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For who I am not, not what I am

Chapter four

"What do you MEAN you're not going to get married to Lucy? Do you know how long we planned for this wedding? Now you're telling us you fell in love with a maid?! How could you? How could you disgrace us like that? STOP YOUR STUPID SMIRKING!" Natsu couldn't help it, he found it all really funny. He just sat on the sofa shrugging his shoulders as Erza, Gray and Lucy sat around them. The Queen sighed in frustration as she rubbed at her temples.

The message had finally gotten to Natsu's parents about his decision on marrying Lucy. They had immediately made their way out to see their only son and his mother wasn't at all happy with his choice. Lucy shrunk back as she held onto Gray's hand. She didn't want to be the subject of anger for the Queen right now.

"Lighten up would ya?! I have someone else in mind that I really want to get married to. Well, I like her and she likes me back. So what if she's a maid?"

His mum made a noise that was so similar to a depressed whale. The King was just sitting there the whole time looking like he was trying to sleep. When his wife went on a rampage, you let her do so until she calms down.

"Yes, a maid! A MAID?! Natsu, what are you doing with yourself?! You're a Prince who is next in line for the throne and you want to marry some commoner?! I have never heard of such a thing. No, we have already set up another marriage."

Natsu stood up in anger, steam erupting from his nose and the same with his mother. Her hands were set alight as a warning to show Natsu that she was still his mother, Queen or not.

"Why do I have to marry someone because of their nobility?! Why can't I choose and marry someone for love because I'm pretty sure they would make a better wife! She'll be way more down to Earth and let's face it, I'm not exactly the type of guy a girl wants! I'm a mess and many people would think that I'm the commoner!"

Natsu was furious. He didn't want to have to deal with this. His eyes flittered over to his dad, as though he was asking for his help, but he knew he wasn't going to butt in. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

"I don't care about what you want, I know what's right for you. Now, thanks to you, I had to plan another marriage."

Natsu's eyes darkened and his three friends wondered if it was still okay to be in the room seeing as this was clearly a family issue.

His mother nodded. "Yes. I have invited over the Water Emperor and Empress. Please bring them through, Erza-chan." Erza bowed and walked out of the door. Natsu glared at his mother, not even believing his luck. He had just about had enough. What was wrong with a maid? A beautiful, down to earth maid?! She didn't even seem to be after his title!

"Everyone, the Water Emperor and Empress."

Erza pushed open the door and bowed once again before letting in the only two people in the world to have the highest status. Natsu, Gray and Natsu's parents were the only ones excused from bowing down to them as the four of them were royalty, but Lucy had to bow.

Natsu looked over at the two royalties. The Empress looked familiar, but he couldn't put his hand on it. He knew that most people from the Water Empire had blue hair, hence why Juvia had blue hair.

"Emperor and Empress, please come and sit." The man and the woman smiled at everyone there before taking a seat.

"I must say Ikaruga, you kitted your son out very well. He has a lovely home." Before anything else could happen, both the Queen and Empress were soon talking to one another. A bell was rung and suddenly maids and servants started wheeling in some food.

"I've called you both here because I would like to discuss marriage terms. Our son has just given up marrying Lady Lucy, so we were wondering if we can set up marriage terms with your daughter and our son?" Natsu's face fell and the Empress shot him a sympathetic look very quickly.

"Oh, well Queen Ikaruga, you see the thing is we've just set our daughter free. We didn't really have her betrothed to anyone so we told her she can go anywhere and find someone to get married to. In fact, we don't even know where she is."

The Queen of the Fire Land almost looked disgusted and Natsu was amazed. He didn't know and Empress would have such views! "But don't worry, if she can't find a husband, she'll probably be open to the request." Natsu's mother nodded her head before the King spoke up.

"What's your daughter's name again?"

At the same time , the said person walked into the room, pushing a cart of food.

"Juvia."

"Mother? Father?" All eyes looked up to see a blue haired maid standing there. Natsu stood up in surprise. Now he knew why the Empress looked so familiar! She was an older version of Juvia! Wait, so that meant she was a Princess and not a maid?!

"Juvia?!" His confused cry made Juvia's head snap over in his direction and they stared at each other in surprise. Erza sighed deeply. She had wanted to avoid Natsu finding it out this way.

Then her parents stood up. "Juvia, you came here?"

Then Lucy finally understood. It made sense as to why the glittering rain was falling over the Fire Land. Clearly, something must have happened that made Juvia so upset.

