A/N: So this is my first fanfic ever, so please be nice. I'm not that great of a writer, but I had this idea in my head. So anyways, I wrote this because I felt like the the abandonment of Gray and Natsu was left unresolved and I feel like the girls need to confront them. I'm not sure how many chapters this will be or how often I will be updating, I want to say at least once a week, depending on the reviews of course. One last thing, I rated M for chapters later in the story, so sorry no smut in this chapter but it will come soon! Well I hope you guys enjoy!
Normal POV
It's been a week since everyone reunited at the Fairy Tail Guild. Everyone was helping rebuild the guild and it seemed like everything was going back to normal (with the exception of Master Makarov still missing). Gray was helping rebuild a wall with Elfman and Gajeel when he saw Juvia walking towards him. He was preparing for the impact of the hug he was going to get and 'I love yous', but he didn't get either of those. Instead she just walked right passed him going towards Lisanna who was behind him, without so much as even glancing at him.
GRAY'S POV
That's weird. I thought for sure she was going to run towards me, but she acted like I wanted even there. Maybe she didn't see me. Now that I think about it, Juvia has been acting strange lately. She has barely even talked to me, let alone looked at me since we got back. It's not like I mind her not attacking me with hug or love confessions, but still...
"Trouble with the wife, eh Gray?" Gajeel joked, laughing while he spoke.
"Shut up! She's not my wife." I told him. I didn't realize I was staring at the place where Juvia was talking to Lisanna. They were gone so I just went back to work.
Maybe she's still upset about me leaving six months ago. No she couldn't be. She told me it was okay so I was forgiven. I just can't help but wonder what's wrong. Maybe she just wasn't feeling well or something.
"Hey Gray, weren't you two living together? ", Elfman asked with his voice as loud as ever.
"Yeah I heard that too. For six months wasn't it? Natsu told us. haha", Gajeel said still laughing. That damn flamebrained idiot can't keep his mouth shut. Not like I care if people knew, but still, it's none of his business.
"It's not like we lived together, we just lived at the same place." I said it so matter of factly, I didn't mean to come out that way but it just slipped out.
"Yeah right!", they both said in unison.
"Aha. Did you have some fun with her Gray?! Haha!" Damn Gajeel, I never wanted to punch so much. They are so annoying, I'm starting to get frustrated.
"It wasn't like that you fucking Metalhead!"
" Haha yeah right! I bet you two were at it all the time. Aw don't give me that face, you know I'm just messing with ya ice princess." I scowled Gajeel. Damn it I just want to punch him in the fucking face. Anger was building up inside me. " Nobody ever thought you'd live together ya know, since you're always turning her down."
"For last time we weren't living together! She just wouldn't leave! IT'S NOT LIKE I ACTUALLY WANTED HER THERE!" I regretted as soon as I said it. I don't know why I even said it, but it shut them up so whatever.
"Oh shit" Gajeel said surprised. I turned around to see Juvia there with the most broken expression. I was lost for words. Shit she heard! A tear escaped her eye as she turned and walked away.
"Juvia!" I went after her but she started to run. She ran to an alley close to the guild. Once I caught up to her I grabbed her arm and spun her around. I have never seen so much pain in a person's face. She could barely look at me.
"Juvia, please look at me.", I pleaded. She still didn't look at me . Instead she kept looking at the floor. She whispered something, but I couldn't her it. " What?" Again she whispered, and again it was inaudible. " Juvia please speak up." She finally looked up at me with both anger and sadness.
" You didn't want me around?" Juvia said. It looked like she just got slapped in the face. I couldn't even speak, I couldn't stop looking and her pained face. I have never seen her like this, she was always so cheerful and full of life. When I first met her, yeah she was gloomy, but it was nothing compared to this. This was a Juvia I have never seen, one that I that I never want to see again.
"First, you leave me for six months without so much as a word, and you.." she trailed off, tears falling from her eyes. Now it was me who couldn't look her in her eyes.
I thought she was over that, she said it was okay, so why is she bring this up now. I thought she was over it already. Is that why she wouldn't talk to me or even look at me.
