A/N: Few days had passed and Chapter 5 has been released. Somehow I feel sorry when I decided to join the designers' team of The Student Council and it has taken me lots of time. I really shouldn't join that team. And the last thing but not least, thanks for all your reviews!

Disclaimer: I do not own MSLN!

Chapter 5

Time was running and finally, Sunday had arrived. As usual, the Cosplay Café was crowned. Partly because it was Sunday. On the other hand, the Cosplay Café always had some special events for Sunday. The café shop was owned by the Yagami family, the owner was Signum Yagami. Hayate worked as a waitress and in the future, she would replace Signum. In the changing room, two workers had come. Hayate entered the room along with her co-worker, also her friend, Nanoha. Repairing for the special event, Hayate gave to Nanoha a costume that was in her collection for that day. Nanoha took the bag and looked inside. For a moment, she seems shocked and then she asked Hayate.

"What exactly is today's topic?"

"Cute schoolgirl! What do you think?" Hayate smiled.

"Why do you always give me a seductive costume? You know what would happen to me when I wore this, don't you?"

"I know. Your cuteness is our secret weapon. More cuteness, more customers so you have to do this. Besides, I have invited a strong bodyguard so no need to worry about anything!"

"Mou… First, you're a real pervert. Second, who's that bodyguard?"

"I'm not a pervert. Anyways, you'll see, soon." Hayate gave Nanoha a smile that made her stared to scare. "Now get back to work! The customers are waiting for us."

Nanoha sighed and she couldn't do anything more than just did what she had been told. She got dressed when Hayate went out the changing room with her new costume. It was nine a.m. but all the tables in the shop were filled, except for one rounded-table in the corner, near to the window which could see everybody walked on the streets or entered the shop when anyone was sitting there. It was a really good view but no one sat there. Why? Because there was a sign that had a big word 'Reserved' on it placed on the table. Hayate dressed like a schoolgirl in a sailor uniform with big cat's ears on her head and a long tail behind her back. She stood and the door and waited for the customers. From the time she went out, almost all the men in the shop was excited and whistled lewdly. The brunette just ignored them and waited for the one who she really wanted to see. Five minutes later, a girl entered the café shop. When the door bell rang and a blond-haired girl came in, Hayate smiled happily. Fate had com like what she had promised. She wore a white T-shirt with no hands, a black short skirt, black socks and a black sweater. She immediately shocked when she saw Hayate stood in front of her with a cat schoolgirl costume. She laughed softly.

"You've come. You sure know how to keep a promise." Hayate said.

"Who do you think I am? You've known me since we were ten. It's almost six years now." Fate tried to stay calm. "You should know me better than that."

"I'm just kidding. Of course I know that." Hayate smiled. "And I'm sure that you still like black."

"Well… at least I wear something that doesn't get any perverts' looks… I think I have to save you, again. How many exactly times have I come here?" Fate said.

"OK, table for one. Please come here." Hayate blushed lightly then leaded Fate to the reserved table.

She removed the sign and told Fate to sit down. Then, she gave to the blonde the menu and smiled.

"I'm not your waitress today. Someone will serve you soon. See you later then."

"Thanks. See you." Hayate returned to her duty. Fate read the menu for a minute then she heard the voice of the pervert men in the shop, whistling and seducing. "What's happening here? Hayate did something again?" Fate looked up. A figure was familiar to her, stood in front of her with a note on her hand. In a sailor school uniform with bunny ears on the hair and a fluffy white tail behind, Nanoha said to Fate.

"Welcome to Cosplay Café. How may I… F-Fate-chan?" Nanoha shocked when she noticed it was Fate.

Fate was speechless for a moment then she calmly said. "Well… Good morning… Nanoha… I don't know that you work here… You're new, right?"

"G-Good morning… Fate-chan. Yes, I'm new here. Well… kind of… I have been working here for a month." Nanoha embarrassed because Fate had saw her, in a ridiculous outfit.

"A month? Oh, right… I haven't come here since last month."

"So that's mean… you come here every day?"

