Title: Chance
Author: Supurrkitty
Disclaimer: Yadayada...don't own nothin'...yadayadayada...
Description: Okay, I've been doing a lot of AU's to go with my original character fanfics. Like, A Lovely Mess, for one, now this.
Another what if that has to do with my fascination with destiny:
What if Akira was not a Gundam pilot and never met any of the G-boys or Haruki? Well, for one thing, she cuts her hair and gets glasses (it makes her look much younger)! But if her destiny is with Quatre, how will she meet him.
A surprisingly brief first meeting, an even more surprising second meeting, an almost trip around the world, and a chance romance make for a cute multi-chapter fic. Enjoy!
Chapter one: Crossed paths
The sun beat down on her face as she brought the tip of the broom against the hard stone again. She stopped momentarily to wipe the sweat that beaded on her forehead off. For once, she was glad she had cut her hair. It was so hot in the traditional garb of her fathers shrine; all she needed was more hair to cover her neck. Black hair, especially.
Originally, she had cut it off on her second to last year of high school. She was depressed about some boy and a friend said that cutting off her hair would show her sorrow. Being a dramatic High school girl, she cut all of her hair off to just below her ear. It all seemed so silly to her now, she could have just spit on herself.
Two years later and it had only grown to above her shoulders. This time, it was strait instead of wavy. She missed her beautiful, down her back, wavy black hair that all the boys admired. Since then she also got glasses. She felt ridiculous; she looked like a little ditzy geek. But that didn't matter anymore. Only one thing mattered to her now...
Akira took her glasses off to wipe them, just to waste a little time.
" Akira! When you finish with that, come scrub the steps!" Akira heard her father shout from the top of the steps.
' Ugh! I already did that! I guess I must've missed a spot...damn! Now I have to do the whole freakin' thing over again! Oh well...'
" Yes, Father!" Akira shouted back and finished sweeping to get to the next job.
Akira sighed as she walked to the steps. She stopped at the sight of an envelope. Looking to her sides first, she picked it up and turned it around, it was addressed to her, but it had already been opened. Akira laughed at her father's weakness in her head as she took out a few pieces of paper, the first one of which she could only read the first few lines.
" 'Congratulations, you have been accepted to the Earth University of Technology...'!?" Akira squealed with joy as she gave a small hop and ran up the stairs, wrapping her arms around her waiting father.
" Oh, Daddy, did you...?" Akira started.
" Well, I wanted you to stay here and take over for me so badly, I know that's why you didn't send the form in. But, I saw it all filled out on your desk, and I figured if that's what you really want..." Her father hugged her.
" Thank you, father, thank you!" Akira cried.
" Um, could you call me daddy again? I feel so old when you call me father." Her daddy laughed.
" Okay, daddy."
Quatre sighed as he looked out the window at the passing trees. How did he get stuck with this job? Well, he was a preventer, but they should know he was a very busy man.
' Oh yeah,' Quatre thought, remembering ' Wufei got the job and passed it on to Duo who tricked Trowa into doing it, who made me feel guilty and take the job. How could I forget!?'
Quatre groaned as he thought of his task ahead, heading for the airport.
' So, I guess I'll just have to go to the University, pick up a few engineer scholars, convince them to work for Preventers and be on my way home, how bad can it be? Well, at least I convinced Une to make Duo assist me.'
To say the least, Quatre felt quite irritable that day.
" Sir, we're almost to the airport." The driver said.
" Great." Quatre murmured sarcastically to himself.
" Great." Akira murmured sarcastically, looking up at the flight board. " My damn flight is delayed, great, great, great...I guess I'll have to wait a bit..."
Akira looked around at the crowded building. Usually, she could adapt to any environment, but she felt really uncomfortable standing in the middle of a huge public place with people busily swarming around her. Especially since she had nothing to do and nowhere to go.
Akira slowly made her way over to a bench with her bags. She wasn't even sure what she was doing on this side of the planet. She heard something about switching flights for refueling or something, but she really didn't care, she just wanted to get to England to get settled into her dorm and start her classes.
Akira pushed up her glasses, disgusted. Even to herself, she sounded too much like she had no life out of education. Akira sighed, heavily, deciding that it was probably true. She'd most likely be stuck in books and clusters of wires and shiny buttons for the rest of her life.
Akira turned, suddenly, getting distracted by a souvenir store/coffee shop and postcard stands.
" Well, I might as well send something to my family. After all, how often do I get to hang out in L.A.?" Akira said to herself, smiling.
She set down her suitcases in front of the postcards to free her hands. She picked up a few postcards and looked at them.
