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So many people have been wondering whn I'm going to be able to produce another Natvia fanfic because A LOT of people seem to be enjoying it! I'm really glad that you guys like it! THANK YOU!

SO obviously, as you can see here, I have indeed released another Natvia fanfic that I have actually been working on for quite a while. I think I started this one some time around November last year? Not sure. Either way, it's coming out now!

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You guys have seriously been amazing people, like I can't believe it's been three years since I've been writing on this website! Hmm, I should have made this speech when it was actually 3 years...Oh well, better late than never!

I don't own Fairy Tail or their characters, but I DO own this storyline and the OCs! I apologize for my poor grammar and spelling!

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For who I am, not what I am

Chapter one

A simple young woman of 21 stood in her new room. It was simple, just like her. Her parents were rich, they were Emperor and Empress of the Water Empire to be exact, only they knew how to spend their money wisely, and make sure they had enough for whenever their status was to suddenly drop. The woman had unpacked her clothes and sighed as she remembered her mother's and father's words.

"It's time that you find yourself a husband, our dearest daughter. Because of your status, there will be many men after your hand, only because of the title you bare. We're sure that you understand what we're saying. You must go off into the neighbouring country and reduce yourself to a 'nobody.' We raised you right to respect everyone around you, even those poorer than us. Find the right husband who will love you for you and not for the word 'Princess' or 'Empress' in front of your birth name. Then in due time, you tell him, got it? Of course we will still keep your account open so you can have all access to your money, but you know what to do."

She had agreed without any complaints. She didn't need to because that was what she wanted to do in the first place. At least her parents were being kind enough to let her choose her husband. Luckily, she had noticed that the Fire King of the Neighbouring land needed many maids, servants, butlers and all the rest to fulfill his son. She decided that she would quite simply become a maid, hopefully one that would work in the kitchen because she loved cooking.

She saw the time before she quickly rushed out of her room to go and stand in line with all the other maids and servants that would be starting work. She had already met the lady that was in charge of everything and she honestly didn't want to get on her bad side. She ran down the stairs and into the line very quickly before she could get caught out. It didn't work. The woman must have had eyes in the back of her head.

"As a maid, servant or butler, it is required that when you're called at a specific time, you make sure that you're early." She spun around on her heel and turned to glare at the young woman who then shrank back. "What is your name? Your blue hair is such a sight to look at." The blue haired woman cleared her throat, annoying the woman in front of her already. She wanted to frown. This was coming from a woman with flaming red hair?

"Juvia Lo-"

"I quite frankly do not CARE for your surname, peasant!" Juvia wanted to frown yet again. She would have never treated any of her servants and maids like this, and this woman probably didn't even have a high status! Maybe choosing this country was a big mistake. "Now, go off and clean the Highness' throne room. One of the guards will show you the way. Give her a bucket and some cleaning supplies. Make sure it's so clean that I can eat off of it!" Juvia nodded her head before quickly following the guard and another maid popped out of nowhere, throwing a bucket soap and a rag into her hand before swiftly walking off. Juvia rolled her eyes at the amount of attitude she had just received.

The guard opened the door of the throne room and thanked him before the door was shut with an echo. She looked around the throne room and shrugged. It wasn't as grand as her father's one, but that was probably because this was the Prince's throne room. She got on her knees and started scrubbing the floor over the whole place, sweating as she did so, not complaining once or grumbling to herself. Her hair came loose from her bun as it stuck around her face from the sweat and water that splashed onto her face. After scrubbing, she still had to go on and wash down the floor, then wipe it and then wax it to give it that shine. She was halfway through waxing when the door opened and two male voices were heard. It sounded like they were arguing.

"Aww come on! Lucy isn't THAT bad! Actually, she isn't bad at all!" Because Juvia was in the corner, she couldn't exactly see who they were just yet, but she knew she would get caught out soon enough. The other male sighed, his voice deep and cut.

