Gray and Natsu had gotten ready and everything walked all the way to the guild, north of almost everything, But alas, to their dismay, Master had closed off the guild for the week for cleaning and re-organizing.

Gray slumped, he had wanted to do a little research on some Greek mythology and its impact on modern day society and stories. For example, in some of the best selling series authors use a character like Hercules or some sort of monsters like the Nemean lion, or the three Gorgons, or Hades' (The Greek god) three-headed dogs Cerberus. In addition, a big misinterpretation of the Greek god Hades was that he was evil because he ran the underworld. But, in truth, Hades ran Asylum(Where you go if your good), Land of the blessed (If you achieve Asylum 3 times), and the fields of punishment (Punishment) That all reside in the underworld. Villains, on the other hand, were a more complicated matter...

So Gray was a little disappointed, so he hung his head gluing his eyes to the ground in between his feet. Doing so, caused him to realize just how dirty and used his traditional black converse were, and don't even mention how his laces looked torn, dirty, and dragged through hell and back three hundred times, only to be dunked in ice water and proceeded to be set ablaze.

Natsu grabbed Gray's wrist causing his head to snap up to look at Natsu flushing red the longer he held his wrist. Natsu didn't seem to notice how Gray was blushing or how his own thoughts lingered on Gray's hands. Natsu started dragging Gray by the wrist down the block.

"Huh? Natsu what are you doing?" Gray stumbled as he was being pulled by the dragon slayer.

"Food shopping." Natsu pointed down the street to where the local market and grocery stores were. "I'm not doing it alone, and I don't know what you want." 

"Oh..." Natsu let go of Gray's wrist, and Gray could have sworn that the world went a shade or two darker. 

Gray frowned at that, clouds must have blocked the sun. Which was weird because there no clouds overhead, it was a clear sunny day, so why did he feel down?

Gray walked with Natsu in silence, Natsu had seemed down earlier, but whatever it was, It seemed to be resolved. Natsu was smiling genuinely, and stifling laughter at this crack that people always tripped over.

"Natsu?" Gray asked as Natsu grabbed fruits, vegetables, pasta, sweets, snacks, and grains.

"Yea?" Natsu looked up as he froze holding a dragonfruit

"Can we make some spaghetti?" Gray proposed with a small innocent grin, It caused Natsu to smile back at him and Gray froze.

"Yea!!" Natsu placed a pack of spaghetti on Gray's head as a joke.

"OI, FIRE PRINCESS!" Gray yelled in protest, causing Natsu to avert his eyes.

"Fire princess?" Natsu muttered under his breath, he didn't hate it...It was actually kind of cute.

A few hours later, and several arguments later, Gray and Natsu had finally decided to get to cooking.

Natsu and Gray brought everything they needed out, but Gray was actually pretty startled when Natsu started to sing, well to at that point.

"HERO'S START WITH THE SAUCE! PICTURE YOUR ENEMY, POUND VEGGIES INTO PASTE!" Natsu decimated the veggies, "Heros do it LIKE THIS! YEA, IM ON A ROLL! ILL put it a bowl!" 

Gray stared at him in shock, Natsu took his scarf off and tired it around his head leaving his forehead fully exposed for once.

After a few more verses and violently mashing and killing the poor veggies, and slamming the pasta in a pot a little too violently.

"NOW THAT'S ALL PREPARES, WE WILL TURN UP THE HEAT! TURN THE STOVE TO THE MAX, AND LET YOUR PASSION SHINE! WE CAN'T TURN ALL THIS OFF! THIS IS WHAT ITS LIKE WHEN YOU COOK WITH UNDY-I mean NATSU! COME ON, BESTIE, that's JUST NOT HOT ENOUGH!  LET YOUR HOPES AND YOUR DREAMS TURN INTO BURNING FIRE! FOLLOW YOUR HEART, DONT HOLD ANYTHING BACK, THE PASTA'S YOUR ENEMY, LIGHT THE FUNERAL PYRE! WHAT THE HECK, HUMAN,  YOU CALL THAT A FIRE? YOU DONT HOPE AND DREAM HARD ENOUGH SHOW ME YOUR IRE!" Natsu YElled essentially using way too much fire for just pasta.

Gray backed up against the farthest wall, he didn't want to get burned. 

Natsu stirred it way too fast, then put out the fire, then poured it into two bowls. 

"How much sauce you want?" Natsu said as he didn't just do all of that

"WHA-NATSU WHAT THE FUCKKK! A lot of sauce please." Gray got off the wall hesitantly.

Natsu nodded, pouring a lot of sauce on gray's bowl and his own. "Undertale the musical, Let's dating fight."

Natsu poured lots of salt on his own and handed Gray his own.

"Oh."

"Yea."

"Can we go to the Natsu-Cave?" Gray grabbed a fork, 

"Ok!!" Natsu grinned and ran upstairs with Gray on his trail.

Gray couldn't stop staring at Natsu's smile, maybe it was the fangs...

"Ladies first, Ice Princess." Natsu stopped and let Gray go through first.

"Thanks- UGGGHHHHH NOT AGAIN!" Gray groaned

Natsu choked on his pasta, though his coughing you could hear hysterical laughter that rang through Gray's ears like a melody.

"I Have an Idea!" Natsu declared once they sat down and got settled in.

"What? You think?" Gray was sitting next to Natsu in a  huge pile of pillows and blankets with some tea brewing nearby.

"Haha very funny. Let's tell stories!" Natsu glared playfully.

"Ok!"

Sorry Im absoulute trash lmao