Author Note: This is the true starting to the whole story. Let us witness the growth of Nanoha and Fate relationship just like how cherry blossoms bloom. Hint: In this series, 1 main character will die so who will it be? Remember to R and R. Oh ya, Yuuno personality is quite different here as I want him to be some sort of comic relief through his sarcasm and his personality. Even though there are not many scenes of Nanoha and Fate together now, you can pick up hints on Nanoha past through Yuuno and Fate past through Chrono. It is crucial to the plot. xD
Chapter 1:
Yuuno POV
It had been one month since we had met Fate T. After the incident, Nanoha and I were surprised to see Fate wearing our school uniform and walking into our school. Nanoha, as always, shouted her name which surprised her and embarrassed me and ran towards her, apparently forgetting about me and started to either flirt with her or just hugged her.
Though Fate seemed aloof at times, she had started to warm up towards us or should I said, towards Nanoha. I got along fine with Fate though we were not very close. Mainly it was with Nanoha and Hayate who was our friends since kindergarten so Nanoha just had to introduce Hayate to Fate. Typical of her but that was why so many of us were attracted to Nanoha because of her bubbly personality.
And now, I was day-dreaming in class, not caring about what the teacher was talking about.
"Psst, Yuuno kun. Mrs Signum was calling you. Stop daydreaming." I snapped out of my reverie and looked in front to see a teacher with a long pink ponytail grinning at me. Nanoha gave me a weak grin while Hayate gave a worried look.
As for me, I gave a bored look to her and said," Sorry Mrs Signum. What are you talking about?" The rest of the class burst into laughter except Hayate who put her hand on her forehead sighed and Mrs Signum whose grin became wider.
She said," Yuuno, can you solve these questions for me? Since you do not need to listen In class, why don't you do this for the class?"
I sighed and looked at the questions which were all university-standard questions. I did not meant to be arrogant but since young, I was very smart and people called me a child prodigy. Though I did not care about that title, I was still proud of it though I would not admit it. Nanoha whispered to me softly," Hey, you are in big trouble."
I just gave a confident smile and strode towards the blackboard to solve those questions.
After school, Nanoha and I meet up with Fate. Hayate was the class chairman and so, she had to attend some meetings which earn my sympathy vote. Nanoha was talking to me about her day which was a bit useless as we were in the same class but I knew that my protests would fall in deaf ear so I listened absently while thinking what I am going to cook for dinner.
Then, we spotted Fate. Nanoha instantly ran towards her, throwing her bag at me as though she was sure I could and would catch them and hugged her. I managed to catch her bag due to my good reflexes as a tennis player and the force of the bag knocked me down to the floor. I glared at the couple which had everybody attention due to two girls or at least Nanoha cuddling each other then I rolled my eyes as I heard mutterings around me. I caught words like "Disgusting", "lesbians" etc and that riled me up.
I glared at the group of girls who was muttering those words and when they noticed my glare, they walked away quickly. I picked up our bags and walked towards the couple which Nanoha was still hugging Fate who was blushing madly. Fate then gave me a pleading look and pointed at Nanoha and I just shrugged.
Now the pleading look was transforming into a glare and truth be told, I was intimidated at the cold and angry glare. I gave a resigned nod and used my finger to slide down Nanoha back. She froze for a moment then she gave a loud scream and pushed away from Fate. She looked wildly around her and beads of sweats started to roll down her body.
Fate was shocked at Nanoha reaction while I remained calm as I had already got used to it. I had never expected the reaction to be this strong so I quickly hug her and whispered to her," It is alright. Don't be afraid." I kept repeating that until she calmed down then she gave me a look of pure anger.
She then said softly," We will settle this when we get home." She then grabbed her bag and stomped off towards our house. I gave a sigh, knowing what punishments I would get when I got back home and Fate walked and stood beside me. She gave me a questioning look and I said," It is alright. She will get over it before tomorrow. Goodbye then." Not forgetting my manner, I bade her farewell and walked towards our house leaving Fate with a puzzled expression. Truth be told, I would not blame her.
When I reached my house, I felt a devil aura behind the door. Even if I did not want to admit it, I was scared of opening the door as though it was a decision of life and death which it really was. Finally, I told myself that I was a man and opened the door.
The instant I opened the door, I regretted it. I knew that I had never done such a foolish thing in my whole life and before I could escape, Nanoha dragged me into the house and said while smiling," It is alright Yuuno. You are just going to explain to me why you embarrass me. That's all and in front of Fate too." Nanoha had activated Devil mode. Sigh, there ended my short life.
The end.
As if! I managed to survive through the hell ordeal which was going to be one of my best accomplishments in my life and Nanoha finally forgave me after much grovelling and begging from me.
I winced in pain as I applied ointments on my bruises and I shot Nanoha a look. She had a worried look on her face but when she noticed my gaze, she assumed an angry expression and turned her head to one side.
