Hey, Dark Gothic Lolita here!

So, as some of you knowm it's my 5th birthday on the site! Well it was on the 4th April (GMT, it's just gone midnight, so for UK and anyone before, it's the 5th so I'm technically posting this late.) and this is my MAIN story that I have been working on teehee. The title basically corresponds to my 5th birthday, you know, because I'm punny like that HAHAHAHAHAHA...oh, maybe not...

But yeah, I've been like super busy with Uni and I forced myself out of my busy schedule to update something because I haven't done so in like a solid 3-4 months and today is my fanfiction birthday, so I thought, why the hell not?! Time to show everyone that I am indeed still alive! I'm sorry for being so inactive guys!

So basically, this isn't REALLY a Juvia x harem, it's more a Juvia x anyone, but I already have my five guys set up lol. It's just going to be a surprise to you guys, not giving anything away teehee.

So yes, Lolita-chan doesn't own Fairy Tail, but I apologize for my bad spelling and grammar!

ENJOY!

5 Years and counting

That's my best friend

Juvia sighed with resignation as her shoulders sagged and she moved sluggishly over to the table where she saw her two female best friends sitting at. She had just suffered yet another rejection from Gray before he went on a job with Team Natsu, and it was probably going to be another few days before she would get to try again. For now, she would resort to complaining and comfort. Maybe they could all go and get some ice cream and just watch sappy films.

She sat down and Lisanna gave her friend a sad look and a hug. Whenever Juvia came over to them with that expression on her face, it was clear that she hadn't been successful in asking Gray on a date, or he didn't listen to her when she told him she loved him.

Juvia gave the youngest Strauss a weak smile before they both jumped at the growl that Cana released. She was looking at a few cards that the two mages had never seen before. In fact, the cards were blank which was odd. Maybe she had been sold fake cards? That was a bad move from whoever did that, because Cana would hunt them down and kick them where it hurts. That's, if it was a guy who sold the cards to her.

"What's wrong with Cana?"

"She's annoyed with her new cards. She can't get anyone to try it on. I already told her that she can never use her cards on me again after what happened last time."

Juvia nodded her head and cringed at the memory. Cana literally got Lisanna to be her personal slave last time, so it was a valid reason that she would never help Cana ever again when it came to testing her cards. "Are they for attacking? You can try them on me, I am made of water and won't get hurt."

Cana looked up at Juvia as if she was just noticing her there for the first time. She stared at her as if looking right through her, which unnerved the water mage and suddenly, there was an evil glint in her eye. She looked right at Juvia this time and jumped at her request to help her.

"No, they're not for attacking, but seeing as you've volunteered, I would LOVE to try these out on you!" Cana laughed at Juvia's distrusting expression and Lisanna shrugged hopelessly, though she too was in on the plan. They were trying to get Juvia to broaden her options when it came to love and this was the only way to try it.

"Okay, so what do you need me to do then?"

"These cards can transport anyone to the future for one day to see what their life would be like. This can be for what job you're doing, kind of kids you will have, the husband you could marry..."

Cana trailed off dangerously as she literally watched Juvia lean in with anticipation. She was intrigued now and Cana's smirk was so deadly.

Hook, line and sinker.

"It can give you up to 5 choices. So, it gives you 5 alternative futures and whichever one you like, you aim for! This whoever is a one time thing, I can't do this for anyone else and Lisanna here told me she only lives for the now and doesn't care about the future. That and of course what happened last time."

She faked a glare over to the take over mage who merely stuck her tongue out at the card mage. They grinned at each other when Juvia wasn't looking at them, but Lisanna was still bitter whenever the slave incident came up, so she scowled.

"Sorry if I don't really care for stuff like that. I take it as it comes."

Juvia was way too interested now. All she wanted to see was a future with Gray and that would have been great. Maybe she could just ask Cana to let the spell go once she's seen her future with Gray. As soon as she was about to ask, Cana was already explaining her rules.

"I have no control over who you will see, and you'll be stuck in my spell for 5 days but here in reality, it will only be 5 hours. You will wake up in bed with whoever you've married and when you go to sleep, you will wake up with someone new. Try and blend in would ya? Oh and if you do decide to knock boots, go right ahead. You won't get pregnant out here if you decide to do it without protection, because you know, it's a spell."

