Chapter 15: Gray and Natsu moments again: Natsu eats (with) Gray!
Chapter Summary: The two BFFs have lunch at Gray's before training. In the kitchen, Gray doesn't have much aside from precooked meals and chocolate for deserts, but they very well may find an alternative for deserts.
Days later at high school.
Erza: I can't believe it guys? What were you thinking to drink some shit from that creep? In the Halloween night!
Lucy: Well, I can understand that. Don't you remember –Erza- not long ago we did shrooms in the forests and spent the whole night tripping and sleeping in the freezing forest? Zeref for sure it's a creep, but still, he is (or was) your friend and thus should be able to trust him.
Gray: I don't know girls… It was so weird and unexpected. We almost did nothing that night… We just ate something, went to drink, to drink in the cemetery and then we spent a shit ton of hours high as fuck in the hospital.
Cana: Did you guys go to see Zeref or at least talked with him?
Gajeel: We tried but he won't answer the phone and we did not want to go to commissary because we would probably worsen his situation, after all, to the police, he just drugged us without us knowing anything.
Natsu: He probably didn't want to cause that much trouble and now must feel regretful.
Lyon: Fuck him, we should go to see that punk just to punch him in the fucking face. What a jackass. My parents now think I do drugs every weekend.
Erza: Also you could all have brain damage now; I don't want to imagine how dumb you would be. Damn Zeref!
Lyon: Anyway, let's to class, playtime is over.
The group dissolved and went back to class. Gray hurried to join and talk with Lucy.
Gray: Hey Lucy, did you worried for me? I worried I wouldn't be able to see you again…
Lucy: What are you up to, Gray? There's nothing between us.
G: Just the truest and most intense affection in the whole world.
L: You are just horny, as always.
G: And you're so cute… Do you wanna go have a coffee after classes?
L: Don't you have training then?
G: I have spare time in between and you are a priority over basketball.
L: Sorry, another day… plus we already got in class.
Gray rubbed and disarranged her silky hair in a playful but upsetting way.
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After classes basketball team members had some time before training and when leaving high school, Gray asked Natsu to do something together.
Gray: Hey Natsu. How are you doing? Still feeling weaky?
Natsu: Hi! Not really, I'm fine. You need something stronger to finish me! Hahah.
G: Wanna do something before training?
N: Sure. Like what?
G: I don't know. We can start by having lunch.
N: I was going to eat at home, like every day, but I can skip it if you have a good plan.
G: Well, there's nobody at my home so I thought we could prepare something and have lunch together. You know it's kind of boring and lonely these days eating alone. Want to join me?
N: Yeah. It's a great idea. Should we go straight to your place?
G: Yeah, you can get your training stuff on the way there.
Gray and Natsu walked to Gray's place. Gray's home felt frayed to Natsu. It was darker and older than Natsu's, probably because Gray lived alone with his father, without a woman in the house. But all these didn't matter because Natsu relished every second spent with Gray -and where Gray lived!
Gray opened closets and drawers of the kitchen.
G: I hadn't thought much about what I had and what you like before inviting you, but here's what I have… what do you want? We have instant ramen, a precooked meal with steak, pork in pineapple sauce and canned spaghetti a la Bolognese.
N: What were you going to eat?
G: Probably some ramen with the pork in pineapple sauce, it's quite good.
N: Sounds good to me.
G: Good! Let me do the magic.
Gray heated water for the ramen and nuked the pork portions. Meanwhile Natsu redirected the conversation.
N: Hey Gray, we haven't talked much since last time we were together, do you remember?
G: Of course I remember! Yeah, that's true.
N: Do you want to talk about it?
G: In this situation I rather act than talk.
Gray stopped what he was doing and inclined to -out of the blue- passionately kiss Natsu in the lips. He turned red in a moment, and Gray blocked his nostrils and kept with the long French kiss. Gray waited until Natsu almost suffocated and released him. Natsu caught his breath shocked.
N: Sick. You are too much, Gray. And too rough.
G: But did you like it?
N: I'd had preferred something softer but I can't complain.
Gray smiled satisfied.
N: But do you want to talk about our thing? I mean… what do you want? You'll have noticed I'm crazy for you, but I'm not sure it's the same for you. Today I saw you kind of flirty with Lucy, and you two have or at least had a thing for each other.
G: I don't know, Natsu. Don't worry about it. I'm always like that, but maybe lately you noticed it more. To calm you down, right now there's nothing between Lucy and me, and about us, I'm not sure, we are good how we are, we are friends, with some benefits but friends. I don't want a boyfriend or go to tell everyone I'm going out with you… Didn't we already have this conversation?
N: Fine. But do you want to do more stuff with me, or it's just a teasing game for you?
G: Yes I do, but let's take it easy. For the moment let's enjoy this delicious overly salty meal!
N: Do you have something for deserts?
G: Yeah, I have chocolate, and then we can play videogames or with ourselves. We can decide later.
N: I'm fancying your plan.
G: You are gonna love it.
/End of the chapter, continues next!/