Love and Hatred. 10

A/N: Sorry for the long wait, you see I had my finals and I had a fever, and when I had recovered and had time to write, I had a major writer's block. I was writing the Renou alternately with L&H

Some scenes are not appropriate for minors, but I'm sure you would still read it even if I put a warning. It was not a lemon and it was not that explicit, but I still think it was so embarrassing and very adult thing to read.

A guest had reviewed and said that he was always visiting this fic and waiting for my update, and someone had requested to make this chapter long. I tried to make this longer but I hope this was alright.

For those asking, if Juvia and Gray's baby is alive, I'm sorry but it was mentioned in the chapter that she lost the baby, Juvia had a miscarriage on her fifth month of pregnancy.

I always forget the DISCLAIMER. So I want to say that Fairy Tail is not mine.


It had been a week since the pinkette saw his girlfriend. He tried calling her but every time his phone started connecting her, he would always end the call. He had no idea what to tell her? Should he apologize about his indecisiveness? That was the right thing to do but then, he could not help it. He was confused. Yes, he loved Lucy, so damn much, but then was he ready for marriage and a child!—as he was pregnant, he did not know what his parent's reaction is. He had not even introduced Lucy then he would show her up to his parents like 'Mom, dad, meet my Pregnant girlfriend'. Oh he was so fucked up. Also, he knew that his parents would not like Lucy. Natsu always knew that his parent's wanted him to court Lissana. He loosened his tie as if it was suffocating him.

A knock on the door made him jolt from his seat. Clearing his throat he asked. "Who is it?". A soft voice answered from the other side of the door. "It's me"

He quickly stood up and went to the door, yanking it open. "Mom?! Why are you up? Are you feeling well now?" he asked as he led his mother inside his room to sit down. His mother had been down with a fever a week ago and his father strictly told him not to let his mother wander while she was not feeling well. Igneel was such a caring and loving husband. And his over protectiveness over his wife had been doubled since he had matters to attend abroad. The Pink-haired woman put a comforting hand on his arm. "I am fine. I just wanted to tell you that someone was looking for you." She smiled at Natsu.

"You could have asked for a maid to call me." He lightly scolded her. "I am sorry" she apologized yet her face still had that smile. "It is just I am excited to see a woman looking for you" Natsu stiffened upon hearing what his mother had said.

His mother's eyes narrowed at his anxious expression, every fiber in his body wanted to go downstairs hoping and praying that it was Lucy that was waiting for him. "I like her. She is so beautiful."

The young lad had felt something had lifted off his heart. "You like her?" he asked, he could not believe what he just heard. She nodded at him "She has this amazing blonde hair and not to mention her large hips, which is good for carrying a child." She winked. She could notice how her son had been trying to stop himself from running downstairs.

"Go along" she gestured her hand to get him moving. Natsu hugged her and whispered his thanks and went towards the door.

….

Lucy did not know what gotten into her. She should not be here. Natsu would only be mad at her. But then she had given him space and time like he asked but anything else she could not. She wanted to see him. She wanted to hear his voice. The woman who greeted her, certainly was kind and not to mention, beautiful.

She gripped the envelope that she had with her. She went to the Doctor a while ago and had her first check-up. And inside the envelope was their baby's ultrasound. The doctor had determined that she was 11 weeks pregnant.

Her hazel brown eyes swept around the inner of the Dragneel's house, she knew that Natsu was the heir of the Dragneel Hotels but she did not know that he was this rich. He never bothered to tell her about his family, he had not even introduced him yet. She knew she should not feel bad about it but sometimes a woman could not help but ask what was wrong about her.

When she heard someone approaching, she hastily fixed her hair and stands up. "Good Eve—" the rest of her words rung silently across the room. Natsu stood meters away from her. She felt her whole being call out his name. She missed him. "Natsu" she whispered weakly, her lips drawn in a thin line. She could see that he was anxious, nervous even.

"Lucy." He breathed out. He willed himself from crossing the room and gathering her in his arms. He gestured her to sit down and he took the seat across from her. "Do you want something to eat?" he asked, but before she could decline, Natsu had ordered the maid to prepare them food. So much from asking her, he should not have asked her from the first place, she thought.

An awkward silence reverberated through the walls of The Dragneel's residence. Lucy chuckled stiffly and thrust the envelope at him. Natsu quickly took the envelope before it fall down. A look of confusion etched his features. "What's this?" he checked the envelope like it was some new specie.

