I woke up at the sound of my phone's alarm. I quickly slid out of bed and went to the bathroom. I absentmindedly stripped and got under the shower. I felt something painful on my left palm, when I looked at it I saw blood flowing from a deep cut. Oh. Everything that happened last night crashed down all at once. I was taking a stroll when I heard voices. I followed the voices and stumbled upon 2 girls about to be hit by a big guy. I helped them…and the guy hit my paw hard. Right…and the girl… her handkerchief! I quickly finished showering and wrapped myself with a towel. I went to my bed and observed it. When I moved my pillow I found what I was looking for. A white handkerchief stained with crimson blood. I placed it on the table, got dressed and fixed my hair. I was about to go out my room when I remembered the wound. I need it to heal fast. I phased and walked out of the room and went to the washroom and put the handkerchief with the dirty clothes. I'll wash it when I get home. I went out the door, locked it and made my way to the door next to mine. I knocked three times and waited.

Read Me II

Nanoha-san

The door opened after a minute and there stood Nanoha, her usual smile on her face. "Morning, Arisa…chan." She looked down on me and I can tell that she was shock to see me on my wolf form instead of human.

"What are you doing, Arisa-chan? Are you really going to school in that form?"

I nodded and stepped inside her room and pushed her slightly to show that I'm getting impatient. She seemed to understand that I don't want to talk about it and she knelt in front of me and pet my head. I nuzzled her for a while in return and we both took our leave.

The walk is unusually quiet today since I'm not in my human form. Nanoha is just walking beside me. Some students are looking at us because it's quite unusual to see a werewolf on his/her wolf form going to school.

"So this means you'll be phasing back somewhere in the middle of the day, right?" Nanoha asked, maybe worried that I won't come to class.

I'm quite smart so I don't need to go to class everyday to understand the lesson. I nodded to her and she let out a small hum as response. We entered the room and got greeted by some of the students and the ones that know us better—our classmates last year.

"Good Morning, Suzuka-chan!" Nanoha called out to someone.

"Good Morni…" What kind of greeting is that? Seriously…

"The wolf from last night." Upon hearing this, I lift up my head to look at the girl then I realized that she was the owner of the handkerchief.

"From last night?" Nanoha asked.

The blue-haired girl made her way to us and stood before Nanoha, eyes still focused on me. "That wolf with you, Nanoha-chan. He saved us. Me and Shooter-chan."

Nanoha looked at me with confused eyes, "Umm… First of all, Suzuka-chan. This wolf is a she. And, what happened last night?"

"She saved us. From this big guy who was about to hit me." The blue-haired girl said.

Nanoha turned to glare at me, "So something did happen last night."

She was waiting for me to say something but I simply looked away. Oh god. Nanoha is starting to get scary. Suddenly, I felt one of my ears being grabbed. Nanoha was pinching one of my ears, hard. "Phase back now, Arisa-chan."

Oh, shit. This is not good. I tried to struggle but failed miserably. "Phase now, Arisa-chan, or maybe you want me to get mad?" Nanoha has her 'I'm-gonna-do-something-you-won't-like-if-you-don't-follow-me' look, and that look is not good.

I wisely shook my head and felt her release my ear. I growled lightly and phase back to my human form. Warmth enveloped my body and I can hear people around us gasp and whisper to each other. Others didn't react, specifically my former classmates who had seen me phase countless of time. I opened my eyes after phasing, I looked at Nanoha and then the blue haired girl.

"So…" I tried lamely after a moment of silence after I phased. I shifted my eyes back to Nanoha and I noticed that she looks uncomfortable for some reason. I was about to ask what's wrong when someone suddenly grabbed my hand.

"You're bleeding!" The blue haired girl cried. I looked at my hand and saw that it was indeed, bleeding. Oh. So that's why Nanoha is feeling uncomfortable. I looked at her again and she looked at me with worried eyes.

"Maybe I should wash this." I tried to take back my hand but the blue haired girl didn't let go.

"I'll help you, umm…"

"Arisa. Arisa Bannings."

"I'll help you since this is my fault and all, Arisa-chan. I'm Suzuka. Suzuka Tsukimura." Suzuka smiled and led me to the door, still not letting go of my hand. She looked back at Nanoha but Nanoha just nodded and smiled. With that, Suzuka pulled me along with her.

The nurse was not in the clinic when we came so Suzuka grabbed some bandages and disinfectant to clean my wound herself. She cleaned my wound well and gently. While wrapping my hand she suddenly stopped and looked up at me.

"Umm… Thanks for saving us before." She looked at me shyly and went back into wrapping my hand.

"No problem. Anyone would do what I did if they were there."

"Still, thank you, Arisa-chan." She finished wrapping my hand and stood up to put back the things she used. I stoop up too and we walked back to our room together. On the way, we tried to get to know each other better. We entered the room and I quickly scanned it to find Nanoha. I found her on her seat and our eyes met. She smiled at me reassuringly and I smiled back. Suzuka and I talked for a little bit longer and we went to our respective seats when the professor came.

