A/N: Phew! Somehow, I managed to finish this chapter before the weekend came, so I decided to post it.

On another note… I would just like to tell you a little about why I decided to post my stories online other than the fact of wanting others to read my stories. This year is a crucial year for me in my studies, therefore I had a little thought of writing stories to improve my English. As you can see from my bio… I'm from a country that doesn't produce many people who are outstanding in English – a little too honest I am I guess? – No offence to people from my country, but it's the truth. So, I decided to get my stories online, get some feedbacks and take a good look at my stories after that; hoping that I would improve for every chapter after all reviewing my mistakes each and every time.

Zona Rose - Thank you very much for your kind and honest thought. I would try my best to find a beta reader of my standards when I have the time. I also agree that English may not be my native language, but my family's a English speaking and English educated family. So I would very much like to improve on my own for now. I'm really thankful for the advice and thoughts though ^^.

Aka Chibi-chan – Thank you for your support, I sincerely appreciate your efforts to review my chapters. Your doubts would definitely be cleared sooner or later, hope you would enjoy this chapter too. Oh, and yes, I love fluffy and lovey-dovey moments between them too, so there would be lots of them, don't worry.

Ah! Sorry to ramble on and on! You may proceed to the next chapter of this series! *bows to apologize* Hope that my chapter's fluency did and would increase over time. Another LONG~ chapter ^^.

Bodyguards:

Danger

Chapter 5

Fate's POV

"Run!" I signaled for her to escape from the incoming dangers. A few strong build men were only a few hundred of meters away from us and are charging towards us. Tsk! Why did things turn out to become like this! Just one hostage and what's with this mess!

Let's trail back to a few hours ago to understand why this happened,

The guy from previous chapter had managed to escape. It seems that his body had a tracking device planted on him and reinforcements came. Nanoha's house is now dangerous for her to be in. The secret hiding passage made by me now comes to big use. I told Nanoha to take the long route there because it would have no meaning for her to run to the secret passage with the enemies chasing her. She had to lose them somehow before getting to the secret passage to hide until everything is over.

So now let's return to the present,

I managed to hold up the strongest among them by engaging in a battle with him. I'm not going to use my power to the maximum as it would destroy the house. If my power destroys the house, then that would bring my efforts to nothing for building that secret passage as the building would collapse. Unable to fight with my full power, it's really troublesome. Not only that, the guy keeps coming in for close combats. I can't guard myself well enough since I can't use much of my power.

Damn! Just lay dead already! It's so annoying! I've got to get to where Nanoha is!

Nanoha's POV

"Haa… Haa… Man, they sure are persistant! If this continues, I won't be able to reach there and will only end up collapsing and getting captured!" I had been running around the exterior of the house but I just can't lose them! Now I'm almost out of stamina. And I'm hungry too… Just what am I suppose to do! 'Fate-chan hurry up and come here. I don't think I'll make it to the secret passage.'

"She's there," one man shouted as he pointed in my direction. "You're not getting away!"

"Aw… They caught up again! Mou~~ Just why didn't we realize that the guy had a tracking device on him! Were we too busy with each other last night!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as I started running again.

A few minutes later, my energy was almost drained away. "Come on! Make it to the secret passage! They don't seem to be near me now!" I pushed myself enough to finally reach my destination. I quickly caught my breath before I opened the passage and crawled in. I shut it tight by the handle underneath and hugged my knees to my chest, sitting down to rest for a moment.

"Na-no-ha. Wake up." I felt someone shake me by the shoulder. I opened my eyes and saw Fate! 'Oh no! Have I been sleeping? Huh? Why is she here? Is everything over? How long has it been?'

"Fate-chan! Is everything over? How long has it been?" I jumped up from where I was, trying my best to stay calm as I asked her.

"It's already night time silly. And yes, it's over. Come, let's go back up." I took her hand that was stretched out to me and gripped it tightly. She turned her back and reached out for the handle, opening it. We crawled out of it and saw no light trying to blind me. 'So it's really night time huh.' I shook my head hard to snap out of the daze I was in. Then, I realized something gripping on my hand that was holding on to Fate's hands. 'Ouch! It hurts.' I closed one eye in pain and tried to look up at the source causing it. There it was. An evil smile, one I had never seen on Fate's face before. 'What is this! This isn't Fate. Who is this!'

