Title: Her Love.

Chapter 4

Disclaimer: I do not own MGLN but if I did I certainly wouldn't be writing fan fiction about it.

Nanoha's POV:

Beep, beep, beep. I groaned as I sat up in bed and grabbed my phone off of the top of my dresser. I clicked it off and with a tired sigh I got out of bed.

I really hate mornings.

I slowly made my way to the bathroom and started to brush my teeth when the details of yesterday came back to me.

What was that? She almost kissed me but at the last minutes she stopped. Does that mean that she likes me too or was it a one time thing? Maybe I was just imagining things. Ugh, I just don't know.

I began to put more speed and pressure into my brushing. Why is this so confusing? How am I supposed to act around her now?

" Ugh." I groaned as I looked into the mirror in front of me. My toothbrush hung out of the left side of my mouth, and my blue eyes shone dully with confusion. " Normal, I'll just act normal. It must have all been part of my imagination." I tossed my tooth brush back into its cup and began pulling my hair into its normal pony tail.

I ended up spending the rest of the night with mom and dad. So I didn't even get to think about anything. Just how am I supposed to tell her how I feel. It's not like I can just come out and say it.

Is Fate-chan even gay? Probable not. She seems to be interested in Soshi but then again Fate-chan has always been hard to read. They could only be friends, but I think that Soshi is interested in her. So if she is strait then they will probably get together at some point, and I cant let that happen!

It might be selfish but I cant let him have Fate-chan.

After I fixed my hair I left the bathroom and returned to my room to put my uniform on. I pulled on my skirt and my white button up shirt. Then I grabbed my jacket off of the hanger and made my way downstairs.

Sorry, Soshi but I cant let you have her.

So I guess that makes him my unofficial rival, and I don't plan to on losing.

Later that morning

" Good morning, Nanoha-chan." I looked up to see Hayate-chan waving at me from out meeting spot along with Alisa-chan and Suzuka-chan.

" Good morning, everyone." I said with a smile. " Where is Fate-chan?"

Hayate-chan looked in the direction that Fate-chan usually came in and shrugged. " She said that she had someone she wanted us too meet and that she would be a little late."

" I wonder who it is?" Suzuka said before she reached out and grabbed Alisa's hand.

" Well she said it was a boy. Maybe our famous Fate-chan finally got herself a boyfriend." Alisa commented.

I felt a knot of dread form in my stomach. " She said it was a boy?" I asked nervously.

" Yeah didn't you get her text?" Hayate-chan asked curiously.

I pulled out my phone and checked the messages. "No, she didn't send me one."

Why didn't she tell me?

" That's weird your usually the first one she texts." Hayate-chan looked at me worriedly. "Did you guys get into a fight?"

" No. At least I don't think we did." I said while looking at the ground. Maybe it was because of yesterday. Did the almost kiss scare her or was it something else...?

" Good morning." We all turned to see Fate-chan standing there with Soshi next to her. " I am sorry to make everyone wait." She said with a smile. I looked over at him and he shot me a friendly smile.

" Don t worry about it." Suzuka-chan gave him a quick once over before she asked politely. "Who are you?"

" I'm Soshi Takashi, it's nice to meet you all. Fate-san has told me so much about all of you" he said with a infuriatingly winning smile. They began the introductions but I just tuned them out.

Why is he walking with her? No, the better question is why did she bring him with her? I thought that they were just casual friends, like the friend you just talk to at school. I didn't think they were walk to school together friends.

I glanced around at my friends. Aren't they bothered by the fact that Fate-chan just brought some random guy with her? I mean before yesterday I had never even heard of him and now he is walking to school with us. And they have never met him so it should bother them.

Fate-chan has never even talked about him before! They shouldn't just accept some guy. How do we even know that he is safe? He could be some crazy kil-

" -noha. Nanoha?" I looked up and took a quick step back. Fate-chan stood no more then six inches away from me waving her hand in my face trying to get my attention. " Are you okay?"

" Yeah I'm fine. I just spaced out for a second. I looked around to see that we were the only ones left, and everyone else was gone. "Where did everyone go?"

"I asked them to go on ahead." She said with a concerned look. " I was worried about you. You see kind of out of it. Are you sure your fine?"