"Ano, I went to the doctor I while ago," she started, she heard him intake a breath and the rustle of papers out of the envelope. "The baby's gender is not recognizable yet but…." She lifted her gaze towards him and saw the utter look of surprise on his face. "It is a proof that there is something growing inside me" she lifted her hand and gently put it on her tummy.

Natsu just remained staring at the ultrasound, he could not help but be awed, he could see the baby's head, it was a baby, his child, theirs. "I'm going to be a father." He whispered.

"Ahh, y-yes"

"I'm going to be a father!" he said a little louder this time, with big steps he gathered her in his arms and sniffed her scent. "Oh God, Lucy I'm so happy". Hearing those words brought a smile on her face.


The sun peeked at the sky, smiling down at every person who was still on their dream state. The dark sky changed into a wonderful shade of blue, and soon all the drowsiness would fade. Gray Fullbuster was sure that he was not an early riser but then this was an exception, because today he wanted to watch his wife.

After last night's event he almost not wanted to ever close his eyes, he only wanted to watch Juvia sleep. Last night they shared a bittersweet kiss, a kiss that made him forget everything, a kiss that he was sure, would change him.

He was so distraught seeing her crying last night, seeing her beautiful eyes turned into dull and sad ones. In his life, he had never so guilty; he had never felt that much regret bottling up inside him. He hoped that the kiss had conveyed his feelings for her. He loved her, and he would always would.

When she nuzzled her face on his side, he could feel his insides twisting and rumbling with something he had always felt whenever she would smile or laugh at him. Maybe, it was something they call butterflies, before, he would snort at it or even laugh at it, because it was so corny and cheesy, but now, he was actually happy he had felt something amazing.

Turning, he was now lying on his side, her beautiful face dipped on his hard torso; he carefully lifted his hand and caressed her soft cheek, marveled at her soft skin. His eyes traced her closed eyes, her long lashes, his breath caught a bit because he knew what lied beneath those eyelids, his dark blue orbs followed the line of her nose, the dip and curve of her luscious lips, ever so gently her pressed his lips on hers on a chaste kiss.

He understood the feeling that racked his body when he kissed her, every fucking time he did it; his body would be fueled with desire and passion that he only felt when it was her who he was kissing. He loved her, he knew he did, that was what he was feeling the other days, the other nights, last night, today and he was sure that he would still feel it tomorrow or the next day after tomorrow up until the end of his breath, he knew he would feel it.

Whenever he stared at her sleeping face, he sometimes forgot that this was his wife, that she was his, as he was hers, he never thought that getting married with the woman that his parents chose for him would be the woman he would fall in love with. When he married her, even when he met her for a day, he felt happy marrying her, the truth was he thought he would feel regret and sorrow because he would no longer be single but that changed when he saw her walking down the aisle, he felt his heart racing and back then he thought he was just nervous but now he knew, he knew that he was in love with her back then even before he fucking realized it in the confines of his study room and it was Natsu who told him. And as corny as it sounded, his story was like it was something you could read on internet or on romance novels, cause really he fell in love in his arranged marriage, it was so girly.

They did not go all the way like the other time, they just kissed, with few touches and bumps of skin but they never did it. Not yet… And when he did it with her, he would wanted it to be special, he would wanted to do it when she was sure of herself, when she was sure of her feelings, when nothing made her doubt of him. He would want to claim her, to have her everything and he would forever cherish it.

When he saw the fluttering of her eyes, he unconsciously combed his hair with his hands and checked if he had unpleasant thing on his eyes. Juvia lightly blinked upon seeing Gray's handsome face so close to hers.

"Hey." He greeted, his voice dropped sensuously, and Juvia gripped the sheets that were around her, tighter.

"Hey." A pink hue dusted on her cheeks, her pale skin glowing because of the sun rays that peeked through their windows. His calloused hand felt so good on her arm, with a slight movement the friction that their bodies were making made her entire nerves tingling with excitement, she knew she was half nude beneath the sheets, and he was too, both of them still clad on their underwear. She could help but smirk when he blushed, she was sure that she was not the only one feeling it right now.

"Juvia" He gasped when her hands flattened on his torso, the heat of her palms radiated beneath, Gray momentarily closed his eyes, wanted to savor the feeling of her touch. She was becoming bolder and bolder from last night, the feathery touch of her fingers made him shiver, as she traced the dip and curve of those hard ridges of his abs. Something inside her purr in satisfaction when she heard him moan.

