The Last Shinigami

by

Sha Yurigami

"Bon! Please stop it! Give up on that girl!" Kankei screamed at his young master, but the pony-tailed blond boy didn't listen to his pleading. Several men surrounded them.

Jack was dead.

For going against orders, he was shot directly to the head.

"Kankei-san, I won't allow that woman to take away my husband!" The men looked at him and he blushed, pushing up his glasses, "I-I mean soon-to-be-bride…"

All of them thought simultaneously We are not convinced.

But he only remembered. It was a memory, that engraved itself in his heart…

Back then he had run away from home. The family he belonged to now was dangerous! They had guns, blades, scars and Toast everywhere.

Back then he didn't know anything about the world except that the blond was dangerous. At that time when he got lost in the forest, a seven year old girl with pig tails stood before him.

To him she appeared like a knight in shining armor…except she wore a white elementary school uniform. She led him out of the forest where his new family was waiting in tears.

For the first time in his life he felt home.

And now his hus- soon-to-be-bride was about to be stolen by the devil herself. What else could he do but kill his rival?

The Main-house is like a fortress…So why do I feel so uneasy? Yuuno asked himself as he glanced at the rising moon.

She woke up. A familiar sight was displayed before her eyes, it was the ceiling of her room. Her gaze turned to her right. "I see so you are awake." The warm smile of her mother brightened her too.

She tried to stand up. "Don't move yet! You still are in shock because of what happened today," her mother said, gently laying her back on the bed.

Everything in her memory was blurry, some flashbacks of school, their encounter with Arf…wait…something felt amiss…something,…or someone!

"Fate-chan!" She shot up remembering that the blond wasn't here.

A void feeling turned her guts around and her heartbeat fastened, where was the blond pervert?

"Where is Fate-chan?" She got a hold on her mother's shoulders.

"Calm down first, Nanoha," she said softly avoiding eye-contact.

The girl began to panic, "B-But," but Momoko simply embraced her, calming the storm within her daughter's heart a little.

It didn't feel right.

It just didn't feel right.

"Where is Fate-chan?" she asked her mother again, ending the long embrace they had. She was tense and felt anxious, fleeting memories of what happened that afternoon…she felt even more worry entering her heart.

Momoko only looked at the frightened form of her daughter and sighed. "Nanoha," she started, getting the attention of her daughter, "Nanoha we have to talk."

Nanoha looked at her wryly, "About where Fate-chan went to?" she asked her concerned, but her mother only shook her head while grasping her daughter's hands with her own.

"I can't tell you where she is now." Her daughter's eyes watered and that alone made it even harder for Momoko to continue, she simply wanted to sooth her daughter's heart, to make the pain go away …but... "Nanoha, we have to talk about your feelings."

"Rather than talking about me, we have to look for Fate-chan!" she demanded panicking once again.

"Why?" the older woman asked calmly, at which her daughter stopped.

"Wha-"

"Why are you so fixed on her now?" Nanoha didn't expect that question, so she fell silent.

Right.

That's right.

"It's my fault that Fate-chan got caught in my situation…that she got hurt…" she answered, tears falling from her eyes.

Yes, that's right…if Fate had never met her, if she hadn't been so stubborn and tried to prove that she wasn't a lesbian…if she'd just said that she would let Yuuno be her girlfriend…

Wait, it was his fault, in a way, that the day before the class trip, right in front of all her classmates, he asked her to be her girlfriend. That resulted in many teases from her class and eventually led to that fateful run into the Central Park of Tokyo with Arisa and Suzuka dashing right behind her.

Her mind back then was in a haze…

To think that that stupid Yakuza boy and his stupid confession would ruin the life of an innocent bystander.

Her mother on the other hand massaged the bridge of her nose and sighed, "I can't believe it," she said openly poking her daughter's nose. "Aren't you the least bit shocked that you care for her already more than necessary? She's swinging around a giant blade, sent at least fifty guys to the hospital single-handedly and you are not in the least curious?" Her daughter blushed and fiddled with her fingers.

"Wha-What can I say?" she asked hesitant.

Her heart and mind weren't in synch for at least two weeks. Constant blushing whenever the blond looked at her warmly or goosebumps when the blond touched or carried her like a princess…that feeling of safety and security whenever her Fate was close…

Wait…my Fate? her heartbeat fastened, eyes widened.

The way Nanoha's face changed colors and that look of realization in her eyes, was truly amusing to watch for Momoko, but she couldn't let her daughter stay in the dark forever.

"Nanoha, you were still too young to remember it," Nanoha briefly escaped out of her mental daze, but only fully regained conscious thought after the following sentence, "but you have Fate met before."

Nanoha's whole being focused onto her mother, still shocked by that statement.

The older Takamachi smiled gently, "Yes, you've heard right. You met Fate Testarossa…" she couldn't comprehend, Nanoha's eyes widened even more "… 16 years ago."

"I'll tell you about your first meeting, on the day of your birth."

to be continued…

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A/N To reader X(this is my answer for your review on My Nine Year Old Wife)(Ever heard of Platonic Life Partners?) I'm sorry that I accidentally deleted your review, but I'm kind of in a slump lately, but thanks to you I found the courage and the power to finish two chapters for my stories for today XD I don't encourage pedophilia and neither do I think that what I write is right(oh that rhymed) But let me say this…just look at the first sentence I wrote and look it up, cause that is what that story will be about and how it can grow stronger! I feel sorry for you that you only see the surface and not the message I try to submit in each of my stories…then again my stories all have a rather crazy concept which makes it hard to get them TT^TT But I still hope you enjoyed my stories and even if we part, I am sill thankful that you have read this story too XD

To all my other readers I hope I didn't offend any of you like I did reader X with the story I uploaded the other day and that you don't misjudge FirstS like reader X did to all my stories, thought I have no other means to contact reader X other than through this chapter(then again he wrote that reader X will stop reading all of my stories...so...I just hope reader X will read this or else I have to post the same text on each of my upcoming chapters... I'm exaggerating aren't I?).

That aside, I hope you all have noticed my sweet little countdown, let's say it will be a suprise for chapter 26!

And as always thank you for eta reading my stories CrazyLikeAnko! Your a great help and you encourage me with your help XD!

So please read and Review without considerating that text message I left for reader X!

Yours dear

Sha Yurigami

P.s. I can live with critic, but that's the first time someone wrote that he wouldn't read any story of mine, that was quiet shocking TT^TT