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Fight Me, Bite Me	By : Rhov Category: +. to F > Fairy Tail Views: 39447 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 3
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Chapter 34

Bad Touch Aftermath
Gray sat at the guild bar. Right in front of him, he saw scrapes in the wood where Natsu's fingernails had dug in that day underwater. Right here, right in this place…
"Is the ice cream bad?"
He jolted at the question and looked up to see Mira's pleasantly smiling face. Then Gray glanced to the bowl in front of him, placed just to the side of those claw marks. The ice cream he had ordered was nearly melted, just soupy whiteness now.
White … floating in the water … he had swished it away without thinking.
"Sorry, just thinking," he muttered.
Mira cocked her head to one side. "Did you and Natsu have a fight?"
His brow tensed. "No. Why?"
"He hasn't been by since the flooding. Many people here have been worried. There were, um, rumors."
"Juvia," he nodded, saying the name scathingly.
"She's been gone, too. Master heard the rumors and … well, I don't know what he said to her. He took her to his office, and she came out looking pale and crying. She hasn't been back since."
Gray wondered what Makarov said to her. He knew the guild master would never outright tell someone about Natsu's past. However, even he must have realized that Juvia's claims, even if they had been false—which regrettably, they were not—could trigger Natsu. Maybe he threatened to expel her. Gray was really curious, but Makarov had left for a magic council meeting, and Juvia … Gray was glad that Juvia had not been around in days. He really was not ready to face her yet.
"Is Natsu okay?" Mira asked, looking truly worried. "That day, people said he looked ill. It must have been a shock, if what Juvia claimed is true."
"We talked," Gray said softly, poking his spoon into the melted ice cream. "He was really upset, obviously. We had tea, took a stroll along the beach, he calmed down by sunset, but he said he needed some time alone. I guess, after learning something like that, he needed to sort stuff out."
"Then the rumors are true?" Mira egged on.
He glared up. "We did not have a threesome!"
"But you and Natsu had sex somewhere in this guild, right?" Her eyes were practically gleaming with stars.
Gray felt his heart shudder. Everyone knew just a little bit about his kinky side now. Of course, the day after the incident, at least five other guild members, including Laxus and Gajeel, came up to Gray and offered advice on the best locations in the guild if he ever wanted sex here again. He supposed it was not such an odd thing after all.
Before he had a chance to answer, he noticed white wings and blue fur flying up to him. Gray smiled, figuring that if Happy was here, Natsu must not be that far behind.
"Gray?" The Exceed did not sound like his cheery self anymore.
"Hey Happy? How's Natsu?"
Those huge eyes dropped, and Gray felt his stomach begin to plummet. "Gray, can you come to our house? Natsu…"
Gray began to breathe faster as a swarm of fears stung his brain. "What happened to him?" he whispered.
"I don't know. He's not eating. He looks sick."
"Sick?" Mira asked, edging right into the conversation. "There's a cold going around. It's supposedly really bad. I hope he's all right."
"I'm on my way," Gray said urgently, and he rushed out with Happy flying overhead.
As Gray ran through the town and out to the woods, he thought about the last time he saw Natsu. He had run after the Dragon Slayer right after the issue with Juvia. Natsu was a mess, shaking and crying, unable to even think straight, so Gray had yanked him into an alley until he could calm down. It took a long time, holding him as Natsu panicked. Once he stopped shaking, they went for tea, which helped Natsu to calm down more. Gray even tried to be romantic and took Natsu on a slow walk by the water, holding hands openly. As the sun began to set, Gray had suggested going out for dinner, but Natsu shook his head.
"I need some time, Gray. This is a big shock. Thank you for being here with me, but I need to be alone for a while. I'm okay, really, but I'm mad at Juvia, and I don't like being mad at my friends. I'm not mad at you. You didn't know, same as me. Still, I kinda wanna be alone for now. When I'm feeling better, I'll go to your place."
So Gray let him have some privacy. As much as he wanted to be with Natsu all the time, he also knew he should not smother him. Natsu had serious issues, and Juvia had aggravated them. If he needed to be alone, maybe that was for the best.
As Gray jogged up to the house in the woods, he began to doubt his decision. Natsu went through a horrible shock, which could have lowered his immune system anyway, plus he had been in the water and inside the ice for so long. What if he was sick and too stubborn to tell anyone?
Gray knocked on the door. "Natsu?" There was no sound inside. He tried the doorknob, but it was locked.
"It's been locked for days," Happy said. "He refuses to unlock it or open the door. I have to fly in through the window."
Gray knocked louder. "Natsu! Open up! Happy and I are both worried about you."
The Exceed made a whimpering sound. Gray patted his head, knowing how worried the cat must feel.
"Natsu! I know you're in there." He looked to Happy. "He is in there, right?"
