A/N: I'm sorry for not updating for a long time now! Had to study for the Star Test! :( And I'm sorry for the lack of thoughts and other stuff and grammar and short chapter! Thanks for the reviews everyone who reviewed! I'm happy to even get 7 Reviews!
Whimpers I don't have my story for Chapter 2, so I rewrote it! Hope it's better than my first one. :) And sorry if I use too many commas!! I just love commas! :D
Oh… and one more thing! Sorry if I have any errors/grammars! I tried to finish before Star Test ended, but it didn't quite work out how I planned it to… so I went to the Garden like farming, and wrote there! I ate lots of strawberries! :D The computer died on me there... T_T
Lyrical Moon Ema: Yeah! I loved Nanoha begging for Fate-chan too!
chkim218: I will tell you something... Fate-chan won't receive anymore mails from Nanoha after awhile and no sorry, but they won't have powers... I will make another fic with them having powers though, but not in this one, maybe later on in the future.
Fatenanohakimon: Arisa and Suzuka are going to be in this chapter, but not Hayate. Hayate will appear in the story later on, hmm... maybe in chapter... Argh! I don't know yet, sorry.
Ye'low: No, not that kind of video taping! Keep in your blood! *Wipes it off of face* Keep clean until the details!! :D Ekk! No gushing out!!
Lucia-Rozen: Yeah, in this chapter, I put in some thoughts! I mean peoples' thoughts in this chapter.
Mikoto: Yeah, it is fast, but I couldn't think! I will make it slower in this chapter and the next! I'm still fixing... sigh
BPHaru: Thanks for the feedback! I'm fixing it right now! It might change some times little by little though.
Fate-chan, don't leave me! I don't want to be alone! Nnnoooo!
I Remember
By:
Yuki-Kamishiro
Nanoha's POV:
"Nnnoooo!!" I jumped up into a sitting position in my bed with sweat drops running down my forehead. "I-it was just a dream…"
I looked to my right where my drawer was, to see what time it was and I caught a glimpse of my clock at the corner of my eye before the door to my room opened wide with a slam on the wall, catching my attention to the door, making me swing my head to the direction where the door had opened and I swore I heard a pop in my neck.
"Nanoha, are you ok?" I looked up to see my mom, Momoko, standing at the door, her left hand on the doorknob and her other curled into a fist hold her blouse. 'Mom?' "Are you alright, sweetie? You kept yelling 'No' in your dreams. What's wrong? Is it because Fate-san moved away yesterday?"
'What? Fate-chan moved away? When?' "O-oh… I forgot… I'm ok though Mom." I got out of bed and walked over to the door where my mom was standing at and smiled at her, "I'm fine… really!!" She looked at me in a state of confusion.
"Are you sure? Earlier you were just yelling 'No' and now you're saying that you're fine… I'm still worried…" My mom tilted her head to her right side, "I'm here if you need me, so you can talk to me if you want to…"
"Thanks Mom, but I'm fine… you should just go and get breakfast ready. I'm going to change… for school of course." I pushed my mom out of the door, closed the door and locked it. I heard my mom saying something about getting breakfast ready while walking down the stairs before I went straight to my closet.
'Sigh school ti- what? Where's my school uniform?' I searched the closet thoroughly and couldn't find it so I turned around to check anywhere else, and guess what? I found it on the floor near my bed.
'Wha- how did it get there? Of all places…' All of a sudden, yesterday's event came back to me in a flash, like lightning had struck me hard.
Yesterday's Event: Still Nanoha's POV:
"So… you are really leaving aren't you?" I looked up into Fate-chan's dark burgundy eyes. "Yeah, I'll come back though, so don't worry," Fate-chan patted my head, making me squint my left eye, leaving my right eye still open to see Fate-chan's smile.
Fate-chan turned halfway away from me and tried to say 'Bye' to me, but I interrupted her train of thought of saying bye to me before she even said a word. "I'm going to really miss you Fate-chan!" I grabbed a hold of her sleeve and she turned back to see a small tear forming at the corner of my left eye.
"Nanoha, don't cry. I'll be here even though if I'm going away for awhile, so don't cry." Fate-chan moved her right hand that wasn't occupied by my hold and wiped the tear that was falling down from my left eye.
