Kiss

The gray sky dropped the last vestiges of what had been, a few hours ago, a significant rainstorm. The drops were rushing to earth, splashing puddles, stroking plants and gliding over windows with irregular patterns like small water spiders.

The room was dimly lighted by the rays of the afternoon that streamed through the windows. The soft echo of rain, calm and unhurried, was covered by the voices that escaped the TV.

She had her eyes fixed on the images projected by the TV, her heterochromatic eyes reflecting the brightness of the apparatus. Freely lying on the couch, she absentmindedly took cookies to her mouth, sometimes focusing more on the crispy sound that caused than what was being said in the movie. She couldn't say whether she was or not concentrated, but at least she didn't lose the thread of the argument.

As every rainy afternoon, it was a perfect time to watch a movie, but the young Takamachi would have preferred doing it with her mothers than alone as she was.

Her attention increased when the movie -a romantic one- reached its climax and the main characters finally shared their first kiss.

A cookie stayed hung up in her hand halfway to her mouth, which was already open to receive it, and she sat up slightly to focus more on the screen.

The memory of the conversation that her friends had the other day came clear to her mind.

It had begun seeing a newly formed couple entering the room holding hands. Of course she had no idea, but someone did notice and then went on to comment that Corona liked someone, she denied it flushed, but the girls (and not only her closest friends but other classmates) didn't go easy on her poor friend. With that, suddenly they were already talking about relationships and what that entailed.

"How would you like him to confess?" one asked.

"Well, I… I haven't thought…"

"There's have to be in a special way?" She had intervened in support of her friend.

"Of course! If it is the first time someone confesses to you, don't you want it to be special?"

"Uhmm…" The truth is that she had not given much thought to the subject.

"Yes, yes!" Seconded another, "And then comes the kiss!"

"The kiss?"

"The promise must be sealed with a kiss" she answered like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"…Promise?"

"Of love!" the girl exclaimed exasperated, "Do you not watch movies or read novels?"

"Look, there's a 'top 10 of the best scenarios that could exist' in this magazine" reported cheerfully one of the girls, leaving the publication on the table.

"Oh, I'd like it to be Satoshi from the other class" the girl in the beginning began dreamily, "behind the gym, after he left a letter in my locker..."

"Now, how plain!" mocked her companion "For me it would…"

Vivio was not paying much attention to her classmates, even her friends were excited about that and she didn't quite understand why. She was more excited thinking about the training session that she'd have in the afternoon with Einhart.

"What about you, Takamachi-san?" a voice pulled her from her thoughts "How would it be your perfect kiss?"

Bicolored eyes looked with surprise at the girl in front. She frowned doubtfully. Kisses? First kiss? Perfect kiss? Those were things that hadn't been considered before.

But now, watching television, admiring the scene in great detail, she realized that she couldn't take off the subject of her head, her innate curiosity wouldn't let her do it, apparently.

While the lovers swore eternal love to each other in the screen, Vivio frowned, remembering the question she hadn't known how to respond:

-How would it be the perfect kiss?-

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The fork was playing with the food on the plate, with irregular, slow movements. She didn't feel like eating or not seemed to remember that she was hungry, very deep in thought to pay attention to her breakfast.

"Something wrong, Vivio?" The sweet voice of her mother made her look up to meet her loving blue eyes upon her, "You have been lost in thought."

"You know you can tell us if something is bothering you, sweetie" her other mother added gently.

She stared at the face of the two women who were looking at her with a warm smile, Fate to her left side at the head of the table and Nanoha in front of her. She knew she could tell them anything, but she was not sure how to set out her concern, so she tilted her head and frowned in a reflective attitude.

Nanoha put her mug on the table and sat down, while Fate take a sip of her own, waiting for her daughter to collect her thoughts.

"Mama..." she called at her mother who was in front "How is the perfect kiss like?" As soon as the words had been spoken, the sip of coffee shot out of Fate's mouth noisily, followed by several spasms of the blonde.

"W-w-what?" she managed to say coughing a last time, looking at the little blonde with shock. "Wha-? How-? Why-? Vivio, you didn't...? Vivio!?

"Now, now, calm down Fate-chan" Nanoha said softly, patting her back with a nervous smile. The sudden question of her daughter had also surprised her; she hadn't shown interest in the subject before. 'So she's already at that age?' she thought with mixed feeling. "Where's this coming from, Vivio?"

Bicolor eyes were fixed on her mother's lavender ones, still somewhat confused by the reaction of her other mother.

"Well... The girls have been talking a lot of that lately, kisses..." she explained fidgeting with her fingers. "And how would it be the 'perfect first time', so... I was wondering... Uhm" she suddenly felt embarrassed.

Nanoha smiled tenderly seeing the flushed cheeks of her daughter, who was still staring at her playing fingers. Certainly her small one resembled her in her behavior, but there were those occasions where she acts like Fate that made her utterly adorable.

"Then you also got curious" she said with a knowing smile.

"Well... uhm" she nodded almost imperceptibly.

"Is there any reason for that?" she asked, tilting her head slightly. "Someone, perhaps?"

"Nanoha!" the blonde exclaimed. The auburn haired laughed at Fate tormented expression and the new shade of red on the girl's face.

"Nyahaha, relax Fate-chan. It was a joke" she responded amused, it was irresistible teasing them a bit.

"Vivio is still too young to be worrying about such things" the blonde snorted.

"We were her age when we had our first kiss" refuted the other grinning. Fate's cheeks were stained pink immediately.

"We-well, yes, but…" she stuttered, not knowing how to counter.

"Nanoha-mama, your first kiss was with Fate-mama?" her child asked curiously.

"Of course", Nanoha confirmed dreamily. "For Fate-chan too" she turned to look at her, the blonde looked down embarrassed.

"And how it was?" she questioned, this time to her other mother.

"Ah, it was...!" Fate exclaimed regaining her composure, with a gesture that she was about to tell a great story "...it was..." her expression declined "...was..." her shoulders slumped with a defeated expression and red face "...it was good" finished almost in a whisper. Vivio blinked confused at the sudden change of mood in her mother, while Nanoha giggled.

"The truth is, Vivio, that there really isn't an answer to your question", said the copper making her daughter pay attention. "There's no such thing as "the perfect kiss", for each person is different" she continued calmly, "I think you'll know when you find that special someone and give your first kiss."

"Na-Nanoha!" Fate was alarmed and looked at her daughter with watery eyes "Vi-Vivio, you do not ... yet ... right?"

The girl chuckled at her mother's puppy face. The Enforcer has always been more permissive than her other mother, she tried to indulge her around since she was a kid, but that had been changing since precisely the young mage began to stop being a kid. The Instructor had told her that her Fate-mama just didn't want Vivio to stop being her little girl and although she didn't want either, she knew it was bound to grow up —though she made it clear that not because of that she would stop being her baby—. She smiled at her blonde mother and gently stroked her head.

