A/N: I'm having internet issues so I'm really sorry I'm not posting anything. I am still writing stories on my docs but I just can't post them. Ahhhh my connection comes and goes so I'm not dealing with it. Idc at this point lol. Hope you enjoy this though, I got inspired by a BTS (Bangtan boys)
story on AO3 :)
Natsu's scared of heights but stubborn as fuck.
Sting's an asshole instigator.
And Gray's a sexy firefighter.
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"I don't understand."
"Can it."
"I thought you got over it!"
"Fuck off!"
"I'M NEVER LETTING THIS ONE GO."
"ARG! Fucking asshole, I hate you! Go choke on a friggin' brick!" Natsu Dragneel glared at his ex-best friend Sting Eucliffe who was straddling the opposite branch from the one he was on. But unlike Sting who had his hands placed leisuraly in his lap like he wasn't hundreds of feet above ground level, Natsu's hands gripped the thick trunk of the tree he was currently stuck in like his life depended on it. Which it kind of did since he was terrified of heights.
"You should've walked away when you had the chance." Sting gloats and Natsu desperately wishes that his legs were long enough to reach the dumb blond so he could kick him down but we can't all get what we want. So Natsu settles for the bird though he kept his fingers pressed against the bark because hell no he was never letting go. Plus this situation wasn't his fault, it was all Sting's! The blond instigating him into a challenge he couldn't just let slide, he's a Dragneel for fuck's sake, they're prone to be stubborn risk takers. But fuck.
He's stuck in a tree like a friggin' cat and his stupid best fri- EX best friend keeps snickering. "If you hadn't ruffled me up we wouldn't be in this mess."
"Forgive me you damn princess, talking about 'ruffling' your panties ("YOU DAMN TWAT I DIDN'T SAY PANTIES") it was an opportunity I couldn't slip by." Sting pressed forward despite the chilled glare the pink haired boy sends him. "Don't worry NaNa, I texted Rogue and he is on his way to the rescue." the blond watches Natsu's face relax slightly and glees internally for what he's going to say next. But just saying it doesn't cut it for him, so instead he sings the words teasingly. "Along with a certain tall, dark, and sexy with him~" Natsu's face pales then flushes pink, before it pales again because there's only one tall, dark, and sexy Natsu knows and it's the firefighter he always swoons over when visting Rogue at the station. Sting grins wolfishly when he literally sees the click! in Natsu's face. Ah, how he lives for fucking with this boy.
"You didn't." Natsu seethes through his teeth and his heart pounds abusively in his chest. This fucking prick! "Sting I'm going to kill you if you're bluffing."
But the blond smirks and it's concrete in his lips, solid and unmoving so Natsu nearly falls over because damn it Sting isn't bluffing. "Your funeral will be a celebration." Natsu growls the threat but Sting just laughs.
"They were the only two on shift-"
"Bullshit! You told Rogue to bring him you lying bastard. Come here so I can shove you down. ("Hell nah") Grr, this is all your fault. I can't believe this, ugh ohmygod." Natsu finishes his short rambling with a groan and slumps forward against the trunk.
"It's about time you take action NaNa, instead of looking like a drooling puppy. Now's the time to speak up for once." Sting has the balls to sound like a concerned teacher whose student is failing their class. Natsu wants to strangle him.
"No you asshole, NOW ISN'T THE TIME, THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORST TIMING EVER TO TRY AND TALK TO HIM. I'M STUCK IN A TREE GOD DAMN IT, WHAT KIND OF FUCKING FIRST IMPRESSION BULL SHIT IS THAT?!"
"One that'll never be forgotten, that's for sure." Sting giggles and Natsu is on the verge of saying 'fuck it' and getting up to beat his best friend's ass to hell with his fear of heights. But then the sound of sirens in the distance caress the shell of his ears and his chest swells up with embarrassment and slight anxiety.
"Oh my god, ohmygodohmyfuckinggod they're here, they're coming." the pink haired cries in distress and Sting tsks.