"Yeah, but I see Luce as my sister, not a wife. Plus, I don't...I've seen enough of her. More than enough if you get what I'm saying." Juvia blanched as she pictured a woman showing off so much of her body. It was the one thing that made Juvia very different from most women. The first man that spoke made a perverted noise, making Juvia very disgusted, until he yelled out.

"Ah, shit! I stepped in a bucket of water!" Juvia tried her best not to laugh, so she kept her poker face on and crawled out of the gap that she was in. She bowed to them.

"Juvia is very sorry, Juvia was just waxing the floor. Juvia is finished now and will leave." She noticed that both men were the same height, one with pink hair and one with dark hair. The pink haired man looked warm and funny while his counterpart looked cold and distant. Surely he was the one who wasn't interested in this Lucy woman. Oh no, wait. He's stepping in the bucket making it the man with the perverted noise. Juvia tried to keep the disgusted look off her face as she looked at him.

He glared at her while the pink haired man openly stared at her, making her uncomfortable. "Juvia will go now." Her eyes slid to the floor, not used to being put on the spotlight and picking up the bucket from the floor while walking past the two men. She felt hot and cold at the same time, knowing that they were both still watching her back as she left. She was almost out of the throne room when that she-devil arrived, most probably to inspect the floor.

"I see that you're done and that you met His Royal Highness and his best friend, Prince of the Ice country. How are you, my Prince?" The woman bowed down and the smiling man just waved her off.

"Stop with the 'Royal Highness' crap already! No need to be formal to Gray either. He doesn't deserve it." Both of them started arguing and Juvia just stared at them in surprise. So the pink haired man was Natsu, the Prince of the Fire Land and the cold man was Gray, Prince of the Ice country. Juvia was going to leave them all and return to wherever she was supposed to go but a voice stopped her short and she turned around to stare into the dark, smiling eyes of Prince Natsu.

"I guess I'll see you around, Juvia."

The way he said her name sent warmth spiralling up her spine and a ghost smile crept up on her face. A light blush dusted her cheeks before she turned around very quickly, not knowing what to say in a situation like this and quickly walked away.

Natsu smirked as he watched Juvia walk away from him. Gray punched his arm and made him look at his wet leg. "That idiot, leaving her bucket for me to step into it. Anyway, Lucy is coming over in a few days so we have to get stuff ready." Natsu groaned out loud.

"You know what? You can have her! I don't want her to be my wife, I just like her as a sister and it will forever stay that way! She's not my type!" Gray and the woman raised an eyebrow.

"You have a type?" Natsu glared at the both of them.

"Yes I have a type Gray and Erza. What's wrong with that?" They snickered among each other before Natsu sighed and rubbed his temples. "I'm going now." He started walking before he heard a comment from Erza.

"What do you know, that girl did make it so clean that I can eat of off the floor." Natsu slammed the door behind him blocking out the noise of his two supposed best friends.

He sighed before thinking about Juvia. Her beautiful blue hair looked wild as it stuck to her face from all that sweat making her look so innocent and hardworking. That was his type. He didn't even care if she was a maid, he knew he was going to fall for her soon enough.

Natsu, Gray and Erza. Those were the people that Juvia had to be careful of. Natsu and Gray were both Princes and she was most definitely not going to be 'seeing Natsu around' even though he was nice and cute at the same time. Gray would have been cute too if he didn't have a permanent scowl on his face and a chip on his shoulder. Was it really her fault that he walked into a bucket of water? No! Then Erza hated her already. She knew that she was going to be a fiery woman, especially as she had her red hair to live up to. All she needed to see was the woman by the name of 'Lucy.' Thought it sounded familiar.

Juvia sighed as she poured away the water. How the hell was she supposed to find a husband if she was posing as a maid? No one would ever fall for a maid! Not unless they were a servant themselves or something of that status. She dried the mop and left the rag to dry before wiping her hands and scraping her hair back. She knew that if she was Erza's least favourite, the woman was going to be on her case all day and ask her to do everything around the mansion.

