-Hard-Boiled Egg of Happiness-

Gray was in a bad mood. Obviously, it was something related to the fire mage because of the constant glares directed towards the dragonslayer's direction. Natsu sighed, trying to calm him down.

"What did I do?" He groans, feeling the glare intensify.

"You should know," Gray said, gritting his teeth.

It was early morning, and Gray was cooking their breakfast, already in a foul mood. Without really knowing the reason as to what had caused this, Natsu didn't know what to do as he stood by the kitchen wall.

"But I don't," he answers in an exasperated tone.

That Irked Gray further, making him grab an egg from the nearby cart, and turning to throw it at Natsu. The latter simply caught it, and boiled it with his magic. Moving near the garbage can as he began to peel the shell of the now hard-boiled egg.

Gray huffed, turning his attention back to the food he's cooking, shoulders hunched slightly as he sulked. Natsu sighs again and began to shove the peeled egg into his mouth, "Honestly Gray, I seriously don't know what you think I should know." Inwardly surprised with himself as he played the role of the rational and calm one between the two of them.

Gray didn't turn around, but he still answered, albeit in much quieter voice, "You're... I know you're cheating on me."

Thanks to Natsu's excellent hearing, he had no problem understanding the mumbled accusation, a baffled expression adorning his face as he exclaimed, "WHAT?! What in the world made you think that?!"

Gray turned to face him this time, eyebrows furrowed in anger, hurt apparent in his eyes. "Oh don't play dumb with me. I've seen the way you act around Lucy and Lisanna. You're always blushing and stuttering! Like a teenage girl beside her crush!."

At that, it clicked to Natsu, lips stretched into a smug smirk on his face.

"You're not just a two-timer, you're, you're a three-timer!" Gray continued on his rant. Not noticing that Natsu was prowling towards him as he continued to voice the little accusations in his head that had caused so much pain and anger over the past few days.

It wasn't until Natsu wrapped his arms around him that he stopped to look at the male in the face.

"... You-"

"Me," the dragonslayer leaned down to plant a kiss on the ice mage's forehead.

"... Why are you smiling?" Gray asked when he calmed in Natsu's embrace.

Natsu smiled even wider, "Because you're jealous."

"!" Gray's face reddening from embarrassment. "So what?"

Chuckling, Natsu proceed to place another chaste kiss, this time on the cheeks. "It's true that I'm hanging out with them a lot, but it's not what you think."

Gray shot him a look that seemed to say, 'Yeah, right,' at Natsu's explanation.

The fire mage sighed heavily, "I didn't think that it would turn out like this. I should've done it sooner."

"What is it? Spill it out!" Gray was getting impatient.

"Alright, alright," letting Gray go, Natsu kneeled down, and took his lover's hand into his.

Hands rummaged through the pockets of baggy and slightly charred shorts, taking out a small box. Opening to reveal two nearly identical silver rings; one with an amethyst and the other with a sapphire embedded into the band.

"I was asking them for advice on how to propose to you properly. The blushing and stuttering you saw was just them taking pleasure in teasing me about it! I haven't quite worked out a complete plan yet, but since you are having doubts about my feelings for you, I don't want us to have a fight about this and possibly break up from it, not when we've come so far..."

Gray's eyes were wide as saucers, heart thumping loudly in his chest as heat coursed all over his body. He was rendered speechless.

"Will you marry me, Gray? I want to spend the rest of my life with you by my side."

Though Gray didn't—couldn't respond for his whole being froze, Natsu still understood. Letting out a laugh as he stood up, reaching behind Gray to turn off the stove, and planting a quick kiss on the lips. Causing Gray to come out of his stupor.

"You'll burn our breakfast you know, and I'm supposed to be the one doing that."

"... Natsu."

Smiling all the while, "Is that a yes?"

Unable to find his voice, Gray answers it with a nod. Natsu slipped the ring around the bluenette's ring finger, and did the same on his own.

Gray stared at it in amazement, it took his breath away. So much that, out of character of him, he smashed his lips on Natsu's. The latter didn't respond at first from the unexpected action, but returned it with just as much vigor as his arms encircled around Gray's waist to pull him closer.

At that moment, all was right in the world. Gray forgot all his unfounded anger and was enveloped in pure happiness.

"This was right, this felt right," Gray muttered, snuggling into the embrace. He really should let go now for they had to go to the guild later. But ah, forget it, they still have a whole life together ahead of them.

Ok, it all started with Gray throwing food at Natsu, and latter cooking it with his magic and eating it. Hence, the hard-boiled egg. However, as you can see, it went more than that because it came to the problem of, 'Why was Gray mad in the first place?' and it ended up with this...

Also, sorry for not updating the other stories, but either I'm stuck, too lazy to do detail, or is not prepared to continue them because of my wish to get better at writing. I'll need to re-edit them once more for a better flow, and will post the next chapter when I do so. So, once again, thanks for your patience, follows, reviews, likes, views, and etc. They all make me very happy and continue to encourage me to write stories.

Last rant: So many times have I been betrayed by people writing "NatsuxGray" assuming that Natsu tops. I mean, there's already "Graysu" so I don't understand why people do this to me. I'm not sure what to really call an actual Natsu/Gray fic, so I'm just going to start calling it Natray for an equal side to both names. (＾v＾)

Like Graysu, it doesn't work the other way. Natsuay? Sounds wrong and hard to pronounce and easy to forget. Natsuray? Sounds like a shampoo, like Naturelle.

So yeah, Natray for me. Sounds like a cool name for a person... Like Nightray... Sorry, I'll stop now. (- w - ")

That would be all.

[PigeonWife helped with the editing, and thought of the title.]

Suggestions and comments are welcome~ =^w^=