Hey Dark Gothic Lolita here!

How is everyone this fine day huh? I hope we're all doing well! Well even if you're not, I hope my little Navia can cheer you up! Oh yes, that's right ANOTHER Navia pairing! I've been so crazy on this pairing lately that it's no longer funny, seriously lol.

I was thinking, this might be the last one I post for a while in the Fairy Tail category. (Yeah, but we know that's not going to happen) I have a lot of fanfics from other mangas that I really, REALLY need to catch up on! I've written so many on Fairy Tail that I've neglected my other stuff!

This is also quite short compared to what I usually write. I've only done like 2,988 words which is real weird. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with what I've doooone!

I don't own Fairy Tail or any of their characters. I apologize for any spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes!

ENJOY!

The pairing project

Chapter one

Mira's eyes watched over the horizon of people in the guild. It was the same old same old and quite frankly, the white haired beauty was getting tired of it. She wanted a change, she needed some razzle dazzle in life! Ever since she ditched the days of being called Demon Mira, she had just been a sweet and angelic human. She needed to stir something up! Add a little spice and salt to everyone's lives! And what better way to mess around with your guildmates?

She was so sick and tired of seeing Gray reject Juvia's advances that she no longer shipped them anymore. Gray would never ever deserve the amount of love that Juvia gives him if he ever did give her the time of day in the end. He was just too cruel to get her rooting on this one. Then Lucy who acted as though she didn't have a thing for Gray just need a push in the right direction to see that she does in fact have feelings for him. Actually, Lucy was caught between two guys. She loved Natsu and Gray, but she didn't know that yet. Well that's what Mira had come up with. Having a love triangle was more appealing to Mira.

Levy and Gajeel seemed to be more successful than any of them, all they needed to do was confess! For crying out loud, is it really that hard?! Sometimes she felt like going over to these respective couples and just smacking their lips together for them! She knew her little sister was head over heels for Natsu, but it just won't happen. Not anymore. She felt sorry for her baby sister, knowing that this would break her heart, yet there was something different about her sister...Something that she wasn't in on and no one knew. It was like it was an act...

Then her own brother! Oh gosh, her own brother! Had he learnt nothing from her matchmaking skills?! Yes he's a 'man' and he shouldn't really be into those kind of things, but surely he should have written down some tips and maybe sorted out his own love life with Evergreen?! Must she do everything around here? It would seem like it...

She clapped her hands when the master agreed with her idea. In fact the man smirked and strolled into the guildhall. "EVERYONE! LISTEN UP!" That gained the attention of everyone even Team Natsu was silent for once. They all stared up at him with expectant eyes. "I'm just going to say this straight. Mira and I are bored. Besides, all of you only ever seem to stick with one group or team. I think it's time to broaden your perspective on people. You will be given a partner. You will be working with this partner for the next month or so. You will go on jobs, you will make sure that the other person is okay and you will also hang out whenever you can. No swapping and no getting jealous if you don't get the person you want."

He said this purposely for Juvia's sake, just in case she didn't get Gray as her partner. Everyone started commenting and Juvia indeed did latch onto Gray's arm even though he was pushing her off of it. "OKAY! I'm going to start drawing names from the hat now!" One by one, people were being called out. Mira was clapping her hands whenever the right people were called together. Gajeel with Levy, Wendy with Romeo. Things were going well. Erza was just lucky that she was on a quest. Well she was going to get a partner either way when she got back.

Juvia squeezed even tighter onto Gray's arm as though she didn't want to let go at all. She was so worried that someone else might be paired with him. Maybe Mira had rigged it for the both of them to be put together. The hearts in her eyes started swirling around and she went off into her little fantasy world, not realizing that Gray had managed to pull his arm away.

"Juvia and Natsu!" The hearts smashed, her mouth wide open in horror instead of fantasy dreaming. The next names that were called out must have been some sort of mistake. "Gray and Lucy!" Gray had moved away from Juvia and she couldn't help but watch the pair through saddened eyes. She knew she would lose eventually, but she didn't think she would lose this quickly.

"Hey Juvia!" Natsu jumped right up into Juvia's face that she moved back in fright, not expecting him.

"Ah, hey Natsu-san." She wasn't in the mood for this, not now, not ever. He was the most hyperactive person she had ever met and most importantly, he wasn't her Gray-sama. He grinned at her and she gave him a half hearted smile.

"Well I guess we're partners for the next month!" Again, Juvia attempted to smile but nothing happened.

Natsu then grabbed her hand as they started making their way out of the guild. "Where is Natsu-san taking Juvia?!" He finally let go of her hand at the question and he smiled at her.

"It's my job to make sure that you're alright for the next month, right? I know I'm not Gray and I won't try to be, but out of everyone in the guild, you're the only one I haven't gotten close with. Do you think that maybe we could just...be friends at the very least?" Juvia was surprised that Natsu was actually acting mature about something and she nodded her head, sighing in defeat before giving him a real smile.

