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

She sat down ignoring him and that made him a little shocked since he found out that she has returned to her old wild self. No, she's going to be like that since he was so stupid and passed out yesterday.

He glanced at her face and realized that she was smiling brightly which made his heart flutter. What was happening to him? Why he was getting nervous around her like that? He didn't know anything. He just looked back at the ground that was beneath him thinking of how his life turned upside down because of this lady. He sighed and then stood up; he decided to go to see the blue haired girl.

Gray started to walk where the infirmary was not realizing the pair of eyes that were following him. Natsumi was looking at the black haired guy as he disappeared of her eyesight. She wasn't annoyed or angry at him because of what happened the last night, she knew that he would definitely get shocked because of her confession but, she just couldn't believe her eyes when she saw how stupid he acted when he passed out.

"Natsumi… Natsumi!" the girl snapped her head towards the voice's direction to see that Lucy was calling her name because she wanted to talk to her. "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing," She amended her sitting position to look at her. "What do you want?"

"What I was saying is-" the pink haired girl looked down at her lap spacing out leaving the blonde talking with her own. Yesterday was a definitely very important day in her life and she tried to use it for her future and she used it right but unfortunately, she didn't get a proper response, she didn't even get any response. What the ice mage acted like was something she never liked and his reaction was definitely the worst.

Yesterday, she did a thing that was definitely out of her character. She had returned to her old character after eating in the restaurant but she didn't say that to him. She acted that she is the same quiet one not the wild one though. She wanted to show him her feelings in that version because she knows that he won't like the wild one and that's why she asked if he's gonna hate her. And when he answered that he won't hate her, she became happy and hugged him and that made her super embarrassed and as a prize, she kissed him.

Actually, Natsumi's character is not only the character of wild and noisy one. She's the one who conceals everything deep inside of her heart and never shows it to anyone. She even managed to hide her feelings for Gray for around 5 or 6 years and kept picking up fights with him like he was an enemy hiding the most important fact about them; she always believed that he will never return back her feelings.

Well, that's a very good thing to do. It's a miracle to hide these feelings even when they are so damn strong. But because she turned to the obvious character, she couldn't control over her character and told him and she definitely regrets it and she never wanted to do it.

She sighed heavily as she started hopeless because love brought her down. If she was just like people think of her, the wild one that doesn't know anything about love. No, she does know but she just can't confess like other girls can, she doesn't have the courage to stand before the one she loves and tell him what she feels.

She suddenly stood up off her place shocking those people who were sitting around of her.

"Natsumi, where are you going?"

"I… I remembered something very important. I've to go now!" the girl started running escaping this place because if she didn't, she would end up crying in front of everyone. She is a human with feelings, she feels, she loves and she cries.


"Ah, Gray-sama…!" the girl called surprised as she saw the black haired man coming through the door, burying his hands deep in his pockets. He looked at her to see her body was full of injuries. He laughed mocking.

"Being in Natsumi's version is hard, isn't it?"

The man chuckled and sat down on the bed on the left side next to her. The girl sat up as she raised her hand to rub her cheek and chuckled mocking at her own state.

"Yes, especially when I went back to my old version in the middle of a fight!" she sighed in defeat as she looked at the man who sat down in front of her blushing lightly. She saw him sighing like he had a very large burden upon his shoulders that made him annoyed.

"I… made everything for you to love me, Gray-sama." The girl stated quietly as she looked down at the ground catching his attention. He moved his head to look at her as he raised both brows surprised of what she was saying. The blue haired water mage moved her head to look at him with a smile upon her lips. "That's because… I loved you more than anything else."

The man felt himself a very cruel man who played with two women's hearts. She loved him and showed everything for him to love her back and Natsumi loved him and hid her feelings because she was sure that he wouldn't return her feelings and love her back. The difference between them was that Juvia had ambition to return her feelings but Natsumi had given up along ago.

"Juvia I…"

"I already know your answer; I know it from a long time ago… I knew it but, I wanted to try harder to make you love me." She stated and then paused looking at the ceiling faking a laugh. "I think I should stop loving you and find a new person to annoy."