A bell was rung and she watched as everyone started meeting up in the room where they were all lined up. Juvia quickly fell in line with them, catching Erza's glare fall upon her and she looked down at the ground, hoping it swallow her right up. "As you all know, Lady Lucy Heartphilia will be coming by soon enough and His Royal highness will be trying to court her. This place must be spotless and the food must be divine! JUVIA!"

Juvia's back snapped up sharp and she could hear gulps from her fellow servants. Erza was soon enough standing in front of her. "You will be working with the chefs! Quite frankly, you don't look like a cook but I want to make hell out of you." Juvia felt like smiling, hell, smirking in fact! She just nodded her head and stalked off to the kitchen. She loved cooking, shows that Erza is completely wrong about one thing. She never really listened to anything else and then Erza told everyone to leave, her scrutinising gaze falling upon Juvia's back who hadn't noticed it.

Juvia was the only maid assigned to kitchen duty and was the only one to make her way there. The mansion was so huge that she had to cross the lobby where she Natsu coming out of a room, maybe his study or something. She looked around for somewhere to hide, only to find nowhere and stopped dead, hoping he wouldn't look up and just pass her by. He seemed to sense her and he looked up from something that was in his hands to give the person a hard look, but seeing it was Juvia his face softened.

"Hey Juvia, what are you doing here?" He was smiling at her, his eyes warm and his voice deep and cutting. Again, Juvia felt some warmth dance up her back and she sighed from the feeling.

"Um, Juvia was just assigned kitchen duty, and Juvia trying to find her way to the kitchen...Good bye your Highness." She bowed to him and tried to walk past him to find her way around the place, but he grabbed her wrist so gently that she didn't even feel like he was holding her. Juvia gasped and made sure that she didn't make eye contact.

"Your Highness, Juvia really must go!" She heard him chuckle and it set off butterflies through her stomach.

"You clearly don't know your way around here. Let's go." His hand slipped from her wrist and instead, entwined their fingers together. "By the way, call me Natsu. And that's an order." He turned to face her and he flashed a grin in her direction that almost made her heart fall right out of her mouth. She nodded her head and he led her down the grand kitchen. She couldn't help but look at their hands that were joined together. All these things that she had read in books of their hands fitting well together, it was all true! His hand was huge and tanned, yet it fit snuggly around her pale and fragile looking hand.

"We're here," Natsu breathed. Juvia nodded her head yet again, making Natsu laugh. "You don't really talk much, do you?" Juvia was about to shake her head and shrug, but she chose to speak instead.

"Juvia usually speaks when there's no action for her answer." That made Natsu smile. Juvia couldn't help but notice that their hands were still together. Although she was an actual Empress and she was of a high class, a worthy person to be in the presence of a Prince, she didn't feel right. No guy would have ever usually looked at her twice because she was such a 'Plain Jane,' and if she was ever spoken to, it was some man trying to get a higher status. Why has she got the attention of the Prince while she was posing as a maid?!

"Juvia will just go now..." Slowly, she untangled their fingers and Natsu was still watching her carefully and she smiled at him gently before pushing the door open. Natsu couldn't help but look at the door in wonder. He had never seen such a beautiful angel in his life. She was perfect! He now understood what his father was blabbing about when he met his mother. He thought his dad was acting girly and weak, but Juvia made him feel like what he was mocking in his father. But he had only seen her for ten minutes in total, how can he already feel this way?

It must obviously be her beauty that was blinding him, nothing else. He sighed when he remembered that Lucy would be here in a few days, rendering him from actually trying to talk more and more with Juvia. He just wished that Gray would take her himself. Speaking of which, his friend was in his room now.

"Hey Gray I was wondering, can you court Lucy instead? I don't wanna." Gray's eyes almost flew out of his head as Natsu deadpanned to him.

"WHAT?! I can't just court a girl that my parents didn't pick out for me!" Natsu just shrugged as he fell back on his bed.

