It had been 3 weeks since Juvia had first taken Cana's advice on how she could get Gray's attention and a date with him, even if it was just one. She had come to the guild every day in the same kind of clothes, ones that Cana had suggested that were supposed to get a man's attention. She couldn't deny that they had succeeded in doing that, but unfortunately for her, it was always the wrong man. The one man she wanted to notice her seemed to be the only person who hadn't noticed her. She had even started hanging around other men in the guild and spending less time with Gray, just like she had been told to do, trying even harder to get the ice mage's attention but with very little success. She had spent so much time on trying to win Gray's attention that she had forgotten the main reason she was in a guild, work. She hadn't been on a job for quite a while and she was losing more and more jewels each day.

The bluenette slumped down on a stool at the bar next to Cana. She put down her large barrel of alcohol and turned to face the water mage.

"Any luck yet?" Juvia shook her head in response.

"Not only that, but Juvia hasn't been on a job in so long, she has just been wasting time with this". Cana thought for a minute, staring past Juvia at the wall behind her. She suddenly sat upright as she had an idea.

"Try this". She placed a piece of paper on the bar in front of them. Juvia read what was on the paper. It was a job. A long one. Her eyes scanned for the most important points, it seemed simple enough, just pick something up at point A and take it to point B, the kind of thing guilds did on a daily basis. The reward seemed too high for a job of this type, suspiciously so. There had to be something more to it. But on the other hand it would make up for the lack of the work she had been doing lately.

"Juvia doesn't know, the rewardseems a bit high so it doesn't seem like the kind of thing Juvia should do alone..."

"I didn't mention anything about doing it alone" Cana looked over at Gray. "Maybe some alone time between the two of you will get you closer together". The water mage thought about it for a moment.

"Didn't you tell Juvia to try to keep away from Gray to make him come to her?"

"Well yeah, but that hasn't worked, has it?"

"No" Juvia looked at the floor disappointed.

"So go on, ask him". She sat there for a minute, completely silent before standing up suddenly and making her way over to the ice mage.

"Gray-sama?" The ice mage didn't even look up before answering.

"Sorry, busy tonight, no time for dinner with you". Juvia almost didn't ask her question after being shot down for a date she hadn't even asked for this time.

"Juvia was just wondering if Gray-sama wanted to do a job with Juvia?" The ice mage looked up. She rarely offered him a job, just invitations to restaurants.

"What kind of job?" She held out her hand to the ice mage

"Here". He looked at her hand and then stared blankly at her.

"Umm... Juvia?"

"Yes?"

"You do know you're hand's empty, right?" The bluenette looked down at her hand. He was right, she was just holding air. She darted to the bar and back before presenting the sheet of paper to the ice mage like nothing had happened. He quickly read text before answering. "Sure, why not? I could use the money". Juvia almost jumped with joy at his acceptance. "When do we go?" She was caught completely off guard with his question, she hadn't thought that far ahead, she had been expecting a different answer after all.

"Ummm... Tomorrow morning?"

"Yeah, ok". Juvia practically skipped out of the guild and headed home to start preparing for her new job with her Gray-sama.

The job lasted for about two weeks, most of which had been travel time. She slumped down on a bar stool and ordered her usual drink of tea.

"Any luck then?" The water mage shook her head.

"Gray-sama was always pretty quiet and Juvia didn't want to disturb him too much". Cana sighed.

"So you didn't talk to him at all?"

"Juvia did talk to him, but is was mainly about the job we were doing"

"You know you were supposed to take him on that job to get closer to him to improve your chances of getting a date, you did get that right?"

"Well, yeah but..."

"Nevermind, what's done is done, or not done in this case". Juvia started mentally cursing herself. Cana had given her one of the best shots she had ever had and she ended up wasting it.

"Do you have any other ideas for Juvia?"

"Yeah, I think I have one. You need a date". Juvia looked confused.

"Yeah, that's what all this is about, Juvia wants a date with Gray-sama"

"No, you need a date with someone else, you need to make him realise what he's missing and I think I know just the right person for you".