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How is everyone this fine day/evening/night/morning/afternoon? All I know is, it's almost midnight over here in the UK and I have school in the morning. Yipee :(

So yes, while I'll be extremely tired, I just HAD to bring out this chapter for you guys to read, like I made it for you people, I can't just keep it sitting around, not being read! I expect that by the time I wake up, I get A LOT of reviews on this chapter okay? I may give shoutouts, but I've never really dedicated anything to anyone (except from like 2 stories) This chapter, is expecially for LANVIA! I just feel like she's very much so enjoy this chapter tehee.

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The pairing project

Chapter four

Juvia was staring intently at Natsu. She raised an eyebrow at every one of his movements, but none of them were like what she had experienced with him. She crossed her arms and rolled her eyes when the girl was gushing at Natsu, and of course the idiot didn't even realise that he was being hit on so he was just grinning like it was an everyday job which it probably was.

"Why is Juvia here?! Actually, how did Juvia get here?"

Flashback

"So what's the job?"

"Oh Natsu knows, the usual. We're stopping a runaway train that has a few stowaways and some rich man's daughter is on that train. They're currently holding her ransome and asking money. They said that the money should be transferred into their account before the train runs off the cliff and they already have ways on how they want to get off. Actually, now that Juvia thinks about it, it's not really an everyday job."

Natsu let out a low whistle as he heard the description for their job. "Juvia, how could you do this to me?" Juvia stopped dead as she was wondering what he was talking about. He didn't think that she was purposely turning him on did he?! Her cheeks started heating up as she started thinking about the fact that maybe Natsu actually liked her.

"No! Juvia doesn't like Natsu! Think about Gray, think about Gray! Dammit, even that's not working! Juvia can't fall in love with an idiot!"

"What has Juvia done to Natsu now?"

"You got us a job that has to do with a train! A TRAIN! IT MOVES, CONSTANTLY! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS, DO YOU WANT ME TO DIE BY PUKING OUT MY INSIDES?!"

Juvia blinked at him blankly for a while before she could feel her insides burning in nothing but pure rage. How could she be so stupid as to believe that maybe Natsu was going to say that he liked her? She wanted to punch everything in sight, or drown the whole city for crying out loud! She glared at Natsu and he glared back. This was a topic that was dear to him and NO ONE purposely makes him do a job that had transport within it.

"Hey, don't get mad at me, I won't be much help, so if you plan on doing this job by yourself, be. My. Fucking. Guest."

They both growled at each other, lightning crackling between their eyes. It was almost like a rivalry was about to begin between the both of them, much like there was a rivalry between Gray and Natsu. Just when the project seemed to be working for them, they were falling apart when the job hadn't even freaking STARTED!

"Whatever Natsu, let's just go. Besides, we just have to stop the train and then we go on the train and rescue the hostages!" Now, Juvia had so hoped that Natsu's mind was that of a simpleton because if he had caught on to the one thing that she had very kept hidden away from him, he might just actually boil her ass.

It took him five seconds which she had to give him props to how fast he was able to see through her little lie. "Okay, so why don't they just try and stop the train from the mains then? Wait...DON'T TELL ME THAT THE THUGS HAVE GOTTEN FULL CONTROL OVER THE DAMN STATION MEANING THAT THE TRAIN CAN'T STOP!"

Juvia let out a weak laugh as she scratched the back of her head. "Okay so maybe, yes, Juvia has fooled Natsu, but we're members of Fairy Tail right? We help people, so please Natsu, Juvia is going to say it nicely juuuust this once okay? WE'RE GOING ON THIS DAMN JOB!"

One thing that Juvia could say about Natsu was that he brought out the bad side in her. All this time, she had been hanging around with Gajeel, she thought her mind would be corrupted by the black haired iron mage, but no. She's stressing herself over this ONE guy who may or may not want her as a mate. Why should it bother her so much?

Finally, Natsu gave in. "Okay, I'm sorry. You're right. Now let's go. Where are we going to be catching this train?" Juvia smirked at him, already having sorted out the whole plan in her head.

