A/N: Guess what! I had different ideas about putting some action in this fic and I really don't know what should I do next? Keep putting some action or more lovey dovey time? Well… Maybe I did surprise you guys with the CIA things but… that does really make the story more interesting :3. So… I'm gonna let you guys choose what will happen more in this story. Two options: More action means more guns fight, more punches and kicks or more love time means more dating, more romantic time blah blah blah. Or another option is action, romance, equal to each other. Well… this chapter will be a non-type chapter, just buying some time for you guys to make your choices.

In my personal opinion, I'll choose equal. Most of time will be romantic but between them will have some action to make the love of two-character-that-we-have-already-known to be more difficult. I'm evil, right? :)

Anyways, thanks for your all reviews.

Disclaimer: I do not own MSLN!

Chapter 6

Next day, students came to school as usual. Well… not very usual for Nanoha. She came to school alone, still couldn't believe what happened yesterday. She even couldn't talk to Yuuno like normal or teased him with 'onii-chan' stuff. This morning, she woke up and went to school earlier than Yuuno. She was still angry with him, for all of the secrets that he had kept away from her. She was his and Hayate's friend for years and just one day, they had turned her life to a different way that she had never known. Fate was completely different from them, she just met her for weeks and she didn't know much about her so she couldn't mad at her. The bus stopped in front of the academy and Nanoha got off. She walked slowly to the gate when her mind kept thinking about what she would do. "Only one day and I had become a target of mafia? And only one day, I had figured out that my friends are secret agents for ten years and I know nothing about it even how close I am to them? Still… I have to face the truth now." She sighed. "But I really don't know what I should do now. I need to ask someone… but whom? Yuuno-kun? Nah… I still mad at him. Hayate-chan? She's gotten enough trouble for herself now. Maybe I shouldn't bother her anymore. Arisa-chan and Suzuka-chan have no idea about this and I can't tell them. Who else should I ask?" She kept walking without knowing where she was going and what was in front of her until someone shouted.

"Watch out!" Nanoha woke up and before she realized what was happened, she bumped into a door, the principal room's door. That was a very painful hit; Nanoha fell down and rubbed her nose.

"Owwie…"

"Oh my! Are you ok?" The principal said worriedly then closed the door.

"I-I'm fine. I'm sorry, Ma'am." Nanoha quickly stood up, still holding her nose.

"You're not fine to me thought. Next time, look where you are going or you'll bump into a wall or to someone." The principal said seriously.

"I'm sorry." As she was apologizing, someone came next to her and asked with a familiar voice to her.

"Are you OK, Nanoha? I'm sorry for warning you late." Nanoha looked and she met the burgundy eyes.

"Ah, fine… I'm fine. Don't worry." Nanoha said with a nasal voice.

"I don't think she is. Harlaown-san, take her to your office and treat her nose. I'll excuse you two for skipping the first period." The principal ordered to Fate.

"Yes Ma'am. Now come with me, Nanoha." Fate held Nanoha's wrist and dragged her to the clock tower.

The clock tower was the tallest building in the school campus. It had ten floors and the Student Council's president's office was on the top floor so Fate and Nanoha took the elevator. While they were coming to Fate's room, Nanoha remembered about yesterday. "Right… Fate-chan! I still can ask her. Her act is really great. She is the best agent at TSAB and the CIA in Japan but no one knows that. Everyone just knows about her as a normal girl lives in a rich and famous family. But she's a famous person and she can do all that secret works at the same time. I should ask her for advises then." A "bing" came out and they arrived at Fate's room. It was a huge room with classical decoration. Wooden table placed near the wide window, bookshelves placed around the walls, sofa and a wooden tea table placed in the middle of the room. The floor was rolled out by red carpet and the walls were brown like wood. Nanoha was amazed by the beauty of the room and she couldn't speak a word before Fate said.

"Well… This is my office. Be free then. Sit down and I'll check your nose."

Nanoha did what Fate said; she sat down on the sofa when Fate went to take the first aid box. That time, Nanoha could feel some pain through her nose and she smelt blood. Fate came out and sat down next to Nanoha.

