AN: Frustrated/Drunk Juvia. Be prepared for OOCness and major fluff towards the end. :)

Special thanks to Ulcaasi, who pretty much beta-ed this chapter by pointing out my mistakes!

Childhood Rivalry

Juvia couldn't take anymore. She was with Gray and Lyon outside of a nightclub. The white haired man was spending some days in Magnolia and since he wanted to be close to Juvia, he went along with the gang to the nightclub. He spent the night trying to get as close to her as he could, while Gray tried to prevent that from happening.

Usually, Juvia would try and be the one that prevented them to fight, but this night, she couldn't care less if they wanted to kill each other.

That night, she just wanted to go to the dance floor and forget about all the troubles in her life. But of course, the two morons were at each other throats the entire evening, and worse, they were at it by her side. And she tried to forget they were even there with a few drinks.

Not even alcohol made her forget about them.

"I'll take her home. Go away, Gray." Lyon said, pulling Juvia's arm. "You're too much of a kid yet."

"Shut up." Gray pulled her other arm. "I'll take her. Go back to your freaking hotel."

"I'll do it." Pull.

"No, I will." Pull.

"Argh! Get off Juvia, both of you!" She yelled and they both looked down to her in disbelief. "Let go!" She yelled again and they let go off her this time. "You two are unbelievable!"

"Juvia, darling…" Lyon tried.

"Shut up!" She yelled again and this time, everyone that was on the street looked towards them.

"Miss… Is everything alright?" The security guard asked. He was a big man, but she didn't think he could take both Gray and Lyon and win, but it was sweet of him to ask.

"It's alright."

"Do you know them?" The man asked and the other two scoffed.

"Unfortunately, I do!" She offered the two younger men a mean stare. "Imagine, kind sir, that they can't stay together in the same room without fighting!"

"That's unfair…" Gray said and Juvia laughed bitterly.

"Oh, sorry. We're outside and they're still fighting. My bad." She turned to the security guard. "But it's alright. I do know them." He nodded, but his stare told them that he would be keeping an eye on them either way. She turned around to look at the two guys. "And I'm going now."

"Juvia, I'll take you." Gray stepped towards her and she turned again.

"No!" Juvia groaned. "I'll go alone. I can't be in the same car as you two right now."

"Don't be stupid, Juvia. You are drunk." Gray sighed. He was used to drunken people; after all, he was friends with Cana.

"Juvia's not drunk." She said turning around. "You may think that I am, but I am not. I know exactly what I am saying." And she was. She had just one beer, only enough to make her take the courage to tell the two guys her feelings.

"And what are you saying?" Gray asked, exasperated. "You don't want Lyon and I to fight while you're with us? Is that it?"

"I can do that." Lyon nodded. If it was to be by Juvia's side, he would even tolerate Gray's presence.

"No!" Juvia was the exasperated one this time. "What I want is for you two to stop fighting over taking me home, or who will buy my lunch!"

"Juvia…" Lyon sighed. "This is a man's dispute, if either of us back out we…"

"You what? Huh?" Juvia threw her purse on the ground and both Gray and Lyon stared at her a little bit scared. "You'll be emasculated? Is that it? God forbids you two to sit down and let me go home on my own. Or pay my own food!" Okay, so maybe the alcohol was making her say stuff she wouldn't normally say. "You two need to grow up!"

"Juvia, it's just our way to… take care of you." Lyon said and for the first time in that night, Gray nodded. Juvia stopped in her tracks.

"Are you saying that you two fight… because of me?" She narrowed her eyes.

Gray didn't say anything, but Lyon nodded, saying. "We've known each other for two years now, Juvia. I want you to be more than a friend," Gray groaned. "But this baka always meddles. That's why we fight."

"Don't! Don't tell me that you two fight over me! You couldn't care less about me! I am only your latest way to fulfill some childhood rivalry; so, you two go all alpha male on me and on each other! No one cares about my feelings and yes, I do have them!"

"Juvia…" The dark haired man stepped closer to her and she stepped back and he stopped, frowning. That was the first time she actually moved away from him and he didn't like that feeling.

"Did you two thought about me? How would I feel about this whole thing?"

"Juv…"

"Somehow, in your mind, the man I love is the winner? Is that it? Let me tell you a secret: I love you both. One I love like a dear friend, and I want to marry the other. What kind of twisted logic... How can your sick mind turn this into a bad thing?"