"Man up, that's not how I raised you."
"I WILL FUCKING END YOUR LIFE STING EUCLIFFE." Natsu glowers at the smiling other and is too tired to snap that he's the older one damn it, so who raised who exactly, but then a bright red fire truck glides into the vaccant (thank GOD- no one will witness the embarrassment) parking lot to Magnolia Park and the two males in the tree look over to watch the doors push open and four figures clamber out.
Sting makes binoculars out of his hands and Natsu really wants to punch him but he's more worried about why there are four firefighters and not two like Sting told him. Then again Sting's a liar and a traitor so Natsu scolds himself for believing the blond. "Hmm..." Sting hums and adjusts his hand-binoculars.
"You look like a retard. Stop." Natsu grumbles and tries to sound as moody as he can, but his voice is low and catches on a nervous tone.
"Well, I see my beautiful boyfriend. Gajeel (Redfox) and... who's that.. oh, that's Cobra (Seis). ("BAHAHA YOU IDIOTS REALLY ARE STUCK IN A TREE") SHUT UP COBRA I AIN'T STUCK, I'M BEING MORAL SUPPORT HERE LEARN THE DIFFERENCE sO SUCK MY DICK, anyways. Ohhh Natsu, there's yours truly, tall, dark, and se-"
"Sting." Natsu deadpans, "Shut. The fuck. Up."
"Hey baby!" the blond ignores the pink marshmallow and opts to coo down at his boyfriend who just reached the base of their tree.
Standing at the bottom is a black haired male wearing standard firefighter uniform minus the helmet. His slender muscled figure cranes up the tree and dark ruby glazed eyes lock onto his two idiots, mostly the one he's questioning why he's dating. The blond looks relaxed and cheerful waving down at him like he's not hundreds of feet above the ground. "Do I even want to know what happened?" Rogue Redfox calls up to his boyfriend, his gravel voice laced with a mixture of amusement and annoyance.
"Fuck yeah you do! Just get us down first." Sting chirps back and Rogue shakes his head before looking back at his team. Cobra was backing their truck up in line with the tree so they could use the ladder with Gray (Fullbuster) instructing him, and his older brother Gajeel was taking his time strolling over to him and the tree.
It doesn't take long for the firemen to get in place. The ladder was set against the tree and the small platform was manually controlled to lift up, so Rogue went on first with intent on getting his boyfriend down. He instructed Gray to get Natsu but only upon request of Sting who had texted him their situation and told him to 'bring tall, dark, and sexy with you so he can personally save NaNa's ass'. Cobra and Gajeel only tagged along because they didn't believe their friends had gotten stuck in a tree but now both of their phones are out capturing the proof on their cameras.
Fuck them. Fuck them all, Natsu thinks. "Alright my babe is coming to get me, so I'll see you down there NaNa." Sting informs the pink haired male casually and sure enough Rogue is rising on the ladder getting closer and closer to them, but Natsu is dead tired to even care. He's dead tired of cursing this baboon out but he swears he's going to get revenge. But for the time being he huffs out a sigh and scoots forward until he's clutching the trunk like a koala. His face smooshes against the bark and a deep pout forms across his pillowy lips.
"Natsu I thought you were scared of heights." That's the first thing that comes out of Rogue's mouth when he finally reaches them. The ladder is almost extended out through its whole body and Rogue is mildly concerned for his pink haired friend. But Natsu gives him a dry look.
"I hate your boyfriend." is the even dryer response from Natsu. Rogue gives his grinning boyfriend a pointed look before sighing.
"Come on crazy." he tells the blond and Sting moves with such smooth agile that Natsu wants to bang his blond head into the bark. Rogue becomes a human teddy bear with Sting's limbs wrapped around him possessively. "Gray's coming to get you Natsu so hang tight." Rogue orders gently before descending with a waving Sting.