"If you cry then you're going to make me cry too… so don't…" Fate-chan covered her tears by turning around and saying that she had to go soon.
"But I don't want you to leave…" I held Fate-chan's sleeve tighter than I could, if that's even possible. "If you leave then… then… who am I going to hang out with at school?"
"U-uh… you have to make new friends Nanoha. If you don't then you can't go anywhere in life. You need new friends to help you get to where you need to go to. You need support from every friend you have."
I sniffed and wiped new tears that formed again, "Ok, but I won't be anyone else's best friend! I'll be waiting for you to come back… and then we could hang out with each other again!" 'I'll definitely wait for Fate-chan! Because she's my best friend and that's what friends do, right?'
"Un, I'll be coming back soon, so don't worry about it Nanoha." Fate-chan smiled a smile that I had never seen before and it caught my eyes. My heart beat fast and I stopped breathing for a second, but I came to when Fate-chan waved her hand in front of me, " Are you ok, Nanoha? You didn't look too good for a second there…"
"A-ah, I'm fine. Oh, Fate-chan your ride is here. I guess this is goodbye then…" I turned my gaze away from her to look at the car coming up in front of us. 'What's wrong with me? Fate-chan only smiled at me! Fate-chan only smiled at me! So why is my heart beating fast?!'
"Nanoha…" Fate-chan turned her body so that it was facing me, blocking me from viewing the car.
"Nanoha, I want to tell you that now matter what happens, I will come back." Fate-chan grabbed my head into an embrace, her chin laying on my head, and my head in her soft open neck. At first I just dangled my arms to my side, but after realization donned on me, I moved my hands to hold onto Fate-chan's back.
"Fate-chan… I…"
"Shhh… it's ok Nanoha. You don't have to say anything anymore. I'll be fine. You on the other hand need to take care of yourself. You got that?" I looked up to see Fate-chan trying her best to smile. 'Ah, I miss that smile… I haven't seen it since the first time we met.'
"I think you should go now. I don't want to keep your ride waiting." I pushed myself out of the embrace and she looked at me for the second time before turning around to walk over to her car.
"I'll be going now." Said Fate-chan.
I ran a few steps forward catching Fate-chan's attention to look back. "U-uh… Fate-chan, since you're going to be gone for awhile, I just uh… want to give this to you so you won't forget about me…"
I took off my two pair of pink ribbons, letting my hair flow down pass my shoulder and handed my ribbons to Fate-chan. Fate-chan looked at me with those worried eyes of hers. "Nanoha… are you sure? Those are your-"
"I know. That's why I want to give it to you. So you won't forget." "Nanoha… ok, take mine too so that you won't forget about me either." Fate-chan took off her two pair of black ribbons, also letting her beautiful blonde hair flow down pass her waist and handed her ribbons to me.
We both accepted each other's ribbons.
"Bye bye Fate-chan! Be sure to come back! You promised!" I waved at the car that Fate-chan had gotten into until it was gone, but before the car disappeared I heard Fate-chan screaming at the top of her lungs out the window saying something that she was going to come back and it was a promise.
Back to the Present: Nanoha's POV:
"Fate-chan…" I picked up my skirt and looked at it for a minute before I saw two black strings sticking out of the left pocket. 'Hmm… what's this? Oh! Fate-chan's ribbon that she gave me!' I took it out fast to take a glimpse at it like it was the first time ever seeing it.
"Ok! Time to- what's this?" I pulled out something that was hard and also inside my skirt pocket to find a small black box with yellow stripes on it. 'What the! I never remember owning this beautiful small box! Who's is it?'
I looked at it and examined it for a second and then turned it around to see a tag on it. 'Hmm… maybe I can find the owner of this beautiful small box… let's see here… it belongs to Takamachi Nano- WHAT? Me? I had never even seen this box before! Have I?! Uh, let's see… Fate Testa- huh? Fate-chan? Why is her name on here?'
I looked at it more closely and saw it clearly in a beautiful printed handwriting that said:
"To: Takamachi Nanoha
From: Fate Testarossa"
"What? From Fate-chan? When did it, how did it get in here in the first place?!" I took a big gulp and placed my right hand on the bottom of the box and my left on top. 'Ok, here goes nothing…' I opened it a little and heard a click and when I was about to fully open it, someone banged on my door, shocking me and almost dropping the box.