" Hmm, I didn't know the Golden Gate Bridge used to look like THAT." Akira said, flipping the card to read the text. " Maybe I should get some nature pictures."
Akira stepped two feet away from her bags to look at some of the postcards of forests and desert.
" Wow, it's nothing like in Japan..." Akira thought aloud.
As she did, she felt someone run quickly, right behind her. Her hair swayed and tickled her neck making her shiver. She turned to find out what was going on, just in time to see a man running off with one of her bags.
" Hey!" without even thinking about her other bag, she took off after the man.
Quatre had just entered the airport with a couple of his bodyguards at his sides. (Frankly, I'd find that annoying, but that's me...) A guide that would take him to his private jet then greeted Quatre. As the odd cluster of beings pushed its way through the big crowd, a scream was heard from across the room. Quatre jerked his head in the direction to see what the noise was all about. All he could see in the huge crowd was a very angry woman yelling something very crude at someone. Quatre tried to fallow her line of site, but couldn't find the receiver of those horrible words. One of his guards asked him to please continue walking. Quatre shook his head and took a few steps forward before a man carrying a case ran into one of the guards, knocking him over. The man scurried up and grabbed the suit case, running off. Quatre went to help the other man up.
" Come back here you pillaging little bastard!" Quatre turned his head, just in time to see who was just about to run into him. It was a girl with above the shoulder, black hair, glasses over emerald green eyes and was wearing Dress pants and a dress shirt to match.
The girl tried to stop and swerve at the same time, but ended up bumping into Quatre's shoulder, then tripping over her own feet.
By that time, the other man had gotten up and asked if Quatre was okay. Quatre ignored him and tried to step forward to help the girl, but was stopped, by a terrible crunch.
The girl looked up in horror at the sound and Quatre noticed that her glasses had disappeared.
Suddenly, Quatre froze and got a sinking feeling in his lower stomach. What had he done? He suddenly felt like he was the worst person in the world. And that painful expression on the girls face didn't help any. Quatre stepped off of the glass and both him and the girl looked painfully down at the spectacles.
" Here you go ma'am, here's your bag." A police officer helped her up and handed her the bag.
" Thank you, sir. Thank you very much." The girl bowed to the man, smiling. Then, she took another pair of glasses out of the bag and slipped them on.
" Sorry for running into you." Akira bowed, not noticing the guards closely watching her.
She quickly walked off, feeling embarrassed.
" Wai- I...I'm...!" Quatre started, but it was too late. Quatre proceeded to fallow, but was stopped and strongly suggested otherwise. Quatre sighed as he looked in the direction the girl had disappeared in. Quatre knew he was a pushover, but he never knew anyone could make him feel like the evil of the universe.
Akira frowned to herself, feeling that she needed to cry. It was just not that good of a day, so far.
Once she had put on her glasses, she had realized how attractive and sweet looking the victim she bumped into was.
'Of course he was,' Akira thought ' He's Quatre R. Winner, heir to the Winner fortune. All the women dream of marrying him. Good looks and money are always attractive to them. Oh well, I bet he's just a stuck up snob...'
But still, she felt really bad for doing what she did, even though it was an accident. Never had she felt so embarrassed in her life.
Akira listened as they announced that her flight was ready for take-off.
" Good..." Akira sighed, walking quickly, wanting to get as far away from this place as she could." I don't like L.A...."
" I'm sorry sir, but you'll have to wait a while until you're flight can be fueled. We're a little behind schedule today. I hope this isn't too much of an inconvenience, Mr. Winner." The woman at the counter gave him a small, sympathetic, smile.
" No problem at all. Thank you." Quatre said, still distracted by the event earlier.
He needed to sit down for a while and recollect his thoughts.
" Let's go get some coffee while we wait." Quatre suggested and they headed over to the souvenir store/coffee shop to get some coffee, setting the luggage down by the postcards.
To be continued...
Wha-wha-WHAT!?!? That was sooo short, though!!!
~don't worry, that's why there's more than one chapter. This one's shorter than my others, anyways. Probably only about five chapters long.
Well, it better be good!
~You'll just have to read on and see.
Join Supurrkitty next time and find out how this all too brief meeting can turn into a relationship.
Next time:
" Alright, Duo, we'll see you later. I'll sign my little sis up to Preventers. Hey, maybe you and your partner can join me and Akira for lunch or something." Umeko said.
" I dunno, I have a feeling he wants to get this done and over with ASAP, but I'll talk to him." Duo waved. " I'll phone you later. I have to go meet him in the front office."
Akira bowed and smiled. " Bye Duo, and thank you for setting me up."