" You worry too much Fate-chan." I am fine as long as you are away from him. " I'm fine."

" Weren't you the one who was worried about me yesterday." She said with an amused grin.

" Y-yeah, b-but that's different."

" How so?" She asked playfully with a warm smile on her face.

" Um." Think brain, think. I cant think when she is smiling like that. I glanced down at my watch. "Oh, look at the time. The student council vice president cant be late." I said as I turned on my heel and began making my way towards the school.

I heard her soft laughter from behind me as I walked further away from her. I could feel the embarrassed blush make its way across my face.

I heard the taping of her shoes on the pavement as she quickly caught up with me. " Are you sure your okay, because it seems like you cant think clearly." She said while chuckling softly.

Only when your that close and smiling at me like that. " I'm fine." I said with a huff as I tried to walk faster than the quickest TSAB officer in history.

" Did you finish your homework?" She asked, keeping up with me easily.

"Yes, what about you?" I asked. All five pages of it.

" Yes." She said. " I don't have council any council work after school today so do you want me to go with you and check out the archery club?"

"Yes!" I said excitedly. Okay, could I sound a little more desperate. "I mean yeah, that would be fun."

" Okay, then I will meet you in front of the shoe lockers after school." She said happily as we walked through the school doors.

"Okay. I guess we were really behind. Everyone is already inside."

" It took me a while to get you to snap out of it." she said.

I shot her a sheepish smile. " Sorry."

" It's okay. This is the first time all year that we have walked to school with just the two of us. It was nice." She said with a cute little blush.

" Yeah it wa-"

" Hey, Fate-san!" I turned to see Soshi leaning against the wall next to the shoe lockers. " I waited for you." He walked over to us and looked down at me. And I suddenly wished that I was as tall as Fate-chan just so I wouldn't have to look up at him. "Good morning, Nanoha-san."

" Good morning Soshi-san." I said with a frown. The good mood I was in was total ruined when I saw his face.

" Are you feeling better?" He asked.

Well, I was until I saw you.

" Yes, I fine." I said with a big smile, that was so fake it made Doll Parton's boobs look real. "Sorry to worry you."

" Well, we should be getting to class. I will see you at lunch, Nanoha" Fate-chan gave me a small smile before she walked off with Soshi.

"Bye." I called after her. So she will be able to eat lunch with us today.

I smiled at that thought. I think that my day just became a little better.

Lunch time.

I was smiling happily as I made my was to the roof top with Suzuka-chan. I was extremely happy about being able to eat lunch with everyone today. We haven't all eaten together since Fate-chan became the student council VP.

" You seem happy today, Nanoha-chan." Suzuka-chan observed as we walked up the steps together.

" Yeah. Fate-chan said that she would be able to eat lunch with us today. It has been a while since everyone's been together." I said while we walked up the last flight of stairs.

" Your right. It has been awhile. Do you think that she will bring Soshi-san?" She asked thoughtfully

My smile dimmed a little. " I don't know." I hope not.

" He is a nice guy and he really likes Fate-chan." She looked at me as she spoke. " Are you okay with him?"

" Why wouldn't I be?" I said nervously.

" Who knows?" She said with a sigh. I pulled open the door to the roof and held it open for her.

" Thank you." She said as I walked in behind her.

Blue met red as soon as I walked through the door to the roof. I felt my heart start pounding in my chest when she smiled at me. I smiled shyly back before I made my way over to where everyone was sitting.

" What took you so long?" Alisa-chan called from empty bench she sat on. She patted the spot next to her and Suzuka-chan quickly walked over and sat down. As soon as Suzuka-chan say down Alisa's hand found its way onto her leg and it began to move upwards.

" Nanoha-chan couldn't find her lunch so we had to go and get some bread from the cafeteria." Suzuka-chan said as she removed Alisa's hand from the edge of her skirt. " Not here, Alisa-chan."

I smiled at the display, it has become a daily occurrence. Alisa-chan will make a move and Suzuka-chan will reprimand her.

" Did you find anything?" Fate-chan asked as I sat down between her and Hayate-chan.

" I got some melon bread. By the time we got there they were practically wiped out." I said.

