Like the seasons

And I'm so happy to see people notice this awesome pairing. Now only if you people weren't newbs and didn't wait till this crap crawled its way into your television set to go... "Wow... Athrun and Shinn are an awesome pairing... wow..."

I'm done now.


One would assume that these two would always be at each others throats, willing to dig into flesh to prove a point, so no one ever questioned Shinn too much on his hostility towards Athrun. No one but Athrun at least, he always had to counter everything Shinn said and it drove him batty. Why did that guy have to be so smart anyways? He sat on the nice bed that was provided, thinking about all the things he'd like to do to Athrun, but the most dominate thought was to out think him. Somehow he'd feel like he'd won the war if he could do that at least once. A smile slapped across his face as he thought about the blue haired male's reaction. Oh happy days, he would feel on top of the world and would remind Athrun of it all the time. But first he needed to find the perfect situation...

Athrun had been talking to Kira for a short while now, smirking in triumph as the brunette smiled shyly.

"I must admit, now that I'm here, it's not so bad. I actually kind of like it here. It's secluded, intimate, and it's probably a lot of fun if you give it a chance..."

"See, now only if you had agreed earlier, we could have done this awhile ago." Athrun said slinging an arm around Kira, the other smiled a little more. "But... I guess I am glad that you dragged your new friends along, I got to meet knew people." Athrun reminisced glancing over at the now three pink haired girls, and blond, sitting in the hot tube. Although the hot-headed Shinn always managed to sneak into his mind; he slowly wondered to himself if the red eyed youth would like swimming...

Rey and seemingly mapped out the place already, walking towards the room that he assumed was Shinn's temporary station.

Knock, then enter, polite as always he shifted into the room even though he lacked a 'yes' to come in. He was right, this was Shinn's room. The boy was sitting on the bed, a note pad out and was scribbling something like a mad man onto the once clean pages. Shinn must've not heard him...

Carefully the blond made his way over to Shinn, reading what was wrote. What was he writing anyways, a love story of sorts? That conclusion was washed away as he noticed the name Athrun on one of the many lines. No, it would seem that he was making up as many possible situations and in all of them he won the argument... raising an eyebrow at this he sat next to Shinn, gently, and calmly taking the note book away. The black haired boy's head snapped up, a look of shock across his features.

"You-you scared me..." Shinn stuttered, singing in relief. "I didn't hear you come in." He didn't really expect much in the way of an answer from Rey so he kept talking. "Anyways, the book you took away is my master plan! I'm going to get Athrun good, you know, beat him at his own game!" Shinn grinned at himself, not caring too much if Rey liked his 'master plan' or not. Rey nodded and read over the notes. He soon grabbed Shinn's pencil and started to fix things.

"... Athrun wouldn't say that..." he stated simply, crossing it out. Somehow, Shinn felt like his dreams where being crushed.

"You know what! Fine, you fix it, I'm going to go get something to eat you... you Athrun expert!" Rey didn't even move as he continued to read, this just pissed Shinn off more.

Why was Rey so nonchalant! He stomped out of his own room and into the kitchen, swinging the door to the refrigerator open, barley missing his friend Lunamaria. She jumped back recoiling into some sort of strange pose, trying to refrain from yelling indecent words in the presents of Athrun.

"Sh-Shinn!" she glared, placing a hand firmly on the door. "You almost hit me!" the red eyed boy glanced over at her.

"Ah... sorry about that..." he grumbled, then sighed soon after turning to face her for a proper apology, other wise he'd regret it later. "I'm very sorry... I'm just, pissed off..."

"I know, I know, you're unhappy about this whole thing and you just want to go home." Lunamaria mocked in the kindest way she could, plastering a smile on her face to help reassure him that she actually cared.

"Y-yeah..." no, that really wasn't the whole reason, he just didn't need Lunamaria, the girl who was famous for not shutting up, to know his little... secret. She had a smug look on, pointing to the cans of pop.

"Be a doll and hand me one would you?" Shinn wordlessly did as he was told, handing her the pop and watching her half skip over to Athrun, without a word of a thanks, to offer the drink to him. Sometimes he really didn't like her... she was obsessed with this blue haired man; the very man who could magically piss him off with his mere presents from day one. Shinn couldn't put his finger on it; he didn't think it was because Athrun obviously had more money than he did. Shinn had been to Rey's 'house' several times and enjoyed the sheer size of everything. And he didn't think it was because he had a height complex, Rey was taller then he was... the more he thought about it the more it ticked him off. He was bloody inferior to both Athrun and Rey, how was this all justified?!

