Mid Childan Callendar, Year 65, an incident happened within a magical ruins in the far, far away world called Mid Childa, world of treasure.
Ancient Artifact, called Jewel SEED, released accidentally as the seal broken during the incident and sent into a small, still-developing and machinery reliant planet called EARTH, registered as Non-administrated world #97.
In pursuit of the Jewel seed is a young Archaeologist Yuuno Scrya, somehow, his trip ended (rather) unsuccessfully…
Zero & X-SEED production team
Present
Lyrical Nanoha A’s Advance
Chapter 02: That Bond We Shared
6 October, still in the peaceful Uminari city.
Yuuno was bored, everyone had left the house, including Hayate herself. There’s nothing left to do, and he already finished today’s quota of Cartridges. In short, he was slacking off, and slacking off ain’t his favorite phrases.
And so, he decided to wander around the city, today, he would go to the city library, Kazegaoka.
He had been there several times actually, especially when he’s bored like today, he could spend entire day there reading books (although he had no membership, which in turn, exactly because he’s not a citizen).
Meanwhile, Hayate herself, along with Vita, went to the library, and then it happens.
Hayate tried to pick a book by herself while Vita went to buy some drinks, unusually being stubborn, Hayate slipped out of her wheelchair, Yuuno did a teleport out of pure reflex and caught the girl on his arms.
Vita, whose surprised to find them in such position, incidentally called him out, “Ferret…I mean Yuuno! What are you-ugh”
Before she could shut her mouth, it was too late.
“Eh? Eh? What could this mean, Vita-chan?”
“
Now look what you have done”
“
Shut up”
…………
So, it ended them having a ‘talk’ in a small outdoor cafe just outside of the library.
“Eh, so this Yuuno are…”
“Yes, Yuuno the ferret’s (sic) owner’s friends” Yuuno nodded, embarrassed “In fact, she named him after me. But because she had to left the country, she left Yuuno with…well, me”
“Ah, I’m very sorry” Hayate waved her hands “‘it’s not my intention to have him permanently anyway”
Yuuno swore Hayate almost crying when she said that, “
Did she really that lonely?! How could I dare to broke her happiness like this? Stupid, stupid!”
It was too late for him to broke their…friendship, if you could call their bonds that.
Mutual interest and distrust, how convenient and easy to say…now Yuuno himself doubt he can left her. It’s no wonder WHY Vita cared her so much it’s borderline
obsession.
Once you ties a bond with Hayate, it was practically unbreakable…no, it’s not because of pity.
It was because Yuuno had attracted to this girl personally, she was too kind and pure.
While Hayate hadn’t many acquaintances, every single of them would guaranteed to cared about her, except if that person is heartless just like him two weeks ago.
“Well, I and…Yuuno didn’t get along too much” Yuuno said “In fact, he’s more often than not didn’t coming home. I’m glad he’s doing just fine…”
“Really? You doesn’t seems like a bad guy yourself” Hayate curiously sharpened her gaze.
“Huh?”
“In fact, animal could easily recognize bad and good person simply by near them, and just look how doves and cats sat around you comfortably”
Exactly.
“Maybe because Yuuno the Ferret is a pervert and prefer girls” Vita snorted.
What?
“His reaction when we took him into female section in public bath just hilarious, I wonder if Man-Yuuno just as hentai as the ferret itself”
Now Yuuno’s pissed as hell, “I’m not a pervert”
“Oh yes, suspiciously specific denial aren’t that”
“Oh well, at least it was better than to gazing on naked old man”
“I’ve never heard about that” Hayate gasped in surprise, and hell just cannot hold her laughter.
“YUUNO YOU BASTARD!” Vita cried, her face now indistinguishable from her red, braided hair. She chasing after Yuuno all around the blocks with her flailing a broom she founded nearby.
“Hey I didn’t say anything!”
“SHUT UP!”
Yuuno didn’t realize that Hayate sensed something strange with him; it was because he reshaped his barrier jacket as mundane clothes, the emission irradiating from him was awry high.
It was the similar feeling when Vita is using her ‘magical costume’.
“Could it be…Yuuno-san…”
…………
Shamal took Hayate off, while Vita and Yuuno went into a ‘date’. In Hayate’s words and meaning, this had caused both of them replied in denial.
“It was dangerous, you ferret!” Vita barked “How could you do that!”
“I don’t expect to meet her here! I’m just bored” He sighed “Okay, I’m sorry”
“Moreover than that, why are you using you magical armor! Use mundane clothes can you? I can even sense that from one hundred feet away!”