"Hmm… no… just on the weekend." Fate smiled. "Especially on every Sunday since Hayate decided to organize this special event. Perverts come more and more every week so I have to come to protect her and her staff."

"… You two are really close friend, aren't you?" Nanoha said, somehow sadly.

"Well… yes. I have promised her that I'll always protect her in any ways so…" Fate stayed silent for a moment. "Oh, you're my waitress, right?"

"Oops… I'm sorry… I almost forgot that." Nanoha quickly opened her note. "Have you decided anything yet?"

"Well, I'll have a cup of cappuccino, please." Fate smiled then gave the menu to Nanoha.

"Right away, ma'am." Nanoha smiled, took the menu then she went to the counter, where Hayate was smiling at her. She gave the note to the cook then turned to Hayate.

"You invited her, didn't you?"

"Yep… She's a bodyguard here… well… since we have had this event every Sunday." Hayate smiled.

"Why didn't you tell me that Fate-chan comes here every week but this month since I have started to work here?"

"And ruins all of the fun parts? No way!" Hayate laughed. "I invited her for some reasons and somehow… I success." Then the shorter brunette pointed to the blonde who was laying her face down the table and her shoulders were shivering. Nanoha looked at Fate and she immediately blushed.

"Hayate!"

"I wanted her to saw you like this. And it worked."

"Mou… pervert." Nanoha brought the cappuccino to Fate after she stared at Hayate angrily.

Fate heard someone was coming to her, well… in the noisy shop. She sat up, coughed a little bit then she returned to a calm and mature person. Nanoha placed the cup down then smiled to her.

"Here's your cappuccino. Please, enjoy."

"Thank you very much." Fate smiled back.

Nanoha went back to do her job. Fate still could see the bunny ears and the fluffy white tails so she laughed softly. Thirty minutes had passed, nothing changed much in the Cosplay Café. Hayate and Nanoha were still running around to do their jobs. Customers came then out. Fate was reading and writing on a book, a black book. She always brought it when she came to Cosplay Café and sometimes she talked to Signum, who would sit down at her table when the woman saw her. Normally, she would just sit there and watched out for any boys who dared to make any move to her friend. But then, the door bell rang and two young men came in. Hayate ran out to greet her customers.

"Welcome to Cosplay Café. How may I help you?" Finished her line, Hayate looked carefully to her customers then jumped back. Those two men were Chrono and… Yuuno! She blushed and turned around.

"Oh. Onii-chan and Yuuno come here together?" Fate stood up and walked to them. "What day is today?"

"I know we can find you here, Fate. I need to tell you and Signum something about this new guy here. Is he your new student at school?" Chrono said.

"Yes… yes he is. Well… why don't we sit down and have a talk then." Fate leaded them to her table said to Hayate. "Hayate, do you mind calling Signum to come here for me?"

"Well… not at all. I'll call her now." The girl ran away.

Later, Nanoha came to their table then said.

"How may I help you, sir?" She smiled.

"N-Nanoha?" Yuuno's eyes wide opened. He saw Nanoha in her costume and he blushed lightly, almost dropped his glassed.

"Oh. Yuuno-kun? It's rarely to see you come here. And who's with you?"

"Nanoha… Please meet my brother, Chrono Harlaown." Fate said and smiled to the dark-blue-haired young man. "Onii-chan, this is Takamachi Nanoha, one of the new students."

"Nice to meet you, Takamachi-san." Chrono shook Nanoha's hand.

"Nice to meet you too, Harlaown-san."

"Please, call me Chrono. Harlaown-san sounds like my father."

"Well… actually… you and dad are really familiar to each other. You two just like two drops of water." Fate smiled.

"Cut it out, Fate!" Chrono said. "Anyways, just leave us here. We have something else to do so we just stay here for a few minutes."

"OK. I'll leave you then." Nanoha smiled then went to Hayate. Hayate had called her boss, also her guardian. The pink-haired woman came out and asked.

"Why did you call me? Someone had touched you again?"

"No! But Fate-chan wants to see you."

