My dream faded around me when I felt the back of my neck being breathed on. Normally I wouldn’t mind since Nanoha always seemed to do that whenever my back wasn’t pressed against the wall, but this time I felt my hair being shifted to the side and gentle lips being placed on the base of my neck. Against my will a content moan escaped as I snuggled back up against the girl teasing me. The motion got me a quiet happy giggle and I felt her arm wrap around my waist, hand instantly going to my breast. Purring, I felt the lips return to kissing me as I squirmed in her hold, smiling brightly. Of all the ways to be awoken in the morning time, this was by far my favorite.
TSAB: 6th Mobile Division IV
By: Satashi
“Shhh,” Nanoha whispered softly, trailing her other hand lower after sliding around so she would be half on top of her. “Caro-chan’s in the shower.”
“We’ll be fast,” Fate moaned out contently when Nanoha’s hand found that spot.
“I don’t know how long we have, I just woke up,” Nanoha licked Fate’s ear slowly, making the blond shiver and wiggle in her grasp.
“Then stop teasing me,” The red eyed girl rolled over in her arms and met her mouth in a solid deep kiss.
“I’m out,” Caro informed them as the bathroom door opened, making both girls instantly push away from each other. “I’m sorry, did I wake you two?”
“N-no, we always get up around this time when we sleep in,” Nanoha blushed, laughing nervously.
“Did you have a nice shower?” Fate sat up in bed and held the covers to her chin, adjusting her clothing properly behind them.
“Yes, it was very relaxing.” Walking over to them, Caro gave both girls a good morning hug. “Thank you for letting me stay with you last night, even though I just did the night before too…”
“Don’t mention it,” Nanoha smiled at her honestly. “Anytime you have a nightmare you can come to us. If we don’t answer the door right away, just knock harder.”
“Okay!” Caro smiled brightly. “Can I make you breakfast as a thank you?”
“That would be wonderful,” Fate confirmed smiling as the pink haired girl nodded happily, trotting downstairs.
Nanoha fell back on her bed and sighed out. “We haven’t made love in three days, I’m going through withdrawal.”
“Three days? That has to be some sort of record when we’re together, miss bunny.”
Slate blue eyes looked over at her sideways. “I never heard you complain before.”
The blond put on the most innocent look she could muster up. “I don’t know what you mean.”
“If I’m a bunny then that would make you a Jack Rabbit.”
“Hey!” Fate smacked her girlfriend lightly with a pillow, blushing.
Nanoha stayed quiet a moment, listening to Caro mess around downstairs. “Hey…It’ll take at least ten minutes before she can walk away from cooking…?” She lifted an eyebrow.
“…She’ll hear!” Fate whispered softly, embarrassed. The look on Nanoha’s face clearly told her that she didn’t really have a choice in the matter. “Mou, you pervert.”
“Nya haha,” Nanoha leaned up and over rubbing their noses together. “I love you, Fate-chan.”
“Hehe, I love you too.” She counter rubbed and grinned at her. The two leaned to kiss, but a sudden knocking at the door made them both sigh and move away from each other. “Yes, who is it!?”
“Private Elio, ma’am!” The voice from the door called up to them
“Caro-chan could you let him in please?”
“Yes ma’am!”
The two lovers looked at each other a moment more before reluctantly sliding out of bed and getting dressed.
The pistol user looked up at the beckoning of her name lightly, blinking a few times to clear her mind. “Su…Subaru!” All at once she slid over closer to the girl’s face, still gripping the hand. “Are you okay!? Do you hurt anywhere!? Can I get you anything!?”
“Tia…” Subaru smiled, closing her eyes and laying back. “Did you hold my hand all this time?”
“….Maybe.” She gave the hand a small squeeze. “We’ll talk about that later, how are you?” Her panicking dropped quickly when the girl didn’t seem to be in any pain.
“Stiff. My body won’t listen to me. Was I hurt that bad?”
Tia nodded slightly. “Yeah. Yeah, you got tossed around quite a bit. I’m sorry for that.”
“What happened?” She wondered, looking as if she was still dazed and tired. “All I remember is seeing you and thinking to myself ‘I’m saved, Tia will help me’ and then a blinding pain…”
Tia blinked, sending a single tear down her cheek. “I’m sorry… I’m so sorry Subaru… If it wasn’t for me…”
“Hey, don’t cry? Why would you cry?” The blue haired girl finally managed to move her hand and clumsily wipe away the smear of water. “Tia, you never cry.”
