Chapter 7

Fate's POV

"Nanoha?" I called out to her while tapping her shoulders, but there was no respond. "Hey. Nanoha?"

"H-huh? Eh?"

"Are you okay? It seems that you've been spacing out a lot these days. Did something happen?" I worriedly asked.

"Nothing much. Hey, Fate-chan can you tell me about everything? I want to know what happened after you disappeared."

I was surprised that she suddenly wanted to know about the past even though she told me days ago, that she didn't mind me not talking about it until I was really prepared to. "Why? Did you change your mind about the previous promise?"

"No-no! I just…. Never mind if you don't want to." She shook her head hard as let go of my hand that she had been holding all along.

I patted her on her head to comfort her. "No. I will tell you everything. But before that, can we get home to have some dinner? I'm hungry." My stomach growled as I replied her.

After dinner, we went to the room and sat down on the bed, side by side. She leaned her head on my shoulder and I wrapped my arm around her waist. Then, I slowly explained everything to her about my past. Hours gone by as I almost reached the end of the story.

"And so…. The last part you should know it well. I came back here and met you at that cross section." I ended the boring talk and took my hand off her waist and went to stroke her hair. "Well, so…. Is there anything you want to know?" I smiled as I whisper into her ears playfully.

"Hyaa! Stop that!" she jumped up in shock. "I know that you told me the truth and I won't ask anymore about your past. So just please answer me this, okay?" she paused for a moment, walked to the window, opened the grills and stared out it. "Is there anyone chasing you?"

"Huh? Why? I never ran into any enemies these past 4 years." I answered immediately.

"But….That was a person, named Nova, who came looking for me, telling me to leave you before next Monday or else my family will be in trouble. I don't think they're kidding, but my family isn't going to lose so easily. So… I've decided to stay with you no matter what. I've already told my family about this. You're the last to find out." She spilled out.

"Okay, so this person was the one bothering you all along? Even though you said your family wouldn't lose so easily, you were worried?" I walked over to her, wrapped my arms around her neck from the back and hugging her. "Don't be silly, I will be fine. You heard my story right? Now you should be relieved that I can protect myself."

"Okay. I'll trust you." She took my hands from the front and brought them to her face, nuzzling on them.


Nanoha's POV

'Even though Fate said that, I can't help but worry! It's already Monday today! It's already evening too! Our parents said that they would be out today to inspect the town about this but aren't back yet!' my head was full of worries.

"Nanoha, come here and sit down. There's no use walking back and forth the door to wait for them. If they are back, we will hear the door from here."

"B-but!" I don't know why, but Fate doesn't seem to be worried at all. 'Just what is her heart made of!'

"Nanoha? Come on, if you don't come here in 5 seconds, I will go there and get you here." She commanded.

I reluctantly went to her side and sat down beside her on the couch. "Mou! Fate-chan no baka!" I scolded her.

"Why? I'm worried too you know?"

"You don't seem like it at all!" I pointed out.

Her expression immediately saddened and I felt guilty for doing that. I knew that because of what happened 4 years ago, she can't seem to show her real emotions fully to others or even to me yet. I even accepted that fact mentally, a few days ago when we became lovers. 'How could I forget that!' I mentally slapped myself.

"Sorry, please don't be sad." I raised my hands and brought them over her shoulders and brought her close to me.


Finally, at around 8pm, a call was heard. I rushed over to pick up the phone. "Nanoha, it's going to be a tiring day today. Brace yourself and try your best to fend off the enemies near our home. This is going to be a long battle, remember to replenish your blood and take some blood packs with you before going out."

It seems that enemies were already surrounding our house but they couldn't come in or break in because our house was coated with a magical barrier using our powers. They only had a chance to strike us when we were out and it also seems that they missed it in the morning, because I skipped school today with Fate. "Fate-chan, get ready." She nodded.

After replenishing my blood with blood packs instead of her blood, as she had to fight too, I took some spare blood packs with me. We headed out to the park nearby, to make that we had a wide-open space to fight through the day.

Just like we thought, the enemies chased after us, no knowing that they were lured into one area. 'We can fight to our very best here, without caring to destroy this place since no one is here.' I launched my first large scaled attack after concentrating a few seconds to activate it.

"Star light breaker!" I shouted.

The different areas in the park exploded where ever the enemy gathered.

"Who are these people?" Fate shouted to make sure I could hear her.

"I don't know! But I'm very sure they are after you for some reason. That's why they wanted to eliminate the Takamachi family who are your shelter!" I shouted back.

"I see. Let's leave that thinking for later, I'll find out where they're coming from, can you manage it here?"

"Yea, sure. Leave it to me." I bragged.

