Chapter Six

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"Sorry, did I make you wait long?" Gray asks Juvia.

She shakes her head fast and furiously. "N-not at all, Gray-sama," she tells him blushing furiously.

Hold her hand. Be a gentleman. Don't use harsh words. Gray runs Rin's words through his head and holds out his hand. "Do you want to get something to eat first?"

"S-sure!" she says to him and grabs his hand enthusiastically. "Where to?"

"How about the Wallflower Cafe'?"

Juvia humms her response happily.

Juvia snuggles up to Gray's shoulder and smiles. They walk together down Fiore's street. Juvia can feel the eyes on her and Gray. Watching them as a couple.

They get seated at a table for two. "My treat, get whatever you want," Gray tells Juvia in a gruff yet kindly voice.

She scans through the menu. "How about a cucumber sandwich?"

"Cucumber sandwich it is," Gray says waving the waitress over. He orders.

Juvia looks at Gray with the morning light shining down onto him and illuminating his eyes. This definitely wasn't an illusion.

"Gray-sama?"

"What is it Juvia?" he asks with his ever present frown.

She twiddles her thumbs. "Do you love me?"

"Why do you ask?" he looks at her and raises one eybrow.

"Because I love you. A lot. And because you brought me on this date. Why did you do this? If you don't love me, why?"

He grumbles. "I don't need to have a reason do I? I brought you here so don't complain," he tells her and sips his soda.

She nods and quiets down. The waitress brings their food and they eat in silence. Gray pays the bill and this time they leave, hands untwined.

"How about a movie? Ot perphaps..."

Juvia interupts. "The public bath?" she asks hopefully.

"Umm, no," he says as his jaw drops. "I was going to say a walk."

Juvia shakes her head. "Actually, I think that i'll just go home," she says quietly.

Gray watches as Juvia trudges away from him.

He doesn't love me. He was doing it out of obligation.

Rin looks up in surprise as Gray walks in the door early. "Back so early?" she asks setting down the plate she had been washing.

"Yeah, she just decided to go home?" Gray grumbles. "And I went out of my way to make time to take her on a date. That girl. He passes by her and flops down on his bed in the bedroom.

Out of anyone's sight he blushes and touches his hand. It may have just been a trick of his imagination, but he could almost feel the lingering warmth of her hand on his hand still on his hand.

"Gray? There is weird dude in our house," Gray snaps awake at the sound of Rin's sharp voice and tiredly, he trudges into the other room.

He sees Rin and Lyon standing side by side with their arms folded. Both of their heads face the other person and Gray can almost hear the tension crackling between the two.

"This PERSON claims that he is going to marry Juvia. He heard about your guys's date and rushed here from his guild then he BROKE into the house and demanded to see you."

Gray looks at him and he raises his arms innocently. "I was joking," he walks over to gray and places a hand on his shoulder. "I came to give you my blessing, that's all," his innocent smile turns wry. "In the meantime, I'll take this one with me."

In a flash he has picked up Rin bridal style and exited the house. Lyon is already halfway down the street before Gray realizes what is happening.

"Hey you come back here!" he yells and chases after Lyon. It doesn't take too long to catch them because Rin had already immobilized him.

In the middle of the street was Rin, pinning Lyon to the ground. She had tied his right arm and left leg together behind Lyon's back with who knows what.

The mercilessly grabbing the back of his head and bashing it into the ground. By the time Gray had peeled her off and untied Lyon, he was in pretty rough shaped. Unconscious, with several injuries.

Gray lifts Lyon onto his back and sighs. "You idiots." Rin and Gray walk back to the house and Gray lies Lyon on his bed.

"For the record, it's all his fault for trying to kidnap me," she tells his stubbornly folding her arms and pouting.

Gray can't help but laugh.