Fate-chan frowned slightly. " Is that enough?" She asked.

" Yeah. I can wait until dinner." I pulled out the package with my bread in it and started to open it when Fate-chan swallowed her food and spoke.

" It's small, you will need more then that for lunch." She looked down at her food and then back at me. "How about we share mine?"

" No, I couldn't." I said while waving my hands in front of her.

" It's fine. I don't eat that much anyways." She sat her lunch on my lap. "Eat." She commanded.

I looked into those wine eyes the expression there left no room for argument. With a small sight I picked up her chopsticks and placed some food in my mouth.

I was in the process of swallowing when Hayate-chan leaned over and whispered. " Indirect kiss." in my ear. I immediately began choking and Hayate-chan began to laugh hysterically.

" Nanoha." Fate-chan rubbed my back as I tried to breath again. "Are you okay?"

" Yeah, I'm fine." I managed to get out between gasped for air. I turned to glare at Hayate-chan which made her laugh even harder.

"You... should have...seen..your...face." She said between bouts of laughter. "That was priceless." She said after she had calmed down.

" That was not funny." I turned to look over at Fate-chan and she looked confused. "It's nothing." I said to her. She blinked but nodded after a moment.

"You should finish eating." Fate-chan pointed to the contents of her lunch as she spoke.

"Um." I turned beet red as I looked at her chopsticks again. I could hear Hayate-chan laughing again at my side. " Okay."

It's not even a real kiss. I shouldn't have gotten so worked up about it. I put another bite into my mouth and I could feel my face getting even hotter. Damn you , Hayate! Now I cant stop thinking about it.

" Your looking a little red, Nanoha " Alisa-chan called from the bench next us. That only added to Hayate-chans amusement, because she started laughing harder. "What's so funny Hayate?"

"It's nothing." Hayate-chan said after her laughter died down. "I'll tell you later." Alisa-chan nodded in response and went back to feeding Suzuka-chan.

I order to end my embarrassment I began to shove the food into my mouth. I cant believe Hayate-chan, I will get her back for this.

"Slow down, Nanoha-chan You don't want to choke again." Hayate-chan said before taking a bite of her food.

I glared at her before turning to Fate-chan. "Thanks you for the food, Fate-chan."

" Your, welcome. Was it good?" She asked

" Yeah, it was great!"

"I'm glad. This was my first time making lunch without mothers help." She said."So I didn't think it would be any good."

" It was delicious." I sure that anything you make would be good.

"T-thanks." I smiled at the small blush that played across her face.

"Um, guys." Suzuka-chan called. "We should start heading back now, if we don't want to be late for class."

Sometime later that day.

I walked out of my last class of the day and looked around the packed hall way. If I take the main way it will take forever to meet up with Fate-chan but if I use the path through the trees it should be faster. I turned and made my was to the only door on this end of the school that lead outside. And after a few minutes of searching I found the path.

"Okay, it should be right through here." I steeped onto the small dirt path that lead to the gardening clubs room. It is a path that students use to use all the time to get to the front of the building faster but then a rumor spread that it was hunted and people stopped using it.

"It's just a rumor." I said to myself as I made my way along the path. I looked around at the trees and noticed that they were becoming denser and that the further I walked the darker it got. "It's just a rumor. There is nothing to worry about. Keep it together." I felt a shiver go down my spine as a cold wind suddenly blew. "Fate-chan is waiting, I should hurry."

I kept walking along the quickly darkening path. Shouldn't I have already made it already. I looked ahead of me to see a fork in the path.

There shouldn't be a fork in this path. Did I take the wrong path? Or was there a fork that I didn't know about? Maybe I should just turn around and go back. This detour I took is taking me even longer then the usual way.

I was about to turn around when I heard a scream. All the hairs in the back of my neck stood up and my instincts told me to run.

No,.I cant run if someone is hurt, I should go and help them. I turned and ran in the direction that I heard the scream in. Which was, unfortunately, not on the path. As I made my way towards where I heard the sound, more screams and a few squeals could be heard.

I slowed as I approached what looked like a clearing, walking silently I stood behind a tree that stood at the edge of the clearing. I peaked my head out from behind the tree to see what was and I froze at the sight.

