AFTER MONTHS OF DELAY HERE IT IS FOLKS, THE NEWEST AND FINAL CHAPTER TO BOILING WATER! And don't worry the new strongest guild will come next, I just had loads of school work I needed to complete classes I need to pass, all that jazz, but here we are with the latest installment where after Natsu and Juvias little "date" Natsu needs to think of a way to end all misunderstandings before someone or somebody find out whats happening, but along the way the two of them might realize what they truly mean to each other, as always my faithful readers sit back relax and enjoy the story

Chapter 5: The Discovery

Time seemed to stop as Natsu and Juvia stood there staring at each others eyes as their lips remaind in contact with each other, both of them didn't know what to do. Natsu thought "W-Wow Juvia's lips are...moist." and for Juvia, "Natsu-san's lips are so...warm."

After for what seemed like an eternity they finally got off of each other. "I-I'm so sorry Juvia I-I didn't mean-" Before Natsu could even finish apologizing Juvia immediatly fainted while her entire face was red.

"Well thats just great..." Natsu picked Juvia up onto his back and started walking out of the park, as he sighed he started thinking that this date was one of the worst idea's he's ever had, even though it was mainly Mirajanes.

But before Natsu steped another inch he just realized, where is he going to stay, he can't go to the guild since it was closed and god knows what the guild is going to think when they see a passed out Juvia on Natsu's back.

He couldn't go to his house because for one thing he wouldn't hear the end of it from Happy and two his place isn't the most comfortable.

Lucy's place is definatly out of the question so he decided that Juvia's place would be best.

He walked back to Juvias house and walked inside, her house was very clean but also seems a bit small at the same time, her kitchen was simple along with her living room but her room was what stood out, it looked almost exactly like the one she had at Fairy Hills.

After carrying Juvia for an hour, Natsu put Juvia down on her bed. "Man...never again will I take advice from Mirajane." He turned to see Juvia was still passed out but Natsu couldn't help admit to himself how beautiful Juvia looked as she was asleep.

Natsu was about to get closer until he stopped and remembered one main thing Juvia about Juvia...she was in love with Gray.

"I almost forgot, the damn underwear pevert seemed to actually beat me at something." Natsu hated to admit it but he realized that his feelings for Juvia wasn't meant to be.

He decided to leave Juvia before doing anything else he might regret even though he already regretted what happend two hours ago.

Morning

As the sun rised Juvia woke up from her deep slumber and realized she was at her house.

"What happend?" Juvia started to think and remembered the date she had with Natsu and their..."special moment"

Juvia touched her lips and the feeling of Natsu's was still there. She got up and went to her bathroom and looked into the mirror, she decided to use her own water and splashed herself in the face.

Whether she liked it or not Juvia had to face facts, she was in love with Natsu, but she didn't know what to do, she loved Gray just as much right? Gray meant as much to her as Natsu does...right?

She was so confused she didn't know what she was going to do so she decided to take a shower and think of something later.

Natsu's House

The same problem was occuring with Natsu as he tried everything to get his mind off what happend, doing sit ups, push ups, practicing his magic, hitting a punching bag, which had a drawing of Gray on one side and Gajeel on the other, but nothing seemed to work.

Even though he's never really been in love, he could immediatly tell he was in love, but he couldn't do anything about it since Juvia was out of his reach, her heart already belonged to Gray, he didn't seem to depressed about it.

Although admitting defeat always did put him in a bad mood so he decided to get rid of his stress by fighting it off at the guild he changed his clothes and wore the shirt he wore when he was in Edolas.

At the Guild

The guild was going about it's regular buisness with the mages either talking, drinking, or getting a job at the request board, but a certain Ice mage seemed to be acting different from his usual manner.

Before his train of thought kept on going, Gray immediatly spotted Natsu who seemed to be in a bad mood, continuing with his opposite attitude, Gray actually walked away from the bar and avoided Natsu as he gave a nod to Mirajane who nodded back.

Natsu sat down on one of the empty stools as Mirajane slided him a drink. "So Natsu, how was your date?" Asked Mirajane with a smile on her face.

What seemed like a replay, Natsu spit out his drink but this time he spitted on Wakaba as Macao laughed at him. "Haha, thats why I changed seats with you."

Natsu coughed and tried to regain his composure as Mirajane seemed to know something that Natsu didn't, a lot more.

"I-I don't want to talk about it."

"Oh come on, don't be shy I'm sure something special happend between you two."

Natsu didn't want to yell at Mirajane for her to shut up so he decided to walk away until he noticed his little blue companion was right there in front of him.

"What's wrong Natsu you seem out of it today."

"I said I don't want to talk about it."

"Talk about what?"

Natsu turned to see that Lucy was there with Erza and Marcus standing behind her.

"Natsu what's going on, are you okay." Marcus asked which made Natsu even angrier.

"God damn it doesn't anybody understand what I'm saying, I said I don't want to talk about it geez!" Natsu decided he couldn't take it anymore as he stormed out of the guild, not even noticing he passed Juvia.

"Natsu-san?"

Juvia turned to see Natsu running from the guild, she immediatly felt concerned as she went inside and saw everyone seemed to be watching what happend as if it were a show.

"What happend here?"

"I think it's best you find out for yourself" Gray walked up to Juvia, but Juvia only acted a little nervous compared to how she usually was whenever Gray seemed to be around her, Juvia nodded and followed Gray outside of the guild leaving the rest of the guild confused except for the bar maid who seemed to have a big smile on her face along with the little wind dragon slayer who was nevously fidgeting in her seat.

