Anonymous said: I've seen fanfiction where Levy is jealous of Juvia and Gajeel friendship because it seems those two are close. What do you think Gray would think. Maybe a story where he just ask Juvia and she just laughs

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The Weirdest Green-Eyed Monster Ever

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It was weird, to arrive at the Guild and not have Juvia by his side instantly – Gray swore she could sense him getting closer, somehow. He had been away for three weeks and at first he thought she was out on a mission herself, instead he saw her by the corner of the Guild, drinking and laughing with Gajeel.

The Dragon Slayer must've smelt him because he looked Gray's way, then said something to Juvia, raising his chin towards the Ice Mage's direction. Juvia looked to where Gajeel indicated and she smiled at Gray and gave him a wave, but made no move to go to Gray. She returned her gaze to Gajeel and started to talk to him again.

It weirded Gray out.

Fine, Gajeel was her best friend since before Fairy Tail and they went through a lot, still... Gray was... Gray. Juvia didn't ignore Gray, it was... an universal rule. So yeah, he was weirded out so much he looked around to see if anything else had changed – were they attacked while he was gone? Some magic ruled over their actions? Weird potion?

Yet, everything else was completely normal.

Gray cleared his throat and went to the bar, refusing to go to Juvia. That wasn't their thing. Gray didn't go after Juvia. It would throw the universe off balance. Sure, he had been the one to hug her first, kiss her first but only because she was always next to him and Juvia knew he needed to be the one to do it because of his issues, but that was a problem for another time.

Ten minutes in and Juvia still hadn't approached him.

Gray talked to some of his friends on the way to a table, sat with the rest of his team and couldn't explain why his gaze kept returning to where Juvia and Gajeel were still drinking and laughing, talking low, leaning over the table so no one listened, he supposed.

Argh, it was so weird.

Juvia was his... fami- fri- gir- person of interest and she wasn't giving him the light of the day-

-and now he sounded like a five-year-old who wouldn't share his toys.

Great. Just awesome.

"Hey, idiot, what's with the face?" Natsu asked from across the table, after taking a sip of his beer. "I mean, it's always been ugly, but now you are all frowny. Like before all the shit that went down."

"Shut up." Gray groaned. "I'm tired, that's all. I'm just having this beer and heading out."

"Me too. I miss my bed." Lucy complained. "I know it's part of the job but sleeping on the floor, even if it's on sleeping bags, is not comfortable."

"I want to have some fish with Charle." Happy said.

"I want a shower." Natsu shrugged.

"You need one." Gray couldn't miss the opportunity. "You smell as if you were dead and people forgot to bury you."

Natsu was about to argue but frowned and smelled his armpit before making a face. "Can't even argue with that. Lucy, I'm taking a bath at your apartment because you have all the bubbly good-smelling stuff and I want the bubbles."

Lucy snorted. "Good, because you are going nowhere near the bed smelling like that."

Gray turned off his mind for a while, drinking his beer and he refused, at that point, to look where his gir- (he didn't like labels!) his Juvia, was.

Yeap, he was five-years-old again and he wanted to leave before throwing a tantrum because apparently, that was a possibility now.

"I'm heading out." Gray grabbed his backpack and got up. "See you guys in a couple of days, I think tomorrow I'll just sleep in and relax."

"Sure."

"Have a nice rest!"

Gray didn't look around before leaving and just as he reached the door, he felt a soft hand slip into his, the smell of a very specific floral shampoo and a head resting on her shoulders.

His stupid heart skipped a beat and his stomach filled with stupid butterflies.

Stupid-ass emotions and physical reactions – he squeezed her hand without even realize it.

"You thought you could leave Juvia behind after we spent weeks apart?" The blunette asked and Gray tried to play it cool, as if everything was normal.

"Well, you looked too cozy with Gajeel for me to interrupt." Well, shit, he sounded jealous. Which he wasn't, of course, but sounded like it.

Juvia didn't even realize his slip up (she thought Gray wasn't capable of being jealous of her, for some reason) and just laughed, walking with him, hands still twined and he got used to it by then.

"We were sharing some old Phantom stories." She giggled. "Oh, we were bad. Well, we were pretty badass, but we were so bad sometimes."

"And that's funny?" Gray raised his eyebrows.

Juvia shrugged. "It's our history. We regret most of the bad things we did, but some of it was good and we shouldn't forget it just because some was bad. We weren't evil, just... misguided."

"That's true." Gray agreed, feeling better, especially that now they were definitely going to his apartment – she missed the turn to go to Fairy Hills. "Tell me one."

Juvia hummed as she thought it over. "We talked about how Gajeel-kun helped Juvia when her ex dumped her. He wanted to kill him." She chuckled. "Juvia had dibs, of course, but Gajeel-kun ended up helping another way."

Gray stopped on his tracks, Juvia stopping too, and then a thought hit him: Were Juvia and Gajeel ever... together? He never asked. Maybe they were. They were pretty close to the present day – hell, Juvia was the godmother of Gajeel's daughter.

"Juvia..." Gray started and she hummed to let him know she was listening. "Have you and Gajeel ever..."

She frowned, waiting. "Yes?"

"You know?" From her confused face, she didn't know. "Got together."

"We were together just a few minutes ago." Juvia was clearly confused.

Gray grew frustrated because really? Juvia was so forward and yet so freaking innocent. "No, I meant... together. Hooked up or whatever."

Whatever it was Juvia expected to hear, it wasn't that. "Excuse me?" Juvia asked and then started to laugh. "What the hell, Gray-sama?" She laughed harder. "J-Juvia and Gaje-el-kun?" Gray's face was a deep shade of red because Juvia didn't laugh at him. Ever.

What the fuck was wrong with the universe today?

"Forget I asked." Gray muttered and started to walk again, but Juvia grabbed his wrist, controlling her laughter.

"Sorry, Gray-sama. Juvia never thought you would thought that." She was still giggling. "When she says Gajeel-kun helped her another way, she meant he bought some stuff he thought women needed when going through a break-up. Chocolate, a bunny bear, tissues, there were even tampons inside the bag he handed Juvia." She chuckled. "It was sweet because he was this badass looking guy and can you imagine him buying that stuff back then?"

Gray had to smirk. "No."

"That's pretty much when we became best friends."

"Oh."

"Nothing ever happened. We are good being friends but we'd probably murder each other if we were in a relationship." She stopped in front of him and put her arms around his shoulders. "As glad as Juvia is that you got the weirdest green-eyed monster ever, but she's afraid you haven't properly greeted her after weeks of being away."

Gray rolled his eyes just for effect and his reputation, of course, but gave her a peck on the lips. Juvia was... his. Sometimes he needed to show her some affection (not that he minded at all."

She smiled throughout the kiss and whispered. "Is Juvia welcomed in your apartment today?"

"Always." He told her. "Come on, let's get going. I told Natsu he stank but I'm not too far behind, I need to take a shower and rest."

"Mind if Juvia helps you with that shower?"

Gray was horrified. "Juvia, we are in the middle of the street! People can hear us!" People could. People didn't care.

Juvia laughed and they started their way again and just like that, the universe was right again.

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AN: I hope it was alright!