AN: Short, but I thought it was a little funny! :D

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"Aaaaaaah!" Gray's eyes snapped open when he heard the yelling and immediately got up from the bed. His heart was pounding in his chest as the adrenaline rushed through his veins. "Aaaaah!" He heard again coming from the kitchen. Gray also noticed that there was barking. Smelly Melly was also agitated and since the only perk the dog had was that it learned when to bark, something wasn't right. "Gray-sama! Help!"

Once he reached the small kitchen, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. His girlfriend was hugging the honey-colored puppy, while she was sitting in the counter that was located in the kitchen. Gray was ready to fight an army of men if necessary, but looking around; he only saw Juvia and Mel.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"Gray-sama!" Juvia yelled. "It's on the floor, look out."

His gaze went to the floor and saw nothing, he started to look around. Maybe it was a rat or something.

"What is it?" He was still looking around when he saw something pass real fast beside his feet. "Wait. Is this..."

"A monster!" Juvia said.

"...a cockroach?" He looked up to her. She was pale and stuck between the pans that stayed hanged on the wall and the refrigerator, holding Mel like her life depended of it, while the dog barked like crazy and struggled to get free so he could hunt the insect. "You yelled bloody murder because of a cockroach? I thought that you were dying!" Gray was getting angry but Juvia started to point to the direction it went.

"Gray-sama, go get it!" Juvia pointed frenetically towards the living room, where the cockroach ran away to. He groaned and went closer to Juvia to grab her sandal, but she contracted herself even more. "Not with Juvia's sandal!" She exclaimed, surprised that he even considered it.

"I don't have mine here!" He pointed to himself to make her understand. Gray was only wearing his boxers and to tell the truth, he was overly dressed since he actually preferred to sleep naked.

"Get the broom!" Juvia suggested and he went searching for it. Gray couldn't believe that two minutes before he was happy and cozy in his bed and then, suddenly, he was hunting a cockroach half-naked, barefoot and with a broom; while his girlfriend, a girl whom he saw tackle a guy double her size to the floor at the tatami, was yelling like the stupid bug was the evil incarnate!

"Gray-sama, it's gone!" She whined and the dark haired man went to the living room, where the insect was last seen. "We lost it! It'll come back when we last expect and attack us!"

"Juvia, the fuckin' cockroach doesn't have a vendetta against you!" Gray yelled from the living room. He was going to find it and then smash it until it is only a bad memory. "So, shut up and let me find the damn thing!"

There was silence for a few seconds.

"You don't have to yell at Juvia." She sniffed and Gray groaned. Great. Just great: he had managed to upset Juvia to tears. He hated whenever she cried and hated even more when he was the one who caused it.

Gray sighed to control himself. He didn't mean to be rude.

"Sorry." He said. "Just let me find this monster of yours." Gray didn't hear an answer coming from the kitchen and he felt a little guilty. "Juvia?"

"Okay." She sniffed again but her voice was better than before.

"Why don't you let Smelly be useful for once?" Gray groaned, looking for the cockroach under the sofa.

"Juvia can't let her baby go near that thing!" She sounded offended and he rolled his eyes.

"Oh, so I can but he can't? I am touched with your consideration. I love you too, honey." Gray said sarcastically.

"It's not like that!" Juvia's voice came closer and her head popped from the door that led to the kitchen, looking around for the cockroach. "It's just that Juvia is sure that Gray-sama won't chew the cockroach, unlike Mel. He's still a baby."

Gray had to give her that. "Okay, I'll buy it."

"It's true, Gray-sama!" Juvia, after seeing that the terrible bug was nowhere to be seen, went closer to her boyfriend, adjusting Mel that was still struggling to get free even though the cockroach was nowhere to be seen. "He'll learn someday that he can't put insects on his mouth."

"Juvia, the dog fights with the broom and loses." Gray rolled his eyes. The dog, now about four months old, had his toys but he seemed to enjoy barking and jumping on the furniture. One day, he started to bark to the broom (which was just leaning in the wall) and he would low half of his body in a playful way and then jump, still barking. But then, he touched the broom and it fell, making noise. Mel jumped and ran away as fast as he could. Since then Gray named that moment as: The Day Smelly Lost to a Broom. "I don't think he have the guts to put a cockroach on his mouth."

