A/N: Hihi~ This is Neino A.K.A Nei, like what Yuki-chan said in the last chapter. I am here in her place to write. She is next to me and we are coming up with this out of our heads. She's mostly going to be just watching me type away while I think and write something down or rather in here. Extending it was my idea. I told her I had ideas for the story and she obliged in extending it. XD
yurimylove: Nyahaha. Yuuno-kun, you're so funny. Ahh… you caught us… it is kind of our personal experience, don't tell anyone! Shhh! Nyahaha. I don't know why, but when we write we don't think at all, we just type away… although we hardly get to finish because of things that always come up… and I'm always the one stopping, not Yuki-chan. She continues. As always. Nyahaha. Hey! I'm not evil! *Pouts* Mou!… wow, 10 more chapters? Hmm… I think we can do that. Nyahaha. I think it is around 10 chapters that we're going to extend it to. XD Be happy, Yuuno-kun!
Lance58: It's here! It's here! Please read and enjoy!
KillerQueen118: Nyahaha. Yeah, none of us expected it. It will be happy IN the end. XD Don't worry. People will die, but it's for the better cause. They have to die in order for the story to continue and move on. Well, in my story that is. But don't worry. They'll be still alive in the end. :D
yoji: Yoji? That's a nice name. Yuki-chan sure does love making nicknames. Yes, Nanoha can use magic, but she doesn't know yet... neither does Fate-chan. Nyahaha. I made Alicia the split of Fate-chan because she's the older sister that died. You'll find out why later on when the story progresses. Hopefully.
darkvalk: Thank you! Mystery is my thing! Or so they say. Nyahaha. (:
Honulicious: Yes, they all went back in time. You'll find out soon enough in a couple of chapters. I'll explain about Fate-chan, Alicia, Hayate, Carim, and of course Nanoha later on in the chapter, and the rest of the group.
A note for chkim218 from Yuki-chan: I'm sorry! Change of plans! Fate-chan and Nanoha are going to have powers after all! Please don't shoot me! Um, I will say this… Precia, Fate-chan, Nanoha, Alicia, Hayate, Carim, Fate-chan and Alicia's mysterious father, Shamal, Vita, Hayate, Signum, Zafira, Arf, and Yuuno all have powers… oh, and Vivio, Nyahaha, I guess that's mostly all of them Except for Chrono, he doesn't have powers. You'll know why they're all (well, not all, some) of them went to the past to Nanoha's time in a couple of chapters. :3
A note for KillerQueen118 from Yuki-chan: Where's my cookie and milk?! Rawr! Haha. I'm joking. XD
I Remember
By:
Nei & Yuki-Kamishiro
Fate's POV:
Nanoha and I sat with Mother across the table from Momoko-san and Shiro-san. The three of us on one end and the other two on the other end. Nanoha on my left side and Mother on my right side.
"So Mom, what are you doing here?" I spoke up to break the silence.
"Precia was here helping with preparing breakfast, Fate-chan," Momoko-san spoke in Mother's place. I flinched and looked at her. "Oh I'm sorry, did I say something wrong?"
"N-no…" I trailed off. 'She scared me, I didn't think she would use '-chan'. She sounded just like Nanoha. Then again she is her mother. Like mother, like daughter is what they always say.' I waved my hand in front of me and she just smiled back when I smiled at her.
"Well," Mother started and I looked at her. "I came here to tell you that it's our last stay today, we're going to be going back tonight."
"What?!" I looked at her shocked and at the corner of my eye I saw Nanoha flinch. "You didn't tell me this!"
"That's because I just thought about this early in the morning, Fate. We have to go back soon. I have work I need to finish up before school starts again." Mother sighed. Nanoha tightened her grip on my hand and kind of pulled it towards her. I stopped any objection and faced forward, but before I looked straight ahead I saw a little flash coming from Mother and turned back to her.
She flashed something from under the table enough for only me to see. I looked down and saw a camera.
I flinched.
She smirked.
I sent a death glare at her for whatever was inside that camera.
We ate breakfast and Mother and I were leaving. Back home. Mother and I were outside with Nanoha in tow, still holding onto my hand. Momoko-san and Shiro-san were behind her.
"Fate-chan…" Nanoha stopped me in my tracks and I turned around.
"Yes, Nanoha?" I smiled and she blushed a little before looking at the ground.
"I… um… do you have to… go?" I felt a hand on my shoulder and it was Mother. "Nanoha… as much as I hate to say this, but… we have to go now…" Nanoha's eyes showed of worry and pain when she looked up, but it disappeared when she met my eyes.
"I understand… Precia-san… but Fate-chan, we didn't even… get to be with each other… for a long time after we were apart from each other for 3 months. I just feel so…"
"Sad…" I finished for her.
