Chained To My Rival

Sensory Link

Gray woke up. His morning wood was painfully throbbing as something rubbed against it. He opened his eyes and saw Natsu sleeping in foetal position, his knee was rubbing against Gray's erection and he had an arousal tenting his boxers himself too. His face was on Gray's arm and drool leaked onto it. Gray hit Natsu so he woke up.

"What the hell Gray!?", he yelled and Gray answered "Look what you have done!" while pointing down. "It's not my fault that you're a pervert!", Natsu yelled. "Says the one with the erection tenting his boxers.", Gray mumbled and Natsu reached down to cover up his groin. "It's fine. You're just a normal teenager.", Gray sighed.

Natsu closed his eyes and his breathing calmed down. Just as his erection. "Now I need to piss. Get up Ice princess.", Natsu ordered. "How can you even.", Gray said an looked down "How the fuck did you do that?", He asked dumbfounded. Gray never could get rid of an erection without masturbating. And now he was with Natsu that was not really a possibility.  "Just close your eyes and imagine something you really don't want to see. Like that time when we saw Gramps. Naked...", Natsu said and cringed.

If Gray had an erection, it was immediately killed with the horrifying thought of Gramps. Naked. Again.

Natsu pulled Gray into the bathroom and they took turn to relieve themselves. They had an argument about eating which ended in yet another, uncomfortable, fight. When they finally got dressed (it was a miracle that they got rid of their clothes the previous night) they left to the guild, still fighting and arguing.

When they arrived at the guild Erza caught them fighting. She told them to stay put at the guild until she was back and they feared the worst already. It was Erza after all.

When she entered the guild again after an hour and half she wasn't alone. Meredy and Jellal were with her. She brought Meredy over to the two boys and Meredy took the chained wrists of the boys.

When she retracted her hands, a sensory Link was seen on both wrists. "What the-!?", Gray asked. "I hope this will stop the fighting between the two of you.", Erza told them both. Gray tugged on the handcuff on his right hand, only to feel pain in his left hand. This was gonna be pretty painful...

A bit later Natsu ordered himself a drink and Gray was talking to Juvia who was now clinging to his arm again. Natsu just took a sip when Gray explained how frigging big something was and he pulled forth Natsu's left arm on which he was leaning, causing his head to smack on the table. Natsu grunted and Gray rubbed out some pain in his chin. Natsu wanted to let it slip because he knew if he said something Erza would just be looking, but Gray didn't let it slip all that easily.
"Seriously Natsu. One little pull on your arm and your whole body falls down. If you keep being weak like that you'll never find that stupid dragon of yours!", Gray yelled and immediately felt like someone stabbed him in the chest.

Natsu looked like he was gonna cry and when Gray wanted to laugh Happy whispered something in his ear. Gray immediately regretted everything he had said. He didn't know that Igneel died. Why hadn't Natsu told him about that. "Natsu, I'm...", Gray started. "Shut up. I don't wanna talk to you right now.", Natsu told him. And Gray fully understood...

Natsu sniffles once and wiped his eyes. Gray still felt the stinging feeling, though. He waved Erza over "Hey, Erza. Did Meredy said something about when you feel pain in your heart.", Gray asked and Erza's eyes hardened "Whenever you feel that, it means you hurt the one you're linked to with your words. Just what did you do?", Erza asked. She had glanced at Natsu and saw he was trying his best not to cry. Gray looked down. He knew what he had said. But, he didn't knew Igneel died. And now the mighty Salamander, his best friend and rival, was trying his best not to cry in front of him.

Erza sat down next to Natsu "Natsu. Can you tell me what Gray said?", Erza asked him. "He said that if I keep being weak like I am now I'll never find Igneel. But Igneel...". A tear slipped from his eye and Erza required in a shirt and pressed him against her soft chest for comfort. Again, Gray felt the stinging in his heart. But this time it wasn't because he hurt Natsu, it was pure guilt he felt.

After a while she got up and slapped Gray in his face as hard as she could. Natsu got ready for the pain but was surprised to feel nothing, surely the sensory Link was still there. Gray had also noticed it and asked Erza "Why didn't he feel anything?" "Because I asked Meredy to make a sensory Link that would only work if it was one of you two inflicting damage to one of you. Now go home, before I cut off you head.", Gray shivered from fear and pulled Natsu with him out of the guild.

Once outside Gray started going to his appartement but felt pulling on his arm. He glanced over and saw Natsu going in the opposite direction. "What the-!", Gray yelled as he was pulled forward by Natsu. Was Natsu really stronger than he was? "We're going to my house. I won't be freezing to death again this night.", Natsu stated and walked further.

The walk to his house was silent. None of them said anything. At least when Happy caught up with them there was some talking, even if it was just Natsu and Happy talking about the stupidest things.

When they arrived at his home Natsu pulled him to the kitchen. "Help me with this, will ya?", he asked Gray as he was searching something in one of his cabinets. He threw an apron at Gray "Here wear this.", he said and Gray shook his head. "No way!  Not wearing an apron." "And I'm not washing your clothes if they're filthy.", Natsu said and turned to Gray, already wearing an apron. Gray grumbled but gave up and eventually put on the apron.

They tried to make dinner but it wasn't really easy with the handcuffs around their wrists. Natsu cut his finger and Gray got hit in the face with a pan for laughing at him. Eventually Happy helped them make dinner and they ate together. They would just have to pull through this one week. One week without fighting. With handcuffs and a sensory Link.