Cana's smirk became more sinister and Juvia suddenly got the feeling that Cana knew what she was doing. Looking over at Lisanna who had gone bright red from trying to hold in her laughter was the only clue she needed to see that she had been played. This was clearly part of some elaborate scheme, she just didn't know why.

"Okay, what's your deal? Why have you played me into whatever sick plan you have?" Juvia looked between the both of them for an answer. Cana just looked at the deck of cards in her hands and Lisanna sighed, gaining Juvia's full attention.

"Juvia, we're your best friends. Because of that, we don't like seeing you get hurt. You wear your heart on a sleeve and we want to show you that there are other guys out there and not just Gray. We get that you love him because he showed you the sun, but he's not coming clean about his feelings now is he? You don't have to get married to any of the guys you see, but it's an opportunity to see what it's like to actually receive love, right?"

Juvia inhaled before exhaling loudly, showing the other two that she'll comply, but it doesn't mean that she likes how they tricked her. Cana rubbed her hands together, wondering what kind of future would be in store for the resident water mage. Without actually realising it, Juvia had quite a few men in her life that she could be paired up with and Cana wanted to see what kind of life that would lead to her having.

"I'm guessing you'll be watching me somehow then?"

Cana nodded. "Hell yeah! We can do this at my place, I have my crystal ball that me and Lisanna will be watching you through. Hell, I'll even watch your kinky parts. I know that secretly, you're a bad girl. Your innocent act doesn't fool me, Ju-vi-a."

Cana snickered, Lisanna rolled her eyes and Juvia blushed. She did have a dirty imagination, as innocent as she was. And having been innocent, she also wanted to explore her masochist side, because she's pretty sure she has one. She tried to shake that out of her mind as she quickly stood up and tried to show that she was disinterested, when really, she was now raring to go.

"Okay, let's go and get this over and done with."

Cana jumped in joy and Lisanna threw Juvia a reassuring look and the mage just smiled fondly at her friend's antics. Who knows, it could actually be fun.

~x~

The three of the girls settled down and Lisanna put the kettle on for the water to boil, and Cana pulled her crystal ball out of a box from under her table. Juvia sat there fidgeting with both excitement and fear. She didn't know what to expect. Scrap that, she didn't know who to expect!

"Okay, I'm going to need you to relax. Lisanna's made some tea that will make you real sleepy, and once you sleep off, the spell will take place. Lisanna."

Juvia took the tea and hummed in delight as she smelt the mango and strawberry. She sipped the hot beverage and it felt like all the muscles she didn't even know were tight, just relaxed. She felt so good!

"Okay, now give me your hands. Good. Here, I've placed 5 blank cards in front of you. Whenever you meet a guy, a character will show up and represent him. You can keep them as a souvenir after if you want."

Juvia could feel her eyelids fluttering shut as she listened to Cana chanting away.

~x~

The next time Juvia opened her eyes, she heard snoring. She almost jumped out of her skin when she realised that the spell had actually worked! There was another body in the same bed as her and she was no longer in Cana's apartment.

Oh my Kami, who is it?!

Juvia turned her head and realised she was in the bed with the one person she called her ultimate best friend.

GAJEEL REDFOX!

Juvia couldn't help herself as she let out an ear piercing scream as she sprang up and tumbled out of the bed. The snoring stopped as there was a shout of pain instead. Her sudden scream must have hurt his ears because he has enhanced hearing. She flinched in advance for the sort of death glare that he was going to give when he looks over the side of the bed.

Gajeel grunted as he peered angrily over the side of the bed, staring at his wife. Juvia couldn't help but stare into his angry red eyes as he stared down at her. So much for blending in! Well you couldn't really blame her, a guy she thought of as a best friend was now her husband!

"What. The. Fuck?"

Juvia cringed when she heard the curse word tumble from his lips. She then used the time to stare at his limp hair. It was so lush and thick as it tickled her face. His piercings shone in the light sunlight that poked through the blinds. He was topless and his abs were there on show. Slowly, a blush rose up on her face. It was suddenly sinking in how hot Gajeel was. Oh Kami, she could never face him the same way again!

"J-Juvia had a little nightmare." She wanted to punch herself as she reverted back to her third person speech. It comes and goes when she speaks like that and she hated it.