"It's ok, Fate-mama" she said soothingly, "Vivio will not stop being your little girl"

"Vi... Vivio!" A few tears escaped her while throwing to hug her daughter.

"Nyahaha, Fate-mama I can't breathe…"

Nanoha smiled resignedly, sometimes it seemed that the roles were reversed between those two, but it was clear that both were her adoration and earned that title deservedly. "Vivio" called quietly, "if you're done, go get your things to go to school."

"Okay, mama" nodded smiling, leaving the room at full speed.

"You may find your answer there!" Nanoha shouted cheerfully.

"Nanoha!"

Before disappearing upstairs, Vivio could hear the laughter of her copper mother and Fate raving stammered things that went along the line of "My little girl…" and "can not be".

Upon entering her room, she sighed. It hadn't gotten a lot of that conversation, but at least her mother was right about that just one answer wasn't enough. And if she had learned something from her mother Enforcer, was that if you want an answer what you have to do is research.

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In the afternoon was again clear, although the mid-morning rain had left its mark on the sidewalk. Two girls walked with measured pace, no particular direction.

"Then, what are you going to do?" Einhart asked.

"I don't know" she admitted dubious, "asking more people I guess."

At school her research hadn't progressed, none of her friends had any experience in the field and although she was rather enthusiastic and outgoing, it wasn't something you go by asking to anyone.

"Who do you think I can ask?"

"Hmm, well…" the girl blushed slightly, somewhat uncomfortable by the subject. "Anyone who has been in a relationship before…?"

Vivio considered her friend's words and decided that, clearly, the most obvious was to ask people with experience, that, included consultation with the elders.

"True, I think that dropping by Nanoha-mama's place later wouldn't be a bad idea" she commented thoughtfully. "You come with me?"

"Uh, sorry, I have to go… I'm meeting Nove for training" she said sorry to see the Vivio's smile fade.

"Oh, sure, it doesn't matter nyahaha" she laughed trying to hide her disappointment in vain. "So… see you tomorrow?"

"Uhm, until tomorrow" Einhart said with a slight smile.

"Bye bye" the blonde waved, smiling a smile that turned into a grimace when the other girl was gone, every time it seemed that the time they spent together was shorter or wasn't enough.

She slapped her face to regain consciousness. She had to concentrate; there was still a question to be solved, with or without help.

Although she didn't know where to start… So, analyzing what would be her first "interview", she walked aimlessly, reaching the city center.

"Oh, it's Vivio-chan! Vivio-chan~!"

A voice a few meters in front of her caught her attention, taking her out of her thoughts. It took her a couple of seconds to realize who it was and she immediately smiled, running to meet her.

"Subaru-san! Teana-san!" she greeted cheerfully.

"Good afternoon, Vivio, long time no see" Teana corresponded with a smile. "How have you been?" How is school?"

"Uhn! Everything ok, thank you!" she enthusiastically replied.

"You've grown a lot!" Subaru said messing her hair.

"Subaru, you saw her a few weeks ago…"

"Aww, Tea~ but kids grow fast!"

"You still act like a child" she scolded with a frown.

Vivio couldn't help but chuckle seeing them interact as ever, though Subaru protest, she did it with a smile she couldn't hide and the blonde was sure that Teana, internally, was also smiling. She saw the young Nakajima more often and the girl always looked lively, but her joy was evident when Teana was nearby, while her smile waned when the Enforcer was on mission. This remembered her…

"Uhm, Teana-san, Fate-mama said you were on a long mission."

"Oh yeah, I just returned" she reported quietly. "It turned out to be easier than expected."

"Oh, Tea, don't be so modest" the blue haired exclaimed, hanging from her arm and looking at Vivio excitedly. "She did so well that she was given a few days off!"

"No big deal, it's natural to have a few days off after a mission" Teana countered, clearly embarrassed. "Want to avoid clinging so much?"

"Nu-uh, I don't~" she almost purred, clinging to the Enforcer more. "Besides we're on a date!"

"W-what! Subaru! That's not true!" She cried flushed.

"Really?" the blonde asked curious.

"Yep!" Nakajima affirmed.

"NO!" the other refuted immediately. "I just needed to buy some things… and she followed me!"

Teana began to explain away and rebuke Subaru for her whines, but Vivio wasn't really interested in it, that simple sentence made her remember the topic that she had in mind before meeting them. She regained the Enforcer's attention and staring at her she said: "Tell me about your first kiss" she asked bluntly.

She blinked in surprise and blushed, seeing the seriousness and innocent curiosity in the bicolored eyes. Definitely she was a Takamachi, Teana said to herself, thinking they had no shame in saying things. She sighed and with resigned expression, but not free of shame, replied: "My first kiss was stolen by this idiot" she said pointing to Subaru.

"Tea, it sounds bad when you say it like that!" she whined with a pout.

"It's the truth!" Teana countered. "You got drunk on New Year's party and… and… and you pounced on me!"

"Don't take away the romantic part of it!"

"It wasn't romantic at all!"

Just then, Mach Caliber informed Subaru of an accident at a nearby location. Immediately changing her expression, she hasty said goodbye to Vivio and ran.

"Subaru!" Teana called worried, but the girl had already disappeared. She sighed. "And she was told that other officers are already taking over… I'd better go with her" she told Vivio, who nodded.

"Uhm…" the blonde hesitated, until she decided it was best to leave it. "Take care."

"Is there something else you want to ask?" she questioned intuitively. The girl agreed to continue with her curiosity, given that Teana seemed willing to respond.

"So your first wasn't such a good memory?" she asked, after witnessing the earlier scene.

"Well…" she looked away blushing. "It wasn't so bad…"

"Huh?"

"I-I must go!" she said, turning away. "Say hello to Fate-san and Nanoha-san for me!"

"Oh, right… If you have a few days, come by home, Fate-mama and Nanoha-mama will be happy to see you!" Vivio exclaimed waving goodbye.

Vivio stood there, looking Teana getting away at full speed in the direction Subaru was gone, thinking in how little she had obtained (for her research) with that encounter.

From what she had seen in the discussion of the stolen kiss and the circumstances, she had thought that she wouldn't get anything related to "the perfect kiss" and that, in fact, had been a bad one, but then when she asked directly to the Enforcer, by her expression, Vivio realized that she didn't seem upset by it, but even the opposite. And that left the blonde confused, was that possible?

Vivio concluded that she only had to keep searching.

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The next stop was the Infinite Library, where she hoped to find the opinion of two people who were part of the family.

"My first kiss?" Yuuno asked surprised.

Vivio just nodded floating in lotus position, while stroking Arf's hair, which was in her kid form resting her head on the blonde's lap.

"Well, sorry, but…" he cleared his throat adjusting his glasses. "I haven't given it yet."

The girl blinked amazed, stopping her ministrations on Arf without realizing it, who protested with a slight huff.

"No?" she questioned. "Uncle Yuuno… How old are you?"

