Here I am back with the next chapter. Well I have some things I wish to talk about but as usual, I will talk about the news at the end. In any event I hope you guys will enjoy.

*Same disclaimer as before*

Shiro was outright confused over who the young man right in front of him, Nanoha and Fate was. The fact that he looks to be very important was a dead giveaway but he wasn't so sure about that. Staring at him intently, Shiro thinks about the mysterious person.

"Who is this guy? He seems to be important like maybe a close friend to Nanoha and Fate or maybe he is a secret agent. Just who is he?" Shiro muttered under his breath. Fate on the other hand, was surprised to see the young librarian here and not at the library. Normally, he would in the library just reading some of his books but here he was on the Arthra. Yuuno, now feeling the small unconformable air around the area decides to break it by clearing his throat.

"Well yes in any case, you three are wondering why I am here now. If you will allow me, I have the answer for that. You see my reasoning is..."

However before he was able to explain himself, he gets blindsided by the sight of a brunette blur who runs and hugs the young man. Nanoha with a cheerful smile holds the poor librarian with a bear hug. "Yuuno it is so nice to see you. It has been years."

"But Nanoha it has only a few weeks since we last talked." told Yuuno still smothered by the hug. "and it's been a few hours since then also." The white devil just continues to hug the man leaving him to sigh and let her continue on. That did not go unseen however as Fate wearily smiles at the two as Shiro had his eyes widen at the sight. He had never seen Nanoha like this before much to his knowledge and so he turns to Fate.

"So Fate quick question: who is that guy that Nanoha is hugging?" asked the young man who got his answer to the form of a grin. "Well that Shiro is Yuuno Scrya. He is the Chief of the Infinity Library and a very close friend to me and Nanoha. Oh and also he is the one who trained Nanoha is the first place." Shiro was about to nod slightly but before he could even finish the nod, his right eye twitched.

"I am sorry but WHAT!? He was the one who trained her?" Shiro spoke all the while shaking and being surprised as all hell.

Nanoha Takamachi:the same woman who blew him up with Divine Buster, the same woman who trained him was originally taught by this guy!? The very thought shocked Shiro so much to the point where he was turned to stone almost leaving Fate to giggle at the act and Shiro just said with a fearful tone while looking at the pair.

"What the hell did he teach her!? And they are friends how!?"

"Well he only taught her just the basics of magic. Nanoha had a real nack for it at a young age. Oh and also, about how they are friends in the first place...the reason why is because there were these lost logia called Jewel seeds. Yuuno went to Earth to get them back but he had no mana left so he let Nanoha use Raising Heart, that was originally his at the time to help him out with the search." Fate told the man while looking at the two.

Shiro then calmed down a bit now understanding how the two meet. Then he turns to Fate and asked her something. "Well now I know how they met but what about you Fate? How did you meet Nanoha and Yuuno?"

"That..." Fate just looks at the ceiling and holds Bardiche on her left hand. "is something I don't wish to talk about at the moment."

Now this made Shiro be taken aback by Fate's response. She just answered his question on how Nanoha and Yuuno met but not how she met them. This was very surprising to the point where the onyx eyed man thought what was going on in the blond woman's head. Because of the shock, he wished to ask Fate what was wrong until Nanoha intervened.

"Guys! We are about to go and eat." Nanoha spoke allowing Fate to snap out of her funk and walk to the others. Shiro also followed but with the thought of Fate's response still lingering in his mind.

After that, the group decides eat at the cafeteria for a while and in Nanoha and Fate's case reconnect with Yuuno. A few minutes pass and with the sandwiches done, Nanoha decides to ask her old friend a question. "So Yuuno about your reasoning for being on the ship and not at the library?"

"Oh yes right that." Yuuno spoke after drinking some water. "There were two reasons as to why I stopped by. The first of which being to give my support in the training for just a bit. And the other reason, that is a secret." Now Nanoha had already known what the secret was, however Shiro and Fate were totally under the bus so to speak. Nanoha turns in Fate's direction and spoke using telepathy.

'Fate I promise Yuuno and I will explain everything once the day is done.' The answer was received with a nod from the blond allowing Yuuno to smile at Shiro now ready to speak with the young man. "Well for now, I believe introductions are in order. I am Yuuno Scrya."

Shiro played with Gaia on his wrist spoke. "I'm Shiro Nagase. Nice to meet you Yuuno. So quick thing, how are you going to help with my training and what will you help me with. I mean no disrespect to the guy who trained Nanoha but still I want to know." This leads Yuuno only smiling at the sword mage.

