Droplet 2
"Gwey~" a small voice called to Gray. He felt a light tugging down on the hem of his coat.
He glanced down from his Ice popsicle. "Yeah?"
Little Juvia's mouth pursed forward, her eyes squinted as she looked down on her small nose.
Gray chuckled lightly as he wiped the ice cream off her cute nose using the back of his hand. "There you go." He half-smiled.
Little Juvia offered him a big smile before returning on her Ice cream.
"It's weird. Really, really weird to look at you two." Natsu commented, his palm pressed on his jaw as he examined the duo in front of them.
Lucy on the other hand smiled, not taking her brown eyes off of Juvia.
"Hi," she waved a small hand at the small girl. Lil Juvia looked up to her and offered Lucy a quick beam of smile returning quickly on her food.
"Aww!" Coo-ed the blonde mage. "How old are you?" She asked in a small voice.
Lil Juvia gazed at her once again, her lips covered in ice cream. She held up four tiny, chubby fingers and mouthed: "Fow."
"Aww!" Lucy squealed, hitting Natsu in the arm.
Gray smirked, looking down at Juvia.
"You should put her hair into a ponytail, Gray." Lucy suggested as she saw how troubled lil Juvia is with her curly hair. The said child was now covered in Ice cream, her hair, which is now sticky was on her face.
Gray's brows was drawn forward as he told lil Juvia to face him. The girl obediently bobbed her small head up and down, her face innocently staring at him.
He gently wiped the cuff of his sleeves on Juvia cheeks. Juvia scrunched her nose and sneezed.
"I think you already had enough." He told her softly, peeling her small fingers on the ice cream cone she was holding.
Her large eyes blinked then her lips opened, gaping as she saw Gray took her ice cream away.
"N-no..." she sobbed and moments later she cried again.
Gray's eyes widened, "H-hey!"
His sudden reaction made the child's cry grew louder. "Wwaaah~!" her small hands were formed into small fists, covering her tear-stained eyes.
"My aysh kwim~" she cried and Gray immediately hugged the little girl.
"S-shh!" He rubbed her small head and the action made her curly hair tangle even more.
He felt a sticky substance on his hands. "Sht," he whispered to himself. But Lil Juvia looked up to him, the corner of her lips drawn downward.
"Awr you mad, " she hiccuped, " t-to Juvya?"
Gray bit his bottom lip. What the hell did happened to his life?
"Juvya want aysh-" her words were cut off when she bursted into a fit of cry, and Gray for a moment noticed the heavy downpour of the rain outside.
This moody child!
"O-okay..." he muttered, blushing healthily as he noticed how most of his guildmates were staring at them.
"Go Daddy Gray!" Someone yelled.
He glanced at the direction of the voice, his mouth forming cursed words at the one he suspected on shouting.
Juvia suddenly stopped. Her arms wrapped around Gray's torso.
"H-hey?" he looked down and saw the little girl napping on his chest.
"I didn't know that Juvia sleeps alot after she cry." Lucy spoke, eyeing them with a raised brow.
"At least she shuts up." Natsu scowled, he was obviously not entertained with the little Juvia.
"Gray, you should take her home. She looks tired." Lucy suggested, patting his arm lightly. "Goodluck!"
Gray released an exasperated sigh, embracing lil Juvia as he carried her into his arms.
...
Lil Juvia woke up as soon as Gray entered his house.
There's no way that anyone could help him bring Juvia to her own apartment. And in this state, wherein she couldn't handle herself was not a good choice to leave her alone.
And now, there she is... Staring with her large eyes wonderingly at his own house.
In fact, it was only Natsu who had been in there and now... Juvia.
Gray put her down and let her walk on her own. He noticed as he removed his coat off, that Juvia was careful not to move a single muscle on her spot.
He kneeled beside her, ruffling her already messy hair. "You'lle be staying here for a while."
Juvia shifted her large blue eyes to him, unblinking.
One, two, three heartbeats after, Gray was caught off guard as the little girl put her arms around his neck.
He smiled faintly at Juvia's action. He pulled away first and his heart felt tight inside his chest when he saw lil Juvia smiling up at him. Her eyes were wide and innocent. He couldn't fathom but she looks at him with such pure emotions.