The familiar burst out laughing at the innocent –but well done– question of her creator's child. It was clear she hadn't done it with malice of any kind, just honest curiosity –and surprise– that one of the old friends of her mothers had… never developed his love life, to say it somehow.

"Though Nanoha-mama says that love has no age…" she commented remembering the words of her most romantic mother.

"That's right" the man confirmed, "you could say that my time hasn't arrived."

"That's because he's always stuck here" burst out a mocking Arf. "He's such a Worm Book that is obvious he'll not find anyone."

"Arf!"

"Does that mean you never liked anyone, Uncle Yuuno?"

"Uhm, well…"

"I think that's a tricky question" Arf said with malice.

"Arf…" Yuuno sighed tired. "Sometimes you're just like Amy." The kid giggled. "You could say that, sometime in the past, I had a crush on Nanoha."

"Nanoha-mama?"

"When we were kids, I was very grateful to her, not only for saving me, but offering me her friendship and a place in her life. Furthermore, Nanoha had an exceptional potential, so that made me admire her more and more" he explained with a wistful smile. "It was clear that I had feelings for her, so Amy bothered me saying that it was quite convenient that I spent most of the time as a ferret, but the truth is that Nanoha, then and now, is to me like a sister. And she sees it the same way" he finished smiling.

"Not to mention that everyone thought that Yuuno was Nanoha's familiar" Arf abounded amused.

"Nyahaha" Vivio was also aware that it was difficult to take Yuuno as human when he was little, because he was always in his other form. "And you, Arf? Have you given your first kiss?"

"Uhmm…" she seemed to pondered for a moment, then nodded cheerfully. "Well, yeah."

"Oh! Who, with whom?" Vivio poked about hoping it was Zafira.

"With Fate" she announced wagging her tail.

"Fate-mama?" the blonde girl frowned confused.

"Yep. I was a puppy and Fate was the adorable girl who had saved me" she clarified, "I always gave her kisses, so of course some were in the mouth. It's not like I don't do it now, anyway."

Vivio processed the information, Arf was a puppy and she loved her Fate-mama, how puppies show their affection is…

The image of a furry little thing in the arms of a blonde girl, licking said girl's face –passing for her mouth–, appeared clearly in her mind.

And that was also a kiss, a dog kiss, but a kiss after all.

"Kisses are basically the act of touching something with the lips and it used as a sign of affection" said the young man looking at the girl's expression. "Even though kisses in the mouth aren't exclusively reserved for couples" Vivio tilted her head. "You gave kisses to your mamas when you were little too, right?"

Vivio nodded, although she didn't remember very well, she could swear it was that way.

"Just as there are many types of love, being the kiss a way to express it, there are many types of kisses" he explained smiling. "Arf's first kiss was with Fate, but what you're asking is about a kiss shared between lovers, right?" Vivio nodded again. "Then you should take into account the difference in feeling."

Vivio stared a moment those words and concluded that it was true. Although she hadn't achieved much on her specific search, she realized there were so many types of kisses as affections and that a first kiss didn't mean necessarily "a kiss on the mouth with romantic feelings."

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She left the library thinking what Arf and Yuuno had accounted for her investigation. At least she had come to a resolution that focusing on older people do not mean to be successful in gathering information.

Deep in thought as she was, a familiar voice calling her directly ahead make her jump. "Young Takamachi" Signum greeted cordial as ever. "What brings you here?"

"Ah, Signum-san" she bowed "I came visiting…" hesitantly replied. "And Signum-san?"

"Meister Hayate ordered me to come for some documents" she said simply. Bicolored eyes locked with the warrior ones, thoughtfully. Signum stood in her usual stoic demeanor. Vivio bites her lower lip. "Is there something wrong?" the pinket finally asked.

"Uhm… no, nothing" she replied with a droplet of sweat and nervous smile.

"Well, then, if you'll excuse me…" She bowed and continued her way.

Vivio sighed scratching her neck. For some reason, she had found difficult to ask, rather, impossible. With that, she thought that she might not be able to ask as many people as she wanted. Maybe it wasn't a question so easy to do after all.

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The door opened slowly, a less animated greeting tan normal echoed in the lobby, while shoes were carefully deposited at the entrance.

"Welcome home, Vivio" graciously greeted her mother when she passed through the living room.

"Uhn, I'm home, Nanoha-mama" she greeted back and looked at the other person. "Oh, Aunty Vita."

"Hey, kiddo" said the warrior. Vivio already was slightly taller than Vita, but still the redhead continued to refer to her as a child.

Seeing her mother's gentle smile she couldn't help a crooked smile, though she hadn't many reasons to do so.

Nanoha was sitting on the couch, with two screens opened and multiple folders on the table. Vita was at her side, with another monitor in front and scowling. For a moment she was silent, staring at them, considering asking to the Wolkenritter… She shook her head, for some reason she chose to restrain, after all they were busy working and the warrior already looked —and was— grumpy.

Her mother looked at her carefully, tilting her head in doubt. "Nothing" the girl answered the unspoken question. "I will be in my room."

"Okay, I'll call you when dinner's ready" the Instructor said obtaining a indecipherable sound for answer.

"What's up with her?" Vita asked, to which Nanoha giggled.

"She's reaching puberty" she responded simply, turning to focus on the screens. Vita looked at her with confusion one second then shook her head and looks at the stack of data that was missing for reviewing, frowning.

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Vivio flopped on her bed for the second time that day.

Just arriving that afternoon, the first thing she had done was call Erio and Caro, who in addition to being part of the family as well, were teenagers —the ones more involved in the issue, according to her classmates. However, even though both have some sort of special relationship, they hadn't go further than holding hands and when she asked about their first kiss, things were like this:

Caro, smiling, said it had been with a dragon, in other words: the same as Arf. This only managed a drop of sweat on the blonde.

Erio, being teased by Caro and with his face as red as his hair, ended up confessing that it had been with Fate, but among the stuttering of the boy she managed to understand that it had been many years ago, when he was little and adored Fate for being the great guardian she was –which hadn't changed at all. That meant: it was something like herself.

In short, she didn't obtain anything new, only that there were still some teenagers that weren't so… hormonal, as they say, because although Caro and Erio were already seventeen and very mature for some things, in couple's issues it seems that absolutely nothing had progressed.

After that, at dinner, she asked again for her mothers' first kiss, but she didn't get anything more than a red Fate and Nanoha laughing at her expense, which only left Vivio more curious. Obviously they remembered it, but something had happened that embarrassed them, because she knew her auburn mother very well and she knew that that laugh, besides using it to pick on her blonde mother, was also to cover up her own shame.

Driven by her curiosity, she decided to dig a little on the subject and for that, she only could go to a person who surely would have the information she wanted, someone who seemed to know everything about everybody…

"Good night, Grandma Lindy!" she greeted with her best innocent smile.

"My little Vivio!" cried from the other side of the screen. "How are you, my precious girl?"

