We Were Rivals

by Hyaku . Kokoro

[AU and Shounen ai] Asuran Zala's father is dating someone, but who? What happens when it turns out to be the mother of someone he thinks ill of? What happens when these two fall in love over time? Anything could happen.

1. Trying to get through the day

We Were Rivals
Chapter 1: Trying to get through the day

Disclaimer :
I do not own Gundam SEED or any of the characters in Gundam SEED. The only thing I own is characters I make up. That is it.. Oh, and the plot that I came up with.
Warning :
This is a shounen ai fanfiction so that means boy x boy. There is going to be some swearing and fighting parts, but I don't think any gore.
Pairings :
Asuran x Yzak and slight Asuran x Kira
Summary :
AU and Shounen ai Asuran Zala's father is dating someone, but who? What happens when it turns out to be the mother of someone he thinks ill of? What happens when these two fall in love over time? Anything could happen.
Dedications :
I would love to dedicate this story to five of my best friends, Yuki, Tenshi, Mura, Shadow, and Aly. Love ya guys!

Author's Note :

Italic is for thoughts
"Quotation Marks are for speaking"

Thank-you Shadow! I owe you for doing the editing for this story. Also this is a alternate universe AU fanfiction, so there is no giant robots and war. In this fanfiction I made Yzak, Asuran, Kira, Dearka, and Nicol all the same age, the only person that isn't the same age is Miguel who is a year older than them. There is not much I can say right now, but just to enjoy the fanfiction! Well I hope you do!

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The day wasn't turning out so great as Asuran Zala thought it would be. First off the weather man had lied. Though it was a first, it happened. Today was supposed to be sunny, so that meant it was going to a gorgeous day out, but it wasn't. It was cloudy and it was raining, not to mention the sounds of thunder here and there. Some sunny and beautiful day it was going to be! Here he thought he would wake up on time for once and not be yelled at and make it to school on time, but that didn't really work out as planned. He did get yelled at and he was almost late for his bus.

Sighing deeply the navy blue haired male looked out the window as the bus stopped to pick up someone on their way to school. Glancing over to the person that came aboard he moved his bag from the seat to the floor now. It was none other than his best friend and ex-boyfriend, Kira Yamato. Though Kira was his ex-boyfriend they decided it would be best if the should just stay friends for now. Kira was never mad at Asuran, he understood what he was going through at home and also agreed with Asuran, so for now they just stayed friends.

Who followed Kira minutes later was his twin sister Cagalli. She was huffing and puffing like she had ran a marathon or something. Kira just laughed slightly as she took her seat across from them and just glared at her brother. She had woken up late today, but that was Kira's fault. He had forgotten to wake her up when had gotten up, though she woke up on her own and got here just fine. A little tired yes, but that would pass. He knew Cagalli would hate him for the rest of the day, but then again they didn't have any classes together. It would be that bad, but once looking to Asuran he looked kind of upset or depressed. Opening his mouth the brown haired male spoke. "Asuran, you didn't have a good morning did you?" he questioned. Kira had noticed that he was having more and more bad mornings.

Asuran looked to him slightly and sighed. "You got that right... I thought it was going to be sunny today, and look it rains. Oh and also I woke up and got yelled at by father.. Again. How can he yell at me when he is the one making me go to those stupid parties," he told Kira. Things at home were hectic, he was still sad when his mother died a year and a half ago. His father was holder to a big company, so there was many parties he had to attend. Man, there wasn't one day where he was able just to sleep all day long. It was like his father was out to get him or something. Leaning his head on the window he sighed deeply as he banged his head gently on the window of the bus.

Kira looked to him, he was turning into a wreck. "Don't worry Asuran, it's only one more day till the weekend and it is a long weekend at that," he told him.

The bus stopped once more and two males got on. Yzak Joule and his best friend Dearka Elsman. Asuran always thought ill of Yzak. He was cocky first of all. Second, he had his own fanclub. Third, he was just plain rude sometimes. He always competed against Asuran but lost most of the time, but still he had his own fan club of girls. Yzak always thought he was better than everyone, even the teachers. Always coming to class late, making the teachers angry. Why didn't he just drop out of school or something? It would seem much better for a person like him.

While walking down the aisle to the bus, the silver headed male smirked at Asuran. Today was they had gym together... Yay for him. Today was soccer. This was going to be fun. But Yzak hadn't beaten him in soccer yet, it would be nice to see him try. Asuran sure didn't have the time and still beat him. After the two males passed them and sat at the back of the bus, he sighed in relief. He didn't want trouble today with them, but he knew he was going to have trouble with Yzak no matter what. "What a bad day this was going to be," Asuran said softly, hanging his head low now.

Kira gave him a pat on the back. "Don't worry we'll get through the day like always," he said with a slight smile.

The bus stopped to get a few more people before moving onto the school now. The bus had gotten pretty full now. Asuran looked out the window and saw the sun trying to break through the clouds, but it didn't look like it was going to happen. For the most part he hoped the power in the school went out. Thunder could be heard, and lightning could be seen, so there was a possibility of that happening. The bus stopped once again, but to let people off to school.

