AN: Tiny chapter ahead, but big events!

-Twenty-

"So, we both agree on those names?" Gray asked looking to the list they made during the month. Neither could fully agree with the other, so they discussed for some time and wrote down the five names they liked the most to girls and to boys.

"Yes, Gray-sama." Juvia nodded. She wanted names that could show to people that her child was normal and not an Ame Onna like herself, even if the baby did not want to learn water magic in the future.

"Good." Gray sighed and put the list on the drawer. "Now we just need to wait the baby to pop out so we can see his or her face." He got closer to Juvia and put a hand on her belly. "See? We're waiting for you, kid. Now, you can't kick your mother during the night, she gets tired when you party in there." He said, stroking her stomach lightly.

And it was true, Juvia was having trouble to sleep for two months now. Sometimes, she could find a position that she and the baby liked and could have a full night sleep (after around two in the morning), but most of them were just about her rolling around the bed to get comfy.

"Juvia doesn't mind." She said quietly. It was small price to pay. Sleep that was. She just loved to feel the baby kick. Not her lungs. Of course. It made her almost faint when it happened the first time.

Juvia was waiting for Natsu and Lucy to want to go home to go with them. The one that had offered to be with her while Gray was out in a mission was Erza, and she went home to grab a few things she was going to need. Juvia guaranteed the Titania that she wouldn't come home alone and asked Natsu and Lucy to go with them. They happily agreed. At that point, Lucy was showing her pregnancy, but not as much as Juvia, of course.

The water mage felt like she was going to have a litter, not a baby.

Lucy went to talk about something with Levy about the engagement party, one month away and Natsu was fighting with Elfman. Nothing out or the ordinary.

"Juvia-san." Wendy appeared beside her and Juvia grinned. The young girl was so sweet, she was like everyone else's little sister.

"Hello, Wendy." The Water Mage said kindly.

"Do you need anything?" She asked shyly. Even after more than six years that the Dragon Slayer became a member of the guild, she was still very shy most of the time.

"No, thank you." Juvia responded and Wendy nodded, but didn't left, just stayed in there looking at the other woman stomach. Juvia frowned. "Is there something else?"

It was like the young girl was waking up."N-no! Sorry for staring. I-it's just…" Wendy said fast.

"It's alright, you can tell Juvia." She smiled and Wendy chewed her lower lip.

"I was just wondered how is it like…" The young girl asked. "To be pregnant, that is."

"Oh." Juvia nodded in understanding. Everyone that never had a baby was curious about how it felt like. "Let's see how Juvia can explain to you…" Wendy nodded smiling. She sat beside Juvia and waited for her answer.

The water mage needed to choose right the words. She wouldn't want to frighten the girl forever with tales of how her back ached with every breath she took, how she fought everyday to get up of the bed, how she needed to go to the bathroom every five minutes. But she couldn't lie either.

"Well, Juvia will not going to deceive you, Wendy. There are some moments that are… uncomfortable." Wendy nodded. "There are moments that it is difficult but…" Juvia grabbed the eighteen year old's hand and put above her stomach, where the baby was kicking furiously and Wendy made a surprised face. "…when this happens, I remember that this baby was sent to me, to love and protect. To cherish. So everything that seems bad, it's a small price to pay for this new life that Gray-sama and I made. This life that was made by us; for us."

Wendy nodded again and still had her hand on Juvia's stomach. "I see, Juvia-san." They stayed like that for a few more seconds, until the baby stopped kicking. "This is wonderful."

"Juvia knows." She smiled.

"I asked Mirajane-san and Visca-san about it too, and your answers were very close to each other." Wendy said moving her hand.

"Maybe every mother feels that way." Juvia shrugged.

Wendy got up, thanked Juvia and returned to where Charle was.

"People are very curious about you, baby." Juvia said to her stomach. "I want to see you too. But don't come out of me in a hurry, alright? Take your time to get strong and healthy." Suddenly, Juvia stopped breathing with the intensity of the kick. She literally saw stars when it happened. Everything was darkening around her, when she heard Natsu's voice calling her.

"Calm down. Breath in and out, slowly." Juvia grabbed his hand and did what he was saying.

"What happened?" She heard Lucy's voice, concerned.

"I don't know." Natsu responded, while Juvia continued the slow breathing. "She looked like she had something on her throat. Like she was choking."

Lucy sat beside Juvia and put a hand on her back, while the Water Mage was still grasping Natsu's hand, for some comfort.

"What was it, Juvia?" The Stellar Spirit Mage asked with concern evident in her voice. "Do we need to take you to the hospital?"

Juvia shook her head. "No. It was just a powerful kick." She was still a little breathless, but was better. "My lungs were just in the way."

"Let's take you home." Natsu helped Juvia up. When noticed that she was still grabbing the Dragon Slayer's hand, she let go, blushing.

"Sorry about that, Natsu-san."

"No worries." He grinned. "Everyone once in a while needs a hand." He joked to lighten the mood. "Now, you're staying with Lucy and me."

"It's not necessary…." Juvia said and Natsu cut her.

"It is. If what I just witnessed happen to you, happened to Lucy, I would want someone to do the same to her." He said and Lucy smiled to her husband, while on the other side of Juvia.

"We'll be happy to have you there, Juvia. And it's not like it is far from your place." Lucy nodded and they went to their building.

Of course, when Erza found out what happened while she was supposed to be with Juvia, when the Ice Mage returned from his mission and leaned what happened, Titania said to him that wanted Gray to punch her for her carelessness. Gray didn't do it, of course. He was more concerned about his girlfriend's safety than punching Erza.

When the Ice Mage asked if she was alright, Juvia just smiled and said: "This is your baby as well, Gray-sama. Juvia would be surprised if he or she wasn't strong like you. That's just it: we have a strong baby."

