Waiting For You ▪ [Gruvia Fanfiction] BOOK 1 ✔️

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"I'm going to kill the idiot who took this!"

Masters Makarov screams shook the whole guild in the early afternoon.
Soon a small figure huried downstairs and stood infront of the guild.

"Which imbecile took the necklace?" He gritted with his teeth.

"Natsu!"

Makarov yelled searching the room for him, "Natsu was with Lucy the whole night, he didn't leave her side", Wendy tried to calm down the old man.

"Gray, you were here late at night, where- Where is Gray?" Makerov noticed the absence of the Ice Mage. "Where is Gray?" He repeated louder.

No one said anything. "I was here but I don't know when he left", Natsu said clearly unamused. He regretted the words he had spoken to Juvia the day before, he also wanted to see Gray and apologize.

"Master!" Levy came running. "Juvia! She is gone! We only found an Ice statue of her. Gray-"

"This stupid-!" Master yelled but cut himself off, trying to calm down.

Silence spread through the guildhall, everyone waited for Makarovs orders.

"It seems like Grays feelings for Juvia took the better of him. I really hope this boy won't do anything stupid", Gramps sighed, after thinking for a moment about the position Gray must've been at this time.

"Go find him, he must've taken the necklace. Gray has a tendency to act reckless when it comes to protecting the ones he loves," he spoke infront of everyone.

"Last time he did try to take his-" "Find that dumbhead immediately!" Master cut Wendy off jumping around annoyed as he remembered how mad he actually was.

He watched the guildmembers leave the guild in search of their friends. He sighed, thinking about the danger one of his kids could put himself into.

"Don't do anything you might regret, Gray."

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Juvia and Gray woke up in the afternoon. After remembering last night, a short awkward moment appeared between them.

They sat next to eachother for a while saying nothing.

Gray noticed the dried blood on Juvias hands. It's true, he thought, until now Juvia had no possibility of washing it off.

"Why didn't you get rid of this", he asked pointing at her hands.

Juvias face saddened, "I... Juvia felt so guilty, washing it off would be like pretending I wasn't responsible for it" she explained.

Juvia started to rub her hands together. The dried blood started to come off a little bit. She closed her eyes. Everytime she did it, she saw the look on Lucys face the moment she stabbed her. Full of pain and shock.

"That's stupid", Gray woke Juvia up from her dark thoughts taking over her mind again. He took Juvia by hand and led her out of the cave without another word.

He had remembered that a small pond was positioned near them and led the girl in that direction. They reached it and Gray started to wash the brown spots off Juvias hands.

"Don't blame yourself, Lucy wouldn't want that", he said soflty. "She would've wanted you to forgive yourself. She would've wanted you to fight what took control of you!"

"Gray-sama is right", Juvia smiled.

Juvia understood that her Gray-sama didn't blame her, he blamed the necklace which was true. It took advantage of her, it wasn't all her fault.