Out of Nowhere
Chapter Summary: Athrun's face is scrunched in concentration but remained handsome nonetheless. What seems to be the problem? Read if you want to know (Alternate Universe).
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Author's Notes: Oneshot, supposedly, but I decided against it. Everyone would most likely be out of character. You've been warned, guys. *LOL* AsuCaga rocks!
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Chapter 1: Backfired
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The sun had risen up, its rays passing through the white billowy sky.
The floras are still dripping with morning dews that when sun rays hit it, it glistens.
Birds are chirping merrily as if singing their morning jingle.
It is a pleasant morning...
And supposedly, a peaceful one…
But here we are hearing a heated discussion between two people in a nearby garden… not just any garden but the Zala mansion's garden actually.
One is intensely stating his point, while the other is listening at the sidelines…
"Think. Think. Think. What could I possibly do to put a stop to their ridiculous idea…" he contemplated, sitting on a white steel chair, his legs crossed and his face scrunched up in concentration but still a face that could make any girls swoon despite his current facial expression.
He remained handsome nonetheless even though he's just wearing a plain white collared polo shirt with some undo buttons showing a bit of his chiseled chest and black pants with matching black leather shoes.
The butler, who is equally endowed with a good-looking face that you wouldn't even consider him as a butler because of his prince-like features, has been standing straight while watching him from a distance. He remained silent and waited for the young man to ask for his opinion… Or simply state his view when he feels like it.
A yawn escaped his mouth.
He then diverted his attention away from his blabbering young master. 'This should have been a beautiful morning, if only he didn't wake me up early. It's my day off for crying out loud!' He sighed. He looked back at his young master and after seeing that he's still deep in thought, he once again diverted his attention, but now to gaze at the garden's beauty.
The garden is such an amazing site.
Surrounded with a golden steel fence, fully bloomed floras can be seen around and multicolored butterflies are flying from one flower to another. The gentle breeze carries a lovely scent, thanks to the newly bloomed floras. Four arches of flowery vines can be seen adjacent to the beautiful fountain in the heart of the garden. A swan lake with a small bridge in its middle can also be spotted nearby. His young master is sitting somewhere near the back glass door of the mansion, where white pieces of benches surrounding a cute little white table is located.
A beautiful site indeed!
If only…
"This is pointless!" he stood up from his seat and started walking to and fro.
The butler hastily turned his head back to the frustrated young man, 'Yeah. Glad you finally noticed…' he whispered under his breath, followed by a snicker, his young master clueless at his side comments.
"How can I even persuade them if they have already planned everything without informing me first?" the young master said to no one in particular, his voice rising a bit.
"Tsktsk…" the butler uttered, his head swaying from side to side.
The disturbed lad whipped his head to where the voice came from. Upon noticing his butler's presence behind him, he gave him a look of bewilderment… Unaware that he has been there with him the whole freaking time.
Kira ignored the look he's giving him and took some steps towards his master. He stopped a few meters away from him, folded his arms, and uttered, "Pardon me young master but admit it, it's partly your fault, you know…?" His eyes fixated onto his master.
The young man stared at him hard… as if he grew horns on the top of his head.
The butler smirked while swaying his head from side to side. "They got fed up… Whenever they inform you about things concerning such matters, you always ruin it. End up doing a victory dance while saying out loud that you have saved yourself from jeopardy," he continued, feeling sympathy for the young man's parents.
"Are you on my side or what!" he retorted, his face dangerously near the butler's face in a matter of seconds. How he managed to do such thing with such lightning speed remained unknown.
Nonetheless, his butler stood his ground and gave him a knowing look.
Intimidated by his calm yet strong demeanor, he broke his challenging gaze away from his butler's face and admitted, "You are right..." his face looking at the ground and his voice sounding a bit strained.
The handsome prince walked away.
His butler smiled triumphantly.
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"But still…" the princely lad began.
The butler turned his head hastily, and looked at his young master with wide amethyst eyes.
"I can't believe why they have to be so stubborn!"
The butler knocked his forehead. 'I thought he already admitted his fault…? Now he's beginning all over again… Argh! He's hopeless…' He sighed then bowed his head in surrender.
The azure haired lad, unaware of his butler's malady, unrelentingly argues with himself while walking to and fro. It was rather a hopeless argument… "Don't I have a say in this at all?" the young man continued his retort, a scowl lingering on his face.
His butler raised his head again to look at his master.
"They should have at least asked for my opinion regarding this matter… Why decide for someone else's future…?" he continued.
The brunette muttered under his breath, "Retorting over and over again…? Doesn't that make you more like the stubborn one?" He snickered secretly.
Unfortunately the young man caught him snickering behind… 'What's so funny? I'm being serious in here, how dare he laugh at my current predicament? So much for being MY best friend…' He glared at him.