"Oi… wait…"

"You forget that I can be hurt, right? That every time you say you fight for me, a little piece of my heart breaks and my feelings are crushed. Every single time. And for you to know: Right now, neither of you would win if it was up to me, because all I feel for you two is pain." She walked over where her purse was and grabbed it. "I am done with you." Feeling a lot lighter, Juvia turned around and took a cab back to her house, leaving two confused men behind.

"Just call me and tell me if you arrived safely."

"I know you arrived just fine, Levy called me to say that you crashed in her place. So, that's it. We're done. Bye, Juvia."

"Okay, I gave your freaking space! It's been two days now. Call me or…" Sigh "Just call me."

"Juvia, where have you been for the past three days? Your doorman just told me he hadn't seen you during that time! You better have a damn good explanation of why you still ignoring my calls and sleeping god knows where."

"You are driving me crazy... Just pick your freaking phone already! I know you're there, I can see your shadow on the window, and… I already saw you, no need to turn off the lights, baka!"

Gray wasn't going to let a stupid fight with Lyon to get in the way between him and Juvia. He knew that she was right in some levels; he and Lyon always liked to compete and it seemed to increase a thousand times when she was around and she was right to be mad too about the way they forgot about the way she felt too.

But she didn't need to actually cut him off!

Yes, Juvia Loxar was ignoring Gray Fullbuster.

And yes, Gray Fullbuster was pathetically running after Juvia Loxar.

That was happening because Juvia Loxar actually yelled at Gray Fullbuster.

He was starting to think that he landed in some kind of alternative world, where she was the master and he was the silly little puppy, following around. But the truth was that he was feeling guilty of how things turned out that day outside the club. When Lyon was around, the eagerness to win whatever he could to impress his 'big brother' was overwhelmed. And it was even worse when the both of them wanted the same thing.

"Open up, Juvia. I know you're there." Gray knocked on her door and he heard a small noise coming from inside. "Really. I know you're there. I need to talk to you."

She opened the door, but left the safety chain on. Her eyes were puffy and red, meaning that she had been crying, making him feel even guiltier.

"You have to stop calling." She said.

"Not when you are mad at me because over something idiotic." He said looking to her face from the small space.

"It's not idiotic!" She sounded offended.

"No! It's not. I am the idiot." He said quickly, kicking himself mentally. "Let me in so I can explain myself to you." She hesitated, knowing fully well that she was going to forgive him if he talked to her and she wanted to stay mad at him. "Look, I miss you. Can't you just talk to me? I know that after what happened, you are right to ignore me for being a jerk, but… just talk to me."

"You were being a jerk." She sniffed.

"I know."

"I am not just another way to settle a fight with Lyon."

"I know."

"And I do have feelings, even though you two forget about that."

"I know."

"And even though I love you, I can't let you stomp over me like that."

"I never wanted to…"

"But you did." Juvia closed the door before he could say another word. He waited. Waited for her to do something; open the door again and yell, anything. And that's exactly what happened. After thirty seconds of wait, he heard the safety chain slide off and she opened the door, now a little angrier than she was before.

"I can take anything. I can take that you don't love me, I can take being friends, I can even take seeing you with another woman if it was to make you happy, but what I can't take is that you belittle my feelings."

"I never did that!" He was the one offended then.

"Yes you did!" She had tears in her eyes at that point. "Every time you two fought, every time you said it was because of me, you made my feelings sound like a joke! Like my opinion didn't count. Like… I was some kind of merchandize. As if whoever wins can have me." She entered her apartment and he followed her, slamming the door.

"It was never our intention to…" Gray tried to explain, but she turned around, still very angry.

"It wasn't your intention, but that's the consequence, Gray! And it has been happening for two years. I couldn't take it anymore." She stopped in the middle of the living room and he noticed that she was only wearing a blue big sweater that was long enough to reach her thighs and her hair was in a messy ponytail.

"Why did you never tell me then?" He counter attacked. If she wanted to fight, fine with him!

"And say what? 'Stop fighting with Lyon because it hurt my feelings'?" She frowned.

"Hell yeah." Gray agreed.

"You wouldn't have understood!" Juvia said exasperated.

"Why now, then?"