Back at the training area, Shiro and Yuuno are both on opposite sides and Nanoha and Fate standing a good few feet away from the two men. Yuuno starts his explaining. "Now that you know that your magical type, Shield, and magic type we will further expend upon it so you will be more at ease with using the Tri-Shield. You ready Shiro?"

Shiro to respond to the long haired man, raise his right hand to yell, "Gaia Set Up!" as he is covered in a bright light and is shown to be gripping his sword and wearing his barrier jacket. "Ready Yuuno." spoke the sword mage causing the two to be ready to start the spar.

Yuuno kicks things off by summoning many green chains and sends some at Shiro. In defense, the man raised his arm to summon the Tri-Shield and in a few seconds, it appeared allowing him to defend against the chains in front of him. Things seemed to be going well for a while as with chains that was summoned, Shiro would defend with Tri-Shield to destroy them making the sword mage smile believing that now he got it. However the chains continued to multiply in number, causing Shiro to try his hardest to keep the shield up but the numbers were too great. The chains went through the shield, it broke and Shiro is now wrapped by a lot of green chains unable to move. From the other side, Nanoha and Fate were surprised and impressed at Yuuno's strength. Even through he is a support mage and even through it has been years since they fought with him, he can still fight with the best of them.

Yuuno pushes his glasses and spoke to the now chained up Shiro. "See what happened? Your focus was getting smaller during the practice. To have a good defense is a great offense so we will continue on and I want you to work more on your focus. Got it Shiro?"

The chains disappear causing Shiro to safely land and stares at Yuuno. "Right lets do it Yuuno." Shiro spoke allowing the two to conitune the training once again.

Meanwhile, back at the dorms Hitoshi was lying on his bed still a bit pissed at Shiro. Even after the event with his brother, he still was furious at his best friend and still refused to speak with him. From there, everything was always quiet between the two making the air always cold and the line very thin. After a while, the long haired man raised his hand to look at it and briefly thinks about how he first met Shiro.

A younger Hitoshi was running away from a slightly older Saeko and spots a younger Shiro reading a book. Then out of nowhere, he smiled and grabbed Shiro's left hand, forcing him to drop the book and run with the other boy very confused. Once they got away, Hitoshi smiled as Shiro frowned a bit leading the long haired boy to laugh and in turn so did Shiro. From this act, the two became best friends.

By the flashback's end, Hitoshi sighs and began to ponder for a decent amount. In a few minutes, he thought about the current situation at hand between the two of them. 'I know that while I am still mad at Shiro, by having things continue like this it will hurt our friendship.'

He looks at the ceiling above, continued with his thoughts. 'Maybe I should apologize for being an ass and I want to rekindle our friendship. However...'

"...Not right now. Still need to clear my thoughts. I already lost my brother. I don't want to lost another person important to me." Hitoshi spoke who now grips his heart thinking about his brother. He will to get back to being friends with Shiro once he was good and ready.

Up on the moon base, Saika, Anna, Ixia and Drav via through a hologram were discussing their options. After the two weeks, the group has been silent even Drav has been quiet within that time. Unfortunately Drav could only sigh in boredom while saying to the group. "I am so bored here! There is not much for me to do here on this planet! For the past two weeks, I have been over here twitting my thumbs!"

Anna who was now amused asks the sandy haired man. "Well if you are so bored, then maybe you should amuse yourself since you are on Earth."

"No. Knowing him Drav would cause a havoc which may lead into the Bureau finding him. That can't happen." Saika spoke in a cold tone, effectively shooting down the idea. Anna pouts at the idea being thrown out leading Ixia to speak. "In any event, for now Drav is to still remain on standby until ordered. No making yourself seen. Understand?"

"...Fine whatever you say." mutters Drav cutting the transmission. With the meeting now done, Anna then walks away, saying that she will just be waiting by her pod leaving only Ixia and Saika alone. Saika then preceded to ask a question to the other man.

"How is the data. Is it enough for what you have planned?"

Ixia could only sigh and shook his head slowly. "The current data I have now is still on the research stage and I need a bit more. Once I have, what I have planned will be completed."

"I know that which is why I will continue to help you in reaching your goal. Same goes for Anna and even Drav. That is the reason why we stick with you for this long."

Ixia was in awe in that while he knew that this was would happen, he was still grateful to have his followers by his side. With a smile, Ixia told Saika. "Thank you. You are dismissed." as the man in turn went back to his post. And with that, Ixia went back to his analysis.

