A/N: So, today's Groundhog Day and I thought "what the heck" and so decided to post this story. It's a repost of an oneshot I posted in my Alphabet fic. I haven't had the time to write anything more yet (I've had a busy day and am currently working on another installment of my Abracadabra fic ^^') but hopefully there will be a continuation soon. :D

In the meanwhile, enjoy.

This story's still unbetaed.

Feedback's always appreciated.

Yesterday

Chapter One - Waking

Natsu woke up and he was curling around a body, while the other body was, in turn, also curled around his. He let out a noise before cuddling further before his brain woke up and he realized what he was doing.

Blindly he untangled from the other person and jumped from the bed, his legs becoming tangled in the bedsheet and him landing on his ass on the floor.

It was Gray.

But Natsu didn't remember how he ended up in bed with Gray. A sudden pain lanced through his head and he cupped his forehead with his hand, closing his eyes and groaning.

Gray made a noise and that was when Natsu knew that he had to leave. What the hell was I doing there with ice breath? He asked himself, sluggishly standing and putting on his clothes. He didn't notice how his scarf was balled and shoved inside one of his trousers' pockets. At the moment he only thought about leaving.

Stomping out of the house, a fuming, yet with a massive headache, Natsu headed towards the guild. There he might get some answers and relief.

As soon as he entered, a too perky Lucy suddenly sprouted from his side.

And where the fuck was Happy?

"God morning, Natsu." She said brightly.

"Mhph." Natsu squinted at her before heading to grab something to eat and drink.

"My, you sure seem like you had a big night…" She continued, giggling.

"What are you talking about?" Natsu mustered all the energy he could to throw a glare at her. But the blonde kept on, undeterred.

"Well, after the kiss, you and Gray suddenly disappeared. We all wondered what might have happened." She waggled her eyebrows.

"You're a big perv'. I don't have a clue about what you're going on about." Natsu frowned at the mug filled with water that sat in front of him. Then paused and looked at Lucy. "Wait. Kiss?"

"Hell yeah." The celestial mage answered, a predatory grin on her lips and then her expression smoothing into a dreamy one. "You were both arguing on top of that table," she waved in the direction of one of the tables, "and all of a sudden you cupped his face and kissed him. Was it the alcohol, I wonder…?"

"Alcohol? W-wait-! I started-?" Natsu couldn't help himself and stutter.

"Hell yeah. It was the kiss of the century. You could light a room on fire with that intensity."

"So, we were drunk?" Natsu tried to put the pieces together.

"I don't know about drunk. Tipy, for sure." Lucy replied airily. "It was truly hot… poor Juvia, she started crying a river when Gray was fighting for dominance… we thought that we were going to drown here, until someone opened the doors and let the water out. When we looked back, you two were gone."

"What happened next?" Natsu asked.

"How should I know?" Lucy asked, in outrage. "You were gone. But you two gave me some ideas…" the blonde mage ended in a sing-song voice, wagging a finger at him.

"Wha-? No!" Natsu stood up from his chair and shouted. Then he flinched and leaned on the table. "Don't."

"Too laaate…" Lucy teased.

The fire mage groaned in frustration and turned around, he needed to go to the infirmary to see if there was something he could use for his headache.

As he walked on the dimly lit corridor, flashes suddenly started to appear in his mind.

Hands running over his body at the same time that his own explored a hard body. A slick tongue fighting with his. A voice saying filthy things in his ear. Warmth. Slickness. Feeling right. The warmth of limbs twining with his. Breathing slowing, as well as heartbeat, now going in synch with another.

Natsu leaned against the cool wall, gasping in astonishment at what he had just thought.

What had happened yesterday?

"I need to get something to be able to think." He told himself, being quite fed up with the cotton that seemed to have stuffed his brain.

He stumbled into the infirmary and, since there wasn't anyone in there, he started rummaging for something for him to take. He ended up taking a vial he remembered taking once, read the label and took a few glugs from it. However, the green-blue liquid didn't have the sweet taste he expected.

"Shit."

