Chapter 151: Juvia’s Date

A/N: Here's another chapter. You are welcome and enjoy.

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Chapter 151: Juvia's Date

~Juvia L. POV~

[November 27, X784]

*Knock*

*Knock*

Listening to the sounds of my beloved Silva-sama I answered the door revealing his figure in casual clothes as I replied happily, "Coming my Silva-sama! Your beloved Juvia has come!"

Opening the door Silva responded quite sheepishly at my figure dressing nicely and complementing me causing my cheeks to blush, "Hello Juvia… uh… you look very nice today. Quite the cute dress you have on for today's date."

Yes!

It was only 3 days ago when I learned how my Edolas counterpart wasn't interested in love and Gray was in love with my counterpart.

It was quite perplexing to hear but I guess my Silva-sama is a one-of-a-kind man. But hearing about this only encouraged me to try and ask him out on a date shortly after Lisanna returned home.

When I heard the news, I immediately tried to get him to agree with Juvia on a date. And it worked!!

Who knew being bold listening how my counterpart from another world has a man at her grasp being bold and uncaring but I'm not her…

But I could be brave.

Yes, Juvia will be brave and have Silva out of the palm of my hand!

Doing so will win his heart!

Thus he said he'll have time later just for us today to enjoy each other company.

Which it will be the perfect time and get to know each other something I'll beat Erza on for a fact!

From previous times Erza never really delved too much into his past respecting his privacy but how will I know what he likes if I don't ask?

Allowing him to make the moves he motioned for Juvia to follow feeling my heartbeat faster delighted to finally have some alone time from my love rivals, "Well then let's begin our date. I have just the place in mind."

Of course my beloved!

I'll follow you anywhere!

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Taking me to a fancy restaurant in the capital city away from Magnolia Town and love rivals Silva introduced me to this place called Royal Flowers, "I heard great meal in this place. I can guarantee you love it."

Nodding agreeing he even managed to get us VIP reservations despite being in our casual uniform causing me to ask a bit embarrassed, "Oh! How fancy although Juvia didn't think you would like this sort of thing?"

Genuinely surprised he scratched the back of his head sheepishly agreeing to Juvia's words laughing lightly, "Hahaha… yeah. This kind of place isn't me, but I only had some experience in dating. Figured to change things up for you and thought something fancy since we really don't know each other that well I thought it would help to know each other."

Ah!

So his merely testing the waters giving me a more expensive taste!

My beloved you didn't have to do that but I appreciate the sentiment put into place thinking of our first date~

Plus I wish to know more about you too.

Agreeing with my beloved the waiter finally called towards us to our table as we sat down giving us the menu.

We placed our orders of what to eat as the waiter gave us customary water leaving us finally alone with no love rivals in sight.

Truly Silva-sama forethought knowledge knows no bounds!

After waiting a while Silva-sama took a deep breath and exhaled starting a conversation with Juvia on our first date, "So then Juvia. I know you say you love me and all that but… to be honest it never occurred to me who Juvia really is. I mean as a comrade I can trust but as a person, I don't have a clue. So, yikes sorry if I suck at this sort of thing?"

Comforting my beloved I made sure to be supportive since his making the first move and try to find out more about him expressing a soft smile, "No worries my beloved. You can ask Juvia anything, but Juvia wishes to ask something about you it's alright."

He nodded as he first began to ask some questions about myself causing me to blush lightly that my beloved wants to know more about Juvia, "In that case how about we start things off? So, Juvia how was growing up in your Childhood?"

Gulping at that it was somewhat of a difficult time growing up.

But nonetheless, if I wanted my beloved to notice or make him more interested in me, I explained much about my time growing up.

Taking a deep breath and exhaling explaining what my childhood was like to him taking an interest in Juvia in a calm tone, "Well… where to begin huh? Juvia spent her childhood shunned by the other children for constantly making it rain around her. She took up making teru teru bozu dolls to make it stop raining, but it only served to make the other children tease her even more."

