Aki-chan: Yatta! I put up Chapter 2!
Chie: YES! I FINAL APPEAR!
Ichigo: Hai! Enjoy minna-san!
Disclaimer: All three of us do not own Gundam Seed if we did...well you know! XD Annnnnnnnnnnddddd..the song Sakura sings is called Mainichi(Everyday) and is Ichigo creation! NO STEALIES OR FACE THE HAROS WRATH! THEY'RE WEAPONS I SWEAR!
Chapter 2: Diverging Roads
It was hard to believe that today started out as a mildly normal day, then again, since when had Sakura's life been considered "normal?" Probably not since she was 4 years old…
Watching the screens around them, clutching tightly onto Kira's arm as a way to keep her balance as the Gundam they were inside walked about she caught sight of something on the screen and peered closer to see what exactly it was, or rather, who.
"Um….Sai-sama…Miriallia-sama…Kuzzey-sama…Tolle-sama…" Sakura's face dropped, "…onee-chan? Onee-chan's not here…"
Frowning a bit Sakura turned her attention to Kira who seemed to be wondering about something.
"She ran after Athrun..!" was the boy's response. The girl subconsciously gripped Kira's arm which earned her a look of surprise from the latter.
The Strike began to shake violently as they were being shot at; Kira grabbed onto Sakura and tried to maintain their balance as the woman, Murrue, tried to get a hand on things. Making sure Sakura was on her feet Kira had let go only to be shaken again, closing his eyes for impact it seemed he had landed on something soft. Sakura, able to witness the whole thing covered her face with her hands as it began to turn beat red. Seems empathy isn't dead in this day and age.
Murrue looked at the boy only to see he had landed on her chest. Kira on the other hand opened his eyes and shot up and apologized upon realizing what he had landed on.
"Get back! Do you want to die?" Murrue barked.
Kira ignored her and was shocked when he looked at the screens and found that a mobile suit was headed straight for them with a beam sword ready to chop them to bits and pieces. Murrue, however, being the clever Natural she is, had pushed one of the buttons on the control panel causing "Phase Shift Armor" to be put into action. The Strike's dull grey color had now been replaced by red, blue, and white. The other mobile however was persistent and tried to cut through, Phase Shift proved to be useful seeing as the beam sword wasn't doing a thing.
'This mobile suit...' he thought.
Sakura, witnessing everything had thoughts of her own. 'This mobile suit...if only I could get my hands on it…'
The battle didn't seem to be over yet but Murrue seemed to be getting tired, her shoulder was proving to be a problem for her.
Sakura looked to another screen and thought to herself, 'Onee-chan...where'd you go?' but she was pulled out of her thoughts when she saw that Aegis and the other stolen mobile suits were taking their leave but then focused her attention at the same mobile suit heading at them again, "That guy..!"
Deciding to take some slightly offensive action Murrue squeezed a trigger causing bullets to spray out from vulcans on the gundams head. But they were poorly aimed and they missed their mark.
"Eh! Even with this armor it's still…." Sakura frowned her face scrunching up, "Don't tell me the OS…."
Eyes still on the screens Kira noticed his friends desperately trying to avoid the fight between the two mobile suits, and also deciding that the woman wasn't doing a good enough of a job he reached over and pushed a button and pushed a lever causing the gundam to duck, then nudge the GINN back.
"Kira-sama! You're…"
"You!" Murrue spat out apparently about to reprimand him but he cut her off.
"There are still people here! Do something about it since you're in the pilot's seat!" Kira exclaimed as he hurriedly pressed more buttons on the console, "This won't do…using an OS like this to move such a machine…"
Sliding up onto Murrue's other side Sakura agreed, "So I was right….we have to re-write the OS before we can do anything with it…"
"It's not completed!" Murrue protested, "And there's no other choice!"
Sakura smiled at Kira, "We'll just have to make another choice then, right, Kira-sama?"
Before Murrue could protest again Sakura's tone became more commanding as she looked at the older woman, "Move back please. Hurry!"
"Hurry!" Kira mimicked.
