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Story Title: Gentle Summer Breeze

Rated: T

Pairings: NatsuXGray

Warnings: Swearing "Bad language", AU, Shonen Ai….. (You can call it Yaoi, BL, Anything you want. So please, if you are not a fan of it, you've been warned.)

I'll try to keep them in character as much as I can.

And finally, I don't Own Fairy tail. Or it's characters. This is just a fanfic that meant to be for entertainment.

…Chapter Begins ….

"The vegetables are gonna get burned." Natsu's voice shook Gray from his awkward pause. The raven-haired boy flinched and quickly lowered the heat. Suddenly the name 'Natsu' was strange to Gray. He had heard it before, but not much. He couldn't put his finger on what's special about this 'Natsu'.

"Ahem. Gray right?"

"Ah yeah?"

"I think you have a spy in your house." Gray didn't understand at the beginning, but as Lucy comes out from Gray's room and smiles sheepishly, he did understand.

"Sorry guys! Didn't mean to interrupt, I was just grabbing something that mira-san forgot here."

Natsu eyed her suspiciously and before anyone talks again she said, "I can assure you, if you don't want your name to be known, I won't say a word… promise."

Natsu half smiled. "Um… Lucy. I can't say I trust you, but… please don't spread this."

"My lips are sealed."

Gray chuckled while turning his attention back to the food before it literally burns. A crappy food is not what he needed today. "Lucy, you could've told me earlier that you are here so that I could make another dish."

"Ah…. Gray it's fine."

"Nope. Wait and eat with us. Somehow I'm glad that you are here. Can't stand being with that guy alone."

Natsu pointed a glare at Gray and eventually huffed. "As if I can take it bastard."

Gray didn't bother responding.

Lucy smiled and went to sit beside Natsu. So both of them were sitting on a stool and resting their elbows on Gray's counter.

"Nice to meet you Natsu. Sorry, I guess curiosity got the better of me when I heard you talking to Gray. I didn't mean to…. Peep, but hey, that's what I did." She chuckled and Natsu did too.

"It's fine. Um, I mean it's perfectly natural to be curious in these Circumstances Lucy."

"You are a sweet guy Natsu. I love your hair by the way."

Natsu nervously laughed. "Ah, thanks? You are the first to tell me that."

Gray grunted while arranging the dishes so as if it was a reflex, Natsu Glared. "Got something to say?"

Gray blankly looked at Natsu. "Yeah I didn't know that you can laugh."

Before Natsu say anything, Lucy playfully nudged Natsu's shoulder. "That's enough you two." Both of them looked away from each other following the action by a slight 'Hmph!'

Lucy sweat-dropped, but apparently she had many questions to ask Natsu. "Um Natsu… C-Can you tell me where did you come from?"

Natsu flinched from her question and looked away for sometime, thinking of what would be a suitable answer. Gray noticed the change in the stranger's mood and he knew it wasn't positive, so he didn't know why he initiated to give the answers. "Isn't it obvious? He came from the straw bales that I and loki were carrying."

Lucy let out a chuckle and got Gray's message. "Um Natsu. C-can you please look at me?"

Natsu sighed and his eyes met Lucy's.

"I'm sorry for pressuring you with my questions. I won't ask again. I'm sorry for… that."

Natsu smiled a little, grateful for the understanding the girl had showed.

"Well. The food is ready." Gray finally stated.

Natsu snorted. "I hope it can be eaten by human beings."

"As if you are one."

"What the hell?"

"Ok guys. Drop it." Lucy was beginning to worry. If she wasn't there to entangle Gray from Natsu, then who will?

Gray asked Lucy to set up the tatami Mats for them while he's pouring the food. Natsu threw his body on the mat tiredly after waiting for Gray to be kind and finish his crappy food, and when it came, he allowed himself to listen to his inner-debate.

He was hungry, but what good for nothing that raven-haired guy can do? What If he got poisoned?

So Gray noticed 'Natsu' examining the food with his chopsticks as if it was going to bite him if he didn't. "Ah for God sake!" Gray snapped, "Can't you just shove it inside your mouth?"

Lucy tried to not laugh and bit the insides of her cheek. "I'm being cautious."

Gray bit his lip angrily. He almost snapped his chopsticks, but before he does so, he took with it a huge amount of white rice and shoved it in Natsu's throat who almost choked if the water wasn't there. "Are you trying to kill me?"

