A/N: Yah! 20 reviews!! Now I'm happy! I can continue to write now!! Though I have a test tomorrow, who cares! I rather finish this story than go to sleep early to take a test for college! Not trying to say that I don't want to go to college, it's just that this story has changed my life in meeting new people who kind of shares my interests too! Sorry if this chapter is going to be weird! I wasn't really thinking and just wrote it… I was sort of spacing out while writing it… you can say that…
Fatenanohakimon: LOL!! You can say that they are head over heels for each other!
yojimbo89: Thank you!! :D
KillerQueen118: Lol! You'll know what Nanoha says in this chapter. Yes, wait! Wait for the next chapter to be posted! Muahahaha!! Oookk… that was weird! I guess staying up all night to finish this chapter made me all hyper. Thank you! I will keep up the good work!
Lucia-Rozen: Yes, Fate gave Nanoha Raging Heart as a present! And I didn't want Precia to be mean to Fate so I made her nice! :D I just love how Fate and Nanoha are shy! They're so cute!! XD
Mikoto: Yes, it was short again, and I'm sorry about that! And sorry I wrote, I mean, typed 'criticize'. I was all hyper when I wrote the story because I stayed up all night long to finish it. Thanks, I like this chapter more than the other two too because it's cute! I like shy Fate! She's so cute! And I just thought about the idea of Raging Heart as a present the last moment… and thanks! I will try to continue like that!
chkim218: Yeah, it was a last minute thing to think of a present! I was thinking of a promise ring or something, but then Raging Heart popped out of my head and I just started typing… and yes, Nanoha does give Fate a gift. Later on in the story. Of course I'll keep writing, I don't want to disappoint my readers in not continuing, right?
BPHaru: Hmm… either one is fine with me, I don't care to use Raising Heart or Raging Heart… thanks though! I will 'keep the good work'! Hehe!!
On with the story!! :D
Nanoha did send me a video and a letter after all… wait, I see pictures too!
I Remember
By:
Yuki-Kamishiro
Fate's POV:
I closed the door and locked it, much to my mom always barging in on me. 'Hmm… let's see here, which one should I look at first?' I put the pictures on top of the video and letter, looking at them as I got to my bed.
"Aww! This one of Nanoha is so cute! She's even blushing!!" I gazed at the picture, with Nanoha in the park on the swing blushing, for 5 whole minutes and then decided to put the picture in my picture frame to replace my old picture.
"Hopefully she won't mind me putting her picture in here…" I said placing my picture frame, with Nanoha in it, on my desk.
I placed all of the pictures down on my desk after much of looking at them for 5 minutes each and complimenting them on how cute Nanoha was.
And then after viewing the pictures one more time on my desk I opened the letter and read it,
"Dear Fate-chan,
Hi Fate-chan! How have you been? It's been two days since you left and I feel so lonely… well, if you did receive this then it would be three days actually… so, what have you been doing lately? Um, I don't know what to say… I don't know how to say this, so I'll just video tape myself… (um, that sounded weird… too bad I can't erase it because I'm writing in pen, my mom says that I have to practice writing in pen soon… so I am…) I think it'll be easier that way.
Your Best Friend,
Takamachi Nanoha"
"The video huh?" I placed the letter down on top of the pictures and ran down stairs with the disk case.
"MOM!!! CAN YOU-" I was cut off by her yelling back at me.
"FATE! NO YELLING IN THIS HOUSE!" She shot back looking over her newspaper, "Now, what do you want? Is it the video that Nanoha sent to you?"
'What?' "H-how do you know that? By the way, you're yelling yourself! How come you get to do things that I can't, huh?!" I retorted.
"Because I'm your mother and you're my daughter. That's why." She simply replied and put her newspaper down on the table, "Now, let's see what Nanoha has to say to you, shall we?"
'What? But I want to watch her by myself!' "Fine, just this once…" I handed the disk case to my mom and she obliged by opening it and taking out the video.
"Just this once? But I want to keep watching her from now on too~! Nanoha's just so cute! No wonder you're so fond of her-"
"MOM!! You don't have to say that out loud! It's embarrassing!" I yelled to stop her from her nonsense, "Just get the video going already…" I murmured and sat down on our big 'L' shape couch that was facing the big LCD T.V.
"What? But Nanoha's not even here though… mmm… OK! ALL SET!!" My mom ran next to me and jumped on the couch 2 feet away from me, making me jump up from the couch a little.
"Wha-! Mom, stop acting like a little kid!"
"Wha-! Fate, stop acting like an adult!"
"Stop mimicking me, Mom! I- Nanoha!" I turned around to face the big LCD T.V. and locked my gaze onto the T.V. where the screen turned on to view a sidewalk.
"Ok ok, you win, just don't stop in the middle of your sentence to loo- Aww! Nanoha!"
'Ok, she says for me to not stop in the middle of my sentence and here she is stopping in the middle of her sentence… sigh… oh well.' "Shh, Mom. I'm trying to watch!" I waved my hand to the side for her to stop talking.
When the camera turned up I saw Nanoha outside in the hot air in front of a big tree, she was leaning on the tree and it looked like she was thinking for a moment to gather her words before speaking up.
"Um, Mom… what do I say?" I heard Nanoha whispering with her left hand at the side of her mouth.
