Rated T for language and mentions of rape and attempted rape; no graphic scenes. (will contain Transgender themes - man stuck in a woman's body)

Chapter 1: Don't Laugh

"I refuse." Natsu said, crossing his arms over his chest and looking away with a pout on his face.

"Don't be a fucking baby, Natsu. I don't want to do it either, but the guild really needs the money." Gray copied the crossing of his arms but kept his eyes sternly on Natsu, who didn't seem to be swayed yet.

"Why can't Lucy do it? Or Erza?" the pink said in a whiney voice, he let his arms drop to his side in defeat, knowing that the girls couldn't quite do it, they'd discussed this earlier.

Gray sighed dramatically, bringing his fingers up to pinch the bridge of his nose as though trying to stop a headache. "You know Erza's out on a mission and do you really want Lucy to do this?" He waited for Natsu to sadly shake his head before he continued. "Now let's play rock paper scissors on who's got to do it."

Reluctantly, Natsu held his hand out in a fist before him, "first call or best out of three?"

"What are you? Eight? First call, let's just get this over with." Gray said, really not looking forward to what might happen.

"Alright…" Natsu said, and they shook their fists in time only for Gray's hand to show scissors and Natsu's to show rock. "R-really, I just won?" Natsu stared at the hands in shock before raising the fist he was holding out to Gray into the air and cheering. "Alright!" he repeated himself, just with a little more enthusiasm this time.

Gray stared at his hand in shock. Well, fuck. He sighed, knowing he had to do this, the Guild was in a rough place since Tartaros, with all the damage of the explosion, and every job needed to be handled for them to be able to get around and still pay their rents and groceries. And this job was a rather easy one with quite the reward.

Natsu toned down his enthusiasm enough to look at the defeated face Gray'd put up and sympathetically asked: "if you really don't want to do it, Gray, you don't have to."

"No I do actually." Gray said, "it'll be fine, I'm going to go look for Mira for a couple touch-ups and some stuff we'll need, we'll be leaving in an hour, alright?" He said, but he didn't wait for an answer as he saw Mirajane disappear into the kitchen and he quickly followed her.

Natsu couldn't help but smile at Gray's back, the raven was quite noble in his ways and Natsu always respected that about him. Also, he was suddenly really looking forward to this mission. It was going to be fun.

They'd decided to walk to the destination, since Gray said he really didn't want to have to be stuck with a motion sick Natsu all the way and Natsu happily agreed of course. They didn't talk much along the way, apart from some job-related stuff and the occasional argument of course. They arrived at the destination at around 5 pm, which left them two hours to eat and get ready for the planned evening.

By the time they got to the hotel that'd also be serving them dinner, Natsu was rather excitable.

"What the heck are you grinning at me for, Flame Brain?" Gray said, stuffing the peas into his mouth.

But Natsu's grin only widened, "I'm just imagining…" He sighed happily and Gray's face instantly colored a bright red.

"S-Stop doing that!" He replied, "don't think about that Natsu, it's just a job."

"Yeah, I know! The best job ever," Natsu cheered, having done a complete one-eighty from his opinion on the mission before they'd done the game of rock papers scissor.

Gray grumbled something inaudible and growled when Natsu still seemed to be staring at him. He stood up abruptly from the table, barely having touched his food. "I'm going to get ready. Don't enter the bathroom if you like your dick to be attached to your body." He threatened, which gave Natsu a cold shiver, he realized the ice mage meant what he said.

Gray stormed out of the diner, clearly pissed off, but Natsu just couldn't help but still be excited about everything. Man, did he love this mission.

He ate his food calmly, knowing Gray was going to take quite a while in the bathroom. When he was finished he paid for the food and went upstairs. He quietly slipped into the room, hoping somewhere to catch Gray in the room off guard, but he appeared to still be in the bathroom. Natsu chuckled at the curses that emerged from the bathroom.

"Fucking hell…" Gray mumbled from inside, "this shit fucking hurts, how the fuck do they usually do this."

Natsu snuck over to the bathroom door, ready to take a sneak peak at Gray.

"And these fucking things are way too heavy, I'm gonna fucking fall over."

A blush crept over the pink's face as he realized what Gray was talking about. He placed his hand on the doorknob but froze when Gray spoke up again.

"Natsu?" He said loudly, "Natsu, I know you're in there, please hand me the towel, I left in on the bed."

Slightly bummed about being caught, Natsu stomped over to the bed and grabbed the white towel before stomping back to the bathroom, realizing that to give him the towel, he'll have to open the door. So, trying to look as ignorant and innocent as he always did, he turned the knob on the door and threw open the door.

There he stood –or she, technically-, silky long straight hair the color of midnight at full moon flowed down his back like a waterfall, reaching all the way down to his tailbone, beneath which a beautifully round ass was bare and right in Natsu's sight, still dripping wet from the shower. His face, half visible due to the fact that he was looking over his shoulder in surprise, had become a little skinnier, though his jawline was still as pronounced as ever. His eyes were wide from shock, but sparkling and big and dark blue where they used to be onyx. It was clearly Gray standing before him, so technically, there was no way that Natsu could be attracted to him, or her. But god, was he beautiful with his hands wrapped protectively around his chest, yet not caring if his butt was in view. He didn't say anything, although the pink hue over his face told Natsu that he was embarrassed and possibly a little angry.

In a sudden wave of protectiveness, Natsu spread the blanket like towel wide and approached Gray, who squirmed under his eyes. Carefully, Natsu wrapped the towel around Gray's back, making sure it covered his butt, and draped the ends over his shoulders before he left the bathroom. He knew he'd thought it before but this mission really was the best.

He opened up the closet and took out the tux Lucy'd told him to wear to the party they were supposed to attend. While he dressed himself his mind kept wandering off to Gray's naked butt and his long silky hair and the pink hue on his feminine face and god was he gorgeous, he couldn't wait to show him off tonight. After all, Gray was supposed to be his date, wasn't he?

He stood in front of the mirror trying to tie the godforsaken bowtie that he swore was malfunctioning. It had to be broken. "Arrgh," Natsu let out in frustration as he threw the piece of fabric on the bed. "Gray, get the hell out here!" he yelled, "we don't want to be late at the party and I can't fucking tie that thing." He groaned. Gray was taking his sweet time getting out of that bathroom.

And yet, when the door slowly opened to about a quarter of an inch, time slipped Natsu's mind as he was wholly focused. He said nothing as the door moved ever so slowly. When nobody appeared in the gap, Natsu stood up to go see what was up with Gray, when his feminine voice emerged from the bathroom.

"If you laugh you sleep outside tonight."

Natsu swallowed, his gaze still intensely focused on where Gray would appear to him.

Slowly, he could see Gray's now slender hand place itself against the inside of the door and push it open further. The air was pregnant with anticipation as Natsu could hear the faint clicking of heals on the tiles.

AN:

Waaaaaah Cliffhanger! Just wanted to say I'll be narrating with he/him pronouns for Gray since he's still a man, just in a woman's body, in speech it might differ, depending on the person who's talking. It seemed the most fair to him and also helps you remember that it is still the same Gray Fullbuster, instead of like his female twin sister.