"You acted like a maid to find the perfect husband, right?" Juvia nodded, her eyes never leaving Natsu. He looked hurt and quite angry.

"You lied to me?" His voice cracked and she tried to come forward to console him. After 3 weeks of not speaking to one another and then patching it up, she didn't want something else to happen that would ruin their chances yet again. But she knew this day was coming, she just thought that she would get the chance to tell him.

"No, Natsu, Juvia can explain!" He shook his head and moved away from her, tears welling up in both their eyes. The only difference was that Natsu had tears of anger and Juvia had tears of sadness. The tears of the Princess was about to fall down once again.

"Don't. Don't even bother. You know, I thought you were truthful, that I knew the real you. I guess that was all fake. What was the Water Empire trying to do, show us up?" Juvia looked at all the faces around her before she bolted out of the room. She felt sick and it was like the room was going to start spinning of she didn't leave soon. Her mother quickly took off her heels and raised her dress.

"Juvia! Excuse me, Ikaruga, Igneel."

Natsu gritted his teeth as he just stormed out of the room and his dad stood up. "I'll talk to him, Ikaruga." The Queen sighed and nodded her head, giving her husband a kiss on the cheek.

"Come, Emperor, let us head to the dining room." They both left, leaving Erza, Lucy and Gray.

"I always hated that girl, ever since I stepped into her bucket of water." Gray scowled when he remembered that day. Hard to believe that that was over a month ago.

Lucy shook her head at him. "Juvia is a really kind person. I've met her a few times through her cousin who is a good friend of mine. It's a shame, all the guys just either use her to be the next Emperor or money. I guess it's understandable to come to a place where you're not known and try to get someone to marry you. But because it's Juvia and she has always had low self esteem, I bet she was never planning on catching Natsu's eye."

The other two kept their mouths shut and Erza felt bad. She should have told Natsu herself or at least made Natsu stay a while longer before he came to see his parents. She was shaken out of her thoughts when she heard the door open. She saw blue hair and then a tattoo. She gasped.

"Jellal?!"

He pushed the door open and opened his arms out wide for her. She ran into him and they hugged the life out of each other. "It's me in the flesh, Erza."

"But how are you here?"

"Well the Princess sent over a message saying that while she's out of the empire, I can have time off!"

Erza's jaw dropped. Juvia had actually done this for her. Her eyes fell to the ground as she was ashamed of herself and her thoughts towards Juvia when she first came across her. She took back every bad thing she ever said about Juvia. She did deserve Natsu. Jellal noticed.

"What's wrong?"

Erza explained to him all that has gone on and he shook his head. "You'll have to get Natsu-sama to talk to Juvia. You'll have to tell him to give Juvia-hime a chance to explain herself. I know the Princess will never do anything to intentionally hurt him."

Erza sighed and nodded. It was probably for the best.


Juvia opened her bedroom door with the tears flying about. She then opened her wardrobe door and gathered all her clothes before throwing them back into the suitcase. She had messed up and it would just be better if she just went back with her parents.

"Juvia honey, calm down!"

Her daughter ignored her as she sniffed and sobbed while doing the task at hand.

"No, Natsu-sama probably hates Juvia right now because Juvia lied to him after he said that Juvia felt real to him! Juvia can't calm down! Juvia loves him, mother! But now Juvia's messed it up. Please don't go along with the wedding arrangement. Juvia will just go back home and marry some guy."

Her mother grabbed her shoulders and shook her hard as though she were desperate to shake some sense into her head.

"Now you listen to me! You're a Lockser and around here, we marry based on love and it has to be true love from both parties! I don't want you to get married to some you don't love just because you think it's your duty, meanwhile I don't want some guy marrying you for the fame! Honey, talk to Natsu! I'm sure he's willing to let you talk, it was just his pain leading him before."

She wiped away her daughter's tears as juvia looked to the ground trying to stop her hiccups. "Now let's go and find Natsu."

~x~

The King followed his son, the clues that led to where his son had just stormed down and he found him beating up a sparring dummy. Igneel could see that his son was so angry and his fire was wild and out of control. He stood in the doorway for a while, watching the Prince beat up the dummy until there was almost nothing left of it. Eventually he got tired of waiting for the young man to calm down and he inhaled deeply and Natsu's flames then made their way up Igneel's nose. Natsu blinked, his anger momentarily forgotten before he turned to see his father standing there. He had almost forgotten about how strong his father was.

