Ice cracks 3
Everybody stared worriedly at Juvia. She was sitting on her bed as Poryuska-san examines her condition. The old lady frowned when she asked the water mage if she could show her, her powers.
Juvia smiled, agreeing as she sighed in concentration.
She chose to turn herself into water but nothing happened, her raised hand was still on its natural form. "Hm?" She looked anxiously at the old lady.
"Just what I suspected. Your powers might still take a lot of time to comeback."
"W-what do you mean, Poryuska-san?"
Gray went beside Juvia, looking furiously at the old lady. "What the hell does that mean?"
Poryuska glared at the Ice mage before continuing her explanation. "Its some of the effects. I have no other explanation for this, but regarding to your condition," she eyes Juvia. "Make sure that you won't stress out yourself. " she placed a wrinkled hand on Juvia's head and Juvia calmed down as Poryuska's hand glowed.
"I see another problem." The old woman said, closing her eyes before opening it and staring straightly at Juvia. "You may take a rest for now. Remember that you should recover fully and not stress yourself."
"Makarov, may I speak with you." She averted her eyes towards Gray. "And you."
Juvia slept as soon as everyone left the room. Master and Gray went to the office and waited for the old lady to talk to them. Soon, they were both surprised as Poryuska changed her mind and decided to talk to everyone instead.
The lady cleared her throat before speaking, everyone listened keenfully on her words.
"Im not sure but Juvia might have blocked some memories of her during your last fight. Good thing that you called me as soon as she woke up." She paused, walking back and forth as she think of some possibilities regarding the water mage's situation. "Those memories were stressing her so she chose to erase them out. The thing is, she might remember them as time passes by or something might trigger it back, but she may also forget and bury it forever."
"What memory?" Gray asked carefully.
"No one knows but Juvia herself." She glanced at Makarov. "And I think her powers would also return once her memories were back, but don't worry thats only my hypothesis. That's all. Makarov, I should take my leave now."
And with that, Master led her towards the doors. Everybody inside the guild was quiet, all of them worrying over the sleeping water mage.
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Juvia's giggle filled the room, it was nice to hear her melodious voice once again. She was lively and upbeat, Gajeel smiled lightly as she talked at the water mage. Their topics varied but he observed that it never landed on the Tartaros war.
"Hey... do you not remember anything about the last fight?" He asked, taking the risks of triggering her memories.
Juvia thought carefully, looking up on the ceiling as she rake her memories. "Our fight against Tartaros, you mean Gajeel-kun?"
Right in time, Gray entered and heard her answer. Juvia's eyes brightened when he saw him place a platter of bread on her table beside the bed. "That smells so delicious, Gray-sama!" She clapped her hands in the air, Gajeel turned to look at Gray as well.
"I should take my leave now, talk to you later Ameonna."
Juvia beamed at him. "Sure, Gajeel-kun!" then she turned her attention to Gray who took the chair which Gajeel occupied earlier.
"Hi." He greeted her with a clipped tone. He leaned his back on the chair, his hands were firmly gripped on the arm rest.
The water mage smiled, her once pale cheeks were now burning with a pink hue. "Hi, Gray-sama."
Juvia is finally fine and Gray was left speechless and he doesn't even know what to tell her or what topic should they talk about, the Ice mage took a lot of effort persuading himself not to be so obvious before entering her room. He gulped, and Juvia saw how his ears became red when he finally looked at her straight in the face.
He opened his mouth, but no words came out. He closed it, only to open it again, and he found himself searching for the proper words he should tell or ask her about.
She giggled at his actions, cupping her chapped lips. "Do you have something on your mind, Gray-sama?"
"..."
"Well if you don't have, Juvia has; Juvia is happy to see you again! Even Juvia's unconscious, she felt how long it was since the last time she saw you."
His face warmed, Gray can't help but avert his eyes away from her. Juvia immediately understood his actions, her Gray-sama is only making the situation more akward in her opinion. She bit her lips nervously and that caught Gray's attention. "Juvia should apologize for not being around you for a long time. She's been sleeping here," she pointed on her bed. "and made you all worried for nothing."
He glanced back at her with soft eyes before shaking his head. "No way... of course Im going to worry, I mean all of our guildmates." He quickly covered up and Juvia's smile became a bit strained.