The butler stopped snickering upon receiving a death glare. One that will give you the impression that if looks could kill, you would have been dead by now… "Sorry…" the butler uttered in a sheepish manner.
The glare lingered for awhile before it finally subsided…
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And so the young man continued, "I have no plans yet to get married. Father should know by now that I'm not interested. This has always been the issue between us. He always kept on bugging me to get a wife… As if he wanted to get rid of me as soon as possible…"
"Young master, don't think of it that way… Think positive. I'm sure they have a reason for doing this."
"I wanted to... And I even tried to… But my mind just can't seem to come up with a better reason why they would do this," he paused. "And I thought that it's already worse at that time, I realize just now that having my mother as his ally is far worse than I can ever imagine. So much for believing that mom would take my side if it comes to this…"
"You can't blame them," he paused. "You're already… what? 20 years old? And your father and mother aren't getting younger either, so you should understand that they are expecting grandchildren by now seeing that no one knows if they'll still be here when you finally planned to get married," the butler explained knowingly.
"Still it's not right to force me to marry someone I haven't even met," his voice dropping a bit, "It's like forcing me to commit suicide…"
"Well then, do you have any alternative solution, young master? Seeing that the marriage is actually 'planned out' and there's no way out of it, perhaps we could alter some conditions. Maybe a lady of your own choice, as to at least marry someone you actually know instead of a total stranger…"
"Hmm… I have considered that but the main problem remains the same, I still haven't found the right girl yet… And would you please stop calling me as 'young master'–"
"What about 'young sir'?" his butler suddenly intervened.
"That's the same! Are you intentionally irritating me, KIRA?" he glared.
He laughed uneasily, while taking little backward steps away from the fuming lad. "Sorry 'bout that… Just got carried away…" a nervous laugh escaped his mouth.
Athrun continued on giving him a death glare.
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Standing in a reasonable distance away from the said lad, the brunette nonchalantly said, "Well what are you waiting for, Athrun? It's not as if your destined mate will fall out from the sky–"
"Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Their talk ceased upon hearing a piercing shriek echoing out of nowhere…
"What was that?" Athrun said.
"I don't know…" Kira answered, his eyes roaming around the area. He looks around the vicinity to determine where that shriek has been coming from. And although it's a ridiculous thing to look up to the sky, it won't hurt to do so, so he look up and saw something…
Falling out from the sky is a mass of white unidentified thing, heading right unto the prince…
"Athrun! Above you!"
The azure haired lad looks up and before he could even react upon seeing that an unidentified object is falling straight towards him, he suddenly felt another weight pressing him to the ground.
Good thing, he didn't pass out!
The unidentified thing hurriedly moved away from him, right after the fall, sitting in a manner where she's hugging her legs and her face buried onto her knees to hide her face.
Kira seeing the scene before him, decided to help his best friend to get up since he's the one who needed more help than the unknown girl.
"Thanks, Kira…" he muttered, though still out of breath from the sudden impact. He didn't waste time and looked around right away.
Kira noting his young master's strange behavior, decided to help him, "Athrun… If you were looking for her… Well… She's just right there…" he said pointing behind him.
Athrun quickly turned around to confront the thing.
But when his eyes fell onto the 'thing', he dumbly muttered, "She's… a girl?"
"I referred to her as a 'she', didn't I…? It's not my fault you're so slow," Kira stated in as-a-matter-of-fact tone, his eyebrow shut all the way up his forehead, his last statement, meant not to be heard by poor Athrun.
Athrun, bewildered upon his discovery, ignored Kira's statements and focused his attention to the young lady. He discretely runs his eyes over her petite form.
"Are you… Are you okay, my lady?" Athrun asked, offering his hand to help her up.
The said lady is clad in a white coat that obstructs everyone's eyes from seeing her face.
But as soon she looked up...
The white coat covering her head fell off, revealing a flawless face with her darkened eyes looking straight at him.
Emerald meets Amber.
It was as if time stopped…
And all that exist are only the two of them…
Everything seems to be perfect…
"Did it hurt?" Athrun ask all of a sudden.
Everything…
"Did what hurt?" the beautiful girl retort back, clearly no mood for a chat.
Everything, I tell you…
He ignored the sour look on her visage, and said "Falling out of heaven…" He smirked and waited for her response.
Silence reigned over the area…
And only the birds' chirping coming from the nearby tree can be heard…
She stared at him.
Stared long and hard…
But he received no response…
Except a humorless stare from her beautiful golden eyes.
Obviously, an absolute failure!
He was taken aback when the mysterious lady hurriedly stood up and walked away from him. "Hey, wait up! Don't go just yet…" He followed suit.
