Gray has hurt Juvia to the point where there might not be a way to fix things.
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Belly Dancer
Gray looked at his friends as they laughed over a joke that Natsu had said. Lucy was beside him, laughing so hard that her face had turn a pinkish color, while Happy, who easily stood at the far end of the table, smacked Natsu with his fish, since the joke had to do with the Blue exceed.
"Natsu-san sure is funny," Gray heard Juvia say, who was sitting beside him. She let out a small giggle, clearly entertained by Natsu. Her eyes sparkled with laughter and her cheeks glowed a pink hue. Gray had to suppress a smile.
They've been together for around eight months now, ever since things had been settled out with Zeref. It had taken him awhile, but he and Juvia had finally gotten together. For some reason, it felt like nothing had changed. Juvia still acted the same way she did, and so did Gray. He felt relieved, but at the same time Gray fought a battle inside of him that asked for change and...more.
Gray and Juvia were always the same, but he always felt there was still a gap between them, he didn't understand what it was, and he was truly a bit frightened to find out.
Juvia brought Gray out of his deep thoughts as she launched into a story;
"Lucy, remember that time Lucy, Natsu-san, Happy and Juvia went on a mission and Natsu-san made that one fountain explode and-"
"Oh my gosh, Juvia!" Lucy exclaimed, leaning forward, "Yes! I remember! He had the whole town chase us around and-!"
Lucy burst into laughter, probably remembering the story clearly in her mind. Juvia joined her with a fit of giggles, while Natsu made groaning sounds of indignation.
"Aw! Come on Juvia, I thought we weren't going to tell!" Natsu complained, huffing.
"Oh!" Juvia said, bringing a hand to her mouth to quiet her giggles; a shocked expression crossing her face. "Natsu-san, sorry, Juvia completely forgot-"
"Don't worry, Juvia." Lucy said, wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, that had clearly been caused by the heavy laughter. "Natsu can get over it, and it's not like we swore to keep it quiet."
"Eh?" Gray butted in. "Not surprised that Fire Breath went on and destroyed another town."
Natsu, in less than a second, had grabbed Gray from the front of his shirt and brought him forward to face him, "what did you call me, Ice Prick?"
"You heard me!" Gray said, quickly grabbing Natsu's shirt and bringing him close too, falling right into their own little game they had going.
"Uh, Guys?" Lucy had that strained smile on her face, clearly not wanting them to destroy the whole guild again.
"Juvia will cheer for Gray-sama." Juvia had a wide smile on her face and her hands fisted upwards to her sides.
Gray smirked.
"Don't encourage them!" Lucy exclaimed to Juvia, shaking her shoulders.
"Lucy should cheer for her loved one too!" Juvia said.
Gray wasn't able to hear the rest of their argument, because the next thing he knew, Natsu had thrown the first punch and Gray like hell was going to let him win.
It had been three weeks since that day.
They had all chatted happily and spent time together as friends, sharing old memories.
After that, Gray had gone off on a dangerous mission with Natsu, Happy and Lucy. They had almost died. It had been some sort of Dark Guild with great magic power. Gray had been stabbed multiple times and he was sure he had added to the piling numbers of scars on his body.
They had won, like always, and Fairy Tail had come out on top once again, but...that was only because Natsu had burned the whole place down. When it came to the last moment, Gray had been trapped under a bunch of debris and wasn't able to get out.
Leaving the whole rest of the mission to Lucy and Natsu. Gray had only been nothing but a burden, and he hated that. But that wasn't the problem at hand.
The mission in general didn't bother him at all anymore. No. Not at all
Damn it, Gray thought. I should've just stayed quiet back then.
The problem had been when Gray and the others had arrived to the guild after their mission. Juvia, in her natural behavior, had come forward and started fussing over him, tearing up as she had taken notice of how many wounds he had.
Gray at the time was still irritated and angry with himself about the whole burden ordeal and was really not having it.
"Stop, Juvia." he said, glaring at the girl as she wrapped a bandage around his abdomen.
They had been in the first aid room taking care of his wounds. Lucy and Happy were on the side bed beside them taking care of Natsu's wounds.
Gray gritted his teeth as he saw how more severe Natsu and Lucy's wounds were.
Useless piece of shit I was, Gray thought to himself.
"No," Juvia continued. "Gray-sama is not okay, look at all these wounds!"