When her hand teasingly tugged on his brief, Gray had to scrunch his eyes shut because she was such a tease. Her finger glided over his length and Gray threw his head back, because god dammit it was so good to be touched by her. Her palm covered the bulge that was starting to form and Juvia could feel the temperature rising, her blood started to pool on her face. She had never done this, she had never touched a man's thing, and she was scared that he might not feel good by her inexperienced but when she saw him close his eyes and moan in satisfaction, she felt her confidence surged through her veins.

She lightly pushed him down the mattress with her other hand while the other was working to pull his brief down. "ahh..Juvia" he throatily voiced out, as he watched her settle between his legs. Her body bare and wanted to be worshipped by him. She watched as his eyes traced her body, engraving every nooks and crannies of it, he watched her like a predator would to his prey but this time, Gray would be the prey.

"This is for you. Just relax." She whispered lowly on his ear, and felt her cheeks flushed when he huffed a reply. She could feel the adrenalin singing through her veins, her heart pounded with anticipation and desire.

She went towards his manhood and gasped upon seeing it springing free. This was bigger from before and she could see the anticipation that etched his features. The room suddenly got hotter. When her cold hands grasped his length, he could not help but moaned and hissed her name out, she lightly brought her hands down his length and when he shivered Juvia immediately backed away.

When he felt her hands away, he opened his eyes and saw his wife looking worried. He felt something cold went down his stomach, he just did not like it when she looked scared. "What's wrong?" he asked, his voice sounded scratchy but no doubt that a lace of worriness was evident.

She looked at him and fidgeted a bit, she could feel her face flushed even more but not because of lust but because of her embarrassment and Gray could not help but be amused at her, except that he was rock hard and she was practically naked in front of him minus those panties. She was so damn adorable and sexy. How come a while ago she was a sexy vixen and another second she was fucking adorable? She really was his death. But what a way to go anyways,

"An-no..I don't know if I'm doing right. What if I was hurting you, it's..just—"

"it's okay" he quickly added, his voice hinted a desperation and he had to swallow back a lump on his throat upon hearing what his wife told him. Could it be that she's a virgin? From her reaction, it seemed like this would be the first time she would pleasure a man, she did not seem that experience either, he could notice it from their interactions. But the thought alone made him happy, he could swore that his heart was going on a rampage right now.

The truth was he was okay if he was not her first, but being her first would be so much better. He cleared his throat to get her attention and tried to make his face looked normal, but he was sure he was looking at her expectantly, "I mean, don't worry I'll guide you and if you hurt me (which I know would be the last thing that might happen—he thought) I'll tell you. Okay?"

Juvia looked relieved after he said that. "okay." She did not know why she suddenly got embarrassed and scared while a while ago she was so confident. "I just really want to make you feel good." She mumbled when she gripped his length once more. And the euphoria he felt from earlier rushed him like waves.

"oh…ohh" he moaned when she got back into bouncing her hands up and down his length. She really wanted him to feel the pleasure because last night was very amazing for her, and she could not help but wonder if it was for him too?

"Is this alright?" she asked as she poked the tip of his head with her finger and he could only nod. Hissing some curse and grunting out her name. The feeling was so amazing for him, she was an absolute goddess and she was here pleasuring him. Oh God he was so lucky. He lightly buckled his hips up, thrusting slowly in her hands, and he could hear her gasped when he did that. "Juvia..ahh..nhh"

Juvia could feel her heart wanted to break free, the way he mentioned her name made her inside tingling and her whole body melting. He brought another electricity on her body and she found herself moaning and tiny whimpers came out her pink lips as he thrusted in her palm, his eyes stared back to hers with intensity that could lit this whole place in fire. She watched his Adams apple moved up and down as he threw his head back; Juvia just continued her ministrations, and when she heard him say "suck it" she felt her body turned rigid, she heard of oral sex before but doing it never crossed her mind, she thought it was gross.

Oh.

"Okay." Nevertheless, she agreed, she remembered he did that to her last night and she thought that it was just returning the favor. He did not mean for his request to leak out, but when he felt her warm breath on his member, he thought it was better if he continued thinking that he really didn't mind it at all. Really, he didn't.

