Another Night With You

Mage666

Some things to take note of:

Bold and italics: Flashbacks

Italics: What they say in their mind

"Regular writing in speech commas": Somebody talking

Cagalli POV

As I sped down the motorway home, I watched the motorbike in front of me weave in and out through traffic with ease. I wish I was on a bike right now, wouldn't have the other cars blocking my way. As time went, the motorbike got further and further away from me. Gritting my teeth, I shifted down a gear and started weaving in and out of traffic too; a dangerous task but nothing I couldn't handle as long as I was careful. Coming off the motorway, I had caught up to him. We sped through the streets and around bends, which I could take at a greater speed than the bike. As we sped towards the Atha mansion, I slowed down as I did not want my father to see me driving so recklessly in his car. He wouldn't let me use it again if he knew I drove like this.

As I pulled up on the drive, the motorcyclist had already taken his helmet off and lazily slouched on his bike. "Your slow, Cagalli. I don't remember you being that slow. Stellar might even be quicker than you are."

"Well, it is a bit hard to weave and dodge cars in a car since they are much bigger than a bike. Also, Stellar can't even drive so don't insult me that much, Little Brother." I scoffed. He in return grinned at the word "Little" and walked towards me.

"I was actually talking about earlier when I came to visit your school." He continued to smile as he looked at my confused expression.

"You only came to meet me and the end of the day, didn't you?"

"Nope, I came and little bit earlier too." His smile grew bigger. I narrowed my eyes dangerously as I realised what he meant.

"It was you. It was you that attacked me! Ugh! I'm so stupid! No one could be that fast except you! Argh! I should have realised that before!" I started tugging my hair in frustration as he chuckled lightly.

"It's ok, Cagalli. After all, you are my younger sister, you're meant to be weaker and slower than I am." With a big grin he started to slowly back away as I started seeing red.

"Younger sister? I am older than you! Never forget that! And what the hell is this 'ego' boost you have! God complex? Also! You owe me a new uniform! Look at my blazer! Because of y-"

"CAGALLI!" Turning my head to see who had cut me off, I saw a blonde blob and then I felt as if I had been tackled. Landing on the floor with a thud, I coughed and opened my eyes. Straddling over me was a blonde haired girl with pinkish eyes. "Cagalli! Stellar is home!" She gleefully said. Sitting up, she got up and helped me up enthusiastically. Still a child.

"It's so good to have you back, Stellar." I hugged her tightly and was relieved to see she was ok.

"Stellar is happy to be home with, Cagalli. Stellar missed Cagalli!" She hugged me tighter and released me.

"Wow, Stellar, you've grown so much!" I looked at her and noticed she had grown taller and was more toned. "You're a beautiful young lady now; you'll have all the boys chasing after you!" She blushed red hard and looked down. Kira and I laughed at her innocence.

"Stellar will beat all the boys up that come near her!" Pumping her fist in the air she continued talking. "Stellar is much stronger now, Cagalli, much stronger than before, so can Stellar come on missions now?" She asked with hopeful eyes.

"Hmmmm... We'll see later. I want to see how strong you have actually gotten first, is that ok?" Jumping up and down she clasped her hands together.

"Stellar will do show her best to Cagalli!"

Athrun POV

I looked outside the window in my bedroom and slowly watched as the sun finally set. Getting up and walking towards my wardrobe, I got changed into joggers, light trainers, long sleeved thermal and thin gloves. That should keep me warm enough tonight .Sitting back down and waiting for Nicol to call me I thought about earlier events.

As we streaked up the court again to shoot, I looked at Meyrin who had just had the ball stolen from her once again from Cagalli for the nth time of the game. She didn't look very happy, if anything, she looked very angry. She's probably angry at herself since she's given the ball away so many times. Catching the ball again, I jumped up and shot as the defender tried in vain to block the ball. *Swish* the ball went in with no trouble. Jogging back to defend, I watched them slowly bring up the ball. The ball got knocked out of play and was given to our team, so lacus took it at the edge of the court. She passed the ball to Cagalli, who then started dribbling up the court until she faced a defender, Meyrin. Wow, she had a determined face on her. I wondered if she could actually steal the ball off her. As I watched Cagalli, I was surprised to see her smirk. She then started dribbling the ball in and out of her legs, behind her back with ease whilst Meyrin furiously swiped for the ball. I could see she got angrier and angrier as Cagalli taunted her. Finally, Cagalli bounced the ball through her legs and ran around Meyrin to catch it again. I thought to myself, how sly. As I followed her for support, I watched as she set up a layup shot and began her two steps. Suddenly, Meyrin was right behind her, I wondered what she could possibly do to stop Cagalli until she let out a scream.