"To me you weren't annoying." He stated catching her eyes to look at him. "To me you were… a person who never gives up easily!" the girl felt like she was flying because she was happy to hear something like that coming of his mouth, even he was rejecting her, he was cool.

"Thank you for loving me, Juvia."

The girl grinned and tears skipped her eyes. She nodded her head as she tried to cool down. She was happy and sad at the same time. She never found any perfect moment to be happy or to be sad at the same time. What a life?

Minutes had passed and both of them were silent and when Gray was about to stand up, Juvia finally talked again stopping him, she wiped her eyes and looked at the black haired handsome guy.

"Gray-sama," she called and he moved his eyes to look at her. "I've realized a very important thing while I was away in the job."

"What's it?"

"My feelings didn't change when I changed." He was concerned about what she was saying but he didn't show it because he knew that because Natsumi said it already. "Then…" the girl looked at him with impatient look. "If I was like that, then Natsumi would definitely be like that." Then she smiled waiting to see his reaction. The man's eyes widened as he heard these words. So, Natsumi was telling the truth. She had loved him even when she was wild and annoying. He knew it but had doubt for the last second and didn't want to believe it.

"You look surprised, Gray-sama!" the girl giggled because she had seen his reaction and enjoyed it. "I pity Natsumi, she really doesn't deserve this!"

"More importantly," the guy yelled at her with a red face. "You should hide or else she might kill you for telling something so important like that!" the girl just giggled as she laid her head down on the pillow.

"I can't wait to see what's going to happen. I'm excited!"

"The hell you're excited about!" the man walked and closed the infirmary's door behind him. She kept on laughing as he disappeared out of her eyesight and her laughter turned into a soft smile.

Flashback

"This is the worst thing I had ever faced!" The blue haired girl grasped on her right shoulder as she walked in one street of Magnolia city. "I'll never trust any magician again! It nearly killed me!" the girl protested.

She opened her eyes to look at the front of her to realize that the pink haired girl was hugging the black haired ice mage from the back. Her eyes widened as she saw the view before of her.

'She didn't return to her normal? How?' she was surprised because she had made a comeback to her old self but how Natsumi didn't? She hid behind a pillar and tried to watch them praying to god they won't see her.

The water mage kept watching the whole thing until Gray passed out surprising the two of them. She didn't move of her place because she was shocked and when she saw his reaction, she was sure that he won't return her feelings back and he might have something for the pink haired girl.

End of flashback

The girl sighed in defeat feeling tired of the whole thing about being rejected and being like that. Maybe her fate to take the potion was because she needed to give up because she had had enough. It's going to be a sad thing for her to give up but she just needs to because the relation between Natsumi and Gray was too different than hers and Gray's one because they always showed that they hated each other but deep down inside of them, she believes that they love each other.


Gray was just walking out of the guild annoyed of what he heard a minute ago. He was annoyed because he felt so confused. He felt that he didn't know what to think about. What was happening to him? When he thinks about Natsumi, he starts to blush. And when he tries to lie, his mind becomes scrambled. He just doesn't know what he should do with this damn heart. He feels that some part of him is confessing the truth about loving Natsumi and other is telling the different.

He's afraid to confess that he truly loves her.

And there when he was walking looking at the ground, he glanced up to realize that the pink haired was standing on top of the slope staring down at the river. He jumped when he saw her surprised because he felt like this say 'talking about the devil' then when she didn't realize that he was there, he gulped and started to watch her.

She was staring at the water with a sad look in her face. It was the very first time for him to see her like that and that made his heart aches. He looked deep into her eyes to realize that she was wearing that look.

She looked so beautiful. His heart started to flatter at seeing what she looked like and made him remember what happened last night. For who doesn't know how Natsumi acted, he would kill him immediately for making her sad. He blushed at seeing how beautiful she was and gulped taking steps to the front. He felt like his legs were just moving in its own.

You love her. You definitely love her.