"I thought you thought of what to say to Fate-san already?" I heard Nanoha's mom, Momoko, saying behind the camera.
"Um… I forgot, ever since you said you were turning the camera on, it all went away…" Nanoha looked down at her feet and started kicking her feet back and forth into the dirt.
"Nanoha, you have to say something or Fate-san won't be able to get any words from you, she'll be sad," Right after Momoko said that Nanoha looked up within not even a second and I heard a pop in her neck.
"Um… Oh yeah! I remember now! Hi Fate-chan, I made a friend today… I mean two friends! It surprised me because it turns out that they were our classmates!" Nanoha almost yelled out the last sentence.
"Nyahaha… well, I wanted to say that I will be waiting for you to come down here! I can't wait, it'll be like you never even left this place at all, when you come back!" Nanoha turned crimson pink and looked away from the camera.
'Nanoha's smile, I miss that smile…' "Sniff, Wha-?" I wiped a tear that was forming in my eye then the tear that already fell.
"I hope you come soon! I have everything planned out for us to do when you get here!" Nanoha was looking into the camera with shimmering in her bright slate blue eyes then she paused for a second and looked into the sky.
"Fate… don't cry, you'll see her again." I heard my mom saying before she pulled me forward into a hug.
"MOM! Sniff, I MISS NANOHA!" I yelled into my mom's embrace, clutching her blouse with my fist.
"Well, I hope you do come soon! See you then!" And with that said, Nanoha waved goodbye and was cut off by Momoko pressing the button to turn it off.
"I know sweetheart, I know." I felt my mom's hand caressing my hair and by the time I knew it I had already fallen asleep.
I awoke to the sound of something steaming in the kitchen. 'What? I feel asleep?'
I opened my eyes until they were half opened to see that I was still on the 'L' shape couch and a blanket was put on me.
"… Mom?" I called out pushing the blanket aside and moved to a sitting position. I realized my eyes hurt and moved my hand up to rub them.
"Hm?" Mom hummed from the kitchen and I heard her say something about washing my face first before going to the kitchen.
"Ok… wait, what time is it?" I peeped over the couch and saw my mom looking at her wrist watch before telling me that it was way past 7 o'clock.
"What? 7 already?" I stood up and walked to the nearest bathroom to wash my face. 'I cried… sigh, I'm such a kid… well, I am in 6th grade after all, of course I would cry over a best friend…'
Deep inside there was something wrong that didn't quite make sense though. Whatever it was, oh well.
When I got inside the bathroom I saw Nanoha's toothbrush that I brought with me. She would always use it whenever she came to sleepover, but that won't happen anymore since I'm far away from where she lives now.
I turned on the water to a warm temperature and started to wash my face. After I was done washing my face I turned off the water.
When I reached for the towel that was hanging off the edge of the counter it fell and I tried to open my eyes but the water was getting into my eyes, making my see only blur.
I heard the doorknob turn and the door open.
"Fate? Do you need help?" My mom stood at the door trying to figure out why I was just standing there with my face still wet and then she saw that the towel was on the floor and I was trying to find it.
"Mom? Is that you?" I asked reaching out to find her.
"Oh, the towel," Mom ran next to me and grabbed the towel that was on the floor, "Here sweetheart. You dropped your towel."
"Oh, thanks Mom," Reaching for the towel, I found it much to my mom pushing it towards me.
I wiped my face fast and looked at her with a puzzled look, "What's so funny?"
I heard her trying to keep in her laugh, but couldn't hold it in much longer due to my puzzled face. She bursted out laughing and leaned on her thighs for support.
"… OooOOokkk? I don't know what's so funny, but I think I'm going to go to the kitchen now…" I took one step forward and felt a hold on my left arm.
"Fate… are you ok now?" Mom asked me with a serious face, "I mean… about Nanoha, you've been acting weird for the past 3 days since we've been here and…" 'I have…? Oh crap! I need to stay calm.'
"I'm ok Mom. What's gotten in you to ask that all of a sudden?" I walked out of her hold and walked into the kitchen. ''Crap' huh? Out of all of the words why would I say 'crap'?'
"Really Mom, I'm fine!" I yelled back to her so that she wouldn't be sad because I walked out on her just now.
"Ok… just don't- never mind. Let's eat!" Mom came running from the bathroom door and into the kitchen after me.
"Yeah, let's! I'm hungry!" I pulled out one of the chairs closest to me and sat down. Mom on the other hand, likes to sit on her favorite chair and spot, for some weird reason.
'Sigh, I could get used to this…'
"Itadakimasu!"
'Now, I have to think of what to send Nanoha… hmm… what would be good?'
"Fate… I was just thinking, when I saw on your calendar that you were off school in 3 weeks, that you can visit Nanoha in the Summer… what do you think?"
"… cough, IN THE SUMMER?!" I had choked on the food that was in my mouth due to the early suggestion.
To be Continued…
A/N: OoOOokkk… that was weird! I don't know what I was writing, but I just wrote it… sorry if it wasn't that interesting… I'll make it longer and more interesting next time on the next chapter!! I promise!! XD PLEASE REVIEW!! PRESS IT! PRESS IT!! PRESS IT AND LET OUT YOUR WORDS TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENTS!! :D Next chapter will be over 5,000 words! I promise!! Any suggestions on the next chapter? You can suggest and I'll pick! Maybe...
-Yuki-chan