Stunned Murrue looked back and forth between the two teens before relinquishing and moving back behind the seat allowing Kira to take her place in the pilot seat and Sakura to inch in closer to the seat.
"I'll take care of the rest," Sakura assured Kira as she put a hand on the seat to hold herself steady, "Leave it all to me."
Kira nodded, but apparently didn't understand what Sakura meant when he took a quick moment from re-writing the OS to punch the GINN in the face as it invaded their personal space muttering under his breath as he configured, "Starting the calibration, reconfiguring 0-Moment Controls and CPG. If I connect this machine's vision control directly to the aiming module neural linkage network will be optimized. Retrieving results from the meta movement parameters. Field forward control restarted. Commands inputted. Deviations corrected. Movent routines connected. System online. Movement strut activated."
Pouting a bit at her lack of knowledge for this kind of thing Sakura focused her attention on helping the gundam evade incoming attacks and did just that a few moments later when they were fired at. Before Kira could move Sakura had already jammed her foot on the pedal and shoved a lever activating the boosters that lifted them into the air and momentarily out of harms way.
During this momentary pause in the fighting Kira used it to access the inventory of the mobile suits weapons, "There's the Armor Schneider….is that it!"
Sakura thought quietly for a moment, it'd be preferable if they had a sword or a gun to fight back, "….we'll have to make due!"
"In a place like this…Stop it!" Kira cried as he trusted the knives into either side of the GINN's head.
Sakura allowed herself a brief sight before looking startled at Murrue's cries to move away from the GINN. Curious Sakura studied the screen in front of her and noticed someone who was most likely the pilot eject from the GINN, "No!"
However, Murrue's warning came too late and the explosion rocked the surrounding area and seeing the flames of the explosion and hearing Sakura's scream was probably the last thing Murrue remembered before darkness surrounded her vision and she blacked out.
After the explosion there was a peaceful lull in the battling that everyone was using to re-coop. Sakura being one of them. It seemed once again that the blond's health had caught up with her as she sat panting by a tree attempting to stabilize her raged breath.
Nearby the woman Sakura and Kira had encountered during the attack was lying on a bench and noticing her begin to stir Miriallia hurriedly called Kira over.
As the boy made his way over to his friend, he noticed the older woman struggling against the pain her injury caused and was trying to sit up, "You shouldn't be moving," suddenly feeling like a child that had disobeyed and stepped out of line his eyes focused onto the ground and he hastily muttered something akin to, "I'm sorry. I did something irresponsible."
Sensing the tight tension Miriallia quickly darted over to the nearby fountain and retrieved some water and offered it to the older women kindly in hopes to break the tension. Fortunately, Miriallia's plan worked and with Kira's aid Murrue was able to sit up and drink the water without any complications.
Unfortunately, some people nearby were oblivious to the situation they had been catapulted into and expressed childish interest in the large machine that had been carrying their friend.
"The Gundam is so amazing!"
"Can you move it or not?"
Sai, being responsible attempted to bring Tolle and Kuzzey back to reality, "You, don't play with that!"
No luck. Tolle and Kuzzey continued on like curious children.
"Why is it gray again?"
"The main battery is off or something."
Sakura, whom had been dozing off with her back pressed against a nearby tree suddenly felt her head snap up and she felt quite awake as a women's order to "Get away from that unit!" was punctuated by the sound of a gun being fired.
As always, disobedient children were disciplined. And, also as always, disobedient children made things harder for the others, as Kira found out as he tried to reason with the older women and found himself staring at the end of the gun barrel himself.
"I appreciate the fact you saved me, but that's a top secret of the army. It's not something civilians are supposed to play with." Murrue told the teenagers steadily keeping the gun steady.
"Why? Wasn't it Kira who was piloting it just now?" Tolle said and quickly raised his hands in a gesture of surrender when Murrue turned to point the gun at him.
"Everyone. Over here." she commanded and everyone began to line up feeling nervous, Sakura especially felt as such as she wandered over from her spot away from the group she was painfully aware that she was being held at gun point, Murrue ready to shoot her if she had attempted to break away and run.
