A/N: Okay, so the violence doesn't bother anyone. Hooray! Thanks for the reviews.

Disclaimer: I, regrettably, do not own any anime that has come to existence, and that includes Gundam Seed and Destiny.

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"Can I ask you a question?"

Stellar giggled, "You already did, Shinn."

He became a little flustered, "No, I meant—"

She smiled, "Sure, what is it?"

"How did you become like that? Blind, I mean."

"Oh this?" she briefly touched her bandaged eyes before shrugging; "I was walking near the city outpost when it happened to be bombed. I was careless, some glass shards got in my eyes."

For once, Shinn was grateful that the girl in front of him was blind, or else see the guilt spread across his face.

"Shinn?"

"What?" he asked a bit too quickly

"Are you okay? You became awfully silent."

"Um, sorry about that."

A redhead then came up to them and touched Stellar's arm, "He said he wants to see you at the usual place."

At the mention of the word 'he', Shinn stiffened, knowing fully well who 'he' was. It was becoming obvious to him that the girl who just came by and flagrantly disturbed their conversation was a military woman in disguise. From Shinn's sharp eyes, he could see her stiff posture, her economic pace, and her eyes roaming around, absorbing the surrounding's every detail. Who was she trying to fool? Shinn thought.

Stellar hesitated, "But Shinn—"

The redhead looked at Shinn, the meaning in her eyes, "He'll still be here when you come back, right?"

He looked in those magenta eyes with anticipation, "Right."

Stellar smiled, "All right," and then stood up to leave.

When the blonde left, the redhead promptly sat at the vacated seat, much to Shinn's anticipation, and chagrin as well. She stared at him with her stiff formality, "You accepted his offer of employment, am I correct?"

His face registered suspicion, and then immediately changed it to a blank expression. He instinctively hated this particular army, the fact supported by his affiliation with the resistance. Shinn, for a moment feared that the woman might think of it that way and hoped that he would appear to her merely as a suspicious bastard, which was a far cry from the eager guy he was when he met Dullindal, "You're from the military, I presume?"

She stared sharply at him, "Hush, no need to tell the whole world, you idiot."

Shinn smirked; We already know who you are.

"We have checked your background and found it to suffice." She said

Ah, Miriallia did a great job again, as usual.

"Go to the café in front of the north city outpost every Tuesday and Friday, ten in the morning. Wait for your orders in an hour. If nobody gives you anything in an hour, leave. Got that?"

"And you are?"

She raised an eyebrow at him, "You don't need to know my name."

Shinn shrugged, "For all I care, you might be a part of the terrorist organization masquerading to be a military officer, and I'm merely bait in some terrorist act." He hated calling the resistance as a terrorist organization, but he knew it would fool her.

She stood up and glared at him, "I shall only be known to you as Luna," and left, "For God's sake, do try to be discreet."

Shinn grinned triumphantly to himself as Stellar returned. Jackpot.

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Tuesday. It was already quarter past 10:30 and still no one was talking to Shinn.

Damn, am I going to play the fool after all? He thought, Was that bastard actually the one playing me? If I get caught and tortured now, I would betray the entire resistance. I can't allow that!

"Phew! Isn't the weather hot today?"

Shinn looked up to see a tanned blond man grinning at him. He was instantly on his guard.

The man must have noticed his stiffness and said, "No need to be suspicious, you know. But my legs are sore from sitting down all day, care for a walk?"

His legs aren't sore, Shinn thought, his walk was that of a well-exercised man who wouldn't sit around all day. He was elated; finally we're getting somewhere, "Sure."

For a military man, he sure is lax, Shinn thought as he stared at the man actually enjoying the sunshine and flirting with girls, probably because he isn't in his uniform, "Aren't you supposed to be talking business right now?"

"Hmm, they told me you were impatient. It was certainly an understatement; you were practically getting ready to leave from that chair even when the hour wasn't even up yet."

Shinn glared at him and said angrily, "You were observing me the entire time?"

He grinned amusedly at him, "Of course, I need to see for myself whether you were for real or not."

Shinn's anger dissipated, "What do you mean?"

He ignored the question and gave him an envelope, "You're now an unofficial courier of the military since you are a native of this place. Tonight, there will be a man in the pier who will be playing with a ring of keys. Give him this at ten o'clock in the evening and leave."

Shinn took the envelope and looked at him, "You didn't answer my question."

The man looked around sharply, then said, "Follow me," he then darted inside a pub.

Shinn was bewildered, "What the heck is with him?" But still he followed him inside the empty pub. Daylight was not kind to the place. The broken pieces of furniture, cracked windows, stink, and dirt in the pub made Shinn wonder why the hell the man would choose the place to talk when the army was dominant in the city and he had already finished giving him his task, "What do you still want?"

He was sitting in one of chairs, his face looking at him in amusement and propped by his elbow, "You know, for one of the best operatives of the resistance, you sure are slow."

With the mention of the resistance, Shinn immediately grabbed the gun hidden behind him and targeted the man only to see that the tanned blond man was faster than him in doing the same thing.

"You should really put your gun down," he said as his gun was trained on Shinn.

Shinn was not in the mood for jokes, "Maybe you're the one who should." He was bewildered. The man knew that he was in the resistance. Did Miriallia make a mistake with his papers? Still, if he already knew he was in the resistance, why go through all this trouble when they could just capture and interrogate him in an instant? Why go through all the effort of giving him his orders as a courier and even face him himself? What the fuck is going on?

