Sorry for that cliffhanger last chapter, but the suspense is half the fun ;)

Erza waited for Juvia to process her words, fearing what the overemotional rain woman was going to do. Erza had a few ideas, mainly getting extremely angry or extremely sad, but Erza had to wait. Juvia was just sitting in confused silence.

"What?" Juvia finally asked, voice cracking slightly. Erza sighed and looked at the ground.

"I'm not Gray's girlfriend, Juvia" Erza said slowly, trying to say it without saying why. She was more than certain if she knew Gray's true motives behind the whole relationship, she'd be beyond reasoning. Erza wasn't sure what would happen, but she wasn't pulling the pin on that grenade.

"J-Juvia doesn't understand," Juvia replied, staring at Erza, glaring holes in the scarlet haired woman's head. "You and Gray-sama... aren't dating?" Erza shook her head.

"It's all a big joke" Erza said quickly, thinking on her feet. "Gray said it was one big joke, so I went with it" Juvia didn't look any better. In fact, she looked worse.

"All those times you kissed and held hands?" She asked.

"A big show" Erza replied.

"All those things you said to each other?"

"Lies"

"When Gray was naked outside your room?" Erza noticed the lack of the honorific, that worried her slightly.

"He was drunk wandering the streets, so I took him to my room. He spilled beer in my bed, so he got soaked in it and stripped. I had a shower only five minutes before" Erza waited for another question, but noticed the change in Juvia's demeanor. She was no longer crying or looking depressed. She had her fists clenched and she was shaking slightly. Erza gulped.

"Why did Erza do it?" She hissed quietly, and the tone she was using off put Erza slightly.

"Uh..." Erza didn't realize prior to Juvia's question she had no excuse for why she did what she did. She'd lied about Gray's true intention, now she had no excuse for herself. "I, uh..." Juvia looked up to glare at Erza, and that only made Erza feel worse.

"Is Erza trying to tell Juvia..." Juvia began, voice laced with malice. "That Erza and Gray have been playing a cruel joke on Juvia?" Erza felt sweat drip down her forehead.

"Well, when you say it that way, it sounds pretty-"

"Juvia thinks Erza should leave now" Erza looked at Juvia carefully, who glared back. "Because Juvia fears her actions should Erza stay any longer"

"Right, yeah" Erza said, nodding quickly and speeding out of Juvia's room. She sighed in relief when she realized the rain woman wasn't chasing her. She had to tell Gray what had happened, if she didn't Juvia sure as hell would.

Gray was having a pretty good day. He hadn't been plagued by his confusion about Erza, or feeling shitty for lying to Juvia. He'd slept great, eaten great, and was in a gnerally good mood. Of course, that dwindled away quickly when he saw Erza walk in with a frightened expression on her face as she sped towards him.

"We have a problem" She whispered quickly, looking rather rushed.

"Slow down, Erza" Gray replied, stretching slightly. "Tell me what-"

"I told Juvia" Gray almost fell off the bench he was sitting on.

"You what?!" Gray demanded, standing up and getting in her face. "You told her? How much?"

"Everything?" Gray's eyes widened.

"Everything?" He asked weakly. Erza nodded.

"Everything"

"Well... what did she do?"

"She told me to leave before she did something she'd regret"

"... I'm dead, aren't I?"

"I think so, I'm sorry..."

"GRAY FULLBUSTER YOU LYING ASSHOLE!" Gray flinched slightly as he looked over Erza's shoulder, finding nothing but the women in question. Juvia stormed towards him, grinding her teeth. Gray smiled weakly.

"Hey, Juvia, what's u-" Gray was cut off as Juvia slapped him as hard as she could, getting everyone's attention. "Ow" Juvia was seething with anger.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Juvia shouted, " DID YOU REALLY FIND THIS JOKE THAT FUCKING FUNNY?!"

"Joke?" Gray choked as everyone turned to watch the drama unfold. Juvia wasn't even speaking in third person, you could tell she was completely pissed. "What joke?"

"ERZA TOLD ME EVERYTHING!" Juvia screamed hysterically. "THAT YOUR RELATIONSHIP IS ONE BIG FUCKING JOKE!"

"J-joke?" Gray managed, turning to look at Erza slightly, who gave him the impression she hadn't told Juvia everything. "Juvia, it wasn't a..."

"SO NOW YOUR GOING TO LIE RIGHT TO MY FACE WHEN YOUR FUCKING PARTNER IN CRIME ALREADY SOLD YOU OUT?!" Juvia slapped him again, and then again. Gray was getting angry now. He didn't need this right now.

"You want too know the fucking truth, Juvia?!" Gray shouted.

"I know the truth already!"

"No you don't! Cause Erza lied to protect me!"

"Protect you?! From what?!"

"From you, you psychotic creeper!" Gray shouted, pushing her back slightly if for nothing more to look physically dominant. "I asked Erza to do this for me to get you too leave me alone! I can't live with a shadow over my shoulder scaring everyone away!" Juvia looked confused.

"What are you.."

