Our Distanced Hearts

Chapter 1

Distanced Hearts Meet At Last

Attention passengers. We are fifteen minutes away from Uminari, Japan. Please fasten your seat belts at this time as we will be landing shortly.

Doing as requested, I pulled the seat belts from both sides of the chair I was sitting in before clasping them together. After making sure that the belt was secure around my waist, I got comfortable in my chair closing my eyes as a soft sigh escaped my lips.

Looking out the windows, my mind could only think of how close I was to getting to my destination. I was close to seeing her. She was the reason why I had saved lots of my hard earned money to fly across the world from my home in America. But in my mind and heart…

She was worth it.

I can remember it clearly as if it happened just yesterday. It…it was the day that she wormed her way into my heart.

It was three years ago when I decided I would create an account on a pen pal website. I had many friends of course, but the curious and diverse person that I was wanted to make friends elsewhere as well. The first few weeks had went slow as I hadn't gotten any friend requests, but as more time passed and I still hadn't received any, I started to give up on finding a friend abroad.

One day after work, I came home tired. It had been one of those terrible days where you just want to crawl in bed and curl up into a ball. Well that's how I felt at the time. I think I would have immediately crawled into bed after undressing, if it wasn't for my computer lighting up saying I had a new message.

Sitting in my desk chair, I moved the mouse making the screen go out of its screensaver mode. I almost fell out of my chair when I saw that I had a friend request. It was from her…Nanoha Takamachi. She introduced herself saying that she had found my profile interesting and wanted to become friends.

I was happy. I was excited. I wondered what this Nanoha would be like. And with a tender smile on my face, I accepted her request sending her a message also introducing myself and telling her how much I looked forward to getting to know her.

And I have to say. Meeting Nanoha had been the best thing that ever happened to me. I had found out that she lived in Japan, spoke English and was nineteen compared to my twenty-two. She was still in college and lived in her own place. Nanoha…she was the nicest and sweetest person I had ever met. She knew how to bring the happiness out in me without even really trying. And so, I found myself much more happier then I was before. I was smiling, laughing more and I always waited anxiously to get a message from her. We messaged each other every day even though the time difference between us was great. Though I wished I could meet her in person, I was happy to have her in my life.

As time passed, I thought it was time to send pictures of myself so she knew what I looked like. I sent two of my best and waited for her to reply. She messaged me saying how much she liked my burgundy eyes, which caused me to blush furiously. She wasn't the first who told me that, but for some reason her words meant more to me. She had also sent me a photo of herself and gosh! When I opened the file, I was stunned by Nanoha's beauty.

It was like I had looked into the eyes of an angel…behind glasses of course, but still an angel nonetheless. Nanoha had long flowing brown hair, a smile that made my insides warm and fuzzy, and she wore blue glasses that covered her eyes. She did mention to me before that she needed glasses to see, but the glasses made her look even beautiful. And the little puppy she was holding tenderly in her arms made me smile. I found myself looking at her picture for awhile just imagining she was smiling at me with that same wonderful smile in her photo.

Even more time passed and I began to notice that we were getting more comfortable with each other as we were teasing each other a lot. It started off with when Nanoha asked when my birthday was and I replied asking her if she wanted to know so she could send me birthday love through the mail. From there on, the messages turned more playful as I would tell her how beautiful she was and joking around if she liked me and she would do the same. It was such fun times.

But I think that was when I noticed it. My feelings towards Nanoha were beginning to become clear to me. Even though we were joking about who liked who, some part of me wanted her to like me…like I liked her. I knew that I liked her as a friend of course, but I could see the effect she had over me. She was making me too happy, my heart beat faster as I read her messages, I was smiling too fondly at her messages and she was occupying my mind more. I thought about Nanoha a lot. I thought about what she was doing, imagining how things would be if we were near one another. It was clear something had changed because I just wanted to be with her. And so…

I told her.

I had learned the hard way that you should never hold in your feelings when you care about someone. And so, even though I was scared and nervous, I laid my feelings out to her. It was so nerve wrecking waiting for Nanoha to reply and when she did, I was so hesitant to read it because I wasn't sure how she would feel. I at least knew she was okay with me being a lesbian since she already knew my preferences, but what about Nanoha? The topic of her orientation had never come up and we were only joking about things. Who was to say she would dislike me for actually liking her? I soon found out.

To my surprise, she was actually cool with my confession and what shocked me more was that she liked me as well. I was ecstatic. Nothing could have made me more happier in that moment than to see that Nanoha had returned my feelings. I found myself reading that message multiple times as her words were confused, yet sweet nonetheless.