"Tell me your names one at a time." Murrue commanded.
There was a brief stunned silence before the ball began to roll, "Sai Argyle."
"Kuzzey Buskirk."
"Tolle Koenig."
"Miriallia Haw."
"Sakura Rie."
"Kira Yamato."
"I am Murrue Ramius. I'm a commissioned officer in the Earth Alliance Army. My apologizes, but things have gotten to the point where I cannot allow you to go free," ignoring the collective "EH?" from the group she pressed on, "Regardless of what happened, you people have witnessed a top military secret. Until I contact the appropriate authorities to decide your arrangements you will have to stay with me."
As Murrue's words became punctuated with a stunned silence Sakura subconsciously gripped onto Kira's arm, 'Stay…demo…Koboyashi-dono…if they…'
"What…you've got to be kidding." Tolle said stunned.
"You will follow my instructions." Murrue insisted in a firm "No Questions Allowed" tone.
Despite Murrue's tone Sai decided to give setting them free a try, "But we're citizens of Heliopolis! We are neutral! We have nothing to do with the army and such!"
"That's right!" Kuzzey chimed in, "And why is the Earth Army in Heliopolis anyway? It's really strange."
Picking up the ball that seemed to rolling through the group Tolle put in his two cents, "That's right! That's why it turned out like this!"
Having enough Murrue fired a bullet over their heads into the air, the sudden loud sound achieving its desire effect. Some of the teens stood there stunned, Tolle and Miriallia clung to each other, and Sakura screamed and hid her face in the sleeve of Kira's arm, shaking violently, seemed just like Murrue reached her wits end with Tolle, Sakura was reaching her own with the constant gun fire. Though with what had happened, it was quite possible everyone was reaching their limits.
"Shut up! Kids that don't know anything...saying that it doesn't concern you because you're neutral. You can't really be thinking like that. A top secret of the Earth Army is here. And you have all seen it. That is your reality now."
"That's so unreasonable-"Sai began only to be cut off by an annoyed Murrue.
"Unreasonable or not, we're at war. Between PLANT and Earth, Coordinator and Natural, the world outside your own…"
There was an awkward silence between the teenagers as Murrue's open ended words hung in the air and on their minds…what would happen to them now?
Far away, yet oh so close, Athrun Zala sat in the cockpit of his newly acquired Gundam daydreaming away. What about, no one but him knows for certain, though judging from his sudden encounter with his long lost best friend, we can all speculate more or less correctly. Judging from the vacant look in his eyes it seemed he could daydream for hours, possibly even days; however a slight beep jolted him back to reality.
"Sorry! I tampered with what you were doing!"
Athrun looked a bit hazily ahead and noticed a man there, he was most likely a member of the ships maintenance crew, though at first Athrun couldn't quite place that fact coherently into his mind, which was still quite fogged from his revere, however once his mind had cleared he quickly reassured the man that it was quite alright and forced himself to pay great attention.
"We've already completed the exterior check and power charge. What about you?" the man inquired.
Suddenly realizing what he was supposed to be doing Athrun hastily replied, "I'm done too. But how can they be using this kind of OS?"
Apparently satisfied with the answer the man drifted off to attend to some other work, for which Athrun breathed a sigh of relief and pushed the keyboard back into it's proper spot and floated out of the cockpit intent on getting some rest, no matter how few the amount, when he suddenly felt compelled to look behind him into the cockpit…
There, poking just out from behind the seat were a pair of sneaker-clad feet and a few strands of dirty blonde hair with purple tips…
"…who's back there?"
Sitting up startled the girl's purple eyes locked with Athrun's green and a large sweat drop rolled down Akira's head, "Uh….hiya?"
"What are you doing back there? Better yet, how did you get back there?" suddenly images of when he saw Kira at Heliopolis flashed through his mind, the girl before him, was there, just in the background, holding onto another girl tightly, "You…you were on Heliopolis…weren't you?"
