Hey Dark Gothic Lolita here!

So how goes it everyone? Yes, I know, I've been incognito for over a month now, nearly two in fact and I'm sorry. Getting used to the university life took longer than I thought. No matter, I'm back now and I just wanted you all to know that!

So I'm here with another Navia and I am happy to bring it out for you guys! This is an AU and I'm not saying any more teehee.

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I don't dance

Chapter one

This must be a dream come true! This is the moment I've been waiting for! I mean, I love dance and dance class, but when I set my eyes on my crush being here, I knew that this was going to be a class to love! Although, I was a little skeptical at first because the Queen bee, the girl that everyone loves, Lucy Heartphilia was also going to be in this class and I had the sneaky suspicion that Gray was in love with her, I just had to think of ways to woo him.

Making him bentos was one, watching his every move was another. My best friend, Gajeel-kun had told me that stalking was a little too much. "If he finds out that you stalk him, he'll put a restraining order on you, so stop being creepy." Okay so maybe what Gajeel had said was true, but I do it healthily...I think...

So when Gray said he couldn't be at the showcase, my whole world came crashing down. Was it because of me? Oh no, he found out about my stalking and he was creeped out! Luckily, Lucy had asked and his answer wasn't any of the above. "Nah, it's just that my Aunt Ur has died after battling cancer for about a year. It's her funeral that night." Everyone began comforting him even though he clearly didn't want it. I pushed through them all, sad that he wouldn't be able to dance with me, but sad about his Aunt.

"Juvia is sorry to hear about that Gray-sama. Juvia sends her condolences." He just shrugged at me with a quick 'thank you' before he fell into Lucy's hug as she consoled him. My eyes fell down the ground. Any other time and this would have sparked fire within me to remove her from his hold, but it was clear as day now. I had been trying for the past two years ever since I had transfered here but every time I wanted to confess to him, he never gave me the time of day. Plus he called me creepy, and not just on one occasion too.

I just sighed and turned my back before the dance teacher called me over. "It would seem like you have to find a new dance partner and maybe even try a new dance." My eyes widened.

"But Mira-sensei! The only dance that Juvia knows is 'The winter' dance and that was better done with Gray-sama! Juvia will just drop out of the dance." I saw the woman's eyes flash at me.

"I'm afraid that if you quit the dance production, then you fail the class." I flinched. I hated failing. I liked my good grades and if I failed this class, then Levy would beat me this year and I have to do whatever she wants me to do for her for a week.

"Fine, Juvia will find someone!" But who? Everyone else was already with their own partners and I didn't bother getting to know many people because I was so hung up on Gray.

I took in a deep breath. When I turned back around, Lucy was in front of me and I almost stumbled backwards. I gave her a subtly annoyed look as though I didn't have time for her. I know that everyone liked her, but I wasn't just 'everyone'. "I have a friend that would be able to dance with you! I mean, it may have been a while since he danced, but he's extremely talented!" My spirits were lifted completely as I thanked her. She laughed and said not to worry as she gave me her friend's number before jumping over to Gray and her dance partner, Loke. Then I hated her all over again.

I stared at the number in my hand and rolled my eyes. Probably an ex-boyfriend of hers no doubt. So while everyone was rehearsing, I left seeing as I didn't have a partner to dance with and Gray was just sitting at the side waiting for Loke and Lucy to finish up. I got out into the hall and saw that there was no one at school, only a few people in detention. Then I dialled the number.

The guy answered on the third ring and he sounded annoyed. "Hey! I'm in detention! Just be lucky that there's no teacher in here, otherwise I'll find you and hurt you for getting my phone taken away." He sounded really angry, but almost like he was relieved that I called, as though he was bored out of his mind. Then something went off in my head. Why did he sound so hot, and why was his voice so familiar?

"Anyway, who is this?" I swallowed the dry lump in my throat.