Natsu flips them both off before turning his face head away. He can't look at Gray (aka tall, dark, and sexy) when he comes up, he refuses to. "Way to fucking go Natsu." he grumbles to himself and closes his eyes. Sting challenges him to a 'who can climb the highest in the tree' competition and completely neglects the fact that he's horrified by heights. "Just stellar." And now his crush, the tall, dark, and sexy firefighter has to come rescue him like he's some fucking cat owned by a crazy old cat lady who hoards cats.
Natsu ignores the way his heart rate picks up when his ears pick up the low hum of the moving ladder that gradually gets louder indicating that Gray was almost close. Maybe he should fling himself out of the tree, that could possibly be better than facing this mortification. Natsu tenses up when he hears the ladder come to a stop and he doesn't need to turn around to see that Gray arrived.
"Natsu?" Gray's low soothing voice carries over to him and he subconciously clenches his thighs tighter on the branch he was straddling for the past half hour. "Hey, are you okay?" the concern in Gray's tone makes Natsu shyly turn his head around to face him. He knows his face is burning red because he can feel the heat himself, yet he still forces himself to keep eye contact with those gentle gel cobalt.
"I-I'm good. You know, just chilling..." Natsu's weak attempt at humor is so lame that he scolds himself for not jumping earlier when he had the chance. But Gray looks relieved and even smiles and fuck me please, Natsu's throat clogs up.
"I have to say I'm impressed with your tree climbing skills. How'd you even get up here so high?" Gray wonders conversationally and even leans against the railing of the ladder. Natsu groans and drops eye contact in favor of smooshing his forehead against the rough barck, arms tightening around the trunk.
"Don't remind me. It was a stupid challenge.. just something stupid. Nothing to be impressed over." Natsu mumbles.
Gray laughs and it sounds like a beautiful harmonized church choir. "Well, for someone who can't climb worth shit, I'm pretty impressed. But I'm guessing you wanna get down now huh." he earns a shy nod and can't help but smile again before schooling his face into his professional mask. "Okay, you're going to have to lean down just a bit," because the branch Natsu was perched on was a few feet higher than the ladder's extension, "There's a little stump right where your right foot is hanging. Think you can use it to lower yourself a little?"
Natsu looks down and catches the little branch stub Gray advised. He nods but isn't happy about leaving his safe spot. Gray reads the discomfort on his face and offers an encouraging smile. "All you have to do is put your foot down on it and reach your arm out down to me. I promise I'll do the rest, okay?"
Natsu sighs and nods once more before carefully moving himself within Gray's instructions all the while internally cursing Sting to the darkest pit in hell. He tries to focus solely on his task but the black haired firefighter watches his every move like a hawk, studies him like some disk underneath a telescope, and Natsu flares up in heat . Quit being a flustered bitch, he scolds himself and bites his lip when it's time for him to lean down his arm. Gray reaches up with his long, throbbing muscular arms easily and murmures, "Here, c'mere," to Natsu who blushes furiously. It's not hard for Gray to take hold of Natsu's outstretched arm and he carefully places the male's small hand on his shoulder. "Okay, see? I got you." Natsu doesn't know what affects him more, Gray's words, or how Gray's warm solid shoulder hard of thick muscle he feels underneath his fingertips. His fingers have a mind of their own when the spread out and dig into Gray's clothed skin.
Their eyes meet and Natsu pauses all of his movement to simply take in Gray's features. Almond shaped eyes with dark eye brows curved over like crescent moons. A strong nose, soft looking plump lips, and a jawline sharp as a dagger. Milky creamy skin paints his face, his gorgeous beautiful face. Thick, black hair askew in a sexy haywire mess, ears the glittered with piercings and a pale strong neck connected to broad shoulders that threatened to rip the tight black shirt Gray wore. "Natsu." Gray's voice is lower than before, undertoned in a husky slurr and he said his name with that tone. It makes Natsu bite his lip and he swears those gel cobalt eyes flicker down at the movement before they're back staring into his onyx eyes. "No sweat, alright?" Gray presses with encouragment and earns a nod. Yeah, no sweat, Natsu's got this. No, Gray's got me. "Grip me tight."
