Chapter 3: The sadness within
Disclaimer: DON'T OWN, FOREVER NO.
"Papa, can we afford this?" A young girl with two pigtails asked, holding a teddy bear.
"Sure, Tsukiko. What makes you think that we can't afford it?" A man with his security guard uniform said.
"Erm…nothing." Tsukiko said.
"Ah….Captain, here to buy Tsukiko a teddy bear again?" the owner of the toy shop said, appearing before Captain and Tsukiko.
"Yes…" Captain replied, "I hope you will give a special discount for this." Captain added, dropping his voice in a whisper. The owner nodded her head.
"Of course…you are the savoir to our team…how can we charge you the full amount after all the things you did for us…."the owner said, looking at the young girl whose childish charms twinkled in her eyes. "I am sorry, captain, I am unable to protect both of you…"he added, softly.
"Don't worry…I am not blaming you…this is good enough for me." the captain said and he took Tsukiko's hand and led her out with the teddy bear in tow.
"great….I can't believe it….Kira and Meyrin are talking to Fumi Fields. What am I going to do?" Mitsuki said, peering from the roof. She was at the rooftop all along, after deciding to skip the morning classes.
"well…I don't know either, but skipping classes isn't your way of doing things, since we were young. What happened to your courage huh? Mitsuki HIME." A boy around Mituski's age stood behind her.
"Ha, very funny, derrick. Since when you start acknowledging me as the princess? I remember you saying that I look like a dizzy girl whose mathematics is worst than the stupidest natural in the entire world." Mitsuki said sarcastically.
"Yup. Ha, I can't believe you remembered it! I thought you forgot everything about your childhood." Derrick said laughing.
"I did. But I won't forget what you told me, especially that line."
"Oh really? Why is that so?" Derrick asked, inching closer to Mitsuki until their faces is just a few inches away from each other.
"Because.." Mitsuki said, inching further away from him and kicked his stomach. He bent inward with pain, "you are my best friend, and how can I not forget what my best friend said?"
"Fine..But you don't have to kick me that hard!" derrick said clutching his stomach, "I accompanied you to skip class and this is how you repay me?".Mitsuki smiled sheepishly.
"Sorry…force of habit."she said apologically. Derrick shook his head.
"Man, you gotta stop learning from your sister!"
Athrun climbed up the stairs leading to the meeting room. It was an emergency meeting held by the ministers. When he opened the door, grim faces greeted him.
"Mr Zala, this letter…."a minister said, handed the letter to Athrun. Athrun was bewildered.
"What?? This letter…when was it found?" he asked, looking around the ministers.
"Obviously, today. Athrun, are you that dumb? That's why we called an emergency meeting." Yzak Joule said, looking stern.
"Why is this happening? Who is this guy who sends this letter?" Athrun asked again, but was cut short by Yzak.
"are you going to do it? This is what the meeting is all about." Yzak said impatiently. Athrun looked at the letter and back to the ministers. Then, after a moment of silence, he replied with a "yes". The last letter written by father and Siegel Clyne.