"You are not Fate-chan, let go of me!" I tried to slip my hand away from the grip but failed. The grip got tighter instead. The 'fake' Fate brought my hand high up, making me dangle in mid-air. She also twist my hand then grabbed me by the face with her other hand. "W-who are you!" my voice sounded weak. I was afraid, really afraid of the person who was in front of me. "H-how dare you take her face and identity!" I struggled as I screamed out in a voice I couldn't recognize that it was mine.

"Hm? You've got some nerves to be speaking to me like that, you little brat!" she twist my hand even further, making me scream in pain. Then suddenly a huge bunch of shadows overwhelmed the girl in front of me." I closed my eyes for a second before I open them up. 15 men were standing behind her. 'Ichigo? And the others too! Are they back?' my happy voice couldn't help but scream out mentally.

"Ichigo!" a smile appeared on my face as I called out to them. But they did not respond. All they did was just stand there and give me piercing glares. "Ichigo?" I called out again, trying to just some respond from them. Once again, there was none. Then the blonde girl spoke again.

"For your information, there are not your bodyguards, they are clones." She let go of me in mid-air and I dropped on the ground hard with a 'bang!' sound produced. "We're doing some experiments and they are part of them. Come on, run from them before you lose your life." An evil grin could be seen from the blonde's face. I closed my eyes again. I didn't want to see the face that looked exactly like Fate's having such an evil expression. I muttered all my strength, stood up and started staggering away. I could feel the presence of the 15 men chasing after me, slowly. They followed my every step. It was really scary. 15 men and a girl that took up the same faces of my loved ones were chasing me, torturing me. I screamed out for help. But the place sounded so silent that I would never have expected anyone to come and save me in this situation. 'Fate-chan where are you! Didn't you say that you would come for me when everything is over? Where are you?" my voice was full of despair and agony. I prayed deep down in my heart that someone would hurry up and come. Anyone. I didn't care anymore. If Fate comes, then I'll be even happier. "Fate-chan!" I shouted with all my might into the direction of the sky. Then I saw a glow in the air, it was yellow in color. 'No doubt. It's Fate-chan!' "Fate-chan!" I shouted again.

"NANOHA!" she shouted back. "WAIT FOR ME! STAY THERE AND DON'T MOVE AN INCH!" I heeded her command and stood still. "Bang!" huge explosions sound could be heard from all around me. And before I realize it I was already in Fate's hands. "Don't worry. Nanoha, stay in my arms and hold onto me for your life. We'll be out of here in no time." I gripped onto her tight and she took off into the sky. I shut my eyes tight from the impact when we landed and opened it seconds after to find myself in front of my house, and the sun was still up. I was majorly confused. 'How can this be! What is that!' then my questions were answered immediately when Fate placed me down on the ground gently.

"Nanoha, that was just an illusion made by the enemy."

"Illusion? But it was so real and I-" she interrupted me by placing her index finger to my lip.

"Shh… That is enough for now, please close your eyes and have a good nap, okay? I'll tell you everything in detail when you wake up." She gave me a huge smile and a little rub on my head before she kissed my forehead. I flinched a little and my face flushed. I nodded shyly at her before I closed my eyes.

Fate's POV

"Damn! I underestimated them. They're abilities were nothing to be taken lightly of. They even did experiments like that. But just how did they take my DNA!" I vented my frustrations on the coffee table in the living room. For some reason, I really wanted help from the 15 bodyguards of hers. Even though I didn't like to cooperate with others, if it is to protect her, then I don't mind. Just when thoughts like that flashed through my mind, a different kind of thought came. "No… It can't be that… They…" I didn't want to even think about the possibility that my thoughts are true. After all… it can't be… It's been years, so that can't be true! I shook my head hard, slapped my cheeks with both hands until it became so red and pain that I couldn't think anymore. "Che- I should go to Nanoha for now, those thoughts are nonsense!" I stomped up the stairs into our room, opened the door quietly and went to my side of the bed and sat down beside her. I could hear her mumble some unintelligible stuff and it seems like she was really suffering. "Nanoha… Did you have a nightmare about it again?"