"Natsu-san is right, Juvia should just get over herself! Juvia is sorry that she was being an idiot. Juvia would love to be friends with Natsu-san! So erm, what does Natsu usually do now?" He slowly grinned as he grabbed Juvia's hand and ran off to wherever the hell they were going. "Natsu-san should really plan on slowing down!"

He just laughed to her and when he stopped, she almost flew over his legs, only to have him catch her quickly. "It doesn't matter, we're here anyway." Although she didn't like him or would ever like him in that way, she was blushing at the way he was holding her around her waist to secure her. She wasn't the type of girl to ever be acknowledged by any guy and she had never been held this way before. She just wondered how Lucy could deal with such physical contact. Lucy. That name made her pull away from Natsu suddenly.

"Anyway, where are we?" Natsu just grinned at her and at the same time, his stomach rumbled. Juvia sweat dropped before looking at the building in front of her, feeling stupid that she didn't think that this would be the first place that Natsu would take her to.

"Where do you think?! We're having lunch! Oh and I haven't got any money on me at this moment!" He ran in and Juvia paled. This wasn't at all what she wanted. How could he do this to her?! Did he not think about her feelings! She doesn't want to have lunch with him! Does he even know what this would MEAN?!

It was going to put the BIGGEST dent in her wallet!

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"Man, I am stuffed~"

"Well why wouldn't Natsu be, he almost made the restaurant give him their week's supply of food."

She had said it louder than intended because she knew how sensitive dragon's slayers ears were, but Natsu heard it loud and clear and looked over at her with a sheepish grin. He scratched his belly as he did so. "Hehe, sorry about that. We paid them at least, right?"

"Yeah, from Juvia's wallet!" Juvia snapped at him as rage filled in her eyes. "Now Juvia has to go on a big job to pay her stupid rent!"

Natsu just waved her off as he walked ahead of her which made Juvia furious. She had decided to drop the -san from his name because he was no longer worthy of the minimal respect that she had for him. He annoyed the hell out of the Juvia and she couldn't believe that their name's had been pulled out of the hat together. So okay, she didn't get Gray, but ANY other guy in the guild would have been way better for her! Hell, she wouldn't have minded if Mira had been sneaky and put Lyon's name in there, just so she could have been paired with her too!

But no, she was stuck with this hungry, fight loving oaf!

"Don't sweat it Juvia! I always go on a job with Lucy whenever she needs rent! It won't be much different at all!"

Juvia shook her head as she growled a little bit. That caught Natsu's attention as he finally realised that she was not at all amused. He had never really seen Juvia blow up, but he knew it was something scary because apparently, even Erza was scared of her when she blew. This made him flinch a little bit.

"Natsu is missing the point! Love rival lives in an apartment that is considerably cheap compared to people who live in Fairy Hills! Juvia now has to scrape up 100,000 jewels just for one month worth of rent! Juvia won't even have enough left over for food or anything!"

She sighed in mild frustration. She didn't know how Lucy was able to do it. At least she knew how she felt the first time she ever offered to pay both Natsu AND happy's meals! It must have been the worst time for her because she wasn't in a guild yet.

"O-oh, I didn't know!"

Juvia sighed once more, waving her own hand this time around to dismiss the topic. She couldn't care less now, what's done is done. "Of course Natsu didn't know. Doesn't matter anyway, Juvia will find a way."

This project was turning out to be one of the worst plans Mira had ever come up with in her life. It wasn't looking so hot for the two of them right now and Juvia just kept on walking with a silent Natsu behind her. She was glad that he was at least being silent, so that he didn't annoy her in any way.

"I'll help you, don't worry. After all, the old man did say that we have to look after one another and go on missions together right? I'll make sure I won't destroy anything as well, so that we can get all the money for you!"

Juvia stopped and stared at him, her jaw unhinged. "O-okay then, but what about Natsu? How much are we splitting the money?"

"Well I don't need a lot, so depending on the job, you can have majority of it!"

Juvia sighed in relief and gave him a quick smile before it felt like a heavy load had been lifted from her shoulders. She didn't want to have to be kicked out of the Fairy Hills just because she paid for Natsu's stupid lunch. She smiled gently before clearing her throat.

"Oh and Natsu?"

"Yeah?"

"Juvia is never buying you lunch again. Never."

Juvia was sitting next to Natsu as he was chatting animatedly to his team as they were talking about something that most likely didn't concern her with them at all. She drowned out all their speech as she just stared at Gray, but not openly. She had finally realised that Gray wasn't the sort who liked over the top girls, but maybe if she showed him an enough and sane amount of affection, he may open up to her. Well that's what she was hoping for anyway. She didn't want her efforts to go to waste.

"So we were wondering if you would like to go on a job with us? It should be Gray and I, then you and Juvia! I mean, I've never worked with Juvia before, but it should be fun!"