Juvia gave an experimental lick, her slick tongue was warm and she felt him shuddered, the bumps on her tongue made contact with the skin of his length and she thought that it was arousing her as well, upon hearing Gray, she continued it and when she put the tip inside her mouth, she had to hold his hips because he was writhing beneath her. He lightly buckled it up and Juvia tried to put more of him inside her mouth. She felt his fingers tangled themselves in her hair and felt him sit up and Juvia made up a thought that she liked her hair being pulled by him. She bobbed her head up and down his length and covered the length she could not put in her mouth with her hands. She silently whimpered and he trembled once more because of the vibrations that her mouth was sending to him.

"ahhh..yes, suck it more, use your tongue too…nhhh..yeah"

His words encouraged her to do what she was doing, she left his length and gulped as much air as she could before she dived once more, Gray could only moan and grunt, even though his head was swimming with euphoria he always kept in mind to gently thrust himself inside her mouth, he did not want her to get hurt, he could feel her tongue circling his cock from inside her warm and wet mouth, damn it felt like a pussy with a tongue. It felt so damn good.

When he glanced down at her, he swore that, that was the major mistake that he had done in his entire life. Juvia stared back at him with innocent eyes, but dammit she would always look sexy with those eyes, he could not understand how she could do such thing, her cheeks were flushed just like him, but he knew he was no better, he watched as she moaned audibly as he lightly yanked her head up and down his length. "yes, like that baby..mmmhm." He said encouragingly while nodding his head, he guided her head down his whole length and pulled her up just enough to have her breath kissed the tip of his cock. He could feel his lower body trembling, he could feel his stomach coiling and he knew he was close.

And he did not want her to pull away. He buckled up his hips as she rhythmically bobbed her head down his length, her warm, wet mouth and that lips of hers would bring him to heaven. A few thrusts and he saw stars.

His abs and muscles clenched together as he deposited his load down her throat, he heard her gagged and coughed his semen out, and he could only sigh in bliss.

...

"Sooooo goooooooddd" the little boy said as he licked the honey on his pancake.

Ultear cringed upon seeing her son did that, "Logan watched your manners" she scolded, but the boy just ignored her and eat it enthusiastically. Lyon just kept his eyes on his morning paper as he sipped his coffee. She just sighed and sat down next to Lyon, she was about to sit down when she saw the Fullbuster couple came down for breakfast.

"Hey. Morning" Ultear said. Lyon just raised an eyebrow at Gray who looked so happy. He slyly smiled and added. "We did not wake you guys up because it seemed to us that you two are busy. VERY BUSY."

Ultear elbowed Lyon and sent a glare at him, silently reprimanding him.

"Uh-mm, G-good Morning." The Lovely blunette greeted while fumbling and blushing. Gray just rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly, and with a noticeable blush on his cheeks. He mumbled incoherently as he stuffed his face with the pancakes.

Ultear and Lyon slyly looked at them as they eat.


"Mr. Eucliffe, Mr. Fullbuster is out on a week leave, We are terribly sorry we have not informed you right away" Gray Fullbuster's secretary apologized. Looking so scared and anxious.

He raised a hand to shut the woman up, and smiled reassuringly "It's alright, I just have to go back, but I'll leave this here." He handed a folder to the secretary. It was his contingencies for the project.

The woman released a sigh of relief and took the folder. "Don't worry sir, I will make sure to give it to Mr. Fullbuster."

"Good."

He had been in Magnolia for a week now, he should have went here a little earlier and met Gray Fullbuster. Guess he had more time to look for that girl. He was actually asking his little sister about it. He remembered what she told him.

"and she has this beautiful blue hair, it was so curly and it flows down her back like waves and I think it reaches down her waist. And you should have heard her voice, it was the sweetest voice I have ever heard." He continued on babbling about the woman he saw, he had ever been strike like that before, sure he had seen a lot of beautiful women but this one, she's different.

It was love at first sight, and it was so corny.

He just continued to ramble on, when he saw the look that his sister was giving."What?"

Lucy pouted at him and with a whiny like voice she said. "But what about Yukino?"

Confusion quickly surfaced on his features. "What about Yukino? What about her?"

Lucy gasped. "You don't know— Nevermind, boys will always be idiots"

"Well excuse me." He indignantly huffed.

Lucy looked him in the eye without any interest. "Anyways, based on what you were saying I have this friends who are blunettes—you do know that there must be millions of people living on earth with that hair color."She explained. Sting was holding his breath as Lucy opened her mouth once again.

