[FanFic]Untied Strings

I walk to my room and continuing the work that I bring from my office. It have been a month since I started to work in my mother’s company, I didn’t find problem handling the work they submitted to me cause I studied economics for 3 years in America and have some experiences there, but the most surprised is that I found out this work isn’t that bad and I am quite enjoying my self in the progress

Its 4.15 AM now and I still haven’t finished my work when I hear the sound of dropping water from the sky, yeah Its raining now and looks like the storm is coming with the driving harder rain and wind.

I go out to the balcony and see someone running from inside the house next door holding sheeting. She is running toward a group of flowers placed at the corner of the courtyard, trying to cover the flower with the sheet.

I decided to help her and after I grasped a coat, I run to the girl location. When I arrived, I can see that she is having trouble to cover all of the flowers because the spacious of the placed flowers isn’t something can be handled by one person.

I grabbed the others side of the sheet where the girl can’t reach,” Let me help you!” I shouted to tell the girl and she nodded approving the offered help. I try to find something strong enough to held the sheet in the ground, the rain is still pouring hard and I don’t think It’s a nice idea to stand here holding the sheet until the storm passed.

I am looking at the surrounding and find a big rock under the tree. Just when I release the sheet to take the rock, I hear a “smack” sound with a scream. I surprised realizing what has happened before slowly turned my head to the source of the sound.

There I see the girl struggling at how the sheet squeezing her and I help her to remove the sheets from her by taking the released side of the sheets and standing in the location I stand before to shielding the rain from the flower.

The girl is trying to say something to me but I just can hear her because of the rain’s sound, “What are you saying? I can’t hear you?!” I shouting to find out the girl’s word but I still can’t hear her when suddenly I feel the cold sheet hit my face.

The “smack” sound repeat again, “ Ouww…What are you doing?!” I struggling with the sheet all over me closing my vision.

As I struggled, I can feel the sheet starting to leave my head and I see the girl holding the sheets and “smiled” before retreated to her position, leaving a stunned expression over my face. Well, at least now I understand what she had tried to tell me.

We have stood there for almost an hour now. When the storm begins to settle down as the light of the sun starting to brighten the sky, I can see the face of the girl standing in front of me.

She has a sky colored eyes with brown hair fluttering all over her head because of the storm and I think its the same way happening to my hair. She is wearing a short blue pant with orange shirt.

We fold the sheet when the rain stopped and I find the girl staring at me now.
“Now I know that actions are easier to tell what you want others to understand, seriously...” She sighed and staring at me,” Well…Yeah, I agree.” Both of us started to laugh at what happened before.

“Thanks for helping me before, my name is Takamachi Nanoha. Just call me Nanoha okay? And as you know I moved to this house yesterday with my sister Takamachi Einheart. It’s nice to meet you.” She offered her hand and smiled at me as she introduced herself.

“Ah…okay. I am Fate Testarossa. It’s nice to meet you too Nanoha.” I smiled back at her and shake her hand.

The rain pouring hard at the cemetery where we gathered to having the funeral ceremony as The Pastor begins the ceremony and we started to pray. I looked at Lindy-san leaning herself in my shoulder crying as she watched the coffins laying there in the ground. Vivio wasn’t here; she stayed in the hospital because of the wounds she had suffered didn’t allowed here to leave the hospital bed yet.

When they began to bury the coffins, Lindy-san started to scream and I hold her in my arms to calm her and we both cried as the coffins disappeared into darkness.
“Good bye Alicia…Good bye Chrono…”

“Uhm…” I opened my eyes and stared at the ceiling, I am laying in my bed wearing my black sleeping dress. I try to get up but my head started to spin and find head staying back in the pillow.

I try to remember what had happened before, I was working in my room when the storm coming I help my new neighbor keeping her flowers from the storm and I laughed for the first time since that day. We introduced our self when after that and everything becomes blurred after that…

I remember it now, and it sucks since I am here now laying with fever.
“How am I ended here wearing my dry sleeping dress?” I talked to myself when
I hear someone entering my room.