"Put your hand down, please. Let me see your nose." Nanoha slowly put her hand down. Fate could see that her nose was bleeding and maybe it had broken. "Your nose is bleeding. And I think it has broken too."

"What?" Nanoha shocked.

"I'm not sure but just stay calm and let me treat you."

"O-Ok." Nanoha stood still and let Fate cleaned her blood. She gentle lifted Nanoha's chin up and used a tissue to clean the blood. Except for the strong kicks and punches yesterday, Nanoha couldn't believe the girl before her was that gentle and… warm. She watched Fate fought with those black suit men and how they were painful when they took the attacks from Fate. She was so strong and cold out there but in here, she was completely different. Nanoha's heart beat faster every second. The room was getting hotter or maybe… only Nanoha felt that. She lightly blushed while she was watching Fate treated her nose until she touched her nose.

"Ouch!" Nanoha jumped back.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Let me take a look at it." Fate look carefully at Nanoha's nose and gentle touched her nose. "Well… your nose isn't broken. It's just hurt a little. I think I have something to make your nose better." Fate took a small bandage from inside the box and put it on Nanoha's nose. "There you go."

Nanoha slowly touched her nose. It felt better than a couple minutes before.

"Ah… Thank you, Fate-chan."

"Don't mention it. Your nose isn't worse like I thought. We have a period for free so do whatever you want." Fate closed the first aid box and put it away.

"What about you?"

"I don't know. I've finished my work last week. Until that person comes, I'm free then."

"Well then… can I ask you about something?"

"… Anything." Fate looked at Nanoha.

"Well…" When Nanoha began to say, a knock came from the door.

"Hold on a minute." Fate said to Nanoha and walked to the door. She opened it and a girl with long black hair and a red ribbon behind her head appeared.

"Hello Fate-san. I come to give you this week's work." The girl smiled.

"Great! More work to do!" Fate tried her best to smile. "But why do you know I am here?"

"The principal told me." The girl looked into the room and saw Nanoha. "Looks like you have a guest."

"Oh… that's my friend." Fate opened the door wider to let the girl come in when Nanoha stood up. "This is Takamachi Nanoha, Hayate's friend and now she's mine too. And Nanoha, this is Minamoto Ayumi-san, the vice president of the Student Council. She is an upper-classed student."

"Nice to meet you, Minamoto-san." Nanoha gave the girl handshake.

"Nice to meet you too, Takamachi-san." Ayumi smiled. "And your nose is really hurt, isn't it?"

"Well… just a little."

"I don't get it. Nanoha's nose just bled a little and the principal gave us a free period." Fate said confusedly.

"I think she did it to give you more free time to finish this week's work then." Ayumi took out from her bag a big wad of paper and handed it to Fate. It was so much paper that Fate almost fell down when she received it.

"T-Too… h-hea-vy." Fate quickly put it on her table then turned to Ayumi. "How could you do that? Carrying this weight?"

"Well… some work out when I was the secretary for the Student Council last year. Anyways, I have to go now. I'll help you at the lunch time. But now, use your free time to do as much as you can."

"OK. Leave it to me. See you later, Ayumi-san."

"See you, Fate-san. Good bye, Takamachi-san."

"Good bye, Minamoto-san." Nanoha bowed and the vice president was gone. Then she turned to Fate who had a tired expression on her face.

"Well… my free time is over now." Fate sighed and went to her table to do her work.

Nanoha watched Fate worked. She looked and thought about how Fate could manage to do school work and agent's work without any problems in six years. Before she knew about the secret, she just thought that Fate was a normal girl like her but she was beautiful, talented, famous and rich. She was even more impressive in the mean time.

"I'm impressed." Nanoha said.

"Impressed what?" Fate looked up.

"You."

"Me? Why?" Fate said surprisedly.

"Because you can do all that stuff in six years and nobody knows that."

"If so then Hayate and Yuuno are better than me. They have more friends but they can keep that secret without any problems. More than that, they have been involved into this kind of stuff earlier than me."

"Wha… How long have you been an agent?"