"T-thats what Juvia thinks too, really... Sorry, Gray-sama."
He noticed her discomfort and leaned forward. "I-I missed you too." He whispered and that made Juvia brightened once again.
She chuckled and the sleeves of her hospital gown rolled down revealing a large patch of grayish bruise on her arms.
"What's that?" He moved forward and extended her arms towards him. "Does it hurt?" He asked worriedly, looking on her eyes directly.
Juvia felt a thump inside her chest. Gray-sama... So close...
She inhaled and her nose caught his scent, it was the combination of menthol and the scent of fabric, fresh from the laundry. She loves it. She loves him.
"Poryuska-san said that Juvia's body might take time to heal and it wasn't normal for recovering such injuries. Juvia also got a few on my sides and back."
She finally leaned back and contained herself for a moment, 'Juvia should not take advantage!' She told herself.
"Juvia is not sure, but she thinks that she got it from the 'last fight' although Juvia can't remember anything."
He blinked and processed her answer for a second.
"Yeah, you did... " he finally replied and the image of her dying before him flashed back on his mind, he frowned deeply.
"Remember, its not your fault that my dad..." he was pained at the thought and cannot bring himself to continue.
"Dad? Who?" Juvia asked confusedly. "What do you mean, Gray-sama?"
"My Dad... You..."
"Y-you're dad? What about Gray-sama's dad? Did you meet him?" She bombarded him with questions. "What happened?" She immediately fanned herself as she felt her head go dizzy. She held up two hands on her head before burying it on her pillow. The ice mage stared at the pained blue haired mage, not knowing what to do but he calmed himself first before taking his actions , he pulled both of her hands off the pillow and hugged her instead. Juvia groaned as she felt another wave of pain on her head, squeezing her eyes shut as she did her best to surpress her tears.
One, two and three heartbeats passed, Gray felt her body became limp on his arms, she was sleeping numbly but her hands were fisted on his white coat. Gray's eyes widened as he continue to examine the girl on his arms.
He avoided the topic about his father since the last fight, he didn't talk to anybody about it except Master Makarov. Everybody in the guild learned about it but they chose to be quiet over it, knowing that Gray would not like to hear any words about the topic especially since Juvia was involved. They all agreed not to talk about it, and let Gray open the topic by himself when the time comes and they'll be happy to hear anything about it from him.
He laid her down back on her bed, putting her in what he think would be her most comfortable position. With a troubled expression on his face, he decided never to talk about it in front of Juvia and just focus on her recovery.
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That afternoon, apart from the lively party they threw for everyone's full recovery, Master Makarov announced something that made the spirit of everyone drop to zero.
"The magic council wants us to report everything about what happened on our Tartaros battle. Many citizens of Magnolia were complaining on what really happened and we, Fairy tail are the only ones who can provide them with answers."
His eyes roamed around his children and continued. "From today on, each and everyone will have a daily journal that will be collected every fridays by Mira. You'lle include all your thoughts and experiences during the battle and it will be published in Magnolia's history! Some of them might critique us, but we Fairy tail, are going to prove them that were a one strong family and we fought against the enemy with all our might to protect the continent! Aye!"
The whole guild became loud and the whole place was once again boozed with beers and booming sounds.
"Its a good thing actually but the only difficult thing is that we need to report and that means that the council had their eyes on us once again." Erza commented.
On the other hand, Juvia was fidgeting non stop on her seat, biting her lip nervously as she cracked her mind open since she knew nothing about the battle actually, her mind stopped on before they were dragged up by Tartaros HQ, and aside from that, everything is a mystery to her.
"Did Juvia lost the fight quickly?" She asked herself quietly, what on earth she did during the battle that she cannot remember anything about it?
Was she that weak?
"Hey," Gray tapped her shoulder, and her once troubled face lit up, her cheeks becoming rosy. Maybe her Gray-sama can help her.
A week passed and Juvia still hasn't wrote anything on her journal. Her wide, blue eyes were staring unmovingly at the piece of paper in front of her, placed atop of the table were her light blue pen was also placed.
Her fingers drummed quietly on the wooden surface of the table, her eyes softening dramatically when she figured that she can't really remember anything after they got dragged up into their enemy's base. A long sigh escaped her lips before she looked forward and saw a certain dragon slayer walking to her direction.