"No. just proving a point." Lucy couldn't stop her laughter anymore when she saw the rice everywhere on Natsu's Face.

"Haha, Natsu, wipe your face."

Natsu growled and wanted nothing more in his life than crushing Gray's stupid head.

"Trying won't hurt idiot." Gray stated while chewing.

Natsu decided to surrender and taste the curry that Gray had done. He chewed, savoring the taste for a while and surprisingly the food tasted…. Very good compared to Gray's poor visible talents in cooking. Or so he thought. Although the food was incredible, Natsu wasn't about to make Gray proud of himself.

"Well?" Gray asked with no atom of patience inside him. Natsu coughed and tried to lie. He kept staring at Lucy while Chewing. His eyes had awkward blank shape and finally…..

"It's…. not bad."

Lucy laughed. "God Natsu! You are a terrible liar!" she was true. Natsu didn't have to lie in his whole life. He was a straight forward guy, but if he did have to lie…. It would be a great, great disaster. You could see through the guy and how his body language obviously says, "He's lying!"

Gray grunted and kept eating. "I have self-confidence thank you very much."

Natsu ignored the boy and kept eating. He was very hungry. After all he had been sleeping for two days and before that, he didn't eat much.

Gray was amazed/frightened to death from the amount of dishes he had to wash after eating. He gave Natsu an unbelievable look. "Will it be like that… everyday?"

Natsu smirked. "Can't promise you anything pal."

Gray couldn't believe it and boiled from anger. How can such a human being eat that much? If that continued, Gray would lose the very last yen he had in his pocket.

Natsu was gonna escape when Gray grabbed him from the back of the T-shirt. "Where do you think yourself going?"

"Ahem… wash my hands?"

"Yes indeed you will. With the dishes." He said darkly.

Natsu glared. "No way! I'm the sick person here!" Gray didn't care.

"Do I look like I care?"

Natsu saw that Gray didn't care. Probably Gray was a cold-hearted freak that calls himself Natsu's life saver. When he turned to the final hope which was lucy… he didn't expect what happened.

"Ah…. S-see you later Gray, Natsu. Have a nice day!" With that she left, leaving Natsu petrified in his place while his hands were reaching for her. Behind him, an evil grin made itself shown on Gray's lips.

Damn!

"Just what do you think I am? A damned house wife? I don't wash dishes!"

Gray rolled his eyes when he heard Natsu. He was in the room, trying to get the crushed things out of the way. The result of his and Natsu's fight the previous night when Natsu was dreaming awake. Obviously. He didn't know who Zeref was. Natsu seemed that he wouldn't talk at all.

Aw well, it wasn't his business anyway.

Curiosity is a bitch.

When Natsu finally finished washing the countless dishes, he headed to the room to see what Gray was doing.

"Ok. I will take a shower. You can sleep if you want. I prepared the futon for you…. Until someone fixes the bed you crushed Natsu."

"Thank you very much Gray. The second thing you will ask me is to come and scrub your back?"

Gray had a blank face. "Ha. Ha. Funny."

When Gray decided to enter and take a shower, it was almost eleven o'clock at night. The boy got under the hot water for 15 minutes. His mind was full of thoughts mainly revolving around Natsu. The boy was sure a mystery and it did feel a little awkward having another person in his apartment. Gray wasn't that great in interacting with people so he didn't think he'd be good anytime soon with Natsu.

The boy shook his head and went to wear his pigama's pants when suddenly it hit him.

Natsu.

He got out quickly, never minding to put a shirt on, and dashed to the room he told Natsu to sleep in. the room was dark, and the windows were opened while the curtains danced around the air.

"Shit! That idiot!"

Gray kept looking from the window to find any glimpse of pink, but there were none.

"Looking for something Gray?" Natsu thought it was weird to see someone come running from the bathroom with no shirt just to stare from a window.

Gray was shirtless and his body still had droplets of water. He turned around quickly, a look of relieve covering up his face. "N-Natsu…" The pink-haired frowned.

"What? You said I can sleep, but I didn't expect you to run like a horse in the room. Are you crazy?" Natsu wiped his face. "And you had to dry yourself before coming out you moron!"

Gray didn't pay attention to any of the insults Natsu was throwing, and felt his heart beats normally again. 'Thank god…. Erza would've killed me….'

He got back again into the bathroom and fully dressed. Honestly it was tiring. he couldn't keep up like that with Natsu. He went into the room and slept across Natsu so that they were facing each other. Gray was examining Natsu's features. Such spiked up pink hair.