"W-who is it?" I called out to the person that was behind my very door. "Nanoha? Are you almost done yet? You're going to be late for school!"
"O-onee-chan? I'm almost do- wahh!" I realized that my shirt was still on the floor and I had tripped over it trying to get to the door. "O-owie… that hurt! I'm coming Onee-chan! I'll be there in a second!"
"Ok! Don't take too long! Breakfast is ready to go if you want to eat it while it's still hot~" I heard my onee-chan sing while walking down the stairs.
"Sigh, what a big day today… first Mom comes in here all worried sick about my dream and just now Onee-chan banged on my door, scaring me to death… sigh…" I got up from the floor and grabbed my shirt. 'What did I do to deserve this? Ow, now my butt hurts…'
I got dressed, got out of my room, and ran down the stairs to the kitchen, leaving the small and mysterious box from Fate-chan on my drawer. "Nanoha, what did I tell you about running down the stairs? You could get seriously hurt." I looked over to the table to find my dad, Shirou, sitting on one of the chairs like always, reading a newspaper everyday.
"Sorry Dad! I'm kind of in a hurry! I have to catch the bus, so later!" I grabbed a toasted bread and headed to the door to put on my shoes. 'Ok, I need to hurry to school and… sigh… try to make a new friend… great! How am I supposed to do that?' I opened the door and rushed outside, closing the door behind me fast that I thought I heard my mom calling me.
'Hmm… maybe it was just my imagination… Oh well, off to school now!' I ran down the street and turned a corner, where I found the bus I was going to take at the bus stop already. "Oh no! Wait! Stop bus driver! I need to get on!"
I ran faster than I could already to where the bus was at, but the bus driver didn't hear me and closed the door. He was about to take off but a girl from inside the bus told him to wait for another person. 'Thank goodness she stopped him, or I would be late to school!' I ran to the bus and got inside the bus, taking a few steps up the stairs before he closed the door again.
"Sorry about that little girl, I didn't see you." The bus driver apologized and pointed to the back seat for me to sit so that he could drive. 'Hmm… who was it that stopped the bus driver? I heard a girl's voice talking… somewhere around my age…' I looked around to find a girl about my age and spotted two girls way in the back waving at me.
'Uh, was it one of those two?' I walked down the aisle to where the two girls were sitting at. "Um… I…" I fidgeted for awhile before the girl with purple hair stopped me from talking and offered me a seat between her and her blonde hair friend. "Uh, thanks…"
"No need to thank me, Nanoha-chan." The purple hair girl smiled at me and I looked at her confused. 'How does she know my name?' Was the only thing that came into my head. "I bet you're wondering how I know your name, right?" Said the purple hair girl, still smiling at me. 'What the?! Is she psychic?'
"Uh, do I know you two?" I asked the most dumbest question there was. 'Ok, maybe it's just my imagination again, or she really knows me and I don't know her…' "Oh, sorry about that! How rude of me… I'm Suzuka Tsukimura and this is…" Suzuka-chan pointed over to my right side.
"Arisa Bannings. It's a pleasure to meet you…" Arisa-chan waved to me, "Although we do see each other everyday…" "Everyday? What do you mean everyday…? Oh! You go to my school too?!" I asked surprised that I didn't even see them wearing the same school uniform as me.
"Well, duh! What do you think?!" Arisa-chan gave me the 'you haven't noticed' look. "Uh… well, no… I haven't… really… " I trailed off trying to think where I have seen them before. Suzuka-chan spoke up after a minute of silence, "Uh, well… you see, we have the same class as you and well… Fate-chan moved yesterday, so we thought you might need a… friend?
"…"
"Sorry! I forgot that you two were best friends!" Suzuka-chan apologized when I didn't say anything to her. "Uh… it's ok. What were you saying before, nyahaha?" I put a hand on my head, acting more dumb as I was already, "I wasn't paying attention… sorry."
"Listen to me! And listen well Nanoha! We were wondering if you needed a friend to hand out with?!" Said Arisa-chan, she sounded mad and I didn't know why, but I didn't like the sound of it. "… uh… a friend?" I asked yet another dumb question. "Uh, didn't you just listen to me?! Sigh. You tell her Suzuka!!" Arisa-chan turned away from me and crossed her arms together.
