User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Fairy Tail's Ending/@comment-4449950-20140626081503/@comment-85.221.190.231-20140626171956

Thing is, I'm reading their interactions on more symbolical than straightforward level. If you take Juvia's gifts as symbols of her feelings for him and look at his behavior: 1. [after Phantom Arc] She gives him obento, he gives it to Natsu. He says "how the hell could I eat it?" and I take it that he really doesn't know how to "eat" such feelings, what to do with them; 2. [after GMG] She gives him bread, and he says 'since you went to all this effort, I will eat it". It doesn't go so well, since Elfman eats all Juvia bread, but he isn't rejecting it either; 3. [413 days] He refuses to take the scarf, but later he goes back for it, and also in his mind putting Juvia kind of parallel to Ur s a warmth provider. I think while it's not obvious and straightforward, it's showing that he is slowly getting there. It probably isn't romantical per se, but pointing in this direction.