Meanwhile…

Nanoha's POV

"Stop! Don't come!" I panicked as I pushed myself to run like the speed of wind down the flight of stairs. This definitely has to be a dream! I don't live in such a place and the sceneries are all wrong! The number of flight of stairs is just ridiculous! No matter how I run, it just doesn't end and the guys are still chasing after me from behind. When I turn my head to look down the flight of stairs I could see an unfamiliar place. It was a plaza with many, many shops inside and on the outside; there is a playground at one corner and many benches at another. IN the middle of it is a very big empty space. There is a flight of four steps not far from it and it leads to inside the plaza. 'Ridiculous! Just where is this! If I'm in a dream then I should be awake by now! It's always the way wake up suddenly when it reaches the scariest part, but I'm not getting the feeling that I'll be out anytime soon!' As I ran, I called out to Fate mentally but there was no answer. Well, of course there won't be one, I'm in a dream; there's no way she can come in to save me.

After a long, long time trying to escape from them by running down the flight of stairs, the stairs finally ended. I jumped down the last three steps and began to run forward to that 'plaza'. If I went there, the people should realize that I'm in trouble and would help me.

But… When I got there, there was no one. My last hope was gone. The place was so empty without a single soul there. I tried to run in the plaza, hoping that inside, there were be people to save me. And you know what? There isn't anyone either! I was about to turn my head when I saw a clown in front of me. Thinking that he might be my last chance, I run towards him shouting, "Help me! Please!" when I did, only an evil grin could be seen. Then, the clown suddenly transformed into the blonde that looked exactly like Fate.

"You can't escape, no matter what! Come to me!" the blonde's face was twisted. Then I felt some presence getting closer towards me. "Ah! They're finally here. Guys, hold her in place!" she gave a command to the 15 men that were already behind me by the time I turned my head. They grabbed me by my arms and held them up in the air, tight. "Ah… I'll take my time to scan through every single part of your body." The blonde reached her hand out to my face and her gaze slowly went over my body. "What should I do now that I've captured you, what's good?" she took a peek at 'Ichigo' and he gave her an answer.

"Anything you'd like, Milady."

"Alright, then let's take her back to the lab and I'll have my fun with her." Just when she finished her sentence and the guys were about to leave with her, a voice could be heard from above.

"Master!" I looked up to see another Ichigo and the others with Fate alongside them. 'HUH!' was the only thing I could think of.

Then, they grabbed me when they landed and flew back up into the sky. All of them were sprouting wings, including Fate. She's beautiful and alluring. But that wasn't the time to be staring at her in admiration. I tried confirming their identities by calling out to them. "Ichigo, Rokume, Ryuukai, Fate-chan; are you all real?" they all looked at me with a strange look before they started to burst out laughing.

"O-of course! If we aren't then who is!" Ichigo who was holding onto me tight by my left hand managed to speak in between his laughter.

"N-Nanoha, did you hit your head or something? You can't even tell the real from the fake?" Fate also tried to speaking between her laughter as she held me by my right hand.

"Mou~~~~~~~~~~~~~" I pouted. And we continued to fly up the sky. When I saw light I shut my eyes tight to avoid looking directly into it. When I reopened my eyes, I found myself back in reality and a worried Fate was by my side, shouting my name over and over again.

"I'm fine, it was just a nightmare." I brought myself to a sitting position before I reassured her.

December 3rd, Monday 10.00 p.m.

After days, I finally calmed down from the incident. Though, it seems that Fate didn't manage to find out the identity of that enemy. They were hired by the Jack smith family but there were no other records of them anywhere. I told her to forget it if she really couldn't find the real identity of those people but she insisted that she would no matter what. I didn't really know what made her want to do so, so badly and she seemed a little strange these days.

"Fate-chan, are you okay? You don't seem to be concentrating well these days." I asked in a concerned voice. She responded without opening her mouth, by patting me on my head. I took her hand to my chest and hugged it tightly. "Tell me if something is wrong alright?" I comforted her.

"Yes, I will." She stared directly into my eyes, making me avert my eyes when I felt my face getting hot.

"F-Fate-chan, can we kiss?" I shyly requested, my eyes still not looking into hers.

