Ok, hi guys. I volunteered to write a sequel for anime'princess'forever02's fanfic Destined Love. So basically, the story plotline belongs to her but the plot in this belongs to me. Basically.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam SEED/Destiny. I also do not own Destined Love.
To anime'princess'forever02: I'm sorry it took ages for me to upload this. I had writers' block then when i was halfway through i thought i didn't want Luna and Shinn in it, so i redid everything. But then, halfway through again, i realized i wanted them in. So.. yeah, basically those were excuses. So.. forgive me. Here's Chapter 1. Hope you like it.
"Haha, you have weird hair!" A few boys taunted.
A four-year-old little girl was sobbing as the boys mocked her bright pink hair.
"What was your mum? Was she an alien from outer space?"
The little girl saw red at the boy's remark.
"My okaa-san is not an alien! She's pretty…"
But the boys were to caught up in their own twisted sense of humour to hear the little girl's soft retort. Just then, a boy with blue hair appeared out of nowhere.
"What are you doing to my sister?! Go away!"
The boys heard the anger in the blue-haired boy's voice and decided to run. The blue-haired boy turned to his sister.
"Lacus? Are you okay? What happened?"
Tearfully, Lacus threw herself in her brother's arms.
"Athrun onii-chan, they said my hair was a funny colour. They also said that okaa-san was an alien."
Stroking Lacus's hair, Athrun sighed.
"Mou Lacus, you should stand up for yourself more often. People will mistake you for being my younger sister even though we're twins."
Lacus looked confused.
"But… aren't I younger than you, onii-chan?"
Athrun chuckled at his sister's confused face. Shaking his head, he held out a hand to the now smiling Lacus. To his surprise, Lacus swatted away his hand.
"Piggy-back!" Lacus squealed.
Athrun looked at his twin sister which proved to be a grave mistake. He couldn't refuse after seeing her pouty expression.
When they arrived back at their house, Athrun lay down on the ground. Lacus lay down right beside him and took his hand in hers. Athrun looked at her lovingly. Lacus noticed Athrun's gaze and smiled cheerfully.
"Ne, onii-chan?"
Athrun nodded at his sister, as if saying 'ask away'. His head hurt when he wondered what silly question his twin would ask me. The two were polar opposites, Athrun was more mature than most four-year-olds and to the contrary, Lacus was more naïve than most.
"When we grow up, will you marry me?"
Athrun was shocked at his sister's question. He guessed that his sister didn't understand that two siblings were not supposed to marry each other. He hadn't realized that he was quiet for quite some time until he heard a soft sniff.
"I knew it. Onii-chan doesn't love me too…"
"Lacus! What do you mean? Of course I love you…"
"Then why didn't you answer my question? If you loved me, you would have promised to marry me."
It was then that Athrun realized that his sister's question was really just an innocent question. Lacus being who she was simply thought that you could marry someone else as long as you loved that person. Athrun grinned.
"Of course I'll marry you."
"Promise?"
"Yeah… I promise."
Just then, they were interrupted by another set of twins, their next-door neighbours and best friends Kira and Cagalli Yamato.
"What are you guys doing?" Cagalli asked.
Athrun shook his head. "Nothing really."
"Guess what??"
"You managed to stuff another cake down Kira's throat?"
"Actually, yes. But that isn't what I'm talking about."
"Then what are you talking about?"
"We're going to get a new sister!"
"Really?" Athrun shot Kira a questioning glance and to his surprise, the brunette boy was grinning like no tomorrow.
"Uh-huh! Mum and Dad still haven't made any major plans yet but they promised that we'll get a new sister."
"How do your parents know it's going to be a girl? What if it's a boy?"
Kira laughed. "We're going to adopt, silly!"
"Adopt? What's adopt?" Lacus asked.
Kira, Cagalli and Athrun all laughed.
"When you adopt someone, you take in someone you don't know as your child," Cagalli explained.
Lacus nodded slowly, comprehension beginning to dawn on her face.
One sunny day, while their parents were away, Athrun heard the doorbell ring.
"I got it!" Lacus shouted and ran to the door.
Athrun, afraid that it was a kidnapper, quickly dashed after his twin. However, it was just Kira and Cagalli at the door.
"Hey, what are you guys doing here?"
Just then, Athrun noticed a small head pop out from behind Kira's back.
"Who's that?" Lacus asked, also spotting the face.
Kira grinned.
"Our sister! She's Lunamaria, but we all call her Luna."
"Lunamaria Yamato? No offense, but, don't you think it sounds a little weird?"
Kira shook his head. "She's not taking our family's name. Her full name is Lunamaria Hawke."
"She's a Hawke?" Lacus asked.
It took a while for the other four to realize that she meant the family name Hawke, not the bird hawk.
Giggling, Cagalli nodded.
"But I thought the whole family died in a car accident?"
Luna once again darted behind Kira.
"Athrun!" Kira warned. "She doesn't like talking about it. Cut her some slack, she's only twelve."
Athrun mumbled an apology.
Cagalli pulled Luna out from where she was hiding.
"Come on, Luna. They don't bite."
Kira sighed.