"Because everyone has a limit. Even me." She let her tears fall and he finally realized how much he hurt her. How much damage he had been giving her over time.

"I am sorry." He said sincerely. He was sorry for hurting her, if anything, he was always concerned about her well being, but only then he realized he was the origin of many of her problems.

"You can't just say that you're sorry and expect it to be over."

"What else can I do, huh? Tell me! I don't know what else to do!"

"I don't want you to tell me you're sorry just because you should be sorry. I want you to feel sorry!"

"I am!" And he was! Not for fighting with Lyon, but because he hurt her.

"You are not! I can tell that you are not." She pointed at him with narrowed eyes.

"Juvia, you weren't like that." Gray sighed and passed a hand through his hair.

"No, I wasn't. Two years ago, I would never cut you from me. I would actually be still fawning over you, but I changed, Gray-s… Gray. You've known about my feelings for you for this long and…"

"Wait! You never told me your feelings!"

"Oh, because it was very hard to notice them when I got jealous every time a woman was around you!" She said sarcastically. That was definitively not his Juvia. "Or when I practically kissed the floor you walked in! Everyone knew! And you did too! You were just too much of a thick head to admit it!"

"Juvia!" Gray exclaimed, surprised with her.

"What? You. Knew! I know you knew!" Juvia dried her tears with her hands, harshly. "And during these years, I had this… hope that you were too afraid of admitting, or that you were waiting the right time, or something! But you never did! Years later and you still didn't do anything! You never said no and you never said yes either."

"Juv…" Gray tried, but she was in a row.

"Do you even know how frustrating this is? Look, if you had been straight forward and told me 'no' I would try to move on, but you stuck me! You made me stuck!"

"I did not make you stuck!" He was offended again! What was with her? Where was the lovely woman he liked?

"Yes, you did!" Juvia didn't even bother to dry her tears anymore at that point. "I wish you cut me off years ago!"

"What?"

"Yeah! I wish, I wish, I wish!" She stomped her feet at every 'wish' like a child. "I wish, so this pain would never exist! I wish, so my life wouldn't be stuck! I wish, so I would be alone, because alone people do not suffer because of other people, because… they're alone!"

Gray stared at her, surprised.

"Do you regret meeting me?"

"Yes! Now go away!" She pushed him towards the door of her apartment, but he didn't bulge. "Go. Away!"

"Stop." Juvia was still trying to push him away. Gray grabbed her wrists to make her stop. "Stop acting like a child, Juvia!" She tried to free herself from him. "Stop it!" He yelled and she did what he told her.

Juvia looked up and their eyes met. They stared at each other for some time, with their breaths quicken and he could see lots of emotion passing through her eyes.

"Look, you can tell me whatever… That I am an idiot, a jerk, an ass… Because I know that most of time I am. But don't tell me you would rather be alone, or that you regret meeting me." Gray was still holding her wrists. "You hated the life you had before. I know you did." Juvia looked down and his grip became a little tighter. "I can't stand the thought of you back on the streets like you were when we met."

He took a deep breath. "And yeah. I knew." Juvia looked up, surprised. She didn't expect him to tell her that he knew about her feelings. "I've known for some time now and I did nothing. I apologize for that, but the truth is… I never knew what say to you."

Juvia's eyes were filled with pain as she, again, tried to break free. "That says everything Juvia needs to know…"

"No." Gray put her closer to him, putting her arms down, still between them. "I don't know what to say because you are always… changing." She frowned and he tried to explain. "When we met, we were enemies, then we were acquaintances, then you became a friend. It was so fast! One day you were at the other side and in the other, you were with us. Then, you became a close friend." He sighed and closed his eyes. "Very few people are allowed to be as close to me as you are, really. And now you changed again!" Juvia let her head fall to the side a bit, in a silent question.

"Now you are the person that I hate see being friendly with other men, especially Lyon." Gray looked into her eyes. "I don't know what to say to you, because I feel that whatever I do say, in a few months, you'll become more to me and I don't like to be wrong and have to do things over and over again."

"Juvia doesn't understand what you're saying, Gray-sama." She murmured confused and Gray groaned. He pretty much told her that he was jealous of her with other man and that his undecided feelings would potentially grow and she didn't understand. "What does that mean?"

