Hello! Sorry for the long hiatsu! After careful plan (once again), finally, the finalised version is agreed by my precious, nice friend here.
So, hope you guys enjoy with the edited version. And more to come (soon, I guess, if I got some free time to kill)
Once again, enjoy XD
Chapter 1 : Encounter : Hero and demon
[the sound of blazing fire, engulfing an abandoned house, somewhere at a colony]
"It's a promise, I will definitely return, to our home" A wide, innocent smile of a little boy that faded, slowly.
The words echoes in Kira's mind, after he had found an old picture of two young boys (one is an older boy which had blond hair, standing besides a brown coloured hair, giving the a wide smile where all the deciduous teeth can be seen) from his locker.
Laying down on the deck, behind the ship, while looking back at the nostalgic picture,
"A hero, till the end, huh?" he mumbled in a sad tone, accompanied by drops of tears.
"Captain, here you are, we've been searching long for you inside," said Luna
"There is no need to address me as captain,"
"Are you crying there?"
"No, there is just err, dust. Dust that enter my eyes, that's all," while wiping of the tears and hides the picture into his pocket.
"I am here to report that we have arrive at A nation. We will be touching down soon," "Wait, are you listening?"
"The sky, it's beautiful. If 2 people look at the same sky even when they got separated, isn't it will be a link, that transcend time and space, connecting between these 2 people?" while looking at the vast azure sky.
"What do you mean by that?"
"It brings back memories, I remember it clearly, an idiot who said that, once," Kira gets up, and leaves the area, heading towards his room, leaving Luna wandering about his words.
"A word of advice, promise shouldn't be made easily, especially when the promise is impossible to be kept,"
It was right after the major war ended, nations, which was once controlled by the Federation, trying to reach out and come into terms with other nations and not to forget, the new PLANT. Everyone are trying to find ways to avoid war by visiting each other and understand between one another.
Afteh safety dock at the harbour, Kira, Luna and Shin heads out as they have quite an important task, to having a small talk with the president of the A nation, President Edwardson the third, while the others are busy resupplying the mother ship.
As Kira walked pass through a basketball court where a group of teenage boys playing street basketball, he was attracted to a boy with a white handkerchief tied onto his neck, with a great street basketball skill ( great control of the ball, pass through every layer of the defence, and doesn't even fail to score)
"Nope, its like this," An older boy was teaching a little boy on how to shoot in basketball... (Flashback)
Unawared, the ball went straight to his face.
"Yuki, who are you passing to?" said one of the guy.
"It's your fault that you can receive my pass, don't just put the blame on others. Just admit it, you can't even catch the simple pass. Told'ya, I can crush these guys on my own. There isn't need of you guys here, hogged all the fun of playing basketball with this sweet "teamwork" thing,"
"What did you say?"
Both forehead meet, and stared at each other. Neither party wants to lose in their principle.
Yuki backs down. Knowing that he will lose. (9 versus 1).
After the gang walk out, Yuki approaches Kira.
"Are you okay?" he held out his hand towards him, with a wide smile "I'm terribly sorry for that, but would you like me to treat you for, maybe cakes,"
As Yuki bends forward, his necklace comes out from his shirt. A rectangular necklace, which resembles a necklace which he used to know, which he had gave it to someone, someone precious to him when he was a kid.
"I will definitely never let go of this," A young blond boy holds the necklace in his hand. "Thank you very much,"
"My name is Hiroyuki, or can just call me Yuki," Yuki introduced himself to Kira.
"Is it?" Kira smiles " I guess I mistaken you to someone that I knew before, by the way, my name is Kira, Kira Yamato," Both shaking their hands.
"Kira? That name sounds familiar, but, who cares, ahahahahaha," Yuki scratches his head with his left hand.
"Actually, I'm in a hurry. I need to find this address," Kira passes the piece of paper with written down the queen's mansion.
"Oh, you're a lucky person, that's my house," Yuki smiles widely. The same smile which that guy had.
"Come, let me bring you there, it's not far from here," Yuki continues.
They arrive in front of the mansion's gate.
"It's me, Hiroyuki," Yuki reported towards the guard. "And I brought along a new friend," he smiles, again.
"Yuki, I need to do a full body search on your friend here,"
"Why do you bother to do this kinds of pain in the neck thing?" Yuki answered.
"Yuki, you know the limit, don't you? This is the president's mansion, and …"
"and this is my house,too," Yuki answers before the guard finishes his statement (of advice)
"This guy, is he serious? An enemy can easily manipulate him and infiltrate the nation. This guy is really innocent or ignorant,"Kira thinks.
"Come with me," Yuki said, but Kira rejects his sincere offer.
