Gray's POV

The next day was pretty much the worst day of my entire life again. You know what happened to me?

Well...

~•Earlier•~

"Gray, please beat her up. We can't handle her brute strength anymore." 2 of my batchmates approached me about their complaint with Juvia Lockser.

I sighed and asked, "You shouldn't have picked a fight with her if you know you can't handle it and besides, why me?"

One of them frowned. "Her tongue is so sharp like a knife and it kinda insulted us so we tried to beat her up but we couldn't."

The other one said, "We saw you with her yesterday at the cafeteria and it looked like you could handle her. Please, Gray. Help us save our pride."

I furrowed my eyebrows at the two of them pleading in front of me. "Just so you know, I don't want anything to do with that woman ever again—"

"PLEASE GRAY!"

"We would treat you snow cones for 3 months if you do."

"Okay, where is she?"

***

"Huh?" Ugh, I didn't want to see her face but... Snow cones are important too. She folded her arms in front of the three of us and asked, "What are you saying? They're the ones who first insulted me that I'm not a girl and I am a gorilla and they even picked a fight with me so I just taught them their lesson."

I glared at the two guys behind me who just avoided my gaze. Ugh, seriously. Aish. These two are so...

"Ah, is that so? Well, this is a big misunderstanding then. We should go now. Good bye." I simply said and turned around but the two guys behind me didn't let me turn.

"Please Gray!"

"At least knock her out for us!"

They both whispered in my ear. With no emotions, I said, "You're the ones who started this. Why should I be the one who'll finish this?"

"What? Mr. Pervert, are you going to fight me?" Juvia suddenly asked and gets into a fighting stance while smirking at my direction. "I hope you're a great fighter."

"Pervert?!" I irritatingly asked as I ruffled my hair in frustration because of her nicknames that doesn't make any sense.

"Then, Mr. Exhibitionist-kun."

I twitched my eyes at her and gripped on my fists. I arrogantly looked at her and said, "Well, well. Ms. Perverted Girl. It looks like you're fired up there."

She gritted on her teeth and got into her fighting stance. "Come on, fight me. You're not a scaredy cat, are you?"

"I can say the same thing about you." I replied coolly.

I'm not really serious when it comes to fighting girls but it's just that, this girl gets on my nerves all the time and to think that we just met each other yesterday. She's worse than Erza.

"Go Gray!"

"Our butts are riding on this one!"

... I could care less about your butts.

"Don't start crying for your mother if I beat you up, okay?" She smirked and in an instant, she suddenly disappeared from our eyes.

Panicking, I started looking around for her. Up, down, left, right... She's not there. She's not in the classroom and she's not behind the three of us. Man, this is troublesome.

"Ah!"

"GET AWAY FROM ME— OW!"

I immediately looked back to see the two guys I'm with are on the floor, already knocked out. Wait, what? But she wasn't there behind us so how—?

Someone patted me on my shoulder and when I turned around again, my face was greeted by a sudden punch, making me fall behind on the floor. I quickly held unto my face and winced in pain.

She snickered as she walked towards me with her hand on her waist. "Hm, have you learned your lesson yet? Or should I teach it again?"

"Woah, Juvia defeated Gray-sempai!"

"Eh?? No way!"

"So she is stronger than Gray???"

"Ow, that must be it."

Tsk. Rumors, rumors and why are they here?? They should've been in the classroom and stayed there. Ugh, my pride is going down because of this girl.

I quickly got back up on my feet and wiped the blood from my nose using my hand. "Nice punch there, girly but let's see if you can dodge this one!"

I charged at her at full speed and was about to land my punch into her face as well but surprisingly, loud gasps were heard when she stopped my punch with her own hand, her own PETITE hand.

She gripped on my fist and smirked again. "Eh, so you can still stand up after receiving one of my punches? I'm amazed at you, Gray Fullbuster." She suddenly pulled my necktie towards her and made our foreheads crush into each other. "... But, you're still weaker than me, Mr. Exhibitionist-kun. Stop trying."

I glared at her remarks. "Oh really, Ms. Pervert? Then should I really tell them what's the color of your you know yesterday?"

Her smirk disappeared and it was later then changed into a deadly glare instead. "Huh? Then that would confirm that you're a big pervert and an exhibitionist."

It was my turn to smirk at her. "Really? But that would also confirm that you're a pervert as well, for showing it to me."

She clicked her tongue, showing that she was getting angry at me and her nerves at her forehead is showing. It took quite awhile before she finally lets go of me and pushed me but it wasn't enough to make me stumble down.

She started walking out and the crowd is making a way for her. "This is not yet over, Fullbuster. This is just the start."

I rolled my eyes at her. "Yeah, yeah."

She stopped walking and turned around to look at me with a glare. "I say it when I mean it. I hope you're prepared."

***

~•Present•~

"Man, why don't you and Juvia get along??" Natsu asked me as he ruffled his hair in frustration.

"It's none of your business." I bluntly said as I took a bite of my burger. "She and I are like oil and water, nothing can change that. And besides, I don't care about her. She's just someone who's below our grade."

"And Lucy's best friend." He said. "I just want the two of you to get along since I'm dating Lucy."

"Hn, don't care."

"Gray."

"Blegh."

I stood up from my seat and put both of my hands on my pocket. Because of her, I had a few bruises on my cheeks and a band aid on my nose. I already used an ice pack earlier in the clinic so it should be fine in the other day.

"Juvia, you're so cute when you get embarrassed!"

"Aish, stop it, Lucy!"

I glanced at the blue haired girl I'm about to pass by. She was laughing with Lucy but was cut off when she saw me looking at her. I gave her a glare and she did the same.

When we finally passed by each other, I rolled my eyes off her. I like girls who are spunky but definitely not someone like her. Ugh.

Natsu's POV

"Hey hon." I greeted Lucy as she sat next to me and gave me a quick kiss on my cheeks.

"Hey. It seems like these two are not getting along with each other." She said and pointed at her bluenette friend who was sitting across her. She was eating a lollipop.

"Yeah, sorry about that. Gray's a little immature but he's a great guy." I said, almost vomiting at the fact that I complimented him.

Lucy smirked and whispered on my ear, "Hey, I have a plan."

What plan?

***

Short chappie ~

Published: July 4, 2017