Akira nodded, "As for how I got back here…you really don't want to know."
Athrun sighed, sensing that from the tone of her voice he wasn't going to get anything else out of her on that subject, "Well, what's your name?"
"Akira Rie! What's yours!"
Athrun paused for a moment, should he?...why not?
"….Athrun Zala."
"Ahhh okay! Nice to meet you Athrun!"
"Yeah…" Athrun replied slowly, trying to place that face and name outside of the borders of Heliopolis, he was sure he knew someone just like her in the past. But who "Either way, please come with me, we'll have to put you in a room until we can figure out what to do with you."
Akira grumbled, "Jeez…that doesn't sound very fun…"
Athrun shook his head, "You shouldn't have snuck onto here then," he was about to make her walk ahead of him when she suddenly jumped on his back, "You...!"
Akira smiled at him innocently, "You don't mind do you? I'm not to heavy am I?"
"No...but...why are you being so friendly to me? I could hit you in the next few seconds for all you know, or do something else unpleasant" Athrun asked her as he carried her piggyback since her just hanging around his neck was causing him to suffocate.
"Because you don't seem mean Athrun, and if you did hit me…then I'd be very upset...and…I'd hit you back."
Athrun shook his head again; he just couldn't believe this girl, "Now I really wish I knew who you reminded me of…"
"Eh?" Akira cried leaning over his head to stare at him upside down oblivious to the light blush adoring his face, though perhaps she couldn't see it through the helmet glass, "I remind you of someone!"
"Y-yeah, a girl…one I knew when I was a boy…she had a similar, if not the same name as you, and a very similar face as yours."
Akira smiled gently, "Souka, did you like this girl?"
"T-That! That's not important right now!" Athrun stuttered as he felt his face heat up, if it was as red as it felt warm his face most likely resembled a tomato.
Akira giggled, "Aww! You did! You did! Well then, she must be very lucky!"
"I guess…I don't even know if she's still alive, either way, this is your room, please stay here." Athrun instructed as he set her down and keyed in the code to open the door to a small, plain room.
"Ehhhhhhh? Nooooo! I want to talk to you more!"
Athrun sighed and pushed her inside and shut the door, "Maybe some other time."
Akira spun around to face the door and yell at Athrun angrily when there was a yelp, a loud thud and a cry of "ATHRUNNNNN" from outside.
Sighing, Athrun pried the arms of the red-headed girl off his neck before standing and turning to face the culprit, "Chieko-san, Yzak's in the hanger."
Chieko Haruno, a girl with long red-hair and with eyes every-bit as green as Athrun's, crossed her arms and pouted, "Why do you always assume I want to talk to Yzak? Sure he's hot…and talented...and hot...and smart...and hot...oh and he's hot, but that doesn't mean I don't have other people to think about too!"
Athrun sighed, "You just said he was hot four times."
Chieko shoved her face into front of his and poked his chest with an index finger, "I did not! Get your ears cleaned out!" drawing away with an angry look it suddenly shifted to one of pure joy as she clapped her hands together, "So where's Yzak?"
Athrun sighed again, he really couldn't deal with this girl's mood swings, "He's in the hanger like I told you. Tell him to check for stowaways will you? I got one in the Aegis."
"Really?"
"Yeah. She's in the room beside us. She's around our age, though I'd say she's a year or two older then you are."
"Awesome!" Chieko chirped moving towards the door with every intention of introducing herself when the door suddenly slid open and she was bowled over by a gold and purple blur. With Chieko's sudden arrival Athrun hadn't had the chance to lock the door.
"Chieko!" Athrun cried whipping around to catch Akira make a face at him before making a mad dash, "Use your head next time!" he cried as he tore off his helmet and tossed it in the general direction behind him and started to head after Akira when his arm was grabbed and jerked into a painful position and his face thrown and pressed against the wall.
"Hey! Say you're sorry for throwing your helmet at me!" Chieko hissed as she wretched his arm higher and at a more painful angle causing Athrun to gasp in pain.
"I-I didn't mean to! I didn't know you were there."
