DFF: Well we just finished this one-shot.
DIF: we're quite proud you see cause we finished this quite quickly.
Wonton: You WILL note that this is slightly AU as we changed the Torii giving scene around a bit other wise it's completely cannon.
Randa: We also own nothing. READ ON!
Two boys sat on a bed doing their homework. The older of the two was actually smaller and more feminine compared to the younger. He had messy brown hair that occasionally got in his beautiful sparkling lavender eyes. The other, younger, boy had just above shoulder length blue hair that framed his face and handsomely accented the shining emeralds that were his eyes. They were the best of friends, inseparable. Their mothers thought it cute that they never went anywhere without the other. The younger's father on the other hand thought that they were a little too close to just be friends at their age.
The brunet flopped onto his back and stared at the ceiling for a bit. He suddenly propped his-self on his elbows and looked directly at the waterfall of blue that was his younger friend's lowered head. "Athrun you know what would be awesome?" He asked out of the blue.
"No Kira, I don't." the blunet responded while looking to his friends work. "You're done already! That's no fair I haven't even made it to the half way point!" He exclaimed seeing the finished work. He looked toward his friend but his blue locks got in his face causing him to push the stray locks behind his ear to see the stunning blush that covered Kira's cheeks.
"It's not that amazing. I finished some in class." he turned his head to stare at the pillow next to his right elbow before looking back at Athrun with out the red on his cheeks. "What I was going to say was that an automatic robotic flying bird would be cool." Kira finished his thought.
"Kira that's totally nutty." Athrun laughed. "It's preposterous to even think of building such a thing."
Kira rolled over to his stomach so he didn't have to face his friend and hung his head over the side. He was grumbling about how it probably was possible and that people just didn't want to try. He also grumbled about how mobile suits were able to go in to automatic if the right software was installed. Athrun listened to every word he could make out of the smaller boy's grumbling. He pieced it all together and found that a mechanical bird was, in fact, not preposterous. Athrun knew exactly what he was making for Kira's next birthday.
Athrun sighed at his unfinished homework looking at it for a bit before crawling over to his brooding friend. Laying next to him with his head hanging off the edge he stared at the under-sheet of his bed.
"What's so fascinating about my bed sheets?" He said looking over to the brunet.
"Have you finished your homework? I specifically remember you complaining not five minutes ago about my being finished and you not being even half way." Kira directed the conversation back to the emerald eyed boy.
"Fun sucker." Athrun grumbled. Kira looked to his watch and groaned.
"I gotta go home now Athrun. If it makes you feel any better I'll leave my assignment here for you to copy if you promise to make it look like your own work this time." Athrun nodded to his friend.
Kira gave Athrun a peck on the cheek and ran out saying good bye to Mrs. Zala as he went out the door. For some strange reason Kira had been doing that a lot lately. Peck and run, like some kind of sport. Though Kira only did that when no one else was around which was sort of odd. Athrun shrugged it off for the moment, knowing Kira had always been rather affectionate, but made a point to ask him about it later.
Some time later Athrun found he would not be here for Kira's birthday. His father was moving them to the PLANTS. It made no sense to the blue haired boy and he hadn't yet told Kira. It was hard to find the right time as Athrun knew how attached the older was to him. Sometimes he really wondered who the older of the two of them was. Kira was quiet, shy, and very clingy. A lot of people found those traits annoying and rather irritating when put together but Athrun thought it was absolutely adorable. Athrun was loud, outgoing, and sort of protective. The only times he really ever got protective was when ever Kira got picked on and when some guy was hitting on his mom.(DFF: Had to say it.) Truthfully Kira and Athrun were complete oppisites which made them an odd pair at school. In the end, Athrun wasn't able to tell Kira that his father was moving them all he was able to do was work as hard as he could to finish the 'awesome automatic robotic bird'.
Athrun on the day he was leaving asked Kira to come with him to the park. Kira agreed whole heartedly as the Sakura trees were blooming. Athrun felt his heart clench at the happy, care-free attitude Kira showed around him and him alone and was ashamed to know that he would be the one to destroy that attitude, Kira had grown into, in just a few short minutes.
"The trees are so beautiful Athrun! I love the spring." The lavender eyed boy exclaimed. "But I think I just might love winter more as it builds up all the anticipation of seeing the trees in full bloom." His eyes were shining to match his cheerful smile. Athrun was torn, he knew he had to tell Kira he was leaving, but on the other hand he couldn't bear to hurt Kira by telling him he was leaving.
"Hey you know that Bird I told you was preposterous?" Athrun asked.
"Yeah, that was my idea that you laughed at." Kira pouted.
"Well I made one for you." Athrun said pulling a green and yellow mechanical bird, not yet switched on.
"I thought you said it was 'preposterous'?" Kira asked in a playfully mocking way.
"Well I was listening to you grumbling, which, by the way only I will ever be able to make sense of, and I pieced together all that information and found it quite probable. I knew you thought they would be awesome so I made it for you." Athrun replied. "It was supposed to be for you birthday... but something came up." Those last words were spoken very quietly and Kira almost didn't catch them. The younger boy had his head bowed so that his midnight locks hung in front of his face. He turned the bird on for the second time letting it fly to Kira.
Kira looked to the boy he'd always looked up to catching the little bird on his right index finger. "What came up, Athrun?" His voice in that shy, quiet tone like that he'd used when they first met.
"My dad's moving me and mom away to the PLANTS." Athrun responded and he looked back up into Kira's eyes, tears shining in his own sparkling jewels.
"Well it's not as if you're leaving right away, right? You'll still be here for my birthday in a week and a half, right?" Every word got more and more desperate as the small boy went on. His eyes filled with tears and the little bird hopped up to his shoulder.
Athrun slowly shook his head. "We're leaving tomorrow." He gave simply. Kira's lip trembled and the first tear made it's way over the dam. Kira sniffed trying to keep from all out crying. Athrun had taught him to be strong.
"Why?" His voice was weak and quiet not wanting to believe what his friend just told him.
"I don't know. Dad never said he just told us we were leaving the moon." Athrun looked around them. It was ironic really. It had been around this time of year when he first met Kira near a tree, though it had been an oak.
Kira couldn't keep it in any longer and started sobbing quietly. Athrun came up to hug the small brunet and buried his nose in Kira's soft brown hair. "Sorry, Kira but for now this is farewell. I wish you well in everything you do." He mumbled before placing a small kiss on the top of Kira's head in farewell and started to walk away.
"But you can't leave." Kira said softly to the ground but at Athrun's distance there was no way he could hear. "I love you."
"May we meet again." The blunet called sorrowfully over his shoulder, not trusting himself to look back at his distraught best friend.
"Torii, torii." The little bird called as the younger disappeared from sight. Kira gave the bird a tear filled smile.
"You're Torii aren't you." He told the bird and started walking home, still crying.
The words Athrun spoke stuck with Kira over the years and they did meet again, though on the opposite sides of a war. From then on they kept meeting and always with the promise to kill the other though neither really ever ment it. They seemed to be destined to heartache as they fought never really wishing to be in the position they were in. It now seemed preposterous to follow the path that had seemed so clear when they were younger.
Wonton: We're contemplating a sequal but we need to finish our Here is Greenwood one-shot first.
DIF: Review please! this is our first GS ficcy ever.
Randa: We beg of you. TELL US WHAT YOU FEEL! please!
DFF: Just so you know those girls above me all cried while writing this.
Wonton: Shut up, just because we're not emotionless freaks doesn't mean anything, Freak! (Smacks Fire on the head)