A/N: GLOMP Hey everyone! Some of you may remember me as Cherry360. Let's just say..I changed my penname ; Anyway I've deleted all my other stories because well..I didn't like them very much...sorry about that. NOW! I have a new an improved story! I'm working on this one with 2 of my best friends! Ichigo and Chie :3

Aki-chan: Uwah I finally posted a chapter! Chie: Hey! Why aren't I in this chapter?
Ichigo: Don't worry! You show up soon!
Chie: ...OKAY!
Aki-chan: Well enjoy the first chapter of Gundam Seed: Project Angel chapter 1!
Ichigo: We do not own Gundam Seed it belongs to it's respectful owners. We just own or OC's and the plot XP

Chapter 1: When the Past Returns

"The year is Cosmic Era 70. The date is January 24th. Time, 15 hundred hours. Location, L2 nearing L3. We will arrive at the intended destination within 6 hours."

The older soldier turned to face his audience of two. Both were young teenage girls, both blond, both with similar builds and facial structures. The one on his left was awake, sky blue eyes sharp and alert recording his every movement. Her companion was half asleep, nodding off and on as her brain saw fit. Oh well, she'd be informed later.

"Your mission is to steal the mobile suits the Earth Alliance has been secretly developing. You are to remove 2 to secure the others until help arrives. Understood?"

"Yes sir! Eh?" the blue eyed girl turned to her companion and shook her awake, "Onee-chan…Onee-chan…"

"-nee-chan….Onee-chan….Onee-chan!"

Akira Rie rolled over vaguely aware that she was lying in a soft bed and the sunlight was peeking through the curtains, "Hnn…"

"Onee-chan! You're gunna!" Sakura Rie sighed as there was a loud thud, "Fall off the bed….c'mon…" Sakura muttered as she pulled her sister up off the floor, "Remember the mission! We're going out into Heliopolis today!"

Akira rubbed her sleepy eyes as she thought…that's right….her dream…those were their orders…they arrived at Heliopolis last night….

"Can't this wa-wa-waitttt till tomorrow?" Akira asked through a yawn.

"No. It can't. C'mon. Commander-sama said if we're not careful ZAFT or the EA will leave with the gundams. We have to do our best today Onee-chan! Today! Today ! Not tomorrow!"

Sakura marched over to her suitcase and pulled out some clothes and stuffed them in her sister's hands and shoved her into the bathroom to take a shower, "Hurry up!"

Akira sighed as the door slammed shut behind her and she began to comply with her sister's wish.

Sakura smiled as she heard the shower turn on. That done she gave herself a final go over in the mirror making sure she looked as good as she could. A yellow t-shirt under a green and white tank top with a green bow on the front and a pair of khaki colored shorts that she had rolled up a bit so they were shorter. Sakura tilted her head to the side as she observed herself critically. Should she wear a spaghetti strapped tank top over the t-shirt instead…? No…no it was fine...and with that decided Sakura took a blue ribbon, which was a very special gift from her friend Kira from Copernicus and began to tie her long waist length blond hair up in a ponytail, singing softly as she did so, "My love my love, please hold me…tightly…lalalalala.."

Securing her ponytail with the ribbon tightly Sakura made her way over to the bathroom door to check on her purple eyed and somehow purple tipped twin, "Ready?"

Slowly the bathroom door swung inwards and out stepped a very displeased Akira dressed in a white and purple t-shirt and a purple skirt, "WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU GIVE ME A SKIRT?"

Sakura smiled sweetly, innocently clapping her hands together, "Because Onee-chan looks so much cuter then her little sister! And cute girls wear skirts!"

"But-But!" Akira sputtered.

Sensing the resistance Sakura's happy smile slid off her face and she sadly padded over to their suitcases and pulled out a pair of jeans, "Here…even if I'm not the cutest…"

A muscle in Akira's cheek twitched, that face….why does Sakura have to make that adorably sad face. You'd have to be heartless not to give in to it or at least be affected by it, "Ugh…fine….I'll wear the skirt…"

Sakura instantly perked up getting more and excited as the seconds passed, "Really? Really!?"

When Akira nodded twice Sakura gave a cheerful cheer and ran across the room and hugged her sister, "Yay! Onee-chan! I love yo-!" she wished to say more but was forced to stop when a spasm of coughs suddenly overcame her, "S-sorry…"

Akira's eyes softened. Sakura was still ill…she shouldn't even be out here on this mission…but…Koboyashi word is law…

"Don't push yourself ok Sacchan?" The older sister patted the younger's head, "C'mon, let's go outside."

