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After Lirath, Miku had tried her best to keep from being too far underfoot. So, she'd retreated to the Meiji Shrine. Sitting on the steps, and turning her hairpin in her hands, an abandoned broom at her side, Miku tried to think of ways to be more useful. She even had prayed a bit, but it seemed as if the Emperor and Empress were concerned with more pressing things than how to make a single, pious young woman more worthy to return the help she was given.

She wasn't much of a fighter - as her poor attempts at practicing had quickly shown. She had always been someone's support. But even Steve was more helpful than she was, and he only spent time in Engineering when he wanted. Which is where Miku was fairly sure he was at now, though she hadn't actually bothered to check.

Miku sighed and flipped her long, dark hair from her shoulders with a hand. It was already getting too long and heavy for her tastes, and Stacy was warm and humid. Miku stood with a sigh and picked up her abandoned broom, tucking her hairpin away in her skirt pocket.

There was plenty to clean at the Shrine, after all.


((As a special note, if you get Miku, you will likely also get a Steve! That's two, two, two CRs for the price of one! (Shipping and Handling not included)))

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"A bit, but the shrine needed tending to, you know. The Emperor and Empress need as much care as any living person."

Not that Miku was sure she was doing thing exactly correct, but nothing terrible had opened up under the shrine, and she hadn't seen a single, disapproving ghost. "How are you?"

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"I suppose that's true, they do," Nanoha said with a quiet smile before looking up at the other girl. "I'm doing okay! I guess married life really isn't as different as I'd thought it would be. It's kind of the same, only I have another last name."

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"I know," Miku teased. "I had to change all the headers on your reports." She sighed gently, sweeping some leaves into a bigger pile. "Nanoha-chan? I don't know what to do. I think that I'm staying behind while everyone moves forward."

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Nanoha brushed off the steps with a hand before sitting down on them so that she could look at Miku more directly - and she tucked a strand of red-brown hair behind an ear thoughtfully. "Oh? Don't tell me you're ready to run off and get married now too, Miku-chan."

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Miku looked surprised, "Married? Oh, no! No, no, no. I have years before I'm Christmas Cake-worthy." Not that many years, but still. Half a decade was still half a decade... wasn't it?

"Anyway, Steve is younger than I am, and we're not even thinking about that." Or that far. She fidgeted, "I just meant that I want to be more helpful. Even though I know my position is firmly support, I don't feel like I'm doing quite enough, Nanoha-chan."

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Nanoha couldn't help but giggle. "I know, I know! I'm just teasing. ...not that you're really that much younger than me, anyway." She stuck her tongue out affectionately.

"Everyone helps out how they can and does their best. I know you're doing your best, right?"

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Miku laughed and pushed her heavy hair from her shoulders, "I think I am, I'm just not sure if my best right now is actually doing anything aside from stemming a tide of reports from drowning you."

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"And don't think that's not helpful!" Nanoha assured her with a slightly teasing smile.

"But... what would you like to be doing, Miku? If you had your choice and could do anything at all, what would you do?"