"I wonder what your story is."

Natsu had a soft expression that Gray saw for the first time and he could've sworn that there was something hurting Natsu's eyes because they looked red.

"I don't think you'll ever know." Natsu turned his back to Gray and when he did, he allowed his tears to fall.

'Dragneel…..'

Natsu rubbed his eyes and observed the surroundings to notice that Gray, the guy he was staying with, is missing. He smelled the great scent of food though, and his mouth watered.

He slowly got up while taking the comfort in the pillow he was hugging. Natsu scratched the back of his head and yawned then headed outside to find Gray eating while sitting on the counter…. Shirtless. He was only wearing jeans.

Natsu didn't know why, but he was taken a bit by the sight and rubbed his eyes again. Gray seemed to notice his presence and so they got caught in a weird staring contest.

"What are you looking at?" Gray finally broke the silence.

Natsu blinked. "Umm… Nothing. I was just wondering… do you own a shirt?"

Gray rolled his eyes. "I don't think that is your business."

"Indeed. Ok. Another question. Why the hell didn't you wake me up? I want to eat!"

"Where do you think yourself are? In a hotel? Get your ass over here. I will see what's left for you."

"I'm not your Dog!"

"I have the feeling that I heard that before." Natsu almost ripped off the pillow he was holding. "Get over here! I don't have all day."

Natsu seemed to be crushing the floor when he was going to sit on the stool waiting for Gray to give him what's left.

"That's what you do when you have a sick person at your mercy?"

"Oh yes. I'm not as kind as you think."

"I do know that you have an ice heart. You don't have to tell me."

"Alright. I think you are much better now…. Err…. X-kun." Mira sweetly told Natsu after replacing his bandages with clean new ones. The pink-haired cried himself. Weren't there a better name than "X-kun" that Mira had in mind?

Lucy sheepishly smiled when she saw Natsu's discontent with the name and so did the people who were there while makarov laughed a little. Gray's smirk covered up his face, knowing that Natsu probably hates himself then.

"Ah I know! Why don't we give him a nickname?" Levy suddenly suggested. Natsu's face looked a little bright from the light of smartness the girl showed. He hates being called "X" as if he didn't exist. Somehow it hurt his pride and felt that he was kind of a dog to be given a nickname.

"Yes, but what the hell could that be?" Cana said as she gulped down her double-sized glass of beer. The liquid sent chills and pleasure through her body. Yes, she couldn't live without it in million years. It eased up her stress.

Natsu was dumbfounded as the people started throwing some….. stupid nicknames, especially Gray's ones.

"How about moron? Idiot? Hedgehog head?"

"Hey you! If you didn't stop, I will crush your stupid head!"

"Try it moron! I swear-ah! I found it!" everyone directed their attention to Gray as he seemed to find something important.

"If you said anything that-"

"Momo! Let's call him Momo."

"Momo? As in pink?" Mira asked curiously.

"Yes! Think about it. The name fits him perfectly." Gray smirked and Natsu boiled from anger. He was going to explode. "No thanks it's too girl-"

"Momo-chan!"

"That's really nice!"

"Momo-kun!"

"Momo!"

Natsu felt the blush creeping up to his cheeks from both embarrassment and anger. Gray was a creep and deserved his head to be stuck in the vacuum cleaner for eternity. No one agreed with Natsu and they liked the name. Momo which meant "Pink" but it was also a name, suited Natsu just fine in their point of view.

"Ok master. I'm leaving with Loki for our Job. Think you can keep Momo with you?"

"Don't call me that!"

"Ah yeah." The old man nodded.

"Wait. What Job?" Natsu curiously asked makarov.

"Gray is working here at the bar, but there are other clients that come to us to request some multiple tasks that our employees accept to earn money rewards. In other words, it's a good regular income."

Natsu Nodded understanding what Makarov said. "That is great, but sometimes it gets risky because we are not the only ones in this region. If you asked anyone you'll know that sometimes we have fights with other bars around because a lot of times we clashed with them, but I am proud to say that we are one of the strongest facilities around." He said looking at Laxus, Erza, and Mirajane.

"Not all bars are bad though. There are some that I'm proud of them to be called our allies."

Natsu listened carefully to the old man's explanation and wondered how many bars were around.

"Here you go Momo-chan." Mirajane placed a glass of orange juice in front of Natsu who scowled at the mention of the dreaded nickname.