Sakura looked up at her sister, her bright smile having returned with the prospect of exploring outside. Even if it was in a space colony she rarely got to go outside so this was a treat for her, "Kay! We're supposed to get a tour with some university students! They work for Moegenroete the people who made the gundams! But Mum's the word ok?"

Akira nodded imitation her sister by putting her finger to her lips, "Got it!"

Darting quickly over to her backpack on the bed Sakura swung it over her shoulders before dragging Akira over to put their shoes on, once that was done Akira was pulled out the front door. The mission had begun. If all goes well they'd be done and out before ZAFT or the EA knew what hit them.

But things rarely go as planned don't they?

It was appearing that today would be another normal day for the colony of Heliopolis. The sky was blue as it should be. Inside the park students walked around talking, mingling to and from their classes, some kids played soccer while some just enjoyed the playground or the sunshine.

A young student, a brunette named Kira Yamato, was seated underneath the cool shade of a wooden pagoda as he worked away typing with one hand something furiously on the laptop seated on his lap, his eyes barely ever leaving the sheaf of papers in his other hand. He was thoroughly absorbed in his work; he probably had long drowned out the sound of the news reports playing in the background of the screen of his computer. He didn't even look up when his green and yellow mechanical bird perched itself on top of the laptop screen and cheerfully chirped its name.

Only when his name was called by a friend did Kira's amethyst eyes look up.

"So here you are! Professor Kato was looking for you."

"Again?" Kira asked his friends Tolle and Miriallia in disbelief.

"He said to drag you over once we find you…" Miriallia said, "What is it now? Does he need your help again with something again?"

"Damn." Kira couldn't help but be annoyed as he placed his laptop onto the table beside him. All this personal attention was starting to be a real pain, "I haven't even completed the one he passed me yesterday…" with a quick glance at the offending project in his hand Kira slumped back again the railings looking like he wished he could take a long nap.

As Kira slumped against the railing his laptop was playing back the sound of a man's voice saying, "Hurry! Hurry! Run!" It seemed the news had resumed.

"Something on the news?" Tolle asked as he made his way over to Kira and his laptop.

"Yeah, about Kaoshiung…" Kira confirmed as he leaned forward and enlarged the window so the news report took up the entire screen.

On screen there was a man speaking into a headset, obviously the reporter. Behind him were buildings and what appeared to be some mobile suits. Perhaps GINNs? It was really too far away to tell clearly without knowing exactly what you were looking for.

"This is Kaoshiung," the reporter reported to the viewers and to his colleagues, "from the view of unit 7 the sounds of the battle are still raging on…"

"Ehhh?" Tolle cried as he watched the scenes unfold on the screen, "If this is from last week Kaoshiung has probably already fallen..."

"Hm." Kira said in noncommittal as he touched the screen of the laptop and it retreated obediently into its proper slot.

"Isn't Kaoshiung pretty close to us? Will we be alright?" Miriallia asked this time.

"You shouldn't worry about that," Tolle reassured her, "Even though they're close by we're a neutral colony. There's no way that Orb would get involved in the war."

"Really?" Miriallia asked, "If that's the case it's ok-"

Whatever else Miriallia and Tolle were discussing were lost to Kira as he fazed out of reality as he watched his pet Torii take to the skies. All this talk about the war…Kaoshiung…and even watching Torii reminded him of his past.

Kaoshiung was not only close to Orb, but to Japan. The place his old friends Sakura and Akira supposedly lived. Were they alright? Was Athrun alright?

Kira's amethyst eyes followed Torii's progress. Athrun made Torii for him, Kira wished Sakura could see Torii…she loved birds so much. What was she doing now…?

"Um…excuse me..."

Kira's eyes refocused as he heard the voice. It was a bit unfamiliar to him. Soft and quiet with a sweet quality….who was this person?

Once Kira's eyes and mind were firmly zeroed in on the present Kira found himself nose to nose with the owner of a pair of bright blue eyes much like the ones he was trying to remember….only…these were upside down.

"AAH…!" Kira cried as he scuttled into the corner away from the eyes.