"Nyahaha, well, I just wanted…"

"I thought you had forgotten me" the woman interrupted with dramatic gesture. "Like Chrono and then my Fate-chan… calling only if they need something, they barely remember to greet!" she looked at the girl with shining eyes. "But my beloved granddaughter not, right?"

"Ah, uhm… no, of course not" she replied with a drop of sweat. "Because Grandma Lindy is the best grandma ever!" exclaimed, praying that it wasn't so great a sin to say the same to her grandmother Momoko. "Well, it was happy, so…"

"Why you're so adorable!" Lindy took both hands to her cheeks, embarrassed. "Tell me what you wanted?"

"Well…" the blonde pondered the words she would say, since her grandmother was… a little easily excitable with certain types of topics.

"So my little girl is already thinking about kisses?!" It seems she had failed to downplay enough. "Do you already have someone? Who would it be? You want to take the initiative?"

"Uh, no, Obaasan…" she tried in vain, but the barrage of questions of the star eyed woman continued. "I wanted to know yours."

"Mine?" Lindy blinked in surprise. "Oh, Vivio-chan, but what questions…" she took a hand to her cheek and made a waving motion with the other, slightly blushing.

"I'm sorry…" she apologized. "Is it too intrusive?"

"With that face no one will say no!" she said to her granddaughter's cocked head and sad puppy expression. "My first kiss… It was wonderful" she continued wistfully. "It was when I was… Ah, no, it seems that wasn't the first… Then who was it?... No, that time either… And in what year…?"

A thick droplet fell for the blonde's head, watching the Admiral Lindy lost in her memories, trying to remember something that apparently happened long ago. Vivio decided to leave that aside, so she coughed to get her attention.

"If you don't remember it doesn't matter" she said as sweetly as she could, to avoid retaliation. "I would also like to know if you know about my mamas' first kiss."

"Fate and Nanoha-chan's first kiss?"

"Uhn, I asked but…" she grimaced, "for some reason they don't want to tell me."

"Hahaha I don't think they don't want to tell you" the woman chuckled, "it's sure just embarrassing for them to remember how it was."

"You mean you know?" she moved closer to the screen, intrigued.

"Of course I do! What kind of mother would I be if not?"

'I still think there's something called "privacy"…' she thought with a nervous smile. 'But well, my mamas' relationship seems to have always been popular subject' she told to herself amused. "Can you tell me?"

"I can do something better" Lindy grinned broadly. "I can show you."

"E-eh? Show me?"

"Yes, there are some pictures and videos" she informed. "Just give me a few minutes."

"Hey! Obaasan, wai-!" Before she could finish, Lindy opened another screen and left the call in only sound.

Vivio frowned perplexed, exactly how public was the relationship of her mothers? Since when her grandmother spoke in code and had a contact named "Raccoon"? Why she referred to herself as "Tigress Mother"? Suddenly she no longer cared much to know…

"…Eh, Granny" she called weakly, doubting that she would listen for the way she was laughing. "I'm hanging up… Good night."

With defeated expression, she closed the communication and lay on the bed, deciding she wouldn't enquire more in the topic; her mothers were entitled to some privacy, even though it was only from her. If they ever told her, she would listen, but for now she would let it be their special moment –she doubted they were aware of the photos or videos–, because she was sure it was, their glances spoke volumes on that matter, and the times she saw them kissing, so fondly…

She sighed, opening her eyes to meet the fluorescent stars smiling at her on the ceiling of her room. She stretched widely and her arm touched a stuffed animal that she had in her bed. She looked at it for a second, before taking it and sat up to stare at it. She tilted her head to one side, then the other, raised an eyebrow and pursed her lips.

She pulled it closer, dubious, stretched her lips, closed her eyes and kissed it. She kept her lips stuck to the bunny embroidered smile for a couple of seconds, then took it away with expression amused and disappointed at the same time.

As if it could be of any use, she thought with a sigh that sounded more like a drowned laugh.

She leaned back, dropping the bunny of her hands. This time she stayed there, eyes closed and after a while she took two fingers to outline her lips, deep in thought again. However, this time she wasn't thinking about the perfect kiss, but thought what it would be… to kiss someone.

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The next morning, Vivio was still abstracted for her fruitless search yesterday. Nanoha asked how it had gone, for Fate's alteration, but she managed to calm her mentioning her brief encounter with Subaru and Teana, commenting that they had been told to stop by sometime. From there the conversation turned to talk of the relationships of their friends, almost gossipy way, where inevitably Hayate's name came and they ended teasing her blonde mother with the mention of the brunette's name in the middle —sometimes she thought that her dear Aunt had traumatized her mom for life.

While laughing, the girl formed a smirk. She knew where to go that day.

How was it possible that she had forgotten her aunt Hayate? She thought making her way to her office, how could she forget the person who seems to have the answers to everything in life?

She knocked softly on the door and a cheerful voice let her in. "Vivio-chan! What a pleasant surprise!" she greeted happily from her desk, standing with outstretched arms.

"Good morning, Aunty Hayate!" she smiled getting inside, to find that the brunette wasn't alone. "Fate-mama, you were here?"

"Yes, I had some business to deal with Hayate" she replied kindly, leaving some papers on the desk.

"But that's work, it can wait a little longer" the brunette said simply, sitting back down "Tell me, what brings you here?"

"Ah well, I wanted to ask you some questions" the little blonde answered, uneasy by the presence of her mother.

"Oh, what is it?" she had to suppress a cat smile, since Fate had been discussing the concerns of her daughter and how she was feeling about that.

"Well…" the girl looked dubious to the Enforcer. Hayate noticed that and smiled nonchalantly. "Don't worry about Fate-chan here, I assure you it will be no problem" she said patting the blonde's back, "right, Fate-chan?"

"Su-sure… Or you want me to go?" she fixed her eyes on her daughter, with a gleam of rejection in them that made the little one flinch.

"No, of course not!" answered immediately. "It's just that this issue has caused you to get a little… sensitive."

"Ah… oh, I understand" she nodded slightly bowing her head sorrowfully. "Sorry."

"Well, now, spit out" urged the other woman.

"Tell me about your first kiss" she said bluntly looking intently into her eyes. Hayate let out a small chuckle.

"I can tell you're a Takamachi" the brunette said amused. "Well, if it's about my 'first kiss'…" she leaned back in her chair musing "I have not given it yet."

"Huh?" both blondes were startled. "What do you mean? What about that guy at the convention?" Fate asked.

"You mean the chubby with who I stumbled at Comiket?" she questioned quietly. "That was just an accident where our mouths touched" explained calmly and smiled at Vivio, "but I think that what our big little girl here is looking for is a first kiss with feelings involved."

"Uhn" she nodded slightly, listening to every word.

"Also, if that were the case" she continued naturally, "my first kiss would have been with Fate-chan."

"W-what? Me?" the blonde blurted out stunned. Vivio blinked in surprise.

