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It was pretty dark and I was a little nervous. Who could blame me, after all I was in front of her apartment and… Well, I rubbed my arms to warm them up. The weather wasn't in my favor either…"So cold," I whispered.
I gulped once more…It was the first time I came to her alone or at such an hour. I didn't know what was going on with me anymore. Whenever she was in front of me…That fleeting feeling I couldn't name invaded me. The warmth emanating from her hands, and the warmth I felt rising deep in my heart, when the two of us would go on a walk together…It still made me feel giddy whenever I think about it.
My feet began to get cold again, so I stomped and paced around a little shaking my legs to keep warm. I know I shouldn't be here at this hour, but she was the only one I could turn to. "It has to be her, and only her!" Bumping my fists into the air, I slowly reached for her door bell. The chilling freeze that came along with the wind wouldn't stop me now. Nor the fact that I was on the fifth floor of her apartment complex.
I took a deep breath to brace myself.
"Here I come!" Pressing her door bell I instantly put on my serious face, though I couldn't help but blush at the thought of what I was about to do…with her. I heard her footsteps on the other side of the door. Here it comes and no turning back Takamachi Nanoha!
My Nine Year Old Wife
By
Sha Yurigami
Opening the door was a tall blonde haired woman. She wore black pants and a black turtleneck, she didn't bother with slippers and the cool air of those days was rather pleasant for her. When she opened the door completely to look for whoever was coming at that ungodly hour, however, she didn't get a chance to speak.
"Hello, How can I hel-?"
"Please take me!"
She was baffled when she saw an auburn haired girl wearing a white puffy jacket standing before her door, screaming for her to rape her.
The first thing she did was sigh, then stepped outside barefooted and motioned for the girl to come in. "Come in first, you're going to freeze to death here," she said closing her eyes in annoyance.
Inside Fate Testarossa, the owner of the apartment, was heating some hot chocolate milk for her uninvited guest. From the corner of her eyes she observed the child. The last thing she wanted to happen was for the girl to misunderstand the situation…she sighed again, what have I gotten myself into? she asked herself suddenly feeling faint.
The girl, named Nanoha, was the third and youngest child of her close friends Momoko and Shiro Takakmachi. They had a café close to her workplace that was fairly well known. Fate would always visit them whenever she got a day off or any free time in general, but she really didn't know what had suddenly gotten into the little girl.
"So wanna talk about what happened?" she asked the younger girl walking over to her with two mugs of hot chocolate milk. The auburn haired girl stood up to accept it and sat back down onto the couch with the blond sitting down before her on a loveseat. The girl nervously gulped when she stared down into her mug. The woman was right before her, casually drinking her chocolate milk.
"I-I just-" Nanoha began, faltering a little under the hard gaze of the older woman, but she mustered up all her courage and continued "I wanted my first time to be with Fate-chan!" she nearly screamed spilling a few drops of the warm liquid in her hands onto the ground.
The blonde sighed and watched the full grown blush of the girl before her "Nanoha."
The shorter girl looked up to her, at least she wasn't too embarrassed to look at her with those big and round lilac-blue eyes.
"Nanoha, I hope you didn't forget that I am your godmother."
"That's why I came here first!"
"I'm sure you're aware that I'm older then you. It's a crime when an adult and a child…you know."
"Mama always said that age doesn't matter and that I should follow my heart! And my heart guided me to Fate-chan!"
"I am 43 years old, Nanoha. And a woman at that…though that's a little safer then with…But still I would kill anyone who did it with you anyway!"
"B-But…"
"And consider this Nanoha. I am friends with your parents, I wouldn't be your godmother otherwise, and they trust me to love and protect you like my own child. In a way that means you are my daughter too."
"But…that is…"
"I wouldn't want my daughter to suddenly go to other people's homes and say that she wants them to take her precious first time. Especially when it's so dark outside with no way to contact her."
"I-I…"
"If you understood, why don't we call your parents? They must be pretty worried," the older woman suggested, but the child shook her head violently. Tears were coming from her eyes and she was clutching her jacket. Fate felt bad for her, she didn't want her niece to cry or feel sad, but she had to tell her the truth otherwise they both would get in serious trouble later. She got up from her seat and knelt in front of Nanoha, before embracing the girl tightly.