She smiled fondly at the sight of her best friend. "Hi, Gajeel-kun!"
The said young man took the seat beside her before placing his elbow on the table, his palm pressed firmly on his cheeks.
Up close, Juvia noticed a faint reddening on his face, her eyes then widened, panick arose as she slapped her hands on his arms, his balance was caught off and his elbow slid forward, his chin making contact with the hard table.
She gasped in concern while he glared in return.
"Why are you so red, Gajeel-kun?" She asked him carefully as he straightened himself from his seat, crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Hmph,"
This time she squinted her eyes and the water mage is now determined to know whatever reason he has on why he was acting like this.
"Did something happen between you and Levy-san?" She asked, knowing that the matter might involve the bookworm.
He blinked his eyes and looked away immediately, his ears were both red.
"I..." he gulped. "We..." he inhaled and faced the water mage. "She gave me air during the battle."
"Air?"
"I meam the water is poisoned and I was out of breath and she..." his face reddened, his eyes blinking non stop.
"So?" She asked quietly as Gajeel tried his best not to stutter in front of his friend.
"Damn ameonna, why are you so damn slow?!" He shouted involuntarily, Juvia stared at him in shock.
"W-what did Juvia do?"
"I get it." He surrendered and looked at her lazily. "Your head was really damaged after all."
Her brows shot up and in second she bolted up, her chair gave out a heavy clatter on the ground. "..."
She was just staring with wide eyes at the Iron dragon slayer, her chest heaving. "What's wrong with Juvia?" She asked, her voice trembling as well as her fists on her sides.
Her sudden outburst made Gajeel's own red eyes widened. After all, he didn't mean it the negative way.
She blinked her eyes and sighed. "For a week," she paused and her eyes softened, her arms now crossed in front of chest. "Juvia has nothing to write on her report. Juvia can't remember anything and-" she suddenly stopped and a loud clap of thunder echoed outside the guild. Her gaze went to Gajeel's face, her tears spilling abundantly from her eyes. "Im sorry," then she headed oit of the guild, not even bothering to look back on her best friend.
The pressure was killing her. Juvia only stared at the soft padding of rain drops on her window.
Her fingers were laced firmly on her hands, her face blank and pale. She was taking a week of vacation from all the mess she had done since she recovered.
It's been two months since her recovery and she was all back to normal. Except her powers and memories. She was now healthy and improving from the outside but actually deep inside her, she is still the same Juvia who was battered and bruised from the war.
Its obvious that she only stays inside her apartment or maybe sometimes get out to have some peace of mind at the guild. She was bored to death and Mira remimded her that she didn't have to write down what she can't recall doing at the fight.
She wants to whack her own head open and searched for her own mystery. Juvia sighed and was about to throw her blue notebook back on her closet when her doorbell rang.
She spun around and in seconds, she's finally opening her door. Gray stood straightly in front of her, his eyes were soft but calculating.
"Not going to the guild?" He asked as Juvia stepped aside and let him inside.
Gray appeared to have bought some groceries for her and her eyes widened. "Uhm," she bit her bottom lip, closing the door before following him on her kitchen's counter top.
"Is that for Juvia?"
He only smirked and proceeded on arranging the items inside her fridge. She flails her hand as she realizes what he is doing. "Not again, Gray-sama."
Gray had been doing the same routine for a month, being a good friend he is (that's what he thinks he is), he volunteered to get Juvia everything she needs, after all the water mage was jobless after everything had happened to them. She can't go to missions because of her powerless state and everyone know, especially Gray, that it was very dangerous, and he will not risk her this time.
She shyly grabbed his hands and brought them down on his side. "This is too much... Juvia's fine even without this." She pointed at the foods.
"Who are you kidding?" He ignored her protest and moved her gently aside by placing his large hands on her shoulders, Gray felt a throb on his chest but chose to ignore it.
"Just thank me if that will lessen your guilt."
"B-but..."
"Heh, another protest and I'll leave." He warned, knowing that Juvia wouldn't want to ruin his good mood. Juvia quickly nodded and said a small 'thank' you to him.
"No problem." He smiled and went back to his task. "Just sit there and watch, I'll cook something for you."