"Calmer now son?"

Natsu didn't speak, but he huffed and shrugged his shoulders, wanting to be angrier for longer, but it felt like it was just fizzling away now. He sighed and turned away from his dad.

"Yeah, I'm calm now."

The King didn't say anything as he just stepped further into the training room. He just paced around, waiting for his son to continue talking and Natsu knew that he was waiting for him to talk.

"I'm just...disappointed-"

"Don't forget angry."

Natsu turned his head sharply to glare at his dad. "Dad, don't interrupt me. Not when you just gave me a chance to talk."

The red haired man smiled sheepishly at his son. They were both a lot alike. You know what they say, like father like son.

"Anyway, I was just angry and disappointed that she would lie to me. All this time, I had been calling her real and truthful. I thought that I could act like myself around her, no formalities, nothing. It was so simple to talk to her, although she did insist on calling me 'Natsu-sama'. I mean, what if they're two sides to her? I got to know Juvia the maid, not the Princess."

His dad hummed under his breath as though he was trying to figure something out. "But that means you fell in love with the fact that she was a maid, a girl so simple and plain, and that you didn't fall in love with Juvia then, because her true self is a Princess and not a maid."

"What are you talking about, of course I fell in love with Juvia!"

His dad hummed again and Natsu found it annoying. Although his mother was a complete hothead, much like he is, his dad was calm. Once annoyed, his dad could probably blow up the whole land.

"Then why should it be any different is you've just found out that she's a Princess then? If she were a snotty brat, do you really think it would have been easy for her to reduce herself to a common maid? Did you hear her grumble at all when she was doing any of her work? Plus, Juvia is a quiet soul, rarely ever seen in her Empire. She didn't want to catch your attention, but she got it. You gave it to her son."

Natsu stayed silent for a while, mulling it over in his head. His dad was right. He somehow had this instinct where he could sense the intentions of someone, and Juvia's had felt pure, though with a little cloud of confusion.

"I think that you should give a chance to explain. Poor girl was so overwhelmed by your anger she just ran out. Are you seriously going to lose your future wife over a simple thing as a title?"

Natsu sighed. "I guess not-WAIT, WHAT?! MY WIFE?!"

The King sighed. "Well yes, your wife. Stop acting like you wouldn't want to marry her."

Natsu wanted to argue, but he ended up blushing instead. His dad grinned at him, knowing fully well that he had just caught him out.

"What are you still doing here?"

Natsu looked at his dad with the most confused expression ever.

"What?"

"You have a future wife to talk to and you're here, talking to your old man?! Get out before I fry your arse!"

Natsu's eyes widened as he started screaming and running out of the room, his father-the King-hot on his tails. (A/N: I am on FIRE with my puns. Lol, there goes another one) "I'm 22! I'm a grown man, not a 5 year old! You can't do this to me!"

"A man? Yeah right, you're acting like Juvia has the plague!" Natsu groaned before his dad stopped chasing him, laughing his head off.

"I'm just messing with ya son. Now go, you really upset her though I'm sure she knows she upset you too."

Natsu nodded his head before walking away from his father. He knew that Juvia would most likely want to tell him about what she did and there's only place she would want to do that...


Juvia sat by the waterfall where she always used to go to at night whenever she had the time. She knew that Natsu would have come here sooner or later and she was right. She saw him coming and she quickly stood up, still in her maid outfit. She smoothed out her hair before looking at him. He stopped about 5 meters away from her.

"Juvia..."

He was trying to act act cold by giving her the cold shoulder, but it wasn't working. He didn't know how Gray managed to make it work, but he did. It didn't work with him though. This was still the same woman that he had come to love. He was just hurt, hurt that he was lied to.

"Natsu-sama..."

He was surprised. "Why are you still calling me 'Natsu-sama,' when you're a Princess?"

Juvia shrugged. "Because...Juvia doesn't really know...It just, ugh! This is hard to explain!" Natsu couldn't deny it, but Juvia looked really cute as she was getting frustrated by her own words and not knowing how to explain just something so small.

"Why don't you explain from the beginning then." He came closer to her and sat down on the bench and motioned for her to join him. She sat down gingerly as she tried to keep to herself. Natsu saw this and sat down closer to her. He was supposed to be mad at her, but he didn't want to be anymore.

