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FLASHES
A series of Gruvia flash fictions or vignettes
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1. Promise
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Gray-sama. That is all Juvia can think of after defeating Keith. Juvia is surrounded by water and little by little her powers are returning. She can sense everything through water – his pain and agony.
Take care of Gray.
These words echo inside her head. She pulls her remaining energy from her core to wake herself up. She opens her eyes and sits straight. She sees Lucy, Levy, and Gajeel around her. She feels that it's her adrenaline rush pumping.
She immediately asks, "Is Gray-sama here?"
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2. Infatuation
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"Thank you for helping me, mother!"
In an earshot distance, Gray, who is comfortably sitting on a couch while reading Magnolia's newsletter, hears enthusiastic giggles. He glances at the child with dark long wavy hair running from the kitchen to the door leading outside the house.
"Haru will definitely like these!" The child, closing the door, shouts and leaves.
"Gray-sama," Juvia calls as she goes out of the kitchen and approaches the ice mage.
Without removing his eyes on the newsletter, Gray turns his head slightly to face his wife.
"Juvia worries too much aboutyour daughter," Juvia sighs as she sits next to Gray. She rests her head on his shoulder. "She gives him things. She follows him around. She talks a lot about him."
"Reminds me of someone," Gray murmurs as he looks at the rain woman.
"She pays too much attention to Natsu and Lucy's son," Juvia whines, not hearing what her husband has said.
"She is indeed your daughter as well," Gray chuckles. Juvia blushes.
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3. Asset
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In a game of Truth or Dare, Cana asks the ice mage, "which part of a woman are you most attracted to?"
"Rear," he nonchalantly answers. Juvia feels the rush of blood to her face.
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4. Similar
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"Gray-sama, eat this!" Juvia offers her freshly baked snowflake-shaped cookies to the ice mage who is sitting alone on one of the guild tables. Asuka who is seated on a nearby table notices how Gray dismisses the water mage's affection.
Asuka-chan enthusiastically approaches Gray and Juvia. She says with a smiling face, "Papa would always say that Mama is a bad cook but he still eats Mama's cooking because he loves her. Eat those as well."
"What the," Gray, stunned with the little girl, obeys the child's wish and eats the water mage's cookies with a tint of red on his cheeks. Juvia hugs Asuka-chan for the encouragement.
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5. Conundrum
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Wendy has always wondered about the rapport between her guildmates yet the pair that always make her feel puzzled most is Juvia and Gray. So one time, she musters the courage to ask Mirajane.
"I am curious, Mira-san," The sky dragon slayer watches the water mage professes her affection to the water mage before the latter tells her to back off.
"About?" Mirajane chuckles as she follows the gaze of the sky dragon slayer.
"Gray-san should confess to Juvia-san what he really feels," Wendy smiles, "because it's a little obvious that he has a schoolboy crush on her."
The blunette dragon slayer has left the guild with a puzzling look on her face when Mirajane sighs while looking at the two, "sometimes, a child can see right through to an act, Gray."
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6. Sanity
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"To love Gray-sama," Juvia mutters as she clutches the white sheet covering her naked body. Her eyes are fixed on the ceiling of the room. "Juvia must be crazy."
"Being with you makes me crazy," Gray who is lying next to her and sharing the white sheet with the water mage.
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7. Blessing
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Holding his son for the last time, Silver contemplates that Gray is in good hands. He has become a good mage. He has a lot of good friends. He has that woman.
Silver sees a glimpse of her and her wavy blue hair. A beautiful water mage. He has asked if she were Gray's woman yet she answers no in a jittery way.
She reminds him of Mika. He laughs hard. Indeed, he is his son.
As he feels his disintegration, he finally whispers. His words are inaudible to his son. Take care of her, Gray.
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8. Emptiness
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Every time Gray leaves the guild for a quest and spends the night without the water mage beside him, he cannot help but imagine when, where and how Juvia will touch him.
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9. Forced
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"Gray-sama," Juvia cheerfully greets the ice mage. The ice mage, on the other hand makes a simple tch sound as an acknowledgment. This makes the water mage teary-eyed.
"Are you about to cry?" Asuka, who is nearby, asks with her head slightly bent. Juvia sniffles.
"You should kiss her," Asuka immediately takes Gray's free hand and drags him towards the teary-eyed water mage. "When Asuka-chan feels sad, my mother and father kiss me. When mother feels sad, father kisses her as well."
Gray looks blankly at the child.
"Kiss her," the child insists with a slight frown and pout. Her hands are crossed. "Kiss."
Gray feels the redness on his face. He mutters, "this will be a very long day."
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10. Fiction
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She knows that sometimes she plays between the reality and fantasy that sometimes the latter feels too much like the former. She watches his slow breathing as he sleeps soundly. His face only a breath away from hers. She touches his cheek just to make sure that everything is real.
She is surprised when Gray lifts his hand and places it on her hand. Without opening his eyes, he murmurs sleepily, "I'm here, Juvia."