I sighed and said," Nanoha, you are still sensitive at that area after all these years?"
Nanoha looked at me and said," Yeah, of course. I would never forget it in my whole life Yuuno. How can I forget it? Whenever I look at my back when I bathing or changing clothes, I will feel very scared Yuu."
Indeed, even I could not forget that incident which almost ruined Nanoha life and caused her to move into my house.
I looked at Nanoha for a while then I apologised for my antic which she readily forgave. Then she went into the kitchen and shouted," I am going to cook many dishes so that we can swallow all our sad memories into our stomach. Nyahahaha…"
I smiled but soon, the smile turned into a frown once I detected a burnt smell from the kitchen. Sighing, I walked towards the kitchen despite the pain from my wounds.
Chrono POV:
I was drinking my orange juice and reading my novel in the living room when Fate entered the house. She was quite flustered which was surprising due to her cool demeanour which she constantly put on everywhere.
I greeted her," Hey Fate, what's up? Mom wants you to prepare dinner as she was going to work overtime in the police force. I have already prepare all the ingredients so you can thank me later."
Fate ignored me and went straight to her room, and then she shouted," Call me when dinner is ready." I was puzzled at her strange behaviour but even more importantly, I did not know how to settle my dinner.
I groaned and decided to go to her room and told her to cook dinner for us since I thought that she must had not heard me and when I was near her door, I heard some Fate talking inside.
"What happen to Nanoha today? She seems so strange especially when Yuudo or Yuuko or Yuu-whatever slide his finger on her back. I know some people are sensitive but her reaction is exaggerated. Maybe she is just like me, having some bad memories that she does not let go. No wonder I feel an attachment to her when I meet her that day, perhaps it is fate? Sigh, too think she is so cute when she laughs….."
My eyes widened and I quickly placed my ear nearer to the door, hoping to hear more of her words. Being step siblings since young, we had been very close but she had always been wary of forming relationships with other people and even I need one year to finally get her to accept me and mum. I had always loved her though not in a strange way and I wanted her to share her pain with me or with mum but she always chose to hide them in her heart.
I had never pressured her to tell me anything she withheld as I respected her decisions but now, it was a great chance to hear her inner thoughts and I could not gave that chance up.
"Oh my gosh, why I am talking like this. It seems as though I have fallen in love with her. Impossible. No way am I going to like her to that extent, it is totally wrong. Though she had been hanging around with me with that guy and doing all those…things openly, it is merely a friendly gesture. Yes, that's the truth. Oh well, I am starving now…"
I quickly ran back to the sofa and laughed silently until my stomach hurt. I found it very cute of her actually wondering whether she liked a girl or not. For me, it was fine and if she was a gay, I would accept it and still love her as my precious sister.
"Chrono, when's dinner going to be ready. I am starving here." Fate shouted from her room. I remembered the purpose of going to her room and I started to walk towards her room to tell her that she was the chef tonight but I gave up that thought.
I used the phone and ordered some pizzas and side dishes for our dinner. Anyway, there was no way she was in the mood for cooking dinner so I might as well order some pizzas and had a simple dinner. I then shouted back," Hey Fate. I ordered some pizzas for dinner. Come down after ten minutes, ok?"
She replied," Ok. Thanks Chrono, you save me." I sighed and rubbed my stomach and muttered," I am just saving myself." Just when I was about to jump on the sofa and continued my novel, a dog with vivid red furs jumped onto the sofa and caused me twist my body to avoid hitting the dog.
"Hey Arf, next time please bark before jumping on the sofa." I groaned out as I landed on the floor. Arf gave a happy yelp before settling herself on the sofa, thus robbing off my space. Then, a loud song came out of Fate's room but with a series of "squawk" to accompany with the song. I grinned to myself upon hearing Bardiche song which it must had learnt from Fate while she bathing.
Then Fate shouted," BARDICHE, STOP COPYING ME. OH WHY DO I GET A PARROT FOR MY BIRTHDAY…. I MUST BE CRAZY!" This time, I could not help but laughed loudly, waking up Arf which growled at me. I knew that getting a parrot would be the perfect present for Fate as I had been the one who suggest to Fate.
At that time, she was very happy to have an unique pet but now, she had been complaining of Bardiche annoying habit of copying any thing she said which she did not want anybody to know and one day, she even asked me whether parrot meat was edible. I told her that it was poisonous which until now, she believed me and did not dare to suggest about eating it for lunch or dinner.
Then a loud voice," SQUAWK SHE LOOKED VERY BEAUTIFUL SQUAWK. I WONDERED HOW DID IT FEEL TO……"
I widened my eyes and grinned at her room. Too bad mum was not here to listen to this. Then a loud voice rang out," I HAVE ENOUGH OF YOU STUPID PARROT. I SWEAR THAT….."
I could not help but laughed as I never knew she actually knew those words.