"I'm actually an officer, from ZAFT. Yuki, thanks, but no thanks. I will be joining soon,"
"Is that so? What's so great about army? Do you guys enjoy the war? Well, I bet that you guys did," Yuki said in an angry tone and fled.
"Sorry, boy, you have to forgive him, he doesn't like to be involved in military and politics matters. Even when he's older than you,"
"Nevermind. I get that a lot. He, he must be hating the war so much,"
A knock sound is produced.
"Come in," said Diane Edwardson. "I've been waiting for you, come, have a seat,"
Meanwhile, in the city, Shin and Luna are busy walking and looking around that they do not realise that Kira was gone.
"This nation, 100% of the residents are natural, there isn't any coordinator here. Based on my research that I had done earlier, this nation previously had set a rule where people in this country must be entirely natural, without any genetics being engineered. It was a tradition, if one was found, execution will be conducted, no matter what the reason. Well, many murder happened here, and the nation legalise these kinds of action. But, after the war ended, they stopped all these nonsense. However, still, not many coordinators dare to step their foot into this nation." Shin tries to amaze Luna.
"Shin, does unbreakable promise exist?"
"Well, for me it depends. There are some promise that a guy cannot break once they make it, and there are some cases where the promise made is impossible to achieve for. Why do you ask this kind of question out of nowhere?"
"It's Kira, he seems quite sad before we reach here. And he was holding a piece of paper with a photo, and hid it," "Speaking of which, where is he?"
"Looks like he wandered on his own again, disappeared from everyone's sight again."
"Before I want to start our little talk, I actually have a personal request that I want to make to you," said Diane.
"Actually, I made you guys to come to pick up Yuki, back to PLANT or ORB,"
"Why would you say that?"
"You see, Yuki was an adopted orphan, picked up by my late husband, from a battlefield. My late husband had kept this secret for a long period, until when he died, then I knew about this matter, that while serving for the Fedration, he secretly hid a child with him. And the child is….,"
"A coordinator,"
"Yes, and me too, secretly raised him here even with the restrictions being made," " But this boy, when I met him, he's such an innocent kid, but he never talk about his past life before us meeting him, maybe he doesn't want to remember it anymore, those bitter experiences,"
"Why did you want to protect him till this extend?"
"He looks like my long lost son. Even though we lost him when he was an infant, but there is this parents's instinct that says that he was our long lost son. There is this unexplainable science of feeling that whenever he is around us, there would be a very pleasant feeling,"
"Did he knew about it, I mean Yuki,"
"He knew that he is a coordinator. But he still sees me as his adoptive mother,"
"Why did he hate military and war so much?"
"His father, which is my late husband, was executed by the Federation since he violated the rules and adopted an enemy child. That boy saw his father died in front of him. It's just fortunate that I knew about it earlier, and saved that kid. Erasing every evidence that I could, at that time," "But, this matter, had resurfaced recently, and thus, I want you to bring him to a safer place, to a place where he belongs," begged Diane. "I doesn't want him to suffer anymore,"
Suddenly, gunshots are heard.
"Mom, there are bad guys coming in," said Yuki, in a terrified tone. "And you," Yuki grabbed Kira's neck, trying to strangle him, but is stopped by Diane.
"Follow this guy, Yuki, he will bring you to safety," said Diane.
"Everyone in the military can go to hell," Yuki stress out.
"Yuki, let go of him," begged Diane.
At that moment, the door is forcefully opened. Diane pushes the boys aside, away from the door, behind the sofa, resulting herself being shot, till death. The lifeless body collapsed in front of both of them.
After the gun round finish, Brady came in, together with Aina.
"Where is the other two bodies?" asked Brady. "Just come out, where ever you two are~,"
"Brady and Aina, what are they doing here?" mumbles Yuki.
"Boys, burn this place down, if they are still alive, they will be out from their hide and seek game," added Brady.
Both leave the place as soon as fire is started.
"With this, we can kill both of the coordinators. One which has the highest bounty reward for his head, while the other, is just a useless and defected coordinator," smiled Brady sinisterly.
"Looks like you hunted really well, brother," said Aina.
"When that guy is gone, nothing can stop us," added Brady.
As soon as they left the room, Kira pulls Yuki's arm. He reaches his transceiver exited the room, together with Yuki.
"Code red. There is a coup d'etat," as they run from corridor to corridor, passing through rooms by rooms which are engulfed by fire.
They arrive at the living room, where the main entrance is just in front of them. Kira senses that the group are surrounding the mansion.
"Do you believe in miracles?" asked Kira to the scared Yuki. A question out of nowhere, maybe to calm him down.
"No, there are no miracles. It does not exist,"
"Then, do you believe in promises?"
Yuki stays mum.
"I had been through a lot of miracles, to be alive till this day, but I don't think that miracle will happen again in my case, but yours, if you believe it strongly, there will be a silver lining, for you,"
"And, can you promise me something, promise me that you will say sorry on my behalf to my fiancé, that I broke a promise to her," Kira stands up.