The owner righted herself by pushing off against the railing she was leaning over, her long blond ponytail falling swiftly back into place as she held a hand in front of her face apologetically, "I'm sorry, so sorry, it always worked for Onee-chan…"

"They're the new potential students the professor wanted us to show around," Tolle offered as way of an explanation as he nodded at the two twins, "Remember?"

The girl with the longer hair bowed, "My name's Sakura Rie," she greeted before straightening up and looking at Kira, "Please to meet you…um…"

Kira quickly regained his posture ignoring the slight twinge in his heart at the familiar name, "Kira. Kira Yamato."

"That's mean Onee-chan." Sakura chided her older sister as she giggled as Kira's lack of coordination at the present time. When the giggling didn't subside Sakura stomped on her sister's foot and that promptly solved the problem.

Sakura then turned back to Kira smiling sweetly inadvertently causing Kira's heart to twinge again slightly, "Anyway, it's nice to meet you Kira-sama. Please treat me kindly."

Kira nodded slowly, "Sure…"

"Eh? Are you okay?" Sakura asked.

Kira nodded in response and that seemed to satisfy Sakura. Kira couldn't help but wonder though….why did his heart twinge just now? He liked Flay Allster didn't he? But if he did…why was his heart aching like it did around Sakura-chan…his childhood friend? He liked her too…

"Oh, this is my big sister Akira Rie," Sakura said as she turned to introduce her sister but only to discover that her sister was no where to be seen, "Huh? Um…at least she was here…"

Looking around wondering where her sister could've gone she spotted her playing soccer with some younger kids. She forgot about the mission already!

"Ahh! Later! We'll play soccer later!" Sakura cried as she ran over.

"They seem pretty different," Tolle observed, "Hard to believe they're twins ne?"

"Yep," Miriallia agreed, "But…which one is older."

"Well the one with the ponytail kept calling the other "Onee-chan."

"Ahh…well…we might as well go introduce ourselves." Miriallia reasoned as she walked over to the twins, "Hi, I'm Miriallia Haww!"

Sakura turned to look at her and jumped a bit having completely forgotten that their tour guides were nearby, "Eh? Oh! Hello!" she greeted with a bow, "Oi. Don't run away again!"

Akira pouted as Sakura grabbed a fistful of her shirt to prevent her from joining back into the game, "Fine fine."

With a smile Sakura shoved Akira between her and Miriallia being sure to still hold tightly onto her sister's shirt, "This is Onee-chan! She's the one with a lot of energy and is really cute! Hey, introduce yourself Onee-chan!"

Akira tried not to roll her eyes at the "cute" part. As nice as Sakura was her inferiority complex could get annoying at times…if they're twins and Akira's cute then Sakura would be as well. Even Akira could grasp that logic.

"Hello desu, my name is Akira Rie, nice to meet you Miriallia-san." Akira greeted with a smile with Miriallia returned.

"Nice to meet you too."

Sakura looked around her sister and up at her as though she was almost alien like all of a sudden, "Ehhh? You said 'desu'…" deciding it was nothing to worry about Sakura shook it off and glanced casually at her watch and noted the time, "Well, shouldn't we get going? It's bad to be late the first day isn't it?"

"Hai! We'll show you the way." Miriallia offered as Kira rose from his seat and he and Tolle made their way over.

Sakura bowed with a smile, "Thank you very much Miriallia-sama!"

After a bit of walking the small group managed to make its way into the center of town. Finally they reached their temporary destination. They had arrived at one of the places where you could receive public transport through Heliopolis. The public transport seemed to be automated cars that drove you to your destination. Unfortunately, Akira didn't seem to grasp the concept that the cars drove themselves regardless of how much you wanted to drive.

"W-wait up for a second!" Sakura cried as she grabbed the back of Akira's shirt digging her heels into he ground in an attempt to stop her sister from running off for the 6th time today. No luck, Akira seemed determined to get to those cars and if Sakura was gunna get dragged along with her so be it.

"Calm down Onee-CHANNN!" Sakura cried as she tripped as Akira finally broke free of her sister grip and darted off leaving Sakura to face plant into the hard pavement, but she was up in a matter of seconds chasing after her sister despite feeling as though her nose was broken, "Onee-chan! Get back here!"

"I'm getting the feeling I'm watching a comedy on TV with these two…" Tolle said as he watched Sakura drag a kicking and screaming Akira out of a car some other people had already started to enter.

Miriallia just giggled, "I think it's cute."