“I am the one who carried you to your room and changed your wet clothes.” Nanoha is here entering my room holding a bowl of porridge in her hands and then placed them in the small table beside my bed.

She placed her forehead into mine to check my temperature.” Hem…looks like the fever has dropped now. Here eat it and drink the medicine after that, and don’t worry about Vivio, I told her to go to school and not to worry about you since I will take good care after you.”

I looked at Nanoha and relieved.” Thank you Nanoha for your help and you even help me cha-chang…gin m-my clot-hes.” I blushed, It’s the first time someone have to help me changed my clothed since I always keeping distance to other people so they don’t even have a chance to touch me, and now she’is here changed my clothes.

“Nah…don’t worry to much about it, you collapsed after helping me shielding the flower from the storm so I just did what I should do, but when I tried to find your pajamas I can’t find them, instead I find many of the sleeping dress there.” She grinned and approaching my ear.” They turned me on you know, I have a hard time when I have to changed your wet clothed to these sexy dress.”

My face turned as red as the boiled crap now and I covered my head into the blanked and try to hide myself from Nanoha’s gaze.

“Whow! You are so cute you know?! It makes me want to eat you right now. Ahahaha…But since you have fever right now I will have to wait until you have recovered. Well since you have awake, I will excuse myself for now, I will came again later in the afternoon, remember to eat the food and medicine…See ya.”

I hear the sound of her foot leaving my room and I get up still blushed because of Nanoha’s words. I looked at the porridge and tasted it.
“Its delicious.” After finished the porridge I take the medicine and resting my self into a sleep.

Continued to chapter 3

I toke a bath after got up from my bed and after that I changed into a long sleeve white shirt, put on my stocking before wearing my black skirt. I sat in front of my drawer and took a look at the mirror and I saw my face reflected there. I stared at the mirror and looked at this face, the face I shared for almost twenty-three years with Alicia, my beloved twin sister.

I remembered her beautiful pale face, sleeping at the coffin and drowned into darkness. The dream I had when I suffered from the fever made me remembered the pain of losing the half of my soul. I look down at the picture of me and Vivio standing besides Alicia and Chrono’s grave.

It was a day before we leave America; we stood in front of their grave and praying. Alicia and Chrono, It’s been a year since both of you left us. Vivio is here praying for both of you. Her body had recovered and she won’t having problem from the injuries she got from that accident, with the effort of the doctors and advanced health technology, her life was saved, but her heart can’t be that easily healed. No matter how skilled the doctor, no matter how advanced the technology, she often woke up at the middle of the night, screaming and shouted, searching for both of you. She kept asking us if she became a good girl will you came back. Lindy-san and I can’t answer her, all I could do was hugged her and crying with her until she felt asleep Today, we came to bid a farewell; we are going to return to Japan. Mom’s had fallen sick and she needed someone to manage her company and I decided to bring Vivio with me. I promised both of you that I will take good care of her, giving her love, and watched over her future.

I opened my eyes and looked at Vivio hugging Lindy-san, I saw her eyes stared at her parents gravestones. I toke out a small harmonica from my pocket.”Vivio…Let’s sing the song we used to sing with your mother.” Vivio nodded and as I began to play the harmonica, Vivio’s angelic voice began to scattering over the cemetery. I kept playing the harmonica guiding her until the end of the song. After that I hugged her and we started to cry again. For her to possess your angelic voice, your hair and eye made me grateful for God to let her here now staying with me.

I placed my hand to my forehead to checked my heat, it wasn’t as bad as yesterday but I felt better after taking the medicine and rested.

I was pushing myself over this weeks with my overloaded works while didn’t having enough time to rest and after standing in the storm to protected Nanoha’s flowers, my body was not able to take it any longer and I collapsed, losing to a fever. Geeze…The fact that I lost myself over a fever annoyed me, since losing wasn’t something acceptable for my mother and she would scolded, hit and bannered us to eat anything for a day when we lost to anything and I just used to irritated to my self when I lost.