The dog stared at Gray with, he could swear, a scowl and the man smirked.

"Don't say that about our baby, Gray-sama!" Juvia pouted. "He is… aaaaaaaah!" She yelled and Gray immediately turned around, trying to find the only source of that level of desperation.

"Where is it?" He looked to the floor, raising the broom a little to strike the cockroach as soon as he put his eyes on it.

"The drapes!" Juvia went as far as she could away from the said drapes. "THE DRAPES!"

Gray squint his eyes and he finally saw the brownish bug. "That son of a bitch!" He raised the broom and attacked, missing by a few inches, and then, hell broke loose.

It. Created. Wings.

"AHHHH! IT'S FLYING!" The blue haired woman yelled and Gray noticed that Juvia's voice was getting far away while she was screaming like there was an axe murderer after her; and then there was a loud 'bam'.

Gray didn't have the time to be baffled about the fact that Juvia just ran away and left him there to take care of the cockroach on his own, and if he was less of a man, he would've been really hurt by it. But since he was not less of a man, he set his mind to kill the insect.

Juvia, locked in her bedroom, could hear some noise coming from the living room and a few 'thuds' that she assumed was of the broom hitting something. She hoped that her living room survived the fight between her boyfriend and the devilish cockroach.

"STOP FLYING, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Juvia heard and she put Mel on the floor, leaning close to the door to hear it better. "COME AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN!" Despite of her horror, she giggled at his words. He sounded exactly like their friend Elfman.

After a few minutes of 'shits', 'son of a bitch' and 'I'll kill you', Gray finally called her.

"Juvia, it's dead." She opened the door and Mel slipped by her as soon as she did it, crazy to help out and catch the insect. "Smelly, don't eat it!"

When the woman finally appeared back in the living room, Gray was trying to prevent Mel from coming closer to the cockroach with his foot, but the puppy was just too excited and it was getting difficult to hold him back.

"Gray-sama is Juvia's hero!" She giggled and went closer to him, putting her arms around his neck. "It was a nasty little thing."

"And fast." Gray nodded, placing his hands on her hips. "And by the way, I noticed that you ran pretty fast when it flew." He looked at her pointedly.

"Sorry." Juvia's cheeks became hotter and she blushed hard. "If that thing was a… I don't know… a tiger, for example, Juvia would've stayed and fought with it for you, Gray-sama. But cockroaches are just so gross!"

"Good thing I am here to kill them for you, right?" He smiled and kissed her. Not that he would admit, but he liked the fact that he never had a routine when it came to Juvia; she was always doing something to make his day a little funnier even if it was to wake up and kill a bug while only wearing his underwear.

She broke the kiss and yelled, untangling herself from him: "Mel! Don't eat the cockroach! Gray-sama, help!"

AN: Cockroaches... Yeah. Hate them but I can kill with my sandals (although I prefer brooms because they're longer and I don't have to stay too close) but if it flies, all bets are off and I run like there's a hellhound coming after me.

I decided to write about it because it's always funny the way couples hunt them down. Specially Gray (a little grumpy) and Juvia (being a little girl). I hope you like it!

My mom did exactly that to me and my brother once: we were in the kitchen when a frog appeared (she's terrified of frogs) and she ran away! I was like: You're our mom and you left us there while you ran! She looked at me and said: I would die for you, but I can't handle frogs and you know that. It's a sad day when your mom leave you in a room with a frog and says 'good luck, darling' and then run like there's no tomorrow.

By the way: dog vs broom actually happened with my dog. I've never seen Jade run that fast before. LOL

And I have three announcements to make;

1) The second part of 'Life without you' is 1/3 ready. Can't promise a date of release yet, but it's being written. I really need inspiration for the drama; otherwise I'll wreck the whole thing up.

2) About next chapter… I decided to try and write something steamier. I am experimenting because I suck at writing actions and I know it. I wrote it because it's a preparation for

3) The lemon I'm trying to write. Yeah, I'll publish a lemon. My first, so let's not get our hopes up. Firsts almost always suck, so... Just giving you a heads up.

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So, review, ok? You have no idea how happy I get every time I see one! :)