“I cry all the time, you know that,” She countered, re-gripping the hand with both of hers. “You always gave me that damned stuffed turtle when you thought I was sad.”
Subaru smiled at the memory of their boot camp. “And you would protest about it being stupid but would still sleep with it.”
“And you bought me my own teddy bear on my birthday.”
“You still sleep with it,” Subaru finished the thought happily. “Tia… You forgive me?”
“For what?”
“For being so self-centered?”
The two looked at each other a moment before Tia closed her eyes. “I’m the one who should be apologizing, Subaru… I shouldn’t have said those things.” Slowly she took a breath.
“Tia…”
“I’m just scared,” She rubbed Subaru’s hand gently. “I’m scared and I’m nervous and I’m unsure and, and, I’m a lot of other things.” A moment of silence washed over them before she could continue. “But…when I thought I might lose you… Everything else didn’t matter anymore. All I wanted then was to be able to see you smile again… I wanted another chance to do things over again.”
“What do you mean?” The girl looked like she was about to fall asleep again at any moment.
“Subaru…Just get some rest, we can talk later.”
“Okay. Keep holding my hand?” She got a small curt nod. “Thank you…” Slowly her eyes closed and she drifted off to sleep once again.
‘… I couldn’t tell her…’
“Nah, they’re just tired from the mission and non-stop training afterwards.” Yuuno waved it off with one hand, the other in his pocket. The male was clad in a new version of his barrier jacket which consisted of blue jean pants with silver trim, pitch black boots highlighted in the same silver, and a tank top shirt also void of color. “You know, Caro-san has a lot of potential. Her spells really boosted up everyone’s power.” He looked over at the pink girl who was currently so tired she appeared to be asleep on her back. “Did you notice that her spells particularly effected-”
“Yes I did,” She cut him off. “We’re looking into that.” Nanoha gave him a look that clearly read ‘we’ll talk about it later’.
“I seeeeee,” he let the word linger as Tia pushed herself up. “Oh, is it time for round two?”
“You guys are ruthless…” Tia whispered shakily. “I can barely stand, let alone fight…”
“If Caro-san hadn’t given us all her magical power…” Elio spoke from the ground, too weak to stand. “We wouldn’t have lasted this long.”
“A support mage is the best kind of mage,” Yuuno agreed.
“Hey, flying mages are the best!” Nanoha countered instantly.
“No way, where would you be right now without me and my barriers?”
“Right here, just not as pretty,” Nanoha stuck out her tongue at him.
“Pretty. Right.” He chuckled to himself, enjoying the chance to play with his best friend.
“Hey! I am pretty! Fate-chan tells me everyday!”
“Sure sure, if ‘Fate-chan’ says so,” Yuuno shrugged playfully, teasing Nanoha enough to jump off her branch and storm over to him, looking up. “Hello there, Nanoha, have you gotten shorter?” His hand was placed on her head.
“I’ve grown an inch!” She countered, flailing out her arms. “You’re just are abnormally tall!”
Tia looked over her shoulder towards Elio. “I don’t know if they’re best friends or enemies…” The pair watched the older people continue to argue a moment longer before Nanoha finally went in for the kill.
“Yuuno-kun, stop arguing with me, you know I’m right.”
“Are not!”
The girl pointed to her chest. “Yuuno-kun what are these?”
“…Boobs?”
“And do you have any?”
“No?”
“Therefore I win by default.” She crossed her arms and nodded to herself.
“Where’s the logic in that!?” The male almost screamed, blushing. “Females don’t instantly win, that’s not fair!”
“Life isn’t fair,” She cooed at him, winking.
“It could at least be not fair in my favor… Besides, you barely have any breast; I’ve seen guys with larger boobs than you.”
“What!?”
Yuuno grinned and waved. “On that note, I’m going to get some food, buh-bye!” Without waiting for an answer he leapt into the air and sped away before Nanoha could even realize that he had made an escape.
Grumbling, Nanoha walked over to her students. “Stupid ferret…He doesn’t have to make fun of me… I’m still growing… lots of girls don’t get large breast this early in life…” She helped Elio to his feet and walked over to Tia. “I mean, sure, I’m still only an A-cup but it’s not like…” Nanoha paused, looking down at Tia.