"For what?" Signum looked at Fate's table then she saw two young men were sitting there. "Harlaown and Scrya are here too? What's going on here?" She took her apron off and went to the table. "Hayate, Nanoha, you two go back to your job. I'll be right back."

Nanoha slowly came to Hayate and whispered.

"Hayate-chan, what's going on there?"

"I'm not sure." Hayate saw the serious faces of the four people next to the window, looking at each other. "But something doesn't seem right."

"What do you mean anyway?" Nanoha looked at the shorted girl's direction and she saw Fate and Signum had surprised expression on their faces. She was more confused. She really didn't know what was happening there but she saw Signum and Fate nodded for something and then Signum stood up, walked to their position.

"Hayate, I need to speak with you for a moment." Signum whispered to Hayate and dragged her to the kitchen.

"Really, what's happening here?" Nanoha had no idea about the strange actions that her friends were doing. Then, Yuuno went to her and said quietly when Fate and Chrono were still discussing about something at the table.

"Nanoha. I think I need to tell you."

"Tell me about what? What are you people doing?" Nanoha said confusedly.

"Well… this is really hard to explain but… you need to know… This is for your own sake." Yuuno said seriously.

"Yuuno-kun?"

"Nanoha… the truth is… I…" Before he could finish his words, a big explosion happened right before the shop. It made all the glasses broke and people started to run, screamed, tried to get out of the shop as fast as they could. Smoke was everywhere.

"What the…" Signum ran out of the kitchen with Hayate to saw what was happening.

"They're here." Chrono stood up and shouted.

"Yuuno, Signum, protect the girls. We will take care of those guys." Fate said then she took out a black gun from her hip and so did Chrono.

"Guns?" Nanoha couldn't say anything but heard the others said to each other.

"Nanoha-chan, come here now! It's too dangerous!" Hayate pulled the brunette to her side.

"Fate! Chrono-san! No guns here. The cops could come here if they heard the shots." Yuuno shouted.

"Dammed!" Chrono said angrily then put away his gun. "So I have to use my hands then."

"No more choices." Fate did the same then pulled out a long black steel pole from a short stick she hid somewhere on her hip.

After that, from the broken windows, several men in black suit and black sunglasses with cold guns in their hands came in. Immediately, Fate and Chrono attacked them. They knocked down those guns then hit those men. Chrono was really good at martial art when he fought with three guys at the same time. Fate had more advantages than her brothers because of her pole and also with her speed, no one could touch her so one by one, those men had been knocked out. But when they finished this group, another group with machine guns came in and fired at them.

"Get down!" Chrono said.

Yuuno and Signum quickly dragged the two brunettes down when Fate and Chrono laid down. The men started to shoot. They didn't care if it was their enemies or their friends. They just shot at the building form the outside. Holes were everywhere on the walls. Cups, dishes, glasses were broken. The continued to shoot until they heard polices were coming. Quickly, those men with the machine guns and even the others that had been knocked out got on some black cars had been parking there and ran away.

"Oh man! Polices are coming. We have to go now!" Chrono stood up. The police cars were just few miles away their place.

"We can't let them catch us. We'll get lots of troubles." Yuuno said when he helped Nanoha to stand up.

"Why all these things happened only when someone new transferred to our mission?" Fate said angrily. "And how did they know us here?"

"Talking later, Fate." Signum interrupted. "Hayate, leaded them to our house. Let me take care of those cops. And also Nanoha too. Uses the backdoor. Now!"

"C'mon people! We have to run now!" Hayate held Nanoha hands then ran to the changing room, the others followed them.

Hayate quickly took her and Nanoha's cloths then went to the backdoor.

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Yagami's house was just a couple miles away from the café shop so in a short time, all of them had arrived. Hayate pushed the door bell when Chrono and Fate were watching for someone could follow them. A few seconds later, the door opened.

"Oh, Hayate… You're early. It's only… What's happened to you and why are there so many people here?" The little girl with red hair surprised asked.

"No time. Just… let us in… and… I'll tell you later." Hayate said breathless.

"Oh… OK…" Vita opened the door wider.