Explaining my past I see Silva's eyes shift slightly somewhat surprised asking about my hobby of creating teru teru bozu dolls, "Oh? I didn't take you for someone who makes dolls. Never much seen one before but I bet you practiced a lot to make them good."

I smiled as he complemented me in my doll-making skills. It felt nice to be appreciated and accepted to hear that from my beloved words.

Feeling a bit more confident I began to explain more about growing up in a reminiscent dream recalling my past in a lighter tone, "Thanks for the compliment, my beloved. As Juvia grew older, she would overhear other people commenting on the gloominess of the rain around her, making her feel increasingly depressed. At one point in her life, she was in a relationship with Bora, but he broke up with her because he couldn't stand the rain."

Then I saw Silva's eyes flash in surprise contemplating me about my rain expressing my shock as he explained to me who Bora was at the time, "Bora! Well… it seems like your rain saved you from that slave trader creep. I heard from Lucy how he would capture beautiful girls into slavery but seems like your rain managed to keep you safe that's quite impressive."

I…

I don't know what to feel here.

Usually whenever my power over Water Magic affects my emotional state, especially my depression causes others to shun me but is someone complementing my rain?

And to think dating Bora was a good thing when my own rain managed to make that scum go away…

I never really thought about it like that…

Shaking my head, I began to speak to Silva-sama about his childhood life expecting some juicy details compared to my own happily, "Thanks for the kind words beloved… but my depressing tale might not be compared to yours! I bet you had a great childhood."

To that he merely had his eyes cast down.

He took a deep breath and exhaled as he explained his childhood. Listening surprised me with the kind of man he was listening intently, "Ah… where to begin. Well as a child I didn't have a bad childhood like yours Juvia I had a small group of friends, but I wouldn't say we were close. Growing up my parents tried to help me but at times I felt like they didn't understand me when I grew up into my teens. In my early teens, I guess what I felt was depression myself and my outlook."

Blinking surprised I couldn't help but interject seeing depression on his face speaking about it trying not to offend him, "You know you don't strike me as someone who's depressed? You seem to be upbeat if not particularly kind towards others. Reliable even when people close to you need it."

At this, he chuckles at my words responding in a half-hearted tone surprising me of his response to me, "Yeah… I wasn't usually like this. In the past, I would be mopey or depressed to continue doing my regular activities because it felt too much. The sense of failure and gap ever-increasing between me and my peers…"

Hearing this hearing his tone earlier be sad then joy listening further to Silva's ramblings about the past and turning point for him, "I eventually gave up what it means to be alive only working out of necessity sake just accepting my fate being a gear for the system… at least I thought I did before entering Fairy Tail meeting one man changing my life for better or worse making me meet everyone I would call friends today."

He seemed to stop smiling contently as I couldn't help but mutter about his background listening to his past, "In that case were you perhaps a noble? It sounded like someone with a noble background?"

To my shock, he laughed at my claims exclaiming his opinion of being a noble dismissing the idea as laughable to him, "Hahaha!! Sorry to burst your bubble Juvia but I'm no noble. Wouldn't catch me dead acting all fancy stiffs like that, just not my style. I have just been taught in a different land with a different form of education but I'm no secret prince charming."

Ah…

I was somewhat expecting that to be the case.

But it's quite honestly surprising to hear how similar our past is to each other as Silva-sama explains about his past seemingly distressed but nervous sharing his past.

However, I haven't made any attempts to stop this since he hasn't stopped. This would mean that he trusts me with this information or exchange equivalent to the questions asked.

Although the date continues Juvia got to learn some interesting things about her Silva-sama finding him to surprisingly be more relatable than what I have believed him to be.

To think he would have that much self-doubt but manages to use his Magic. That's surprising and motivating that he could be able to learn how to use Magic passing his mental barriers to finally use magic.

Juvia thinks everyone has different tales and trials all must go through one day. But Juvia is glad to have met Silva-sama feeling him to be more human and approachable and relatable to our past.

Maybe asking for another date in the future would help me learn more about my future beloved to help him in his time of need.