' Natsu mentally scolded himself as he kept staring. Little did he know that he was walking dangerously close to the edge of a deep pool, his gaze only turned away when he found himself falling into the pool with a yelp.
Gray had been snapped out of his daze when he heard someone yell 'That sounded like Natsu' Gray shot out of the pool to look for the fire mage, that's when he saw the commotion around one of the pools. He rushed over to the crowd and pushed his way through, his eyes landed on Natsu who was flailing his arms and splashing the water to keep himself up over the surface of the water.
Gray panicked and jumped into the water, he tried to grab a hold of Natsu's waist before he went under the water again but he failed and Natsu didn't come back up this time. The ice mage dove under the water and grabbed Natsu to pull him to the surface. Natsu seemed lifeless.
A lifeguard helped Gray lift the fire mage up onto the platform where he started to give him CPR after feeling around and finding no pulse. Gray pushed the lifeguard away as nothing was happening, he did CPR himself for a bit before going and punching the fire mage's chest pretty hard, this caused Natsu to start coughing and spitting out water. Gray sighed with relief. 'Thank god he's not dead!'
Natsu sat up and placed his hand over his chest. "Oww..."
"Oi! Flame head, you alright!?"
Natsu looked up to see Gray kneeling next to him with concern laced through his facial features. This caused Natsu to blush and look away. "I'm fine."
"Baka, you almost died! And here you say you're fine!?"
Everyone that surrounded them walked away and left them be and went about to keep doing what they were doing before.
Natsu sighed "Did I hit my chest or something? It hurts!"
"Or something. I hit your chest to bring you back to the living world!"
"Geez popsicle, you didn't have to hit me that hard!" Natsu rubbed his sore chest. A pang of guilt went through the ice mage, he sighed.
"You deserved it."
"Why the hell did I deserve a punch to the chest, other than the fact that you did it to save me!" Natsu was now looking at Gray with annoyance.
"You scared me" Gray said it so quietly Natsu almost didn't pick up on it but he did and it made the face mage's face heat up and match Erza's hair.
This did not go unnoticed by the ice mage. "Natsu you okay? Your face is all red?"
'Did he just use my real name!?' Natsu's face turned even redder and he looked away quickly.
"I'M FINE GRAY!" He got up and sprinted off to the deck chair that held his stuff. Gray was quick to follow and he grabbed Natsu's wrist and dragged him over to a wall. Natsu protested as he was dragged but Gray was not letting go.
"What's up with you!?" Gray asked as he pushed the dragon slayer up against the wall.
"I don't know what you mean?"
"Whenever you are around me you get all flustered and you get all awkward!"
"I..um...I-I"
"See you're doing it now!" Gray stared into his eyes
"Okay fine! I'll tell you!" Natsu seemed to have become more uncomfortable than when Gray pinned him against the wall and his face was now once again the color of Erza's hair. "I-I Like you!" He tried to push past Gray but instead Gray grabbed ahold of his face and kissed him fiercely. Natsu was shocked at first but soon kissed him back.
Gray pulled away and looked at Natsu with loving eyes. "I've liked you for so long and now I know you feel the same." Gray pulled him into a hug to which Natsu returned eagerly.
Natsu was shocked, but that subsided when he was pulled into Gray's arms.
Both felt the same about each other and they never would have known if Natsu didn't fall into the pool.
"You're still an Idiot! Why didn't you tell me you couldn't swim!"
"Sorry!" Natsu ran away from Gray laughing and Gray chased him, laughing as well.
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