Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail
What should Juvia do with these excess presents? Juvia wanted to choose the best present out of a group but now, the answer is in plain sight, there isn't a need to debate, the book is the best option. At the same time, Juvia got Natsu a set of clothes and a bracelet that helps with motion sickness. Juvia doesn't want to waste. It was almost Christmas, the guild just finished rehearsing for the celebration, Natsu won't let Juvia enter his house until Christmas is over so, Juvia is in her room with three objects covered in wrapping paper. Juvia already decided on how to deliver the book to Natsu. However, wasting two perfectly good gifts seems like a shame. One birthday present and the other our anniversary present? Yeah, that should do. Natsu, prepare to become Juvia's servant for a week and Juvia's dress-up doll! Perhaps Juvia should invite the other girls to join in on the fun…
When Juvia woke up on Christmas day, it wasn't due to her alarm, but the wave of cold that rushed into Juvia's room. Moving in with Natsu doesn't seem like such a bad idea after all…not that it was a problem to begin with...it's so cold! Juvia quickly wrapped herself in a winter clothing. It seems that Juvia's heater ran out of magic while she was sleeping. However, that isn't going to stop Juvia from heading out and winning her prize! Juvia summoned a group of water dolls to help push the cart that was holding Juvia's present and headed out the door.
Before the gifting can begin, Fairy Tail must help the town with celebrating the occasion. Pushing away the snow as the cart made it way to the guild, Juvia was re-affirming her duties. With Mira and Wendy, Juvia is supposed to be selling cakes outside the guild—wearing a Santa costume due to popular voting. Natsu is helping out by acting as security, though in reality, Master couldn't find a suitable position for him since there isn't a tournament planned, so Natsu is patrolling the town making sure that nothing goes wrong. If not, he's free to enjoy the festival. Somewhere along the line, Loretta's concert starts after lunch and Mira is joining her. Leaving Erza to help us with the cakes. Thankfully, they aren't strawberry cheesecake being sold in the afternoon, only in the morning.
"Don't you think these costumes are a bit revealing for winter?" Juvia still can't believe she has to wear a mini skirt and a sleeveless coat in winter, the hat isn't too warm either! To make it worse, Natsu is on patrol with the other trouble makers! Wendy's costume was acceptable for the cold weather, covering the arms and legs with a cute red and white costume, the snow mittens added to the adorable nature of the girl.
"Well, we do have a heater." Mira gestured to the machine the size of a crate, not particularly minding the clothes.
"Aren't you embarrassed wearing these?"
"If any one of them gives me a look I don't like, they'll regret it. Though, to be honest, these can cover more skin…" Mira pouted a bit, pulling down on her skirt. "Wendy you have it lucky."
"I still feel bad to be in the best position out of all of us…"
"When we're done, how about we give Master a piece of our minds?"
""Yes!"" We had the guys move the red boxes filled with cakes to our booth. Mira is to attract customers, Wendy and Juvia are to serve them. Once it reaches nine, our mission starts.
This is the second time Juvia was beaten by cuteness, the lines that are formed favored Wendy, her's at least twice as long as Juvia's though Juvia's line was thirty people long. Maybe Wendy is better at giving a service smile than Juvia. Whatever it is, Juvia's work load is much less than Wendy's. The heater was good enough to keep us warm, occasionally, a gust of wind would bypass the heating and would make Juvia regret not having Natsu nearby. This was our working condition until lunch.
Now that there's a concert going on inside the guild, our work has diminished substantially, Wendy is now attracting customers, Erza is helping Juvia in selling cakes. This time, the lines were less pronounced as last time but still favoring Erza's side. Today really damaged Juvia's pride as a woman…as long Natsu doesn't mind Juvia not being the prettiest girl out there, Juvia can live with it.
After the concert, we don't have to help out until the night-time performance, so we decided to hold our Christmas party now and continue it after the performances.