Everything slowed down as my eyes widened to see Meyrin push Cagalli in the back whilst she was in mid air. Looking ahead of Cagalli I saw the bleachers. A surge of energy rushed straight to my legs as I sprinted past Meyrin, then ahead of Cagalli to catch her just in time before she hit the bleachers. As I held her in my arms, nothing else mattered.

My arms were tightly wrapped around her waist and I held her easily of the ground. I could feel her warm breath on the crook of my neck and I inhaled deeply to smell the scent of her hair. Holding her felt like an eternity. However, eternity never really exists; she gently asked me to put her down and slightly pushed against my chest.

After coming back from the flashback, my face felt all hot and I realised that I was blushing. This is not good. I should not be having these feelings towards her. My mobile rung with a picture of Nicol on the screen. I picked up without greeting him.

"I'll be out now." I stated.

"OK, see you in a bit." He replied. Ending the call I looked at myself in the mirror and took a deep breath to compose myself. Grabbing my katana and bag of shuriken, I left my house.

We sprinted across rooftops and jumped across to reach others whilst rolling to help break the fall. We soon past the borders of Z.A.F.T territory and made our way into Orb Territory. This is strange. We normally encounter someone by now. Looking around, Nicol, Dearka and Yzack narrowed their eyes as well looking for possible traps.

"Where do you think she is, Athrun?" Nicol asked. I looked around scanning the area whilst I answered.

"I don't know, but keep a sharp eye around us."

"Maybe she's busy with that boyfriend of hers, you know, the one we saw today with the motorbike in the school." Dearka grinned. A pang of annoyance run through my chest as Dearka spoke the word *boyfriend.*

"He might not be her boyfriend, Dearka, ever thought of that?" Replied Nicol.

"Dude! Did you see the way she ran to him! She practically jumped into his arms and got twirled! What friend hugs another friend like that AND twirls them? Plus! He kissed her!" Dearka countered enthusiastically.

"He could be her brother." Nicol started as if it was a matter of fact. I turned to face him and he shrugged. "Could possibly be her brother, couldn't he?"Before I could answer, Dearka countered again.

"What? Brother? Nicol, they don't even look alike! They can't be siblings!"My mind wandered back to what the boy looked like. Tall and with dark hair. He looked built too but was too far away to see for sure.

"Would you lot stop babbling? If you'd pay any attention, you'd realise that she's right in front of us, so if you want to find out, ask her yourself." Looking ahead, Yzack had been right. She stood on top of the roof where shadows off higher buildings surrounded her. With her back to us, she was staring upwards. "Hey! Blondie! These idiots got questions for you!" He bellowed.

She slowly turned her head around to look at us, and then slowly faced her body towards us. She stood there, highlighted by the moon wearing an all black kit with a white mask with red detailing. She's never worn that before.

"Isn't it a bit early for Halloween?"As he and Dearka chuckled at the small pun, they failed to realise one thing. She had started sprinting towards them.

"Yzack, look out!"I shouted. He turned back to look at her but it was too late. He threw a punch to throw her off but she only blocked it with her left arm and socked him hard in the gut. Keeling over from the wind being knocked out of him, she grabbed his head and pulled it down whilst bringing her knee up to meet his nose. We all watched in slow motion as the force of her knee pushed his head back up and then fall backwards onto his back. Dearka turned and crouched down next to him

"Yzack, are you alright! Yzack!" Dearka called. With no response, he gritted his teeth and turned back to her. "Damn you!" Throwing different punches and kicks, she finally caught his leg and twisted it causing him to spin and fall onto the floor. Raising her fist high into the air, she began the descent to land a critical blow again. The punch landed flawlessly, Dearka was knocked out straight away like Yzack. Nicol had launched a couple of shuriken at her direction. She staggered back from dodging them and then dashed into the shadows of other buildings where she disappeared.