"Y-yeah… cause we haven't done anything with each other yet…"
No matter how weird that sounded, it still made my heart beat faster.
"Nanoha… I promise I'll come back. Sometime soon, ok?" I caressed her cheek with my other hand that wasn't holding hers and she leaned into the touch.
"U-un… come back very soon, Fate-chan…" Tears formed from Nanoha's eyes and I wiped them with the hand that was caressing her cheek. "Doesn't this feel like before?" She nodded and I hugged her tightly, not caring if Momoko-san, Shiro-san, or Mother was there. It was just the two of us in my world. Just me and Nanoha. No one else.
"Nanoha," I whispered only for her to hear. She listened carefully by coming in closer into the hug and holding me tightly. "I don't know how much I like or love you, but I will say this… I love you, Nanoha." She stiffened and I felt and heard her heart beat fast and loud. "You're my everything in the whole wide world." Nanoha didn't attempt into saying anything, so I continued. "Nanoha… you don't have to reply to it now, or say anything… I won't force you to answer it right away. I just wanted you to know that I love you. Please think about it though?"
I pulled away and stared deeply into her, making sure she wasn't bothered by this information. She looked like she wanted to hear this for a long time now. Like she was waiting for me to say it. Was she?
"Bye, Nanoha." I said sweetly and looked over at where Momoko-san and Shiro-san was standing, behind Nanoha of course. Nanoha also turned around to look at her parents but enough to see me at the corner of her eye.
"Thanks for having me, Momoko-san, Shiro-san." I bowed a 90 degree angle bow. "It's ok, it was nice having you over, Fate-chan," Momoko-san said and I flinched again. Nanoha felt my pull on her hand and looked at me worriedly. "Are you ok, Fate-chan?"
"A-ah, yeah. I'm fine… just not used to Momoko-san calling me '-chan'."
"Fate-chan?" Shiro-san spoke up and I flinched even more. "That's better than '-san'. No wonder Nanoha calls you 'Fate-chan'."
"Dad! Stop, that's embarrassing!" Nanoha faced her parents again. Being a shield between her parents and me. "Stop it!" Nanoha pouted. 'She's so cute!' I pulled Nanoha and she faced me again. "Nanoha, I have to go now…" Pain flashed in her eyes again.
"S-sorry…" Nanoha hugged me once more and whispered into my ears. "Fate-chan, I know you don't want to force me into saying anything, but I… I love you too… always have."
My heart skipped a beat and I hugged her tighter.
"Nanoha-"
"I know. You don't want me to answer you right now because I might not feel the same way as you do… but I just couldn't stand it, so I had to say something-"
"Nanoha, it's not that. It's just… it makes me happy hearing you say that, that's all, but… I want you to think about it." She wrapped her arms around my neck and snuggled against my neck.
"Ahem." We both stiffened and turned towards Mother. "It's time to go, Fate."
I nodded. "Ok, Mom. Nanoha, I have to go now."
"Un. Take care of yourself, Fate-chan." She smiled weakly.
"I will. You take care of yourself too, Nanoha."
Nanoha's POV:
Months passed and Halloween went by. I dressed up as a waitress because I had bumped into Hayate-chan one day. She insisted that I wore it. I don't know how but we became friends after Halloween. One day she just started talking to me at school when we started.
I had met Vita-chan on Halloween when she came to our house trick-or-treating and mentioned about Hayate-chan knowing me. She asked if I was 'Nanoha' and was surprised when I had said yes. She also had the look of anger in her eyes. I don't know if she hated me or not, but it seemed like it. I don't know why though. But soon after that she started hanging out with me, like she was watching over me or something. Making sure I didn't do anything dumb, or that's what I think.
After that Christmas came. Tomorrow'll be Christmas Eve. In 2 days it'll be Christmas. A Christmas without Fate-chan is no fun at all. I hope she comes.
I called up Vita-chan to meet with me at the big clock near the big Christmas tree to pick out something for Fate-chan because Hayate-chan couldn't make it. She was too busy preparing everything with her family. Not that Vita-chan was not part of her family, she just didn't want to help out with the Christmas tree so she came instead of Hayate-chan. She heard all kinds of stories about Fate-chan from me so she'll probably be the best person to go with me to find Fate-chan a little something before she comes.
"Soooo…" I said looking at Vita-chan from the corner of my eye.
"Soooo~?" She said looking up at me. I smiled and she looked forward, blushing, making a grunt noise.
"What do you think will be a good present for Fate-chan?" I pulled my scarf up just above my nose to be warm.
"I don't know."
"What?! I thought you would know?!" I dropped my hands to my side and turned facing her. She snorted when she saw my reaction and then started laughing. "Mou, Vita-chan!" I pouted. "Don't do that! You got me scared!"
