Author's Notes: This is a little Valentines thing, I decided to put out there. I hope you like it. It's not much, I will actually update this next Valentine's Day and we'll see how many chapters I make this. If you want a special chapter "M" in the future with this please let me know it will be a side chapter as I would like to keep this at a T rating if at all possible.

This chapter has been Beta Read. Thank you for your hard work HR.

Now, please enjoy your Valentine's Day Gift.

ZR ~*

Valentine's Day Gift

By

Zona Rose

Chapter 1

Fate's POV

"Fate, have you ever celebrated Valentine's Day where you're from? I'm just asking because Valentine's Day is two days away and I was wondering if you've made your sweetheart any chocolates, yet." I looked at Suzuka with a very bewildered look on my face. She worked out that I had no idea what Valentine's Day was all about and so she took it upon herself to tell me all about the special day for those that you loved.

By the time Suzuka was done telling me all about what Valentine's Day meant, I was in a panic because buying chocolates for close friends was one thing, but for special friends, the ones that mean more than your other friends, you were supposed to make chocolates and I had no idea how to do this.

When I got home from school that day I still had no idea how to make my special gift for Nanoha. Thankfully, Mom was home, so I explained to her that I needed to make chocolates for Nanoha as she was more…special than any of my other friends.

As Mom had never celebrated Valentine's Day before, she was at a loss on how to help me. She knew that there was only one person who could help me in this matter, so she told me to go get changed as they were going to go and pay a visit someone.

An hour later the two of us arrived at a local café Midoriya and we were greeted by the owners. Mom explained to Momoko that they did not celebrate Valentine's Day where we were from, so that neither one of us knew how to properly make the right kind of chocolates to be given to friends, and if Momoko could please help me in making my special chocolates.

Momoko was static that we had asked for her help, and she ushered me into the back kitchen to help me in making my first Valentine's Day candies. Several hours later Momoko pronounced us done, and that I had done very well in making my first candies, and now that as I now knew how to make them I should be able to do it every year from now on without assistance.

It was the night before Valentine's Day and I was up late trying to figure out how or when Nanoha had become so important to me. I thought back to the first day I had met my best friend. It was all over those stupid Jewel Seeds. If mother hadn't forced me to go out and collect them I would never have met her, Nanoha.

From the moment I first met Nanoha, all she ever wanted to do was talk to me and find out why I was doing what I was doing. She was always reaching out her hand to me. I had started to call her my angel when she saved me when I had been trying to seal those six Jewel Seeds at once. She came down out of the sky in a pink glow and all I could think of was an angel was coming to save me. How do you thank someone you barely know, and had fought several times before, for saving your life?

Then at the Garden of Time when mother and Alicia fell into the void I had wanted so badly to follow them. But then my angel came out of the sky again reaching out her hand and calling my name, and I knew I truly could never leave this girl that I had come to care for so much in so short a time.

At the bridge I told her I had an answer, but I didn't know how to become a friend. So I asked her how we become friends. She said that it was simple all I have to do is call out her by her name. After a few tries at her name she had started to cry and I felt something I had never felt before; sadness that I had made this girl cry. Then she hugged me and I could tell she didn't want to let me go. So I hugged her back to let her know that she would always be with me, even though we might be separated.

I reached my hand out to touch the pink ribbons that Nanoha had given me that day on the bridge. Her gift of friendship gave me courage. They also told me that there was somebody waiting for me when my trial was all over with. Her videos and letters kept my spirits up and I had come to know two other girls through her letters and videos; Suzuka and Arisa. It was nice to meet these girls in person and I had hoped they would accept me as Nanoha's friend and maybe their's as well.

After my trial was over with I couldn't wait to see Nanoha again. However, we had become worried when we lost communication with her and a barrier had appeared around her last known location. The moment I was close enough, Yuuno and I teleported to Nanoha's side and what I saw scared me; the strong and beautiful girl that I knew and cared so deeply for was beaten and her device looked like it was ready to shatter. I swore that day I would always protect my Nanoha, my angel, until my dying breath.

We had became close during that time. We were always holding hands and were absolutely inseparable. At that time Suzuka had made a new friend; her name was Hayate. Little did we know that this small, wheelchair-bound girl was going to become one of our greatest allies. After the Book of Darkness incident the three of us, Nanoha, Hayate and I, had to tell our side of the story to Suzuka and Arisa (who had witnessed the climax of the Book of Darkness incident). They listened to our stories of how Nanoha and I had met and then how Hayate had become mixed up in all of this as well.

Somehow this all made us stronger as friends, but my feelings towards Nanoha are different from those of other girls. What I feel for her scares me because these feelings are so intense sometimes I just want to hold her and never let her go. These days, when she takes my hand my heart races like it's about to pound out of my chest and I feel lightheaded when she's close. My angel gets more and more beautiful every day.