Hayate and the others quickly entered the house and Vita closed the door. Yuuno clocked it. Fate and Chrono closed all the windows and window drapes. Shamal ran out from the kitchen then asked.

"What's happened? You all look like a mess. Did they come again?"

"Yes and this time… they took their machine guns too." Hayate sat down on the sofa and said.

"Oh my… Is everyone OK?"

"No one get hurt… I think. But the shop was terribly damaged. Also we got some troubles with the cops."

"Where is Signum anyway?"

"She stays back to deal with those stupid cops."

"OK enough already!" The one who stayed silent at the beginning shouted, made the others jumped back. Nanoha slowly took off her bunny ears then looked at everyone with a confused expression on her face. "Someone… can tell me… Why did those scary men shoot at us? And why do Chrono-san and Fate-chan have guns? What the hell is going on here?"

"Calm down, Nanoha-chan. This is hardly to understand than you think." Hayate said.

"I don't care how hard it is. I just want to know what I should know!"

"Nanoha! Just calm down and I'll tell you everything you should know. Ok?" Yuuno stood next to her then pulled her down to the couch. Chrono and Fate worried looked at each other and said nothing. "Ok, Nanoha. I know you won't understand much what we're going to tell you but… you should know something…" Yuuno sighed. "We're not just normal students. Actually… All of us are officers from CIA."

"W-What?" Nanoha's eyes wide opened.

"For more details, we are just a division of the CIA in Japan called TSAB."

"TSAB is a military organization that takes care of all the science about military weapons in the world also eliminates wanted people. But TSAB has many smaller units with different purposes."

"I, Signum and Fate are in the Enforcer's unit. Our missions are protecting the VIPs that are in danger such as Hayate and also eliminating an organization called S." Chrono interrupted.

"Well, I'm a scientist in the Researching unit but I have transferred to their unit yesterday for some reason. Somehow, we live like normal people but at night, we do our real job so you can call us spies or something like that."

"W-W-Wait!" Nanoha couldn't believe to her ears anymore. "Did you say that all people here are officers?"

"Err… yes, I did."

"How long have you been working at CIA?"

"About ten years, I think."

"I've been with you all that time and you said nothing to me?" Nanoha was angry.

"Well… I couldn't say anything. TSAB is a secret organization, no one knows about its existence."

"How long did you plan to keep it away from me?"

"Until you have been involved." Yuuno said.

"Oh gosh. I feel dizzy now." Nanoha held her head.

"Nanoha-chan, I… we really don't want you to be involved into something like this but… we have no choices." Hayate sat down next to her and hugged her softly. "Forgive us, please."

"How can I imagine that my friends and their families are agents of CIA? Just tell me, this is a dream, right?"

"No… This isn't a dream, Nanoha-chan. Everything we have told you is the truth."

"Oh great!" Nanoha sighed.

"Nanoha-chan…"

"Hayate-chan… just tell me… why me? Why do you guys tell me those things?"

"Well… I'm the one who need to know that too. Yuuno-kun? Chrono? Fate-chan? Could someone answer our question, please?" Hayate looked up.

The other three looked at each other then Chrono stepped forward and said.

"Well… Takamachi-san had been targeted by the S for some reasons. Until we find out why, we have to protect you like a VIP. So we think you need to know that."

"What can be worse than be a target of those murders?"

"Actually, there is one thing can be worse than that." Hayate smiled.

"From now on, you'll have an agent to protect you 24/7. Like Hayate, this agent will be with you anytime, anywhere." Chrono said.

"What? I'll be like a prisoner."

"It's for your own sake though. I know how hard to afford it but you have to. If we don't do that, you'll die."

"Fine! I have no choices but to listen to you guys." Nanoha sighed. "Who's my bodyguard then?"

"I had asked the HQ and we decided that… Fate will be your bodyguard."

"What!" Fate and Nanoha said in union.

"Hold on for seconds. Chrono… you didn't tell me anything about it. How can I be Nanoha's bodyguard?" Fate said confusedly.

"You're the best agent in our unit if I have to say that. This mission has been ranged at the highest level so HQ only counts on you to do this mission."