Tolle raised an eyebrow, "Ehhhh? What are you talking about…? How can one running off and the other running after be anything but comical…?"

"It's a girl thing." Miriallia replied simply.

"Girl's sure are weird-OW!"

Miriallia just hmphed and continued to drag Tolle by his ear. Apparently this was punishment.

"It's not like that!"

"You're lying!"

"Come on, 'fess up!"

"Like I said…"

"Ahh?" Kira cried suddenly when he saw who it was. Flay Allster, and her friends!

"Who what where what how?" Sakura cried looking around frantically at Kira's scream.

Flay giggled and turned to look at them, "Oh, Miriallia?"

"Hi!" Miriallia greeted releasing Tolle's ear from her grip.

Flay's friend with the short black hair suddenly glomped the one with the longer brown hair in pigtails, "Hey, Miriallia, you should know right?"

"What?" Miriallia asked.

Flay shook her fist a bit at her friends fed up with this, "Stop it already!"

No luck, her friends continued, "She got a letter from Sai Argyle!"

Kira was surprised and turned to look at Flay, whom appeared to be troubled.

"But she won't tell us anything!" The same girl continued.

Having enough Flay chased them away threatening to hit them, "You two, that's enough!"

Suddenly there attention was diverted to a women and two men whom were standing behind them when the women cleared her throat.

"If you aren't going to get on," she began, "May we go first?"

"Sorry, please do." Tolle said as he and Kira made room for the adults to go through.

As everyone watched the adults leave Flay's friends continued to look expectantly at Flay and were surprised when she screamed "Oh forget it! I'm leaving!" and stormed off to get a car.

"Wait!"

"Wait for us!"

And with that Flay and her two friends got into a car and soon they were gone.

"A letter from Sai Argyle…"

"Eh?" Kira asked as he turned to look at Tolle.

"How surprising for Flay Allster," Tolle continued as he put his hands on Kira's shoulders, "That sounds like a formidable enemy Kira Yamato-kun."

And with that he and a giggling Miriallia went off to get a car while a protesting Kira followed them.

"Eh? An unrequited love?" Sakura asked herself quietly as she finally let go of her sister's t-shirt which she had held onto while watching the scenes unfold. When Akira just gave her a look to say she wasn't sure Sakura shrugged and hurried to catch up to Kira and his friends so they didn't get left behind.

After a fairly pleasant car ride, if you don't count Tolle insisting on telling Flay for Kira that he likes her, they finally arrived at Moegenroete. Kira leaned out of the driver's seat and swiped his card and the metal gate slowly sunk into the ground and they were all admitted inside.

As Sakura looked around not quiet believing that there were military weapons near by she noticed Akira's less then polite glare at the back of Kira's head for taking the driver's seat even if there was no steering wheel.

"Onee-chan…stop it…"

Akira just hmphed and crossed her arms not complying even a bit causing Sakura to sigh and then, much to her disappointment she coughed rather loudly and began embarrassingly digging through her bag for her medicine.

"You okay?" Miriallia asked.

"Oh? Yeah," Sakura reassured her as she swallowed a couple of the pills she had taken out of her bag, "I've always had a weak body so I get sick easily. I'll be ok though, I'm just not use to the air here."

"I see…" Miriallia replied.

"Don't worry about me!" Sakura insisted as she shoved Tolle and Miriallia out of the car, "Hurry! Hurry up! If you're late it's our entire
fault!"

"Hello?" Sakura asked shyly as they entered the seemingly empty lab.

"Hello!" Tolle called out.

"Ahh! Onee-chan!" Sakura cried out suddenly as she raced after her sister and began chasing her around the room frantically, "Don't touch anything!"

"I want to push the pretty buttons!" Akira cried.

"Ah, you're finally here Kira-"Sai began as he came out of a side room but he stopped once he noticed the twins running around, "What's going on?"

"If you push buttons you make things explode!" Sakura insisted as she held her sister back by the waist bending backwards a bit to try and get her even further away from the control panel, "Remember what happened last week? With the TV?"

Looking around the room Tolle noticed a person with blond hair and a hat leaning against the wall and walked over to another friend Kuzzey, "Who's that?" Tolle asked whispering.

"Ah, the professor's guest." was the reply.

"Where's the professor?" asked Kira this time. However no one had the chance to respond as Akira's constant fidgeting against her grip caused Sakura to fall over onto her back Akira on top of her.