"Juvia, I asked her to pretend to date me so that you'd fuck off! I was at the end of my rope with you! I wouldn't have had such a problem with your thing for me if you weren't so fucking obsessed with me!" Juvia looked hurt,but Gray didn't care. He'd never felt so free. "I've asked you too leave me alone, I've said I'm not interested, but you can't take a fucking hint! Then, you even got Lyon in on it so that I'd get jealous! I...I just..." Gray looked around at the drama they were creating. He was certainly causing a scene. He was finally say what he'd always wanted too, though, so that was good. Juvia was crying now, and Gray felt terrible it didn't bother him all that much. He was far to stressed out right now.

"So that's how you feel, Gray?" Juvia whimpered. "You can't stand my presence?"

"Not when your hanging off of me going..." Gray cleared his thought, doing a horrible Juvia impression. "Gray-sama, oh Gray-sama, have dinner with me and lets have a million kids! Love rival, get away from my Gray-sama! He's mine, even though you're not remotely interested anyway!" Gray glared at Juvia. "I think I understand perfectly how Edolas Juvia feels. We're one in the same, me and her." Juvia began to sob, and Gray was still to angry to care.

"Fine!" She shouted. "Then you won't ever see me again!" Juvia ran away out of the guild, and Gray realized the awkward moment he'd just created. He turned too look at everyone, and saw 'partner in crime' standing there, her hands cupped over her mouth.

"Sorry," Gray muttered. "This is my fault." Gray noticed Lisanna walking up to him. Before he could say anything, she slapped him. Mirajane came next. All the girls, minus Erza, were lining up to slap him.

"Hold on a sec, ladies!" Gray heard Laxus shout. "Gray isn't wrong here,"

"He's an asshole, Laxus!" Cana shouted.

"However true that may be, we all know how creepy Juvia is" Gray watched as Laxus' statement made everyone pause. "We've all seen Gray turn her down multiple times. If this is anyone's fault, it's Juvia's."

"Agreed" Gajeel said, and Gray was bewildered that of everyone taking his side, it was the iron dragon slayer. "Juvia must've pushed Ice Stripper to his limit. I may be her friend, but that also means I know how bad it is"

"Your siding with him, Gajeel?" Levy asked, completely astonished, and Gajeel nodded. Although the men in the guild were slowly taking Gray's side, Cana, Evergreen, Kinana, Lisanna, Mira, Levy, Bisca, Laki, even Wendy, all of them got a turn to slap him. Some came back for seconds. Gray stood there and let them, he knew he deserved it. Once it was over, Gray sat down and sighed. Erza was still standing there, looking shocked. "What?" He asked her, rubbing his cheeks.

"I... shouldn't have told her" Erza managed, sounding incredibly guilty. Gray sighed.

"It was bound to happen sooner or later." Gray replied. "Considering what I imagined would happened, I got off pretty easy." There was silence, Gray knew the whole guild was staring at him. All the girls were at least. Al the guys seemed rather pissed at the current state of affairs. "Stop feeling guilty, Erza. I roped you into this, it's my fault"

"Oh, come off it. I'm just as to blame as you" Erza replied, sitting down next to her. "Juvia just started crying and telling me to make sure you were happy... I couldn't do it, Gray, you didn't see her" Gray nodded.

"I think we started an inner guild war" He said flatly, gesturing towards everyone bickering with each other.

"Let's hope it blows over" Erza replied.

The war hadn't blown over. If anything, it had gotten worse. All of the guys sat on one side of the guild with Gray and Erza, because they agreed with him and took his side. All the girls, on the other hand, thought Gray was the biggest asshole since Loke trying to get a date and sat on the other side. Juvia hadn't shown up since it happened, and Gray was trying to force down the feeling of guilt. This wasn't his fault, it was Juvia's. She hadn't taken the hint when the going was good, now she had to deal with it the hard way. Gray sighed. This was absolutely ridiculous. He was about to get another beer when he saw Lucy approaching him, and flinched at the murderous expression on her face.

"Lucy, wa-" Slapped, again. Gray had been expecting that. He turned back too look at Lucy, who looked rather miffed. "I see you've heard"

"Are you kidding me, Gray?" She demanded. "The whole town knows about Gray's meltdown" Gray flinched at her harsh tone. "Who did you think you were kidding?"

"You were fooled, weren't you?" He asked with a small grin, hoping to lighten the mood. It didn't work. "Sorry, just trying to not die by your whip" He picked up his new bottle of beer and put it in his mouth

"You need to talk to her" Gray choked on his drink. He stared at her, bewildered.

"What?" He managed.

"Talk. To. Her." Lucy repeated. "You're lucky I'm even trying to help, Gray, everyone told me not too"

"All the girls, you mean"

"Same thing. Point is, you need to apologize"

"For what? Telling it how it is?"

"No, for hurting her feelings!" Gray hadn't thought of it that way. " No one's seen Juvia in a week, and it's your fault."

"She can't take a hint, it isn't my fault."

"No, but it is your fault she's heartbroken and thinks the one man she's ever loved can't stand it when she's in the same room as him" Gray flinched. Leave it to Lucy to make him feel bad.

"What ever" Lucy sighed at his response.

"Seriously Gray, if you don't fix this, your just digging yourself a bigger hole then you're already in" With that, Lucy left him to ponder her words. Was she right, was he to blame for this?

nah, can't be.

Oh, plot twist! I actually love this chapter, just because it opens up the second half of the story. Yes, the whole fake relationship was a plot point, and it did it's job. Hope you enjoyed, leave a review!