"Listen up!" Master announced with a proud face. "For the past year, the amount of compensation I had to pay has been lowered by five percent! While I wish that it can be more, considering your tendencies, it's already a miracle by itself. For that, you can go wilder today than before!" Roars of approval rang from the guild. "One last thing before we get this party started!" The cheers died down at an alarming rate. "I wish you all a happy new year! Here's to another great year! Cheers!" Master hoisted his mug in the air, everyone else followed, signaling the start of a long and chaotic party, even for Fairy Tail standards.
Most guild members took this time to exchange gifts in the party, during Juvia's journey, Juvia picked out different gifts for her friends. The rabbit statue, Juvia gave it to Lisanna. And when Juvia was out to get the book, Juvia bought a few antique books for Levy. Everyone else got their own gifts that Juvia bought in that week or two timeframe, some more unconventional than others but all have thought put into it. Once Juvia finished handing out presents, Natsu walked over with the five judges we picked out.
"Prepare to lose!" Natsu declared with a mischievous smile.
"Juvia has intention of doing that, if anything, you should just agree to Juvia's demands right now."
"Alright, alright," Master cut into our little bickering. "We'll start with Natsu in presenting the gift, if needed, you'll be allowed some time to explain what the gift is." Natsu gestured the Happy that pulled out a tiara from his pack, it was made of a silver band of metal etched with white runes, growing stronger as it gets closer to the centre. The crowning piece was a deep blue gemstone that was giving off a dazzling luster.
"Here you go! The old man that I got it from told me that it can protect the wearer from abnormal magic effects."
"Natsu, it's not a bad gift but, I doubt Juvia would wear that in public."
"Huh? Why? It looks so good on her! Look!" Natsu walked over and nestled the tiara on Juvia's head. "See? She looks so pretty!"
"I don't doubt that Natsu, that's not the problem here. No one will wear that in the public."
"Though, I think it's very sweet." Mira added. "Treating Juvia like royalty, that's lovely in my opinion."
"Yeah, it's great!" Lucy also commented. "Maybe, Juvia won't wear it all the time but, the thought matters a lot in this."
"Plus, it's very cute." Alzack and Bisca made similar comments on Natsu's gift. Then, all the judges wrote a score—from one to ten—with Reedus-san's pen for a total of thirty-four points. Next it was Juvia's turn. Four little dolls carried the wrapped book to Natsu.
"What's this?" Natsu asked.
"Just open it and you'll know. Juvia hopes you like it. Don't burn off the wrapping though." Natsu tore off the paper impatiently and became dumbfounded.
"A book?"
"Yes, you can store memories in this book."
"Cool!"
"Let Juvia teach you how to use it." Juvia placed a hand on the cover of the book. "First, you put a hand on the cover," Juvia thought of the time when Juvia was looking for decoration and over-thought our relationship, more specifically, the time when we talked on the hammock. It was the thing that made Juvia more comfortable with her relationship with Natsu. "then you think of a memory you want to store. Finally, you put your magic in it, don't use too much, this book is quite old." The book gave out a warm blue light as Juvia poured magic into it.
"Cool!"
"Now, you look at a memory you just tap the picture." Juvia flipped open to the first page with two pictures on it.
"Which one do I press?"
"It doesn't matter, both of them will tell you how important you are to Juvia." Natsu tapped on the photo and blanked out as the scene he chose played out. When it was finished, Natsu wrapped Juvia in a hug.
"I lose…" Gasps dominated the guild hall. To be honest, Juvia was surprised in hearing that Natsu admitted defeat. "Thank You, I love it."
"Merry Christmas Natsu, Juvia is glad that you like it. Please stay with Juvia."
"You can count on it." Natsu squeezed tighter, giving Juvia the warmth that she's been wanting for the two shifts that's been absent.
"However," Juvia put Natsu in a death grip, giving him the most sadistic stare Juvia can make. "that does mean Juvia won. You have to obey Juvia for a while." The girls ran off giddily while Natsu turned pale. Gray even gave Natsu his condolences. Natsu tried to get away, screaming—begging for mercy—cursing and saying that he takes his surrender back, Master didn't accept it since the match was already over.