"Juvia is 21 now and she needs to get married to carry on the line for the throne. Juvia's parents want her to get married based on love, not an arranged married, but they gave Juvia a 1 year deadline. The only problem was that Juvia isn't beautiful compared to all the other nobles in the Water Empire, so no man was attracted to Juvia and no one caught Juvia's eyes in return. Besides, most people were only Juvia's friend because she's the Princess."

(A/N: Gosh, the amount of times I've had Juvia explain why she's in the Fire Land is bloody annoying and if it's not getting on your nerves, it's getting on mine! I'm not doing it again, I promise)

Natsu raised his hand up to make Juvia look at him. His hand rested under her chin and he turned her head. Her light blue eyes fell on his dark obsidian orbs. All his anger had vanished and he held nothing but true love for Juvia.

"Well I'm glad that they didn't catch your eyes or you caught theirs because that would mean that you wouldn't be sitting next to me right now and I don't want that at all. I don't care. I was just hurt that you didn't tell me who you really were, but now I know the truth, I'm definitely going to go on with my love for you. Remember what I said before? I'll love you no matter what."

Juvia's mouth was a perfect 'o' shape as she watched him. "But Juvia thought that Natsu-sama would be angry with Juvia! Juvia was lying the whole time, she's everything Natsu-sama doesn't want."

She couldn't look at his face anymore as she just looked away from his dark eyes.

"At first, I was so angry with you. I had called you real, so truthful! But I guess you weren't. I was wondering why you would want to treat me like that. But then I thought about it. You genuinely didn't want my love even though I kept on pushing it to you. You were truthful about everything except from your title and I could understand that. Hell, I would have done the same thing if my mum was actually letting me get married to who I want to."

Juvia bit her lip and looked up at him again. Natsu grabbed a hold of her hand. "I really really like you Juvia." He cupped her cheek and brought his face closer to hers so that their noses were almost touching one another.

"And Juvia really really likes Natsu-sama." She smiled at him before his lips gently brushed hers. It was a very gentle kiss and they both couldn't have asked for something any better. The passion that they both had was enough. The butterflies that exploded within their stomach felt good.

"Yes! They both kissed! Finally!"

The pair pulled apart so quickly as they looked at the hedge behind them.

"Shhh Erza! They're going to know that we're here!" Juvia wanted to face palm at the Knight. Jellal only seemed to do stupid things every time he thought about Erza. Clearly them being together like this now would be a huge mistake.

Natsu made sure they knew that he knew they were there. He smirked at Juvia. "Watch this..." He lciked his fingers in the direction of the bush and it set alight, making four people run out of them.

"HEY?! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" Erza wasn't happy at all. He almost singed her clothes! She had to look good for Jellal here!

"Oh yeah? What was it you said about 'you didn't want to intrude'? What are you doing now? Oh yeah that's right, INTRUDING!"

Juvia couldn't help but giggle and Natsu threw her a grin of his. Erza went red and Lucy just dragged them all away. "I knew it was a bad idea. Let's get going anyway." She waved at them Prince and Princess.

"Lucy, what are you talking about? It was your idea?"

"Sh-shut up Gray!"

Natsu shook his head at their back and he sighed. It felt good that he could now be with Juvia out in the open. Now he didn't have to keep on pleasing people. That and Juvia now had no excuse to not be with him. She could no longer pull that 'but Juvia is a maid' crap on him anymore.

"We should get going now." He took her hand and she clasped it gladly. She smiled up at him and he couldn't help but notice how innocent she was. Even through her lies, she hadn't done it maliciously making her seem like she was the one in the right. Well Natsu didn't care about that anymore. He was just happy that he could be with Juvia and his mother won't try to kill her.

"Time to go and tell my mum!"

Juvia paled. That woman was scary.


So? How was it? Yes I know, very poorly done. I don't know what's going on lately. It's just pure nonsense now. Hmnm, I wonder what it is. Maybe it's because I'm rushing through it because I know that I have my exams on Tuesday and it's Psychology (omfg guys, I have a PSYCHOLOGY EXAM ON FUCKING TUESDAY!)

I'm freaking out! Am I ready? Well I feel like I am, so yeah! Ugh lol. I wish I could just stay home and write all the time. Finish my stories that need completing and write in more detail, but alas. We have this thing education that is seen as important. Ergh whatever. Anyone who has exams around this time, good luck to you as well! Hope you all get good grades because I need good grades if I wanna pass this year and then go university next year!

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