Summary: A bunch of one shots for the couple Gray and Lucy since they don't have much love as a couple. There are a variety of genres but some might be sad or tragic so there's a fair warning that some of these one shots could be one sided.
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Pairing: Gray and Lucy
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail all rights reserved to Hiro Mashima
Desperate Measures
Gray clinked the ice cubes around using the motions of his finger as he gazed at them rather bored. The Guild was at their usual antics but he seems to find nothing intriguing or anything that interests him for the matter.
Not even the hot headed Dragon-slayer mage Natsu seems to be able to peek his interests for even a tussle or two which caused the latter to be more irritated and itching to have a fight.
"YO Underwear Prince!" he laughed
"….."
"Droopy eyes!" he chanted rather loudly. But the ice-mage still didn't look up to meet the fire-mage's glare.
"Snowman!" he yelled swatting his head in the process. No luck still.
"Snow-cone!" he roared throwing a chair at the defenseless Gray. The raven-haired lad only ducked his head causing the flying object to miss and create damage at the bar a few feet away.
"Natsu! Stop making damage, we just rebuild the counter!" cried Mirajane as she looked at him disappointingly. Natsu only cried in agony and pulled his salmon hair in frustration.
"Well it's not my fault that this exhibionist dodged it! He isn't paying any attention to me!"
Mirajane smiled at him playfully "Awww Natsu-san is sad that Gray isn't paying attention to him! How cute!"
The remark only caused the fire mage to grit his teeth "It's NOT LIKE THAT! This stupid Popsicle won't even give me glance and I don't know how to get his attention!"
"Huh usually insulting him just about does it" she reverted her gaze to the now calm Ice-mage as he sips his juice quietly, then setting it down and started to stare into oblivion. His hand rested below his chin, a small frown etched its way on his face still looking bored.
This fact actually made Mira worried, her eyes bulged out and turned to her younger sister Lisanna.
"Lisanna! Tell me how many names did Natsu just call Gray right now?" she asked worriedly.
The younger Strauss tilted her chin with her slender fingers to ponder about it. "Hmm around six names or so?" then her eyes ceased with worry as she stared at Gray "It usually only takes about one or two! At most three to get him riled up!"
Mirajane nodded, confirming her suspicion "Then there might be something wrong with him? Is he okay? Perhaps he sick?" she suggested.
"Well there is always something wrong with Gray did it take everyone now just to notice that?" Natsu replied with his arms folded across his chest. "And people call me dumb pfft~"
The sisters then turned their heads back to Gray, and he still didn't bother to reply to Natsu's insult.
"Maybe...he's depressed?" said Lisanna worriedly, she walked up to him and waved her hand in front of his face, he didn't blink and continued on staring at his drink filled with ice cubes.
The younger Strauss bit her lip, concern waved over. She turned to her sister "Is there something we can do?" she asks
Mirajane looked down, thinking 'How though? There must be something around here that could get Gray's attention, but what?'
"I got it!" yelled Natsu grinningly pounding his fist to hand "This works every time! Yosh!~" he yelled happily. The siblings looked at him, they were curious to see what the dragon-slayer was about to do.
"GRAY!" he yelled "YOUR CLOTHES!" he embarked. The sisters smiled, yeah usually every time Gray hears this phrase he automatically looks down and scream.
But as they looked back at him they were surprised to see the ice-mage still in his seat moving the ice-cubes in his drink with the shift of his long fingers. They frowned at this 'How could this not work?' they thought.
Then it dawned over them, something that they only realized only now after Natsu's statement, which is causing the two girls to pale in sight.
Gray was still wearing his clothes. All of them.
This was more serious than they thought.
Natsu walked up to them and was also dissatisfied with the reaction Gray had made. He cast a worry glance at his rival/best friend "Doushita no Gray?" he mutters quietly.
The three of them stared at him seriously as he only made slight movements and yawned. Something is wrong with their Exhibionist and they wanted to know what.
But what can grab Gray's attention, something he will automatically respond to?
"I know!" Lisanna beamed happily "I know something that might get Gray's attention."
"What?" asked her Dragon-slayer friend.
"Just watch" she grinned as she skipped her ways towards to one of the tables of the guild occupied by a young woman wearing all blue and had her blue hair styled in long curly fashion. She also wore a hat.
"Juvia!~" the girl sung catching the water mage's attention.
"Hai Lisanna-san?" Juvia replied
"Can you do me a teeny favor?" the white haired girl asked as she clasped her hands together apologetically "Pleaseee?" she said sweetly
Juvia smiled at her "Juvia will be most happy to help you. What does Lisanna-san want Juvia to do?"
"Oh it's easy!" the take-over mage replied, "Can you get Gray's attention. He won't look up from his drink and it's been almost half an hour!"
