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The sun was up, birds were chirping, animals started to come out and play, and everyone in Magnolia was back on doing their daily basis - well, everyone, except the Fairy Tail members, especially Gray. The guild members all fell sad about hearing the news; and some who saw Juvia's body when Gray carried her to the guild - Mirajane, Wendy, Natsu, Lucy, Levy, Gajeel, Erza, and Makarov - were horrified at the sight, and angered at the same time, with sadness wrapping them in.

'Who could have done such a thing to their comrade?' was the thought of those eight. But Gray spoke not ever since when he got to the guild with the lifeless body he carried. And they dared not ask for a while; for it would be better if they let him be; since they know how hard it must be on him, to lose the one he loves. They just passed glances and a few whispers around, as they worked to get Juvia's body clean and ready for the ceremony. They've decided to not ask him about it yet; 'not until the ceremony finishes and he settles down and finally speaks,' they thought.

As part of their last goodbye ceremony to Juvia before they bury her, the guild members were asked to speak some last words, words that they would have wanted to tell her if she had still been alive, and never just got to tell her, for it was too late; or simply just some last messages for the girl.

Most of them were saying how kind she was, how caring she had been, how good she's been to them, and a few others were saying some things about how they thought she was a little creepy when she used to stalk Gray when she first joined the guild, how it seemed like she had been obsessed with Gray ever since they met, and all ended up in tears as they recalled more of what she had been. She had been their friend, their sister, their crazily-kinda-obsessed-but-cheerful-and-funny-water-girl, their family.

During this whole time, Gray just kept his head down, crying silently, not wanting to hear of these; for the more they recall, the more moments he remembers that they were together, the more he gets hurt. Right now, hurts him to remember, it hurts him to recall, for he knows that now he'll never see her again. Ever. And he was wishing that he had not wasted all those times that they were together. He regrets it a lot. All those times that Juvia was stalking her - in a not-so-good way, because she's too obvious to be seen from her hiding places - that he'd been just acting as if he doesn't know; all those times that she's talking to him, saying things, keeping him company, whereas he acts as if he doesn't care; all those times that started when they got together, when she had been doing her best to make him really happy on their monthsaries, that he had not been showing her how much he really appreciates her efforts; all those times when she does her best to do things for him, that when he acts as if it's not that much; and all those times that she had told her 'I love you' , that he had never told her - he regrets them all. He wishes that he had done things differently instead. He wishes that he should have just showed her how much he cares, that he should have just showed her how much he appreciates her and her efforts, that he should have just told her how much she really means to him, and that he should have at least told her 'I love you', those three words that he never had an idea how much she would have wanted him to hear until earlier; because now it's too late.

There's no more Juvia. No. More. No more sun can shine in him whenever it rains. There will be no one to understand him, to always be there when he needs someone to support him, to always cheer him up no matter what, to always show him how much he is loved, to always be with him - no one because the only person who can do that is gone. Gone.

Drip.

Drip.

Drop.

His tears makes those sounds as they fall on the ground. He makes no effort to wipe them away anymore, knowing that more are to come, so it would be useless. But... Even his tears reminds him of her. Drip. Drip. Drop. She loves the rain, she loves the sound of it. And he had loved it, too; because he loves everything in her. She-

His thoughts were interrupted when he feels two warm hands on his back. He looks up and sees Lucy at one side, and Natsu at the other. Even though Lucy's face was already wet from all the tears that had flown from her eyes, and Natsu had a slight trace of a tear that must have fallen from his eye, they both give them a small smile, telling him that they are here for him. Erza, Levy, Gajeel, Wendy, Mirajane, and Makarov were also approaching in their direction.

Lucy was about to say something, but then she gets interrupted by Macao, calling her to make her speech. It's Lucy's turn already, meaning he had missed all the other's speech while he was thinking, because Lucy is the second to the last speaker. But well, 'good thing she was interrupted,' thought Gray. He does not want to talk to anyone. Not right now. Not with anyone. He just wants to talk to Juvia, to see Juvia alive and well again; but he knows that it is not possible. He stares down at the ground again as more tears started streaming down his face. His eyes already hurt, yet he does not care. His love is gone. What else is there for him to lose?

