Hey, there guys, thanks for reading this story! i would like to post my replies to all of you guys who reviewd instead of PM'ing it. LOL. I would gladly do this to all of the people who reviewed and made me happy!
karu-14: YES. I definitely agree with you- so you see, this story is really a GrayZa but I'd like to add Jellal to make it more realistic since you just can't deny that he is the reason why this couple isn't taking much scene in the anime. Lol. and soo, i would really appreciate anyone who could suggest me a oneshot for JerZa in my future chapters since i dont have quite the idea about the two of them( or maybe i just don't pay much attention to their side- i mean i know about their past but unlike GrayZa, i dont know what story to make with them.^^ i dont hate this couple, but i loved GrayZa more. Thanks for reviewing, here's another chap for my first reviewer!
Raikiri80: Ahhh, yes- I'm the one writer who loves hurting his/her favorite character. Sorry about making you cry. Anyway, i hoped you liked the idea. Dont ya worry- I'm planning big for this couple!( although I'm still new here, so dont get your expectations too high, ne?) LOL. Thanks for reviewing, and you and karu-14 did have the same reaction...Wow, that's a coincidence! Dont hesitate to give your share of ideas for GrayZa and JerZa, okay?
Milafox12: Thanks, bro^^Glad you liked it.
grayza fan(Guest): ahhh, now here's the next chap so I hope you still liked it! Thank you for reviewing, i really appreciated it!^^
ninascarlet: Wow,- I'm sorry i made you cry. but here's another chapter so you wont get mad at me for that sad chapter earlier. Trust me, I love GrayZa., it just so happened i needed that part for my story... Thanks for reviewing!
dragonoid(Guest): owhhh- i like your name.. reminds me of that arc where Gray had a major spotlight. I'm glad you liked it and I'm definitely continuing this fic!( well, i'm more inspired with more reviews!)
So now, let's get this started with a disclaimer...
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
Oh, hey- i made a title for this chapter. Hopefully it would continue on to the next chapters. Haha^^
Chapter 2: Friends can be lovers, and lovers CAN ALSO be friends
It is a fair day indeed. The sun is shining above Magnolia and showed no signs of bad weather. Everyone's quite in the mood for talk instead of taking missions and the pink dragonslayer is 'fired up' as usual although, compared with the random days where the guild is loud as ever, it is quite peaceful today aside from the occasional rambles that ended just shortly. Natsu didn't seem to get enough with all that because of a certain ice mage who happened to be his sworn-rival-for-life didn't show up as well as an armored scarlet who happened to be everyone's feared disciplinarian.
"Wait. Why the hell are those lovebirds missing again?!" He banged the wooden table loudly.
"I think you should learn to stop being selfish at some time, Natsu*sigh. Just because you wanted someone to argue with doesn't mean you can get your hands on other people's lives. I'm sure they got a pretty good reason for not coming to the guild today, so don't get worked up so easily by that, okay?" Lucy sighed again at the boy's actions, or rather her boyfriend's actions.
"But Luuuuucy~ It's not fun without them—" He pouted making him look so cute.
"Now, now. Why don't you try passing the time while sipping some refreshments?" The ever cheerful Mira came by to the Fairy Tail's strongest team's table to bring some drinks.
"Great! Thanks, Mira!" Lucy clapped her hands together an started sipping her strawberry parfait , her cheeks puffing red like a kid.
The white-haired lady smiled and mouthed her reply before going back to her work. Just then, Natsu's attention was caught in a familiar smell that eventually got into his nerves. He smirked. Someone owes him a good and entertaining fight to make up for the boredom he had because of his absence.
" Oi! Iceblock! You better give me a good fight this time!" Natsu burst out.
He was expecting some cocky reply from the ice mage, but instead, he only wore his usual poker face, eventually frowning as he walk pass by the shouting man and took his seat across Lucy.
" Stop ringing in my ears, you flaming idiot." Was Gray's irritated reply. Man, he's still suffering from such a terrible headache last night that he can't afford another pain in his head.
"What?! Say that again, ice princess!" he pointed at him, trying to break his temper.