“…What?” She asked nervously, realizing Nanoha’s gaze was on her chest. “…They’re C…”
“Hmph!” The older woman walked past her, turning up her nose, in favor of picking up Caro.
“What, why?” Fate blinked, walking over to her.
“The new members are here today for the welcoming ceremony! Didn’t you get the memo?!”
“It said it was next month!”
“It was pushed forward, we told everyone!” The secretary looked frantic as it was, obviously having way too much work for her to handle on her own. “We made sure to post it on all the desk and on the notice boards and-”
“I was undercover and teaching the forwards how to do it as well this past week!” Fate almost screamed at her. “I haven’t come in this office since then; Hayate-chan should know that!” One hand went to her mouth to nervously bite her nails. “Okay, I can deal with this. How long do I have to prepare my welcoming speech?”
“Fifteen minutes.”
“What!?” Fate gasped out openly. “Okay… okay…” She took a slow breath. “What after that?”
“You were assigned to review their history and position them where they need to be.”
“Not so bad, how many?”
“Twenty. We need this done by end of the day tomorrow.”
Fate almost collapsed. “On top of the paperwork I let build up on me the past week… Can I get some assistance?”
“Sorry ma’am, we’re all backlogged as well. Expanding to cover local area police force and civilian protection has made us all double our work; we’re still severely understaffed.”
“Well we’re only a month old…Right then, I’m going to see Hayate-chan.”
“Please do,” She saluted Fate briskly before going back to work.
“S-sorry!” Tia saluted her quickly.
“It’s not that I don’t know how you feel, but when I tell you to scoot then it’s probably because I think the patient needs to rest, you know?”
“Yes ma’am.”
“Then please take care of her and let the poor child get plenty of rest okay? Nanoha-chan came by and picked her up earlier. Subaru-san should be in your dorm room, do not let her stress herself for another few days.”
“Yes ma’am.” Tia shifted nervously. “Um, I really am sorry about disobeying order like that. I was just really, really nervous.”
“Don’t let it bother you; Fate-chan and Nanoha-chan were worse.” Shamal let out a sigh. “When one of them got hurt bad enough to be put in a hospital bed the other one would instantly teleport over and stay with them until they got better. You wouldn’t believe the crap Admiral Chrono had to go through because of that. If it had been any normal mage and not a child prodigy…” Shamal shook her head suddenly. “I’m rambling. Go on, go take care of your friend, and be sure to put the lotion on her bruises all right?”
“Thank you ma’am!” Tia smiled at her before saluting one final time and running off. The path to the residential area was made as quickly as she could manage without making herself look like she was running. Upon entering she waited impatiently for the elevator to get to the bottom floor and was pleasantly surprised to find some new members of the 6th division board with her, each saluting their senior in the force. The elevator stopped on the second floor to allow some of the new red-shirts to leave before Tia finally managed to get to her own floor and over to the room she shared with Subaru. Upon entering she saw Nanoha drying her room mate’s hair while chatting happily with her.
“Oh, Tia,” Subaru greeted her. “Shamal-sensei released me today.”
“Yeah, she told me,” Tia blushed lightly, suddenly feeling embarrassed at seeing her with only a towel on.
“Well if Tia-san is here, I’ll leave the rest up to her.” Nanoha gave Subaru a pat on the head before standing. “I have a little paperwork to do thanks to the new recruits.”
“Oh they’re here?” Subaru pondered, looking up at her teacher from the bed. “They are going to be local police for the city right?”
“That’s right. The sixth division will protect on a local basis and help with disaster relief as well as important things. We will handle only the important stuff, and train when not on a mission, just as before. The new people are technically part of us, but they will be run a little separately.” The girl let out a sigh. “I’m not even going to get to train them but once every other week or so. They didn’t even need me at the welcoming ceremony… Anyway,” She smiled at Tia on her way out of their room. “I need to go shopping, my farmer called me today.”
“Farmer?” Tia pondered, too curious to let it slide by.
“Yes, I met a middle aged farmer named ‘Elk’ several years ago when the Asura was on shore leave. He was severely understaffed to pick his small field so I helped him out.” Nanoha giggled at the memory. “I even helped him sell things on his little farmer’s stand, and as payment he gave me a bushel of peaches.”