"It means that I lied when I said that I was sorry for fighting Lyon because no man should apologize for fighting for his things. But I am sorry of hurting you." He said serious. "And it means that I acknowledge your feelings and I am assuming mine." Gray blushed. "I like you, Juvia. I know that it isn't as deep as your feelings, but I hope that's good enough for now." Juvia was giving him an incredulous look. "And as I told you, you are always changing, and right now, I'll do something to change both of us."

Before she could ask what it was, Gray let her wrists go and leaned, placing a kiss on her lips. It wasn't a deep kiss, just a brush of their lips. Juvia was too much in shock to do anything other than stand there while his not-so-cold-as-she-thought-they-were lips were in hers.

Juvia was sure she was having a dream.

When Gray stepped back, half expecting Juvia to pass out, but she just stood there, eyes wide open and just staring at him, making the man a little bit unsure about all the things he said. Maybe he should've waited more time to kiss her? Maybe she didn't like it? Maybe…?

"You kissed me."

"Yes." He nodded.

"You actually kissed me."

"Well, it was more like a peck on the lips, but pretty much, yeah." Gray nodded again.

"Wait… you said you lied to me?" She frowned and he sighed exasperated. Of course. Count with Juvia to retain the worse part of his speech to talk about.

"Yes. And I also told you that I was assuming that I have feelings for you, but you are too busy thinking about how I lied to care about…" He put his hands on his forehead, already regretting getting all mushy with her.

"Gray-sama…" Juvia tried.

"I mean, I am here, saying that you are way more than a friend and…"

"Gray-sama…"

"…you are concerned about a small lie that I told you…"

"Gray-sama…"

"…so I could fix our relationship, but noooooo! You are giving me a hard time about…"

"Gray-sama!"

"…a white lie-what?"

"Juvia also wants to do something to change us." She stepped closer to him, put her arms around his neck and kissed him.

'Now that's a kiss.' Gray thought just before he was too wrapped up with her to notice anything else other than the blue haired woman and how she made him have the damn butterflies everyone talked about. The only thing he wanted was to have her closer.

When they needed air, they parted panting, but still in each other arms. "What does that mean? Weren't we fighting?" She asked quietly.

He groaned. "Yes, we were. But now we ended the fight with a make out session, like couples do and we're not finished. You're still mad. Come here…" He leaned, but she dodged, making him kiss her cheek instead, making him groan and let his head fall into the crook of her neck.

"Are we a couple now?" Juvia asked.

"Yes."

"Really?"

"Yes." Gray sighed tiredly. Juvia was a smart girl but she was giving him a hard time that day.

"Good." She smiled big. "Now, can Juvia and Gray-sama practice how to kiss? Because that first one was very weak, you know?"

He felt insulted. "I was trying not to scare you off!"

"If you say so." Juvia offered him an even bigger smile and he couldn't help but smile back. Yeah, his feelings were going to grow faster than he imagined. And he had a lot to make up for her.

One month later

"Juvia-chan! Let me pay your lunch." The white haired man said when the waiter came with the bill. She, Lyon and Gray were having lunch in a restaurant. As usual, Lyon wanted to go out with Juvia, Gray overheard and tagged along. Now, with the status of boyfriend, he sure as hell wouldn't let her go alone with the lunatic.

"Shut up, Lyon." Gray rolled his eyes and tried to take the bill from the older man. "Give it to me. I'll pay it."

"No, I'll pay."

"I'll do it."

"No, I will."

Juvia stared at the two men arguing and decided to let them figure things out. She wasn't going to meddle between the two old friends. Once they told Lyon about their relationship, the guy just got more fired up to get Juvia for Gray's annoyance. And Gray, who thought that he wasn't a possessive man, realized that he wasn't fond of other men wooing his girl.

But she loved them. She loved them both, even with their silly childhood rivalry.

AN: Randomness, is that you? :O I don't even know if it made sense! I just let the words flow!

Okay, Juvia had a fit, which I think will never happen, but I was sitting on this idea for a very long time. It must be really frustrating for Juvia to see Lyon and Gray at each other's throats for so long. I'm just saying… every woman deserves to have a bitch fit at least once in her life and take it all from her chest. I hope I did Juvia's right.

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Any thoughts? :D Did the fight ended up too quickly? Did they need to fight? I am soooooooo not sure about this chapter… Very OOC, I know. ;O