"Come on, snowflake! Don't be a sissy!" he continued, earning nothing but a good taste of 'invisible treatment'
Mira comes back to the table and recognize the raven –haired mage joining the group.
"Welcome back, Gray. I see you're having a little reunion here. But I don't see Erza around lately, I thought you were together—Hmm… Do you where she is?" Mira said in her usual smile.
"Yeah, Gray. I really thought you guys would arrive together. By the way, why are you asking, Mira?" she looked at the barmaid for a reply that she didn't even noticed the fire mage finally sitting down and probably gave up since he was just ignored by everyone and so he frowned in disappointment. Luckily, he got curious of Erza's whereabouts enough for letting that disappointment slip by. Well, there's no fun of fightingwhen she's not around right? Or so he thought.
"—Master said if she comes back I'd tell her to see him in his office, perhaps for a new S-class mission. Well, Gray?" Mira turned back to him.
It heaved his heart somehow for hearing her name. It all suddenly came back again.
"I don't know." Was all he could say sipping a glass of drink Mira gave him.
Mira was suddenly taken aback by recognition of the ice mage's voice. Lucy was surprised as well, and Natsu found something's wrong with his senses as he tilted his head towards him with a now serious face.
"What?" he returned a cold gaze to the stares he's given.
"Did something happen between you and Erza, Gray?" Mira asked, a little worried.
"Did you two fight? You never had one for all of us know." Lucy thought.
"It's not like she can't take care of herself and I'm not a stalker to always follow her wherever she goes." He sounded disgusted. Right, he wanted them to believe at that.
"Gray…" Lucy frowned.
"You still haven't answered any of our questions." Mira replied in an upset face.
He let along sigh before gaining every bit of his voice. He had decided to do this just yesterday while he cried the rest of the night until falling asleep. Right, I got to do this.
" We broke up. No, I broke up with her." He said loudly enough for everyone's head to turn to where the voice came from to find out who's breaking up with who. A deafening sound followed. They were all waiting for some kind of laughter from the ice mage saying how horrible their faces went, falling for the joke.
No. he wasn't moving an inch from his seat or displaying his smirk or his signature grin.
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.
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Okay, maybe it's about time to react now.
"Whaaaaat?!" a loud unison of voices rang the whole guild. Some spat their cold coffees, some lost balance in their chairs or choke on their dessert while some jawdropped: all had disbelieving looks.
The girls gasped as their eyes widened. They were the perfect couple and yet now they heard they broke up. That's enough for them to react that way.
"B-but w-why?-" Lucy managed to say, locking her stare at the mage opposite her.
He looked shocked at that question. Well, he might as well go further now that everyone's buying his lie. He swore to himself he won't let them think of Erza badly in their relationship and so he claims the fault.
" I fell out of love for her." He said in a firm monotone. Inside, he could feel his insides shred to pieces.
"-He doesn't deserve me." He followed, hardly sticking to his firm voice.
This earned the fire dragonslayer literally blowing up into flames while everybody tried to recover with those cold words the ice mage dropped. He stood up in an instant and smashed his fiery fists to the table. Poor table, now scarred with an awfully large hole.
" What did you say?" Natsu spoke in a completely deathly tone. The whole thought of his trusted friend to break Erza's heart, how he was all wrong for believing him, and how he never saw Erza so happy with anyone else but him, and how she is probably crying because of him, had sunk down to him and turned into his sudden outburst.
"Say that bullshit again?! I dare you!" he grabbed the ice mage by his collar. Surprisingly, the legendary stripping ice mage still had his clothes on. He shot a deadly stare towards Gray's face, now so close to him that they could feel each other's breaths.
" I don't have to tell you anything twice, you dope." He put his poker face on making the other man annoyed as hell. He swore to hate anyone who made Erza cry, that was the probable reason why he still can't bring himself to forgive Jellal after all these times.
He swung his fist straight towards Gray's face and sent him flying until he struck into a wall and slid down with all the debris crashing above him. He could've just protected himself with his advanced reflexes but no, he decided not to. This is the only way to deal with Natsu and everybody's anger and disappointment, and besides, he knew that the fire dragonslayer wasn't good enough to hide his feelings as well. It's better to bring it all on him at once. He can understand how everyone reacted, if he was on their place, he'd probably sent the man who hurt their precious comrade to the nearest hospital. Right, he could get used to this for now.