The man blinked, "You mean you still don't know what's going on?"

Shinn was still confused, "What?"

He grinned, "Geez, I'm that good?" He put his gun down the table, and revealed sheaves of paper to Shinn.

The black-haired guy then took the proffered papers, saw the picture of a brown-haired man and asked, "Who the hell is Kira Yamato?"

The man grinned in amusement.

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"I am going to what?!"

Murrue Romius sighed, "I am not going to repeat this again. You are going to be Yuuna Seiran's bodyguard during the party."

"Why am I going to be the one watching over that pompous prick?" Cagalli said angrily.

"Your language, Cagalli," Murrue warned sternly before continuing, "First, we're short of men unlike the army as you know very well. Majority of the men are on the battlefield, besides you're the one with no assignment as of late. Second, Seiran is an important man in the resistance. He has the contacts that we need."

Cagalli was still seething, "How the hell am I supposed to be unobserved in that party? There are too many people!"

Her captain smiled amusedly, "You won't be an unobserved agent at the party, and you will be Seiran's escort, his fiancée for the night."

"There is no way in hell I'm going to be that bastard's fiancée and I will not show up in that party wearing a dress!"

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Kira assembled the sniper inside the house he was renting and hung it above the window in the living room before retiring to his bedroom. His job was to find out more about the resistance leaders, and so far he found out that the digital security of the terrorist organization was tighter than he thought. He was glad of the thrill of hacking his way through their security. Besides, his other job, the assassination of one more terrorist, was put on hold for the moment as Athrun was doing the surveillance.

He stood up and glanced at the window when he saw a flicker in the shadows. Kira immediately leaped outside the bedroom and hid temporarily behind the cheap sofa. He heard the explosion and the burst of flames as he thought, someone found me out already?

The window in the living room was smashed open next and Kira pushed the door open and leapt as far as he could before the explosion came. However, he avoided it seconds late and got caught in the blast. Kira was blown against the nearest tree and cried out in pain. His arm hit the tree harder than he had expected. Still, when he fell to the ground, Kira immediately stood up and sighted his surroundings and found what he was looking for: his amateur assassinator.

Ignoring his several injuries, he immediately caught the man, who was foolishly looking at the burning house, probably checking if I'm still alive, Kira thought as the man let out a grunt of surprise.

Kira then got out the knife he kept strapped to his leg and brought it to the man's eyes, "Where are you from?"

The man reeked of terror, "Y-You're still alive…"

Kira managed a small smile; there was no way he would die in such a crude manner, "If you want your eyes to remain intact, I suggest you to speak."

The man still refused to speak so Kira lightly stabbed his right eye. As expected, the man opened his mouth to scream. Kira quickly placed two of his fingers into the man's mouth, since he still had his knife stuck in the man's eyeball. The man was about to retch when Kira withdrew his fingers; the man promptly vomited.

After that, Kira placed his knife in front of the man's left eye. Instinctively, he covered his bloody eye and whimpered, "Oh please, don't take my eye out…I'll tell you everything!"

Kira breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Do you belong to the resistance?"

The man gulped, "Yes."

Dread filled Kira, his fears confirmed. He had been found out, "Did the leaders of the resistance order you to kill me?"

"Y-Yes."

"Did they order anyone else to be killed along with me?"

"N-No."

Kira sighed, he had no choice, "Last question, do you have backup?"

The man was shaking and shook his head. The light of terror was gone from his eyes to be replaced by something else, something like triumph. Kira wondered at this sudden change when he saw that the man still had a bomb in his person, and he just removed the pin.

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The day of the party, Athrun was unable to contact Kira. He was worried, for Kira was the one to do the assassination, while he squeezes the information out of Seiran. Still, he didn't know where he was. The only times they met in this city were when they were met by Meyrin, the contact, and when they were tailing their first terrorist kill. They never knew each other's residence in the city, since they would not be able to disclose the information to the enemy, if the enemy did manage to know who they were.

Damn, where was Kira? The army had been notified of course, and as their means of replacement, they sent a girl to accompany him to the part while they marked Kira as MIA. The two had already introduced themselves to each other, her name was Lunamaria Hawke.

"Wow, I'm actually working with the Red Knight," she remarked, smiling.

Athrun was a bit flustered with the mention of the nickname, "Um, you know me?"

Lunamaria glanced at him, "Everyone does."

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She took a cup of tea and set it to the desk near the awakening man, "Oh, you're awake."

The man opened his eyes and thought, where am I? And then he remembered the night before.

He opened his eyes and found every inch of his body in pain. And then his thoughts came back to him, he was found out. He needed to hide. The man remembered the orphanage that was nearest to his residence and decided to seek refuge there. Painfully, he crawled his way through and managed to get a few knocks on the door.

"Just a minute," a musical female voice called out.

The door was opened, Kira saw feminine ankles and a skirt. He heard the same female voice say, "Oh my." Before he lost his consciousness once again.

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A/N: I do hope you know what I'm all implying here in this chapter. The back story of this fanfiction, the war between the army and the so-called 'terrorists' is about to be told, just wait. If Kira wasn't that much in character, I'm sorry. I did my best to make him stay in character although not averse to killing. I am trying to make this fast-paced, that's why there's so much happening in such a short time. Am I succeeding or is it just too confusing? I'm trying to hone whatever writing skill I have and I badly need the comments. Oh well. Do review, please. As usual, constructive criticism is very welcome.