"Oh, that's easy. Juvia has been tagging on this job ever since she saw it on the board and now Juvia has every bit of information about it. Juvia knows how fast the train is going and where the train coming from. The train should be going to our nearest station within the next 10 minutes, so if we want to make life easier for ourselves, we should head down there now."

Juvia started walking and Natsu couldn't help but look at her back in awe. The only girl that he ever knew that was smart was Levy! Erza was usually smart, but she was more detective smart. Lucy was smart too, but she was more of the reading type of person. Juvia, well she had already calculated the speed of the train, where the train was coming from and how long it would take for it to get there all in the space of the five minutes that they had been talking!

Natsu had to hold himself back from jumping onto her otherwise he might end up doing something crazy. He had to take in a deep breath. "Aww crap, I don't want it to be my birthday yet."

"Did Natsu say something?"

"Nope! I didn't say anything!"

"Okay then, well let's go!" His eyes watched her hips swaying as though he were Happy watching fish being swung in his face. He shut his eyes and let out a deep breath before following the object of his affections.

~x~

Natsu didn't know where he was. One minute, they were both standing on the station's platform, and then the next, Juvia had grabbed onto him and made him jump to his death. That was when he started panicking. Of course! There was only one explanation for him not knowing where he is because he probably has to find his way to heaven! He's obviously dead!

"Natsu? Is Natsu okay?"

Her voice! She sounded like such an angel and he couldn't even see where she was. This must be heaven because now her voice is serenading him off to the pearly gates. He just hoped that the big guy would appreciate him beating up people who deserved it.

"Natsu, Juvia knows that you're awake."

He frowned. Okay, the way she was talking to him was not so heavenly anymore. So maybe the big guy didn't appreciate him beating up the people who deserved it! He was certainly going to hell now! He heard that the flames were hotter than Igneel's!

Then he was flying across the carriage and into the chairs. Then Juvia started at running at him with a worried look worn on her face. She helped him back up as she raised his head up. "Juvia is sorry Natsu! Is Natsu hurt, because then we might not be able to go on with the job!"

"Gah, nah, I'm fine, just got smacked up a bit by a chair. I've had hits from Erza rougher than that, don't you worry." He grinned up at her and he didn't realise that he had almost stopped her heart from working right there and then. He just stood up and started shaking about his head to make sure that he was okay.

"How did we even get on here in the first place? I was pretty sure we were dead and I was on my way to heaven because I could hear your voice...But then I thought I was heading to hell because you sounded mad at me." He quickly had to save himself because he didn't want to give it away to her that he might actually like her. He didn't see her facial expression rise in hope and then plummet in dejection.

"Oh, Juvia did what she did Gray back before we went to the Tower of Heaven. Juvia covered Natsu in her water and then slipped onto the train through whatever gap Juvia could find. Then when Juvia returned us back to our solid form, Natsu practically flew out of Juvia, hitting his head just now."

If Natsu had in anyway been the sort to understand what an innuendo was, he would have been blushing at the double entendre that Juvia had accidentally said. But because he was Natsu, he didn't understand it and he just nodded his head, quite impressed that she was able to do something like that. "Okay, now let's head to the first carriage."

They both started walking through the luxurious train, making their way to the front before something dawned on them both that made them both scream at each other.

"I'M WALKING ON A TRAIN WITHOUT PUKING!"

"HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?! LAST TIME, NATSU WAS A COMPLETE MESS!"

"I KNOW! DID YOU CAST TROIA ON ME WHILE I WAS INSIDE YOU?"

"DOES NATSU THINK JUVIA EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS? JUVIA HAD NOTHING INSIDE HER WHEN NATSU WAS INSIDE JUVIA!"

They were both freaking out before Juvia blushed heavily when she replayed their conversation in her head. Juvia was never one with a clean mind and that was because it was over imaginative and that came with a price. In her mind was straight up porn, which meant she could see through every sexual joke or innuendo without even meaning to. Now, she just couldn't help but want to burst into flames at what they had just said to each other.

