Chapter Two: Discovery

"Juvia, there's something I need to tell you." Gray said sternly, suddenly changing to a more serious tone.

"What is it?" Juvia tilted her head to the side.

"Juvia I can't stay here in Magnolia, not for long. I have someone back at the village that I can't leave alone for too long." Gray looked at Juvia, waiting for a response.

"But Gray-sama said that his special someone was Juvia." Juvia's face was slightly hurt and worried.

Gray chuckled lightly as he took Juvia's hand. "It's not a special someone, it's a student."

Juvia didn't know how to take in the information. It wasn't a love rival, it was a student. "Gray-sama has a student?"

"Yeah, he's a sweet kid. I found him huddled in a little cave one day and I started to take care of him. Then he said he wanted to learn ice magic, so I became his teacher." Gray's eyes softened and he smiled when he talked of his student.

"Doesn't the boy have parents though, wouldn't they want him home?" Juvia was confused.

"Juvia," Gray squeezed her hand a little tighter. "He's an orphan." Juvia's eyes widened a bit as she heard Gray's words. She started to remember a few old memories she had as an orphan and how she always longed for someone to take care of her, a parent figure.

Juvia smiled. "Gray-sama adopted him then?"

"Sort of, it's a similar situation that I was in." Juvia had forgotten that Gray was also an orphan, who was taken in by Ur.

"What's his name?" Juvia asked. She was fascinated by the new life that Gray had, even if she had missed it.

"His name is Storm. I guess he had strange parents too." Gray smiled with a fond look on his face. It was a look that Juvia never saw before he left, but it made Juvia smiled too.

"Gray-sama, could Juvia live with you?" Juvia asked spontaneously. It was fast but it was the first thing that popped into Juvia's head after taking in all of Gray's new information.

"Juvia I..." Gray didn't know what to say. After a a long moment of silence Gray finally came up with something to say. "I can't make you move all the way to a new village just to be with me."

"But Juvia wants to-"

"But..." Gray cut Juvia off causing her to stop and wait. "I'll move back to Magnolia. With Storm of course."

Juvia was ecstatic and filled with glee. "Gray-sama would really do that for Juvia!" Gray nodded and hugged Juvia.

"I'd do anything for you." Gray whispered into her hair. Juvia pulled away from Gray, dispersing their hug. She noticed again that Gray was still wearing the scarf she gave him years ago.

"Does Gray-sama wear that scarf often?" Juvia asked as she pointed to the scarf Gray was wearing.

Gray looked down at his scarf and smiled. "Maybe..." He said ambiguously. Juvia pouted and kept asking how often he wore it. Gray continued to tease Juvia about it until she was practically chasing him. Gray tripped as he tried to back away and fell onto his back. Juvia then tripped on Gray and landed on top of him.

"Eep!" Juvia landed so that he head was on top of her hands, which were placed on Gray's bare chest. Their bodies laid perfectly on top of each other.

"Uh, sorry." Gray said as he tried to lean up, which caused Juvia to move up as well. Their faces were just inches apart from each other and they just stared at each other for a while. Gray then moved his head so that his lips met perfectly with Juvia's. He just couldn't help it. After three years of missing her and longing to be with her, he finally had the chance.

They separated their lips for a second to breath before Gray rolled over, now on top of Juvia. They kissed again and they both wished that they could last forever like that. When they finally separated Gray rolled onto his back and off of Juvia. They held hands as they laid on Gray's floor.

"I have to leave, Storm's waiting for me." Gray said, breaking the silence. "I should be back in a day or two." Gray sat up.

"What if Juvia went with Gray-sama?" Juvia said as she too sat up.

"You want to go with me?" Gray raised a brow as he looked at Juvia.

"Of course Juvia does!" Juvia smiled at Gray and stood up. Gray then stood up too and walked over to where his shirt went. He put it on and then grabbed his coat.

"We better get going then." Gray smiled and extended a hand to Juvia, who gladly took it.

Gray stepped out of the carriage and then held out a hand for Juvia. Once Juvia had exited the carriage she looked around in awe. The landscape was beautiful in Gray's village. As Juvia took a few steps forward Gray stood still and smiled as he watched her.

"Gray!" A young boy ran out of a house and ran right into Gray.

"Hey Storm." Gray said happily as he lifted Storm up. Storm was eight and when Gray started to lift him up he immediately moved to his shoulders. Gray chuckled as he watched Storm try to nestle himself safely on his shoulders while holding onto his head.

Juvia turned around and watched the actions of Gray and Storm. If she hadn't known better she might have thought that Storm was his son.

Gray walked over to Juvia and Storm looked at her with curiosity. "Storm, this is Juvia. Juvia, this is Storm." Gray said.

Juvia smiled at Storm and waved slightly. "Hi Storm." The young boy waved at Juvia.

"Hi." The boy looked at Juvia, still slightly confused. "Why do you have one of Gray's coats?"

Juvia looked down as she remembered that she was in fact wearing one of Gray's coats.

"She was cold so I let her use one of my coats." Gray said as he smiled at Juvia.

"Why didn't she wear her own coat?" Storm seemed to be full of questions now.

"She didn't have her coat and she was at my house in Magnolia so I gave her one of mine. Are you done interrogating Juvia about my coat?" Gray joked as he hopped a little to readjust Storm on his shoulders.

"One more question," Storm pointed right at Juvia. "Why are you here?"

"Uh... Juvia is here because um..." Juvia didn't really know why. She just wanted to come because she felt like it.