She maybe in the body of a child, but it's still Juvia. She's still the shy yet aggresive (when it comes to him.) girl he knew, the one who only looks at him with such affectionate gaze.
Gray rolled his eyes in defeat. Fine, he was already aware of the water mage's feelings for him, but he still don't know how to understand things like this. Of course, he experienced the light fluttering of the chest everytime he sees someone attractive but Juvia's different. She's on a different level, and he knew that she's still leveling up.
She released him and pulled away as well, her hands were clutched behind her.
Gray looked at her quietly before scrunching his nose. "You're smelly."
Juvia blinked, raising her left arm and sniffing her armpit. Gray noticed her ice cream-stained sleeves.
She's still wearing her usual dark blue dress, the white furry neckline of it was now pink and it had some sprinkles of candy.
"You should take a bath and change." He told her and Lil Juvia run up to him. She held her arms upward.
"What?" Asked Gray, blinking confusedly.
"Bath! Bath! Bath!" She cheered enthusiastically, punching the air upwards as she jumped excitedly.
Gray stilled and slowly his face went into different shades of red.
"O-oh," he blinked. Juvia blinked as well, beaming broadly at him.
"Lesh go!" Juvia exclaimed as she giggled to herself.
Gray gulped nervously, "Uhm," his eyes staring anywhere but her.
"Hmm..."
"...!"
Tilting her head to the side, she frowned.
"Bath?" She asked puzzledly.
Gray huffed, sighing determiningly as he closed his eyes, reaching for the hem of Juvia's dress.
...
Gray felt that he would faint at any minute, he doesn't know how to fcking bathe someone! And Mavis, this one's a child! A girl! She's Juvia!
For a minute he was glad that his mind worked and he suggested if she can do it by herself, or maybe let her water magic do it.
Unfortunately, baby Juvia doesn't know how to. And alas! She's not aware of her Mage powers.
Thinking of his childhood, he learned his Ice magic around when he was already eight or maybe ten years old. And the Lil Juvia in front of him was a small and helpless, four year old child only.
Gray swore that he didn't look anywhere but on her blue hair. He can also assure you that he shampoo-ed Juvia's hair very well.
"Ya~hoooo!" The little girl laughed as she raised both of her arms in the air. Gray chuckled, putting an over-sized, white t-shirt on her.
Lil Juvia frowned as Gray dressed her with the shirt, she wiggled her body and Gray couldn't help but laugh.
"Juvya... Arms? Where?" She pouted, staring puzzledly on her side. Gray blinked and upon realizing that her arms were not properly placed on the shirt's arm hole, he immediately assisted her, he exhaled thankfully when he finally saw her satisfied smile.
The girl bowed her head at him. "Thank youw, Gwey~" she grinned.
Gray smiled at her, patting her wet head. "Now come on and let's dry your hair."
He gently massaged the child's blue hair with a towel, and Juvia squirmed below him.
She was sitting on the floor, while Gray was on the sofa. Her chin was resting on his lap, both her hands were placed firmly below her face.
He was now combing her blue curls when he heard the young lady sighed.
He peered down on her and saw her half-lidded eyes fighting to keep her consciousness awake.
He patted her back and lil Juvia snored.
Gray smirked. He didn't know that he would be encountering this part of Juvia. She's so fragile that Gray was afraid to touch her because he might break her frail bones or what.
He put the brush down beside him as his other hand remained patting lil Juvia's small back. He pulled her towards him and carried her into his bedroom.
His eyes darkened when he saw how messy his room was. Clothes were everywhere, and he grimaced when he saw one of his boxers laying on one of his pillows.
Gray immediately removed everything on top of his bed before placing the sleeping child on it. She stirred for a second and Gray was fast enough to pat her shoulder this time. He was now humming a familiar tune he heard from Happy.
He smiled contentedly when he saw Juvia's chubby arms embracing his pillow when she turned on her side, her back facing him.
He silently walked out of the door, his eyes never leaving the sleeping girl.
He picked up her dress which was forgotten at the living room and looked around.
The handsome, resident Ice mage of the town's best guild needs some cleaning to do for now.
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