After finished everything in my room I walked to the kitchen to prepare the breakfast and Vivio joined me after a few minutes. She hugged me to give me a morning kiss in my cheeks something that never happened before so it made me happy and as soon as the breakfast ready we started to eat.

When we were eating, I saw Vivio stared at me with worried face.” Ne…Fate-san.” Vivio called me with small voice.” Hmm…? What it is Vivio?” I looked at her now.

“Are you sure you are fine now?” I smiled at her patting her head.

“I am fine, sorry for making you worry.” I am happy she worried about me but I can’t let her worry.

“Are you really sure? Cause you know, when I kissed your cheek before I can felt it, it was still a little hot.” I looked at her surprised, well it was truth that I still felt the fever slightly but what shocked me the most was the meaning behind the kiss. I looked at the little girl still stared at me, I walked to her and hold her into my hand. I placed my forehead into her small temple.

“See…It wasn’t that hot anymore, I felt better now and don’t worry okay?” I saw Vivio’s face relieved now.

“Uhm…Just promise me not to push yourself over again.” Vivio hugged me after saying that.

“Okay I promise you.” I stroked her hair lightly.

“Then let’s do the pinky swear.” She showed her pinky and I hooked my pinky into hers.

“Okay now, if a promise. If you broke it someone will stoles all of your panties.” I shocked after hearing that, I saw Vivio’s innocent smile in her face, did she even understand what she had just said?

“Wh-who told you something like that?” I asked Vivio panicked.

“Nanoha-san…she was the one who taught me to kiss your cheek to checked you body’s heat too, she’s really a nice people isn’t she.” Vivio eyes sparkled when she said something about Nanoha. I sighed I can’t believed it Nanoda told Vivio something like that, she is a little, no. she is “dangerous” is what I though to my self.

“Vivio, listen to me. Don’t easily believed in what other people told you, the world is full of liars and dangerous peoples understand? I saw Vivio nodded and smiled at me.

“Good girl, now let’s get going, we are going to be late if we don’t hurry, I will drive you to school.” I put down Vivio and began to clean up and set out as soon as we finished.

Continued to chapter 4

“Na-Nanoha!” I blushed while placing my hand at my cheek where Nanoha had kissed.

“Hmm? What it is F-a-t-e-c-h-a-n? If you want “something more” I can’t give it since Vivio and Ein-chan is here after all, but I don’t mind if you sneak into my room at the middle of the night and I will gladly “playing” with you until morning. Okay?” She said it with a playful tone, grinned and winked at me.

“Wh—what?! Like the hell I am going to do something like that!” I said it with a shaking voice and I can felt my face getting hotter with Nanoha’s words.

“What is “something more” and she have to sneak at the middle of night just to play with you?” Vivio asked Nanoha with a confused face while I saw Ein-chan blushed when she heard Vivio’s question.

“My…you want to know Vivio? It…” Before she could explain anything, I closed Vivio’s ears and staring at Nanoha with an anger face.

“Wow… I love this expression, It’s so sexy~.” Her playful tone came again as she clapped her hands in front of her face while saying these words and I can felt my anger face turned into a cherry in an instant.

I held Vivio’s hand and starting to walk into the house without looking at Nanoha. Because I knew she is going to making fun of me again if she saw my blushed face.

“Good night Fate-chan and Vivio! And just throws a small rock into my window if you miss me and I’ll be there for you Fate-chan!” She shouted and waved her hand to us with a cheerful face.

I closed and I leaned my body to the door. I can felt my heart racing so fast. I sighed and when I looked down I found out Vivio is staring at me now.

“Are you all right Fate-san?” She looked at me with worried face.

“I am all right Vivio, I just a little tired.” I gave her my best smile tried not to make her worry.

She held my hand and drawing me into the living room and told me to sat down. I sat down and Vivio began to rub my back.

