"Lucy, Lucy, Lucy." Came the weird and annoying voice of Natsu, who sat to her left. He had been chanting her name for thirteen minutes now- basically since they started playing seven minutes in heaven, and was giving Juvia a major headache.
But really there was no point to Natsu's chanting since Mira had been orchestrating the game, and so far only couples of her choosing had been sent into that closet. It was pretty clear that if chosen, Natsu and Lucy were going to get paired up anyway.
However, despite everything that could go wrong, It was supposed to be a fun group bonding game. Or at least that's what Mira said when she commanded them to play thirteen minutes earlier, but Juvia knew that was not the case. Juvia knew Mira was a little fibber. You see ante-seven minutes in heaven Juvia overheard Levy tell Mira that she suspected Gajeel was into Juvia.
It was a stupid notion of course. Gajeel was obviously smitten with Levy, but Levy was the queen of obliviousness. Her head was constantly hidden by one book or another, so it wasn't really expected of her to notice the things that were going on around her.
Juvia came to the obvious conclusion that this entire game of seven minutes in heaven was a ploy set by Mirajane to get Levy and Gajeel together, and probably a chance for her to play matchmaker-definitely a chance for her to play matchmaker.
She looked to the side, where Elfman sat, a blushing mess. He and Evergreen had been the first two to go into the closet, and after they came out Elfman wasn't able walk properly while Ever refused to talk to anybody.
"Lucy, Lucy, Lucy." Natsu repeated for the four-thousand six-hundred and fourty-ninth time, while Juvia groaned but not out loud. Juvia really hoped Mira would just grant Natsu's wish already, or just shove Gajeel and Levy in the closet together so she could leave.
She glanced down to her right at Gajeel's hand, which she had squished under her own. Gajeel the selfish prick, had initially tried to evade playing the game, but Juvia firmly clamped down on his hand and pulled him down onto the beige carpet of Jellal's living room, while inadvertently trapping herself into playing the game too.
Juvia was just trying to be a bro.
Shyly, Juvia snuck a peek at Gray from underneath her lashes. Most of her friends would probably assume that she would be the first person to actually want to play seven minutes in heaven, but they would be mistaken. It's not because there wasn't anyone she liked, for Juvia liked Gray, she liked Gray a whole lot. Gray was like the sun to her, because if he was the sun then she was a flower. She needs Gray to be able to survive. Because of like photosynthesis and shit.
Everyone already knew that she liked Gray. Juvia was relatively open with the fact, but at the same time it was pretty clear that Gray didn't feel that way about her. So Juvia wasn't looking forward to entering the closet with Gray. If she was to be completely honest, Juvia would rather do without knowing Gray's reaction to playing seven minutes in heaven with her.
At that moment the closet door opened and Lisanna, her face as red as Juvia's favorite ruby shoes, stepped out with a dazed-but still smirking Bickslow. Juvia was sure the two of them were never going to talk to each other again. And at that moment she felt sorry for anyone related to Mirajane.
As the two of them sat down, Juvia expectantly looked over at Mirajane along with Natsu and a few others. Natsu's voice grew higher in pitch and more garbled as he creepily incanted; "Lucy, Lushy, Shlushy!" Juvia was ready to haul Natsu off to a mental institution, or perhaps Mira would pick Natsu and Lucy this time and maybe that would finally shut him and his godforsaken slogan up.
"Hmm," Mira hummed as she made a show of plucking a strip of paper from the floral hat she held in her hand…"Gajeel." She called out.
Juvia inwardly snorted, the paper strips were probably blank anyways. Mirajane was quite the fibber wasn't she.
"Aaand," Mira held the vowel, as she fished inside the botanic hat once more. "Ah Juvia!" She exclaimed.
Stunned, Juvia remained seated, wait wasn't Mirajane trying to get Gajeel and Levy together? Wasn't that the point of this whole game?
She quickly spared a glance at Levy who clenched her knuckles and looked towards the ground.
