A/N: I know this chapter took a while longer, to be honest, it came along very slowly because I had very little motivation. I really wanted to write but I forgot to mention my lack of will power. I'm going to try not to take too long writing up-coming chapters even if that means they'll be shorter.

Natsu looked over at Gray. They had been driving for a while now and no obvious destination was in sight.

"Where are we going anyway?" Natsu asked.

"We're almost there." Was all Gray said with a slight smile.

They drove for a few more minutes until they reached an old building that stood three stories high and looked pretty run down. Every window was either shattered or covered by wooden plates. Most of the walls had writing and graffiti on them leaving little evidence that at some point they had actually been yellow. There was a sign with the words: Ur Elementry at the entrance of the property. Natsu was curious as to why exactly they were there but oddly enough Gray had a confident look plastered on his face and so Natsu decided to stay quiet for now.

Once they drove towards the back of the building where there was a parking lot and stepped out of the car Natsu decided to ask.

"Gray, what is this place?"

Gray ignored Natsu and reached for his hand. He caressed and played with the others fingers a bit before actually holding it. Then Gray began walking towards the crappy structure pulling Natsu along with him. They got to where the place began to be fenced in but they slipped through a whole big enough for both of them to crouch through.

"This is the elementary I attended as a kid." Gray finally explained.

"Oh, but why-"

"I used to have a friend here, I'm pretty sure he's the only actual friend I've ever had. His name was Lyon and we were placed in the same class every year so we got close."

By then the boys had walked into the old school and passed the front offices. They were heading down a hallway with desks abandoned here and there. There was also papers and pieces of fallen paint scattered on the floor where they lay amongst a layer of dust and dirt. It was evident the school had been abandoned for a while indeed.

"We were pretty wild. our teachers would always end up sitting us apart because we would talk to much. Of course, that was a mistake on their part since we would just end up secretly passing notes or yelling at each other from across the room."

Natsu smiled at the thought of Gray as a child acting so lively and with a friend, it seemed so out of character for Gray. When he looked over at Gray, though, he saw him giggling as he continued talking and forgot all about the Gray who from afar always looked uninterested and calm.

"Oh look here!" Gray had dragged Natsu into one of the rooms and escorted him to a bulletin board inside. Several papers with drawings were spread across the board and Gray pointed at one with his name sloppily written on it.

"The assignment was to draw yourself with your best friend. See this is Lyon"

Sure enough kid Gray had drawn himself with a white haired boy next to him. The drawing also had Gray's signature dark hair and both boys in the drawings wore a smile on their face as they sat at a swingset.

"You were quite the artist huh." Natsu teased.

"Hey come on I was like nine," Gray pouted cutely.

"I'm kidding," Natsu squeezed Gray's hand, "Where is Lyon now, are you still friends?"

Gray's previous smile faded away and Natsu instantly regretted asking.

"No..."

"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked."

"No, it's okay that's why I brought you here I wanted to tell you about him. The school announced they were being shut down due to a dept they couldn't pay off and so it was everyone's last year. Lyon's parents also told him he would be moving away after graduating. Naturally we were really upset and we got into a fight over something stupid, I think I yelled at him for not fighting his parents over moving and we had a falling out."

It both physically and mentally hurt Natsu hearing Gray sound so sad he wanted to wrap his hands around the pale teenager and never let go.

"You and Sting have been friends for a while now, right? Don't let something as stupid as I get in the way of your friendship...please, having someone to share things with is important and you should cherish it."

Gray let go of Natsu's hand then, "I really like you but I'll back off if I'm causing problems-"

"No!" Gray had been talking in almost a whisper and was startled by Natsu's exclamation. Natsu had also snatched back his hand in a death grip.

"Don't back off please don't! Gray, I like you too I really, really like you."

"But-"

"Sting was out of line okay! He was saying you were just messing with me but I know you're not like that. Okay? I know! And we can show that to him so please don't leave me I finally have you and...and if you really like me then what's the problem?"

Gray felt his cheeks flush but didn't care, "nothing's the problem I do like you and Natsu I promise I'm not and never will be just messing with you." Natsu felt relieved, "and you're not just something stupid Gray don't say that."

Gray picked up Natsu by his waist, which surprised the pinkette, and placed him on a desk nearby. Gray wrapped his arms around his neck and leaned in giving Natsu a passionate and deep kiss. Natsu responded by deepening the kiss even more and squeezing the raven's waist closer to him. The boys moaned in reply and didn't stop to take a breath for a few minutes. Gray eventually pulled back gasping for air and settled for leaning into his partner resting his head on Natsu's shoulder while hugging his body. Natsu copied the gesture sighing into Gray's neck.

"Want to go swing on the swingset?"

Natsu laughed at the childish offer but followed Gray down to the children's park leading back outside of the school. Gray sat Natsu at one of the swings then hurried behind him to give him a hard push.

"Woah!" Natsu hadn't gripped the chains yet.

Gray giggled and kept pushing even when Natsu started telling him to slow down.

"Gray I'm getting butterflies!"

"That's the best part you wimp!"

Natsu lets go of one of the chains cupping his mouth trying to keep the acid from his stomach down. Gray took notice and stopped pushing as Natsu gradually slowed down.