He held her stare for a little while longer before sighing and grabbing her by her arm. He hauled her up so quickly that she wasn't expecting it and she was thrown onto his chest. Juvia squealed lightly and Gajeel grunted in amusement. He placed his arm around her and held her close to him and Juvia's mind was spazzing out.

"I can't believe Gajeel and I got together! What about Levy? They were so in love, it's a joke. Well, even if they didn't realise they were in love with each other anyway. I wonder what happened. I didn't think that I above all people could be a homewrecker! I'm a terrible person!"

Juvia hated the fact that she got no information about herself in all of these alternative futures. It would kind of help.

Without even thinking about it, she absent mindedly started tracing circles on Gajeel's chest and he sighed at her touch. She finally realised what she was doing, but she didn't stop it. She couldn't believe that she could make Gajeel feel like putty like this. Well actually, they did know each other really well, so it could have happened.

"I'm going to make us breakfast, what do you want?"

"What do you think woman? Just iron for me."

He smirked at Juvia, knowing she hated it when he just ate iron for breakfast, he always said it to get a rise out of her, just because she looked so cute angry.

Juvia didn't know why that response bothered her so much. She hit his chest and pulled away from him. He was definitely still the same Gajeel, because he said that even in her past. "You always want that! And my name is Juvia. Think you can say it? J-U-V-I-A."

She huffed as he barked out his weird "Gihihihihi" laugh. Very soon, she wasn't huffing anymore. Gajeel had his lips on her and Juvia was very stunned, that she didn't respond. She heard her friend (husband?) growl in annoyance, wanting her to open her mouth when she pulled away from him in shock.

Gajeel raised a studded eyebrow at Juvia's weird behaviour. Juvia noticed the look and quickly had to think of something. She was a very hygienic person, maybe this excuse would work.

"Ew Gajeel-kun, seriously? Morning breath." She waved her hand around her nose for good measure and Gajeel smirked at her before grabbing her and jumping out of the bed together. She yelled a little bit as Gajeel carried her to their adjoining bathroom.

"Thought you were over all that morning breath stuff, but fine, let's brush our teeth then, cos you ain't getting away without giving me my good morning kiss. You've been acting strange."

They grabbed their toothbrushes and started brushing their teeth and Juvia almost gagged and choked when she felt Gajeel's calloused hand take one of her round globes on her behind and give it a nice squeeze. She went red once more, but leaned into his touch. She still couldn't get over the fact that her and Gajeel get married! And the fact that he knew that she'd been acting weird all morning just showed that they actually could pass off as being more than perfect for each other.

They both finished and rinsed out their mouth and Gajeel lifted Juvia up. She was getting pretty used to him always carrying her and wrapped her legs around his torso with a giggle. She had to blend into this, and besides, it was fun. Gajeel had always been touchy feely.

"Now, I think I'm missing something..."

Juvia tilted her head and decided to play dumb. "Hmm, I don't know what that would be. Maybe you're hungry."

He smirked and brought his lips to her ear to give it a quick nip. "You're right, I am hungry. For you."

She shivered as he kissed her and she ran her hand through his straight hair. She had always been jealous that his hair is longer than hers, but she wouldn't have it any other way, especially not now. Her eyes were shut as she enjoyed the way he explored her mouth using just his tongue. He was so good at this. It should have bothered her that she was kissing her best friend, but something about it seemed so right. She loved the rough feel of his mouth and he literally wanted to devour her.

Eventually, they pulled away from each other, needing to breathe and Gajeel grinned. "NOW it's a good morning. Oh, eggs, bacon and a side of you would be great."

He received a punch for that one.

~x~

When they got to the guild, Juvia was beyond surprised to see Gray bouncing a child on his knee as he giggled in glee. Her jaw dropped when she noticed that a certain always drunk mage was the one sitting next to him, smiling as she was feeding the said child.

"CANA WAS A LOVE RIVAL?! I never would have guessed it, she's always grabbing Lucy's breasts. She even grabbed mine!"

Cana who was looking through the crystal ball with Lisanna and could hear Juvia's thoughts actually BLUSHED!

"Hey! I'm a very open person! But Gray? Wow, I would have never seen that one coming in any of the alternative futures!"

Lisanna giggled until she peered into the ball and saw herself in the arms of a certain fire dragon slayer and it looked like she had buns in the oven. Her own blush surrounded her face and she had to look away. If that was to happen, she could actually die with happiness. Not like she was still holding out for Natsu, but it would be sweet if they actually did get married. They were childhood sweethearts afterall.