Unfortunately, he lost sight of the lady, and was left staring into space… His right hand was left hanging in mid air, yet to touch even the tip of her hair. He was lost… So lost within a world of his own…
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But not for long because he was brought back from his reverie when he heard a boisterous laugh from behind…
The culprit…?
…is none other than his butler and best friend…
Kira.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Sorry… Can't help it… You were so funny! *laughs* But I personally love those cheesy lines…" He snorted.
Athrun glared at him, but Kira ignored it and continued with what he's saying.
"Did it hurt?" Kira said while imitating Athrun's gentle voice.
"Did what hurt?" came Kira's imitation of the young lady's irritated voice.
"Falling out of heaven…" he uttered, his eyes imitating that flirty look on Athrun's eyes awhile ago.
Followed by a roar of laughter…
"Kira." he muttered under his breath, his knuckles turning white.
"Oh, I'm not yet done … Athrun that was so cheesy…! I can't even imagine… you are capable of being a cheesy lad (though he personally preferred referring to him as a fool…) but unfortunately, it was a complete failure…" he said, followed by a hearty laugh.
"Kira…" he warned.
Kira pay no heed to the warning and continued, "It was a complete failure, I tell you! An epic one…!" Then he laughed his heart out as if there's no tomorrow.
"KIRA… You're going down…!" Athrun fed up with his idiotic friend, charge towards him.
Kira revert his look of complete happiness into that of horror, nervously looking at his advancing friend. "Oh come on…" An uneasy laugh escaped his mouth. "You know it was funny… So it's not entirely my fault… right? Athrun…?"
"Kira… Kira… Kira…" he said in a sinister way while shaking his head in a disapproving manner. "You know… I actually planned to thank you for helping me up…But…" he paused. "I change my mind… Since I realized you really love making fun of me… Why don't I have some fun for myself…?" A dangerous smirk made its way to his handsome face.
Kira step backwards away from him. "We're best friends, right? This was supposedly something you should just laugh at and let go… No violence involve…" he said while his hands are in front of him acting as his shield.
"I never planned this to happen… If only you have helped me caught up with her… You wouldn't be in this situation… But what did you do? You chose to watch from the sidelines! Now what? You are laughing at me, huh… YAMATO!" Athrun said while walking like 'a predator towards its prey', poor Kira. "You brought this to yourself… I'm just doing you a favor since it's as if you missed having a taste of my fist…" he continued, his eyes having a dangerous glint on them.
'Looks like he's serious now… I've got to get out of here or else… It'll surely be the end of my life…' Kira grimaced. A nervous laugh escaped his mouth. "Athrun, my friend, calm down, will you…? I was just joking…" he uttered, completely uneasy of what Athrun will do this time.
As far as he can remember...
The last time he made fun of him… He ended up in a hospital for almost 2 weeks with some broken bones and a black eye as souvenirs...
He is the nicest best friend ever!
"Not a chance now, Yamato… You've had your fair share of laughter… Now, now, would you deprive me the privilege to have some fun…?" he asked obviously faking a gentle tone, standing dangerously near Kira this time.
Kira looked sideways to look for any escape route…
Even the slightest possibility of escaping the clutches of his evil friend would be great...
But unfortunately…
It's not his lucky day.
From a distance, a loud cry of pain can be heard…
Kisaka, the head butler of the Zala's estate, was one of those who have heard it.
"Poor young man…" he mumbled under his breath.
And then he called out one of the maids…
"Ms. Yako, call for an ambulance right away. We have an emergency…"
"Yes, Mr. Kisaka…"
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Author's Notes:
This is made as a thank you gift for Cagalli_Haruka_Zala, rizacaga, Maria-Reynne, empatheticsympatheticpathetic, and Latias_24 thank you guys for leaving a review for 'At Last'.
As for my chapter fic, 'Music to My Ears' please give me some time to think of how to build a foundation for the AsuCaga romance… But I'll be updating on Christmas break so watch out… *LOL*!
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Reviewers' Corner:
To Latias_24, thank you so much for the very fruitful review. I'm glad that you thought of Kira that way… But look at where he ended up to… *snickers* did he deserve it? I'll leave that up to you. About Athrun, yeah I agree, he's some sort of a cheesy fool or something… though his charms didn't actually work with the lady in white (you're right, it's Cagalli). Once again, I'm really sorry for the confusing change in POVs, I'm confused, myself… kidding! How did Cags fell out of the sky? Well, I'll be answering that question in the next chapter, I promise! You're welcome! *hugs back* ^^
To The_Blue_Mask-cara, thank you for the honest review, it gave me the push to add some bits of 'action' in this fic *laughs*. I share the same opinion about the lousiness of its ending so I decide to edit that part. And you're wish is granted 'cause I'll be adding some chapters to it. Thank you so much! XD
Reviews are always loved.
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Mahal ko kayo!
- chiko-chan -