Now he was sure of it. He stopped caring about how wild she was and stopped caring of how she looked unprepared and even didn't care about how much they will fight. All he cared about now is to be with this beautiful girl for the rest of his life, maybe before she kills him.

"Natsumi,"

The girl turned her body quickly as she heard his voice, her eyes widened when she saw him.

"W-What do you want ice-bastard?!" she snapped.

"… I want you to be my girlfriend!"

Natsumi kept staring at him frozen for a moment. Then she moved her eyes to look at the swollen red area on his forehead.

"Did I hit your head real hard last night?"

"So it was you!" he stated furiously as he remembered how red it was this morning.

"That's because you were such a jerk for doing such a thing,… passing out?" She felt disgusted.

"Okay," he put his hand on his face. "I apologize for that… I was a jerk and not cool at all!" then he removed his hand off his eyes' way to look into her annoyed eyes.

"More importantly!" the guy yelled. "Be my girlfriend…"

"No, I don't want to."

"What? Why?"

"What makes me sure that you won't cheat on me?" the girl said with a very calm, serious and cold tone.

"What?" Gray frowned at hearing such a thing. "What the hell are you saying? Didn't you say you love me?!"

"I did," she stated quietly and then looked down for a second. "And when I saw your reaction how would I be sure that won't cheat on me with any girl?"

"You… don't trust me?" the guy tried to calm himself down and believe that this girl was actually Natsumi. She kept staring at him for seconds and then shook her head which made him disappointed. Was she really saying something believable? He just didn't know what to do with this honest girl! He looked down on the ground depressed of what she was saying. He was sad because of her answer but when he started to think about what she said, he found out that she was right. She is right about how he acted and how he might act in the future. He moved his eyes to glance at her to see that determined look she wore in her eyes.

"Then,…" the man talked catching her attention. She moved her head to look at him. "Are you going to live with those feelings… and conceal them inside of you?" the man looked at her with a serious look which made her silent. The pink haired girl started to think of what the guy was talking about. He looked at her with a very serious look. She was a bit taken by that look because he looked so serious. If he was telling that he was going to be her boyfriend and take responsibility that wasn't like Gray. He was a bit out of character but, how would he be like that if he wasn't serious. Because, the one she knows would never say that, actually.

Natsumi moved her eyes to look down on the ground for seconds.

"… Or, you'll get rid of your feelings in a second and hates me?"

She forced a smile, a sad one and started to talk while looking at the ground.

"I had hid them all these years, I can manage it out." She announced and stated the last part raising her head to look at him with tears inside of her eyes. She quickly turned her body to walk away. Seeing tears dripping off her eyes wasn't easy at all. And before she walks away, the black haired guy grabbed her upper arm stopping her from stepping forward and brought her to his chest as he wrapped his arms around of her squeezing her tight.

"L-Leave me, b-bastard!" she yelled softly at him but had no power to fight back because she was sad.

"We both are out of character!" He exclaimed stopping her from moving. She sniffed and waited to hear the rest of what he wanted to say. "We both acted so different from what we had acted all along Natsumi!"

"G-Gray,"

"You said that you don't trust me," the man stated and raised both his arms to grab her shoulders to pull her away from his chest. "I'll work hard to gain that trust!"

The girl looked at his eyes and kept staring at him. He was serious and she knew it. She knew when he gets serious. Because she was his rival for years, she knew when he was serious or not. She knows what he likes and what he dislikes more than anyone else. She knows a lot of things about him he doesn't even know.

Natsumi raised her hand to her mouth and chuckled which made him surprised.

"What the hell are you doing? I'm trying to be serious here!"

"Hahaha, I-I just can't take… that look of you! You look so funny!"

"You!" Gray frowned angrily squeezing her upper arms with a vein popped in his head.

"Sorry, sorry." She wiped away her tears that fell of her eyes and looked at him with soft smile.

"Thank you for understanding my feelings." He looked at her with blush and she closed her eyes and spoke.

"I'll try to be a perfect girlfriend for you too as well."

.

.

.

The end