"They are late…" the girl played with her food as she used the spoon to move the rice right and left in the white plate. "Natsumi and Gray are late."

The barmaid moved her head away from her sight to look at the girl in front of her to realize how bored she acted. She smiled and opened her mouth to talk.

"What? You miss the cute Natsumi already?"

"I'm worried about her." The girl whined as she snapped her head to the mage thinking of her friend who was different from the one she knew.

"My, my… what if she had gotten in trouble already?" Mirajane said with a scared look on her face as she looked at the blonde.

"Mira-san, stop that already. I'm dead worried about her but I believe that she's still as strong as she was." She replied to Mira's fear and then looked down at the table she had before her. "I just hope she is fine."

The barmaid nodded her head as she smiled brightly. "I believe that even Juvia can handle anything, that's why Natsumi will."


She was silent.

He kept looking at her all the time as she was eating, drinking, walking and everything. The guy felt really bad to see something like that, he felt bad to see that sad expression on her face. He felt that he did a very big mistake when he treated her harshly because she didn't deserve that. When he thinks about how soft and sensitive she became he regrets being mean to her but on the other side, he starts to blame himself of how bad he treated Juvia back then.

The blue haired girl didn't deserve to be treated harshly because all she did was only that she loved him. She was trying so hard to get his attention by expressing her feelings in so many ways but she always ended up being ignored by him and that's why the first thing she did when she turned into the other character was to attack him. He bets that she hates him now. And if she turned back and she kept on hating him, it will leave a bad taste in his mouth as well.

He just realized something. If she turns back to her old cute self and she kept on hating him, Natsumi will turn back to her old self and she will keep on loving him! He snapped his head to look at the girl before him while blushing furiously. Was this even possible?

Gray started to imagine himself in a relationship with the wild Natsumi. She would hug him so tightly that she'll break his bones. Or if he ever tries to kiss her on her lips, she would end up burning his own ones. Thinking of that sent shivers down his spine as he wanted to clear his mind of these thoughts about something like that immediately.

He looked at the girl to realize that she was eating silently and looking at her food. He might prefer the version of Natsumi now as well but the life would never be peaceful to him since it would have Juvia picking fights with him whenever he went.

Shit, it was hard to think about that.

Both of them started walking out of the place looking at different spots as they didn't meet each other's eyes. Gray glanced at the girl that was walking next to him to realize that annoyed look in her face that was begging him to start talking. Yeah, he did a terrible thing to her and had to apologize to her as well but because he was confused and didn't know what he was put in he became like that. He let out a heavy sigh and opened his mouth to talk.

"Ne, Natsumi." He called and she moved her head slowly to look at him with that annoyed look. His sweat dropped and paused while looking at her, he then gulped trying to continue his talk. "Y-You look angry…!"

"I'm getting angry even when I'm in this version." She frowned at him and that made her cute which made him blushes seeing that cute expression.

"T-Then you don't miss your old character?"

The girl stopped walking and moved her head to look at the sky thinking of what he asked. Did she miss her old self or she didn't?

"I do miss it and I don't." the girl announced which made him a little taken by the moment as he saw the soft breeze that came throwing her hair to the front side which made her look beautiful. What had turned into him to feel like that?

"T-That's…" the girl smiled and stepped in front of the black haired guy then grinned.

"You won't hate me if I stayed like that, will you?"

The guy looked at her face that smiled at him. It was the first time he sees her smiling like that. Maybe he had seen her smiling to others and didn't really focus on it but how beautiful her smile was. She was so pretty that he had became charmed by her beautifulness and lost himself. Maybe all these things happened because he needed to realize something deep down inside of him. He needed to realize how beautiful she was and needed to realize something else but, he doesn't get it himself. Why did he suddenly zone out when he saw her peaceful smile? Why is that happening to him and now?! For that smile? Natsumi was always smiling so if he liked her because of her smile, it wouldn't be because of her character change, then what?