"This is Juvia, Lucy-san gave Juvia your number. But who is this? Lucy didn't tell Juvia." The guy on the other end of the line chuckled softly and my heart was fluttering. I scowled at myself. Was I really this easy? Just because I was slowly giving up on Gray doesn't mean that I was completely over him, yet I felt like I was cheating on him, EVEN IF WE WEREN'T GOING OUT!

"You're funny Juvia. This is Natsu." Then the illusion died down. NATSU?! Was Lucy seriously playing a bad prank on me? Why did she think that Natsu could dance, talk less of wanting him to dance with me? Okay, so maybe I've never in my life spoken to him, but I've heard of him through Gajeel and I've heard that he gets in a heck of a lotta fights, more than Gajeel has ever started which is a lot! It must be because Gajeel looks scary, so if you mess with him in the first place, you just wanted to commit suicide.

"But Lucy's got it all wrong. I don't dance. Never have and I never will, so sorry Juvia, you might have to find yourself a new partner." I thought he would hang right up, but I could still hear him softly breathing on the other end of the line. I guess he was waiting for a reply.

"Oh, then Juvia is sorry for disturbing Natsu-san." He laughed again which set off butterflies in my stomach, no matter how much I tried to kill them off with the thought of the guy talking to me was Natsu.

"That's fine. Just tell Luce I said no. Maybe I'll even see you around." Then the line went dead. He said he'll 'see you around.' I don't know why that made me feel like squealing, but I wanted to. Then I thought of Gray and his Aunt and I became depressed once again. No one could ever replace Gray! I'll make sure he loves me!

Even I didn't believe in myself anymore.

~x~

"He said no?! He was supposed to say YES! Ugh, what is wrong with that boy?" I shrugged. Was I supposed to know that. Lucy looked really angry. Then her face softened. "I guess it was expected. I wasn't expecting for him to say yes." Something happened? Judging by the look on her face, there was more to Natsu than what meets the eye, but I knew more than well enough that I wasn't going to be told. I'd never spoken to him face to face for crying out loud!

"I'm sorry Juvia, I just thought that he would say yes." I smiled. Well only politely because I still didn't like her.

"It's fine, Juvia will find a partner herself." She smiled, obviously thinking that I liked her before I turned on my heels and walked out of the hall again, only this time I was going home. I rolled my eyes when I thought of Lucy. She could get any guy she wanted, yet why did it have to be my guy?!

I was too wrapped up in my thoughts that I got round a corner and almost flew into someone, only to have that person sidestep out of the way. I stumbled a little bit before catching myself. "Woah, sorry there, didn't see you until the last minute." I eyes widened as I straightened up. That voice was awfully familiar...I turned around to come face to face to a pink haired guy.

"Natsu?"

"Wait, you're Juvia?!" We both stared at one another. I guess he recognises my voice faster than I do with his. I nodded my head and he stared at me. "Wow, you're more than just a beautiful voice, aren't you?" I blinked at him before my face was on fire. I was so not expecting a compliment, talk less of being called beautiful! How do I, the weird depressing girl respond to that?"

"E-er, why um-er, thank you..." He laughed again.

"I'm guessing you're not used to compliments?" I nodded, suddenly feeling shy. He grinned before we started walking out of the school together. Then it was like his happy go lucky exterior was lost and he sighed while running his hand through his hair. "Look, I know that you care a lot about dance and I'm probably the best candidate for your dance partner, but I just can't."

I nodded, sighing as well. "Is it stage fright?" He blinked before shaking his head.

"Nah, not stage fright. Just bad memories." I flinched as I had probably brought back those bad memories.

"Oh, Juvia is sorry. She didn't mean to..." He laughed.

"You? You didn't do anything. It's been two years...People say I should get over it and hey, I might just have to! If I change my mind, I'll let you know. I know I sound unsure, but I guess I can say I will dance with you for now and I'll just tell you whether I can do it or not. Let me debate it with myself." I smiled brightly, and without even thinking, I hugged him.