Back with the training, it had been five hours since they started and Shiro was panting while thinking about the Tri-Shield and the timing of the chains. At the same time, Nanoha and Fate were still watching the spar with the auburn haired woman speaking to her friend. "Yuuno did not not let up at all. He was ruthless with those chains."

The blond mage crossed her arms."I agree." as the two continue to watch the spar still going on.

Yuuno was looking at Shiro and saw that he was getting tired after the consist chains attacking him. He spoke to him in a calm voice. "Shiro you ready to stop now?"

The young man instead grips his sword and spoke. "No way Yuuno. If you can keep going then so can I." leaving the ferret boy to smile and the two went at it again.

More chains appear and like before go to Shiro's location. The sword mage now with a smirk was able to summon the Tri-Sheild only now a lot faster instead of slow like before. Next, once the chains were gone, Shiro then rushed at Yuuno who still had some chains at him. The sword mage used Gaia to strike the chains forcing them to vanish and giving him more room to attack Yuuno. When he got close, Shiro raises his sword to attack however Yuuno who was also smirking, summoned a huge barrier to block the oncoming attack. The act made Shiro break away from the barrier and Yuuno sends more chains at the young man.

From here, Shiro was thinking about what Yuuno said a few hours ago.

'He said something about a good defense is a great offense. Then if that is the case then that means...'

And with that thought, Shiro raises his arm and yells, "Grand Tri-Shield!" and just like that, the shield protected him from the remaining chains. However the difference here is that the shield seemed to have armored up, making it more tougher.

"Great. He is learning his defense." Yuuno whispered to himself. Pleased with the results, the librarian turns to Nanoha and Fate and smiles. "I think he got it now." as the training ends.

Shiro now changing back to normal was rubbing his neck and tells Yuuno. "Wow for a librarian, you are pretty strong even without a device."

"Well anyway I could do to help and it was nothing Shiro." replied Yuuno with a chuckle. Then Nanoha walks to the two and told the young sword mage. "Ok Shiro you can run off back home."

Shiro is of course confused by this and when he asked why, Fate intervened in a motherly tone. "We will tell you in due time. So try to get some rest. You earned it."

He was about to retort that statement and say something more until he realized his arms were tired and his legs were feeling like noodles. Plus his hands were still sore after his spar with Fate so Shiro was very fatigued. With that, he sheepishly spoke to the three.

"Yeah you are right Fate. I feel beat. But I feel a step closer so I will see you guys again and Yuuno it was an honor to meet you. Hope to see you again!" The young mage briefly waves the three good bye and walks off, going to the teleporter to rest his body. Now that Shiro was gone, the three decide to get down to business. Yuuno starts off by looking at Nanoha and Fate.

"Now to tell you two what I have found from my research." He then brings up the data he had using holograms around him.

"From the records, it looks as if Ixia was going from planet to planet."

Fate raised her hand to stop him and throw in her own two cents. "We already knew that but every time we could try to get any more layway on him, the trail would vanish."

"So Yunno were you able to find anything more especially with the information I gave you?" Nanoha asked hoping Yuuno found something in his search. Just then, the librarian smiled and with a snap brought more information regarding Ixia. "Yes I was able to found out something about Ixia;'s trail. While it did disappear at times, there was a theme involving materials and parts Ixia and his team forgot to cover as they were moving."

Fate cups her chin and thought to herself that the current information was sound since they needed parts to make Gaia while Nanoha is happy with the news. "Great work so how about his location?"

"I do have a theory about where it is and that it may be closer to Earth then we thought." Yuuno spoke leaving the two to think that if the base is close then it could be anywhere. Fate then smiles thanking Yuuno for his hard work leaving the man to reply with it was no trouble. From there, a question rang in Yuuno's head. "Should we tell Shiro about this?"

Nanoha shook her head and replied back. "No. While we may have a general idea about Ixia, taking Shiro into this he still needs as much training as possible."

"I would agree Nanoha if not for the fact that right now, he is very deep into this. He has a right to know." replied Yuuno allowing Nanoha and Fate to think about it. For a few seconds, Fate, now a decision in mind tells the two.

"We will tell him this once we gather all the information that is been given and once they're ready to tackle the place."

With that, the three nod and leave the training area, now getting a few inches closer to Ixia.

And DONE. So yeah Yuuno made another appearance, helped out with the training and we checked up on Hitoshi and Ixia along with his crew. Now the news I wanted to talk about is about the chapters. I am considering releasing two chapters a month if I can. Just so that I won't forget to release a chapter if I am too busy. We will see how that goes but for now I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter for I had to re edit this one a lot and if you guys found anything that I can fix or improve upon please let me know. Be seeing you guys for the next chapter!