Creating an Observable Situation.

Finally here we are, after three days, six hours of sleep and the feeling that I'll die if I close my eyes, it's time to begin the periodic and detailed observation of Nanoha Takamachi.

Let's try again what I did in the previous chapter:

I got to school early as usual, I sat in my seat next to the window like every day and waited patiently for Nanoha to arrive…

Tsundere Training, Phase 1, Day 1, is about to begin!

GOD PLEASE DON'T LET ANYONE TELL ME SHE'S NOT COMING! Please, please, please, please… I don't hear anything… no one's saying anything… well… Hallelujah! I'll sit here and wait patiently like a lioness waiting for her zebra… and what kind of comparison was that? Sleep deprivation must be affecting me…

Nanoha's coming, Nanoha's coming, Nanoha's coming…

"Fate-chan…"

"NANOHA!" Oh, no, it's Hayate, what the hell do you want Hayate? Don't you see I'm doing something extremely important for a better world here?... wait a sec… could it be that… "HAYATE!? Nanoha's coming, right?"

"Hi Hayate, my dear friend, how have you been lately? Would you like us to talk about life like normal friends do?" The sarcastic tone she used made me realize that maybe it hadn't been very polite to yell at her like that, Hayate is my friend after all.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have yelled. How have you been?"

"I forgive you just 'cause I'm very nice and I like you." Look how grateful I am, "I've been fine Fate-chan, at least better than you." So it is noticeable that I only sleep two hours a day… maybe that thing about needing to sleep eight hours is not such a myth and not such a thing just for babies as I'd thought.

While Hayate talked of who knows what with Arisa who'd just arrived, I simply stayed there looking at the door waiting for my Tsundere apprentice to arrive…

I wonder if Nanoha is Tsundere because she was born with the tendency or because she was raised that way. Actually, I hope it's the second option, that way if I fail with her I can try with her daughter. Although, it also depends on the father… if the father knows nothing about tsunderism it makes things difficult… unless the man dies "accidentally" before the birth of the child, then Nanoha would end up being a single Mother…

About five minutes before the bell rang to signal the beginning of classes, Nanoha crossed the threshold of the door with the reddest nose you could ever imagine, so much that Rudolph the reindeer would look like the white nosed reindeer next to her. (bad joke, Fate, bad joke)

She walked blowing her nose a few times, and sat down with a sigh that didn't go unnoticed by any of the five that were close to her.

"Nanoha-chan…" Suzuka started talking. "Are you really in conditions to come today?" Suzuka is so melodramatic, if she couldn't have come she wouldn't have.

"If's dofing, Suzuka-chan" Oh, my god! Since when is Nanoha twangy? "If doezn't hurt adymore, I dust have a sduffy dose." Fate, control yourself, she's sick, don't mess with her right now, remember that sickness is a period of Dere-dere weakness you have to take advantage of.

"Nanoha-chan, can you say peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers?" It was Hayate who said that, not me, and partly I'm glad, because the murderous glare that Nanoha gave her the second after seemed like it could froze any teenage boy looking at playboy magazines.

Not being able to help it, Nanoha the twangy pulled out a roll of toilet paper, one of those with double layer, and started to separate it until she got two towers of paper ready and willing to face the army of mucus that left her nose every three seconds.

The poor thing makes me feel bad, maybe I should leave the Tsundere training for another time…

1… 2… 3…

Okay, we're in another time, let's get the action starting!

For those who want to learn how to observe a Tsundere, I'll say that it's not as simple as sitting down and staring like an idiot, no, an observation means using every sense to get to know the target as, or even more than, oneself.

Nor can you start an observation just like that, every Tsundere, even the ones who don't know they are, have a basic mood, which is neither Tsu-Tsun nor Dere-Dere, and which depends entirely on the personality of each person. Nanoha's basic mood is nothing more than being the nice girl who cares about her friends and is happy with her family, always willing to help, having good intentions, blah, blah, boring perfect girl, etc, etc.

This is the state we are NOT interested in because everyone knows it, and it's the default state in which the Tsundere wakes up every morning. That's why, every day, as early as possible, this state must be unbalanced, in order to achieve making the target get defensive, and therefore, she can't return to the equilibrium state during the whole time they are in the presence of whoever caused the disturbance.

Only one person can make a Tsundere break its equilibrium state quickly, and that person is… drum roll… The Love Interest!

But wait a minute! How is Fate Testarossa Harlaown going to break the equilibrium of Nanoha Takamachi if she doesn't know who the mysterious love interest is? Well folks, that's why I'm a Tsundere trainer, read and learn:

First, you must capture the attention of the target, it shouldn't be something neither extravagant nor stupid since we don't want to get her mad at us or to treat us like idiots, it has to be something that raises an aura of mystery. A Tsundere is a paranoid prey, anything mysterious around them makes them think it has to do with them. And there is nothing more mysterious than a simple laugh looking at the horizon.