“Oh that’s right,” Subaru realized. “I’ve heard people joke about you and peaches.”
“Love them,” Nanoha winked. “So I’m going to pick some up!”
Tia shook her head as the woman finally left. “Nanoha-san…sometimes I don’t know if she’s older or younger than me…”
“But that’s what makes her so great,” Subaru winced lightly when she tried to move. “Ow…”
“What’s wrong?” Tia sat on the bed next to her and put a hand on her bare shoulder. “Do you hurt?”
“Just my ribs,” She complained softly, closing her eyes in annoyance. “I can move around now that I’m used to not being in bed again, but Shamal-sensei told me that I have a broken rib and two cracked ones, so it hurts a lot when I shift my upper body. Rapid healing magic isn’t a good idea since you can’t set ribs in proper place…I’m going to have to tough this one out.”
“I see…” Tia looked at Subaru a moment before slowly reaching out and putting an arm around her shoulders. “Um, if you need anything, just ask me okay?”
Subaru blushed darkly and looked down. “Thank you…Tia?”
“Yes, Subaru?”
“Um… can you help me get dressed…?” She looked up nervously, laughing slightly.
“Ugnnn….?” Nanoha opened her eyes slightly, still half asleep on the bed. “Sorry Fate-chan…” No sooner than she said the words than did she drift back off to sleep once again.
Fate growled and tossed the fabrics across the room and into a basket that held most of her own dirty clothes. ‘Can this day get –any- worse?’ She unbuttoned her uniform and placed it on the back of her desk chair before stripping the rest of the way down and crawling into bed, not bothering to even get into her night cloths. ‘Everything went wrong today and to top it all off I worked until…’ A quick glance at her clock told her the time. ‘Two in the morning, great. I have three and a half hours to sleep before doing it –all- over again.’ With a groan she got under the covers and pressed her back up against the wall.
“Fate-chan,” Nanoha whispered out, crawling over to her and cuddling. Her leg slid between Fate’s a moment before she winced. “Ew, Fate-chan, shave you legs, you’re like a porcupine.”
“If you don’t like it, don’t cling on me,” She retorted, miffed at the statement after her long day.
“Jeez,” Nanoha muttered sleepily, moving away from her. “Someone’s cranky.” She didn’t get a reply so she closed her eyes, once more going back to sleep. A few moments passed before she was awoken briefly by Fate turning over onto her back. Once she managed to get back to sleep she was awoken again by Fate turning around and muttering something about work. A third time she was awoken by her room mate when she asked Bardiche to remind her of something in the morning. Finally a fourth time made her groan when Fate shifted once more. “Fate-chan, stay still please.”
“You’re not the only one who can’t sleep,” She snapped at her. “I can’t get comfortable.”
Nanoha frowned into the darkness and rolled over so her back was facing Fate. Slowly her mind began to drift off once again before her girlfriend reclaimed her back to wall position and pulled the covers to cover herself. “I can’t deal with this,” She finally spoke up, moving so her feet slid off the bed and grabbing two pillows. “I’m sleeping on the couch.”
“Ugh fine,” Fate pulled the covers more and tried to hide herself from the world. “I want to be alone anyway.”
‘You want a hug, you dumb girl,’ Nanoha thought to herself as she walked down the stairs. ‘If you have a day –that- bad you can at least tell me instead of just snapping at me, jeez.’ The girl tossed her pillows onto the couch and lay down, pulling the throw comforter down to cover herself.
The morning light came soon, forcing Nanoha to cover her head with the blanket since she was directly under the large windows. Awoken once more, she heard Fate move around upstairs and get dressed before coming down. A moment passed before she sighed out. “Nanoha-chan are we out of coffee?”
“Yes,” She muttered, trying to bury herself under the dark covers to try and get some more sleep.
“Why didn’t you tell me so I could buy some?”
“I did, Fate.” Nanoha growled, dropping the honorific to show that she was currently annoyed. “Please, just let me sleep!”
“At least one of us can sleep,” She muttered, going to put on her shoes before heading back out to work. “By all means, enjoy!” The door closed a little harder than she intended it to, but she currently didn’t care. Already she was dreading the multiple stacks of paper on her desk that she should have done instead of wasting her time by coming home.