We separated and each going to play our roles. I stayed in the park, scanned the area and used my magic attacks to immobilize them. I went to one of the bodies in the area, inspected the body and realized they were all either vampires or zombies.

The zombies were a really rare kind in this world but it seemed that this organization had an army of them. In order to get rid of all of them completely and thoroughly, I had no choice but to send them to the after world again.

"Barrier!"

The numbers were increasing and I was getting lesser time to activate my wide range magic attacks. Having no choice, I switched to middle range attacks. About an hour later, the number finally decreased and the reinforcements slowed down. I guess it had to be Fate; she found the source and is trying her best to get rid of it. Not wanting to disappoint her when she comes back, my motivation suddenly increased and my attacks became quicker and harsher.

The day that finally turned to night, felt like centuries had passed. It was really tiring and my blood packs were already running out. I guess I should say that I was lucky that only a few remained. I only had to clear these few out and I get to go back home to enjoy my shower. Fate had also finished destroying the source and is back to help to me.

After the intense battle that lasted hours, we cleared up the 'mess' and headed back home.


"Nanoha, are you okay?" Fate supported me as we went up to our room.

"Y-yea, just a little tired from the long battle. How about you? You should be feeling worse than me since you're just human."

"Eh? Ah… well, yea." She stuttered.

Both of us rested on the bed for a moment before I spoke again, "Fate-chan, want to get a bath together?"

"Sorry, you can go in first. I need to polish my sword for a bit." She avoided my question and unsheathed her sword to polish it.


As I soaked in the hot bath, I felt really refreshed. You may find it weird for a vampire to be thinking that water is refreshing. But those myths aren't true.

I scrubbed my body clean and washed the soap off my body as I thought of Fate. 'She really still feels awkward I guess. After all, she has a scar now that she didn't in the past. She probably feels really embarrassed if I saw that scar, since her once smooth and scar-free body now had a really big one on her chest.' I sighed, a little saddened at her still being unable to open up fully to me. 'I haven't even seen the scar that she had gotten 4 years ago though….'

Soon after the bath, I went to the bed, settled down beside her. "Fate-chan, are you thinking that I might laugh at the scar you have?" she was still polishing her blade when I spoke to her.

"That's not it. It's just a little awkward. I know we used to bath together, the three of us. But… Now it's just different. Not only because of my scar. But because we are already adults." She replied me, still having her eyes down on her blade.

I opened my arms wide and hugged her from the side on the waist. "You know, I don't care how old we are or how your body have become. You're still the one I love." My face snuggled on her waist as I spoke to her.

She continued her polishing and I fell asleep soon after, beside her, on the bed.


Fate's POV

"Nanoha, thank you for today." I carried her carefully to her side of the bed, laying her down gently before covering her up with the blanket. "You really helped me out."

I placed my sword on the floor vertically, against the wall before I went to the drawer on my side, taking out a photo. This photo was what I really treasured since 4 years ago. It was the last photo I had taken with my sister, Alicia and Nanoha. I gripped it tightly, thinking of what my sister might be doing now. I had been searching for her these 4 years despite having no news of her or what so ever. I just know that she's somewhere out there, trying to sniff out my mother's location. So if I managed to find her, I might be able to meet my mother too. I've got to stop the both of them from doing anything stupid.

"Mmmm, Fate-chan, I love you." Nanoha muttered in her sleep.

"I love you too." I giggled as I reached out my right hand to stroke her hair.

She instinctively took my hand with both of hers, gripping it so tightly that I had no choice but to stay in that position the whole day after placing the photo back in the drawer.


The next morning, her slight cuts and wound were healed and she started to drink my blood again before I went down for breakfast. However, it seems that the house was empty, except for the two of us. Her parents probably were gathering more information about the culprits and her brother and sister were probably helping them out too.

Therefore, the house was entirely for the both of us today. I somehow felt really happy that this had happened.

"Nanoha, let's stay home all day and lay around, okay?" I called out to her as I prepared my own French-style breakfast.

"Mmmm, sure." She sat down on the couch eating some chips as she watched the television.

Just like this, we laid around the whole day, watching television together or played games together. We even had fun trying to bake all sorts of cookies and cooked our dinner together. Even though she did really have to eat dinner like us humans, she still liked it very much. I still don't fully understand that part of her though, since she never tells me the truth about that.

"Good night, Nanoha."

"Yea. Good night Fate-chan. It was really fun today. Thank you for everything."

"Mm." I nodded my head as we snuggled up to each other for warmth.


A/N : Sorry if i disappointed you this chapter, but the real fight doesn't start anywhere soon. This is just the start of the fight, to show that someone is after them. You can try guessing the identity of real enemy here though. *bows* Anyways! Thank you for reading once again! I hope you would follow me all the way till the end of this series.