Juvia continued trying to patch him up, but it only made Gray even more irritated. He would snap at her every time she asked him something, or complexly ignore her whenever she asked him a question about the mission.
He knew he was mad and that it was wrong to take out his irritation and anger on Juvia, but at the time his mind was blinded and when Juvia rose up and gave him a soft kiss on the lips, Gray exploded.
"Stop!" Gray growled, Juvia surprised jumped back, creating space between them.
"What's wrong Gray-sama?" Juvia asked, clearly surprised with his outrage and anger. "Did Juvia hurt Gray-sama?"
"No!" Gray said, as he clenched his fist. "I said I was fine, Juvia."
"No-"
"Just stop!" Gray said. He should've bitten his tongue back then. Maybe he wouldn't be in the predicament he was in then. "I'm telling you I'm fine and you don't listen! Are you incompetent of understanding few simple words?"
"Juvia was trying to help-"
"I don't need your help Juvia!" he growled, taking a front step and a towering stance. Juvia looked at him wide eyed. Gray let out a dark laugh. "This is why I should have never given you a chance. I knew things would end this way. All you ever do is follow me around like a lone puppy! You bother my personal space and have become worse that you were before! You say you care for me, but I don't see it. All I see is a crazy woman. You're fixated on these feeling of love you say you have on me, why?"
"Gray-" Juvia tried to cut in, but Gray was on a role, all the anger and Ill feelings he had stuck on his chest during the mission were coming out.
"Why?" Gray repeated, laughing darkly. He could feel Lucy and Natsu staring at him in horror, probably too shocked to even speak. "Why? Because you need someone to like you back? Because you need a savior? Because you have no one else to fixate that crazy, unhealthy love of yours at? Well guess what, if I had known things would have turned out this way then maybe it would've been better if I had never stopped your rain! After all, you'll always be a rain woman."
"Gray!" Lucy exclaimed, as she reached forward and pulled Gray back, since he had been getting closer towards Juvia and had been towering over her.
Only then did Gray realize what he had done. Natsu seemed to be struggling to get up, probably trying to stop Gray. Juvia had her head down, she was looking at her feet, her hands clenched in front of her body. He was pretty sure everyone out in the guild had heard him too, the door had been open.
He could feel Lucy and Natsu's eyes on Juvia, waiting for her reaction.
Juvia slowly opened her hand, and looked up, holding out a bandage towards him.
For some sick reason he had wanted her to cry, yell, and hit him back then. He wanted to see someone suffering just like he had been. The face that Juvia gave him might as well destroyed him, as a heavy weight of guilt dropped like a ton on his throat.
She looked up, her blue eyes were uncertain, but meeting his eyes straight on, she had a small smile on her face and she looked at Gray with one of the saddest expressions he had ever seen on her or on anyone in his whole life.
"Gray-sama's forehead has started bleeding. Juvia forgot she had something to do. Please take care of it." Juvia squeezed the bandage into Gray's hand, her hands were deadly cold, and he would feel a slight tremor on them as she softly grazed his fingers.
Only then did Gray realize what he had done and he instantly regretted every word he had said.
"Juvia, I-" Gray's throat felt like it was sand paper, he couldn't find the right words to apologise.
He didn't have time, because Juvia became even smaller, quickly getting as far away from Gray and his grasp. The closest to the door.
"Wait-" Gray started, but Juvia didn't even look at him, instead she cut him off and looked at Lucy and Natsu's direction;
"Please take care of him, and of Natsu-san, Lucy." Juvia walked out of the room, not once looking back at Gray.
Gray felt his whole body collapse as he crashed down on the the bed. He grasped his hair, "What have I done?" he muttered as he looked at his hands in horror.
He could feel Lucy's horrified and disgusted eyes on him.
"How could you say that, Gray?" he could hear the thickness in her voice and he knew she was crying.
"I-" He was thrown against the room before he knew it, knocking the air out of him. Natsu stood glaring over him. He was clearly hurt, from their mission, but his rage seemed to be powering him as his hands fisted on his side, while fire came out of them.
"You really crossed the line, Gray." Natsu said as he gritted his teeth and grabbed his side, clearly from pushing himself too hard from that punch.
Gray couldn't help but clench his teeth and fist his hands.
Shit, he thought.
He had really crossed the line and had hurt Juvia so much, that this time he'd may not be able to fix it.
