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This is something I've wanted to try for a really long time, so here's the general gist of these things. And you better read this coz I'm gonna apply this concept to the following chapters. So it goes like this, I post a oneshot of unheard Nep characters, or in other words ignored characters that nobody minded to make a story of, and you guys PM me if you liked the story. The one that gets a lot of likes gets to be a full-fledged story. I'll still make full stories for the others, but that depends on the number of likes it gets. I wanted to make a poll, but I'm too lazy (and I want to chat with ya guys ;) )

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from IF and Compile Heart. Just my OCs.

So without further ado, LETS GET IT OOOOON

It was a hot summer day in the Guild and IF was looking for some work. Usually in days like these she would be flooded with requests and missions because of her high success rate, and since she is basically a one-woman-army for wipeout missions and monster clearing ones. But this day is different, much different than the ones she would spend with Neptune. Not a single request, not even a delivery one was in her desk. Not that she minded, but in the back of her head she knew something was wrong. Maybe rumors were starting to move around? Blackmail? But who would hate her? She didn't remember making enemies inside the guild or even outside that would resort to blackmail, but it worried her. She began to ask around, finding any clue as to why there was no work for her. She was polite, and courteous to everyone she meets, treating every guild member like her second family (she already has a bunch of people to worry about *ahem* Nep *ahem* Compa *ahem*).

She asked everyone, rookies all the way to senior members, and all she heard was that a newcomer took most of the jobs and apparently finished it all successfully. She was amazed and partly insulted. She was supposed to be the one that people looked up to, because of her feats and her skill, but a newbie just steals her hard earned thunder. Who wouldn't be just a little pissed off? She has her dignity, but it's part of human nature to stay at the top. So what she did is take the same job as that newbie was taking right now and see for herself just how good he/she is. The job was a simple monster annihilation one, Steel Dogoos were swarming a factory near the Planeptune-Leanbox border, and her mission was to wipe them out so the workers can go back to, well, work. She dashed off the Guild's door, towards the direction of the said factory.

Now we take a look at the said newbie prodigy currently shooting his way through a massive horde of Steel Dogoos. Gray hair, which surprisingly looks like what an old man would have, but clean cut and a tad bit spiky to make him look like a generic Honor student from a local university. A pitch black trench coat with red pinstripes at the edges, and a simple black undershirt and pants. Think generic lvl 29 MMO coat armor. But the most noticeable thing about him is his gun. It was like the knuckles, the knife and the Desert Eagle (refer to Counter Strike for the gun itself) had a threesome and had a baby. The grip was the knuckles, the pistol part was above and the knife was below. It looked weird to the regular untrained individual, but this baby saved his life more than a few times.

As he was shooting, punching and hacking his way through the seemingly endless hordes of Dogoos, little did he know that a Dogoo was creeping up from behind, poised for the strike. He noticed the presence plus one more, but he didn't have enough time to react as the Dogoo jumped up for the blow. As he closed his eyes waiting for the blow, a few moments later he didn't receive any sort of pain. He opened his eyes and all he could see was a blue blur hacking and slashing its way through the waves of Dogoos. He was stunned in place, the way the blur slashed its way through the Dogoos was beautiful. He immediately snapped back into reality and started shooting his way towards the blur.

Both people didn't speak a single word throughout the entire massacre, either they were too busy hacking and slashing or the Dogoos were too loud. Finishing off the last Dogoo with his pistol, he looked left and right hoping to find that person who helped him. He shouted something, hopefully catching the attention of whoever helped him. "Hey you still there? Thanks for the backup! I couldn't have survived that last one without your help."

"So you were the newbie that took care of my jobs."

He looked left and right, and finally up, seeing a blue coated girl sitting on the roof support beams swinging her legs like a child.

"O-oh. I'm sorry for the trouble. I needed the food money, so I had no other choice..."

IF jumped down a few feet in front of the boy, but the boy didn't flinch one bit. She sighed, put her hand to her hip and replied. "You know, it's not good to take every job that the Guild has to offer."

The boy kept quiet, and hanged his head down looking very pitiful and sorry. IF sighed again, and spoke to him "Well, what's done is done. I'm IF by the way. The windwalker of Gamindustri."

The boy lifted his head up and replied "I'm Gate, nice to meet you Miss IF."

"No need for the Miss, just call me IF. So, what do you think you're doing taking every job that I was supposed to work on? Not that I don't like it, but a Guild member needs work y'know?"

Gate covered up his face with his coat collar, but since it was dark little did IF know that the he was blushing so hard he looked like Lyrica (check out my other fic, 5pb.'s Secret Buddy ;) ) when she was embarrassed.

IF however, was already screaming from inside. Heart beating faster than an internet porn addict can move his right hand up and down. She didn't understand what she felt, but keeping a straight face in front of situations was one of her secret skills.

"Well? What's the problem? You can tell me you know."

Gate breathed deep, and faced IF in a straight way.

"Eh? What's the problem?" IF was confused and it showed in more ways than one. She was slowly blushing, not even her skills was enough to keep her emotions in check.

"Miss IF, no IF, I've been watching you for a long time now. I've seen you with the other CPUs and Candidates fight against the Deity of Sin. And since that day I have grown a big liking towards you. So you get where this is going right?"

IF's cheeks was burning brighter, and her heart was beating at a frequency faster than visible light can complete one period metaphorically, else she'd be dead but this is a romance oneshot so deal with it. She was dead confused and flustered. But she knew where this was going.

"IF, I know you've been watching me too. I may not show it but I know when somebody is watching me from a distance."

IF took a step back, HE NOTICED? HOW?

"You've been watching me ever since I took my first job at the guild 2 weeks ago. Though I didn't come back for more work a few jobs after that, but I know you've watched me the entire time I was working. But you're so good at it that people would shrug it off as just looking at some trees in the distance in the opposite direction..."

IF's brain crashed. He was good. Too good. Maybe even too good for her. It was true. IF had a crush on this boy for a long time now, but she kept it well under wraps. Not even Compa knew about it.

"That made me happy. To know that one of the most skilled people working in the Guild had taken a liking to me, well that made me work ever harder. I didn't come back for work for the past week because I wanted to train. I wanted to be strong enough to protect you if things went bad. And the quests I just took? It was to save money."

IF gulped and asked "What was the money for?"

Gate smiled softly at her and said "It was to ask you out for a date. So, now that you know my intentions, would you go out with me IF?"

IF was blushing red hot, but she had crystal clear thoughts this time. It was perfect, if he ever went out with her, he would need to be strong enough to protect her in case she messes up. And he did just that. And hearing that request, IF only had one reply.

"Y-yes…"

Aaaaand we're done. Hope you liked the idea and the story itself, now if you excuse me, I need to rank up my CS:GO account (GetNepzdM8 if anyone's looking for a game. PM me anytime and lets play in the weekend.)

-Nepzd