He fell and, in the distance, could hear a clunk of something before rolling off.

Natsu woke up, feeling warm and comfortable, his body curling against another. The Salamander seemed to imagine himself dreaming, the sense of déjà vu firmly setting on his conscience. Before snuggling a bit further, Natsu's eyes opened.

Déjà vu?

Sure enough, as Natsu sat up, Gray mumbled something and curled into the pillow.

What the-!

Natsu shot up from the bed and fell on his ass on the floor, legs tangled in the bedsheets.

But… didn't this happen yesterday?

Natsu's head started pounding and he wasn't seeing straight. Natsu hurriedly grabbed his clothes, not minding the heaviness coming from his pocket, the one which had his scarf shoved into it, and left the other's house in a quick stride.

"What the fuck?" He said out loud as he leaned against the sturdy wooden door. He got a few glances from passer byes for speaking to himself but no-one paid him any mind. The fire mage started walking, this time he headed towards the river and, possibly the marketplace. There was an apothecary along the way, they would take care of his problem.

Unfortunately, as he was walking down the street, Erza saw him. The red-haired mage walked towards him with a tiny smirk that didn't leave Natsu at ease, not one bit.

"Good morning." She said.

"'Mornin'…" he said suspiciously.

"It's surprising to see you here so early. Where's Gray?"

"How am I supposed to know?" The Salamander replied grumpily. "I'm not his keeper, am I?"

"Hmmm…" Erza said, and that amount of thought she seemed to be having, didn't bode well for Natsu. "I can't say anything for sure but, after yesterday's show… That was a bit over the top, even for you. Besides, the mission wasn't anything that needed such celebration."

Natsu's face became red as a tomato.

"I didn't do anything." He said haltingly.

"I wouldn't call that kiss nothing." Erza said with a giggle. "You boys sure went over the top."

"Did not!" Natsu whined. Would this nightmare not end?

"Hahaha," Erza had the gall to laugh in his face. Something quite unexpected but maybe it was a reaction to the weird spell that seemed to have taken over everyone? "Well, I got in your way. Where were you going? The apothecary for something for your head? I can bet you're having a splitting headache-"

Erza's tirade was interrupted by a lot of noise coming from the marketplace. People were running, in panic, from something that seemed to be happening there.

"What the hell is that?" Erza muttered.

"Dunno but maybe we should check." Natsu said, taking a few gulps of air, willing his headache away and the emptiness from his stomach.

"Agreed. Let's go." The whole 'big sister teasing' act disappeared as Erza started walking towards the marketplace, Natsu hurrying after her.

A group with seven dark mages was creating havoc in the market. They relished in the destruction and were teasing each other, seeing who could do worse.

Natsu and Erza exchanged a look and then attacked. They did quick work of most of the mages – they were weak anyway – but the last one seemed to be a bit trickier.

"Be careful, we can't destroy things all that much." Erza admonished after Natsu crashed into a wall and it crumbled into the fire mage.

"Yeah, yeah. I remember the old man's rant." Natsu mumbled. He was feeling quite off, his balance apparently affected for some unknown reason, and his head still pounding.

This exchange seemingly was the opening that their foe needed to attack. He was much stronger than expected for underneath their feet large purple discs appeared before translucent layers of a flimsy substance rose to tie themselves together above their heads before a strange gas was released.

Despite holding his breath, Natsu saw Erza collapsing before he, himself, blacked out.

As Natsu came to, firstly, he took a breath. Since it came easily, he allowed himself back to a vigilant state. He wasn't awake nor asleep, hanging somewhere in-between.

The comfortable bed he was lying on, the body he was curled into moved slightly when Natsu's arm moved. And then, the in-between state Natsu was in, shattered to a thousand pieces.

The fire mage shot up to sit in bed, opened his eyes and looked franticly around.

"Shit. Not again." He all but yelled before slapping his forehead. He let out a pained groan after, berating himself for worsening the pounding in his head. And then Gray mumbled something and started turning around towards Natsu.

He was waking up.

Oh fuck…