"Yep, at that time when I was just leaving the wheelchair and I felt like swimming as everyone else" she explained, "but my legs weren't as strong as I thought and I almost drowned" she looked at her friend with a smile. "Fate-chan saved me and gave me CPR."

"B-but that…" the blonde stammered nervously.

"Exactly, it doesn't count" the brunette nodded. "Did you think of it as a first kiss?"

"No, I was just… I was worried and wanted to… uhm…"

"To save me" she ended seeing her troubled. "That's exactly why I don't count it, because that'd be calling "kiss" at any time that two pair of lips meet, without considering feelings. Think in actors," she continued, "they sometimes have to kiss people who barely know, but it's part of their jobs, how do you they take it?" Vivio thought on the film. "According to the situation depends on each person if you valued as a kiss or not."

Both blondes stared Hayate in silence as she kept smiling with her eyes closed. Vivio opened her mouth again, now more sure she could ask anything and get in return a good answer.

"So… How would it be the perfect kiss?" Hayate opened her eyes still smiling.

"One with feelings" she answered as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "I think, my little Vivio, you forget something important."

"Huh?" Vivio saw her stand up and pointed her with an accusing finger.

"It's not the kiss, is the person; and it's not the act, is the feeling" she said softly. "If you have someone with whom you want to share that, not matter the circumstances or the scenario, no matter what, it will be just perfect" she smiled a knowing smile and added: "You'll find your answer for yourself when you do" and winked.

Vivio didn't know why, but the gesture made her blush and ducked her head embarrassed as if her aunt Hayate knew something she didn't.

"Hayate!" Fate claimed. "Vivio is still…"

"Oh, come on, Fate-chan" she put an arm around her shoulders. "We all love our little adorable Vivio for being the little Vivio, but she's growing up and it's natural that she already have someone occupying a part of her heart "that special way", isn't it?" she winked again to the girl, making her blush darker.

"What?" the blonde looked at her daughter alarmed. "Vivio… that… Is that true?"

"Face it, Fate-chan" called Hayate, making Fate look at her. "Our little girl soon… soon will be a little woman" she added with fake tears in a theatric act.

"N-No! She's just thirteen!"

"Correction: she's already thirteen. It's a matter of time before she graduates… starts working… have her own apartment…"

"Nyahaha…" A thick drop of sweat slid down her temple seeing her mother all bothered trying to stop Hayate's speech of maturity, which she clearly was doing just to tease her poor Fate-mama.

She sighed and left the room as quietly as she could, although both women were so engrossed that she doubted they had noticed. Mentally, she thanked her always reliable aunt for getting her out of what could have been another awkward moment with her blonde mother, though she deeply felt a little sorry for what the brunette was making her go through.

'Likewise, somehow, Fate-mama was the first kiss of three persons… Well, four if you consider Nanoha-mama' she pondered curious, analyzing the idea. ´Now I understand a little why Nanoha-mama is so possessive… I'd better not tell her nyahaha…' Her expression turned serious again. Such reasoning, apart from being just a curiosity, hadn't sense for what mattered to her, since she had already concluded what was a "first real kiss", so to speak.

As she walked, she thought carefully about Hayate's words and she linked it with everything else she had obtained. She didn't need to keep asking, her Aunty had been quite clear that she would find the answer alone… somehow. This led her to think about something else, it didn't matter how or why anymore… Now she was only thinking about "who".

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There she was again, sitting in the couch of her living room watching a movie, but this time in the company of her best friend and sparring partner.

Einhart could hear Vivio snort when a kiss appeared in the film. At the end the search had no results, not final at least, because Hayate's words were still sounded in her mind, while the girl was trying to assimilate the meaning.

After a while it became clear that the young Takamachi wasn't paying attention to what was happening, so Einhart proposed to pause to go get some snacks. Vivio was immediately excited by the idea and decided to take it a step further by saying that she wanted pizza. Unfortunately, there weren't enough ingredients.

They could have called for home delivery, but Vivio was always excited to have fun cooking with someone else. Usually these people were their mothers, although recently she was discovered that cooking with Einhart gave to her a sense equally pleasant.

That was how they ended up on the streets, dodging puddles, surrounding overflowing drains and futilely trying to cover with one arm, while with the other hand carried a bag with goods -which had become something more than necessary-.

Vivio gasped when she was pulled by the strong grip of Einhart, who guided her to a lonely bus station. Getting under the roof, she immediately felt the relief of escape from the thick blanket of the storm, but it instantly disappeared when she realized how wet she was. Her soaked shoes produced a viscous sound when approaching the bench, where she dropped herself with a long sigh. Suddenly, the sky, tinted by a milky gray, had become a tomb of lead. The storm had caught them unawares.

"We'll have to take refuge here until the storm ends" Einhart reported leaving the bag on the floor to squeeze a lock of hair. A puddle had formed at their feet. "We should have brought an umbrella" she said staring absently to the street.

"We didn't know this was going to happen, a while ago we could see the sun" Vivio snorted doing the same with her clothes which dripped the excess of water.

"You know we should be cautious with this climate" the other girl calmly said, sitting beside her.

Vivio decided not to protest. Einhart had suggested the idea of an umbrella before leaving the house, but she had dragged her carelessly.

Soon they fell into a silence that was only cut by the sound of the rain hitting the puddles and strafing the ceiling fiercely.

The blonde was engrossed looking at the water curtain in front of them. Her clothes were stuck to her body, freezing, and her hands hurt because of the cold, she can barely felt her fingertips. Sneezed loudly and a shiver ran through her body, she was starting to shake. She was surprised to feel an arm slide down her back and a hand rest on her shoulder to pull her to her companion. Vivio smiled at the slight blush that this simple gesture had caused in Einhart, who kept her eyes straight ahead, it was obvious that she saw her shiver because of the cold a moment ago.

She laid her head on her friend's shoulder, thanking her kindness and allowed herself to absorb the warmth given off by the silver-green-haired girl, despite having wet clothes as tight fitting as she.

She didn't know why, but suddenly the doubts she had these days and the words of her aunt Hayate came back to her mind.

"Ne, Ein-chan..." she called with lost voice.

"What's up, Vivio-san?"

Einhart felt the blonde move away and was surprised to see that she faced her with a frown and a brightness of reproach in her eyes. She blushed immediately when understand why this was. She ducked her head ashamed and tried that the words leave her lips.

"Vi... Vivio" she whispered shyly.

The little Takamachi smiled with pleasure. She had decided that keep using the respectful suffix as before didn't come according to the close relationship they had now, but Einhart had been unable to replace it to the more affectionate one -she couldn't even say 'Vivio-chan' fluently, obviously red as a cayenne- and interestingly had been easier to leave it that way, without anything. However, she still wasn't used to using it and Vivio claims every time for it.

"I was thinking..." she continued, looking straight ahead. "I remembered the movie" she corrected herself, slightly embarrassed to share her thoughts.

