Gruvia Week 2020
Day 3: Perverse
Fairy Tail World
Pairing: Gray Fullbuster, Juvia Lockser
Series: Fairy Tail
Rating: M for sensitive language and content
Italicized – Gray's inner thoughts
Day 3: DEEPEST & DARKEST DESIRE
A few more steps. Just a few more steps and Juvia will be reunited with her Gray-sama.
The only thing that kept Juvia going was the anticipation of having her Gray-sama in her arms. With the simple picture of throwing her arms around the elusive Gray Fullbuster, Juvia endured the few miles she needed to walk to finally see her beloved Ice-Make mage.
Her whole body was aching – literally and figuratively. Throbbing from all the fighting she encountered in Camellia City and yearning to be with Gray-sama. The job consisted of ridding the town of an ancient monster accidentally conjured from a book by the City's Mayor. All thanks to Gajeel, who just wouldn't listen to Juvia, everything easily got out of hand. The three-day job had them out of Magnolia for five days. Juvia wasn't happy. But Juvia was not one to throw blames.
Juvia's body had an instant reaction. As soon as she saw the newly constructed Fairy Tail Building, her imagination geared to life. Her eyes twinkled with anticipation as she imagined throwing herself into Gray-sama's arms and him tell Juvia how much he missed her, and that Juvia should never leave his side again.
"Juvia will never leave again, Gray-sama." Juvia had the habit of imagining things. Not only that, she had the habit of spacing out too.
In Gajeel's opinion, it was Juvia's day dreaming that slowed them down, even if she refused to admit it. So, even if she was too old to get a hit from him, Gajeel just couldn't wait to see his family.
"Cut it out, Rain Woman."
The pain at the back of her head brought Juvia back to reality. But it was a good reality since any second from now Juvia would be reunited with her Gray-sama.
"Gray-sama! Juvia's back." announced Juvia as she burst through the guild's door. Her expert eyes scanned the hall for her beloved and found him sitting at the bar counter talking to Mira. She wasted no time running to where the ice-mage was and jumped him.
"Juvia misses Gray-sama very much."
She held on to Gray's free arm and leaned her head against her shoulder, needing the contact. Juvia had always been oblivious to Gray's reaction to her public display of affection. But that's because he was good at masking them with his scolding. In fact, she would have never noticed how the blood rushed to Gray's head the moment she leaned into him.
Today was different. Juvia observed how Gray turned red and not because she started noticing but because somehow a voice in her head just spelled it out for her.
I wish Juvia would stop leaning too much. I could feel her breasts!
Juvia's loving gaze slid down from Gray's stiffened face to where their contact was. There she found Gray's arm cushioned against her ample breasts.
I wonder if it's as soft in the touch as how it feels. Should I touch them? They're just there.
Juvia panicked. Where was the voice coming from and why did it sound so much like his Gray-sama? Did her day-dreaming reached the level of actually hearing Gray's thoughts in her head?
That was spooky.
When Juvia peered through her lashes, she saw Gray-sama folding his lips, his brows furrowed and looking like he was fighting an internal battle. It was only when she followed the direction of his now rounded eyes that she thought that maybe she might not be imagining things. One horrifying realization hit Juvia.
Could it really be her Gray-sama's voice talking about wanting to touch her breasts? Because the way he was looking at them…
Before Gray could have the chance to withdraw his poor arm and give in to the tempting softness of the water mage's breasts, Juvia quickly let go.
"Why do you two look so flustered?"
The two flushed youngsters looked away from the questioning Mira and spit out incoherent words trying to deny nothing.
"J-ju-juvia will… ju-juvia should go."
"Ye-yeah. I-I think Erza is calling me."
"B-b-bye Gray-sama. See you later."
Juvia didn't even wait for his response before she just flew out of there. She ran out there too fast Gray swore he saw the water-mage leave a dust cloud forming her figure.
"Don't you think those two are acting strange?" Mira wiped the counter clean and moved forward to where a certain card-mage was drinking herself out of wits.