The path towards the office building was made quickly with no one else to bother her. Currently it was still too early for even the morning bird joggers to be out on their routes, a fact that made Fate even more annoyed that she had to spend the next thirteen hours sitting at a desk while other people were snoring in their beds. Upon entering the building she nodded to the secretary who was just swapping places with the one that she was more familiar with. “Morning,” She greeted briskly as she headed to the elevator. The ride up was short and she walked through the almost empty floor full of cubicles and office furniture. Her desk was sectioned off from the rest, having its own room with glass walls complete with in-glass blinds in case she ever wanted privacy. The door opened to her beckoning, having forgotten to lock it the day before.
Inside was neat and clean, decorated with countless pictures and award certificates. Her chair cushioned her fall as she flomped back into it and popped her knuckles. All at once she stopped the bad habit before being half way finished, an image of Nanoha flashing before her mind as she scolded her to stop doing it before she got arthritis when she was older. The thought made her look to a small picture frame on her desk; an image of Nanoha and herself laughing together. With a groan she turned the picture away from her field of view, having sudden bad feelings for having snapped at her about everything. “Bardiche,” She called to her device. “Work mode, bring up today’s schedule and organize files to be sorted through…please.” She added as an afterthought, also realizing that she hadn’t been too polite with anyone the last day.
Slowly the hours ticked by as she worked, breaking apart all the files of the past week and the new folders of recruits just transferred to her section. Although she wouldn’t be directly involved with the new people, she was still technically in charge of the people who were in charge of them and as such, she had to not only watch over them, but make sure their superiors did their job as well. A knock on her door made her wave her hand to move some of the several displays around herself and bid the person to enter. “Good morning, Fate-sempai.” The woman greeted her, saluting. “I’m sorry, but the deadline for the progress report was pushed up to today.”
“Just my luck.” Fate rubbed the bridge of her nose. “Thank you Cary-san.”
“And here,” The woman places a cup of coffee on her desk. “I noticed you didn’t have your normal thermos with you so I made you a cup.”
“Thank you,” Fate smiled at her.
“Did your better half not make you any this morning?”
“No, she was asleep because I kept her up all night tossing and turning.” Fate sighed out. “…I’ve been a real bitch.”
“I’ll take my leave here,” She saluted again, not wanting to touch that conversation.
Several hours passed by the woman, each one making her more and more frustrated by the amount of work she had to catch up on. ‘Hayate-chan needs to get her butt in gear and get us some more office personnel; I won’t be able to handle all of this. I’m an enforcer, not a desk junkie…’
“Lunch time, Fate-sempai,” a male by the name of Syaoran poked his head into her office. “Come on, you’ve been in there non-stop. Stretch your legs out some.”
“I’m not very hungry,” Fate replied eyes still on the displays as she typed rapidly. “Go ahead; I got the phones while you’re out.
“…Right then.” Syaoran nodded to himself and walked off, leaving her alone.
Time dragged by slowly again for the woman, only stopping around three to walk to the roof of the building to talk with the mechanics who were working on her car. “We’re sorry, ma’am,” The man told her again from the video display in the air. “But I was told specifically by the higher ups that there was a budget, and your customized flare on your car surpasses it. All I can do is fix your body work, everything else will have to be ordered and we need a credit card to bill for it.”
“Okay, okay!” Fate sighed for the hundredth time. “Charge it to my personal account. Anything else?”
“No ma’am.” The man gave her an apologetic look. “Sorry Fate-san, you’re our best customer but I can only stretch things so far…”
“It’s fine…Hayate-chan can’t always bend over backwards for me, I’m sure she got yelled at for it or this wouldn’t have happened… She’s just too nice to say anything.” The two looked at each other a moment before nodding and cutting off the video call. The blond instantly brought her hands to her eyes and rubbed. “Someone just shoot me so this damned day will be over with!”
Walking back inside the woman made her way back down to her floor via the glass elevator. The doors opened with a small ding and she walked into the large office space slowly. After a few steps she noticed suddenly that everyone was looking at her and smiling. She gave one of her workers an inquisitive glance, but it was returned with a giggle. ‘What’s going on?’ She wondered to herself lightly, walking a little faster when people started going out of their way to look at her or grin broadly. Upon reaching her office she stopped in her tracks all at once. Though her open door and glass wall she saw a large bouquet of mixed flowers as well as a rather giant stuffed bear. Her hand went to her mouth in shock, standing in the same spot for a few moments before she realized that she could go into her office and look at them instead of standing outside of it and staring. Several of her friends all scuffled over to the doorway to watch the surprised girl look down at her gifts.