"What's up with it?" the other asked, curious at the sudden shyness of the blonde.

"I was thinking that they act the kisses..." she continued unsure "... and uhm..."

"Vivio?"

"Aren't you curious to know how are them?" Vivio finally asked, turning her head slightly to look at Einhart, with a soft blush.

"Uh... uhm..." she felt ashamed. "I-I guess so...?" Replied hesitantly, without knowing what her friend's purpose was.

"Don't you wanna..." she paused to swallow and relax "...try?"

"Try..." Einhart repeated doubtful. Suddenly her face flushed and flinched to understand what she meant.

She quickly looked away and Vivio did the same.

Vivio didn't understand why her heart beat so hard against her chest and her cheeks burn, when she had thought in asking it, it hadn't sound as a bad idea, but now she don't understand why she felt so embarrassed and nervous.

"I mean... like acting" she continued ashamed "...just… to try" she added almost inaudibly.

"I... I don't know how to do it" Einhart whispered after a few seconds.

Vivio looked at her and met her friend staring at the floor. Einhart had her cheeks red and an unsure expression. She was embarrassed, but not uncomfortable. Without knowing why that reassured her, the blonde took one of her hands between hers to make her look.

"Me neither" she confessed when their heterochromatic eyes met. "It will be the first time for both" she explained gently.

Einhart felt her heart leap and she lowered her head again.

"I don't know how to do it" Vivio continued shyly, "but I feel that if it is with Ein-chan... it's ok" she recognized with sincerity, in a whisper.

The young girl in front of she felt her heart melt at those words and a warm feeling flooded her chest. She took Vivio's embarrassed face and made her look to her, to assent her with a loving smile, a gesture that the blonde returned somewhat self-conscious. They stared each other a few seconds in what they seemed to forget everything around them, until the situation got the better of them and returned to feel the weight of their wet clothes.

"And now... now what?" Einhart questioned with her head down.

"Cl-close your eyes" Vivio said after thinking.

Einhart crossed their looks for a few seconds before she accept the demand. Vivio gulped. There it was, that was the moment to answer her questions, it was part of the investigation, she had asked for it... But why her chest couldn't stop throbbing? She had to concentrate.

Looking absorbed her friend's face, with serene expression despite the slight flush, she began to approach. Carefully studied Einhart's factions; despite having her hair wet and stuck to her face, she still looked as beautiful and elegant as always, with those long eyelashes and that air of serenity that surrounded her at all times, even in battle. That's why she admired her so much, Einhart always kept her composure and grace, not like her, she was sure to look like a duck just out of the water, she felt wet, disheveled and somewhat sticky. Later her thoughts were cut off when she felt Ein's breathe stroke her face, causing a shiver. She focused in the pink lips that waited for her and summoning all her determination -or lack of judgment- she closed the distance, crashing their lips.

She remained so, glued to her lips, for a couple of seconds. They were still wet and some chapped, but to Vivio it seemed the smoother texture she had ever touched.

A single tear fell down Einhart's cheek. The desire of her ancestor had become hers, she wanted to protect and care for this girl with all her might, but now, also, wanted to... love her more than anyone. And with that kiss, somehow, she knew Vivio would let her do it.

Vivio understood, in that kiss, that the reason why she felt so nervous, feverish and trembling didn't have much to do with the storm -or maybe a little bit, something that her mothers wouldn't like-, but because that wasn't just an experiment, she really wanted to kiss Einhart and now that she had done, she wanted to repeat it again and again.

The young Takamachi, suddenly felt she had moved a step closer to maturity, clung tightly to Einhart's shoulders, while their lips and tongues moved instinctively, trying to find themselves, they make it slow and deliberate, somewhat clumsy, but they knew that the technique wasn't important, but the feeling that ran through their bodies. It was like a tingling extending from the pit of the stomach, making her legs weak, leaving a pleasant warmth in her chest, a nice euphoria in her throat, a strange tingling in their nose... Wait a moment, a nose tingle? Uh-oh...

"AHCHOO!"

The blonde immediately covered her mouth and nose with both hands, feeling up her ears burn and with an expression of shock, not even daring to breathe. Einhart, in the other hand, blinked baffled, recovering from the shock.

Vivio hid her head like a turtle and felt shrink like Alice in Wonderland, only without fungus involved. It was the product of a vast, growing and deep shame.

'It can't be... it can't be... our first kiss and I... I sneezed in her face!' she thought wretched and distressed 'What will she think now? What will she say now! ... Oh my God... Swallow me earth! '

"I think we should go..." She heard Einhart's voice and lifted her head so fast she could swear she hear a crunch.

"Ein-chan! Excuse me! It wasn't my intention, please don't be mad!" she begged desperately "Really, really I don't want to! I'm so sorry! Please don't you think that for this...! I really...! I SWEAR it will not happen again!" she said hastily "Sure, if you want it to happen again… I mean, the kiss! Another kiss, not this! ... Although I would understand if not... but I really want to...! ... I want to... I... uhm..."

Einhart watched her surprised that she could stammer so fast and it can be understood, although it was difficult to process everything she said. What she understood is that Vivio was absolutely adorable, with her face all red, looking to one side completely embarrassed and muttering unintelligible things. She had tried to apologize and she ended tangling herself, Einhart knew that now she was cursing for that. Vivio looked so cute that she felt a warm feeling fill her and a smile formed on her lips. Being unable to restrain it, she giggled.

Vivio looked up to the melodious sound, she saw Einhart trying to cover her mouth with one hand and rosy cheeks, she looked so beautiful that her lips curled unconsciously, but she didn't understand why the girl was laughing.

Suddenly, something unexpected for the two occurred; Einhart, with a warm smile, carried one hand to Vivio's face and with two fingers settled a strand behind her ear, stroking the contours of her face with her fingertips, to then take her behind the neck and approached to give her a tender kiss on the lips, in a gesture that felt so natural, something almost ancestral,... an action that she would have repeated hundreds of times in the past.

The kiss was short, chaste and pure, just a sample of immense affection, of love. However, it caused the body temperature of the blonde rise a few degrees and her eyes opened widely, in astonishment. What left she more puzzled, were the words Einhart said next.

"Me too..." She had to swallow, embarrassed. She had recovered the shyness. "I would like... this to be... uhm ... repeated, too" she managed to say, avoiding Vivio's look.

Vivio's heart jumped and she followed her first impulse, which was to hug the girl in front of her with all her strength and a huge smirk. Einhart could be the older of the two, but she was definitely a thousand of times cuter. Her second impulse was, after almost strangle her, move away slowly, without losing contact as she turned her face, making her nose grazed the cheek of the older girl -causing a slight shudder-, to be face to face with their eyes half-closed, she felt the desire to kiss her long and passionately, or at least make it last. And she did.

At that moment, she knew.

Her clothes were wet, nose and ears frost, she can't felt her fingers, she was trembling with cold and felt really uncomfortable, but that moment... was perfect.