Everyone began to stand up and move around a bit as they started to flood out into the aisle of the bus. Grabbing his bag from the floor, Asuran and Kira quickly stepped into the aisle. Once out of the bus they made a run for it to get into the school due to the rain. A few people in the school were very lucky, they didn't need to wear uniforms like most schools, plus who knows what the blonde female named Cagalli might due if she was forced to wear a skirt. Kira had asked this question many times to Cagalli and she always gave the same answer, "I'd kill the person who designed them and then threaten the principal to change back to causal." Cagalli seemed to be the 'using actions more than talking' type, but both Kira and Asuran knew it was a small phase.

First class was English. Asuran had been able to get a few minutes of sleep in this class because they were reading a novel during class. If the teachers had a problem with that, they should talk to his father, it was his fault for making him attend those parties and making him stay up so late till almost everyone left. But for the past couple of nights, while making his nightly routine to the kitchen for a glass of water, he had noticed a pair of shoes that he didn't know of. And it wasn't from his family, because no one wore shoes with heels. All the people in his house were males. He didn't push the matter and just let it be.

Walking down the hall with Kira who was talking with his twin. She soon left the group to go talk to a girl named Lacus Clyne, or the Pink Princess. They had been friends for about three years now, and before Cagalli really didn't like Lacus due to her being girly, but that was before. Asuran and Kira stopped at their lockers and began to fiddle with the locks. Asuran sighed deeply. He hardly ever went to his locker so he sometimes forgot the lock, though he did tell Kira it. Today wasn't one of those day where he didn't want to fight with lock. "Kira, please?" he asked with a small almost pleading smile.

Kira shook his head slightly and just smiled as Asuran stepped away from the locker. Kira began thinking.. What were the numbers to the lock? He shook his head lightly with a mental smile trying to remember them. Once remembering he fiddled with the lock for about ten seconds and got it open. "We don't need you getting mad at it and breaking the lock... Again," the brown haired male said, as he went back to his own and got out some stuff.

Asuran just smiled at him and took some text books out of his bag and placed them in the locker. They were old texts books from last semester and he was told to hand all of his text books at the end of the year to right teachers, or else a late fee was issued. After he put the books in he closed the locker suit and locked it. "Won't be opening that up for a while now," he said with a smile.

Kira just shook his head and closed his locker, locking it, and then walking with the navy blue haired male to their next class. Ahead there was a group of people standing on the right side of the hallway against the locker. It was a small group of people, but still they were well known around the school. Asuran thought ill of them, but Kira didn't mind them. It was Yzak Joule and his group.

Yzak's blue eyes quickly caught Asuran's figure. How he hated him, he always tried his best to beat him and he wasn't even trying! It just pissed him off. Today he was going to beat his soccer team and if he was going to be on the team of Asuran he would make sure he would regret it. Yzak looked to Asuran and smirked, he knew just what he would do to Asuran if he was placed on the same team as him. But for now he would just assume himself.

Pushing his body off the locker he walked towards Asuran and Kira. As the two boys drew nearer toward the silver haired boy the male just smirked, he had the perfect idea what he should do, plus he had been dying to do this for a while now. The male with the navy blue hair and emerald eyes finally noticed the silver headed male and let out a sigh. What was with that sigh? Was he that annoying to Asuran? Oh well, he had just the medicine to shut him up for about a few seconds. As Yzak was passing by, he made sure his shoulder colliod with Asuran's to bring him away from his little friend Kira. In no time at all, Yzak had Asuran pinned to the locker.

"What the hell do you wa-" his voice was cut off due to the fact that silver headed male had his lips against his.

Yzak pulled back with a smirk on his face before speaking. "That's what I want," he said smugly, walking off with a smirk on his face.

Two girls began to whisper, about the two males now. "Do you think they are going out?" one began.

"Maybe.. They do make a cute couple," another one replied.
Asuran shot them an angry glare. "I love Kira! Not that ass!" Asuran yelled at them.

The girls just hide behind there friends, and soon other people were starting to stare and whisper. Asuran just wanted to rip his hair out right about now, he wanted to just get to English and sleep already. Today was bad enough as it was.

Grabbing Kira's arm, Asuran began to drag him to class. He really did love Kira, he just needed a break. School was murder now, and home wasn't helping. He just need sometime alone to think, he always knew Kira was there and would never betray him for someone else. Asuran just needed some time to be alone to think. No they didn't get into a fight, it was all of because the things going around him and Kira wasn't part of it.

Asuran was quite angry now and looked like he was going to bite someone's head off if they annoyed him. How dare Yzak do that! Oh this meant payback. Asuran wasn't one to get back at someone but he was just about ready to blow his lid. So why not take it out on Yzak during gym? Oh it was going to be a fun gym class. He was going to make Yzak regret what he had to done. He was going to try and if he could beat the silver headed male without trying, who knows what he could do with trying.

-

While the two males entered their English class, Yzak's group which consisted of Dearka Elsma, and Miguel Aiman, walked down the hall talking over what just happened. Class hadn't started yet, so they had sometime to talk.

"So why did you do that Yzak?" questioned Miguel.

