1. Laughter

Natsu Dragneel was no newcomer to staying up late at night, and tonight was no exception. He was sleeping over at Gray Fullbuster's apartment because he managed to burn down his own house. Natsu told himself that he would definitely rebuild it in the morning...or so he says. Happy had gone to stay with Wendy and Carla so the fire mage was left alone with the stupid stripper.

"look I don't wanna be here any more than you want me here." he crossed his arms over his chest as Gray sent him a glare.

"how could you be so stupid as to burn down your own house, I will never know!" the ice mage ran a hand through his blue/black locks in frustration. "I want you out of here first thing tomorrow morning, got it?"

"yup, sure do, ya stupid popsicle" he rolled his eyes at the way the ice mage tried to boss him around.

"stupid ash for brains!"

"ice princess!"

"flame head!"

"Pervy popsicle!"

They ended up getting into a fist fight until Gray tackled them to the floor and straddled Natsu's hips to keep him in place. This notion caused a blush to creep across the fire mage's cheeks which didn't go unnoticed by the ice mage. Gray simply grinned and thought to himself of the fun he could have now, soon that simple grin turned into a devilish one.

"you getting a fever flame breath?"

"no"

"then why's your face all red?" that simple question caused said fire mage to turn a deeper shade of red, but this time it was from embarrassment. He pulled his scarf up over his face to hide the embarrassment on his face but leaving his neck fully exposed in the process. Gray took one look at the fire mage'snnnnnn neck and grinned, he bent down and let his breath tickle the skin of the jagged scar. The fire mage shivered at the cool breath.

Gray kissed the sensitive skin and the fire mage let out a startled squeak. The ice mage laughed at the sound and sat up.

"what kind of sound was that ash breath?" he got off the dragon slayer still laughing silently.

"what the hell Gray!?" he pulled the scarf back down to his neck "what did you do that for?"

"I was curious about what you'd do" he grinned at the fire mage before sitting on his couch.

"stupid pervy popsicle!" Natsu sat on the floor his face still as red as Erza's hair. He had to admit though that he loved hearing the ice mage laugh because of him. Gray looked down at the fire mage and noticed he had a tiny grin creeping onto his face and that made him curious about what was going on in that tiny brain of his.

Natsu got up, fixed his t-shirt and went into the kitchen.

"don't burn my house down too!"

"i'm just getting a drink!" Natsu stayed in the kitchen for quite some time though, he didn't make a sound.

Gray was a little confused as to why the fire mage was being so quiet. He got up and made his way to his kitchen, he was surprised to find no one in there. "Natsu where the hell did you go?"

Before he could turn to go search for the fire mage warm arms wrapped around his cold torso pulling him against the warm chest belonging to the fire mage.

"Graaayy" Natsu said his name in a low whisper against his ear causing him to go completely stiff and his face to turn red. Natsu chuckled at the reaction he got but didn't stop there. He proceeded to hug the Ice mage tighter and then place a small kiss just below his ear.

Gray blushed even more and shivered. Natsu noticed this and laughed a little then let go and went back to the living room to sit on the couch.

"The hell Natsu!?" It had taken a minute for Gray to get him composure back enough to turn and glare at the fire mage.

"pay back dear friend" he grinned.

Gray went and sat down on the couch but as far from Natsu as he could get and glared at him still but soon his glare disappeared when Natsu broke out into a fit of laughter. The ice mage was confused. "the hell you laughing for?"

Natsu only laughed more "sorry but that was funny! You couldn't even move!"

"shut up! Stupid ash for brains!" Gray reach over to punch the fire mage but stopped as Natsu let out a yelp from falling off the couch. Although that didn't stop his laughter. Now Gray burst into laughter from the yelp that left Natsu's lips. They both couldn't stop laughing at each other, they were holding their stomachs they were laughing that hard. Neither of them would admit it but they liked, no, they loved hearing the other laugh.

Next chapter - Marks