"Who are they again?" Sai asked.

"New students apparently…"Tolle said.

"Lively bunch aren't they?" added Miriallia.

"Definitely," Tolle agreed, "They're a bit odd. Where are they from again?"

"Japan!" Sakura shouted from her spot on the floor underneath Akira. Judging from the sound of her muffled voice she was being a bit crushed under her elder sister's weight.

"Ahh…" Tolle said with the air of someone wanting to say "That explains everything."

Suddenly Akira was on her feet with the air of someone getting ready to fight, "Is there a problem with that?"

"A-Ah! No!" Tolle cried hastily waving his hands. Last thing he needed was a fight with the new girl.

"Anyway," Sai said as he pulled a disk out of his pocket and handed it to Kira, "I've been keeping this for you. An appendix I think."

"Ahhh." Kira said in a non-commentary voice as he took the disk.

"What is it? It's probably the work on Moegenroete."

At Sai's words Sakura perked up and scuttle off the floor and over to Kira and peered at the disk over his shoulder. If it had to do with Moegenroete it might have to do with the gundams, "Um….program analysis….right?"

Kira nodded as he played around with the disk a bit not noticing Sakura's blue eyes following the disks progress back-and-forth between his hands, "Not interested."

Sakura giggled mischievously. If HE didn't want it...

"If you don't want to do it I will for ya!" Sakura said as she snatched the disk out of the air over Kira's shoulder.

Seizing the opportunity since Kira was startled Tolle quickly seized Kira in a headlock, "Let's hear about that letter first!"

"Letter?" Sai asked.

"It's nothing!" Kira insisted.

"As if!" Tolle said as he squeezed him tighter.

"Ahh! You're gunna choke him!" Sakura cried dropping the disk in surprise hands cupping her cheeks.

"It's nothing, nothing!" Kira insisted again both to Sai and Sakura.

"Calm down. He's fine." Akira assured her sister.

"U-Um! But! But!" Sakura cried worriedly as she looked between her sister and Kira.

"I'm fine, I'm fine!" Kira reassured the younger Rie as he waved his hand around.

"You sure?" Sakura looked back at him a bit teary eyed from worry, her fisted hands bunched under her chin.

Kira nodded and smiled before he was pulled back tighter into the headlock by Tolle.

"Oii, I think the new girl has a crush on you Kira!" Tolle cried as he gave Kira a nuggie to go along with the headlock.

"EHHH?" Sakura cried turning bright red looking around for an excuse while waving her arms, "N-No! No! It's…It's not like that!"

Unable to find a suitable excuse for why it wasn't like that Sakura gave a wail of embarrassment and hid behind her older sister. Sensing her embarrassment Kira elbowed Tolle a bit as he turned pink a bit from Tolle's statement.

"Quit it! You're embarrassing her!"

"Aw come on!" Tolle pouted a bit at Kira's order, "It's either we find out about that letter or we get a confession out of the new girl!"

"What's this letter about Tolle? Just tell me already." Sai said.

"Stop it already!" Miriallia spoke up finally fed up.

"Stop it! You're choking me!"

"It won't go that way…"

Peeking over Akira's shoulders a blushing Sakura meekly tugged on her sister's sleeve as she whispered hurriedly, "Aki, can't you help Kira-sama? If we don't stop this we'll never get into Moegenroete before they load up the gundams!" and after taking a look at the struggling Kira she lowered her voice even more and added even more meekly, "Pretty please?"

Akira nodded deciding not to point out how much brighter Sakura's face got after looking at Kira. Sneaking over quietly until she was behind Tolle Akira's hands quickly snapped out from her sides and began to nimbly tickle Tolle's sides, whom jumped away letting go of Kira out of surprise.

"Oi…that was a cheap trick…" Tolle said as he rubbed his sides where Akira had tickled him, frowning a bit more when both the twins just gave him identical V for victory signs with their index and middle fingers.

After that incident, the letter was dropped and they began to do their work and such. Sakura and Akira felt right at home for the most part. They almost forgot about the mission until Heliopolis suddenly began to shake.

"E-Earthquake?" Sakura asked as she grabbed onto the table beside Kira.

"Metiorites?" Sai said at the same time which confused Sakura for a moment. Why would he say meteorites…? Then suddenly she had to resist the urge to slap her forehead.