Sitting in a half circle with there backs to me were about seven girls in my school's uniform. The were passing around what seemed to be a lock of blonde hair. Some of the girls sniffed it while others kissed it.

What in the...?

"Welcome girls, to the seventh meeting of the WoF." called the girl who sat at the head of the half circle of girls.

"Wait, what does WoF stand for?" one of the girls asked.

"You are a part of this club and you don't know that!" The girl at the head of the circles shouted, while waving her fist in the air. " It stands for The Worshipers of Fate-sama. Now as I was saying, welcome to the seventh meeting of our club. Today we have a sample of Fate-sama's hair which has been passed around."

When she said that the girls erupted into giggles of "it smelled so nice" and "I cant believe I kissed Fate-sama's hair".

Am I really seeing this?

" Yes. Our mission this week is to find all of Fate-sama's friends and keep them away from her. Fate-sama is too good to be seen with the likes of these people." She passed around something that I could not see, and then continued. " We are to protect her from this riffraff and keep her safe."

"Yes, leader." The girls all spoke at the same time.

"Good this mission will start tomorrow. While doing this you are to each secretly look for new members. You are to tell no one of our meetings. And when you find new members bring them to the evaluation grounds. We will test their worthiness there."

"Yes, ma'am." They all chorused.

This cant be really happening. This is crazy! I knew Fate-chan had a fan club but this is too much! They want to keep her friends away from her. This cant be normal.

" And I heard from one of our suppliers, that they recently found Fate-sama's pencil shavings. We will have them at our next meeting. Does anyone else have anything to say?"

I should leave. I need to tell Fate-chan about this.

I turned and began to make my way when I stepped on a twig . The snapping sound seemed to echo through out the forest. I stiffened when I heard the fan club begin to move.

" Who's there?" I heard the leader call out.

Oh, no!

I took off running in the direction I thought I came in.

"Find the intruder. No one can know about our secret Find them!"

"Yes, ma'am!" I heard the girls scream before the sounds of footsteps behind me began.

I started running at full speed, crashing through the forest. I could feel the twigs and branches pulling at my hair and cutting my legs but I kept running.

I cant let them find me there is no telling what they will do to me! The were sniffing a lock of Fate-chan's hair for gods sake! How did they even get that?

I could her their steps getting closer as I ran. Why did I leave Raging Heart at home today! I am never doing that again.

I closed my eyes as I ran through a back of branches that were at eye level, and when I made it to the other side I hit something hard. I heard a low grunt as I hit the ground butt first.

"I'm sorry." I said to the person I ran into. When I looked up I saw a pair of brow eyes that belonged to Soshi. Okay, maybe I'm a little less sorry than I thought.

"Nanoha-san what are you doing here?" He asked. I watched as he slid something into his back pocket but I couldn't tell what it was.

"I'm-" I started when I heard a girls voice in the distance call "I heard something over there."

"Look I don't have much time to talk, but do you know a way out of here?" I looked behind me when I heard the sound of many feet getting closer. " We need to hurry."

He seemed to understand the urgency in my voice because he quickly grabbed my hand and pulled me up. And without letting go of my hand he began to run through the woods in the opposite way of the voices. After a few moments of running we reached open space and ran straight into Fate-chan.

" Nanoha?" She had stopped walking when we suddenly ran out of the trees.

"Fate-chan." I panted. "What are you doing here?"

" I was looking for you." I watched as her red irises glanced down at mine and Soshi's still joined hands and then back up at my face. An emotion I didn't recognize passed across her face before it was replaced by concern. "Nanoha where did you get all of those cuts?"

I let go of Soshi's hand and walked over to Fate-chan. "It's a long story."

Thanks to all of the reviewers. I woke up this morning and read the reviews, and they put a big smile on my face. You guys rock. I couldn't resist the psychotic fan club, crazy fan girls make everything better. I was wondering if someone could tell me in detail about Nanoha's and Fate's jobs in StrikerS. It would be really helpful but if you cant I will understand.

I hope that you liked this chapter, and as always if you didn't please tell me why. And I will try my best not to do the same thing in the future. Thanks for reading and please review.

~Shaitenshi