While Natsu was frozen, everyone else was preparing for the performance, Juvia was trying to do something about the fear-stricken dragon slayer.
"Come on Natsu, we have to get ready, you're in charge of the effects remember?"
"But, I going to suffer for a week!"
"Juvia got through it when Juvia became your maid, think of it as your just desserts."
"Please don't over-do it."
"You didn't have any mercy for Juvia so, no."
"Fine…" Natsu sulked for a bit longer before rising up.
"Are you done being a kid?"
"I'm not a brat!"
"Then hurry up and get to position."
"Got it…" Juvia made sure that Natsu was ready before going to her own duties. Our big plan was doing a talent show of sorts that was Christmas related. For example, Lucy and doing a small play with Gray, Loretta is leading a carol with hand-pick members of the guild, Juvia is also a part of the choir. Some were dancing, others were showing off their magic in creative ways. Juvia was dancing with water dolls for her part, making good use of the present Natsu just gave Juvia. Regardless of how the performance turns out, Juvia is satisfied with today already. Though the alone time with Natsu after the party is what Juvia is looking forward to the most.
The performance was perfect! Nothing went wrong, the crowd enjoyed it. To top it off, the second half of our party was wonderful, no one was particularly hurt—not more than usual anyway, save Master, we gave Master a thorough scolding. Everyone had fun, Juvia enjoyed talking to her friends about what kind of clothes should we make Natsu wear. Juvia rejected the suggestion of making Natsu wearing female clothes out of interest of not hurting Natsu too much than Juvia already has.
Juvia was on a hillside with Natsu, an area of grass stood out from the white. Cuddling against Natsu for heat, Juvia got as close to him as possible. Honestly, it was at the point where Juvia believes she can accurately map out Natsu's chest with her fingers. Beside us, the book that Juvia got for Natsu was tucked under Natsu's hand, is wasn't surprising at all that Natsu can carry the thing without much trouble.
"Did you put anything in it yet?"
"No, I plan to later."
"Can you tell Juvia what you plan to do then?"
"It's simple." Natsu closed the gap between our lips, sticking his tongue in Juvia's mouth for good measure, exploring it thoroughly. Since it was Juvia's first time doing something like this, Juvia wasn't sure what she's feeling normal. Her heart was accelerating beyond belief—this hasn't happened to this extent since we got together—blood flooded Juvia's cheeks, and Juvia is pretty sure that steam was coming off like crazy. Natsu pulled away. "I do something like that."
"Don't do that out of the blue…"
"You don't like it? I loved it."
"It's not that…Juvia was really…happy…"
"Then what's the problem?" Juvia buried her head in Natsu's scarf, not wanting him to see Juvia's face.
"Nothing."
"I don't see a problem in doing this then." Natsu forced Juvia to face him and kissed Juvia again, holding Juvia's head in place with one hand this time so Juvia can't get away even if Juvia wants to. His other hand was doing something that wasn't like Natsu at all, it was touching Juvia's butt! As if the kiss wasn't stimulating enough, he had to do something like this! Once we separated, Natsu gave Juvia a cockily smile.
Juvia's brain wasn't working properly, it was simply too much to handle. Juvia's brain was just replaying what just happened over and over again, with each passing time, Juvia somehow managed to find her way deeper in Natsu's scarf. Natsu got close to Juvia's ear.
"I'll use the book to record all those cute reactions of yours. I really want to eat you up every time I see it." And Natsu broke Juvia once more.
Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed! So I was correct in the number of votes. Only five voted, kind of sad really. But I suppose it's my fault for doing these kinds of things when I don't a huge audience.
Anyway, I want to know what you think of this chapter, Natsu is a bit ooc in this one but not too much.
The next chapter should be fun! Until then, hope you enjoyed, please let me know what you think of the story over all.