The vase held several different kinds of flowers, each one being a different color. Her mind counted them absently, seeing about a dozen in all. After smelling them her eyes turned to the large bear sitting beside the vase. It had a cute happy look on its face and came complete with a card in its lap. Picking it up, she opened the envelope and read the front. “For someone as special as you are,” She read aloud for the people watching. “There is only one thing I can say…”
Fate opened the card, being greeted instantly by Nanoha’s pre-recorded voice: “Fate-chan, I loooooooooooove you!!!”
The blond quickly closed the card, blushing horribly as everyone suddenly started wolf whistling at her and cheering. “Go back to work!” She stomped her foot, trying to look serious but the hot blush across her face ruined the ‘boss look’ she was going for. “Go on, go!” She tried again, this time making them giggle to themselves and disperse. She still got teasing glances through her window so after a few moments she shut her door and closed the blinds so no one could see in. Now alone she walked over to her desk and picked up the teddy bear to observe it again. A few moments passed before she cuddled it to her chest and smiled brightly. ‘This is the best day I’ve ever had,’ she thought happily.
“What is it?” The orange-ish red haired girl replied softly, fanning the back in front of her to try and make the cream dry on her skin faster.
“Do you… want to talk about it now?” Her voice was clearly a little worried, eyes still facing forward.
Tia let out a small sigh. “I suppose we have to sooner or later, huh?” She moved to sit next to the girl on her bed. “Um…you start.”
“You make it sound easy,” Subaru smiled despite the sudden seriousness of the conversation. “I’ve… gone over what I was going to say a million times but now that you’re here with me I can’t remember any of it.”
“Let me just say… I’m sorry, for being so cold to you afterwards.”
“You’ve already apologized for that,” Subaru whispered. Silence hung over them for a moment before she spoke again. “I understand you’re don’t like girls. You don’t have to worry; I won’t hit on you again.”
“Subaru…”
“So,” She closed her eyes. “Please don’t avoid me if there is a problem, okay?”
“I…” She looked over at her friend. “The truth is…I’m unsure.”
“Unsure?” The blue haired girl paused.
“I don’t like girls… but for some reason I like you.” Tia took a steadying breath. “I can’t explain it so please don’t ask.”
“You mean, ‘like’ me like me?”
Tia felt her lips turn up in an amused smile. “For lack of a better way of putting it, yes, I like you like you.”
“I like you too,” Subaru replied a little more easily than her friend. “Well, I think I’m in love with you, but you already knew that didn’t you?”
“…Yeah.”
“So, um…”
“I’m not ready for this kind of thing,” Tia admitted before her friend could continue. “Can we…take it really slow?”
“Yes!” the outbreak made Tia pull back in shock. “Oh, sorry. I didn’t mean to shout.”
“Idiot,” Although it was an insult, the way Tia said it made it sound as an endearment.
“We’ll…” Subaru slowly reached over and took her friend’s hand, interlacing their fingers. “Keep it to ourselves for right now, until you’re ready. Would that make you feel better?”
“I’m sorry,” Tia allowed herself to bring Subaru’s hand to her mouth and kiss her fingers. “For being so uncertain about something that means so much to you.”
“Don’t say that,” She blushed lightly. “If I can just hold your hand… I can wait until you’re ready to take the next step.”
“Subaru…” Tia looked over at her a moment, cheeks darkening. “Mind if I hug you?”
“Just don’t squeeze too hard,” Subaru teased her, letting go of her hand in favor of wrapping her arms around her friend. “So…Are you my girlfriend?”
“…Yes.” Tia closed her eyes, amazed at how she felt more relieved than scared after saying those words. “I’m your girlfriend.”
“Tia… Thank you.” Subaru gave her another gentle squeeze before pulling back and smiling.
“Not at all,” Fate replied happily, setting the flowers on the living room table and carrying her bear upstairs. “But you shouldn’t have waited on me; you’re probably sleepy from last night.”