"Nyahaha... I can feel butterflies" she said sheepishly, pulling apart with her cheeks tinged with pink.

"Uhn... but it's nice" Ein admitted with a shy smile.

"A lot." She gave her another brief kiss.

Then she understood everything and knew that, although her first kiss hadn't been perfect, she wouldn't replace it for any other that wasn't with the person who she was sharing it.

"Shall we get going?" As any answer, Einhart sneezed softly, to which Vivio giggled. "Yes, we should go."

She took her hand and they both headed for the Takamachi residence, under a light drizzle that wouldn't achieve to remove the smile on their faces.

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She ran a hand over her face, adjusting the blond bangs. As she stroked her cheek with the back of her hand, the copper's lips curved with great affection; her daughter had a beautiful smile on her face, even in her dreams, while she hugged her stuffed bunny. She knew something had happened that day, she could feel it, mother's sixth sense perhaps, and that something meant that her little girl was growing up, which left her with mixed feelings. Just like had happened when she came out with that question at breakfast, on one hand she was filled with a sense of pride and joy seeing her daughter grow up, on the other a certain uneasiness because… it felt that she was "leaving the nest". But seeing her so, like that, reminded her that she would never stop being her little girl.

The baby of both actually, she corrected herself arriving with her wife who was waiting in the doorway of the room, smiling tenderly.

"She fell asleep quickly" Fate said with a smile, closing the door. "Looks like she stopped thinking about the kissing matter…" she added with clear relief. Nanoha giggled.

"I don't think that she had stopped at all. That big smile is obvious sign that she fell asleep thinking in someone."

"¿Uh?"

"Einhart-chan" she replied plainly. Fate stared in confusion.

"She was here this afternoon, right? What's up with her?"

Nanoha sighed tired and resist the urge to facepalm. Fate tilted her head some more when her wife looked at her with a frown. "Mou, Fate-chan, you're so dense!" she scolded, "There's no doubt why you took so long to realize that you were in love with me."

"W-what?"

Fate jerked up, blushing madly. Nanoha was tempted to laugh but held back to enter her room with downcast. She found that part of the blonde adorable, but sometimes it was frustrating, as it had been at the time she didn't know Fate's feeling toward her —because apparently not even the own girl was sure— and she didn't had a good time until she ended up confessing to her, because if she waited for Fate to decided…

"Nanoha…?" the blonde asked, approaching the bed where Nanoha was already getting into "What do you mean?"

"Seriously, I can't believe you haven't noticed" Nanoha snorted, crossing her arms, looking dejected.

"Uhmm… What are we talking about?" she questioned dubious, sitting beside her with an apologetic smile.

"Although I think not even Vivio herself had noticed until now" Nanoha said thoughtfully, "but her attitudes with Ein-chan" she stared at her "don't say anything to you?"

Fate refrained from shaking her head; the look of Nanoha was a clear call to reflect on those words. She turned and stared at the ceiling, contemplating the meaning they could have. An image of her daughter and Einhart appeared, she recalled from the day she introduced the girl to them to now, how cheerful she was when talking about her, the gestures, glances, smiles, blushes… She widened her eyes in surprise and turned to look at the copper, stunned.

"You don't mean that…?" snapped without being able to finish the sentence. "No way… that would be… How not realize before?"

"Nyahaha… Do you see now how clueless you are?" Nanoha laughed. "I think that in that way Vivio is like you."

"B-but that… then… My little Vivio… Einhart is older than her and…" she couldn't string a coherent sentence, while her brow furrowed.

"Relax, Fate-chan," she said smiling gently "Ein-chan is a good girl, you know that."

"Yes, but…" Fate pouted, she knew it and couldn't refute that. Nanoha smiled comically.

"Well, I think it's… I dunno, precise." Fate looked at her curiously. "Hayate-chan must have commented before," she locked their eyes "these two remind me of us.

"Us?" Fate raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, Vivio and Ein-chan…" she chuckled. "Somehow, when I saw Ein-chan, I knew that Vivio would fall for her, for someone who is like the person she most admires" she smiled.

"Uh?" she titled her head frowning.

"You!" she laughed again, "Einhart-chan is just like you, Fate-chan" Nanoha smiled seeing the blush of the other. "Vivio adores you and she put her eyes in someone who was like her amazing Fate-mama… I don't think she did it purposely though nyahaha."

"…!" Fate blushed surprised. She opened her mouth a few times, without result. At the end she looked away and said, almost in a whisper: "W-well, if it is she… I think it's fine."

Nanoha saw Fate's cheeks and ears bright red. She couldn't help laughing and hugged her. "Fate-chan is so cute!"

"Na-Nanoha!" she exclaimed embarrassed. Nanoha began to tickle her and soon both fell lying in bed laughing. The Instructor lying in Fate's chest, hugging her while the blonde stroked her hair, with a calm smile on their faces.

"Do you remember our first kiss?" Nanoha asked, widening her smile and sitting to look at her.

"How could I forget?" the blonde replied, returning the gesture.

"Since the beginning…?" Her smile became amused. Fate blushed immediately, making Nanoha chuckle. "You were so nervous that you kissed my nose."

"…!" Fate opened her mouth in a silent gasp, straightened up all red. "That-! It's because it was the first time and y-you told me to close my eyes!"

"Of course, if not it would have killed the magic!" she refuted half pouting, but was enjoying teasing her wife.

"B-but I was nervous and… I couldn't see where I was going and…" she mumbled almost in a whisper "And then you totally crashed my teeth!"

"Wah! Th-that was…!" It was Nanoha's turn to blush "I was nervous too!" she exclaimed, separating from her. "And of course it also was my first time… It couldn't be helped!"

Fate laughed softly, stroked Nanoha's cheek with the back of her right hand looking at her with affection and touched their foreheads together with a cute smile. "Of course, but we improve after that, right?" she said gently. Nanoha smiled tenderly.

"Yeah…" she closed her eyes for a moment. "That time was something like now…"

It all started with a shy but determined "kiss me" from Nanoha, she was considerably flushed to ask, but Fate got a pepper color hearing it. The blonde swallowed hard and approached, shaky and insecure. When her hand brushed Nanoha's cheek, she flinched and pulled away, causing the same reaction in the blonde.

Nanoha took a hand to her chest trying to control her heartbeat and breathing, seeing her so close, seeing her burgundy look getting closer, she felt she was out of air and that her heart would jump out her chest. She apologized and asked her to close her eyes this time.

"B-but that way I can't see where I go…"

"Fate-chan, close your eyes. Please" she added thinking it had sounded very demanding.