"Why haven't you been talking to me? Was it because I left?" I honestly am scared of what the answer is. I honestly thought we were past this already. When we were fighting against Avatar, she looked fine. So what's the problem?
"Of course its because you left me!", she didn't even hesitate to answer. "Do you honestly believe I'd get over it so quickly? That it doesn't hurt me every time I look at you, thinking you might leave again without a word.", she began crying even more. Clouds were starting to form above us.
What's wrong with me, how can I just stand there. She's crying and all I can do is just stared at the ground in silence. We stayed like that for a couple of minutes, her crying and me looking. This feels familiar somehow. " Look I apologize to you already, if you were still upset you should have just told me." I know it was hard on her but she could have just told me. It was as simple as that. So why did she just keep ignoring me.
"I wanted to you about it today, but you seemed busy and I didn't want to interrupt you.", she said finally calming down. "Then I saw you were talking to Gajeel and Elfman, so I decided to just go talk to you. When I got there, I heard you tell them that you didn't want me..." she trailed off, the tears fell from her eyes.
"Juvia, I-"
"If you didn't want me there you could have just said so. You didn't have to leave!" The clouds were getting darker. " I waited for six months for you to come home! When I saw you again, I got excited that you were there in front me that the thought of you leaving vanished. It wasn't until the battle was over that pain came back to me. Six months, I was all alone just waiting for you, and you think a simple sorry would cut it!", she yelled furiously.
"Yeah well nobody told you to wait! That was your own decision!", I don't know where all this anger was coming from. Maybe from earlier when Gajeel and Elfman were making there stupid comments, or maybe it was because I felt so useless because I couldn't console her. I don't know what it is but the anger just kept coming and coming. I felt like I was about to explode. What am I angry at? Is those idiots? is it me? Is it her? Is it because she never came to talk about? Maybe it's because she bottled up all her feelings, and is now blowing up on me now. My thoughts were interrupted when I heard her voice.
" I just wanted to take care of you.", she whimpered.
" I don't need you to take care of me! I never asked you to!", I yelled at her. What the hell is wrong with me. Why can't I control this anger. Why am I directing to her? It's because I know I'm right. I don't need her to take care of me. I'm a grown ass man, I don't need some girl to look after me. Thinking this only made me more mad.
Then I looked at her face. So much pain and sadness in that beautiful face. She clenched her fist and brought to her chest , as if she tried to hold together the pain she was feeling. I was getting even more angry, but I realized it was never at her. It was at me. I made her feel all this pain and expected it to be okay. This woman loves me and I took her for granted.
"Your father asked me to take care of you", she whispered. Her big, blue, watery eyes right on mine, she was waiting for a response. I couldn't say anything, I felt paralyzed. I know there were so many things I wanted to tell her, but the words wouldn't leave my mouth. All I could think was my old man asked her to look after me... I didn't think he had so much trust in her, someone he didn't even know. Maybe he felt some kind of connection between us that I couldn't sense.
I didn't realize how long we were standing in silence until she sighed, her face with utter defeat. "If you don't want me around, that's fine. You don't have to worry about that anymore. I'll leave you alone." She stood there for a second, and turned away. I grabbed her hand, it was so soft and fragile, trying to stop her from leaving. She turned around again waiting for me to saying something. I wanted to tell her not to go, to stay with me, but the words wouldn't leave me mouth. She yanked her hand away from my grasp and walked away.
I stood there like an idiot not being able to move legs to go after her, or open mouth and beg her to come back. Before I knew it, she was gone, and I know I lost her. What the fuck is wrong with you Gray! Why didn't you go after her! Damn it what's wrong with me! She's always been by my side, always stood next to me, and I let her go. I let the woman I love go.
I stood there for around ten minutes. I turned around and looked at the sky. I felt a water droplet on my face, but it wasn't raining.
So I hoped you guys liked it! let me no what you think! I will have the next chapter up soon!
Bye- Lovebrodie
So I went back to make some minor corrections on this chapter. I also wanted to point out that I am not using Juvia's usual talking style. Honestly I never really like that, even though she is one of my favorite characters. So yeah, Chapter 2 will be up like Friday 10/30/2015 at the latest. Okay Bye- Lovebrodie