Gray sighed as the memory ran through his head once again. That had been a week earlier. Ever since then, everyone had tried avoiding him. Natsu and Lucy were still furious with him, and Juvia...Juvia was rarely at the guild anymore.
She had been taking many missions with Gajeel and Panther Lilly recently. Gray hadn't even had the chance to speak with her. He still had no idea what to say to apologize and to prove to her that everything he had said was not true. That he was trying to make someone hurt just like he had been and he was trying to hit all her insecurities.
A shameful part of him wanted for Juvia to act like nothing had happened, like the time he had rejected her in the Grand Magic Games, and for them to go back to their old ways, but he knew he had crossed the line and he had deeply wounded her.
"Gray!" Gray was brought out of his daze as the new master, Laxus, called out to him. "Get your ass to my office, I've been calling your name for the last five minutes! Hurry the hell up."
Once Gray walked into Laxus' office, he realized Lucy and Natsu were there, none of the two met his eyes, clearly still upset.
At the corner he saw a very beat up Gajeel, clearly angry, since he was clenching his teeth and his hands were in fists.
"Sit down." Laxus ordered and Gray obediently did.
"I don't know why we need this, she could be in danger! And the fuck do we need that stripper!" Gajeel all of a sudden growled, as he stood up and glared at Laxus.
She?
Gray was confused, he had no idea what was going on. Laxus rarely called anyone into his office, and Gajeel didn't lose his cool like he had at the moment often.
Laxus stared Gajeel down.
"Sit the fuck down, Gajeel." Surprisingly the Dragon Slayer obeid.
"We need to hurry," Gajeel growled, that's when Gray realized Lily, his exceed, wasn't with him.
"Wait, where's Lilly?" Gray asked, but then a heavier feeling downed on him. If Gajeel was back, then why hadn't Gray seen Juvia? She usually came to report to Mira that she and Gajeel had finished their mission. "Where's Juvia?"
Gajeel glared at him, "That's none of your damn business!"
It was clear that Gajeel hated him the most for what he had said to Juvia.
"Yes, he does." Laxus cut in, so annoyed by the side conversations that lightning whizzed through his hair.
"What's going on?" Lucy asked, her brown eyes deep with worry. "Is Juvia okay? Where is she?"
Laxus looked at Gajeel. "Explain."
Gajeel didn't seem happy to be ordered around, and even less now with Gray in the same room as him, his murderous glares aimed towards Gray made it very clear.
"We were on a recent mission," Gajeel started, "Lily, Rain Woman and me. We were assigned a mission to track down some dark guild and destroy their base. They weren't marked as strong. Juvia and I wanted a quick mission," Gajeel's eyes glazed over, as if the memory was running through his head like a video. "Juvia hadn't been feeling well for days and I, like an idiot, didn't pay attention. We went in cockily into the guild, ready to bring them down. Panther Lily took the front and Juvia the back, I was in the middle. They were much stronger than we thought. We were cornered. Juvia made steaming water and created fog, causing a diversion."
Gray didn't like where the story was heading, "It took all the power she had. We were both really beat up, it was at least thirty against three. Juvia passed out from magic insufficiency, and they took her captive. Lily stayed behind to protect her, faking to be a normal cat, and I escaped to come and get help."
There was a deadly silence.
Before Gray even knew what he was doing, he grabbed Gajeel by the shirt and slammed him against the wall.
"How could you!" Gray growled right into Gajeel's face, "You're her best friend! You were supposed to take care of her and bring her back!"
"Stop, Gray!" Lucy screamed as she tried to pull him back from Gajeel. He could feel Laxus' glare and Natsu was probably behind Gray, getting ready to pull him back as well.
"Of course I did! This is how things work you fucker!" Gajeel growled, but he didn't fight Gray back. Maybe he was too weak. "Juvia and I have a deal at how things work, and it's not like I wanted for her to intentionally get hurt or caused her to get sickly."
Gray gritted his teeth. Bastard. He knew what Gray had done and he was throwing it at his face. Any other day he wouldn't mind bashing his face in, but he had other important things on his mind. Like saving Juvia.
"Laxus," he said as he let Gajeel go, and the Dragon Slayer cussed at him as he landed on a heap on the floor. "What do we do? How do we save Juvia?"
Gray would save Juvia and make everything right again.
A/N:
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