"Haha. Sorry, it was just worth it seeing you worried sick like that. Haha." I glared at her and she stopped. "Sorry… ahem… where was I? Oh yeah… um, you should get her something that YOU think she'll like-"
"For example~?" I moved my hand in mid air up and down.
"Mmm… ah, that one place I always go to. We can go there," She pointed straight ahead. "They might have something there that might catch your eye or something. We can try it out."
"Ok."
We searched through the whole place and found nothing. Vita-chan sighed and told me that we could try another place but something caught my eye when we were heading out. I told Vita-chan that I found something and she smiled when she saw it. I bought it and we walked outside into the cold freezing weather. I placed the bag close to my chest.
"It's so cold." I started warming my hands up by breathing on it. 'Only if Fate-chan was here, she would keep me warm.' Thinking about her made me blush and Vita-chan seemed to have noticed since she smiled.
"Thinking of someone?" She chuckled. I blushed more.
"Ah, well… no, not really… yes, I am…" I turned to the side. I heard a J-Pop ringtone and we both looked down to where the music was coming from. My pocket. I took my cell phone out and without reading the caller ID I picked it up because I knew it was Fate-chan by the ringtone I set her on.
"Fate-chan…" I smiled.
"Nanoha, hi," Fate-chan sounded more beautiful than ever. Oh how I would love her lips against mine again. I covered my mouth and kind of choked and coughed together. "What's wrong, Nanoha?"
"Oh, n-nothing. Just caught something in my throat, that's all. Nyahaha ha…" I tried to laugh it off but she kept asking me, but later on stopped.
"Ok~ if you say so, Nanoha. I called to say Merry Christmas. I know it's a bit early but we always say Merry Christmas before Christmas anyways, so it doesn't matter. All that matters is that I get to hear your voice again." I heard her pipe up. 'Awww! Fate-chan's so cute!'
"Merry Christmas to you too, Fate-chan. I'm also happy to hear your voice too." I saw Vita-chan holding back a snicker.
"I miss you, Nanoha." That made me concentrate on Fate-chan more instead of Vita-chan trying to hold back a snicker.
"I miss you too, Fate-chan." I said after debating if she said it or not, and luckily I wasn't imgining her saying it, she did say it.
"I-"
"Fate~ we have to go! Now! Hurry or we'll be late!" I heard Precia-san on the other line. "Oh, sorry Nanoha. I have to go now."
"It's ok. You can go, Fate-chan. I'll see you later?"
"You can count on that! Bye, my Nanoha."
"Bye, my Fate-chan."
"I'm coming Mom-" And then the call ended.
'Oh my gosh, did she just say 'my'? She actually claims me as hers now! Oh my gosh! I have to tell this to Hayate-chan!' I closed my cell phone and Vita-chan stopped walking, making me stop too. "Stop light." She explained.
I nodded.
"Sooo~?" Vita-chan spoke up after a moment of silence while waiting for the light to switch.
"'So' what?" I asked not realizing what she meant.
"I was talking about Fate." She looked at me. "What did she say?"
"Oh. She said Merry Christmas." I looked down and whispered the last part more to myself than her. "And that she misses me."
"Hah? What was that?" Vita-chan came in closer and had her hand next to her ear to hear better.
"N-nothing!" I saw the light switch and walked down the cross walk. I heard some yelling. It sounded like Vita-chan and then I felt my body heavy. Like I couldn't move any of my muscle. One second I was standing and walking and the next I was on the street covered in blood.
It hurt. I coughed out blood and Vita-chan ran towards me. She kneeled down and took off her jacket, putting it over me, covering my body. She got covered in blood in doing so and got scared so she grabbed a hold of my head and my shoulder, carefully trying not to make my blood come out more.
"You're going to be ok, Nanoha!" I heard her yell. She took out my cell phone in my pocket and called someone. I don't know who.
"… I-I'm…"
"Don't talk! Idiot!" Vita-chan closed my cell phone and clutched onto it. My vision was getting blurry and I couldn't really hear Vita-chan anymore. I only heard faint yelling.
"… sorry… I…" I gasped for air. "I… didn't know… I shouldn't… h-have… I should've… looked, huh?" I took another intake of air. "I'm sorry… don't… cry, Vita-chan." I coughed out blood and Vita-chan looked like she was screaming more. "… s-sorry… I can't hear… you any… more…"
Darkness engulfed me and the last thing I thought of was Fate-chan.
'Am I going to die like this without ever being able to see Fate-chan ever again?'
To be Continued…
A/N: I am SO sorry for having a Christmas chapter this sad! I know you didn't expected this, maybe some of you. I'M SORRY! *Bows* Please review? Press that green link down there.
-Yuki-chan
-Nei