"You said that she has curly hair right?"

"yeah."

"So levy is out."

"Levy. Who is that?" he asked.

Lucy stared at him for a while and took a junkfood out of her drawer. "Levy is a friend of mine who is a blunette, but she has straight hair." She explained as she munched a mouthful of the potato chips.

"…So who is the other one?" he knew that the chances of finding his mystery girl would be 0, but it would not hurt to hope right?.

Lucy tapped her index finger on her chin, "You said you saw her on the same day we went shopping, right?"

He nodded his head. "yeah."

"…there are still other chances that she is not that woman but…." Lucy trailed off, and he was leaning off the edge of his seat because he wanted to know about this friend of hers that might be his mystery girl.

"yeah.?"

Lucy sternly looked him at the eye. "She is married."

With the information that his sister had spilled on him, he toppled over his chair and when he stood up, he saw her walking away. "W-wait." He cringed at the desperation that his voice was showing. Lucy smirked at him and he knew that look.

"You want to know her name? yes…" then she laid her hand out and wiggled her fingers for some cash. "Pay up."

Sting let out a groan of frustration. "You are so cruel." He said and fished out his wallet from his pocket and put a bill on her palm. "That should be enough."

The blonde pretended to chew a bubblegum as she counted the bills she had. "I also happen to know where she works."

"Give me every necessary information and I'll give you all the cash in my wallet." He convinced. His eyes sparkled with determination and heck he was not even worried about him being penniless or whatsoever and he did not care if this woman was married or not. He just needed to confirm his thoughts.

And he had this feeling that this friend of his little sister was his mystery girl.

"Her name is Juvia Fullbuster, she works at the famous F & L Group of companies. She is a blunette, curly hair just like you described, sophisticated, smart, the same age as me but I'm three months older and well…she is married."

He just remained glued on his post. Juvia. Her name fits her perfectly, if ever that this woman was really his mystery girl. "Is she in love with her husband?" he warily asked.

"I…don't know, they were arranged to be married." She added. And Stig suddenly felt like he needed to save her from that kind of marriage. He knew that it was a sin to desire a married woman or even try breaking her out of her marriage but you know what they always say, 'All Is Fair In Love And War'

He crossed the room and sat on the couch, Lucy's eyes followed him, and he crossed his legs and arms over. "Do you have a picture of her?" He looked so damn serious that Lucy could not help but choked on her saliva, it was really rare to see him like that.

"Yeah..I think I have on my phone." She responded and took out her phone, Juvia had a picture saved on her contacts.

When he showed it to Sting, Sting looked at her. "What?, is she the girl?"

"Does she love the guy?"

Lucy felt her sweats falling down and she suddenly had this feeling of being interrogated. "Ahh… I don't know, but I can feel that ...they love each other." She weakly trailed. The truth was looking back from the way Juvia interacted with Gray, she…did not show any feelings for him anymore, and she hoped that she was wrong on her observation.

Because something wrong was going to happen.

"You should not do that, they are married, she is married –"

He raised his left hand, motioning for her to stop speaking, "You said that they were arranged, I'm sure that everything was pure business, I'm sorry little sister but I had never felt something like this in my life and I refuse to let her go that easily"

Good thing that he and Juvia would be working on the same place.


Gray watched as Juvia walked around the Vastia's garden. He was inside his room, with a mug of coffee in hand and watching his wife at their room's window like a creep. He could see that she was happy to be here, he could always feel that Juvia was not herself whenever they were at home. She seemed so guarded at everything. The raven-haired man did not like it a bit, he wanted her to share everything to him, he wanted her to confide with him about a lot of things.

He could never forget the times she would cry at night. Back then, he was contented at staying outside her door, but now that she opened up—just a little bit—he would do everything to make her be comfortable with him, to the point she would tell him all her secrets.

Juvia was the most enigmatic woman he had ever met in his entire life, she tried to stay and look tough but it was clear that she was wrecked inside, he was here, he could fix her up, and he would give his best to work this out.

He settled at the window sill, his eyes still trained on hers, she would laugh at the silly things that Logan would do, and he could feel his heart pounding. Back then, he always brushed it off but now that he had a perfect explanation as to why he felt like this made this feeling far more wonderful. When he married her, he saw a woman that would speak her mind, a woman who would stand on what she believed, and he admired her for that, when he saw her on the orphanage playing with the children, he admired her more because she was a complete package. Her motherly side was bare in front of him, her caring side was something he always looked forward to witnessing, he liked it whenever she was worried for him, when she scolded him from smoking, and whenever she would cook for them was one of the things he anticipated as well.

