*~-[ Daily Life at the Takamachi Household ]-~*


Story #7:
Lovely Accessory

Genres/'Tags':
Family / Comedy / Yuri / One-Shot

Summary:
Fate has returned from her latest mission which had taken about six months. Needless to say, she really missed being with Nanoha and doesn't want to waste any of her off time not being near Nanoha. Unfortunately, Nanoha still has to go to work.

Disclaimer:
I do not own Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha and all related trademarks are owned by Seven Arcs.


*~-[ Lovely Accessory ]-~*


"Hey Nanoha-chan!" Hayate exclaimed happily upon running into her friend.

"Good morning Hayate-chan." The flight instructor greeted back with a smile.

"Huh? What is that? Since when do you carry a backpack to work?" The commander asked upon noticing something on Nanoha's back.

"Oh don't be silly Hayate-chan," Nanoha laughed, waving her hand to discard the silly notion of her carrying a backpack, "It's just Fate-chan, see?"

Nanoha turned around to give Hayate a better look at her back. Hayate's eyes widened and she raised her eyebrows in surprise when she indeed found the blonde Enforcer, in civilian clothes, clinging to the auburn-haired flight instructor's back. It looked like she was hanging on for dear life.

"Wha…" Hayate's mouth fell open and she couldn't help but gape at her two best friends. "Why…?" she managed to mutter in disbelief.

"Well, you know how long Fate-chan's last mission took," Nanoha started explaining. Hayate nodded in confirmation, still unable to find her words. "and now she said she doesn't want to spend any of the time she's here, not being with me."

Hayate was still staring, dumb-founded, at her two friends as they walked away. She saw Fate nuzzling her face into Nanoha's neck while the latter just walked through the hallways of the base as if everything was perfectly normal.

*~-[ X ]-~*

"Good morning Vita-chan!" Nanoha greeted her assistant down the hallway on her way to the training field.

"Ah Nanoha, you're right-" Vita paused mid-sentence as she turned around and her eyes fell on the flight instructor and the woman hanging on to her. "-on time…" Vita finished her sentence, trailing off.

"What the hell!" The short red-head exclaimed. She quickly walked up to the two women and pointed at Fate with Graf Eisen. "What do you think you're doing?!" She asked, clearly surprised as well as irritated.

Fate didn't respond. Instead, the blonde had one of the most serene expressions on her face Vita had ever seen, which only served to agitate the already easily worked up red-head even more.

Vita turned to Nanoha. "Don't tell me you're seriously considering training the recruits with her hanging around your neck like some over-sized scarf…" she practically whined, fearing she already knew the answer.

"I don't see why not." Nanoha replied happily, clearly fine with the whole situation.

Vita sighed loudly. 'I knew it…'

"Nanoha, you know I like you; you're a good friend. But are you insane?!" Vita yelled in anger.

Taking a deep breath, crossing her arms and closing her eyes she managed to calm herself down before continuing. "I highly doubt you'll be able to properly train anyone like this. There's a big chance nobody will be able to concentrate on anything if their instructor is sporting a human-sized and -shaped scarf that is hanging on to them like some sort of love-sick puppy. How would you even be able to concentrate on anything like that?"

It was quiet for a few seconds. Thinking it weird she wasn't receiving a response, Vita slowly opened one eye.

Only to have both her eyes shoot open at the sight of Nanoha petting Fate on the head like she was some sort of puppy.

Vita growled loudly while face-palming hard.

*~-[ X ]-~*

The training field was dead silent the moment Nanoha walked up to being in front of the recruits. Everyone couldn't help but stare at the woman clinging to their instructor. After the initial shock the whispers started.

"Isn't that Enforcer Harlaown?"

"I knew they were in a relationship!"

"Maybe it's part of our training? Fighting while at the same time protecting someone?"

"I'm sure she could've gotten lieutenant Vita to help her if that were the case."

"I'm sure that would've been easier as well, seeing how sma-"

A certain recruit was promptly hit in the head with a small metal ball.

"Idiot…" Vita muttered under her breath.

The rest of training passed by mainly normal. Needless to say, the recruits were not entirely focused which bugged Nanoha a little.

"I wonder why everyone seems so out of it today?" She spoke her thoughts out loud.

"They're just smitten by your beauty." Fate whispered in the flight instructor's ear. "But they better not get any ideas; you're mine~!" the blonde dragged the final word out, breathing heavily in Nanoha's ear, earning a pleasant shiver from the auburn-haired beauty.

"Mou, Fate-chan, you always say the sweetest things!" Nanoha laughed happily.

Vita could only face-palm at the sight of the two love-birds flirting like there was no tomorrow. Looking up from her hand in her face she caught the recruits staring at their instructor and the famous Enforcer.

"What the hell do you think you're lookin' at!" She yelled as she tightened her hold on Graf Eisen. The recruits promptly went back to their exercises, not wanting to get crushed by an infuriated hammer knight.

*~-[ X ]-~*

"Vivio! Over here!" Nanoha called her daughter from the crowd of children being picked up by their parents.

"Nanoha-mama!" the little blonde girl called back as she ran over to her mother, dragging a certain mint-green haired older girl with her. "Hello Nanoha-mama, Fate-mama!"

"Hello Vivio! Good afternoon Ein-chan." The two adults greeted simultaneously.

Einhart found herself stunned.

"How was your day at school Vivio?" Nanoha asked her daughter.

"I had a lot of fun today!" Vivio exclaimed happily before telling her parents everything she'd done at school. Nanoha and Fate were listening attentively to their daughter's enthusiastic stories of the day.

Einhart was still stunned, staring at the blonde with her hands wrapped around the brunette, showing no signs of letting go. At the same time she stared at Vivio who just ignored the way one of her mothers was holding the other.

'Is this… a normal occurrence?' She wondered, strangely entranced by the sight presented to her.

"Einhart-san are you okay?" a pair of red and green eyes looked at her questioningly.

"H-huh?" she stammered.

"You're bleeding!" Einhart slowly reached to her face and found there was indeed some blood leaking from her nose.

Einhart's eyes widened and she quickly wiped the blood away. "D-don't w-worry about it!" she said, frantically swinging her arms around. "I-I'm f-f-fine."

"Are you sure?" Nanoha leaned in to take a better look at Einhart's nose. Fate was inadvertently also brought closer as she was still holding on to Nanoha.

Einhart felt something akin to horror as the faces of both adult women got close, their inquisitive gazes felt like burning lasers to the young girl. She quickly turned around to prevent anyone from seeing the second stream of blood that started running down her nose.

"I-I'm fine really. I promise!" she said quickly.

"If you say so Ein-chan." Nanoha said, not entirely convinced but she let it go.

"Just be sure to look after yourself okay?" Fate added with a gentle smile.

"And otherwise I'll be sure to look after her!" Vivio chimed in, wrapping her arms around Einhart, giving her a hug from behind.

'V-V-Vivio-san's holding on t-to me, just like Fate-san is holding on to Nanoha-san!' Einhart's mind went into overdrive. 'I'm the happiest person in the world…'

"Einhart-san you're bleeding again!"


Afterword:
Thank you for taking your time to read 'Lovely Accessory', the seventh story in this collection. I hope it did not disappoint.

I'm having major writer's block for 'Bound by Regret' so in an attempt to take my mind off of that for a bit I decided to just write something silly. There's not really anything else I can say.

Please feel free to leave me a review telling me what you think. Don't be afraid to be critical; I appreciate all forms of feedback.

*~-[ May we meet again, fare thee well! ]-~*