The water mage followed his orders and sat calmly behind the counter top, observing Gray carefully as he began to move around her kitchen area.
Juvia felt so light at the moment, her worries were gone. She found herself smiling as she glanced at Gray's back. The ice mage is so attentive but it still bothers her why is he acting like this.
Maybe something happened between them that she can't remember? 'W-what if Gray-sama finally confesed and-'
Her day dreaming was cut off when she heard something sizzling, she blinked and now saw Gray's bare back. He had gone stripping again and Juvia couldn't stop her giggles.
He looked at her from the corner of his eyes, biting his lower lip as blood rushed on his face. 'What the hell am Idoing?!'
He finally took a full glance at her, placing a boyish smirk on his face. She was staring at him with her eyes in half moons, her face glowing from her cute smiles.
"What so funny?" He asked her offendedly, faking his tone as he went back on his cooking.
Juvia pursed her lips forward and started drumming her fingers on the counter top. "Nothing," she smiled brightly up at him, her voice soft and playful.
Minutes passed and he finally placed his master piece in front of her. Juvia might be labeled as a pervert but who wouldn't be staring at the handsome Gray Fullbuster instead of the mouth watering food he made, his skin glistening with sweat and body exposed to her.
She blushed and blinked her eyes, she averted it away and gulped. Gray noticed her discomfort but was left confused because normally, Juvia would even swoon from this type of display.
"Ju-juvia will get the plates." She stuttered and she clumsily got out of her stool she was about to land face first at the floor when someone grabbed her by the waist and she was hoisted back on her feet. She moved her head to face Gray but was surprised to see his eyes instead.
"Are you okay?" He asked, his breath was gently brushing against her upper lip. She gulped and looked down on how close they are.
She could feel his muscles rippling on her sides and she thought that if she had powers right now, she would really melt at the moment.
She stared up on his black eyes and Juvia sighed, nodding slowly and looked away again, her cheek brushing against his lips.
He inhaled and closed his eyes, Gray's senses became all numb for a second and all he could think and feel is Juvia so nicley close to him.
"Gray-sama..." she breathed out and his grip on her waist tightened. She swallowed the lump on her throat before opening her lips up to him. She looked at him condusedly.
It was a dream come true for her right? Then why is she having this feeling that she doesn't deserve all of this?
Guilt quickly spreads inside her and for some unknown reasons, she wanted to pull away from his embrace and cry.
But before she could even make some of her actions, Gray's lips already sealed hers. Her eyes widened as the ice mage leaned down further, their lips were pressed deeply against each other and Juvia felt her hot tears forming from the corner of her eyes.
He placed his arm around her back so she could have some support but in seconds of their kiss, he could feel her legs giving up. And Gray, being the gentleman in his own way, held her close to his chest without removing his lips on hers.
He opened his mouth, and his tongue licked her lips. Juvia felt a jolt and she feels so light, her mind and heart was now clouded with thoughts and emotions she only knew from her dreams.
She opened her mouth to inhale and Gray took the chance to slip his tongue inside. Gray groaned from her sweet mouth, his palms were now pressing at the small of her back.
It was Juvia who pulled away first, panting heavily on his face and Gray only stared at her.
Gray couldn't hide his amazement when he saw how lovely Juvia is, at that moment. He leaned down again and pressed his forehead on hers while the blue-haired girl closed her eyes and calmed her self, blood was rushing to her whole face.
And in that moment, Gray Fullbuster thought that there's no backing out and he's not letting her go this time. He held her face lovingly and smiled down at her.
A/N: *DODGES HATES AND RANTS* Im sorry for the long wait guys! I really want to update but I couldn't because Im pretty busy, but I'll assure you that I will not abandon any of my Gruvia Fics! He he :) tell me what you think about this chapter :) thank you!
And oh, I think that Fallin' by Janno Gibbs is the best song to describe Gray during the last part of this chapter :) listen to it and be prepared with feelsxzx! Thank you for the nice comments, I really appreciate it *hugs everyone* If I have time i would really like to talk to each one of you and personally pm you so I could thank you properly!
Love rival will appear next chapter so stay tuned! Thank you again and Im really sorry for some grammar mistakes or punctuation or everything that has an error.