His simple admiration for her had turned out to be a full pledged love. And he was excited and scared at the same time. Excited because, he was experiencing something like this, and scared because he might fail because he had never courted a woman before, he only had flings, girlfriends? He never had one. And it was mostly women who asked for his number and invited him to stay at their apartment.

Before he knew it he was walking down the hall and knocking at Lyon and Ultear's room. "Is that you Ultear? No need to knock dear, you could always get inside." Lyon's voice rung inside the room and Gray cringed at hearing Lyon's sweet saccharine-like voice. He had never once thought that the guy he looked up to as a child, and the guy whom he secretly thought of as a brother was such a goof when it comes to his older cousin. He remembered it, that Lyon was always in love with Ultear since they were children, and Gray was always so busy making his parents proud.

He cleared his throat. "It's Gray. Bastard" he replied from the other side and Gray could swear that he heard his cousin-in-law sorta big brother, fumbling around. Breathing in slowly, he tied to push the image of a very naked Lyon out of his mind. Really Ultear and Lyon should not get it on in the middle of the day, it's fucking noon and its fucking hot, fucking won't do them good in cooling each other.

Then as his musing went over him, the door opened and the thirty-three year old stood in front of him. "What do you want?"

"Can we talk?" he asked and Gray was praying that Lyon would not notice the way his voice sounded troubled. The white-haired man stared at him and offered him a smile. "Over a wine? Let's talk at the study." He suggested and Gray released a sigh of relief.

….

"you should buy her flowers. Had you two gone out on a date before?" Lyon inquired, his hand occupied with the wineglasses and handed one to Gray.

The younger man uncomfortably tugged at his shirt's collar, this asking for advice made him really uneasy. He had never felt embarrassed in his life. "…We only went to one date and that was before the wedding, but I don't even consider it as a date and another when her father left us in the restaurant, but...I don't think that can be considered as a date as well… so far…we had none." It was really hard for his part to admit it. And telling Lyon was like admitting he was a wimp.

Partly, maybe he was.

Lyon poured him wine and his as well. The silver-haired man settled down first on his seat before he opened his mouth to say something; the atmosphere was comfortable for Lyon's part because for the younger guy, it felt like he was beginning to be claustrophobic.

"Then take her to a date."

Lyon kept his eyes on Gray as he sipped on his glass, waiting for the raven-haired man's reaction. "Well…I—Juvia might—I don't know" He babbled out like an idiot and Lyon knew that he was nervous.

"Take her out." He stated, and Gray let him order him around. Gray sighed, and sipped on his glass, hoping that his nerves would calm down.

When Gray heard Lyon exclaimed "Oh.", his attention shifted back at him again. An eyebrow raised towards his direction, a question was evident in his eyes. Lyon tipped his glass at Gray. "Remember the house that you personally designed and built? Tour her there."

A sudden spark of idea came inside his head and Gray was glad that he went to his brother. He remembered when his parents had told him that he was to marry someone of their choice, he was shocked because he was 25 that time, and he thought that his parents had finally acknowledged him but it turned out that they still thought of him as a child that could not even make his own decision. Back then, he thought of rebelling but then he was too old for that and just followed on what his parents wanted.

He understood what his mother felt, she told him before that they thought that she would lose him, when he was in a comatose for a year. He was the only heir, their only child and they could not afford to have him gone, so they searched for his perfect bride to give another heir. When he accepted the fact that he would be engaged soon, he started to design his own house so that when he thought of running away from the confines of the so called marriage he would have a sanctuary. When he wanted to go and cheat, he would have his own secret place, so that was the reason he bought a lot.

He had three years after the announcement to get to know this bride but his parents told him that her parents had not informed her yet. So the remaining years before he met his wife, he busied himself by constructing the house. His house.

But when he finally met Juvia and got married to her, he weren't able to visit the house, because he simply had no reason to. Still, the house was being taken care of.

He would want for Juvia to see it.


Asking her to go out with him was easier than he first thought. They were back to their room after the dinner that the Vastia prepared, lying side by side, when he asked her.

"You know there are a lot of places that you should see in Crocus. Do you want to..um—maybe check it out—with me, of course?" he cringed at how stupid he sounded. He just, his not good at asking a woman on a date, he never asked someone on a date, it was always the other way around.