Yzak gave a small shrug of his shoulders and looked towards him. "I don't know, I just felt like getting back at him for beating me all those times. Plus he kept sighing, I just wanted to shut him up," the silver headed male explained.

"But it seems you've made a certain tanned boy jealous," Miguel pointed out.

"I am not jealous!" exclaimed Dearka.

"Are too, you can see it on your face. You wished it was you receiving that kiss from Yzak," Miguel teased. "But you are the one that wished it, because you are cru-" Miguel was cut off by Dearka's hand.

"He doesn't need to know that," he muttered to him.

Yzak just shook his head and laughed slightly. He felt slightly sorry for Asuran. It seemed that the slightest thing would annoy him but Yzak didn't even care. Though Dearka and Miguel did begin to annoy him with their bickering they came to a split in the hallway. Dearka and Yzak waved off to Miguel as he kept walking straight and they turned down the hallway.

Dearka looked to the silver headed male who still had a smirk on his face. Why had he really kissed him? It made him slightly jealous but he had to move on with it. His purple eyes avert to the ceiling. It was too quiet between them, he didn't like it one bit. He thought of a topic, but thought it was stupid to ask him.

"So what class does Miguel have?" Questioned the tanned male.

"I think biology," he replied, looking to Dearka. He was sort of glad that he had started up the conversation, it was too quiet between them, and the people around were now starting to get on his nerves. He was surprised that talk about that little incident with Asuran Zala had gotten so far. It was like the saying went, "wildfire spreads quickly." This certainly spread quickly. Shrugging it off, he decided to be nice to his first teacher this morning. He and Dearka had math, though he hoped the power went out because he really didn't want to be all those complicated questions in this early in the morning.

The two males entered the classroom and took their seats. Girls began whispering and it soon got his nerves again. "Shut up will you?" Harsh much? Though it was his fault, he still laughed at what he had done. He knew Asuran was extremely pissed off from his comment towards him. He was never forget this.

-

In the classroom in where Asuran and Kira were, Asuran sighed deeply, sleep was already on his eyes. He rested his head down and closed his eyes. The brown haired male had just looked to him and smiled and Asuran smiled back. He should get some rest but wanted to get back at Yzak for what he did. He loved Kira not that person who called himself the 'Silver Duellist'. The silver part was because of his hair as it was silver. That was obvious. The duellist part was because of his desire to beat someone at something, like soccer or any kind of sport.

A loud clash of thunder was heard, followed by a jag of lightening that light the room brightly. The lights dwindled and then flickered out. Screams could be heard only for the first few minutes. Just great, the lights were cut. Wait. This was good for him! Now he could sleep!. He thanked the lord for this gift. He looked to Kira and gave him a grateful smile.

The teacher looked around, her eyes averting to everyone who was talking. There was no way she was going to make them read a novel in this darkness, though she could open a blind for them to read. That and today she really didn't feel up to teaching a class. Today was the perfect day to just sit back.

"Alright class," the teacher began, placing her books down on her desk, "with summer vacation just a month away, I decided that this will be a free class, but tomorrow we will get back to the novel.

"Understood?"

"Understood, Miss Hitana!" everyone said in unison. Well almost everyone said.

Asuran just smiled to Kira, and began to speak to him, like everyone else did with there friends. "Kira, wake me up when it is time to go to the next class, or when the lights come back on. Finally a chance to sleep."He fold his arms and rest his chin on them. "Night Kira." he murmured, as his eyes felt heavy and soon fell in a sleep.

The brown haired male just shook his head and looked the sleeping male. "Night Asuran," he whispered into his ear. After sitting back into his sit, he felt a tap on his shoulder from someone behind him. It was a girl. Not just any girl. It was the president of the Yzak's fan club, Kizami Hatsuna.

"Kira is it true what they say?"

"What do they say?" he replied, he knew what she was talking about.

"You know!"

"No I don't, so tell me."

"Is it true that Yzak kissed Asuran?" she whispered, not wanting to wake up Asuran.

"Yes, it is. I was there when it happened."

Kizami's jaw dropped. "I can't believe I wasn't there!"

The class passed and the power wasn't back and now it was time for their next class. Asuran was hard getting up. Was he that tired? Sometimes when the navy blue haired male stayed at his house, just to get away from his own, Kira would have a hell of a time trying to get him up. Today really shouldn't be a problem. Kira gave him a small nudge and some kind of muffled talked was replied. Clearly he had felt that. Trying again the same responses. 'Great.' Kira had thought wrong. Had he been staying up that late again. Standing in front of his desk, Kira sighed. Maybe a weekend at his house would get his energy back up there. Yea. Now it was time to get him up.

"Asuran Zala, wake up now," Kira said in a serious tone.

Nothing.

"Asuran Zala!" he said harsher now.

Still nothing.

Now was the last resort. Taking a book and opening it, Kira quickly closed it, which made a loud sound. In the end, it got Asuran up. Well, he more like jumped awake. "Let's go, class is over," he said to Asuran, who was still half awake. Kira rolled his eyes and grabbed Asuran's bag and then his hand and began to take him out of the class.