" Natsu! Stop it!" Lucy commanded him to stop but she figured it was completely useless.
"No, Lucy! I won't stop until that bastard learns his lesson and regret everything he did to Erza!" he growled in anger. His skin was literally burning in scorching flames.
Out in the distance, Gray stood groggily and remained there stuck. He wiped blood in his mouth and did nothing to attack the firing mage.
Damn. I think I broke my jaw
"I won't forgive him for making Erza cry!" he followed in undeniable bitterness in his voice.
" No! Nattsu!-"
"Are you done yet?" asked Gray in a mocking tone to the enraged fire mage.
"Glad you asked. I'm not letting you out of this guild without breaking your bones to pieces." Natsu answered, still fuming mad.
"Fine. Let's get this over with." Gray tried to sound unthreatened.
"What's going on here?" an all too familiar voice echoed throughout the hall.
Everyone froze at the moment.
She sees the commotion had gone far enough to break the guild's walls and searched for the culprits among the crowd of people. She found Natsu firing up, angrily glaring at someone who stood in the middle of all the rubbles.
"Natsu, Gray. I demand an explanation right now." She said in a towering superior aura.
Everyone was shocked to even hear the ice mage's name from her and even acting so normal in front of them. Even though she was known for her strong personality, they can't help but to picture out a broken down, sobbing , or angry lady at the man who broke her heart.
Great. Her timing is just too great.
"E-Erza…."
"No way...why now?"
"What are you staring at?" she glared at the latter's faces who instantly returned to their places like nothing happened, but still eavesdropping at their conversation.
"Now, tell me or else-"
" Why, that bastard just made you cry! And I'm not letting him pass without regretting everything he said and did to you!" said Natsu who is mad as hell.
I was supposed to be the reason why he cried last night.
"who—" she was going to ask who told them but was interrupted.
"I told them I broke up with you. That I fell out of love for you.." Gray flatly said.
"-and you still have the guts to tell that straight to her-" Natsu tried to cut him off. But one quick glance from Erza was enough for him to stop interrupting.
"What?—You told them what?" Erza stutters a bit.
" Well, Erza—When we heard it from Gray that he broke up with you, Natsu got really angry and-" Lucy tried to explain but Erza was too dumbfounded to hear her explanation. What was he thinking?
"Wait—you got it all wro-" The scarlet tried to say.
"Are we going to argue about this again, Erza?" Gray said quite irritated. But deep inside he's crumbling to the ground.
The hurt in seeing her or talking to her sent a blow heavier than what he physically received. And his eyes betrayed his poker faced mask and yet no one ever seemed to notice.
Erza couldn't somehow decode why he told that lie to them—or was it true? No. his eyes can't lie to someone who knows him better than himself. But why is he doing this? The pain and guilt rushed to her spine but she managed to put it aside, knowing that she's currently standing in a bunch of all familiar people who didn't know the true story.
Finally, the Guild's Master, Makarov arrived at the scene, breaking the building tension. He was so distracted to see the wall of his beloved guild reduced into boulders and debris that he wasn't paying attention to what the whole fuss was about.
"Alright fools! Who wants to explain this terrible mess!?Natsu?! Gray?!-ah, Erza, I'm glad you're back, dear child-" The short man raised a relatively loud voice that wouldn't match to his height and quickly changed his expression faster than how the others could do.
"Thank you, Master." She bowed in respect.
"Very well, then. I want to speak with you about an urgent matter, Erza. Please follow me." He said walking back to where he came from.
"As you wish, Master"
"Now, you useless brats better clean that up, or else-or else I won't be able to know what I would do to you anymore!" he shouted, stretching his arms comically at the two mages before finally disappearing into the scene. Erza followed him obediently.
" You heard Master. Natsu, Gray, I expect this whole mess is cleaned up the moment I step out of Master's office. Is that clear?" she did her usual routine of emitting such dark aura to overwhelm the two mages.