Juvia faced him and he hoped that his face wasn't as red as he thought it would be. "Is that you're way on asking me on a date?"

"yes—I mean, No. Absolutely not." He denied. His ego was once again being bruised by this woman.

She offered him a cheeky smile. "Okay. Whatever you say…."she said completely not buying what he said. "…but I would love to go on a date with you." She whispered lowly and it was enough to make the temperature turn hotter.

She had her whole weight on her arm as she played Gray's fringes. Back then, he hated it when women touched his hair, but with her, it was totally different, she always made him shift into something—someone he was not. And he thought that it was nice.

Change was nice.

He reached his hand for her face and cradled her soft cheek, her hair was covering them like a curtain, Gray continued on caressing her cheeks with the pad of his thumb. And even if the room was dim, he could clearly make out the blush that covered her cheeks. His hand traveled from her cheek to her nape and pulled her down for a kiss.

When she felt his wet warm lips, Juvia could only sigh in bliss, she was actually looking forward for a kiss, his kiss, of course. Gray guided her as their lips collided, the brushes that their skin did made their whole body tingling with fire. When he nudged her lips with his tongue, opening it was the only thing she did, and soon it was not only their lips that were brushing, but their tongues as well. It was so slow, so gentle, so passionate, that Juvia pushed her breasts to him and molded her body with his, so that he could feel every beat that her heart was doing right now. Gray was the kind of man that could keep his emotions in control but when he was with Juvia, it would just go rampage and would leak out of his System.

Their teeth clack together with every movement and every new angle they would try. Gray's hand travelled to her hair and the other to her back. It immediately arched towards him as he traced it, Juvia elicited a low moan that made him moan as well. His heart was returning the beats that her heart was doing, and he could never be grateful if it meant that she felt the same way as him.

Gray groaned on her mouth when her hands tangled itself on his hair and tugged it. He made his hands busy by roaming around her body. Touching and caressing every skin he collided with.

Juvia could feel his growing want for her poking on her thigh, she was sure that her nightgown was now riding on her stomach, she could feel panties getting wetter. When they part, low pants echoed inside the room and their heartbeats resonated inside them. Gray pressed his forehead on hers and whispered, in an airy and breathless voice. "Will you go out on a date with me?"

No more zigzagging with the topic, he would tell it straight to her, she would be happy with him and he would be so damned sure that it would happen. She giggled at him, and Gray opened his eyes and saw her peeking at him with merry eyes. "I already agreed with you, idiot." She half-heartedly poked at his chest.

"I..know" his voice ragged and beautiful, he grabbed her hand and kissed the back of it. He brushed his lips over the soft skin of her knuckles, and Juvia gasped at the mere thought of being passionately kissed on the hand. With a second, he both turned them around, his body hovered over hers, his eyes boring at hers.

One, two, she heard her heart leaped countess times inside her chest, she could swear that that look was of….feelings. Emotion, that she always looked for and the feeling that she wanted to notice from him. The emotion that she longed for ever since. The emotion that she sought for her torturous, heart-wrenching, blood-dripping revenge.

He was showing it to her. And she did not understand why she wished it never happened. She wished she never felt this earlier, because that meant for her to hurt him sooner. And she was having second thoughts.

"I wanted to know more of you. And I want you to know more about Me." He pressed a light kiss on her cheeks; his lips still hovered over her face, his breath made fleeting kisses. "I never wanted someone this much,…I never felt something like this Juvia…"

Juvia could swear that she could smell the confession coming, and she was not prepared for this. When he pressed her hand to his toned chest, it was all Juvia's control not to hyperventilate. "I think….I'm…"

She braced herself for his words. Her heart swallowed her whole body and she was trembling beneath him, her eyes stung with unspilled tears.

He knew that this was not the setting he wanted to confess but it had to be done. He wanted her to know that he was serious when he told her he wanted to have this relationship worked out. And his feelings would be a solid proof that he meant it. Because in the first time in his life, he wanted to have someone knew what his feelings were.

"I'm falling in love with you."


A/N: I hope this compensate for everything. Wooh. We have reached 100+ reviews, I love you guys. I am really embarrassed at some scenes. Yay Gray confessed. No revelations yet, maybe next chapter. And Sting is back. Yes, more drama.

OH this is unedited, so there maybe mistakes.

Till the next update. ~~~