"Gray-sama… Gray-sama!" the boy snapped his head towards her as he was pulled out of the world he was in. What happened? He looked at her face to realize that she had puffed her cheeks with air and narrowed her eyes annoyed of how he ignored her. Gray gulped as he tried to snap himself out of this world and think of another thing. "You're ignoring me! You're hating me?!"

He sighed and turned his eyes back to his cold one as he looked at her. He walked and passed by her as he raised his hand to pat her head.

"Why would I hate you?" he stated as he walked and tried to act cool. He prayed to God that he's going to make it out of here alive and conceal the rest inside of himself.

Natsumi looked at the space as he touched her head. She blushed furiously as she kept looking at the front. It was a very simple thing but, it meant a lot to her. It feels like her dream had come true. She moved her head to look at the back of his head as he walked slowly. She smiled and ran to him attacking him with a back hug which made him surprised.

"Huh!"

She buried her head in his back hiding her red face as she squeezed her hands around his chest.

"N-Natsumi, c-cut it out! W-We're around people!" they weren't really around a lot of people and those people weren't even looking at them and didn't know them as well but Gray was only afraid to be exposed as he was getting embarrassed.

"Just… let me have this moment, please." The girl begged as she squeezed her hands on his covered chest which made her look pathetic in his eyes and wanted to grant her wish. He sighed and gave up struggling.

"You're… so different." He caught her attention but didn't move her head away from his back as she heard him while hiding her face. "You're different from Natsumi I knew… I don't hate you but, I kind of like her more…" it was supposed to hurt her but it didn't. He didn't know what he was saying because he said that without even thinking.

"Nothing… is different." She exclaimed surprising him of her response and then she paused for seconds. She squeezed his chest again and he heard her taking a deep breath through her nose.

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing is different… my feelings didn't change into this. They were like that since the start." The man's eyes shot wide as he became shocked of what he heard just a second ago. He grabbed her hand parting them from him and turned his body to look at her face to see that her face was super red.

"N-Natsumi… w-what do you mean?"

The girl moved her eyes to look at the ground anxious for the moment as she felt so embarrassed for saying something like that. She let go of her breath as she decided to talk but without looking at his face.

"I-I've always had those feelings… since I was child."

"Huh?"

He didn't believe what he was hearing. This girl was definitely not Natsumi the one who hates him and always fights with him.

"This character didn't change my feelings because I loved you before everything happens." She moved her eyes to look at him with a determined and embarrassed look. She gulped and was about to talk but he talked first.

"G-Good j-joke…! I don't believe it!" The man yelled as he felt the heat rising to his face while he heard that. What was happening? He didn't know at all.

"I'm not joking, Gray-sama!"

"Don't call me –sama!"

"I'm not joking," the pink haired lady looked at him with innocent eyes. Then a smile curled on her lips as she looked at his red face. "I… I know that I'm definitely going to regret what I said when I go back to my old self but… it's my only chance to tell the feelings I had concealed all along."

Natsumi walked slowly to where he stood and stared at his eyes. She was speechless as he was in such a moment and both of their eyes talked instead. Then, the girl closed her eyes and put her weight in her toes as she made herself taller to reach his lips. She pressed her lips against his and kissed him and that what made Gray shocked and didn't breathe. He felt like he was dying at that moment and kept looking at her closed eyes.

The girl parted off as she looked into his eyes to find that he had already zoned.

"G-Gray…"

She didn't hear him breathe as she got more embarrassed with his reaction. His eyes were wide enough and his face was burning. Why? Why did she do that? Why did she kiss him? Why did she say that she love him? Why did she say that she always did? Why?

Gray suddenly lost himself and fell down on the ground due to less oxygen which made him look really stupid though.

"Gray!" the girl quickly hurried to him to see what has happened to him to see that he had passed out already. She blushed because she felt really stupid because he reacted like that and that really annoyed her so much. She lowered her body and forced him to sit up and wrapped his arms around of her shoulders and started walking.

"Such a jerk!"


