FairyTail Fleet Oneshot Collection

Her Letters

A Gruvia Oneshot

OK, I know I told ya'll that the next oneshot was going to be a Gruvia called "Double Date", but that idea has to be put on hold until I finish the Edolas Story Arc. (Glares at Dumamoja, because he won't let Mwali watch episodes without him... Even though he's already seen it.)

But I still feel that I need to do a Gruvia this time around. So here we are!

Gray's POV

Alright, before we get started, let me be clear: I am not dense. Natsu is dense. Just so we're on the same page.

Juvia had been a student at Magnolia Academy since about the eighth grade. From that time, she and I had had a few classes together, but didn't socialize much. She wasn't really a social person. She mostly kept to herself.

Then, in tenth grade, she started carrying around the notebook. It was a simple black and white marbled pattern, but she had drawn some kind of Chibi of a dark haired boy on the back. There wasn't a single day that I saw her without it. She had it out in every class, writing intensely. Lunchtime too. Every. Single. Day. For the rest of HIGH-SCHOOL. It wasn't always the same notebook. As the years dragged on, she got ones with different colors or patterns, but always, there was the little dark haired Chibi on the back cover.

After a while, it was just natural to see her with it. So much so, I hardly noticed it.

It was March of our senior year when I thought about it again. Natsu, Lucy, Erza and I were sitting down to lunch. "Seriously, Gray," said Natsu, dragging his girlfriend's chair so close she may as well have been sitting in his lap, "You need to find yourself a girlfriend."

"Oh, this from the guy who took six years to ask out the girl he'd been secretly crushing on since fifth grade?" I asked. I stuck my right hand out. "Nice to meet you, Pot. My name's Kettle." He laughed a little at that. "At least my lack of a relationship is out of knowing I haven't found the right girl, not cowardice, like some pyromaniacs I can think of."

Erza snorted.

"HEY!" Natsu jumped to his feet, "I was trying to figure out what to say to her. There was a plan! I just wasn't sure if she felt the same way!"

"Dude," I said, "you are my best friend... but Lucy could not have been more obvious without writing you a love letter in big black print on a bright pink piece of poster board and taping it to your locker, and sending flowers and a box of chocolate covered strawberries with 'I love you' written in the white chocolate drizzle."

"Amen to that!" agreed the blonde.

Natsu turned to her, shocked, ignoring Erza's dreamy expression at the mention of her favorite fruit.

"WHO'S SIDE ARE YOU ON?!" he demanded, pouting.

Lucy got to her feet and kissed him sweetly. "Our side, Babe." She assured him, slipping her arms around his neck "Now sit down. Please?"

"Okay." Said the pinkette, obliging.

As he sat, Erza finally spoke. "Well Gray, you say you haven't found the right girl yet, but... what about Juvia Lockster?"

I thought about that. Juvia and I never talked much. It wasn't out of any problem we had with each other. In fact, when we did talk, she was very sweet and likable. We were just not around each other enough to get to be real friends. And we were just so different. Looking back, I don't know why that had deterred me. And she was hot, in a quiet, shy, geeky, amazing way... oh, extremely hot.