"I don't think it matters much who you get married to. You're the third child so you won't be King anytime soon." Natsu smirked, knowing fully well that he had angered his friend with that little remark. Unlike Gray, Natsu was an only child, meaning that he had to get married and have kids fast otherwise the line of Royalty would end if he was to die now.

"I'm going to try my best and ignore that you fucking imbecile." Natsu waved off the insult laughing.

"But about Lucy, I really don't feel anything for her. I think there's someone else." Gray raised an eyebrow at his friend, all insults fleeing from his mind. Since when was Natsu ever in love?

"Oh? And who is she?" Natsu opened his mouth, ready to tell him that it was like love at first sight, but then he clamped it closed. How could he tell Gray that he, Natsu Igneel the Prince of the Fire Land, fell in love with a simple maid? Not only was he never going to live it down, but the whole Land will hear of it and everything would escalate to his father forcing him to marry Lucy. Natsu sighed. You stick to your own class which was completely stupid.

"It's absolutely none of your business you stupid icicle." Gray's wonder of Natsu's crush died down as he started boil with anger.

"What was that, flame head?" Natsu wasn't really in the mood for their endless bicker and really hoped that Erza would be up here in a minute to stop it. For now he would just try to add fuel to fire.

"I called you an icicle! Are you deaf as well as stupid, Ice princess?"

They both started fighting and as Natsu thought, Erza walked in, causing them to cease their little scrap. Natsu was grateful. It had made Gray forget about what he had asked before. "Both of you, stop acting like useless children and let's go and and have dinner. I'm hungry and I overheard the chefs saying that they were making strawberry shortcake." Erza turned on her heel sharply and swiftly walked out of the room, making Gray and Natsu roll their eyes at her animated love for strawberry shortcake, before they both followed her.

"I also want to know how that Juvia girl got on. The chefs are pretty uptight about who they let into their kitchen. Why do you think they never allowed any maid in there? I let them make this one exception though, but I told them they could roast her if they wanted." Natsu frowned behind Erza's back. Did she have something against Juvia or something? Nah, Erza didn't have anything against anyone. The only one person she truly hated was Mira, the woman who proved she was stronger than her and is now the commander of the entire army. In other words, she's Erza's boss. Erza was just strict meaning that Juvia had done a noob move and Erza was merely trying to show her how strict she can get.

Gray snorted in amusement. Natsu looked at his friend briefly. "He stepped in her water. He must be happy. This must be like payback for him." Natsu kept silent until they got to the dining room. They sat down waiting silently for the chefs until they heard giggles and Erza's jaw dropped in surprise. Juvia was holding trays of food and the head chef was wheeling in the rest of it, making jokes with her. Natsu laughed at Erza's face before she kicked his shin to make him shut up. It seemed like her plan backfired.

"Lady Erza, thank you so much for sending this delightful young lady to come and help us out in the kitchen! My goodness, she's an AMAZING cook! I wonder where she's been hiding all this time!" Juvia just blushed and told him to cool it with the compliments. They both set the food on the table and Juvia placed Natsu's dish in front of him. He touched her hand briefly and their eyes connected making Juvia pull back quickly with a flustered look on her face. Erza eyed the food and when Juvia set the cake near her, she gulped.

"So, who made the cake this time?" The chef pointed to Juvia.

"She said where she's from they have a good recipe and I let her try it with you. Try some, Lady Erza." Juvia didn't bother looking at the woman as she just stared at her feet, waiting for an insult to come her way. Erza waved it off.

"I'll eat it when it's time for dessert."

Juvia was about to walk off, but the chef stood in her way and shook his head. "No, no. We have to wait till they're done to see if food was nice." Juvia was confused. This never happened back in her Palace. They trusted their cooks and chefs well enough. But still she shrugged and stood there.

They waited for the three to finish eating as they even spoke, wasting their time completely. Juvia didn't mind and she just stood there leaning against the wall, getting a good look at Natsu. She felt a little tug on her heart every time she was looking at him. She had never met a guy like him. Most of the men she knew were the ones who were up themselves about their titles. Basically, men like Gray. Natsu was the freaking Prince of the Fire Land, yet he didn't even act like one! In fact, he acted like a joker!

