5.) I Lived

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Awakened by the restlessness of wanderlust

I watched colours fly by untouched windows

The skies were a blue I'd never seen before

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Two pairs of eyes where seen peering through the foliage at the edge of the forest. Covered by the blanket of night.

One moved, rustling the leaves that concealed the eye's true form and the other pair of eyes snapped in its direction. The two pairs stared at one another for a long tense moment before they moved. Bodies burst out of the leaves, one slightly slower than the other as they quickly ran into the small village standing right outside the woods, ignorant of its visitors.

The two bodies flashed through the village too quick for the average civilian to spot. Clothes that were hanging out to dry suddenly vanished as a blur went by it. The clothespins that had been in use snapping closed and becoming the only evidence that anything had been there previously.

The second form passed by a little food stand, startling the half asleep guarding dog who started to bark at thin air as the scruffy beast knew something had been there that he couldn't see anymore.

Having achieved their goals the two forms turned and dived back from which they came.

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Natsu laughed as he watched Gray grumble and adjust the newly acquired pants and shirt for the fifth time in the past ten minutes.

Hearing the laughter he turned, barely feeling the wounds he had received almost a month ago as they were almost completely healed, and glared with no real heat at his companion. "Stop laughing."

Natsu sat up from where he was laying on the ground, one last giggle falling from his mouth. "Sorry, it kinda is!"

Gray rolled his eyes and turned his back to the other as he fumbled with the pants strings again.

The problem was that when he had stolen the clothes he hadn't thought to consider the size of said clothes. He had been too full of adrenaline and focused on grabbing them and leaving before they were spotted.

So while Natsu's clothes where almost a perfect fit, a dark red t-shirt and black sweatpants, Gray's shirt was three sizes too large and the pants were a size too big. Thus the dark blue sweater he had grabbed kept sliding off his shoulders and the gray sweatpants were riding almost too low on his hips.

He heard another chuckle from Natsu as he groaned and tried tightening the sweatpants' strings again, only for the right sleeve of the sweater to fall off his shoulder again.

He huffed and leaned into the arms that sudden encircled him, pressing his back to the warm heat Natsu seemed to naturally put out.

Natsu looked over his shoulder as he pried Gray's fumbling hands away from the strings and tightened them himself, putting a knot in them to hold them in place. "There see, that's not so hard."

Gray snorted and rolled his eyes. "For you maybe."

Natsu smirked and pulled away, eyeing the bandages peeking through the neckline of the sweater. "How's your back?"

Gray shrugged and half turned, half expecting Natsu to ask to see the damage. "It doesn't really hurt anymore. Just feels.. kinda numb."

Natsu's eyes tightened and he grabbed the bottom of the sweater Gray wore, lifting it slightly. Gray rolled his eyes at the unspoken request and stripped the shirt.

Natsu immediately got to work unraveling the torn strips of his old shirt. He paused, staring when the once open flesh came into view.

Gray looked over his shoulder at the quiet fire mage and raised an brow at the blank look on his face. "What is it?"

Natsu smiled and locked eyes with the awaiting pair of his friends, "The wounds are closed! Its scarred over now!"

Gray wasn't really familiar with the healing process of wounds, as he couldn't remember a time when a wound received didn't kill the person. "Is… that good?"

Natsu nodded rapidly and wrapped the amnesiac in a hug who let out a started laugh. "It's FANTASTIC!"

Laughing as Natsu put him back on his feet he slipped the sweater back on just like before except without the makeshift bandages this time.

Natsu watched and looked around the small clearing they were in before snapping back to his friend. "Now we can start!"

A half smile on his face couldn't seem to disappear, even as Gray was slightly confused at Natsu's statement. "Start what?"

Natsu smiled wider, "Training you!"

Gray tilted his head. "Training?"

Natsu nodded enthusiastically bouncing on the balls of his feet. "Yea! That way we can find out what magic you have!"

Gray smiled and nodded. "That would be nice to know." A thought occurred to him and he looked back up at his excited companion. "Hey, Natsu."

"Hm?" The pink haired mage stopped and turned to the call of his name.

Gray looked a little lost in thought as he tilted his head, his arms coming up to cross over his chest. "What do you want to do after that?"

Natsu paused, he hadn't really thought beyond making sure Gray was better and starting to train him so either one of them wouldn't be left helpless ever again. "After?"

Gray nodded. "Yea, I mean.. we've been stuck in one place for so long, but I don't want to be anymore."

Natsu nodded and looked to the sky for thought. When the answer came to him he smiled, looked to the expectant Gray, and grabbed the other's hands in his own. "Then we won't be! We have the world now! We can do whatever the hell we want!"

Gray considered this for a moment and smiled. Matching the grin on the face of the person he cherished the most.