At The Bridge

Natsu was staring out into the sky, frusrtated and confused as he wondered why everyone was constantly egging him on about something he didn't want to talk about.

But he did realize he was a bit immature about the whole thing, he decided to go back and apologize to everyone after he cleared his head.

A few minutes later Gray and Juvia snuck up to a spot near the bridge where Natsu couldn't see them but a good enough spot to hear a conversation from.

"Stay here, and also...listen to everything that he sais, understand?"

Juvia didn't know what was going on so she just decided to nod and waited as Gray walked towards Natsu.

Natsu saw Gray and thought to himself that this day would be a lot more better after he kicked Gray's ass to the curve.

"So hot-head decided to run away again I see."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't act like you don't know"

"Well I don't so there."

Natsus hands immediatly lit on fire as Grays got into his stance as he was about to use his magic.

"You really want to do this now."

"Why, what's wrong ice brain, having cold feet."

That ticked him off as Gray finally used his Magic "Ice Make: Lance!"

Natsu dodged the lances and lunged towards Gray and threw a flurry of punches at him

"Do you really think running away from something makes things better."

Gray asked as he dodged Natsu's attacks but still got hit by a few of them.

"I told you I don't know what your talking about!" Natsu threw another punch which hit Gray right in the jaw, as Juvia watched she held onto her umbrella confused and concerned.

There she was watching two men she deeply care for fight each other, but she didn't know who to help.

Gray got up with a smug look on his face. "I'm talking about Juvia."

Natsu immediatly stopped in his tracks but before he could say anything Gray ran up and punched him in the face.

"I knew you were an idiot but not that big of an idiot."

Juvia became confused, 'What could Gray-sama mean?' Thought Juvia.

Gray stood over Natsu glaring at him as Natsu glared back. "Well what do you want from me!"

"Your a Fairy Tail Mage aren't you, shouldn't you be going through with what you started."

"Well how can I? HOW CAN I WHEN SHE ALREADY LIKES YOU!" Natsu roared out, Gray already knew about Juvia's feelings but he couldn't return her feelings to her as he already had his eyes set on someone else.

"How can I like, how can I care for her...how can I do anything when she already has eyes for you?" Natsu looked down with a depressed look as he got up.

"So does that mean you don't like her?"

"Of course not, I mean...I may not know much about Juvia, but the things I do know about her, well, she's nice, smart and beautiful, but I'm going to be honest, how can I, a fire mage, be with this one girl whose magic is my weakness?"

"Why don't you ask her yourself?"

Natsu saw Juvia right behind him with a huge blush on her face and her umbrella right beside her.

"J-Juvia, h-how long have you been standing there?" Natsu's face lit red as Juvia slowly walked towards him.

"Natsu-san, is everything you said, true?" Juvia looked into Natsu's eyes.

"Well I, it's just, um, I, oh boy, how do I say this?"

"Just give her a straight answer lizard face."

Natsu glared at Gray but realized it was now or never, if he wanted to get it off his chest, now was the best time, he breathed in and said.

"YES, it's all true, I really think your beautiful, and, I do like you." Natsu looked anywhere except at Juvia who was at a loss for words, but she knew one thing she could do, she smiled and placed a quick kiss on Natsu's lips.

"J-Juvia what was that for?" Natsu looked dumbstruck but Juvia walked towards Gray.

"Forgive me Gray-sama but I realize my true prince is actually Natsu-sama, I realize our love was not meant to be, farewell, may we meet again in another life time." Juvia acted like her usual weird self as she seemed to supposedly dump Gray even though they were never together.

"Juvia too."

"Huh?" Natsu looked at her confusd.

"Juvia likes you too Natsu-sama." She smiled differently then she usually did, she seemed more happy.

"But why? I thought you liked Gray."

"Juvia did care for Gray-san, but he was too cold for Juvia to get near, but whenever I'm around you Natsu-sama, my heart starts pounding more then usual, and my body feels more warm, it took some time for Juvia to think but now, Juvia realizes she's in love with Natsu-sama."

Juvia then placed a longer kiss on Natsu's lips, Natsu then smiled and kissed back as Gray sighed and whisper 'About damn time.'

10 minutes later at the guild

"EHHHH?" The entire guild seemed louder then usual as they saw the usual shy Juvia who hid behind the pillars of the guild all the time sitting on Natsu's laps with her arms wrapped around his neck while smiling and gigling

"Y-You and Juvia are going out?" Lucy asked with a surprised look on her face similar to everyone else's.

"Well, yeah, is that a problem?"

"Of course not, we're all happy that you both found your true match." Mirajane smiled in a way that just made Natsu suspicious.

"Say Mira why did you seem so eager to find out about me and Juvia?"

"Oh let's just say a little dragon and cat told me." she laughed as she walked away.

"Hey Mira wait?" Before he could get up Juvia grabbed his face.

"Oh just let it go Natsu-sama, besides, the prince needs to cater to his princess doesn't he." Juvia smiled with a blush on her face and Natsu did as well as they shared a lovers kiss as the guild applauded on the new couple.

Who says fire and water can't work together, because lets remember people, fire boils water.

AND THERE IT IS THE FINAL INSTALLMENT OF THE LONG AWAITED BOILING WATER STORY, now if you guys want to see more of this, like fluff chapters, then just review and tell me, this might be my longest work yet so please, tell me what you think, also quick note, characters might be more OOC then past chapters so please, forgive it because that's kind of the point for this chapters, and as always my great fans I WILL SEE YOU...later...