“I don’t have any…”
Silence, yes, Yuuno was a freeloader with no single yen on his pocket…it would be a problem if he wanders around naked of course! In the end, the more versatile barrier jacket was a last resort.
“Geez, fine! I’ll buy you one!”
“Huh?”
“Don’t expect flashy clothes or something like that, ferret!” she blushed and turned her head away “And you owe me!”
“I won’t, and thank you” Yuuno replied with a smirk, Vita always had a soft side on him…at least, that means Vita never really hated him.
In the end, Vita gave him two pants and four shirts (one of which are long sleeved) of different colors; they’re look bland, but better than him stick with his barrier jacket and made Vita angry all the way.
“I never knew that bland T-shirts and cotton pants are much cheaper than a bowl of sundae” Vita mumbles when counting the money on her wallet.
“Probably because they’re bland, Captain obvious” Yuuno laughed “But how? You never really go shopping by yourself like this?”
“Yes, although Hayate gave me pocket money, except for ice cream and cookies (which for some reason banned in large quantity by Hayate) I never spend a coin. Hayate also knew much better about style of sort, even my barrier jacket are designed by her, in fact. So, I relied on her about mundane clothes as well”
“Wow, that’s awesome”
And that’s when single notes of ten thousand Yen flew right to Yuuno’s face.
“Now that’s a large founding” Vita raised her hand and grins.
“Is this really okay?” Yuuno sweatdropped, he didn’t know about Japan, but in his place the founder owner, he’s an archaeologist after all.
They head to a nearby stand, and Yuuno said he wanted two “What flavor are you prefer?”
Vita raised her eyebrow “Huh?”
“Think it as an interest”
“Well, chocolate please”
"Two chocolate, please"
"I'm not thanking you"
…………
“In the end, it was hard for me to left” Yuuno finally spoke, breaking the eerie silence.
“How unfortunate” Vita grumbles “If everything would turn up like this, I shouldn’t persuade you in the first place”
“Do you hate me because of that?”
Vita gazed sharply at him, and actually wanted to say that as part of her reflex, but somehow she closed her mouth, and then replied “How could I?” Vita turned her head in embarrassment.
“Okay, sometimes you’re either smug or act like an immature jerk, but besides that, most of the time…how should I put it…in Hayate’s words, you’re a good guy”
They sat on a bench under trees, soft and cool breeze of the fall season flushed their face. How comfortable, how Yuuno didn’t want to left this planet for his dusty hometown.
“You never talk bad and look down to Hayate’s condition, you had enough guts and patience to interact with me and Zafira normally, you’re smart enough to gain Signum’s attention, as well as mature enough for Shamal…you’re different from some boys in the neighborhood”
“That’s because I have a bad childhood, nothing to be proud of”
He had no family, just a few relatives, just like Hayate. Moreover than that, he had started his career as Archaeologist when his parents killed during Jewel SEED incident about a year ago.
That’s when he swore that he would solve this case and capture all Jewel SEED by himself, in short, he went for a good revenge.
But now his case had been solved, even if he returns home, there’s only more boring and dangerous job of excavation waiting for him, and to think that few weeks ago he prefers his job than staying is embarrassing.
Involving lost civilization this and magical artifact that, in the end, he has no real purpose to live and engulfed by doubt and fear.
Yuuno told Vita some of his tales, in a broad line. Whimpering just not his style after all and Vita does understand that.
“I can see it from your eyes” Vita commented and stretched her arm “You and Hayate like a person looked on their reflection”
“Really?” Yuuno sheepishly smirk “I’m flattered”
“Could you promise me something?”
“Yeah?”
“Even if our ties we’re cut off, for real…let’s protect Hayate with all our might”
“…I don’t know…but I’ll try”
Neither had realized that their hands are touching…
Somewhere in the same park, Signum, Shamal and Zafira watching after them.
“Is it really too late to let him go?” Zafira spoke, he rarely does that in his wolf form, much less in humanoid form, even to the fellow knights.
“He’s going to deep, soon after, the time will comes” Signum said coolly as always, while lying on a tree “Depend on how we accomplish our mission, we can either sever it or keep it underneath big pile of lies”
“That bond we shared” Shamal mumbles “What’s that for you, Signum?”
“I don’t know” the pink haired woman replied “But I’d never truly smile unless Hayate attain the absolute happiness”
Yuuno began to concentrate his mind, with his current condition; he began experimenting with interdimensional telepathy and teleportation. At first, he tried to send a rock, then some food, and this time is his last experiment with transporting non-living goods.
And he finally founded his lost treasure.
2011-02-07, 19:38
Nanoha A's Advance Chapter 2
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For those that belittle their favorite characters, complain about pairings, complain about oversexed images. Stop, thank you.
