Hello randomly decided to get this posted on here, if you see this under Fushiarat on Ao3 thats me lol.
When Natsu first joined fairy tail he had to admit he was lost.
All these humans cooped up in one place. The weird food they had, that had soo many different flavors.
The weird habits they had like how they would shake hands upon meeting someone, or would have to pay for food.
Seriously why did food have to be payed for?
This is why Natsu had taken up fishing.
Why waste money when you can just get food yourself?
He did enjoy how there were buildings that you went into and people served you a whole bunch of food and brought stuff for you, whatever you pleased!
Restaurants they were called.
They were amazing.
Apparently there was also a thing like style, when it came to clothes.
Natsu didn't really care too much about it, but understood enough that his scarf would look better when it would stand out on his black shirt.
But there were still things he simply didn't get.
Like he didn't really understand this thing called "sarcasm".
He once asked Gramps if he could take an S ranked job. And he said,
"Yeah, and take the 100 year quest while you're at it".
But when he tried to do just that he faced Gramps growing fist.
Gray specifically teased him a lot for this.
But hey! He was learning!
Just the other day he understood a sarcastic remark Mira made.
He was very proud of himself.
He found it was sometimes easy to notice by the higher pitch of tone Mira spoke in.
Now here he was fighting Gray.. as usual.
They were in one of their spectacular fights.
Natsu was going to win of course!
He hit Gray with a fist, and barely dodged a kick at his side.
Gray did get him good in the ribs but Natsu made sure to go with the momentum so it didn't slow him down.
Gray punched him in the side. And Natsu sucked in his gut to master the pain.
Angry now, Natsu made sure to punch Gray real good back, with maybe a little fire behind it, but the ice bastard dodged it.
Natsu went quicker and ended up punching the icicle in the cheek, and just when Gray was about to (try - it's not like he could) to get him back their heads crashed together.
Erza!
Was she back already!??
The two boys gulped.
"Boys, you know I don't tolerate such pointless fighting"
The two kept their mouths zipped up in fear.
"Normally I would let you go on for a little longer, but there's a problem..."
Natsu gulped... he knew just what she was talking about…
Earlier that morning, Gray and Lisanna dared him to look for Erza's strawberry cake. She tended to hide it in very obscure places so it would be quite a challenge.
Natsu's nose made it child's play.
Gray joined him and when Natsu was brave enough to set it on the table, Gray asked if he was too much of a pussy to try some.
Natsu went right back at him saying he was too much of a pussy too.
So in order to prove their bravery they each...
he gulped just thinking about it.
They each... ate from her strawberry cake.
"What is it?" Gray asked.
Natsu winced, he knew very well what the problem was!!
"It seems my excellent well made strawberry cake is missing.. I got that slice from a 5-Star bakery"
"That's.. odd, why would it be missing?" Gray continued.
Is he seriously balantly lying to the demon?!!
Natsu gritted his teeth.
He was just as brave as he is!!
"Do you think you ate it already?" Natsu asked innocently.
Gray looked at him shocked that he would ask that.
Natsu hid a small smirk.
Hah! Beat that Gray!
"No, I clearly remember not sitting down to eat it yet"
"Maybe your thinking of the cake you bought yesterday- y'know when you went to that bakery and stuff, you were thinking of saving it for today but you gave in last minute- remember!" Natsu continued.
"Oh, yeah" Gray continued, then there was a mischievous smirk on his face.
"Mira called you a pig or something because of it"
Natsu refused to feel any respect for the guy for having the guts to say that.
Erza gritted her teeth as if just remembering.
But this was all a lie.
"MIRAJANE!!!" She yelled.
She stormed off.
When she was out of sight the two giggled.
"I can't believe she fell for that" Gray smirked.
"I can't believe she thought she already ate it" Natsu laughed.
Especially to him.. as it seemed quite normal to remember everything he's eaten for each day.
Back with Igneel they would do this to make sure they had a sufficient meal.
And if something got him sick he'd remember what it was.
He had his fair share of eating the wrong berries, Igneel always scolded him for that.
"We got her good" Gray agreed.
Gray turned towards him and held up his hand.
Natsu looked at it confused,
"What?"
Gray frowned,
"It's called a high five, idiot"
Not focusing on the idiot remark Natsu continued to stare at the hand. Totally not focusing on the idiot remark.
"What about it?"
Gray sighed and reached and grabbed Natsus hand he brought it up.
"Like this" Gray said and Natsu copied his hand.
Gray then touched his hand to his for a second.
Natsu kept his hand up confused.
Gray seemed to be patient with him for once and just smiled like he found it silly.
"You do it when you accomplish something great!" Gray grinned.
Natsus smiled back.
"And we just tricked Erza" he smiled.
Gray nodded.
Natsu looked at his hand for a few moments.
"High five!" He said happily.
Gray grinned and they smacked their hands together.
"Are you two fighting again!!!" A redheaded demon shouted.
"Aahhhhh!!!!"
Gramps grinned at the exchange, maybe they aren't quite just rivals after all.
The end!