"We need to check Yzack!" Nicol exclaimed. Nodding my head, we dashed forward. Just before we got there, another shuriken was thrown head on towards us. We dodged easily and anticipated when she would run out from the shadows ahead of us. Too busy focusing ahead of us, I did not realise she appeared from the shadows to the left of me and hit me with a flying kick. The force of her kick was not enough to make me fall but only stumble backwards. That was weak. How the hell did she get over there so fast? As we started to fight, throwing punches and kicks, many questioned run through my mind, she was different somehow, and her fighting wasn't like when she was fighting against Yzack. Giving her a hard kick that she blocked, the force still sent her of her feet, which she quickly regained and finally back flipped into the darkness again. Hmmmm... Something is not right. Squinting my eyes, I watched all the shadows. Another shuriken was thrown towards me from the direction she disappeared to and then she reappeared behind Nicol. Sweeping the leg, Nicol fell to the ground as she charged towards me. Drawing out her blade, she leaped high up in the air and spun. As finished a 360 degree spin, she unleashed a vicious slash from her katana. I was only just able to block it with my own katana with my hand supporting the back of my blade. Geez! She's got her strength back! It took everything I had to deflect and block her attacks. I had no time to counter.

She suddenly crouched down low and before I could comprehend what happened next, she quickly rose slashing her katana upwards. The force from blocking it sent my off balanced. As I leaned back trying to regain my balance, she spun around backwards once more, powering up a devastating kick to my gut which sent me flying backwards into a brick wall of another building. As I slumped on the floor, I slowly watched as she turned and disappeared into the darkness once more. This game of peek-a-boo is getting on my nerves. I watched Nicol run towards me to check if I was ok. Suddenly, she reappeared behind him. Scrambling to my feet quickly, I sprinted towards Nicol as she leaped up to send a flying kick again. Not this time. I pushed Nicol out the way, caught her leg when she was in mid air, used her momentum against her and threw her towards the wall she had kicked me into before. Only then, did I realise what I did. She was going to hit the wall head first. Shit. I watched her again in slow motion flying towards the wall with no sign of her regaining her balance. I was not going to make it this time.

Another flash of yellow darted out of the shadows towards Cagalli and caught her just before she hit the wall. Deep in my chest, I felt relieved. Nicol and I watched as the newcomer blonde, put Cagalli down. Lifting their head up my eyes widened. Another mask. The same mask as Cagalli's. Looking at the two of them, I realised they were identical. I looked at Nicol and he was just as puzzled. Two Cagalli's? Impossible! There was no record of a twin! As my mind raced into confusion, I watched in amazement as the blonde I threw towards the wall took off her mask.

"Cagalli! Stellar is sorry!"She exclaimed. Her hair cut and colour was identical to Cagalli'. Her body shape was a little skinnier than Cagalli' but, she was not as toned as Cagalli.

"It's alright, Stellar. We'll talk about it later. Looks like you guys didn't really notice a difference between us." Taking off her mask, Cagalli grinned widely towards us." It hit me then. We'd been fighting the both of them. No wonder why we she was able to move around in the shadows so quickly, when one hid, the other would pop out. "I'd like you to meet my double, Stellar. She was the one you were following up in Heliopolis."

As I stared at them both, it was a lot to take in. I could see how they followed the wrong girl up in Heliopolis, they looked like twins, subtle differences. There was also the matter of Yzack and Dearka still lying on the floor unconscious. Nudging Nicol on the arm, I nodded my head towards the pair lying down. He sighed and disappeared to fetch the car.

"You really did a number on us tonight. Thought it was only meant to be you and me fighting, Cagalli?" I watched as she stared at the pair on the floor for a bit before answering.

"Well, I hadn't seen stellar in a while and wanted to see how much she had improved. So, I thought we'd take you all on tonight." Scratching her head, she turned to Stellar. "Looks like you need to hit the weights a bit; put some more power behind your attacks. We'll train you in a 2 on 1 situation as well so you know your surroundings more." The other blonde nodded obediently like a child. A groan erupted from Dearka on the floor, he sluggishly sat up and shook his head. Looking up, he saw me in front of him.

"Ah man, did I miss it all? And did I really conk out that quick? Damn, did you at least get her for us, Athrun?" I smiled and nodded my head behind him. He leant his head back till he could see behind him. "Ugh, my head is still fuzzy, I'm seeing two of them."The two girls giggled before disappearing back towards the darkness. I smiled towards Dearka.