"Thanks Natsu, you're the best! Well Juvia has to get home now!" I waved at him while heading back to my house.

I got home to see Gajeel talking with Levy in the front room. "Hi Levy-chan!" Gajeel and I both lived together seeing as we didn't have parents of our own and Levy was his girlfriend. Levy waved at me and I threw my bag lazily on the opposite couch.

"You're home early. Did Gray ditch you?" Gajeel started laughing at his own joke and Levy slugged him in the shoulder. I just glared at him harshly.

"No, he said that his Aunt died and that he won't be able to be at the showcase." Levy gasped and Gajeel just grunted.

"Ju-chan! You were so waiting for that dance! You practised so much for it and you were going to ask him out!" Levy left Gajeel to come and hug me and I smiled at her.

"It's fine Levy-chan. Juvia has decided to get over Gray-sama and she will just have to find herself a new partner."

Levy sighed as though she was relieved about something I looked at her weirdly and Gajeel started talking. "Shrimp is just happy that you're no longer going to be hung up on that bastard. So am I. If he ever did give you the time of day, you'll end up heartbroken."

Levy looked like she was ashamed to admit it, but I just hugged her again. "Thank you for being such a good friend to Juvia. Although Juvia may have never listened, she's glad that you care about her being heartbroken one day."

Before she could reply, my phone went off. I excused myself before going out and up to my room. I saw the caller ID before I answered it.

"Natsu?"

"Hey Juvia, just wanted to say that...I can't dance with you..."

I gasped quietly. I didn't know why it was so much of a big deal to me. Oh that's because I would have to fail my class and all that practice will be for nothing. No other reason...Right?

"Oh, Okay then. It's fine." No it's not! It's certainly not fine! I wanted to dance! So maybe my dance wasn't the biggest dance in the production because that was given to Lucy and Loke, but it was a dance all the same! I heard Natsu sigh.

"No, it's not fine. I can tell that you really wanted to do this dance and I'm letting you down. I'm really sorry, but I don't think my sorry makes up for it." I blinked as I sat on my bed. It was like he could read my mind. But at least he did sound sorry. I even found myself forgiving him really easily.

"Natsu-san, it's fine. Juvia is sure that Natsu-san has a perfectly good reason." He sighed again and I waited patiently for him to answer.

"Juvia, before you transferred to our school, I had a dance partner called Lisanna. But she died...From then on I haven't danced again. I just couldn't bring myself to do it without her."

My heart was caught in my throat. That sounded so horrible! I even felt like crying into my phone. "Natsu-san shouldn't force himself okay? Juvia will be fine. Juvia doesn't mind if she fails dance now." After hearing his reason, I really didn't mind failing. If it really hurt him that much, I guess there's no getting over it. I knew what he was going through too well.

"Thanks Juvia you're the best. See you at school tomorrow." With that, he hung up and I went on thinking about this Lisanna girl. It must have taken him a lot to tell me about her if I'd never heard of her. I sighed deeply and I pushed my phone on the floor and sprawled out on my bed. Failing my first class...great. And anyway, I don't have time to learn a new dance within a three days, that's crazy!

I went into school early the next morning to tell Mira-sensei that I wouldn't be able to dance and she should just fail me when I heard music in the hall. It sounded like salsa music...No! That was tango! But no one was doing the tango in the dance production because it was an intense dance, so who the hell is that? I walked through to the dance hall and opened the door to see...

"Natsu-san?" He couldn't hear me. He looked like he was locked up in his own little world. Eventually he saw me in the mirrors and stopped dancing sharply. He turned to me and gulped. I stared at him in awe as he tried to laugh it off.

"Oh, hey Juvia, nice morning isn't it?" He was trying to divert my mind, but I wasn't falling for it.