"Mou, Cagalli. You shouldn't man-handle her like that. She's just a little girl."
Luna smiled and shook her head.
"Onii-chan, let onee-chan do whatever she likes. Besides, I'm only a year younger than you."
Kira turned away, mocking displeasure.
"Fine. Next time she bullies you, don't come crying to me."
Luna's eyes widened and she tugged at Kira's shirt.
"You didn't mean that right? Ne onii-chan, you shouldn't lie."
Kira sighed and nodded.
Lacus poked Athrun's arm.
"What are you doing Athrun?! Won't you invite them in?"
Athrun nodded and signalled for the three at his doorstep to come in.
Cagalli scanned the empty house.
"Your parents are away too?"
Lacus nodded. Luna draped a shy arm around the pink-haired girl's shoulders.
"Mother and Father are away on a business trip."
Athrun was confused.
"Wait… How long has she been with you? She's calling you parents Mother and Father already?"
Kira smiled sheepishly.
"Well, you know how our parents can be. They wanted a Coordinator girl. So we had to go to PLANTS to look for her. We came back just yesterday."
"Anyway! Since we're all here, let's have a sleepover!" Lacus suggested.
Cagalli poked her best friend.
"Lacus, it's the afternoon."
Lacus rolled her eyes.
"I know that! I meant later tonight!"
Cagalli scratched the back of her head awkwardly.
"Oh, of course. Sure."
"Tell us about PLANTS Kira," Lacus asked.
Kira smiled.
"It hasn't changed much."
"What do you mean 'it hasn't changed much'? That was the first time you've been there." Athrun stated.
Kira shrugged.
"I don't know. It just came out of my mouth."
Cagalli was deep in thought.
"Why does it feel like we know each other?"
"Maybe it's because we've been best friends since forever my dear Cagalli?" Athrun answered.
Luna shook her head.
"No.. Onee-chan is right. It feels like I know all of you."
Everyone thought about it. Athrun, Lacus and Kira finally nodded.
"I don't know why, but I have this feeling that I was a soldier in the 2nd Bloody Valentine War." Luna continued.
"But that was 1000 years ago!" Lacus exclaimed.
It was Athrun's turn to shake his head.
"No… I think I can remember piloting the Infinite Justice."
"Yeah! I remember piloting the Strike Freedom!"
"Me too! I piloted the Impulse!"
"Yeah… I remember being the pilot of the Strike Rouge."
"Whoa! All four of us were pilots of some of the most legendary Gundams in history!"
Athrun stopped ranting for a moment.
"Why do I feel like we forgot someone?"
Luna took in a deep breath.
"Shinn! We forgot Shinn!"
The other four looked at Luna.
"I have a feeling I knew this Shinn person. But why can't I remember anything about him? Can you tell us who he was to you and how he looked like?" Athrun asked.
Kira, Lacus and Cagalli nodded.
Luna closed her eyes and concentrated. Soon, the other four noticed a slight blush creeping up Luna's pale cheeks. Her eyes fluttered open.
"I-I think he was my lover."
"Oooh…" Everyone exclaimed.
Luna rolled her eyes.
"Fine, be like that. I won't tell you how he looked like."
Everyone shut up.
"He had really cute messy black hair with the reddest eyes you've ever seen. They're as red as rubies."
"Any scars or anything?"
"Nope. At least none on his face."
"I meant in general. Not just on his face you know."
"Hey, not all of us are sex-crazed maniacs like you onee-chan. The most we ever did was cuddle on the bed. With clothes on."
"Oooh…"
"Oh, grow up onee-chan."
Luna threw her pillow at Cagalli.
"Okay," Cagalli started, totally ignoring her pissed off younger sister, "I have something to say. It is close to midnight now and whoever falls asleep will have his or her face drawn on, deal?"
Everyone nodded simultaneously.
Half an hour later, Lacus drifted off the sleep.
"Hehe, Lacus you are sooo dead."
Cagalli pulled out a permanent marker out of no where and was about to draw on Lacus's face when Athrun stopped her. Cagalli grumbled something about spoil sports under her breath.
Kira fell asleep on Luna's lap 15 minutes after Lacus. Luna was staring at his sleeping face, unsure of how she was supposed to feel. She shrugged and let Kira sleep.
Cagalli was about to draw on his face when she was stopped again. But this time by Luna. Cagalli snorted.
"Fine. At least let me take a picture of him sleeping on your lap so I can black mail him."
Luna sighed and nodded her head sleepily, stifling a yawn.
Now there were only Athrun, Cagalli and Luna left. Athrun gave Luna a mischievous wink, making sure that Cagalli had not seen it. Luna smiled.
After an hour, Cagalli finally fell asleep.
"Time for revenge." Athrun and Luna both said.
Luna passed Athrun the marker while Athrun passed Luna the phone Cagalli had used to take Kira's photo.
Luna quickly deleted the photo of Kira and proceeded to help Athrun doodle on Cagalli's face. When that was done, Athrun and Luna both took photos of their masterpiece using both theirs and Cagalli's phone.
The next morning, a blood-curdling scream was heard all over ORB.