"He hasn't left for days," Happy said fretfully. "He won't open up, and he doesn't talk to me. He's really down. He hardly eats. He won't even eat fish."
Hearing Happy on the verge of tears spurred Gray on. Maybe once, he had been annoyed that Happy was always there, and he could not be kinky with Natsu while the tiny Exceed was constantly watching. However, he was coming to feel closer to Happy. It was almost like Happy was their own child.
Gray pounded on the door. "Come on, open up. We're worried about you." After some silence, he looked to Happy again. "Did he say anything?"
"Not really."
"And he's sick?"
"I … I don't know," Happy admitted. "This has been going on since Juvia flooded everything."
A cry got caught in Gray's throat. Juvia! But he and Natsu had talked. He said he was okay! "Dammit, why didn't I realize it?" he grumbled.
"Did Juvia do something bad?" asked Happy.
"Yeah, she did." Gray pounded on the door again. "Oy! Natsu! Dammit, open up. I know you can hear me. Your ears are damn good. I will seriously break your door down."
Finally, there was a soft voice from the other side of the door. "Just you."
Gray was glad to hear his voice. "Natsu!" he cried out in relief.
"Just … you," the ragged voice said again.
Gray realized why Natsu had requested for him alone. What they needed to talk about was something Natsu likely did not want his tiny blue friend to hear, and if he was suffering, he would not want the Exceed who was like a son to see him this way.
Gray looked over to Happy. "Are you able to stay with the Lisanna tonight?"
He nodded. "She said I could stay with her until Natsu feels better. I told her he was feeling sick, because I don't know what's going on."
"Yeah, he probably feels really sick right now," Gray muttered, feeling angry at Juvia all over again. "Can you go to her? I'm going to try to talk to him … alone. I'll let you know as soon as he's okay."
"Thank you, Gray. I hope you can make him feel better."
Gray looked worriedly to the door. "Yeah, me too."
He waited until the Exceed flew off. Then Gray leaned against the door. "Hey, Natsu. Look, about Juvia." Even Gray did not like to think about what happened that day, so he could only imagine how hard this was on Natsu. "She really should not have done that. I know it might have freaked you out. I mean, we don't know what she did, but I know that although you were tied up, I felt hands … a-and maybe that was her … and maybe you felt something, too." He sighed and looked away, feeling anger well up again. "She really should not have done that. I can talk with her, if you want."
He heard a shuddering breath, and then Natsu said weakly, "I don't want you near her."
"Natsu," Gray sighed, hearing the misery in those words. "All right, can you open up? I just want to hold you. Please?" he asked beseechingly.
It was a long wait, but finally Natsu muttered, "Okay."
Gray heard the lock turn, and slowly, with a squeak, the door opened. As Gray looked inside, he saw Natsu with his head down. He was still wearing pajamas, and by the look of it, he had been wearing the same thing for days. His pink hair was oily, unbrushed, sticking out worse than usual. When finally Natsu lifted his head, his eyes had dark circles under them. They were bloodshot from crying.
"Oh, Natsu!" Gray could hardly believe what he was seeing. "You look like crap. You smell like you haven't showered in days."
Natsu looked away with a pained expression on his face. "I don't want water on me."
Gray stared, stunned for a moment, as he realized just how bad this was. "Oh man," he muttered, suddenly realizing that leaving Natsu on his own was a really bad idea. Instead of being alone and working through this, the Dragon Slayer had probably been mulling over every worst-case scenario, just making the issue worse. "How about if I'm in the shower with you?" he offered.
Instead of happily accepting, Natsu's face cringed even more. With accusatory bitterness, he said, "You were with me then."
Gray leaned back, stunned by the anger. Natsu was right, though. He had been right there; he did not know that Juvia was there. He had not protected Natsu.
"Damn," he mumbled, rubbing out a sting in his eyes.
He could not really argue the point. For now, at least, he would take the blame. Gray suddenly grabbed Natsu and hugged him, shocking him out of his worries. He nuzzled into the white scarf. Natsu stank, but at that moment Gray did not care. He held on to him and refused to let go, even when Natsu wiggled to break free.
"Come on," Gray said firmly. "Be angry."
Natsu froze for a moment. "What?"
"You can be angry. You're holding it in. That day, I totally expected you to burn down half of Magnolia. Instead, you seemed too calm. It was eerie, and I could tell you were holding back. You don't have to. You can get angry."
Natsu tried to squirm away again, but Gray's arms refused to let go. "I … I don't like being angry with friends," he said as an excuse.
"You have every right to be. Hell, I was so furious, after you left that evening, I went back to the guild ready to challenge Juvia, but she hasn't been back. Seems Makarov scolded her harshly."
Natsu turned his head aside, but a glare finally shined in his eyes. "I was really mad at her. When she first admitted to it, I was so mad, I wanted to punch her!" He dropped his head. "That's really crappy, right? Wanting to hit a girl."