It's the only warning Natsu gets before he feels strong hands sink into his waist that lift him up like he's a bag of feathers. A squeak escapes his lips before he can stop it and then he's being planted on solid ground and fuck, his thighs quake from the lack of standing and the close proximity Gray is. "You okay?" Gray asks, voice slightly gruff with husk. His hands burn Natsu's waist and Natsu welcomes it. Their chests nearly touch, their hips are touching and Natsu feels faint from different emotions. "Alright, let's get you down- whoa!" Gray had dropped his hands from their tight grip on Natsu's slender waist but as soon as he had, the pink haired male toppled over. Now Gray's got a solid arm caressed around Natsu's waist and has the smaller male tucked against his side.
"S-sorry, I-" Natsu blushes and fumbles with his words but Gray shakes his head, a sweet smile on his lips.
"It's okay, I have you." with his free hand Gray controls the ladder to descend and Natsu resembles an apple on fire tucked into him. It's not until they're almost to the ground, the whole ride down blanket in silence, that Natsu (unfortunately) hears Sting's words echo in his head. "It's about time you take action NaNa, instead of looking like a drooling puppy. Now's the time to speak up for once."
His mouth forms words before his brain can comute. At least he doesn't stumble over his words. "Ah, would you like to catch a bite sometime? My treat since you had to deal with this disaster.." Natsu takes his bottom lip between his teeth nervously and stares up at Gray shyly through his lashes. Gray's reaction is kind of really cute because he looks genuinly surprised and taken aback. But then he fucking half smiles half smirks and has the gall to even blush lightly. He's cute and sexy at the same time, how? Natsu melts into a pile of goo when a calloused thumb swipes across his bottom lip, gently tugging it free from his teeth.
"That's highly distracting. And I would love to." Gray keeps his thumb lightly pressed into Natsu's pillowy flesh and allows the rest of his hand to cup Natsu's soft cheek that burns under his touch.
"OH MY GOD ARE YOU GUYS DATING NOW?" leave it to Sting to ruin such a moment. They had reached the ground without knowing so and had a small audience watching them with glee. Natsu turns his face to glare at his so called best friend and vaguely feels Gray trail his hand down his face before the warmth is gone completely.
"I'm going to kill him." Natsu vowes and Gray watches with mild interest at all the muscles in Natsu's ass and thick thighs clench and twitch as the smaller male clambers over the railing of the ladder and lands on his feet with a sexy feral growl. Because it finally catches up to him that everything that unfolded in the past hour is entirely the blond's fault. Now, he may have scored a date with the sexy cute firefighter Gray (and more in the future) and that may be due to the blond as well, but for the time being Natsu doesn't give a fuck. "EUCLIFFE YOU'RE DEAD, DO YOU HEAR ME?! DEAD." Sting 'meeps' before he takes off with a cloud of dust and Natsu blazing hot on his trail.
"Well, I feel satisfied." Cobra breaks the silence between the remaining men and makes his way to the truck. Gajeel lets out his signature 'Gihi' and follows while Rogue rolls his eyes but gives Gray an eye brow raised look.
"So?" Rogue presses and tunes out his boyfriend's wails of apologies and begging for forgiveness.
Gray shrugs with a smile. "He asked me out."
Rogue rolls his eyes at his friend but wears an amused expression. "Fucking finally. Do you know how many conversations I suffered through with you as the only topic?" Rogue shakes his head and walks away with a laughing Gray following after him.
...
Natsu doesn't think Sting got tortured enough for his liking but he really can't complain because Gray's got him whimpering with want caged into his bed and a skillful tongue working wonders down his throat. And when Gray makes himself at home between his slick thighs, pressing into him hot, thick, and deep, Natsu thinks maybe he can forgive Sting just this once.
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the end.