Chapter 2
Ever since they returned from the lunch break, Kira wasn't able to concentrate on his work. Whenever he held up his hand and tried to type, he would see a flash of pink. He would also constantly imagine himself placing his hand on Lacus's cheek, leaning down to kiss her on her ever soft and lustful pink lips.
Kira's been staring into space for quite sometime, well long enough till Fllay came out of her office and began to shout. "Kira Yamato! The company hired you to work and not to day dream!"
Kira immediately woke up from his daze. He hated Fllay for destroying his moment. He finally found something to make him smile long enough for Athrun to think that something's really wrong with him.
Kira replied to Fllay's shouts, "Ms. Fllay, I don't see anything wrong of me for taking a break while I'm at work. I'm only human too. Weren't you also relaxing in your office? In fact you did more resting than I did!"
Everyone was in the department staring at them. In their hearts, they are silently cheering for Kira. Nobody in the whole company has ever screamed at Fllay in face before.
Fllay was dumb-founded just like the other's in the department. She never would've predicted that Kira would shout at her. From previous reports, it showed that Kira was a perfect gentleman that holds back his temper. She couldn't believe that this is actually happening and no one is actually backing her up.
She scanned through the department to see everyone smiling. She was already annoyed enough and the last thing she needed was people rooting for Kira. What made her boil even more was that everyone looked like they were going to celebrate over her humiliation.
She frantically looked around Kira's desk to find something to accuse him of not doing. The first thing that caught her eye was the desk-top. She pointed at Kira's computer.
"Kira Yamato, Isn't what's on your computer enough as evident that you've been doing nothing but skiving throughout work?" She replied in an emotionless tone. She was silently screaming in delight thinking that she's gonna win over Kira.
Kira just gave her an emotionless look and uploaded his file. There displayed before her eyes were the assignments given to Kira for the day. She couldn't believe it, how could Kira have done more than half of it in less than half a day!
However, Fllay wasn't ready to give up, nor was she ready to lose face infront of all her subordinates. She walked infront of the Computer and browsed through his work. She was silently praying for Kira's work to be done incorrectly.
"The importance of finance management in the company is so that the company would be able to watch its monthly expense and not make losses instead of profits throughout the week, month and year. Workers should always ensure that work should be done on time and calculations should be done accurately….." Fllay read through the things done by Kira.
She truly couldn't believe her eyes. Kira's report is something else's compared to what other workers give. His report is precisely what Mr. Hibiki has been looking for, and for the past years and nobody, not even herself has achieved what he expected.
Kira truly got the definition he wanted and it's done in a neat manner. So much that he could easily be a threat of taking over her priced position. She just couldn't blink her eyes at the precise work that Kira's done.
She quickly recovered from her shock and stood up to see Kira grinning at her. "Lost for words eh?" He smirked.
Fllay quickly recovered and made up an excuse to cover up for her mistake, "Mr. Yamato, you've done more work than expected for the first day. But when I came out, you were caught spacing out instead of doing your work!"
Athrun was really worried for Kira at the side. What are you doing Kira? You don't want to get yourself into trouble for your first day! Not to say, get onto the wrong side of Fllay on the first day. He thought to himself. His thoughts were quickly removed when Kira finally replied her.
"Oh really? How long since has lunch break been over then?" He asked sarcastically. "Less than five-minutes isn't it?" He smirked. "I was about to upload my work and continue from where I stopped till you came stomping out of your office."
Fllay was speechless. She never would've thought someone would talk back to her.
"You delayed my working time, caused disruption while the others are still working. You came out only to vent your frustration onto others so that it makes yourself feel bigger and more important right?" Kira continued. "And from what I see, you are just lying and sleeping on your chair till you awaken and felt that you needed some entertainment and came screaming at me for your own good."
"I…" Fllay was about o say something when Kira cut her off.
"You never made any sense in the way you reason yourself to scolding others. You're truly disgusting Fllay. You push your work onto others so that you could relax and sit back while you get your pay every month." He raised his voice at Fllay.
Kira himself never knew he had such guts to shout at his supervisor, how he wish Lacus was here to witness this scene. He felt happy for chasing away that awful witch. He always knew she was a bully deep down. He only did lose his temper so badly was due to the fact that Fllay had to interrupt him on his thoughts of the girl he loved at the veri first sight.
Athrun went up to silently congratulate him. "You go buddy, I was worried for you then. But you were totally a MAN pal!" Then his face dropped "But you have to be careful, Fllay wouldn't take kindly to what you did to her. You just insulted her in person and she's gonna make your life at work hell."
"I know about this Athrun." Kira replied. There isn't any signs to show that he's abit afraid at all.
"I think I should really tell this to Lacus and the others. They will flip over this news" Athrun said excitedly. Kira blushed at the name 'Lacus'. Luckily for him, he was able to hide his blush from Athrun this time.