Asuran's emerald orbs grasped the fact that it was dark. So if it was dark that meant the lights in the school were still off. This meant more sleeping for him, and the next class he was in was a food class. And they couldn't cook anything with the power gone. Now could they cook with any power? Probably not. So it was going to be another sleeping class for him. Besides the fact that his father had yelled at him to get out of bed this morning, the weather man lying to him, and Yzak kissing him, this was a pretty good day for him. No work required at all. With these thoughts it caused him to smirk and then he remembered his plan to get back at the silver headed male. Oh he was going to regret doing that to him. Yes indeed he was.

Walking forward and Kira basically dragging the still half asleep male, they headed over to the Foods Room where they would cook. Both males were bad at cooking and so they decided that they needed to take some kind of class that would help them learn how to cook. And it was sure showing, Asuran had been helping the cooks in his mansion and teaching them a few things that he had learnt, Kira on the other hand was making supper and breakfast for his family. Their teacher for this class was a famous chef but retired and started teaching others how to cook like he could. It was really interesting to learn from a master cook like himself. Today they were suppose to make Beef Teriyaki, but since this little incident with the power, it was probably cancelled.

After the foods class it was there last class for the morning, and the power was still out. Everyone doubted the fact the power would be back before the end of the day. Even Asuran and Kira, but it was a good thing for Asuran that the power was out. He could sleep most of the day away. The only problem for Asuran was he had gym and he sure he wasn't going to miss that. He needed to wake up and get going now, or else he would just sleep the day away. Well next was lunch, and lunch was never exciting for him, though the cafeteria would be closed today, due to the fact that the power was out. Maybe it wouldn't, because they could still serve fruit. It was too bad for the students that had to eat at the cafeteria today, but oh well, life will go on.

Lunch began. The questions towards Asuran wouldn't stop and now all of the school knew about what happened. This wasn't going to be really good lunch, maybe staying away from the cafeteria would've been better, he could go outside, it was drizzling now, and he really didn't need a cold on top of all this stress. Though a cold would make him sick, if he was sick he would be able to stay home, and at home he would be away from school. The idea seemed good but he would miss homework and knowing some of his teachers at the end of the year they want things done fast. The idea was going sky high, but then was shot down by arrows.

Holding his head with his hand, he was about to yell at the next person that asked him something and he did. He practically scared the first year girl, since she was the next one to ask a question about what happened. It wasn't his fault that he had lost it, it was all Yzak Joule's fault and he was going to pay. With his plan all ready thought of, he just hoped that he would be able to put into process. Looking to Kira he sighed. "This day isn't going turning out so well," he murmured.

"Remember, Asuran. Tomorrow is the last day till the weekend so be thankful," Kira reminded him.

"Thank god for that," he muttered before stuffing a piece of cold tempura in his mouth.

"If your father throws another party this weekend, you know it is alright for you to come over. My mom doesn't mind, and a matter of fact, she feels sorry for you." Kira said, with a laugh.

After he finished swallowing his food, he spoke. "Well it is nice that someone besides you feels sorry for me," replied Asuran, a bit bitterly.

The two males talked and ate there food untill lunch was over. Still there was no power. The two males split down their different paths to their next classes. Unfortunately for Asuran, Kira didn't have gym, he had some sort of computer class. Though Asuran had already planned his revenge on Yzak. Who cares if they didn't play soccer or not, as long as it was in front of people. Walking down the hall alone, girls talked amongst themselves about what happened. Come on, it was just a damn kiss. It was like they hadn't seen two guys kiss before. But then again, it was Yzak Joule, the male with his own fan club.

Entering the gym, he looked around for the male. Nope, he wasn't here yet. He'd probably show up late. As usual. Though it didn't really matter if he showed up late today, the power was out. Now looking for someone else, Asuran averted his gaze to the gym teacher. He was going to ask if they were going to be able to play the game of soccer. Though the possibilities were probably low, it was worth a shot. This was only change till tomorrow for revenge on Yzak.

"Takashi-sensei," the navy blue haired male said, as he walked up to the teacher, "are we still going to be able to play the game of soccer?"

The teacher looked to Asuran. Yes, it was hard choice to make, there was really no power, so the lights were shut off, but he could open the gym doors for some light. Surely that would supply enough light for them to play soccer. "Sure why not? I'll just open up the gym doors," he told his student.

"Alright then," Asuran said walking away from the teacher hiding a grin.

Minutes passed and Yzak entered the gymnasium, Asuran emerald eyes quickly went to him with a glare. Yzak of course caught this, but he wasn't going to say anything about it. The silvered headed male just gave a smirk that was to die for and walked past Asuran. He knew Asuran would want revenge on him and what a perfect time for it. Oh but poor Asuran, he was step ahead of him. You won't get the best of me Asuran Zala. Now walking towards the guy changing room with his gym bag slung over his shoulder he smirked one last time, before disappeared into the room.

Asuran decided to wait till Yzak came out of the changing room. He really didn't want to cause any fights but he would feel a little bit sorry for Yzak later on. Jumping out of a daydream he looked to a male who had tapped him on the shoulder. It was another one of his friends. Nicol Amarfi. This was his only class he had with the green hair male.