"The news about Yuuno is one of us made me shocked enough. But what now? You people want to kill me or what? I can't protect two people all day. Even Signum is helping me in my current mission. How can I be 24 hours a day with Nanoha?"

"Well… that's why Yuuno transferred to our unit. Because he's staying with Nanoha so he'll be your partner in this mission."

Fate looked at Yuuno then turned to her brother.

"Fine! I'll take it. But why don't you do this? You're the unit's general after all."

"I have something more important to do, Fate." Chrono said. "Besides, I'm protecting our family anyways."

"Yeah right. Save it to your new wife." Fate turned away.

"Anyhow…" Chrono turned back to Nanoha. "Takamachi-san, do you have any problem about this?"

"Yes… one question." Nanoha said worriedly.

"Anything. Just ask."

"Do I need to do something?"

"Well… not really. Except for some experiment in future we have to do to find out the reason, you just act normal. Like nothing happened. Hayate will teach you how to do that. Anymore questions?"

"No… I think."

"Ok then. I need to go now. I should go to check the café shop. Good bye." Chrono said then he left the house. Shamal shook her head and went to the kitchen.

"I'll make some tea for you all."

"Let me help you." Vita ran to the kitchen.

"How could it turn to this kind of thing? Yuuno is an agent of CIA that I hadn't known for years? Fate-chan is an exception because I've just known her for a few days but Hayate is too? Now I have found out but my life is in danger. I hope this is just a dream."

"Wake up already! This is not a dream!" Hayate said like she read the brunette's mind.

"Hayate-chan. How long have Fate-chan and Signum been protecting you?"

"Well… about six years."

"Who are you exactly?"

"To make it short, I'm an inventor of CIA. I invent tools and weapons for their agents. For exchanges, they send their agents to protect me from the other companies who hire mafias or even the S organization to kill me or steal all of my inventions." Hayate stood up and walked to Fate. "Her belt and weapons are my inventions."

"I can't see any belt." Nanoha came closer to look but she still saw nothing.

"Yes you can't see it because it's invisible." Hayate pressed Fate's lower abdomen and a silver steel belt appeared around her hip. On it, there was a black gun, sunglasses, a black steel stick, some small smoke bombs and another gun with a hook in it. "Everything is hang on this belt will be invisible too. So that no one knows she is carrying weapon. Even the radars at the airport can't see it. All you need it press this button here." She pointed to the small button on the bell.

"Wow. That's why you're really good at science." Nanoha said.

"I have one too but I only have an electrical gun to self-defense though. I think I need to make some for you and Yuuno-kun since you two are with us now."

"Well… I really don't need it. It's quite inconvenient." Nanoha shook her head.

"You should have one. You don't know what will happen to you. Even Fate-chan or Yuuno can't be with you anytime… Anyways, the most important thing that you must not tell anybody about us or everything you have been told."

"Even my family?"

"Yep. Even your family and our friends."

"Suzuka-chan and Arisa-chan, we can't tell them?"

"No if you don't want to hurt them. This is not a joke, Nanoha-chan. This is about your life. Your family's lives. Our friends' lives. If you want to hurt nobody then stay silent and act normal."

"Ok. I get it. But I still need some more answers."

"You'll have it later. But now, I and you need to change. Also we have to discuss about something at school."

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Sayuki: *Haftly dead*

Fate: (Looking at the dead body) Na-no-ha! What have you done? You've killed our writer! Now who will write this story?

Nanoha: Nyahaha. Sorry! I couldn't help. (Jacket off)

Fate: What are we gonna do? (Yells)

Hayate: *Smile* Relax Fate-chan! I'll call Shamal to save Sayu-chan then. She'll be fine. She isn't died yet. (Kicks the dead body) See?

Sayuki: (Trying to speak) Ha… ya… te… if… you… don't… stop… kicking me… I… will… make… you… pay! (Passes out)

Fate: (Shaking author's body) Sayu-chan. Sayu-chan! Hold on! I'll call Shamal right away.

Hayate: Oh right! Let's see what she is going to do to me! *smile*