"...I thought you said you'd never leave us?!" he heard Lucy yell, then he looked up to see her speaking in front of all the members present, fresh tears starting to flow from her eyes.

"You said that you'll always be with us, because we're all a family here, aren't we?! But why did you leave us?!" now she can't control herself from sobbing and crying out loud.

"Why?!" she continued, and Natsu goes up in front and tries to calm her down, holding her hand, but she does not stop talking yet.

"I want justice! We have just got to find out who killed her! We have to! There's no way we can't just let this be! A member of our family was killed by some unknown guy with an unknown reason, and we just can't stand here and do nothing!" she cried out, shaking.

"Luce, Luce," Natsu said, his voice slightly higher than Lucy's to get her attention, then hugged her to keep her steady. "Calm down for a while... Master, Mira, and Erza are already on it; trying to track down who might've done it."

"J-Juvia..." was all that she said and then buried her face in Natsu's shoulders and started crying again.

'At least... they still have each other." Gray thought.

And after that, Macao called Gray over for his speech.

"It... it's just been hours since," he said after he wiped his tears and stood up to the front, "when you... died. but still, to me it feels like it's been an eternity already, you know? I've... never imagined that this day would even come. Never did. I always thought that you'd be with me, we'd be with each other, we'd be together... forever... always."

"But I guess this proves me wrong, right?" he continued, forcing a small smile on his face. "You know, you might think of this as stupid, but... earlier, as Mira and the others were fixing you up for your ceremony, I just couldn't dare look. I can't look at you, your lifeless, much paler body. you could call me a coward for that. I... didn't want to see, to accept... the fact that you're gone. I didn't want my last memories of you to be like that."

"I... All our memories together, all the times we were together, I kept repeating them over and over earlier," a tear dropped down slowly from his eye, "thinking... maybe I can fool myself. Even just for a minute or two, that'll be enough. Fool myself to think that you're still alive and well, and just back at our home, waiting for me so that we can start celebrating our first anniversary."

"Every second. All the time. All I can see is you. All I can think about is you." he said. "And yeah, it didn't work, the fooling myself thing didn't work. Because every time I do that, my memory of your last moments, the last words you've told before you left... kept flashing in my mind."

"'Juvia is the happiest girl in the world now'? Idiot, you should've just told me that you wanted to hear those three words, that you had always been hoping, and waiting that day would come; then I should've done it in a more better way, better that how it turned out, better than how I've said it that time. 'Juvia will die with no regrets'? Seriously, Juvia! What about me? I'm regretting everything I've ever done, you know? I kept blaming myself for your death ever since the second you died. Because maybe if only I came home early, then we should've been celebrating now instead of having this; then maybe you shouldn't have left to look for some guy who calls you that they have someone you know; then maybe you should've been still alive; and maybe everything was still good."

"I'm.. sorry," he said, as tears started flowing down from his eyes again. "...sorry I've never told you all what I've wanted to say... or shown you what I've wanted to show. I've always wanted to tell you how much I loved you, I always wanted to tell you how much you mean to me, I always wanted to tell you that you're everything to me... but I never got to because I was much of a coward to even say those to you face on. I've always admired it at how you have the courage to say things straightly to a person, you know? I've always wanted to show you how much I cared for you, I've always wanted to show you how much I appreciated you and all your efforts, I've always wanted to show you how much you mean to me... and now it's too late."

"I never... did imagine that I'd be living in a world without your smile, without your laughs, without your cheerfulness, without you. Sorry I've never showed you, or told you... because I assumed that you'd always be there." he wiped his tears, trying to compose himself, for he was in front of everyone, speaking, so he should at least try to hold back his tears as much as he can. "I guess you could say that I took your presence for granted; but... I always cared. And now I already miss you a lot, I miss your smile, your laugh, your everything... my world."

"...sorry I've never told you, everything that I wanted to say." he said, his voice turning into sobs. "I... just always had thought... that we would be together... always... forever."

And he mourned and grieved and cried for his beloved... and for the forever that had been taken from them.

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