Gajeel made his way to the job board, claiming that they hadn't been on one in a few days now. Juvia had learnt that they were S class mages and when she was showering (with Gajeel), she had noticed that they both had matching S class mage tattoos, though hers was on her butt cheek and his was on his other shoulder, opposite to his Fairy Tail insignia. Juvia almost yelped at that one, instead, she glared at him and told him that she can't believe that he managed to talk her into getting it done on her butt.

After all, even if Juvia didn't know the history of their relationship in this future, she was pretty sure that it was Gajeel who had forced her to get it there. In fact, he smirked at her when she made that comment, alerting her that he did somehow sweet talk her into it. She made a mental note that if she did ever get with Gajeel, she won't have that mark there. But then again, she liked the fact that they had a little secret thing together and it was just for Gajeel to see. It was sexy.

Juvia made her way to Gray and couldn't help but coo at the little bundle of joy in Gray's arms. She had come to glare at the child, but right now, even she couldn't do such a thing. This baby was unbelievably cute.

"Who's mama's lil boy? Urzua is!"

The boy giggled and Cana took him from Gray's arms as Gray planted a kiss on his son's head and got up to go and talk to Natsu. Juvia plonked herself down into the seat that Gray once occupied and smiled at the little boy. Cana grinned at her friend before looking around and leaning in to whisper.

"I know you're not the real Juvia."

Juvia back tracked a little bit with a blink before panicking a little bit. She didn't think she was an intruder did she?! Cana noticed her facial expression and couldn't help but bark out a laugh, which in turn made little Urzua laugh as well. You can tell that Cana's laugh was contagious at home.

"Relax, I just remembered that this day 5 years ago, I used that spell on you! So, how's Gajeel so far?"

Juvia looked over at her husband who was talking to Lily. Actually, now that she thought about it, she didn't see Lily in the house. Maybe he went to the guild early or something. She smiled before turning her head back to the card mage. At this point, Urzua had reached out to pull Juvia's hair, so for it not to hurt too much, Cana handed her son over to the other woman.

"I...I was surprised don't get me wrong."

"You screamed and fell out of the bed, I think surprised is an understatement! Oh, sorry, remember, me and Lisanna are watching you through the crystal ball round about now!"

Juvia couldn't get over the fact that someone here knows that it's not really her, even though it is, just five years too early.

Lisanna then came and sat down with the two of them, determined not to be left out. She clapped her hands and her blue eyes were shining. She had that motherly glow that many spoke about when a woman was pregnant.

"Ooooh, I almost forgot that today is the day five years ago when we did that spell! I can't miss out, even though I kind of already knows what happens."

Juvia smiled and tickled the little boy under his armpit, making him double up in laughter.

"I was surprised as I was saying, but at the same time, I kind of saw it coming? Like how do we get together here? I bet it was something like 'If we don't get married by the time we're like 24, we get married to each other' or something like that, right?"

Lisanna shook her head, a smirk on her face. "Actually, it's way deeper than that, but we'll leave that for you to find out for yourself. Levy kind of got drunk and told Lucy why they broke up, but you don't know the reason yet. Can't have us ruining it for you."

Cana nodded her head. "Yeah, you can just ask him yourself why he fell for you. Just think of a good fake reason to why you feel for him too if he asks you back why you fell for him." They both laughed at Juvia's expression, understanding that she can't just randomly ask him. It would just be suspicious.

"Okay, how about we tell you this. In every alternative future, you've written diaries or journals, whatever you want to call those things. It will give you more information about your life."

Juvia sighed in happiness and Cana frowned. "You didn't think I wouldn't give you some sort of information package, just let you blindly walk into a future and mess it up, did you?"

Juvia gave her a look and tilted her head while Lisanna just straight up stared at her friend and Cana threw back her head to laugh at both of their reactions. She deserved that one. "Okay, okay, yes, I pretty much would, but when it comes to spells to do with the future, there's no messing about. I have standard protocols that I need to follow."

"Oi ameonna! Let's get going babe!"

Juvia had rolled her eyes when he called her 'ameonna' mumbling to herself that certain thing never change, but when she heard him call her babe, her insides went to mush and she felt like burning up on the spot. She bet that he knew what kind of reaction that would get out of her and she would most likely turn around to meet his smirking face. Oh yep, there it was. Her two friends started snickered as she passed Urzua onto Cana and the little boy sighed and hugged his mum, wanting his morning nap already.