"Those two are strange, Mira. They're not just acting like one." Cana managed to answer as she downed another barrel.
Juvia paced the short distance between her bed and the door. Was she imagining things again? She did, she must be imagining things, right? There was no way she could read people's mind.
Earlier, she dashed over Gajeel's at record speed. She wasn't able to ask the Iron Dragon Slayer if the same thing was happening to him when he unceremoniously kicked the poor water-mage out of his house. The twins were asleep and he said he didn't need a ridiculous water-mage to wake them up.
Tired of pacing back and forth, Juvia dropped to her bed. There was no way she could hear Gray-sama's thoughts. There was no such thing as mind-reading.
What a naïve girl, of course there was such a thing as mind-reading.
A surprised gasp escaped her mouth and she bolted up her soft mattress. Her blue eyes widened at the memory of what Camellia's mayor told her.
The Mayor of the City of Camellia didn't have enough to pay the Fairy Tail mages. She said she got robbed the day before. Because Gajeel and Levy just had twins, Juvia was okay for Gajeel to receive the payment. The Iron Dragon Slayer wasn't okay with the arrangement at first, suggesting they just divide whatever was available but Juvia managed to convince him otherwise. She said it was for the twins so the self appointed godmother was okay with Gajeel getting the reward.
Feeling touched and a bit guilty, Mayor Kamada of Camellia City offered to pay Juvia a wish instead. When Gajeel was out of the Mayor's office, the old lady pulled Juvia to the corner.
"A wish?"
"Yes." The corner of the mayor's eyes crinkled as she smiled. Then, she raised one finger to count, "one wish."
Juvia was skeptical. She never heard of any mage that granted wishes. What was she a genie? She returned the Mayor's smile, albeit awkwardly.
"There's no need for it, Ms. Mayor." Juvia politely declined. "If there's nothing Juvia can do for you, Juvia should be going."
The lady Mayor chuckled. She stopped Juvia by the hand, pulled her close to look into her round blue eyes.
"Don't you have anything you want? Your deepest, darkest desire?"
The Mayor's dark green eyes were so hypnotic that Juvia absentmindedly repeated her words.
"Deepest, darkest desire?"
Frantic hands flew to her now agape mouth. She had goosebumps just remembering the weird, spooky leader. All of a sudden, Juvia had a moment of epiphany, hitting her in the head like a pandemonium. Could it be that the strange Mayor gave her the power to read minds? She ran to Cana's room to test the theory. But she failed to read Cana's mind. Then, to Laki and lastly to Evergreen.
Juvia wandered back to her own room. She was right; the mind-reading antics earlier was just a result of her overactive imagination. The water-mage covered her mouth as she gasped in surprise. She wanted to hide from the dormitory Head Girl, Erza Scarlet, patrolling the halls of Fairy Hills after dark. It was a little past 10:00 p.m. and Juvia should really be in bed by now. Juvia tiptoed along the hall towards her room, trying not to make any noise and be found.
"Juvia."
A slow burning shrill slid up her spine. Nothing escaped those brown hawk eyes.
"You shouldn't be wandering these halls in the middle of the night, Juvia. It's past our curfew."
Juvia bowed her head, spitting out apologies. Erza stopped her before she broke her back bending over for a ninety-degree apology.
"You look so tired. Are you alright?"
"Juvia just came back from a job, Erza-san." reasoned Juvia.
"I see. You better get some rest then."
Juvia nodded and proceeded to her room. She just passed the Requip mage when she made the decision. She wasn't going to get a good night sleep from all the thinking so she better just get it off her chest.
Juvia was now in Erza's room, sipping some tea that the red-head prepared.
"It's Chrysanthemum." Erza poured Juvia a cup before she replaced the pot on the table. "It's good for the sleep." She sat with Juvia on the bed beside the cautious water-mage. "Can you tell me the story one more time?"
Juvia finished her tea in one go before she retold the whole story to Erza, from the moment she step foot in Camellia City to Gray wanting to what she thought he said in his mind was grope her.
Erza considered it for a moment – which seemed forever for Juvia.
