Gunpowder (Sting x Rogue One Shot)

Stingue Week 2017 - Prompts set by @MissSparklePony1
Day 2: Fireworks

Rogue has always been one to stay away from people. He lived past the plains and high on the hilltops above Kamiki Village among the peaks of Shinshu Field. He was famous for his fireworks, but this year, he hadn't sent up any fireworks. Not once had he'd even touched his tools. The herbs that he used to make all his wonderous colors were scarce leaving his furnace unused. The heat that once fired his home was nothing but dry ashes among the foliage. Illness took ahold of Rogue and left him wanting nothing but to die.

Sting was the local doctor of the neighboring Yakushi Village. He despised Rogue for always taking his herbs and using them for ingredients in his fireworks. However, when Rogue's disheveled apprentice, Natsu, comes running to Sting, he almost immediately sends the poor boy home. That is until he hears those three words, "Rogue is dying."