“Nanoha-san told me to rub your back if you feel tired.” She smiled and I can felt her small hand rubbing my back, it was not powerful enough to release my sore back, but I can felt her warm hands rubbing my heart. Maybe it wasn’t that bad having her as our neighbor.

“Thank you Vivio.” I thanked Vivio and let her rubbed my back before telling her to took a bath while I prepared the dinner.

…

I was locking the front door when I saw Vivio and Ein-chan got out from their house. I offered to drive them into their destination and we began to get going when everyone was ready.

“Uhm…Fate-san” I heard Ein-chan called me from the back sit sitting beside Vivio.

“Yes, what it is Ein-chan?” I asked Ein-chan while kept looking at the front.

“What do you feel about my sister?” I took the brake accidentally shocking from Ein-chan’s question.

“Ein-chan!” Nanoha shouted at her sister.

“But I…I am worried about you Nanoha-nee…” She said it with a worried face looking at her sister.

‘Ein-chan…” Nanoha was moved by ein’s words and hugged her.

“You don’t need to worry Ein-chan, I can handle it, believe in your sister okay?” Nanoha patting Ein’s head and smiled to assured Ein she can take care of it. Ein nodded and apologized to me for asking the question.

“u-uhm…” I tried to calm down before continued to drive.

…

“Thanks Fate-chan.” Nanoha got out from the car kissed my cheek before walking into the shop.

“Na-Nanoha…” I called her with a hesitated voiced.

She turned up after a few step and looking at me sitting in the car.

“I…” I was going to asked her before I heard she said something.

“Ne…Fate-chan, don’t think to deep about Ein-chan question and just forget it okay?” Nanoha stared at me with sad eyes.

I was surprised she knew what I wanted to ask and this the first time I saw her sad face.

“Okay…” I took a deep breath before answered her.

“Thanks Fate-chan.” She continued to walk into her shop after thanking me.

…

I was walking frm the parked slot to reach the lift and when the lift door was about to closed, I hear someone shouted to wait for her.

I held the lift door from closing and I saw Hayate, bending her body panting after running to here.

“Thanks Fate-chan, you saved me.” She got into the lift and we began to going up into the office.

“How is auntie Precia? Got any better?” I heard Hayate asked about my mother condition.

“She’s still the same, always over working herself and giving Arf trouble to take care of her. I won’t be surprised if someday she collapsed if she kept doing this” I told Hayate my mother’s condition with a sad voice.

“Don’t worry; Aunt Precia is a strong woman.” Hayate tapped my back after said that to me and smiled at me.

“Thanks Hayate.” I smiled back at her and saw her staring at my face.

“W-what’s it is Hayate? Why are you looking at me like that?” I panicked when she stared at me.

“There’s a lipstick stain at your cheek.” She said it while pointed at my left cheek.

I was surprised and hurried to wipe it with my handkerchief before checking to find any more stain in my cheek and relieved when there is nothing left.

I saw hayate giggled when the lift door opened, “Don’t worry fate-chan, I won’t tell anyone about that.” She touched her own left cheek before leaving me standing in front of the lift blushed.

Continued to chapter 6

I was working in my office room when Hayate get inside and dragged me to have lunch together. We arrived at a café and having our lunch there.

“Mind if I asked you about the lipstick stain?” She asked me with a curios face.

I stayed silent and drunk the tea pretended to didn’t hear her question.

“Well, don’t wanna answer huh?” She took out a note from her pocked.

“Let’s see, her name is Takamachi Nanoha. She moved to your house next door three days ago and she’s currently working as a florist at flower shop named Raising Heart.” After that she took out some photo. I chocked and coughed when I saw Nanoha and me inside the photo. And I found the photo when nanoha accidentally kissed me too.

I took the tissue to wipe my mouth before saying anything. “You stalked me?!” I was shouted at her for having someone stalked at me.

“Ckckck...You are too innocent Fate-chan and I need to know about the people around your life to make sure my cute little Fate-chan won’t be fooled by other people; you are my precious little cousin after all. ” She grinned and began to drink her coffee.