"You two kids have fun now, don't do anything 5 years ago you wouldn't do!"

Juvia swear she had never seen red until this day and she wanted nothing more than to waterlock the life out of the usually drunk mage, but that would leave Urzua motherless and Gray would be nothing but pissed off with her. Besides, she would definitely get kicked out of the guild for such behaviour.

Instead, she jabbed a certain finger up at her and walked off to meet her best friend, wait no, husband. He held his arm out to her and she glomped it like usual, grinning up at him. With him, she realised that it was just so easy. With Gray, she would always try to get his attention with something big and flashy and it just wasn't her. With Gajeel, he already knew her crazy antics and he accepted her for who she was. He knew her inside and out and she him. She now understood what people meant by they want their other half to be their best friend.

"What's the job description? What the money looking like as well?"

"We're stealing an heirloom from the black market to return it to the rich owner. Money? They said it will all depend on how quickly we do it."

Juvia smirked as she saw Lilly come and sit on Gajeel's other shoulder. This was going to be fun. Back from their delinquent days of Phantom Lord, they were master thieves. That and in their early childhood, they needed to find a way to survive. Gajeel had just lost his dragon and he was by no means a goodie two shoes of a child, while on the other side of town, Juvia was an orphan who many didn't care for because of the rain she brought with her. Stealing something with high importance was as easy as breathing.

~x~

Their skills were flawless. Honestly, the hardest part about their day was actually finding the damn thing which took probably ten minutes top even if it did feel like it took a lifetime out of them. Thank Kami Lilly was an observant exceed. Stealing it? Oh please, that took less than 30 seconds. As much as Gajeel hated doing it (a further 5 minute argument), Juvia was to walk by, 'drop' something in front of the stall and bend down to pick it up. Gajeel swiped it so quickly, as well as swiping his wife out from in front of the perverted old man selling all his items.

Juvia giggled when she thought of how their day ended. They received a whopping great big prize of 10 million jewels which made them both drool at the sight of so much money. They didn't know how much the heirloom was worth, but all they knew was that they just hit the jackpot. Gajeel took her out to dinner and doted on her all night that Juvia didn't know where this sudden burst of affection actually came from, but she didn't say anything. Maybe this is how he was after every job. Lilly had taken his meal to go and mumbled something about the couple making him feel sick, but he was smirking when he said that.

He even insisted on piggy backing her, and after that heavy meal that they had just eaten, Juvia wasn't even going to bother declining such a wonderful request. She just jumped straight onto his back and sighed in happiness as the pressure off of her feet was lifted and she wrapped her arms around his neck to keep her steady on his back.

They walked back in comfortable silence, mostly because if Gajeel got the train, it would just kill the mood that had been set and she didn't want that at all. She liked this side of Gajeel and a part of her was scolding Levy for missing out. She couldn't wait to get back and read her journals to see what it was saying in there.

They goth through the door and Lily greeted them with a cup of tea in his hands. He even had tea set up for Juvia as Gajeel didn't even bother drinking the beverage that he deemed as garbage. Juvia hummed at the pleasant smell and thanked the teddy bear looking cat for his efforts and he merely bowed in respect. Juvia sighed

"I wish Gajeel-kun learnt respect from you."

"Miss Juvia, I can assure you as we both know, I have rubbed off on him in some ways. It's just a shame it wasn't a full change."

They both laughed as they watched a vein pop on his forehead and it looked like it wanted to explode. They laughed even harder and Gajeel just crossed his arms in annoyance.

"Well, you love it to some extent, coz here we are, married."

Juvia let her laugh slow down, but that didn't stop her from full on smiling as she came near him. She hadn't really kissed him since morning and she decided that she would very much like to taste the metal that lingered on his lips and tongue. With him, it felt and tasted so good.

"You're right, I love you."

He noticed her coming closer to him and his look of annoyance turned into one of smirking happiness. He opened his arms for her to fall into and he leaned his head down to her while she leaned up. "Now that's what I'm talking about."

He kissed her hard and Lily knew that that was his cue to leave the two of them. He took a bunch of papers and magazines with him before he walked into his room and closed the door behind him to have some him time.

