I hope everyone's enjoying the fics thus far :) As you may have noticed yesterday, I started adding the main couple names to the titles so you can tell from reading them. I figured this would be mostly be helpful for people following the story, so you can read who the couple is from your email alert. Anyway, today is more Gruvia! Enjoy!


Series: Fairy Tail

Pairing: Gray Fullbuster/Juvia Lockser

Title: What is Important

Rating: Barely T for Teen

Word Count: 807


It was pitch black as slim hands wandered around the floor, a young woman, on her knees, searched for what she had lost. Blue eyes frantically flicked across the room, but they could not make out more than the contours of objects, barely lit by the moonlight that trickled through window blinds.

"Where? Where is it?" Her voice was shrill from nerves; afraid she had forever lost her missing object. Just then, her fingernails slipped across a cold, metal object, and she gave out a gasp. She ran her hand back and forth where she had felt the cold sensation, and then found it again, partially covered by a soft fabric.

Lifting up the fabric, the young woman reached down and lifted the found possession by the long metal chain connected to it. She sighed in relief.

"Juvia? I can hear you. What are you doing?"

With the flick of a switch, light filled the room, and Juvia's eyes flew over to whom had illuminated the area. Gray Fullbuster stared back at her with wide eyes, as Juvia kneeled on his bedroom floor, a few feet away from him, with his white shirt in one hand, his favorite pendant in the other, and completely naked.

Juvia's face quickly turned from pale to bright red and she shouted, "Gray! Don't look!" while she attempted to cover herself.

Gray stammered some incomprehensible words and did all he could think of: he flipped the light switch back off and turned the opposite direction.

Juvia had not found her own clothes in her panic, and just pulled on what she already had. She buttoned Gray's shirt around her waist and all the way up to her neck, and pawed with her foot around the ground for anything she could put on her bottom, but to no avail. Giving up, she sat on Gray's mattress and pulled the sheets over her legs.

"It is alright now, Gray." She mumbled, still quite embarrassed.

Gray audibly sighed, and flipped the light back on as he turned around. His eyes fell upon the young woman again, dressed only in his own shirt. He was not so sure it was 'alright.'

The ice mage took a step towards the dame sitting in his bed. "What were you crawling around in here for?" He asked. "And where did your clothes go?" He took a gander around the room, and discovered his own clothes were scattered everywhere. Surely, hers were buried under them somewhere. "What happened in here?"

Juvia looked shyly away from the young man, who had already stripped himself shirtless since entering the room—though she was sure that was an unconscious decision. Instead of answering him, she reached her hand out and beckoned him closer. Gray took the hint, and kneeled on his bed, kicking his shoes onto the floor as he did.

Juvia reached up and strung a chain around his neck, fastening his favorite pendant into place. The ice make mage reached up and placed his hand over it, "I didn't even realize…" He started to say, before Juvia interrupted.

"Juvia is very sorry. Juvia took it from Gray last night after Gray fell asleep. Juvia only wanted to wear it for a little, but then Juvia fell asleep, and when Juvia woke up, Gray's pendant was gone." Her eyes looked sad with guilt. "Juvia knows it is important to Gray, so Juvia looked everywhere for it and… made a mess."

"Juvia…" Gray sighed. She clenched her eyes shut, and braced herself for Gray's irritation. However, what she heard was not chiding, but the rattling of slim metal chains, before she felt Gray's hands slip around her neck.

The water mage opened her eyes to find Gray attaching the necklace behind her neck this time. "Gray?" She gasped, and looked up to his eyes. He flashed her a sly smile, but Juvia remained in confusion.

"You can wear this any time you want—all the time even. I don't care." He told her, and then pressed a soft kiss upon her forehead. "That pendant is important but… not as important as you." He watched her eyes begin to cloud up with tears. "I just want you to be happy, Juvia."

"Graaaay!" Juvia sobbed, and wrapped her arms around his neck, before collapsing back onto the bed, bringing him down on top of her. "Juvia loves Gray."

Gray kissed at her collarbone. "I know. I love you too, Juvia." He responded, and wrapped his arms around her waist. "Hey, I think this shirts a little big for you." He smirked down at her, "Why don't we take it… off?"

Juvia's face turned pink again, and then she bit her lip, "Whatever makes Gray happy."

End