Natsu on the other hand was calming down because he knew exactly what that meant. Because his magic was one of the four elements, when a dragon slayer with one of the four elements has a mate that has the exact opposite magic to them, the effects of feeling dizzy when on transport with your mate disappeared. He stared at Juvia while she was staring at the floor. It was now official. Juvia was definitely his mate. He had already skipped the part of feeling protective over every woman up until three days before his birthday!

"Well whatever, I know what's going on but let's get going." He turned pink as he quickly turned his back on her before walking back to the men.

End of flashback

Juvia had rusted all the wheels on the train, making the train come to a stop and the men didn't have a bit of magic on them, making them the easiest opponents that a Fairy Tail mage could ever come across in their life.

"Thank you so much! You have saved our lives! How can we repay you sir, madam?" Juvia and Natsu just looked at each other with a smile and the rich guy's daughter was just hanging on Natsu's arm. Juvia then frowned at her, not impressed with what she was doing at all. She was about to get all defensive and call her a love rival when she stopped herself. They weren't dating. She DID NOT like him in that way and she wasn't going to admit that she liked him like that, whether she did like him or not. The girl was free to cling onto him all she wanted.

"Thanks for saving us, especially me! Would you maybe like to go to dinner with me?"

Juvia couldn't help but snicker, making the girl glare at Juvia. "Oh, I get it, you're jealous that I stole this piece of hunk right in front of you. Please, if you didn't want me to, you would have dated him yourself."

Juvia glared right back at her, taking a step forward. Natsu blinked, watching the two of them fight. "Oh please, Juvia has already had a simple dinner with Natsu before, so she's not missing much. Besides, we're only partners, not a couple so Juvia doesn't care whether you date Natsu or not, and you better have a lot of money on you if you want to treat Natsu to a dinner."

Juvia then turned her attention to the other people on the train as she ripped the door open in nothing but anger. They all got out and the clients were waiting to arrest the men who had hijacked the train. They saw Juvia and smiled at her.

"Well done with this job! We're so glad that we picked someone like you to do this for us!" They bowed to Juvia who immediately returned the bow. "Here is your reward." Juvia grinned in happiness as she took the bag of jewels for herself and for Natsu. Everyone was getting off the train, crying that they were saved and they weren't dead. Juvia noticed the 'couple' getting off of the train last and she frowned.

"Annie, you're okay! Your father was so worried!"

She unlatched herself from Natsu with her hands on her hips, her purple hair flying about her in the wind as her equally purple eyes pierced the men in front of her. Juvia couldn't help but admit it in her head that she was a pretty woman.

"Of course he was, I'm his darling Princess! Now, I know he's going to want some bodyguards to take me everywhere I go, so let's get this show on the road and head over to the best restaurant that this town has to offer because I'm hungry and I'm pretty sure that this hottie here is too."

She batted her eyelashes at Natsu and his stomach went rumbling. "Well, whaddya know, I am hungry! Can we go now? Juvia?"

Juvia looked over at him and Annie glared at her. "No, Juvia was planning on heading back anyway. Juvia's done her part of the job so there is no need for Juvia to crash a date that has nothing to do with her."

She was so ready to wipe the smirk that was lingering on Annie's face, but she was the client's daughter and that would have seriously affected their pay. She just had to ignore it and turn around.

"But wait Juvia! I need you!"

Juvia turned back around in surprise. Was he going to say it? Annie's face had turned as hard as stone too as she was not liking where this was heading. Juvia felt amazing, like she was on cloud nine. "W-why would Natsu need Juvia?"

"Because you know the way home! Do you really think I can find my way home with my dizziness? That's crazy!"

Juvia stopped smiling and her face was just an emotionless thing. She couldn't believe that she just fell for that yet AGAIN. That was it, she was never going to fall for Natsu. He may not know it, but he must have been leading her on.

Natsu noticed the way that she turned away from him and something within him was telling him that Juvia was feeling extremely disappointed with him and he didn't even know what he had done wrong.

"Well Juvia could always wait outside while we eat! Come on, let's go."