"Your heads fine, Dearka. There was two of them."

"WHAT!"


Another morning came were we all sat on the benches at the front of the school. It was like the previous morning but Yzack was supporting a broken nose and was in a fowler mood than the usual. Lacus' limo pulled up and the three girls approached us.

"Good morning, everyone- oh my, Yzack, what happened to your nose?" Lacus stared at Yzack' nose. He snubbed her and faced the other way. Dearka then decided to answer for him.

"He's alright, we just had a little tiff last night and he had the rough end of the stick." Yzack snapped his head back with wide eyes.

"Yeah, like you could do this to me! If we had a fight, you know I would beat you!" Yzack stated. Dearka sighed.

"Fine, Yzack have it your way, let everyone know that a girl did it to you then. We all grinned as we waited for Yzack' explosion.

"I WAS CAUGHT OFF GUARD!"He shouted and folded his arms. At that moment, a scooter that we had never seen before entered the school grounds and parked up. It must have been a new student since she wore the girl's school uniform. Taking off her helmet, blonde hair fell down to her shoulders. Yzack' eyes widened as he realised who it was. "That bitch is gonna' pay!" He roared. Standing up, we all grabbed him from rushing over and causing a commotion.

"Yzack, that's not her!"I stated. She came in with and Audi R8 yesterday, there is no way that she would drive a little scooter. It's probably Stellar. Before he started to struggle out of our grasp, a loud revving came from a motorcycle that entered the school. It was that same as the one yesterday, however, two people came in on it, instead of one. My heart thumped as girl in white uniform on the back had her arms around the waist of the blue uniformed driver. As they parked up, she got off first and took her helmet off. The same blonde hair fell out of the helmet again. I looked at Yzack and said "that's the one who broke your nose." Confusion tore through everyone except me and Nicol. We all watched as Cagalli hugged her helmet as she waited for the boy get off the bike. Meanwhile, the Stellar had walked over to them as well. The two girls started to walk towards the school, leaving the boy behind. He soon enough quickly ran towards the two with his helmet on to catch up. As they approached close enough, I could see Stellar properly and noticed one large difference. Her eye colour was completely different. Everyone's attention was soon on the boy with the helmet on. Not just ours, but everyone in the front of the school. He took his helmet on and shook his messy brown hair. His eyes were purple and held a kind smile of his face. Comparing him to Cagalli, they looked nothing alike, which for some reason came to a disappointment when I mentally ruled out that he was her brother. The three of them met up with Cagalli' friends and they were soon asking the two new comers questions.

When we all staring at the group. We all failed to realise one thing. Yzack had snuck off then marched up to them.

"HEY! Blondie! Which one of you did this to my nose!" He demanded. The whole school's attention was focused on him and Cagalli and Stellar. I watched as Cagalli narrowed her eyes towards him.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Joule." She answered icily.

"Don't lie. It was you, wasn't it, Atha? You're dead meat." He sprinted towards her preparing to throw a punch. At this point, Nicol, Dearka, Luna, Meyrin and I sprinted after him. Shit! We're not gonna' make it! As he threw the punch, Cagalli lifted her helmet up to defend herself but did so in vain as the boy had wrapped an arm around her waist, picked her up and turned himself whilst holding her so that she slightly behind him and caught Yzacks punch.

"You touch her and I will kill you." The boy spoke quietly so that only the group could hear. "I suggest you get lost before I break something else in your body."

"Kira..." Cagalli whimpered.

As we all caught up, the boy threw Yzack backwards and we caught him. The atmosphere was tense. The two boys stared at each other with death glares.

"Kira, you can put me down now." The tension was cut and he gently put her down.

"Are you alright?" He asked sincerely. He put his hand on top of her head which caused her to blush.

"I'm fine!" she replied whilst swatting his hand off. "Let's go and register. Let's go Stellar!"The other blonde nodded like a child again and picked up the fallen helmet and handed it back. As they all walked into the school, Dearka said one last thing.

"You think he's a brother or friend now, Nicol?" Nicol could only shake his head.


Hope you all enjoyed it! Lemme know what you all think! and any other ideas to make Athrun jealous!

Mage666 ^_^