The man opened his eyes to meet the white ceiling. This ceiling was definitely familiar to him. Yes, it's his room's ceiling. He sat up on his spot and looked around. He realized that this bed was also familiar. It was his bed. But, how did he reach here? What happened to him last night that made him reach here?

Gray rubbed his head through his hair messing it. He tried to remember what happened last night and suddenly, he remembered how Natsumi looked like. He suddenly remembered the kiss she gave him. He panicked and stood off the bed reaching the nearest mirror to him. Gray gulped as he remembered what happened before he passed out yesterday.

The ice mage squeezed his eyes shut and brought both of his hands to mess his hair trying to get this thought of his mind. He opened his eyes to look around of him and started to wonder what brought him here, he doesn't remember at all.

"What happened to me yesterday?"

"Was it a dream?"

The man looked at the space as he felt happy knowing that was a dream and got sudden satisfaction. He smiled and was about to move on but suddenly remembered that he passed out last night. He became pale.

"What the hell?!"

The man started heating up as he felt so embarrassed of what had happened. He wanted to dig himself a hole in the wall and hide in. He was not cool at all. He just wants to die!

After suffering the whole thing, he moved his head to look at the mirror to see himself one more time. He realized that his right side of his forehead was red and swollen so tried to remember anything but unfortunately he couldn't. Maybe he had hit something when he was coming back home.

Well, that doesn't matter anymore but what mattered now that, how is he going to face Natsumi after all this!


He just entered the guild hall through the door and looked around of him with searching for the girl that had stolen his thoughts since the morning. While he was thinking of her and looking in some different place, the barmaid called over his name which shocked him.

"Gray…" she called and that shocked him and made him snap his head towards her with wide eyes and red face like he was caught red handed thinking of her. Gray gulped and started to walk slowly towards the bar to see the barmaid smiling at him.

"Good morning, we've good news!" Lucy exclaimed as she saw him and didn't wait for him to sit.

"You should've waited for him to sit down and drink some tea or something." The barmaid smirked as she saw that questionable face that the black haired ice mage had.

"What? What is it?"

"We knew how much you wanted that to finish Gray and we knew you'd definitely get happy to hear that." Lucy said.

"So what is it?!" he insisted impatient to know what was that thing.

"Natsumi and Juvia finally turned back to their selves." He raised both brows as he looked at the blonde then looked back at the barmaid to make sure of it, the girl nodded her head.

"It was a hard thing I pitied you!" Lucy tried to hold laughter.

"Really? But I had really fun though," Mira giggled.

"Then… where's Natsumi… and Juvia?"

"It's rare for you to ask for Natsumi first." The barmaid stated with an innocent tone which made him a little annoyed and then, she opened her mouth to talk again. "Natsumi had taken a mission since the morning and Juvia is in the infirmary."

"What? Infirmary!" the man snapped.

"Well you see, she became so wild yesterday and took a real hard job though and wanted to deal with it by herself and now, she ended up in the infirmary and she definitely regrets it." the man was shocked of what he heard and didn't know how to react though. She regretted what she did when she was wild, does Natsumi regret confessing to him even after he discovered that her feelings were always like that? But how can he believe that the girl that was always fighting with him and doing all these things had always loved him and since childhood? Excuse me, how come?

Suddenly, the guild's door burst opened revealing a tall pink haired lady entering through the door with her blue car smiling all over and showing off her muscles.

"The best thing is to be back to the home!" she yelled as she threw her arms in the air.

"You came back quickly." A man in the side of the guild stated as he watched her walking in.

"Of course, it's an easy mission though." She smiled and continued walking.

"Aaah, I miss the cute quiet Natsumi!" Another guy stated and she sent him a deadly glare. Then, she walked to where the bar was greeting everyone there. Her eyes landed on the black haired guy as both of them shared a look. She didn't remove her eyes off him for several seconds and then, when she felt that he started to feel anxious, she moved her eyes away.

"Miraaaaa~ I'm so hungry, feed me before I die!"

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To be continued

Stay tuned, the next chap will be the last one.