"See you later master." Gray was about to go until Natsu called him back. "Wait." The pink-haired drunk his juice quickly and went to Gray. "I want to go too. I want to help."

Gray frowned. "Tell me why would I take an injured person with me?"

"You heard what Mira-san said. I'm fine."

"…..No."

"Hey! I'm not asking here!"

"I said no means no. besides, I want to run from being with you all time so don't screw it up for me!"

"What the-"

"Momo! Gray! Stop fighting." Lucy interfered.

"Lucy don't stop me-"

"I'm not. Look if you wanna help, then you can come with me. I'm going today too. So it wouldn't hurt right?" Gray smiled to Lucy while holding her hands, grateful for her honorable doing. "Thanks for saving me! Let's go loki!"

Juvia got so angry that she made the barrel of water fall from her hands almost hitting Lucy. The girl sheepishly chuckled and ran with Natsu out of the bar.

"Hey, what's her problem?" Natsu asked curiously.

"Well…. Juvia loves Gray to the point that she wants to marry him real soon Natsu. She was jealous back then."

Natsu laughed hard.

"What's so funny?"

"Hahahaha! I didn't know that someone can actually like that asshole."

"Natsu. Gray has good looks and it'll be easy for any girl to like him you know, but I'm not talking about myself. I consider him as a friend."

"Dunno anything about that. He looks like a creep to me."

Lucy smiled and rolled her eyes.

"So what are we going to do Lucy?"

"It's a risky job Natsu. So if you feel that you don't want to risk anything, you can go back~"

"No way! I'm bored, and need a bit of excitement."

Lucy grinned. "Good. Now, we are gonna sneak into a mansion's library and get a contract that is hidden somewhere there. An old lady made a deal with a very evil man and found out that he didn't do his part of the deal."

"What's the deal?"

"She had to get out of her house for the asshole to build a resort on the land of it in exchange for her daughter's safety. But he didn't return the daughter."

"What a bastard!"

"Yeah so we now have to get the contract and the girl. Do you think that you can do that?"

Natsu's eyes turned into dead serious ones. "We just have to break in there right?"

"Y-yeah."

"I'm fired up."

Natsu and Lucy suck into the big mansion and accomplished their goal. Lucy was happy with the result except the part when the mansion got caught up in a big fire with no reasonable explanation. They didn't cause anything that can make fire. Sure Natsu knocked some men down which was another surprise for Lucy who witnessed the incredible physical power and he was supposed to be injured. Natsu was fast, strong and he had a very good hunch. He protected her several times inside and she was amazed.

She was positive that there was no reason for the fire. When she asked Natsu about it, he told her that he didn't know.

The little girl was on top of Natsu's shoulder, enjoying the pink-haired warmth and the view.

Lucy smiled at the sight as Natsu seemed to be so great with children. When they reached the small cottage, an old lady appeared and released tears from her eyes.

"Rika! Come here my girl!"

"Mama!"

Lucy and the pink haired smiled warmly. "It's a crime… To separate a child from a parent." Natsu said while his palms were fists.

"I agree." Lucy whispered nudging Natsu's shoulder. "Thanks Natsu. If it wasn't for your help, I wouldn't have been able to do this."

"Don't mention it."

In lucy's opinion, Natsu was a very kind person.

"I wish I had something to repay you. I just have this Golden coin. Please take it." The lady stretched her hand to Lucy.

"Arigatou! We'll certainly acc-"

"Keep it. We don't need this." Natsu interrupted Lucy who had her Jaw dropped open.

"Wha-What?"

"We wish you both happy life. Let's go partner." Natsu grabbed Lucy from the cloth on the back of her neck and waved to the lady and child.

"Hey Natsu! Wait up! I want to pay my rent! Stop! Stop!"

"No way. Don't be greedy!"

"Natsuuuuuuuuuu!"

Lucy was crying already. With Erza she got the reward with slight reduction due to the damages, with Gray she got half due to the same reason, but…. With Natsu.

She got nothing.

"What did you do to Lucy?"

"Shit! Can't you knock the damn door before you just break in?"

Natsu was about to put his dark-blue shirt on after shower when Gray sort of broken into the bathroom.

"Unlike you I don't like to be seen naked." Natsu weren't naked. No. He was half naked.

"Oh please it's my house…. Why the hell your dirty clothes smell like ash?"

Natsu huffed and slipped the shirt on. "I got a feeling that you don't want to know." Natsu pretended to smile and wanted to get out of the bathroom, but Gray blocked. "What do you want Gray?"