"I've become an officially agent for six years but before that, I was a cadet in three years."

"What? So it means… you are in CIA since you were seven?" Nanoha was shocked.

"Err… yes, yes I am."

"H-How did you… such a young age…"

"Well… My real father was an agent for CIA and he could keep that secret away from his family but me. So them I became a cadet and worked with my father. Somehow, I have my father's skill so they accepted me and trained me day by day..." Fate said but her voice trailed down. "Two years later, my father got into a big mission and he was killed by an assassin that was trying to kill his client. And then a month after my father's death, my house was burned and my mother and sister was killed. Because of those mafias…"

"Um… I'm sorry. I didn't mean to…" Nanoha apologized.

"That's OK. It's not your fault. I get used to it by now." Fate looked at the window behind her back. "Hayate and Yuuno aren't better than me though. Hayate's parent was inventors and they were killed by the mafia in a car accident because they refused to create weapons for them. Hayate was there too but she was luckier than her parent. She didn't get hurt at all, except for her legs. She was five at that time. And Yuuno lost his parent with the same way and because of the same reason. His parent had some research work that attracted the mafias. And I think he was three back then."

Nanoha was speechless. The first time she had heard about her friends' pasts and they were so… terrible and… sad. Except for Yuuno's past when she had already known it but the reason was painful. She couldn't know how much pain they were having through this time and she did nothing to comfort them. "How awful I am!"

"I… We know how painful it is if someone lost their families so that's why… we won't let anyone hurt you and your family." Fate looked at Nanoha's blue eyes. "I'll protect you and Hayate even that costs my own life. And that is a promise." Fate smiled.

Nanoha blushed at what Fate said. Her smiled was so… warm. Nanoha was beaten by that smile and she couldn't do anything to refuse her feeling inside her heart. She turned away to hide her dark red face, tried her best to stay calm.

"Oh… that reminds me. You want to ask me something?"

"Ah… right, yes." Nanoha coughed. "I want to ask you how to act normal like nothing happened before."

"You mean… like what we are doing right now? Being normal students?"

"Yes. Something likes that."

"Easy. Just be yourself. You shouldn't care about those things too much. Enjoy your life when you can."

"Well… I'll try." Nanoha said. "Anyways, when do you do your secret works? I see that from day to night, you just do whatever a normal girl does."

"At midnight. About two or three days a week. I go out and do some sundry things. My main missions are protecting the VIPs so I don't go out so regular."

"Oh… I see."

Few seconds later, someone knocked at the door.

"Come in!" Fate said loudly and the door opened.

"Sorry for the intrusion!" Hayate said cheerful.

"Hayate-chan? Why are you here? You should be in class right now." Nanoha said surprisedly.

"Our teacher is busy today so I'm free for the two first periods. And you too, Fate-chan."

"Great! More time to work." Fate sighed.

"So I thought it would be a great idea if I came here." Hayate smiled. "And I had overheard about what you guys were talking. It felt so hot!" Hayate giggled.

"Wha-! You-! We-! Hayate-chan!" Nanoha blushed when Fate turned away.

"I heard about the promise too." Hayate closed the door and walked to Fate. "Thanks about that, Fate-chan." She smiled and also had a small blush on her face.

"Well… it's nothing…"

"Ok then… return to the main problem here." Hayate clapped her hands.

"What problem?" Fate asked.

"About the prom next week, of course."

"Err… we have a prom here?" Nanoha asked innocently.

"You haven't heard about that?" Hayate turned to Nanoha.

"No."

"Well… This academy's prom is very special then. Every year, it organizes at the school's conference room and all of the students and teachers can join it. The main event is the special guest in the prom, a prince or a knight or a princess or something like that. That person will dress different from the other and of course that person will be the most favorite person in this school. One person can be the special guest only one time though."

"So… who's this year special guest?" Nanoha asked.

"Don't know." Hayate glanced at Fate. "But I think it'll be fun."

"Ok, Hayate." Fate coughed. "You point is…"

"I just want to come here and announce that the principal had offered me to design the costume for our guest."

"What?" Fate stood up.