He turns on his transceiver for the second time, " At least, save Yuki," He passes the transceiver to Yuki.
"My friends will help you. Ah, before I forget, please help me keep this picture," he passes his picture to Yuki.
"It's been a miracle for me that, I got to talk with you, even though you are not him. Now, use the back door and run, while I distract them,"
Yuki leaves Kira to escape for his life.
"A hero, till the end, huh? Kaito aniki,"
"The promise will soon be kept," Kira mumbles as he walks to the front door, picks up a long wooden stick, for self-defence.
The door opens. When the rear guard moves out from their position, Yuki escapes. Shots by shots can be heard. When he nearly reach the fence, Yuki hesitates. He looks back at the picture that he got.
"This, this is….."
"Don't touch my brother!" "If you want anything, just take me instead! Leave him alone,"
"For me, I am a hero, till the end!"
"It's a promise, I will definitely return, to our home" A wide, innocent smile of a little boy that faded, slowly.
Memories and memories keep flashing into Yuki's head. It is an involuntary process.
"I remembered now, he is, my little brother,"
Yuki runs back to get his precious long lost little brother. He regrets everything that he just did and said. He regrets that he ran away like a coward. The role was reversed this time.
He arrives at the front mansion. He sees blood spilling around, like someone spilled their ink or milk all over the place, but the colour is red. Smell of nauseating.
He sees Kira, barely standing with a wooden stick in his right hand. With all the wounds inflicted, it is impossible for a person to be able to stand up. Blood dyed his cloth, red in colour, and dripping non stop.
Just then, a shot is released from Brady. Immediately, he collapses, unable to maintain his balance.
"A demon is just a demon, whether the demon refrains himself to kill others, but, the power, which was owned by the demon, which was scared by everyone. Sleep well, my dear demon, and may we meet again at the other world,"
"You…"
Yuki charges forward, takes the stick and heads towards Brady. Yuki manages to miss the shots and hit Brady at the shoulder. Brady manages to fall back, if not he will sustain a major injury, just from a wooden stick.
"Now, here comes another demon," Brady said arrogantly.
"Hurry…. run….. away…," the faint voice coming from behind Yuki.
"No, you are wrong. I am not a demon, me, I am a hero, till the end!" shouted Yuki.
"Ani… ki," Kira loses his consciousness.
"You know that you can't win against me, don't you?" challenges Brady.
Eventhough the percentage of winning is nearly zero, Yuki still charges forward, fearlessly.
"What do you want to be when you're a grown up?"
"I want to be a hero, till the end!"
"Hero, huh? The one who protects everyone?"
"I don't know, sir. That's the only thing that I remembered,"
Yuki wakes up. Behind bars. With the wooden stick hold tight to his hand.
"So, you're awake," said Aina, who stands in front of Yuki, with just the bar which divides them. "I'm sorry to say that the guy who you tries to protect, is dead, due to excessive blood lost and some were shot at his vital organs. Normal living being would not even stand up like he did yesterday. He is indeed a demon,"
"That's why there is a high bounty for his head, and why mother as well?" Yuki angrily slams the bars.
"Mother? She was never our mother,"Aina said. "Her only son had died since young due to incompatibility with the engineered genes, and the three of us, Brady, you and me are her adopted child,"
"How, dare, you,"
"Times up for our little family reunion here," said Brady. "And according to the law, we will have to cut you down, since you are a coordinator, which resides and blends in with us,"
"Look, Yuki. I doesn't want things to change. Coordinators are something that cannot be changed. What I want is, total destruction of these monsters, like that little demon that you saw for your own self. If there are more of these demons, then humans will face extinction, get it?"
"So, you're doing this for human salvation?" asked Yuki.
"Yes, but…. you won't understand it, would you, because, you are not one of our kind,"Brady added. "Besides, the organisation is weak now, so it is a great chance to wipe out all of your kinds,"
"Soldiers, take him away, and execute him, in a most fun way," Brady added. "And, I will have that demon's death linked with you, in a very heroic manner. And, soon, you will be meeting him in hell. Don't you two forget about our date later in hell, if I became a demon as well," Brady laughed.
As the soldiers bring Yuki to the execution site, Yuki manages to escape. Together with the wooden stick, as his brother's last used item, he takes cover to the hangar.
There, he sees 4 different mobile suits. Without wasting his time, he hops into one of the mobile suit, equipped with 4 swords and 2 beam sabers.
"Can I do this, again?" He remembers he was being forced to pilot mobile suit at a younger age, which act as a decoy, before being saved by his adopted late father.
"There is no time to waste, I must run away, again, and this time, keep my promise, to him,"
"Let's go, gundam,"