“Hayate~~~” I signed, Hayate’s always like that, she love to teased me since long time ago and Alicia always there to protected me from her, we used to play and studying together until Alicia left Japan and not long after that, I followed Alicia leaving her alone in Japan. I had been thinking of her as my own sister and I know she sees me as her little sister too. And after Alicia died, she became more protective over me. I know she worried about me but for her to have someone stalking on Nanoha made me worried.

“I won’t do anything to her, so you don’t need to worry. And I found out she is interesting, trying to take my little fate-chan away from me, hehehe…Let’s see how far she could do it. I can’t wait to meet her soon hehehe....” She began to grinning and mumbling something in her own world, giving me a bad feeling.

The scariest thing for me is when Hayate met Nanoha. I don’t want to imagine how they would cooperate to tease me. I kept sulking down.

“H-Hayate…lunch time is over you know, we need to get back to the office.” I tried to take her back into the real world with work as the excuse.

“Ah…you’re right, let’s get going.” She came back and paid the bill for us before going back to the office.

…

I drove my car to pick up Nanoha at Raising Heart after finished my work. I went inside the store and saw Nanoha still cleaning up wearing her work uniform

“Nanoha…” I called her and when she saw me she dashed to give me a hug.

“You came to pick me up Fate-chan? How sweet of you. Wait a minute okay? I will finish it as soon as possible. I can’t keep my honey waiting after all.” She stopped for a while and begins to talk with a seduced voice, “Or… you prefer to watch me getting change? I wouldn’t mind if it is you.” She grinned and staring at me.

“I-I- I’ll be waiting at the car! See me there when you finished!” I run outside with a blushed face after saying that and I could hear her laughed voice when she saw my reaction.

Seriously…she had got back into her perverted self and starting to tease me again, somehow it made me happy to see her cheerful self again but on the other side made me sad for not being able to get her faith to share her sadness.

I saw Nanoha approaching and getting inside the car. “Want to go somewhere Nanoha? I’ll accompany you if you want.” I asked her and I saw her stunned before a wide grin come out from her lips making me regretted for asking her before.

“My…Looks like I turned you on when I inviting you to watch me changing, because you are asking me to accompanying you to a love hotel now, I didn’t expect that you are this bold Fate-chan, but of course I’ll gladly accompanying you~.” She said it with her finger placed at her cheeks.

“I-I-I ne-never said anything about love hotel!” I panicked and ended up shouting with blushed face.

“Ooh…So I did make you turned on before.” Her naughty voice came out to playing at my reaction.

I could feel my face was going to exploded making me speechless after falling to her double trapped words.

“Ahahaha…You are the best fate-chan, that’s why I said I loved your blushed face before. You are making me falling for you more.” She kept laughing at my cherry face.

Her last words turned into a gun and I felt my heart got shoot making me wanted to cry and I sighed. She stopped her laugh and I could feel my right arm grabbed by her hands and she placed her head there.

“I wouldn’t mind going anywhere as long I am with you. Why don’t you decide it?” She closed her eyes getting comforted from my warm arm.
…

We arrived at home and I saw a car parked in front of my house, making me wondering for anyone here visiting my house.

“Mou…I did say I won’t mind going anywhere as long I am with you, but why we came back home now?” She asked me with a disappointed face when we got out from the car standing in front of the gate.

“Well, I am thinking of having dinner with you at my house, you don’t want it?”
I asked her to get an answer.

“It’s only both of us?” Her disappointed face changing into a hopeful face now.

“It’s four of us. Can you help me to call Ein-chan over to my house?” I could see her pouting mouth while she walked into her house to get Ein-chan.

I walked into my house when I opened the house I surprised to found Hayate standing in front of me.

“Welcome home Fate-chan.” Hayate smiled at me with a very cheerful face.

“It’ll be five of us now.” I whispered to myself.

Continued to chapter 7