Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers. Though I wished luh… Well, it contains one little bit of spoiler in it. However, I need to use it to make this story work.

Tea, Subaru, Caro and Erio were all training as usual, doing a mock battle with Nanoha and Vita. Vice was watching from afar, but close enough for the trainees to see him. Watching the four grow together and get better at their skills was actually quite heart-warming. It is as if, they are a family, sharing pains and joy.

However, to him, Tea was the one who grew the most. At first, she wasn't really synchronized with the rest of the group. She always wanted to do things her way – stubborn in other words.

The mock battle is about to be over, thought Vice. Tea and Caro had put up an illusion to make it seem that they were going to attack Nanoha and Vita from afar. Both of the trainers had their guard down. A blast of blue light and the battle was over. The trainees won.

"Okay all," announced Nanoha. "That was a great battle."

"That's it for today," interjected Vita. "We shall continue tomorrow. For now, you have the rest of the afternoon to yourselves."

"Enjoy!" Chimed Fate.

"Yeah! Great timing! I'm hungry!" exclaimed the overly exhausted Subaru.

"Yeah. Me too. How 'bout you, Caro?" said Erio.

Caro nodded her head. When she turned to look at Tea, she saw Vice coming up to them.

"Vice-kun!" She exclaimed waving her hand at him. "How did we do just now?"

"You were all spectacular, Caro." He said while kneeling down to ruffle her hair. Caro giggled at his gesture. Vice did the same to Erio as well. After doing so, he stood up and faced Tea.

"You did great, Tea." Vice complemented with a smile.

Tea turned pink at his comment and thanked him quickly. Subaru was already poking and prodding Tea with her elbow and giving her the "eyebrow" gesture while smiling sheepishly at her. Tea turned a darker shade of pink, close to red.

"Ano, Tea?" asked Vice.

"H- hai?" Stuttered Tea.

"Care to join me for lunch?"

Tea was about to turn his offer down politely when Subaru butted in, "Sure she would! She'll see you in 45 minutes!"

Tea was about to protest when Vice said, "Okay then. Meet me at the hangar okay?"

All tea could do was nod.


"Subaru, you know I hate it when you try to control my life." Stated Tea.

"Yea, I know. But it's fun! Hurry up Tea! You only have 15 minutes left!"

Tea was still in her underwear looking through her wardrobe. She had taken her bath 20 minutes ago and since then, she had been staring at her wardrobe. She had no idea what to wear.

Suddenly, she saw a blur of blue and then darkness. Subaru had just thrown a spaghetti strap dress at her face. It was light yellow in colour that reached the top of her knees with flower prints at the bottom.

She looked at Subaru with one of her eyebrows cocked. Subaru just smiled. Tea sighed and shook her head.

10 minutes later, she was ready. However, in those 10 short minutes, a war broke out between her and Subaru, over whether or not she should tie her hair. In the end, Tea gave in. She quickly put on a pair of nearest boots that she could reach and zipped of to the hangar to meet Vice for lunch.


Vice waited patiently for Tea to arrive. His watch showed 12.43 pm. She had another two minutes until she was deemed late. Just as he put his hand down, he saw Tea walking towards him.

"Am I late?" she asked.

"No. On time actually."

Vice looked at her from the top of her head to her toes. Nice.

Tea blushed when she noticed that Vice was checking her out.

"Shall we go?" asked Vice.

Tea just nodded her head in response. Vice led her to his motor bike and gave her a helmet. When she sat on it, he said, "Hang on." And off they zoomed. Soon, they reached a tea house on the outskirts of Midchilda. He led tea to a table near the view of the sea. The waiter came and they ordered sweet tea and assorted cakes. While waiting for their order to arrive, they had a chat.

"You know, I checked your files. You were once a sniper, weren't you?" Tea asked. "I'm sorry to have prodded into your private life, but I want to know what happened until you became a pilot."

Vice was taken aback. He looked down to his feet. Should I tell her? But this was the thing of the past. And I thought that file was deleted a long time ago.

Then, their order of tea and cakes came. Vice paid for it. "Tea, I don't know where to start."

"If you don't want to tell me, it's okay." Said Tea a little bit disappointed. She picked up her cup of sweet tea and took a little sip.

"A few years back, an accident when I went on a mission to shoot down a robber."

Tea was all ears while eating.

"I was sure that I had targeted that guy. He had a hostage in hand. A child. I had him in my sights. I pulled the trigger. And… instead of the shot hitting that guy, it hit the child. She died instantly."

Tea couldn't believe what she had heard. All she could do then was stay silent. She didn't know what else to say. Their lunch together was silent all the way until they reached the hangar.

"Vice, I'm sorry.I Shouldn't have asked..."

"It's alright. I knew someone would ask me one day. I just didn't expect it to be you." Said Vice. "But then again, talking about it made me feel better. I feel so much lighter. Thank you. We should do this more often." After he said that, he gave Tea a peck on her cheek.

Tea gasped and turned beet red. So did Vice. He had no idea why he did that. That was freaky. Why did I kiss her?? Great, now she won't talk to me ever! He mentally slapped himself.

Tea then did something quite unexpected. She returned that kiss and said a hasty goodbye and thank you and ran off leaving him standing there like a statue.

Well! That was long! Well, I hope you enjoyed it. I will continue on this story soon. So, till I see you people the next time! Review please!