"Um… what she's trying to say is, would you care to be our friend?" Suzuka-chan put her hand to her heart and waited for me to answer. "Uh…" 'Fate-chan! Oh my gosh! I finally made a friend! Better yet, TWO friends!!' "Uh, sure," Was all my reply was.
"Ok then, now that we're friends, lets get together after school and go to my house for a detour!" Arisa-chan blurted out something that she couldn't hide inside herself any longer.
"Uh, about after school…" I raised my left hand in mid-air and stopped when I saw Arisa-chan's sad face.
"… What, do you have something else to do after school?" Arisa-chan gave me the puppy eyes. "… uh… not in particularly… but I do have to get home because I have something important to do…" I gave her an apologetic look and she forgave me. Suzuka-chan said that she would forgive me if I hang out with them at school today.
"Thanks for understanding Arisa-chan, Suzuka-chan and of course I'll hang out with you guys today," I looked at the both of them back and forth until I felt a stop. I looked out of the window, forgetting that we were in the bus, and jumped up when I saw our school just ahead. 'Oh no!! School!'
"Ahhh! Come on! We don't want to be late!" I took a hold of Arisa-chan and Suzuka-chan's hand that were not occupied by their handbag and Suzuka-chan grabbed my handbag and we ran out of the bus. We ran from the bus stop to the front gate of our school and past the gates before I let their hands go.
We were all panting and were bending down a little before I spoke in between breaths, "Wow! I can't… believe… we made it!!" I looked behind us and saw one of the staff barely closing the gate. 'The was so close. I'm glad… I can still run fast.'
"Yeah… thanks to your… running… we made it… in time…" Arisa-chan said while trying to breathe, "Argh! I'm… going to… DIE!!!"
"… Yeah… Nanoha-chan, you run fast… how did you manage to keep… your body in shape… to run fast…?" Suzuka-chan spoke after she was able to speak, even after resting she was still having a hard time to breathe. Suzuka-chan gave my my handbag back and we stared at each other.
"Ugn… I honestly don't know… hmm, well, enough about that! Lets get to class before the bell rings!!" I ran into the school and Arisa-chan and Suzuka-chan followed after me.
We were in our classroom just in time to get to our seat before the bell rang.
'Great, now I have to stay in class for the lectures from our teacher… sigh… oh well, I can wait until then.'
By the time I realized, lunch came by quick after much of looking out the window the whole time.
After school: Nanoha's POV:
"Bye bye Arisa-chan, Suzuka-chan!" I was 20 feet away from them when I called out waving to them.
"Bye Nanoha-chan! See you tomorrow!" Suzuka-chan waved at me and Arisa-chan followed suit.
"Bye Nanoha." Was all Arisa-chan said before heading off following Suzuka-chan into the black limousine and heading off.
'Ok, now I have to get home and go to the mailbox!' I ran to the bus stop and got inside the bus, to my surprise there were empty seats everywhere, unlike this morning.
When I reached my destination I pulled a string to signal the driver that I had to get off. I walked out of the bus and ran down the sidewalk to my house, to my surprise my mom was at the mailbox, standing there and checking the mails she saw a mail for me for the very first time and had a shocked face, but a happy one at the same time.
"Mom! Is there a mail for me?!" I called out from the corner of the sidewalk, knowing the answer I went ahead and asked it already just in case. When my mom turned around to see me she lifted up a big envelop and waved it at me.
'Ah! That must be it! Fate-chan's mail!' I ran to my mom and grabbed the big envelope. "Thanks Mom! I'm going to my room now!" I walked to the door, opened it, took off my shoe real fast, and leaped up the case of stairs ahead of me leading to my room.
When I got inside my room, I closed my door and locked it just in case. "Fate-chan…" I slowly opened the big envelope, being careful not to rip it. 'Ok… careful.'
To be Continued...
A/N: Hmmm… How did you like that so far? I'm not quite sure, but I guess it worked out ok… My dad is pestering me to get off of his computer right now and I can't let him wait long, now can I?
Sorry this was a long update… Please R&R!!I would appreciate it!! :D
Hopefully this chapter was long enough… I was stressing over the Star Test and wasn't thinking about finishing this chapter soon, but I did! Next chapter will come in about not until in the middle or at the end of May! Sorry! Just so busy!
-Yuki-chan