Gray stroked his arm in comfort. "Not when the girl does something that horrible."
"But then … then I just got scared. Really scared. I kept … seeing things. Remembering things." His voice went tiny, almost childlike. "What if she wanted it?"
"What?"
"I don't know what happened to it."
"To what? What are you talking about?"
"To it," Natsu shouted. "To my … my cum. I don't know what happened to it. What if she took it? What if … if she … if she used it?" Natsu's eyes grew wide and filled with tears.
This was precisely what Gray originally feared. Somehow, Natsu had hidden these terrors from him and made himself appear normal on the outside. Only now did Gray see how the horror had been eating him up inside.
He grabbed Natsu into a crushing hug. He wished he could say something and make it all better. He wanted to be able to chase those fears away for good, so that Natsu never thought about that man again. As he heard Natsu break down into heavy sobs, Gray felt lost. Was there nothing he could do? Would Natsu never recover fully?
"Natsu," he sighed wistfully, wishing he knew just what to do at a time like this.
"Hold me," Natsu whispered weakly. "Don't let go."
Gray rested his head onto Natsu's collar and nestled into the warmth of the white scarf. His eyes saw the ragged scar on Natsu's neck. They both had many scars from battle. Sometimes, Gray's forehead scar hurt. These were scars anyone could see, though. The scars in their hearts were never visible except at times like these.
Gray rubbed his hand over Natsu's heart. Just like the scar on his head would always hurt just a little, so the scar on Natsu's heart might never vanish. Scars were always there, although they could fade with time. He wanted to erase this mar on Natsu's soul, but perhaps that was not possible. He could only help it to fade, give comfort when the old wound hurt, and apply a balm of tenderness to ease the pain.
"Come here. Come on, sit down." He dragged Natsu over to the couch. "Dammit, why didn't I realize this sooner?"
Perhaps he had been hopeful that Natsu's scars were fading, and he deluded himself into thinking the Dragon Slayer would be fine alone. In reality, like applying makeup over a mark, Natsu had covered up the scar and kept smiling. Now, as Gray held Natsu's jolting shoulders, he saw the depth of this emotional agony.
"Look, I'm sure she didn't do anything like that. Juvia wouldn't do that … at least not with you." Gray had a horrific mental image of Juvia collecting his sperm in a test tube, bringing it back home with her, and setting up a shrine to it. He quickly banished that daydream-nightmare. At least he came in Natsu's ass, so Juvia could not have done something that creepy. "Probably, she just touched us, nothing more," he went on. "Still, that's really bad. She shouldn't have done that."
To be fondled without permission: it was Natsu's worst nightmare all over again. He felt the hot body shivering.
"It's okay now," Gray whispered, stroking back the pink hair. "I'll talk to her, all right?"
"No!" Natsu snuffled and squeezed Gray harder, clinging onto him as if fearing he would leave right that moment. "What if she touches you?"
Gray heard a bit of jealousy in those words, and although this matter was serious, it made him smile. "What if I wear the chastity belt when I go to meet her?"
Natsu looked up in shock. "Are … are you okay? Down there, I mean? I almost forgot."
"Forgot!" Gray cried out. "Idiot, I was hurting for days, especially since I fucked your ass with my dick like that. I'm lucky it didn't scar, being that chafed. Still," he said quieter, "at least for a few hours, just when I go to talk with her, I can wear it if it'll put your mind at ease."
"Yeah … yeah, at least that much." He felt much better about it if he knew Juvia would not molest Gray like that. Natsu himself knew the humiliation, and he hugged his arms as he leaned against Gray's chest. "I never wanted you to go through that, too."
Gray almost asked what he meant, until it dawned on him with a sick jolt of his stomach. Natsu was clumping this experience as being on the same level as the horrible man in his past. Only this time, the act had been done on both of them, and by someone they knew. It was not some shadowy stranger, but a person they considered to be a friend. Juvia had sexually molested them both.
"I'm okay, really," Gray assured him. "I'm mad at her, but I'm okay. I need to confront her, though. I can't put this behind me until I tell her just how angry I am. Do you want to come with me?"
"No." Natsu's brow furrowed deeply. "I don't know what I can say to her. She saw me tied up. She knows about that, about me, how I am."
"I don't think she was really paying attention to you so much, no offense. We need to talk to her. We both do. What she did was wrong, and although I'm pretty sure she didn't realize it at the time, she needs to understand just what she did."
"Gray," Natsu said reluctantly. He pulled out of the strong embrace and gazed at the ice wizard. "Look at me. I'm a mess. I'm angry. I'm not in any condition to talk."
"You don't have to say anything—she would listen to me more anyway—but we both need closure on this. She probably wasn't thinking, she probably thought it would just be a little fun, or maybe she thought we knew she was there. Juvia is not that type of girl."