"Well, come on lets get cracking or that crazy red-head is gonna find some other lame excuses to drill onto us again" Said Kira. He was merely trying to avoid the conversation so that he could spend the rest of his time thinking about Lacus again.
The other Lady colleagues around the department sighed in awe at Kira's guts. To them, Kira is just like a hero. Brave, Handsome, Smart and not to say he's gentleman like. They went up to Kira who smiled at them making them feel as if they are in heaven, but quickly backed off when they saw Kira's facial expression slowly change from all their flirting.
Kira was relieved when they finally left. He was getting annoyed at them bothering them everytime.
"Don't they have anything to do other than flirting?" He whispered to Athrun. All Athrun did was shrugged his shoulders. "I experienced that before too, you know? But it all stopped when you came in. you're my hero Kira."
Kira could only sigh and get on with his work, he was able to complete work within the next 2 hours which left him another 2 more hours to spare. He was only able to finish his work from his only motivation, thinking about Lacus. He was starting to regret ever finishing work so quickly. Now all he could do is sit back, relax and enjoy his coffee till its time for them to leave.
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With Lacus
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Lacus was found day-dreaming ever since they returned to her desk. Shes been smiling to herself. Shinn found it weird and decided to ask Stellar about it.
To his surprise, Stellar didn't seem surprised at all. She just replied to him in a normal way, "Its love at first sight Shinn." She said "Lacus-san is in love with Kira Yamato-kun"
Shinn couldn't believe his ears, Lacus is in love with Kira Yamato? But how is it possible? They just met. Just then, the door to the head-of-department room opened.
At the door stood Ms. Erica carrying a box and looked like she's struggling to drag herself out of the room. It looked as if she's crying. That seemed to catch Lacus's attention as well. Lacus went up to her and asked.
"Ms Erica, why are you crying?" She asked curious. Erica could only stare at her for a few seconds before she burst into tears again.
"You'll all be getting a new head-of-department. He's much more capable than I am." With that, she walked away. "Huh?" Lacus was totally confused at her statement. She was about to chase after her when she saw Erica left without turning back.
It ached her heart to see that Ms. Erica is retrenched. She went back to her desk and told Shinn and Stellar about what happened. They all had horrid expression shown on their faces.
Just then, the glass door to their department opened, there walking was the directors to Eternal corporation and a man with purple hair and tiny blue eyes following behind them. Lacus, Shinn and Stellar quickly resumed to their work to prevent ending up in the same plight as Ms. Erica.
Just then, one of the directors coughed signaling for attention from the whole department. "This is Mr. Yuna Roma Saran, he would be your new head-of-department of the advertising department. I expect improvements from all of you. Mr. Saran is a very capable person and I belief that he would be able to guide all of you along." He said. With that, he handed the time over to Yuna and walked out of the department along with the other board directors.
Everyone had really stunned faces imprinted on them. They didn't expect to have a new supervisor so quickly. They weren't informed and it would take some time to get use to work without Ms. Erica's assistance. She's always been kind to her employees and gave them breaks whenever she felt that they needed it.
Yuna walked into the office which Ms. Erica just left from and slammed the door shut. Everyone in the department winced at the attitude of their supervisor.
"This wouldn't look too good." Said Lacus.
"Yea…that was cold. I guess I was…"Shinn was interrupted when Yuna's office doors opened again. There came walking out, a very arrogant Yuna who just smirked at the presence of his subordinates.
"Hi…Everyone, as you already know, I'm Yuna Roma Saran, Your Supervisor" Yuna said arrogantly and purposely stressed the word 'supervisor'. "Now that you previous supervisor has gone, everything in this department will be under me. Anything wrong, come look for me. Don't expect me to be a Mr. Nice guy like your previous Supervisor. Make sure I see improvements this month! Now get on with work!" He ordered.
Shinn very much wanted to just punch Yuna square in the face, but to Stellar, it seemed as if they are gonna work like cows now that they have such a supervisor. Now it all seemed fair too everyone. Each of their departments actually had a Devil taking control.
Lacus was too upset to say anything. Not because of Yuna's appearance, but because of Erica's retrenchment. She couldn't believe it. Ms. Erica had been nice to all of them for the past few years and the sudden news like that is considerably shocking.
Lacus and the others got on with work, not wanting to get into trouble with their new supervisor. It wouldn't do anyone good. Not for his attitude. She just knew it. Lacus began typing on her keyboard, but her spirits weren't as high as before but thinking of Kira made her feel better.
"I wonder what he's doing now?" She asked herself.
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It seemed like hours of work for Dearka and Miriallia over at the marketing department. The work they were given was double the load of what's given to Kira and Lacus over at their departments. They were continuously working non-stop and had barely finished half of their assignments.
Miriallia looked over into Meer's office only to find her sleeping on her desk.
"Why do we have to do all the work while she gets to snooze?" She sighed. Dearka seemed to have caught hold of her last statement.