"But…it hash-…to be with Fate-chahn," she sobbed holding onto the woman's shoulders tightly.
"I don't want to give it to them!" she finally cried out.
Fate's burgundy eyes turned sharp. She couldn't believe her ears. Rage was building up in her heart and guts. She tightened her hold onto the crying girl.
"Whom?" she asked her calmly.
"I-it was just a game…a stupid children game…th-the winner could de-demand anything from the looser that they wanted…an-and that girl's older sister suddenly said something about-about…and then there were those boys…they-I – I ran away as fast as I could…but -it's no good…I have to…or else they-they would…" She was crying and with each word that passed through her mouth her voice cracked up, until she collapsed into her godmother's warm embrace.
"Don't say any more," Fate said to her, planting kisses on her forehead, temple and her cheek. When she pulled her face away Nanoha snaked her tiny arms around her neck and pulled her down again. Close.
But then the door bell rang.
Fate pulled herself off Nanoha and walked over to the door. She looked through the peephole and saw a little silver haired girl together with a taller twin braided brunette behind her. Although she didn't see them, she heard the breathing of several others than the girls'.
"May I ask what you want?" she asked them through the door.
"Oh, Hello, we just saw one of my sister's friends going inside your apartment and that made us wonder…you know," the taller girl said. "And by the way, my name is Quattro and this is my little sister Cinque." She motioned toward the silver haired girl who nodded in response.
"So what? That girl's my niece, what do you want with her?" Fate said forcing herself to remain calm and composed. She knew that it was really important that she, as an adult, solved this problem without getting violent…though she really wanted to threaten them.
"Ah I see, I'm pretty sure that girl said some pretty bad things about us, I hope you wouldn't believe her, right?" that brunette said. The blonde felt her rage constantly rising, the way that voice sounded…it pissed her off.
"Then you surely can explain me what happened?" She pried, knowing already what the great deal was about
"Sure!, that girl uhm…Nanoha right! So that girl played a game with my little sister here …a penalty game and she lost…so I suggested my little sister, you see we have a few friends over there that need a little helping with a certain matter so~~ may we borrow her for about five minutes?" she explained and motioned with her left hand towards a group of boys with band aids on their foreheads.
"What kind of matter?"
"Only a few kisses on the cheek to cheer them on, you see they're in the football team of my High school and that would give them surely a power up, don't you think so~ too~?"
A few moments passed. Fate looked at her crying niece. She saw the pure fright in those eyes she loved so much. The blond walked over to her and gave her a kiss on the forehead "Wait here," she said knowing that Nanoha would stay inside.
She walked back to the door, lifted the chain lock and stepped outside. When she was outside, she saw the figures of said boys sitting on the floor whose eyes were widening. Her eyes then fell towards the now suddenly shrinking brunette next to the door with her little sister as a shield. Fate smirked, they always reacted that way.
She was nearly 1.80 cm tall after all. And thought she was slim she had a more than well trained body.
She pulled her sleeves up, revealing her toned muscles. The kids simply stared upwards to the adult.
"Isn't that Japan's Female representative in Karate and Kendo from ten years ago? The one who set many records with her violent martial arts?" Cinque said out of nowhere in her monotone voice while her sister still used her as a shield and stammered that the blonde couldn't be that.
"You know," Fate tensed the muscles in her left arm, showing just how large her biceps were… "I am a pretty lonely woman since no one wants someone who is taller than them or," she cracked her neck and made herself stand straight to show her full height, the teenagers began to retreat, "who was stronger than them…that little one in my apartment is the only one who said that I'm cute, sooo~"
Inside the apartment the nine year old was still waiting for her godmother to come back in. She was getting worried that something might have happened to Fate. She wanted to walk to the door and see if she was still there. But she didn't want to break her promise to stay…"Wait she didn't say that I can't watch for her! She only said to stay inside!" She noted and promptly walked to the door.
She got a chair form the kitchen and placed it in front of the door in order to stand on top of it and look through the door viewer. When she looked through it, she could see the blonde lifting a boy up with one arm, the others simply staring at her in fright. The blonde sad something, but Nanoha wasn't sure what it was, so she pressed her ear against the door "…and that little one was promised to me the day she was born, so you better stay away from her you hear me?" The auburn haired girl's eyes widened.