"And Gray… between the two of you and Natsu, I know you still have that common sense to stop this nonsense fight.*sigh. Can I still count on you for that?" She was bossy as ever and she doesn't want any of her feelings to show. Maybe until she comes out from Makarov's office and explain how they all got it wrong with Gray. Whatever it is that he said, everyone actually believed it and even Natsu, that he's even angry at him.
" Yeah. Sure." He replied.
Everyone watched in awe as the two ex-lovers talk so casual and normal despite their issue—only proves them they're not just the perfect couple, but also the perfect ex-lovers.
"How the hell are they doing that?" one mage said.
"-and we need to talk..." she said in a soft tone, not minding everybody's reaction.
"Oh, sure." He said. They're still friends anyway, still close friends. Hell, they're just not the couple they'd thought to be resenting each other after breaking up, after all the reason wasn't an argument or misunderstanding either. They mutually understood and believed that even though they aren't lovers anymore, their friendship won't just break either way, but instead get stronger enough.
But it was only yesterday, and it was still fresh—and so they know it would be really awkward for them to talk casually. At least that's what everyone thinks. And they thought of that, too. And so they both decided on their own to take one step at a time since they knew the other was hurting and the other's still confused. All they had to do was support each other, even without talking about it.
The two battling mages stared at each other for a long time. Until they decided to stop. For now. Natsu knew he could just continue his fight with him anytime they want but right now, Erza's wrath would probably kill them before they do.
"I'm not done with you yet." Natsu sent his last words for the ice mage.
" Whatever. I'm ready when you are." The ice mage shot back. Although he had made up his mind not to fight back.
Just when Natsu is about to do an epic exit, his girlfriend literally dragged him out of his stand to where they sat earlier. Lucy could really get so cute and lovable as a woman could get and she can also be as scary as the Great Titanina could be, under circumstances. And do Natsu shivered by the thought that he really got into her girlfriend's nerves this time. She made him sit on the chair. She was almost firing up like how his boyfriend would normally do.
"Natsu… Sorry I can't help you this time." Said Happy as he hid behind Charles, currently sweatdropping.
"Wait! Why are you so angry at me, Luce?! I was only teaching that idiot his lesson after what he did to Erza!" You feel the same way, too right?!" He tried to protest.
"We all feel the same way, Natsu! But barging into people's business won't make it better! Who knows what reasons they have to decide to end their relationship! But maybe it was for the best! And you saw how they still treat each other as friends, right? That ain't bad enough. I'm sure whatever they decide is what's the best for the two of them somehow. You see what I mean?" For a moment there, Lucy's voice softened in worry or sympathy. Natsu wasn't the type of person to learn things without getting physical- but, maybe he took up that explanation quite good enough, now that he's silenced for the time being.
" and Natsuuuu,-" she dramatically prolonged his name with a sweet voice that'd make any guy freak out.
"Yes, Lucee-"
"YOU DROPPED MY STRAWBERRY PARFAIT WITH YOUR DAMNED RAMPAGING FEAT EARLIER, YOU MORON! THAT'S WHAT I'M ANGRY FOR!"
~ THE NEXT SCENE IS AGREED TO BE CENSORED FOR DISPLAY OF HORRIBLE VIOLENCE AND A WOMAN'S DEMONIC RAMPAGE~^^
*insert screams of help and cries of a beaten up fire mage. Chase. Chase. Chase.
Ahhh~ the whole guild can only sweat drop at that. Now, this couple sure is inseparable by any means (unless someone admitted he/she lost the fight and ran away sulking) Yes, a perfect comic relief for all of them to see just when everyone's tangled up in such a tensed situation.
"My, my, look at how lovely they are even when fighting!" the ever lively Mira placed a hand on her cheek in amusement.
"~Speak of the devil-"
I made some humor in this chap-so tell me, was that okay? was my humor okay? i would definitely accept any comments and suggestions, especially that i dont know what kind of story can i make with JerZa, mind helping me out? oh, tell me about how good or bad my grammar went(i'm trying to improve it recently)-Don't forget to review! Thanks!