The water mage suddenly stood up, determined was written in her eyes "Leave this to Juvia. I will get Gray-sama to look up at me"
Lisanna only sweat dropped at Juvia's reply "Well I just wanted him to look up...but I guess that works too." She said a bit anxiously.
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"WAHHHH" the water mage cried, "Why won't Gray-sama look at me? Is Juvia n-not good enough?" the girl asked distraught as more tears spilled out from her eyes causing the Guild to be flooded.
"O-oi! Stop crying Juvia! You're gonna wreck the guild!" Natsu gasped as the pressure of the water forced him to go down. Air was the only thing on his mind
"Hrrrp reemmm stuuurrrp errrt jjerrrrbbbiaaaa gagshghsagdhas" bubbles came up.
"Juvia!" yelled Mira "I'm sorry we thought our plan will work if you came up to talk to Gray. I'm sorry it didn't work but please stop crying!" she was paddling her ways towards the girl; she used the table's surface as a boat. Everyone was crying out for help and chanting for Juvia to stop crying.
The girl sniffled as she tried to calm down "O-okay I-I'l calm down" she meekly replied. Slowly the guild drowned out all the water leaving the guild members to sigh in relief. Natsu spurted back to life as he gasped for more air.
Lisanna walked towards her carefully with an apologetic smile on her face "Gomen Juvia. I thought with your presence it would catch Gray's attention. I'm sorry that I was wrong."
Juvia looked at the girl and wiped some of her tears "It's not Lisanna's fault. Juvia will have to accept that Gray might not like her in that way." She frowned but turned her gaze towards Gray and miraculously was still sitting and staring at his drink.
She sighed "Juvia is still young so Love won't be hard to find" she walked out the guild doors, she noticed her friends were still distraught at Gray's behavior and wished she could do something to help.
An idea clicked into her mind, though she was heart broken and will be more crushed to hear if the plan worked, she would rather be happy to see Gray acting normal again and not forcing him to like her the way she likes him. She wants those feelings to feel true and sincere.
"Ano!" she called grabbing their attention (except for Gray's) "I might know someone that can help."
"Who?" asked Natsu anticipating her answer.
"Love Rival" she replied before walking out of the guild leaving only questioning stares.
"Love Rival?" Natsu repeated the words trying to figure out what Juvia meant by them.
But Mira only smiled brightly as she clapped her hands together excitedly "Wah!" she yelled "That's right I forgot all about her maybe she can snap him out of it!"
"Who?"
"Why Lucy of course!"
Natsu looked skeptical about this "Lucy?" The white haired beauty nodded. "Un"
Lisanna and Natsu frowned at this "But even so Lucy isn't here. She and Happy went to the market an hour ago so who knows when they will be back" he replied annoyed.
Mira tapped her chin "Then there must be something about Lucy that might grab Grays attention."
The trio decided to ponder about it, after moments have passed by Natsu grinned his toothy grin "GOT IT!" he smirked "Lisanna, Mira, watch Gray while I'm gone it will only take a second!"
"Aye" the two saluted. Gray only hummed in response. Finally doing something ever since this fic started.
10 minutes later~
"I'm back!" Natsu yelled happily, the girls smiled at him "What you got Natsu?"
"This!" he presented the object in his hand. It was a thick sheet of papers that were a bit crinkled due to Natsu holding them a bit tightly. Lisanna raised an eyebrow up skeptical.
"What is that?" she asked as the curiosity started to gleam in her cerulean blue eyes.
"Oh that's right" the dragon slayer smiled "I forgot that you didn't know about Lucy's talent"
"Lucy's talent? What is it?" replied the girl ecstatically.
The boy only grinned, "She's a writer!" he huffed up his chest proudly, as if a father proud of his own daughter for the good work she has done.
"Even for me, a guy who hates book I like reading Lucy's stories but she always keeps hiding her manuscript because she doesn't want anyone to read it what a baby"
Natsu slowly walked up to Gray with the two girls trailing behind "But like me the Ice-Queen also loves reading her work. Heck he can find her manuscript faster than me! He is always reading it when he gets the chance" Natsu explained to Lisanna as she absorbed the information that was being told.
"Do you thinking waving her book in front of Gray's face will work?" she said a bit doubting. They tried all means while Natsu was gone but all the raven-haired kid was grunt or hum in response and still keeps staring at his ice-cubes.
"It's worth a shot!" Mira exclaimed gaining two nods from her sister and Natsu.
"Yo Gray!"
"hunn.."
"I got something for you" Natsu cooed. Gray only grunted in response.
"Hnnn"
"I bet you will really like it!"
"Hmmmm"
"Here look for yourself," he stated shoving the fist full of papers in front of Gray's face. The latter blinked in response causing the others in the guild to see his next reaction.