"So is it true?" the green haired male spoke softly.

"Damn right it is, and I plan to get back at him for what he did." Asuran growled dangerously.

Nicol just laughed lightly. "Well I hope it goes well." He told him before walking towards the changing rooms.

Asuran followed him and Yzak came out of the changing room with a grin on his face as his gaze darted toward him. Did he have an obsession over him or something? Or was Yzak just being an idiot? Who knew what that guy was doing. Asuran and Miguel walked into the changing room. When Asuran came out of the changing room, the games would begin. Literately.

The game began. Asuran captain of one team, Yzak of another. By the middle of the game, Yzak's team was already losing and he was cursing like a sailor. Well it was like him to curse a lot. He was angry now, but he couldn't let Asuran get the best of him! Though it was already showing that he was. The blue eyed male could tell Zala was trying this time, which was good for him in one way, but bad in another. Asuran had scored two goals on his own, without the help of his team mates. Yzak had two shots but missed the goal. He cursed of course. It was the middle of the game and things weren't looking to good for him. He stopped to take a breather but his gaze caught to Asuran who was just smirking. Knowing he had something planned he was waiting, it would probably be at the end of the game so that everyone would see, but what was he going to do? That was the thing. Yzak was just going to have to be on his guard now.

Yzak wiped sweat from his forehead. Asuran was giving him a good work out. The score was four to zero, Asuran's team in the lead. He wasn't going to allow this. Now taking the soccer ball forward, he began his incredibly small journey to the goal. But standing in his way was Asuran Zala. Still bringing the ball forward Yzak didn't back down. He wasn't going down without a fight. Asuran came at him, but Yzak did some fancy foot work to keep the ball to himself and not to him. Bringing it up forward some more he saw the goal wide open, and heard Asuran screaming for people to get the ball away from Yzak. For some people they were just too scared to get the ball away from him, just in case Yzak might come and beat them up or harass them in some way.

"Damn it," Asuran, muttered running after Yzak now. Why did he have to do all the work? His team wasn't even trying! Probably because they were scared of Yzak.

Yzak smirked. Was Asuran getting tired now? The goalie was that was in the goal was ready to block Yzak shot, but was the goalie going to be able to block the shot? With a mighty swing of his foot, Yzak hit the ball with all he had into the goal. They were still three down, but miracles do happen, but Yzak wasn't wanting a miracle. Walking past Asuran he told him something. "Getting tired now, Zala?" he asked.

"Shut up Joule, you just wish I was getting tired," he retorted, before glaring to his team. They weren't helping much.

The game was over and Yzak's team lost. It was a another rock thrown in Yzak's pride. Man he hated Asuran with a death of a thousand suns! But soon Yzak would hate Asuran with a death of one million suns. It was time to get changed now and everyone walked back to the change room. His fists in balls, feeling that if someone talked to someone he would vent out his anger by punching them. Everyone could see what he was feeling all over his face, so they stayed clear of his path. One dared to talk to him though, and it was the one that he hated.

"Yzak," Asuran said coldly.

Yzak stopped in his tracks and looked at him with a glare. "What is it Zala!" he spat out.

Asuran walked up to him, and once he was close enough to Yzak he brought his knee up. Within seconds, everyone was staring at the Yzak who was laying on the ground in pain. The girls from the stands could help, but gawk at what just happened. While a few of the boys just laughed, and Asuran well he just smirked. He now bent down to whispered into the silver headed male's ear. "That is what," he softly, before pulling away and walking towards the change room. Yzak's pride once again at taken a hit.

Within moments of leaving the scene, Asuran just burst out laughing. Maybe today was good after all. Besides the fact that the weather man lied to him, Yzak kissed him, and that he was getting all those annoying questions from his Yzak's fan club. Other than that, he was just plain happy now. Nothing now seemed like his day was going to get ruined. Power was still out, and that called for another nap. Lucky for him he didn't have to face Yzak till tomorrow morning at the bus.

"I'll get you back Zala," Yzak hissed at the male that had just sacked him. Standing up slowly now, he was offered a hand by another person, but being the stubborn male that he was, he smacked the hand away and just yelled at the person.

Asuran was already out of the change by the time Yzak had gotten up, he wasn't really in the mood to be fighting the hot tempered male. One more class and school was over. And thank the lord at that too, he had the last class with Kira. The brunette was going to a kick out of this, so was everyone in the school, but he decided to see how fast it would spread across the school.

A grin was on the face of Asuran Zala as he began to walk to his next class, computers. Though.. He doubted you could anything in computers class with out power gone. It just meant another sleep class, but he highly doubted that now. After what he had just did to Yzak in the gym. Soon he was being called after by the green haired male, Nicol. Knowing the time they were headed in the same direction, but they each had different destinations. Asuran had computers class and Nicol had band. If you've never heard Nicol play the piano, you'd better. He was the best at it! Well one of the best. The two males began to start up a conversation now.

"Do you think Yzak will come after you?" questioned the smaller male.

"Probably," replied Asuran, giving a shrug of his shoulders. "He was asking for what he got today anyways."