"I'm going to find a few nuts and bolts to snack on. You going upstairs?"

Juvia wanted to say no and that she was going to stay with him while he did so, but then she thought about the journals that she needed to read and she nodded her head. "Yeah, I'll wait for you upstairs."

She kissed him this time, letting their tongues fight for dominance. He let her win this one and she smiled into the kiss, moaning when Gajeel pulled her closer to him. She was a little bit of a masochist and thankfully, Gajeel knew that. That means he always knows what to do.

"Okay, I'll be waiting for you."

It was so hard leaving his arms and Juvia wondered if she even needed to see the rest of her futures. Her and Gajeel were just so...good together. However, she was now curious as to what the other four guys would have to offer. After all, this was her best friend she was talking about, there's no way Gajeel could ever really see her like this, could he?

He slipped into the kitchen and Juvia made her way upstairs, wondering where the future her would keep her journals. When Cana had said she even kept such a thing, she was a bit surprised. That seemed like the sort of thing that Lucy would do, not her. She wasn't really a writer, so what is it that she would be writing about?

She soon found it in a chest of drawers where she kept her spare stash of ladies toiletries that wouldn't kit in the cabinet in the bathroom. That was smart, Gajeel hated all that womanly stuff, there was no way that he would ever look in there. She left the bedroom door open so that she could hear whenever Gajeel was going to come up the stairs.

She flicked through the book and stopped when she found something that started with Gajeel breaking up with Levy.

They broke up. Gajeel wouldn't tell me why, but he's been releasing a lot of his anger passive aggressively by trying to bake. At least I think he's angry. He keeps coming to me to bake and I have no idea why he would do such a thing, I mean, he's angry for Kami's sake! It just doesn't make sense! All I know is that both he and Levy made it mutual that they want to break up, and as his friend, I'm here to be here for him, not ask him annoying questions. I can't wait till I'm able to get Gajeel smirking and laughing that weird laugh again. Seeing him so straight faced is too weird for me.

Juvia shook her head. Of course Gajeel wouldn't tell her why he broke up with her, he probably still hasn't told her, even though that was about 3 years ago, judging by the year. She flicked again, turning through pages.

Okay, so I found out that he likes me. Gajeel actually likes me! It's so weird to think about him like that, but honestly, I think I like him back too. Ever since I gave up on Gray 2 years ago, I haven't really found anyone else interesting. Gajeel, my best friend, the one person who actually likes me, likes me in a way that could end up being love. I don't think I could have it any other way.

That was a lot for her to take in when she saw that entry. She noticed that the dates had been blurred out, so she couldn't really see when she wrote it. She hated the rules of the future. She carried on reading random bits of hers and Gajeel's relationship and then blushed whenever she saw things about her being ready to have a baby. She just couldn't imagine having a child with Gajeel! Oh Kami, just doing it with Gajeel sounded weird enough!

She also noted that every year, Gajeel would show an insane amount of affection and it was always the same day, which was today. It was weird how the rules of the future allowed her to see the date on for this day, but not any other day. Again, it didn't say why, but Juvia was sick and tired of this. She was going to get some answers today.

Gajeel's footsteps started making it's way upstairs and Juvia jumped before she threw the journal back under all her items, but paused when she realised that there were pregnancy test boxes lying underneath it as well. She froze when she saw that three of the boxes had been opened and decided that she would quickly grab one and take it to the toilet. She also took one of Gajeel's shirt to get changed into.

Before Gajeel made it into the room, she was already locking the bathroom door to then check it out for herself. She peed on the strip and stood there, pacing around the bathroom. She didn't know why she was panicking so much when it wasn't really her getting pregnant. If she did get with Gajeel, she had a good 5 years before this situation was to happen.

She finally looked down at the test after minutes of stalling and found that she was actually pregnant. She stared and stared and stared. That was honestly all she could do. That was until she broke out into a grin. She had always wanted to be a mother and weirdly enough, Gajeel wouldn't make a bad dad either. After all, there were people like Natsu who was expecting. Gajeel wasn't as dumb as him, so their baby should be fine. She destroyed the test with her a water lock which completely broke the test before throwing it out of the window.

She stepped out of the bathroom after brushing her teeth and found that Gajeel was already in bed. He must have used the bathroom downstairs because he had showered once more and brushed his teeth. It made Juvia wonder how long she had been reading her journal.