"As if!" she snorted as she released his arm, 'I'm going to the hanger!"
Athrun sighed in relief as he rubbed his sore arm, what was it with women and causing him trouble today?
"Yzak!" Chieko chirped as she jumped into his lap as he sat inside Duel doing just what Athrun had been doing earlier.
"What?" Yzak asked glaring.
"Jeez…you're always in a bad mood, lighten up!"
Yzak shoved the keyboard back into it's proper place since he wasn't going to get any work done now and having both Chieko and the keyboard on his lap was beginning to give him feelings of claustrophobia, "And you're telling me this-"
"Ohhh! I wanna help!" Chieko chirped as she sat so she was facing forward in Yzak's lap instead of sideways and pulled the keyboard back out.
Ignoring the light blush playing on his face Yzak moved his head to the side so he could see past Chieko's long mop of red hair, "Haruno! Don't you have your own GINN to work on?"
"There was nothing wrong with it! Besides, don't you like my company?" she asked throwing a flirty smile over her shoulder at him and a sly wink.
"I…I…." Yzak stuttered before fuming so badly you could almost see the smoke coming out of his ears, "YOU! Stop trying to sabotage me!"
Chieko stuck her tongue out at him and was about to say something else when someone cried dramatically, "I know you!" and when the two pilots looked ahead of them they noticed a blond girl pointing at them dramatically.
Chieko twitched, a vein popping onto her forehead, it was that girl that ran her over in the hall.
"Say, are you two going out or something?" Akira asked.
"NO WAY IN HELL!" Yzak cried before Chieko could say anything in the affirmative, "She just does this on the spur of the moment!"
Put out but not defeated Chieko opened her mouth to retort, "He-"
"Oh so you hate her?" Akira chirped titling her head to the side.
"That's…that's not exactly it…it's more like I tolerate her."
In his lap Chieko felt herself beaming, that's the closest thing to saying he liked her that he's ever said!
"Ohhhh, anyway, what does this button do?" Akira asked as she began pushing several random buttons on the control panel of the Duel.
"YOU!" Yzak cried as he smacked her hand away, "What are you huh?"
'She's ruining my fun,' Chieko thought, 'RIVAL!'
Akira pouted, "How rude!"
"You're the one playing with everything!"
Akira puffed out her cheeks, "JEEZ!"
Suddenly unable to take no more Chieko pointed an index finger at Akira, "Go back to your room! Get out of here! You're supposed to be in your room!"
"Jeez…you guys are no fun!" and with that Akira floated off just as guards approached and departed on a quick order from Yzak as to which direction Akira took off in.
"Never thought I'd say this but, thanks Haruno."
"Hmphf! You're welcome." Chieko grunted as she floated out of the Duel's cockpit and stomped out of the room upon reaching the floor to which Yzak raised an eyebrow. What was with her?
If only he knew…
Keying in the code to unlock his bedroom's door Athrun Zala quietly slipped in and began unbuttoning his jacket after locking the door. He was finally off hours, time to unwind, and the best place to do that was in ones own quarters, even if you have a roommate, it's still your sacred space. No more briefings, no more mobile suit repairs, no noisy distractions, just peace and tranquility.
Suddenly the spinning chair by his desk spun around revealing, not his roommate, but Akira…
Suddenly his chance of having some peace and quiet seemed to be growing smaller by the minute...
"Welcome back!" Akira chirped in a hyperactive voice.
Surprised by Akira's sudden intrusion of his quarters Athrun dropped his jacket but hastily snatched it up and began buttoning it, incorrectly mind you, "W-What are you doing in here?"
Akira just giggled, "You're doing it wrong silly! Here, let me fix it!"
"N-No!" Athrun stuttered as he backed against the door, "I mean, what are you-?"
"Jeez, just let me fix it," Akira said as she crossed the room and began unbuttoning and then re-buttoning his jacket, "There. Say, what are those colorful balls?"
Following the blond's gaze Athrun noticed they were settled on the half assembled Haros seated on his desk, "Haros…they're pets."