"I get motion sick pretty easy."

Gray felt a little guilty so he sat on the swing next to the recovering pinkette and held out his hand. Natsu took Grays hand and intertwined their fingers.

"Thank you."

Gray just smiled. He knew Natsu was thanking him for more than stopping the swing.

After leaving Gray's old school, they drove to a cafe Natsu had never been to. Gray told him he came here often since it wasn't well known and nobody from school could bother him there.

Gray ordered his usual iced latte and Natsu decided to get a hot chocolate with cinnamon and three vanilla chip cookies. Gray thought that their drinks suited their personalities really well and smiled to himself.

"That'll be $13.25," the lady behind the counter said. Both boys reached for their wallets.

"Let me get it," Natsu insisted.

"Nope, I'm getting it."

"I ordered more stuff so-"

Gray cut him off and looked at Natsu a little more seriously, "It's our first date and I want to pay so let me."

Both Natsu's and the employee's face reddened and Natsu's embarrassed reaction gave Gray enough time to pull out the money and hand it to the cashier.

After settling down at one of the booths sitting across from each other Gray decided to initiate a conversation.

"So Natsu...this was the actual place I planned on taking you. I know it's not much but I just wanted somewhere nice and quiet to get to know you better. I've technically known you for most of my life but I don't know a single thing about you."

Natsu still had a hard time believing he wasn't dreaming when Gray said things like that. "What do you wanna know?" He asked smiling and taking a sip of his drink.

"Anything, everything! Oh, I know tell me about your friends."

"My friends?" Natsu didn't know if he wanted to talk about them at the moment.

"Yeah forget about what happened earlier just tell me how you met Sting and any other friends you have. Please, I really want to know."

Gray had told him about Lyon so Natsu thought it was only fair if he told Gray about his own friends.

"Yeah alright, well let me see I actually didn't have friends until Sting came along last year. I don't know why he approached or decided to get acquainted with me, no one else seemed to want to but he did. He was my first friend and I'm really grateful for that. I met him at school when he transferred to our junior high in the middle of the year. He probably only talked to me because he was new and didn't know any better but he didn't stop talking to me so that was that. Then he introduced me to the Dragon Slayer Diner and I met the rest of the guys there. Gejeel you've met he's a bit of a brute at first glance but he's not a bad guy. Laxus basically owns the diner he's a bit scary but also a nice guy."

"Laxus? I know that name."

Natsu nodded, "he graduated a few years before us from Fairy Tail."

Gray just nodded and let Natsu continue.

"Rogue is Sting's childhood friend, you haven't met him but he works at the diner too he doesn't talk so much. Cobra is a little hard headed and Wendy might be underaged but she likes to help out on small things, you haven't met them either but Cobra goes to our school and Gajeel and Rogue are transferring soon."

Gray felt happy hearing about Natsu's many friends. He envied him even though he knew it looked like he had a lot more friends than Natsu, that wasn't true.

"How about you? Tell me about your friends."

Gray felt a little embarrassed. Natsu had told him all about his friends and Gray couldn't even name one.

"Um, actually Lyon was it," Gray responded sheepishly.

Natsu was confused. Gray practically traveled with a pack. Every class, every lunch he saw Gray with a crowd.

"But in school-"

"Yeah I know what it looks like in school, but none of those people are really my friends they hang out with me because I'm considered cool or popular or whatever. It's pathetic, I don't even know half their names."

Natsu was a little shocked. He couldn't believe Gray was telling him this. How could such a great guy like Gray not have any real friends? Were all those people from school really so fake?

"Not even one person? No one from the school or anything?"

Gray looked down and took a long sip of his latte, "no."

Natsu took a hold of Gray's hand that was resting on the table. He looked into those sad blue eyes in front of him and smiled.

"Well now you do, and as soon as I fix things with Sting I'm going to introduce you to the guys...as my boyfriend."

Gray couldn't help smiling widely at Natsu and blushing a bit.

"I-If that's okay with you..." Natsu quickly added.

Gray kept his smile and squeezed his boyfriend's hand, "yes!"

The boy's had driven to Natsu's home and ended up laying on the L-shaped couch cuddling. Natsu had put on one of his favorite Disney movie's, How to Train your Dragon, just because it was already in the DVD slot. Gray thought it was funny the way Natsu and dragons seemed to be a common combination.

They lay holding each other under a huge red blanket sprawled over the couch. Gray held Natsu's waist with one arm and his own head with the other while laying on his side. Natsu lay close to his raven's body, his back against his chest while holding the hand Gray also used to wrap around his lower body.

Neither boy thought anything could feel any more right. The way their body's fit together like missing puzzle pieces both offering comfort and completion for the other was stupefying.

Hour's ticked by and neither moved a muscle. Sometime during the movie both adolescents had fallen sound asleep and now lay unconsciously next to the other. The sound of even breaths filled the room and nothing else besides the sound of the television automatically turning off could be heard. Everything was peaceful and everything was good.

A/N: Reviews will be a big help for motivation as long as I know at least one person is reading or enjoying this story I won't give up! Also, recommendations for up-coming chapters would be a great help. Tell me what you'd like to see or what I'm failing to do with the story so far. Thank You!

Disclaimer: I don't own fairy tail or any of the characters