Lost And Found

Untitled Part 2

Juvia's brown boots clapped against the hard stone floor as she bolted through the streets of Magnolia, putting more and more distance between her and the guild. How could Gray-sama be so blunt? Maybe Gray-sama doesn't care for Juvia. Tears threatened to spill over her lower eyelids as she thought about what she was running from. Juvia had gotten used to the ice mage's constant rejections of her public declarations of love towards him, but she'd never had to deal with him raising his voice to her and actually meaning it. The bluenette turned around to look at the guild. From where she was stood, the guild seemed pretty small. She sighed as she took in one last sight of the building before spinning on her heels and leaving Magnolia.

The next day, Gray arrived at the guild at his usual time. His eyes scanned the room. No sign of Juvia. He breathed a small sigh of relief as he made his way over to the bar and ordered his usual drink. Gray's mind wandered to the topic of Juvia. He did think that Juvia could be cute, but she could also be kinda clingy and the way that she always stalked him could get kind of annoying. He shook the thoughts from his head as he took a sip from his drink. He didn't need to think about Juvia. He'd finally gotten a break from her and he didn't want to waste it thinking about her. Today's just gonna be me relaxing. The guild doors flew open.

"Oi, Ice Princess!" That lasted a long time...

"Not now Flame Brain" the raven haired mage sighed with boredom as he spoke. Natsu contemplated what he had just said. It was such a contradiction to him. Gray clearly wanted him to leave, yet he tossed an insult his way. The dragon slayer decided to ignore what the ice mage had just said. Well, the first bit anyway.

"You wanna go you pervy popsicle?"

"I SAID NO!" The guild became quiet as Gray screamed at Natsu. It was rare for Gray to raise his voice like that towards anybody, but even rarer for him to address Natsu without some kind of insult stuck at the end of his sentences. Even Natsu had fallen silent, and hadn't happened in... well forver. Gray stormed out the guild. Just once he'd like to have a nice peaceful day, but even when Juvia wasn't around, Natsu made damn sure that just stayed as wishful thinking. The guild sat there, still locked in dead slience after Gray had gone. Natsu broke the silence.

"What's with the pervert?" The entire guild went into thinking mode, searching for an answer to the question. Not a single idea came to anyone's mind.

"I dunno, but I'm kind of worried about him". Everyone looked at Mira. Her smile was now gone.

Gray slammed his front door behind him as he stomped into his bedroom like a young kid throwing a tantrum. The ice mage threw himself onto his bed, putting his hands behind his head as he sighed. He found it kind of sad that this was the only place he could go to in order to get some time to himself.

"Where the hell's droopy eyes?" The entire guild took a couple of minutes to look around for him.

"Now that you mention it, he hasn't been here in a few days". People didn't seem to care for too long as they quickly returned to what they had been doing.

More and more days flew by without Gray returning to the guild, making people more and more worried about him. He'd never been gone this long. Not even when he went on solo jobs. He tended to wrap them up pretty quickly before coming back.

It was pretty late in the night when there was a loud banging at the door, waking up the ice mage from his slumber. The banging continued, clearly the person was impatient.

"Yeah, yeah" Gray mumbled to himself as he got to his door. He opened his door and exhaled loudly when he saw who had almost broke down his door.

"You?"

"Yeah, me. Your guild called me and filled me in. What in the hell do you think you're doing?"