Annie pulled Natsu and he just looked behind him to see that Juvia wasn't even looking at him, but instead, she had her back towards the 'couple.' He frowned deeply, not understand what was happening, but all he knew is that his decision on eating with Annie was upsetting the hell out of Juvia.

Juvia came into the guild the next morning in a very foul mood. She didn't want to talk to anyone and it would have helped her a lot if no one talked to her. It was only because of the stupid 'pairing project' that she even came in otherwise she would have taken her anger out at home.

"Juvia? Are you okay?" Lucy was very weary of the angry water mage. She was still so sure that Juvia was mad that she got partnered up with Gray and not her. But if she thought back, she had not heard Juvia call her love rival once since this whole thing started.

"Oh hello Lucy-san. Juvia is just mad because Juvia had to wait outside a restaurant for three hours because Natsu was on a date with some rich girl. Juvia was never even offered any food! Jokes on her though, even with all the money she has, she still couldn't help but faint at how much Natsu rang up her bill to."

Even though she was still upset and angry, Juvia couldn't help but let a small smirk dance on her lips, thinking back to how Annie had literally fainted when she saw the bill and she had to be woken up to pay it. Let's just say she had no interest in Natsu after she saw the way he pigged out.

"Three hours?! No, that's just harsh! First the whole thing with the Vulcans and now this? Why do you let him get away with such nonsense Juvia?! You're supposed to be the strong one and put him in his place!"

Juvia was about to reply, but then she quickly held her tongue. She was about to release a secret that should be so kept within her, not out in the open! Sure she could shout out how much she loves Gray, but this was Natsu and she was so certain that she didn't even like him like that!

"Juvia doesn't know," is what she settled for in the end. She just sighed and ran her hand over her face. "Anyway, enough about Juvia. What has Lucy-san and Gray-san been doing this whole time?"

While Lucy was telling her what they'd both been getting up to, she couldn't help but notice a difference in Juvia. No 'love rival,' no yelling of her unconditional love for Gray and she hadn't even said the word -sama at the end! What was going on here, was this Juvia or some poor imposter? Seriously, if they were an imposter, they've got the whole Juvia act wrong.

"Well anyway, Gray and I are heading out on a new job today! This time, it's all about his rent instead of mine! Can you believe that all this time I haven't been on a job with Erza AND Natsu, we both manage to keep stuff unharmed?"

They both said their goodbyes and Juvia just groaned out in frustration. "Why is liking someone so hard?"

"Love was never something that was supposed to be easy Juvia."

Juvia raised her head up to see Lisanna looking at her with a soft smile on her face. The animal soul mage sat down on the stool next to her best friend and Juvia felt happy that she was here. Lisanna had told her that she was best friend's with the Edo Juvia, so they both became friends here very quickly. Juvia found that she actually had a girl friend to rely on, and not Gajeel. He was useless when it came to her wanting sympathy.

"So what's going on in the life of Juvia Lockser today? I've noticed that you've stopped your joyous calling of love to Gray."

Juvia gave her a sarcastic smile. "Juvia has also seen that Lisanna has stopped giving Natsu puppy dog looks." Lisanna glared at her and she smiled innocently in return.

"Touche. Anyway, tell me! Who's the unfortunate guy that Juvia has fallen in love with this time."

"Real funny Lisa-chan." Juvia went quiet for a bit before piping up in a small voice. "Lisanna won't get mad right?" Her friend gave her a confused look. "It's Natsu."

Lisanna burst out laughing. "So? I've moved on and because you trusted me, I'll tell you the guy that I'm into! The masked one over there!" Lisanna pointed in the direction of Laxus and his team and there was Bixlow in his manliness and weird tongue. Lisanna couldn't help but blush before putting her finger down and looking away from him.

"So how did this come about and is that why you're so mad that he went on a date with that girl?" She saw Juvia giving her a weird look. "Hey, I might not be into Natsu like that anymore, but he is still my best boy friend, like you and Gajeel. He told me this morning before you got in that you were mad at him and haven't spoken to him since the job ended which was hours before you guys came back yesterday."