'We're in space! DUH!' she thought as she grabbed tightly onto the fallen Akira's arm and pulled her up onto their feet as they began to follow everyone outside to the elevators.

"Onee-chan…I'm scared…" Sakura whispered as the lights began to flicker and the building shook.

Pushing open a door Sai called out to the men evacuating via the stairs, "What's happening?"

"Who knows?" said one man as he hurried on.

The second man was more willing to offer helpful information, "We're being attacked by ZAFT! Mobile suits have entered the colony! You guys should hurry too!"

Sakura's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates, 'We don't have much time! It's already started! If we don't…'Sakura shook her head to rid it of that rather unsettling thought and began pushing through the crowd of students and down the same hallway as the nameless blond headed down only moments before.

Spotting the twins hurry down the hallway the guest of the professor not far ahead of them Kira hurriedly darted after them, "You guys! Wait!"

"Kira!" Tolle called urgently from the door.

"I'll be right back!" Kira assured him before tearing after the three blonds.

Finally catching up to them in a deserted hallway Kira grabbed onto the arm of the professor's guest to stop him and began speaking to all of them, "What are you doing? They told us to go there!"

"Why did you follow me?" the blond asked angrily, "You should hurry and leave!"

Suddenly a blast occurred in the connecting hallway and the wind it caused blew down the hallway they all stood in knocking the hat off the boy and well…revealing very feminine looking hair. He was actually a she…

"Onna…?" Kira asked surprised.

The boy…erm…girl…narrowed her eyes at him, "What did you think I was until now?"

"No! Well…" Kira began but stopped as the connecting hallway rumbled a bit from another explosion not to far off.

"Forget it!" the girl insisted turning to continue on, "Just go! I have something I must confirm!"

"Go where?" Kira asked, "I can't go back anymore!"

And sure enough the connecting hallway was now blocked with ruble and debris. It was easier to continue forward now. But this fact didn't stop the girl from glaring at the brunette, who began hurriedly looking around for a direction to take off in,

"Err…this way!" he decided as he grabbed onto the blond and Sakura's wrist and pulled them along.

"Let me go you idiot!"

"Kira-sama…"

"If it comes to this, I…"

"It'll be alright," Kira reassured the nameless blond, "We'll be saved."

Once she caught up with the other three Akira took Sakura's wrist away from Kira and hoisted her onto her back in order to carry her piggyback the rest of the way sensing Sakura's health was about to give in and cause problems.

"Thanks Onee-chan." Sakura said gratefully as she took in deep raged breaths to try and slow down her still accelerating heartbeat.

"Your welcome." Akira said as she hurried her pace so it matched Kira's perfectly.

"If we go to the factory there should be a shelter…" Kira told the twins once they caught up.

Akira nodded, "Got it."

Sakura, on the other hand was a bit more apprehensive, 'Should…?'

Once they exited the long hallway they found themselves on top of a catwalk that overlooked a large, grey colored machine that resembled a human in design.

Sakura gasped, "That's…!"

"A gundam…" Akira finished

Instead of being afraid still Sakura actually grew hopeful at the sight of the gundam, 'This is it…if we take it…they'll be ok! Our friends! Kira-chan! Athrun-kun! They'll be ok!'

Beside them the blond girl fell to her knees gripping tightly onto the top railing of the catwalk, "Just as I thought…the Earthy army's new mobile weapons….Father you traitor!"

If there was only one thing that would've alerted the battling soldiers down below that they were there other then the blond's reverberating words would've been if they yelled hello down to them. As they were quickly targeted and shot at Kira grabbed the blond's hand and pulled her further down the catwalk, the twins quickly following after dodging the bullets.

"It's no use crying!" Kira yelled, "Just run!"

Running through the factory they soon approached a shelter and Sakura's eyes widened in panic, 'No…if there's enough room…'

Akira was thinking along the same lines, she had to figure a way to make sure they weren't taken into the shelter…somehow…

"See, there are people taking shelter here too." Kira managed to utter between pants from the sprint as he pushed the intercom button beside the door.

A voice crackled through the intercom, "Is there someone out there?" it asked.

"Yes, friends and I…" Kira panted, "Please open the door!"

The voice was silent for a moment before it spoke again hesitantly, "How many?"

"Four."

The voice was silent before it spoke up again, "We're already full…Shelter 37 is in the left block…can you get there?"