"What..wait," Juvia tried to say, brain scrambling to make sense of the situation. "Levy," she started, hoping to absolve herself, but Gajeel tugged her upwards by her forearm, cutting off her words and making the situation much worse.
"C'mon sprinkler," he said, pulling her towards the closet, while a flashback of Mira Cheerily announcing that the closet conveniently had lights, popped into her head.
Juvia moved to tell Gajeel to let go of her when he leaned down and whispered "I've got a surprise for you," in her ear. Only it wasn't really a whisper, because he said it rather loudly, and everyone in the room heard what he said. "Dear lord," she even heard Erza whisper.
Juvia turned crimson from her head to her toes and then did the worst possible thing she could do. She looked at Gray…
"GODDAMN SHIT FUCK WHY THE HELL DID I DO THAT," went Juvia's internal monologue as she sank down to the floor of the closet, cradling her head. Why in the actual fuck would she look at Gray at that fucking moment.
She looked up at Gajeel's figure as he shut the door, and cursed him for taking advantage of her embarrassment and pulling her inside the closet. Oblivious of her murder glare, he sat down in front of her and grinned wolfishly, "good thing I brought this right?" and then he actually reached into his pants and pulled out a deck of cards.
"DID YOU JUST PULL THAT OUT OF YOUR PANTS?!" she screeched, but then immediately put her hands over her mouth, remembering that the others could hear them.
"The fuck? No!" He exclaimed indignantly, "The fuck is wrong with you? Now are we going to play or not? Seven minutes should be enough time for me to beat your ass."
And then she glared at him, not her traditional 'Ice Bitch' glare, or one of Erza's perfect 'Steel' glares. It was a new kind of glare, it was her 'You Motherfucker Just Ruined my Life and Shit all Over Levy's Feelings What Were You Thinking You Asshat I'm Going To Ruin You' glare. And in that moment she knew-Juvia knew that she was going to take him down no matter what it took. "Yes. Let's play."
"GODDAMN FUCK!" Gajeel shouted as he picked another card from the pile. Juvia would have scolded him to keep his voice down in order not to give their friends, especially Gray and Levy on the other side of the door the wrong idea of what was going on inside the closet, but she had stopped doing that a long time ago, as she too was swearing a stream of sin.
"FUCK! GAJEEL!" She howled when he hit her with a 'pick two,' "KEEP GOING YOU MOTHER FUCKER," she challenged, blinded by rage, and therefore not thinking about how their friends were responding to the phrases coming from within the closet.
"TAKE THIS!" Gajeel shouted as he laid down two skips in a row, while Juvia pounded the floor in a fury. Screaming, she pulled out her trump card and dealt him a devastating blow. "SHIT, JUVIA! FUCK!"
a moment later he recovered and seethed at her. "A 'get four'? not bad," he rasped, his breath coming out in heavy pants. "But whAT ABOUT THIS!"
A few more turns passed, obscenities were shared between them, but Juvia was finally there. One more card and she would win. She selected the blue seven she had been oh so strategically holding in such a way, so that Gajeel wouldn't see that she was only down to two cards. She was placing the card down on the pile, "Uno!" on the tip of her tongue when she saw it.
He knew. She could see it in his eyes. He knew-but he was too late. She was going to say it. She was going to win.
Her lips hovered on the letter U as she finally set her card down. "U-" But right as she thought victory was her's-Gajeels hand shot out against her mouth stopping her from saying Uno, and pushing her back against the door with a thud.
It all happened at once. "UNO!" Gajeel yelled, as the door at Juvia's back gave way and she tumbled back onto the floor, and stared at her friends shocked and upside down faces.
Then came the voice of the very last person she wanted to hear, "do you shout Uno when you come?" Natsu asked.
Yes the surprise Gajeel had for Juvia was the deck of Uno cards. He had no pervy intentions. and I guess this is ooc for Juvia but I think Gajeel was on point. I really love gajeel x juvia...jujeel? Gajuvia? brotp and they're are always the most fun and easiest to write for me, and I feel like destroying eachother in something like Uno or Mariokart is something they would both totally do so yeah.
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