"SO cute!"
"If you say so…"
Akira nodded, "Did you make them yourself?"
"Yes..."
"THAT'S SO COOL!"
Athrun swallowed, he had an idea who this girl might be in terms of his past, was it worth the risk to try?
"I made…a friend a bird as well…I was planning…on making a present for that girl, Akira-chan…that's her name. I was planning on making a pet for Akira-chan, but then she moved away."
"Awww…you really are talented though! These are so cute!"
Athrun's face turned pink as she gave him a warm smile, "T-Thank you…"
After a few moments of silence Akira began to investigate the rest of the room skipping around peering at everything curiously. Swallowing again Athrun decided to risk it,
"Hey…where did you live…before….did you ever live in Copernicus?"
Akira straightened up from peering under one of the beds in room to look at him, "Yeah! I lived in Copernicus with my sister Sakura!"
Athrun was startled, "Akira-chan…she…had a sister named Sakura…"
Still entirely clueless to the fact this boy maybe be "her" Athrun she cried "Amazing!" and was about to continue investigating when Athrun's next words stopped her dead in her tracks.
"…you can't be her though…you have the same name…your history is the same…your face is similar…you can't be that Akira Rie though…you can't be the only girl who treated me normally at school…"
"Well, what do I lack that Akira had?"
"Erm…well she didn't wear skirts and…" Athrun eyed and unintentional his eyes strayed too low, a problem that happens when the person you're looking at is smaller then you and turned red in the face hastily looking away, "and…something else she didn't have, that you do…but that's to be expected from the age difference…"
Luckily for him Akira didn't seem to notice he had been looking at her chest, otherwise Athrun might've been in a spot of trouble, "Ugh…I hate skirts. But my twin made me saying 'But you look cute in skirts!'"
Athrun turned his green eyes back on her, everything was falling into place, just like that puzzle he, Kira, Akira and Sakura worked on together for days to put together, the delay being due to having to search boxes for the missing pieces, "…did you have a friend named Athrun Zala? Did you sister like a boy named Kira Yamato?"
"Hai! Sacchan did have a crush on Kira!" cried Akira eyes sparkling before they dulled and became more suspicious, "Demo…you sure know a lot about me and Sacchan…"
"Because I'm that Athrun Zala…I have to be…"
Akira whirled around to face him and before Athrun could react he was forced back against the locked door when Akira lunged at him capturing him in a tight hug, "ATHRUN!"
Though he was momentarily stunned for a moment, the pilot quickly recovered and fiercely hugged his friend back face hiding in her shoulder, "Akira-chan…I thought….I thought….when you never contacted me…that…that you…"
"Died?" she suggested helpfully, "Me? Nah! Can't get rid of me that easily!"
Athrun pulled away a bit to look her in the face a small smile on his face, "I'm glad you can be happy about such a topic…"
Akira returned the smile, "Heh…"
There was a pregnant pause before Athrun embraced her tightly again,
"I missed you." Akira murmured.
"I missed you too."
"Yay!"
"You're the same as always aren't you?"
Taking her head off his shoulder she peered up at him, "Hmm?"
"Always so happy…"
Akira smiled, "That's me!"
Athrun smiled as well, "I see."
Together, in the silence of the locked room they embraced for a bit longer, glad to find someone to hold onto in this war.
Gently stepping into the sleeping quarters, Sakura quietly made her way to a set of bunk beds trying hard not to wake the top bunk's occupant. Though, it was so deafeningly silent that even the soft hiss of the automatic door closing and even the sound of her own breathing as she put a foot on the bottom bed to peer at the top bunk's sleeping occupant. Only…he wasn't quiet sleeping…his purple eyes were clearly out of focus, but they were still half open, occasionally drooping closed only to open up again just as clouded.
"Are you sleepy Kira-sama?" she asked shyly. After a few moments of not receiving an answer she pulled herself up onto the top bunk, sitting with her legs dangling over the edge and hesitantly reached over and shook him gently, "Are you awake? Kira-sama?"