Nicol just laughed slightly. "Well don't worry, Kira and I will always have your back," the male commented.

This made Asuran smile. "Thanks Nicol."

The male nodded and looked away from Asuran. Asuran couldn't have asked for better friends. Kira could be a cry baby sometimes and was a klutz, but he still liked him. He was smart to, smarter than Asuran. Then there was Nicol, a quiet boy that loved the piano. He never really liked to get into fights, it was more like he stopped them. They were really both good friends. Though he and Nicol didn't hang out like they use to they still talked, like they were doing just now. It was good to have friends like Kira and Nicol. They always cared about him, and never let him down.

-

While the two males talked to their next class, Dearka tried to calm down a hot headed Yzak. Yzak was pissed off now, wanting to get back at Zala for what he did. Scheming he at what he should do, people stayed out of his way. Just by looking at his face you could tell that it had angry and humiliated written all over it. He knew if Asuran was going humiliate him this would be the way, and if he knew Zala wanted pay back, this would be all over the school. He glance back and forth to people as he walked to his class, not even bothering to come in late for a change.

Spotting a group of girls that pointed to Yzak, trying to keep it secret, they began to whisper. It annoyed Yzak, sure he wanted attention, but not this much! Asuran knew where to wound him, it was his image. He was always in that males shadow when came to sports. The only time was when he was away at home sick. Then he could shine, but other than no other opportunities came along. He didn't want to be seen as, 'Yzak Joule knocked out by Asuran Zala.' No he didn't want to be weak, and he wasn't, he had just as much power as he did or so he thought. Now hearing the girls burst out laughing really set him off. "DAMN HIM!" he let out a yell. Damn that navy blue haired male to hell! With a swift punch he dented a locker. It hurt, but he need to vent out that anger he had for the male.

Dearka sure didn't try to stop him now. He didn't like Asuran all that much, but now it was getting annoying. Though this was the first time Asuran had finally did something back, and for Yzak it was hurtful. Feeling the frustration Yzak was letting out the male looked to him.

"Yzak, calm down. You'll have a chance to get back at Asuran sooner or later," the tanned male finally spoke.

"Shut up, Dearka," Yzak spat at him. "I will get back at him," he muttered to himself, as his fists were beside his head which was resting on the locker.

Pushing off the locker, he went down the halls. He decided he wouldn't bother with the last class. The lights were out and he didn't want to hear it from everyone else that he was beaten by Asuran. "I am going home, Dearka," he announced.

Both he and Dearka knew if he stayed there would be destruction. He was really angry about this and Dearka knew Yzak, and he just left him to go home. Turning around, Dearka left Yzak to go home. Maybe Dearka would go hang out with Miguel, like he had anything to do this class. Letting out a sighed he wondered how Yzak would ever get out of this phase. Shrugging his shoulders slightly he walked down the hallway. The blonde haired male was stopped about a thousand times being asked where Yzak was and was it true what Asuran did. Dearka wanted to refuse the fact that Yzak was kicked somewhere not nice, but he had to tell the truth. Man this did spread fast and it was getting annoying to him.

Yzak broke through the school doors and out to freedom. He ran a hand through his silver hair as he walked down the stairs to where the bus stop was. The rain had stopped, but dark clouds threatened to bring down more rain. All he wanted to do was just go home right now, damn, anywhere other than school. He declared the rest of the day off for him, maybe he would take tomorrow off, saying something that he had a stomach ache. Though if he did it would make he somewhat of a coward, of not facing the fact that Asuran had just done what he had done.

"Damn him," he cursed as a city bus pulled up. Once the doors opened for him, he walked up the two or three stairs there and gave the bus driver the money and went to go sit down. Throwing the bag to a seat, he sat down and slouched in his seat. Looking out the window rain began to pour down. The weather man lied it was suppose to be sunny. Man besides the fact that he made a fool out of Asuran this morning everything was good up until ten minutes of go.

-

Back with Asuran and Kira now they began to laugh and such. It was basically another free period, but Nicol was with them. It had been a while since the three of the talked as much as they did. The spoke about when the were kids, and such and some of the stupid things they did or some of the people they meet. They were all surprised at all the people they had forgotten. A friend who had moved away was Rusty Mackenzie. He was also a good friend of Asuran, but with time he had forgotten all about him, only when others talked about him.

"Man.. I wonder how Rusty is doing," Asuran muttered.

"He is probably doing good," Nicol replied with a smile.

"Rusty was always better than Asuran in grade school, probably still is," joked Kira.

"Things really have changed, I guess I should call him up. Since he moved I've never really called him. He always called me.. And soon he just stopped calling. Makes me think what a jerk I was not to call him all those years." Asuran told them.

"Don't worry Asuran," Kira told him.

"Yea, should give him a call today," Nicol told him, giving him the idea.

The idea did seem good, and tempting. "Yea, when I get home I'll give him a call," Asuran told the two males. He knew where the phone number was, and would go home and give him a call.. He forgot how long it had been.. Five years? Probably.

Silence now a rose between the three males.

"Umm.. So when do you think power will be back?" questioned Kira.

"Hopefully not till the weekend starts," Asuran said as a joke.