He furrowed his eyebrows as he slanted his eyes to read the handily written text on the sheet of paper.
He quirked his eyebrow up, getting a bit familiarized with the content of the paper. He grinned to himself as he snatched the papers from Natsu's hand, now indulging himself in to the story he was now engrossed with.
The Guild was quiet for a moment.
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"He finally moved!" The guild chanted, every one roared with cheers and laughter. Lisanna sighed in relief, Mira simply giggled and Natsu had a wide grin etched on his face.
"I knew it would work"
Every one kept cheering but was interrupted by a cool voice "Can you pipe down? I'm trying to read here!"
It only caused the Guild to roar more with laughter, the voice that spoke up belonged to Gray who for once was starting to get irked. This caught Natsu's attention and he smiled deviously to himself.
He cracked hi knuckles as he strode forward to where the ice-mage was; Lisanna face-palmed as she knew her child hood friend was now itching to start a fight with the Ice maker.
Natsu snatched the papers our of Gray's hand before he could notice, Gray frowned and was obviously pissed off and stood up "Give that back!"
"Make me Ice-Queen, if you want to read go to a library not the guild!" he chortled. Before Natsu knew it Gray landed a punch at the fire-mages face leaving a bruise and the papers from his grip to be loose and fly in the air.
Gray took this chance to grab them before Natsu could react. He caught them with ease as he smirked at his rival that was sprawled on the floor.
"Sorry Flame-brain but I want to finish this story in peace. Lucy literally threatened me to not read the next chapter for who knows why and has hidden it real good. She even made it hard for me to sneak in her apartment to look for it! Geez she is weird"
Natsu only groaned in response before sprinting back to life and was now hurdling towards Gray, the lad simply dodged the move half-interested in his fight with his sworn rival due to reading the next page of Lucy's manuscript.
"Can you quit it Ash-brain? I'm trying to read here and it's getting good!"
"Why you!" the boy cried landing a kick in Grays abdomen. He croaked in response and landed to the floor but he still managed to have the manuscript in his hand. He lay there as his midnight dark eyes roamed the words swiftly reading towards the next page.
"COME FIGHT ME GRAY!" Natsu beckoned with his hands. Gray shook his head after he sat himself up sitting cross-legged, manuscript in hand and turning towards the next page.
"No" he bluntly replied
"Natsu..maybe you should leave Gray alone" Lisanna tried to persuade. But the guy wouldn't budge.
"But I do have one thing to ask you Natsu" Gray spoke up but not looking up from the page he was on.
"What Ice-breath?" Natsu asked annoyed.
"Where'd you find it? I looked everywhere for it but no luck"
Natsu made a sly grin "Eh? It was in her underwear drawer where else?" he replied cheekily.
Gray suddenly blushed and looked up from his spot, the Guild was roaring now. He had an unbelievable warm feeling in his stomach.
And he didn't like it.
"W-what?" was his only replied. Natsu rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, he was happy enough he got a great reaction from Gray "First place I looked mind you"
Lisanna eyes twitched at the sound of his response
"Natsu…" she murmured.
"Yeah?" he happily replied not sensing the tension in the air around her.
"You're..you're a pervert!" and with that she threw a stool at the fire mage, he barely dodged it but poor Max who was eating his food was hit.
"Ow!" he turned around to face Jet from team Shadow Gear in his way "WHY YOU!"
And a brawl started. Lisanna looked at them dumb struck now feeling guilty that she caused this. Gray and Natsu only laughed in response before getting hit hard in the head by a punch from Mira.
"Ow.." they sobbed in unison.
Mira then hit Natsu again sending him towards the fight that majority of the guild members participated in "And that's for being a pervert!"
Lisanna grinned at her sister's actions, Gray merely stood up rubbing the back of his neck in comfort while staring at Lucy's writing. Lisanna raised an eyebrow at this.
"Ne Gray, is the story really that good?"
"Hnn" he grunted
"Well why is it more interesting? Is it because Lucy-chan wrote it?"
The boy took a moment before replying to the girl's question "Yeah. I like her work a lot. And I usually don't read but she is pretty damn good at this" he smiled a bit to himself.
Lisanna noticed this and was happy at his reaction, she had a feeling that it wasn't just that Lucy was a good writer that Gray is so interested. Maybe it's Lucy herself!
"And also..wanna know a secret?" he smirked at her. She looked at him quizzically "Nani?"
"I think the main character is based on Lucy" he grinned "Which makes the story even more interesting!"
Lisanna laughed "How'd you know that though?"
He scoffed as if her question was too easy to answer, "The main heroine's name is Lucielle. Lucy? Lucielle? It's hard to miss."
The girl giggled "AHHH then I see what you mean. HEhe and does the main heroine have a love interest?" she asked playfully.
