"Gray-sama!" Juvia yelled while chasing Gray around in the guild hall, "Juvia wants you to decide what job we should go on next!"
"Sorry but right now I need to find Natsu and continue freezing him until he tells me the truth of what happened on his last job." he replied looking annoyed. Juvia gave her usual sigh with a few tears since her 'Gray-sama' once again ignored her. It makes sense why he's chasing Natsu around though. Ever since Natsu, Lucy and Happy returned from their most recent job, Natsu has been running around crazier than usual while Lucy hasn't been seen in the guild hall at all.
Juvia then started to get the idea of going over to Lucy's when Gray bumped into her from behind.
"Ack! Sorry Juvia and hey I needed to talk to you." Juvia squealed with excitement. She tried to "play it cool" as Levy advised her to do but like usual she couldn't contain herself; similar to Gray's uncontrollable stripping habit. Juvia felt herself falling into an imagination again until he pulled her back into reality.
"Hey! I said we needed to talk. Now I think something more than just Natsu destroying another town happened on their last mission cause he even went out of his way to use all of his reward money on sending Happy and the other exceeds on a mini vacation with buckets of fish. So I'll need you to go and talk to Lucy while I try to get the truth out of Natsu. Got it?"
"Of course Gray-sama. Juvia will not let you down!" she replied with a determined attitude.
"Perfect. Let's meet by the rainbow sakura tree tonight at 8." and with that he zoomed out of the guild hall, heading to track down Natsu. Juvia felt so excited that he chose her to work with him on this task. She quickly then went up to Mira to ask what the time was.
"It's exactly 1:00 in the afternoon. So…I saw you and Gray talking. How is your love affair going?" Mira smirked, causing Juvia to blush.
"Mira! You know that he doesn't really feel that way about Juvia. But maybe after helping him with this task today he'll look at Juvia differently."
"Oooooh you two are just so cute! And you never know how Gray really feels. He's always hiding his emotions but I know that you can find a way to open up his heart." she sighed, looking like she was falling into an imagination of her own.
"Juvia will see you later!" Juvia yelled, dashing out the door to head for Lucy's place.
"What's got her so worked up?" Levy asked Mira while sitting down at the "bar" located in the guild.
"Oh Gray asked Juvia to do something for her. Aren't they just the cutest?" Mira asked Levy with her bubbly voice.
"Well of course they'd make the perfect couple. Everyone except Gray seems to know that." and without thinking about it she found her eyes on Gajeel who was scanning the job request board.
"It seems so. And when are you and Gajeel going to get together?" she asked Levy with a classic devilish grin on her face. Levy lied her head down on the table and sighed.
"Well he's just so inconsistent. I mean one day he'll be so interested in what book I'm reading or wanting to talk to me and the next he doesn't even say hi." Mira was practically a really bad therapist. Many of the girls in their guild and even mages who weren't members of Fairy Tail like Chelia from Lamia Scale would always end up discussing their unsuccessful love affairs to her.
"Levy I know how frustrating that is for you and me both."
"Why for you though? I mean—"
"The point is," she explained, "that Gajeel is too dim-witted to see what's right in front of him. You need to go over there immediately and find a way to convince him to go on a job with you."
"You think that would work? I mean he turned me down at the magic games when I wanted to train with him and—"
"Go now Levy!" she interrupted again.
"Okay I'm going!" Levy then proceeded to fall out of her chair but somehow managed to make it back up quickly. She "casually" walked over to the job request board, ending up next to Gajeel.
"Hey shrimp. Looking for another job to go on with Team Shadow Gear?" he asked her.
"Nope. Jet and Droy wanted to take a week off to relax but I really need the money right now since a ton of great new books are coming out this month." That is technically true, it's not really why I'm doing this though. Gajeel had a certain look on his face and Levy couldn't tell if he was happy or…what exactly.
"Really? Cause I was trying to find a solo job too since Lily is gone but I don't really see any up here. I was thinking that maybe if you wanted to go out on one together or somethin'… I mean, we both need the money right?" he commented while scratching his scruffy black hair. She hoped that there wasn't a creepy grin on her face even though Levy was ecstatic on the inside. Lucky for her, she remembered how to play it cool.
"Yeah sure that'd be great." she shrugged.
"Great. Meet you at the train station at 3 o'clock today?"
Levy accidentally gave off a wide smile, "Sounds like a plan." He smirked and then ran out of the hall. After a few seconds of processing what just happened, she went to get herself situated and ready to head out for the job.
A/N: Hooray, first chapter of Memories is uploaded! I'll try to keep up with this one as much as my other fanfic "Makarov's Army" which is a crossover of Fairy Tail and Harry Potter.
I've had the idea of this fanfic since January, so I'm very glad to finally be publishing/writing it!
Oh and by the way the rainbow sakura tree is the one that Natsu pulled out of the ground for Lucy when she was home sick :3
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing!
And as always, have a fairy tail-astic day!