Author: Supurrkitty
Disclaimer: Yadayada...don't own nothin'...yadayadayada...
Description: Okay, I've been doing a lot of AU's to go with my original character fanfics. Like, A Lovely Mess, for one, now this.
Another what if that has to do with my fascination with destiny:
What if Akira was not a Gundam pilot and never met any of the G-boys or Haruki? Well, for one thing, she cuts her hair and gets glasses (it makes her look much younger)! But if her destiny is with Quatre, how will she meet him.
A surprisingly brief first meeting, an even more surprising second meeting, an almost trip around the world, and a chance romance make for a cute multi-chapter fic. Enjoy!
Chapter one: Crossed paths
The sun beat down on her face as she brought the tip of the broom against the hard stone again. She stopped momentarily to wipe the sweat that beaded on her forehead off. For once, she was glad she had cut her hair. It was so hot in the traditional garb of her fathers shrine; all she needed was more hair to cover her neck. Black hair, especially.
Originally, she had cut it off on her second to last year of high school. She was depressed about some boy and a friend said that cutting off her hair would show her sorrow. Being a dramatic High school girl, she cut all of her hair off to just below her ear. It all seemed so silly to her now, she could have just spit on herself.
Two years later and it had only grown to above her shoulders. This time, it was strait instead of wavy. She missed her beautiful, down her back, wavy black hair that all the boys admired. Since then she also got glasses. She felt ridiculous; she looked like a little ditzy geek. But that didn't matter anymore. Only one thing mattered to her now...
Akira took her glasses off to wipe them, just to waste a little time.
" Akira! When you finish with that, come scrub the steps!" Akira heard her father shout from the top of the steps.
' Ugh! I already did that! I guess I must've missed a spot...damn! Now I have to do the whole freakin' thing over again! Oh well...'
" Yes, Father!" Akira shouted back and finished sweeping to get to the next job.
Akira sighed as she walked to the steps. She stopped at the sight of an envelope. Looking to her sides first, she picked it up and turned it around, it was addressed to her, but it had already been opened. Akira laughed at her father's weakness in her head as she took out a few pieces of paper, the first one of which she could only read the first few lines.
" 'Congratulations, you have been accepted to the Earth University of Technology...'!?" Akira squealed with joy as she gave a small hop and ran up the stairs, wrapping her arms around her waiting father.
" Oh, Daddy, did you...?" Akira started.
" Well, I wanted you to stay here and take over for me so badly, I know that's why you didn't send the form in. But, I saw it all filled out on your desk, and I figured if that's what you really want..." Her father hugged her.
" Thank you, father, thank you!" Akira cried.
" Um, could you call me daddy again? I feel so old when you call me father." Her daddy laughed.
" Okay, daddy."
Quatre sighed as he looked out the window at the passing trees. How did he get stuck with this job? Well, he was a preventer, but they should know he was a very busy man.
' Oh yeah,' Quatre thought, remembering ' Wufei got the job and passed it on to Duo who tricked Trowa into doing it, who made me feel guilty and take the job. How could I forget!?'
Quatre groaned as he thought of his task ahead, heading for the airport.
' So, I guess I'll just have to go to the University, pick up a few engineer scholars, convince them to work for Preventers and be on my way home, how bad can it be? Well, at least I convinced Une to make Duo assist me.'
To say the least, Quatre felt quite irritable that day.
" Sir, we're almost to the airport." The driver said.
" Great." Quatre murmured sarcastically to himself.
" Great." Akira murmured sarcastically, looking up at the flight board. " My damn flight is delayed, great, great, great...I guess I'll have to wait a bit..."
Akira looked around at the crowded building. Usually, she could adapt to any environment, but she felt really uncomfortable standing in the middle of a huge public place with people busily swarming around her. Especially since she had nothing to do and nowhere to go.
Akira slowly made her way over to a bench with her bags. She wasn't even sure what she was doing on this side of the planet. She heard something about switching flights for refueling or something, but she really didn't care, she just wanted to get to England to get settled into her dorm and start her classes.
Akira pushed up her glasses, disgusted. Even to herself, she sounded too much like she had no life out of education. Akira sighed, heavily, deciding that it was probably true. She'd most likely be stuck in books and clusters of wires and shiny buttons for the rest of her life.
Akira turned, suddenly, getting distracted by a souvenir store/coffee shop and postcard stands.
" Well, I might as well send something to my family. After all, how often do I get to hang out in L.A.?" Akira said to herself, smiling.
She set down her suitcases in front of the postcards to free her hands. She picked up a few postcards and looked at them.