"I saw Lucy walking like a Zombie in the bar and she wouldn't talk it out to any of us. What did you do?"

"Nothing. We helped the old poor lady and she wanted her to pay, so I told the lady that we don't need the money."

Gray slapped his forehead. Of course Lucy would look like a zombie. Poor girl. Her chance to pay the rent next month is decreasing .

"You are such a moron. Get out of my bathroom. I want to take a shower."

"Gladly." Natsu said and got out slightly hitting Gray's shoulder.

Gray sighed. "And wait 'till I get out and make us some dinner."

Natsu froze. Was Gray being…. Nice? Did he want Natsu to eat at all?

Gray placed on the table hot miso soup, steamed rice, and great cooked meat with potatoes. Natsu's Jaw dropped open, drooling at the food. The delicious aroma was hitting his nostrils hard. "Stop drooling and eat." Gray said.

Natsu gladly accepted the request. After all, he couldn't stop himself. He emptied the rice in the soup's place and mixed them together and tasted. He found the food tastes much more better than the day before.

"I will be glad to help with the dishes today."

"Stop talking while your mouth is full idiot."

"Sowyyy!"

Gray shook his head and tried not to think how cute Natsu looked. It was as if he was a child sometimes.

"Listen Momo. You are a bit kind, I understand, but Lucy had to pay that rent and that woman gave her the money willingly, right?"

Natsu stuffed the potato in his mouth and after he chewed and swallowed, he had choked and grabbed the glass of water. "FIRST, Don't call me that. Yes the woman gave us the money, But it didn't feel the right thing to do for me."

Gray fullbuster was gonna kill Natsu Dragneel one of those days.

"You are an idiot."

"Gee thanks."

Natsu kept on eating never-minding Gray's useless argument and helped with the dishes after all.

Next day, Gray woke up and didn't find Natsu. The boy stretched and got up looking in the house, but no use. He hurried and changed his clothes to look for Natsu. For his relieve, he found Natsu in the bar talking with Lucy.

"Lucy! I'm sorry for yesterday. Please, please let me go with you!"

"No way Na-Momo!"

"Please! I beg you! I want to make up for yesterday."

Lucy just couldn't take Natsu's puppy eyes. She almost let her guard down when- "Hey everybody!"

Suddenly the bar directed the attention to the four visitors. They were all so handsome except for one. Erza shivered from the ugly moron. "Men! Ichiya is here!"

"Hibiki-"

"Ren-"

"Eve-"

"We are here!"

"What's up with the weird dance?" Natsu asked quietly while Lucy shrugged.

Gray rolled his eyes. "It's the losers again."

"Watch your mouth Gray." A blonde with black eyes said.

"Welcome blue-Pegasus." Mira said.

Elfman, Mirajane's brother was startled by the four people.

Luckily Natsu was out of their sight because the coming wasn't going to earn his liking.

Eve, a boy with blonde hair and deep green eyes initiated to talk. "We just came to tell you that a client of ours is looking for a pink-haired male. He believes that the pink-haired is dangerous. So if you saw him, you have to contact us. No one can miss such rare hair color, right?"

The bar was quiet. Terribly.

Natsu got petrified in his place. He didn't know what to do… running wasn't an option. Everyone will just hand him and Nastu almost made his lip release blood from his harsh teeth on them. He was terribly scared.

"If we found him, we'll inform you. Now get your handsome asses out and get away from Erza before I crush you Ichiya!" Gray roughly said. Ichiya was sniffing Erza who was trembling near the guy.

Natsu gasped when he heard Gray and was shocked when Lucy sat on him to hide his pink hair.

Makarov coughed. "Yes I believe we will. You can go now."

"Pink hair…. Ha! I bet you are joking with us!" Loki defended Natsu.

"Yeah! What kind of a guy that has pink hair? He's not a man!" Elfman said feeling sorry for Momo.

"Alright. We will go, but contact us okay?" Gray grunted. "Yeah okay."

After everyone made sure that the four are totally gone, they breathed out. They felt terrible lying to their "Allies", but they needed to. Natsu had his hair covering his face, and he broke the silence by gently pushing lucy off and running out of the bar.

"H-hey!" Gray tried to call, but Natsu was so damn fast.

"Gray! Go after him!" Erza said, and she didn't need to.

Gray was already chasing Natsu.

….. Chapter Ends….

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