Lucy had no idea why she just said that when it was clear to everyone on Earthland that Juvia was somehow going to come up with multiple ways to kill her on their job because she's the one who was partnered with Gray at not her. She shivered involuntarily as she looked up at Juvia who seemed to have spaced out. She frowned deeply, wondering what was wrong with her friend.

"Juvia? You okay?"

That gained the attention of everyone on their table and Juvia finally came back to her normal self. She blinked owlishly. "Did love rival say something?"

Lucy managed to ignore her nickname, but it made Gray roll his eyes at her discreetly. "I said, are you okay?"

"Yeah, Juvia is just thinking..."

Natsu saw this as the perfect time to jump in. "We would love to go on a mission and stuff with you guys, but seeing as Juvia did buy me lunch, we have to go on a mission for her rent."

Now Lucy could see why Juvia was so out of it. She must have been so put out by the bill that her spirit just kept on leaving her in shock. But seriously, dragon slayer or not, how does one need to each that much? After all, Gajeel was only seen eating iron. Why couldn't Natsu be satisfied with fire? Fire was easy to get ahold of after all, just wave a damn lighter into his mouth.

"I know how you feel Juvia. Natsu and Happy almost cleaned me out and I had only around 20,000 jewels."

Juvia sighed. "Natsu ate way more than that. Juvia doesn't know how, but one thing that's for sure is that Juvia doesn't care, as long as she gets a good paying job that is able to pay for the next rent that is due in a few days." She couldn't help but throw another glare in Natsu's direction and Natsu got the feeling that even though she had forgiven him, the bitterness of it all was still there.

"Anyway, Juvia is going to find a good job. Natsu-san should stay here and talk to his team."

She got up and left them and Lucy watched her walking away with sad eyes before she glared harshly at Natsu. The fire dragon slayer gulped. "What?!"

"You really know how to make a crappy first impression don't you? You did that to me the first time and now the first time you hang out with Juvia, you still go and do it!"

"WHAT?! I make an AWESOME first impression!"

Gray laughed and Natsu growled at him in anger. Why was he mocking him? "You wanna go, you exhibitionist?!"

That made Gray stop his laughing before he but heads with Natsu. Lucy just sighed as she moved away from the both of them. Erza was still away with her unfortunate partner so there wasn't really anyone to stop the fight. Turns out that Jet was her partner and Erza was more than delighted to take him on a job with her as soon as she came back from her quest. Jet was gutted that didn't get Levy.

"What did you say, you flame freak?!"

They both launched their attacks at each other which started hitting other people. Elfman growled. "Fighting is man, but attacking others when they're not ready isn't manly at all!"

The three of them were now fighting. Gajeel wanted to finish his iron quickly, but Gray had accidentally frozen it before he was able to put it in his mouth. Gajeel growled in anger before he jumped up, making the four of them.

Lucy was trying to find her way around them before she found Wendy, Levy and the three exceeds hiding in the corner. "I hate it when a fight between those two turn into a guild brawl! At least take it outside!" Lucy was wailing.

Levy nodded her head in agreement. "Yeah and now Erza is still on a mission with Max! No one is going to be able to stop this fight, especially if Mira has been knocked out once again!"

That reminded Lucy of the first time she came here.

Happy then saw something and he shouted. "Look!"

That's what they all did and they saw that Juvia was walking over to Natsu with a job description in her hand. She was not looking happy at all. She grabbed her partner and yanked him hard towards her. She had already extinguished the flames and it made Natsu stop and whine.

Juvia then mumbled something under her breath and the girls who were hiding with the excess watched in wonder as everyone was captured in one big water lock. They were all suffocating and Juvia glared at them all.

"There will be NO fighting, especially started by Natsu because we have a job. Is that understood?"

Everyone was nodding their head very quickly and they were all looking at Gray to help freeze the water, but he couldn't. It was like Juvia had gotten even stronger that his ice make had no effect on it.

"Good." Juvia released them all and they fell to the ground, soaking wet and gasping, trying to get their breaths back. Their lungs were on fire, which was very ironic.

Turns out, Mira hadn't been knocked out, but she did watch what was going on, feeling very amused. She watched as Juvia walked up to her, dragging Natsu with her.

"We're going on this mission Mira-san."

The model nodded her head, checking out the mission for them with a grin. "You guys have fun! And Natsu, please don't destroy anything."

Juvia had finally let go and she was walking off. Natsu and Mira watched her, anger in her step and everyone flinched when she walked through them. Natsu shivered.

"I won't."

Shout out time! So ACETOWN, I finally brought out the story that I said I was working on! How is it? Not just to Acetown, but to everyone else as well! I think I'm going to have fun writing this pairing because it's based on humour as well as romance and what's better than a romantic comedy?! NOTHING mwahahahaha.

Okay, so maybe there is something and I just don't know...

But yeah you guys, this is the first chapter and I want you guys to boil in anger as I slowly take my time to update for the next chapter lol! Hahaha, no I won't be that evil. In fact, I've finished chapter two already so it's just up to when I actually get round to posting that up! But I will make you guys suffer for that chapter! hehehehe

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