Gray's eyes twitched for a moment "Ah well yeah.." he said glumly. The take over mage noticed his change of expression "Is it someone we know?" she asks wryly. She was beginning to hope it wasn't any one from the guild. She liked Lucy and she seemed like a nice girl but if she likes someone and it isn't Gray then that will only sadden the Strauss since she is a good friend with him.
"I-I don't know to be honest. The guy the heroine is attracted to wears a disguise and a mask so I don't know what he looks like. I just know that's the type of guy Lucy likes" he says glumly.
The girl nodded "Did he at least have some characteristics?"
Gray thought about it "Not that many distinctive details. Just that he has dark blue eyes and raven-black hair. And his initial of his first name I believe is G."
Lisanna only shook her head, chuckling, she understood now.
"What's so funny?"
"heheh nothing. Tell me Gray, you said Lucy didn't want you to read the next chapter for some reason right?"
"Right.." he said a bit hesitantly. Lisanna nodded in approval, now confirming her suspicion.
"Well I guarantee you will be one happy ice-mage after you finish reading it" the girl winked and walked away leaving Gray more anxious to get his hand to turn the next page.
Before he could do so the guild doors opened revealing a blue cat flying and a blonde girl with a pink fairy tail guild stamp on her right hand.
"Minna we're back!" Lucy called.
"And we brought FISH!" Happy chimed. They both sweat dropped as they noticed the commotion up in the guild. Another dumb brawl they thought.
Just as Lucy was about to head toward the bar her eyes caught notice of a certain ice-mage with familiar looking papers in his hand. He was transfixed on them and seemed deep in thought about something.
Right when she was about to grab his attention, her eyes bulged out in fury and in fear as she drew near him.
That was her manuscript.
"MY MANUSCRIPT!" She yelled frantically, now running towards Gray. He looked up and smirked at her causing the blonde to stop in her tracks.
'Please don't tell me you read it. Please don't say you figured it out' the girl thought blushing madly.
His grin only grew wider at the sight of her red face, he wanted to enjoy this a little bit more "So Grayson huh?" he said teasingly causing her to blush madly.
She stomped her foot and rushed towards him, hitting his chest (not quite doing any damage) and reaching for her manuscript "Give it back!" she cried.
Gray laughed pulling the papers high in the air, with their height difference it made it impossible for the blonde to reach "Gray you jerk give it back" she said, she still kept hitting him but Gray didn't mind though.
His dull and boring mourning has just become a happy afternoon. It was bothering him a lot when he couldn't finish the Celestial Mage's story and knowing how quite serious she was on not letting him read it he felt a bit depressed and wondered if Lucy hated him.
Which is why he was in such a state this mourning not responding to anyone even Natsu's insults. He was deep in thought on her reasons and was trying to find a way to make it better, because he liked the Celestial mage and couldn't stand the thought of her being distant from him.
And wanted a way to read her book without her knowing.
Now that he knows why she did it, he is happy to say that the heroine's love interest pleases him and he approves. He can now tease her, and with the embarrassed look on her face he understands why she took a drastic approach from preventing him to read the final bit.
Lucy still hitting him felt his arms wrapped around her waist hauling her up before she could protest. He slung her over his shoulder and hears her screaming to put her down. He grinned slightly to himself.
"Oi Gray put me down now!" the girl cried, her cheeks and ears turning red.
"No can do Lucy, now that I finished your latest chapter I wanted to ask you about what will happen next but it's too noisy here"
Lucy bit her lip "I-I h-have nothing to say about it! It's not done! And you shouldn't have read it!"
"Aww come on Luce"
"No"
"Please?"
"No!" the girl sighed, knowing Gray and his stubbornness this would get her no where "Why do you have to carrying me over your shoulder just to make sure to talk about this book anyway?"
"If I asked you normally you would have rejected it and ran away" he replied
She pouted, "I would have not"
He chuckled "Sorry Luce but this was the only way to make sure. Desperate times call for Desperate Measures" he hummed.
"Chotto Matte Gray!" Lucy replied, having a sensation of butterflies in her stomach.
The boy only grinned, "Since you won't talk I guess I will have to make my own ending!"
Was inspired after hearing one of my favorite songs Desperate measures by Marinas Trench. They were desperate to get Gray back to normal and Gray was desperate to get Lucy's story lyrics were incorporated though. I actually had a different idea in mind when I started writing this but then it ended up like this hihihi. I wrote Natsu and Lisanna Yay! I HARDLY write these two and I honestly should hehe.
Sorry if it wasn't too much Graylu here. It was like fluff but yeah how did you like it?:) Please review or Pm and tell me what you thought! Also please vote on poll on my profile so It's Complicated can be updated and have a sugoi chapter!
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