“Its okay, we were given tomorrow off so we could rest for a mission. There are supposed to be some lost logia signals in the city. We are going to investigate it in case there is a relic among them.”
“I see,” Fate slid off her uniform jacket with Nanoha’s help. “I’m really sorry about last night; I was way out of line.”
“Don’t worry, we all have bad days.” Nanoha smiled to herself, allowing her arms to reach under her girlfriend’s and undo the buttons on the shirt for her. “You’re the sweetest, nicest girl I know so I figured you were just really stressed out so I sent you a gift to try and calm you down some so you won’t go crazy.”
“And it worked wonders.” Fate slipped out of her shirt and smiled when her girlfriend unbuttoned her skirt and slid the small zipper down. “I don’t deserve you.”
“I’m not much,” She replied lightly, placing a kiss on the girl’s neck. “Just your standard girl.”
“Sure, whatever.” Fate turned, letting her skirt drop to the ground, and hugged her friend. “You are a beautiful little vixen who has me wrapped around her little finger.”
“Am I really beautiful?” She wondered in the hug. Fate nodded against her, making her smile. “Even if I have small breast?”
“I like you small breast,” The blond teased her happily. “Why?”
“Just wondering,” She replied cutely.
“Let’s get some sleep, tomorrow is going to be busy.” The words were finished up with a quick scooping up of the brown haired girl. Fate carried her over to the bed and sat her down onto it gently.
“What are we doing tomorrow?” She pondered, looking up at her as she changed for bed.
“I just told you, we’re going to get ‘busy’.” Fate winked at her. “It’s been almost six days now and I’m feeling restless.” She crawled into bed next to Nanoha and kissed her forehead. “And I know you must be frustrated by now, my little bunny.”
“Who says I’m frustrated?” Nanoha stuck out her tongue. “I’m just fine, thank you.”
Fate looked at her a moment, wondering who this person was and what she did with Nanoha. After staring at her smiling face for a few moments she gasped out. “You didn’t run my batteries out again did you?”
“Busted,” Nanoha stuck out her tongue.
“Mou, I just put those in there!”
“I’ll buy you some more, I promise!”
“Buy you own, jeez!”
“But I like yours!”
“Mou, come here you!” Fate grabbed her friend and tickled her sides, making the girl squeal out happily. The two wrestled around on the bed for a moment before finally stopping to take a break and get some more air into their systems. After a moment Fate looked over at her girlfriend and smiled fondly at her. “Nanoha-chan?”
“Yes, Kitten?”
“I love you. Lots.”
Nanoha smiled happily. “Thank you. I love you too. Lots and lots.” She curled up against Fate contently after finally cutting off the reading light she had on.
As some of you know, I don’t like to use Japanese words in my story when I can avoid it. I do, however, really like honorifics, as they can tell things that just can’t be translated into English. An example is Nanoha going from “Caro-san” to “Caro-chan.”, showing that they are a little closer to each other. For anyone who doesn’t know, “-sempai” is used to address someone respectfully who is an upperclassman. It basically is a way to show respect to people who have been at a place longer than you have, or know more than you do, or are simply more skilled than you. “-sensei” can be used to either refer to an actual teacher, or to a doctor. In Shamal’s case, it’s obviously referring to her medical status. Also right now, I would like to mention a less used honorific that will be coming up in the next chapter: “-hime”.
“Hime” translates to “Princess”, and is used when referring to someone who is in position to the throne. Using it as an honorific, such as “Caro-hime” can literally be translated as “Princess Caro”. I think that using it as an honorific would be best since I don’t use “Mr.” and “Mrs.” In this story. I’m sorry for any confusion honorifics can cause, but that’s just my style of writing.
Next chapter:
Nanoha: It was my worst fear come to life; feeling my own consciousness being ripped from my very being. I couldn’t move my body, but I still could see everything that was happening.
Fate: Nanoha was engulfed in the yellow flames, screaming out my name in terror. I could do nothing to help her, and her eyes lost the depth that made me fall in love with them.
Nanoha: No! I don’t want to be like this! I don’t want to hurt anyone ever again! End this, Fate!
Fate: I can't do it! I won’t hurt you Nanoha!
????: Nanoha is no more, only I remain.
Fate: Next time, on Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, 6th divison: “The lose of a friend and the awakening of Skeith, the corrupt Jewel Seed.”
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