"You'll just sleep the day away like today," Kira said.

"I didn't sleep the whole day away, I did do gym and I am talking to you guys. I just slept all of the morning. Waking up here and there to switch to class to class... Not mention some woke me up with the slamming of a book!"

The school day ended. Asuran and Kira took their way home, while took his way. Walking out the school, Asuran sighed. It was raining once again. He felt a hand on his shoulder as he looked to his best friend Kira. He then pointed out the bus was already there. Nodding to his friend, they both ran from under the shelter of the school and too the bus.

Once coming onto the bus the two laughed slightly, but soon quieted down as some people were giving them looks. They just looked to each and smiled, but soon Asuran pointed out that his twin sister was standing behind him. She was angry. Kira just gave a smile and just looked at him with a glare.

"Opps. I guess I forgot you had to see one of the teachers after school," he told her.

"Opps is right. You make me almost miss the bus one more time.. I am going to wake you up with ice cubes," she threatened.

The damn ice cubes, Kira had something against them. Probably the fact that they were cold and it wasn't the first time that he ice cubes down the shirt or placed in his bed. "Fine," he muttered. Though he couldn't back that up. He knew he would forget sooner or later about the threat.

Cagalli took her seat and the soon the bus began to move now. In the end the day turned out really good. Besides the fact that he was lied by the weather man had lied and being kissed by Yzak, it was turned out good. Asuran got back at Yzak, he slept during school due to the fact that the power was gone. Hopefully the power would still be out and he would get to sleep the day away, almost like he did today. Looking out of the window, it was still pouring and the roaring of thunder could be heard over the talking of the students on the bus. It made everyone stop what they were doing to look out the windows.

Flashes of lightning lightened the sky for about five seconds but then disappeared, but it was soon accompanied by the loud sound of thunder. It meant the storm was really close if thunder followed lightning so quickly. Asuran watched in awe, while Kira just watched him.

It brought back many memories when Kira was scared of these storms, but Asuran was always there to comfort him. They were the best of friends. He remembered when he buried his head in as Asuran held him close. Yea it brought back many memories.. Or the time when they went to the carnival and Kira was scared of the haunted house, and his other friends were teasing him about it and called him a scared for not going in. He remembered Asuran standing up for him, and he told him that it was okay. Those were the good days, and since Asuran had helped him so much back then to get over his fears, it was time Kira helped him.

"Your not scared of them anymore are you Kira?" Asuran questioned with a smile.

Snapping out of his daze Kira smiled. "Nope. Never will be," he told him.

At Kira and Cagalli's stop Asuran smiled and waved from the window, as his two friends ran off to their house in the pouring rain. The storm continued on, Asuran began to ignore it now.. Thinking to back to the day he had meet Kira. They were probably at the age of four or five. They were playing at the park, and Kira was crying because someone had took his plastic pail and shovel. Asuran was a stranger, but agreed to get back his pail and shovel.. And in the end.. Kira ended up giving his pail to him, while Kira took the shovel. It wasn't up till a few years ago that Asuran knew the reason why Kira had given him the pail instead of the shovel. It was because Asuran was the pail and Kira was shovel. When the shovel was in the pail it was safe and that is how Kira felt when he was around Asuran.. Safe. And that was when they confessed each other's love for each other..

The images from the past flooded his head. It must've broke Kira's heart when Yzak had kissed this morning, and Asuran was only thinking of himself to get back at Yzak. He didn't even ask if Kira was okay with the fact that Yzak had kissed him.

Still looking out the window he saw his stop coming up. Standing up, and grabbing his back from the seat, he made his way to the front of the bus where he would be let off. And within seconds he was left off. Running now to the shelter of his home, he stayed out of a clearing, such of the road the led to the mansion that he lived in. Being the fast runner that he was, it didn't take him that long, but by the time that he reached the main doors to the mansion he was soaked to the bone. Oh well, he was going to take a shower anyways soon enough, but within moment of entering he was quickly embraced, by the man who he called his father.

"Oh how was your day Asuran?" he questioned with a smile on his face. His father Patrick Zala soon let go of him to only look at his son.

Oh no that smile meant something.. But what? "It was good.. What a minute what do you want?" he questioned now.

"Tomorrow night I want you to attend another party of mine, but this time I two people coming over that I want you to meet. So I don't want you going out with those friends of yours. Got it?"

"Understood," he told him walking away. His father just ruined the day was turning out to be so good.

His father just watched him walk away, and so did he. He had some matters to attend to at the moment, like getting his home set up for the dinner party that was going to held tomorrow night.

Walking up the stairs Asuran grumbled to him. His relationship wasn't as good as with his mothers. Though when she was away at business and returned home, she would always would shower him with love and affection, while his father did nothing to show such a thing. But since his mother died, his father still didn't show this love or the affection. Sure he was his son, but it showed that life was cruel. Kira showed Asuran this, he was their for him when his mother died. Asuran always knew he could count on Kira for his back. And soon Kira's parents began to replace the one he had. The one that didn't care about him.