I can't believe we're going to share our very first Valentine's Day together. I'm so nervous that I don't know what to do. Did she make me chocolates like I made her or did she buy them like I did for Suzuka, Arisa and Hayate? I'm not going to get any sleep tonight…

Well, today is Valentine's Day. I hope I look all right. I didn't get any sleep last night as I kept thinking about my angel. I wonder if there's a rule about turning down gifts. Every third classmate or so has given me chocolates. I like sweets but at this rate I'm going to have to share with Mom and Chrono. Luckily for me both have sweet teeth.

By the time I got to my homeroom I had a pile of chocolates and gifts in my arms. I almost dropped them all when I saw the pile on top of my desk, easily twice as big as what I had been carrying. What was I going to do so many chocolates from people I barely knew? I looked at the four girls that were standing around my desk and they all looked like they had sympathetic faces, but it also looked like they weren't going to help me. Or maybe they couldn't help me. It seems my popularity at the school has quadrupled in the past few months.

I asked Nanoha if she could help me carry all of these to my locker, and in her usual happy and chipper voice she agreed to help, but for some reason I felt she wasn't happy. It might have been my imagination, but she seemed extremely sad. Every time I tried to look into her eyes she would glace off to the side. For some reason she wouldn't look me in the eyes today, and the only time that that has happened was when she's keeping something from me.

Had I done something wrong? Should I not have accepted all of these gifts and candies? Am I ruining my first Valentine's Day with Nanoha? What should I do? How can I fix this? I want today to be special for my angel.

All during morning classes Nanoha never looked at me. I'm still thinking that I've done something wrong. I looked over at Suzuka several times today, and she seemed to be as lost as I was at Nanoha's almost cold-shoulder attitude. Lunch is in 30 minutes and the five of us agreed to exchange our Valentines gifts at that time. As the minutes tick down my nerves are getting worse. My stomach is twisting and my chest is getting tight and very uncomfortable. I'm so nervous…

When the bell rang we all gathered our bags and went upstairs to the roof into a corner so we could have some privacy. We had decided to eat our lunch's first. This didn't help me at all, as now I had no appetite: my stomach was being tied into knots. I picked it my food not tasting what little I swallowed. The more I ate the worse I was felt. Everyone seemed to notice my lack of appetite all except for Nanoha, who seemed to be very fascinated in her lunch.

I passed my candy boxes to Suzuka, Arisa, and Hayate leaving Nanoha's in my bag as I was very nervous about her attitude this morning. I was starting to really not feel well and apparently it was starting to show. As Suzuka suddenly leaned over and asked me if I was all right. I was having very hard time breathing and keeping my lunch down.

I couldn't take it anymore so I muttered an excuse and grabbed my bag and fled out of the school: down the stairwell, then out the front door. I kept running not knowing or caring where I was going. My vision had become blurred as I was running down the street. The next thing I knew I found myself at the bridge where we had become friends. I stopped running and walked over to the hand railing, dropping my bag I collapsed to my knees and let the tears flow. My chest hurt so badly and my body ached for the touch of the one that I craved the most.

I don't know how long I'd been there crying when I suddenly felt a presence behind me and then I was embraced by Nanoha's thin arms pulled back into her chest. My body stiffened at first, but I relaxed and melted into her like melted chocolate. I never wanted this moment to end, but I knew it had to. So I pulled away from her gently at first. She didn't want to let go, but finally she reluctantly released me.

"Suzuka told us that she had explained to you most of the important parts of Valentine's Day, but that she had forgotten to tell you that you didn't have to accept all of the gifts given to you. I was being stupid and got upset over the fact that you accepted every one with a smile and a thank you. I guess I got a little jealous over the attention that you were getting from our classmates. And I ended up taking it out on you, instead of just swallowing my pride and letting it go. I'm sorry, Fate. I ruined our first Valentine's Day."

I turned my head to look at Nanoha and saw that she was crying. Without thinking, I lifted my right hand to brush away the tears on her left cheek, and kissed them away on her right. I slowly trail of kisses down her cheek to her jaw line, and then slowly to her chin and then, with as much courage as I could muster, her lips. Was it my imagination or was she kissing me back with the same tenderness as I was giving her?

Gently I moved my body around so that I could put my arms around her and pull her into me. Her arms had stayed around me and they had also started to tighten again. I soon realized that breathing was a very important part of staying alive. So I gently pulled away from our first kiss. Now, I was scared that she would reject me and my feelings for her.

That fear was washed away with a smile that would make a thousand suns look dim and a look that said she never wanted to let me go again. "That was the best Valentine's Day gift you could have ever given me for our first Valentine's Day. Our very first. I do hope it won't be our last, though…"

To prove to her that it wouldn't be, I captured her lips again and kissed her thoroughly, putting all of my heart in to it so that she knew there would be many more to come from this day forward. I was in love with an angel named Nanoha.

Author's Notes: Well, that's the end of this chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it and I will see you on this chapter next year. *_* This story will continue with White Day Gift. This is the start of my Timeline Series. Look for the up coming chapters, White Day Gift, Golden Week, Labor Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Gift, and New Years Wish. Then back to this one once more.

Those of you who are following my other story Lightning Fingers it will be updated tomorrow. ^_^

In Love & Light,

Zona Rose ~*