"I heard stories about a woman who granted wishes. I didn't know they were true."
"What should Juvia do, Erza-san?"
"So, Gray is a boob man."
"Erza-san!"
Erza quickly apologized for having been too occupied by the information. The two then planned on how to confront this gift or curse the entire night.
The water mage just never learned. Experience showed that no one should ever ask help from Requip mage. With fighting? Sure. But with the nature of her problem? Juvia should listen to experience.
Because when Titania got excited about a plan, it was supposed to blow.
And now, the Queen of the Fairies put Juvia on the most revealing clothes the water mage had ever seen. Her breasts, same breasts that appealed to the seemingly stoic ice-mage, as she discovered yesterday, were pushed together in the most seductive way, so tight that she almost fainted. Even mages, who were not her Gray-sama, were looking her way. The Requip mage also reminded Juvia that she had to greet the shy ice-make mage in the most sheepish way possible, like she was guilty and needed punishment.
"Gray-sama." shyly greeted Juvia without looking into Gray's now startled dark blue eyes, as if she didn't even deserve to look at him.
When Juvia walked up to Gray, she confirmed her suspicions. Only, it seemed that the power has grown more powerful. Not only was she able to hear his thoughts, Juvia was able to see Gray's imagination.
Damn it.
Gray's imagination rolled like a film and lucky for Juvia, she was on the front row seat.
In Gray's perverted imagination, Juvia was now in a maid uniform, her hair tied in pigtails, kneeling before him and welcoming him like the good servant that she was. She greeted her master abashedly, her eyes averted away, her cheeks powdered in reddish pink, just the way Gray liked it. Her cleavage was on full display, just the way Gray wanted it.
Gray could already feel the blood rush to that one body part down south. Before he embarrassed himself, Gray disappeared like the coyote.
Damn it, Gray! Wait 'til you reach home.
Even miles away, Juvia could hear her beloved's thoughts.
Erza rolled around her bed laughing. Juvia glared at her and the Requip mage laughed even more.
Who knew Gray had that kind of fantasy?
"I guess boys will be boys."
"Erza-san is not helpful at all." Juvia rolled her eyes. She was nowhere near the answer than when she started. All she know now was that Gray had fantasies about her – in a maid costume.
"Hey!" complained Erza. "I helped you confirm your new found magic, didn't I?"
Juvia had to admit that Erza was right.
"Then what should Juvia do?"
After Erza finished laughing her heart out and wiping the corner of her eyes, she turned to Juvia with a serious look.
"It's not a question of what you should do but of what you want to do with it."
That made Juvia think. With her new found power, what did she want to do about it?
Before she could continue the conversation and voice out her thoughts, the crazy Requip mage returned to fisting her bed in hysterical laughter. She was spewting rubbish like 'maid fantasy', 'boob guy' and 'that pervert'. Juvia raised a brow at the breathless Requip Mage.
Did she really have the right to call Gray a pervert? Her? That person who almost forced Juvia to wear a seduction armor? Juvia had to fight for her life to get rid of that apron Erza was calling seduction armor.
"Gray-sama," called out Juvia. "can Juvia talk to Gray-sama?"
Juvia felt Gray's cautious gaze journey from her pleading eyes down her lips, her covered breasts and the curve of her waist. She was back to her usual, conventional clothing.
Seems safe.
"You can sit here." Gray offered the bar stool next to him.
Juvia guardedly looked around the populated guild. "Maybe not here, Gray-sama."
Juvia seems serious. Is there something wrong?
Gray studied Juvia once more. But before he could voice out his concern, Juvia answered his unaired question.
"There's nothing wrong with Juvia, Gray-sama. Juvia just have something important to say."
Shit. Did she just read my mind? Oh. Maybe it was just obvious on my face?
Gray failed to see Juvia's request as urgent so he left her no choice but to grab him by the hand and drag him along with her outside the guild.
Wait, where is she taking me? Everyone's looking at us weirdly.
"I'm not whipped, flame-brain!" Gray had the need to set the record straight.