"Natsu-san really IS an amazing dancer, especially at the tango! Juvia can't tango to save her life!" His face went dark and I realised what I had just said. "Oh, Juvia is sorry Natsu-san!" Why was I such an idiot for? Here I was saying I couldn't save my life yet here he was with a dead friend. Am I really that heartless?

"It's okay. Maybe I can...Show you?" I looked up at him and he looked away, a small blushing settling on his cheeks.

"Is Natsu-san sure? Juvia doesn't want to push Natsu-san into something he doesn't want to do." He nodded his head at me and a new track began playing.

He started walking away from me and I followed the beat. I had seen people tango, but I'd never done it. It didn't seem like my sort of dance, but more rather someone like Lucy. She was more open about her body than I was so it was perfect for her. It was hot and sexy and very fast with vigorous movements. Also, the dance was very intimate and sexual looking. That wasn't the dance for me. I like slow things with minimal movement, like the waltz and other dances like that. They just screamed me. I took a deep breath. It was all in the hips right?

I walked in time with the beat towards him with exaggerated movements, hips swaying and arms moving by my side. I remembered a routine that I had seen many times and began to circle him. Then he grabbed my hand, pulled me away and then back into him so that my back was up against his chest but he still held my hand. I blushed at how close we were and his arm slid down to my waist. I had to resist the urge to moan.

Then he had his hand on my thigh and the fire was rekindled on my face as he brought my leg up. I had no idea that he knew I was flexible. I could tell that he had done the tango many times because he knew the moves too. Then he pushed my leg back down and I moved away from him while twisting side to the side.

He smiled at me, but there was something about this smile. It looked sexy... Oh God, did I just say that about Natsu? Then the real dance began. He came closer, put his hand on my hip and grabbed my other hand before we started twisting and turning, dipping and raising me up into the air as I twisted over and around his shoulders. I never knew he was so strong before! By the time the song ended, my right leg was around his waist, his hands were on my butt and my hands were around his neck as we were both close to each other, our breaths mingling.

"Natsu-san, that was amazing," I panted. He grinned at me yet again and my heart just felt like jumping out of my chest.

"Not so bad yourself for someone who has never done the tango." I should have been thinking about Gray, not Natsu. I just couldn't get him out of my head. In Gray's case, he was more or less forced to dance as he had lost a bet to someone, but Natsu danced willingly with so much passion! He was like a flame.

I just didn't want to let him go because I knew that if I did, there was no way he was ever going to dance with me. At least I could savour this moment. But then I thought of his dead dancing partner and I immediately pulled away. As soon as I did, he gave me a hurt look before masking it.

"Juvia is sorry Natsu-san, Juvia shouldn't have forced you into dancing with her." I turned away from him as I picked up my school bag. I remembered that I still needed to speak with Mira-sensei about the showcase when Natsu's voice stopped me.

"If anything, I forced you into dancing with me. It was...fun. I had forgotten how great it was to dance and for you to know one of the fastest tango routines there is, you made it even better. About Lisanna, well I know she wouldn't have wanted her death to cause the death of me dancing. I'll dance with you at the showcase. We can even do this routine if you want."

I turned to face him in surprise. He was now ready to dance? Gosh, he should really learn to make up his mind! He grinned at me. "Meet me at the school gates after school. I wanna show you something." He grabbed his bag and the school bell went. I blinked. Beginning of school already? "I'll see you later, Juvia."

There was something about the way he said my name that just made me blush. "Sure thing Natsu-san." Before he left me in the hall, he turned to me one last time. My breath was caught in my throat. His pink hair was falling in his face in all the right angles. I was glad he wasn't one of Lucy's little love boys.

"You can drop the -san you know. I don't need that sort of respect." Like that, he was gone. I quickly grabbed my bag and headed out of the opposite door and headed to my first class.

So how was that? Did you guys enjoy reading that as much as I enjoyed writing it? I've literally been working on this story since like the beginning of last year. I think. I will have to check when I created this document lol. I wanted to release it as a sorry for being away for so long!

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