"Well, that was a pretty hefty sigh, that's because she's in a higher position than us." He simply replied while handing a piece of sandwich over to her. "Go ahead, have it, I realized that this would be another day with no break so I bought an extra" He said.
Miriallia smiled over at him while taking the sandwich out of his hand and took a bite on it. "I can't stand it, she walks away with a much higher pay than us, but we do much more work than her." She whined while looking at the amount of work left for them to do.
"Cheer up, Miri, I heard from Athrun that we have a new pal you know? Hes working in the Finance department just like Athrun." "We aren't the only ones who has to face a witch, Athrun's department has a witch for them to face too."
The last statement made Miriallia's face light up a little while she munch on her grub and continued with her ever-lasting work.
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Kira yawned as he stretched himself after waiting for 2 hours doing nothing. He couldn't believe how slow time passes. But he was glad that day ended though. He waited for Athrun to pack up before leaving together.
When they reach the carpark, Athrun bid his farewell to Kira as he drove off in his car leaving a very lonely Kira behind. Kira sighed at the way the day's been spent as he slowly strolled towards his car which was parked somewhere abit further down to Athrun's.
He unlocked his car doors as he went inside and close his door shut and sighed. How he wished he would be able to see Lacus again. He once again drifted away into his thoughts of Lacus till the security came knocking on his window signaling for him to move off. Kira growled for this is the second time his thoughts were interrupted that day.
He drove off and out of the carpark where Lacus was ready to leave the office building. He drove pass a pick-up point till he saw a pink haired girl standing by the taxi-stand. He honked at her while driving towards what seemed like an angel to him.
Lacus took notice of Kira's car honking. She looked over and was surprised but happy to see Kira there waving to her. She walked towards his car.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
"I was just waiting for a taxi" She simply replied as she shrugged her shoulders.
"Why not hitch a ride in my car?" Kira suggested while blushing madly.
"Erm…" Lacus blushed while she hesitated for a moment "Nah…its okay, I'll just hire a taxi, that way you wouldn't trouble youself." She smiled.
"Now is peak hours Lacus, taxis are hard to come by and fares are charged at highter rate." He tried to persuade "And driving a beauty back is no trouble at all." He blushed at the word beauty. Never in the world would he ever expect to have this sort of guts to talk to a girl this way, but Lacus was something else, He felt natural talking to her.
Lacus too, blushed at the word 'Beauty'. She liked Kira for the way he's been treating her. She was also well aware of her feelings for Kira, but all she asked for is for their feelings to be mutual. Lacus realized that this would be a chance to get to know Kira better.
"Okay…" She said while heading to the passenger seat of the car and let Kira drive her off.
While they are in the car, none of them uttered a single word probably due to their embarrassment. Both weren't prepared for the sudden turn of events.
Lacus would occasionally tilt her head a little to take a glimpse of Kira from the corner of her eye, but Kira always caught her on the act which made her blush madly.
Kira would too, occasionally tilt his head to the side slightly to take a look at the pink haired princess, but eventually find her looking back at him. He could believe his eyes. Lacus was looking at him?
They were in the care as silence and tension filled the boring air. All of the sudden, Kira muttered something. It is barely audible, but its clear to Lacus.
"Would you like to listen to music?" He asked. Lacus just stared at him before nodding her head. Kira smiled while he turned on the music. He was glad he actually mustered his courage to start a conversation. "Do you want to have dinner before you leave for home?" He asked hoping that she wouldn't reject him.
Lacus was caught by surprise but snapped out of her trance. "Alright I guess." She said while placing a hand on her growling stomach. Kira chuckled at her behavior.
"You're hungry aren't you?" He asked. Lacus blushed. She thought that it was rude to let their stomach growl infront of someone else. What if Kira gets a bad impression about her?
"I guess I should bring you to a near-by fast-food restaurant for dinner. Sorry but I don't want you to starve yourself. So how does it sound?" He asked in a nervous tone. Its actually his first time being so kind and caring to a girl.
Lacus couldn't believe her ears. Kira is actually worried for her. She just couldn't simply refuse his kind offer.
"Alright. Thanks Kira." She said while blushing in a deeper shade of red.
"Thanks for what?" Kira asked playfully while turning towards Lacus's direction. Lacus tilt her head away to refrain him from spotting the red bridge that formed across her nose and the unnatural shade of dark red.
Lacus didn't answer Kira's last question. Kira decided that his last question must have been uncomfortable for her to answer and dropped that subject. They reached Mcdonalds within two shakes of a tail.
Both of them exit the car and headed for the fast-food restaurant still blushing in a shade as red as ever.
A/N: I was disappointed in the number of reviews I got for this story. It's so discouraging. But I posted this up anyways. The next chapter should be mostly on KxL moments and abit of conflicts between Athrun and Meer. I should be concentrating on the other fic in the meantime for now. Please R&R. Byex