"And you-" the blonde pointed to the twin braided girl who immediately attempt to run but was stopped by the grip of her little sister.
"Let go Cinque!" she demanded from the girl but she didn't let go.
"You reap what you sow," she said to her sister.
"She's right. You shouldn't involve yourself in children's games with ridiculous demands like that. Those kisses on my cheek she gives me as a good luck charm are mine alone, you hear me," she said threateningly, waiting for the girl to apologize before she walked back to her apartment door.
When she was inside again, she was really happy to see that Nanoha was still sitting where she left her. Fate walked over to her and gently pecked the girl's forehead. "You wanna now go back home?" she asked her niece who nodded embarrassingly.
Fully dressed to counter the chilling weather outside, both of them were standing in front of the elevator. The group from earlier is no were in sight, Fate noted and looked down on the much younger Nanoha. Then an idea came to her mind.
She walked a bit ahead of Nanoha, stopped and knelt down "I'll carry you the rest of the way, okay? I know that you are tired so come on," she said to her niece, waiting for her to get on her back. When the elementary schooler was settled in a comfortable position she began to walk again.
I used to carry her like this when she was small…Fate mused, it really has been a long time since she last felt her niece's weight on her back. But she's so light…as if…her thoughts trailed off for a bit, so she didn't notice the bright blush on Nanoha's face.
I wanted to be carried like a princess! the child thought embarrassingly but still clung onto the older woman's shoulders and waist, her heart racing like crazy. She smells so nice…and she's warm…Why? Why is my heart beating like this? I'm scared…I don't understand these feelings!
When they arrived at the Takamachi household, an auburn haired woman was already waiting for them.
"Good evening you two," she greeted, "I thought so, that she would be with you, Fate." The blonde laughed sheepishly when she let her niece down.
"Sorry that I'm coming by so late. Little Nanoha here wanted to come by to her godmother a little and we completely forgot the time. Sorry Momoko."
"Well at least you were bringing her back, so I didn't have to worry much," Momoko said letting her child hug her around the waist. Their eyes had the same color, a trait that Fate liked. She had known Momoko for years and to see at least one of her children to have her special traits was a blessing.
"Ne Mama, is it true that I was promised to Fate-chan?"
"You told her?" The auburn haired woman shot her head into her direction.
"Eh?"
"I can't believe you…"she said in mocking hurt while Fate began to look at her strangely.
"Wait up. It was just a joke, right?"
"How could you think I was joking?"
"Huh? Wait? What?"
"I was totally serious!"
"WaitWaitWaitWaitWaitWait! WAIT! IT WASN'T A JOKE?"
"Now take responsibility! And marry her!" Momoko pointed an accusing finger at her. Her daughter on the other hand blushed like crazy at her mother's declaration.
"Bu-Bu-" she began to stutter but then Shiro came, "Shiro! Please explain to your wife that I can't possibly marry your nine year old daughter!"
But he only blinked at her. A few seconds passed before he spoke up "Oh," he asserted, "so it was already said…Well nothing can be undone now, you have my consent," he said and walked back into the house, leaving an utterly confused Fate back with his wife and daughter.
"E-eh-EEEEEEEEHHHHHH?"
Momoko gently nudged her daughters shoulders, making her look up, "Nanoha please say the phrase I taught you a while back." Nanoha nodded. She took a few deep breaths, before walking over to the still sputtering and confused blond.
"Fate-chan," she softly called out to her.
Fate looked down at her niece. She was confused. Apparently the joke her dear friends made about Nanoha being promised to her wasn't a joke and now…she looked into those beautiful lilac-blue eyes. The auburn haired girl bowed slightly, "I know I 'm clumsy, but I hope we get along well."
Eh?
"Eh? Wait what? WAIT, WHAT?"
to be continued …
The idea for this story came to me, when I wass typing down on chapter 3 of Just How Much I Love You...and you should have guessed that this story here will be just as fluff filled but more than different in points of comedy and story setting and time frame! I guarantee that this story will warm your heart!
P.s. Don't let the age gap scare you away XD
And also if you write many reviews about your opinior or just to flame, then I will improve my writing and add more fluff to the story mentioned above XD
So Please Read and Review
Yours dear
Sha Yurigami