Oh don't worry Shinn, you get funny red eyes! Oh and you're also bloody pale with black hair, HA, you stick out well enough in a crowd that you can't possibly blend in even if your life depended on it! Yes... that justified being inferior to a pretty blond boy who was silent and never got in trouble and a blue haired jack ass you rubbed him the wrong way.

Fuck life was fair.

His eye's traveled over to the said male, glaring at him even if he couldn't see it. Shinn let himself study his suspect from behind his protective fridge door, he'd close it later.

"Athrun should be shorter..." he said with almost a satisfied smile as if that could fix everything. "Just a few inches..."

"That won't do anything other than make him about your height..." Rey's calm voice came out from behind him. Shinn clutched the door for dear life, that blond freak needed a bloody bell!

"Shut up, I wasn't talking to you!" he whispered for some unexplained reason.

"Right, I'm sorry, you may continue talking to the zucchinis..." again his smooth voice made Shinn pout.

"I hate you sometimes... anyways, can I have my master plan back. I need to write something down." Shinn just stuck out a hand, expecting Rey to pull it out of no where so he didn't have to move. Luckily for Shinn, Rey did bring it with him and handed it back before taking some sort of drink, leaving Shinn to read over his revisions.

The black haired boy looked at his note pad. He blinked at all of the pencil marks... all of his hard work... crossed out, scribbled would be more accurate... He read over all of Rey's comments and groaned. There was no way that he'd win at this rate. He let out a half scream and jumped back when the fridge started to beep at him. Telling him that he better close the door now or risk everything being spoiled. Sighing in defeat he grabbed a can of pop and closed the door.

He'd have to think of another battle plan. Maybe if he looked up something ridiculously unusual then he could stump the blue haired man. He smiled almost deviously at his thoughts, yes; he must get a hold of the comput... er... right. This was the middle of nowhere; it was a wonder that they even got the three lovely news channels with fuzzy reception up here. Sure they had tones of movies to keep them occupied, but that doesn't make up for the fact that if someone wanted to do some say 'homework' that they couldn't. His clever plan, foiled.

Athrun glanced at what one could presume as moping. The blue haired man excused himself and walked over to the slowly escaping Shinn. At first he studied his 'captive' trying to find out what was wrong without actually saying anything. His emerald eyes slipped down the length of Shinn's arm, his eye's landed on a coiled note pad, its pages open and if he tilted his head just right he could almost read what was on it. Shinn blinked, looking over his shoulder, he glared turning around to face Athrun.

"What are you doing!" he half hissed, defensively pulling his arms in front of him, the note pad pressed tightly to his chest. Athrun smiled lightly at this challenge.

"Nothing." His voice held a hint of amusement in his almost smooth voice. Shinn frowned, not backing down from his position in the kitchen; he was so close to the entrance too.

"Right; and I am Santa clause!" he sneered, not liking the closeness, but, if he was to back down...

"Oh? Well then 'Santa', I want my Christmas gift a little early." He stated matter o' factly, his eyes briefly going over the sheet on the front page. He noticed his name a few times. "That..." he pointed to the note pad. Shinn's head snapped down, and he turned his body immediately, not caring that Athrun won his one sided battle or not.

"No! Go find yourself another note pad, this ones mine!" with that Shinn darted out of the room. Athrun raised an interested brow, he didn't really want the note pad, but reading his name and the fact that Shinn won't let him see it made him want it...

Kira sighed, looking at his friend standing almost stupidly in the door way.

"You know, you should probably try to get him to like you, we're going to be up here for a bit and I'd rather not have to try and solve a murder mystery..." Kira joked, gaining him a smile from Athrun.

"Well, we'll know who did it." He joined in, Lunamaria puffed her checks

"That's not funny!" she stated, stomping her foot. Athrun and Kira apologized for being so... irrational.

Shinn was back where he started, staring at blank pages of a note pad hoping that something would jump off the page and tell him what to do. He put his pencil to the paper, drawing sketches of Athrun for no good reason other than he could. He shifted in his seat, changing his perspective of the page in a lame attempt to do better. A small smile touched his lips as he drew Athrun's mouth into a shy smile. Somehow, not thinking can make you feel better. He pulled the pad of paper closer to himself, going over what he could remember of Athrun's face till it was good enough for him. His eyes studied the page for a while, maybe Athrun wasn't all that bad... but he didn't have to admit that to anyone, slowly he let the page rest against his lips. But he'd still have to beat him at something...

Lacus sighed happily; her light pink bathing suit wasn't too far off from her hair color. She looked over at her tom boy friend Cagalli, the girl was talking to Meilin about what could be assumed was a sport of some kind. Athrun's little piece of frozen paradise seemed to bring out the best in her normally bossy friend. Cagalli whipped around, the largest grin on her face she'd ever seen.