It was already lunch time and all of our classmates left the room already. I fixed my things and went to the Nanoha's table. I waited for her to finish fixing her things. Nanoha asked Suzuka to join us and us three made our way out of the room. We went to the cafeteria to get some food and sat down on a nearby table.

"So, what are you, Suzuka-chan?" Nanoha asked.

Suzuka wiped her mouth with her handkerchief and said, "A mind reader."

Nanoha raised one eyebrow, "and?"

Suzuka giggled lightly, "A memory seeker too."

Nanoha looked confuse, "Memory seeker?"

I sighed and explained, "Memory seekers are people who can see other people's memories. Ironically, they don't seek them; the memory itself will come to them. They have the ability to attract memories. Seriously, Nanoha, I already explained this to you when we met one before."

Nanoha glared at me jokingly, "Sorry for not remembering, you dog."

I hissed at her, "I'm a wolf, Nanoha. A wolf."

"Whatever, Mutt."

I glared at Nanoha. I hate being called a dog and a mutt. I turned my gaze to Suzuka, "Why don't you ask Nanoha what she is, Suzuka"

Suzuka smiled at this, "What are you, Nanoha-chan? You can't lie, I can read you."

Nanoha smiled nervously, knowing that she can't lie, "I'm half-vampire and half-human."

I smirked at her, "Come on, Nanoha. Is that all?"

Nanoha looked down on her food, "Y-yes."

I glanced at Suzuka and our eyes met. She grinned at me. So she already knows that Nanoha is hiding something, huh…

"Nanoha, don't lie. Suzuka here can read you."

Nanoha glared at me lightly, "Okay, fine! I'll tell you."

Suzuka turned at Nanoha," So? What are you?"

Nanoha mumbled something.

"Speak clearly, Nanoha-chan. I can't understand."

"I have an alter ego." Nanoha said, looking at us with a blush on her face.

"Really?" I turned to look at Suzuka. She seemed… amazed? Fascinated?

"Umm… yeah." Nanoha blinked twice. I can tell she's as surprised as I am.

"When can I meet her?" Suzuka asked.

I took a sip from my drink and turned to Suzuka, "That's why Nanoha is shy about it. She can't control her."

"Oh. Then what do you call her? You know, to point out who is the Nanoha-chan right now."

Nanoha looked at Suzuka, "They call her Nanoha-san to avoid confusion."

"How do you know when it's Nanoha-san that you're talking to?" Suzuka asked, standing up with us to dispose our trash.

After throwing our garbage we took a walk to the park. "Nanoha-san is umm… How do you call it…" Nanoha offered.

"She's the complete opposite of Nanoha. She's blunt, straight-forward and really, really, popular." I stated.

"Popular? How?" Suzuka looked at us.

I saw a group of girls looking at us and pointed to them discreetly, "Watch this."

We continued our walk and we passed in front of the group of girls.

"Good Afternoon, Nanoha-sama!" The group of girls said in chorus.

Nanoha flinched lightly and waved at them, "Good Afternoon too."

When we were a little far from the group's distance, Suzuka nudged Nanoha lightly, "What was that about, Nanoha-sama?"

"Well…you see…" Nanoha stuttered, flustered and embarrassed.

"That is how popular Nanoha-san is." I stated and sat down on the nearest bench.

Suzuka and Nanoha sat beside me. "Wow… I guess Nanoha-san is a charmer."

I nodded lightly, remembering something from the past and shuddered. "Yep. Nanoha-san is."

We talked for a while and went back to the room. The classes went by fast and the day ended early. After fixing our things, we went to the nearest coffee shop to hang out.

Suzuka and I went to the counter to place our orders wile Nanoha excused herself to go to the restroom. Suzuka ordered a large cappuccino while I ordered a large chocolate parfait. Suzuka and I sat down on the table near the window. We talked about random things while waiting for Nanoha to return. I looked down at my parfait and mixed it slightly.

"Hey doggy." Nanoha's husky voice called.

I looked up and glared at Nanoha, "How many times do I have to…"

My gaze fell down on the drink she ordered. Hot coffee. Nanoha hates hot drinks except if its chocolate. I looked back up at Nanoha and looked at her eyes. Her eyes seem darker than before. Darker eyes…Hot Coffee…husky voice...Nanoha-san!

"N-Nanoha-san?" I tried.

Nanoha-san took a seat beside me and reached out to me and ruffled my hair slightly. "Good guess, Arisa." Then she turned her attention to Suzuka.

"And who is this cute girl?"

Suzuka blushed and introduced herself, "I-I'm Suzuka Tsukimura."

Nanoha-san looked at Suzuka carefully. She then held out her hand in front of Suzuka. "It's Nanoha-san. Nice too meet you, Suzuka-chan."

Nanoha-san doesn't shake other people's hands unless she respects them. I guess she likes Suzuka. That's good.

Nanoha-san stirred her coffee and added a large amount of sugar. Nanoha-san, apparently, has a sweet tooth. We discovered it before when she ate all of my extra-sweet lollipops. "So Arisa, why are you all here?"

I took a sip from my parfait and stirred it lightly, "No reason. Just wanted to hang-out."