"Sure, I'll even hug you to sleep tonight if you want to." Her words made me blush even further and now I really can't look at her. She turned my head gently with her right hand then slipped her left away from my hands and wrapped it around my waist, bringing me closer to her. As we closed it, I closed my eyes and felt her lip touch. It felt so warm and moist. It was soft too.

Third person's POV

After that short, gentle kiss, Fate switched they position on the bed. She was now on top of Nanoha who was lying on her back. "Nanoha, can I do it again?" Fate asked in a soft voice only loud enough for the brunette to hear. The brunette nodded her head and they went on again. After a few kisses, Fate loosen her grip on Nanoha's head and fell on her back beside Nanoha. "We should stay like this for the day. Let's not do anything else." She interlaced her fingers with Nanoha's and Nanoha returned the action.

"Mm. Let's do that." She agreed with Fate's suggestion and they laid on the bed with their hands interlaced for hours until they fell asleep in each other's hug.

The next morning, Fate went down like usual to prepare breakfast for Nanoha, while she slept until the very last minute before her breakfast was done being prepared. They also went to school like usual, nothing much happened; only Nanoha being targeted by the guy students in school for unknown reasons like usual.

"Nanoha, don't you feel bored being with me?" Fate shot a sudden question at Nanoha when they were on their way home in the car. "I mean, I'm…" before Fate could finish she turned her head away from Nanoha for a moment before turning it back and shaking it, indicating that it was nothing. Nanoha squeezed Fate's hand to comfort her and gave her a cheerful smile. The blonde returned the smile after a second of shock. "I'm sorry for saying that. I won't ask you anything like that again. I promise." The blonde squeezed Nanoha's hand in a similar way and leaned her head against the brunette's shoulders.

After dinner, Fate went to their room to do some information gathering for the day. When she was done, she went down to where Nanoha was; in the kitchen. She didn't really know why but Nanoha suddenly wanted to learn some cooking from the chefs and had begged them to do so despite their refusal. "Nanoha, you don't have to force yourself to learn some cooking you know." Fate poked her head into the kitchen.

"But- You always cooked for me even though I said you didn't need to! If I don't learn to cook I can't return the favor!" Nanoha pouted, turning her head towards Fate and giving a small growling sound.

"Oh you cute little kitty, come here." Somehow, Nanoha responded to her sentence and went charging to Fate with her hands stretched out. She bumped into the blonde, making her take a step back from the impact and hugged her tightly by the waist, burying her head in the ample chest of hers. "Good girl, now let's go back up shall we? Let's not disturb the chefs doing their job." Fate stroked the brunette's hair making her purr a little.

Back in the room,

"Mou~~~ Fate-chan, you lured me back here!" Nanoha complained, pounding her clenched fists hard on the blonde's chest. The blonde calmly took her hand and pulled them away from her gently. "Hey, hey, it hurts you know. I'm not invincible." The blonde teased. Wet teary sapphire eyes stared with a puppy look at her. "No,no. That won't work on me now. Listen to me and go to bed, it's late."

"I don't care! If you don't let me do something for you, I won't go to sleep tonight!" Nanoha sounded like a little child throwing some tantrum.

"Oh? So you don't mind if I don't hug you to sleep for days and leave you here alone in the room while I sleep down in the living room?" Fate threatened. The brunette could only give a really shocked face and decided to give up on arguing with her lover. "That's it. Good girl. I'll do anything for you and you don't need to return the favor. I already said that I'm your lover AND your bodyguard, didn't I?" The blonde used a firm tone.

"You did, but I just wanted to help you out in some way." Nanoha confessed.

"Silly, you don't have to. It's my job to help you, not yours. Just listen to me." The blonde convinced the brunette quite well and the brunette nodded in agreement. Fate scooped Nanoha into her arms, getting a little struggle from the girl which stop a little after, and brought her to the bed, laying her on it, covering her with the blankets until her neck. "I've work today so, sorry. You go ahead and sleep first. I'll promise you to be in bed with you in an hour or so, alright?" Fate pinched Nanoha's nose lightly.

"Hai~~~" the girl responded.