The blonde did as ordered. Nanoha guided her trembling hands to her cheeks to indicate a direction to follow. Fate swallowed again, she had no idea how she could be salivating so much and feel her throat dry at the same time, besides her stomach was so queasy she felt sick… To that point her nerves could affect her? Please, all she asked was not to throw up, not in her first kiss, not to Nanoha, please, please… She could feel she was getting close, the heat radiating from the auburn girl told her, her breath, her scent… She was close, a little more and she would make it… please, let her stomach to calm down, do not let her faint, it was all she asked… Maybe she should ask for a little more aim.

Fate felt her trembling lips touched smooth skin, but not as smooth as she thought it would be, it was rather hard? A few strands of hair tickled her nose and she opened her eyes to meet Nanoha's forehead. She blinked a few times and realized that what she had kissed weren't exactly the lips of her now girlfriend. She pulled away like a spring and now all her jaw trembled as she opened and closed her mouth trying to say something, completely red with widened eyes. Nanoha, meanwhile, had been left with stretched lips and a look of complete surprise.

Fate was almost an apologetic mess when she managed to find her voice. Nanoha giggled nervously, almost hysterical, and in a fit of madness she decided to take charge of the matter, but the result was no much better; without notice, she took the blonde –who was still apologizing– of the shirt and pulled her closer while she leaned forward, silencing any word by crashing their mouths abruptly, causing a cracking sound when their teeth hit. They parted instantly, covering their faces with both hands, looking at opposite directions with pained expression.

Gradually they were turning to find their gazes. None of them knew who was the first to puff –maybe it was both– and then burst out laughing. Laugh that died while they got closer till leave their foreheads together. Both sighed, causing a shudder in the other's body, and gazed fondly.

Fate stroked her cheek with the back of her hand and smiled the most beautiful smile Nanoha had ever seen, she wasn't so nervous anymore… at least she didn't feel panic of doing it wrong, not because they had already got off on the wrong foot but because when she got lost in Nanoha's eyes, she found that they were filled with a love as intense as hers. Also she could see the fear, note that she had trouble breathing and see the beautiful blush on her face. Her heart was still beating hasty, but not threatening to escape through the mouth and she wasn't trembling like a jelly anymore. She felt she should say something, but couldn't find the words, she felt that any sound could ruin the moment, so they just stared for a moment that seemed eternal, with cherry blossoms dancing around, guided by the wind.

It was perfect. Just the two of them. They loved each other. Nothing else could matter.

Fate went to brush their lips again. A graze so soft that they hardly touched, but an electric shock furrowed their backs. They opened their eyes and smiled, making their lips brush again. Nanoha mirrored Fate gesture and put a hand on her cheek, to meet their lips over again in another touch soft and short but deep and intense for both. To that kiss followed two more, each a little longer than the last, until they melted into a tight hug. Nanoha tangled her hands in Fate's hair and the blonde took hers to her lover's waist. Following what she believed was instinct, the auburn haired girl squeezed gently Fate's bottom lip to ask her to open barely her mouth and allow Nanoha access, but she surprised when she got more than that and Fate's tongue came out to her encounter. The first time their tongues touched, both shuddered and parted slightly.

They looked at each other with and amused smile and giggled at their lack of experience, but they knew it didn't matter so much when they kissed again.

Their first kiss had been shy and shaky and incredibly special. So much that no matter how many times they repeat it each of them would be like the first, as a new first kiss, every time.

And it still felt the same years later: as sweet as the first time, two hearts meeting, two women loving each other.

After pulled apart they embraced, Nanoha resting her head on Fate's neck, and they smiled with all the love they felt, that seemed unable to stop increasing over the years, every day, every time their eyes met.

"You know, Fate-chan?"

"Hm?"

"They say that the first kiss is given with the look" Nanoha said raising her head to see Fate. "I gave mine the first time our eyes met" she continued fondly "and keep giving it every time I find your eyes on me."

Fate blushed madly and her heart went crazy before the infinitely loving and warm look of Nanoha, whose words overwhelmed her to the point of leaving her speechless.

"Since when you become so cheesy?" she teased with a playful smile.

It was Nanoha's turn to blush and frown embarrassed.

"Mou! Stupid Fate-chan!" she whined "You're ruining the mome-!"

Nanoha's claim died in her throat as Fate, unexpectedly, took her face and kissed her. The Instructor was so startled that it took her a while to react, but soon found herself returning the kiss with the same need.

"I love you" Fate whispered with her forehead resting on her lover's.

Nanoha sighed, savoring the blonde's breath caressing her face while she said those words. She wanted to smile, but instead, before Fate's loving look –who was smiling tenderly at her– she pouted, frowning. The Enforcer blinked surprised and confused.

"This time I'll not forgive you only with that, Fate-chan" she said in mock anger.

"Huh?"

"You always do that" she snorted, crossing her arms. "You tease me when I'm being serious and the you do… and say… And with that you make me forget!"

"But it works, right?" she chuckled at her cute expression.

"This time no!"

"Come on, Nanoha" Fate hugged her again, but she resisted.

"No" she huffed stubbornly.

"Nanohaaa~" Fate nuzzled in her neck, purring.

"I s-said no" she insisted, stubborn, although she had to hold her breath.

"I love you" Fate said again kissing gently her cheek. "I love you" repeated kissing her nose. "I love you lots" she kissed her eyebrow. Nanoha allowed Fate to do what she wanted, relaxing her face unconsciously. "I love you more than anything" Fate finished, only inches apart from her lips, but despite Nanoha's expectation, she went to kiss her head.

Fate pulled apart with a radiant smile, before the incredulous look of the auburn haired, which had trouble controlling her breathing and heart while the blonde was doing those delicate and tender ministrations.

"Do you love me?" she put on her best puppy face, imaginary ears included, making Nanoha melt.

"Mou, Fate-chan!"

Fate gave thanks that they were on the bed and that it was huge, because Nanoha tackled her making her fell backwards and bounce on the mattress, immediately capturing her lips in a passionate and deep kiss. Fate could hardly begin to return it when her wife moved away to fill her face with kisses, occasionally returning to her lips.

While the Instructor played with her earlobe, Fate chuckled remembering what Hayate had told Vivio and she came to her own conclusion.

The perfect kiss, for her, was in which two people, without a word, said "I love you" to each other.

"FATE-CHAN, I LOVE YOU!" the auburn woman exclaimed enthusiastic, happy, beaming. All what her Nanoha was.

She couldn't help laughing at that with glee. Sure, it wasn't necessary to say it, but sometimes it wasn't bad to hear it.

And That's All Folks!

Ok, I made this in a hurry so I apologize for the many mistakes and/or typos that it probably has, I'll check it later with the others. So even though I cried blood to have it on time (I think I'm still on time) it's still my favorite one. I hope you has enjoyed and thanks for keep reading till now :)

I also have to thanks my loyal assistant for helping me getting to this point, I already own him a beer, firstborn, a bride and probably my soul, but I wouldn't make it without him xD

And thanks for all of you who had reviewed, puted this on favorite and stuff 3

I feel fulfilled, but I don't think I'll be translating anything any time soon. If that time ever comes, see you then!