A/N- Thanks for all the reviews! Now for chapter 4!
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Maybe…(Digs into pocket)…a penny, a button and…(digs deeper) lint, but not Gundam Seed or Destiny.
"Athrun Zala? Isn't Zala the owner of the institute?" Uzumi raised an eyebrow.
"Yes… Patrick Zala…. He is my father." Athrun spat out with disgust. "However, he isn't acting like one."
"He made you an experiment?" The elder Attha questioned, in shock.
"Yes." The half wolf bitterly replied. There was a long silence. Uzumi was taking in the horrible fact that Athrun was used as an experiment. No way will he ever do that! Patrick's a disgusting man.
"Green tea, sir?" A servant walked by, wanting to break the unnerving silence. He held a tray with 2 cups of tea.
"Thank you." Uzumi accepted a cup.
"Tea, young master?" The servant asked Athrun. The emerald-eyed teen just growled at him. The servant scurried away, shuddering at the animal-like growl.
"He doesn't bite, Athrun." Uzumi said, raising an eyebrow. He sipped the tea.
"I do." Growled the boy.
"Funny lad, you are." The father of the twins said, with a chuckle.
"I'm serious." Athrun said.
Uzumi nodded absentl-mindedly, glancing at his daughter, who still had bruises all over her. She even had a lot of bleeding cuts.
"Now tell me in detail of what happened." Uzumi demanded. He was worried and he wanted the truth.
"I already said. She was attacked and I helped." The inky-haired boy said.
"No, in DETAIL" The man emphasized the detail.
Athrun glared at him. "Fine. She was in an alley and was attacked by a bunch of thugs. She kicked their asses, but was soon tired. So that's when I came in. I finished them off." He had a bored look while explaining.
"Finished them off? You killed them?" The man was staring nervously at the claws at the end of Athrun's fingers. His cup was shaking a little.
"Yes." He flexed his claws. The emerald-eyed teen had on a small smirk. Although it disappeared as fast as it appeared.
Uzumi thought for a second and he had a question. "What was the other half of your genes? Besides being a human? You have claws and ears. You must be in the canine family."
"Canis Lupus." Athrun answered.
"I see." Uzumi nodded. "But can you explain why your hair color is blue?"
"Every experiment has a unique hair color or eye color, sometimes even both." The blue-haired lad answered.
"Hmm… Also, what do you mean by, "Small favor?" The man asked.
"You humans are annoying." Athrun scoffed.
"Well, answer me." Uzumi persisted. The emerald-eyed teen had a look of annoyance on his face. It seems like he won't answer any more questions. The man stood up and walked into the kitchen, knowing no servants would come any closer to Athrun. He placed the cup in the sink and sighed.
Unknown to them, Cagalli was awake and listening. She eavesdropped on the whole conversation, too tired and injured to even get up.
"So… He was a half-wolf? And he was also the son of the owner of the institute?" Cagalli thought. She stared at the design of the couch and sighed. She winced when pain filled her chest. Even breathing is hard!
Uzumi walked back into the living room with a bowl of fruit. "You must be hungry. You're too skinny. The people at the institute must not feed you." He clenched his hands in a fist.
Athrun stared at the food with longing. He grabbed a pear and started munching down, not caring if anyone saw. He was damn hungry and there is no way he's going to die by starving!
Uzumi watched the scene with pity. The poor boy hasn't been fed for a while. It looks like he hasn't been fed in a month or two. "How much food do you usually get?"
Athrun looked up. "A chicken leg once a month."
Uzumi stared in shock. A CHICKEN LEG? What? The man was feeling hate growing for Patrick. How can he treat his own child like that? This is horrific!
"I would even be lucky to get rice with it…" Athrun added, while eating an apple.
"Dammit, I'm not going to let you starve!" Uzumi stomped off into the kitchen. Athrun raised an eyebrow and growled.
"I don't need charity!" He put down the half-eaten apple grudgingly.
"Eat boy! I will not have a starving guest!" Uzumi shouted from the kitchen. Athrun stared blankly at the kitchen entrance. Does generosity run in the family? The girl offers him an apple and he now…is making him a buffet. There were funny noises coming from the kitchen. Suddenly, an explosion.
"Mana! Come in here! The blender exploded!" the man shouted. Athrun twitched his eye slightly, when a plump woman rushed into the kitchen quickly.
Minutes later, Athrun had a salad, roast pork, roasted chicken, vegetables and orange juice in front of him.
"…." Athrun stared at the food blankly.
"Well, eat up, young boy." The woman, named Mana persisted. Athrun lifted up a fork and stared at it.
"What's this?" He examined the utensil.
"It's a fork… You've never used one before, have you?" Uzumi sighed.
"No." Athrun gripped it with force.
"Well, this is how you use it." Uzumi taught him how to use a fork.
"Stupid fork!" Athrun threw it to the ground and started eating with his hands. Mana and Uzumi insisted, so he tried again, with a less mutilated one. This time he got the hang of it and started eating.
"Now, you have mastered the fork, you now have to learn how to eat with chopsticks." Mana said promptly.
"Chopsticks?" Athrun raised an eyebrow, in between eating a piece of pork.
"This!" Mana enthusiastically pulled out two thin sticks.
"…. How the hell am I suppose to eat with that?" Athrun glared at the wooden sticks.
"Oh boy…" Uzumi sighed.
Half an hour later, Athrun got the hang of it.
"He learned quicker than Cagalli and Kira." Uzumi whispered to Mana. The maid nodded and watched the half-wolf eat with the chopsticks.
"However, we had to sacrificed 5 pairs…" Mana sighed.
"Wolves have sensitive hearing." Athrun stated, obvious listening.
Cagalli was listening from the couch and silently laughed. This was hilarious! It was sad that she didn't get to see it, but she heard it. She sighed. She HAD to face the inside of the couch. Her chest hurt again when she sighed. She cursed in her mind, not wanting to let them know that she was awake.
The inky-haired teen finished the orange juice and felt better then ever! He feels like he can run 50 laps around the room!
"Thank you." He bowed. He actually learned about manners in that institute.
"Don't worry about it." Uzumi replied.
Suddenly, the door slammed open.
"I'm HOME!" Came in a masculine voice. Athrun stood up and had his claws ready.
"Athrun, it's just-"Uzumi was cut-off by a gawking Kira.
Kira Yamato was staring blankly at the teen with blue hair and ears, DOG-ears. Also he had CLAWS, for crying out loud!
"What the…hell?" He stared at his father. The brunette gasped at his sister's body on the couch. "What happened?"
"Kira, meet Athrun Zala." Uzumi introduced.
A/N- It's nearing the summer vacation! (Dances around in circles) There may be a time where I'll be visiting the USA during the summer and I might not update for a while...but hey! It's not until 3 weeks from now! I apprieciate all the readers and reviewers! I puta bit of humor in this chapter!
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