Looking across the expanse of the factory then back behind him at the three girls Kira decided that some of them would have to make it into the shelter. He and Akira could probably make it across to the other side. Sakura definitely wouldn't make the sprint and there was the possibility the third girl could start screaming again.

Making up his mind Kira turned his attention back to the intercom, "At least take some of us! They're girls!"

There was a pregnant pause before the man's voice crackled through, "We can only take 2 maximum…"

Before Kira could tell Sakura and the nameless girl to get inside Akira had already shoved the previously mentioned nameless girl into the now open hatch and pressed the button shutting the door with a quick wink and a "Bye-bye."

Surprised Kira blinked slowly before deciding this really wasn't the time to wonder what just happened, "Okay then…hurry this way!"

As they ran down across the catwalk towards the other end of the factory Sakura's eyes trailed down to the floor far belong them where bullets were flying in all directions.

"Hamada, Bryan, activate them! Hurry!" a brunette in an orange suit called to her fellow workers as she sprayed more bullets from her gun towards the enemy unaware that she was in the crosshair of one of her targets.

"Look out!"

"Behind you!"

Thanks to their warning the women was able to avoid being shot, "Those children just now…why…come down here!"

"It's okay!" Kira called down to her, "We're headed for the left block!"

"The only thing left is the door!" the women replied, "Come here!" she insisted as a blast tore threw a hallway near the three teens causing Sakura to scream in terror.

Exchanging glances, Kira and Akira made a simultaneous split second decision and together with Sakura clinging tightly onto Akira's back they leapt over the railing of the catwalk towards the floor and the gundam. Despite making the same decision their landings were a bit different, Kira landed and stumbled falling over while Akira landed lightly and gracefully on her feet.

"You okay Sacchan?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Sakura replied to her sister.

"Rusty!" a young male voice cried as another person in a red and white pilot suit was shot down and in reciprocation shot one of the living workers and when the brunette woman cried the name of the worker in surprise the remaining boy shot her in the shoulder as well surprising Kira whom ran over to help the women, Akira watching curiously and Sakura covering her eyes as the boy in the red and white suit abandoned his gun for a knife and darted over.

Suddenly the boy and Kira's eyes met, "Athrun?"

Surprised the boy stopped his face becoming visible, "Kira?"

"Ehh?" Akira muttered before ducking lower when a blast erupts near by.

Taking advantage of the boy now identified as Athrun became distracted the older women squeezed the trigger of her riffle firing at him but Athrun quickly dodged and headed towards the other mobile suit in the hanger….Akira surprisingly setting down an equally surprised Sakura and darting after him.

"Onee-chan? Onee-chan!" Sakura scrambled onto her feet and stumbled after her sister but became unbalanced and fell back onto the gundam.

"Sakura!" quickly Kira scooped up the girl in his arms and darted inside the cockpit of the mobile suit just as the hatch closed shut.

Outside as Akira chased after Athrun she couldn't help but wonder, 'Why am I doing this again?'

"Get behind the seat." the woman ordered Kira and Sakura and the two hastily obeyed.

Catching Kira's distant gaze Sakura asked carefully, "Are...you...okay…?"

Kira turned to look at her, "Ya…gundam…" he noted looking at the screen

Sakura's eyes became downcast, 'As I thought…'

And as the woman set the gundam on its feet, as Sakura clung tightly onto Kira's arm afraid of falling over she couldn't help but note the irony. She always wished she would meet Kira again and here she is, with a boy named Kira Yamato whom is most likely the same one from her past, and she's wishing that he wasn't.

When the past returns, things become a lot more difficult and a lot more complicated and things really never do according to plan.

PS: Most of these have been edited out recently. But we'll keep them there for those of you who are curious and wanna know a few random words

Onee-chan: Big sister

Iie: No

Hayaku: Hurry

Hontou? Hontou ni: Really? Really?

Yatta: Yay

Daisuki dai yo: I love you

G-gomen: S-Sorry

Hai: Yes/Yep/Ok etc

Anou…sumimasen: Umm…excuse me

Anou: Umm

-sama: a suffix added to someone's name to show great respect

Daijoubu desu ka: Are you alright (polite form)

Demo: But

Konnichiwa: Hello (used in the afternoon to evening)

-san: the most common suffix added to someone's used like Mr/Mrs/Miss

desu: added to a phrase to make it more polite

Domo arigatou gozaimasu: Thank you very much (polite form)

C-chotto matte yo: W-wait a minute!