Wearily Kira Yamato sat up rubbing at his sleep filled eyes vaguely wondering why it was so dark when he noticed the blond sitting next to him, "Oh…hey."
"I'm sorry for waking you. If…if…" she mumbled shyly her face turning red, "if you'd like….I could help you fall asleep if you're tired…everyone says I have a nice voice."
Kira nodded once and lay down again, closing his eyes and Sakura took that as her cue she tore her blue eyes from Kira, clapped her hands together tightly in front of her chest and took a shaky breath and closed her eyes before beginning to sing,
Every single day/I am/More and more/Uncertain
Of what our future holds/What our life is worth
These questions/Plague me constantly
I wish I could unravel them/And discover my true purpose/The reason behind my birth/The reason behind my life
The reason for my existence
Every day I try one more time/Every single day/
Every day/Our lives become more complex/Our wings become frail
Oh where are you?/I need you to be my support/I need a reason to press on
Every day/Every day I need you
My love/My love, please hold me…/Tightly
I am/Becoming weaker and weaker
As my body/Gives in
I wish I could/Be strong and tall/Like your reflection in my mind
But for now you're just that/My mind's way of torturing me/With sweet images
Of you/And a stronger me
Every day these things plague me/Every day unfulfilled dreams plague us all
Every day/I sing with all my heart/Pouring out my tears and anguish
Together one day/I hope and pray/That we can create/A beautiful melody
Every single day/My heart becomes more and more content
Because now I can feel/Your strength/Slowly becoming mine
My heart beat fluctuates/From illness and from love
I can feel your body pressed against mine/And it gives me unimaginable strength/Strength I grip onto desperately
Sadness is no longer an option
For you I'll be stronger/For you I'll sing/My song of passing days
Every day/You and I grow closer/Our bond grows stronger/Together we'll overcome this shaky time/As I sing this song for all
Every single day/I am/More and more/Uncertain
But this uncertainness/Is giving way
To love…
Letting the final note hang in the air, Sakura awaited a comment from Kira in case he was still awake, though nothing came. Opening one eye Sakura tried to glance at Kira out of the corner of her eye, noting his still figure she carefully turned around and noticed the peaceful expression on his face and his deep even breathing.
Out like a light.
Smiling Sakura gently, carefully pulled the blanket out from under him and pulled it over his sleeping form before gently brushing a few bangs from his eyes, "Sweat dreams…Kira-kun…"
Even more softly then when she entered Sakura slipped off the top bunk and tiptoed out of the room into the bright hallway, quickly forcing the door closed as not to risk waking the sleeping brunette. He needed his rest after all that happened.
Walking softly down the hallway, she pushed off the floor as she reached the anti-gravity area and grabbed onto a moving railing that would carry her to the room she was allowed to sleep in.
Thus, two journeys had begun: The journey of Kira and Sakura on the Archangel, as well as the journey of Athrun and Akira within ZAFT.
Two similar, yet completely different road, even though they had branched off from the same point oh so many years ago. Yes, even though the three separate paths had converged into only two…there was no telling when they would merge as one again.
PS: Most of these have been removed recently, but those curious for random Japanese please enjoy yourselfAppendix:
Ano hito: That guy
Arigato: Thank you
Demo: But
-dono: added to a person's name, shows greater respect then sama but it is normally more forced, it comes from "tono" which means lord.
Hai: Yes
Iie: No
Iya: No (stronger then Iie)
Kawaii : cute
-kun: added to (normally) a boys name to show a close friendship
Kisama: you (very vulgar, an equivalent English word would be bastard)
Kochi: Over here
Mou: Jeez
Minna: Everyone, all
Onee-chan: Big sister (more informal then Onee-san and Nee-chan but less then
Nee-chan)
-sama: added to a name to show great respect towards the person
Souka: I see
Sugoi: Cool/awesome (the word kakoi has the same meaning)
Sumimasen: I'm sorry (most polite form)/Excuse me
Yatta: Yay!
Yoi yume yo: Sweet dreams (literally "Good dreams")