His pink hair may have been girly, but Juvia found herself not being to picture it in any other colour. His dark eyes were piercing, but warm and not cold, unlike his counterpart, Gray. Juvia sighed as she watched him, her hand falling over her heart. Until she realised what the hell she was doing. She removed her hand from her chest quicker than she had put it there and she averted her eyes from where she was looking. Luckily no one had noticed that she had done so.

"Is this a new recipe for the chicken wings?" The chef nodded once again pointing to Juvia with a smile on his face.

"This woman is amazing! I've never met such a magnificent chef besides myself! Other than the man who taught me of course. Juvia made the cake, seasoned the wings and even made the smoothie to all of your tastes. She helped me make the other things too." The three pairs of eyes turned to look at her stunned. Juvia blushed and fiddled with her fingers trying to get out of the spotlight.

"Well clearly I made the right choice of sending her to the kitchen, right Chef Pablo?" The chef nodded and Natsu and Gray turned to look at her, their jaws hitting the table. She gave them both a dark look as though to tell them to shut up and that she knew what she was doing the whole time. They both gulped and didn't bother voicing their argument. Natsu was happy with the amount of peppers that had been added. He never usually had enough in his food, but never complained, but it was like Juvia knew exactly how he wanted it. In fact it was getting to the point where it was actually going to hurt his tongue if she added another tablespoon of the pepper powder.

He looked up at her to catch her staring at him. She jumped a little and tried to look away, but she always found herself looking at him. He grinned at her and mouthed a 'thank you' in her direction. She smiled happily before the chef moved forward.

"Well if you're all satisfied and finished, we'll be taking our leave now, your Highness." Natsu nodded, still looking at Juvia out of the corner of his eyes.

He watched as she gently took their plates and placed them on the trolley. Gray and Erza got up and started talking quietly as they exited from the room. Natsu glared at their backs. How could they just leave him here by himself?! Then Natsu saw that the head Chef left Juvia and he smiled. It was like fate was doing this for him. He got up from his seat, taking his plate up the trolley. He stood on the opposite side and Juvia's head quickly snapped up to look at him.

"Uh, Natsu-sama! What are you doing, Juvia was going to pick up your plate for you!" He rolled his eyes, a smile lingering on his face.

"That hurts Juvia. Do you really think that I'm too stupid to take my own plate up? I have got arms." He shot her a charming smile and she blushed in reply.

"Well when Natsu-sama puts it like that, Juvia let you put your own plate away then." She gave him a grin of her own, deciding to come out of her shell. There was no point acting shy right? All the plates had been cleared and Natsu grabbed her hand. Juvia jumped and pulled away her hand, not missing the hurt look Natsu gave her. "Sorry your highness, Juvia was just a bit shocked. You caught Juvia by surprise." She didn't want to hurt his feelings, but she also wanted to that she wasn't worth his time. Juvia felt like laughing. "I'm a Princess, Empress to be and he's just a Prince, a King to be. He shouldn't be worth MY time yet I know he deserves a better girl than me."

"Well Juvia better go get this stuff washed up right?" She tried to laugh it off but Natsu wasn't laughing.

"Yeah, I guess I should...let you go..." Juvia hated the sad look on his face and sighed mentally.

"Maybe Juvia see you around? If we keep meeting like this, there's no way we won't collide again!" That seemed to raise his spirit and he nodded his head.

"Yeah, I'll see you around, Juvia."

That tingle again. It was every time he said her name like that! He must have had something more than fire magic to his name because he had captivated her heart so quickly. Natsu gave her one last smile before she started pushing the trolley off in the direction of the kitchen. He watched her go before turning around and heading into the direction that Erza and Gray went off into.

How was it? So far so good? I realized, I've never actually written this sort of story line, you know, one where the characters are Princes and Princesses and stuff. Yeah I know it sounds cliche, but I wanna have a go now! My time to shine lol, I'm just kidding.

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