We talked about our feelings more after that, though Nanoha was mostly embarrassed and I was sure she was blushing constantly. We teased each other more…well mainly me teasing her. I loved messing with her. I would say anything to make her blush, but of course I meant every word. She was just too cute with her virtual kicks for me, her pouts, obvious blushes, and her many eye rolls at my cheesy lines she would say in our messages. They made me happy and what she didn't know was they made me sad at the same time.

I would never see her blush, pout, her constant eye rolls at my cheesy lines, and as bad as it sounded, I wouldn't even feel her kicking me for making her express her feelings for me. I…I wouldn't be able to feel her in an embrace like she said she wanted. I wouldn't be able to caress her cheek or lay a tender kiss on her lips. I was missing all the things that I loved about her and it made me sad that I couldn't experience them for myself because I knew I was falling for her. I was falling for her hard.

As the days turned to months and months into years, I knew my love for her was definite. I loved Nanoha. This was a topic that I never dared to bring up. Liking Nanoha was one thing, but to find out that she could possibly love me back was another. It would make things much harder because we weren't near each other. So, I never brought it up. Even though I wondered about it…I just couldn't ask her. So I just let things be as they were.

What she didn't know was that I had begun to save my money to come see her finally, which she was happy when I finally did tell her. So this explains my trip to Uminari, Japan. Even though I could only stay for four days, I was at least happy I could finally see Nanoha. I would finally see the Nanoha that I loved so much…

Welcome to Uminari, Japan passengers. The exit is to the left. Please enjoy your stay.

I hadn't realized fifteen minutes had passed. Everyone on the plane was beginning to get their luggage from the overhead compartments and so I did the same. Once I had everything, I exited the plane and made my way into the airport. I was nervous I had to admit. Each step I took was just another step closer to Nanoha.

A woman in a blue suit greeted me as I made my way inside the airport. I quickly returned the greeting with a good evening in Japanese, much to the thanks of Nanoha, as it was night time there.

I had walked a few steps before stopping so that I could look around for Nanoha. I told her the day before when I would be arriving, so I was sure she would be there already waiting for me. I looked around from left to right and I still didn't see her. I was starting to become disappointed at the thought of her not being there, so I decided to take a seat and wait…but I stopped in my tracks. It was as if time slowed down as the sea of people parted to reveal the woman I had traveled many miles to see. She was looking around for me, but soon our eyes met and I could feel myself falling in love all over again as she smiled at me.

Nanoha was an angel alright. The most beautiful one I've seen. She wore a white undress with matching sandals. Her hair flowed behind her with elegance. The familiar blue glasses framed her face as a red beautiful gem hung around her neck. She was so breathtakingly beautiful in person.

We stared at each other for a few more seconds from our spots across the room before I willed my feet to move towards her. I could feel my heart beating faster as the distance lessened between us and it stayed that way until I was standing directly in front of her.

I could feel a blush coming to my cheeks at being so close to her. Nanoha looks so beautiful up close that I couldn't help studying her features. She had beautiful eyes that twinkled like the stars, her cute button nose was adorable, and her lips looked so kissable. Gosh! I couldn't be thinking about that right now.

Trying to clear my mind, I dropped my bag to the floor. We continued to stare at each other for a little longer, but seeing as we hadn't said anything yet to each other yet, I figured I should get it started.

"Nanoha, it's a pleasure to finally meet you," I said in English.

"Me too, Fate. I'm so happy," she said in perfect English.

I had to say, I loved the way she said my name. I couldn't wait for her to say it more. But first, I wanted to greet her properly…so I hugged her, which she returned.

Nanoha felt so warm and her body seemed to fit mine. I found myself turning my head into her body so I could smell her sweet scent. I didn't want to let her go. I had waited years just to have her in my arms like this, but I didn't want to scare her. As I released her though, I planted a soft kiss on her cheek to complete our greeting.

I smiled at the blush that lay on her cheeks. Her blushing face was one of the things I wanted to witness and I was so happy that I did. Nanoha was so CUTE!

I couldn't help pinching her cheeks. "Aww, Nanoha. You're so adorable when you're blushing."

She quickly swatted my hands away. I could tell her blush had gotten darker. "You just got off the plane and you're teasing me already?" she hmphed. "I'm leaving you here." She quickly stomped off.

"Nanoha wait!" I quickly grabbed my bag chasing her down.

I wasn't sure how my days would be spent while I was in Japan, but as long as I was with Nanoha…

I would be happy.

A/N: Hey everyone! This is a new story that I came up with recently and wanted to write, so I hope you guys enjoyed. It's going to be a short story sadly, 4 chapters at the max, but it will say everything that I want to get across. And Sperm Donor will be out soon.

I actually wrote this story for a specific reason and one specific person should know why I wrote this. So this is dedicated to FJR. I hope you like it because I made it for you.