Going up to his room now he slammed the door. He was lucky that it didn't break at the slam that he did. Throwing his bag in the normal corner he sighed as sat down on the bed. Placing both hands on his face he wanted to let out his anger again. How he hated his father now. Removing his hands, he remembered something. Forgetting his shower now, he got up from his bed and went to a drawer where he kept junk and such. Having his own phone line, he smiled. His father could not interrupt and use the phone while he was using it now. Finding the number he went over to his phone and dialled it.

To his surprise it began to ring. A within minutes a female answered the phone. "Hello who is speaking?" she questioned.

"Asuran Zala.. Does Rusty Mackenzie still live at the address I phoned?"

"Oh yes Asuran, it has been a long time.. I'll get Rusty for you," the female said.

Asuran could her calling for Rusty. It was now or never, it had been so long since he last heard his voice and such. He was then startled when he heard his name at the other end of the phone be calling.

"Asuran Zala?" Rusty questioned.

"Yea, Rusty its me."

-

While the two males talked over the phone, Yzak talking to his mother. Unlike Asuran, Yzak had a parent who cared for him, and always wanted to know what was going on in their life. Though.. Yzak was never told about his father, nor did they talk about it. He knew it just brought sadness to his mother's heart, whenever he would ask about his father, so over the years he learned to forget the fact that he was fatherless. Though Yzak's mother, Ezalia, was away on business trips and such he still received love from his mother, and rarely got into his fights with his mother.

But today when she got home, she had something to tell Yzak. This was different.. She was all happy about this, sometimes when she told him things they weren't always that great, but today it was much different. They sat down at a table and she was smiling.
"Yzak, tomorrow night, a friend of mine is going be having a dinner party, and he invite us to come.. And I would like if you to come with me. Alright?" she told him.

It was often that his mother asked him to go to these parties, so he agreed. "Alright. I'll go with you," he told her with a small smile.

After their small meeting was dismissed, he began to wonder.. He had definitely noticed the word 'he' in his mother's last words. Just who was this guy.. He had never seen his mother so happy in his life, well he didn't fell up to playing detective today so he would just have to wait till tomorrow night to find just who invited them over. Walking up the stairs to his room he couldn't help but wonder about this now. Though it would mean he would have to pick out some clothes appropriate for tomorrow night. This didn't mean he forgot about Asuran. Tomorrow he was going to show up for school and get back at Asuran some how.. And he knew just how to get back at him..

-

Over at the Zala Mansion, Asuran had just finished talking on the phone with Rusty. It was now 5:53 pm. Wow. Oh well, time to call Kira now. He wonder how Kira was feeling at the moment.. He was being selfish today wanting to get back at Yzak.. He didn't even ask Kira what he felt on the matter. Stupid Yzak, why did he do what he did. He really didn't need Kira to be jealous over Yzak, because Kira should know that he had already won Asuran's heart. Dialling the number from memory Asuran waited from for someone to pick up.

When someone did, Asuran spoke. "Hello, it is Asuran Zala speaking. May I speak with Kira?"

"Your speaking to him," Kira told him, with a laugh.

"Hey, Kira.. I'm sorry about today."

"It is okay, don't worry about it. I am totally fine," he lied, he knew that Yzak had kissed Asuran to make him look bad, but Kira couldn't help but feel jealous.

"I want you to know that I will never love Yzak. Only you, and that I would never do anything to hurt you," he told him.

The two males talked on and on, and soon Asuran had skipped dinner to talk to Kira. And soon Kira had confessed about lying. And of course Asuran wasn't mad at Kira. How could he be. He remembered the day that he meet Kira. The shovel and the pail. The haunted house.. All those memories. They talked about it, they talked about everything. And soon it was about 9:00pm. He had Kira said their goodnights and they said they would see each other tomorrow morning. Looking around his room now, he walked outside to the balcony. Man it had sure quieted down after the thunder storm. Not a cloud in the sky now he looked to the full moon that could be seen.

After about ten minutes of just staring in the open sky he decided that he would just go to bed now. Tomorrow was going to be a long day and he was going to need all the sleep he could get. Knowing Yzak he was going to try something so he was going to have to be on his guard for that, and since he was being forced to another one of his father's dinner parties he knew he would staying up late for that.. And he also did find it somewhat tired after today... Though he slept most of the morning, it was that good waking up every so often.

Pulling back the blanket on his bed he turned on the night lamp and walked over to the light switch that lit the whole room. Turning off the light, he looked around and saw a lamp that dimly lit the room. Walking back over to his bed, he climbed in the soft bed and laid down. And once finding a spot that he found comfortable he looked to the light the dimly lit the room. Asuran's hand reached to turn out in the light and within moments he was surround in darkness. Sleep took over his mind quite quickly, but not before he murmured and soft something..

"Sweet dreams.. Kira.." And with that he was truly asleep.

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Author's Note :

Longest thing I've ever written, but I don't care! This Chapter was mostly with Kira and Asuran, I am sorry Asuran and Yzak fans! Oh yea.. I know you spell Asuran 'Athrun', but really in Japanese it is spelled Asuran, so I go with the Japanese for his name. I hope to update soon. By the way. This my first kind of Yaoi or Shounen ai Fanfiction. Byes now!