She slid in next to him and he pulled her close, breathing in her scent and he sighed. Juvia smiled before clearing her throat.

"Gajeel-kun?"

"Hn?"

"I've realised that every year on this day, you always hold me tighter and show your caring side a lot more. Why? And this time, you have to tell me, I'm sick and tired of being kept in the dar-"

"I just don't want to lose you."

Silence hung in the air as Juvia almost stopped breathing. She turned her head to find Gajeel's eyes staring at her. Those red piercing eyes just burned their way through her own eyes and she found herself going weak.

"What is Gajeel-kun talking about? I would never leave you."

She brought her hand up to cup his face, wondering how Gajeel above all people had an insecure side. It actually concerned her. She had never seen him as the type to be so insecure, so what had happened that got him all scared. He didn't think that she would up and leave him for Gray any time, did he? Despite the fact that Gray was with Cana and they had a child together.

"I know that woman! I'm talking about the time I thought you died. When we were against Tartarus and you were fighting that ghost guy. I thought I lost you. Today is the 5th year anniversary. I wasn't strong enough to save you that day, I just stood there like an idiot watching you. I probably looked like how Salamander looks everyday."

Juvia felt something move within her heart as Gajeel held the hand that was on his face. "That was when I realised that I needed you in my life more than anything. I thought I liked Levy, but I just kept on thinking about you. You're my best friend, and we have been since Phantom Lord. You know me and I know you. Losing you would have honestly just ended my life and I don't what I would have done. Don't expect me to say all this mushy stuff ever again!"

Juvia laughed and kissed him softly on his lips. She didn't know that he felt this way about her. Did he feel this way about her now? There was no way she could tell. She definitely wasn't going to go up to him when she got back to ask him, that's just embarrassing!

The kiss got intense and Gajeel crawled on top of her without breaking the kiss. He lay in between her legs as Juvia pulled him closer to her.

"Gajeel," she said so breathlessly as she pulled her head away from him. He gave her a questioning look as though to ask her why she stopped and ruined the mood. She just grinned at him, bursting with excitement.

"I've been meaning to tell to you something for a while now and I feel like now is the time before you sense a difference...I'm pregnant..."

She watched his face go from curious, to shock. Then they were rolling around in their bed, Gajeel spraying kisses on every part that he could reach on Juvia's body while she laughed at his actions. She could literally feel his happiness radiating through to her bones and she kept on laughing along with him.

Eventually, they stopped and they were both panting. "I can't believe you're having my baby. I'm gonna be such a great dad, teach them how to beat up the other kids, especially Salamander's and the Ice Princess' kid gihihihihi."

Juvia laughed with him. "I wonder whose magic he or she will get. Maybe they'll have their own magic different from ours?"

"Either way, they're gonna be a great mage. I mean not better than me, but they're gonna kick the Dragneel family right into the sky."

Lisanna almost broke the crystal ball, feeling strongly for her future family that may or may not come true. "Oh no they won't, my baby will slam your baby any day!"

Cana laughed and pulled her friend back down. "Shut up and watch, the first hour is about to pass, meaning Juvia is going to go onto her next husband in a bit."

Lisanna grumbled as she sat down, saying how their babies were now going to be rivals and it was all Gajeel's fault for saying such a thing. She was going to make sure that Natsu knocked some sense into Gajeel later on.

Gajeel felt a shiver run through him as he decided to hold Juvia in his arms. He couldn't help the grin that was on his face and he knew he was going to sleep happy tonight. His wife was pregnant with his child and he finally told her why he always held onto her so tightly this day every year.

Juvia held onto his arm as she snuggled into the bed. Gajeel had been a surprise, but it was a comfortable marriage and she wouldn't want it any other way when it came to Gajeel. She was still curious as to why things didn't work out with Levy, but she had an idea of Levy being jealous that Gajeel was always paying more attention to her because of what he watched happen to her.

She yawned, realising how tired she was. "Goodnight Gajeel-kun. I love you."

She received a squeeze as she smiled in her sleep, waiting for the next guy that she was going to end up waking next to.

So how was that? I hope you guys liked reading that! I've been working on this for like the past week, so I hope it was up to standards!

So probably over the next week or 2, I'll try and push out as many updates as I can before I disappear again because exams are coming up and obviously, I need to be able to pass my first year of uni lol.

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