"It's this mating season stuff! Juvia is confused as to whether Natsu wants Juvia to be his mate or not because Juvia likes him and stuff! After all, he was never protective of the girl that we were saving! Juvia thought that that was supposed to happen."

Lisanna thought about it before snapping her fingers with a smile. "I remember now! Apparently an elemental dragon is different from all the other types of dragons as they're the strongest kinds of dragons, meaning their mating season is different. Natsu said something like if he were to mate with a girl whose magic was opposite to his fire, all the things he's supposed to go through three days before his birthday would happen in the week running up to his birthday."

Juvia paled. No way, no freaking way! "Oh, and because he's an elemental dragon slayer, if they mate with someone of the opposite magic to them, they are no longer affected by transport, meaning because he's fire, when he's with you, he will no longer feel dizzy on anything that moves."

Lisanna grinned at Juvia only to suddenly feel scared for her friend. "Erm, Juvia? Are you okay, you don't look so good."

"Of course Juvia doesn't look so good, now Lisa-chan has scared Juvia because Juvia might ACTUALLY be his mate!" Her arms were flapping around her as she was trying to show Lisanna how big of a deal this whole thing was. Lisanna was just laughing at her friend.

"So what? If you're his mate and you liiiiiike him, then it is going to work out fine!"

"Juvia sees where Happy got that from. It was LISANNA!" Lisanna just laughed again.

"I taught him well."

Before Juvia could even say anything, Happy came flying into the guild. "I need Laxus and Gajeel! Natsu's going through his mating process and because his mate hasn't shown up, he's going crazy!" Both of the male mages grinned sheepishly at each other, clearly forgetting that Natsu was an elemental dragon slayer, meaning that his way of mating was different. Juvia hadn't even noticed that Levy and Gajeel were back, yet here he was, standing there looking like an idiot.

"Juvia will get on his case later."

"Juvia is coming too because she's his partner! Got to make sure that idiot doesn't get into any trouble."

Lisanna snickered next to her as she turned away from her to face the bar. "Oh yeah, that's the reason why you're going," she whispered, only Juvia heard her and she whacked her arm. Lisanna laughed and pushed her away. "Go and get your maaaan!"

Juvia blushed but went with them anyway. Laxus was smirking at her and Gajeel was just looking at her strangely. "You sure you want to come ameonna?"

"Oh no, I think she should come. It would be fun don't you think, Juvia?" Juvia blushed again and looked at the ground as Laxus was just taunting her, knowing fully well that she was the one who is Natsu's mate. Gajeel just looked at the both of them strangely before it sank in. Then he laughed.

"Gihihihi, you're his mate. I would have never guessed." Juvia rolled her eyes at them both before running off in front of them. Gajeel laughed at Laxus. "She's even in a hurry to see 'im. How adorable. I woulda thought that the bunny girl would have been his mate though."

Gajeel had a point there. If word got out about this, everyone would have been majorly surprised. Everyone would have thought Lucy would have been his mate. Juvia also knew that half of the guild was rooting for 'NaLi,' which is where they wanted for Natsu to end up with Lisanna, or 'NaLu,' obviously rooting for Natsu and Lucy.

"Well the guild better be prepared because they're all going to get a NaVia."

I think it's funny because most people were reviewing, saying that this is moving at an alright pace, but I'm sooo sure that I just sped up the pace a tiny little bit. But that's okay, because that's what I'm planning. I know what I'm doing, it's all part of the Lolita plan tehee!

So guys, how do you think that went though, was it okay? Was it goood? I sooo hope that it was aha! I don't know what I would do if it was a terrible chapter! Probably abandon the story! Hell no, don't worry, I'm just joking. This is really fun to write!

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Also you guys, I can see lemon in the future, would you want me to do the lemon? I don't mind writing it as it's alright, but are you comfortable with reading it? (I am not a pervert but I can't explain how I'm able to write lemon lol. I really don't know) I can easily write around it without lemon, but if you want me to slap it in there, I'm gonna need a reply! Yes, I am now forcing you to review whether you like it or not lol. Until the next chapter guys!

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