"So that means… soon or later, I'll know who's the special guest." Hayate laughed.

"Poor that guy!" Nanoha whispered to herself.

"Did you say something, Nanoha-chan?"

"Ah… no. Nothing." Nanoha shook her head.

"I didn't hear anything about that." Fate interrupted.

"She told me this morning. I see that she hasn't told you yet."

"Well yeah. And I also haven't known who that unlucky person is."

"You don't? Well… fine. But I can guess who it is." Hayate giggled.

"Who are you thinking about, Hayate?" Fate stared at Hayate and made the girl step back.

"Just guessing. We'll see soon." Hayate smiled. "But another reason that I come here is this." Hayate extended her hand to Nanoha.

"Err… What?" Nanoha asked when she saw nothing on on Hayate's hand.

"This." Hayate pressed something on her hand and a belt appeared. "Your weapon. I made it for you."

"Wow, you're really fast." Nanoha took the belt. "How could you do these in one day?"

"C'mon! It's just an electric gun, a sunglass and an invisible belt. How hard it could be?"

"Extremely hard?" Nanoha raised an eyebrow.

"Nah. Anyways, you can carry this anytime and anywhere like Fate-chan. I'm sure that she's wearing her belt now." Hayate smiled at Fate.

"I have to be ready anytime. I don't know what would happen to you next, Ms. Troublesome." Fate teased.

"Hey, what did I do?" Hayate pouted.

"Let me see… teasing those undercover mafias? If I hadn't been there with my belt, you would have died."

"Mou… I didn't know that they were mafias. I thought they were some stupid perverts on the street." Hayate lightly blushed.

"Whatever." Fate smiled.

"Fine." Hayate then turned to Nanoha. "You know how to use this belt right?"

"Yeah, a little bit, I think." Nanoha said.

"Just press the button then. And also your gun is different from Fate's. Your gun is a shock gun. Its bullets don't hurt much but its victims will be shocked and completely paralyzed when they are shot. Also they could pass out if they got shot too much. Fate's gun is a laser gun and it can kill people."

"Well yes but I rarely use it. I like my pole more than that killer gun." Fate said while she was doing her paper work.

"If so then who was the one took out this killer gun first yesterday?" Hayate smiled.

Fate coughed, blushed lightly. "Continue your speech, please."

"Anyways, this sunglass is actually a communicated device. It just likes a phone but more convenient. Also these are binoculars and it has night vision." Hayate wore the belt on Nanoha's hip. "You just need these. Fate will take care of the rest so don't worry about anything."

"Right… leave everything to me." Fate said unpleasantly.

"I know we can count on you, Fate-chan!" Hayate smiled.

"Wait! Wha-! Mou…" Fate slapped her face when Hayate was laughing at her.

Nanoha smiled and she felt a little happy. Even though she would face something that she had never known but she had her friends by her side, cheered her up and always… always protected her.

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Hayate: (Stands still) Why did I blush at Fate-chan?

Fate: (Speechless) … … …

Nanoha: *smile* I don't know. Maybe you had something in your pervert head?

Hayate: I was not! This is Sayu-chan's story anyways. I don't know what she is going to write.

Nanoha: Speaking of which, how is Sayu-chan now?

Fate: (Looks at the door then turns around) I think she won't come here at least two more chapters. Shamal said that she is terrible hurt.

Nanoha: (Confused) And who wrote this chapter anyways?

Fate: She did. She has already finished chapter 8 but for some reasons… (looks at Nanoha) she can't update it soon.

Nanoha: Nyahaha. Anyways, it'll be good if she comes back.

Fate: Now you think so huh?

Nanoha: Mou… Fate-chan! Are you mad at me now?

Fate: No because I can't. I just think about the name of White Devil is so suitable for you.

Nanoha: (Begins to cry) Fate-chan… you… meanie!

Fate: (Trys to calm her friend) Ah… Don't cry, Nanoha. I'm sorry. I didn't mean it.

Hayate: *thought* This is what Sayu-chan warned me? I have some bad feelings about this. Maybe I should call Shamal and books for a bed in her clinic.