Chapter 2 – Hematophobia (Fear of Blood)
"Juvia, good morning," Gray said as soon as Juvia opened the door.
"Good morning, Gray-kun. Juvia is glad that you made it," Juvia smiled and gestured for Gray to come into her house.
"Just Gray, Juvia, there's no need to call me Gray-kun," he sighed, "Is everyone here yet?"
"Not everyone, you're the first one at Juvia's party, Gray-k–I mean Gray," she amended as they walked into the kitchen. (It's a reunion party for the ex-students of Fairy Tail Academy.)
Gray sighed and shook his head, 'At least she's not calling me Gray-sama. Calling her boyfriend Gray-sama…'
"Juvia was just cutting the fruits when Gray rang the doorbell," she said as she picked up the knife and resumed her work.
"Erm…okay, do you need any help?" he asked her, feeling out of place in the kitchen.
"If Gray wants, there's an extra knife in the second drawer, there," she nodded her head towards the drawer behind him.
Gray nodded and took the knife and got to work. In the fifteen minutes of cutting the fruits, silently, Gray found himself wondering about Juvia.
Cooking with Juvia was a very weird and awkward thing. She rarely spoke and she concentrates on the fact that Gray's holding the knife a little too scarily. Every time he started cutting the fruits a little quickly she would stop him and tell him to do it slowly. This would be accompanied with a stupid excuse about hurting the fruits. When the knife lands a little close to his hand (about an inch) she would tell him to move his hand.
'They are not alive and it's only an inch…how's that going to hurt me? She is one crazy girl. Am I even doing the right thing by accepting to be her boyfriend? I'm going to have a headache just thinking about her craziness. I am a guy for heaven's sake. I know how to take care of myself; I don't need a girl, much less an overprotective one, protecting me. I think maybe I should break up with her. What a pity? I actually like her…'Gray thought as he mechanically sliced the fruits.
He lifted his heard to speak to her when suddenly there was a loud knock on the door. The both of them jumped, Gray accidently scratched his hand with the knife when he jumped. (Actually it's a deep cut.)
Blood was pouring out of the cut and he did not notice it. Juvia stared at his hand and she felt her hand go numb. This reaction was followed by the sound of the knife she was holding falling on the table. Then, as Gray swore under his breath and turned to go and get the door her limbs slowly became numb. She faintly heard Gray open the door and scream at Natsu. The redness of Gray's blood took over her vision and she could not see anything. She hardly felt the pain as she fell on the floor.
"Juvia-chan, do you need any help?" Lucy sung as her skipped into the kitchen after helping Gray bandage his hand.
She stopped when she saw that the kitchen was empty. She turned and yelled into the living room.
"Gray, where's Juvia?" Lucy shouted.
"She's in the kitchen," Gray told her as he walked into the kitchen.
Moving pass, the table he saw Juvia on the floor.
"Juvia, Juvia wake up. What's wrong?" he asked blindly as he carried her to the living room and laid her on the sofa.
He shook her shoulder, trying to wake her. At that moment the front door opened again to reveal Gajeel and Levy. They saw the crowd at the living room and walked over immediately.
"Hey, you guys started the party without us?" Gajeel commented loudly and walked to the sofa.
He saw that Juvia was unconscious and that Gray's hand was bandaged. He quickly understood what had happened. Sighing, he told everyone else to go and continue with whatever they were doing. He walked to the kitchen and soaked a cloth in cold water and told Levy to squeeze the cloth over Juvia's face to wake her up.
Confused but nodding, Levy walked to the sofa only to see that the crowd had come back to crowd around the shocked Gray and the unconscious Juvia.
"G-Gajeel…" Levy stammered as she saw the large crowd, including Natsu, Erza, Lucy, Loke and practically all of Fairy Tail.
Gajeel walked out of the kitchen and saw the crowd, "DIDN'T I TELL YOU TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE COUCH?"
Hearing, her boyfriend's loud voice Levy shrunk back. The crowd moved away from the sofa, sweat-dropping. Even Erza moved away, not because Gajeel was scary but because she knew how much Juvia meant to both Gray and Gajeel and to the rest of Fairy Tail.
"Stop screaming you idiot. Can't you see there's someone unconscious there?" Levy told her boyfriend with such authority that everyone was shocked.
Gajeel smirked at her thinking, 'At least she has a backbone…'
As Levy was about to squeeze the cloth over her face, Mirajane and Freed entered the house.
"Oh my, what's going on here? Is Juvia's unconscious? Get her to her room now, Erza. Lucy, Levy follow me and the rest of you keep quiet," Mirajane ordered them.
In a flash, the four girls had brought Juvia up to her room. All the people in the living room sweat-dropped, Gajeel and Gray were too shocked to speak. Even Natsu was quietly eating the food arranged at the side of the living room. The television was on but no one was really watching it. The whole house was quiet for a whole twenty minutes until, Gray spoke up.
"What's wrong with her? Why did her suddenly faint?" he thought out loud.
"You cut your hand, right? She must have seen the blood and fainted," Gajeel answered simply, not even taking a break from his eating competition with Natsu.
"You mean she has a phobia of blood?" he questioned, disbelieving, "It can't be true, she would have told me."
At the same time the girls came down the stairs. Mirajane announced that Juvia was alright and that she would need a little rest.
"Nobody can visit her now, except Gray. She wants to see you but don't stay too long…she needs to rest," Mira told him in her soft voice.
Gladly, Gray stood up and walked slowly up the stairs and into Juvia's room. He walked into the room slowly. Juvia was awake.
"Gray-kun, what happened to Juvia?" Juvia asked him, her voice sounded very tired.
"You fainted," he answered, his cracking.
"Oh, where is Juvia now?" she looked around.
"In your room," he sat on the bed, beside her.
Juvia nodded, "Are you okay, Gray-kun?"
"I am fine…" he looked at her as he held her hand.
"I'm glad," Juvia sighed and closed her eyes.
"Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me that you had a phobia of blood? You told Gajeel and Mirajane, didn't you? Why didn't you tell me?" Gray let out everything that he was feeling.
"Juvia doesn't know. It never came up so I didn't tell you anything. Gajeel knows, because we were best friends since young and he is like my brother. Mira-san knows about it as she saw me faint once after she accidentally cut her hand in front of me. It isn't that bad, I only faint when it's someone close to me," Juvia smiled at him.
"So, you'll tell me everything from now onwards, right?" Gray asked her.
"Yes, of course Juvia will tell you. Juvia is sorry she didn't tell you earlier," she looked down.
"It's okay, just make sure you'll tell me everything from now on," Gray bent down to kiss her forehead, "I'll see you later. Get some rest."
"Bye," Juvia whispered as she watched Gray close the door softly.
Hey to all who have been waiting for this Chapter. I'm so sorry about the delay. I've been busy with school and stuff.
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Next chapter is about Gajeel. Do look forward to it. The title is Fear of Dancing...
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