"Hey, Juvia, wait a little."
Wow, I didn't know Juvia had such a strong grip.
He could easily pull Juvia back to stop but secretly, he was enjoying this aggressiveness.
Whoa, it gotten even tighter. Speaking of tight…
Juvia could see Gray's mind jump to her sexy outfit yesterday that pushed her breasts together.
I should stop thinking about 'tight' or else.
Juvia stopped dead in her tracks. So suddenly that Gray almost crashed into her.
"Hey, is everything alright?" Gray was genuinely concerned now.
Juvia turned to him, all flushed, embarrassed but also determined.
"First, Gray-sama should really stop thinking.
"Thinking about what?"
Hold up! I didn't say that 'tight' out loud, did I?
"About everything."
"Because, here it goes, Juvia… well, Juvia…"
Why is she so fidgety and she can't even look at me straight. Is it that hard to say?
Gray put his hands on her shoulders to keep her from turning and fiddling.
"Hey, relax, Juvia."
He made her face him to coax out the words from the restless water-mage.
"Well, you see. Juvia can..."
"Juvia can what?"
"JuviacanreadGray-sama'smind!" she blurted out in one breath.
"What?"
Gray loosened his hold on Juvia's shoulders.
"Gray-sama is making a weird face." Juvia peeked through her lashes only to see Gray's face arranged in a way that she could only say as horrified.
What the actual f–.
Gray sat at the curb behind the Fairy Tail Building. It's been an hour or so since he last said something. Juvia grew worried.
"Gray-sama, please talk to Juvia."
She had to ask him because Gray's mind went totally blank. If Juvia was to come inside his brain, she would only see an endless of darkness. Pitch black.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Gray finally looked at Juvia again. "I'm just trying to process everything." admitted Gray.
It was true. Juvia could sense Gray's brain light up again. He was starting to think.
"So, you can read everything, huh?"
Gray wasn't mad. He looked at Juvia with a soft gaze – apologetic and understanding.
"Yes."
"Even the…" he purposely left out the last part. Too embarrassed to say out loud.
Maid costume?
"Yes."
Shit.
"Juvia–"
"–Gray-sama does not need to explain."
Juvia placed Gray's hands in hers; Squeezed them gently to comfort him.
"Juvia understands." Juvia offered him a considerate smile; one Gray returned almost immediately.
"If that's the case," Gray put his hand over Juvia's and gently pulled her to sit next to him. "I guess there's no more point not saying it."
Gray composed himself. It was all new to him and he had no idea how to go about it.
How should I say it? Where do I start? Dammit, why do I feel so nervous?
"Gray-sama doesn't have to say it. Juvia could hear his thoughts." And sometimes see them but she wasn't going to tell him that.
"No." Gray's face was pulled in a serious look. "I have to say it at least once." He turned to face Juvia, brows knitted in a determined look. "The truth Juvia is that… I," He looked into her eyes – two calm oceans. "I don't know what romantic love is."
Juvia gave him a smile of understanding but she knew Gray still had something to say.
"But when I think about romantic love, all I see is you."
Juvia had to tell herself to hold it together because the best part was about to happen.
Gray sighed, accepting the fact that he couldn't keep this from the woman anymore. But his demons knocked on his door. As Gray always did, he opened the door and let them in.
But as I am now, I'm not enough.
"No. Gray-sama is more than enough."
Panic rounded Juvia's eyes. Her chest tightened hearing her beloved's inner doubts. The worse part was that she was apparently the reason.
"Juvia because of me... you…" Gray's breathing became labored.
Juvia could see he was reliving the horror of the thought of Juvia dying in his arms. Self-hatred peered through the other emotions as Gray remembered that he was the reason. She could see now and could hear how much pain he was finding her lifeless body next to his. Self-hatred jumped into the frontline, pushing doubt and pain into the back burner. What he hated the most was that he was alive because of Juvia.