" Hmm, I didn't know the Golden Gate Bridge used to look like THAT." Akira said, flipping the card to read the text. " Maybe I should get some nature pictures."
Akira stepped two feet away from her bags to look at some of the postcards of forests and desert.
" Wow, it's nothing like in Japan..." Akira thought aloud.
As she did, she felt someone run quickly, right behind her. Her hair swayed and tickled her neck making her shiver. She turned to find out what was going on, just in time to see a man running off with one of her bags.
" Hey!" without even thinking about her other bag, she took off after the man.
Quatre had just entered the airport with a couple of his bodyguards at his sides. (Frankly, I'd find that annoying, but that's me...) A guide that would take him to his private jet then greeted Quatre. As the odd cluster of beings pushed its way through the big crowd, a scream was heard from across the room. Quatre jerked his head in the direction to see what the noise was all about. All he could see in the huge crowd was a very angry woman yelling something very crude at someone. Quatre tried to fallow her line of site, but couldn't find the receiver of those horrible words. One of his guards asked him to please continue walking. Quatre shook his head and took a few steps forward before a man carrying a case ran into one of the guards, knocking him over. The man scurried up and grabbed the suit case, running off. Quatre went to help the other man up.
" Come back here you pillaging little bastard!" Quatre turned his head, just in time to see who was just about to run into him. It was a girl with above the shoulder, black hair, glasses over emerald green eyes and was wearing Dress pants and a dress shirt to match.
The girl tried to stop and swerve at the same time, but ended up bumping into Quatre's shoulder, then tripping over her own feet.
By that time, the other man had gotten up and asked if Quatre was okay. Quatre ignored him and tried to step forward to help the girl, but was stopped, by a terrible crunch.
The girl looked up in horror at the sound and Quatre noticed that her glasses had disappeared.
Suddenly, Quatre froze and got a sinking feeling in his lower stomach. What had he done? He suddenly felt like he was the worst person in the world. And that painful expression on the girls face didn't help any. Quatre stepped off of the glass and both him and the girl looked painfully down at the spectacles.
" Here you go ma'am, here's your bag." A police officer helped her up and handed her the bag.
" Thank you, sir. Thank you very much." The girl bowed to the man, smiling. Then, she took another pair of glasses out of the bag and slipped them on.
" Sorry for running into you." Akira bowed, not noticing the guards closely watching her.
She quickly walked off, feeling embarrassed.
" Wai- I...I'm...!" Quatre started, but it was too late. Quatre proceeded to fallow, but was stopped and strongly suggested otherwise. Quatre sighed as he looked in the direction the girl had disappeared in. Quatre knew he was a pushover, but he never knew anyone could make him feel like the evil of the universe.
Akira frowned to herself, feeling that she needed to cry. It was just not that good of a day, so far.
Once she had put on her glasses, she had realized how attractive and sweet looking the victim she bumped into was.
'Of course he was,' Akira thought ' He's Quatre R. Winner, heir to the Winner fortune. All the women dream of marrying him. Good looks and money are always attractive to them. Oh well, I bet he's just a stuck up snob...'
But still, she felt really bad for doing what she did, even though it was an accident. Never had she felt so embarrassed in her life.
Akira listened as they announced that her flight was ready for take-off.
" Good..." Akira sighed, walking quickly, wanting to get as far away from this place as she could." I don't like L.A...."
" I'm sorry sir, but you'll have to wait a while until you're flight can be fueled. We're a little behind schedule today. I hope this isn't too much of an inconvenience, Mr. Winner." The woman at the counter gave him a small, sympathetic, smile.
" No problem at all. Thank you." Quatre said, still distracted by the event earlier.
He needed to sit down for a while and recollect his thoughts.
" Let's go get some coffee while we wait." Quatre suggested and they headed over to the souvenir store/coffee shop to get some coffee, setting the luggage down by the postcards.
To be continued...
Wha-wha-WHAT!?!? That was sooo short, though!!!
~don't worry, that's why there's more than one chapter. This one's shorter than my others, anyways. Probably only about five chapters long.
Well, it better be good!
~You'll just have to read on and see.
Join Supurrkitty next time and find out how this all too brief meeting can turn into a relationship.
Next time:
" Alright, Duo, we'll see you later. I'll sign my little sis up to Preventers. Hey, maybe you and your partner can join me and Akira for lunch or something." Umeko said.
" I dunno, I have a feeling he wants to get this done and over with ASAP, but I'll talk to him." Duo waved. " I'll phone you later. I have to go meet him in the front office."
Akira bowed and smiled. " Bye Duo, and thank you for setting me up."