Fate went to the study desk, after she sat by the brunette's side waiting for her to fall into deep slumber, to continue her information gathering on the Jack Smith family and the Nakajima family. These two definitely has connections to the enemies they encountered days ago. There's no doubt about that. If she searched hard, she's sure to find a clue or two, if her guess isn't wrong about those people. However, she also hoped that she WAS wrong. She didn't want to have to remember those days that were long forgotten by her.

"Please tell me it isn't you…" Fate muttered to herself in a very pained expression.

An hour later,

Fate's POV

"Ah~~~~~~~" I stretched my arms up in the air, trying to loosen up my stiff body. I rubbed my shoulders and my neck with my hands making 'crack' sounds. "Time to sleep I guess." I spoke to the currently sleeping Nanoha, having no response from her. "Good night." I tucked myself in bed, covered myself to my neck. I moved closer to her, wrapping my arms around her back and pulling her close to me before I closed my eyes, ready to fall asleep.

The next morning,

I woke up only to find Nanoha holding onto me so tightly that I couldn't get out of her hold without waking her up. "You don't have to do that. I won't run away from you or anything." A huge smile appeared on my face as I stared at the adorable sleeping girl. "If only I could stay like this my whole life, not letting you go anywhere, not doing anything, just hugging you tightly while you do the same." I spaced out to think of the many, many wishes of mine. "But I guess, the wish I wanted to be granted the most was already granted by you. To be holding my mutual love tightly like this in bed, while she's sleeping in my arms. That is enough for me. Thank you, Nanoha." I pecked on her forehead and saw her stir, her grip around me loosening. I giggled a little to myself at the sight of her doing that. 'She's like a little cat. So cute!' I thought to myself while trying my best not to have fantasies about her being a cat. "Oh my, if I stay her any longer I might not be able to control my weird fantasies of you!" I scrambled out of bed the moment her hands got away from me and rush out the door closing it gently behind me. I leaned on the door with my back and gave a sigh of relief. 'I was about to have a nosebleed!' I saved my ass in time.

"Ring! Ring!" suddenly my phone started ringing and vibrating in my pocket that I almost shouted out loud. I clumsy took it out from my pocket and answered it. "Y-yes?" I answered nervously since I picked up the phone without even checking who it was from.

"Ara? Fate? What's wrong? You sound a little weird there." My heart immediately skipped a beat when I heard the voice. 'I-It's Momoko-san!' "Fate?"she repeated.

"OH! It's nothing, it's nothing, really. Anyway, what's the matter Momoko-san? It's rare for you to call me directly. You usually call me through Nanoha."

"Nothing the matter." She bluntly answered.

"HUH?" 'So you mean you interrupted my thoughts and gave me a big shock of my life that my heart almost jumped out FOR NOTHING?' I could feel anger building up in me. "MOMOKO-SAN!" I shouted directly into the phone.

"H-hey! That's no way to treat me after I finally called you directly to ask about your well being!" she tried to convince me with such an excuse but I don't believe such a thing. After all, she's always calling Nanoha for no reason too! And she never tells us the things we needed to know unless WE are the one to CALL her!

"…Don't think that excuse will work on me Momoko-san. How about you hang up before I'll go right over now and give you a good lecture on how to NOT waste your time!" I could feel a vein almost popped when I exploded. She did what I asked and hang up the phone the second I finished my sentence. "Phew! That's all good." When my anger finally subsided I heard a voice calling for me in concern.

"Fate-chan, is something wrong? Why were you shouting?" I turned around to see Nanoha rubbing her eyes sleepily while she stood at the opened door that I had jumped away from position due to the shock from earlier.

"H-hey, Nanoha. Good morning to you. It's nothing at all." I bluffed.

"Good morning, Fate-chan. Is it mom again?" she seems to have noticed the reason for my shouting. 'She has good senses in this kind of thing.' I was lost in my thoughts again when she suddenly collapsed on my shoulder. "Nanoha?" I hurriedly supported her body that was against mine. 'Snooze… Snooze…' was what I heard. I let out a breath of relief to find that she was just back to sleep. "Nanoha, don't scare me." I carried her back to bed and laid her back on the bed. "Just have a good sleep. It's a weekend after all."

A/N: Hopefully, I would be able to finish this "season" before I get REALLY busy on my studies soon. Thanks for all the read and review, please continue to do so!