He smiled to her and hoped that was true. He needed Juvia and the baby to be strong.

"Come on, Juvia. Let's write down on the Baby Book our choices of names, so he or she can laugh about it when it's older." He said and went to grab the book, which was being used to document everything they could. And had mostly Gray's handwrite on it.

He became such a silly man.

With 31 weeks of pregnancy, Juvia had enough of it, really. Her doctor, Marcella Garry, had prohibited her to get out of the bed to anything other than going to the bathroom, and showering. She was forbidden to even leave her own house! The doctor was worried that Juvia could fall down somewhere because of her large stomach and the history of dying women in childbirth.

She couldn't even come to Polvora's first birth because of it!

Juvia had cried all day long because she would lose it. And she was surprised when Visca and Alzack appeared with the little one to visit.

"Gray told us that you were feeling bad because of Polly's birthday, so we brought her here so you could give her a hug." Visca said smiling when Polly happily climbed Juvia's bed to hug the blue haired woman. Polly and Juvia liked each other very much.

"Oh, thank you!" Juvia hugged Polvora. "You are so big, Polly-chan!" The girl mumbled something in her baby language and Juvia giggled. "I know, right?"

Gray appeared at the room with a big box. "This is our gift to her." He handed to Polly, who pointed to Alzack and to the wrapped gift, so he could open up.

"Oh, Juvia! Gray! It is so beautiful!" Visca exclaimed. The gift was a doll, but not any doll, it was… Polvora! It had the exactly same hair style, the clothes Polly usually wore and in each hand, there was a gun. "Where did you find it?"

"She made it." Gray said proudly.

"You did?" Alzack asked with surprise. The doll was very well made.

"Juvia have too much time on her hands now that she is stuck in bed." She was playing with Polly's hands. "She perfected her sewing skills. Juvia liked to sew a lot when she was a child." The Water Mage looked to Visca and Alzack. "Juvia hopes that you three liked the gift."

Visca smiled. "It is perfect, Juvia." Alzack nodded.

They stayed for about half an hour and went to the guild, where the party would take place. Gray noticed that Juvia's mood increased considerably with the visit and encouraged everyone else to pass to say a hello one in a while.

The people who were constantly around were Levy and Lucy. The three women were planning the engagement dinner very carefully, and since Juvia couldn't go out, the bedroom became their QG. They discussed everything, since the colors of napkins to what they should wear during the event, which was going to take place in four weeks.

And Juvia was being irreducible about going.

"It's Gajeel-kun's engagement party, Gray-sama." She said stubbornly. "Juvia will go! She's the one who'll be entering the church with Gajeel-kun! Juvia will not miss the dinner. No way."

Yes, Juvia was the one who would go with Gajeel through the aisle. The tradition was that the mother of the groom should take him there, but since the Dragon Slayer had no family left and Juvia was the closest thing to a sister he ever had, it was her task in the wedding, and the Water Mage was very proud of it.

Gray wasn't all that excited about her doing that. He didn't like that Juvia was going to walk through the aisle with Gajeel first, even if it was to 'give him away' to Levy, who would walk down the aisle alone, because she didn't want to choose between Jet and Droy, but they both knew that if it was available, she would choose them.

After taking a shower, one night, Gray went to bed and saw Juvia reading, what seemed to be a girly novel. And she was reading it so eagerly that he became curious about it.

"What the book's name?" He asked, drying his hair with the towel.

"The Secret Passion." She said without looking up to him, and he felt kind of insulted.

"Is it that good?"

"Oh, it's awful!" She said excited, looking up to the book to stare to Gray. "There's this duke… he's such a womanizer! And he sleeps with the sister of a very close friend when they were both drunk and she was pure before meeting him, so he feels obligated to marry her and save her reputation." She was so excited that he couldn't help but smile. "But he doesn't know that she's a spy for the government! And there's this really handsome and charming guy that is trying to make her betray the duke because he knows this secret about a treasure! Juvia's at the part where the Duke got shot to protect his wife, who, by the way, he only slept with once, but fell for her!"

Gray frowned. "It sounds like you're enjoying it."

"Oh, I am!" Juvia smiled. "But this is one of the worse books Juvia ever read!" His frown deepened and she explained. "You see, sometimes the way it is written it's not the best, but the plot caught your attention in a way that makes you eager to know what will happen!" She stopped to think for a moment. "It's like this song you hate that gets stuck in your head and you end up liking. It is so bad, but it feels so good."

Gray grinned to his girlfriend while she continued to talk about the Duke's old mistress, who was trying to kill the main character and he laughed about her eccentricities. She had the heart with the size of the world and he was sure she wasn't completely sane, but God, he loved that woman.

Wait, what?

His eyes widened with the thought.

He what Juvia?

"Oh, crap."

AN: FINALLY! Fiiiiiiiiiiiinally! Gray finally realized he loved Juvia! Ha! It took him almost seven years, but he realized it! Men are so dense! But he caught up in the end! Told ya that the events were big! But fear not, folks! We'll see the internal battle of Gray's feelings now that he knows that he loves Juvia.

Man, I can't say enough times: Gray loves Juvia! And he freaking knows it now!

'The Secret Passion' is a made up novel! I don't know if it exists of if there is some story with the crazy plot I wrote, but if there is, by any chance, I do not own!

Last night I had a realization and alreadt have the idea for my next Gray x Juvia fanfic! *-* It's gonna be called 'Forgotten' and it'll be up the day I publish the last chapter of Baby Problem! :) I hope you like it!

How about leave a review and tell me your thoughts about this chapter? Or maybe I should wait another month to post the next one... ;D