Nanoha-san turned her attention to Suzuka, "So… are you Arisa's girlfriend?"

Suzuka almost spit out her drink at Nanoha-san's bluntness. Very blunt indeed. "N-no. What made you think that?"

"Well…" Nanoha-san took a brief sip from her cup and wiped her mouth with her handkerchief. "Arisa doggy never stays with other people aside from Nanoha for more than 3 minutes."

"Really?"

"Yep."

"So Nanoha-chan and Arisa-chan must be really, really close." Suzuka took anther sip from her drink.

Nanoha-san snickered and I glared at her but she seemed unfazed by it. "They are. I'm starting to think that Arisa would choose Nanoha."

Suzuka blinked. "Choose? For what?"

Nanoha-san looked at me and smirked, "Go on, mutt. Explain how your werewolf stuffs work."

I sighed. Nanoha-san is really annoying sometimes. She knows how much I hate this, "You see, Suzuka, there is a time when you're a werewolf that you would have to make a contract with someone. When you make a contract with someone there are conditions. The werewolf will have the job of protecting the someone he/she made a contract with. That someone would be like the wolf's master and owner. In return, that someone will have to take care of the wolf and he/she shouldn't betray the wolf's trust and that someone should be able to get along and act comfortably around his/her wolf."

Suzuka nodded her head, "Oh... Sounds cool..."

"It's too bothersome..."

Nanoha-san held my hand, "Don't worry, Arisa. I'm always here. I'll wait for you."

I blushed and slapped her hand away, "Nanoha-san! Stop it! Mou…"

Nanoha-san laughed, took a last sip of her coffee and stood up, "I'll go ahead now."

I looked at Nanoha-san and asked her, "Why? Where are you going? Does Nanoha know about it?"

Nanoha-san smiled at me and patted my head, "Just because. It's "Nanoha-san night". I can do anything." She then turned to Suzuka. "What dorm are you?"

"Dorm 2."

Nanoha-san smirked at this and looked back at me, "Her dorm is on the way to yours. Walk her home, okay mutt?"

I sighed, I hate going to Dorm 2... but Nanoha-san did asked me nicely. "Yes ma'am. Now go. Don't get in trouble okay?"

"Okay." She then turned around and walked out the shop. She waved at us lightly and then she was gone.

Suzuka and I talked for a while and went on our way too. We entered her dorm and the girls inside greeted her, "Welcome back, Suzuka-san." Others gasped when their eyes fell on me.

"I'm back." Suzuka smiled. Suddenly a group of girls made their way to us.

"Good Evening, Arisa-sama!" They greeted.

I resisted the urge to sigh, not wanting to be rude. "Good evening."

Suzuka was about to ask me something when I put a finger over her lips and asked for her phone. She blushed and gave it to me, after a minute I returned it back to her.

One of the girls looked at me shyly and hopefully, "Won't you stay for dinner?"

I shook my head, "I'm sorry but I need to go now." I turned to Suzuka and said, "I'll see you tomorrow, m'kay?"

Suzuka nodded and thanked me. I smiled and went out of their dorm. After a few steps I heard the girls asking Suzuka questions about me. I let out another sigh. I've been sighing too much today. I continued my walk to my room. I brought out my phone and sent a mail to Suzuka. I mailed her number to me and put my number a while ago.

Hey, Suzuka. I know you want to ask me about what happened there. I'll call you later to explain 'kay? Sorry for not telling you earlier. -Arisa

Nanoha-san

The girl in front of me giggled. I went by our apartment and changed clothes and went to the famous bar near the park. A group of girls sat beside me and flirted casually. I entertained them and talked to them. Only one was left after the others went home. She has long red hair and is quite attractive but not my type.

"Something bothering you?" She asked.

I shook my head, "It's nothing."

She looked at me and flashed a flirty grin, "Then mind telling me your name already?"

I laughed and took a sip from my drink, "Sorry. No names, remember?"

When they asked me if I want to hang out with them a while ago, I proposed a condition. No names are to be asked, no numbers are to be given. They took it immediately.

"Fine…"

I laughed but quickly stopped when I smelled something. It smells so good. I looked around and sniffed. It's not here.

"Are you cold?"

I faked a smile and stood up, "Yeah. I should go now."

The girl held my hand, "Aww…"

I took her hand and planted a kiss on it, "Sorry, Miss."

She blushed hard and stuttered. I said goodbye one last time and went out the bar. I quickly scanned the area and caught the smell once more.

Blood.

I followed the smell, feeling thirsty. The smell brought me to the park and there I saw a girl sitting on one of the benches, facing the opposite direction. I scanned her and did not see wounds, cuts or bruise that maybe the cause of the smell. The smell of her blood is so strong. It's coming from inside her. I saw her shiver from the cold and made my way to her. I took of my jacket and draped it over her shoulder. She jumped slightly and turned around.

Then, my eyes met with another pair with the color of blood.

So there's the second chapter. Sorry if it took so long.

you can tell me what talent you want your fave character to have except for arisa, suzuka, fate and nanoha.

I'll choose then what fits the best.

thanks onve again. Reviews are most welcome.

--F.