Natsu shouted in anger, "Are you defending her?"
"I'm not," he insisted. "However, I don't think she meant it in the same way that man did in the past to you. Okay?" he said, hoping to point this out. "I don't think she fully realized what she was doing. It doesn't excuse her, but it does make me much more hesitant about what we probably should do."
"What's that?" Natsu asked worriedly.
"Report her to the police for sexual assault."
"Whu-…? Gray!"
"I know Juvia is a friend, but that's what this was." His brow tightened. "We need to talk to her, straighten this all out." Then he saw the increasing dread in Natsu's face. Gray gave a soft sigh, pitying him. "That can wait," he whispered, hugging the Dragon Slayer. "If you need to cuddle or cry, it's all right."
Although Natsu's eyes were already moist, he stubbornly refused to flat-out sob. "I've been an idiot crying for the past few days. I don't wanna cry more."
"You were crying alone. Now you can cry with me."
Natsu held up his head, but still the tears dropped down. He felt his chest jolt, and he knew Gray must have felt that too, because his arms squeezed tighter. Natsu wanted to break away. He did not want Gray to be there as he fell apart once again; however, the ice wizard refused to let go. He knew he could not let Natsu be alone again. Although it was infuriating and embarrassing, Natsu was actually rather happy to have Gray there, to know he would stay beside him … to know he cared this much. His chest shuddered again, and this time he did not bother trying to hide it. He sniffled and buried his face down into Gray's chest.
"It really scared me," he admitted in a weak, shuddering whisper. "I've pretty much been in a panic attack for the past few days now."
"So why didn't you say something to me?"
Natsu looked aside, but he decided to be honest. "I kept wondering why it seemed like you didn't care much about it."
Gray pulled back and looked at him, stunned by those words. Natsu glanced up and saw the confusion in Gray's eyes.
"When she told us, you looked shocked, but you didn't say anything, and I thought … what if you liked it?" His voice almost failed him, and another shiver ran through his arms. "What if you didn't say anything because, deep down inside, you liked the idea of her being there?"
Gray's grip tightened even more, and his fingers dug into Natsu's arms. He wanted to protest, but no words would come up.
Natsu hesitantly glanced up at him again. "You said once you wanted a threesome, and maybe … maybe this was a fantasy of yours. Maybe you liked it. Although I think I would be okay with a third person, we didn't know she was there. It … it wasn't…"
"It wasn't consensual," Gray finished, saying what had to be said. "That's why we need to talk to her."
Natsu shrank down and looked aside, trembling at the thought of confronting his attacker. "I … I don't know…" he said with a nervous stutter. "What if I get mad? What if I have a flashback? What if I … if I … try to hurt her?"
Gray rubbed the hot arms. "I won't let it get that far." He felt horrible that Natsu looked so scared. "Natsu, it's gonna be all right. Don't think about her right now. I'll stay here with you until you're better, okay?"
A smile struggled onto Natsu's lips. "Yeah."
"But," Gray chuckled lightly, "you really do need a shower."
Instead of laughing or being eager, Natsu looked away sullenly again. "I don't want to get wet."
Gray thought about this problem. It seemed Natsu had a phobia to water now. It could hardly be blamed, considering what happened; however, he really did need to wash up. "Well, there's a stream nearby. If you don't want to shower, what about using a stream? Juvia doesn't even know where that is."
Natsu thought about it. He was right: the stream was hidden within the trees, and no one really knew this area except for Natsu and Happy. "Yeah, okay." Then he shrank down a little and looked up into Gray's face. "You'll be there, right?"
"Of course," Gray smiled, rubbing Natsu's arms. He leaned over and gave the Dragon Slayer a small kiss on the forehead. "If Juvia is coming, you'll be able to smell her before she can even get into the water, right? It'll be safe."
Natsu knew that, although he had momentarily felt his trust in Gray broken, he really did have to rely on him this time. "Okay," he decided, but he rested his cheek against Gray's chest once more. "Can you hold me still?"
Gray smiled and wrapped him up into his arms. "All right." He rocked Natsu slightly, just comforting him, but it made Natsu feel happy, being held, being loved. "Are you okay?" Gray asked.
Natsu gave a small sigh of contentment. "I'm glad you're here."
"Yeah." Gray leaned over, and he kissed Natsu on the mouth. Those lips were still hot, and they were no longer trembling. They rubbed noses together and gazed into one another's eyes. "I'm glad I'm here, too."

End of Chapter 34

A/N: Thank you for waiting, some more patiently than others, haha!
An update: the wrist bone healed, but now I have "adhesive capsulitis of the wrist," or frozen wrist syndrome. Basically, I've lost half of the flexibility and need physical therapy. I can type, but my wrist is slower and easily becomes pained. At least the bone is fine, yay!
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