Tears brimmed Juvia's blue eyes, the calm ocean brewing into raging seas. Looking into Gray's memories, Juvia could feel all the self-loathing, the powerful hate that turned Gray against his own best-friend, almost killing him. Then, the relief of finding out that Juvia was alive. The powerful emotions transfixed her in her place as they overwhelmed Juvia one after the other.
Gray wiped the corner of her eyes with the back of his thumb. "It wasn't your fault." He'd hate himself more than ever if he made her feel like his insecurities were Juvia's responsibility. He rested his forehead against Juvia's and whispered the words one more time.
"You need to know, Juvia, I did what I did because…"
Gray's breath hitched in his throat.
"because…" but as he struggled to say the words, Gray decided to become a man of action. What's the point of saying it since Juvia practically could just read his mind. "because…"
Gray experimentally brushed his lips against Juvia's.
They're so soft… and warm.
He tilted his head and brushed his lips against hers once again.
"because…"
Gray chanted between kisses until he got tired of saying 'because'. He placed his open palm behind her head and held her against him so he could have a taste Juvia over and over again. The ice-mage was the one who broke the kiss. He rested his head against Juvia's as the two inexperienced couple catch their breaths.
"because?" But even with that breath-taking kiss, Juvia still wanted to hear the words. When she tried to look into his thoughts, it surprised Juvia that she couldn't see or hear anything.
"Gray-sama!" She jumped in surprise. "Juvia can't seem to read Gray-sama's mind!"
"What? How is that possible?"
Gray was confused. He wasn't sure whether to be happy about or not.
"How about this? What am I thinking?"
Nothing. Juvia shook her head. She couldn't hear or see anything.
"So you've lost the ability?"
It sounded more like a rhetoric question. But even if Juvia couldn't see into the ice-mage's mind, she could read his expression. It seemed to Juvia that Gray wasn't too happy about the news as she expected.
Because the truth was that Gray was a little regretful about it not finding about the temporary ability.
"Not even my…" tested Gray.
Juvia tried to muster her mind-reading power again. But nothing. She could read nothing. The water-mage gently shook her head no.
"That's alright."
Gray pulled her in a gentle embrace. He sighed into her blue locks, satisfactorily and, honestly, a little wistfully.
"But Juvia wants to hear it, even just once."
She said against his chest, muffling her words. But Gray heard it. He may not have her ability to read minds, but he heard her loud and clear.
He wasn't sure though which words she wanted to hear: the L word or the M fantasy?
Kamada, Camellia City's esteemed but easily fooled City Mayor, dropped her pen and allowed herself a little smile. By now the girl with the blue hair and golden heart must had realized her dream.
When she looked into the young lady's heart she knew, just like most women in love, their darkest, deepest desire was to know what was inside their lover's heart.
Kamada closed the Book of Desires and hid it inside the drawer on her right. She stretched her arms out before she walked to her window. The granter of wishes looked down on the busy streets. It was late but the citizens of Camellia busied themselves around the city that never slept. Kamada heaved out a long sigh. Another long day has passed but one dream was realized. Thinking about the blue-haired mage, she was happy and satisfied. The water-mage was a simple person with a simple request. It has been awhile since she met a pure-hearted soul. Mostly, Kamada had to grant such lavish and earthly wishes: a mansion in the city; ten carriages; successful business; all fleeting. The young water-mage was different. Her heart never desired those material things. She knew what was more important than earthly possessions. Kamada was glad she came across such a beautiful-hearted girl. Now, Kamada couldn't wait to tuck in bed.
Before the old lady shut the curtains closed to keep the moonlight from entering her room, a satisfied smile crept up her thin lips. She may be a granter of wishes but she knew, somewhere in Magnolia, one fantasy was coming to life.
"Welcome home, Gray-sama."
Writer's Corner: This one, well, this one is crossing Love Love Fest. Hahaha. I don't know what came to me to be able to write down something like this.
Fun fact:
Kamada is a Hindu name which means "granting wishes".
Red Camellia symbolize love, passion, and deep desire.
All fitting, huh? And some of you may recognize the phrase "deepest and darkest desire"? Anyone here watching Lucifer? hahaha
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