"Juvia's here because she's special to me, so I brought her to take a look at the village." Juvia mouthed 'thank you' to Gray, who smiled and winked.

"What do you mean she's special to you?" Storm was getting suspicious of Gray and Juvia.

"You said one more question, so you're out of questions!" Gray said as he smirked.

"No fair!" Storm pouted and looked out into the village.

"Cmon Storm, cheer up!" Gray cheered as he pushed Storm off of his shoulders and into a pile of snow. Gray laughed as he saw Storm poke his head out from the pile of snow.

As Storm grinned widely he raised his arm up and threw a snowball at Gray's face. The snowball hit Gray's face, dead center. "Oh you're getting it now, Storm!" Gray said as he made a snowball and threw it at Storm.

As the snowball fight continued Juvia couldn't help but laugh at Gray and Storm as they acted almost like father and son. Then a snowball came straight at Juvia's face. It hit her before she could even register what was happening.

"Storm!" Gray yelled out as he watched Juvia wipe the snowball off her face.

"Sorry, it was an accident!" Storm said, trying to plea his innocence.

"You're in some real trouble-" gray was about to scold Storm when a snowball hit him in the back of the head. "Eh!"

Storm laughed as Gray turned around to see Juvia tossing a snowball up and down. "Juvia..."

"Yes, Gray-sama?" Juvia gave an innocent look to Gray as she stopped tossing her snowball.

"I am gonna getting you!" Gray said with a smirk on his face as he picked up a handful of snow and chased after Juvia.

Juvia's first instinct was to run, so she did. Gray was much faster though and easily caught up to Juvia. But instead of throwing his snowball at her he dropped it. Juvia was confused when she looked back to see that Gray had tossed his snowball aside. As she looked back at Gray she was suddenly pinned to the ground with a heavy weight on her. The impact of hitting the ground didn't hurt though as she landed into a rather large pile of snow.

"Gray-sama!" Juvia said in surprise as She rolled onto her side. Gray just smiled and pulled Juvia closer to him. He then gave Juvia a quick kiss before standing up. Juvia blushed at Gray's forwardness in such a public place.

"Cmon, get out of the snow." Gray said as he offered Juvia a hand.

"Gray-sama is the one who put Juvia in the snow, so Gray-sama must take Juvia out of the snow too." Juvia said with a mischievous look on her face.

Gray sighed and smiled. "Alright then!" Gray picked Juvia up, bridal style, from the snow. There were several other people who were out and about and they were all looking at the pair.

"Gray-sama can out Juvua down now. People are staring." Juvia said. She knew that Gray was not one for attention or to show his affection in public.

"So? Let them look, there's nothing to hide." He said as he smiled and carried Juvia back over towards where Storm was.

Storm looked at Gray and gave him a suspecting look. "So she's that kind of special person." Storm said as he looked at Juvia.

Juvia blushed when Storm said it, but Gray seemed unfazed. "So what if she is?" He asked.

"Well is she gong to live with us?" Storm asked, trying to get out as much information as he could.

"About that Storm..." Gray put Juvia down and walked over to Storm and knelt down in front of him. "I was thinking that we'd move to Magnolia, where I used to live."

Storm's brows furrowed as he looked at Gray. "Why would we do that?" Storm saw no logical reason to move somewhere else.

"Well I have friends in Magnolia and I've been away for a very long time. Plus that's where my guild is." Gray pointed to the Fairy Tail mark on his now bear chest. Somehow he lost his shirt in the last minute.

"But what about our training, it won't be as cold down there." Storm started grabbing at reasons to stay, reasons to live the same comfortable life.

"You don't actually need to be exposed to the cold anymore for our training. And anyways, it's the beginning of winter right now in Magnolia." Gray reached for Storm's arm as he tried to comfort him.

"But... But..." Storm struggled to find anything against moving. "Is this because of her?" Storm asked as he pointed to Juvia.

Juvia flinched when he asked and just stared at Gray. "That's part of it, but it's also benefits us in many ways."

"Like what?" Storm asked.

"Well for one you could join Fairy Tail, it's like a huge family to be honest. And there's other kids at Fairy Tail that you can play with. And..." Gray looked at Juvia for a second before looking back at Storm. "It'd make me happy. So will you do it buddy, for me?"

Storm stared at Fray for a while before looking away. "Alright," Gray sighed in relief and smiled widely. "But I get to fight you!"

"I'm not going to fight you!" Gray said as he pushed Storm teasingly. He chuckled as he watched Storm stumble before gaining his balance. "Will you just do it for me, please?"

Storm looked at Gray carefully and asked, "This is really important to you, isn't it?" Gray smiled and nodded to Storm. "Alright fine." Storm said as Gray hugged him tightly.

"Thank you." Gray whispered as he pulled away from Storm. Storm just rolled his eyes and smiled.

Gray turned to Juvia and smiled. "Are you ok with heading back to Magnolia after dinner? Because I was kinda hoping that when we came to Magnolia we would walk into Fairy Tail and surprise everyone."

"If it's part of Gray-sama's plan then Juvia will gladly do such." Juvia smiled and hugged Gray, taking in everything she could of him.

"Wait for me at the booth in front of the guild doors." Gray said quietly into Juvia's hair. Gray too took in as much of Juvia as he could in that moment. Storm just stood there awkwardly, trying to decide whether he should say something or just wait. But he ended up not needed to make a choice as Gray and Juvia separated from their hug.