"You know what!?" she started, she had scared Lacus a little, the girl had placed an elegant hand on her chest to calm herself down.

"No, what it is Cagalli?" she asked softly, leaning forwards sensing her friend's enthusiasm.

"We, You, Meilin, Lunamaria and I all need to go out and fight the boys in a snow ball fight or something to that affect!" Meilin giggled at the idea, obviously enjoying the thought of beating the boys.

"Oh my, that sounds like a lot of fun!" she smiled her loving smile, holding her hands in front of her chest. Cagalli smirked, looking over at the two boys and Lunamaria.

"It won't be that hard, and we should make it interesting... we should make a bet. You know, if we lose we'll have to do something that the guys want, and if they lose..." a devious grin.

"Do you think they'll go for that idea?" Meilin chirped up, practically leaning on Cagalli so she could get in on the conversation. Cagalli nodded.

"Of course they would, the only thing bigger than a man's stomach is his ego. So it won't be that hard, if they refuse we'll just taunt them a bit, that'll at least make Shinn cave; and he'll get the rest of the boys to join." Complete confidence seemed to seep from her voice, it was almost spell binding. There was just one question biting the end if their tongues to be asked.

"... so... what are we ganna make the boys do if they lose?" Meilin started slowly.

"Yes, that would be a very good thing to know..." Lacus added. Cagalli thought on this for a moment.

"Girls, I'm going to need a little help on this one..."

Evening had made a graceful turn around the corner, illuminating everything in a light that only it could produce. Of course nights come faster as you go higher, although that didn't help quell the thoughts racing through some peoples minds, wondering were the day went. Meilin linked arms with Athrun to get his attention, it worked. He was on his way to his room.

"You could've said something instead of clinging to me." Athrun informed her, she just smiled cutely.

"Oh that's okay, I like surprising people!" she let go and moved in front of him, affectively blocking his path. "Anyways, me and the girls wanted to challenge you and the boys to a snow ball fight!" she pointed towards the den. Silently Athrun wondered why they picked her to be their designated informer, but he let it go.

"That sounds like fun, but I'm not the one you need to convince..." Athrun waved her off lightly before pointing to Kira. "If he doesn't go then I won't either." Meilin nodded sharply.

"Well, then I'll just go convince him." She sounded determined. With that the pig tailed girl half sprinted over to her newly acquired target. Athrun continued down the hall way till he found himself in front of a door; Shinn's door. Out of boredom he pushed the wooden slab out of the way, finding that the room was peacefully quiet. Shinn was spread out on his bed, arms wide, welcoming anything that wanting to join.

Quirking a brow, Athrun pushed the door shut behind him and walked over to the bed. He leaned over to see if Shinn was paying any attention to anything, no, he was asleep. Shinn was even snoring a bit; it was a wonder that didn't give it away. Slowly Athrun decided to test the deepness of the others sleep, by gently calling Shinn's name.

"... Shiiiiiiiinn..." Athrun whispered "Shiiiiiiiiiinn." He called again, this time a little louder. He paused, and was about to try once more when the boy sat up. Athrun jumped, not expecting the speed at which this action was preformed.

"... Athrun... doesn't like me..." Shinn said with a frown.

"... What?" that didn't make any sense.

"Why doesn't he anyways... I just don't want to be here..." Shinn groaned, pulling his legs up to his chest, he blinked a few times before looking at Athrun. It was at that moment he realized, Shinn was talking in his sleep, people read about this kind of stuff happening all the time, but they never really think that they'd experience it.

"I don't think Athrun dislikes you." He offered the answer for himself. Shinn blinked a bit, considering it.

"Then why did he take my hairbrush...?" Shinn tried to make some sort of motion with his hands "And 'fix' my hair...?" again the boy pouted.

It was strangely cute.

"I think... it was because he wanted you to look nice." It was sad to admit to himself, but this was the most civil conversation he had ever had with Shinn. There was a short pause, and Athrun had thought that maybe Shinn had fallen asleep sitting up like that.

"... Can you tell Athrun... that I don't hate him either...?" a shy voice, not one that Shinn would've been proud to use. Athrun stopped for a moment, looking at this strange sleep-talking boy as if he just sprouted another head.

"... Yeah..." came the slow reply. Shinn fell back onto his pillows; he must've solved his problem.

Athrun inched closer to the other teen, pulling the blankets from around his waist up to his neck; he should at least make sure Shinn wasn't going to freeze to death.