Manzanilla was a small village much smaller than magnolia any mage who lived in the area would be a retired one because there really was not much work in the area. The work that Gray and Juvia did could be done by a non-mage but the shop owner Grandma Guela fancied Gray and thought Juvia was good for business so she let them work on Sundays. She did not pay much Jewels but she let them take medicinal herbs, tea and food which was good enough for the two young mages he did not go on much shopping sprees anyways.
Gray walked Juvia up to the counter in which she worked at the medicinal shop. Grandma Guela who owned the shop was nowhere in sight she was most likely in the back room organizing shelves and dusting. Juvia checked for a note on the counter and as usual they found a list of duties that had accumulated for them throughout the week that the Grandma could not do on her own.
TO DO:
Dust the shop
Pick some Cilantro, chives and catnip from the foot hills
Spread this seed packets while at the foot hills
Tend to the Garden out Back
"I got to go to the foot hills to collect some herbs and spread these seeds. I will see you in a few Juvs." Gray called as he ran out of the small shop.
"Uahruu!" Juvia heard a collision near the door.
"Ah Gray-sama are you okay?" She called rushing to the door to check on him.
"Ryos!" Juvia squeaked at the sight of two raven haired boys laid out on the floor.
"It is Rogue now Lady Juvia." Rogue Cheney quietly corrected as he stood up and dusted himself off.
Gray looked back in forth between the two mages. Rogue seemed awkward and Juvia looked guilty from what he could tell, Gray realized that he really had never seen the two interact and he did not particularly like it neither he wanted Rogue to disappear from the shadow he crawled out of and let him and Juvia live in their little bubble for just a while longer . Fiore was a small country so as a mage no matter where you where you would run into other mages eventually it was unavoidable. Plus he really had not been keeping up with what was going on in the mage community outside of the Weekly Sorcerer.
Gray let out a grunt
"Oh Gray-sama you need to watch where you are going." Juvia scolded halve heartedly
"It's okay Juvia it's nothing no scratches." Gray said soothingly as she helped him up
"Juvia knows she just … cares." She held onto his hand and gazed at him longingly Rogue looked in between the two mages who were holding hands far longer than necessary and smirked.
"Thank you." Gray blushed and ran back out the door.
He wanted to stay talk with rogue see what was up what was going on within the mage community and any word of E.N.D but he had a job to do so he hoped it could wait. Hopefully Rogue would be staying in town for the day or tell Juvia what was up. Juvia. Juvia and Rogue seemed awfully familiar and as far as Gray knew Rogue and Juvia never hung out outside of group settings and even then the two never interacted. Hell he even noticed that Juvia would turn away from his gaze from time to time. Not that he was watching her or anything.
'What was that Lady Juvia crap' he wondered to himself. He worried for a second and thought about turning around and watching to make sure nothing weird was going on between the two. He had dark hair, was kind of tall, quiet and was tough definitely her type.
'No what the hell.' He scolded himself mentally, 'Juvias habits really are rubbing off on me.'
They were looking at each other strange but it wasn't in the way that Juvia looked at someone she liked Gray knew that look very well. Or the way Rogue tried not to look at Juvia. It reminded him of the way he looked at Wendy the day they dropped her off at Lamia Scale with Cheria and Lyon. Guilty.
A.N.:
What happened between Rogue and Juvia to make them act this way around each other?
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