With all my charms, I put my face in the palm of my hand and looked out the window with a mocking smile, then I remember a joke and the smile turns into a small laugh that I "tried" to hide covering my mouth delicately.

"Whad coul be zo fudy?" Bingo! The fact that Nanoha is sick makes her more paranoid than a normal Tsundere, which is even better for me.

Once we make sure the target has all her attention on us, we move to confirming her extreme suspicious saying anything that might be fairly related to the current situation, and when I say anything, it means that anything works.

I turned to look at Nanoha slowly, adding intrigue and anxiety. I could see her eyes demanded answers. I, obviously, lied.

"I was remembering when Chrono put on a clown nose." Which would be translated in Nanoha's mind as: 'You have a clown nose that makes me laugh and I can't help it because I've already imagined you on a monocycle, juggling and saying jokes with that twangy voice.'

"Zo ma dose makez you daugh becauze if dooks like a clowd dose, I cad't bedieve you'd zo evidy insedsifive like do be zo idcodsiderate wit a pedson…" She ran out of air, I wonder if she needs an inhaler. "… ready you dod't deseve do be ma frien." … Okay… I didn't understand a word of what she said but I'll assume that is was what I thought it would.

Now it's when the whole thing starts to become unbalanced, the Tsundere starts to turn its trend to tsun-tsun mode, threatening to hit you if you say peep or telling you to shut up even though you haven't said anything, this stage is the most dangerous one and it requires a quick action to break the balance successfully. You just have to remember that a Tsundere is only observable when she is disoriented and in dere-dere mode despite wanting to be in tsun-tsun mode.

Next action, I stood from my desk and place my hand on Nanoha's shoulder, I said with the most mocking tone I could manage. "I'm going to the bathroom, try not to fill my square meter with the green army, okay?" Partly I'm grateful Nanoha's sick, under normal circumstances, she would have surely stood up to beat me up.

Satisfied with the face Nanoha made, which showed all the pent up anger she had against me, I left the class and as expected, I didn't go to the bathroom, but rather I went to buy a bottle of water to the cafeteria. Why? Well, simple answer. This wonderful bottle of water would make Nanoha enter in observable confusion and remain like that for the rest of the day.

When I returned to the classroom, I could hear Yuuno telling Nanoha to relax; I couldn't help laughing thinking about how pissed she would be and that she probably was taking it all out on my poor nerd friend. But well, the show must go on, so I went back inside with my head held high only to find the face of hatred of my pre-tsundere.

I approached her quietly, extending the moment and enjoying every second of glory. And, when I was at a decent enough distance so she could try to start yelling at me, I put the water at a visible height and said calmly:

"Here, if you get dehydrated you'll never get better." And I left the water on her desk, sitting in my place afterwards, just when the teacher walked in.

The change in her face was instant, seeing me worrying about her was enough to get her out of place, causing any thought or thing she wanted to yell at me to get lost in her throat. She looked at the water as if it was from another world, probably trying to understand what the hell just happened.

The first morning class went by normally, as expected, Nanoha didn't even dare to touch the water bottle, doing it would meant she wasn't mad at me when she was supposed to be angry for whatever reason was on her Tsundere mind.

Acting Dere-Dere despite not wanting to, this is the state of Observable Confusion.

The State of Observable Confusion, named simply because the target is so disoriented, that her feelings about things are exaggerated, immediately leading us to be able to notice the things she likes or dislikes.

Not only that is its utility, also it allows us to get an idea of how the Tsundere will behave during the training process, allowing us to create a plan of attack appropriate for each situation.

I spent the rest of the day watching Nanoha discreetly. I saw how she calmed considerably when "talking" to Suzuka, how her mood was different when Hayate grabbed her like her "new twangy power" as she called it, and the best of all, how she didn't even dare to look at me in the eyes again during the whole day while pretending to be mad.

Within a week, no, in five days, I'll have a complete report on Nanoha… when that happens, I'll be able to mold her my way, she'll become my experiment, I'll manage to turn her into the desired product no matter what or I'll stop calling myself Fate Testarossa Harlaown.

To all this, I wonder why Nanoha came as twangy as she is considering it was obvious that both me and Hayate wouldn't let it go just like that…

"Attention class, we'll begin the Biology test."

Uh-oh…

A/N: Yay, finally we're getting some action, it's kinda hard to picture Fate the way she is in this story, right? it's so not like her, but there's always a reason for everything and we'll learn why she behaves that way later on in the story, so if you want to find out then you better stick with me all the way through it. Also some of you said Nanoha was more of a yandere than a tsundere, and it's true somehow, although I actually see her more like a tsundere, I think a yandere is way too extreme, i don't think Nanoha would ever become a psychopath serial killer, would she? Anyway, I hope Nanoha's dialogues were good enough, if you didn't understand them, it doesn't really matter cause they weren't meant to be understandable anyway. I have to thank the author, nosoyNeoCervantes, for his help on how to write them. Well, with that said, thanks for reading, hope you're enjoying it and please review! :D